January 4th, 2008

A major storm is brewing outside and the wind is gusting violently. I’m pleased to be safe inside my office writing about the Old West. The men in the posse I’m writing about were stuck in this kind of weather for a couple of days. The conditions beyond my window help me to imagine what Wyatt, Bill, Bat, and Jim were up against. I received an email from Lisa Rea. She is the president and founder of The Justice and Reconciliation Project. She’s a dedicated woman with a heart for God and a great desire for hurting hearts to be mended. She emailed me the story of a man who had been in prison for 26 years. He was accused of raping a young woman and DNA testing recently revealed that he didn’t do it. It turns out the woman, who was a teenager at the time, had been having sex with her boyfriend and was afraid to admit that. She accused an innocent man of a vile act and the circumstantial evidence along with her false statements brought about a conviction. It’s tragic and all too familiar. The FBI has announced that they are looking into more than one thousand such claims young girls made like this. Any woman who makes such claims and is determined later to have lied should be jailed along with the overzealous prosecutors. There ought to be a law….