Politics and Pedophiles

Kevin Rudd defends handling of child abuse

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:04:59 +1100

Tag: australia

KEVIN Rudd launched a vigorous defence of the Catholic Church's response to child abuse last night.

And Mr Rudd said the canonisation of Mary MacKillop should prompt Australians to a fairer appreciation of the church's contribution to their nation's history.

Addressing a press conference after an audience with the Pope, the Foreign Minister said while many people criticised the church it was time to more openly acknowledge its positive contributions.

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Asked about the church's response to clergy abusing children he said it had taken action and "I would like to acknowledge the enormous work which the church has done and other Christian churches in dealing with this blight on all of human kind".

The former prime minister has been an extremely popular figure at church events in Rome surrounding the canonisation in recent days, and shortly before Mr Rudd's comments last night Australia's top cleric, George Pell praised his attitude to the role of Christianity in national life. "He has not been frightened to publicly acknowledge the contribution that Christianity has made and continues to make to Australian public life," Cardinal Pell said.

"That is not universal in Australian political life," he said, adding that Mr Rudd's attitude to the church had been remarked upon by foreign bishops and cardinals.

Dr Pell also played down a suggestion MacKillop be made the patron saint for abused children, on the grounds she had had very little to do with the issue.

Mr Rudd said the church did not get the credit it deserved for its role in Australian society.

"(For) Australians whatever their views of religion and whatever their denominational affiliation it is important to acknowledge the central role which the church has played positively in the history of our nation," he said.

"Were there no churches in the early 19th century, just following European settlement, there would have been no schools, no hospitals, no care for the poor.

"So many of the institutions which in the 20th century are regarded as state institutions came out of these church institutions.

"So when people are critical of the church in the modern age, it is a democracy and people can say what they want . . . but in the spirit of an open mind and a spirit of a fair sense of history and of our future let us acknowledge the central place of the church and of churches in our national life."

Asked what the federal government planned to do on the issue of clerical child abuse, Mr Rudd said it was important to acknowledge the pain of victims but "the church over some time now has established its own process within Australia for dealing with this".

"And the church in doing so has dealt with many cases from the past, and where there have been imperfections in the process they have also sought to improve those processes."

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/kevin...5939943110

U.S. Senate Candidate Ron Johnson: Protector of Pedophile Priests

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:16:49 +1100

Tag: usa

Ron Johnson, the Religious Right and Tea Party backed GOP challenger to incumbent U.S. Senator Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) seems to care more about the powerful institutions such as insurance companies and the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay than the child victims of pedophile priests.

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Johnson made himself clear while testifying on behalf of the Diocesan Finance Committee in opposition to the Child Victims Act. This bill would, had it been enacted, have removed the statute of limitations for childhood victims of sexual assault thus allowing them to file civil law suits against the alleged perpetrators. The views of finance committee member Johnson are now raising serious questions about candidate Johnson.

Over the last week I have been following Jud Lounsbury’s Daily Kos diaries on Johnson. Johnson’s opposition to embryonic stem cell research and abortion rights makes him a natural ally for über-conservative members of the Catholic hierarchy and the Religious Right. Beyond that, he is a millionaire businessman who opposes government functioning as a guarantor of the rights of individuals against moneyed interests as Lounsbury shows, step by step. As Johnson stated in his testimony: ”I think it is extremely important to consider the economic havoc and the other victims [the legislation] would likely create.”

Lounsbury then surfaced what may be Johnson’s underlying intentions:

…the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that while Johnson was testifying, the Green Bay Diocese was attempting to kill a law suit against them, arguing that the victims had exhausted the time limits of the statute of limitations.

In abuse cases, statutes of limitations have a different consequence than other actions where a potential plaintiff openly sits on his right to file suit (i.e.,, a dispute over property boundaries or for the specific performance of a contractual term). As one of the bill’s sponsor put it:

Most sexually abused children are molested by family members or authority figures, and the pressure is strong not to disrupt their own home, school or church. Young victims often are threatened by adult perpetrators if they reveal the crime, and the shame and confusion children feel is frequently enough to keep them silent. As adults, it may take victims years to come to grips with their experience and build the courage they need to identify their abuser and begin civil or criminal action. By the time they’re ready to do so, the statutes of limitations may have expired; it may be too late for justice to be done.

