Where do you start? How far back you wanna go?
"Italian victims of clergy abuse seeking international support" by Colleen Barry, Associated Press | September 26, 2010
VERONA, Italy — Italian victims of pedophilic clergy want such sexual abuse declared a crime against humanity....
Where do the raped women of wars (if still alive) line up?
Organizer Salvatore Domolo, a former victim and former priest, told a news conference:
“The complicity of the hierarchy, together with the enormity of the numbers and vast geography of these crimes, should lead us to consider that we are facing a crime against humanity carried out by a political-religious organization.’’
Why does Israel's treatment of Palestinians and the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan suddenly leap to mind?
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Several dozen victims and family members came to the Verona gathering, which organizers hope will help isolated victims to know they are not alone and persuade an Italian public reluctant to believe priests and nuns could have committed such crimes.
I say prayers for Palestine every day. Not one day goes by that Israel's interests is not forced into the mind in this country, and the flip side comes with it.
Same goes for the active AmeriKan occupations and slaughter. Innocent victims all. All wars are based on lies, something my history books didn't tell me.
The meeting was held opposite Verona’s Roman Colosseum.
Another will be held in Rome at the end of October, but Verona was chosen for the first gathering because it is the home of a school for the deaf where 67 former students have alleged suffering sexual abuse, pedophilia, and corporal punishment from the 1950s to early 1980s.
Yeah, when is the Hague open for AmeriKan torture trials?
About 40 former victims inquired by e-mail, but many are still reluctant to come forward, organizers said.
I do not want to downplay the violation of a person (something I consider sacrosanct); however, they are still living and haven't lost limbs and such? Can't we just stick with the criminal charges for rape?
The Vatican has been reeling for months as thousands of victims around the globe have spoken out about priests who molested children, bishops who covered up for them, and Vatican officials who turned a blind eye to the problem for decades....
Which is what I will now do with my Boston Globe article.
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Another mob:
"Pope tells Sicilians not to fear fighting Mafia" by Associated Press | October 4, 2010
PALERMO, Sicily — Pope Benedict XVI yesterday hailed as a hero a slain priest who dared to challenge the Mafia in its stronghold, and he encouraged Sicilians not to resign themselves to deep-rooted evil on an island where organized crime has held sway for centuries....
Well, he's challenging the wrong one.
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Someone one going to put a hit on the Pope?
Also see: Catholic Caritas Makes Deal With the Devil
Boston Globe School Daze: Jews Tutor Catholics
I knew we got it from somewhere.
Parodying Henny Youngman, "Excommunicate me, please!"
The real war crime occurring now:
MILAN — This venerable city, long known for savory saffron risotto and the models of Fashion Week, is moving to establish itself as something else: a zero-tolerance zone for Gypsies.
Haven't we SEEN THIS BEFORE?
Anti-Gypsy campaigns in neighboring France have sparked international criticism, with officials there in recent months deporting more than 1,000 ethnic Roma — a clannish people migrating west in large numbers from Eastern Europe.
See: France's Genocide of the Gypsies
But with great bravado, Milan is taking the lead in responding to Italy’s own “Gypsy Emergency.’’
Blaming rising crime on the new waves of Roma immigrants, authorities are moving to dismantle Milan’s largest authorized Gypsy camp, Triboniano, a teeming shantytown of street musicians and day laborers that officials decry as a den of thieves.
At the same time, Milan is bulldozing hundreds of small, impromptu camps inhabited by newer arrivals and issuing mass eviction notices to Roma families living in another long-established camp in the city’s largest immigrant neighborhood.
Let's make the WHOLE WORLD PALESTINE, 'eh?
“These are dark-skinned people, not Europeans like you and me,’’ said Riccardo De Corato, who is Milan’s vice mayor from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling party and who is in charge of handling the camps. He later added: “Our final goal is to have zero Gypsy camps in Milan.’’
I guess it is OKAY to be RACIST in you are IN AUTHORITY and RACIST against the RIGHT GROUPS!
The campaign underway here is part of what observers are calling the most intense wave of anti-immigration sentiment to wash over Western Europe in years.
The immigration debate in Europe, just as in the United States, has dramatically intensified in the wake of the Great Recession, with voters increasingly blaming immigrants such as the Roma for taking away jobs, driving up crime rates, and disturbing time-honored traditions.
History will record it as the Grand Depression and end of AmeriKan Empire due to the ForeclosureGate scandal.
Across the continent, governments are boldly throwing up new barriers to immigration, increasing enforcement and targeting groups such as the Roma, who are also known as Gypsies.
And not targeting others.
Even in some of the most progressive nations in the region, such as Sweden, voters are showing new support for ultra-right politicians who advocate a tougher line on immigration.
Look at them blame the voters after having stirred up the hatred to make political points!
In Britain, the new Conservative-led coalition government has slapped a temporary cap on immigration from non-European Union nations, limiting the ability of companies to hire foreign nationals in a bid to drive down the unemployment rate. A permanent cap set to go into effect next year.
In France, a proposed law could strip citizenship from foreigners naturalized for less than 10 years if they commit violent crimes against the police or a government official. New detention centers would be set up to make it easier to deport illegal immigrants.
You guys HAVE FORGOTTEN World War II, haven't you?
Or is there REALLY NO DIFFERENCE when it comes to GOVERNMENTS?
Citizens of other European Union countries would find it harder to stay in France if they are not law-abiding and gainfully employed.
65 years and Hitler finally won.
For a region that prides itself as a bastion of progressive thought, the campaigns in Europe have nevertheless taken on a decidedly ethnic and religious bent similar to the debates in the United States over the proposed Islamic center in Manhattan and the Arizona law targeting illegal immigrants.
A new law in France will ban Muslim women from wearing full-face Islamic veils in public, with similar laws pending in the Netherlands and Spain.
Related: Europe Under an Iron Veil
Yeah, somehow those ladies you are slaughtering in far-away lands are the reason for all your ills, Europeans.
ANYBODY but those LOOTING BANKERS!
Switzerland has prohibited the construction of mosque minarets.
Also see: French Foray Into Mosque Mess
But the campaigns against the Roma in France and Italy have stoked accusations that politicians are targeting unpopular immigrant groups to shore up support.
“There is a worrying trend in Europe in which we are seeing the embrace of populist policies,’’ said Benjamin Ward, the Europe deputy director for Human Rights Watch in London. “They are creating a new climate of intolerance in Europe with movements in some countries now openly hostile to ethnic minorities and migrants.’’
I blame the divisive, agenda-pushing, war-promoting, Muslim-hating media.
Few nations, though, have gone as far as Italy, where the number of immigrants has more than doubled over the past decade, to more than 5 million.
Since Berlusconi was reelected in 2008, his fragile conservative coalition has made immigration and domestic security priorities, passing a law that imposes a fine of up to $13,600 on illegal immigrants and increasing salary and housing requirements for legal immigrants trying to bring in family members.
Last year, Italy virtually stopped issuing new work permits for non-European Union immigrants and set up a policy aimed at preventing refugees from entering the country by sea from North Africa. The result, according to the UN refugee agency, has been a dramatic drop in boat lifts across the Mediterranean from Libya, which had become a major transit route not only for thousands of economic migrants but also for asylum seekers from Somalia, Sudan, and other African nations.
The Roma came to Europe from South Asia centuries ago. They have lived in Italy for generations, but their numbers soared after their traditional homeland of Romania was admitted into the EU in 2007.
But if you do not belong to that certain select group of people it it is too bad.
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I'm doing my best to get you stories, readers. Now I need to get ready for work and zip off to basketball after the shift. I will be back later tonight and try to give you a couple more posts.
