How shocking it is to learn that South African police are stupid, cruel and violent. I figured their behavior for civil and serene, even after you whap one in the head and take his gun. We learned today that taxi drivers are not allowed to do that, incidentally. It’s a no-no in Johannesburg where the cops, despite the cries of a crowd, choose to dispense instant and Medieval justice:

Video recorded by a witness and posted on Facebook by South Africa’s Daily Sun newspaper showed police officers chaining the man to the open back of a police van that came to the scene later and, over the loud objections of a horrified crowd, driving off, dragging the man along the road.

About two hours after the arrest, the review board said the taxi driver was found dead at the police station where he had been driven. At a post-mortem on Wednesday, “the cause of death was found to be head injuries with internal bleeding.”

In some sort of better future, after our animal rage dissipates to motes and flecks, society will run every police cadet through a zillion psychological exams. And 98% of our current crop of peace officers will have to find something better to do.

It really pissed people off the way Obama won the election again, today. The ongoing revelations of stolen power continue without any hint of end. Our President’s dastardly efforts are being more and more exposed, the Marxist Capone stuffing dime bags into the threadbare pockets of Messicans and Blahs and winning their uneducated votes. But little known, until the Daily Caller revealed the scheme hours ago, was the crowning part of his winning strategy. He cattle-prodded the Retards to the polls and twisted their stupid wrists until they cried. He told them: You meat sacks will vote for me or you’ll starve. Game over, democracy.

Group-home staff took illiterate, developmentally disabled resident to vote
Laura Byrne | November 4, 2012

Cecil Pearson is “shocked” his daughter voted for Barack Obama in November, but not for a typical reason: Darlene, Pearson’s daughter, is intellectually disabled and functionally illiterate, and lives with five other women in a group home operated by Easter Seals . .

“My wife and I became her legal guardians in 1996 to prevent exploitation like this,” Pearson told the Carolina Journal. “We were not consulted. She is not capable of making an informed choice, and as her guardians we would not have approved it.”

Listen to Cecil, concerned friend of the Daily Caller. If you’ve got Down Syndrome, or if you’re illiterate, your only job on November 6th is to crawl back in your hole. You may technically have the right to vote, but America doesn’t mean it. You’re too fucked up to pick up on this, so you can just take our word for it. The children of our slaves weren’t much better than you, but they figured this much out. And that’s why the history of voting in America is Everything Went Just Great.

Anyway! Now we have your name, Darlene Pearson, thanks to Dad calling you out in the wingnut press. You won’t be hard to find, Missy. And I’m sure you won’t mind answering endless pointed questions from the voter vigilantes about why you think you have the right to cast a ballot for the President.

“We are here to support the individual’s rights and we help them exercise their rights as adults,” Jeff Smith, Easter Seals chief communication officer, told The Daily Caller.

Said the thief. Way to steal the election, pal.

“We we were providing the support for those individuals based on their community involvement and desires, and in this case their desire was to vote.”

How much did Democrats pay you?

The appalling rape and murder of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Libya and the ongoing assaults on our embassies across the Middle East cry out for a rapid response from the United States government.

I got to know Ambassador Stevens more than a decade ago when he worked . .

When he wait – WHAT!?

US AMBASSADOR TO LIBYA WAS RAPED BEFORE HE WAS TORTURED, KILLED #SAVAGE

The horror is unimaginable. The world “radically transformed” by Obama.

And more gruesome then Obama’s lethal delusions is the diversion he is attempting to create using Mitt Romney . .

You people are certifiably insane. Why not say Muslims stuffed the ambassador in a boiling pot and then ate him? Why can’t they be cannibals? By the way, you’re soiling the memory of a good man.

It’s strange that the senior clergy in the Catholic Church are seen by so many as something resembling pimps. Yes, they walk the streets in colorful and provocative garb. Sure, their professional patter is bizarre and unintelligible. Absolutely, their ability to amass mountains of money without lifting a finger is enviable. And as we know, the innocents used to fulfill the sexual needs of their friends tally a remarkable number. A number effortlessly growing into the tens of thousands.

For many the workings of the Church simply look like a racket, an enterprise that survives by trading the hard work of ecclesiastical service for the serial and exotic thrill of raping children.

But these bishops and such are good people. You see? By contrast the allegations are way too awful to be true. The folks whose job it is to learn us about Christ, the saints and grace couldn’t possibly be party to satisfying the hair-raising desires of the world’s most unfathomably detestable and disgusting men.

