if any of you have been following the national news coverage of the treatment that some of the amish in my area have been recieving from local officials you can now help out, the following link will take you to a page to sign a petition to investigate alleged Civil Rights violations and alleged continued religious persecution against the Amish Swartzentruber sect in denying them building permits by Town of Morristown Code Enforcement Officer Kay Davis. here is the link    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/swartzamish/index.html

your help would be greatly appreciated, they have been going through a lot and on top of it all this happened today,

 An Ogdensburg woman has been ticketed after her car struck an Amish buggy - causing the operator to be thrown from the carriage.It happened at approximately 8 a.m. Thursday on State Route 68 in the town of Oswegatchie.State police say 63 year old Diane Fitzgerald of 136 Arnold Wagner Road in Ogdensburg struck the rear of a buggy.The impact caused the buggy’s operator, 44 year old Jonas Swartzentruber, to be ejected.