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Child protection: What Giuliani says, and what he actually does
WHAT GIULIANI SAYS:
"Protecting children is a fundamental responsibility of good government, and it is a commitment I have carried forward throughout my career in public service." - Rudy Giuliani, Fort Dodge, Iowa, 8/6/07 WHAT GIULIANI ACTUALLY DOES: References: http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the...iuliani_w.html http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/43230...a-008d54eaf343 http://trustme.com/story.php?title=R...i--pedo-priest http://www.bishop-accountability.org/ http://littlemissattila.mu.nu/archiv...ni_in_drag.jpg http://bottleofblog.typepad.com/phot...ilianidrag.jpg With the above references you can read in depth about priestly pedophilia and its ties to a rather hypocritical Presidential candidate. Giuliani's close association with and promotion of criminal cop Kerik is a better known issue, as are his adultery and family estrangements, but these are less deeply indicative of Giuliani's moral bankruptcy than his relatively unknown Placa connection. Alan Placa and Rudy Giuliani were high school buddies, and they remained close friends through College. Post-college, Placa went to the Seminary, and Giuliani to law school. After he was ordained, Placa attended law school too. Eventually he became a Monsignor in the Diocese of Rockville Center on Long Island, and Giuliani went to Washington in Reagan's Department of Justice. When Giuliani wanted an annulment of his first marriage - to a 2nd cousin, a union normally frowned upon by the Catholic Church, Placa did the job - after being best man at their wedding! Monsignor Placa got into considerable trouble in the late 1990s when accused of sexually abusing two minors that could not sue him or the Diocese because the five-year statute of limitations was long past. When the story broke Monsignor Placa came up in several parts of it. While serving on Long Island he had developed a legal strategy for dealing with sex abuse complaints. This involved having an "intervention team" meet with family members and the abused, without revealing that Placa was indeed the Diocese lawyer on such matters. Placa took great pride that in cases that if litigated might cost the Diocese millions, he could frequently manipulate the situation and get them off for a few thousand. Of course the Monsignor was flying a false flag - he was not a spiritual counsel, he was the Bishop's lawyer. He traveled the country teaching Bishops this evasion technique, with about 200 successful cases outside his own Diocese. In the 1980s, the preferred method of dealing with Priestly Pedophilia was to send the black-collared child molesters off for "therapy." There were several institutions available, one being a huge fraud called the House of Affirmation run by a Father Thomas A. Kane. Kane lied about his degrees in psychology, but that was only found out later. In the meantime he acquired lots of high-grade real estate, and when he was about to go under, he transferred to Placa titles for property in Massachusetts and Florida, among other assets. The transfers were not discovered for years. When this story was all over the papers in 2002, Suffolk County Long Island had a Grand Jury review the situation with the Rockville Center Diocese, and while they could not charge Placa because of the statute of limitations, they issued a report about his "intervention team" manipulating victims and their families, and the allegations of his abuse of two teens. As a result Monsignor Placa was suspended from the priesthood and essentially defrocked. He was allowed to say one public Mass however - at Giuliani's Mother's funeral, causing the event to be picketed by sex abuse victims! When the Grand Jury was trying to serve Placa with a subpoena, Giuliani hid him until the term was out - a probable obstruction of justice by former U.S. Attorney Giuliani. Placa is today an extremely close Giuliani friend and associate, despite being credibly accused of sexual molestation and, perhaps worse, using the system to cover up his and other abuse cases. The story goes back to a 2002 Newsday article about a January 1975 day when a teenager, Richard Tollner, volunteered to help make banners for the annual Right to Life march in Washington. According to the story, the student claims Monsignor Placa pulled out some posters in the deserted administrative area as if to show him something, and then began fondling him - all the while making conversation about the posters. Tollner said the incidents were repeated every month or so for the next year and a half. "It was always groping," he said. "He'd draw his hand deliberately to the inside of my thigh, and over my penis. It would go on for four or five minutes, sometimes as long as ten." Placa denies any wrongdoing and has never been formally charged with a crime. But it is also true that the Diocese of Rockville Center has removed him from wearing the collar and performing official duties. "There's ample evidence showing that Placa consistently protected predators, shrewdly deceived victims, and covered up horrific clergy sex crimes," said a statement from David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. SNAP also contends that Placa abused children. It should also be noted that a Grand Jury report paints a devastating picture of sexual deviancy and criminality in his Rockville Center Diocese. According to the National Catholic Reporter: "The report documents allegations of the rape of cheerleaders and altar boys, of acts of molestation and seductions in churches, rectories, on camping trips, and in the homes of the minors who were abused. It tells of instances in which priests provided minors with pornography and alcohol, and of cases in which the Diocese received allegations but didn't report them to the police, but