Mayor calls fire chief

Lake Region Monitor
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Thursday,
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city hall. 8
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vendors
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until 4 p.m.
10 a.m. Baby
Crawl, behind
city hall.
11 a.m. Our
County Day
Parade. Lawrence Boulevard.
1 p.m. Watermelon eating
contest, behind city hall.
Fireworks
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exceptions.
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downtown
businesses
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Mayor calls fire chief
‘Take your attitude
ignorant, arrogant elsewhere’
By DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
Keystone Heights Mayor Mary
Lou Hildreth and Fire Chief
Kevin Mobley exchanged bitter
emails on the eve of the city’s Our
Country Day celebration with the
chief accusing event organizers
of insulting his membership and
the mayor responding by calling
the chief ignorant and arrogant.
Mobley complained in an
email to city officials that this
year’s theme for the annual
Fourth of July event, , “A salute
to the volunteer,” is an insult to
his department’s members.
“It is a slap in the face to the
VOLUNTEERS of Keystone
Heights Fire Department who
cannot even participate in the
events this year,” he wrote.
In April, Clay County officials
barred the department from
responding to fire and rescue
calls after Mobley refused to go
along with an agreement with the
county that would have stripped
the volunteer department of the
independence it has enjoyed
since its inception.
Mobley asked city council
members
to
absorb
the
department,
making
the
volunteer organization an arm
of the municipality and allowing
it to continue to function.
The Keystone council turned
the department down, citing
financial uncertainties.
After sending his email,
Mobley said his members are
frustrated and disappointed with
the lack of support from Keystone
after the county effectively put
them out of business.
He also complained that even
though the department holds an
open house during Our Country
Day Celebrations, organizers
have never acknowledged his
group’s events.
In his June 25 email, Mobley
complained that his volunteers
have for years provided fire
protection during Our Country
Day, guarding against hazards
during the parade, fireworks
display and other events.
“Now,” he wrote, “you, our
citizens and guests will be
protected with volunteers from
other parts of the county that
know nothing about Keystone
Heights.”
“Remember, he added “that
when something bad happens,
they do not know where they
are going or how to get there,
and there will be a delay in the
emergency care provided at your
request.”
Mobley said his concerns
about response times does not
discredit the value of other
volunteers.
However, Hildreth disagreed
with that assessment.
“You absolutely meant to
discredit the Clay County
Volunteers, or you would not
have said what you did,” she
responded in an email back to
Mobley.
Hildreth also chided Mobley
for the premise of his argument.
She wrote that his complaint
ignores the volunteer work of the
community’s other organizations.
“While the KHVFD has been
a great volunteer organization,
your arrogance is at ignoring
all the many other volunteers
in Keystone Heights who do
many great things to make this
community what it is, such
as: Relay for Life, all our civic
organizations, our volunteer
boards,
churches,
military
organizations, and individuals just to name a few. Our intent is
to celebrate EVERYBODY,” she
wrote.
She further stated that Our
Country Day organizers selected
the theme before Clay County
officials acted against the
Keystone volunteer department.
She added that this year’s grand
marshal is Lake Area Ministries.
Hildreth did little to mask
her contempt for Mobley’s
complaint.
“I am sending this to you to
express my personal disgust with
your ignorance and arrogance,”
she wrote. “Normally, I would
not stoop to your level, however
I believe it is warranted given
the tone of your e-mail, and
its misguided and uninformed
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Harris remembered McRae Lt. is Clay
at celebration
career firefighter
of life service
of the year
70-year-old was
lost at sea June 15
Friends recall
love of outdoors,
contributions to
community
‘If I had to define
Glen Harris…
it would be total
unselfishness.’
By DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
Hundreds
of
mourners
gathered at the Keystone United
Methodist Church Saturday, June
22 to share memories of Glen
Harris.
The 70-year-old Keystone
Heights man was lost at sea
June 15 after a boat he was a
passenger in capsized 11 miles
off Horseshoe Beach, in the
Gulf of Mexico. Also lost in the
accident was 67-year-old Tom
Morrison of Jacksonville. Two
other men aboard the vessel,
Tom Grant and Frank DiPaula,
both of Keystone Heights, were
rescued 23 hours after the 21foot Wellcraft capsized in rough
seas.
The overflow crowd at what
the family called a celebration of
life forced a dozen spectators to
stand in the back of the church’s
sanctuary and a dozen more to sit
in the choir loft.
Dr. Tom Farmer began the
service by saying the second
most important thing in life are
the memories that we make.
“First of course, loving God
with all of our heart, mind,
soul and strength as Glen did,”
he added, “loving other people
as we love ourselves. Jesus said
that those are the big two and all
the law and all the prophets were
fulfilled in those things.”
Farmer said the service would
consist of memories recalled by
Harris’ family and friends.
Dr. Larry Parrish, a close
friend of Harris, recalled several
hunting trips he made with
Harris.
“Glenn Harris was a gentle
giant,” Parrish said. “He was a
pillar in the community. He was
a man of impeccable integrity.
He was a true disciple of our
Lord Jesus. He witnessed not
by vocalizing his beliefs but by
Ware
Clay County Fire Rescue
recently reconized Lt Silver
“Chip” Ware as its Career
Firefighter of the Year.
Lt. Ware was recognized for
his superior performance and
contributions to Clay County
Fire Rescue, both as a Lieutenant
on Engine 23, McRae, as well
as his additional duties serving
in the Fire Loss Management
Department in the absence of
a Fire Marshal. He possesses
extensive knowledge regarding
rural water flow, and has
developed water flow options
in accordance with NFPA 1142,
which have proven beneficial
to both residents and business
owners in rural areas of the
See Harris, 3A county.
Lt. Ware is a state-certified
Firefighter/Paramedic,
Fire
Instructor I, Fire Officer I, and
Fire Safety Inspector I. He is
red-card certified as a Strike
Team Leader, Engine Leader,
Firefighter and Burn Manager
for the Florida Forest Service.
Additionally, Lt. Ware is
an active volunteer firefighter
with the Theresa Volunteer Fire
Department in Bradford County,
and serves as the Bradford
County Fire Marshal.
