tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011509021933113035.post6569947926964443051..comments2023-05-24T09:31:17.904-04:00Comments on Pastor's Puddle: Peace, peace, when there is no peacePhil Waitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05014739212970479518noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011509021933113035.post-53909080582565584642014-05-28T18:53:50.866-04:002014-05-28T18:53:50.866-04:00In Graves vs. Indiana, Judge Baker of the Elkhart ...In Graves vs. Indiana, Judge Baker of the Elkhart Circuit Court in Goshen, assisted a runaway slave to avoid being returned to his owners. The local judicial officers ruled that the warrant from KY had been incorrectly signed by the JP, there, rather than the clerk of their court. Therefore, illegal. The IN S. Ct. ruled for the slaveholders, and the US Supreme Court affirmed. Often an outcome is procedurally based.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11691387256603793822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011509021933113035.post-32916225613407358992013-09-04T13:31:05.922-04:002013-09-04T13:31:05.922-04:00I think perhaps nonviolent peaceful responses are ...I think perhaps nonviolent peaceful responses are much more difficult and require much more courage and strength than I typically recognize. The knee-jerk anger response is easy, "feels" natural and almost always seems justified. I have yet to be given any proof that more violence leads to less violence.<br />It may seem less, but compared to peaceful responses, it is like "destroying" a dandelion by blowing up/off all of the seeds. I confess I also participate far too often in violence if even only in violent thoughts/words.<br />Perhaps I need to deliberately acknowledge my own daily violent responses, whether in thought, word or deed and at the same time, reclaim compassionate graceful responses which were actually bestowed on my soul at birth. I've restarted reading Nonviolent Communication and found this foreward to challenge me in this way. http://bit.ly/15uxRkWTim Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856382016243398888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8011509021933113035.post-84364705128781635732013-08-28T15:51:00.161-04:002013-08-28T15:51:00.161-04:00For those of you interested, here is a link to a s...For those of you interested, here is a link to a story that includes my Frazier relatives. <br /><br />http://www.blackiowa.org/education/black-history-moments/the-slaves-of-ruell-daggs/<br /><br />This was a well documented event, and I once stumbled across trial transcripts, where my UR activist kin are indicted under the Fugitive Slave Act. They were freed on technicality.Phil Waitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05014739212970479518noreply@blogger.com