via The Daily Mail:
The man accusing X Men director Bryan Singer of sex abuse has teamed up with an Oscar-nominated filmmaker for a bombshell documentary that threatens to expose the sordid underbelly of Hollywood. Michael Egan, who claims he was raped by Singer at a string of Hollywood pool parties as a teenager, has been working with Amy Berg, MailOnline can reveal. Miss Berg runs Disarming Films and yesterday confirmed to MailOnline she had been working on the project for the past two years. But she seemed surprised that Michael, 31, went going public with his claims this week after filing a damning lawsuit against Singer, 48. A source close to Egan told MailOnline they had been approached by the film company, saying: ‘Just this week, I got a message from Disarming Films, a documentary film company working out of Los Angeles.
They said they are making a documentary about a bunch of children molested by somebody in the film industry. I never contacted them back. They wanted videos and pictures of Michael and a few others he knew . The film company said they were working on numerous children, now adults, now coming forward about this...Amy Berg is best known for her 2006 Oscar-nominated documentary Deliver Us From Evil, about sex abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church, focusing on Oliver O’Grady, who abused many children in California in the late 1970s and early 1990s...Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Egan opened up about his alleged experiences at the sordid pool parties where it took place. He claimed that Singer treated him like 'a piece of meat' and he claims he had 'a gun put in my mouth' by Hollywood power broker Mark Rector-Collins so he'd do as he was told.
Rector-Collins was jailed in 2004 for sex abuse against minors. I wouldn't say it was a relationship [with Singer], you were a piece of meat,' Egan said of how he was treated at the parties at Rector Collins' home that he allegedly began attending when he was just 14 or 15. He said: 'Certain situations like at the house where the rules were no swimsuits by the pool areas. I was in the hot tub with Singer and other individuals, they grope you, shove your head under water, orally molest you, then they'd rape you by the side of hot tub. You were a piece of meat. He claimed the men regularly threatened to ruin his acting dreams if he didn't comply with their demands. 'We were told that we had to keep the members happy - "We control Hollywood and we will eliminate you" - there was threat after threat,' Egan told reporters...'My phone was being monitored, such horrible things being said. You believe them. You continue going round (to the house) as, if you didn't, you were fearful of what would happen to you or members of your family.'
It was yesterday revealed Egan had already filed a lawsuit over the alleged abuse 14 years ago - but failed to mention Singer. Documents filed with the Los Angeles superior court and dated July 2000 show a 'Michael E' - whose year of birth matches Egan's - alleging similar complaints to a suit he filed this week in Hawaii. His lawyer Jeff Herman also seemed to refer to the previous complaint during the conference, adding that it came to nothing. He said: ‘People ask why did Mike not notify authorities when it happened? Yes he did, he spoke to his mum when he was 17 and went to police, who reported it to the FBI. ‘Why did it take so long to come to me to file a lawsuit? As he will say, he was scared. He tried to come to the authorities and nothing happened.' Mr Herman added other Hollywood power players were also abusing underage teens and that he would reveal more cases next week. He dubbed them 'pedophile rings'. 'Mike has been called a liar, been attacked and the story denied,' Herman said. 'But I have heard from many people that they were abused in Hollywood as children just in the last 18 hours. 'I've been investigating this case for six months, there are paedophile rings that happen in Hollywood that overlap each other. I want to give victims a voice.'
Egan added: 'My mom was the one who made the phone calls to the police as I was still a minor, it was an agent from LAPD, they then brought it to the FBI.'...Collins-Rector changed his name from Mark Rector to Mark Collins-Rector in 1998. He remains best-known for founding the Digital Entertainment Network (DEN), an online streaming video broadcaster and a notable dot-com failure. DEN collapsed following a failed IPO bid and collapsed amid allegations he had sexually abused children, coercing them with drugs and guns. Collins-Rector then fled to Europe, ending up in Spain. He fought extradition proceedings for two years before returning to the United States, where he pleaded guilty to eight charges of child enticement and registered as a sex offender...Collins-Rector changed his name from Mark Rector to Mark Collins-Rector in 1998. He remains best-known for founding the Digital Entertainment Network (DEN), an online streaming video broadcaster and a notable dot-com failure.
DEN collapsed following a failed IPO bid and collapsed amid allegations he had sexually abused children, coercing them with drugs and guns. Collins-Rector then fled to Europe, ending up in Spain. He fought extradition proceedings for two years before returning to the United States, where he pleaded guilty to eight charges of child enticement and registered as a sex offender...Two of the trips took place or or between August 1, 1999, and October 31, 1999, and Egan stayed at the Paul Mitchell estate in Kailua, Hawaii, with Collins-Rector, Shackley and others including Singer and a number of juvenile males, it's alleged. The court papers read: 'While there, the Paul Mitchell estate contained firearms, drugs, and alcohol. As in California, there was frequent sexual contact by a number of adult males with teenage males and the providing of alcoholic beverages and drugs to the young males.'
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Sunday, March 2, 2014
Recovered memories of Monarch programming
FYI, this article was originally published on Educate-yourself, a hate-based site that promotes prejudice against various groups of people. Readers are encouraged to think for themselves before swallowing the divisive right wing propaganda published by the domain owner. Despite these issues the following article is informative.
January 28, 2014, Mike wrote:
Hi there. This is not a story. This is true. I am a relic. A child of another generation. My dad thought he worked for the Mafia. He believed his job was watching doorways. Truth was, his children worked for the Mafia while he was paid to stand in doorways and forget. We were dropped at Church and Mason sites in Boston, programmed and indoctrinated, and at some point worked as children doing things they have children do. Like for me, I was a key maker, all I had to do was put my mouth on a persons privates and they were "in" because they shared the same secret. That was back in the seventies and I was running since then up until about two years ago when I broke down and told the whole foul mess to my wife of over 20 years, because uptil then it was a "family secret".
Now I'm breaking free of the complex PTSD and rewiring my skull from long lost programming. In the 1980s, the men that were the head of the organization that I was incorporated with, was given up and there was a national news story about it. Charleston family child sex scandal. Look it up. But that wasn't the full story, it was a cover up. It is all long gone and buried now....As far as I understand, these things that were done to me are mostly considered wrong and a bad choice in the culture's view, but this isn’t to say it’s been actively stopped....I’ve just finished up with a period of time where I tried to express graphically the things done, but I shocked and stunned people, and I realized this method of communications is useless.
Let me tell you of the Clown, the Door and the Suggestion.
In programming a child, it can be very easy to mislead a child into thinking they are making choices. This isn’t the case. At one early point in training a child, they will take the child into a room. There will be a door in that room. It might have a balloon or some type of circus paint or paper or stuff on it, enough to let the child know it has something to do with the circus. The handler then talks with the child about the door; gets the child excited to open the door. Tells the child that they shouldn’t open the door, but that it is okay if that is what they want to do. However, it is stressed that the child should listen to the handler. The child doesn’t. Behind the door is a clown of a brute. That clown brute abuses the child in ways too graphic. The lesson that child learns is simple: don’t question authority.
