While police elsewhere in rural Ohio focus on meth labs and wife-beaters, Middlefield's cops have a curious fetish for busting the Amish.
In 2000, Geauga County Amish leaders asked police to help curb public
drinking. Albert, now a Geauga County Commissioner, was happy to take the job. "He'd always cuss out the Amish when they were caught drinking," Tina says. If an Amish kid walked into Albert's courtroom, he or she could be sure to spend a weekend in jail. Albert says he was simply honoring elders' wishes.
The Anabaptists who gave their lives for their faith (largely due to an unhealthy "church, state" relationship) must be turning in their graves.
On the other side; what about all of those who gave their lives for the idea embodied in our constitution?
2 comments:
What do you think, EZ, does that story from the Cleveland News ring true to you? None of the Amish I know call their girls Tina and June. Have you ever heard the English referred to as "Yanks"? Not the Amish I know. Not to say that Amish kids don't party down, I just can't see the girls hanging out in bars by themselves.
I think it's very unusaul, but believe it or not there's a kind of "feminist effect" happening with Amish girls. In PA it reveals itself in that some girls have a drivers license or may even own the vehicle.
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