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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:27 PM

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

So every Catholic priest in USA must register as a "foreign agent" or go to jail...

Vatican: Three reasons why we are not liable for sexual abuse and cover-ups in the Catholic Church

Pope has immunity as head of state

Bishops who oversaw abusive priests were not employed by Vatican

1962 document does not provide proof of cover-up

The Vatican has revealed its three-point defence against an American lawsuit seeking to have the Pope deposed over claims of sexual abuse and cover-ups in the Catholic Church.

The Kentucky case is the first in the U.S. to reach the stage of determining whether victims actually have a claim against the Vatican itself for allegedly failing to alert police or the public about Roman Catholic priests who molested children.

The Holy See is set to fight back and protect the Pope by claiming that: He has immunity as a head of state; that American bishops who oversaw abusive priests weren't employees of the Vatican, and that a 1962 document is not the 'smoking gun' that provides proof of a cover-up.

The strategy was revealed in court documents filed just days after the Pope was personally implicated in a separate case involving the alleged cover-up of the abuse of 200 deaf schoolboys in Wisconsin.

The case was filed in 2004 in Kentucky by three men who claim they were abused by priests and claim negligence by the Vatican.

Their lawyer, William McMurry, is seeking class-action status for the case, saying there are thousands of victims across the country.

'This case is the only case that has been ever been filed against the Vatican which has as its sole objective to hold the Vatican accountable for all the priest sex abuse ever committed in this country,' he said.

'There is no other defendant. There's no bishop, no priest.'

The Vatican is seeking to dismiss the suit before Benedict XVI can be questioned or secret documents produced in evidence.

The preview of the legal defence was submitted last month in a U.S. District Court in Louisville.

The Vatican's strategy is to be formally filed in the coming weeks. Vatican officials declined to comment yesterday.

Complainants in the Kentucky suit argue that U.S. diocesan bishops were employees of the Holy See, and that Rome was therefore responsible for their alleged wrongdoing in failing to report abuse.

They say a 1962 Vatican document ordered that bishops should not report sex abuse cases to police.

The Vatican has argued that there is nothing in the document that precluded bishops from calling the police.

With the U.S. scandal reinvigorated by reports of abuse in Europe and scrutiny of the Pope's handling of abuse cases when he was archbishop of Munich, the Kentucky case and another in Oregon have taken on greater significance.

Lawyers as far away as Australia have said they plan to use similar strategies.

However, the hurdles remain enormously high to force a foreign government to turn over confidential documents, let alone to subject a head of state to questioning by U.S. lawyers, experts say.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1262471/Vatican-Why-Catholi
c-Church-liable-sexual-abuse-cover-ups.html

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:37 PM

PIRATENEWS

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Fr. Dave ‘Went from Bed to Bed Preying on Students,’ say Santa Barbara Charges, like Thousands Overseen by Pope as Cardinal. Part 2

By quoting a December 2009 lawsuit, we peer more into the nightmare of life for freshman boys come to St. Anthony’s Seminary to someday become priests, from the 1960s to 1990s, in Part Two of the Santa Barbara Story on AlterNet SoapBox today. Reports of these Sexual Assaults crossed the desk of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who was in charge of handling errant priests from 1981 to 2005 when he ran the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), the Vatican office that decides whether criminally accused priests should have canonical trials, be defrocked, or be returned to parishes.

One seminary in one beach town produced 27 known pedophile priests as reported by 85 victims who have been able to come forward as adults and file lawsuits- and in only two cases criminal charges- since the 1990s.

Below are more direct quotes from Case #1338630 filed December 1, 2009, in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Santa Barbara, Anacapa Division. Because these stories seem unbelievable, I asked Tim Hale, the Santa Barbara attorney who authored the briefs, how he can document details he puts forward in these cases.