For being a role model and
for his consistent contribution
to the success of Clay County
Fire Rescue, Lt. Chip Ware was
named the 2012 CCFR Career
Firefighter of the Year.
Rep. Van Zant: Florida’s economy turning around
Hosts town hall
meeting in Keystone
Heights
Wants legislature to
maintain spending
discipline that budget
crisis created.
By DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
State Rep. Charles E. Van Zant
Sr. told attendees of a Keystone
Heights town hall meeting
June 18 that Florida’s economy
continues to improve.
He
said
the
state’s
unemployment rate, now at 7.2
percent and below the national
rate, continues to fall. He added
that in the past three years,
Florida businesses have added
over 330,000 private sector jobs
to the economy.
He also said that in the first
quarter of this year tourism
increased by 3.4 percent.
“Bear in mind,” he said, “that
tourism pays about one third of
your sales tax.”
Van Zant also said he hoped
the legislature can stick to the
spending discipline imposed on
it by the drop in tax revenues
from 2009 to 2012.
The three-term House member
told the gathering at the Keystone
Heights City Hall that when he
first came to Florida’s lower
house in 2009, the state faced
a budget shortfall of $8 billion.
That deficit totalled nearly 11
percent of the state’s 2008 $73.6
billion budget. Van Zant said the
budgetary crisis was the worst
Florida had faced since the Civil
War.
Van Zant said that Florida’s
balanced budget requirement,
written into the state constitution,
was a life saver during the Great
Recession.
“I am here to tell you tonight,”
he said, “had that not happened,
if we didn’t have a balanced
budget (requirement), I believe
the legislature would (have)
simply spent more money,
borrowed more money in order
to keep everybody happy and get
themselves reelected. That’s the
nature of politics.”
Van Zant also said that the
crisis had one positive effect
on the state. He said it forced
Florida’s leaders to focus on the
state’s core needs.
“I am glad we had the balanced
budget (requirement),” he said.
“That gave us a chance in this
down economy to reconstruct
Florida’s budget in such a way
that it was more meaningful to
our citizens rather than to special
interest groups.”
He said state lawmakers
balanced Florida’s spending plan
in 2009 in part by not filling job
vacancies that had been open
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Jury
acquits
Keystone
man
Claimed
informant
entrapped him
Testified in his
own defense
By DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
A Green Cove Springs jury
acquitted a Keystone Heights
man that the Clay County
Sheriff’s Office had accused
of trafficking in pain killers.
Deputies arrested Jeffery
Allen Cook, 46, in July 2012
for selling 100 Hydrocodone
and Acetaminophen pills to a
sheriff’s office informant.
After the trial, Cook said
he and the informant, whom
he described as a female
drinking buddy developed
a relationship over the
phone. However, once the
Middleburg woman noticed
empty bottles of pain killers
at Cook’s home, he said
she started to hound him for
drugs.
He said he is a disabled
veteran and had been
prescribed pain killers in the
past.“She gave me this sob
story about her mother having
cancer,” said Cook. “Instead
of going out and getting a
job,” he added, “she went to
work for the sheriff’s office as
an informant.”
Cook said that in 2012,
another
friend
of
his
underwent surgery and had
mistakenly been prescribed
two doses of pain killers.
He admitted to setting up
the $400 deal between the
recovering friend and the
informant in order to help two
friends.
Cook said that before the
trial, prosecutors offered him
a plea deal of three years in
prison. He said he rejected the
offer because with his health
problems he did not think he
could survive the three year
term.
He risked a 25-year sentence
by taking the case to a jury.
During the trial, Cook’s
lawyer used an entrapment
defense,
claiming
the
informant enticed Cook into
committing an illegal act that
he would not have committed
without
the
informant’s
inducement.
Cook also testified in his
defense during the trial,
admitting to jurors that he
obtained the prescription
pills and illegally sold them.
However, he stressed in his
testimony that the informant
was relentless in trying to get
him to sell her drugs. After
the trial Cook said he thought
his own testimony likely
swayed the jury.
2A
Keystone
Heights
Elementary
School A-B
honor roll and
principal’s list
A-B honor roll
Third
grade:
Jessica
Michaela
Adams,
Collin
Robert Bounds, Melisa Renee
Brackett, Sabrina Lynn Brinson,
Ellie Michele Chamberlain,
Thomas Maxwell Chamberlain,
Vanessa Lynn Cole, Kaitlyn
Mae DeJesus, Mason Clark
Dicks, Mya May Dillavou, Kyla
Anastasia Fagan, Eve Madion
Feldpausch, Coltyn McKenzie
Givens, Zachary Brian Glover,
Brandon Aaron E. Goodin, Evan
Ryan Griffis, Charles Hayden
Groff, Blake Jeffery Hand,
Raegan Marie Hogg, Jordan
Roby Holmes, Lucas James-Paul
Horton, Caden Christian Hubner,
Landon Gregory F. Hughes,
Nathan Christopher Humphries,
Eden Grace Jackson, Michael
Joseph Jarosz, Jerome Johnathan
Jobe, Caley Nichole Johnson,
Austin Mitchell Laws, Kyla
Renee Maloney, Destinee Rose
McNelley, Alora Holly Nichols,
Austin Mitchell Pigott, Santia
VAN ZANT
Continued from 1A
more than six months.
“We cut back state programs
and were able to curtail and carve
the budget down to a meaningful
number of just over $69 billion,”
he said.
Van Zant said the following
year, legislators faced a smaller
shortfall of $6.4 billion.
“On the other side of that
equation,” he added, “almost all
the low-hanging fruit had been
picked off of Florida’s spending
tree the year before, and so we’re
still struggling to balance the
budget with that $6.4 billion hole
in it.”
He said lawmakers approved
a $70 billion spending plan in
2010 and faced an even smaller
deficit the following year of $4.6
billion.
“That was very helpful,” he
said. “It was kind of surprising
the way the numbers reversed
there in 2011 but consequently
we were able to balance the
budget right at $71 billion, and
we did that in part by requiring
all state workers to contribute
3 percent of their own salaries
into their own retirement. That
doesn’t mean they don’t get the
3 percent. They will get it, but it
will be later on with some return
after it has been invested for
them.”