Writing this past June in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, columnist Daniel Bice noted that “Johnson, a Lutheran, sided with Catholic Church leaders in opposing the so-called Child Victims Act before a state Senate committee in January. The bill failed to win approval.” Bice wondered, “Why did a guy considering a run for statewide office decide to jump into a controversy that cuts across party lines? What upside could there be?”

Bice couldn’t answer that, but he observed:

In an interview last week, he [Johnson] said he was first contacted on the issue by Deacon Tim Reilly, director of administration for the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay. Though a Lutheran, Johnson is a big backer of Catholic schools and was serving on the diocese’s finance council at the time of his testimony.

The proposal would have eliminated the statute of limitations for future victims of child sex abuse and opened a three-year window for past victims.

It was opposed by the insurance industry and church organizations, including the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, which argued the bill could bankrupt it. The measure had the support of several police organizations, social workers and Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm.

Candidate Johnson seems more interested in protecting the Church and the insurance industry than the victims of pedophile clergy placing the interests of powerful institutions before the well-being of children. These institutions and their advocates like Johnson apparently believe that even child rape is okay as long as you can get away with until the statute of limitations runs out. Indeed, they not only seek exemption from the rules that apply to everyone else, but to ensure that they have friends in high places to ensure that that continues to be the so.

http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/2...e-priests/

Biden, 5 Supreme Court justices attend controversial 'Red Mass'

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:15:44 +1100

Tag: usa

CNN's Lauren Pratapas and Bill Mears filed this report from Washington:

Vice President Joe Biden joined five Supreme Court justices to attend Sunday's annual Red Mass, the Roman Catholic service for the courts that has drawn criticism in recent years.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer and Clarence Thomas attended the service, held at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, on the eve of the court's new term.

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The Mass was started in 1952 by the John Carroll Society, a lay Catholic group of prominent lawyers and professionals, to celebrate the legal profession. But the event has drawn criticism in recent years for what many see as an unhealthy mix of politics, religion and the law.

The mass is a Catholic service, but power brokers of other faiths are asked to attend the invitation-only event. Critics have called the attendance of leading decision-makers, including members of the highest court in the land, inappropriate.

Past homilies by individual speakers have lamented the high court's ruling legalizing abortion and the constitutional separation of church and state, although most recent Red Mass ceremonies have avoided hot-button social and political issues to focus on universal themes. Church officials insist they do not attempt to lobby or seek to persuade anyone who attends the service.

Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia, who gave this year's sermon, told parishioners the church understands the "nearly overwhelming complexity of the climate which envelops the practice of law and the administration of justice today."

"No informed observer can fail to acknowledge that the social and cultural pluralism of our times - not to mention the relentless and sometimes pitiless public scrutiny to which you are subjected - makes the work of judges and lawyers today very hard indeed," he said.

The archbishop also asserted that laws are based upon certain principles: "the pursuit of the common good through respect for the natural law, the dignity of the human person, the inviolability of innocent life from conception to natural death, the sanctity of marriage, justice for the poor, protection of minors, and so on."

Di Noia later decried a trend toward "exclusive humanism" and said, "That innocent human life is now so broadly under threat has seemed to many of us one of the signs of this growing peril." Washington archdiocese spokeswoman Susan Gibbs told CNN afterwards that the reference to "innocent human life" was meant "broadly," referring to "all life that is at risk, not just simply the unborn, but the fragility of all human life."

All the justices who attended Sunday are Catholics except Breyer, who is Jewish. The court is currently made up of six Catholics and three Jews, including its newest member, Elena Kagan.

One member of the court who no longer attends is Ruth Bader Ginsburg who, like Breyer and Kagan, is Jewish. Ginsburg has said she grew tired of being lectured by Catholic officials.

"I went one year, and I will never go again, because this sermon was outrageously anti-abortion," Ginsburg said in the book "Stars of David: Prominent Jews talk About Being Jewish" by author Abigail Pogrebin. "Even the Scalias - although they're much of that persuasion - were embarrassed for me."

