I looked around the house, and other than those photographs in my school textbooks, I couldn't find one.
"Emerson investigating swastikas found in dorms" by Trisha Thadani | Globe Correspondent November 13, 2014
Campus officials are seeking the public’s help in determining who is responsible for scrawling swastikas in an Emerson College building in Boston over the past few weeks.
I've go some ideas, but it may put you up against a wall (foreshadowing, folks).
The first swastika was found on Oct. 31 on a sixth-floor bulletin board in the Little Building residence hall on Boylston Street, according to an e-mail sent Thursday to the Emerson community by campus officials.
Another swastika was found on a whiteboard Tuesday in the same building, the e-mail said. On Wednesday, a number of swastikas were found scrawled on the door jambs of every residential floor laundry room in the building.
The word “heil,” commonly associated with a Nazi salute, was also found in one of the laundry rooms.
The e-mail — signed by Emerson president Lee Pelton, dean of students Ron Ludman, and vice president for diversity and inclusion Sylvia Spears — condemned the graffiti.
“We are deeply saddened to report that members of our community had to endure multiple offensive and hurtful acts of graffiti over the past few days,” the letter said. “There is no place on our campus for such cowardly and hateful behavior.”
Andy Tiedemann, vice president for communications at Emerson, said that although the university has experienced offensive graffiti before, the incidents have been “very few and far between.”
Tiedemann said the college suspects one individual was responsible for all the graffiti.
Is that what they are calling it (btw, it's an ancient religious symbol of Hindus; Hitler appropriated it for its legendary power of good fortune and luck. He had it for a time, then it ran out).
Those responsible for the graffiti could face severe disciplinary action, including dismissal from the college, the e-mail said.
“An act of intolerance against any member of this community is an act of intolerance against all of us,” the e-mail said.
It was at least the second reporting of swastikas on Boston campuses this month. Police at Northeastern University said they were investigating the drawing of the Nazi symbol on fliers posted to publicize a lecture last week by an Israeli official.
There have been no further cracks in that investigation as far as I can tell reading the Globe.
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Related: Emerson eyes state Transportation Building
Better spot to train ESPN anchors?
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Wrapping Paper With Swastika Pattern Recalled by Walgreens
Hallmark pulls gift wrap after complaint over swastika
Swastikas found painted beneath bridge
I'm wondering who would be capable of such a thing.
"A Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art expansion in 2017 will give it more exhibition space than any contemporary art museum in the country, and with the new space will come a lineup of long-term installations by big-name artists. Governor Deval Patrick plans to speak at a press conference on Monday at the museum, which has raised $13.5 million of a goal of $30 million in private funds, in addition to a $25.4 million state grant announced earlier this year. Mass MoCA is doubling its already vast gallery space to 250,000 square feet on its North Adams campus, mainly by renovating Building 6, a structure so large that each of its three floors covers an acre. Mass MoCA, which has recycled old textile buildings into a series of cavernous galleries, is also offering a new model for museums."
I'll bet. Once you have seen the writing on the wall, these one-day wonders become suspect pieces of propaganda at best.
And what is he doing doling out $25 million for arts when the budget has a $750 million hole (who is the misleader)?
Speaking of art, not a bad painting despite the dis from the Jewi$h media.
The scary part is the trains are running again and the evil Germans have a new list of people they want dead (I don't need to be constantly reminded of that black stain, thank you).
"Americans, Belgians mark Bulge anniversary" by Yves Logghe, Associated Press December 14, 2014
BASTOGNE, Belgium — Snowy weather to mark the 70th anniversary of one of the biggest and bloodiest US engagements of World War II — the Battle of the Bulge.
Starting on Dec. 16, 1944, and for nearly six weeks, more than 600,000 American soldiers, fighting in freezing conditions and often hungry and dog-tired, took part in desperate efforts to contain, then throw back, a surprise German counteroffensive planned by Adolf Hitler himself.
I'm sure caught by surprise.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill hailed the ultimate result as ‘‘an ever-famous American victory.’’ But it came at a high cost: Total German casualties are estimated at 81,834.
After the end of the battle, on Jan. 28, 1945, Allied forces attacked Germany in unison, eventually leading to the Nazi surrender and the end of World War II in Europe....
