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http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/2013/04/15/pope-francis-supports-crackdown-nuns/sYpDtRvE37jEWM1dWSvZCN/story.html

I wish the Nuns on a Bus would just split off and start their own church.

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Huffington Post

Pope Francis Offers 'Blessing Of The Bikes' At Vatican As Harley Davidsons Celebrates 110th Anniversary (PHOTOS) (VIDEO)

By NICOLE WINFIELD
06/16/13

VATICAN CITY — Biker culture came to the Vatican on Sunday as Pope Francis blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and their riders celebrating the manufacturer's 110th anniversary with a loud parade and plenty of leather.

Thundering Harley engines nearly drowned out the Latin recitation of the "Our Father" prayer that accompanied Francis as he greeted the crowd before Mass. Standing in his open-top jeep, Francis drove up the main boulevard leading to St. Peter's Square, blessing the thousands of people in what was a giant Harley parking lot.

Once the service got under way, bikers in their trademark leather Harley vests sat in the square alongside nuns and tens of thousands of faithful Catholics taking part in an unrelated, two-day pro-life rally.

Francis addressed them both afterward, giving a blessing to the "numerous participants" of the Harley gathering.

Tens of thousands of Harley owners from around the world descended on Rome for the four-day anniversary of the American manufacturer.

The main events were Sunday's Vatican blessing and a parade Saturday past the Colosseum and other historic landmarks – adding color, traffic and noise to an already colorful day in downtown Rome, thanks to a gay pride march.

Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported that six bikes were involved in a pileup Saturday on the main ring road around the capital, while a Swiss biking couple were killed in a highway crash on Wednesday.

Earlier in the week, Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based, Harley gave Francis two white classic Harleys for the Vatican police force to use.

There was something a bit incongruous about the Harley crowd – known for its "Freedom" motto, outlaw image and adventuresome spirit – taking part in a solemn papal Mass to commemorate a 1995 encyclical on the inviolability of human life.

"Evangelium Vitae" is a roadmap of the church's teaching against abortion, euthanasia and murder. Harley's advertising for its 2013 bike collection reads "Live life on your own terms. More than 30 ways to defy the status quo."

The Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, noted that there were probably quite a few Catholic riders in the crowd and that regardless, anyone is welcome to a papal Mass.

"I know great people who have big bikes," Lombardi quipped.

In his comments to the pro-life crowd, Francis offered prayers "for every human life, especially the most fragile, defenseless and threatened." But he stayed away from saying anything more polarizing about abortion or contraception.

He then spent a good half-hour after the Mass caressing, kissing and chatting with a few dozen sick or disabled people in the square, including one on a motorcycle wearing Harley garb.

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Daily Mail (sorry)

Hog heaven in the Holy City: Pope blesses hundreds of bikers for Harley-Davidson's 110th birthday


Pope Francis performed an open air mass in St Peter's Square yesterday
The Bikers are in Rome to celebrate Harley-Davidson's 110th birthday

By Steve Nolan
16 June 2013

With their tattoos, leather boots and vests they perhaps don't look much like church-going types.

But hundreds of bikers were among a congregation blessed by Pope Francis at an open air mass in St Peter's Square yesterday.

The Harley-Davidson fanatics stood out like a sore thumb among a crowd of thousands at a mass for Evangelium Vitae day in Vatican City.

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Bikers - **shiver**

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Oregon's most notorious pedophile priest - Maurice Grammond - spurs $12 million lawsuit, even after death
Print By Aimee Green, The Oregonian
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on June 25, 2013 at 12:15 PM, updated June 25, 2013 at 1:05 PM

A 43-year-old man who says he was sexually abused by Oregon's most notorious pedophile priest in the early 1980s filed a $12.25 million lawsuit Tuesday against the Archdiocese of Portland.


The man alleges he was abused by former priest Maurice Grammond from 1980 to 1982 at Our Lady of Victory in Seaside -- at least 23 years after church officials began hearing reports that Grammond was molesting children. That included a 1957 report of making boys swim naked with him and "messing" with them.

The man was an altar boy, and 10 to 12 years old when he says Grammond abused him.

"(Grammond) devastated the lives and the souls of dozens of youngsters who loved their church and trusted their priest, and this case is no different," said Portland attorney Kelly Clark, in a news release.