instead transferred the accused priests to other parishes." In the Suffolk County Supreme Court Grand Jury report, Placa, by his own admission, is referred to as "Priest F," a priest who engaged in pedophilia. Even after the grand jury testimony, Giuliani stood by him. In another 2003 New York Times article, Placa described the zero-tolerance sex abuse policy on priests as "immoral and unchristian." Apparently, in Placa's mind, Christ condoned such perversions. Judging by his loyalty and support, Presidential candidate Giuliani, proven transvestite and adulterer, does likewise. Additionally, the 2002 Newsday story included a quote from Kevin Waldron, a fellow high school friend who corroborates sex abuse victim Tollner's story, saying Tollner told him of the events after they happened. The Newsday story goes on to report: "A second former student, who asked that his name be withheld, said he described to Suffolk prosecutors what he called 'the newspaper drill.' 'He (Placa) always had a New York Times in his office. And he'd sit down next to you on the couch and open it wide and, inevitably, his hand would brush your crotch.' 'He did it over and over again, I can't tell you how many times.' That man said he felt so violated that he wrote Placa an unsigned letter 20 years later, blaming him for his loss of interest in pursuing the priesthood." Despite all these allegations, Giuliani hired Placa right after all this went down, and based on news reports and a call to the Giuliani Partners office, he remains with him today. And as the New York Times reported in 2002, even amid these strong allegations Giuliani jumped to Placa's defense saying: "He's one of the people I admire most in the world, and if most people did half the good that Alan's done, the world would be a wonderful place." Yes, in Giuliani's world, and in America under his Presidency, child molesters would run free to prey upon minors, they would protect each other through religious organizations, and criminals would head police departments and the Department of Homeland Security. And thus, under Giuliani's rule, "the world would be a wonderful place." Every bit of this has been reported over the years in Newsday, the NY Times, and in books by Jason Berry. You can find the articles, as well as the Grand Jury report, archived at www.bishop-accountability.org/. The Times front-paged it when Giuliani hired Placa for his consulting firm. So why did Giuliani defend and hire the unsavory Alan Placa? Is this his version of Affirmative Action? We know he recommended his buddy, criminal cop Kerik, to George W. Bush for heading up Homeland Security. And two-faced Giuliani, the closet neo-con, is now flip-flopping on the abortion issue, among others. He tries to curry favor with pro-choice advocates but as President would probably sabotage women's rights through judicial appointees that would overturn Roe vs. Wade. If Giuliani is elected we could well see pedophile priest-lawyers that oppose abortion on "moral grounds" sitting on the Supreme Court! And why the lack of media attention to all this today? Suppose John Edwards, Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton had given a cozy sinecure to a defrocked priest credibly accused of pedophilia. What would occur? I'll tell you what - every newspaper reader, every radio listener, and every television news watcher in America would be discussing the matter the very next day. But I'll bet you're learning for the first time right here about Giuliani's de facto defense of child abuse and staunch support of his probable pedophile priestly pal. Aside from his moral issues, do we want a President of the United States whose definition of freedom is: " - FREEDOM IS NOT A CONCEPT IN WHICH PEOPLE CAN DO ANYTHING THEY WANT, BE ANYTHING THEY CAN BE. FREEDOM IS ABOUT AUTHORITY. FREEDOM IS ABOUT THE WILLINGNESS OF EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING TO CEDE TO LAWFUL AUTHORITY A GREAT DEAL OF DISCRETION ABOUT WHAT YOU DO AND HOW YOU DO IT." - Mayor Giuliani, quoted in the New York Times, March 17, 1994. |
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Child protection: What Giuliani says, and what he actually does
"Freedom Fighter" wrote in WHAT GIULIANI SAYS: "Protecting children is a fundamental responsibility of good government Where is that written? Funny, I always thought it was a family's duty to protect their sons and daughters from governments that waste their young lives in pointless wars? |
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Child protection: What Giuliani says, and what he actually does
"DB" wrote in message
et... "Freedom Fighter" wrote in WHAT GIULIANI SAYS: "Protecting children is a fundamental responsibility of good government Where is that written? It is quoted from a statement by Giuliani, but despite his being a proven liar, there is actually some truth to it. We have a right to expect our government, without violating our freedoms, to protect us from such serious threats as pedophile priests. As documented in my post however, hypocrite Giuliani supports such child abusers, despite his statement above. Funny, I always thought it was a family's duty to protect their sons and daughters from governments that waste their young lives in pointless wars? Yes, I agree 100%. |
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Child protection: What Giuliani says, and what he actually does
"Freedom Fighter" wrote in It is quoted from a statement by Giuliani, but despite his being a proven liar, there is actually some truth to it. We have a right to expect our government, without violating our freedoms, to protect us from such serious threats as pedophile priests. How about this, we will look after our children and we will protect them too! This useless government can try to protect the pervert priests from us! |
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