Documents: Catholic officials tried to keep molester priests secret
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The
Catholic Church hierarchy in Los Angeles strategized how to keep child
molestation by priests a secret, documents released Monday show.
The internal church documents from 1986 and 1987 reveal Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and Monsignor Thomas J. Curry, then the archdiocese's top adviser on sex abuse cases, discussed ways to keep authorities from finding out children were being sexually abused by priests, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The records, which the archdiocese fought for years to keep secret, were filed this month as evidence in a civil court case. They show Curry proposed ways to keep police from investigating three priests who had admitted to church officials they sexually abused young boys, the Times said. Curry suggested to Mahony the priests be kept from seeing therapists who might tell police and the priests be sent to other states to avoid criminal investigators, the Times said.
For example, Mahony ordered Monsignor Peter Garcia out of California "for the foreseeable future," the documents show.
"I believe that if Monsignor Garcia were to reappear here within the archdiocese we might very well have some type of legal action filed in both the criminal and civil sectors," the archbishop wrote to the director of a New Mexico treatment center for pedophile clergy in July 1986.
When the possibility of Garcia returning to the archdiocese was raised the following year, Curry expressed concern victims in Los Angeles might see him and call police.
"[T]here are numerous -- maybe 20 -- adolescents or young adults that Peter was involved with in a first-degree felony manner," Curry wrote in May 1987. "The possibility of one of these seeing him is simply too great."
Still, Garcia returned to the Los Angeles area that year. He left the priesthood in 1989, the church says, and he died in 2009 without ever being prosecuted.
Mahony, who retired in 2011, has apologized on more than one occasion for the way he handled sex abuse cases involving the clergy.
The internal church documents from 1986 and 1987 reveal Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and Monsignor Thomas J. Curry, then the archdiocese's top adviser on sex abuse cases, discussed ways to keep authorities from finding out children were being sexually abused by priests, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The records, which the archdiocese fought for years to keep secret, were filed this month as evidence in a civil court case. They show Curry proposed ways to keep police from investigating three priests who had admitted to church officials they sexually abused young boys, the Times said. Curry suggested to Mahony the priests be kept from seeing therapists who might tell police and the priests be sent to other states to avoid criminal investigators, the Times said.
For example, Mahony ordered Monsignor Peter Garcia out of California "for the foreseeable future," the documents show.
"I believe that if Monsignor Garcia were to reappear here within the archdiocese we might very well have some type of legal action filed in both the criminal and civil sectors," the archbishop wrote to the director of a New Mexico treatment center for pedophile clergy in July 1986.
When the possibility of Garcia returning to the archdiocese was raised the following year, Curry expressed concern victims in Los Angeles might see him and call police.
"[T]here are numerous -- maybe 20 -- adolescents or young adults that Peter was involved with in a first-degree felony manner," Curry wrote in May 1987. "The possibility of one of these seeing him is simply too great."
Still, Garcia returned to the Los Angeles area that year. He left the priesthood in 1989, the church says, and he died in 2009 without ever being prosecuted.
Mahony, who retired in 2011, has apologized on more than one occasion for the way he handled sex abuse cases involving the clergy.
Obama abuse of power, plans to impose NY style gun-control
Obama Issues
Executive Orders and Requests Legislation
To Begin Implementing New York Gun-Control Template
To Begin Implementing New York Gun-Control Template
Dear Colleague in Liberty,
This week, President Obama issued 23 new executive
orders and requested specific
legislation from Congress that would begin to implement the New York
gun-control template we flagged
at Revolution PAC earlier in the week. With these executive orders
and legislative requests, Obama lays the foundation on which to erect
a wall of obstacles to gun ownership and to establish a
mental-health litmus test for gun ownership, which would force the entire
nation through a psychiatric filter and into a psychiatric trap. (Watch
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Investigative reporter Jon Rapoport describes the NY
gun-control template this way:
“The law will restrict gun ownership,
re-classify weapons in order to ban them—and, in a
far-reaching move, create psychiatrists as cops who must
report patients to law-enforcement, in order to keep the patients from
owning a weapon.
Psychiatrists must report patients “who could
potentially harm themselves or others.” If such a patient owns a gun,
it will be confiscated.