Clark and the man's other attorney, Erin Olson, say that the man supressed the abuse until 2012, when he came to terms with it and the detrimental effects it has had on his life. Oregon law allows victims to sue for childhood abuse up until they reach age 40, or until five years after they realize the abuse has damaged them -- whichever is later.

From 1950 to 1985, Grammond worked in parishes in Seaside, Oakridge, Mill City, Sublimity and the metro area, including Our Lady of Sorrows in Southeast Portland and St. Mary’s Home for Boys in Beaverton.

He molested dozens of boys. By 2007, he’d cost the archdiocese $33.4 million in settlements with 54 victims -- far more than the next costliest priest, Thomas Laughlin, who spurred $20.7 million in settlements with 34 victims.

Grammond died in 2002.

The archdiocese sought bankruptcy protection in 2004 because of its potential liability in priest sex abuse suits, and victims who realized the abuse had negatively affected their lives had until 2005 to file a claim. But the archdiocese also set aside a pot of money to pay for future settlements with victims who realized they were abused after 2005.

The man who filed suit Tuesday -- in U.S. District Court in Portland -- is seeking compensation from that pot of money, which amounts to about $18 million today, said archdiocese spokesman Bud Bunce. As long as there is still money there, the fund will stay untouched by the archdiocese until 2027, at which time the fund will be dissolved and any remaining money will go to the archdiocese.

The man's suit seeks $250,000 for economic damages that he states includes counseling, psychiatric medical treatment and lost wages; $2 million for non-economic damages for his anguish and suffering; and $10 million in punitive damages.

-- Aimee Green

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WashingtonPost - embedded links at source

Pope Francis pleads for peace in Syria as prominent Catholic legislators support action

By Elizabeth Tenety
Published: September 3, 2013


Pope Francis delivers a speech March 15, 2013, during a meeting of the world’s cardinals. (Osservatore Romano/EPA)

As NPR’s breaking news blog noted today, Reps. John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif) support for President Obama’s planned strike on Syria in response to the Assad regime’s reported use of chemical weapons puts the two political adversaries on the same side of a contentious debate “for one of the few times in recent years.”

It also seems to put them at odds with Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church to which they both belong.

“War never again! Never again war!,” Francis declared Sunday in an Angelus address. Denouncing the use of chemical weapons in Syria, the pope referred to looming “dramatic developments” facing the country and said, “I appeal strongly for peace, an appeal which arises from deep within me.”

In his address, Francis also called for a global day of prayer and fasting Sept. 7, the vigil of the birth of Mary, the “queen of peace,” he remarked, to pray for Syria and the Middle East.

Without mentioning the United States, Francis said Sunday that he “exhort[s] the international community to make every effort to promote clear proposals for peace in that country without further delay, a peace based on dialogue and negotiation, for the good of the entire Syrian people.”

“Never has the use of violence brought peace in its wake,” the pontiff added. “War begets war, violence begets violence.”

Francis added a plea to put down weapons: “I repeat forcefully: It is neither a culture of confrontation nor a culture of conflict which builds harmony within and between peoples, but rather a culture of encounter and a culture of dialogue; this is the only way to peace. May the plea for peace rise up and touch the heart of everyone so that they may lay down their weapons and be let themselves be led by the desire for peace.”

Many of America’s most prominent politicians are members of the church, Christianity’s largest denomination.

On the Democratic side, Vice President Biden, Pelosi and Secretary of State John Kerry are all Catholics.

Leading Catholic Republicans include Boehner, Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Marco Rubio.

All but Ryan and Rubio have spoken out in favor of military intervention in Syria; the two Republican leaders have indicated they want to convene a debate on the subject. On Tuesday, Rubio indicated in a Senate hearing that he was “skeptical” of President Obama’s ability to achieve his objectives through the planned military operation.

Despite the pope’s plea to put down arms, many of these Catholic politicians are making a different argument about morality of warfare, particularly around the obligation to use force, when necessary, to protect innocent life.

Kerry to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday:

“This is not the time to be spectators to slaughter. … Neither our country nor our conscience can afford the cost of silence.”

“We have spoken up against unspeakable horror. Now we must stand up and act.”

Biden in a speech last week at the American Legion :

“Those who use chemical weapons against defenseless men, women and children should and must be held accountable.”

