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<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Prison_Fellowship_Ministries">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Prison_Fellowship_Ministries</a><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Prison Fellowship Ministries ("PF"), founded in 1976 by <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Charles_Colson" title="Charles Colson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Charles Colson</a>, is "a Christian ministry responding to the needs of prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims and those affected by crime. The purpose of each national PF organization is to work through the Christian community to mobilize outreach and ministry in response to the needs of prisoners, ex prisoners, victims, and their families as well as to advance the application of restorative justice principles within the criminal justice system.""This organization is a nonprofit. Contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA)." <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ministrywatch.com/mw2.1/F_SumRpt.asp?EIN=620988294" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">MinistryWatch Summary</a>, March 14, 2005.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Prison_Fellowship_Ministries#Organization_details" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 Organization details</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Prison_Fellowship_Ministries#Contact_details" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Contact details</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Prison_Fellowship_Ministries#SourceWatch_Resources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 SourceWatch Resources</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Prison_Fellowship_Ministries#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 External links</a></li></ul></div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none;">Organization details</h3><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Charles W. Colson, Chairman.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_Earley&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mark Earley (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mark Earley</a>, President/CEO.</li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contact details</h2>44180 Riverside Parkway
Lansdowne, VA 20176-0176
Phone: (877) 478-0100
Fax: (703) 904-7327
Web: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.prisonfellowship.org/" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">http://www.prisonfellowship.org</a>
Email: correspondence@pfm.org
<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">SourceWatch Resources</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Anne_Morse" title="Anne Morse" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Anne Morse</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Prison-industrial_complex" title="Prison-industrial complex" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">prison-industrial complex</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Religion-in-prison_movement" title="Religion-in-prison movement" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">religion-in-prison movement</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none;">External links</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Rusty Leonard, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ministrywatch.com/mw2.1/F_SumRpt.asp?EIN=620988294" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"MinistryWatch.com's Take,"</a> October 1, 2001.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Bill Berkowitz, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=91" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Charles Colson's Christian-based prison project on trial in Iowa:</a> Prison Justice Ministries' InnerChange Freedom Initiative is a 'government-funded conversion program' says Americans United's Barry Lynn", Media Transparency, November 2, 2005.</li></ul></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both; 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November 2, 2005<h1 style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.3em; line-height: 20.16px;">Charles Colson's Christian-based prison project on trial in Iowa</h1><h2 style="line-height: 18.24px; margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.8em;">Prison Justice Ministries' InnerChange Freedom Initiative is a 'government-funded conversion program' says Americans United's Barry Lynn</h2>It isn't celebrity-laced like the trials of OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson or Robert Blake. It hasn't drawn the attention of CNN's Nancy Grace or the Fox News Channel's Greta Van Sustren, television's mavens of mystery. It appears to have little to do with whether or not President Bush's faith-based initiative is achieving "results." Nevertheless, the outcome of the legal proceedings currently underway in federal court in Des Moines, Iowa, could have a major impact on issues related to the separation of church and state for years to come.Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, and its co-plaintiff, Jerry Ashburn, an inmate at Iowa's Newton Correctional Facility, located about 23 miles east of Des Moines, have filed suit against the Virginia-based Prison Fellowship Ministries and its Christian rehabilitation program, the InnerChange Freedom Initiative. The suit, currently being heard in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa Central Division in Des Moines, argues that the state gives preferential treatment to inmates enrolled InnerChange -- a program that has been operating at the Newton facility since 1999. According to Baptist Press, "the Iowa legislature has appropriated $310,000 in the current fiscal year for a 'value-based treatment program' at the Newton facility."Both sides agree that the outcome of the lawsuit could have profound consequences for the future of government-funded faith-based programs."This case is one of the first legal challenges to the 'faith-based' initiative," Rob Boston, spokesperson for the Washington, DC-based Americans United, told Media Transparency in an email. "It challenges the use of taxpayer money for a program everyone admits is saturated with a particular religious viewpoint. If we win here, the implications for other types of faith-based funding could be staggering."Mark Earley, president and chief executive officer of Prison Fellowship Ministries, recently pointed out that he thought the outcome of the lawsuit could have far-reaching effects on other groups as well. "What I am actually more concerned about this suit is, if we were to lose, the chilling effect it would have on not only other departments of corrections around the United States, but other entities that want for faith-based ministries to have the opportunity to help solve really thorny social issues," Earley said.bag man rand ron paul? ATI? CCA?
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SENATEHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESAnne Morse is a senior writer at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wilberforce_Forum" title="Wilberforce Forum" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wilberforce Forum</a> in Reston, VA, as well as senior writer for <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Charles_Colson" title="Charles Colson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Charles Colson</a>'s <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Prison_Fellowship_Ministries" title="Prison Fellowship Ministries" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Prison Fellowship Ministries</a> daily radio program BreakPoint.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ccfwebsite.com/world_display.php?ID=63&type=article" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">[1]</a> She has been writing and editingBreakPoint radio commentaries and columns with Colson since 1993, and, in 1997, she and Colson "co-authored an award-winning collection of BreakPoint commentaries called Burden of Truth." In 2004, Colson and Morse co-authored the "How Now Shall We Live? devotional.Morse is a frequent contributor to National Review Online, and has also written for World magazine, Boundless, Beliefnet, and Regeneration Quarterly. Her review of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Christina_Hoff_Sommers" title="Christina Hoff Sommers" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Christina Hoff Sommers</a>’s book, The War Against Boys, was given a first place Evangelical Press Association Award in the category of critical review. