this may be heavy for survivors
three from L. Moss-Sharman Church culture of shame 'feeds abuse' Hadley Freeman 12/4/02 - "A culture dominated by sexual shame and endemic secrecy is responsible for high levels of sexual abuse in the churches of Britain and Ireland, according to a damning report published yesterday. Including Anglican, Catholic and Methodist churches, the report, Time for Action, claims that the church as an institution and Christianity as a religion can be used to encourage abuse but discourage the abused from speaking out. The report has been written by a specially appointed committee of members from the umbrella group Churches Together in Britain and Ireland - including the new archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams." http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,853411,00.html
Long term eyed for ex-priest - Prosecutors say he molested 16 - By Matt O'Connor 12/4/02 "Prosecutors want a former Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to child pornography charges imprisoned for as long as 17 1/2 years and disclosed Tuesday for the first time that the ex-priest allegedly molested at least 16 boys under his care at Chicago-area parishes on hundreds of occasions. The government motion alleges that the Chicago archdiocese learned of Vincent McCaffrey's "predatory behavior fairly early on," but McCaffrey was able to continue his sexual exploitation of children uninterrupted "even after repeatedly getting caught and reprimanded by his superiors." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0212040300dec04,0,3786915.story?coll=chi%2Dnewslocal%2Dhed
More clergy abuse, secrecy cases Records detail quiet shifting of rogue priests By Thomas Farragher and Sacha Pfeiffer, 12/4/02 Desperate to contain the burgeoning scandal in the priesthood, the Archdiocese of Boston for years dealt in secret with allegations that a priest had terrorized and beaten his housekeeper, another had traded cocaine for sex, and a third had enticed young girls by claiming to be ''the second coming of Christ,'' newly released church records show. In some cases, church officials - including Cardinal Bernard F. Law - reacted to the explosive charges by quietly transferring rogue priests to other parishes and treating them with a gentleness and sensitivity apparently unshaken by the heinous allegations against them...''It is very clear from the documents that Cardinal Law and top diocesan officials knew far more, far earlier, about far more priests and their abusive behavior than officials have ever let on, but did so very little to protect not just innocent children, but adults, boys and girls, church employees, and regular lay people,'' said David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests....Attorneys for Greenberg Traurig, the law firm that represents about half the 450 known victims of Boston priests, selected the files released yesterday and plan to make public records on nearly 60 more allegedly abusive priests in the coming weeks. The records of more than a dozen others were made public earlier this year." http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/338/metro/More_clergy_abuse_secrecy_cases+.shtml
http://www.georgewalkerbush.net/presidentialiqs.htm
Presidential IQ's
The study determined the following IQs of each president as accurate to within five percentage points: 147 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) 132 Harry Truman (D) 122 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) 174 John F. Kennedy (D) 126 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) 155 Richard M. Nixon (R) 121 Gerald Ford (R) 175 James E. Carter (D) 105 Ronald Reagan (R) 098 George HW Bush (R) 182 William J. Clinton (D) 091 George W. Bush (R) The study determined the following IQs of each president as accurate to within five percentage points: The six Republican presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of 115.5, with President Nixon having the highest IQ, at 155. President G. W. Bush was rated the lowest of all the Republicans with an IQ of 91.
http://www.filmforum.com/kissinger.html
THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER at Film Forum in New York City
Directed by Eugene Jarecki Produced by Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki
USA / UK 2002 80 Minutes FIRST RUN FEATURES
Is Henry Kissinger - Nobel Laureate and the most famous diplomat of his generation - also a war criminal? Provoked by the Christopher Hitchens book, filmmakers Jarecki and Gibney have constructed a movie which is both brilliant legal brief and chilling psychodrama. Some of Kissinger's most ardent supporters (Alexander Haig, Brent Scowcroft, William Safire) vie with his detractors (writers Seymour Hersh, William Shawcross, Hitchens himself). Charges that Kissinger was instrumental in creating the coup that toppled Chilean President Allende, that he undermined LBJ's Vietnam peace talks (prolonging the war by seven years), engineered the secret bombing of Cambodia, and approved Indonesian president Suharto's use of U.S. arms to massacre 100,000 East Timorese have resulted in summonses by five nations seeking to depose him. The film plumbs the depth of one man's soul, as it questions tenets of international law: do war criminals reside only in nations whose interests are inimical to our own -- or are we our own worst enemy? <A HREF="">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
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