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November 2008 Archives

Catholic Bishops Offer Support After 'Direct' Targeting of Mormons In Prop. 8 Battle

Catholic News Agency, USA, 27 November 2008 Homosexual activist protesting Prop. 8's passage / Richard RadonLos Angeles, Nov 27, 2008 / 03:20 am (CNA).- The fallout from the victory of California Proposition 8 continues as individuals and churches that...
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Opposition to Gay Marriage is Manslaughter Says Sean Penn

Extract from article 'A Last Shot at Hope with 'Milk' Star Sean Pennby Jordan RiefeSean Penn has always been a fearless actor, known for taking on gritty roles in his adult acting career in projects that mean something on...
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This Shameful Appetite For Misery Porn

May we refer to the articles in the Daily Mail by Carol Sarler dated 20th November 2008 and The Sunday Times by Brenda Power dated 23rd November 2008.   The aforementioned is very informative but it's only when one reads...
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Accused Had Disagreement With Other Christian Brother Over Relationship With Young People

Irish Examiner, 26 November 2009 - Breaking News    A former Christian Brother has told the indecent assault trial of a member of the order that he had disagreement with the accused over his relationship with young people. Skip related...
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I'll Tell You What's Ugly ... This Shameful Appetite For Misery Porn

by Carol Sarler, Daily Mail, 20th November 2008 Memoir: the autobiography of Constance BriscoeWhatever the outcome or merits of the case, the sight of a mother and daughter feuding so bitterly that they end up on opposite sides of...
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CANADA: Survivors Say Aboriginal Chairman Necessary For Residential Schools Commission

[ This sounds like the "Truth and Reconciliation" brigade aren't very keen on the Reconciliation! part of their mandate. ] Canwest News Service, Sunday, November 23, 2008OTTAWA - Mike Cachagee, a 69-year-old survivor of the now defunct residential school system,...
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MISERY-LIT FROM 'ANGELA'S ASHES' TO 'KATHY'S STORY'

Wallowing In Misery-Lit Devalues Real AbuseWith the honesty of deprived childhood books being called into question, real horrors could go unbelievedBrenda Power in The Sunday Times, 23 November 2008A happy childhood, as Frank McCourt observed in Angela's Ashes, is...
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GAY MARRIAGE: Prop. 8 Protesters Need To Act Responsibly

by Bill McEwen, The Fresno Bee 22 November 2008Here's blunt advice for gay-rights advocates plotting their next protest of the state's same-sex marriage ban:Put down your signs, step away from the Mormon temple, quit blaming black voters and drop...
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Liberal [!] Hollywood Ponders Next Step in Fight for Same-Sex Marriage

After the passage of Proposition 8, some are calling for boycotts and firings. Others worry about free speech rights being trampled.by Rachel Abramowitz and Tina Daunt, Los Angeles Times, November 23, 2008Should there be boycotts, blacklists, firings or de...
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GAY MARRIAGE DEFEAT: Gay Backlash Against Mormons

The Mormon Times,  Friday, Nov. 21, 2008LDS Church Issues New Prop. 8 OverviewFollowing the passing of Proposition 8 in California, the church released statements urging civility and reaffirming its position on the issue. The church also noted that two...
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CANADA: Truth and Reconciliation Commission Needs Guidance

 Editorial, The Sudberry Star, 18 November 2008 There is perhaps no sadder case in Canada's history with its native peoples than Indian residential schools. The schools were part of a federal policy started in the first years after Canada...
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Canada: The Moment of Truth for Reconciliation Commission

Survivor's Group Says Agreement Flaws Created A MessFirst Perspective (National Aboriginal News) November 18, 2008 - by Grant WarrenThe head of a major residential survivor group is calling for the truth and reconciliation commission to be completely disbanded in...
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Canada: The Moment of Truth for Reconciliation Commission

Survivor's Group Says Agreement Flaws Created A MessFirst Perspective (National Aboriginal News) November 18, 2008 - by Grant WarrenThe head of a major residential survivor group is calling for the truth and reconciliation commission to be completely disbanded in...
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CANADA: Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Without Reconciliation!

  [ Explanatory Note: The Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission is in crisis at present due to the resignation of its Chairman Justice Harry Laforme. What seems to have inspired his resignation is the behaviour of his two...
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Christian Brother not guilty of indecent assault

18/11/2008 - 16:00:15 BreakingNews.ie > Ireland     A retired Christian Brother has been found not guilty by direction of Judge Frank O'Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of indecently assaulting a young girl some 40 years ago. Judge O'Donnell...
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THE ABORIGINAL INDUSTRY IN CANADA

The Aboriginal Industry in Canada has a fair amount in common with the Child Abuse Industry in Ireland. Well paid professionals and social workers encourage "victims" to blame others for their problems and create a culture of dependency among...
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CANADIAN "ABUSE": Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry

Book by Frances Widdowson and Albert HowardLeftist couple's stance on aboriginals leaves them in the coldReview by Kevin Libin, National Post Friday, October 31, 2008CALGARY -- In their living room, surrounded by posters of Vladimir Lenin and smiling, AK-toting...
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CANADA: Non-Native Advisers Exploiting Aboriginals

 Book Authors contend hired lawyers, consultants out for own financial gain Bruce Ward, The Ottawa Citizen, Saturday, November 15, 2008[COMMENT: Note the numerous points in common with our Irish child abuse industry!!]A multitude of non-native lawyers and consultants are subverting...
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JERSEY POLICE CHIEF: I'll Fight Back, Warns Power

