#probation

Love ➡️ Ten Commandments ➡️ God’s Character

The law of love aka the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1-17) is a transcript of God’s character.

These ten commands are summarized into two parts..

LOVE FOR GOD

1) Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

-Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

-Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.

-Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

-Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy.

LOVE FOR MANKIND

2) Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

-Honour thy father and thy mother.

-Thou shalt not kill.

-Thou shalt not commit adultery.

-Thou shalt not steal.

-Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

-Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house.

“On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Matthew 22:40

This law is the foundation of God’s kingdom, it shall last forever. For it can never changed or destroyed. “For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.” Psalm 119:89

If we love God, we shall keep his sayings. “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” John 14:15

God has given us His grace, in return gives us the ability to uphold His law; not for us to continue in sin but to be free from sin. “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world” Titus 2:11-12

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? Romans 6:16

Let us continue to examine ourselves to see which category we fall under:

-whether of sin unto death or..

-of obedience unto righteousness

Probation services are also underprotected. Police and prison officers are set up with protective clothing, personal alarms and dedicated systems to deal with outbursts and keep everyone safe. Probation officers often have panic buttons and not much else. Most don't even have security guards.

Last week a female officer was stabbed at work Preston, Lancaster. Before this there had been a general dismissal of the risks that these workers face. It is fair to add that at this office, for example, most of the probation workers are women, when violence against women is on the rise.

Here is an article which focuses on the safety of probation officers in light of the recent attack.

Here is a petition calling for safety measures to be put in place in probation offices.

Here is a JustGiving page to aid the woman who was attacked and hospitalised.

My friend says he'd be scared to put me in that position, where this guy could leverage threats against him to do something to me. He doesn't know this guy except that he apparently gets off on power trips and terrorizing people, and he's legitimately scared this guy would assault me if he had that sort of leverage.

something beyond Milgram but that kind of pries into the mind of how we view proper punishment after something reprehensible? i’m just asking because I have to do it all the time, but maybe you’ll find it interesting, and maybe it’ll help me somewhat to understand the general consensus of whether a punishment is too broad or too narrow.

(TRIGGER WARNING FOR CSA.)

JOCELYN GECKER

Barnard, a women’s liberal arts college at Columbia, suspended more than 50 students who were arrested April 18 and evicted them from campus housing, according to interviews with students and reporting from the Columbia Spectator campus newspaper, which obtained internal campus documents.

On Friday, Barnard announced it had reached agreements restoring campus access to “nearly all” of them. A statement from the college did not specify the number but said all students who had their suspensions lifted have agreed to follow college rules and, in some cases, were put on probation.

On the night of the arrests, however, Barnard student Maryam Iqbal posted a screenshot on the social media platform X of a dean’s email telling her she could briefly return to her room with campus security before getting kicked out.

“You will have 15 minutes to gather what you might need,” the email read.

More than 100 Barnard and Columbia faculty staged a “Rally to Support Our Students” last week condemning the student arrests and demanding suspensions be lifted.

Columbia is still pushing to remove the tent encampment on the campus main lawn where graduation is set to be hosted May 15. The students have demanded the school cuts ties with Israel-linked companies and ensure amnesty for students and faculty arrested or disciplined in connection with the protests.

Talks with the student protesters are continuing, said Ben Chang, a Columbia spokesperson. “We have our demands; they have theirs,” he said.

For international students facing suspension, there is the added fear of losing their visas, said Radhika Sainath, an attorney with Palestine Legal, which helped a group of Columbia students file a federal civil rights complaint against the school Thursday. It accuses Columbia of not doing enough to address discrimination against Palestinian students.