If you don’t pray for me… you are part of the problem says convicted Detroit council woman & wife of Judiciary Chairman www.freedomOK.net/wordpress

Fine! Monica Conyers, council woman from Detroit, asks us to pray for her. She says that if we do not pray for her then WE are part of the problem. Oh? Ok, Monica. Let’s pray that you go to jail for the crimes you committed. Something wrong with praying that justice rolls down from the hills? When government officials do dasterdly, illegal acts – let them pay with time in jail. And yes, let’s visit you in prison. And pray with you there. That you learn to change your ways when you get out.

Monica Conyers, the wife of the powerful chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., pleaded guilty to one count of bribery in a federal court in Detroit, this morning.

Wife of Judiciary Chairman Conyers Pleads Guilty to Bribery
In this Sept. 5, 2005 file photo Monica Conyers sits with her husband, Democratic U.S. Rep. John…
In this Sept. 5, 2005 file photo Monica Conyers sits with her husband, Democratic U.S. Rep. John Conyers at a Labor Day rally in Detroit.

Prosecutors on Friday, June 26, 2009 charged Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers with accepting cash bribes in exchange for supporting a sludge contract with a Houston company. Collapse
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According to court documents, in late 2007, Mrs. Conyers, president pro tem of the Detroit City Council, twice accepted envelopes filled with cash, once in the parking lot of a Detroit McDonalds.

Below is another article on this issue:

Monica Conyers and a call to prayer

In the absence of other connectors, Monica Conyers is the glue that holds us together in these down times.

“She’s the Detroit city councilwoman who inspires 10,000 eye-rolls. The one whose every public comment gets 100,000 heads turning side to side.

Whether in Hart Plaza or the center court at Somerset North, her name evokes an instant mix of wonder, horror and plain fascination. Comic andtragic, professional and astonishingly not, she is riveting to watch in a way that her more upright and buttoned-down colleagues are not.

Even while the feds circle, and Synagro associates pleaded guilty to bribing an unnamed Council Member A, Conyers took to the airwaves to deliver the latest in a series of instantly famous, mercurial moments: And she delivered, using a formula that was two parts calm professional, one part kook.

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“If you’re not praying for me, you’re just adding to the problem,” she said cryptically on WHPR-TV (Channel 33), which might want to change its name to The Monica Network.

What problem? Why should we be praying?

Nobody has yet leveled charges against Monica Conyers, but — give her credit for staying in character here — instead of ducking the issue entirely, she called in her public and God.

Wouldn’t any other — make that any ordinary — official issue a terse statement, or say absolutely nothing, then get out of the way?

Instead she’s blaming the non-prayers for “adding to the problem” — undefined but lurking. Is she playing narcissist Monica here, saying if you’re not with me, you’re contributing to societal collapse? Or is she feeling humble, suggesting that mass prayer can resolve the crisis swirling around her? We will likely never know.

But I do know that Councilwoman Conyers sees normalcy and reason where most of us see contradiction, irrationality and chaos.

“I have a marriage that’s different from everyone else’s,” she once said of her marriage, and that explains something about the way she perceives herself — different, and comfortable with being so.

Different is interesting, even when daffy. It applies to Conyers’ City Council tenure, which has helped tip the city into crisis.

It applies to her praising the excellence of Detroit schools while sending her son to a private school in a police-driven car.

Good, bad, never indifferent. It is the way she copes with a figurative noose that seems to be tightening around her neck.

By all means, let us pray.