...It was around 3 and a half. I guess I had been becoming resistant. I question if I was being tested or if chance delivered this hand into my life. I was in a inner office room. There was another child. Sometimes I wonder if that child wasn’t in my mind, but I could tell it was scared. This made me realize there was something wrong. When I voiced this I was raped and killed by suffocation with male genitalia. I was revived and sent home to my dad. My dad unaware tried to take me to McDonalds after as he had been instructed. I wasn’t eating my food. I now know I was in shock. I kept squirming and other indicators something was wrong. My dad questioned enough for me to try to answer. I said the whole thing. Next thing I know my dad has wished me out of Mcdonalds and I’m on the street frothing at the mouth. This is boston commons, and we take the (T) train home. I’m in shock in my room. My father is telling my mother. There’s a phone call for someone to “fix it”. My dad tells me I have to forget or act to forget or they will take a piece of my brain out. I believe him. Knock on the door, man, “friend”, light behind in my eyes, the pen, the Mickey Mouse watch, and how time can be moved back. I’m told as a child this is what I want and all I know is this events are scaring the hell out of me.
It was my mother who became my keeper. She was supposed to help me at some point, but she was a very damaged and selfish woman who drank every day. I never really did forget but I had to pretend and then it just became real. We moved, dropped out the church (Roman Catholic) with a what I’ve now been informed is Jesuit priesthood. Also connected “Mafia” by name and Masons by temple and inner sanctums.
We moved from Sagus to Everett. We were told to run away if the men with the rings ever came around. They did, but we ran. My father and mother were afraid for their lives for a couple years but it all died away, at least so it would seem, My oldest brother, about 17 at my birth, trained me to suck male genitals. That’s “Steven”and he’s also been “touched” or what ever. I don’t know what to call myself at times. My sister Elaine that is just a couple years younger. She’s been being forced upon by Steven and his friends and also there is reason to believe it was filmed and there were adults in the room.
Rosalie our mother was sold to her grandfather who was a Mason. She was forced to have sex with him while cleaning his house, or at least that’s what she recalls, but I had talked several times with her, and there were reasons to believe it too was programming. She’s taken out of school in the 8th grade. She’s married off, but sent packing with her first child at age 16...my father wants one more boy. Lucky me! Entered into the program at the age of “could stand”. I was trained to stand at a very early age, 9 months old, because the age requirement is you must be able to stand alone. This is how I am introduced. My father tells me to stand at this place. I now know the place to be somewhere near the docks in Charleston. My father’s friend would be by and I was to go with him and do what he said. The man with the ring showed up, my father had left me standing there, but I am aware he is a far off. I go with the man. He takes me down stone steps. As I recall I’m made to give a little oral sex, but much of the oral sex I’m made to give as a child isn’t to climax. Much however was and violent and other things. I am lead to understand that my father wanted me to listen, and that was to keep my mouth shut and let my father think nothing happened...
...I’m in the program now. My father believes I’m being baby sat while he watches doorways. This is the cover he’s lead to believe is the requirement for the job. He finds out the truth more then two years later. There is reason to believe my father’s been brainwashed or at least programmed. Later in life, my mother’s idea of psychological help is to be made to “fight”. So Mark is trained to beat me on command until I would bust out in a raging cry, that is actually nearly imposable because of the brainwashing errors. Or Mark stops after he’s gotten me to try to fight back and then beaten me up because he was always a little upset about my birth. That’s my life until about 13 when I can fight back, but by then I had been beaten or forced to fight at least a couple times a day for a decade.
This is the childhood I tell my wife is “just normal bad” when I avoid the questions and act upset if the topic isn’t dropped. This was what I was trained to do by my mother. I didn’t even let my wife of 25 years know of any of this until I had my breakthrough less than two years ago.... I was kept ignorant, I couldn’t read or write when I graduated from high school. I had to do all my stuff in my mind as my mother and brother Mark were in constant watch that I didn’t talk or express those things, and that I MUST “act normal”... I wanted to tell the doctor, but I couldn’t. Everything ended when I started telling myself “End Program”....Born Dead was I. This was a non family secret, or so I thought. As a child, my mother would paint a pretty picture of doctors and nurses saying prayers for the revival of a child dead seven minutes via strangulation. However, upon looking into my known family events, I find statements of deliberate killing of babies as a form of experiment or “treatment”.
I spent several months on the web site 'new world illuminists.' I hung in the chat room and chatted, but it started getting too close to home. I met this one guy that we became friends and he stated he was what is known as a 'hunter' whose mission was to find people like me who were waking up. This isn’t the first time I was made aware of such people...After the real bad event at my child hood and the hypnotist came by, I was trained to wrap all those bad things into one memory and then just told to forget about it....
I feel this had a big part in why I refused to even talk about these things for nearly four decades. Many known strange events that I found, aligned with the occultist practices. I know their efforts failed. I know the man directly responsible went to prison for family child molestation a decade later. I know the insiders never were shown, at least not in the news, and I know many of the programming techniques for people like me are not cross laterally functional. In other words, different triggers, and programming set ups. I believe when I was being programmed, computers were just on the horizon and so somehow I was programmed like a computer. I have had great luck with computers and I feel I really “woke up” from the cloud or bubble I was living in by means of demanding to myself that the “program end”.
I have since then messaged with several types of people from occultists that refer to Lucifer as “HIM” to children of Jesuits that had heard tales from their family about people like me, and I’m not concerned, understanding I am safe and able. They are everywhere: in every police station, public office, media, and whatnot. Secret society types that is. I’m just not sure what to think about that so I just don’t. more...
January 28, 2014, Mike wrote:
Hi there. This is not a story. This is true. I am a relic. A child of another generation. My dad thought he worked for the Mafia. He believed his job was watching doorways. Truth was, his children worked for the Mafia while he was paid to stand in doorways and forget. We were dropped at Church and Mason sites in Boston, programmed and indoctrinated, and at some point worked as children doing things they have children do. Like for me, I was a key maker, all I had to do was put my mouth on a persons privates and they were "in" because they shared the same secret. That was back in the seventies and I was running since then up until about two years ago when I broke down and told the whole foul mess to my wife of over 20 years, because uptil then it was a "family secret".
Now I'm breaking free of the complex PTSD and rewiring my skull from long lost programming. In the 1980s, the men that were the head of the organization that I was incorporated with, was given up and there was a national news story about it. Charleston family child sex scandal. Look it up. But that wasn't the full story, it was a cover up. It is all long gone and buried now....As far as I understand, these things that were done to me are mostly considered wrong and a bad choice in the culture's view, but this isn’t to say it’s been actively stopped....I’ve just finished up with a period of time where I tried to express graphically the things done, but I shocked and stunned people, and I realized this method of communications is useless.
Let me tell you of the Clown, the Door and the Suggestion.
In programming a child, it can be very easy to mislead a child into thinking they are making choices. This isn’t the case. At one early point in training a child, they will take the child into a room. There will be a door in that room. It might have a balloon or some type of circus paint or paper or stuff on it, enough to let the child know it has something to do with the circus. The handler then talks with the child about the door; gets the child excited to open the door. Tells the child that they shouldn’t open the door, but that it is okay if that is what they want to do. However, it is stressed that the child should listen to the handler. The child doesn’t. Behind the door is a clown of a brute. That clown brute abuses the child in ways too graphic. The lesson that child learns is simple: don’t question authority.