A prominent New York-based friar has sympathy for some pedophiles — including defrocked priests and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky — saying they are sometimes “seduced” by their underage victims. . .

In some of these cases, children “looking for a father figure” are responsible for the relationship with someone in a position of power — like a coach or clergy member, [Father Benedict] Groeschel told the National Catholic Register.

They would have at least noticed.

“Suppose you have a man having a nervous breakdown, and a youngster comes after him. A lot of the cases, the youngster – 14, 16, 18 – is the seducer,” said Groeschel, a founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.

Pressed on the point, Father Groeschel says “It’s not so hard to see – a kid looking for a father and didn’t have his own – and they won’t be planning to get into heavy-duty sex, but almost romantic, embracing, kissing.”

And they would never allow it to go on.

“I’m inclined to think, on their first offense, they should not go to jail because their intention was not committing a crime.”

He also has some sympathy for Jerry Sandusky, convicted in June of 45 counts of sexual abuse of boys.

“Here’s this poor guy – Sandusky – it went on for years. Interesting: Why didn’t anyone say anything?”

See? Weird. None of this makes sense.

Like most famous killers in America, George Zimmerman needed a website. Today, he got one. It’s ‘therealgeorgezimmerman.com.’ Feel free to go there, click the PayPal button and send him your hard-earned money. Look at the glorious front page:

It’s missing apple pie and gramma, but it still stirs the soul. As you take in the website’s dignity, you come to realize that the death of Trayvon Martin has become a whole new ballgame. It once was a horrific tragedy. It used to be a terrible collision of events. George’s friends recalled how he’d been crying non-stop. They said that, in some way, George’s life was over, too. How very awful. Has the tragic no bounds? Will it ever stop?

Well, sports fans, George doesn’t feel that way any more. George feels like a hero. He’s happy to be called a patriot. Now he couldn’t be quicker to receive your attention and your money. He’d also like to give you what you really want: a personal relationship with a red, white and blue celebrity, the George Zimmerman.

This website’s sole purpose is to ensure my supporters they are receiving my full attention without any intermediaries. . .

I have created a Paypal account solely linked on this website as I would like to provide an avenue to thank my supporters personally and ensure that any funds provided are used only for living expenses and legal defense . .

So buck up, wingnuts. There’s an inspirational place for you to piss away your savings account, where quotes from humble ole’ George intermix with those from Thomas Paine. There’s even one piece of advice, from the Founder of Modern Conservatism, Edmund Burke, that’s so vital a bit of the Zimmerman philosophy, it handsomes every page of his site:

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing.”

Do you sense the gravity of the thing? As if George were sending us a message? Something about leaping into action, perhaps. Maybe he means for you to leap into action. This would be your chance to address a great man whose towering political achievement is murder, and to state with pride: “I support you wholeheartedly, George Zimmerman, courageous shooter of an unarmed teen. Bless you.”

You’re criminal. You’re deceitful. You’re disgusting. You serially sexually abused four young men, buying their trust with cash, trips and gifts (hee-hee!).

You had to step away from your ministry, for a bit. Your lawyers had to settle with your victims. And then your wife had to leave you, because (duh) you’re gay. If there’s anyone blessed with a mortal soul, Eddie Long, it’s gotta be you.

So it’s with some surprise we heard news of your coronation.

Congratulations, King Pastor Eddie. It couldn’t have happened to a creepier guy.

This Mark Berndt case is so vile, so disgusting, it turns your stomach. It troubles me in so many ways, it’s difficult to be analytical about it. Miramonte Elementary is only about 12 miles from where I live, a couple miles east of the infamous Florence and Normandie intersection dubbed the ‘flashpoint’ of the 1992 riots. In Los Angeles’ terms, it’s a stone’s throw away. In neighborhood terms, it’s in another world. I haven’t even begun to wonder if poverty plays any role in this. Anyway, I can’t wonder while I’m sitting here holding my head.

Los Angeles teacher charged with lewd acts
Scott Gold, Richard Winton and Paloma Esquivel | Los Angeles Times

In the fall of 2010, a drugstore photo technician was running a batch of 35-millimeter film when a disturbing image tumbled out of the machine — a child, blindfolded with a white cloth and gagged with clear packing tape. From that first photograph, detectives spent the next year following a trail that led them to a South Los Angeles elementary school.

They say they found acts of staggering depravity.

There were more photos, it turned out — 400 more, traced to an apartment in nearby Torrance, then to a bustling schoolhouse in South Los Angeles. There, officials alleged Tuesday, a veteran third-grade teacher sought sexual gratification by spoon-feeding his semen to his students.

