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Remembering my encounter with Fred Phelps
Mary Shaw
Fred Phelps
As LGBT Pride Month winds down, I am thinking about my encounter a while back with the now-deceased "Reverend" Fred Phelps, then head of the homophobic Kansas-based Westboro Baptist "Church", whose website can be found at GodHatesFags.com. Yes, that is their actual web address.
For decades, the Westboro folks have been traveling the country and picketing any public or private event that they think represents gay culture or its effects. They sometimes even picket soldiers' funerals, because they believe that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were punishments from God for America's tolerance of homosexuality - as if that makes any sense at all.
And those are some things that I cannot let go unchallenged. So I took advantage of an opportunity to confront Phelps in person - in public.
Karma: The Elephant in YOUR Room
Philip A Farruggio
Paramahansa Yogananda
One of the greatest books this writer has ever read was Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. This man was part mystic, teacher, philosopher and Yogi who those that experienced him saw as a living saint. He once taught Mahatma Gandhi Kriya Yoga, and understood that this 3rd dimension we live in is nothing more than a dream or grand drama that each of us creates. The key point of his philosophy was that our essence, or soul and spirit, lives on after we pass the doorway of death… and the only thing that matters in this drama is how we think, feel and finally act. Thus, Karma is created and it is the only judge we must face. Karma is defined as ‘The total effect of a person’s actions and conduct during the successive phases of his existence.’ Better yet, the more common explanation of Karma is ‘As ye sow so shall you reap‘. In Brooklyn we used to say ‘What goes around comes around‘.
I was all set to sit down and write this new column, when one of my readers, Bob G, sent me something about the German anti Nazi patriot and martyr, clergyman Dietrich Bonheoffer. One of Bonheoffer’s famous quotes was “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless.” He knew, as few of us here in Amerika understand, that if enough Germans had stood up to the Nazi party before they took over, they never would have succeeded. One realizes that once the Nazis took power in 1933, it was much more difficult to protest their machinery of repression was already working. Men like Bonheoffer did what they could to undermine and subvert the Nazi horror, as did the White Rose group that Sophie Scholl and her brother belonged to.
Didn't Sign up For This!
Timothy Gatto
It is no secret that I spent twenty years in the U.S. Army. However the World has changed, and unfortunately, not for the better. At the time I enlisted, the Soviet Union was the biggest World threat, and had been so since my birth in 1950. When I manned the radars in the fire control section of the Nike-Hercules missile system (designed to protect the U.S. and our overseas allies from a Soviet bomber attack), I felt proud to be a part of using these nuclear devices to protect my country. It was a different era and I had a different mindset.
World of Resistance Report: Inequality, Injustice and the Coming Unrest
by Andrew Gavin Marshall
In Part 1 of the World of Resistance (WoR) Report, I examined today's global order – or disorder – through the eyes of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former U.S. National Security Adviser and long-time influential figure in foreign policy circles. Brzezinski articulated what he refers to as humanity's "global political awakening," spurred by access to education, technology and communications among much of the world’s population.
Brzezinski has written and spoken extensively to elites at American and Western think tanks and journals, warning that this awakening poses the “central challenge” for the U.S. and other powerful countries, explaining that “most people know what is generally going on... in the world, and are consciously aware of global iniquities, inequalities, lack of respect, exploitation.” Mankind, Brzezinski said in a 2010 speech, “is now politically awakened and stirring.”
PRESS RELEASE - SOS: Lexi Dillon Case Reaches Critical Phase
By Friends of Lexi
PRESS RELEASE:
Friends of Lexi is asking for the public to come to a custody hearing in front of Judge Glenn R. Salter for Lexi Dillon on Friday at 12:00 Noon (a press conference is anticipated) June 27, 2014 at the:
Lamoreaux Justice Center
Department L60
341 The City Drive South
Orange, CA 92868-3205
Lexi Dillon, is a 9-year-old American girl who has credibly and consistently stated she has been physically, sexually and emotionally abused by her father, a Pakistani-Thai citizen who is being denied entry to the U.S. by Homeland Security reportedly for national security reasons. Though the Tustin Police Department found overwhelming evidence of the abuse, prosecutorial and social welfare misconduct have resulted in the father being given full custody of his minor daughter—-to him, a Suspected Child Rapist. The Tustin Police found enough evidence to request prosecution on six felony charges including:
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California Penal Code Section 288 (a) – Lewd Act
California Penal Code Section 173 (a) (b) – Child Abuse
California Penal Code Section 188.5 – Continual Sexual Abuse of a Child
California Penal Code Section 289 (a) (1) (A) – Anal Penetration
California Penal Code Section 188 (a) (a) – Oral Copulation
California Penal Code Section 188.7 (b) – Oral Copulation with a Victim under 10 Years Old
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However, Tony Rackauckas refuses to prosecute. The father hired criminal defense attorney Al Stokke, who is an ardent supporter and campaign contributor for the DA. Multiple grand jury reports have criticized the relationship between Al Stokke and the OC DA.
