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Update: ANONYMOUS instigates attack on Catholic Ordination: Seminarians I taught

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Two seminarians whom I taught and advised — good friends — at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, will be ordained today to the transitional diaconate at 7:00 PM. (May 3, 2013). Prayers for them, please! Hail Mary…

ANONYMOUS has scheduled a protest to “occupy” Cathedral Square in downtown Columbus during this time. Cowards. They hide behind masks and computer screens.

ANONYMOUS say they are protesting the firing for breach of contract of a recently self-identified homosexualist from a Catholic school, but, in all reality, they are capitalizing on the ordination of two seminarians so as to make their point that they are going to fight the Catholic Church as such. And to start their onslaught, they are attacking two individuals, my friends, who have absolutely nothing to do with any of this. This means that ANONYMOUS is a group of absolute total cowards.

Some wise direction that was sent out to all involved:

We have been made aware of a potential protest for the Diaconate Ordination this evening. The group Anonymous [...asked...] for people who support “gay marriage” to “occupy” Cathedral Square starting at 4 pm. [...] As you may well be aware, these protests sometimes turn violent. The protesters are simply out to cause a scene and to cause emotional damage to the Catholic community as a whole. Their goal will be to engage anyone who is willing, and then to quickly bring about shame or harm. I cannot emphasize this enough, please do not engage the protesters in any way. It is what they want, and no matter how much you wish to evangelize or defend the Church they are not willing to participate in a fruitful discussion of any kind. When you pass by them, if you feel compelled to say anything, it should be no more than “hello” or “good afternoon.” But even this will invite unwanted responses from them.

Yes, well. That’s a bit naive as well. I mean, these kind of professional protesters can send in those who look like they want to support the Ordination Mass, getting escorted into the Cathedral, but then, just before going inside, purposely engage ANONYMOUS, even violently, so that ANONYMOUS looks to be the victim.

ANONYMOUS made use of a terroristic threat in the event that the Diocese of Columbus does not cave into the request of ANONYMOUS to run the Catholic Church and trash its doctrines and morals. Making a terroristic threat is a felony of the third degree in the State of Ohio:

2909.23 Making terroristic threat.

(A) No person shall threaten to commit or threaten to cause to be committed a specified offense when both of the following apply:

(1) The person makes the threat with purpose to do any of the following:

(a) Intimidate or coerce a civilian population;

(b) Influence the policy of any government by intimidation or coercion;

(c) Affect the conduct of any government by the threat or by the specified offense.

(2) As a result of the threat, the person causes a reasonable expectation or fear of the imminent commission of the specified offense.

(B) It is not a defense to a charge of a violation of this section that the defendant did not have the intent or capability to commit the threatened specified offense or that the threat was not made to a person who was a subject of the threatened specified offense.

(C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of making a terroristic threat, a felony of the third degree. Section 2909.25 of the Revised Code applies regarding an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a violation of this section.

Effective Date: 05-15-2002

Those who associate with ANONYMOUS in the present protest may be liable for felony proceedings. Penalties run from nine months to three years. I think everyone in a mask or otherwise causing trouble should be arrested forthwith if they anywhere near the Cathedral. The Super-Max Department of Corrections facility just to the West of Columbus could surely hold them all.

I would also say to the homosexualist one-time teacher who was fired: If you don’t immediately repudiate the terroristic threats of ANONYMOUS, who make it seem that they are speaking on your behalf, well then, that would make it seem that you yourself are the one who has brought them in on this situation. If you are associated with this, I mean, how dare you threaten my friends? I’m personally offended. And this is the way that you want to get reinstated as a Catholic teacher? Anonymous thinks it is the way for sure. Think about it. ANONYMOUS hates you, and is stomping on you in every way. You’re being used and abused by ANONYMOUS.

While analyzing the diatribe of ANONYMOUS, I note that there was an indication that ANONYMOUS has a professional, that is, salaried core group, with everyone else being their puppets. This is a dangerous group. If mercenaries are paid to be violent, they will be.

