[Crossposted from my Real History Blog]
From ABC News:
Florida Rep. Mark Foley’s resignation came just hours after ABC News questioned the congressman about a series of sexually explicit instant messages involving congressional pages, high school students who are under 18 years of age.
In Congress, Rep. Foley (R-FL) was part of the Republican leadership and the chairman of the House caucus on missing and exploited children.
Talk about the fox guarding the chickens. I chose that term deliberately, as “chickens” is a slang term for a young, gay boy.
Is Foley the exception? Not at all. Check out the long list at ArmchairSubversive.com. Nor is this a new problem in the Republican party. Check out the link from the Washington Times front page of 6/29/89 pictured below to see how this story reached into the Reagan White House:
You would be shocked and horrified if you read about the right-wing pedophilia circles in this country.
I have the burden of having read, i.e., borne witness too, some of the darkest acts of man through a book written by Nebraska State Senator and Attorney John DeCamp. He detailed a broad Republican child sex ring run by Larry King – not the guy from CNN, but the guy who sang the National Anthem at two Republican Conventions, who was released from jail on April 11, 2001, after serving 10 years of his 15-year sentence for embezzling $39 million from Franklin Community Federal Credit Union (now defunct) in Omaha. The book is called the “Franklin Coverup.” Here is a quick summary, from FranklinCase.org:
On November 4, 1988 the Omaha Franklin Credit-Union Bank was raided and closed by the IRS and the FBI. The raid and closing were conducted resulting from an audit on Lawrence King’s, the Franklin Credit Union’s manager, (see key players page) personal tax returns.
Initially public investigators estimated King had stolen about $4 million from the Franklin Credit Union assets. By the end of their investigation, Officials totaled the missing assets in the tune of $39 million.
Along with the charges of embezzlement, reports came in that the FBI had confiscated child pornography, videotapes and photographs at Franklin Credit Union offices.
Investigators began looking into allegations involving drugs, sexual misconduct, child abuse, pornography, and satanic activity. Along with the allegations came names of prominent individuals in the Omaha Community. Including, then Chief of Police in Omaha, Robert Wadman (see key players page), Alan Baer, Harold W. Anderson, then publisher of the Omaha World Herald, and Lawrence E. King.
In January of 1989 the Nebraska State Legislature constituted a committee to look into the child abuse and drug allegations. Twenty days later Nebraska State Attorney General Robert Spire called a Grand Jury to investigate allegations of what came to be known as the Franklin Case.
Beyond his book, detailing the allegations of sexual abuse and the using of young children as couriers, a British investigative team worked with The Discovery Channel to produce a show called “Conspiracy of Silence,” detailing the Franklin case. But check any list of proverbs to find out what happened next. Tell the truth and run, they say, because the truth is rarely welcomed with open arms:
Finally, the big day came. Their documentary was to air nation-wide on the Discovery Channel on May 3, 1994. It was advertised in the TV Guide and in newspapers for that day. But no one ever saw that program. At the last minute, and without explanation, it was pulled from the air. It was not shown then, and has never been broadcast anywhere since.
Until now, of course. You can see this online here.
This is the kind of history historians rarely write about. It is sordid. It is unbelievable, until you read the data; then it becomes undeniable. And horrific. I nearly threw up after reading the account of acts performed to one young boy.
And worse, those who perpetrate this are so hellbent on keeping the truth from coming out that they make secondary victims of those who come forward. In the Franklin case, the two victims who testified were made out to be perpetrators of the fraud. This secondary rape was equally as horrific as the primary acts that led them to testify in the first place.
Children are our future. We should guard them and protect them, not sell them into sex slavery to slate the sordid tastes of politicians.
I’m glad Foley stepped down. But we should follow him out the door. Pull on that thread, and who knows what will unravel?
Warning: This is obviously a super sensitive topic, because the links I put up last night in this blog entry were not working tonight, and they’re to different sites.
Fortunately, the information is on multiple sites, so I’ve relinked. But if you don’t see a picture of a newspaper front page, go offline and find the Washington Times of 6/29/89 to read the story for yourself. Or email me and I’ll send you scans.
around the same sordid theme, go to the blog Rigorous Intuition.
Scroll down, looking on the right for a topic heading called “The Military-Occult Complex, ritual abuse/mind control, and ‘High Weirdness’.”