Hale said: “Everything alleged in the amended complaints is supported by admissible evidence assembled from investigation and discovery conducted during the last twelve years of litigation involving the Franciscans.” Hale is with Nye Peabody Stirling & Hale law firm in Santa Barbara, read more below:

A Bacchanalian Atmosphere

Direct Quotes from First Amended Complaint:
Plaintiff JPS was raised Roman Catholic in Bakersfield. He attended a parish, Our Lady of Guadalupe, operated by the Franciscans in the neighboring town of Delano. Because his family spent summers in Carpentaria, he also attended St. Joseph parish in Carpentaria and, occasionally, Defendant Old Mission in Santa Barbara. JP served as an altar boy at St. Joseph during the Summers of 1973-76. As a result of this upbringing, he held Roman Catholic priests in very high regard. He recalls feeling priests were living saints, and believed they spoke with the voice of God.

By the Summer of 1978, JP was determined if not obsessed, with the idea of becoming a priest. Pursuant to this, he visited minor seminaries in California, ultimately choosing one, St. Anthony’s, run by priests and brothers from the same religious order that operated his home parish in Delano, the Franciscans.

Starting in Fall of 1978, JP embarked on what at the time he believed would be the beginning of his journey to priesthood.

He was accordingly thrilled when school started and he moved to St. Anthony’s. Unfortunately, he was quickly enveloped by the culture of abuse at St. Anthony’s.

The Assaults by Dave Johnson

He would go from bed to bed preying on students

Quotes from Case #1338630, cont’d: Despite his openly inappropriate behavior towards students, Defendants allowed Dave Johnson to live in the student dormitory, and to go from bed to bed preying on students after lights out or just before. Johnson’s grooming of victims was open and extensive. JP recalls watching Johnson slowly make his way to JP’s bed, at first just sitting on students’ beds and chatting, sometimes progressing to wrestling on the bed with Johnson, placing students in headlocks. JP also remembers seeing Johnson giving massages to other kids, sometimes inducing the kids to take their shirts off. each night light would go out at 10:00 PM. But Johnson would continue his “rounds” until around 11 or 11:30.

After grooming and abusing an unknown number of students, Johnson finally reached JP’s bed sometime late in September or early October 1978. Despite Johnson’s obviously inappropriate behavior, JP was thrilled with the attention Johnson showered on him in bed. Because of his upbringing in a parish operated by the Franciscans, JP held all Franciscans in such high regard he was unable to recognize their inappropriate conduct, even when directed against him. In JP’s eyes, such men were simply incapable of behaving inappropriately.

Meanwhile, Johnson’s physical contact towards JP grew progressively more inappropriate over the next few weeks and eventually crossed the line into sexual abuse. During his grooming Johnson would comment that JP appeared really stressed as justification for rubbing JP’s neck or back while playing with JP’s hair. As Johnson’s behavior grew worse, he would clamp down on JP as if he were resting on the boy. In reality, Johnson was restricting JP’s movements, rendering him susceptible to Johnson’s abuse. While doing this, Johnson would wear shorts, or sometimes thin jogging shorts, that easily opened through the cuffs and exposed Johnson’s genitals.

Johnson Climbed On Top of the Young Boy

After a number of nights of grooming, Johnson sexually assaulted JP. On the night of the first assault, at some point after lights out, JP was laying on his stomach under the bed covers. As he had on previous nights, Johnson climbed on top of the young boy while still outside the sheets. Johnson was on his side with his leg draped over JP’s thighs, again rendering the boy immobile and trapped. Johnson then began massaging JP’s back and moving his knee to the boy’s upper thighs and buttocks while simultaneously making small talk as if nothing out of the ordinary was happening. As Johnson moved, JP could feel Johnson’s genitals on his upper thigh, and that Johnson was becoming erect.

