The Dallas Morning News series on molester priests transferred to other countries to protect them from the law started today. The photo with this particular story shows convicted molester Fr. Frank Klep handing out candy to kids after Mass in Samoa. The series will apparently be a big deal at the DMN: it gets its own Flash presentation.
Category: The News
The Scandal goes global
Three Dallas Morning News reporters have found that much as some dioceses moved abuser-priests from town to town or across diocesan lines, some religious orders moved priests known to have molested children from country to country to spare them from public exposure and prosecution. Reporters found such priests still in active ministry with children. Any bishop who thinks the worst of these revelations are over is engaged in wishful thinking.
Power workers murdered. No big deal, though.
Ten people were murdered today in Iraq, including five Westerners. A bomb destroyed a convoy of trucks carrying men who were “helping to rebuild power plants.”
Please, don’t let this distract you from the Iraqi prisoner scandal, though those crimes ceased months ago and people are starting to go to jail for them already. Focus your minds on that evil, not the ongoing struggle against the vicious thugs who battle against the horrible Western imperialist plan to give Iraqis uninterrupted electrical service. Do I have to draw a chart for you?
| People who murder electrical workers | == | People who try to get electricity to 25 million people |
| Insurgents who target civilians | == | Coalition soldiers who try to protect civilians |
| “Clerics” who urge the killing of Iraqi government workers and Coalition troops | == | Government workers who try to serve the Iraqi public |
Once you realize that there are no good guys or bad guys in Iraq, you will understand how the Western media covers the news from that country. Feel free to refer to that chart whenever you get the uneasy feeling that maybe murderers are morally inferior to power workers.
China clamps down on bloggers
China has shut down a pair of Web sites that were free-ranging user forums known as blogs, stepping up government attempts to control political discussion on the Internet, a media watchdog group reported even as one site reappeared Friday.
However, a note Friday on the page of the second site, blogbus.com, said it was still closed due to content problems.
“Because individual postings contained forbidden content, the server is temporarily down. We will seek a speedy resolution to the problem,” said a message on the site’s Web page.
Details on the Scandal, if you want them
By the way, now that the national abuse report is out, and many of the dioceses have put out their reports, I suppose it’s an appropriate time to post this link: a database of known abuse allegations, compiled from media reports, diocesan statements, and public records.