The lonesome death of Irv Rubin
Tim:
I enjoyed your cover piece in the latest edition of reason. Between your article and the interview with Smith, I'm going to re-subscribe.
It's indisputable that people who choose professions in anti-defamation could never succeed in a wealth-generating industries like Marketing or Tourism. Take the quote from the guy who views Mercedes ownership in Ireland as an idicator of individual economic success. Practically every road in Europe is teeming with the V-class--the Mercedes of choice for Taxi operators. Judging from websites, Limo operators still prefer the S-class.
I don't know how you would have fit it into your article, but the suicide of JDL principal Irv Rubin has been of interest to me because it dealt with the planned bombing of a Mosque not far from my house. But "planned" bombings don't photograph well and the story was given as much ink as it could get. I expected his suicide to generate some news given the circumstances around his death--he slit his own throat and then jumped from a second story inside a prison--but not too many people miss him. Grim.
Looking forward to future articles,
-Mark Jordan
Getting your Irish up
very good article tim. And by the way the Irish Famine was an attempted genocide. read european history.
steve wade
Words speak louder than actions
Tim Cavanaugh's E Pluribus Umbrage (Dec. 2002) makes a gross error in characterization by stating that the Catholic Church is "unable to take a strong stand against raping children." The pope has consistently called sexual abuse of minors an "abomination" and has only recently obtained the public support of American bishops to rid the church of homosexuals and pedophiles. I believe that Mr. Cavanaugh has made the popular media mistake of confusing official Church policy and teachings, which source solely from the pope, with the actions of certain renegade U.S. bishops.
In direct violation of Vatican policy, many U.S. bishops and religious orders have allowed seminaries to admit homosexuals and pedophiles over the past 40 years. In certain seminaries, professors openly dissent from Catholic teaching on homosexuality, and homosexual behavior has been protected while orthodox, morally-straight seminarians have been persecuted or forced out altogether.
Not surprisingly then, 90 to 98% of the publicized cases of priestly pedophilia committed by U.S. Catholic priests involve boys (whether prepubescent or postpubescent). Not all "gays" are pedophiles, but pedophilia - called "intergenerational love" by homosexuals - is part and parcel of the homosexual subculture, whose publications commonly carry themes of adult-child sex.
Apparently the U.S. bishops have now finally begun to take a strong stand against "sexual abuse of minors" and have begun to purge the Church of homosexual priests. While the Catholic Church very publicly and painfully begins to purge its ranks of sodomites and child abusers, one can only hope that other large organizations will follow suit.
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