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10...-red-mass/

Pope turnout 'hit by sex abuse scandal', claims Short

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:29:12 +1000

Tag: england

Former Birmingham MP Clare Short has claimed embarrassment about the child abuse scandals within the Roman Catholic Church could keep people away from Sunday's Mass.

Pope Benedict XVI will lead Mass in Cofton Park, Birmingham, where he will beatify Cardinal Newman as the culmination of his four-day UK state visit.

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About 52,000 pilgrims are expected to attend the 65,000 capacity venue.

The Church has refused to confirm how many passes have been returned, but said the city's allocation was increased by 5,000 in August because of ticket returns from elsewhere in the UK.

In the past few weeks details have emerged about hundreds of children who were sexually abused by Catholic priests in Belgium, which comes after revelations, earlier this year, about hundreds of alleged child sex victims in Germany and Italy.

During a public debate about the Pope's UK visit, hosted by BBC WM, Ms Short said: "Sadly it comes at a time when the church is in so much trouble, it's confused and messed up with its teachers and with anything to do with sex.

"I think it has completely lost the plot.
'Not a protest'

"I know a lot of Catholics who aren't going or are just keeping quiet and hoping it goes well, but are a bit embarrassed."

Father Timothy Menezes, of St Thomas More Roman Catholic Church, Coventry, has been helping to organise the Mass and said logistics rather than embarrassment was likely to influence attendance.

"I don't think it's any kind of protest.

"I'm a bit fed up with all these sex abuse headlines. 'The Pope has landed amid a sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church' is what they're saying, but there is no crisis.

"That would have been fair enough about 10 or 20 years ago maybe, but to say that now is to ignore all the safety measures and work we have done in this country around this subject."

He said a scrapped Labour government plan to vet anyone who looked after other people's children, including parents on the school run, had been adopted by the Roman Catholic Church.

"Every single person in our parish that works with children has been CRB checked," he said.

Father Menezes said the incidences of child sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church was no higher than in the wider population.

"We put forward moral authority, that authority is undermined when people in authority fail, but it is not the teaching of the church to commit abuse.

"By the way it is reported you would think every single one of us was up to it," he added.

An NSPCC survey in 2000 into the extent of child abuse in the UK said less than 1% of the 2,869 people questioned said they were abused in childhood by people in a position of trust, like teachers, religious leader, carers or social workers.
'Most grateful'

The children's charity said child sex abuse was most commonly perpetrated by peers, such as boyfriends or girlfriends, siblings' friends, or fellow pupils.

Father Menezes said it was also unrealistic to expect Pope Benedict XVI's visit to be as popular as the first visit made by a Pope to the UK in 1982.

He said although pilgrim passes for Cofton Park were made available to Roman Catholic parishes across the country, it was natural to expect greater demand closer to the Mass, because of the difficulties of getting there.

When asked how many passes had been applied for, Peter Jennings, a spokesman for The Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham said: "No, we are not saying that.

"What we are saying is that we expect about 52,000 pilgrims and about 5,000 other people including 2,100 members of the choir, media, VIP guests and other guests invited by the event organisers WRG."

He added: "We are most grateful to Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Police for making it possible for the Popemobile to be used along the Hagley Road in Edgbaston as this allows a large number of people to see the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI close up."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-...m-11329343

STOP Govt and Church Child Abuse

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:13:35 +1000

Tag: australia

The call by serial family destroyer and token black NSW minister Linda Burney to Stop Child Abuse really makes my blood boil. This serial parasite actually accelerated harm to aboriginal families and children when she was the bureaucrat in charge of NSW Aboriginal Affairs.

In her current role as Minister for DOCs (now hidden in the unfortunately named “Human Services” Department, at a time when every other State in Australia is working to decrease its #StateChildAbduction rates,the current New South Wales government has actually ramped up its child stealing and use of children as instruments of blackmail to leverage compliance with their duplicitous Christian centred anglophile idea of what appropriate child raising is.

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In the last figures her neo-nazi DOCs Department published recently there were 35,000 children under StateChildAbduction in NSW. An outrageous call from a department mired by a history of children in its direct care and responsibility being physically sexually and emotionally abused not only by some carers, but more particularly by the very authority figures whom society and the children themselves are constantly told they can trust. Police,clergy teachers and “child protection workers” figure prominently in statistics of those convicted of child pornography and child abuse.And still the State has regard police and clergy reports concerning the appropriateness of a childs care.Still two of the three NGOs responsible for adoption management are subsidiaries of churches,with direct links to purveyors promoters perpetrators and protectors of paedophilia in NSW.

