It's Tuesday, April 28, 2006.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Yesterday is one of those days we're going to remember simply because of the big events that happened within it.

And we're talking about the mixing

and the meeting of so many issues of world consequence and the intersections with so many points

of history. Most urgently, we need to look at what happened yesterday in a Washington, D.C. federal

courtroom where the man now charged with the attempted assassination of the President of the United States, Cole Thomas Allen, was officially charged with those crimes.

Now, there were, in legal terms, some very interesting things that happened there.

And some of them are under the surface.

Some of them were right up front.

Number one, that court appearance yesterday was the first time that the Department of

Justice had officially used the defendant's name. And as we say, that is legally very, very

important. He had been in custody, and there were others who were connecting Dodson, identifying him.

There were even copies of the document he had written, identified as a manifesto that were being

passed around. But the

important thing to recognize is that it is absolutely important under the rule of law that law

enforcement and those who will prosecute crimes follow the law specifically. And so it is a part

of our entire system of law that brought about what happened yesterday.

There was, however, a surprise yesterday.

And the surprise was the most important charge brought against Cole Allen, as he is now being commonly referred to in national conversation.

Cole Allen was charged with the attempted assassination of the President of the

United States. Now, are you surprised that that was his intent? Probably not. Are you surprised

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