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=About_Wilberforce_Forum&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=2126&SuppressBreadCrumb=True" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">[2]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb">Bush Booster</h2>In the February 2002, "A family man in the White House," Morse wrote for Conservatism magazine: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ccfwebsite.com/world_display.php?ID=63&type=article" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">[3]</a><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">The best thing about <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_Walker_Bush" title="George Walker Bush" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">President Bush</a>'s family policy is that he doesn't have an office in the West Wing labelled 'Office of Family Policy' manned by a scary-looking blonde who thinks 'it takes a village' (that is, a gang of Washington feminists) to raise other people's children. Instead, Bush's policy towards American families is found in the warp and woof of programs not specifically labelled 'family policy', but which do a great deal to actually help them. The tax relief we received last summer (a $600 check for joint filers) meant THIS family could pay off bills and buy school clothes for our kids - which is also how most other Americans say they spent the money. The passage of Bush's education reform package - although badly weakened by Democrats - is a weapon in the hands of poor families to force their children's appalling schools to improve - or else.</dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;">Perhaps best of all, since <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/September_11,2001" title="September 11, 2001" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">September 11, 2001</a>, the president has given our kids a chance to see how a Real Man behaves in the Oval Office when a crisis strikes: with courage and compassion, grace and guts.</dd></dl><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb">SourceWatch Resources</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_propaganda_and_disinformation" title="Bush administration propaganda and disinformation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush administration propaganda and disinformation</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_administration_smear_campaigns" title="Bush administration smear campaigns" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush administration smear campaigns</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush_lies_and_deceptions" title="Bush lies and deceptions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bush lies and deceptions</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Manufactured_journalism" title="Manufactured journalism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">manufactured journalism</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mucky_media" title="Mucky media" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">mucky media</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Propaganda" title="Propaganda" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">propaganda</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rathergate:Sumner_M.Redstone,George_W.Bush%26_CBS" title="Rathergate: Sumner M. Redstone, George W. Bush & CBS" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rathergate: Sumner M. Redstone, George W. Bush & CBS</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Religion_and_empire&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Religion and empire (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">religion and empire</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Religion-in-prison_movement" title="Religion-in-prison movement" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">religion-in-prison movement</a></li></ul><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" background="background" none="none" rgb="rgb">External links</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Charles "Chuck" Colson and Anne Morse, "Burden of Truth: Defending the Truth in an Age of Unbelief" <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Special:BookSources/0842301909" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">ISBN 0842301909</a>, Tyndale Publishing House, 1998.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.beliefnet.com/search/search_site_results.asp?search_for=Anne+Morse&to_search=whole_site" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Archive: Articles published by Beliefnet</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.boundless.org/search.cfm" style="text-decoration: none; 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background: none;">The Veritas Forum</a> ceased publication of re:generation Quarterly Spring 2003.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.ctlibrary.com/offer.html?offer=rq" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">[4]</a>. Archived Anne Morse articles from the former website www.regenerator.com are available by subscription to<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ctlibrary.com/offer.html?offer=rq" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">ChristianityTodayLibrary.com</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.worldmag.com/displayarticle.cfm?id=5807" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"View from the Axis. COVER STORY: Critics deride the 'axis of evil' rhetoric but eyewitnesses know better. In North Korea, evil only begins to describe the everyday horror of life under 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong II,"</a> World Magazine, March 1, 2002; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/index.jsp?topic=eapac&section=archive" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">also available on</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Security_Policy" title="Center for Security Policy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Center for Security Policy</a> website.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=251" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Three Years Later: How Safe Do We Feel?,"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Family_Security_Matters" title="Family Security Matters" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Family Security Matters</a>, May/June 2002.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.goodnewsmag.org/magazine/3MayJune/mj02korea.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Eyewitness to the Axis of Evil,"</a> World Magazine; reprinted Good News Magazine, May/June 2002.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pfm.org/Content/ContentGroups/BreakPoint/Other_Content/Online_Features/Anne_Morse/View_from_the_Axis.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"View from the Axis. Life in North Korea,"</a> 'World Magazine, May 9, 2002; 'BreakPoint, May 13, 2002.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/828877/posts" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Fear of commitment (Immigration),"</a> World Magazine, February 1, 2003: "Leading academics and immigration lawyers want to drop the requirement that new citizens renounce allegiance to foreign nations and pledge allegiance to the United States."</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pfm.org/Content/ContentGroups/BreakPoint/Other_Content/Online_Features/Anne_Morse/The_Abolitionist.htm" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"The Abolitionist. Fighting Modern-Day Sexual Slavery,"</a> World Magazine, March 13, 2003; reprinted by Prison Fellowship.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-morse053003.asp" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"They Call It Art. The last acceptable prejudice?,"</a> National Review Online, May 30, 2003: "Princeton University has discovered an acceptable way to engage in hate speech, bigotry, and slander: Just label it 'art'.".</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chuck Colson with Anne Morse, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ifa-usapray.org/NL_PDF/PDFNL03/Dec03pg5.