Telling your children not to trust police is a definite negative,empowering police to write a report which can result in the State Abduction of your child.If you happen to be of certain asian ethnicities or worse aboriginal you would be committing cultural genocide to advise your child to trust police…okay pigs – in any Australian State.

While undoubtedly many children are traumatised -scarred for life by the well publicised violence by individuals against them,there is a worse evil. That evil is the systemic abuse of children by the State ,often on the basis of scurrilous concocted allegations made by public servants with alternative inter-departmental or personal considerations.

StateChildAbuse is commonplace in all Australian States and at this writing most prevalent in NSW. Babies are State Abducted at birth from helpless mothers weakened by the trauma of childbirth. We have been notified of instances where newborn State Abductions occur within an hour of birth. A DOCS case manager I met was one of these babies many years ago and grew up believing that her parents were bad heroin addicts. By chance I met her father, and later her mother. Their story was that police wanted their father to give evidence about someone police suspected of Drug Trafficking. Father knew nothing and refused to lie against a person he knew socially as police wished.Police arranged for his children to be State Abducted. Court Case cost parents their home and business- mainly funding lawyers to attend government sought adjournments. Parents have kept all bank, court and case records. It is virtually all they have, bankrupted by an out of control bureaucracy which chose to victimise them and subject their daughter to missing 23 years of the richness of her culture , the closeness of her natural family.Replaced by a care system which spat her out at 18 -to become a bloody DOCs persecutor.

Polling by the device of long-standing personal engagement of Homeless and marginalised people in Sydney over a period of many years has revealed time and again;

1. Regular Newly arriving homeless in the 16 to 18 year age group.Spat out of the too hard basket by an uncaring mechanical bureaucracy within both government and NGOs which rejects youth once they become “low value” adults measured in terms of case management revenues.Some never leave.Some of todays will be tomorrows drug alcohol and gambling addicts.Others will become purveyors of drugs and sex services at the lower end of those economies. Some are so institutionalised that they spend their lives cycling in and out of jails or other institutions.
2. Over 70% have had Child Protection Interference, either as parents or as children which has had a detrimental effect on their lives.Hard working people bankrupted by the legal costs of defending against a Disney like nether world in a kangaroo court system where the cornerstone of Australian law,the evidence act, does not apply.
3. Abundant accounts of inappropriate treatment or management of children and family matters by Childrens Services, Family & Childrens Courts,Childrens Court Clinicians.
4. More than one in seven stated that Court matters were subject to multiple crown instigated adjournments.These were ALL self funded defenders, some of whom lost homes and were bankrupted.
5. A universal hatred of anyone and anything remotely connected with Child or Family Protective Services.

There is also a common and correct public perception of the contemporary DOCs descendant, NSW Communities and its parent department as being a worse option for children and youth than the conditions which the child currently endures. Minister Burney laments that the public are unwilling to report child abuse. Well Ms Burney who would when the primary abuser is the very organ of State charged with childrens and families care and protection. I personally would NEVER think for a minute that any child would be better off under your department.

http://sydneyhomeless.wordpress.com/2...ild-abuse/

How the radical left tried to legalise paedophilia

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:44:22 +1000

Tag: ireland

This shameful history needs far more exposure than it has so far received writes David Quinn

Recently The Irish Times ran a very interesting piece by its Berlin correspondent, Derek Scally. It dealt with how the radical left in Germany from the 1960s right through to the 1980s campaigned to legalise sex between children and adults.

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This history has come to light because of child abuse scandals that took place in the recent past at a left-wing boarding school in Germany called Odenwald. The abuses at this school were revealed when the German media earlier this year began to turn its attention to abuse scandals involving Catholic priests.

The German press at least had the honesty to throw its net wider than simply the Catholic Church. However, with only one or two exceptions, the international media reported only the Church's abuse scandals. Those involving the German left were ignored. Scally's article was based on a much longer report in the German magazine, Der Spiegel, called 'The Sexual Revolution and Children: How the left took things too far'.

