The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 85, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1992 Page: 4 of 31
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THE BASTROP ADVERTISER
Thursday, December 24,1992
Issues & Opinions
Prisoners need to hear word of God; many
held by Satan and are planning future crimes
Dear Editor:
America really needs to wake
up concerning what is happening
in the prison system in this day
and age. I’m writing from a
Christian perspective and it don’t
look very good. Yes, there are
some very positive things hap-
pening in prisoner’s lives, but
there are those who will not
change and will return to society
to steal, kill and destroy.
The prisons are breeding
grounds of Satan. He manifests
his nature through people. I was
one of them when I was robbing
those banks.
Prisoners at one time were on
the streets running wild with the
devil. They are locked up now, but
the devil is still in most of them
and one day they will be return-
ing to the community. There are
many who are planning their next
crime even before they get out. I
hear it all the time.
There are those of us who don’t
allow this type of talking to hinder
us from reaching out to these men
who are actually victims of the
devil. When the devil leaves them
they change because there is a
new nature inside of them. Prison
is a melting pot where we are all
put together. Some change and
some don’t. That’s just the way it
is.
It really grieves us to read
about prisoners getting out and
commiting more crime!
Men have been delivered from
tormenting demons, healed, sav-
ed and filled with the Holy Spirit.
God saved some of us and He is
using us to help others. We have
a “captive audience.” With love
and compassion we reach out to
these men and God saves them.
Tb the natural mind it looks like
some of these men would never
respond to the word of God, but
my changed life is proof that
there is power in the name of
Jesus! There is deliverencefrom
demons, the cults and all other
demonic things people are trap-
ped in. I, along with many others
in prison, have found that Jesus
is the only way out of a life of
destruction.
We would like to encourage the
churches in the Bastrop com-
munity to join with us in prayer
for the men and women in prisons
throughout the land. Let’s get real
serious about it because this is
the only opportunity to reach
them before they are released.
Prisoners become neighbors
after they are freed.
Let’s show we care and join our
faith in believing God to change
many lives. We need the prayers
of our free-world brothers and
sisters. The prisons of America
are filled with men and women
who are held bondage by Satan.
It is our desire that these fellow
prisoners return to society filled
with the love of the Lord Jesus
Christ not a heart set on crime.
We need your prayers. There is
a war going on right now in the
spiritual realm for some of the
most notorious human beings on
the planet. Help me and others
who are believing God for their
souls.
The only thing we want is your
ernest prayers. That’s it. I would
like to wish every person reading
this letter a very Merry
Christmas and a Happy New
Year! God bless you.
From prison with love,
Luman Perry 38128-079
Bastrop Federal Prison
Closeto Eternity
<By (Dr. (W.fZ. "'Buzz O'Connett
‘Camelot’ can give a person pause
Most of us, at one time or other,
have had at least one “Camelot-
experience.” Everything was just
ripe for the happening. The stars
were right for all facets of health
to peak at once.
We had the ecstasy of
psychological, physical, social, in-
terpersonal and spiritual health.
Most of the time we were so in-
volved in the work-play that the
lust for ego power and greed was
absent. Then, of course, the
wisdom and truth of fairy tales
and myths came to pass. Camelot
disappears and is forgotten in a
feeding-freenzy of lies and com-
petitive lusts.
The Institute for Creative Com-
munity Living (ICCL) was a case
in point. In the late 60s and early
70s, despite the murder of JFK,
the country still had the courage
to study encouragement. For the
most part, the efforts were too
simplistic and superficial.
People in rebellion thought they
could smoke a little dope, call the
police “pigs” and drop out (of
social responsibility). The Great
Society created a great
bureaucracy (see Medicare) and
passive-dependent victims. Viet-
nam and the King and Queen of
Trickledown were knock-out
blows to community
encouragement.
Then biopsychiatry and
managed health care conspired
to make us passive victims in
need of a quick medical fix only.
There is no place in such scenes
for courage, love, faithfulness and
Matthew 25:40.
ICCL was the idea of three
overworked professionals: a
clinical psychologist, a school
psychologist and a Josephite
priest. The social health was
wonderful. We opened the In-
stitute as a night school and,
before long we peaked at 80
graduate students and 50
families.
We directors were the poorest
paid teachers in town, but we had
exhilarating challehges. The con-
flicts were eventually gratifying
because we were beginning to
understand the healthy and
healthful goals of encouragement
in our behavior. That’s what we
taught: How to encourage in
times of discouragement, self-
esteem, community feelings,
psychosprituality.
To this day our courses such as
love, the sense qf humor, death
and dying, are seldom taught in
universities. Timeless wisdom is
not taught there or in any other
conventional institution.
Orthodox science wants to
predict and control perfectly (As
does the average disturbed and
disturbing person). The scientific
attitude is wonderful. It keeps
control of data rm nipulation, if
money and power is not an issue.
Unfortunatley for you and me,
rigid scientific methods and
techniques cannot be lived and
cannot lead to community joy and
happiness.
Universities tend to teach in-
dividualism to the point of vallous
greed. We turn out “private prac-
titioners” on the current medical
practitioner model.
We professional training. We
love to sit in our private offices,
often in buildings without win-
dows for looking out. We love to
count, weigh and measure
abstract things. Even in sections
called ‘ community psychology”
there is no venturing out into the
uncertainties of market places.