Johnson then began engaging in frotteurism by grinding and pressing his hips and erection into the boy’s thigh. JP was in shock, unable to believe a man whom he believed spoke God’s word could be engaging n such behavior. Overwhelmed by what was happening, his complete faith in Catholic priests, and his horror at being trapped by the much larger Johnson, JP disassociated himself from the abuse and immediately repressed all memory of what was happening. He now recalls hearing himself engaging numbly in Johnson’s small talk, as if nothing was happening. After about ten to fifteen minutes, Johnson stopped without explanation and moved on to the next student’s bed. Thus, JP’s first sexual experience was a horrifying sexual assault at the hands of a trusted religious authority figure.

Approximately two weeks later, Johnson repeated his assault and JP again repressed all memory of the abuse. This time Johnson was actually under the covers. John Paul defensively hunkered down and did not engage in conversation with Johnson in hopes of getting the assault over with and Johnson off of him. He also recalls speaking out to another student in hopes of scaring Johnson into leaving.

However, these efforts failed. Johnson continued his assault, and JP shut down and disassociated himself from what was happening, again repressing his memory of the abuse.

Unfortunately this was not the last assault by Johnson. JP now recalls that during a third and final assault, Johnson had crawled under the bed sheets. And whereas previously Johnson had engaged in conversation apparently intended to groom JP, this time Johnson made little such effort, instead going directly to gratifying himself by sexually assaulting the freshman.

During this assault Johnson’s hip thrusts were more forceful and JP could feel the flesh of Johnson’s penis which was clearly outside Johnson’s shorts as Johnson was under the covers.

The traumatized boy remained on his stomach the entire time until out of desperation he tried to turn his body and dislodge Johnson. When this failed, he again shut down, dissociated himself from what was taking place, and repressed his memory of the assault.

After about twenty minutes Johnson finally ended the assault and left.

From this point on, JP felt compelled to avoid Johnson but did not understand why he felt so strongly. When Johnson would select him for an activity, JP would refuse to go or participate. Johnson then began to shun JP. Unfortunately, a new perpetrator eventually set his sights on the boy.

Read those charges in Part 3, Coming soon.

Part One of this story on AltrNet SoapBox is here

The previous episodes of Santa Barbara Story 2009 at City of Angels are:

Part One: SB was Dumping Ground
Part Two: A New Sex Crime Ploy by Franciscans
Part Three: Money Available for Therapy for Victims
Part Four: Franciscan Grabbed Freshman by the Genitals
Part Five: Pedophilia is a Privacy Right for Franciscans
Part 6 is here Priests Take Boys on Drunken Camping Trip
Part 7 is here First Year in Seminary, Assaulted by two Franciscans
Dave Johnson as summarized at BishopAccountability under J in the Database of Six Thousand Credibly Accused Priests:

Accused of abuse of 2 from 1978-1979 at St. Anthony Seminary and another location per archdiocesan report. 1 civil suit filed 2003. Settled 8/06. Three new civil suits (see attached) filed fall 2009 allege that Johnson and Philip Wolfe abused three other plaintiffs when they were students at St. Anthony’s beginning in 1979

http://blogs.alternet.org/cityofangelsonalternet/2010/03/25/fr-dave-we
nt-from-bed-to-bed-preying-on-students-say-santa-barbara-charges-like-thousands-overseen-by-pope-as-cardinal-part-2/

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:38 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

They sound exactly like the Baptists. Or the Boy Scouts. Or the Navy...

"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero, Real World Event Discussions

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010 5:58 PM

TRAVELER

I have been reading about this. I live in Milwaukee where the 200 deaf boys were molested. They aren't backing down from the Papel pressure. As you report, Pirate News, the Vatican is a sovereign nation and that gives the Pope some protection. Let him hide there.

The victims can get the Bishops who helped the cover-up in the several nations that this coming out of. I actually think the Pope is going to let them take full responsibility and none for himself.

When are we going to start hearing from South America? I can't believe they have not had their share of these monsters. I can't see where this will end. In either the number of cases that will continue to come to light and how the Catholic Church will finally deal with it.

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