Boehner: “The use of chemical weapons is a barbarous act. It’s pretty clear to me that the United Nations is unable to take action, NATO unlikely to take action. The United States for our entire history has stood up for democracy and freedom for people around the world. The use of these weapons has to be responded to and only the United States has the capability and the capacity to warn others around the world that this type of behavior is not going to be tolerated. … This is something that the United States as a country needs to do. I’m going to support the president’s call for action. I believe my colleagues should support this type of action.”

Pelosi: ”The Syrian government’s horrific, wanton, and undeniable use of chemical weapons against its own people is a clear violation of any moral standard and places the Assad regime well outside the circle of respect for basic human rights.”

In a statement last week, she said she “expressed my appreciation for the measured, targeted and limited approach the president may be considering.”

During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Pope John Paul II condemned the United States, calling its actions “immoral, risky and a ‘crime against peace,’” according to an Associated Press report at the time.

Catholic leaders in the United States have routinely criticized American politicians for supporting legislation that violates church teachings on moral issues, particularly around abortion and gay marriage. Pelosi, Biden and Kerry are familiar targets of that criticism, with Kerry, now leading the charge for military action in Syria, gaining a particular focus of that attention during his 2004 run for president. Watch for how Catholic leaders in the U.S., who have joined Pope Francis in calling for Saturday’s peace vigil, respond to the pro-intervention arguments of some of the church’s most prominent members. The head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan, is on stage tonight.

UPDATE, Sept 4, 3:27 p.m.: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops released a letter to President Obama Wednesday which said that the administration “should not resort to military intervention, but instead work to end the violence in Syria through a political solution.”

“. . . A military attack will be counterproductive, will exacerbate an already deadly situation, and will have unintended negative consequences,” the letter read. Read the full statement here

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usccb

Letter to President Obama Regarding Syria

September 4, 2013

President Barack Obama
The White House
Washington, DC 20270

Mr. President:

As our nation contemplates military action in Syria, we want to assure you and your Administration of our prayers. We know that the situation in Syria is complex and appreciate the patience and restraint that your Administration has exercised to date. We affirm your decision to invite public dialogue and Congressional review of any possible military action, and want to contribute to that discussion from our perspective as Catholic pastors and teachers.

We join you in your absolute condemnation of the use of chemical weapons in Syria. These indiscriminate weapons have no place in the arsenals of the family of nations. With you we mourn for the lives lost and grieve with the families of the deceased. At the same time, we remain profoundly concerned for the more than 100,000 Syrians who have lost their lives, the more than 2 million who have fled the country as refugees, and the more than 4 million within Syria who have been driven from their homes by the violence. Our focus is on the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Syria and on saving lives by ending the conflict, not fueling it.

We have heard the urgent calls of the Successor of Saint Peter, Pope Francis, and our suffering brother bishops of the venerable and ancient Christian communities of the Middle East. As one, they beg the international community not to resort to military intervention in Syria. They have made it clear that a military attack will be counterproductive, will exacerbate an already deadly situation, and will have unintended negative consequences. Their concerns find a strong resonance in American public opinion that questions the wisdom of intervention and in the lack of international consensus.

We make our own the appeal of Pope Francis: “I exhort the international community to make every effort to promote clear proposals for peace in that country without further delay, a peace based on dialogue and negotiation, for the good of the entire Syrian people. May no effort be spared in guaranteeing humanitarian assistance to those wounded by this terrible conflict, in particular those forced to flee and the many refugees in nearby countries.”

The longstanding position of our Conference of Bishops is that the Syrian people urgently need a political solution. We ask the United States to work urgently and tirelessly with other governments to obtain a ceasefire, initiate serious negotiations, provide impartial humanitarian assistance, and encourage efforts to build an inclusive society in Syria that protects the rights of all its citizens, including Christians and other minorities.

Please be assured of our prayers as your Administration faces the complex challenges and humanitarian catastrophe that have engulfed Syria.

Sincerely yours,


Timothy Cardinal Dolan
Archbishop of New York
President,
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Most Reverend Richard E. Pates
Bishop of Des Moines
Chair, Committee on International Justice and Peace

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Charlie really likes this guy...

