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Title: New York Man Arrested for Arson Threats to Presbyterian Church
Source: The Christian Post
URL Source: http://www.christianpost.com/articl ... arrested.for.arson.threats.to.
Published: Feb 4, 2005
Author: Pauline J. Chang
Post Date: 2005-02-04 21:14:49 by robin
Keywords: Presbyterian, Arrested, Threats
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Comments: 6

The FBI arrested the man behind the Presbyterian Church (USA) arson threats on Thursday, bringing a sigh of relief to officials at the denomination’s headquarters in Louisville, KY.

The FBI arrested the man behind the Presbyterian Church (USA) arson threats on Thursday, bringing a sigh of relief to officials at the denomination�s headquarters in Louisville, KY.

Jeffrey A. Winters, 25, of Queens, N.Y., was arrested �without incident� after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) searched his apartment. He is charged with interstate communication of a threat to injure another person; if convicted, he may be sentenced to five years in jail and fined $250,000.

According to a criminal complaint filed against Winters, FBI agents used several internet postings by Winters and handwriting analysis to link him to the anonymous letter received at the PC(USA) headquarter promising �violence� last November.

"It appears that he has some emotional issues to deal with," FBI spokesman David Beyer said of Winters, to the Associated Press.

The November letter, which, threatened to set churches on fire while people were inside, charged the denomination of being �anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish.�

Replete with a swastika, it read, �I promise violence against Presbyterian Churches -- They will go up in flames, bet your expletive that�s a terrorist threat.�

The letter, which had no return address but bore a Queens, NY, postmark, also set a Nov. 15 deadline for the denomination to �reverse� its Middle East policies �or else�.

Since the letter was received on Nov. 9, officials at the Louisville headquarters upped the security, and advised its 11,200 to do the same. However, they did not change their recently passed policy to divest from companies profiting from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

According to the Presbyterian News Service, several menacing letters have arrived in Louisville regarding the same issue, including one this week.

The criminal complaints against Winters notes that he sent the PC(USA) a second letter in January as well as the November threat. It also states that he threatened the National Mental Health Association headquarters.

While no PC(USA) churches were harmed, the denomination�s Stated Clerk, Clifton Kirkpatrick, said that congregations in New York City and others throughout the northeast were anxious after the contents of the November letter were made public.

On Friday, Rev. Kirkpatrick told reporters that he is thankful the case is now closed.

�We are grateful that this threat against our churches has been eased and appreciate the work of the FBI in this matter,� said Kirkpatrick. �At the same time, we need to be in prayer for Mr. Winters and for the peace and well being of Israelis, Palestinians and all the people of the Middle East.�

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Pauline J. Chang pauline@christianpost.com

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#1. To: robin (#0)

True or False:

Christ said: "If a Jew robs a liquor store, Christians are required to drive the getaway car! If a Jew does anything I have taught against, your complicity is required by scripture""

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-02-04   21:26:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Is that a trick question?

This guy's confusion is really amazing.

The November letter, which, threatened to set churches on fire while people were inside, charged the denomination of being anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish.

Replete with a swastika, it read, "I promise violence against Presbyterian Churches -- They will go up in flames, bet your expletive that's a terrorist threat."

robin  posted on  2005-02-04   21:32:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Is that a trick question?

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-02-04   21:43:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Did this article by the well-known radio show host, Dennis Prager, incite this man to write these violent letters? BTW, I don't remember the Catholic Church ever equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism (see below):

Presbyterian church defames Christianity

I have argued in this column that the greatest sin is committing evil in God's name. As bad as the evil committed by secularists, such as communists and Nazis, has ever been, the most grievous evil is that which is committed in the name of God. For not only do religious evils harm their victims, they also do lasting damage to God-based morality, which those of us who believe in God and religion consider the only viable antidote to evil.

That is why Islamic terror is so evil. Not only because it targets the most innocent of people for death and torture, but because it does so in the name of Allah and Islam.

Incredibly, The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) joins the list of religious groups committing evil. In the name of Jesus, it has called for the economic strangulation of Israel. They have equated the Jewish state with South Africa during apartheid and called for a universal divestment from it.

The Presbyterians are the first Christian church to do this, and, ironically, the divestment campaign came the very week that the Roman Catholic Church signed a document equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.

It takes a particularly virulent strain of moral idiocy and meanness to single out Israel, not Arafat's Palestinian Authority, or terror-supporting, death-fatwa-issuing Iran, or women-subjugating Saudi Arabia, for condemnation and economic ruin. One of the most decent societies, one of the most liberal democracies in the world, is fighting for its life against Islamic fascists who praise the Holocaust and publicly call for the annihilation of Israel -- and the Presbyterian Church calls for strangling Israel!

Apartheid state? This Goebbels-like Big Lie, concocted by the world's anti-Israel and anti-American Left and by those who want Israel destroyed, is now an official doctrine of the Presbyterian Church. Israel is a nation whose population is one-quarter non-Jewish Arab, with the same rights, including voting and its own political parties, as Jewish citizens; a nation whose second official language is Arabic, the language of those who wish to annihilate the Jewish country; a nation that occupies a tiny sliver of land known as the West Bank only because Jordan, overwhelmingly composed of Palestinians, invaded Israel in 1967 in order to destroy it and thereby lost its ownership of the West Bank.

As an American who fights to preserve Judeo-Christian values as America's primary value system and preserve Christianity as the specific American faith that embodies those values, I can only say this: the God that the 431 leaders of the Presbyterian Church worship is not my God, any more than the Allah of the Islamic fascists that Israel and America fight is my God.

The Bible that these Presbyterians read is not my Bible.

The religious values that these Presbyterians hold are not my religious values.

This is not a difference about immigration policy, affirmative action, taxation, bigger or smaller government, welfare policies, gun control, or a myriad of other moral issues over which decent, God-fearing people can disagree.

This is one of the morality-clarifying issues of our time. To single out Israel for economic strangulation while that good nation fights for its life is an act of such immorality that holding that view precludes one from the title "good" or "God-fearing," for if they are true to God, I am false to Him. If they are good, I who support Israel am bad. If their Bible teaches them to strangle Israel and support Yasser Arafat, I am guided by a different Bible.

They have drawn a line. It is now time for good people, Presbyterians specifically, Christians generally, to distance themselves vigorously and publicly from this morally sick church. And it is time, once again, for Jews to realize that the enemies of the Jews in our day are to be found on the Christian Left while their friends are far more often on the Christian Right.

Many serious Christians ask, "What Would Jesus Do?" If Jesus were here, he would probably be at Israeli hospitals comforting fellow Jews who were deliberately blinded, paralyzed and brain-damaged by Jew- and Christian-hating Palestinian terrorists. He would surely not be with the Jews' enemies, among whom are now the leaders of the Presbyterian Church, USA.

robin  posted on  2005-02-04   21:51:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

I have argued in this column that the greatest sin is committing evil in God's name.

Go and read the New Testament.. Tell me what Jesus says about complicity and treatment of others.

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-02-04   21:55:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

To single out Israel for economic strangulation while that good nation fights for its life

And Prager is considered a moderate conservative. We need new descriptive terms. The old ones just don't convey much anymore.

robin  posted on  2005-02-04   21:57:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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