Without occultism involved, I can let the departed co-founder of "Empowered For Freedom" be heard

17 April 2007:


My first wife Mary, now residing in the presence
of Jesus Christ, was a veteran nurse. She was also
a neat-freak who nagged me about my pack-rat habits.
But those very same pack-rat habits caused me to
save a newspaper clipping from about 1998, which
I found again just this morning. The clipping is a
letter Mary wrote to one of the newspapers of Denver,
Colorado, back when I was stationed in that area.

Early in our relationship, Mary used to work part-
time for an addict-recovery program in Rockford,
Illinois. This job, and the other job she had back
then as a jail nurse, were just part of the experience
she had in dealing with narcotics-addicted persons.
Later, as needle-exchange programs became a fad,
Mary was aware that many addicts would simply share
the new, initially-clean needles immediately upon
use, thus defeating the purpose of the exchange.
The letter she wrote about this issue is reproduced
below. First, though, I should mention something
for the benefit of any reader who may think that
this letter shows Mary to have been somehow hard-
hearted. In the months when she cared for prisoners
at the Winnebago County Jail, she demonstrated such
compassion and integrity in treating those under
her care, that hardened criminals loved her as if
she were their mother. Keep this in mind as you
read. (And of course, where she says "drugs," she
means narcotics, not legitimate medicines.) ///


"DISPENSING NEEDLES AKIN TO ASSISTED SUICIDE"

How "Kevorkian" of Mayor Wellington Webb to want
to use citizens' funds to promote safe drug abuse!
Those who use drugs to practice a slow form of
suicide, are now to be aided by your tax dollars.

Money saved on syringes can now be used for a
better knife or gun to rape or rob you or your
neighbor before the next "fix"...while the supplier
can continue to live in an expensive home, and
support politically-correct causes, borne by the
manufacture and sale of drugs.

Use of drugs is a crime. But while D.A.R.E.
programs teach kids to say no to drugs, their
local government counters with infector-control
measures that promote addiction. To use my taxes
for any needle exchange violates my right to
religious freedom, by forcing me to be an
accessory to the crime of someone else's sin
of drug abuse and moral degradation.

If you want to stop addiction, use tax money to
develop broader-based methadone treatment programs
and counselling. Emphasize rehabilitation, instead
of promoting the slow-death action of addicts.


Mary C. Ravitts, RN, BSN