We are living in a day when the call for Sunday legislation has become almost universal. According to prophecy, these Sunday laws will become more and more increasingly dangerous to religious liberty. Such widespread agitation must be met with widespread evangelism. That is why The "Real" Great Controversy Project must continue to warn people against these things before the crisis arises. The rapid progress of the Sunday Law Movement is documented below.
"And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe." John 14:29.
It's telling that in France, where several stores are fighting an order requiring them to close on Sundays, retail employees showed up at work last month wearing T-shirts that read, "YES WEEK END." It was a play on Barack Obama's 2008 campaign slogan, and a symbol of the fact that some in France—where shops have been barred from opening on Sundays, with some exceptions, since 1906—have lately been eyeing a more American approach to work.
In September, a French tribunal de commerce said that two big home-improvement stores, Castorama and Leroy Merlin, would face daily fines of a hundred and twenty thousand euros per store (about a hundred and fifty thousand dollars) if they continue to operate on Sunday. The retailers have said they will open despite the fines, the result of a lawsuit. People in France like to work on home improvement on Sundays, which makes it one of the busiest days for do-it-yourself stores, accounting for between fifteen and twenty per cent of their sales. Closing on Sunday could jeopardize the jobs of some twelve hundred employees, according to the Fédération des Magasins de Bricolage, which translates, roughly, as the Federation of Do-It-Yourself Stores.
While there are clear economic advantages to staying open on Sunday, each society has a legitimate choice to make between money and leisure, the French economists Patrick Artus, Pierre Cahuc, and André Zylberberg argue in the most extensive French study of the Sunday-work issue. Their hundred-and-thirty-eight-page report, "Temps de Travail, Revenu et Emploi" (Work Time, Revenue, and Employment), published in 2007, offers a sweeping historical and cross-cultural examination.
"The well-being of each of us is not independent of what others do," Artus, Cahuc, and Zylberberg wrote. "The value of our free time depends on the possibility of spending it with one's family and friends and the ability to share that time with others." In other words, the value of almost no one working on Sunday is that it forces families—or friends—to do things together.
This isn't as trivial as it may seem, on first glance; social scientists are increasingly finding links between family time and well-being. A number of studies in the U.S. show that children who have dinner regularly with their families do better in school and are less likely to get into trouble. Families that rarely eat together see higher average rates of obesity, drinking, and drug use among teenagers, and more teen pregnancy. The entrenchment of 24/7 capitalism in the U.S.—which has forced many parents to work late hours, or hold down multiple jobs—has gone hand in hand with various negative social trends: rising divorce rates, child obesity, drug use, teen pregnancy.
Seoul City officials raided three Costco stores in Seoul that opened their doors again Sunday despite the city's ordinance to have large discount stores close on the second and fourth Sunday of every month. They uncovered 14 violations and slapped a temporary suspension on the sale of livestock products at two of the three outlets for violating meat preservation regulations.
Seoul City also imposed a fine of $60 million against the American retail giant for violating the Sunday closing rule. The raids are seen as retaliatory measures against the retailer's failure to follow the Sundayclosing rule. It defies our understanding that Costco, which operates eight stores in Korea, continues to violate the law while doing business here.
Seoul City imposed the Sunday closing rule on discount chains in April under the Distribution Industry Development Act that took effect in January.
Seoul City, for its part, deserves blame for resorting to outdated revengeful clampdowns to bring a foreign retailer into submission. It's like a tax agency conducting an audit to retaliate against a company that doesn't comply with its instruction.
What's clear is that Costco should recall the old saying, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do.'' It's time for the retail giant to step back and try to observe local regulations.
The pope said traditional family values and Sunday rest were key to escaping the ills of modern society and reached out to divorced people at a mass to close the World Meeting of Families in Milan.
Welcomed by a million flag-waving pilgrims gathered at Bresso airport, Pope Benedict XVI looked tired but cheerful as he drove through the crowds in his pope-mobile Sunday, stopping several times to wave to children and kiss babies.
"Dear families, despite the relentless rhythms of the modern world, do not lose a sense of the Lord's day," the pope said, describing the tradition of Sunday rest as "an oasis in which to pause... and celebrate the family." He lamented the modern-day "utilitarian concept of work, production and the market," which "brings in its wake ferocious competition, strong inequalities, degradation of the environment, the race for consumer goods, family tensions."
Particularly in a period of economic crisis and social unease, families should celebrate Sunday as "the day of man and his values: conviviality, friendship, solidarity, culture, closeness to nature, play, sport," he said.
Is there any point at all to having Sunday shopping laws given the long list of exemptions for retailers and the new guarantees for workers that they're not required to work on Sundays?
It's designed to give shoppers greater flexibility on weekends and allow businesses to better serve their customers. But it's also supposed to "protect the rights of families" who deserve Sundays off to be with their kids and loved ones.
Which is really a crock. Because the law has always allowed retail employees to refuse work on Sundays. And the new bill clarifies that even further with new consequences under the Employment Standards Code.
So the question now becomes, if employees don't have to work Sundays, why have any restrictions on Sunday shopping at all? It really makes no sense.
Seems to me the entire argument for having Sunday shopping restrictions has now fallen apart. Besides, there are so many exemptions in the act that make the hourly restrictions a bit of a joke anyway.
For example, a grocery store can't open outside of the prescribed Sunday hours, but a large pharmacy chain — which sells all kinds of groceryproducts — can. A smaller store of any kind with six or seven employees cannot open outside of the legislated hours. But a retailer selling the same products with four workers or less can.
You can sell fresh fruit and vegetables, garden equipment, flower beds and plants any time you want on a Sunday even if you're a bigbox store. But you can't sell a light bulb or a sheet of plywood at that same big-box store outside of the restricted hours.
So are the rights of employees at the big-box store selling plywood are more important than the rights of those selling tomato plants when it comes to family time on Sundays? It's ridiculous, actually. Instead of expanding Sunday shopping laws further, why not just get rid of the restrictions altogether. Would it really matter if a store wanted to open at 8 a.m. on a Sunday instead of 9 a.m.? If a store wants to stay open until 9 p.m. on a Sunday, is it really any of the government's business?
And since employees don't have to work on Sundays anyway, why does it matter? The next logical step would be to eliminate Sunday shopping restrictions completely so those who want to work or shop on Sundays can. The state has no business telling workers they can't make a living by working a retail job on a Sunday evening.
At the very least — and here's my compromise — it should be left up to individual municipalities to decide whether they want Sunday shopping restrictions or not. Unfortunately, the bill won't even allow that. Manitoba's Sunday shopping laws — the existing one and the proposed one proposed this week — don't allow retail businesses to open on Sundays period, unless their municipality passes a bylaw allowing them to access the province's restricted hours.
Why not have a provision in the act that allows municipalities to be exempt entirely from the Retail Business Holiday Closing Act? That way they could either have no Sunday shopping at all, they could implement the province's restricted hour scheme, or they could have no restrictions whatsoever.
Editor's Note: This article published in the Winnipeg Sun shows the inconsistencies, contradictions, and confusion that accompany Sunday Laws. More so is the danger that Sunday Laws pose to religious liberty.
"There are many, even of those engaged in this movement for Sunday enforcement, who are blinded to the results which will follow this action. They do not see that they are striking directly against religious liberty." Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 711.