Have you ever heard of Eisenhower's Holocaust?
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‘‘We must never forget what happened in 1944, the unwillingness of American forces to give up in the face of adversity.’’
Ma$$ media spends enough time selling us that stuff, how can we forget?
Turns out the Nazis are still there, too:
"German politicians push back as anti-immigrant rallies swell" by Alison Smale, New York Times December 16, 2014
BERLIN — With visible and vocal far-right protests against foreigners swelling in Germany in recent weeks, Chancellor Angela Merkel forcefully denounced the demonstrations Monday, affirming that the country has both a special obligation and desire to welcome anyone in need of sanctuary.
More than 150,000 people sought asylum in Germany in the first 11 months of this year, many of them refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria, straining the country’s ability to house them. In addition, a looming labor shortage means Germany is increasingly attracting immigrants to work here.
I consider them Obama's immigrants (wondering how many terrorists slipped through), and as for the labor shortage, what's with all the Europeans out of work?
“There is freedom of assembly in Germany, but there is no place here for incitement and lies about people who come to us from other countries,” Merkel told reporters Monday, hours before a group opposing alleged “Islamization” was to hold its ninth weekly protest in Dresden, where attendance has swelled from a few hundred to 10,000 last week.
I better stop blogging about the Boston Globe then, and meet the Jews of the 21st century, the only difference being their story has not been distorted and is horribly true.
“Everyone needs to be careful that they are not taken advantage of by the people who organize such events,” Merkel said. Her remarks capped a week of mounting establishment concern about right-wing opposition to Germany’s open-door policy toward immigrants.
The protesters in Dresden, a mix of young men, local neo-Nazis, and ordinary citizens who have appropriated the rallying cry of anti-Communist demonstrators in East Germany in 1989, have made clear that not everyone agrees with this policy.
Their chants of “Wir Sind das Volk,” or “We Are the People,” have both struck a chord and sent a shudder throughout Germany.
They always do.
Nerves were rattled last Friday, when three buildings newly renovated for a few dozen refugees in Vorra, a village of 1,000 near Nuremberg, were burned in what appeared to be arson attacks. A swastika and an antirefugee slogan were daubed on one of the torched structures.
The hand-wringing over antiforeigner and right-wing sentiment crested in the last week. The three most prominent television hosts each devoted a whole show to the protests in Dresden, which are led by a group known as Pegida, a German acronym for Patriotic Europeans Against Islamization of the West.
Opposition parties — the Greens and the Left Party — have accused Merkel’s conservative bloc of Christian Democrats and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, of being too tentative in criticism of the protests because they fear losing votes on the right.
The German justice minister, Heiko Maas, a Social Democrat in Merkel’s coalition government of center-left and center-right parties, called Dresden demonstrators “a shame for Germany.” The majority of Germans, Maas said Monday, want to welcome refugees “who have just lost everything.”
Maas cited the example of a proforeigner rally attended by 15,000 people in Cologne over the weekend, and counter-demonstrations in Dresden — attended by 9,000 people last week — welcoming refugees.
The protests have raised the question of whether Germany, despite relative prosperity and low unemployment, is vulnerable to the kind of populism on much stronger display in neighboring France, where polls show Marine Le Pen and her Front National party are favored by 25 to 30 percent of voters, or in Britain, where the anti-immigrant UK Independence Party has rattled the governing Conservative Party.
Look at all the defamatory code words being thrown around at anyone who opposes the Jew World Order agenda.
Btw, I'm not even anti-immigrant. I'm anti-ILLEGAL immigrants. Big difference.
President Francois Hollande of France on Monday praised the contributions that immigrants have made to France and criticized those generating fear of foreigners, an apparent reference to the National Front.
A new party, Alternative for Germany, struck a populist tone and won local legislative seats this fall in three eastern German states, including Saxony, which in the past had elected neo-Nazis in the National Democratic Party to its state legislature. Every February, on the anniversary of the Allied bombing of 1945, Dresden is the venue for Germany’s biggest annual far-right protest.
It's that first part that scares them, and you read above the actual diversity of the crowd. What we have after is all labeling distortion by the propaganda pre$$.
