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Killers as Doctors

March 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The future Dr. Svensson of Sweden

One possible source of the Vatican’s lax attitude to sexual abusers in the clergy is that the Vatican is staffed by Europeans who consider America’s harsh punishments of crime barbaric.

Sweden, the New York Times reports, has a convicted neo-Nazi murderer in medical school.

Mr. Svensson…was convicted in the 1999 hate [...]

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Tags: Medical ethics · Responsibility · Vatican · clergy sex abuse scandal · guilt · law enforcement · sexual abuse

Crimes Too Terrible to be Believed

January 12th, 2008 · No Comments

            President Bush wondered and why the Allies did not bomb the Nazi extermination camps. Der Spiegel discusses this in an article Why the Allies Did Not Bomb Auschwitz.
The allies of course knew the Nazis were anti-Semitic, but first heard of the plans for the Holocaust in August 1942, In November 1942 a Polish officer, [...]

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Tags: clergy sex abuse scandal · law enforcement

Canadian Timidity about Inconveniencing Pedophiles

January 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Throughout the history of the world, the weak have been exploited by the strong. One version of this bad human habit is sex tourism. Pedophiles from the First World go to the Third World to buy sex with children cheaply and safely. Thailand is a major destination.
Some countries have acted, According to Pédophilie: les lois [...]

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Tags: Canada · law enforcement · sexual abuse