Freedom of religion has been one of America's most cherished liberties, and one of the reasons why America became great. Notice what one of the Founding Fathers said about this: "No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burdened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities." Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1779).
Yet today, times have changed. Religious liberty is becoming a thing of the past. Great horrors await this nation if this trend continues: "They are working in blindness. They do not see that if a Protestant government sacrifices the principles that have made them a free, independent nation, and through legislation brings into the Constitution, principles that will propagate papal falsehoods and papal delusions, they are plunging into the Roman horrors of the Dark Ages." Review and Herald, December 11, 1888.
Do we really need more Sunday shopping hours?
Just how much shopping do we all want to do, especially as many of us are having to tighten our belts? Restrictions on Sunday trading have eased greatly in recent years – and now the Government plans to completely suspend the rules to allow shops in England and Wales to open for more than six hours to take advantage of tourist trade during the London Olympics.
No doubt if it is a success there will be pressure from the big retailers to make it permanent. It's amazing to think that, with stores now opening every day of the week and many trading well into the night as well, people still want more hours to go shopping.
And pity the poor shop workers who have no choice in the matter. It seems there is no single day of the week that is sacred, when they are not at the beck and call of their employers. A friend working at a department store in Dudley once told me how, despite having been open until really late every day in the run-up to Christmas, a man came to the till five minutes before closing at 10pm and demanded to have all the presents he had just chosen gift-wrapped, a service the store had advertised.
Staff scurried round, stayed late and met his demand. But it just goes to show that, no matter how long a shop is open, someone will want to push it just that bit further. And should we be pandering to people who can't be bothered to plan their lives well enough to make sure they do their shopping in a timely fashion. Surely we only have just so much in our pockets to spend anyway so is it really worth the disruption to the lives of shop staff, their families and our traditional day of rest to open even longer?
Solidarity trade union activists protested in front of shopping malls and supermarkets yesterday as part of a campaign to give shop workers a day off on Sundays. The trade unionists distributed leaflets asking customers to support the demand. Alfred Bujara, a spokesman for the Solidarity trade union argues that banning Sunday trading would not necessarily lead to a loss of trade, as customers would still buy the same amount of goods six days a week instead of seven.
He said that trade unionists in Austria and France were also calling for a ban on Sunday trading. "I think that, as in Western Europe, we can demand to keep Sunday as a day of rest," he said. Around 250,000 shop assistants, mostly women, work on Sunday in Poland.
A previous, conservative Law and Justice (PiS) led government (2005– 2007) introduced a law banning large retail units opening on national holidays. Only local shops are lalowed to be open on those days provided it is the owner who is working. The Polish labor code allows for a fine of 30,000 zloty (7,600 euro) if the regulation is broken.
a series of boycotts against the Polish communist government that eventually led to its demise. As a result of his work with the union, he eventually became president of Poland from 1991-1995.
Today these unions have joined with the Roman Catholic Church to promote Sunday laws. Within the past few days members of the Solidarity Trade Union in Poland were picketing stores and shops across Poland demanding that owners and even customers respect Sunday as the Lord's day and to keep it holy by shutting down on Sundays.
The flames of liberty that has burned so brightly after the fall of communism is beginning to flicker and grow dim. If Poland fails in her responsibility to hold the banner of liberty and freedom, the cause of freedom will be lost. Let us not forget that trade unions can be used either for good or for evil. Fidel Castro used the trade unions to begin a series of labor boycotts which was the launching of a general popular insurrection during the Cuban Revolution. We have been warned that one day that labor unions throughout the world will go too far in their efforts.
"The trade unions will be one of the agencies that will bring upon this earth a time of trouble such as has not been since the world began." Last Day Events, p.116.
At some point these labor unions with try to coerce, destabilize, or sabotage the economy in order to force the government to fulfill its demands. Labor unions will no doubt be the agency by which the "buying and selling" provision of the mark of the beast will be enforced [Rev. 13:11, 16, 17].
However, we must never forget the fact that religion will be the underlying factor in the campaign for Sunday laws. Political as well as religious issues with regards to Sunday laws are being agitated daily throughout the world. We have tried to document this over the years through The Eternal Gospel Herald. The matter of Sunday laws have become prominent in recent years; and the opponents of religious freedom have come out strongly in favor of making Sunday a day of worship and rest.
It is in the light of these momentous events that the Eternal Gospel Ministry is committed to continue to raise up a voice against the threat of freedom posed by the monopolies of labor and business and religious institutions. We will continue to publish, preach, and educate the public with the messages of Daniel and Revelation in the daily newspaper, on radio, through billboards, and missionary publications. What can be done in these momentous times to enlighten the public regarding the principles of God's truth and of the final events—must be done now. If we don't do it, who will? Unfortunately, not many are willing to do it. However, we are inviting each of you to help us give the last message of mercy a much wider circulation than ever before. Your prayers and support are much needed in such a time as this. God bless you.
Many people in Connecticut feel the same way: "I've never understood it," said Sheila Roberts, a lifelong Connecticut resident. "It seems like a throwback to the Puritan era." And, indeed, the prohibition of alcohol sales on Sundays is a restriction dating back hundreds of years. In fact, Connecticut has the honor of being the first state in the nation to establish Blue Laws in relation to the sale of alcohol on Sundays. Currently Connecticut is one of only three states prohibiting alcohol sales on Sundays, the other two being Indiana and Georgia.
"Blue laws" refers to any laws regulating activities on Sundays, not just alcohol (for example, it is illegal to purchase cars on Sunday in Illinois). In Connecticut, Blue Laws were part of the initial statutes established by Governor Theophilus Eaton, with the help of the infamous Rev. John Cotton, in 1655, although the state's official ban went into effect in 1933, the year national prohibition was repealed and left to the states. It goes without saying, such laws were the result of the Christian reverence for Sunday as the Holy Sabbath, which, to many, flies in the face of the U.S. Constitution, which establishes a separation between church and state.
Many state residents who wish to purchase alcohol on Sundays tend to travel to Massachusetts, and many lawmakers wish to keep that revenue within Connecticut borders. Liquor and beer companies and lobbyist are also pushing for a lift on the ban, claiming it would increase their profits.
Even with the lift of Connecticut's Blue Laws, even the most optimistic figures regarding increased tax revenue barely put a dent in the state's deficit. Still Governor Daniel Malloy has promised to sign the bill into law should its passage in the legislature reach his desk.
As an interesting side note, other Blue Laws that had at one time existed in the state (and have since been repealed) include the stipulations that "No one shall run on the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting," "no one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave, on the Sabbath day," and "no woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath or fasting day," among others.
The issue of Sunday hunting rekindles the age-old debate regarding Pennsylvania's blue laws. The House Games and Fisheries Committee are considering a change that would allow Pennsylvania's whitetail deer to be hunted on Sundays.
One of the bill's largest opponents, the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, testified before the House committee Thursday that farmers and private landowners control approximately 80 percent of the state's huntable land, according to a 2005 survey.
Farm Bureau member Nila Cogan opposes the expansion of Sunday hunting for several reasons, including the preservation of a day of peace and relaxation on her farm, the private use of her own land for recreational purposes and religious beliefs. Those religious beliefs have once again sparked the debate over blue laws. Blue laws are designed to enforce religious standards, such as the observance of Sunday as a day of worship and rest.
