More Republican Sex Skeletons

[struggle4progress]

By Colin Benjamin
October 28th, 2007

... Then we have Republican Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani and his childhood friend Monsignor Alan Placa. Monsignor Placa now works for Giuliani’s firm Giuliani Partners after being forced from his power position within the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Center in the aftermath of a scandal revolving around sexual atrocities committed in the Long Island area ...

In 2002, a Suffolk County, Long Island grand jury stated that because of the statute of limitations Placa could not be prosecuted for his crimes, including the molestation of at least three boys. But they found that Placa, who also served as legal counsel for the church was among those clergy officials who engaged in “deception and intimidation” to silence the sexual sins committed by himself and his pedophile peers within the priesthood.

The Suffolk County grand jury report states that on one occasion Placa “pulled up a chair next to the boy and put his right hand on his thigh. Slowly his hands began to creep up toward the boy’s genital area.” He was said to be “cautious, but relentless in his pursuit of victims. He fondled boys over their clothes, usually in his office.” One of Placa’s victims Richard Tollner, 48, says the priest molested him and two others that he knows of.

Ironically, this is the kind of issue that may become a drag for Giuliani like it was for his Republican colleagues last November in wake of the Mark Foley scandal. The same pattern of Republican cover-up that was employed to hide the repressed closeted pedophilia of Foley was also used to protect both DiFatta and Monsignor Placa. How else can one explain why DiFatta was able to engage in such behavior while he was still a Louisiana councilman? Wasn’t anyone aware of his penchant for anonymous sex with men? And is it plausible to think no one knew of Craig’s prurient proclivities? ...

http://blackstarnews.com/?c=135&a=3844

[RufusTFirefly]

1. "this is the kind of issue that may become a drag for Giuliani"

a drag??

[rasputin1952]

4. Where did I leave that bleach...

Oh, looks like Ghouliani used the whole gallon! What am I going to use now to get that image out of my head?


Hard to belive how ridiculously ugly that man is.

[dsc]

2. I am beginning to wonder if any Republican isn't involved in a sex scandal

Foley is still my favorite one. In charge of the committee against exploiting children and he is off sending IMs to kids.

[struggle4progress]

3. The Rs believe different rules should apply to well-connected people. That's why

(for example) Larry Craig flashed his his Senate business card at the cop who busted him and sneered What do you think of that? That's why King George promised to rebuild Trent Lott's house whilst ordinary folk in NOLA got screwed.

The fundamental issue isn't sex, or even hypocrisy, but that in the Ownership Society there are two sets of rules, one for "the Owners" and another for "the Owned" ...

[rasputin1952]

5. Yes, it has always been about "privilege", unfortunately it

is not bound to a particular party, but the R's have taken it further than ever before.

Look at bush, he would never been accepted top Yale w/o a "legacy", and he would have been tossed out on his ass because his grades were not really "C's", he failed just about everything and they "gave" him the grades to keep the cash flow up and the embarrassment down.

What the GOP is trying to do is set up a system of the "gentrified" over the masses. They are coming close to succeeding. Look at what is happening...Bush, Clinton, bush, Clinton...and there is talk about Jeb bush running in 2012. :wtf: This is one of the reasons why we fought the Revolution and then brought about a Constitution that, even though it has been batted about, has still survived. What the hell is the matter w/the 365 million of us that make up this country?

The "privileged" start wars, the masses fight them; the "privileged" find themselves above the norms, mores and laws they expect everyone else ot abide by, but they believe the same does not apply to them.

I am disgusted that we, the People of this nation have allowed those few with massive monetary holdings to corral us and treat us as if we are merely here for their beck and call. I'm still fighting these bastards, but the majority of citizens have, for some reason, fallen down in awe of these dark hearted creatures.

[DemFemme]

6. Well-said.

:applause: