Showing posts with label the Pope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the Pope. Show all posts

Monday, April 5, 2010

The Pope may have to go to jail

An 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit Baja California, where the Fuso Szulc is roaming, but the shaking was too far north to have even been noticed.
The expedition vehicle is still on its wheels.

Meanwhile additional thoughts about the scandal of children having been misused by priests of the Cathiolic church have developed.

One is that the Catholic church is nothing more than an organization.
They pretend a lot more, but the truth and fact is that they are simply a club.
With a club-president they call a Pope.
Assistants to the president they call cardinals.
And assistants to the cardinals they call bisshops.
With workers in the field they call priests.

All these titles mean nothing at all, except within their own organization.
Therefore most correctly is to refer to the president of the Catholic church as Mr. Ratzinger and not "Holy Father" or "the Pope" if one is not a member of the club.

The issue the Catholic church is creating is that they are putting themselves above the law.
They have laws of their own and often take those as if they were the civil laws.

Let's take a tennis club that employs a tennis teacher.
Who teaches how to smash but can't keep his hands out of the pants of the students.
What is the president of the tennis club to do?
Reprimand the tennis teacher?
Punish the teacher or lower temporarily his salary?
Or is the president of the tennis club to obey the civil laws and obliged to immediately call the police and announce his tennis teacher?

As we know, the president of the tennis club can go to jail as well if he covers up his criminal tennis teacher.
Because in our society nobody is above the law.

The attitude of the Catholic church is different.
They have been dealing with priests that broke the civil laws and they have not been calling the police.
Even until now, the policy of the Catholic church is to wash the dirty laundry in their own washing machine.
Protecting and shielding from civil law their criminal priests and committing a crime by doing so.

If the laws were respected, soon all those priests that are accused of molesting children should appear in front of a judge and have their court case.
But also all those bishops, cardinals and Popes who have been covering up and not respecting the laws should face a judge and be punished.
Yes, fervent and loyal blog readers, in spite of his robe, mitre and all the hoopla and fanfare he surrounds himself with to impress, the pope violated the law and should face the judicial consequences.



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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Lynndie cries for herself only

Last week a posting was about sending an e-mail to Pope Benedict 16th in Rome, Italy with a question.
It has pleased the Pope, otherwise known as the Holy Father, to reply and the Preferred loyal and fervent blog readers have been receiving a copy of what the Pope has to say.

The Pope has a lot more to explain these days after welcoming in his Catholic Church Bishop Williamson.
An ultra-conservative Englishman who is a member of a Ku Klux Klan-like brotherhood that is anti-Semitic, anti-Arabic and anti-Muslim.
Already plenty of Catholics have left now the Pope’s Church because it is irreconcilable to be in the flock with right wing white racists.

Another posting last week was about potential protectionism because in the rescue package for the American economy steel to fix bridges can only be bought in the United States.
It is as if Barack Obama reads this blog as well: they are now taking protectionist rules out of the rescue package.
The steel can now potentially be imported as well.
Potentially because who would order South Korean steel if there is plenty of money and US steel available?
It might be more expensive but buying it with the enormous quantities available anyway, keeps the US-steel mills going.
So, it will not be protectionism but favouritism.
Who can condemn you for buying at Macy’s and not at Wall*Mart, eh?

Then we have Lynndie England.


Who gave an interview yesterday to the program “Outlook” of the BBC Worldservice.
An astonishing interview.

Many fervent and loyal blog readers do remember Lynndie.
The woman appearing in the pictures made in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Having fun and a good time torturing, degrading, insulting and paining Iraqi prisoners.











Those pictures have damaged tremendously the image of the United States worldwide.
And caused a lot of response in terms of violence, destruction, condemnation and denouncing.