John Hohenwarter, the National Rifle Association's Pennsylvania state liaison, said the religious views of some, even many, should not dictate the laws of everyone.
"It's personal choice whether you go to church on Sunday," he said before the committee. "I think you need to keep in mind that there are other religions (besides Christianity) in this state. It's been determined that Sunday is the day of rest, but that's not the case for everyone." Pennsylvania's blue laws have played a role in preventing Sunday liquor and car sales.
Joel Rotz, state governmental relations director for the Farm Bureau, said Sunday hunting is different from other forms of blue laws. "Private landowners are not going to benefit from this change, and they don't want it," he said.
Those in favor of Sunday hunting point out double standards involved with blue laws. Coyote, fox and crow hunting is legal, for example, while hunting for deer and turkey is not. Fishing on Sundays is also legal.
Editor's Note: We should be doing much more to voice the warnings of the third angel's message. We must warn the world against the formation of the image of the beast, warn against the union of church and state, warn against the notorious Sunday laws, and the union of churches towards Rome through radio, publications, newspapers, billboards, or by any means of communicating the truth for such a time as this. Notice what is about to break upon the world in an overwhelming surprise: "It will be declared that men are offending God by the violation of the Sunday-sabbath, that this sin has brought calamities which will not cease until Sunday observance shall be strictly enforced, and that those who present the claims of the fourth commandment, thus destroying reverence for Sunday, are troublers of the people, preventing their restoration to divine favor and temporal prosperity." The Great Controversy, p. 590.
"If the people can be led to favor a Sunday law, then the clergy intend to exert their united influence to obtain a religious amendment to the Constitution, and compel the nation to keep Sunday." Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, December 24, 1889.
We can see from these statements that for the final conflict to come, a religious awakening regarding the Sunday question in public life must be created. All these articles from different newspapers discussing the Sunday law question can only lead up to one thing—a Universal Sunday observance in which Satan will persuade men that this is what is desperately needed to save the world.
Let us move forward while we still can and take the third angel to the world. The time is now! The signs of the times all reveal how near we are to Christ's return.
"If every soldier of Christ had done his duty, if every watchman on the walls of Zion had given the trumpet a certain sound, the world might ere this have heard the message of warning. But the work is years behind. While men have slept, Satan has stolen a march upon us." Testimonies for the Church , Vol. 9, p. 29.
Are Tennessee Lawmakers Preparing for Sunday Laws?
The Tennessee State House of Representatives may just very well be preparing to set up a new precedent for future Sunday laws. They have just passed overwhelmingly, in a 98-0 vote, a resolution to allow its courthouses the right to display the Ten Commandments. The resolution, H.R. 107, was authored by Rep. Todd Watson.
The justification for placing the Ten Commandments and for passing H.R. 107 was that since the U.S. Supreme Court has already upheld Sunday laws which come from the Fourth Commandment, then we can pass a law to at least display them.
are "secular" laws that are meant to improve the "health, safety, recreation, and general well-being" of citizens [See: McGowan v. Maryland (1961) and Braunfeld v. Brown (1961)].
"Church and state are now making preparations for the future conflict. Protestants are working in disguise to bring Sunday to the front, as did the Romanists." Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 449.
The following statement describes our duty to warn against these notorious Sunday laws and to proclaim boldly the true Seventh-day Sabbath: "Sunday observance shall be enforced by law...And it is not until the issue is thus plainly set before the people, and they are brought to choose between the commandments of God and the commandments of men, that those who continue in transgression will receive the mark of the beast." Great Controversy, p. 449.
Parade is a nationwide Sunday newspaper magazine distributed in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and has readership of nearly 70 million people. This is America's most widely read newspaper.
"Say Goodbye to Chaos and Chill for a Change—Listening to Tara and Mark Mincer of Charlottesville, Va., rattle off the items on their weekend schedule is enough to make you want to curl up and take a nap. Consider a recent todo list: one school talent show, one soccer game, two lacrosse games (Mark's a coach), a sleepover birthday party, a school fund-raiser, and church. And let's not forget the chores: the groceries that need buying, the basement that needs cleaning, the laundry that needs folding, the homework (they have four kids) that needs doing.
It wasn't always this way. There was a time when those two days were truly a collective respite. We mowed our lawns on Saturday, taking a break to cheer at our kids' soccer game, which was across town—not across state lines. Sunday mornings, we dressed up for church, after which we bypassed the mall and went home, thanks to blue laws, stores were closed. On Sunday evenings, we relaxed in front of the TV—and our coworkers did the same, no panicky 7 p.m. texts about Monday's meeting.
"Weekends used to provide a safety valve against stress," says John de Graaf of the nonprofit Take Back Your Time. As they say, those were the days. We can't turn back the clock on modern technology and convenience. But we can take steps toward managing the load better—and putting a bit more fun back into our free time.
ROME, ITALY, July 19, 2011 (CNA/EWTN News) - Sunday should be a day for worship, rest and time with family and friends, said Monsignor Miquel Delgado Galindo, under secretary for the Pontifical Council for the Laity.
"The Church teaches us to set aside this day, the first day of the week on which we remember the resurrection of Jesus Christ, for divine worship and for human rest," the monsignor recently told CNA.
"On Sundays Catholics should participate in the Holy Mass, the renewal of Christ's sacrifice on the cross" and "the greatest expression of worship and adoration that man can offer to the Lord our God," he said. Sundays should also be a day "devoted to rest with family and friends," he added. Msgr. Galindo underscored the importance of Blessed John Paul II's 1998 Apostolic Letter, "Dies Domini," which exhorts the bishops, the clergy and the lay faithful to keep Sunday holy and to treat it as the Lord's day.
The letter "Dies Domini" explains that the Lord's Day, the term used to refer to Sundays since apostolic times, has always had a privileged place in the history of the Church because of its close relationship to the very nucleus of the Christian mystery.
Sundays remind us, in the weekly succession of time, of the day of Christ's resurrection. Therefore, it is the Easter of each week, when we celebrate the victory of Christ over sin and death, the fulfillment of the first creation in him.
Editor's Note: Notice how the Sunday movement will be mingled with temperance [rest] "Here the temperance work, one of the most prominent and important of moral reforms, is often combined with the Sunday movement, and the advocates of the latter represent themselves as laboring to promote the highest interest of society; and those who refuse to unite with them are denounced as the enemies of temperance and reform. But the fact that a movement to establish error is connected with a work which is in itself good, is not an argument in favor of the error. We may disguise poison by mingling it with wholesome food, but we do not change its nature. On the contrary, it is rendered more dangerous, as it is more likely to be taken unawares." GC 587.
The North Dakota Catholic Conference has responded to criticism of a law restricting Sunday hours for businesses, saying the regulation benefits the whole of society.
"The purpose of North Dakota's Sunday closing law is not to impose times of worship. Nor is it to demand adherence to religious doctrine. The purpose of the law is to preserve the common good by ensuring that society is not overtaken by work and profit," wrote Christopher Dodson, executive director of the North Dakota Catholic Conference, in a July 12 article.
In his response, Dodson said that the newspaper's argument showed a "misunderstanding of the law's purpose," and of the relationship between government, business, and local community.
"Courts upholding Sunday closing laws have recognized what the Forum does not," Dodson explained, noting that the laws "serve a secular, not religious purpose." He said that all people need periods of rest and free time for the sake of their families, social lives and religious activities. "Only when communities set aside time devoted to these functions can human persons prosper and develop," he observed.