...It was around 3 and a half. I guess I had been becoming resistant. I question if I was being tested or if chance delivered this hand into my life. I was in a inner office room. There was another child. Sometimes I wonder if that child wasn’t in my mind, but I could tell it was scared. This made me realize there was something wrong. When I voiced this I was raped and killed by suffocation with male genitalia. I was revived and sent home to my dad. My dad unaware tried to take me to McDonalds after as he had been instructed. I wasn’t eating my food. I now know I was in shock. I kept squirming and other indicators something was wrong. My dad questioned enough for me to try to answer. I said the whole thing. Next thing I know my dad has wished me out of Mcdonalds and I’m on the street frothing at the mouth. This is boston commons, and we take the (T) train home. I’m in shock in my room. My father is telling my mother. There’s a phone call for someone to “fix it”. My dad tells me I have to forget or act to forget or they will take a piece of my brain out. I believe him. Knock on the door, man, “friend”, light behind in my eyes, the pen, the Mickey Mouse watch, and how time can be moved back. I’m told as a child this is what I want and all I know is this events are scaring the hell out of me.
It was my mother who became my keeper. She was supposed to help me at some point, but she was a very damaged and selfish woman who drank every day. I never really did forget but I had to pretend and then it just became real. We moved, dropped out the church (Roman Catholic) with a what I’ve now been informed is Jesuit priesthood. Also connected “Mafia” by name and Masons by temple and inner sanctums.
We moved from Sagus to Everett. We were told to run away if the men with the rings ever came around. They did, but we ran. My father and mother were afraid for their lives for a couple years but it all died away, at least so it would seem, My oldest brother, about 17 at my birth, trained me to suck male genitals. That’s “Steven”and he’s also been “touched” or what ever. I don’t know what to call myself at times. My sister Elaine that is just a couple years younger. She’s been being forced upon by Steven and his friends and also there is reason to believe it was filmed and there were adults in the room.
Rosalie our mother was sold to her grandfather who was a Mason. She was forced to have sex with him while cleaning his house, or at least that’s what she recalls, but I had talked several times with her, and there were reasons to believe it too was programming. She’s taken out of school in the 8th grade. She’s married off, but sent packing with her first child at age 16...my father wants one more boy. Lucky me! Entered into the program at the age of “could stand”. I was trained to stand at a very early age, 9 months old, because the age requirement is you must be able to stand alone. This is how I am introduced. My father tells me to stand at this place. I now know the place to be somewhere near the docks in Charleston. My father’s friend would be by and I was to go with him and do what he said. The man with the ring showed up, my father had left me standing there, but I am aware he is a far off. I go with the man. He takes me down stone steps. As I recall I’m made to give a little oral sex, but much of the oral sex I’m made to give as a child isn’t to climax. Much however was and violent and other things. I am lead to understand that my father wanted me to listen, and that was to keep my mouth shut and let my father think nothing happened...
...I’m in the program now. My father believes I’m being baby sat while he watches doorways. This is the cover he’s lead to believe is the requirement for the job. He finds out the truth more then two years later. There is reason to believe my father’s been brainwashed or at least programmed. Later in life, my mother’s idea of psychological help is to be made to “fight”. So Mark is trained to beat me on command until I would bust out in a raging cry, that is actually nearly imposable because of the brainwashing errors. Or Mark stops after he’s gotten me to try to fight back and then beaten me up because he was always a little upset about my birth. That’s my life until about 13 when I can fight back, but by then I had been beaten or forced to fight at least a couple times a day for a decade.
This is the childhood I tell my wife is “just normal bad” when I avoid the questions and act upset if the topic isn’t dropped. This was what I was trained to do by my mother. I didn’t even let my wife of 25 years know of any of this until I had my breakthrough less than two years ago.... I was kept ignorant, I couldn’t read or write when I graduated from high school. I had to do all my stuff in my mind as my mother and brother Mark were in constant watch that I didn’t talk or express those things, and that I MUST “act normal”... I wanted to tell the doctor, but I couldn’t. Everything ended when I started telling myself “End Program”....Born Dead was I. This was a non family secret, or so I thought. As a child, my mother would paint a pretty picture of doctors and nurses saying prayers for the revival of a child dead seven minutes via strangulation. However, upon looking into my known family events, I find statements of deliberate killing of babies as a form of experiment or “treatment”.
I spent several months on the web site 'new world illuminists.' I hung in the chat room and chatted, but it started getting too close to home. I met this one guy that we became friends and he stated he was what is known as a 'hunter' whose mission was to find people like me who were waking up. This isn’t the first time I was made aware of such people...After the real bad event at my child hood and the hypnotist came by, I was trained to wrap all those bad things into one memory and then just told to forget about it....
I feel this had a big part in why I refused to even talk about these things for nearly four decades. Many known strange events that I found, aligned with the occultist practices. I know their efforts failed. I know the man directly responsible went to prison for family child molestation a decade later. I know the insiders never were shown, at least not in the news, and I know many of the programming techniques for people like me are not cross laterally functional. In other words, different triggers, and programming set ups. I believe when I was being programmed, computers were just on the horizon and so somehow I was programmed like a computer. I have had great luck with computers and I feel I really “woke up” from the cloud or bubble I was living in by means of demanding to myself that the “program end”.
I have since then messaged with several types of people from occultists that refer to Lucifer as “HIM” to children of Jesuits that had heard tales from their family about people like me, and I’m not concerned, understanding I am safe and able. They are everywhere: in every police station, public office, media, and whatnot. Secret society types that is. I’m just not sure what to think about that so I just don’t. more...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
MK ULTRA Survivors’ Letter
via Duncan O'Finioan and Miranda Kelley:
In our line of work, an important distinction needs to be made — between those who seek fame and notoriety … and those who seek justice.
Those who seek fame and notoriety look only to aid themselves. Those who seek justice do so to aid all. - D&M
*********
If justice is what you seek, then please help us. We are re-posting the letter we sent out a few years ago entreating the various governments of the world and other organizations to address the subject of children being used, tortured, and abused in black government projects.
These projects will not stop unless enough voices are raised in protest against them. Demand investigation, demand transparency, demand that these groups acknowledge and cease these projects immediately. Please feel free to contact your senators, congresspeople, newspapers, and whomever else you feel need to know about this.
We are again hoping that this letter gets widely distributed and is seen by many people. When we sent it out to everyone listed below, we got zero response. Not even the usual “Thanks For Your Feedback” auto-generated email.
We can’t do this alone, but don’t do it for us – do it for yourselves, your families, and your own children who are currently living in a world which allows and sits quietly by while children are abused by the same governments you pledge allegiance to.
Please distribute far and wide:
President of the United States Barack Obama
Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon
United States Congress
United States Senate
United States House of Representatives
Respective Governments of Great Britain, Australia, Canada, France, Russian
Federation, Amnesty International
Greetings from the Survivors of Project Talent.