The article detailed how, in the ultra-permissive climate of the sex revolution, radical leftists decided children were also in need of 'sexual liberation'.

To this end they founded a new form of kindergarten called kinderladen. The aim of the kinderladens was to teach young children radical left-wing politics, to acquaint them with 'anti-authoritarian' attitudes and to help them rebel against 'repressive', 'bourgeois' notions about children's sexuality.

A great deal of what took place in these kinderladens simply can't be reported in a family newspaper such as The Irish Catholic but here is one of the milder passages from the Der Spiegel article describing what typically used to happen in just one kinderladen in Berlin in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The passage reads: ''The educators' notes [from the kinderladen] indicate that they [the teachers] placed a very strong emphasis on sex education. Almost every day, the students played games that involved taking off their clothes, reading porno magazines together and pantomiming intercourse.

Provoked

''According to the records, a 'sex exercise' was conducted on Dec 11. An entry made on Nov 26 reads: 'In general, by lying there we repeatedly provoked, openly or in a hidden way, sexual innuendoes, which were then expressed in pantomimes, which Kurt and Rita performed together on the low table (as a stage) in front of us.''

Children were encouraged to fondle each other and to fondle adults.

These kinderladens started in Berlin but later spread to Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg and Stuttgart, and eventually to smaller cities like Giessen and Nuremberg.

The movement to 'sexually liberate' children was not isolated to fringe left-wing groups. It had political influence, especially among the German Greens as the Der Spiegel article also reports:

''The Greens were not long immune to the argument that the government should not limit the sexuality of children. At its convention in LÏdenscheid in 1985, the Greens' state organisation in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia argued that 'non-violent sexuality' between children and adults should generally be allowed, without any age restrictions. 'Consensual sexual relations between adults and children must be decriminalised', the 'Children and Youth' task force of the Green Party in the southwestern state of Baden-WÏrttemberg wrote in a position paper at about the same time. Public protests forced the party to remove the statement from the document.''

Student radical

To this day, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, who was a student radical in the 1960s and 1970s, and who worked in one of these kinderladens, is co-President of the Greens in the European Parliament. The Greens in Ireland have never repudiated him.

Nor was this movement restricted to Germany. In Britain something called the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) was a member in the 1970s of the National Council for Civil Liberties. PIE was dedicated to legalising adult/child sexual relations.

In America, the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) - also dedicated to legalising adult/child sex - enjoyed a certain vogue for a time and was a member of one of the biggest gay rights movements, the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) right up until 1993.

NAMBLA at one point could count among its supporters the renowned beatnik poet and radical, Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg is beloved of the left to this day.

In France in 1977, the newspaper Le Monde carried a letter signed by 69 luminaries including future Culture Minister Jack Lang and the philosopher Jean Paul Sartre demanding the release of three men accused of having sex with under-age children.

If 13-year-olds have the right to get the Pill, they asked, surely they have the right to have sex with whomever they want, including adult men?

Justifying

As late as the mid-1990s influential magazines such as The New Republic in America were still carrying articles basically justifying sex between adults and pubescent boys. Even today, the film director Roman Polanski has very influential defenders despite pleading guilty to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1978.

No-one pretends that the child abuse scandals carried out by priests of the Catholic Church, and covered-up by their superiors are not horrifying and outrageous. But for several decades prominent leftists established schools in which children were sexually abused all the while actively campaigning for the legalisation of adult/child sex.

This shameful history needs far more exposure than it has so far received.

http://www.irishcatholic.ie/site/cont...aedophilia

White flag waved already in Federal Election battle

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:50:03 +1000

Tag: australia

OPPOSING candidates admit they have more of a ‘mission impossible’ than a sporting chance against Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey in the Federal Election.

The candidates from minor parties say they simply can’t win and can only hope for a protest vote in the blue-ribbon seats of Warringah and North Sydney.

Only Sex Party candidate Austen Tayshus has the audacity to suggest he could beat Mr Abbott.

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Mr Abbott has three rivals from minor parties, plus Labor, for the seat of Warringah, including Secular Party candidate Kenneth Cook who wants voters to protest against “religious dogma”.

