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Carpenters In The Forehead/ Roman Polanski & Roman Catholic Pedophile Priests: Two Peas In A Pod

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Written by Jeff Davis

Sunday, 25 July 2010 22:57

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Carpenters In The Forehead/ Roman Polanski & Roman Catholic Pedophile Priests: Two Peas In A Pod

Switzerland recently joined the ranks of the Holy See when their judiciary effectively proclaimed a disgustingly similar disdain for common decency and morals.

Back in the 1970’s, world renowned film director Roman Polanksi (he of The Pianist, Rosemary’s Baby, and Chinatown fame) was arrested on charges of raping a thirteen year old girl. This lecher put the moves on an immature child, plying her with alcohol and “ludes” (the street name for Quaaludes, a drug with highly sedating properties), and then proceeded to perform oral sex on her. Not enough to quench his depravity, he subsequently sodomized her.

A plea bargain was reached whereby he admitted guilt to a charge equivalent to statutory rape, but prior to his sentencing, he fled the country to avoid possible further incarceration. Arrested this year while in Switzerland, prosecutors in the United States requested that he be extradited, but the Swiss authorities refused, claiming a dubious technicality.

But who cares, really, about such a long-ago case of unlawful intercourse with a child? The French Minister of Culture and many others were clear in their support of the well-respected molester, indicating that it just doesn’t make any sense to pursue such a piddling infraction of the law.

Heck, just like the legions of sexually abusive Roman Catholic priests, these guys didn’t kill anyone, they were just trying to have some fun. It’s over, it was a long time ago, and it won’t happen again, so we’re told, so get on with more important things.

While Roman Polanski, as immoral as he may be, is only one person, the Catholic Church has been harboring hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of deviants, fully knowing what they were up to, and yet hiding it from their communities and legal authorities. Better to save the reputation of the Blessed Church than to succumb to the temptation of acting morally.

And once again the honchos in Rome have failed to recognize the gravity of their inadequate responses to the institutional acceptance of pedophile priests. As if they were really fixing the problem, an edict was issued extending the statute of limitations from ten to twenty years after an abused victim’s eighteenth birthday, and reporting the crime to civil authorities is now required if it is codified in a country’s civil law.

My response to this drivel is that the Catholic hierarchy is still playing games with the rest of the world:

There has yet to come a universal ruling of one strike and you’re out of the Church for molesting children. Obviously the Pope and his minions have more important issues to take care of, such as immediately ex-communicating anyone who tries to ordain a woman as a priest and dealing with those who commit the horrific sin of spitting out communion wafers (see previous article in Appindie, “The Mother of All Sins:” http://appindie.org/index.php/apped-opinions-and-editorials/37-apped/413-carpenters-in-the-forehead-qthe-mother-of-all-sinsq).

In addition, if civil law doesn’t require reporting abuse, then the Catholic Church will not require it either; the clear implication being that Church authorities will handle it internally and do the right thing. Right, just like they have been doing all these years.

And of course, there is no mention from the Pope’s offices of the sanctions against those who are aware of the moral crimes and remain silent. No ex-communication for them, no penalty to face.

The Catholic Church remains warped to its core and the fundamental changes needed to return to some sense of morality is never going to occur with the present Holiness. How can it, when he was without question one of the guilty ones who permitted the abuses to continue?

When you have an absolute monarchy like the Holy See, the King at the top of the heap is not about to punish himself and the others guilty of the same injustices, for the only recourse that is morally acceptable is resignation and complete removal from the church. The Pope rules, and no one within that medieval/evil pecking-order is going to challenge his power.

Yet, there is one avenue of potential change, to be found in the pews of the faithful that make up the one billion Catholics in the world. I would make the assertion that it is up to them to rid their Church of any and all who have either abused or have been aware of the abuse and chosen to remain silent. How to do this? Band together and make a proclamation that no one will attend Church or provide monetary support to the Church until the rotten apples are chucked from the barrel.

Alas, that will never happen, for it is my perception that the Catholic faithful are too brain-washed to risk throwing water on their beloved leaders whose morals are grounded in sand. No amount of blatantly obvious moral turpitude will prod them to risk besmirching the reputation of their religious icons.

polanski_and_pope But have no worries, for I am absolutely sure that Roman Polanski still will be welcomed in Rome with a cordial handshake and open arms extended by Pope Benedict. They deserve each other. I have nothing but disdain in my soul for either of them: one who molested a child, and the other who allowed children to be molested; again, and again, and again, and again. How many times can you say again?

Last Updated on Monday, 26 July 2010 09:32

Comments (8)

What can we expect from a religion that has forged its way through history by changing the ideals of what we define as right? If we look at history, we can see the multitudes of changes made to a supposed "Holy" idealism, backed by the controlling class of denizens in their respective countries/ nations/states. It is no wonder why it has come to pass that the church continues to spread its' hypocracy among the masses. It worked for the last fiftenn hundred years or so and will continue to work for as long as we let it. It seems that the ideas concerning a fruitful afterlife are not all that concerned with the ideas that we support in our living life or else we would find the situation to be appalling. Of course this all reminds me of an interesting bumoer sticker I saw once that read, "If you are not completely appalled, you haven't been paying attention." It also lends to another favorite quote of mine, "We must be the change we see in this world."-Gandhi.