The question today is: If they had photos of his “staggering depravity” in, say, October of 2010, why was he fired in March 2011? Why was he arrested only this week? There’s an extraordinary time lapse between his acts being discovered and his being put in jail.

I can understand that some evidence may be difficult to gather. The victims were often blindfolded, meaning they couldn’t even act as witnesses to some of what was going on. They maybe never knew they were being photographed. That no one reported him earlier and that he was a veteran of 30 years of teaching tell us he knew his victims and the school system well enough. He exploited both for his own ends, with horrific results.

But why wouldn’t these facts cause authorities greater alarm? Given the potential nightmare being visited upon the victims and the Miramonte school system (whose working class reputation is probably now forever shrouded in horror), why did it take months to identify him? Why would it take so long to remove him and then fire him?

The authorities’ likely assertions of the need to gather evidence should be scrupulously vetted. Perhaps the most shocking ‘report’ (we don’t yet know if this is true) is how they ‘proved’ he was feeding his semen to children.

Others depicted girls with what appears to be a spoon up to their mouths as if they were going to ingest a clear-white liquid. Children were fed Berndt’s semen from a spoon or on cookies, Marquez said.

Kids reported being fed something distasteful. A blue plastic spoon and container found in the trash in his classroom tested positive for his semen, authorities said.

Police recommended the children in the photos be tested for sexually transmitted diseases. There also may be more victims given the length of time that Berndt taught at the school, Marquez said.

If the above is correct, even though the photographs had been discovered, Berndt was allowed to continue doing as he pleased. They merely kept him under some surveillance. But for some reason they wondered about the spoon he threw in the trash . . ? So they tested it and found his semen. The authorities are going to have to explain how they couldn’t have prevented that particular child from being victimized.

And after that, it only took how long to arrest him? 10 months? Wow.

So horrifying:

Teacher accused of taking elementary student ‘bondage’ photos
By Alan Duke, CNN

Los Angeles (CNN) — A Los Angeles elementary school teacher allegedly took bondage photos of more than two dozen students in his classroom, including some with suspected semen-filled spoons at their mouths, investigators said Tuesday . .

“They thought they were being blindfolded and gagged as a game,” [Sgt. Dan Scott] said. “And they were rewarded with cookies or spoons full of sugar (but) they did not realize the spoon contained semen.”

The man’s name is Mark Berndt:

While the investigation began more than a year ago, the arrest came soon after lab testing matched Berndt’s DNA with semen found on a spoon recovered from his classroom, Scott said. Investigators persuaded the suspect to voluntarily give them a DNA sample just two months ago, he said.

There are going to be so many questions as to why it took so long to find, fire and then arrest this guy. Cases like this make you ashamed to be an adult.

Fewer things piss me off like Big People picking on the vulnerable. This pisses me off:

One:

After continuous complaints from [Cheyanne], her parents decided that before they took action, they needed proof … and hid a tape recorder in their daughter’s clothing. What they picked up has sparked shock and outrage — the educators were calling the child lazy and dumb.

“Don’t you want to do something about that belly,” the recording obtained by WBNS reveals former teaching aide Kelly Chaffins saying to the student.

“Yes,” the girl responded.

“Well, evidently you don’t because you don’t do anything at home,” Chaffins said. “You sit at home and watch TV.”

Two:

“Don’t call me special,” [Julio] told the teacher.

“What? Oh my god, f-ing. What does the sign on the front of the school say? Special education,” the teacher yelled back.

[Julio] defended himself by saying that when he got out of the school, the teacher couldn’t call him special anymore. In response, the teacher made a threat.

“…I will kick your ass from here to kingdom-come until I’m 80 years old.”

Teacher: Christy Wilt. Aide: Kelly Chaffins. Mr. Macho: unnamed. But we’ll know who you are soon enough, pal. There’s not enough world for a coward like you to hide in.

We approach the Judge Of Humanity in sidebar to whisper, “What is wrong with us?”

Texas Mom Banned From Using Internet After ‘Sexting’ 16-Year-Old Boy
By Matthew Bryan Beck | Christian Post | Nov 14 2011

A 38-year-old Texas mom has pleaded guilty Friday of online solicitation of a minor for texting nude photographs of herself to her friend’s 16-year-old son. Lori David was sentenced to five years’ probation.