Van Zant said that throughout
Florida’s three-year budget
crisis,
legislators
voted
themselves pay cuts of seven
percent in 2009 and an additional
seven percent in 2010. He also
said the requirement that state
workers contribute three percent
to their own retirement plans also
included lawmakers, so he and
his colleagues took total salary
reductions over those three years
of 17 percent.
“So just so you know when
you hear all this flack about
politicians make all of this
money, my salary is a little less
than $30,000 a year and my
family is here tonight, there are
five of us. My wife is a very good
manager.”
Van Zant said that throughout
the budget crisis, he became
concerned that when state
revenues did return to historic
levels, lawmakers might fall back
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O’Donell Standridge, Jasmine
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Amhad Jaheim Wanton, Ethan
Shale Ward, Seth Alexander
Wiles,
Emily
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Renae
Zoller.
Fourth grade: Jason Patrick
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Norman, Samuel Jacob Oster,
Lane Charles Peoples, Kloey Kay
Pressley, Ian Ward Schofield,
Briar Jayce Singletary, Devon
Maru Somers, Kasper Alexander
Suco, Tristen Nathaniel Tate,
Jason Blaine Thomas, Cadyn
Lane Williams.
Fifth grade: Autumn Brooke
Buchanan, Lydia Ellen Cooksey,
Danielle Lanyla Finch, Katelyn
Marie Gruel, Zachary Neal
Hamlow, Cinthya Hernandez,
Madison Grace Heskett, Jesse
Carlton Hickey, Olivia Faye
Llave, Sabrina Lynn Martin,
Jesse Cole Mattox, Brianna
Mackenzie Miller, Liam Thomas
Nelson, Travis Marcus Pafumi
Satterfield, Eliana Nichole Paige,
Jay Michael Payne, Jerry Daniel
Payne, Dana Elizabeth Peoples,
Lauryn Diane Potter, Miranda
Lane Rodriguez, Tyler James
Schellpeper, Garrett Lee Stanley,
Sydney Nicole Stephenson, Tylor
Matthew Thornton, Alma-Nayeli
Kay Trejo Trejo, Benjamin
Douglas Wacha, Ashton Michael
Ward, Paige Elaine Whipple,
Kaleb James Wiggins, Savannah
Taylor Wilson, Bryson Craig
Wise, Destiny Pryde Wood.
Sixth
grade:
Kenneth
Douglas Alsabrook, Austin
William Andrews, Isis Marilyn
Aviles, Samuel Brian Bogle,
Peyton Harley Box, Kailynn
Marie Bryan, Savannah Breeze
Channell, Rebecca Elizabeth
Cole, Colton Stephen Crane,
Paige Nicole Davis, Trinity
Jeremiah Frame, Lelani Dawn
Gray,
Alexander
Joseph
Guilfoyle, John Arthur Hammon,
Dakota Renee Harper, Kaleb
Lane Hollingsworth, Dylan Trey
Horton, Emily Christina Horton,
Kyle Eugene Kincade, Isis Marie
Lampiasi, Kirsten Taylor Lee,
into frivolous spending patterns.
“I kept wondering what’s
going to happen when the
economy does turn around and
money starts flowing back into
Tallahassee,” he said. “Is the
legislature going to have the
penchant to just spend it all again
and give handouts to special
interest groups and all of that sort
of thing? I thought that we ought
to do something better than that
with the money and with your
taxpayer dollars.”
Van Zant said he authored
legislation he called the missing
link bill, which required
lawmakers to first address
specific budget priorities before
increasing spending in state
programs. His bill required the
legislature to first pay down
state debt, fully pay for education
from the Florida’s general fund,
finance a rainy day account to
protect against future financial
emergencies and cut the state’s
sales tax.
He said voters’ decision to
finance education from the
Florida Lottery was a critical
error that came to light during
2009.
“That was a huge mistake,”
he said. “When the economy
tanked, so did the lottery. So we
didn’t have the money to fund
education, and by constitutional
amendment we had to do it that
way. So this was really a burden.
It’s hard to fund education when
you just can’t take the money
that is there to fund it.”
Van Zant said he believes it is
wrong to finance the education of
Florida’s children on the backs
of gamblers.
“I think that’s inherently
wrong,” he said. “I’ve always said
even when I started running that
we should fully fund education
out of general revenue. I still
believe that. And I believe today
if we’re going to have a lottery,
and it looks like we’re going to
have a lottery, we ought to fund
something else with it. Let’s
build roads or something else the
state does. Don’t fund education
that’s going to be attached to the
ups and downs of the economy.
Fund our children’s future out of
general revenue.”
Van Zant said his proposal did
not fare well in Tallahassee.
“Well, I’m here to tell you
tonight that the bill did not pass,”
he said.
He added that the following
year, Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff
drafted a similar measure to
Van Zant’s missing link bill.
Bogdanoff’s proposal passed.
“I like her bill better anyway,”
he said. “It had some features
that I had not thought of.”
Van Zant said that at the
beginning of the most recent
legislative session, lawmakers
had to deal with only a $1.5
billion projected deficit. He said
he and his colleagues passed a
$73 billion spending plan.
He added that because of
Bogandoff’s law, a version of
his own missing link bill, Florida
enjoyed an additional benefit.
“Tonight, for the first time
in Florida’s history, he said, “I
am happy to report to you that
we have a $2.8 billion surplus,
a reserve fund, something that
would have helped us in 2009,
but something the Florida
Legislature has never had until
the missing link bill.”
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Rep. Van Zant explains support
of Timely Justice Act
Claims defense
lawyers game
the system
Says death penalty
based in Genesis 6:9
By DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
State Rep. Charles E. Van Zant
Sr. explained his support for the
Timely Justice Act to attendees
of a Keystone Heights town hall
meeting. Gov. Rick Scott signed
the measure into law June 14. The
new statute requires the governor
to sign the death warrant within
30 days of any inmate who has
exhausted all appeals. The law
also requires the state to carry
out death warrants within 180
days of the governor’s signature.