My friend, if we are to change the way it all works, we must first realize that change ourselves.

Plenty of top "family values" GOP politicians have done essentially the same thing. Corporate media never mentions them. And top Texas oil executives vacation in penthouse suites in Caracas, popping Viagra, snorting coke and sexing up carefully-selected young teenage street girls. I got this straight from a former Caracas street girl herself--now a Venezuelan social worker whose committed passion is to help these girls, the victims of well-respected U.S. corporate executives whom, if you passed them on the street you would admire their $5000 suits and envy them their lifestyles. Get real. Even the former teenage victim in this case has said for decades that Polanski should just be left alone and has suffered enough. By continuing to pursue him, they are only continuing her suffering too. This is not about justice, this is about making people suffer.

I have been asked to write some articles for this journal by a professor that I have had the pleasure of taking classes with and you have brought up a topic that I have been rolling around in my cluttered mind. I too see the corporate B.S. in this world. I actually work for a corporation that I would love to tell off for the things that they do. But what can we expect from corporate executives? It seems to me that in order to climb the corporate ladder there is a sacrifice that we must willingly give or suffer from sleepless nights. I am referring to the sacrifice of the humanity that is required from corporate executives in order to become more of the bureaucrat and less of the human we were born as. This is easily illustrated by your comment and by other circumstances that I have personally been on the losing side of. One such occasion happened this summer. After asking for permission to attend summer classes at the college I attend from my corporate chef and receiving permission, I was denied my temporary unemployment by the director of the corporate facility. It struck me as odd with the fact that the permission was granted then recanted. It is not an easy thing to suffer; a summer of no work, college classes, and no unemployment. Of course, if I had not taken the classes I would have received all of the unemployment benefits that the other employees were enjoying as we are always temporarily laid off for most of the summer, but by signing up for class, it presented my director with an opportunity to demonstrate the power of the corporation. Abuse of power comes as no surprise and the extent that the corporation goes to in order to save money is extreme. Kind of similar to the making people suffer comment, but from the perspective of one who works for one of the giant corporate entities which makes people suffer. The obvious point that is drawn from such things is that there is a definite lack of humanity present in a corporate world full of so called human beings. Perhaps they no longer classify themselves as such?

But there's an excellent documentary film called "The Corporation" in which the case is extremely well made, that the modern multinational corporation exhibits ALL of the symptoms of a clinical psychopath.

Fresh out of MSU in the early '80s, I was running 5 miles a day, looked great in a three-piece suit, interviewed with several different Fortune 100 companies for a sale rep position. they were actually fighting over who was going to get me. I started to learn how to play golf, I learned all the tricks, I took their psychological tests, including the Minnesota test and the Venn diagram test, each several times, and always answered the way I figured they wanted me to answer --in other words, like a psychopath who was willing to do or say absolutely anything necessary to make as much money as possible, not just for myself, but also for my company. It's a sickness. And I'm glad I hadn't the stomach for it, and decided instead to pursue my music and art.

After much deliberation and a month of looking for a new job, I finally can call it quits for the corporate world and start working for a locally owned restaurant instead. While the benefits are not available in the local scene, at least I can feel a touch better about my self; which obviously is the goal here. I do not need any corporate demons swimming through my head at night keeping me awake; I have enough of my own already for that job. But the bigger questions still remain unanswered to the entry level philosophy student. Are we consciously moving towards a more corporate world with ever increasing strides and quickened pace? Is it really a world we want to see happen? I watch the TEA Party guys and gals complain about big government but I wonder if they realize that big corporations are worse? Perhaps it is all about global control of resources and the Marxist ideals of those who own and those who do not? Where is the present day Karl Marx with his rising up of the little people? We could certainly gain something more from that than from allowing corporations to undermine the democratic system we supposedly live in. (Although the corporate entities have the supreme court on their side) The more I read the more I want to finish under graduate studies and transfer somewhere out of this country for graduate school. Perhaps then I will not feel like I am the target of the oppressor quite as much.

Well, moving to another country might only result in moving from the belly of the imperialist corporate beast into a region that is directly targeted by it. One way or another, if you don't have at least $30 million in the bank you're going to suffer. The real struggle is a war by the corporate against the indigenous, and it is being waged all over the world. Fortunately, with the possible exception of Columbia, much of Latin America is now leaning back towards the indigenous, separating itself from the ravaging effects of economic control by the IMF and the World Bank. If the human species, and indeed life itself on earth is to survive, control of the global socio-economic system must be wrested away from the corporate and its destructive effect of profits over people, and placed back into the hands of the indigenous.

I am a big fan of doing whatever I can to expose the IMF and World Bank for what it really is, the lapdog of corporate entities. I read five or so case studies this summer on these two organizations that one would hope had the effects that you mentioned. I am glad to hear that Latin America is moving back towards the indigenous rather than selling out their own people. Now if the rest of the world would do the same we would have a heck of a start at solving some of the corporate issues. I agree with the POV on the corporate vs. indigenous. After all, what good are other countries to private parties other than for resources? It never fails to amaze me that the leaders of these countries would want to help their people by selling them out in the first place. But when the people cannot cater to the policies put forth by these two major world influences, what can those leaders do? Once the government has been privatized, where can they turn to actually help their own? This world is sick and in desperate need of someone fixing it.

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