And READ IT!!!
All of it.
This is nothing new.
This is Ratpub business as usual.
This is CONTROLLER business as usual.
Right back to Rome.
Right back to the Pyramids.
Right back to the Aztecs.
Fuck the helpless and steal their power.
Just like in America.
Just as it always was.
Kill ’em all. The only solution. And one that will not happen.
As far as links disappearing around this general subject area, Rigorous Intuition had an unexplained site breakdown several months ago. It is beyond question the most interesting blog on the internet regarding the true root of much of the sheer evil we see being played out in the governments of the United States and much of Western Europe at the present time. If you have not delved into these subjects…it’s about time that you did so. Forget about your fear of being labeled a tinfoil hat wearer, because that is just an advertising meme that has been used for centuries in one form or another to hide what is really going on at the top of the predatory food chain.
“The devil’s greatest trick was to convince humanity that he did not exist.” One one level, that is what has really happened.
Bet on it.
AG
I like Rigorous Intuition. It’s a great read. Rigorous Intuition is a great read in the same way that Art Bell’s show was great radio. Art Bell was also way ahead of the curve on a couple of stories like global warming and voting problems.
The fact that Art Bell was ahead of the curve on a couple of issues does not mean I would EVER quote an Art Bell related resource as source of evidence to try to make anyone being introduced to a controversy for the first time believe the gravity of a breaking story.
Same goes for Rigorous Intuition. It’s a great read. It’s not a research source.
remains strangely silent. In fact, the sound of silence from the Christo-fascist bloc is deafening.
What do they know that they aren’t telling?
Here is the ultimate chance to stake the moral high ground for the religious left. And this is why we need to contact every religious leader we all know to step up and condemn this in a very well co-ordinated and loud campaign.
YES.
Would someone contact The Traditional Values coalition and tell them what’s what? They’re upset with Hillary Clinton for not reprimanding a comedian over a child sex joke.
So wouldn’t you think they’d be up in arms about someone not just joking about them, but pursuing sex with children?
I think we need to hammer this one loudly.
I am not clear what action you are asking religious leaders to take. What is the campaign you have in mind? If you mean asking religious leaders to condemn the people who perpetrated the acts, I strongly agree. Those, like Foley, who are so sanctimonious regarding protecting children, deserve our scorn, our condemnation, and criminal charges. If there is any evidence that Foley was protected by Hastert and others, they should be investigated. But I do not think that we should try to link the GOP with pedophilia. (I’m not sure if you are suggesting this.) The GOP stands for much I disagree with, but they do not stand for pedophilia. It weakens our credibility when we make wild charges. We should not use child abuse to further political ends, even worthwhile ones. Condemn and try pedophiles, investigate if they were protected by their party, but don’t smear every Republican as a pedophile. It is simply not the right thing to do. We can not make that charge from the moral high ground.
What I’m saying specifically in the comment above is that we need to make sure the “moral majority” type groups hold the Republicans as responsible as they would hold a Democrat if this had happened in connection with a Dem. There is a clear double standard – they decry homosexuals and pedophilia – but only when the Democrats do it. There sight is strangely silent on this outrage.
Their site, that should have read. When I’m tired I seem to type phonetically.
So to answer your question, yes – hold ALL people of any stripe accountable for pedophilia.
BUT. There really is a proven, long-term, highly organized Republican sex ring that uses children to sexually gratify (and then blackmail) others. That particular ring was never fully exposed, and when people tried, the law sided with the pedophiles (the police chief in one case was himself a perpetrator, so no surprise there, I guess).
If there’s a Democratic pedophile ring it should be exposed as well, and preferably from the inside. But I’m only aware of the Republican one.
It was late when I read your comment. Thanks for clarifying. You’re dead on.
In case you’re still not clear,
No, I’m not saying Republicans in general condone pedophilia, or are pedophiles. Most vocally do NOT condone it.
But see my two comments above for the points I am making:
Their silence is not strange at all.
Hard to talk with your mouth full of ten year old.
AG
What do they know that they aren’t telling?
That half of them are “into” children. The other half stick to straight het adultery. Their parishoners have no clue, and they like to keep it that way.
It is not as hard as you might think. A fundamentalist Christian church replicates the dysfunctional families that the congregants come from.