We, the survivors of MK ULTRA and all of its sub-projects — Project Talent being
one of them — are coming to you, the leaders of the free world, for redress. We
request immediate action on this matter, as we have waited long enough for our
respective governments to take notice of the torture that was illegally and secretly forced upon us as children by the same said governments. In addition:
We ask for acknowledgement of all that was done to us, both as children and adults, by the governments who committed these illegal acts against us, as well as recognition of duties that we performed for our respective countries in the name of freedom and national security.
We request our files be shown to us.
We request a transparent, cohesive and public investigation into all of the black projects that fall under the umbrella of MK ULTRA.
We request apologies from same said governments for being used illegally and for the tortures we were forced to endure.
We request face to face meetings with the highest officials of our respective countries in order to discuss this matter on a personal level.
We request Congressional hearings in the United States to address this subject.
And finally, we request that all black projects which use children cease immediately.
We feel this is very little to ask in lieu of what was done to us, and what is still being done to us.
You, the abovementioned, are the leaders of the free world. Please stand up and
act like it.
The torture of children can in no way ever be condoned by any country for any
reason. It is our highest wish to have a public announcement that these projects
using children will be stopped.
We respectfully await your replies, if any. We and others have contacted various
government leaders separately in the past and have never once received a reply.
Is this the way governments of the free world react to people like us?
Thank you,
Duncan O’Finioan, Miranda Kelley
And the People of Project Talent
DuncanOFinioan.com
In our line of work, an important distinction needs to be made — between those who seek fame and notoriety … and those who seek justice.
Those who seek fame and notoriety look only to aid themselves. Those who seek justice do so to aid all. - D&M
*********
If justice is what you seek, then please help us. We are re-posting the letter we sent out a few years ago entreating the various governments of the world and other organizations to address the subject of children being used, tortured, and abused in black government projects.
These projects will not stop unless enough voices are raised in protest against them. Demand investigation, demand transparency, demand that these groups acknowledge and cease these projects immediately. Please feel free to contact your senators, congresspeople, newspapers, and whomever else you feel need to know about this.
We are again hoping that this letter gets widely distributed and is seen by many people. When we sent it out to everyone listed below, we got zero response. Not even the usual “Thanks For Your Feedback” auto-generated email.
We can’t do this alone, but don’t do it for us – do it for yourselves, your families, and your own children who are currently living in a world which allows and sits quietly by while children are abused by the same governments you pledge allegiance to.
Please distribute far and wide:
President of the United States Barack Obama
Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon
United States Congress
United States Senate
United States House of Representatives
Respective Governments of Great Britain, Australia, Canada, France, Russian
Federation, Amnesty International
Greetings from the Survivors of Project Talent.
We, the survivors of MK ULTRA and all of its sub-projects — Project Talent being
one of them — are coming to you, the leaders of the free world, for redress. We
request immediate action on this matter, as we have waited long enough for our
respective governments to take notice of the torture that was illegally and secretly forced upon us as children by the same said governments. In addition:
We ask for acknowledgement of all that was done to us, both as children and adults, by the governments who committed these illegal acts against us, as well as recognition of duties that we performed for our respective countries in the name of freedom and national security.
We request our files be shown to us.
We request a transparent, cohesive and public investigation into all of the black projects that fall under the umbrella of MK ULTRA.
We request apologies from same said governments for being used illegally and for the tortures we were forced to endure.
We request face to face meetings with the highest officials of our respective countries in order to discuss this matter on a personal level.
We request Congressional hearings in the United States to address this subject.
And finally, we request that all black projects which use children cease immediately.
We feel this is very little to ask in lieu of what was done to us, and what is still being done to us.
You, the abovementioned, are the leaders of the free world. Please stand up and
act like it.
The torture of children can in no way ever be condoned by any country for any
reason. It is our highest wish to have a public announcement that these projects
using children will be stopped.
We respectfully await your replies, if any. We and others have contacted various
government leaders separately in the past and have never once received a reply.
Is this the way governments of the free world react to people like us?
Thank you,
Duncan O’Finioan, Miranda Kelley
And the People of Project Talent
DuncanOFinioan.com
Files Show Chicago Archdiocese Hid Decades Of Child Sex Abuse
via CBS:
CHICAGO (CBS/AP) – After a 13-year-old boy reported in 1979 that a priest raped him and later threatened him at gunpoint to keep quiet, the Archdiocese of Chicago assured the boy’s parents that although the cleric avoided prosecution, he would receive treatment and have no further contact with minors.
But the Rev. William Cloutier, who already had been accused of molesting other children, was returned to ministry a year later and accused of more abuse before he resigned in 1993, two years after the boy’s parents filed a lawsuit. Officials took no action against Cloutier over his earliest transgressions because he “sounded repentant,” according to internal archdiocese documents released Tuesday that show how the archdiocese tried to contain a mounting scandal over child sexual abuse.
For decades, those at the highest levels of the nation’s third-largest archdiocese moved accused priests from parish to parish while hiding the clerics’ histories from the public. The documents, released through settlements between attorneys for the archdiocese and victims, describe how the late Cardinals John Cody and Joseph Bernardin often approved the reassignments. The archdiocese removed some priests from ministry, but often years or decades after the clergy were known to have molested children.
CHICAGO (CBS/AP) – After a 13-year-old boy reported in 1979 that a priest raped him and later threatened him at gunpoint to keep quiet, the Archdiocese of Chicago assured the boy’s parents that although the cleric avoided prosecution, he would receive treatment and have no further contact with minors.
But the Rev. William Cloutier, who already had been accused of molesting other children, was returned to ministry a year later and accused of more abuse before he resigned in 1993, two years after the boy’s parents filed a lawsuit. Officials took no action against Cloutier over his earliest transgressions because he “sounded repentant,” according to internal archdiocese documents released Tuesday that show how the archdiocese tried to contain a mounting scandal over child sexual abuse.
For decades, those at the highest levels of the nation’s third-largest archdiocese moved accused priests from parish to parish while hiding the clerics’ histories from the public. The documents, released through settlements between attorneys for the archdiocese and victims, describe how the late Cardinals John Cody and Joseph Bernardin often approved the reassignments. The archdiocese removed some priests from ministry, but often years or decades after the clergy were known to have molested children.
Friday, January 17, 2014
Politicians and celebrities part of Jimmy Savile pedophile ring
via The Express:
A former female MP was involved in a paedophile network at the heart of government, police have been told. She is alleged to have forced a boy in care to perform a “vile” sex act at one of a series of drug-fuelled parties in Westminster in the Eighties where boys and girls as young as 13 were allegedly abused.
Last night her alleged victim told the Sunday Express: “I want justice.” Andrew Ash, now 45, said he has given Scotland Yard the name of the former MP. We cannot name her for legal reasons. Mr Ash claims he was frequently ferried down to London from the North of England, where he was in care, to take part in sex parties.
He says they were organised by a paedophile ring involving David Smith, Jimmy Savile’s former chauffeur who killed himself last year before he was due to stand trial for sex offences. He said: “It wasn’t just politicians, there were also a number of celebrities, including Jimmy Savile, who seemed to have a lot of good links to MPs and powerful businessmen. “There was usually drugs like cocaine and speed available as well as bottles of champagne.” Of his encounter with the female MP, he said: “She was extremely drunk and was laughing as she did it. “I didn’t really know what was going on but the others around her were goading her on. “I must have been about 13 years old at the time and felt humiliated.” We can also reveal that security services have been working closely with Yard detectives because of the highly sensitive nature of the allegations.
