if you need honey, you cant go killin all the bees
so I woke up very early...or stayed up very late, depending on how you look at it. But I had to clear my thoughts so.... here it comes hippy scum.....lol jk....
so... I know you have all been holding your breath, waiting for my response to the catholic church sex scandal. wait no longer...
k,
this is a circularly fucked situation. I picked up the LA times yesterday (after taking my daughter to tae kwon do) and what do I see on the cover? the LA archdiocese paying out 60 million to alleged molestation victims. mind you, this is JUST in LA county...and only in cases alleged before 1958 and after 1979 (apparently the church picked up insurance between 58 and 79 that covered pedophilia). 60 million dollars between like, 50 people. (it was a class action law suit, in civil court). Now there are several things that piss me off about this situation. the first of which is that I went to catholic school for my entire juvenile life and was not molested.....hey, 1.5 million cures a lot o' pain. (the second is that I'm out of beer...lol )
all kidding aside though, the people who were suing the church were in their 60's. ok, let me get this straight, you were allegedly molested fifty years ago, but for some reason...just now, you cant deal with the pain of it anymore? and you have to "bring to light" what some dead priest did to you. And I'm not saying they didn't do it. God knows, the priesthood has been a sanctuary for wackos since it was invented. But your suing an institution not an individual. and while certain members of the priesthood should be drug through the streets and shot...and the archdioceses who protected them should face even worse, it doesn't have a damn thing to do with the catholic church as a whole. the catholic church is one of the most charitable organizations in existence, so while you may be looking to extract vengeance ( I say vengeance, because justice is a matter of CRIMINAL court) on your local diocese who allowed this to happen, 60 years ago, you are..in fact...taking large sums of money away from a charitable organization that might have otherwise used it for some good. you are NOT suing the people who did it to you....not even taking them to criminal court where they belong....your just sucking money out of a massive conglomerate that, at its core, is meant to help people, and serving your own base ends with it.
"hey ass hole! why are you so hard on alleged molestation victims?" you might say.
because number 1.
they are 'alleged' molestation victims. who didn't see the need to try their case in criminal court, so that the party's responsible could face punishment and not be in a position to ever hurt someone else again. They just cared about their piece of the pie....60 years latter in some cases. so fuck them.
And fuck the church to for buying the silence of the truthful claims.
And here is where it becomes a circle. you have sick bastards who are babysat by their (direct) superiors to avoid scandal, greedy plaintiffs who would rather see 1 mill in their bank account then request some kind-of counseling for would-be priests or surveillance systems, or anything that prevents this from happening to more children and a totally fucked justice system that rewards this kind of hypocrisy with multi-million dollar pay-offs from an internationally charitable organization (do you think the cash for this is coming off the popes back?....more likely from under funded missions in Africa that provides medicine and medical care to the AIDS ridden populous)
so screw everyone in the entire situation.
ANARCHY I SAY!!! lol
so... I know you have all been holding your breath, waiting for my response to the catholic church sex scandal. wait no longer...
k,
this is a circularly fucked situation. I picked up the LA times yesterday (after taking my daughter to tae kwon do) and what do I see on the cover? the LA archdiocese paying out 60 million to alleged molestation victims. mind you, this is JUST in LA county...and only in cases alleged before 1958 and after 1979 (apparently the church picked up insurance between 58 and 79 that covered pedophilia). 60 million dollars between like, 50 people. (it was a class action law suit, in civil court). Now there are several things that piss me off about this situation. the first of which is that I went to catholic school for my entire juvenile life and was not molested.....hey, 1.5 million cures a lot o' pain. (the second is that I'm out of beer...lol )
all kidding aside though, the people who were suing the church were in their 60's. ok, let me get this straight, you were allegedly molested fifty years ago, but for some reason...just now, you cant deal with the pain of it anymore? and you have to "bring to light" what some dead priest did to you. And I'm not saying they didn't do it. God knows, the priesthood has been a sanctuary for wackos since it was invented. But your suing an institution not an individual. and while certain members of the priesthood should be drug through the streets and shot...and the archdioceses who protected them should face even worse, it doesn't have a damn thing to do with the catholic church as a whole. the catholic church is one of the most charitable organizations in existence, so while you may be looking to extract vengeance ( I say vengeance, because justice is a matter of CRIMINAL court) on your local diocese who allowed this to happen, 60 years ago, you are..in fact...taking large sums of money away from a charitable organization that might have otherwise used it for some good. you are NOT suing the people who did it to you....not even taking them to criminal court where they belong....your just sucking money out of a massive conglomerate that, at its core, is meant to help people, and serving your own base ends with it.
"hey ass hole! why are you so hard on alleged molestation victims?" you might say.
because number 1.
they are 'alleged' molestation victims. who didn't see the need to try their case in criminal court, so that the party's responsible could face punishment and not be in a position to ever hurt someone else again. They just cared about their piece of the pie....60 years latter in some cases. so fuck them.
And fuck the church to for buying the silence of the truthful claims.
And here is where it becomes a circle. you have sick bastards who are babysat by their (direct) superiors to avoid scandal, greedy plaintiffs who would rather see 1 mill in their bank account then request some kind-of counseling for would-be priests or surveillance systems, or anything that prevents this from happening to more children and a totally fucked justice system that rewards this kind of hypocrisy with multi-million dollar pay-offs from an internationally charitable organization (do you think the cash for this is coming off the popes back?....more likely from under funded missions in Africa that provides medicine and medical care to the AIDS ridden populous)
so screw everyone in the entire situation.
ANARCHY I SAY!!! lol