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...enforcement, which in those parts means Sheriff Charles Phipps and his deputy. Since April 1, 1994, when the Clarks first retreated to their farms, later to be joined by fugitives from other areas, the Freemen have posted $1 million bounties on the heads of Phipps, county attorney Nick Murnion and local bankers, threatened to kidnap and hang local judges, and put phony liens on the property of anyone who got in their way. Prosecutors say they used one bogus money order in a failed attempt to buy $1.4 million in arms and ammunition...
...fashioned rectory, it may be simply a feeling that they are not realizing their potential; for others, the cause is frustration with a system of authority that seems overbearing and out of date. Yet the church cannot just abandon the structure. Too many generations of priests, says Sociologist Philip Murnion, have been "socialized"?conditioned to react only to the dictates of an established structure. When priests live and work on their own, as they have in some experimental programs, they often leave the active ministry. After they leave, they are apt to join secular bureaucracies?notably welfare agencies...
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