The Sunday Express understands police seized video footage and photographs of an alleged sex party from a well-known paedophile last year. Mr Ash claims officers have footage which shows a senior male MP in the same frame as him, although no abuse takes place on camera. He said he is speaking out now because he is frustrated by the lack of action after being interviewed for 70 hours by the Met Police’s Paedophile Unit. He says he was abused by the male MP on another occasion too. He said: “I remember being filmed with this MP, who was abusing me in a garage of a very prominent building behind a Rolls-Royce. “Another politician turned up with a video camera but the man abusing me just smirked and joked, ‘OK, OK, I’ll vote any way you want’ as if he was being blackmailed. What I want to know is why they haven’t arrested him yet if they have this evidence. “All I want is justice and for the truth to come out because these people have been protected for far too long.”
Mr Ash said two Met officers called at his home in Yorkshire last May. Interviews were conducted mainly at a safe house in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, but also in London. “The interviews were usually carried out in blocks of three, normally every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. “On at least two occasions there were two other officers present that I didn’t recognise. They didn’t ask me a thing, they just scribbled notes. “I asked who they were but all I was told was that they were from ‘upstairs’. It was clear from the tone that they were intelligence officers. “They had obviously been made aware of the high-profile names and the sensitive information I had given police.” Dutch intelligence officers attended at least one interview because Andrew told of being trafficked to Amsterdam on a number of occasions to be abused by a group of paedophiles including convicted child killer Sidney Cooke.
He claims Cooke, now 84, made him film the paedophile abusing another young boy on video. It is feared Cooke may have abused and killed young boys in the Netherlands. Mr Ash also told police he was abused by a big-name celebrity. He said: “This particular person was able to get youngsters into glitzy nightclubs in the West End. After one evening he invited me and a young girl back to his house where he made us have sex before joining in.” Mr Ash is being helped by anti-abuse campaigners Bill Maloney and Chris Fay. Mr Fay said: “The police have spent a good deal of time with him, listening to his evidence, and now potentially have compelling information that Andrew was at one of these parties with at least one prominent former MP. more...
Also relevant is the following article about the connection between Cardinal Keith O'Brien and Jimmy Savile, who the Guardian reports is a member of the Catholic fraternity Knights of Malta. Savile has been accused by numerous individuals of having participated in ceremonial occult rites that included acts of rape and child molestation occurring in a group setting. Accounts of this activity can be found here, here and here. Operation Yewtree has identified over 450 victims who alleged to having been abused by a child sex trafficking ring connected to Savile. He has also been photographed with public figures including Margaret Thatcher, the British Royal Family, and members of Led Zeppelin. The possibility that Savile may have been involved in an organized pedophilia ring for blackmail purposes seems even more credible considering the social circles he was given access to.
via The Mirror:
Jimmy Savile and the Cardinal: Britain's top Catholic cleric was friend of disgraced TV host
Grinning and giving a thumbs-up, Britain’s most senior Catholic cleric poses with his friend, disgraced paedophile Jimmy Savile. The snap, taken six years ago, emerged last night after Cardinal Keith O’Brien quit amid allegations of “inappropriate acts” towards fellow priests. When Savile’s vile secrets became known, the cardinal called for him to be stripped of his papal knighthood, awarded in 1990. Cardinal O’Brien quit just 24 hours before he was due to fly to Rome to help choose the next pope....His resignation followed a series of recent allegations against him dating back to the 80s by three priests and one former priest.
The ex-priest claimed the cardinal made an inappropriate approach after night prayers at St Andrew’s College, Drygrange. Another said he was living in a parish when he was visited by O’Brien, and inappropriate contact took place. A third accused him of “unwanted behaviour” after late-night drinking. And a fourth alleged he used night prayers as excuse for inappropriate contact...His sudden departure means Britain will be unrepresented in the process as he was the only cardinal in the British Catholic churches...Cardinal O’Brien, who, along with Prince Philip, welcomed Pope Benedict to Scotland in 2010, was no stranger to controversy.
He recently clashed with the Scottish government over its plans to enshrine same-sex marriage in law by 2015.
A year ago he described gay marriage as a “grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right”.more...
A former female MP was involved in a paedophile network at the heart of government, police have been told. She is alleged to have forced a boy in care to perform a “vile” sex act at one of a series of drug-fuelled parties in Westminster in the Eighties where boys and girls as young as 13 were allegedly abused.
Last night her alleged victim told the Sunday Express: “I want justice.” Andrew Ash, now 45, said he has given Scotland Yard the name of the former MP. We cannot name her for legal reasons. Mr Ash claims he was frequently ferried down to London from the North of England, where he was in care, to take part in sex parties.
He says they were organised by a paedophile ring involving David Smith, Jimmy Savile’s former chauffeur who killed himself last year before he was due to stand trial for sex offences. He said: “It wasn’t just politicians, there were also a number of celebrities, including Jimmy Savile, who seemed to have a lot of good links to MPs and powerful businessmen. “There was usually drugs like cocaine and speed available as well as bottles of champagne.” Of his encounter with the female MP, he said: “She was extremely drunk and was laughing as she did it. “I didn’t really know what was going on but the others around her were goading her on. “I must have been about 13 years old at the time and felt humiliated.” We can also reveal that security services have been working closely with Yard detectives because of the highly sensitive nature of the allegations.
The Sunday Express understands police seized video footage and photographs of an alleged sex party from a well-known paedophile last year. Mr Ash claims officers have footage which shows a senior male MP in the same frame as him, although no abuse takes place on camera. He said he is speaking out now because he is frustrated by the lack of action after being interviewed for 70 hours by the Met Police’s Paedophile Unit. He says he was abused by the male MP on another occasion too. He said: “I remember being filmed with this MP, who was abusing me in a garage of a very prominent building behind a Rolls-Royce. “Another politician turned up with a video camera but the man abusing me just smirked and joked, ‘OK, OK, I’ll vote any way you want’ as if he was being blackmailed. What I want to know is why they haven’t arrested him yet if they have this evidence. “All I want is justice and for the truth to come out because these people have been protected for far too long.”
Mr Ash said two Met officers called at his home in Yorkshire last May. Interviews were conducted mainly at a safe house in Bridlington, East Yorkshire, but also in London. “The interviews were usually carried out in blocks of three, normally every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. “On at least two occasions there were two other officers present that I didn’t recognise. They didn’t ask me a thing, they just scribbled notes. “I asked who they were but all I was told was that they were from ‘upstairs’. It was clear from the tone that they were intelligence officers. “They had obviously been made aware of the high-profile names and the sensitive information I had given police.” Dutch intelligence officers attended at least one interview because Andrew told of being trafficked to Amsterdam on a number of occasions to be abused by a group of paedophiles including convicted child killer Sidney Cooke.
