It takes an especially vicious bully to beat up on the Amish, hard-working pacifists who have proved over the centuries that they will not fight back no matter how violent or senseless their persecutors. How tragic but characteristic, then, that Our Rulers have sentenced Samuel Mullet, Sr, a 67-year-old Amish man, to 15 years in prison (draconian as that is, the prosecutor had demanded life). They will incarcerate some of his friends and family, too, most of them younger with children, though for lesser sentences. What heinous crime did these farmers, woodworkers, mothers and fathers commit? They cut beards and … Continue reading Bearding the Amish in Their Dens