Van Zant said over 400 people
now reside on Florida’s death
row, and the average time a
person spends on death row is
more than 20 years.
He cited the case of Larry
Eugene Mann as an example
of justice delayed. Mann was
executed April 10 for the 1980
murder of 10-year-old Elisa Vera
Nelson in Pinellas County.
“The person that was executed
while I was in (the legislative) )
session this year had been on
death row for more than 32
years,” said Van Zant. “The
10-year-old child that he
murdered did not get to live
another 32 years.”
He then presented an image
of a dysfunctional justice system
manipulated by high-priced
attorneys.
“Here’s the picture,” he said
“The state of Florida pretty much
pays for your attorney, unless
you are pretty well-heeled, a
member of the mafia, whatever,
and you go in there, and you
can pay for your own. But most
guys on death row, they are there,
many times their families have
Van Zant
abandoned them, they don’t have
any money and the state has to
pay for their attorney.”
“Well there are only certain
attorneys that can handle a death
penalty case,” he continued.
“The only people that get to
handle a death penalty case are
high-end attorneys, appellate
attorneys, they can go to the
Supreme Court sometimes to
the US Supreme Court, and they
get paid the highest amount of
money, your taxpayer money,
by the state of Florida to defend
these guys. So there is a cartel of
high-end attorneys that support
death row. They have all their
other attorney business also, but
they’ve captured this segment of
the legal profession.”
Van Zant said many defense
lawyers abuse the appellate
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Harris remembered during memorial service
Ryan Harris and Ellen Thorp
living them.”
Parrish
recalled
several
adventures he shared with
Harris, including one hunting
trip in which Parrish encountered
a giant hog he named Hogzilla.
Parrish also recalled his
friend’s sense of humor, his
booming voice and his passion for
the outdoors even when fighting
off swarms of mosquitoes.
“If there are tree stands in
heaven,” he said, “I know Glen
is sitting on one of them now.
And the great news is, I don’t
believe there are mosquitoes in
heaven.”
Bob Mowbray, who worked
with Harris in the timber
business, shared his co-worker’s
professional accomplishments.
He said that after graduating
from North Carolina State in
1965, Harris worked with Duke
University’s
Dr.
Theodore
S. Coile, a soil scientist who
pioneered the identification and
classification of forest soils and
their correlation to tree growth.
“Container
Corporation,
which what our company was
called in those days,” said
Mowbray, “contracted with Dr.
Coile to land map its sediments,
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Bob Mowbray
Dr. Larry Parrish
Dr. Tom Farmer
which was over 500,000 acres
located from Central Florida to
Middle Georgia.”
Mowbray said Container hired
Harris because of his expertise
in soil mapping and the North
Carolina State graduate spent
much of his career taking soil
samples and maintaining the
company’s database for the
sediments.
“Back in those days you
seldom saw Glen without that
five or six-foot-long steel soil
auger strapped to the top of his
vehicle or sticking out the back
window,” said Mowbray.
“If you ever accompanied
Glen into the woods with his soil
auger, which I had the pleasure
of doing a couple of times,
and watched him work it, you
understood how he got those
massive forearms. I can still see
him boring down into the earth
two, three, maybe four feet until
he found what he was looking
for. When he pulled out the
soil auger, head full of dirt, he
would take a pinch, a sample of
soil from the auger and rubbing
it between his big fingers he
could tell the texture of the soil
what kind of soil it was, the
classification, the soil properties,
the drainage characteristics, the
specific kinds of trees that grew
best in that kind of soil. He was
an encyclopedia of knowledge,
and he loved to share it with
anyone that would listen.”
Mowbray
said
Harris’
responsibilities at the company
eventually touched every area of
land management over his long
career.
He said the soil expert took
a particular interest in training
younger foresters, and that is
how he met Harris almost 40
years ago.
“He wouldn’t just explain how
to do something,” Mowbray said.
“He would spend all day in the
woods with you, beating bushes,
wading in swamps, whatever the
case was.”
Mowbray also recalled Harris’
love for the land and his talent
for scouting out south Georgia
road cafes.
“If I had to define Glen Harris
in one word,” he added, “make
that two words, it would be
total unselfishness. Glen would
donate his personal time to
almost any cause or event that
promoted the passion he had for
his profession and the love he
had for his community.”
Mowbray also recalled his coworker’s talent for storytelling.
“He had the wit, sharp mind
and memory like an elephant,”
he said, “and yes, the knack for
embellishment. In fact, those of
us who worked around Glen for
any length of time heard him
recount some of his better stories
many times, and they always
had new twists and turns that the
previous versions did not have.”
Mowbray also praised Harris’
participation in professional
associations, particularly his
role in the Florida Forestry
Association.
Harris was a
member of the organization for
37 years.
Mowbray said in 2008,
Harris’ peers selected him as the
Outstanding National Tree Farm
Inspector.
He also said Harris excelled
in Project Learning Tree,
an environmental education
program for students from
preschool through 12th grade.
“With Project Learning Tree,”
said Mowbray, “Glen was in
his natural element, sharing his
experiences and knowledge of
the outdoors with young people.
Anyone who attended one of
these workshops could see the
joy that Glen brought to those
kids and the joy Glen got from
teaching.”
Harris’ son Ryan said his
father’s love for the outdoors
influenced his own career
choices.
“Dad has been the outdoorsman
and has pursued a career in
forestry,” he said. “When I was
a young boy Dad passed along
to me a love of the outdoors:
fishing trips, hunting excursions,
and rides in the woods while he
told me about the land, its history
and of course ecology. I began
hunting with Dad when I was
five years old and today, because
of my father partly, I work as
an environmental consultant in
pursuit of a similar track.”
Harris added that his father
taught him to respect people,
respect the land and respect
firearms.
He also said his father taught
him the value of a hard day’s
work, primarily through splitting
wood.
“You don’t know how many
times I have swung an ax,” he
said. “ Although as a young boy
it seemed like the day would
never end, I am very proud that
I know what a hard day’s work
looks like because of my father.”
Harris’ daughter, Ellen Thorp
told the crowd she has come to
appreciate her father more by
watching him interact with her
own children.