The Politics Blog

Nov 26, 2013
Your Occasional Pope
By Charles P. Pierce at 4:15PM


Andreas Solaro/AFP via Getty Images

In case you missed the latest from Pope Central -- every Republican politician, every conservative economist, and every wingnut pundit of the past 30 years either already is in H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks, or is on the way down the greasy slope in that general direction. Pope Krugman speaks.

"In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world," he said. "This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting."

"Trickle-down." The SOB actually used the phrase? In an official document? Classic. Faith in markets has "never been confirmed by facts"? Okay, right off the top, any time this guy wants space on the blog, it's his. I keep waiting for him to give me the Latin for "zombie-eyed granny starver."

"Crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power"? Neil Cavuto just had a stroke.

I know, I know. St. James. "Faith without works" and all. (And the ideas on abortion in the same document are tough and ought not to be enshrined in law.) But one thing to remember is that the Church is still producing seminarians, and the new ones are going to be trained in obedience to this guy's ideas. That was how we wound up with a great generation of progressive priests during and after Vatican II. The problem came when John Paul II, a theological reactionary, got elected and spent more than two decades rolling back the achievements of those priests, particularly in the oligarchical tyrannies of places like Central America. Popes can transform the Church without noisily transforming its doctrines. We can hope (and pray, if you're so inclined) that historical precedent is not ironclad.That may not seem like much, all things considered, but I hope Paul Ryan, good Catholic boy, has made his nine First Fridays because this is a papacy with his name on it.

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He at least appears to be a far less evil pope than first suspected, eh?

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He at least appears to be a far less evil pope than first suspected, eh?

I'm reassured that Jesuits, strategically, aim to be on the right side of history. Pope Frank may be a harbinger of the revolution.

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watch your back Pope Frank...watch your back

Pope Francis fires all but one Cardinal Running Vatican Bank
Francis’ move essentially undid a decree issued last year by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, who confirmed the Vatican Bank’s supervisory body for another five years, just days before announcing his retirement. The most high-profile figure sacked on Wednesday was Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Benedict’s secretary of state and the face of administrative woes of Benedict’s papacy.

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watch your back Pope Frank...watch your back

Pope Francis fires all but one Cardinal Running Vatican Bank
Francis’ move essentially undid a decree issued last year by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, who confirmed the Vatican Bank’s supervisory body for another five years, just days before announcing his retirement. The most high-profile figure sacked on Wednesday was Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Benedict’s secretary of state and the face of administrative woes of Benedict’s papacy.

Uh oh, this should get interesting very fast.

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Pope Francis named as child trafficker by eye witness

http://iclcj.com/?p=169

Posted on February 2, 2014 by admin

After the judgement and abdication of Pope Francis through the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) and ICLCJ , we have learned that a civil servant now living as an exile in Spain has pointed a finger at Francis for being a prime mover in a child trafficking network. The “Holyrood” Agreement authorized a joint cover-up of child rape in the Anglican and Catholic churches.

A former civil servant in the Argentine military junta who is living in exile in Spain claims that Pope Francis engineered the kidnapping and trafficking of children of political prisoners during the Dirty War of the 1970′s.
The man bases his claim on his personal involvement in meetings between Bergoglio and senior junta members that secured the child trafficking networks using Catholic orphanages and religious bodies as covers.


A Spanish reporter who has interviewed the former civil servant states,

“This guy is genuine and has many names and dates, and notes from meetings. Apparently, Bergoglio was promised the top spot in the Argentine church if he cooperated with the junta. So it’s small wonder that as the Pope, he’s made it harder for honest catholics to report child abuse, considering his own complicity.”

In related news, a Vatican source claims that former Pope Benedict (Joseph Ratzinger) secured an agreement with Queen Elizabeth as head of the Church of England to conceal child rape in that body by adopting the provisions of the canon law “Crimen Sollicitationas”.

The agreement was made at Holyrood Castle in Edinburgh on September 16, 2010, during the Pope’s unprecedented visit to England that month, the first such visit in papal history.

The adoption of the notorious law by Queen Elizabeth was one of the conditions for the absorption of the Anglican church back into the Church of Rome. It compels all Anglican clergy to subvert the laws of their own countries by protecting child rapists in their ranks, silencing victims and not telling the police of the crime.

Pope Benedict resigned on February 11, 2013, followed in August by the equally unexpected resignation of Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who helped to broker the Holyrood Agreement.