Politics in eastern Germany, where memories of Communist rule are still strong a quarter-century after reunification, are notoriously febrile, and it is unclear whether Alternative for Germany can reach the 5 percent threshold needed for any legislative representation in Berlin, either in coming western German state elections or in national elections to be held in 2017.
Over the weekend, Alternative party leaders clashed over whether to heed the Dresden demonstrators. One leader, Alexander Gauland, said in a telephone interview that he would talk with Pegida marchers on Monday.
“I would like to know who they are,” he said.
I'm sure the data collection and spy surveillance has that information for you.
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Related: Amid terrorism fears in Europe, rights groups fear overreaction
Little late after loads of propaganda for over a decade, no? Mercy!
Of course it is always the Jews as poor victim in my jew$paper:
"Ousted Hillel staff upsets Wellesley students" by Peter Schworm, Globe Staff November 23, 2014
Wellesley College has abruptly removed its Hillel director and Jewish chaplain as part of a restructuring, angering Jewish students who say they feel abandoned by the administration amid tension with a campus Palestinian group.
The abrupt removal is an analogy for what Palestinians have to literally go through on land.
The college eliminated the two part-time lay positions last week, leaving the Jewish campus group with only a part-time director for the remainder of the school year. The college plans to hire a rabbi, who will work full time, by the next academic year.
Then what are they complaining about?
Students said they were stunned by the ousters, leaving them midsemester without a crucial network of support.
Oh.
“The college’s handling of the situation was really bizarre and upsetting for the entire Jewish community,” said junior Jordan Hannink, who was copresident of Wellesley College Hillel last year. “We’re going from having tremendous support to having virtually none.”
Oh, well, then heaven and earth must be moved to sooth their hurt feelings.
News of the removals was reported Friday by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
And the Globe had to pick up the story or be embarrassed.
Many Jewish students at the women’s college say they have felt uneasy this semester due to a campaign by a pro-Palestinian activist group, Wellesley Students for Justice in Palestine, which has displayed pictures of Palestinian children killed in the conflict with Israel and a poster that asks “What does Zionism mean to you?”
And we wouldn't want any to be discomforted, would we?
It's the conversation that strikes the nerve because once you go digging down that road you discover all the lies, frauds, and distortion committed in the name of furthering the Zionist vision.
On the poster, students have written that Israel is responsible for murder and apartheid, among other comments, which some say goes beyond political differences to overt anti-Semitism.
Israel is beyond criticism and reproach, donchaknow?
Given what several students describe as an uneasy climate on campus, the removal of two trusted staff members was particularly ill-timed, students and alumnae said.
“It’s really unfortunate,” said Miriam Berkowitz Blue, president of the Hillel Alumnae Board. “It’s a time when they could really use the presence of staff.”
The board has maintained oversight of the two Hillel positions in partnership with the college, Blue said. But the college eliminated the positions without consulting them, she said.
“To be left out of this very important decision was surprising,” she said.
In a letter sent Friday, college officials wrote, “We believe that it is time to return to having a Rabbi anchor Jewish life on campus.”
“Students will have a Jewish leader who can integrate Jewish wisdom and learning into their daily lives, and who can help them make meaning of the world in connection with Jewish values, ethics, rituals, texts, and observances,” they wrote. “Having one staff member will provide a consistent presence on campus to whom students can turn when they are seeking guidance.”
Like your beloved local rabbi, you know?
The letter, written by Debra DeMeis, dean of students, and a longtime faculty member active in Jewish life on campus, said “these are critical times for Jewish life on all college campuses.”
How about all life?
The supremacism strikes you in the face like a blunt object.
“Wellesley stands strong in its commitment to creating an environment in which all students feel comfortable participating in the open exchange of ideas and views,” it said.
In an interview, DeMeis said the restructuring was done with the “sole purpose of strengthening Jewish life,” and that the college would begin a search for a rabbi immediately.
The current tensions on campus “underscored the need” for a full-time rabbi, she said.
David Eden, chief administrative officer for Hillel International, praised the move, saying few small colleges go to the lengths of hiring a full-time rabbi to oversee a Hillel group.
“We see this as being a huge positive step going forward,” he said.
