The System Failed the Barys

Police urged charging 6 who helped Rifqa Bary flee

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/03/21/police-urged-charging-6-who-helped-bary-flee.html

What we have here isn't a failure to communicate, as the Ohio prosecutor's office would like us to believe. It's simply a failure to do their job. Knowing someone has committed crimes, and not following through with prosecution, is a failure to perform the task they're being paid for, and the Ohioans should be pretty ticked off about it. And did I mention the Florida prosecutors are doing the same thing? Nice job, guys.

Let's change the scenario a bit. Say I was a Mullah, and I decide to lure an underage boy to my home in the middle of the night, using a bus ticket I bought under a false name, under suspicious circumstances. Then I coach the boy to say horrible things against his parents, (they were gonna kill me!). Say I've painted a room in my house, purchased a bed for him, all in anticipation that he's on his merry way to spend his brainwashed  life in my mosque, happily denying his parents any contact...are ya hearing me yet? Then I go & publicly (on camera, in the media) and talk about all the horrible abuses his parents did to him (based purely on the kid's word, not that I'd have any first hand knowledge of any said abuses)....still paying attention?

What would\should happen to me? How many God-fearing Christians would wanna show me the love of Jesus, at the end of a baseball bat, 12 gauge, noose, brass knuckles...out behind the woodshed, etc, etc, ad nauseam. How loud would the public outcry be, if the prosecutors, in spite of proven evidence by trained law enforcement, just shrugged it off and said "Naahhh, move along, nothing to see here".

The system has truly failed the Bary family. Not just Mr & Mrs, but Rifqa also. The system was allowed to interfere with her relationship with her parents, just as much as the Lorenz's, Law's, Brian Williams, and Mrs Hopson, the Ohio neighbor who helped her run away with Brian Williams. The system is in place to protect a minor child from predatory acts like these. I would want my child protected from them, and I'm sure you, dear reader, would also. Let someone try to come between me and mine, and...well.... he better give his heart to Jesus because the rest of him would belong to me!

The Police must be feeling like they completely wasted their time, not to mention all the money it takes to perform an investigation like this. I'm even surprised the Ohio and Florida agencies haven't sued her and the '6' for putting them through all this.....for nothing. I wonder when the civil suits will happen. They should.

The one thing this does prove, is that Lorenz did commit these crimes, in spite of his constant lying about it by saying 'The lawyers said no crimes were committed'.

But I knew that already. And I don't even have a college education.


BTW, I posted this story some time ago...maybe the law doesn't apply to a pastor?


Ocoee girl who went missing, man arrested
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-... 

What exactly would Jesus do?

This quote...


"I'm pro-Jesus," he [Lorenz] said. "And Jesus tells us to love everybody. I do my best to try to do that. And we're praying for her parents and for healing and reconciliation."
Is from this article...


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-rifqa-lorenz-090109,0,2926158.story


Titled...

Rifqa Bary: Couple that took Rifqa Bary says they have no regrets

Now, what was it, again, that Jesus said to do? Oh yeah, He said to Love others as ourselves, and to Love our enemies.So I wonder where is it exactly, where Jesus outright lied about someone and did His best to slander them and ruin their reputation. Can someone find that for me? I sure don't see it.

A couple of weeks ago, while sitting in a Sunday morning church service, the Pastor was going over the section in Matthew 5 where Jesus is teaching and giving a new perspective on the old teachings. Jesus said in verses 43 through 48:

        ⁴³ “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ ⁴⁴But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, ⁴⁵ that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. ⁴⁶ For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? ⁴⁷ And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? ⁴⁸ Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. NKJV

I was reminded of what Lorenz said about the Barys. He had no proof or evidence of what he was accusing them of, (only what Rifqa told them, and they admit they barely knew her!) yet not only did he conceive this in his heart, he was speaking publicly about it. Is that what Lorenz was talking about when he said  "And Jesus tells us to love everybody. I do my best to try to do that"?

Wow...With 'love' like that, who needs hate? In My opinion, Mr Bary showed more love towards Lorenz, than Lorenz did toward Bary, and Bary isn't even a follower of Jesus! 

This brings to mind another thought. Who is the real enemy? Is it Mr Bary? Lorenz? Rifqa? FDLE? How about the Judas 3? (That's Smith, Parker & Sanchez in case you didn't know) The attorneys or judges? How about none of the above? The true enemy is unseen, yet very much alive and active. We must remember this in every area of life. The true enemy is the angel of light, the devil himself. So why direct this hatred towards someone who presumably doesn't even know the Savior who died for him? Why Mr Bary hasn't sued Lorenz is beyond me. We live in a sue-happy society, yet he hasn't taken the plunge. I wonder if the shoe were on the other foot, would Lorenz return the favor?From what I've seen, I have my doubts. 

Be transformed

I was reminded of this scripture today...should be a way of life. Thanks for reminding me to be...stay...transformed.

The New Man

¹⁷ This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of^[d] the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, ¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; ¹⁹ who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 
²⁰ But you have not so learned Christ, ²¹ if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: ²² that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, ²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.


Happy New Year!