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 16px; background: url("");" http="http" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat">"Sowing Confusion. One small ruling for Texas; one giant leap into the cultural abyss,"</a> Christianity Today, October 2003. re <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gay_marriage" title="Gay marriage" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">gay marriage</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/morse200312230101.asp" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Christmas in Romania,"</a> National Review Online, December 23, 2003.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.iwf.org/articles/article_detail.asp?ArticleID=524" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Mothers Against Tolerating Terror,"</a> Independent Women's Forum, March 4, 2004; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092555/posts" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">Townhall.com</a>, March 7, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint1&template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=15964" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"[Competing with Cheating</a>,"] BreakPoint WorldView, July/August 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/morse200409150552.asp" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"The First Rathergate. The CBS anchor’s precarious relationship with the truth,"</a> National Review Online, September 15, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chuck Colson with Anne Morse, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/010/18.152.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"The Moral Home Front. America's increasing decadence is giving aid and comfort to Muslim terrorists,"</a> Christianity Today, October 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/morse200410311211.asp" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Unfit & Unwelcome. What our troops think of Kerry,"</a> National Review Online, October 31, 2004.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chuck Colson with Anne Morse, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/002/9.128.html" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"The New Civil War. Christians must be driven by the common good, not by any ideology,"</a> Christianity Today, February 2005.</li></ul>==.01.124:45 AM ETChuck Colson’s Prison Ministry Accused of Favoring ChristiansNixon’s henchman launched the largest prison ministry in America. But prisoners are suing, writes Mansfield Frazier, because of what they feel is special treatment for born-again Christians.Most people knew Charles “Chuck” Colson, special counsel to Richard Nixon, as the "evil genius" of an evil administration. But in the years after Watergate, Colson, who died April 21, at 80, became perhaps equally well known for founding Prison Fellowship Ministries (PFM)—the largest and most influential prison ministry in existence today.
When the jig was finally up on Nixon and his cronies and the feds were closing in to bring down the curtain on one of the darkest periods in American history, Colson did what many scoundrels before and after him have done: He found God.
More than one political pundit at the time scoffed at Colson’s sudden and miraculous conversion, calling it a ploy designed to win him a shorter sentence. If that was the case, it appeared to work: he was sentenced to serve only seven months, and even then was released early.
That’s not necessarily surprising, because it’s impossible for a judge—or anyone else, for that matter—to look into a human heart and determine who is genuine in their faith, and who is only mushfaking. (A “mushfake” is what prisoners call someone who, immediately upon arriving at an institution, seeks out the chaplain and begins to attend religious services … only to throw their Bible into the nearest ditch upon their release.)
But whether or not Colson truly believed when he first came in, he wasn’t a mushfake. Far from abandoning his newfound religion when he got out, he went on to found PFM, which today has chapters in over 117 countries, according to its website.
The timing for the founding of PFM, in 1975, could not have been better: the war on drugs had recently been declared (and would cause prison populations to skyrocket); evangelical Christianity was spreading throughout the land as televangelists such as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robinson began to exhort their congregations to become politically active; and within a little more than a decade, the Corrections Corporation of America would begin mounting a serious campaign to privatize all of the prisons in the country—a business model they, among others, are still actively pursuing.For Colson to take something like prison ministry (an institution of its own since at least 1791, when Philadelphia’s Quaker-run Walnut Street Jail added cellblocks and called itself a “penitentiary house”) and turn the concept into a high-powered moneymaker was beyond serendipitous, it was good old-fashioned American entrepreneurial ingenuity. The same right-wingers who set the stage for our unprecedented prison population growth in the first place positioned themselves to benefit handsomely by offering up religious solutions to the very problems their policies and laws created.
Speaking ill of prison religious programming is like speaking ill of motherhood, apple pie, and the American flag—it simply isn’t done.But PFM has endured its share of controversy: In 2006 an Iowa state judge ruled that a Bible-based prison program violated the First Amendment by using state funds to promote Christianity to inmates. The suit “accused Prison Fellowship Ministries (PFM) of giving preferential treatment to inmates participating in the program. They were given special visitation rights, movie-watching privileges, access to computers, and access to classes needed for early parole.”And a class-action lawsuit filed in 2010 by prisoners in jail in Pierce County, Wash., alleged that the facility “operates a special unit known as the ‘God Pod,’ where Christian inmates participate in Christian Bible study and receive privileges denied to inmates of other faiths, including substantially more outdoor recreation time, more out-of-cell time, more visits from outside volunteers, and more in-unit entertainment opportunities.”
Other lawsuits have made similar complaints about privileges for the housing units for born-again Christians, where everything is kindler, gentler, and more like home. The problem is, such units are only provided for Christians. When prison officials do not set up similar units for other religions, they are discriminating, and violating the First Amendment to boot.Religious programs have always been around prison, of course, but the Christian ones in particular got a boost in federal funding once George W. Bush became president, bringing with him to Washington a “solution” to prison problems he’d devised and implemented in Texas: Use the faith-based community to bring about changes in the violence and high rates of recidivism common to incarceration. The state clearly wanted out of the business of rehabilitation and it was an appealing notion to pass off a government function to the private sector, not to mention it was setting the table for privatization. The only problem is, there no evidence such a strategy works—recidivism rates remain stubbornly high in Texas, in spite of all the proselytizing.
But speaking ill of prison religious programming in is like speaking ill of motherhood, apple pie, and the American flag—it simply isn’t done. And for some prisoners it actually works: salvation can be found behind bars. The simple (albeit enforced) act of slowing down and reflecting certainly can change lives, and no doubt evangelical Christian organizations like PFM help that process along, but other religions do too.
Despite the lawsuits, don’t expect PFM to disappear from the American prison scene anytime soon. State prison officials who claim they can’t find monies to fund educational programming (which actually has proven to reduce recidivism) somehow find funds to throw at faith-based groups—as long as they are Christian.Reduced recidivism benefits all of society while saving scarce tax dollars, and if treating prisoners more humanely accomplishes that goal—as the proponents of God Pods would have us believe—then it makes good policy sense to treat everyone, no matter their religion, in the same manner. You might say it’s the Christian thing to do

