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What is Freedom? When is limited Freedom adequate for human satisfaction? It cannot be rationed by those that hate the oppressed. The Constitution is the fundamental document upon which every soul that treads the dirt and pavement of the United States and its territorial possessions walk. This document stretches to length and breadth of the territory where its citizens live and praises the Lord. It provides rights that are not retrievable by the common citizen who desires to control those that are less fortunate than the few. The laws of protection defends against any form of slippage or deviance has the full impact of what freedom brings, from the great Document of Freedom, which is the Constitution of the United States and the Amendments thereof.
Since the Nation became the Land of the Free, and since the Reconstruction after the war between the states brought a freedom that has been challenged by those that feel that they are the sole owners or recipients of such freedom, the record has to be set straight. The perpetrators and victims now must enjoy the same degree of freedom. Justice demands equality for all citizens, even if the former slave owners have refused to yield to the laws of the Land that guarantees the rights to all citizens. They have attempted to slice some of the rights from the Constitution in the name of States Rights. Since the time we elected Barak Obama as President, they have attempted to put more pressure on the system in terms of identification at the voting booths.
We are proposing that in every state the question should be asked, what are the voting requirements? Once we receive the requirements we should mobilize our churches to assist in the follow-thru ensuring that the voting process is effectuated.
We should ask the federal authorities to provide some oversight in some cases.
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Reverend Dr. Whitfield Scott is a native of Saxe, located in Charlotte County, Virginia. He is married to the former Inez Gayles of Chase City, Virginia; to that union were born three sons and three daughters. He is the pastor of the Piney Grove Baptist Church of Scottsburg, Virginia, and the Organ Hill Baptist Church, Drakes Branch, Virginia. Former pastor of First Rock Baptist Church, Prospect, Virginia, and St. Mathew Baptist Church Clover, Virginia.
Education: He received his elementary and high school education in the public schools of Charlotte County. He enlisted in the US Air Force in 1950 and served one term, and he enlisted in the US Army in 1954 and completed 21 years of service.
While serving in the military, he attended the Military Police School, NCO Academy, Army Language School, Air Force Security School, and Physical Security School.
He studied the Spanish language and taught Combat Infantry Training at Fort Gordon, Georgia, for three years and at the School of the Americas in the Panama Canal Zone. He also taught in the school systems of Petersburg, Hopewell, Charles City County for ten years. He holds US Army certificates from the Equal Employment training program as a certified counselor from the McClure-Lundberg Associates Inc., totaling 120 hours of specialized training in this field. He is also a school-trained physical security specialist and criminal investigator and holds private investigation credentials for the state of Virginia, which is recognized in other states.
He speaks Spanish, some Italian, some French, and Korean. After retirement from military service, he served twenty-two years in civil service; he wrote training documents for the Army Logistics Center and the Army Logistics Management University, at Fort Lee, Virginia.
Overseas Assignments: He enlisted in the US Air Force in May 1950; he received his basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. After basic training, he served in the Eighth Air Force at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas, as an air police security guard, and also in Sidi Slamane Air Base, French Morocco, North Africa. While stationed in North Africa, he attended the Military Police and Intelligent School in Germany. During assignments, he was exposed to the French, Arabic, and Spanish languages.
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