Date: April 7th 2008

Hi friends,

    This is a Sunday Law Enforcement news alert.  It appears proponents of old Sunday "blue laws" in France have decided to give them some big teeth.  How about being fined $700,000 for keeping your business open on Sundays? 
    Many have confidently stated that Sunday law enforcement will never happen here in America.  I have a feeling that many more are going to be surprised that not only will it happen here, but it will happen "more quickly than men expect." (GC 630.2) 
    Are you ready?  If Sunday Laws were passed here in America today, would you live differently?  Do you know Christ today?

The following is excerpts from this USA Today/AP article posted 2008-04-05

Store fines highlight French ire over Sunday work
( http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2008-04-06-francesunday_N.htm?csp=23&RM_Exclude=aol )

    "Ikea was ordered to pay more than $700,000 last week for staying open on Sundays in a Paris suburb. A big French home repair chain was sued for nearly as much — also for violating a 102-year-old requirement to shut up shop on Sunday."
    "Both cases show that the stakes are mounting in a long-running battle between French unions and retailers over shopping on the seventh day." ...

    "Advocates of the 1906 law, determined to prevent its demise, are digging in and demanding ever-higher fines against violators of a rule they say upholds a less spending-obsessed French way of life."
    "Working on Sundays calls into question the very foundation of society," said lawyer Vincent Lecourt, who represents the Workers Force union. "It is a day when we try to consume less ... when we try to have values that are a little different." ...

    "For decades, business owners around France have gotten around the law through loopholes allowing local officials to permit Sunday openings."
    "But in November, the loopholes were ruled illegal in the Val d'Oise region. Several stores including Ikea ignored the new restrictions, hoping that mayors and Sarkozy's free-market-friendly government would take their side."
    "Instead, companies in the Val d'Oise region are getting hit with unprecedented large penalties."
    "This has never happened to us before," said Ikea spokeswoman Isabelle Cremoux. "Furniture stores around Paris have opened on Sundays for the last 40 years." ...

    "Ikea, which is covered by the furniture store amendment, was sued by Workers Force for three Sundays that it stayed open before the new rules went into effect. A regional court ordered the chain to pay the equivalent of $707,500 by March 31." ...

    "Castorama, a home repair chain not covered by the furniture amendment, risked violating the rules in hopes that the overall law would be relaxed soon, a spokeswoman said."
    "Instead, the Workers Force union went to court Thursday seeking more than $550,000 from a Castorama store in Val D'Oise."
    "Lecourt promised not to rest until major chains start adhering to the rules."
    "If they don't close, we'll force them to close, even if we have to go there by public force, with the police ... but at least things will be clear," he said."

    Friends, it's not going to be long until this same thing happens here in America.  The signs are happening every day.  Read what Ellen White wrote about this over 100 years ago.

    "When the leading churches of the United States, uniting upon such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall influence the state to enforce their decrees and to sustain their institutions, then Protestant America will have formed an image of the Roman hierarchy, and the infliction of civil penalties upon dissenters will inevitably result." {GC 445.1}

Jesus is coming soon! 

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