Eventually, ex-President Bush called it in his farewell speech: “The biggest disappointment of my Presidency”.
But Lynndie England got away with only a two years prison sentence.
Recently she was released.
And recently Abu Ghraib was re-opened…

Lynndie was in prison for a relative short time.
Related to other US-soldiers who are condemned for war crimes.
In that sense she was lucky.
But she will remain a condemned and sentenced woman all her life.
She was telling that now she is living with her son together with her parents.
Who are paying her bills because Lynndie has no income.
She is trying to get a job, but even at Wal*Mart she was refused because she has a criminal record.
Besides, she is scared to death.
That someone will put a bullet in her head for what she has done in Abu Ghraib prison.
For the damage she has done to the USA and the damage to Iraqi prisoners.
Who are released by now but not getting any compensation for the cruel mistreatments.

It is a tragic person, this Lynndie England, but it is hard to feel any pity for her.
For what she has to tell now.
No remorse whatsoever.
In her opinion she is not guilty of anything.
She claims she has not been torturing.
She has not been inhumanely treating Iraqi prisoners.
She says she just happened to have a boyfriend at the time who liked to make pictures.
Kinky pictures of her about which she doesn’t want to talk.
And pictures of Iraqi prisoners and he asked her to stand there with them.
According to her she didn’t want to be in those pictures.
But he said: “If you love me, I can photograph you with them”.
That’s why she did it because she loved the guy.

Hence, she presents herself now as a victim of an evil guy.
Suggesting she is innocent and did nothing wrong.

A very good thing was that the BBC journalist, Lucy Ash, asked Lynndie England how she feels now about those Iraqi men she has treated so badly in Abu Ghraib prison.
England replied: “I don’t want to answer that question”.
“Why not?”, Ash asked.
“Because it makes me feel uncomfortable”.

Oh, dear, the delicate little thing…
It makes her feel uncomfortable…
But not to torture others.

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You can hear the full flabbergasting interview with Lynndie England by clicking on:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/outlook/2008/01/090120_outlook_2009.shtml








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Thursday, January 29, 2009

In touch with the Pope

The Catholic Church has at its top a pope.
Now it is a German by the name of Ratzinger.
Who embraces back in his church a runaway Bishop who believes the Holocaust never took place and that no Jew was gassed in Auschwitz.

A Pope has many powers, recognized and respected only as long as a person is a devout Catholic and accepts the hierarchal structure of the organization.
Then, a Pope is considered to be the representative of God on Earth and whatever he says therefore is right.

One of the powers the Pope has is to declare a person holy.
Whatever that means.
And this is going on even today.
Certain individuals are promoted to the status of a Saint.
Of course, they must have been Catholics: no Muslim, Bhudist or Hindu can become a Saint.
And often these men and women have given their lives for the cause of the Catholic Church.
To be of inspiration and of example for the flock.


Originally a person being promoted to the status of saint got an extra bonus.
A day in the year was named after him of her.
Like today, January 29, is in the memory of Saint Valerio.

For a long time, all 365 days have already their saints and the Catholic Church not having a rotating system for this, lost the give away to new saints to have a specific day carrying their name.
Unfortunately, becoming a saint now, means eventually obscurity.

However, you can be a saint and have your own day, though be in obscurity nevertheless.
Like Saint Valerio today.
Who was this man?
What did he do to get on the calendar?

Google does not come up with an answer.
Wikipedia neither.
Nobody knows about Saint Valerio.

The man, Saint Valerio, is supposed to be of inspiration and an example to all of us, hence why does the Catholic Church not do a better PR job on their saints?
Like a "who is who" on a special website of Catholic saints.

Reason to get in touch with the Pope.
Although his name is Ratzinger, he has a pseudonym: Benedict 16th.
And believe it or not, he has his own e-mail address.
benedictxvi@vatican.va

We send him this e-mail:

January 29, 2009

Dear Pope Benedict 16th,

Today, according to the Catholic calendar, you celebrate the memory of Saint Valerio.
But who was Saint Valerio?
Nowhere on the Internet an answer can be found.
Please inform us who was Saint Valerio and what did he do to become a saint.

Thank you very much,

kind regards,

Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski.


Of course, if an answer is received from the Pope, Preferred fervent and loyal blog readers will receive a copy by e-mail immediately.
And some days later the e-mail will be published on this blog for the other fervent and loyal blog readers.

Will the Pope reply?






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