He claims Cooke, now 84, made him film the paedophile abusing another young boy on video. It is feared Cooke may have abused and killed young boys in the Netherlands. Mr Ash also told police he was abused by a big-name celebrity. He said: “This particular person was able to get youngsters into glitzy nightclubs in the West End. After one evening he invited me and a young girl back to his house where he made us have sex before joining in.” Mr Ash is being helped by anti-abuse campaigners Bill Maloney and Chris Fay. Mr Fay said: “The police have spent a good deal of time with him, listening to his evidence, and now potentially have compelling information that Andrew was at one of these parties with at least one prominent former MP. more...
Also relevant is the following article about the connection between Cardinal Keith O'Brien and Jimmy Savile, who the Guardian reports is a member of the Catholic fraternity Knights of Malta. Savile has been accused by numerous individuals of having participated in ceremonial occult rites that included acts of rape and child molestation occurring in a group setting. Accounts of this activity can be found here, here and here. Operation Yewtree has identified over 450 victims who alleged to having been abused by a child sex trafficking ring connected to Savile. He has also been photographed with public figures including Margaret Thatcher, the British Royal Family, and members of Led Zeppelin. The possibility that Savile may have been involved in an organized pedophilia ring for blackmail purposes seems even more credible considering the social circles he was given access to.
via The Mirror:
Jimmy Savile and the Cardinal: Britain's top Catholic cleric was friend of disgraced TV host
Grinning and giving a thumbs-up, Britain’s most senior Catholic cleric poses with his friend, disgraced paedophile Jimmy Savile. The snap, taken six years ago, emerged last night after Cardinal Keith O’Brien quit amid allegations of “inappropriate acts” towards fellow priests. When Savile’s vile secrets became known, the cardinal called for him to be stripped of his papal knighthood, awarded in 1990. Cardinal O’Brien quit just 24 hours before he was due to fly to Rome to help choose the next pope....His resignation followed a series of recent allegations against him dating back to the 80s by three priests and one former priest.
The ex-priest claimed the cardinal made an inappropriate approach after night prayers at St Andrew’s College, Drygrange. Another said he was living in a parish when he was visited by O’Brien, and inappropriate contact took place. A third accused him of “unwanted behaviour” after late-night drinking. And a fourth alleged he used night prayers as excuse for inappropriate contact...His sudden departure means Britain will be unrepresented in the process as he was the only cardinal in the British Catholic churches...Cardinal O’Brien, who, along with Prince Philip, welcomed Pope Benedict to Scotland in 2010, was no stranger to controversy.
He recently clashed with the Scottish government over its plans to enshrine same-sex marriage in law by 2015.
A year ago he described gay marriage as a “grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right”.more...
Sunday, August 11, 2013
The Knights of Columbus and child abuse cover-up*
This post contains details that may be upsetting for sensitive readers.
The Knights of Columbus (KOC) are commonly known as the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, but most people don't know that the Knights also function as a recruiting organization for highly exclusive Catholic equestrian orders such as the Knights of Malta and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. The history of equestrian orders dates back to Ancient Rome, where the order comprised a large proportion of the patrician classes that monopolized the Roman political process, as well as most major commercial enterprises. Today, this same oligarchical tradition is continued through Catholic equestrian orders that subvert the democratic process by way of quasi-political religious organizations. While the KOC does not represent the upper echelons of the Catholic cryptocracy, that dubious honor instead being designated for the equestrian orders noted above, their political influence as an arm of the Vatican has been significant enough to play a role in silencing countless victims of clerical abuse.
The photo above captures the opening Mass of the 131st annual Knights of Columbus convention on August 6 in San Antonio. Included in the photo is church leader Cardinal Roger Mahoney, who the New York Times states "worked quietly to keep evidence of child molesting away from law enforcement officials and shield abusive priests from criminal prosecution more than a decade before the scandal became public, according to confidential church records." The article continues, "Rather than defrocking priests and contacting the police, the archdiocese sent priests who had molested children to out-of-state treatment facilities...Ray Boucher, a lawyer representing some of the plaintiffs in those cases, said the files released on Monday were “particularly damning,” because they showed the “wanton disregard for the health and safety of children, and a decision by the highest members of the church to put its self-interest and the interest of abusive priests ahead of those of children.”"
Also pictured above is Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who has been accused of sexual assault by former Benectine monk and Catholic priest Richard Sipe. According to Sipe, "On file are the unsealed “MEDIATION DOCUMENTATION FOR FR. G.” that involved McCarrick and the dioceses of Metuchen and Newark, NJ. A financial settlement was reached. The case was sent to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome, but it has not yet responded." What follows is an excerpt of the events described in the mediation document:
A news article reports that the Knights of Columbus sponsored a youth group, the Squires, members of which have accused the KOC of collaborating to cover of child sexual abuse. The article states "In one of the lawsuits, an unnamed Kansas resident claims the Squires leader abused him from 1978, when he was 10 years old, until 1986. He claims the leader shared him with other youth counselors in the group and threatened to kill him if he told anyone, the lawsuit said. The second lawsuit came from Texas resident Jim Dennany, who said he alerted Knights of Columbus officials in 1986 to assaults he said he suffered in the 1970s when he was a young teenager. He claimed the group took no action, concealed the allegations and told him to keep quiet, according to the lawsuit."
According to former Domnican priest and canon lawyer Thomas Doyle, "The Knights of Columbus take great pride in their loyalty to the Church and to the bishops. They regularly show their support for priests and announce their love for the Church. They shell out barrels of money to the Vatican, to bishops, to seminaries and to other causes in support of priests. The Knights of Columbus have totally missed the boat. They have supported priests and bishops in their moral bankruptcy and in their destruction of the bodies and souls of the victims of abuse. They have said and done nothing to support the victims."
So it may not be much of a surprise that a Pennsyvania newspaper, the Observer-Reporter, reported that convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky was awarded Coach of the Year title by the KOC. Sandusky has also been a speaker at KOC events. Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was assigned to investigate the Sandusky scandal. "We will immediately report any evidence of criminality to law enforcement authorities," said Freeh. New York state newspaper The Journal News reports that Louis Freeh, along with suspected Russian spy Robert Hanssen, are both members of the secretive Catholic fraternty Opus Dei. In his book, Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei, Robert Hutchinson writes of the canonization of Opus Dei founder Josemaria Escriva, noting that in attendance was "Dr Carl A. Anderson, the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus and senior American member of Opus Dei." Given the overlapping membership between Opus Dei and the KOC, the likelihood that the Penn State investigation was doomed by favoritism from the very beginning is very high indeed.
According to Vatican Insider, a project run by the daily newspaper La Stampa, Opus Dei is "one of the ecclesiastical bodies closest to the Pope". So the testimony of Jim Jenkins, former chair of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Review Board under Archbishop (now Cardinal) William Levada, should not be ignored. Jenkins states, in reference to the Dallas Charter which provided guidelines for how the Church would respond to the clerical abuse scandal, that "The Charter’s scope needed to be limited to the alleged assaults upon “minors” leaving the inappropriate sexual behavior of clerics with other adults beyond the jurisdiction of the review boards." In other words, the sexual assault of adults was considered to be acceptable behavior. Jenkins also states that "The behavior of bishops and cardinals was off-limits to the scope of any investigation by any archdiocesan review board." Translation: bishops and cardinals are not subject to civil law.
As Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the former Pope Benedict XVI was responsible for investigating clerical abuse scandals. Let's examine some of his accomplishments during that time period.
via CBS News:
The Vatican's lawyer says then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger told a California bishop to make sure a priest with a history of sexually molesting children didn't abuse while the church worked to defrock him...Attorney Jeffrey Lena was responding to a 1985 letter obtained by The Associated Press on Friday in which the future pope said more time was needed to study the case of the Rev. Stephen Kiesle. Lena says Ratzinger urged the bishop to give Kiesle "as much paternal care as possible." Lena says that was a way of saying the bishop was responsible for ensuring Kiesle didn't reoffend....The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock Kiesle, citing concerns including "the good of the universal church," according to the 1985 letter bearing his signature. The correspondence, obtained by The Associated Press, is the strongest challenge yet to the Vatican's insistence that Benedict played no role in blocking the removal of pedophile priests during his years as head of the Catholic Church's doctrinal watchdog office. The letter, signed by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was typed in Latin and is part of years of correspondence between the Diocese of Oakland and the Vatican about the proposed defrocking of the Rev. Stephen Kiesle...
Attorney Irwin Zalkin represents a woman who says Kiesle assaulted her three times by the time she was 7 years old. Court documents accuse Kiesle of providing her with wine, binding her hands and sexually abusing her, Tracy reports....Earlier Friday, the Vatican confirmed that it was Ratzinger's signature on the letter. "The press office doesn't believe it is necessary to respond to every single document taken out of context regarding particular legal situations," the Rev. Federico Lombardi said....The diocese recommended removing Kiesle from the priesthood in 1981, the year Ratzinger was appointed to head the Vatican office that shared responsibility for disciplining abusive priests. The case then languished for four years at the Vatican before Ratzinger finally wrote to Oakland Bishop John Cummins. It was two more years before Kiesle was removed; during that time he continued to do volunteer work with children through the church..... the future pope also noted that any decision to defrock Kiesle must take into account the "good of the universal church" and the "detriment that granting the dispensation can provoke within the community of Christ's faithful, particularly considering the young age." Kiesle was 38 at the time.
Kiesle had been sentenced in 1978 to three years' probation after pleading no contest to misdemeanor charges of lewd conduct for tying up and molesting two young boys in a San Francisco Bay area church rectory. As his probation ended in 1981, Kiesle asked to leave the priesthood and the diocese submitted papers to Rome to defrock him. In his earliest letter to Ratzinger, Cummins warned that returning Kiesle to ministry would cause more of a scandal than stripping him of his priestly powers. "It is my conviction that there would be no scandal if this petition were granted and that as a matter of fact, given the nature of the case, there might be greater scandal to the community if Father Kiesle were allowed to return to the active ministry," Cummins wrote in 1982...California church officials wrote to Ratzinger at least three times to check on the status of Kiesle's case and Cummins discussed the case with officials during a Vatican visit, according to correspondence. At one point, a Vatican official wrote to say the file may have been lost and suggested resubmitting materials....As Kiesle's fate was being weighed in Rome, the priest returned to suburban Pinole to volunteer as a youth minister at St. Joseph Church, where he had served as associate pastor from 1972 to 1975.
Kiesle continued to volunteer with children, according to Maurine Behrend, who worked in the Oakland diocese's youth ministry office in the 1980s. After learning of his history, Behrend complained to church officials. When nothing was done she wrote a letter, which she showed to the AP. "Obviously nothing has been done after EIGHT months of repeated notifications," she wrote. "How are we supposed to have confidence in the system when nothing is done? A simple phone call to the pastor from the bishop is all it would take." She eventually confronted Cummins at a confirmation and Kiesle was gone a short time later, Behrend said. Kiesle, who married after leaving the priesthood, was arrested and charged in 2002 with 13 counts of child molestation from the 1970s. All but two were thrown out after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a California law extending the statute of limitations. He pleaded no contest in 2004 to a felony for molesting a young girl in his Truckee home in 1995 and was sentenced to six years in state prison.
Now would probably be a good time to include this painting by the highly talented tattoo artist Paul Booth:
*Research credit for many links in this post is due http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/11/will-opus-dei-knights-shield-sandusky.html
The Knights of Columbus (KOC) are commonly known as the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, but most people don't know that the Knights also function as a recruiting organization for highly exclusive Catholic equestrian orders such as the Knights of Malta and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. The history of equestrian orders dates back to Ancient Rome, where the order comprised a large proportion of the patrician classes that monopolized the Roman political process, as well as most major commercial enterprises. Today, this same oligarchical tradition is continued through Catholic equestrian orders that subvert the democratic process by way of quasi-political religious organizations. While the KOC does not represent the upper echelons of the Catholic cryptocracy, that dubious honor instead being designated for the equestrian orders noted above, their political influence as an arm of the Vatican has been significant enough to play a role in silencing countless victims of clerical abuse.
The photo above captures the opening Mass of the 131st annual Knights of Columbus convention on August 6 in San Antonio. Included in the photo is church leader Cardinal Roger Mahoney, who the New York Times states "worked quietly to keep evidence of child molesting away from law enforcement officials and shield abusive priests from criminal prosecution more than a decade before the scandal became public, according to confidential church records." The article continues, "Rather than defrocking priests and contacting the police, the archdiocese sent priests who had molested children to out-of-state treatment facilities...Ray Boucher, a lawyer representing some of the plaintiffs in those cases, said the files released on Monday were “particularly damning,” because they showed the “wanton disregard for the health and safety of children, and a decision by the highest members of the church to put its self-interest and the interest of abusive priests ahead of those of children.”"
Also pictured above is Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who has been accused of sexual assault by former Benectine monk and Catholic priest Richard Sipe. According to Sipe, "On file are the unsealed “MEDIATION DOCUMENTATION FOR FR. G.” that involved McCarrick and the dioceses of Metuchen and Newark, NJ. A financial settlement was reached. The case was sent to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome, but it has not yet responded." What follows is an excerpt of the events described in the mediation document:
“He put his arms around me and wrapped his legs around mine. Then He started to tell me what a nice young man I was and what a good priest I would make someday. He also told me about the hard work and stress he was facing in his new role as Archbishop of Newark. He told me how everyone knows him and how powerful he was. The Archbishop kept saying, “Pray for your poor uncle.” All of a sudden, I felt paralyzed. I didn’t have my own car and there was nowhere to go. The Archbishop started to kiss me and move his hands and legs around me. I remained frozen, curled up like a ball. I felt his penis inside his underwear leaning against my buttocks as he was rubbing my legs up and down. His hands were moving up and down my chest and back, while tightening his legs around mine. I tried to scream but could not…I was paralyzed with fear. As he continued touching me, I felt more afraid. He even tried several times to force his hands under my shorts. He tried to roll me over so that he could get on top of me, but I resisted, I felt sick and disgusted and finally was able to jump out of bed. I went into the bathroom where I vomited several times and started to cry. After twenty minutes in the bathroom, the Archbishop told me to come back to bed. Instead I went to the recliner and pretended to fall asleep.”