About 8 percent of Wellesley students are Jewish, and about half of those are active in Jewish campus life, students and administrators say. The Hillel group provides a lounge for students, which includes a Kosher kitchen. On Fridays, the group offers Shabbat services, followed by dinner.
Bending over backwards for them, as usual.
David Bernat, the Jewish chaplain, said he was shocked by his removal, particularly in the middle of the school year, and expressed concern for students.
“They are worrying about who is going to look after their spiritual needs,” he said. Many students have found the poster campaign “quite harrowing.”
“Given the nature of the tensions, that shock and feeling of abandonment have been magnified,” he said.
(Cue the violins and cellos)
The Palestinian group, in a statement, denied that the campaign had anti-Semitic undertones.
Palestinians are also Semitic, so WTF?
“It is important to remember that to equate criticism of the Israeli state with anti-Semitism is as absurd as calling criticism of the Iranian government anti-Persian,” the statement said.
That's the level to which they are reduced.
But senior Tali Marcus, a Hillel member, said some students have been rattled by the campaign and feel somewhat adrift.
“In a time when we really need that support, we don’t have it,” she said.
(Waa-waa-waa-waa-waa-waa-waa, waa-waa-waa)
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"Wellesley College can’t tiptoe around anti-Semitism" by Lawrence Harmon, Globe Staff December 12, 2014
Just watch me!
It will take some time to scrub anti-Semitism completely out of the substructure of Wellesley College. It’s stubborn stuff, like the admissions quotas on Jewish students during the 1940s, the outright hostility to Jewish scholars in the college’s religion department during the 1960s and ’70s, and the 1990s-era professor whose bigoted diatribes included false accusations against Jews for “monumental culpability” during the transatlantic African slave trade.
That's why I never went into teaching; you can't tell the truth to the kids about that "black stain."
Last month’s firings of Wellesley College’s Jewish chaplain and director of the Hillel student organization may well turn out — as the college contends — to be part of a broader consolidation effort aimed at hiring a full-time rabbi and providing higher level support for the college’s roughly 250 Jewish students. But it sure stirred up some memories for me.
In 1983, while reporting for the Jewish Advocate weekly newspaper, I received copies of correspondence written in April 1970 between then Wellesley president Ruth Adams and religion professor Roger Johnson on the sore topic of appointing a Jewish chaplain at the college. If prizes were awarded for genteel anti-Semitism, these letters would be contenders.
Johnson anticipated the need for “a Yiddish-speaking corridor at Tower Court.” And in the event that the all-women’s college should become coed, Johnson suggested that the Jewish chaplain must “possess those skills necessary for the rite of circumcision” as a way to serve male students contemplating “possible conversion to Judaism.” Johnson signs off, “shalom.”
Obviously touched, Adams raised the likelihood of Jewish weddings at the college. She mused on the material used for Jewish wedding canopies and the need for the college to gain “experience in merchandizing so that we can get full value.” Next she turned to the need for a “resistant surface” on the floor of Houghton Memorial Chapel to accommodate the “ritual smashing of glassware” at Jewish weddings. “Does one buy cheap glassware, which by its very cheapness tends to be large, heavy and unbreakable, thus defeating the symbolic aim: or does one buy expensive, slender crystal, the slivering of which one can rely upon?” Adams signs off, “shalom yourself.”
By 1983, Adams had decamped for Dartmouth. But I did manage to track down Professor Johnson at the time for an in-person interview. He cited “a college phobia” over a Jewish chaplaincy. I’ll say.
During the 1930s and ’40s, Wellesley College managed its discomfort with Jews by limiting their enrollment to about 10 percent. Even decades later, Jewish professors were deemed incapable of teaching courses on the New Testament. It wasn’t until 1981 that a Jewish professor received tenure in the religion department, and only then after hiring a lawyer who went about documenting the history of discrimination against Jews at the college.
As anti-Semitism took on new forms, Wellesley College adjusted. In the 1990s, Africana studies professor Tony Martin assigned his students a Nation of Islam tract that inaccurately depicted Jews as the foremost figures in the African slave trade. When challenged by historians and others, he lashed out with an anti-Semitic book of his own, “The Jewish Onslaught.” In a letter to alumnae and parents, then Wellesley president Diana Chapman Walsh denounced Martin’s book as divisive and offensive. But she studiously avoided calling it anti-Semitic, which reinforced the belief that college administrators were afraid to name and confront what existed — and had long existed — before their eyes.