The cancellation of Queen Elizabeth’s novel trip to the Vatican in March, 2013 soon after the appointment of Jorge Bergoglio as Pope Francis 1 was connected to the new Pope’s concerns that the Holyrood agreement might surface.

“Papa Francis was determined to keep the Holyrood deal secret at whatever cost because of his own ‘reform’ image and his plans to entrench Crimen even more completely in church law, which he did in his July 11 Apostolic Letter” states the Vatican source.

“One of his conditions for being made Pontiff was the dismissal of Bertone, who might link him to Holyrood. As a Jesuit, Il Papa knows you must feign one thing while doing another”.

In response to these latest revelations, the International Common Law Court of Justice in Brussels is actively proceeding with its next major case, in which its Prosecutors’ Office will seek the prosecution of Pope Francis, Jorge Bergoglio, on a charge of criminal conspiracy and aiding and abetting human trafficking.

The Court will issue its first Statement of Claim and Summonses no later than March 30, 2014.

The same Court issued a Legal Declaration on August 4, 2013, naming the Crown of England and the Roman Catholic Church as Transnational Criminal bodies under international law.

Further consequences of these facts will be disclosed this Friday, February 7 at a special press conference convened by ITCCS Field Secretary Kevin Annett, commencing at 11 am outside the Canadian consulate at 1251 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.

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hola
rojo
morning to you
you always helped me chase demons away
don't know what I'll do without you
so Pan is the name of the plane

second to the right
straight on 'til morning
that's where I'll be waiting
second to the right
straight on 'til morning

hola
tick-tock
my time is up
Pedro says
I will forget him in days
in my new life, no room for a lost boy
boys can be so dumb sometimes

second to the right
straight on 'til morning
that's where I'll be waiting
second to the right
straight on 'til morning
straight on 'til morning

kiss Pedro for me

“saving children from communism”

WEEKEND EDITION DECEMBER 16-18, 2011


Where's Captain Hook in NPR's Fairy Tale?
The CIA, Cuba and Operation Peter Pan
by SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDES
“Los niños nacen para ser felices.”

– José Martí

On November 19, 2011 NPR broadcast “Children Of Cuba Remember: Their Flight To America.” Reporter Greg Allen claimed the 1960-62 journey from Cuba to the United States of 14,000 plus Cuban children “was made possible because of a deal a priest in the Miami diocese [Father Bryan Walsh] … worked out with the US State Department. The agreement allowed him to sign visa waivers for children 16 or under.” Allen then interviewed several right-of-center Cuban Americans to offer “objective” perspective on the facts surrounding Operation Peter Pan.

Curiously, Allen omitted the CIA from his report, although ample evidence shows the Agency in the early 1960s conspired with the Church to spirit kids out of Cuba.

Once inside the nurturing borders of the greatest country in the world “Pedro Pan kids have done well,” Allen concluded, without explaining what “well” means. Now adult Pedro Pan kids remain “firmly opposed to any normalization of relations with the Castro regime, the regime that was responsible for breaking up their families and forcing them from their homeland.”

NPR staff might have discovered a more complex and sinister story – had they looked. The CIA refuses to release Peter Pan documents, but abundant testimony shows the Agency forging documents and spreading lies, with Father Walsh and the regional Catholic hierarchy. Their goal: separate elite children from parents (a Cuban brain drain) and generate political instability.

One Operation Peter Pan conspirator, Antonio Veciana, now living in Miami, told us how Maurice Bishop (aka CIA official David Atlee Phillips) recruited him in 1960 “to wage psychological war — to destabilize the government.” Veciana described how the Agency forged a law to make affluent Cubans believe the revolutionary government planned to usurp parental control. Bishop’s agents in Cuba spread this rumor, backed by a forged simulation of the supposed law, to members of the professional and propertied classes. The forgery “declared that parents would lose control of their kids to the state.”

Veciana recounted how “CIA agents claimed they’d stolen the document from the Cuban government.” This false document “created tremendous panic.” On October 26, 1960, CIA-controlled Swan island radio station, south of Cuba, broadcast breaking “news.” Cuba’s government, the radio asserted, planned to remove children from parents so as to indoctrinate them. Radio Swan reported another lie: the Cuban underground had obtained a copy of the forthcoming “law.”