Economic forces, Dodson noted, can become enslaving for society in the absence of any regulation. He pointed out that individuals, families and communities can experience negative consequences if they do not have common periods of rest.
"Rather than restricting individual freedom," the conference director said, "closing laws liberate and free people from the antisocial degeneration of human work." He noted that economic freedom can only grow in healthy societies, not those which put profits above the values of family and community.
National Back To Church Sunday, a cross-denominational movement to reverse declining church attendance and encourage everyone to revisit congregational life, will be celebrated Sept. 18 across the country. Lending his voice to this year's event is Texas Rangers all-star Josh Hamilton, the 2010 American League Championship Series MVP who credits his comeback from drug addiction and suspension from the game to his faith and church.
"God's word tells us to spur one another on toward love and good deeds, and not give up meeting together," Hamilton said. "We are to walk through life with other believers. My family and I have found that church is a wonderful way to do this, so I encourage you to join thousands of Americans as they go back to church on National Back To Church Sunday."
National Back To Church Sunday has become the single largest community outreach in the nation, with 10,000 churches expected to participate in 2011. This event reignites the power of personal invitation to empower church members to bring the community back to church. This year's event will be held the second Sunday after Labor Day to accommodate more churches.
Since the initiative began in 2009, National Back To Church Sunday has seen increased success with church members inviting more than 1.4 million family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers to special services last year. Some 3,800 churches participated in 2010, reporting an average 26 percent increase in weekly attendance.
Outreach Inc. has partnered with Back to Church Sunday and is offering valuable tools in a 2011 church kit including: an updated campaign planning guide, new suggested sermons, new promotional video, new graphics and widgets for church websites or social media, invitations and posters, a preparedness assessment, and suggested follow-up sermons and small group materials. These and other special promotional materials, including church postcards, banners, bulletin shells and personal invitations, are available at www.backtochurch.com/store.
neighbor would likely get them to respond.
"We found that the effectiveness of the invitation was often tied to its form: the more personal, the more effective," said Philip Nation, ministry development director of LifeWay Research and National Back to Church Sunday spokesperson.
"We were encouraged by the response and feedback from churches that participated in National Back to Church Sunday last year," said Eric Abel, vice president of marketing for Outreach, Inc. "Creating ways to empower church members to reach out to their friends and neighbors is exciting. And we are looking forward to this event continuing to gain momentum."
An interactive Facebook page is available at www.facebook.com/backtochurch, and a list of participating churches is available at www.backtochurch.com/roster. When churches register their participation, their names and locations are added to the roster, allowing unchurched people to easily find a church to attend on that special Sunday.
Editor's Note: "It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law." Psalms 119:126.
"Let not the commandment-keeping people of God be silent at this time, as though we gracefully accepted the situation. There is the prospect before us of waging a continuous war, at the risk of imprisonment, of losing property and even life itself, to defend the law of God, which is being made void by the laws of men." Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 7 p. 975.
"I do hope that the trumpet will give a certain sound in regard to this Sunday-law movement. I think that it would be best if in our papers the subject of the perpetuity of the law of God were made a specialty...The truth should be presented in short articles, in clear, distinct lines, giving special points in regard to the Lord's Sabbath, and showing that those who frame laws to compel the observance of the first day of the week, are disloyal to the Lord of heaven, who placed His sanctity upon the seventh day. Are we doing all we can to exalt the law of Jehovah? Counsels to Writers and Editors, pp. 97, 98.
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Minnesota's longtime ban on Sunday liquor sales will become a thing of the past, if one state lawmaker's proposal gains any traction. State Senator Roger Reinert, D-Duluth, threw a bill into the hopper Wednesday that would repeal Minnesota's 1933 law barring liquor sales on Sunday.
"I think in the 21st century the blue laws are fairly outdated," Sen. Reinert told News Channel 11. "It's basically a free market issue. We ought to have the permissive language that allows store owners to be open on Sundays if they want to, and allows a consumer to buy it on Sundays if they make that choice."
Sen. Reinert introduced similar legislation in the House in 2010, but feels more confident this time around because he holds a seat in the Senate Commerce Committee. Reinert says consumer choice is a more significant factor, as far as he's concerned, than recapturing the estimated $10 million in liquor tax revenue Wisconsin earns from Minnesotans crossing the border on Sundays.
Opposition to the idea is coming from the retail liquor industry itself. Frank Ball, the executive director of the Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association, told News Channel 11 he intends to lobby against the bill at the State Capitol. "Quite frankly our people oppose that because we don't want to work on Sundays," Ball remarked, "We work very hard for six days a week. Why would we want to work on Sundays?"
Ball, a former Crow Wing County Sheriff who served as director of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement division during the Ventura Administration, said Minnesota's system has served the state well. Ball said border town liquor stores stand to pick up some sales if the ban is lifted, but for most areas of the state it wouldn't be a money maker. He predicted that six days worth of of liquor sales would be spread over seven days, and in many cases the Sunday business wouldn't justify the overhead costs. Minnesota is one of 14 states that don't allow packaged liquor sales in stores on Sundays.
On a Sunday, John Calvin casts a long shadow over these islands.The austere influence of the 16th Century Protestant reformer is keenly felt on Lewis, Harris and North Uist, where the Presbyterian tradition runs deep.
True, the swings in the playgrounds are no longer chained up on the Sabbath but there are plenty of islanders who will not hang out their washing or play a round of golf, let alone go to work. Now though, a new generation is fighting for change.
Their battlegrounds are civilized places: running tracks, golf courses and sports centers, such as the council-run Ionad Spòrs Leòdhais in Stornoway. Mrs MacLeod says the council policy has a big impact on her family's leisure opportunities. On a Saturday its swimming pool is packed, open until 10pm. But come the Sabbath, the showers are off and the doors are locked. This infuriates mother-of-three Elma MacLeod, a keen swimmer. "It has quite a big effect on us," she tells me at the poolside one weekday evening. "My children are in school five days a week. They have two days off, which is their own free time for their leisure and pleasure. "But 50% of that time this pool is closed. I understand that there are those who do not want to use the facility on a Sunday," she says "but I don't understand why the local council have imposed that on everybody in the community."
The answer, says Angus Campbell, leader of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council), is work. "You can take exercise in many ways on a Sunday," he says. "We would encourage people to do that. But we do not want to ask our people to work on a Sunday."
Mr Galloway is club secretary but even he cannot enjoy a round on a Sunday because the course landlord refuses to allow club members permission to play. "The seven-day golf battle has gone on for more than two decades," he says, "but momentum has increased over the last few years mainly as a result of a variety of changing attitudes on the islands."
"We are now able to fly in and out of the island on a Sunday. We are now able to sail in and out of the island on a Sunday." And there is, he says, an economic case for Sunday golf, as it would make the courses of the Western Isles attractive to tourists seven days a week. And anyway, he insists, "there is nothing wrong with exercising your body in a recreational sport on a Sunday". Not everyone agrees. Ian MacRae is not a stereotypical member of the Lord's Day Observance Society. He does not bellow fire and brimstone. He is young and softly spoken. Mr MacRae is impeccably polite but he is also firm in his insistence that Sunday is a day to honour God.