“At my home he would get
the older boys up on his knees to
read stories and ask what sports
they were into and ask how
school was going just like a good
granddad does,” she recalled.
“Whenever we would talk on the
phone he would ask when Josh’s
next game was no matter what
sport so he could ride over and
cheer for him. Here in Keystone
he couldn’t get the boys in his
truck fast enough when we
pulled into the driveway. We
would pull in, and he would be
raring to go over to the airpark to
play show-and-tell with the trees
and the wildlife.”
“One of his favorite places
in all of Keystone is a little
babbling brook that flows into
Crystal Lake,” she said.
“It’s quiet and peaceful there,
and he made it feel like a special
secret for our family to enjoy. I
know it will be a special memory
for my kids as well.”
Harris’ son-in-law
Mark
Thorp read a note from Harris’
friend Tom Grant. Grant was
with Harris when he died during
the June 15 boating accident and
was also at the June 22 memorial
service.
In the note, Grant described
meeting Harris when the two
coached their sons’ t-ball team.
“Glen was kind, gentle and
resourceful, using his talents to
make life better for those around
him,” Thorpe read. “For instance,
Glen made arrangements with
a friend of his at the airpark to
fly an 80-year-old friend of mine
around the Lake Region and
Melrose. My 80-year-old friend
was amazed that someone who
did not know him would go out
of his way to set something like
that up. I replied, that’s Glen.”
“I will miss Glen forever,”
wrote Grant. “He was a kind
and compassionate friend. His
passing has taken away a piece
of my heart. He was the best man
I know. I will miss him always.”
On June 15. Grant was the last
person to see Harris alive. Less
than an hour into a fishing trip in
the Gulf of Mexico, rough seas
overwhelmed and then capsized
the 21-foot boat they were in.
A few days after the tragedy
Grant described his desperate
attempts to help Harris back to
the capsized vessel as waves
kept both himself and his friend
away from the craft.
During the June 22 celebration
of life service, Harris’ daughter
Ellen Thorp told the audience
how she thought her father’s
last seconds on earth may have
unfolded.
While Grant was fighting for
his and Harris’ survival, holding
onto his friend with one hand
and fighting the gulf with the
other, and as exhaustion began
to overtake both men, Harris’
attention may have been drawn
away from the chaotic scene,
according to his daughter.
“When I think about him
out on the water,” she said, “I
imagine Jesus saying, ‘Glen, I
want to show you how the pieces
fit. You are weary. Come and
rest with me up in this deer stand
and we will talk about family and
friends, trees and fish stories.’”
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and Fire Chief
-----Original Message----From: Kevin Mobley
To: Mayor Hildreth and city
council
Sent: Tue, Jun 25, 2013 3:31
pm
Subject: Our Country Day
I am sending this to you to
express my personal disgust with
the Our County Day theme for
this year. It is a slap in the face
to the
VOLUNTEERS of Keystone
Heights Fire Department who
can not even participate in the
events this year. KHVFD has
provided the coverage for the
fireworks, parade, and all of the
other events for this
special holiday for many years
and now you, our citizens and
guests
will be protected with Volunteers
from other parts of the county that
know nothing about Keystone
Heights.
This is in no way to discredit
the Clay County Volunteers for
what they do and I hope that the
quality of service is satisfactory
to the City. Remember that when
something bad happens, they do
not know where they are going
or how to get there and there will
be a delay in the emergency care
provided at your request.
The fact is, even with all of
the political animosity faced by
KHVFD,the department is still
recruiting VOLUNTEERS and
not one has resigned. This just
further proves the dedication they
have to serve Keystone Heights
even when they are prohibited by
your elected officials!
Salute to Volunteers! Especially
those who are not appreciated.
Kevin Lee Mobley
Fire Chief,Keystone Heights
Fire Department
From: Mayor Hildreth
To: Kevin Mobley
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013
7:27 PM
Subject: Re: Our Country Day
I am sending this to you to
express my personal disgust with
your ignorance and arrogance.
Normally, I would not stoop to
your level, however I believe it is
warranted given the tone of your
e-mail and it’s misguided and
uniformed content.
I am responding as the
Commander of Our Country Day,
a non-profit organization that has
been producing the 4th of July
events for years - without any city
involvement. So first of all, you
have addressed your e-mail to
the wrong group of people (albeit
that now the CRA has taken over
the fireworks portion, but I’d have
to explain that to you as well).
OCD voted on the “Salute to
the Volunteer” prior to KHVFD’s
loss. We voted for it because
of ALL of our COMMUNITY’S
VOLUNTEERS.
Our “Grand
CHIEF
Continued from 1A
content.”
“Take
your
attitude
elsewhere,” she added. “We are
all adults here, you could have
approached this matter much
more civilly. Sorry for your
bad luck both personally and
professionally with the county,
but you will not hang your anger
on our organization.”
Lake Region Monitor • Thursday, June 27, 2013
Marshall” is Lake Area Ministries.
While the KHVFD has been a
great volunteer organization,
your arrogance is at ignoring
all the many other volunteers
in Keystone Heights who do
many great things to make
this community what it is, such
as: Relay for Life, all our civic
organizations, our volunteer
boards,
churches,
military
organizations, and individuals just to name a few. Our intent is
to celebrate EVERYBODY.
Regarding
your
closing
sentence,
“Salute
to
the
Volunteer! Especially those who
are not appreciated.”, you are so
right, I totally agree - as will all
my board members - who work
tirelessly every year to make a
great 4th of July event for our city
and our surrounding community.
And, by the way, you absolutely
meant to discredit the Clay
County Volunteers, or you would
not have said what you did.
Take your attitude elsewhere.
We are all adults here, you could
have approached this matter
much more civilly. Sorry for your
bad luck both personally and
professionally with the county,
but you will not hang your anger
on our organization.
Oh, and we can sure use
volunteers to help out, we’d be
happy to let you participate.
If you would like to discuss
this further, please contact
me. We are also having a final
organizational meeting tomorrow
night at 6:00 p.m. at City Hall
and I’m sure our board would
welcome your comments.