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<a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/04/26/the_original_culture_warrior/">http://www.salon.com/2012/04/26/the_original_culture_warrior/</a>

In his last public speech before he died on Saturday at the age of 80, evangelical hero Chuck Colson lambasted the Department of Health and Human Services regulation requiring employers to provide co-pay-free insurance coverage for contraception to their employees. The HHS mandate, said Colson, according to a <a href="http://online.worldmag.com/2012/04/21/colsons-final-speech/">transcript</a> of the speech posted by World magazine, “is but the tip of the iceberg. It’s the latest manifestation of a growing hostility to Christianity.”

Colson is best known as Nixon’s hatchet man and Watergate felon turned prison evangelist. For his admirers, though, he was even bigger than his larger-than-life tale of redemption by salvation alone. He was not merely living proof of the salvific power of Christ; not merely a rescuer of the heretics; not merely a coalition builder of Catholics and evangelicals once divided by theological differences. He was nothing short of a battle commander in the cosmic culture wars, the manufactured showdown between the “Christian worldview” — the only “true” way to see things — and other “worldviews” he insisted were antithetical to it.

Colson is probably best known to the general public for his Prison Fellowship Ministries, but he has left an indelible mark on the culture-war battles that will define the 2012 election. It was Colson, after all, who helped forge the Catholic-evangelical alliance against abortion that is now finding enduring potency in fighting the HHS mandate. It’s a battle that is framed — as Colson would have it — as one waged by the voracious, anti-Christian government against the religious liberty of besieged believers.

“Government, theologically, has two major roles,” Colson told Jeff Sharlet, author of the book “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,” “to preserve order — we can only have freedom out of order — and to do justice, to restrain evil.” Colson did not invent this theological justification for this ideologically driven argument for small government, but he was articulating a religious-right article of faith.

In this telling, a government not operated according to a “Christian worldview” is not the defender of First Amendment freedoms but a violator of them. “Biblical disobedience,” writes Sharlet, distilling Colson’s work, “should be — must be — the cornerstone of ‘the West’s stand against the ‘new barbarians,’ whether they come in the form of Muslims or secular schoolteachers.” Or HHS secretaries or presidents or legislators crafting healthcare reform.

Colson was one of the drafters of the 2009 manifesto, the <a href="http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/2058/manhattan_declaration_is_the_new_old_culture_war">Manhattan Declaration</a>, which, in hindsight, forecast how the religious right would react to the HHS mandate. Assembled by what was billed as an ecumenical group of evangelicals, Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians, it was released at the height of the legislative showdown over the Stupak Amendment, offered at the behest of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to eliminate nonexistent federal funding of abortions. The signatories — today they number over half a million — pledged unspecified civil disobedience in response to laws they assert violate religious liberty, the “sanctity of life” and “the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife.”

In the Manhattan Declaration, victims are not women who can’t access healthcare or a gay couple that can’t get married. The victims are Christians, and their freedom from laws not crafted from a biblical worldview. (The website of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview <a href="http://www.colsoncenter.org/the-center/the-chuck-colson-center/about-chuck-colson">says</a> its job is “to expose the Lie and replace it with the Truth of a biblical understanding of all of reality.”)

On the day the Manhattan Declaration was unveiled, to much fanfare, in a jammed room at the National Press Club in Washington, Colson released one of his popular weekly “Two Minute Warning” videos. In that video, he blamed government for the breakdown of  “the organs of civil society,” the “clubs, the political parties, the grassroots organizations, the local government, particularly the church and the family, those are the two most vital,” he said.  When those institutions break down, Colson added, “what you have is tyranny.”

Colson didn’t stop there, though, nor did he stop at quoting de Tocqueville on the possibilities of the collapse of civil society causing “benevolent despotism.” Colson had the audacity to compare America to Nazi Germany, and to urge his listeners to read Hannah Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” which he called “prophetic in its application to today … The destruction of civil society has always been prelude to a totalitarian government.”

The website of the Manhattan Declaration has continued this tradition. The title of a post about protesting the HHS mandate, “<a href="http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/the-movement/Blog/12-02-07/First_They_Came_For_the_Catholics%E2%80%A6.aspx">First they came for the Catholics</a>….” was a deliberate echoing of the pastor Martin Niemoller’s famous appeal against inaction in the face of Nazism. It linked to Colson’s video, in which he decried a “steady drumbeat of attacks on the Christian church and on freedom of religion.”

“We have come to the point,” said Colson, “where if there isn’t a dramatic change of circumstances, we, as Christians, may well be called upon to stand in civil disobedience against the action of our own government.”

Colson was hardly unaware of how actual abuse of government power happens — he did, after all, plead guilty to obstruction of justice in connection with the break-in of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office. Yet Colson did not devote his life to exposing actual exploitations of political power. Instead, he portrayed legitimate actions of a democratic government to advance the rights and welfare of its citizens as antithetical to Christianity and the freedom of Christians.

Colson’s legacy is far more than Watergate felon turned prison evangelist. Next time you see protesters against the HHS mandate, or a pundit claiming President Obama is waging a “war on religion,” or an activist threatening to engage in civil disobedience to a “tyrannical” law such as one permitting adoption by same-sex couples, remember Chuck Colson.