And Mr MacRae insists that renouncing Biblical teaching about the day of rest is to set off down a slippery slope. But he concedes that change might be coming. If that happens, the Lord's Day Observance Society warns darkly, there will be consequences.
Editor's Note: The Sunday question is gradually being advanced throughout the world. All of the arguments in favor of Sunday legislation sound good on the surface—recreation, rest, family time, time away from business, etc. Yet we have been given a special duty to do at the very time when Sunday laws are being promoted: "The Christian world is honoring a false sabbath, and we are to show them its true character and foundation. We must make it plain to them that they are honoring a manmade institution in place of that which God himself has sanctified." — Review and Herald, January 31, 1893.
Legislation letting communities vote whether to allow Sunday beer, wine and liquor sales at stores may be in trouble yet again in the Senate, thanks in part to lobbying by Christian conservatives. Only a few weeks after giving it a strong chance of passing, Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers said Monday that he's not sure the Senate will even vote on the bill this year.
Rogers, R-Woodstock, is a co-sponsor of the measure, which has already passed Senate and House committees. Another cosponsor is Sen. Don Balfour, R-Snellville, chairman of the committee that decides which bills make it to the Senate floor for a vote.
Such powerful backing typically gives bills a pretty good chance of passing the Senate.
But GOP leaders in the Senate have long been skittish about Sunday sales, stalling similar bills every year since 2007. And religious conservatives are increasing pressure on Senate Republicans to kill the legislation again.
In the past, Republican lawmakers have blamed the bill's defeat on Sonny Perdue, a Christian conservative who vowed to veto any Sunday sales legislation while he was governor. Gov. Nathan Deal, who took office in January, said he would sign the legislation. The Christian Coalition and preachers made their opposition clear, sending e-mails and letters and lobbying GOP senators. By late last week, Sen. David Shafer, R-Duluth, who is friends with Gwinnett County liquor store owners who oppose the bill, was predicting it was in trouble.
The grocery store lobby, which has been pushing the bill for years, countered with a poll of 1,500 likely Republican voters in five key GOP Senate districts. In each district, GOP voters supported letting local voters decide the issue. That sentiment was most prevalent in metro Atlanta, where other polls have shown strong support for Sunday sales.
The Christian Coalition has made it clear that Sunday sales will be an election-year issue. The Georgia Chamber of Commerce, which supports the bill, will include it in its scorecard rating lawmakers. Rogers' comments Monday bolstered the spirits of Jerry Luquire, president of the Georgia Christian Coalition. "I can only say that the grass roots have been heard from, along with local elected officials who don't want to have to decide whether to put this issue on their ballot," Luquire said.
EDITOR'S NOTE: In this article we can see how the churches are putting pressure on elected officials to vote for Sunday closing laws. It is interesting how the Christian Coalition stated that "Sunday sales will be an election-year issue." Soon Sunday sales will become a nation issue when these same churches unite at the national level and demand a National Sunday Law. We have been told that "legislators will yield to the demand for a Sunday law." (5T 450). Can we not see from this article that prophecy is being fulfilled on a smaller scale? Soon these arguments will become national. We must sow the seeds of the Seventh-day Sabbath truth before the crisis begins. It will be during that crisis that all the seeds of truth sown shall bear their fruit.
MANY supermarkets and convenience stores are breaking the new law on Sunday trading by staying open all day, a newspaper investigation has found.
Le Parisien found small local food shops (superettes) in Paris belonging to chains including Carrefour, Franprix and Monoprix serving customers until as late as 22.00 on Sundays.
Since last August, shops in France have been allowed to serve customers until 13.00 on Sundayafternoons - an hour later than before. Retailers in areas classified as tourist zones and family-run corner shops are the only ones that can open all day.
A spokesman for the CFTC trade union said shops were taking advantage of the confused rules on what counts as a tourist zone. He said the problem of illegal late opening had been growing since last November and shops were putting pressure on workers to accept Sunday shifts with no increase in their hourly wage.
The owner of a Franprix mini-market in Paris's 11th arrondissement told Le Parisien: "We're supposed to close the doors at 13.00 but our group's policy is to open all day on Sunday. I've been working here for a year and I've never been stopped.
"Sundays bring in an extra 10-15% in revenue. It gets very busy from 18.00. People like proximity and being able to do their shopping when it suits them."
A Carrefour City manager, whose shop stays open until 21.00, said the students who took the Sunday shifts appreciated the extra money. According to Paris trading standards, 30 fines were handed out last year for illegal Sunday opening. Shops caught ignoring the rules face a penalty of up to €7,500 per employee. However, Le Parisien says legal action against the supermarket chains themselves is difficult, because the outlets tend to be independently run franchises.
Editor's Note: Praise the Lord that somebody is resisting these Sunday laws. Where are God's modern-day Elijah messengers that should be sounding the alarm against Sunday legislation? We need to be at the front of the battle against the Sunday movement and not at the tail. "I do hope that the trumpet will give a certain sound in regard to this Sunday law movement...The truth should be presented in short articles, in clear, distinct lines, giving special points in regard to the Lord's Sabbath." Councils to Writers and Editors, p. 97.
We were told exactly how to combat the Sunday movement. We cannot stand by idle and allow the false doctrine of Sunday, the wine of Babylon, to be forced upon the people.
"We should now be doing our very best to defeat this Sunday law. The best way to do this will be to lift up the law of God and make it stand for all its sacredness." Ibid. p. 98.
Soon these very laws will come not only to Europe but to America and to the rest of the world. Let's get ready and prepare ourselves and others for this final hour.
How do you spend your Sunday? For many, this traditional day of rest and churchgoing has become a day to shop, but it may be taking a toll on happiness.
Researchers from DePaul University in Chicago and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel tracked church attendance and levels of happiness among Americans living in states that had repealed so-called blue laws, which once required most retailers to stay closed on Sundays.
The researchers found that allowing stores to open on Sundays was linked with a decline in church attendance among white women, which led to a subsequent decline in happiness. Among black women, the repeal of the blue laws had no measurable effect, although that may be because the sample size was too small to draw any statistically meaningful conclusions.
The researchers studied data collected from the General Social Survey, an ongoing sociological survey used to collect demographic information from United States residents. They compared respondents in 10 states where Sunday shopping had been banned and then allowed, compared with six states where there had been no change in rules for retailers. The study specifically focused on the behavior of Catholics and Protestants because they were most likely to attend church on Sundays.
So why would Sunday shopping make women less happy? Part of the reason may be that some of the women were required to work on Sundays after the repeal of blue laws. "People don't like to work on Sundays,'' Dr. Sander said.
Or the decline in women's happiness once Sunday shopping is allowed may be linked to the behavior of their children, many of whom may start hanging out at shopping malls on Sundays. Earlier research has shown that the repeal of blue laws is linked with more risk-taking behavior by teens.
Editor's Note: "Yet this very class put forth the claim that the fast spreading corruption is largely attributable to the desecration of the so-called "Christian sabbath," and that the enforcement of Sunday observance would greatly improve the morals of society. Here the temperance work, one of the most prominent and important of moral reforms, is often combined with the Sunday movement, and the advocates of the latter represent themselves as laboring to promote the highest interest of society." Great Controversy, p. 587.