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Mr Hockey also has four rivals including Australian Democrat candidate Daniel Pearce who says people are glad to at least see the Democrats back on the hustings.

The Warringah seat has been held by Mr Abbott since 1994.

It has been a Liberal seat since it’s inception in 1922, apart from Percy Spender, who was an Independent for three years until changing to the United Australia Party (Liberal Party predecessor) in 1940.

Mr Tayshus said while he was well-aware the seat was “very conservative”, he believed he had a good chance to win.

“People are sick and tired of the facade of Tony Abbott. He winds back time,” he said.

Mr Tayshus said Mr Abbott’s “conservative” views on abortion were “ridiculous” and would not go down well with young voters.

“I also want an investigation into the child abuse in Catholic Schools but of course (Mr Abbott) will never agree to that because he’s best friends with (Cardinal) George Pell.”

Mr Cooke said the only person that had a chance to win the seat was Mr Abbott, but he decided to enter to let people express their dismay at the influence religion has in politics.

The North Sydney seat has been held by Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey since 1996, when independent Ted Mack retired after six years in the seat.

Before that, the seat was held by Liberal-style politicians from 1910.

Mr Pearce said he knows he can’t win the seat but wanted to enter to give people an alternative.

He said people had come up to him during the campaign saying “I thought (the Australian Democrats) were dead. I’m glad you’re back”.

http://mosman-daily.whereilive.com.au...d-already/

Gillard's $1.5m Catholic Roman Holiday outrages abuse victims

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 06:17:31 +1000

Tag: australia

Survivors of Clergy Abuse Australia (SCAA) say survivors of sex assault at the hands of priests are outraged by what is seen as Julia Gillard’s buy-back of Catholic votes.

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“Since the announcement of Gillard’s taxpayers donation to fly Catholics to Rome for the Canonisation, emails and phone calls have poured into SCAA’s office. Victims and their supporters are stunned at such a blatant attempt at buying back votes with funds that would be more appropriately spent on groups who actually support victims of catholic priests and brothers!” stated Peter Gogarty, of Australia’s national support and lobby group for victims SCAA.

“SCAA is completely funded by our Founder with the measly gesture she was given by the Church for her years of abuse at the hands of her parish priest, and Julia Gillard can’t even provide a single dollar to support this group or any others like it!” Gogarty continued.

There are thousands of known survivors of clergy about around Australia who could benefit by the $1.5million Gillard has given the richest business in the world. “I’m quite sure that Mary McKillop would be hugely imbarrassed by all of the fuss and expense surrounding her canonisation. And all of us victims are 100% certain that she would prefer that $1.5million go to supporting survivors, instead of flying wealthy catholics to Rome for a holiday!”

SCAA and its national network of survivors and supporters receive no funding from anywhere, including the Catholic church or the government. However, this much needed service (the only of its kind in the country) must continue or “more survivors will die” says Peter Gogarty, himself a survivor.

“For Julia to throw around cash like this so frivolously is a further insult to victims who are struggling simply to make ends meet. Victims are often so damaged that they were unable to complete school and continue on into successful careers, so, in their 40’s and 50’s truly find it difficult to compete for the small amount of jobs available against their younger, more educated peers. The thought of hopping on a plane to Rome is only a dream for these victims.” Peter explained.

The Australian government has not at any point made any attempt to provide funding or support for the countless victims of sex abuse at the hands of the catholic church, so this extravagant offer is further driving the knife into the hearts of thousands of victims.

Catholic victims were also sadly neglected when Kevin Rudd made his public apology to the forgotten Australians. “We are the ‘forgotten Australians that Australia continues to forget!” is a statement often used by SCAA volunteers.

SCAA has made numerous attempts to speak with many members of government to discuss the devastating plight of Catholic victims, and seek some sort of assistance in the form of support/funding, or possibly an apology. Repeatedly their requests for meetings go unresponded to.

It seems that Catholic victims numbers are too few to be included in the Gillard Vote Buying Scheme – thousands of victims will tell you that the $1.5 million is certainly not directed to where Mary McKillop would want it to go.

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Xenophon Ignores Elephant in Room

Mon, 24 May 2010 03:55:14 +1000

Tag: australia

An admirable politician, Nick Xenophon, has his knickers in a twist about Adelaide’s tiny Agape Ministries Cult.

