European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes George w. Cornell shifts in Swaggart s topics foretold downfall in the month before to evangelist  was silenced by scandal his preaching hurried from outward attacks to self criticism in what May have been the outgrowth of i own sin a researcher says. He lately started putting himself Down says Ste phen m. Winzenburg a communications professor at Florida Southern College. It makes you wonder How much of ii was guilt seeping through. He usually had put others Down and pumped him self up As being greater than anyone else with an in Side direct line to god. Bui then All of a sudden Heslar cd saying these negative deprecating  himself. He seemed to be pointing a Finger at himself and preaching it to  leaders of the assemblies of god in swag arts Louisiana District initially recommended that he be suspended from preaching for at feast three months because of his reported involvement with a prostitute. National leaders of the Church asked the District to review that recommendation and perhaps nuke the penalty More severe. When the District officials stood firm the Church decided to refer the Case to a special meeting of its Genera presbytery the Church s policy making body fora final say. Winzenburg a Catholic whose monitoring reject Wii aimed mainly Al timing and comparing my raising pitches of to can gels said he Wasp zilch when Swaggart began switching his preaching targets. It was something that had t been there before but now it makes More sense he said in a Telephone interview. It May have been the outgrowth of a own sin. He also started picking on fellow . Be fore he had focused More on attacking catholics an mainline protestants. But now he was denouncing Hii own  from a Bogart preaching since mid-1987. Some of it taped and broadcast after his feb. 21 confession to his congregation of grievous  Wiiri Coburg cites these samples of swag arts self deprecation july 12 i m scared to death of Money and scared to death of women. Those two things have caused More creatures downfall than any  dec. 14 i a poor pitiful flawed  dec. 20 taking an Odd subject for a Christmas Sermon he identified himself with Judas who betrayed Christ. Feb. 21 comparing himself to the biblical . He said he was a poor pitiful scarred flawed piece of  samples Given of his put Down of other pc tacos  feb. 24 attacking higher education he said even pentecostal schools arc  James j. Kilpatrick feb. 25 holy ghost preachers Are falling for seducing spirits m an alarming Rale. This is the Par amount danger of the Church. In supposedly holy ghost pentecostal churches the pastors never preach on the holy  july 24 he said thai after criticizing the Catholic Church All hell broke Loose but he had a right to criticize others because the Book Bible gives us height. If catholics go wrong somebody s got to Al the know. If Baptist go wrong somebody s got to let them know. Even if pentecostal go wrong somebody s got to let them know. That s what Well continue to  Swaggart lodged complaints of sexual misconduct that led to the ouster of former to evangelist Jim Bakker and that also bumped a new Orleans evangelist Marvin Gorman. Both were ministers of the assemblies of cod. Gorman reportedly provided Evi Dence that unseated Swaggart pictures of him at a Motel with a prostitute Swaggart also has harshly assailed other denominations declaring dec 13 that in most churches in America you could t gel saved if you wanted  some of his sharpest assaults on roman catholicism seem to have been toned Down lately Wincn Burg said. Some to stations had threatened to drop his program i Fth attacks  Louisiana tote Church conference including most major protestant and Catholic bodies in the state of Swaggart Headquarters in 1983 formally protested his attacks on  Rev James l. Stovall the conference executive director says we took it pretty lightly when swag Gart denounced baptists methodists and other protes Tants but when he began stirring up anti Catholic venom we had to condemn it Swaggart has called catholicism a false  a monstrosity of heresy and to Complete contradiction of the word of  roman Catholic Bishop Stanley i Oil of Bato Rouge la., met with Swaggart in i9b4 to urge him to Stop the attacks but said afterwards Swaggart continued to Harbor judgment and make statements about the Church that were neither True nor fair. The Rev. Robert Furlow a Catholic Perma nent Deacon and communications officer for the Baton Rouge diocese observed somewhat prophetically be fore swagman s downfall when you Start attacking others it can turn on