Jersey Evening Post, 13 November 2008 by Andy SibcyMr Power, who is due to retire in 18 months' time, at his home yesterday. Picture: Channel TelevisionSTATES police chief Graham Power, who was suspended yesterday amid allegations that he failed...
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JERSEY "ABUSE": Police Costs - £4.5 Million

Jersey Evening Post, 13th November, 2008THE full cost of the excavations at Haut de la Garenne was revealed for the first time yesterday.Chief Minister Frank Walker said that the work at the former children's home alone had cost £1.5...
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JERSEY POLICE INVESTIGATOR HARPER: I Did Nothing Wrong

Jersey Evening Post, 13 November 2008 by Diane SimonLENNY Harper has strongly defended his leadership of the historical child abuse inquiry and says that his handling of the media was vital in bringing victims forward.The former deputy police chief...
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JERSEY "ABUSE": Police Were Told On Day 1 Of 'Rabbit Bones'

Jersey Evening Post, 14 November 2008Ian Robinson said that rabbits regularly fell through air bricks into voids below the building. Picture by Matthew Hotton (00600873)THE police team investigating the discovery of bones at Haut de la Garenne were told...
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Troubling Case For Jersey Police

BBC News, The Today programme, 13 November 2008  by Sanchia BergWhen I arrived on Jersey on Monday, 24 February, I was one of scores of journalists to descend on the island. The child abuse inquiry centres around a former...
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"State May Ask Church for Cash Payment Of €32m

May we refer to the article "State May Ask Church for Cash Payment Of €32m by Mary Regan, Political Reporter in the Irish Examiner dated 10th November 2008 and the article "Religious Orders Not to Add to Compensation Deal"...
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Religious orders not to add to compensation deal

Thursday, November 13, 2008 Irish Examiner By Caroline O'Doherty RELIGIOUS orders that ran children's institutions where abuses took place will not be asked to contribute more to the state compensation fund despite the likelihood that the cost of victims'...
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Jersey Police Chief Suspended As Claims Of Child Murders 'Ripped Up'

Jersey's police chief has been suspended after the high-profile investigation into possible child murders at the Haut de la Garenne care home was "ripped up" and dismissed as a shambles by his own officers. Daily Telegraph, 12 Nov 2008 by...
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Jersey Care Home Debacle and The Rule of the Mob

by Robert Chesshyre, The First Post, 12 Nov 2008 The shambolic inquiry into 'murders' at Haut de la Garenne once again illustrates the hysteria that surrounds child abuse investigationsIf you spot a conclusion, leap to it. This is a...
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Jersey Chief Officer Is Suspended

  The chief officer of the States of Jersey Police has been suspended pending an investigation into his role in an inquiry into alleged child abuse.   Haut de la Garenne was closed as a children's home in 1986...
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Fresh Development In Jersey Probe

   ITN 12 November 2008     Jersey abuse probe update expected     Detective Superintendent Michael Gradwell is briefing the media for the first time since taking charge of one of Britain's biggest child abuse cases, which includes complaints...
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Judge rules that age restrictions in redress Act are unconstitutional

MARY CAROLAN © 2008 The Irish Times PEOPLE WHO were abused in residential institutions up to the age of 21 will be entitled to seek redress, under a ruling from the High Court. A High Court judge has ruled that...
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Annual Report 2007

  Pursuant to the provisions of section 26(1) of the Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002 the Board has submitted an annual report of its activities and accounts for 2007 to the Minister for Education and Science. This report is published...
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These Witch-hunts Are Not Doing Us Any Good

Daily Telegraph by Alice Thomson 17 January 2003When I saw the pink fluffy handcuffs on the front of the Guardian's second section yesterday, I thought they could only have been discussing terrorism or paedophilia: whether police should use handcuffs...
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State may ask Church for cash payment of €32m

By Mary Regan, Political Reporter  The Catholic Church may be asked to make a cash payment of €32 million to the Government because it has so far failed to hand over property as agreed under the redress scheme to compensate...
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Conveyer belt of looked after Children in local authority care dead or alive?

  By Teresa | 10th Nov 2008 When judges and social workers make the decisions to take children away from their family and either dump them in the failing care system or adopt them out have any of these decision...
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Priests abused up to 400 children in Dublin diocese

Independent.ie   By John Cooney Saturday November 08 2008 Shocking new figures show that 400 children have been identified as possible victims of sex abuse by priests in the Dublin Archdiocese -- proportionately even higher then the catalogue of...
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"Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests" (SNAP) and "One in Four"

The American "victims" group SNAP resembles our own "One in Four" in being the most prestigious, the best funded etc. The two groups are also similar in their denial of the reality of false allegations and their assumption that an...
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Park Attendants Ordered To Interrogate Adults Spotted Without Children (UK)

Daily Mail,  10th September 2008 Telford Town Park in Shropshire, where council workers have been told to confront lone adults in the park to check if they are paedophilesPark wardens have been ordered to stop and interrogate anyone who...
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Polygamist Child Custody Case Winds Down In Texas

Associated Press by MICHELLE ROBERTS -  31 October 2008 In this April 6, 2008 file photo, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are assisted by law enforcement officials as they board a San Angelo Independent...
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