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Show THE UTAH INDEPENDENT Edottoirs I page Page 3 2) 23 majority of both Houses of Congress it takes 34 of the state legislatures to ratify a Constitutional Amendment and the state legislatures have been turning the proposition down all over the country. For the plotters, to do this the legal, constitutional way was unworkable. WE BECOME WHAT WE CONDONE More appalling today than the noise of the bad people is the silence of the good people. We become part of what we condone. The are also killing our country. The morals of our leaders are low because the morals of our people are low. The graveyards of history prove that nations get what they deserve. Few, if any, nations have ever been conquered from without unless they were rotten within. Our nation was founded by men who believed in God, in individual freedom, in high moral values and in personal responsibility. Whether we survive as free men or slaves depends upon whether we can resurrect our moral and spiritual strength. The time could be approaching when the question will be not whether America can be saved but whether America is worth saving. Sodom and Gomorrah were not. Only the moral deserve to be free. The Apostle Paul said: Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty. (II Cor. 3:17) We cannot oppose evil by compromising with evil. We cannot go forth into all the world and spread the gospel of Jesus Christ if we deny Jesus Christ in the United Nations, in our schools and in our daily lives. Jesus Christ was not a moderate. He was an extremist. The modernists amongst us today proclaim that there is no black and that white; that sin is imaginary, we are to be moderate and tolerant in all things, including evil. An agnostic is a moderate. Moderation is not a virtue when one is moderately wrong or moderately sinful. Christ had this to say about moderates a religious type He denounced in UNCONSTITUTIONAL LEGISLATION ed non-student- s') boys attitude and stood by wringing their hands but otherwise did nothing. The majority of students were silent. The rioters made so much noise and received so much publicity it appeared as though everyone agreed with them. The solution was offered-gi- ve the 18 to 21 year olds the vote and they would stop all this nonsense. So, listening to the noise, with personal conscience stilled, another nail for the coffin of the Constitution was forged as our congressmen and senators voted for an unconstitutional bill and our President signed it into law. ' PRESIDENT CALLS FOR COURT TEST Some are saying that, at least, the President is calling for the law to be tested in the courts. In an age of sanity and reason, that would be some protection and this law, as passed by the U. S. Congress, would plainly be ruled as unconstitutional. However, we are not living in an age of sanity and reason any longer. We are living in an age where there is no recognizable right or wrong but where there are only expedients. Knowing this, we feel the expedient thing will be done. We predict that, when the 18 year old vote issue comes before the Supreme Court, that Court will find some reason to accept it, even though unconstitutional, as the law of the land. The plotters have worked too hard to let this one get away. And besides,' why should we expect otherwise .when, already, a majority of 100 Senators and 435 Congressmen have agreed to violate the Constitution? Why should we expect otherwise when the President of the United States has joined with a majority of both Houses and signed a bill into law which he is sure is unconstitutional? The same pressures that were put on them will be put on the nine members of the Supreme Court and, remember, it only takes five members to pass it. extreme terms: I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou were cold or hot. So because thou art neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth. The Bible is not tolerant, it's eehew-mindeAnd so is the compass, radar, the multiplication table, the boiling and freezing points of water, nature, and the Kingdom of Heaven. The gates of Hell are broadminded. God, the Bible, sin, and Jesus Christ are unchanging. Hebrews 13:8 says: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. The Ten Comandments are forever the same. A true Christian has an unchanging standard. The modernist preachers have decreed that God is dead; that Christianity has failed; that they will create a new religion suitable to our complex times. God is eternal, of course. Christianity has not failed it hasn't been . God-kille- rs A minority of students (and in various colleges across the country helped the plotters get this law passed in the U. S. Congress. They rioted and carried on while the school administrations adopted a boys will be so-call- Anderson By Tom STUDENT RIOTS HELP PASS . 9, 1970 ytDook (Continued from sides a July j , ! non-existe- nt; JH,anion By A d. tried. One of these young modernist preachers accepted a call to a little country church in Alabama. After a few Sundays he announced that henceforth the members would refrain from such behaviour as saying Amen! and hallelujah! during the sermon. The very next Sunday a little old lady got carried away and loudly exclaimed Amen! Praise the Lord! Two ushers hastened down the aisle, lifted her gently but firmly out of her seat, and half carried her down the center aisle. She waved her handkerchief to the congre-- . gation all the way, crying: Jesus rode one into Jerusalem and it takes two to carry me out! American Way Features out-mod- ed "forum Marilyn Manian MANY-SIDE- D STORY tctrtcfciK Headed Off At The Pass News items that didnt exactly make the headlines: White River Junction, Vt. A student who said he saw four of his classmates killed when National Guard troops fired on demonstrators at Kent State University in Ohio on Monday says the Guardsmen were not to blame. James Young, 20, of White River Junction, said in an interview yesterday with radio station WNRV that the Guardsmen had to fire to defend their lives. Young, who said he watched the incident from a dormitory window 150 yards away, said the students were an angry mob. I really believe the crowd if they had tried hand to hand to fight their way out would have beaten them to death, Young said. The news reports sort of gave the impression that the National Guard was entirely wrong, he said, But thats not true. They were defending their lives. They had no alternative but to shoot. He said that from his vantage point, he saw about 30 Guardsmen come up a hill from a green and down the other side to a football field where they confronted more than Associated Press, 2,000 students. . . . May 8, 1970 . . . Miss Berta Jean Ozeran of Benton Harbor, Mich., a graduate student (at Kent State) told the Benton Harbor she heard a single shot fired, apparently at National Guardsmen, before they returned the fire and cut down four students. She said innocent bystanders had left the scene 10 min News-Palladiu- , m utes earlier so that anybody who was still on the scene when the shots were fired was strongWalter ly involved, if not radical. . . . Trohan, in the Chicago Tribune. The tragic day at Kent State is etched in the minds of millions. But whose picture is it that is so firmly imbedded in everyones days memory? In the first emotion-charge- d after the shootings, the public got the imGuardsmen fired pression that trigger-happ- y into a crowd of innocent kids. The young innocents" were protesting the Presidents decision to protect our forces in Vietnam by attacking enemy strongholds in Cambodia. How dare he escalate the war in his way without asking them first! And, wouldnt you know, the forces of repression would arrive on campus when word of an im- pending riot got out? It is now evident that the move into Cambodia was successful. The amount of. captured supplies and weapons is, according to one ad--, count, simply incredible. But who oaTet? It may ultimately be shown, opines Fortune magazine, that Nixon had excellent 'military reasons for sending U.S. units into Cambodia. But Cambodia was not his main problem. The condition of the U.S. was his main problem. In other words, the President had better do just what the Weathermen, yippies, peaceniks. Communists, potheads, et al want him to do. If he dares oppose them, the resultant blood will be on his hands. Theres no logic to that but its what an awful lot of people believe today. 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