Too often the U.S. Justice System is very unjust. While in a phone conversation with a U.S. attorney from Washington, D.C., he told me (Aimee) that the U.S. Justice Department can pretty much pick and choose which cases to prosecute. It simply boils down to how much money do you have, who, do you know, and what high profile attorney have you hired.
A recent (2003) issue of the Assemblies of God Evangel stated that U.S. Attorney John Ashcroft is an Assemblies of God member. His father was one of Albert’s teachers at Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri. In a public television interview, Mr. Ashcroft stated that he would uphold the law of the land. Does he have the integrity to do so if that law would mean the prosecution of one of his friends? Will power and influence affect his thinking in a negative manner or will he be just in all his decisions? This is a moral issue of right and wrong.
We discovered in January of 2003 that the grand jury cases on Rollin Carlson, Melvin Chapman, and other Care-Net Outreach personnel (including other A/G Northwest District officials) were dismissed October 24, 2001. This was only a few months after John Ashcroft took over as our new U.S. Attorney General. This was the very same day that John McKay’s nomination as our new U.S. attorney for Western Washington was confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Therefore, we decided to write to John Ashcroft and communicate our concerns directly to him.
Apparently, nothing constructive has been done concerning these cases. It appears as though the U.S. Justice Department is choosing to ignore the serious crimes that have been committed by some of our A/G Officials – the same way the A/G General Council and the Northwest District Council Officials have been taking care of the problems for years. Just ignore the serious crimes as though they do not exist! Is there too much politically at stake for both the A/G Officials and the U.S. Justice Department?
QUESTIONS:
1. Why?
2. Is there a conflict of interest in both the A/G Officiary and the U. S. Justice Department?
3. Can the A/G officials justly investigate and justly prosecute themselves?
4. Can U.S. Attorney John Ashcroft, an A/G member who was raised in an A/G church, justly investigate and prosecute close church friends?
5. Legally, shouldn’t unbiased committees be appointed to take over conflict of interest cases?
In addition to the following books co-authored with her husband, Albert, Aimee Anderson is also the author of Broken, Yet Triumphant.