The book Great Controversy predicted exactly how Sunday laws would be promoted in the last days—through the temperance movement. But notice how we cannot mix temperance with Sunday laws. "But the fact that a movement to establish error is connected with a work which is in itself good, is not an argument in favor of the error. We may disguise poison by mingling it with wholesome food, but we do not change its nature." Ibid, p. 587.
In our days, unfortunately, the organization of labor, conceived and realized in function of market competition and maximizing profit, and the concept of feast as an occasion for escape and consumption, contribute to the break-up of the family and the community and to the spreading of an individualistic lifestyle. Thus, it is necessary to promote reflection and efforts at reconciling the demands and the periods of work with those of the family and to recover the true meaning of the feast, especially on Sunday, the weekly Easter, the day of the Lord and the day of man, the day of the family, of the community and of solidarity.
to the quality of the relationships and to the economy of the family unit itself. If the event is to be truly fruitful, it must not remain isolated, but must connect to an adequate journey of ecclesial and cultural formation. It is my wish, therefore, that already in the course of 2011, the 30th anniversary of the apostolic exhortation "Familiaris consortio," the great charter of family pastoral care, might be taken as a valid guide with initiatives at the parish, diocesan and national level, aimed at throwing light on experiences of work and celebration in their truest and most positive aspects, with particular regard to the effect on the concrete life of families.
done it? So many things get in the way: deadlines, e-mails, children, chores. And although we long for unstructured time, in some other part of ourselves, we're also proud of how much we work and revel in our inability to stop doing so. The question of whether to rest or not on the weekend didn't use to be so tortured.
work one day a week. Before that, people rested on one day, usually Sunday, often because it was the law of both church and state. The American Sabbath eventually evolved into a quasisecular day when no one had to go to church, but even then stores were closed and - moreby custom than by law - people passed the day in one another's company, attending houses of worship if they wished, and taking walks or drives or meals together.
Today, when Sunday comes, "rest pure and simple" is elusive if not impossible. Given that more people than ever work nights and weekends, chances are good that one spouse will go to work while the other looks after the children. Nor is "the hush of noise" easy to achieve. Streets are much less likely to be deserted than they were in 1908, and of course, televisions, telephones and computers rarely fall silent. True rest, it turns out, is a group activity, not a solitary one; a restful atmosphere is the distillate of a society at rest, not the creation of a single person. This is a lesson we learn, belatedly, from the American Sabbath, even as it vanishes. We rested best when others rested with us, keeping us company and giving us something fun to do as well as moral reinforcement against the fear we'll fall behind. We rest poorly when the world around us hums with activity.
Globalization, just-in-time manufacturing and electronic networks, among other things, have made it possible to synchronize production and communication around the globe, but they have also made it necessary to operate on a 24/7 schedule. This creates, in effect, something that Josef Stalin once admiringly called the continuous workweek. Meanwhile, mobile devices have annulled the rules that used to prompt us to stop working at regular times (5 p.m., say) and pushed us into a zone of frictionless activity without temporal boundaries. You may wonder what the Sabbath can do to help us counter these enormous social, technological and economic forces. The answer is, very little - but a little can be a lot. We are not likely to bring back blue laws, and that is, on the whole, a good thing. But the Sabbath is not just a day off. It is also an idea. Actually, it's three ideas, embedded in the Fourth Commandment, the one that talks of keeping the Sabbath.
The first is the idea that everyone, not just the idle rich, has a right to rest regularly. The second is the idea that a good society makes life better for its members by protecting that rest. The third idea, which is perhaps the most powerful of all, is simply to "remember the Sabbath." That is something we all can do, whether or not we choose to honor it. We can simply think hard about it, trying to puzzle out all that this very old and once-venerable human institution has to teach us about work, rest, time, sanity and the good life.
1. This is an "American Sabbath" part of the American culture and heritage—not the "Biblical" Sabbath.
2. That Sunday laws are not a violation of church and state because the Supreme Court has said so. It's interesting to note that we have a Roman Catholic majority on the U.S. Supreme Court today.
3. That if we don't bring back Sunday laws we are going to be living under Josef Stalin's 1950's Russian Communist totalitarian state.
4. The misguided at the LA Times want to misguide us into thinking Sunday laws are not coming back. But we, as faithful Seventh-dayAdventists, know that in the very near future Sunday Laws are going to be enforced as the "mark of the beast" here in America. Because of all this misinformation and propaganda, we must move forward with our work warning the world before it's too late.
About 1,300 people have petitioned against flightson Sundays.
After the introduction offlights on Sundays to theCook island of Aitutaki,John Pickford examines how the predominantly Christianisland is reacting to its Sabbath being disrupted. "The sanctityof the Sabbath is of a higher value than the dollar," declaredthe protesters' banner.It was a wet Sunday in Aitutaki and I was looking at a bedraggledband of demonstrators outside the tiny airport.
When the local airline decided to add a Sunday service to its normalschedule it may have anticipated some hostility.Most Polynesians have been devout Christians since the arrival of missionariesin the early 19th Century, and on many islands Sunday is a specialday.
But on Aitutaki, as well as the airport protests, 1,300 people signed a petition against the flight. "That's most of the adult population," declared one campaigner jubilantly.
Aitutaki's famously beautiful lagoon had a mournful look but you cannot fail to be elated on a Sunday morning by the sight of a Polynesian congregation in its "Sunday best".
Matriarchs are in hats, girls in starched white frocks, the men mostly in black. There is deep, soulful singing, a woman feeding her baby and a sermon. Tunui Mati, a silver-haired man in late middle-age, says his leadership of the protests cost him his job at the airport. So what should an Aitutaki Sunday be like?
"Church in the morning, then we just eat and rest," he says. "No games, all TVs turned off and we don't go out on the lagoon."
I recall another Sunday in Tonga's capital, Nuku'alofa, walking back from church through deserted streets. Every shop and cafe was closed and there was a wilting, enveloping stillness in the heat of noon, as if even the pigs had retired in respect for the day.
Yes, Tunui's ideal Sunday was a place I recognised. A lady joins us and is introduced as the great, great, great, great grand-daughter of John Williams of the London Missionary Society.
The most successful missionary of his time, he brought Christianity to Aitutaki on October 26, 1821, then to the rest of the Cook Islands and Samoa, before meeting his nemesis in 1839 in a cooking pot on Vanuatu. At campaign headquarters there is no doubt of Christianity's single biggest gift to the islands, apart from the gospels.
"Before the missionaries we were always fighting each other. After they came there was no more trouble," says Tunui.
There is little evidence that Polynesians are uncomfortable with their new religion. On the contrary, Church and family are at the heart of most people's lives.
As a matter of principle, all citizens of the European Union should be entitled to a work-free Sunday, a group of more than 70 organizations including churches, trade unions and civil organizations is urging EU authorities.
The call was made ahead of a meeting at the European Parliament for the first European Conference on a Work-Free Sunday, according to a statement issued by the Conference of European Churches. Members of the Conference of European Churches include about 120 Orthodox Christian, Protestant, Anglican and Old Catholic Churches from all countries of Europe, plus40 associated organizations.
of work and family life as well as for the life of civil society as a whole," according to a statement addressed to EU heads of state and government, the European Parliament, European Commission and "all European citizens".
"This common weekly day of rest serves to strengthen social cohesion in our societies, a cohesion so severely undermined by the current economic crisis," the statement said.