Which is fair enough, for they do brainwash their adherents. But that is nothing new. The Catholic Church (and the other ‘mainstream’ churches) have been doing this for thousands of years, right under our noses. Politicians say prayers at every opening session of parliaments here in Australia!

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Everything about the Agape Ministry loonies of which Nick rightly complains is happenning 10,000 times more often, with far more severe and dangerous consequences in the various ‘normal’ churches, especially the Catholic churches, who clearly systematically employ terror and vicious threats to frighten their adherents into subservient compliance, and to extort money from them. They are so clearly a terrorist organization within the strictest meaning of the law that it could hardly be more clear!

They are all superstitious terrorist cults. Every one of them.

He should concentrate on removing subservience to these toxic cults by:

1. Immediately terminating prayers in parliament
2. Immediately rescinding automatic tax exemption for religious organizations
3. Instigating the arrests of every Catholic Bishop under the various terrorism provisions.
4. Recovering the proceeds of crime from the churches.

…before targetting the minority lunatic sects.

The RCC is causing real damage1, and has caused some very real damage, (up to and including the willful genocide of the original inhabitants).
1 Unless you have just emerged from a 2,000 year stay in a cave, I’m imagining that you understand the vast damage perpetrated on countless generations by the paedophillic parasites.

Oh, the irony of it all.

I would pay a fortune for one of these!

(I bet that they are very popular in Vatican City toilet blocks.)

http://www.antitheistdaily.com/2010/0...t-in-room/

Rabbitte calls for Ahern to support archbishop's 'plea'

Fri, 14 May 2010 02:04:23 +1000

Tag: ireland

MICHAEL O'REGAN

THE MINISTER for Justice supported a recent claim by the Archbishop of Dublin that there were attempts to cover up clerical child sex abuse.

Dermot Ahern said: “Like everybody else, I took on board the sentiments expressed by Dr Diarmuid Martin.”

Labour justice spokesman Pat Rabbitte referred to Dr Martin’s “courageous remarks”, adding that he had an admirable track record on the issue.

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Mr Rabbitte said more weight ought to be attached to his words when he said it was his view that powerful forces within the church were still covering up the evil of child sex abuse.

Mr Ahern said he agreed Dr Martin’s words would have to be taken very seriously when referring to those dark forces.

If it was the case there were people still railing against the type of new structures put in place, it was an issue, primarily, for the church authorities to deal with, he added.

Mr Rabbitte pressed the Minister to extend the commission of inquiry into the Dublin archdiocese to other dioceses in the State.

Mr Ahern said the commission was currently investigating the Cloyne diocese.

There was an ongoing Garda investigation into how church and State authorities handled clerical sex abuse and the commissioner would consult the Director of Public Prosecutions about possible criminal liability when it was completed, he added.

The HSE was completing an audit of Catholic dioceses to ensure it was fully aware of all abuse cases known to the church.

Consideration of the results of all those investigations would include what further action would be required, including a possible extension of the commission’s remit, Mr Ahern said.

Mr Rabbitte said the response from the Minister was disappointing, given the gravity of the issue. It was deeply troubling, he said, that Dr Martin felt it necessary to go public with trenchant remarks about covering up evil in society.

“What more could one have expected from the archbishop other than going to the top of Croagh Patrick and crying out to the heavens for help?

“He is saying in black and white that these crimes are still being covered up.”

Mr Rabbitte suggested this was an argument for the Minister to act and pick “a diocese like Raphoe, which is reported to have been rotten with this problem”.

Some of the cases had been ventilated in public, he added.

“Why does the Minister not take his courage in his hands and direct that the particular diocese would be investigated to support the plea that I take Dr Martin to be making to the civil authorities?”

Mr Ahern said any extension of the investigation would involve costs to the exchequer.

The Dublin investigation had cost in the region of €4.4 million to date, excluding third-party costs.

The cost of the Cloyne investigation is in the region of €1 million so far.

“The question of extending it to 21 other dioceses, or even the diocese of Raphoe, would incur additional expense,” Mr Ahern said.

He added that the decision was a matter for the Government.

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