oneself. When you re firing rockets around you re Lia ble to hit yourself in the foot.". Cornei id he it Gion a nov fwd  or ii japanese american compensation advised now pending on the so talc s Calendar subject to flour Schali at any time is a bad Bill that tomes to us Laden with Good intentions. At a Cost of si.2 billion inc Bill would pay 520,000 each to those surviving americans of japanese ancestry who were interned on the West coast in world War it. The measure ought to a Equitty retired. It ii not easy it is probably fun tic 10 oppose the Senate Bill. It Heads for the floor bearing thcnamesof75 sponsors. A companion measure passed the House last september by a vote of 243-141, Only a heart of Stone it is said could fail to be moved by the injustice visited upon Loyal american citizens 46 years ago. It is time to apologize we arc told it is Lime to make amends. The trouble with that compassionate Pica h that it conies to us through a rear View Mirror. It embodies the Hindsight Wisdom of the monday morning Quarter Hack. The Bill carries a finding that there was nonmilitary or Security reason for the internment but Ihal is the conclusion now. It assuredly was not the conclusion then. Two generation have grown up since the japanese launched their attack on Peart Harbor. Today we count the japanese As friends and allies. In the Winter of 1941 -42 they were enemies. Today it seems absurd to imagine that the Jap Annc might have invaded California. This scented not Ai All absurd at the Lime. In 1983 we scarcely can imagine risks of sabotage and espionage. Reasonable me vividly perceived in Chi then acting upon these fears Congress authorized presi Dent Roosevelt to Issue what became executive order 9066. Pursuant to that order the commanding general of West coast forces proclaimed civilian exclusion order no. 34. After May 9, 1942, More than 110,000 . Asti icons of japanese descent were to be uprooted from their Homes. They were taken by train o intern ment Camps. There they remained until the War s end in 1945. An estimated 60,000 survive. As the supreme court noted in the Case of kor Maisu is. United slates most of the internees were Loyal americans. But some were not. More than 5,000 of them refused to swear allegiance to the United states and to renounce allegiance to the Emper. Several thousand evacuees requested repatriation to Japan i is ail very Well to say today that these citizens should have received fair hearings but in the Spring of 1942 we were involved in a desperate War for National survival. Due process had to yield to the exigencies of the Day. The Eiduson order came before the High court in 1944. By a vote of 6-3 the court upheld the order. Justice Hugo Black one of the great civil libertarians of All Lime wrote the opinion Felix Frankfurter and William o. Douglas agreed. Listen to what Black said we arc not unmindful of the hardships imposed by the exclusion order upon a Large group of american citizens. But hardships Are part of War and War is an aggregation of hardships. All citizens alike both in handout of uniform feel the Impact of War in greater or lesser measure. Compulsory exclusion of Large groups of citizens from their Homes except under circumstances of direct emergency is inconsistent without Basic governmental institutions. But when under conditions of modern warfare our shores Are threat ened by hostile forces the Power to protect must be commensurate with the threatened danger the Senate Bill describes the Tigani fical human suffering imposed upon the interned families. Granted. But others suffered hardship also 292,000 died in Battle 619,000 suffered wounds. Total casualties exceeded 1 million. In looking Back on those Days we ought to take guidance from lord Macaulay. This was the Precept of that great historian As we would have our descendants judge us so we ought to judge out forefathers. In order to form a Correct estimate of their meals wrought to place ourselves in their situation to put out of our minds for a Lime All thai knowledge which they could not have and we could not help having.,. It ii too much that the benefactors of Mankind after hav ing been reviled by the dunces of their generation for going too far should be reviled by the dunces of the next generation for not going far  rep. Bill  of Minnesota made the Sam Point in mouse debate what a funny Way to ask us to rub ashes on our tie Adl the Bill asks us 10 purge our selves of someone else s Guill with another generation s  no penance no payments and no apology Are required. The Pasi is past. Let it stay thai Way e unt Trul Pim synodical