by Et in Arcadia ego » Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:12 am
Nope..Not the itchy-tasty-glorification-of-The-Ripper-as-noble-hand-of-the-Masons-film, but just good old Bizzaro World News. For this segment's focus, we'll direct ourselves to the CNN article that Jeff had the jump on by several hours in his most recent blog post. I repeat details here due to the extremity of surrealism as a witness to such open-ended, 'libaral' news coverage:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/03/sex.ritual.ap/index.html">www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/0...index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Tutor says sex assaults are sacred ritual<br>'I am a pedophile,' says man acting as own lawyer</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Thursday, August 3, 2006; Posted: 11:58 a.m. EDT (15:58 GMT)<br><br>CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) -- A man accused of sexually assaulting nine boys with physical or mental disabilities told a judge that <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>having sex with children is a sacred ritual protected by civil rights laws</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<br><br>Phillip Distasio, who said he is the leader of a church called Arcadian Fields Ministries, represented himself at his pretrial hearing Wednesday. He is charged with 74 counts including rape, pandering obscenity to minors and corrupting another with drugs.<br><br>"I'm a pedophile. I've been a pedophile for 20 years," he said in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Wednesday. "The only reason I'm charged with rape is that no one believes a child can consent to sex. The role of my ministry is to get these cases out of the courtrooms."<br><br>Distasio said some of his congregants are among the victims in this case. Distaciois accused of molesting two disabled boys he tutored at his home and raping seven autistic boys at a Cleveland school for special-needs students where he was a teacher's aide. All but one of the victims were under 13.<br><br>A conviction on rape counts involving any of the eight younger boys would mean an automatic sentence of life in prison without parole eligibility, prosecutors said.<br><br>Distasio tried unsuccessfully in June to fire his court-appointed lawyer because he wouldn't pursue a religious freedom defense. Distasio could represent himself if the attorney remained as an adviser, Judge Kathleen Sutula said.<br>__________________________<br><br>Now..don't get me wrong. I'm ALL about un-biased news reporting, but this is the kind of shit that should have an editorial stapled to it.<br><br>Where is the commentary?<br><br>This is presented as vapidly and unceremoniously as a write-up on increased shelf life of American cheese made from skim milk.<br><br>Where is MSM's outrage? Why are the editors not crawling out of their own skins in disgust at having to contaminate their own press with such a revulsive story? Why is it inserted into the daily media like it's <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>NO BIG FUCKING DEAL</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->? I mean, they can't <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>ALL</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> be pedophiles, right? It has to make <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>SOMEBODY</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> fucking sick, <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>RIGHT</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->?<br><br>And most importantly, why hasn't anyone indicated the specific Civil Laws that support his diatribe? <br><br>Cause I'm just not getting that part.....I would have thought that shooting that little obsenity down would have been an easy kill, but apparently, it's not.<br><br>Back to you, Jeff. I would say it's a compliment to one-up CNN if it wasn't such an insult to seeing the indignation you suffer occupying the same sentance with these assholes.. <p>____________________<br>Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.</p><i></i>