A news article reports that the Knights of Columbus sponsored a youth group, the Squires, members of which have accused the KOC of collaborating to cover of child sexual abuse. The article states "In one of the lawsuits, an unnamed Kansas resident claims the Squires leader abused him from 1978, when he was 10 years old, until 1986. He claims the leader shared him with other youth counselors in the group and threatened to kill him if he told anyone, the lawsuit said. The second lawsuit came from Texas resident Jim Dennany, who said he alerted Knights of Columbus officials in 1986 to assaults he said he suffered in the 1970s when he was a young teenager. He claimed the group took no action, concealed the allegations and told him to keep quiet, according to the lawsuit."
According to former Domnican priest and canon lawyer Thomas Doyle, "The Knights of Columbus take great pride in their loyalty to the Church and to the bishops. They regularly show their support for priests and announce their love for the Church. They shell out barrels of money to the Vatican, to bishops, to seminaries and to other causes in support of priests. The Knights of Columbus have totally missed the boat. They have supported priests and bishops in their moral bankruptcy and in their destruction of the bodies and souls of the victims of abuse. They have said and done nothing to support the victims."
So it may not be much of a surprise that a Pennsyvania newspaper, the Observer-Reporter, reported that convicted pedophile Jerry Sandusky was awarded Coach of the Year title by the KOC. Sandusky has also been a speaker at KOC events. Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was assigned to investigate the Sandusky scandal. "We will immediately report any evidence of criminality to law enforcement authorities," said Freeh. New York state newspaper The Journal News reports that Louis Freeh, along with suspected Russian spy Robert Hanssen, are both members of the secretive Catholic fraternty Opus Dei. In his book, Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei, Robert Hutchinson writes of the canonization of Opus Dei founder Josemaria Escriva, noting that in attendance was "Dr Carl A. Anderson, the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus and senior American member of Opus Dei." Given the overlapping membership between Opus Dei and the KOC, the likelihood that the Penn State investigation was doomed by favoritism from the very beginning is very high indeed.
According to Vatican Insider, a project run by the daily newspaper La Stampa, Opus Dei is "one of the ecclesiastical bodies closest to the Pope". So the testimony of Jim Jenkins, former chair of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Review Board under Archbishop (now Cardinal) William Levada, should not be ignored. Jenkins states, in reference to the Dallas Charter which provided guidelines for how the Church would respond to the clerical abuse scandal, that "The Charter’s scope needed to be limited to the alleged assaults upon “minors” leaving the inappropriate sexual behavior of clerics with other adults beyond the jurisdiction of the review boards." In other words, the sexual assault of adults was considered to be acceptable behavior. Jenkins also states that "The behavior of bishops and cardinals was off-limits to the scope of any investigation by any archdiocesan review board." Translation: bishops and cardinals are not subject to civil law.
As Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the former Pope Benedict XVI was responsible for investigating clerical abuse scandals. Let's examine some of his accomplishments during that time period.
via CBS News:
The Vatican's lawyer says then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger told a California bishop to make sure a priest with a history of sexually molesting children didn't abuse while the church worked to defrock him...Attorney Jeffrey Lena was responding to a 1985 letter obtained by The Associated Press on Friday in which the future pope said more time was needed to study the case of the Rev. Stephen Kiesle. Lena says Ratzinger urged the bishop to give Kiesle "as much paternal care as possible." Lena says that was a way of saying the bishop was responsible for ensuring Kiesle didn't reoffend....The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock Kiesle, citing concerns including "the good of the universal church," according to the 1985 letter bearing his signature. The correspondence, obtained by The Associated Press, is the strongest challenge yet to the Vatican's insistence that Benedict played no role in blocking the removal of pedophile priests during his years as head of the Catholic Church's doctrinal watchdog office. The letter, signed by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was typed in Latin and is part of years of correspondence between the Diocese of Oakland and the Vatican about the proposed defrocking of the Rev. Stephen Kiesle...
Attorney Irwin Zalkin represents a woman who says Kiesle assaulted her three times by the time she was 7 years old. Court documents accuse Kiesle of providing her with wine, binding her hands and sexually abusing her, Tracy reports....Earlier Friday, the Vatican confirmed that it was Ratzinger's signature on the letter. "The press office doesn't believe it is necessary to respond to every single document taken out of context regarding particular legal situations," the Rev. Federico Lombardi said....The diocese recommended removing Kiesle from the priesthood in 1981, the year Ratzinger was appointed to head the Vatican office that shared responsibility for disciplining abusive priests. The case then languished for four years at the Vatican before Ratzinger finally wrote to Oakland Bishop John Cummins. It was two more years before Kiesle was removed; during that time he continued to do volunteer work with children through the church..... the future pope also noted that any decision to defrock Kiesle must take into account the "good of the universal church" and the "detriment that granting the dispensation can provoke within the community of Christ's faithful, particularly considering the young age." Kiesle was 38 at the time.
Kiesle had been sentenced in 1978 to three years' probation after pleading no contest to misdemeanor charges of lewd conduct for tying up and molesting two young boys in a San Francisco Bay area church rectory. As his probation ended in 1981, Kiesle asked to leave the priesthood and the diocese submitted papers to Rome to defrock him. In his earliest letter to Ratzinger, Cummins warned that returning Kiesle to ministry would cause more of a scandal than stripping him of his priestly powers. "It is my conviction that there would be no scandal if this petition were granted and that as a matter of fact, given the nature of the case, there might be greater scandal to the community if Father Kiesle were allowed to return to the active ministry," Cummins wrote in 1982...California church officials wrote to Ratzinger at least three times to check on the status of Kiesle's case and Cummins discussed the case with officials during a Vatican visit, according to correspondence. At one point, a Vatican official wrote to say the file may have been lost and suggested resubmitting materials....As Kiesle's fate was being weighed in Rome, the priest returned to suburban Pinole to volunteer as a youth minister at St. Joseph Church, where he had served as associate pastor from 1972 to 1975.
Kiesle continued to volunteer with children, according to Maurine Behrend, who worked in the Oakland diocese's youth ministry office in the 1980s. After learning of his history, Behrend complained to church officials. When nothing was done she wrote a letter, which she showed to the AP. "Obviously nothing has been done after EIGHT months of repeated notifications," she wrote. "How are we supposed to have confidence in the system when nothing is done? A simple phone call to the pastor from the bishop is all it would take." She eventually confronted Cummins at a confirmation and Kiesle was gone a short time later, Behrend said. Kiesle, who married after leaving the priesthood, was arrested and charged in 2002 with 13 counts of child molestation from the 1970s. All but two were thrown out after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a California law extending the statute of limitations. He pleaded no contest in 2004 to a felony for molesting a young girl in his Truckee home in 1995 and was sentenced to six years in state prison.
Now would probably be a good time to include this painting by the highly talented tattoo artist Paul Booth:
*Research credit for many links in this post is due http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/11/will-opus-dei-knights-shield-sandusky.html
Saturday, August 3, 2013
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