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Sarah Posner is the senior editor of Religion Dispatches, where she writes about politics. She is also the author of <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gods-profits-sarah-posner/1008832296">God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters"</a> (PoliPoint Press, 2008).

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"Known within the Nixon administration as the 'evil genius,' special counsel Charles W. Colson served seven months in prison in 1974 after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice in the <a title="Watergate" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Watergate">Watergate</a>-related <a title="Daniel Ellsberg" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Daniel_Ellsberg">Daniel Ellsberg</a> case. Colson's more notorious ideas, according to some reports, included spreading false information about Ellsberg and firebombing the <a title="Brookings Institution" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brookings_Institution">Brookings Institution</a>. He was also indicted for his role in the Watergate cover-up.

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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wars-Watergate-Crisis-Richard-Nixon/dp/0393308278#reader_0393308278">http://www.amazon.com/Wars-Watergate-Crisis-Richard-Nixon/dp/0393308278#reader_0393308278</a>

Colson used teamster connections to order attack on anti-war demon. p 107 disrupted Muskie campaign (not caught)

Brookings 111

118 smear anderson as queer, kill

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creep 8K$ to buy eforon book liberal media bias, got it on bestseller list re RMN; plan to bomb brookings Inst

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<h1>Editorial Observer; Charles Colson and the Mission That Began With Watergate</h1>

<div class="byline">By ADAM COHEN</div>

<div class="timestamp">Published: July 25, 2005</div>

Charles Colson, the quintessential Watergate-era hatchet man, once declared that he would ''walk over my own grandmother'' to get Richard Nixon re-elected. He may not have committed the worst dirty tricks attributed to him, like plotting to firebomb the Brookings Institution to destroy a secret report on the Vietnam War that was damaging to his boss. But before the Nixon White House scandals were over, he was sent away to federal prison for obstruction of justice.

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*Nixon's Enemies List - On September 9, 1971 President Nixon ordered Charles Colson to compile an "Enemies List" which was sent in memorandum form to John Dean on September 9, 1971

Nixon's Enemies List - On September 9, 1971 President Nixon ordered Charles Colson to compile an "Enemies List" which was sent in memorandum form to John Dean on September 9, 1971 . The list was part of a campaign officially known as "Political Enemies Project." The official purpose, as described by the White House Counsel's Office, was to "screw" Nixon's political enemies, by means of tax audits from the IRS, and by manipulating "grant availability, federal contracts, litigation, prosecution, etc." The list included current Rep. John Conyers, Paul Newman, Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Steve McQueen, Barbra Streisand, The New York Times, and the Washington Post.

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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson</a>

Colson not connected directly to SB, world w/ O'Neill to discredit kerry during VN

<h2>Nixon administration</h2>

In 1968, Colson served as <a title="Counsel" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counsel">counsel</a> to presidential candidate <a title="Richard Nixon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon">Nixon</a>'s Key Issues Committee.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-nixon_archives-4">[5]</a>

On November 6, 1969, Colson was appointed as <a title="White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Office_of_Public_Engagement_and_Intergovernmental_Affairs">Special Counsel</a> to <a class="mw-redirect" title="US President" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_President">President</a> Nixon.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-nixon_archives-4">[5]</a>

Colson was responsible for inviting influential private special interest groups into the <a title="White House" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House">White House</a> policy-making process and winning their support on specific issues. His office served as the President's political communications liaison with <a class="mw-redirect" title="Organized labor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_labor">organized labor</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" title="Veterans" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans">veterans</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" title="Farmers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers">farmers</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" title="Conservationists" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservationists">conservationists</a>, industrial organizations, citizen groups, and almost any organized lobbying group whose objectives were compatible with the Administration's. Colson's staff broadened the White House lines of communication with organized constituencies by arranging Presidential meetings and sending White House news releases of interest to the groups.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-nixon_archives-4">[5]</a>

In addition to his liaison and political duties, Colson's responsibilities included: performing special assignments for the President, such as drafting legal briefs on particular issues, reviewing Presidential appointments, and suggesting names for White House guest lists. His work also included major <a title="Lobbying" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying">lobbying</a> efforts on such issues as construction of an <a class="mw-redirect" title="Antiballistic missile" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiballistic_missile">antiballistic missile system</a>, the President's <a title="Vietnamization" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamization">Vietnamization</a> program, and the Administration's revenue-sharing proposal.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-nixon_archives-4">[5]</a>

Colson was known as President Nixon's "hatchet man." <a class="mw-redirect" title="Slate magazine" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_magazine">Slate magazine</a> writer <a title="David Plotz" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Plotz">David Plotz</a> described Colson as "Richard Nixon's hard man, the 'evil genius' of an evil administration."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-plotz-5">[6]</a> Colson has written that he was "valuable to the President ... because I was willing ... to be ruthless in getting things done".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-BA5-6">[7]</a> This is perhaps complimentary when read in comparison to the descriptions of Colson which pepper the work of <a title="Rolling Stone" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone">Rolling Stone</a> National Affairs' Political Correspondent, <a title="Hunter S. Thompson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson">Hunter S. Thompson</a> during the period. Colson authored the 1971 memo listing Nixon's major political opponents, later known as <a title="Nixon's Enemies List" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon%27s_Enemies_List">Nixon's Enemies List</a>. A quip that "Colson would walk over his own grandmother if necessary" mutated into claims in news stories that Colson had boasted that he would run over his own grandmother to re-elect Nixon.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-BA5-6">[7]</a> Plotz reports that Colson sought to hire Teamsters thugs to beat up anti-war demonstrators.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-plotz-5">[6]</a> Colson proposed firebombing the <a title="Brookings Institution" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution">Brookings Institution</a> and stealing politically damaging documents while firefighters put the fire out.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-7">[8]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-8">[</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-8">9]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-9">[</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-9">10]</a>