This means a comprehensive database, accessible by
law-enforcement personnel and anyone else involved in doing
background checks. These “problematic” patients will be
kept from buying a new weapon, too. Otherwise, the law would have no
teeth.”
Obama's Psychiatric Trap
Two of Obama’s executive orders in particular lay
the groundwork for full implementation of the psychiatric
trap that is the centerpiece of the NY gun-control template.
One executive order would clarify that the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) does not prohibit doctors
asking their patients about guns in their homes. The other
presidential order releases a letter to health care providers clarifying
that no federal law prohibits
them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement
authorities.
Using these executive orders as the
beachhead and the nations governors, state legislators and mayors as the
president’s foot soldiers, one can anticipate that before long, more
and more major institutions that people commonly come into contact
with—ObamaCare hospitals and doctors' offices with their
government-accessed electronic health records; public schools and soon
private schools and home schoolers; the DMV; credit agencies and
investigators doing background checks; the U.S. military via the VA; Social
Security, Medicare, student loans, government agencies hiring employees and
contractors and even, eventually, private corporate human relations
departments—all will be dragooned into the job of
collecting mental-health
data and pushing people through the psychiatric filter into
the psychiatric trap, which will serve as the pretext and justification for denying people their
constitutional rights and giving the government more
control over them.
To appreciate where
Obama’s executive orders, legislative requests and the NY gun-control
template will lead, one need look no further than what happened to former
Marine
Brandon Raub in Virginia last year when a combined strike force of
federal, state and local agents kidnapped Raub and tried to disappear him
into the Virginia psychiatric gulag under the dodgy Virginia mental-health
laws.
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Governments at all levels will collect
psychiatric data promiscuously and psychiatric screens will become routine,
psychiatric clearance requirements and ratings will become
commonplace, not only to deny people their rights
protected under the Second Amendment but even beyond that also to create an
entire new class of people classified with “mental
abnormality” (who knows what Orwellian term will be chosen
as a euphemism) who will receive "special" treatment under the law and
Constitution.
The NY template
that the president has taken the first steps to implementing will create a
mental-health litmus test, pure and simple; a psychiatric
roach-motel that will be used to entrap and disarm the America people, all
as part of the larger effort to force Americans into submission and
compliance with the whims of government agencies at every
level.
The president’s new executive
orders are only the subtle beginnings of an aggressive gun-control
campaign that may not readily catch the attention or raise the ire
of many people. These orders all sound so
“reasonable.” But, they are just the beginning, and one
can now fully anticipate a kind of choreographed and coordinated effort
among the Obama White House, some Members of Congress, certain Democratic
governors (led by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo), and big-city mayors (led by
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel along with their
Mayors Against Illegal Guns group) to advance the New York gun-control
template through state legislatures, city halls and eventually the
Congress.
Not only is the NY template’s
mental-health litmus test morally wrong; it is also blatantly
unconstitutional. America is not, yet, the land of "Minority
Report", and there is no “Pre-Crime” but Obama is rushing the
country in that direction at light speed. Obama’s executive
orders set the stage for consigning to second-class citizenship
everyone who seeks therapy and counseling or whose parents took
them to mental health providers as a child, or any veteran diagnosed or
suspected of suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome.
Any mental-health litmus test also will be plagued with the
potential for perverse unintended consequences. How many patients will avoid the mental
health care system altogether in fear they will lose their civil and
natural rights and be registered and classified as crazy? Without
people voluntarily seeking mental-health treatment, how oppressive will
government have to become to force them through the psychiatric screens
into the psychiatric trap?
Obama's Al Capone Strategy
The Obama executive
orders and legislative requests also begin implementation of that part of
the New York gun-control template that would use a thicket of gun regulations and
restrictions, taxes and fees to make gun ownership prohibitively onerous
and expensive and to classify ammunition as a legally suspect,
heavily regulated form of firearm “paraphernalia” the way many
drug laws treat cigarette papers, pipes and clips.
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So, you will be
able, for a while, to own a gun, as long as it is has only small capacity
to shoot small rounds. You will be able to own a gun, for a while,
but only if you submit yourself to invasive, humiliating and expensive
government prying and dossiers. You will be able to own a gun, for a
while, but not use it for self-defense without being prosecuted for
wrongful use of the gun. You will be able to own a gun, for a while,
but only if you can afford to pay the taxes and comply with the high
hurdles the government sets up to discourage and impede gun
ownership. You will have Second Amendment Rights as redefined by the
government. The Second
Amendment will, as the Tenth Amendment before it, become a dead
letter.