Threats have been coming into the school itself for days. And that would be consistent with ANONYMOUS. Threatening to interfere with a place which children frequent is what terrorists do. Yep. It’s always the children. Always. And this isn’t just another Sandy Hook incident with some crazy guy. Instead, this is an international terrorist group. And it’s pre-meditated. I hope the police can stop them and their puppets in their tracks.

possible LGBT puppets of the terrorist group ANONYMOUS

What will ANONYMOUS do in a situation like this, as retaliation for them not becoming the head of the Catholic Church? They’ll do what they so often do, as reported by those who have been attacked by ANONYMOUS, and that is to hack into websites and plaster homosexual porn all over the screens of the various pages of the websites. And then they go further. They go out of their way to push the police into using tear gas and, in various venues around the world, even live ammunition.

Why do they do that?

Because that’s the kind of person you would want in your local grade school teaching your kids, right? Isn’t that their message?

And, really, why bother the seminarians? Because ANONYMOUS is at war with the Catholic Church.

Update: Protesters were about — what? — a dozen? Those in masks were, like, maybe two or three in number. So sad altogether. I see that they’re blackmailing someone with already public information to be “revealed” on Monday.

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Psychological profiling of terrorists – Obama bans the truth to enable more terror

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There are plenty of psychiatrists / psychologists hired by the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Energy, and all sorts of competing agencies of other Federal organizations, not to mention all kinds of military and paramilitary and other kinds of actionable groups.

One of their jobs is to profile the psychology of a terrorist.

But these shrinks are missing the forest for the trees, indeed, for getting caught up in the moss on this or that tree.

Proof of this is their pitiable descriptions of depression, or anger, or being conflicted. A perfect example of this regards a psychologist’s description of the Muslim military shrink in Fort Hood who shot up his fellow soldiers in an act of terrorism that Obama declared was not terrorism (regardless of that terrorists involvement with known overseas terrorists).

Ooooo! It’s all so senseless, so unreasonable, a sign of mental illness, they say. 

These guys speak of being radicalized, which they equate with throwing spittle flecked tantrums. But that doesn’t speak to reality, does it?

As it turns out, Obama has forbidden profilers to delve into the truth of the matter. They cannot ask, “What do Muslims believe?” Robert Spencer has a great two page article on this: Page One and Page Two.

In that short article, Robert didn’t get around to mentioning, however, a broader point, which involves a perspective on reason from the point of view of Islamic belief. You can’t mention everything all the time, but it is the one aspect of all this that few, if any, talk about, and now talking about it, by those who should talk about it, is banned.

This aspect about reason and faith trumps all other aspects of the psychology of this or that individual. It’s what sets the stage for “radicalization” or other things to be successful. Understand this one, central, driving force, and you’re way ahead of the game. 

Remember Pope Benedict’s Regensburg Address, and why it was rejected by all ideological power brokers of Islam? Benedict asked for a dialogue based on reason. Reason in dialogue was explicitly rejected with the statement that our reason is useless, that Allah has a different reasoning than ours. The context of this was the Islamic spreading of faith by the sword, the political edge of Islam without which there is no Islamic belief.

Remember Pope Francis’ opening volley in dialogue? He recalled that Regensburg Address by asking for a dialogue based on reason. That request is still hanging in the air.

Once a Muslim accepts that there is no reason to be applied to religion, that religion doesn’t need to be reasonable, all bets are off. “There are no more values anymore,” as one of the Boston Marathon bombers said. Whatever Allah wants, that’s what Allah gets.

Read those two pages by Robert linked to above.

Whatever Obama says, intelligence community psychologists shouldn’t be looking for anyone spittle-flecked. As with most terrorists of this kind, they are as cool as cucumbers, more so than all others around them. Hey! There’s a point for a profile.

At any rate, the younger terrorist is soon to be questioned, if he survives. However, if the best that can be thrown at him is the Reid Technique, they’ll get nowhere fast.

Such a terrorist is not interested in claiming innocence. He will immediately say that he did what he did and proclaim that Allah is great. There’s no way to embarrass someone who proclaims that there are no values because reason is useless in the face of belief in Allah.

Sure, the Reid Technique is subtle, and can trick information out of someone, and perhaps questions about family and friends back in the old country and the refugee camp will bear some fruit. But, I would say, almost none.

I suppose that is why some Senators want this fellow to be called an enemy combatant. Military interrogators, I would think, have learned that the Reid Technique is basically useless for Islamic terrorists.

I can already hear the objections to this post. Before objecting, read the two pages of Robert linked to above. I agree with what he has to say.