Minimal research would have revealed that Leopoldina and Ramón Grau Alsina, niece and nephew of former Cuban President Ramón Grau San Martín, had confessed to Cuban security officials after being arrested in 1965 to having printed the false law in Havana, circulated it clandestinely and then lied to parents.

Article 3 of the apocryphal document stated: “When this law comes into effect, the custody of persons under 20 years of age will be exercised by the state via persons or organizations to which this power has been delegated.” Priests and CIA agents both recruited kids and persuaded parents to “trust us. The US government will care for them.”

The clergy circulated the phony document among their Cuban upper middle-class flock. Catholic school officials feared Castro’s rapidly expanding public instruction program would undermine their virtual educational monopoly among moneyed sectors.

In March 1960, President Eisenhower ordered the CIA to overthrow the Cuban government. Agency plotters designed Peter Pan to run alongside political propaganda and economic strangulation policies. These parallel tracks would weaken Castro’s government while US trainers prepared a Cuban-exile invasion force, which, in turn, would coordinate with CIA-backed urban terrorists and guerrillas.

Operation Peter Pan (recall the Disney film?) used Cuban kids and parents to further their goal: overthrowing the revolutionary government. NPR’s claim of “no evidence” of CIA involvement would have dissolved had they asked Veciana or questioned why the CIA still refuses to release its 1500 plus documents on that Operation — while de-classifying archives on the Bay of Pigs and the 1962 Missile Crisis?

Writer Alvaro Fernandez’ father Angel Fernandez Varela, recruited by the CIA in Havana, taught at the Jesuit run Colegio Belen. Before he died in Miami, wrote Alvaro, Angel told his family “he had been one of those responsible for drafting the false law that gave rise to the hysteria.”

NPR’s report doesn’t ask: who obtained the kids’ visas, airplane tickets and contacts abroad and why did KLM and Pan American Airlines issue Peter Pan kids free tickets?

Nor does NPR Allen follow up. The US government didn’t maintain contact between parents and children, nor grant visas to most of the parents that remained in Cuba. The UN High Commissioner tried to reunite parents and children, but Washington didn’t back him.

Veciana helped facilitate this dirty trick, but later mused: “Afterward I wondered: was this the right thing to do? Because we did create panic about the government, but we also separated lots of kids from their parents.”

In fact, Cuba has won accolades for its treatment of children. “In Cuba, there are no children on the streets, no children out of school, no children without access to health services or culture, and there are no unprotected children without opportunities for development,” said Jose Juan Ortiz, UNICEF representative in Cuba.

Paradoxically, the CIA attributed its own objective to the Cuban government: separating children from their parents. Maybe, if NPR staff thought ironically they would’ve done a more accurate report on Operation Peter Pan.

Catholic Church behind theft of 70,000 babies in Vietnam "Operation Babylift"

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He at least appears to be a far less evil pope than first suspected, eh?

Nevermind!

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He at least appears to be a far less evil pope than first suspected, eh?

Nevermind!

Well, I've googled the shit out of the claim and it all goes back to that one claim by serial nutjob Kevin Annett. There are no independent verifying sources that I can find. So maybe it's all bullshit.

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**Winner: Best International Documentary at the 2006 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. ...nutjob




**Winner: Best International Documentary at the 2006 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival.

**Winner: Best Director for an International Documentary at the 2006 New York International Film Festival.

EXCERPT: "...This documentary reveals Canada's darkest secret - the deliberate extermination of indigenous (Native American) peoples and the theft of their land under the guise of religion. This never before told history as seen through the eyes of this former minister (Kevin Annett) who blew the whistle on his own church, after he learned of thousands of murders in its Indian Residential Schools..."

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**Winner: Best International Documentary at the 2006 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. ...nutjob




**Winner: Best International Documentary at the 2006 Los Angeles Independent Film Festival.

**Winner: Best Director for an International Documentary at the 2006 New York International Film Festival.

EXCERPT: "...This documentary reveals Canada's darkest secret - the deliberate extermination of indigenous (Native American) peoples and the theft of their land under the guise of religion. This never before told history as seen through the eyes of this former minister (Kevin Annett) who blew the whistle on his own church, after he learned of thousands of murders in its Indian Residential Schools..."

You sticking up for a serial nutjob? Well, color me NOT surprised.