Colson's voice, archives from April 1969, was heard in the 2004 movie <a title="Going Upriver" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Upriver">Going Upriver</a> deprecating the anti-war efforts of <a title="John Kerry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry">John Kerry</a>. Colson's orders were to "Destroy the young <a title="Demagogy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogy">demagogue</a> before he becomes another <a title="Ralph Nader" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Nader">Ralph Nader</a>."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-boston_061703-10">[11]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-nbc_040316-11">[</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-nbc_040316-11">12]</a> In a phone conversation with <a title="President of the United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States">President</a> <a title="Richard Nixon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon">Nixon</a> on April 28, 1971, Colson said, "This fellow Kerry that they had on last week...He turns out to be really quite a phony."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-boston_061703-10">[11]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-nbc_040316-11">[</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-nbc_040316-11">12]</a>

<h3> Watergate and Ellsberg scandals</h3>

Colson also became involved in the <a title="Committee to Re-elect the President" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_Re-elect_the_President">Committee to Re-elect the President</a> (CRP or CREEP). At a CRP meeting on March 21, 1971, it was agreed to spend <a title="United States dollar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar">$</a>250,000 on "intelligence gathering" on the Democratic Party. Colson and <a title="John Ehrlichman" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman">John Ehrlichman</a> appointed <a title="E. Howard Hunt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Howard_Hunt">E. Howard Hunt</a> to the <a title="White House Plumbers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Plumbers">White House Special Operations Unit (the so-called "Plumbers")</a> which had been organized to stop leaks in the Nixon administration. Hunt headed up the Plumbers' burglary of <a title="Pentagon Papers" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers">Pentagon Papers</a>-leaker <a title="Daniel Ellsberg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg">Daniel Ellsberg</a>'s psychiatrist's office in September 1971. The Pentagon Papers were military documents about the <a title="Vietnam War" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War">Vietnam War</a> which helped increase opposition to the war. Colson hoped that revelations about Ellsberg could be used to discredit the <a title="Anti-war" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-war">anti-Vietnam War</a> cause. Colson admitted to leaking information from Ellsberg's confidential FBI file to the press, but denied organizing Hunt's burglary of Ellsberg's office.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-BA5-6">[7]</a> He expressed regret for attempting to cover up this incident in his 2005 book, The Good Life.[<a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</a>]

On March 10, 1973, Colson resigned from the White House to return to the private practice of law, as Senior Partner at the law firm of Colson and Shapiro, Washington, D.C.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-BGC-12">[13]</a>

On March 1, 1974, Colson was <a class="mw-redirect" title="Indicted" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicted">indicted</a> for conspiring to cover up the Watergate burglary.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Colson#cite_note-nixon_archives-4">[5]</a>

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Colson was brutal, cruel and vicious before he found God (during Watergate). While he once famously said he would run over his grandmother to get Nixon reelected, today I suspect he'd run over his grandmother to convert a few heathens to Christ. Segretti did not engage in the kind of dirty politics that Colson liked to play. Segretti was a political prankster, who only by accident got associated with Watergate. Nothing that Segretti did, that I know of, could be called sinister. Colson, on the other hand, was as nasty a political operative as could be found. Indeed, to this day we don't know the full extent of Colson's activities. He even refused to tell Nixon some of the things he had done (while boasting to Nixon he had done things he didn't want to tell the president). Colson walked out of the White House with any of his papers and records that might cause him a problem. Karl Rove, from what I've seen, makes Colson look like a novice.

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Thirty years later, in 2002, <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/110/000024038/">Richard M. Nixon</a>'s chief counsel <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/446/000023377/">Chuck Colson</a> disclosed the White House's response with <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/408/000044276/">Joe Klein</a> of The New Yorker: "[John Kerry] was a thorn in our flesh. He was very articulate, a credible leader of the opposition. He forced us to create a counterfoil. We found a vet named John O'Neill and formed a group called Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace. We had O'Neill meet the President, and we did everything we could do to boost his group."

In an internal White House memo dated 15 June 1971, Colson set up the meeting to introduce John O'Neill to President Nixon. In the memo, Colson advised: "Let's destroy this young demagogue [Kerry] before he becomes another <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/788/000023719/">Ralph Nader</a>." The next day, O'Neill arrived at the White House for a meeting in the Oval Office. President Nixon and <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/357/000022291/">Henry Kissinger</a> met with O'Neill for 40 minutes. According to the surviving audiotape of the meeting, the President of the United States strongly urged the young veteran to continue attacking Kerry: "Give it to 'em. Give it to 'em. You can do it."

Colson sent a followup memo on the meeting to Chief of Staff <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/342/000094060/">Bob Haldeman</a>: "O'Neill went out charging like a tiger, has agreed that he will appear anytime, anywhere that we program him and was last seen walking up West Executive Avenue mumbling to himself that he had just been with the most magnificent man he had ever met in his life."

Two weeks later, O'Neill debated the morality of the Vietnam War with Kerry on The <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/384/000022318/">Dick Cavett</a> Show. According to White House tapes, the next day Haldeman told Nixon: "Your boy, O'Neill, debated Kerry last night. I hear he did very well." (When asked in March 2004 whether he had been a Nixon operative, O'Neill bristled: "My involvement had nothing to do with Nixon. [...] I got involved because I was outraged with Kerry.")