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If I was a terrorist, I would be afraid, very afraid. This is great! What patriotism!

A couple of days after the Boston Marathon Terrorist Bombings.

I’ve never heard anything so thunderous for the National Anthem.

h/t TLM-MD / Creative Minority Report / Free Republic

Patriotism is an aspect of the virtue of piety.

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Father Byers, the terrorist: “I could do it. In fact, I already have.”

boston marthon bombing street foxnews imageGiven the circumstances in life that Dzhokhar [pronounced "Joker"?] had, and prescinding from belief in the goodness and kindness of the Son of the Living God, could I do something like this? Could I kill innocent people on a large scale and then murder others? Could I be crass about it while I’m doing it, sending out tweets that mock my victims?

Sure I could, and so could you. Anyone who says that he absolutely could not do such a thing is giving himself a licence to do it, for he will do it, but rationalize that what he is doing is justified in the circumstances, that for him to kill innocent people is O.K.

In the title of this post I went so far as to say that I’ve already done something like this. And I have. By my sins, my arrogance, my bad example — the list goes on — by my sins I myself have crucified the Son of the Living God. Haven’t you? Are you without sin?

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Get it? It’s pretty bad.

Don’t judge others as worse than yourself. As soon as you do, you take their sins on yourself. They become part of you. You start to do the same things in whatever analogous way. It’s the irony of how things work out in life.

Instead, just be the worst sinner, that is, someone who knows he would sin in whatever way, if given the circumstances and if without the grace of the Lord. And then you won’t do such things, for you’ll be looking to Him who leads us into true life and love, which cuts through all the mind games which would have someone do that which is so very, very evil.

Just as I thank Jesus for grabbing my soul, weak as I am, I ask that He touch the soul of the terrorist who did this. Why shouldn’t I? Is he less worthy? No. We are all unworthy of the forgiveness of the Son of the Living God.

But Jesus does bring us into His goodness and kindness. We should want that for all others. After all, Jesus is just that good. Just that kind.

As we pray for the victims and the families of victims, let’s also pray for the conversion of terrorists. Our Father…

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Jesus is the Terrorist — to keep locked up [An update to Mother Teresa's Meditation in a hospital]

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Mother Teresa’s Meditation In the Hospital
[19th June 1983, when a patient herself]

“WHO DO YOU SAY I AM” (Matthew 16,15)

You are God.
You are God from God.
You are Begotten, not made.
You are One in Substance with the Father.
You are the Son of the Living God.
You are the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.

You are One with the Father.
You are in the Father from the beginning:
All things were made by You
and the Father.
You are the Beloved Son in Whom the
Father is well pleased.
You are the Son of Mary,
conceived by the Holy Spirit
in the womb of Mary.
You were born in Bethlehem.
You were wrapped in swaddling clothes
by Mary and put in the manger full of straw.
You were kept warm by the breath of
the donkey who carried your Mother
with you in her womb.
You are the Son of Joseph,
the Carpenter as known by the
people of Nazareth.
You are an ordinary man without much
learning, as judged by the learned
people of Israel.

Who is Jesus to me?

Jesus is the Word made Flesh.
Jesus is the Bread of Life.
Jesus is the Victim offered
for our sins on the Cross.
Jesus is the Sacrifice offered at the Holy Mass
for the sins of the world and mine.
Jesus is the word – to be spoken.
Jesus is the Truth – to be told.
Jesus is the Way – to be walked.
Jesus is the Light – to be it.
Jesus is the Life – to be loved.
Jesus is the Love – to be loved.
Jesus is the Joy – to be shared.
Jesus is the Sacrifice – to be offered.
Jesus is the Peace – to be given.
Jesus is the Bread of Life – to be eaten.
Jesus is the Hungry – to be fed.
Jesus is the Thirsty – to be satiated.
Jesus is the Naked – to be clothed.
Jesus is the Homeless – to be taken in.
Jesus is the Sick – to be healed.
Jesus is the Lonely – to be loved.
Jesus is the Unwanted – to be wanted.
Jesus is the Leper – to wash his wounds.
Jesus is the Beggar – to give him a smile.
Jesus is the Drunkard – to listen to him.
Jesus is the Mental – to protect him.
Jesus is the Little One – to embrace him.
Jesus is the Blind – to lead him.
Jesus is the Dumb – to speak for him.
Jesus is the Crippled – to walk with him.
Jesus is the Drug Addict – to befriend him.
Jesus is the Prostitute – to remove from danger
and befriend her.
Jesus is the Prisoner – to be visited.
Jesus is the Old – to be served.