Rüdiger Noll, Director of the Church and Society Commission of the Conference of European Churches, told the March 24, 2010 conference: "More than any other day of the week, a free Sunday offers the opportunity to be with one's family and friends.
EU heads of state and government, who are to meet for their spring summit, were urged to "firmly resist the growing economic pressure to liberalize the laws providing for a work-free Sunday and to commit themselves to safeguard and promote a work-free Sunday as a pillar of the European Social Model within the laws of their respective nations".
in favor of the protection of a work-free Sunday."
Germany's highest court passing its decision that all shops must remain closed on Sundays.
resistance to Sunday shopping even in the face of growing consumerism.
a year. And in Berlin the city government had gone the furthest in chipping away at the ban on Sunday trading. In 2006 the German capital gave the green light for retailers to open on 10 Sundays a year, including the four Advent Sundays preceding Christmas.
However, Germany's Constitutional Court has now upheld a complaint made by the country's Catholic and Protestant churches, based on a clause in the German constitution that Sunday should be a day of rest and "spiritual elevation." The court on Tuesday decided in favor of the churches, saying that Sunday opening should not take place four weeks in a row. The ruling will not affect shopping this December, but would come into force next year. However, the ruling did not overturn completely the principle of limited Sunday store opening.
The labor unions had joined the churches in their campaign to ringfence [set aside] Sunday as a day off for the nation. However, their focus was not on protecting the right to practice religion, but rather on protecting workers in the retail sector from having to work on Sundays, sometimes the only day they might get to spend with other members of their family. The services union Verdi greeted Tuesday's ruling with "relief and joy," saying this was a boon to shop workers and their families. German papers on Wednesday are broadly in favor of the ruling, though their reasons for supporting the court's decision are strikingly different.
The center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes: "The Constitutional Court had to overthrow the Berlin law. ... The judgment was not 'out of touch with reality,' as the Berlin Chamber of Commerce claims, but is actually very closely in touch with real life. The great diversity of working lives brings with it the fact that members of a single family are forced into different and sometimes incompatible working hours. If the state does not use some of its regulatory power to give a dependable rhythm to at least one free day -- and that is still Sunday -- then the family faces the threat of being pulled further apart."
"If they have no time with each other and for each other, then the formal notion of belonging together loses value. This danger faces many families in society. The fact that in the face of growing commercialization and fewer jobs hardly any employee ever dares to ask for a free Saturday, led the labor unions to join the churches in their campaign -- with noticeable success."
The conservative Die Welt writes: "The churches have argued correctly that employees in the retail sector are not given the possibility of organizing their Advent Sundays according to Christian principles: going to church, being involved in the community, singing and reading aloud. It is part of religious freedom to be able to do these things."
The center-left Süddeutsche Zeitung writes: "The judgment sounds antiquated, maddeningly unmodern and pretty patronizing. It tells citizens when they are allowed to shop, and when they are not. It makes shopping on a Sunday an exception. It is a ruling that goes against the economic liberal zeitgeist and is a ruling against the round-the-clock commercialization of life."
"Yet, the ruling is humane. It is an act in favor of the public spirit. Those who regularly go shopping on Sundays today will have to work regularly on Sundays tomorrow."


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An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk, who joined Freddie Mays' gang, a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
Lady Snowblood (1973)
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
Ek Villain (2014)
When his lover becomes the latest victim of a serial killer, Guru blurs the line between good and evil in his pursuit of revenge.
Jigarthanda (2014)
When Karthik is given a task by his producer to come up with a gripping gangster flick infested with a heavy dosage of violence, he focuses on Sethu, a ruthless gangster surrounded by quirky yet scary henchmen. Karthik discreetly tries his best to find out about Sethu to develop a film script, but fails miserably in all his attempts. However when he finally gets the chance to gain an insight into Sethu's life, disaster strikes as he gets caught in the mêlée following the discovery of a mole within Sethu's gang.
The Long Good Friday (1980)
Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues.
Gangster Squad (2013)
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It's enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O'Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen's world apart.
Gangster World (1998)
In a futuristic theme park, people interact with androids in mafia gangster scenarios, unleashing their deepest violent and sexual desires on the android characters. A new android, called the Outsider, is spontaneously created and begins to hunt one of the computer programmers.
Gangnam Blues (2015)
A "gangster noir" set in the 1970s, when Gangnam, Seoul goes under development. Political powers and darker organizations collide as they seek to grab control of the influential and exclusive area.
War (2007)
FBI agent Jack Crawford is out for revenge when his partner is killed and all clues point to the mysterious assassin Rogue. But when Rogue turns up years later to take care of some unfinished business, he triggers a violent clash of rival gangs. Will the truth come out before it's too late? And when the dust settles, who will remain standing?
Action Jackson (2014)
A man meets his lookalike, who's not just a killer of evil, but also a kind hearted man. Together, they team up to fight against a dreaded gangster.
King of the Ants (2004)
A young drifter, struggling to makes ends meet, accepts a job to kill a prominent accountant. When he isn't paid for the hit, revenge is now his path.
Keyhole (2011)
Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home.
When an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, his partner is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting, forcing the criminal to hatch a rescue plan.
Harlem Nights (1989)
"Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contend with the pressures of vicious gangster and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair!
The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears (1997)
Second half of the violent tale of revenge from actor Sho Aikawa and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa! It's been five years since he left the force, lost his wife, and waged all out revenge, and now our hero is idling his time with a failing yakuza group. When he discovers the secret of one of his superiors, he takes up the gun of vengeance and realizes that his life has only been to serve that purpose.
Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban (1973)
The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territory, where they end up getting kidnapped by sinister underworld thugs. After breaking free, the girls set their sights on one thing: revenge. Miki Sugimoto stars as girl boss Komasa, the ruthless and sadistic leader of the Kanto Gypsies who possesses more than enough brains to match her killer looks.
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
Each Dawn I Die is a 1939 gangster film featuring James Cagney and George Raft in their only movie together as leads, although Raft had made an unbilled appearance in a 1932 Cagney vehicle called Taxi! in which he won a dance contest against Cagney, after which he and Cagney brawl. Raft also very briefly "appeared" in Cagney's boxing drama Winner Take All (1932), in a flashback sequence culled from Raft's 1929 film debut Queen of the Night Clubs starring Texas Guinan. The plotline of Each Dawn I Die involves a crusading reporter (Cagney) who is unjustly thrown in jail and befriends a famous gangster (Raft). George Bancroft portrays the warden. The movie was a box-office smash and remains a favorite among aficionados of Warner Bros. gangster movies. The film was based on the novel of the same name by Jerome Odlum.
A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.
A Bullet for Pretty Boy (1970)
A biography of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, a gangster who started his career at a young age after seeking revenge for his father's murder.
St George's Day (2012)
Infamous London gangster cousins, Micky Mannock and Ray Collishaw, are at the top of the food chain, when their world is turned upside down as they lose a shipment of the Russian Mafia's cocaine in rough seas. Set in London, Amsterdam and Berlin, the story races across Europe at breakneck speed as Micky and Ray attempt to stay one step ahead of the Police. Can they pull off a daring diamond heist in time to put things right and retire to a "legitimate" way of life.