The next year, 1972, O'Neill was a featured speaker at the Republican National Convention, and had nothing but good things to say about Nixon. And in 1974, O'Neill clerked for Supreme Court Justice <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/984/000022918/">William Rehnquist</a> (coincidentally a Nixon appointee).

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Charles Wendell Colson was born in <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAboston.htm">Boston</a> in October, 1931. After graduating from Brown University Colson joined the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWmarines.htm">U.S. Marine Corps</a> (1953-55). This was followed by the post of Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1955–56).

Colson was a member of the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USArepublican.htm">Republican Party</a> and in 1956 he became Administration Assistant to Senator <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsaltonstall.htm">Leverett Saltonstall</a>. In 1961 Colson became a partner in the Gadsby and Hannah Law Firm.

In 1969 Colson was appointed to the White House staff as Counsel to President <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAnixon.htm">Richard Nixon</a>. Colson also began involved in the activities of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP). On 20th March, 1971, at a meeting of CREEP it was agreed to spend $250,000 "intelligence gathering" operation against the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdemocratic.htm">Democratic Party</a>.

Colson and <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKehrlichman.htm">John Ehrlichman</a> appointed <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhuntH.htm">E. Howard Hunt</a> as a member of the White House Special Investigations Unit. On 15th May Arthur Bremer attempted to assassinate <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwallaceG.htm">George Wallace</a>. As a result Colson ordered Hunt to break into Bremer's apartment to see if he could find any information that the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdemocratic.htm">Democratic Party</a> was involved in the assassination. However, some have claimed that Hunt's role was to remove incriminating documents from Bremer's home.

It was also decided to place electronic devices in the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdemocratic.htm">Democratic Party</a> campaign offices in an apartment block called <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwatergate.htm">Watergate</a>. The main objective was to wiretap the conversations of <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKobrien.htm">Larry O'Brien</a>. This was not successful and on 3rd July, 1972, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsturgis.htm">Frank Sturgis</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKgonzalezV.htm">Virgilio Gonzalez</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmartinez.htm">Eugenio Martinez</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbarkerB.htm">Bernard L. Barker</a> and <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmccordJ.htm">James W. McCord</a> returned to O'Brien's office. However, this time they were caught by the police.

The phone number of <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhuntH.htm">E.Howard Hunt</a> was found in address books of the burglars. Reporters were now able to link the break-in to the White House. <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKwoodward.htm">Bob Woodward</a>, a reporter working for the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/">Washington Post</a> was told by a friend who was employed by the government, that senior aides of President <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAnixon.htm">Richard Nixon</a>, had paid the burglars to obtain information about its political opponents.

In 1972 <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAnixon.htm">Richard Nixon</a> was once again selected as the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USArepublican.htm">Republican</a> presidential candidate. On 7th November, Nixon easily won the the election with 61 per cent of the popular vote.

The trial of <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsturgis.htm">Frank Sturgis</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKgonzalezV.htm">Virgilio Gonzalez</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmartinez.htm">Eugenio Martinez</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbarkerB.htm">Bernard L. Barker</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmccordJ.htm">James W. McCord</a>, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKhuntH.htm">E. Howard Hunt</a> and <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKliddy.htm">Gordon Liddy</a> began in Washington in January, 1973. All the men refused to explain who paid them to take part in the break-in. As a result they all received long prison sentences.

On 19th March, <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmccordJ.htm">James W. McCord</a> wrote a letter to Judge <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsirica.htm">John J. Sirica</a> claiming that the defendants had pleaded guilty under pressure (from <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKdean.htm">John Dean</a> and <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmitchellJ.htm">John N. Mitchell</a>) and that perjury had been committed during the trial. Soon afterwards Dean also began providing information on Watergate. This included the claim that <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAnixon.htm">Richard Nixon</a> participated in the cover-up.

Colson also began cooperating with federal prosecutors. In 1974, Colson entered a plea of guilty to Watergate-related charges. He also pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in the <a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKellsberg.htm">Daniel Ellsberg</a> case. He was given a one-to-three year sentence. However, he only served seven months at Alabama's Maxwell Prison.

In 1976, Colson founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, which has become the world's largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, crime victims, and their families. Colson has visited prisons throughout the US and the world and has built a movement working with more than 40,000 prison ministry volunteers, with ministries in 100 countries. Colson became highly critical of the prison system and in 1983 he established Justice Fellowship, a faith-based criminal justice reform group.

On 3rd October, 2002, Colson signed a letter which outlined his theological support for a just war pre-emptive invasion of Iraq. The letter outlined how a preemptive invasion of Iraq met the criteria of traditional 'just war' theory: (1) such an action would be defensive; (2) the intent is just and noble; (3) the United States does not intend to 'destroy, conquer, or exploit Iraq'; (4) it is a last resort because Saddam Hussein had a record of attacking his neighbors, developing biochemical and nuclear weapons of mass destruction and their use against his own people, and harboring Al Qaeda terrorists; (5) it is authorized by a legitimate authority, namely the United States; (6) it has limited goals; (7) it has reasonable expectation of success; (8) non-combatant immunity would be observed; (9) it meets the criteria of proportionality - the human cost on both sides would be justified by the intended outcome.