Jerold Auerbach, a former professor of modern American and Jewish history at Wellesley College, said that many elite colleges share a history of Jewish quotas and anti-Semitism. What troubles Auerbach is “the persistence and duration of anti-Semitism at Wellesley College long after others took action to stop it.”
Now some Jewish students at Wellesley College are worried about losing their familiar chaplain and Hillel director at roughly the same time that a chapter of the Students for Justice in Palestine has emerged on campus. A recent poster campaign by the group invited students to write comments under the headline, “What Does Zionism Mean to You?” Among the vacuous responses were posts accusing Israel of apartheid and genocide. The pro-Palestinian activists at Wellesley cite measures they have taken to discourage anti-Semitic posts. Students for Justice in Palestine chapters on other campuses, however, have shown no compunction about harassing Jewish students, prompting some colleges to sanction or temporarily suspend the activities of the pro-Palestinian students.
Wellesley is working with Hillel International, the largest Jewish campus organization in the world, to bring on a full-time rabbi this fall. That’s a big commitment for a small college. But the new hire should find more than enough to do.
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Everybody happy now?
"Hate letters to black staff shake Milton Academy" by Brian MacQuarrie, Globe Staff December 10, 2014
MILTON — Racial hate letters targeted two black staff members at Milton Academy shortly after a meeting held to discuss diversity, and investigators believe the anonymous messages came from someone inside the prestigious private school, according to law enforcement authorities and others familiar with the matter.
At least it wasn't a case of sex abuse that is so prevalent at those places.
Milton Academy, with nearly 1,000 students, is proud of its diversity. The elite, picturesque school has long educated American leaders, including Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Governor Deval Patrick. The academy also has grappled with controversy in recent years.
In 2005, three sophomores and two juniors, all members of the boys’ hockey team, were expelled after a school investigation found that they requested and received oral sex from a sophomore girl in a school locker room.
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I hope it wasn't another Lunenburg, but I guess we will never know.
Time to pay some respects:
"Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, 75; leader of movement that claimed Israel as home" by Kenneth Chang, New York Times January 02, 2015
NEW YORK — Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, a former Chicago metal worker who led a migration of hundreds of fellow black Americans to what they consider their ancestral homeland, Israel, died Saturday in a hospital in Be’er Sheva, Israel, at 75.
His group, the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, announced his death on its website. No cause was given.
To his followers, who called him the father or the holy father, Mr. Ben-Israel was a prophet-like figure who maintained that he had a vision in 1966 in which the angel Gabriel told him to lead an exodus of black Americans to Israel.
I'm sure they loved that (before they were deported).
Since the first African Hebrews arrived there in 1969, the community has grown to about 3,000 members, half of whom were born in Israel. Most live in the city of Dimona, at the edge of Israel’s Negev Desert, and two nearby towns.
Dimona, of course, is where Israel's nuclear bombs were made.
“We were returning to be reconciled with the creator,” Mr. Ben-Israel said in a 2008 interview with WBEZ in Chicago.
The African Hebrews, like many black Americans in a wider movement that sprang up in the early 1900s, believe that their ancestors were biblical Israelites, members of the tribe of Judah who dispersed to West Africa after the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Generations later, they say, descendants of those Israelites were taken to America as slaves.
That's very possible; what is fact is the Zionist usurpers are mostly Asian Khazars, while the Palestinian population's DNA more resembles that of ancient Israelis.
Under Israel’s Law of Return, any Jew can live there and become a citizen. But the African Hebrews do not consider themselves Jews. “That is our tribal origin,” said Ahmadiel Ben-Yehuda, a spokesman. “We’re not adherents to the religion of Judaism.”
For decades, Israelis regarded the African Hebrews as a strange and possibly dangerous cult. They wear vibrant clothing, follow a vegan diet, and do not smoke or drink. Birth control is prohibited. The men often have several wives.