To me –
Jesus is my God
Jesus is my Spouse
Jesus is my Life
Jesus is my only Love
Jesus is my All in All
Jesus is my Everything.

JESUS, I love with my whole heart,
with my whole being.
I have given Him all, even my sins and He has
Espoused me to Himself in tenderness and love.
Now and for life I am the spouse
of my Crucified Spouse. Amen.

God bless you.
Mother Teresa, M.C. [1910-1997]

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HSH comment: Some other texts come to mind, such as the one about what you have to the least of these you have done to me, and Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?

Just to be clear: Everyone is redeemed by Jesus, but not everyone wants to be saved. And that’s what we want to work on, getting people to know Jesus. And that also means doing the right thing for them, which can mean keeping them locked up in prison.

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But that terrorist Boston bomber guy is such a nice guy! Don’t be such a meanie!

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This is the nice-guy stare, a bit smirky, knowing he’s going to kill you oh so very soon.

Surely, you’ve seen the commentary that terrorists are all nice guys, especially this guy — What a nice guy! — just looking for a bit of adventure, for something bigger than themselves, and for an escape from a life that sucks in whatever way. It’s said that it couldn’t possibly ever have anything to do with Islam of whatever form of whatever interpretation, since Islam is always nice just like these nice guys. What could radicalize them into doing something that isn’t nice?

But that’s an inconsistent question, assuming in their argument that what is at the root of Islam (root=radical) is violence, though these commentators insist that Islam is nice.

Given that prevailing confusion, which is so politically correct, which is so very unhelpful, would it not be more helpful to find out something about what’s to be found with that which is at the root of Islam? Is this to be avoided because it might not be considered to be nice by the ostriches with their heads in the sand?

Just to say, nicey-nice commentators just tend to upset terrorist types enough to commit terrorist acts. Terrorist types don’t like being called nice. They don’t want to be nice. Nicey-niceness just so does not belong to their outlook. It’s not what they’re about. To be nicey-nice is to be an infidel. To be nicey-nice puts a target on one’s head.

Claiming nicey-niceness for terrorists won’t achieve nicey-niceness. It’s a bit counterproductive. Kind of like reverse psychology.

(1) Nicey-nice person: “You’re nice!”

(2) Terrorist type: “And you’re dead!” (and the bomb explodes…)

I think people should stop with the pop-psychology and do some serious study to see what’s actually in the Qur’an, etc.

Update: 8:42 PM Suspect in custody.

Update: I wonder if the existence of any anti-Islamic youtube videos will be used by the defense as proof that the terrorist had no choice but to kill innocent people.

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Learn something at http://www.jihadwatch.org

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  • One is not a religious Muslim unless one is also on a political jihad of aggression.
  • One is not a political Muslim unless one is also on a religious jihad of aggression.

As I mentioned previously: http://www.jihadwatch.org

  • We pray for the victims and their families.
  • We pray for peace to the Prince of the Most Profound Peace.

I should start up a series on Sura 37,100-113 of the Qur’an. It’s the heart of Islam, the heart of submission, what it means to be a Muslim; it’s the excuse to have youngsters kill and be killed for the sake of the spreading Islam with the sword.

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Exclusive Report: Fiji quietly falls to Chinese backed Islamicist extremists at the end of 2012, a coup within the coup d’état

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I took this picture in Eastern Fiji during the coup d’état of 2000. Looks peaceful, right? You would be wrong on that. The house is cement with a tin roof. The inside is charred. Nothing left. Plenty of deaths and lots of destruction. The coup within the coup d’état of 2012 promises to be much worse in both the short and long term. This time, it’s all about Islamicist radicals and China.

There’s a news blackout in Fiji that is being enforced not only by terrorist censors of the “government” fining journalists with unpayable fines (six figures in USA$ for that poor country) and imprisoning them for two years, but also, as a lead up, smashing into their work places and violently trashing reporters’ homes. All communications are blocked or censored.

