Straight out of the 60s, the 1260s
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 1st, 2010 4:51 am by HL
Straight out of the 60s, the 1260s
Yet another abuse scandal tied to Pope Tricky Benedict.
I know as a non-religious type (I’m agnostic because I just don’t care) I would be expected to feel some schadenfreude in the troubles of the Catholic Church. But the stories are too disturbing for that.
The ultra-conservative clergy of the Church, epitomized by the current Pope have completely brought it on themselves.
The child abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church widened yesterday as a leading German bishop personally appointed by Pope Benedict was accused of ritually beating and punching children at a church-run home during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
And like Church apologist and professional angry person Bill Donohue, this same Clergyman, Walter Mixa, said all the Church’s problems were about the “sexual revolution” (i.e. divorces and “the gay”).
But actually, as is usually the case, it’s about the power:
“The children whose parents never visited the home were the ones who were beaten most,” said one former resident
Of course they were.
Early Morning Swim: Keith Olbermann Talks to James Risen about Illegal Bush Wiretapping
The Bushies disregarded the law? I’m shocked, shocked.
The Bushies disregarded the law? I’m shocked, shocked.
A federal judge has rejected the Bush administration’s justification for warrantless wiretapping of suspected terrorists and ruled that federal agents had eavesdropped illegally on a U.S.-based Islamic charity.
The ruling Wednesday by Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco focused on the surveillance of a single organization, the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation – the only plaintiff in dozens of wiretapping lawsuits around the nation that had evidence its calls were intercepted.
But Walker’s reasoning struck at the heart of the program President George W. Bush authorized after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, allowing agents to intercept phone calls and e-mails between Americans and suspected foreign terrorists without a warrant.
When Bush acknowledged the surveillance in December 2005, he claimed the power to override a 1978 law, passed in response to revelations of wiretapping of political dissidents, that required the government to obtain advance court approval for each act of eavesdropping.
Walker said Wednesday that Bush lacked that authority.