Since they were not Jews, Israel denied them work permits and threatened to deport them.
Don't take it personal' they do it to everybody.
Mr. Ben-Israel lashed out.
“We came here offering ‘shalom,’ ” he told The New York Times in 1971. “We have been met with no jobs, no decent housing, and Jim Crow policies similar to what we left behind.”
Welcome to Palestine!
Later that year, he told The Baltimore Sun that 2 million blacks from the United States would wrest Israel from its Jewish inhabitants. “The Lord personally ordered me to take possession of Israel,” he said.
Really?
More followers made their way to the African Hebrew compound in Dimona, overstaying tourist visas. Tensions flared anew on April 17, 1986, when the police surrounded the village to prevent a planned protest march. Mr. Ben-Israel made an impassioned proclamation of strength to his followers but without the inflammatory talk of earlier years.
“We’re sons and daughters of peace,” he said. “We will wait.” In 1990, the government offered the African Hebrews a path to permanent residency and citizenship. In return, the African Hebrews agreed to stop the flow of new members.
The community soon became more entwined with Israeli society. Many of its children who grew up in Israel have served in the country’s military. The African Hebrews have opened a small chain of vegan restaurants, and they manufacture tofu cheese for a vegan pizza sold by the Domino’s chain.
No more Dominos (never do; I go local around the corner, and they make great pizza).
Mr. Ben-Israel became an Israeli citizen in 2013.
He was born Ben Carter in Chicago. He served three years in the US Army.
Mr. Ben-Israel adopted his Hebrew name after studying the Bible. In the turmoil of the 1960s, he allied himself with those who believed that blacks would be better off leaving the United States than trying to change it from within through the civil rights movement.
It's the classic argument: do you leave a tyranny beyond repair or redemption, or do you stay and fight. Fight or Flight. I've obviously made my choice. That's why I have a broken heart.
He took about 350 of his followers to Liberia in 1967 as part of what he called a cleansing process, which lasted 2½ years. Most went back to the United States, but Mr. Ben-Israel and about 140 others went on to Israel.
He leaves four wives, Tikvah, Yoninah, Baht Zion, and Baht Ammi; 25 children; 45 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
That's quite a legacy he's leaving behind.
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When you think of it, the flag of Israel sort of looks like a swastika -- if you bend it correctly.
Turns out the biggest threat to Jews is.... THEMSELVES!
"Out of synagogue, Jewish teachers reach eager but busy students" by Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff January 01, 2015
The classes in Jewish texts, history, culture, and spirituality are partly a response to a trend that Jewish leaders consider an urgent concern: A rise in secularism that is threatening Jewish identity in America.
Oh, heavens!
Yes, diversity is good for the rest of us, but not for the same supremacists ramming the stuff down our throats.
In a major survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, more than 20 percent of Jewish Americans described themselves as having no religion; one-third of millennials described themselves that way, compared with just 7 percent of those in the Greatest Generation.
The survey noted that, although there is a long tradition of secular Judaism in America, more than two-thirds of nonreligious Jews are raising their children with no Jewish identity at all, religious or cultural.
So Jewish leaders are seeking ways to reverse that trend. Barry Shrage, president of Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston, has long championed adult Jewish education as a catalyst for building and strengthening ties to Judaism. Making it accessible is key, he said.
Combined Jewish Philanthropies is backing the Boston pilot of a San Francisco Bay-area startup called Kevah, which helps people build their own Jewish learning communities....
That's where the "charity" dough (ergo tax break) is going, huh?
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Related: 'Fuel on the Fire': Israel Razes Palestinian Suspects' Homes
Learn anything?
Look, I'm not trying to throw acid by twerking or taking a stab that some things are not what they appear to be, at least that is what I heard at the time. I'm done investigating, for so many obvious reasons. You know it when you $ee it (or not, rest my case).
Also see:
Haverhill church clergy bless creche defiled on Christmas
Baby Jesus statue replaced with pig’s head in Haverhill
Stolen baby Jesus replaced by pig’s head in Haverhill ‘an outrage’
Woman arrested after 2d Haverhill church defaced
Haverhill church vandal suspect to be evaluated
With all due respect, I'm tired of religious nutties in whatever form.