The game the president is playing is
devious and insidious. In advancing toward the New York gun-control
template, President Obama is maneuvering to create a whole new
criminal class of "non-compliant" people who ignore,
misunderstand, circumvent or simply are unaware of the onerous regulations,
rules and taxes the NY template will impose on guns and ammunition.
Once the government succeeds in forcing people “out of
compliance” with these many unconstitutional laws and regulations,
the jaws of the trap will close. There will be a host of new
crimes created out of whole cloth, which can then be used
to prosecute all the new gun
“criminals.” It’s the Al Capone strategy
all over again.
In
Liberty,
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Rand Paul: All Hail the King
You and I may look back at the end of 2013 and see a whole different country than the one we live in today.
Higher taxes, revocation of the Second Amendment, and the rest of "King Obama's" radical Big-Government agenda could very well become law of the land.
And this could all hinge on tomorrow's filibuster battle.
Let us not look back on 2013 thinking, "We should've done more to stop filibuster reform!"
Let us do everything we can now so you and I don't have to face this nightmare in the near future.
It is absolutely vital that you call both of your U.S. Senators at the number below and demand they vote NO on filibuster reform.
(202) 224-3121
And please forward this message to everyone you know and ask them to help us fight this battle.
The fate of the Feinstein Gun Ban - and the rest of President Obama's radical Big Government agenda - could be decided as soon as tomorrow.
That's when the fight over Harry Reid's scheme to SHUT UP all opposition by weakening the U.S. Senate filibuster is scheduled to take place.
Should Harry Reid and his allies succeed, Obama will have virtually free reign to run roughshod over the United States Senate, setting the stage for even more radical assaults on our liberties.
This fight is simply too important to lose.
So please call both of your U.S. Senators and demand they vote NO on filibuster reform.
Then forward this message to everyone you know and ask them to help you fight this battle.
In Liberty,
Senator Rand Paul
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Obama chose to throw the Constitution out the window
When Congress recently passed the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), President Obama had a choice between right and wrong.
And he chose to throw the Constitution out the window and continue in his support of the Homosexual Agenda by stating he would not enforce Section 533 of the NDAA.
He could have chosen -- as we at Public Advocate would have liked to see -- to honor his Constitutional obligation and faithfully execute the law as dictated by Congress...
To respect the religious freedoms guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.
Instead, the president chose to call Section 533 -- which protects military chaplains from being forced to violate their religious beliefs by performing homosexual “marriages” -- “ill-advised” and he refused to enforce it.
Obama chose his friends in the Homosexual Lobby over America’s Constitution.
According to his twisted logic and that of the radical homosexuals, a chaplain who chooses not to take part in “any rite, ritual, or ceremony that is contrary to the conscience, moral principles, or religious beliefs of the chaplain” is guilty of discrimination.
In plain English, military chaplains are now being forced to violate their own religious convictions and principles.
Obama is so committed to forcing the military to comply with the radical Homosexual Agenda that he is willing to outright ignore binding federal law!
He is willing to trample the First Amendment rights of honorably serving military chaplains by forcing them to perform ceremonies they view as an abomination.
Unlike the President, Public Advocate believes that our men and women in uniform should be allowed to practice the same freedoms they sacrifice to defend for us.
You and I believe that Obama should obey his Constitutional duties and enforce the entirety of the NDAA -- including Section 533’s conscience protections for our brave chaplains in the Army, Navy, and the rest of our military.
I wish I could say I am surprised with the president’s decision, but that is unfortunately not the case:
• He repealed the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
• He appointed a radical homosexual activist to the Board at West Point Military Academy, opening the doors for her and her "wife" to be "married" in the Academy’s Protestant Chapel.
• He openly supports the legalization of so-called homosexual “marriage.”
This is an agenda that Public Advocate strives to oppose -- with your support -- at every step.
For the sake of our families, our country, and our brave men and women in uniform.
For the Family,
Eugene Delgaudio
President, Public Advocate of the United States
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