Police records reveal that the child told the police the father sexually abused her many times and that the officers found her to be credible. There is corroborating medical evidence from Hoag Hospital physicians who documented the child’s internal and external tears to her private parts were consistent with penetration of a foreign body.
Mahatep Srikureja is reportedly being denied re-admission to the United States because of concerns of the Department of Homeland Security. In Orange County, there is a $50,000 bench warrant in place on the man. According to police records, the Tustin Police asked the Orange County District Attorney to prosecute the man on numerous counts of sexual abuse (including oral and anal sex with the minor). According to further police records, the Tustin Police wanted to have the father’s computer searched for large numbers of child pornographic photographs prior to the man’s departure from the United States. A week ago in court, the sitting judge in the case stated that each of these charges, if prosecuted, would carry a possible life sentence for the man.
However, the Judge still refuses to grant custody to the Mother, Ruby Dillon.
Human trafficking - American Style: Straight from the Courts to Nations Across the Globe
By Malinda Sherwyn
Have sexually abused kids become proven assets for the family courts to traffic into sexual slavery in foreign lands? Why do courts give sexually assaulted children to their abusers in 85% of the cases while placing parents who dare to report abuse on monitored visitations with their own children? Concerned parents want to know.
According to a conservative estimate by experts at the Leadership Council on Child Abuse and Interpersonal Violence (LC), more than 58,000 children a year are ordered into unsupervised contact with physically or sexually abusive parents following divorce in the United States. This is over twice the yearly rate of new cases of childhood cancer. http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/1/med/PR3.html
Lexi DillonIn the case of Ruby Dillon, her daughter Lexi complained of a tummy ache. Ruby took her daughter to a doctor. On the doctor's recommendation, Ruby took her daughter to the Tustin Police Department. What the doctors, psychologist, and police found was massive evidence indicating her father had repeatedly sexually abused Lexi. It wasn't just a problem with his wayward penis in the girl's private orifices. The girl also reported being beaten by the father and persons associated with the father. She and other children reported having been forced to fondle the breasts of a woman, a possible "Madam," / associated with the father. Lexi reported was often made to strip naked and perform poses while being photographed up-close by the dad. Lexi reported to the police that the dad uploaded the pictures to his computer. District Attorney Tony Rackauckas reportedly blocked the search warrant for the nude child photographs. It is believed that the District Attorney has a special relationship with the father.
Things changed on June 28, 2013, the day the Tustin Police brought the case to the District Attorney. It contained recommendations that the District Attorney prosecute the father on multiple instances of the following felonies.
California Penal Code Section 288 (a) – Lewd Act
California Penal Code Section 173 (a) (b) – Child Abuse
California Penal Code Section 188.5 – Continual Sexual Abuse of a Child
California Penal Code Section 289 (a) (1) (A) – Anal Penetration
California Penal Code Section 188 (a) (a) – Oral Copulation
California Penal Code Section 188.7 (b)- Oral Copulation with a Victim under 10 Years Old
Discontent is Becoming Epidemic
Timothy Gatto
During the last few months I have been totally amazed by the lies and misrepresentations I have heard. I can honestly say that I'm totally flabbergasted. The reason why I'm feeling this way has nothing to do with any surprise I feel about the government or the media lying to the American people, that has been going on for quite a long time. What has me shaking my head in disbelief is that no effort has been made to make their distortions of the truth believable.
Today was the icing on the cake, so to speak. Listening to the coverage of the D Day 70th year memorial, if one didn't know better, they would have led the people to believe that it was only the "western" powers ("the Allies") that defeated Germany. That wasn't the surprising part of the coverage however, we have always tried to portray the West as the primary reason Hitler was defeated. No, what was really surprising was the commentary on Russian involvement in the current crisis in the Ukraine.