Investigators said David and the boy’s mother were “jogging buddies,” and that the boy was a high school classmate of David’s son. The boy told investigators that the woman befriended him when she volunteered at the school, and friended him on Facebook.

. . According to court documents, David sent the teen two lewd nude photos of herself on Oct. 14, 2010. She was arrested at her home on Nov. 4, 2010, and was later released on bond. Visibly shaken in court Friday, she trembled and cried before the bench.

I am reminded of this:

Elaine: Ugh, I hate people.
Jerry: Yeah, they're the worst.

With proper attention being paid to a shocking BBC Two documentary, the suddenly exposed truth of what went on in Spain between 1940 and 1990 hit many of us like a bombshell. Reading articles on tonight’s debut broadcast, I couldn’t believe it: the Catholic Church had stolen and sold up to 300,000 babies.

Today, BBC news continued to tell the story:

Spain’s stolen babies and the families who lived a lie
By Katya Adler | BBC News, Spain

I first met Manoli Pagador in Getafe, in a working-class suburb of Madrid. She was attending a meeting for people affected by the scandal Spaniards call “ninos robados” – stolen children. She has three daughters and lots of grandchildren, but she has never got over the loss of her first-born – a son – nearly 40 years ago.

She had come to think she was crazy for believing he was alive, instead of dead and buried as hospital doctors had told her. “Now,” she said, gripping my hand tightly. “Look around the room at the other women here. All like me. The same background. The same experience. I’m not mad and my family finally believes me.”

In 1971 Manoli, who was 23 at the time and not long married, gave birth to what she was told was a healthy baby boy, but he was immediately taken away for what were called routine tests. Nine interminable hours passed. “Then, a nun, who was also a nurse, coldly informed me that my baby had died,” she says.

They would not let her have her son’s body, nor would they tell her when the funeral would be . .

“Doctors, nuns?” she says, almost in horror. “I couldn’t accuse them of lying. This was Franco’s Spain. A dictatorship. Even now we Spaniards tend not to question authority.”

Manoli’s child was gone. Like so many other children, her son had been stolen and sold to a ‘better’ Catholic family, somewhere else.

The scale of the baby trafficking was unknown until this year, when two men – Antonio Barroso and Juan Luis Moreno, childhood friends from a seaside town near Barcelona – discovered that they had been bought from a nun. Their parents weren’t their real parents, and their life had been built on a lie.

Juan Luis Moreno discovered the truth when the man he had been brought to call “father” was on his deathbed. “He said, ‘I bought you from a priest in Zaragoza’. He said that Antonio had been bought as well.”

The pair were hurt and angry. They say they felt like two dogs that had been bought at a pet shop.

See the article here. I am trying to dig up a source to view the documentary. When I find it, I’ll post it.

I am, again, just this close to dumbstruck. Whatever gets torn in an attempt to grasp boundless evil, this tears it. Where to begin to speak of crimes so depraved and so towering in number?

In a period between 1940 and 1990, in perhaps the most successful human trafficking effort since America’s slave trade of the 18th and 19th centuries, Spain’s Catholic Church stole up to 300,000 newborn babies from their mothers. The children were then sold to Spanish Catholic customers.

The BBC have produced a documentary on the half century of nearly unspeakable crimes. It’s slated to air on Tuesday night:

Journalist Katya Adler, who has investigated the scandal, says: ‘The situation is incredibly sad for thousands of people.

‘There are men and women across Spain whose lives have been turned upside-down by discovering the people they thought were their parents actually bought them for cash. There are also many mothers who have maintained for years that their babies did not die – and were labelled “hysterical” – but are now discovering that their child has probably been alive and brought up by somebody else all this time.’

I’m having a hard time fathoming this. If it had come to light that one — only one — child had been abducted by American hospital administrators and sold to their friends, I can’t imagine the holocaust of press people and news coverage and police and Oprahs and governmental agencies and politicians that would descend upon the scandal. Criminal trials, civil trials, interviews, reunions — these would go on for years. The Catholic Church perhaps stole and sold as many children as there are people currently living in Pittsburgh.

How? How could this be possible? How will these people become reunited with their true mothers, fathers and families, their own flesh and blood? How will the legal system deal with it? How will people live with the decisions they made and the actions that were forced upon them? What an agonizing mess.

One thing we know: how the Catholic Church will react. They will, slowly and surely, across the years, over the decades, offer occasional and slightly more heartfelt apologies. Meanwhile, they’ll be furiously lobbying against criminal and civil sanctions with authorities. That’s what they always do.

I’ve had enough of this for now, my head’s pounding.