One reporter, risking life and limb (already violently smacked down by censors) smuggled out news of a coup within the present coup d’état. That news was given by personal courier to a mutual friend. I publish it here since no one else is covering this story of the fall of the Pacific to Islamicist radicals supported by, you guessed it, China.

But you won’t see any updated travel advisories. No, no. None of that. Obama is Islamicist friendly, didn’t you know? China’s not a threat to world stability. No, no. None of that. Obama is Asia friendly, didn’t you know?

A snippet:

“The reality is that China comes along and the USA is sleeping away. By the time you wake up the Pacific is going for good to China. My friend said is it a scary situation as the election is promised to be held in 2014. In the mean time we are living in fear.”

And another:

“The 2nd in command of the military is Muslim and he is running the show instead of the commander. I suppose he fears for his head. The 2nd in command apparently put all his fellow Muslims as heads of the government departments so everything is controlled in an Islamicist fashion. What a frightening situation to live with.”

Comment: Much of World War II was fought in the Pacific precisely over things like this. I wonder what our Veterans think. I wonder what the present Military thinks. I wonder what our spooky friends think, who have known all this for the longest time.

It’s politically correct not even to notice that it is taking place. This is what America voted for. This is what the world gets.

Look, I know Frank Bainimarama. I spoke with him at length about where Fiji was coming from, what he was trying to do with Fiji, and where he wanted to go with Fiji in the future. I spoke with him about their military and their U.N. “training”. I spoke with him about Marxist elements and the danger of ethnic cleansing, which was being promoted at a national level among all leaders of the Island group. I know, because I was there, and I personally know extremely well these Marxist elements and the ethnic cleansing they promote on a popular and political level. I know where they meet and what they say, because… they tell me, and I witness it firsthand.

My surmising of the situation: There will be… there is… violence in Fiji, which will fall into… which has already fallen into… Islamicist control. Ever so quietly. Unless you live in Fiji. Unless you want freedom of speech. Forget about any free and fair elections. China rejoices. A civil war is in the making. I personally know the “players.” They will brook no dissent in order to make it happen.

I have much to say about this. I have much to say about the complacency, even complicity, even direct involvement, even on the level of instigation of some few Catholic clergy in all this. But that’s for another post. I wonder if I should name names, you know, of Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops and priests, diocesan and religious, from the South Pacific all the way to a certain dicastery in the Roman Curia. That may be necessary in order to avoid an impending blood bath.

Oh, and reporting by MSM? Nah. It’s not politically correct. And they know nothing. And play down tensions. For instance, The New York Times, typical of their non reporting on violence and genocides  (like the Holocaust) downplays the slave trade bringing Indians to work the sugar cane as “cheap labor.” Really? Wars are fought over just that. Typical “Times.”

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“Anonymous” identity revealed (or the best guess yet)

I hate conspiracy theories and opt for the explanation that answers the most questions in the most simple manner. Sounds reasonable, right? I think so.

Take, for example, the seemingly nefarious “Anonymous” attacks on Israel. A conspiracy of ”community” of superhackers? Hardly.

The explanation that answers the most questions is that Anonymous is to be equated in much of its leadership for this operation with الموساد that is, with המוסד that is, with “the Institute”, that is, in transliteration, the Mossad, which is charged with protecting the Jewish community right around the world (not an easy job). Playing on the other side of the fence is what they do best. For instance, the bodyguard of Saddam Hussain was from the Mossad.

So, why shouldn’t Anonymous leadership for this operation be by and large equated with the Mossad? In this way, you get to know all the stupid hackers in the world and either hire them or decommission their activities. It happens all the time. Everyone does this kind of thing.

O.K., so that fits just a bit too neatly, right? Yes, well, you have to know, Israel is just a bit nervous right now, and rightly so. Did the Obama admin really set up the Benghazi debacle as payback for Osama bin Laden? Or was this, as one reader pointed out, a way to cover-up a U.S. arms shipment to al-Qaeda rebels in Syria, something which would not bode well for the future existence of Israel?

And, oh, it’s just too easy to “belong” to Anonymous, isn’t it? Figures. But anyway, racking up tens of millions of attacks doesn’t take long for just a few people who know what they are doing. So, if you’re a hacker and you’ve joined Anonymous, you had better run! You’ve been had!