Well, ICCL was an attempt,
well before its time, to remedy
this non-involvement. Drs. Alfred
Adler and his student, Rudolph
Dreikurs, are mentioned in tex-
tbooks. But their methods and
goals are forgotten (if they were
ever known to health care private
practitioners).
In my schooling, “community
psychiatry” meant speaking to
civic and fraternal organizations
and telling them to refer the deep-
ly discouraged to private doctors.
Adler and Dreikrus were the first
and last real community
psychiatrists. They knew as
modern physicists do (but cannot
carry over to their daily lives)
that everything is in interactional
movement down to the smallest
quantum of energy. If we talk
about individualism, we cannot
neglect the other end of the stick.
Social responsibility for teaching
inner strength and outer through
love.
I am almost forgetting a quote
of over 80 years ago by the world’s
greatest psychiatrist, Carl Jung.
(No, I’m not forgetting Jesus
Christ, but he had the unfair ad-
vantage of being both perfect
human being and God.) “If one
wishes to understand the human
soul, he need not bother with ex-
perimental psychology of the
laboratory, which can tell him
practically nothing. He would be
better advised to take off his
academic robes, and wander with
an open heart throughout the
world: Through the horrors of the
prisons, insane asylums and
hospitals through dirty city dives
and houses of prostitution or
gambling, through the drawing
rooms of elegant society, the
stock-exchanges, the socialist
meetings, the churches and
revival meetings of the cults, to
experience love and hate, passion
in every form, which no five-foot
shelf of textbooks could give him,
and he will be capable of being a
doctor to the human soul.”
Wandering with an open heart
through the schools and nursing
homes of Bastrop County simply
makes my belief that much
stronger. That is, the word “com-
munity” means nothing unless
we have encouraged courageous
citizens who will learn how to be
empowered with inner strength
and outer determination to per-
mit, model and reward through
love.
A case in point is one of my
senior groups. They had the best
intentions in the world, but Hell
is paved with those noble in-
completions. I told them they
would fail in their nursing home
plans and received a frozen
silence of frowns for my
encouragement.
I had seen those failed
movements for almost 40 years. I
can smell them at a distance. The
private intentions resemble those
disorganized Texians of 150 years
ago who, with the best intentions,
would ride wildly off to attack
Mexico. They knew nothing about
ongoing encouragement groups
or the peculiarities of what they
were attacking. So they lose and
discourage themselves.
I have talked to over 50 locals
about their reactions to nursing
homes (where they might die, it
goes without saying). The two
words almost everyone uses are
“devastating” or “discouraging.”
If the visitors feel that way,
what must they communicate to
the residents and the staff? One
reader yelled at me, “What, what
do you want me to do?” “Do what
you are doing,” I said, “and some-
day take me up on my preaching.
Together we can practice en-
couragement at the community
level and enjoy together putting
the radical roots of democracy
and Christianity into practice,
Nothing else, I say and totally
believe, is going to come close to
solving any problem of the
human condition.”
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Penick deserves applause
Dear Editor:
Although I am a professional
educator in BISD, I am writing
only as a citizen of Bastrop to ap-
plaud Denise Penick of the Tower
Theater for her enthusiastic sup-
port of education and the children
of Bastrop.
At a time when education needs
encouraging community support
like never before, Denise Penick
and the Tower Theater is a glow-
ing example of how caring com-
munity support can enrich the
lives of young people.
Mrs. Penick has gone well out
of her way on numerous occa-
sions to arrangespecial viewings
of movies for educational enrich-
ment for elementary, middle
school and high school students.
We should remember that Mrs.
Penick is a business person, yet
these special viewings are at a
price that is less than fair to the
theater’s bottom line.
In addition to the movie view-
ings, the Tower Theater provides
BISD with movie passes as
rewards to students for positive
behavior. What she has done for
our children does not tell the full
story.
The way that Mrs. Penick sup-
ports our young people is the rib-
bon on the package. She is always
enthusiastic and creative in deal-
ing with the school staff, and the
warm and friendly way that she
treats all students make them
feel welcome.
Chip Hugebeck
Bastrop
Pink Santa thanks helpers young and old
Dear Editor:
Bastrop Pink Santa would like
to thank everyone who took part
in and contributed to our donation
drives making them so
successful.
A special “Thank You” to all
the young people who par-
ticipated, the Key Club, the Boy
Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the Austin
Christian Fellowship School,
Rockne 4H CYO and the Brush
Poppers 4H Club. It was very en-
couraging to see so many people
envolved.
Another special “Thank You”
to Denise and Les Penick of Wind-
song Tower Theater. The time and
effort they put into this drive was
very much appreciated, thank
you, also, Paramount Pictures,
for the donation of the two In-
diana Jones movies.
Next is a very special heart felt
thank you for the Bastrop Fire
Department and Bastrop Police
Department, whose dedication to
Pink Santa had them standing out
in the freezing cold to “fill the
boot.”
Thank you all for your time in
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these drives. We deeply ap-
preciate your support.
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Chairperson
Obey signals
Dear Editor:
In this busy holiday season, the
importance of careful driving and
obeying all traffic signals is so
important.
For 34 years I’ve traveled the
same busy Farm Street. Now the
two churches have day care
centers, one with a play ground
across the street.
Not until a person has felt the
impact of a broadside crash on
the driver’s side, heard the sound
of the grinding crash and shatter-
ing glass can one understand.
Wouldn’t a stop sign or a four
way stop make it safer for
everyone?
Sincerely
Ozell Hanna
Bastrop
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