Turkish False Flags and the Invasion That Almost Was
By David Boyajian
Turkey seems fond of so-called ‘false flag’ operations. In 1955, for example, the Turkish government covertly bombed its own consulate in Thessaloniki, Greece and blamed it on Greeks. The following day, Turkey stage-managed massive anti-Greek riots in Istanbul that killed over a dozen Christians and caused hundreds of millions in damage.
Fast forward to March 2014. A leaked audiotape caught Turkish officials plotting to stage ‘false flag’ military attacks on their own territory and blame them on Syrians. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, General Yaşar Gürel, and Intelligence chief Hakan Fidan planned to use the attacks as an excuse to invade Syria. The title of this article could easily apply to that plot.
To close observers of the Caucasus, however, it could also describe a failed covert Turkish plan to attack Armenia two decades ago and turn the geopolitics of the region upside down.
LaRouche: Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Revelations Mean Obama Must Be Impeached Immediately!
larouchepac.com
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche today demanded that the U.S. House of Representatives launch immediate impeachment proceedings against President Barack Obama, based on Hillary Clinton’s first-hand account of the President’s lying cover-up of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, in which U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other American officials were murdered in cold blood by the Al Qaeda-affiliated Ansar al-Sharia terrorist organization.
The Hillary Clinton revelations are contained in the just-released book Blood Feud
Duty to Rescue: Ethics vs. Law
By Malinda Sherwyn
The concept of a Duty to Rescue is rooted on ethics; most of us feel morally obligated to come to the rescue of a person in peril, and the greater the danger or more vulnerable the victim, the deeper our sense of obligation.
On February 25, 2011, Dr. Ruby Dillon took her then 6-year-old daughter to the emergency room at Hoag Hospital. The ER physician examined the minor and diagnosed “non-accidental” trauma consistent with sexual abuse. Child Protective Services (CPS) was made aware of the medical results as demanded by law.
Did CPS have a duty to rescue?
If a duty to rescue existed, did CPS honor its duty?
In general, there is no duty to rescue in tort law and a person or entity cannot be held liable unless (1) a legal duty was breached that (2) led to a known harm to a person. No legal duty, no negligence.
There are, however, a few exceptions to the general rule.
First, a defendant who creates a dangerous condition that places someone at risk creates along with it a duty to rescue the victim of that risk.
In August 2012, based on probable cause of suspected sexual abuse, the City of Tustin Police Department removed Dr. Ruby Dillon’s minor daughter from the home of the father and took her into protective custody out of fear that she may be in danger. CPS ordered the child returned to the father, the alleged abuser.
Thus, not only did CPS choose not to rescue the minor from her dangerous condition; it also created a dangerous condition when, by returning the minor to her abuser, CPS placed the minor at risk of further sexual abuse.
Second, a duty to rescue also arises if there exists a “special relationship” between the defendant and the victim. “Special relationships” arise when one party assumes responsibility for another; like a parent for a minor child, or a doctor for his patient. In law, the “special relationship” most at issue is the one between emergency response personnel and any member of the community that requires their assistance.
In early March 2011, CPS received a signed affidavit under penalty of perjury from the minor’s teacher (a mandated reporter) confirming the minor’s accusations of sexual abuse. CPS failed to interview the teacher.
In January 2012, the father lost his job and the minor tells law enforcement and CPS that the abuse is occurring almost every time she is at her father’s house. CPS insisted the minor should remain with her father.
On November 7, 2012, the Court appointed therapist (as a mandated reporter) contacted the child abuse registry to report a new allegation of sexual abuse by the father. The Tustin PD immediately sent an Officer to the minor’s school to interview her and removed her from her home into protective custody. CPS dismissed the reporting and had the child sent back to the father.
CPS was specifically created to rescue minors from dangerous situation. Their duty is to respond to reports of suspected child abuse and to act accordingly; that is, CPS are mandated by law to assume responsibility for minors at risk of abuse. Thus, a “special relationship” exists between CPS and Dr. Rubin Dillon’s daughter. In the three instances above, CPS failed to interview the minor’s teacher, ignored the minor’s allegations and dismissed reports by the Tustin Police. Therefore, CPS breached its duty to rescue Dr. Rubin Dillon’s minor daughter.
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