The Business (2005)
During the '80s, a young man named Frankie dreams of escaping London's South East region, and his mother's thug of a boyfriend gives him just the opportunity. After beating up the abusive beau, Frankie runs off to Spain, where he lands a job delivering a package to the dapper Playboy Charlie, a gangster who takes him under his wing. Working as Charlie's driver, Frankie is immersed in a world of fast cars and pretty women -- but all the excess could be his undoing.
The Punisher (1989)
The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle, a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb. Only his ex-partner believes Castle survived the blast to become THE PUNISHER ... a shadowy, invincible fighter against evil who lives for total revenge on his mob enemies.
Chrome and Hot Leather (1971)
A Green Beret returns home from the Vietnam war to find that a gang of murderous bikers has killed his fiancee. He calls on several of his Green Beret buddies to come and help him take revenge on the gang.
Marrying the Mafia (2002)
The film is a gangster comedy about a businessman who becomes involved with the gangster underworld through the daughter of a crime boss.
Marked Woman (1937)
Set in the underworld of Manhattan, Marked Woman tells the story of a woman who dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters. The women of the story are "hostesses". What is implied, but not stated clearly is that they are prostitutes, who work in a gambling den in the city.
The Revenger (1989)
When saxophonist Mike Teller's brother Mackie is killed before being able to deliver $500,000 to mob boss Jack Fisher, Mike is arrested as an accomplice and thrown into prison for five years. Upon his release, he finds Fisher has kidnapped his wife, Lisa, believing Mike has the stolen drug money. With the help of Mackie's old Vietnam war buddy, Harry Crawford, Mike and Harry rescue Lisa, but now have to escape the clutches of the mob in Harry's remote cabin. Will Jack Fisher retrieve his money or will Mike get his revenge?
The Narrow Margin (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's moll on a tense train ride.
Wanted (2009)
Radhe is a hardcore gangster. A sharpshooter with a sharp brain, he works for Gani Bhai, the dreaded Mafioso, but on his own terms. Totally fearless, Radhe single handedly eliminates Gani Bhai's enemies one by one; making more enemies than he bargained for.
Idlewild (2006)
A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.
Simran drowns her misery in booze. Her one friend in Seoul, is Aakash, a singer in an Indian restaurant. One night, Simran tells Aakash of her past and the reasons for her loneliness. Originally a bar dancer in Mumbai, Simran is the girlfriend of a notorious gangster, Daya, who is a headhunter for hire. After hearing her story Aakash is determined to save Simran from the gangster's world.
The Karate Kid, Part III (1989)
Kreese, his life in tatters after his karate school was defeated by Daniel and Mr. Miyagi, visits Terry, a friend from Vietnam. Terry is a ruthless business man and a martial arts expert, and he vows to help Kreese take revenge on Daniel and Mr. Miyagi.
Revenge of the Red Baron (1994)
Once he fought in the name of honor, now he will fight in the name of family. His glory days behind him, Grandpa Spencer appears doomed to sit in his wheelchair and watch his family come apart. But fate is not content to let this World War I Fighter Ace fade away. An ancient curse on the Spencer family threatens their very lives. The infamous Red Baron has returned to take revenge on the man who shot him down. Grandfather, grandson and daughter-in law must unite to fight the infamous Red Baron; because this time it's their last chance.
Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001)
The Cromwell clan live in the real world, except for their grandmother who lives in Halloweentown, a place where monsters go to escape reality. But now the son of the Cromwells' old enemy Kalabar has a plan to use the grandmother's book to turn Halloweentown into a grey dreary version of the real world, while transform the denizens of the real world into monsters.
The Return of Jafar (1994)
Aladdin is adjusting to his new life as part of the upper crust. He and Princess Jasmine may not be married yet, but the pressures of palace society have already begun. On top of that, Iago (the parrot pet of Sultan's ex-vizir turned genie, Jafar) appears asking for help and no one is happy to see him. But things begin to look up when Genie returns from his trip around the world. Meanwhile, Jafar's black lamp is discovered by an idiot crook called Abis Mal. By using Abis Mal, Jafar makes his way back to Agrabah with ideas of payback for Aladdin and his friends.
The Lookout (2007)
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.

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"THE FOUNTAIN OF SAN MATTEO"
The town of Rutino has a strong devotion to San Matteo. In fact, when in 954 the body of the Apostle was found in the plain of Casalvelino, at the confluence of the Velino with the Alento river, the news spread rapidly throughout the territory and, of course, the bishop of Capaccio was informed, who decided to transport the sacred remains from the Casalvelino plain to the Basilica del Calpazio, at the time the cathedral of the vast diocese. It must have been a sunny and sultry summer day the one chosen by the bishop for the translation. And it was a huge effort for the porters to climb the hill of Rutino with the pitiful load of the Apostle's Body. Tired and thirsty, they stopped several times; and right at the gates of the town they witnessed a prodigy. From the rock, where they had placed the sacred reliquary, a source of fresh and crystalline water emerged.
The "Fountain of San Matteo" still exists and a plaque commemorates the miracle. According to some historians, Rutino also bears signs and memory of the event in the toponym: the adjective "rutòs" in Greek means, in fact, "flowing", "current", naturally called water.
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No subject riles up a New Yorker like the subway system. The much-maligned transportation network has slowed to almost a complete halt at times over the past few years, but change is on its way—just slowly.
In the summer of 2017, New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency over the trains, as the largest subway system in the U.S. suffered from derailments, power outages, massive overcrowding, and delays every day. During last summer, the trains were on time as little as 64% of the time, compared to 85% in 2011, before a gradual decline kicked in.
Declaring a state of emergency sounds like a drastic cause of action, but it actually helped Cuomo get around the strict regulation that makes it more difficult to apply major changes. At the same time he pledged $1 billion towards fixing the system.
That money will be crucial for the crumbling infrastructure. Parts of the current New York subway system are using components from the 1930s, according to a report by The New York Times. The city has been trying to transition to computer-based systems for a number of years with little success. The L train, which runs across Manhattan and into Brooklyn, does have a computerized system, but also suffers from overcrowding and will be partially or completely shut down in the future for crucial repairs.
In order to improve the system, transponders will need to be installed for every 500 feet of track, radios and zone controllers needs to be added, and the trains themselves will need to be upgraded with on-board computers and speed sensors. As of last year, before the state of emergency was declared, the estimated date when the system would be completely overhauled was 2045.
There are two areas where the subway has already been improved. In 2017, Wi-Fi was introduced to every station, which enabled New Yorkers to complain about trains in real time while standing on the platform. And also in 2017 every station in the system got digital arrival boards, so people could check exactly when the next train was arriving, which on reflection is staggering it took so long in one of the largest cities in the world.
At the end of 2017, it was announced the head of Toronto transport had been poached by New York with the hope he could fix the aging system. Andy Byford, who is from the U.K. originally, has already suggested some radical potential solutions, like ending 24-hour service on some lines and closing others while repairs and upgrades are made, according to an article in The Guardian.
Towards the end of this year, another technology upgrade will be implemented. The Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA), which runs the subway, will begin installing contactless payment methods in some subway stations. Contactless payments mean passengers will be able to wave their smartphones or debit and credit cards at turnstiles, rather than the current system which involves buying a MetroCard and adding money to it.
Other transport systems around the world, including the London Underground, already have contactless payments, but New York has been slow to catch on. The upgrades will be installed in 500 subway turnstiles and on 600 bus stops initially, and is expected to be at all stations by 2020.