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National Catholic Reporter, March 21, 2008 by Fred Mercy
Regarding "Blind SOA activist chooses jail time" (NCR, Feb. 8): Today our courts are sentencing decorated war veterans, lawyers, blind people, priests and nuns and all sorts of law-abiding people to jail for protests at the former School of the Americas. Not only does this in some way violate the Constitution and the rights of a free citizenry, but it is simply wrong. The law is such that just people are being punished. Any law that punishes unjustly is no law that will hold the allegiance of free people. Legislators, civic leaders and particularly church leaders are conspicuously silent, which could mean that we are all at the brink of disaster, because evil only survives through the absence of good. When a citizenry sits and watches evil run rampant, the end result can be only one of unparalleled destruction. That kind of evil knocks on America's doors. When we let decent American people go to jail without reacting, it will not be long till we're all in jail.
(Br.) FRED MERCY, SJ
Omak, Wash.
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