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<li>In the 1968 presidential election that brought Nixon to office on the slimmest of margins – Nixon defeated Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey by 7/10s of 1 percent – George Wallace as a candidate with the American Independent Party (AIP) carried an astonishing five states and 14 percent of the popular vote, some 10 million voters. “Not since Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party emerged in 1912,” Newsweek noted, “has a third party [the AIP] so seriously challenged the two party system.” The Wallace/AIP machine sparked a stomach-churning panic among Republicans under Nixon, given that Wallace had locked up a conservative Southern bloc that otherwise would have voted almost wholly for Nixon (four out of five Wallace voters told pollsters in 1968 that without Wallace in the running Nixon was their man by default; conservatives, Southern conservatives especially, could not countenance the Democratic presidential nominee, Hubert Humphrey, a liberal Minnesotan). Conversely, if Wallace had carried 1 percent more of the popular vote in two different states, he would have denied Nixon the electoral votes needed for victory, throwing the contest into the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, which was expected to install Humphrey.</li>

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<li>As early as 1966, Nixon was telling Harry Dent, his Southern strategist – who would later head an intelligence gathering operation against George Wallace that Nixon dubbed “Wallace Watch” – that Wallace was the man he “feared most.”</li>

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<li>In 1970, with Wallace topping out on the president’s growing “enemies list,” Nixon secretly taps into a $1.9 million cash slush-fund to help bankroll the campaign of Wallace’s opponent, Albert Brewer, with infusions that eventually come to $400,000, a third of Brewer’s entire campaign budget. Wallace is narrowly re-elected and fresh from victory goes on the road attacking Nixon in preparation for a 1972 run, again as a third party insurgent. The New Yorker pronounces him “an awesome and disquieting presence in national politics.”</li>

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<li>During 1970, Nixon also orders the IRS to chase after the personal and business finances of Wallace and his brother, Gerald, a corrupt tycoon, in an effort to derail Wallace’s re-election to the state house. Dubbed the Alabama Project by U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, at least 75 IRS officers are assigned to what becomes a very expensive fishing expedition, turning up nothing. Still, according to one account, the investigation is allegedly dropped in exchange for Wallace annulling his third-party presidential candidacy in 1972 and opting instead to run as a Democrat.</li>

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<li>Nixon in his typical fashion is wildly paranoid that Wallace will go it alone once again if he fails to mount a decent showing in the Democratic primaries. So Nixon by 1972 lavishes another $600,000 to satisfy his Wallace obsession – this time to bankroll Wallace’s campaign against Edmund Muskie in Florida. Nixon calculated that Wallace could in no way secure the nomination but a solid series of primary victories would keep him in the running as a Democrat nonetheless. Nixon has now spent at least $1 million of his own slush-fund – and countless hundreds of thousands in government money – to quell the Wallace threat.</li>

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<li>In 1971, Nixon’s henchmen under the leadership of Charles “Chuck” Colson – “tougher than hell, smarter than hell, meaner than hell,” Colson was Nixon’s go-to man for dirty tricks and later a key figure in the Watergate affair – even went so far as to attempt to purge American Independent Party voters from the rolls in California. This was in order that AIP, so successful backing Wallace in 1968, would fail in 1972 to meet California’s registration minimums for a spot on the ballot.</li>

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<li>Wallace places well in some primaries – he wins Florida, for example – does passably in others…but always the question of whether he’d go the third-party route darkened the future of the Nixon White House. The “entire strategy” of Nixon’s reelection, Nixon backer Robert Finch noted at the time, “depends on whether George Wallace makes a run on his own.” A 1971 poll showed Nixon leading by four to six points in a head-to-head race with any of the likely Democratic nominees (Muskie, Ted Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey), a lead that dropped to a distressing one percent when Wallace as a third party candidate was factored in.</li>

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<li>In May 1972, John Amos, an insurance executive working as Hubert Humphrey’s Southern strategist, contacts Jimmy Faulkner, Wallace’s right-hand man from Alabama, to set up a line of communication between the two candidates. What prompted Humphrey’s overture? Did Humphrey have intelligence that Wallace was abandoning the Democratic ticket to go third party? If so, Humphrey would have asked Wallace to free up delegates won in primaries that spring. Jimmy Faulkner was to have briefed Wallace on the Humphrey overture on May 19.</li>

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<li>On May 15, 1972, four days before the meeting was to happen, George Wallace is shot five times at a Maryland campaign stop by would-be assassin Arthur Bremer, 21, a shy and bespectacled community college drop-out from Milwaukee, who is disarmed of his .38 cal. pistol and pummeled to the ground by onlookers. George Wallace, his spine pierced with bullets, in agony clings to life, and later spends 54 days in the hospital, undergoing multiple operations; he loses all use of his legs and will suffer the rest of his life bound to his wheelchair in constant pain. On May 3 – just under two weeks before he was shot – Wallace had confided to a journalist that he had a feeling “somebody’s going to get me one of these days.”</li>

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Chuck Colson pardoned by Jeb Bush

Chuck Colson, President Richard Nixon's "hatchet man," recently had his right to practice law, vote and serve on a jury reinstated. Florida's Governor Jeb Bush pardoned Colson, saying, "He certainly has served his time. The crime he committed was a serious one, but I think it's time to move on. I know him. He's a great guy, he's a great Floridian." Colson, who served seven months in a federal prison in 1975 because of his involvement in the Watergate scandal, lost these rights upon becoming a convicted felon.

Colson became a born-again Christian while serving time. Upon release from prison he started Prison Fellowship Ministries, which now has a prominent place in "faith-based action" in the Texas penal system, and may soon go nationwide if President George W. Bush has his way.

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