OCD members (Street Dance,
Parade, Crafts, Concessions,
Water melon eating contest,
baby crawl, parade): Mary Lou
Hildreth, Erica Bassett, Doug
Wise, Shade Hilton, Cheryl Owen,
Debbie Kelly, Noel Thomas,
Marion Kelly, Maria Gall, Keith
Koehler, Randall Taylor, Heather
Henderson, and volunteers:
Scott Fryar, Karen Lake, Laurie
Buttry, Chris Thompson, Harold
Gilstrap, Ryan Gilstrap, Sarah
Matukitus - plus the Airport Board
members.
CRAB members (Fireworks):
Mary Lou Hildreth, Doug Wise,
Cheryl Owen, Maria Gall, James
Williams, Deirdre Murphy, Todd
Sigmon, Debbie Etheridge and
volunteers Abby Winters, Alex
Dinunzio, John Wick, Elaine
Teague, Harold Gilstrap, Ryan
Gilstrap, Danny Etheridge.
From: Kevin Mobley
To: Mayor Hildreth
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013
8:53 PM
Subject: Re: Our Country Day
First of all Mrs. Hildreth,
I was not intending to be
arrogant toward you or the OCD
committee. You have obviously
taken my email out ofcontext.
I am fully aware of how the
festivities for the Our Country
Day are planned and carried out.
I have been involved with all of
those events for many years.
Please
forgive
me
for
addressing the email to the wrong
group of individuals, but I could
not find the contact information
on the OCD website. (my
apologies to the City Council) My
support for the Volunteers of the
entire community is personally as
well as professionally important
and recognition for thevolunteers
is often overlooked. I am pretty
sure my personal support with
the relay for life, Boy Scouts of
America, the KHVFD, and other
organizations can speak for
itself and shows how important
all volunteers are to me and to
this community. If they were not,
I would not be fighting so hard
to keep the KHVFD together
to provide fire protection and
first responder services to our
community. I really do not think
that you or the community realize
the impact to public safety if
KHVFD is made to go away
forever.
You are absolutely wrong
with the concerns of the County
Volunteers that you think I have.
I fully depend on Clay County
Volunteers while I am on the job in
Clay County. I would encourage
you to speak with some of those
volunteers and ask them how I
treat them and then ask how they
are treated in other areas of the
County. With the economy and
the lack of career staffing in the
Fire Department those volunteer
firefighters are more important
then ever before to all of the
career firefighters. I have no
anger toward any organization,
especially OCD as you indicate.
As far as my personal and
professional bad luck as you refer
to, I have no regrets with what has
transpired and would fight just as
hard for KHVFD if I had to again.
This dilemma will be decided with
the pending litigation and is in the
hands of our legal system.
I would like to remind you that
KHVFD has only been prohibited
from
providing
emergency
responses and would gladly
assist with the OCD events if
requested.
Lastly, I am sorry you could not
just call me or email me back.
This concern did not warrant
notification of my employer nor
did it warrant
the notification of the media and
your response being sent to
those
individuals
is
seriously
disappointing to me and should
be to the City as well. My intent
was not to smear anyone or any
organization’s name but to remind
you that our services can still be
used and all of the members of
KHVFD have heavy hearts with
the actions of our County and
City and only want to serve the
community.
I will inform the volunteers
of KHVFD of tomorrow night’s
meeting to get the OCD some
more volunteers. I personally will
be working a 48 hour shift on the
4th and 5th or I would volunteer
to help you.
Thank you for your time and
feel free to call me if you should
want to discuss this further.
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BY JAMES WILLIAMS
Special to the Monitor
Sometime Melrose resident
John L. Mills published a book in
2008 that was relevant then, but
has suddenly leapt into absolute
urgency.
Charges that the National
Security Administration and
the Obama Administration’s
tacit approval of spying on
U.S. citizens and the press has
the media on fire, Republicans
licking their chops and both
sides of the congressional aisle
worried that we’ve crossed a
dystopian line.
Mills’ “Privacy: the Lost
Right,” published by Oxford
Press in 2008, is a dense textbook,
used-in law classes, which Mills
teaches at the University of
Florida.
“It’s not light reading,” Mills
said by phone recently, “and it’s
a tough subject.”
You may have heard of Mills,
he was Speaker of the Florida
House of Representatives, 19871988 A long-time Democrat,
Mills graduated from Stetson
and the University of Florida. He
later became dean of the Levin
College of Law at the University
of Florida from 1999 to 2003.
“Privacy: the Lost Right”
spells out the numerous ways
in which our privacy has
disappeared, the actors who took
it from us, and the ways in which
we helped them do it.
But
recent,
on-going
revelations about the federal
government’s spying and data
mining on citizens, foreign and
domestic, shows that invasions
of privacy may be reaching new
heights while privacy disappears.
Asked to describe his
understanding of recent events,
Mills said with a sort of laugh,
“My understanding of recent
events is completely unclear,” he
said, “just like everybody else’s.”
Mills pointed out that the
government’s interception of
calls from abroad is legal and
virtually universal. “That’s what
the Germans are so mad about,”
he said, “but foreign residents
have no constitutional rights
in the U.S., just as American
citizens have no constitutional
rights abroad. All governments
monitor foreign nationals. It’s
perfectly legal and we expect
our government to do that. But
the question is, ‘Did the N.S.A.
monitor the calls of U.S. citizens?
Are they looking without a
warrant?’ If that is the case, they
have exceeded their authority.”
What’s worse, Mills said,
the government has apparently
mined metadata, collecting
millions of bits of information on
people who have done nothing
wrong and have no intentions to
do so.
“They appear to be gathering
information they are not using,”
Mills said, “information on U.S.
citizens that they are not only not
interested in, it’s information they
are not even looking at. If that’s
true, then that’s disturbing.”
It’s not that Americans are
uncomfortable with the concept
of spying, Mills said. If the
British hadn’t decoded Nazi
messages, we might not have
won World War II. But where
Al-Queda is involved, he added,
Americans want the government
to keep them safe. If this
violation of privacy rights is the
only option, others ask, is that
safety worth the loss?
“There is no question that
some part of the current scandal
is being used as political fodder.
However,” Mills added, “that
doesn’t mean there is no problem
here.”
Mills said that N.S.A. leak
Edward Snowden, currently
fighting extradition while hiding
out in, first, Hong Kong, now
Russia and maybe Ecuador may
be an unsavory character, but
that doesn’t mean he’s wrong.
But what is most disturbing
about the current scandal, Mills
said, is that the very people who
are most qualified to testify for
or against him are also sworn to
secrecy by our government in the
interest of national security.
Foreign governments, writers,
comedians, Wikileaks and many
others have been quick to point
out the hypocrisy of an American
foreign policy that accuses
China of spying on American
businesses and the government,
when, now, it’s disclosed that the
American government has been
caught with its own pants down.
Mills’ latest unnamed project
is a further analysis of lost
privacy due to social media like
Twitter and Facebook.
“We are losing sight of what
privacy actually is,” he said.
He attributes that to a number
of factors and said it may be a
generational thing, along with
shifting social definitions.
“We are probably defining
privacy based on extended
technologies. When there are
legal cases of privacy versus
technology, the law tends to be
behind technology.”
The forward march of
technology and social media
has also made work harder
for the traditional mainstream
media, such as newspapers and
newsrooms.
“The public demand for
the immediacy of Twitter
forces the mainstream press
to rush to publish or broadcast
news items that haven’t been
entirely verified. That produces
embarrassing incidents like CNN
having to apologize for on air
misinformation.”
Has the very meaning of
privacy changed over the years?
“That is the crucial question,”
Mills said.
The 1982 edition of the
American Heritage Dictionary
defines privacy as “1. The
condition of being secluded
or isolated from the view of
or contact with, others. 2.
Concealment, secrecy.”
While such a condition might
sound desirable to many in
the Lake Region, for others, it
may sound mentally unhealthy.
A state which, attributed to
the government, would seem
dangerous.
Where did
our privacy
go?
Jon Mills’ book, “Privacy: the
Lost Right,” is up to date on the
issue of invasions of privacy,
but in the five years since it was
published (more than that since
written) privacy has further
eroded in ways Mills might have
seen coming, but weren’t here
yet.
We do it to ourselves, as Mills
points out: first there are the
addresses, phone numbers, our
credit card and bank account
numbers we give out, often,
sometimes unwittingly, our
social security numbers.
We give out health information
See BOOK, 6A
Thursday, June 27, 2013 • Lake Region Monitor
JUSTICE
Continued from 2A
system by filing frivolous
motions.
“One of the motions you can
file is that I don’t get along with
my attorney, I don’t think he
represented me well,” he added.
“So attorney “A” calls up
attorney Bill and says look, I’ll
swap you Harry for George. It’s
just like the NFL. And they just
keep it going and keep it going.
That’s a possibility there.”
He also said that lawyers can
time court motions to delay
executions indefinitely.
“You can be on your multimillion dollar yacht down in the
Bahamas and you call up your
office and you say look Sarah,
we’ve got to file this motion by
July 7, and this one by August
17 and this one by November 8
and the first of the year we’ve
got to get this one ready and they
just keep it going and going and
going and you are paying for it.”
He also said victims’ families
have little recourse when they
see the never-ending appeals
process.
“Now, you can’t go out, even
if you’re a family member, and
kill the other person without
becoming what they are,” he
said of victims’ families. “That
makes you a murderer.”
“But the state has the
obligation to do it,” he continued.
“We are the government, and we
provide public safety and the
consequence of that is we must
then exercise the death penalty.”
He also said it is necessary
to understand why capital
punishment is necessary.
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Keystone Rotary Club installs new president
The Keystone Heights Rotary Club held its installation banquet June 22. Left: Outgoing president James Williams (r) recognizes Hill Brannon as
the Rotarian of the Year. Right: Karen Fessenden affixes the president’s name tag to incoming President Paul Fessenden.
Knights of Columbus hold annual awards banquet
The Knight of Columbus held its annual awards banquet June 25, recognizing the Knight
of the Year and Family of the Year and awarding cash gifts to several organizations the
group supports. The Knights made its largest contribution ever to Lake Area Ministries,
$2,000.
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Payton Capper, Cindy Brown, and Sarah Crawford accept a check on behalf of Keystone
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BOOK
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to doctor’s offices, dentists,
pharmacies
and
insurance
companies. The Internet tracks
what we read, what our interests
are and-porn or no porn-even
our marriage status and sexual
preferences.
No matter how you may feel
about the issues, Mills points
out controversies over abortion,
same-sex marriages and the right
to die are themselves intrusions
into many other people’s private
lives.
Without a great deal of
training or special knowledge,
it is possible for anyone to find
out whether you have a criminal
record, or the value of your house
and property. If you contribute
funds to a candidate running for
office, that, too, will be public
information.
If you are on social media,
others may learn what you and
members of your family look
like, who your friends are, where
you go to church, your favorite
foods and how you are feeling
about life today.
That’s not even taking
into account what the federal
government knows about you.
That would include how much
you and other members of your
family earn, whether or not you
were in the military and what
you did there. Federal, state and
local governments will know if
you belong to any organization
opposed to its authority.
Someone at your children’s
schools will know your kids’
standardized test scores or
whether the kids are qualified for
free or reduced lunches. Over
time, teachers and administrators
will learn a great deal about your
children’s health and home life.
Much of this information will
be stored on a computer, and,
like all the other information
mentioned above, it can be
hacked or otherwise used for or
against you.
The June 22 New York
Times reported that a program
many teachers across the nation
are using, Edmodo, was less
than secure, according to Tony
Porterfield, an engineer at
Cisco Systems. The program is
designed for classroom use, but
individual students must create a
profile and sign in each time they
use it. The Edmodo system not
only tracks personal information
about each student, but includes
information about their learning
and classroom studies as well.
The article concluded that
many school systems are
jumping into online learning
systems without conquering the
basics-like security.
When you use a debit or credit
card, stores and manufacturers
will know your name, address,
credit card number, what size
dress, shoe, suit, belt or other
clothing items you wear and
what patterns, brands, colors or
designs you prefer. The same
goes for what foods you and your
family eat on a recurring basis.
Cable and satellite companies
may know which TV programs
you and your family prefers to
watch. State and federal Supreme
Courts had to decide whether the
FBI can subpoena the record of
books you checked out of the
public library.(Since the Patriot
Act was passed after 911, it’s
anybody’s guess but the answer
seems to be “Yes.”)
The latest brouhaha in
Washington is over whether the
federal government, including
the NSA and the FBI can
constitutionally
track
what
telephone calls you make and to
whom, and what data Microsoft,
Facebook, Google and other
online giants must provide
during an investigation.
A recent edition of USA
Today included a story on
the Genographic Project and
the Max Plank Institute for
Evolutionary
Anthropology,
which has recorded the DNA of a
combined 800,000 people to try
to map the genetic inheritance
of African-based Neanderthal
genes. Genealogists have also
begun to include DNA analysis
for the casually curious who
want to know more about their
genetic forebears. Genetic kits
and testing services are on the
market and range from $100 to
$200 per unit.
These are cases where we have
gleefully and willingly given
up our own private information.
But nothing has anybody’s blood
boiling quite like the recent
N.S.A. data-mining scandal.
Some questions are “What will
the government do with the data?
Who will have access to it; and
how long does the government
plan to keep it? What happens to
my data, once an investigation of
someone else is complete?”
Even the justice department
wants to match DNA samples
collected from any suspect, to
be matched with samples in any
other unsolved crimes, even if
the statute of limitations has
expired.
Right now America seems
to be divided between the
privacy poles, with liberals and
conservatives found at both ends.
In some areas, “Letting it all
hang out” may not necessarily
be all bad, we were told. By
this
point,
homosexuality,
unwed motherhood, diseases,
addictions, physical ailments
from incontinence to erectile
dysfunction, bankruptcy and
mortgage
foreclosure-none
are the taboo, shame-inducing
subjects they once were.
Still, it’s no wonder when the
government says, “Trust us,” the
public increasingly responds,
“Why should we? You’ve
operated in secrecy and you lie
to us on a daily basis as a matter
of course. And you’ve done it for
years.”
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Pulgarin, Ivy June Rankin, Steven
Tyler Rodgriguez, Stephen John
Salanci, Carter Landen Semione,
Chloe-Anne Ashton Singletary,
Savanna Grace Standridge,
Michael Schreiber Touchton,
Laurel Elaine Wagner, Gracie
Lynne Wheeler.
Principals list
Third grade: Jeffery Chase
Aderkin, Christopher Tyce
Anderson, Ethan Joseph Berry,
Ethan Emory Brown, Riley Paul
Draney, Ethan Michael Gillick,
Jesus Saul Hernandez, Magen
Renee Herndon, Lindsay Paige
Hovsepian, Isabel Lee Johns,
Joshua Benton Jones, Liam
Chance Kane, Ryan Lee, Krahn,
Karl Arthur Leitheiser, Caleb
Jack Moncrief, Gabriel William
Reines, Jozee Tymberlynn Smith
Fourth grade: Evan Scott
Andrews,
Shawn
Michael
Dukes, Daelynn Brooke Eatmon,
Payge Marie Elliot, Levi Alan
M. Marsh, Aidan Albert Perkins,
Piper Grace Pescara, Rozlynn
Elizabeth
Sames,
Lindsey
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Victoria Schrader, Lisa Michele
Strickland, Luke Harris Van
Zant, Sam Saodi Vorn, Camryn
Leigh Williams, Emerald Jade
Wood.
Fifth grade: Perla Alonzo,
Dalaney Wynn Anfinson, Brian
Matthew Armstrong, Jason
Nickolas
Channell,
Derek
Merrill, Cunningham, Emma
Jane DeNunzio, Casey Dennis
DeWitt, Kamrey Grace Dowdy,
Remington Lee Draney, Madison
Daisy Edgy, Kayla Dorothy L.
Elliot, Matthew Thomas Forshee,
Tyler Robert Friedlin, Danielle
Marie Fu Garvey, Courtlin
Michele Gentry, Lauren Elaine
Hix, Julian Michael Holmes,
Karli Ashton Jennings, Kelsey
Marie Kendrick, Sophia Keller
Kicklighter, Emily Elizabeth
Loose, Ashton Taylor Ludwig,
Sabrina Lynn Martin, Mia Tyler
Moore, Christopher Michael
Resti, Travis Ryan Sheppard,
Quartney Paige Thursby, Brianna
Faith Valazquez, Benjamin
Douglas Wacha, Cody Tyler
Wells, Isabelle Renee Woodell,
William Robert Yeldell, Ti Yen
Sixth grade: Jarid Eridani
Anderson,
Victoria
Marie
Bannon, Samantha Marie Boyd,
Grace Makenzie Ciriglano,
Caitlin Elaine Glover, Brylee
Kate Hawkins, Haley Brooke
Julius, Chloe Elizabeth Kendrick,
Brendan Todd Lee, Karlibeth
Anne Leitheiser, Cheyenne
Nicole Leonard, Stephen Thomas
Lewis,
Angelica
Christian
Lindquist, John Samuels Lingg,
Magen Rence McDilda, Joshua
Robert Prendergast, Kelsea
Olivia Seymour, Catherine
Nicole Shobris, Sophie Louise
Shobris, Trinity Nicole Smith,
Karsyn Blake Starling, Aysa
Konkear Vorn, Logan Mitchell
Williams, Clayton Thommas
Wylie, Paige Marie Yaccarino,
Jessica Taylor Yeldell.
PENALTY
Continued from 5A
“In Genesis six, verse nine it
says if man sheds man’s blood
by man, his blood shall be shed.
That’s the rule,” explained the
representative.
“None of us
wrote it. We didn’t get to write
that rule. God wrote it. And the
next statement tells why. It’s
because we as human beings are
the only part of creation that is
entrusted with God’s image. And
when you kill another human
being, when you plot to kill
another human being, and you
actually go out and take their life,
you have said, ‘I am bigger than
God’. Think it over. God takes
exception to that.”