Let the injustice stop by promoting justice. Mere ideology doesn’t get anyone anywhere but dead. Innocent people die when situations are aggravated by ideologues. Really. It needs to stop.

Oh, wait. Too late. That’s past tense. You’ve been had, and now some of your special Anonymous friends all want to see where you are going to run. And here you thought you could trust them.

Look, I’m the first one to say that violence that is unjust against Gaza or anyone else is, in fact, unjust. And… and… Israel has a right not to be wiped off the map of the earth. But should Israel avoid injustice? Of course.

Just to let you know, when those nefarious words of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about Israel not being on any more maps were spoken some years ago, I was in Rome, and went over to the Iranian Embassy that very evening to be with the Jewish community of Rome, and there spoke with the Chief Rabbi. He and so many others very much appreciated this priest (in cassock) there with them in solidarity. I still am.

Do I turn my back on the horrific injustices taking place in Gaza and the Occupied Territory? Not at all. Injustice is the most certain way to bring about terrorism. There’s no excuse for terrorism, which is aimed at the innocent, but this is the way fallen human nature works.

So why guess at the identity of Anonymous? Because the Mossad has already gotten about as much traction as they are going to get with all this (it only takes some hours for this last bit with Israel), and this is a distraction from what really is important for Israel, that is, what is what is going on in the present U.S. admin. Oh, wait. That’s what they’re really looking into.

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Obama the terrorist: testimony of Petraeus points to this, again

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Of course the memo was changed.

Of course Susan Rice got the changed version.

If it’s not terrorism, the U.S. won’t be allowed to bring to trial the terrorists, or, you know, the “folks” as Obama calls them.

But all this does not mean that Obama was not told about al-qaeda and the other “folks” of Libya from the get-go in the situation room.

In every way, it looks like the entire terrorist action in Benghazi was set up beforehand as a permitted “payback” for the taking out of Osama bin Laden.

Doesn’t it? Just askin’

Everything consistently points to this, doesn’t it?

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Parsing Obama’s pro-Benghazi terrorists declaration

Here’s a flash-mob dancer waving nicely for the camera. Those watching in the Situation Room of the White House and over at the Pentagon were thrown into confusion, pre-empting any military intervention to save lives, for, according to Leon Panetta, one can’t send anyone into a confusing situation, because, you know, our guys are too easily confused in that kind of situation. Really?

Here’s a one minute video put together of the changing stories after the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate and CIA Annex in Benghazi:

  • Obama, who would have watched the drone video in the Situation Room on September 11, said, the next day, September 12, when asked if this was a terrorist attack:

“It’s too early to know exactly how this came about.”

I guess he was so shocked that there were no flash-mobs in the drone video that he didn’t know what to say. The flash-mob thing was on everyone’s lips. Was this all scripted beforehand, and the playscript wasn’t acted out the way it was planned?

  • Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (sigh) incredibly said on September 16,

“What happened initially is that there was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo as a consequence of the video.”

“The video.” And she might well be tapped to be Secretary of State?

She said this repeatedly five days after everyone knew it was a terrorist attack. Keep the video in mind.

  • Matt Olsen, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, on September 19, said, when questioned:

“Yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy.”

Well, that was refreshing. But watch what happens an entire day later:

  • Obama on September 20, incredibly, said:

“The natural protests that arose because of outrage over the video, were used as an excuse by extremists to see if they could also directly harm U.S. interests.”

Let’s parse that language. According to Obama’s account:

  1. There is a protest going on which sought to directly harm U.S. interests. For Obama, not only is the outrage natural, but the protest which sought to harm directly U.S. interests is natural.
  2. In that protest, there were extremists who also sought to harm U.S. interests directly. The actions of the extremists are also natural. He doesn’t call them terrorists, because what they are doing is natural.
  3. Obama does say that they were using the larger protest that sought to harm U.S. interests directly as a springboard for their more exteme actions to harm U.S. interests, but places those actions — let us repeat — under the same umbrella of “natural”. In other words, Obama is praising this act of terrorism, this direct attack on the U.S.A. in the person of the Ambassador, and three others, including two Navy Seal heroes.

Obama should be impeached, right here, right now.

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Questioning why Obama gave a free pass to al-Qaeda: Was the Benghazi attack scripted beforehand?

القاعدة is written all over it: al-Qaeda, not to mention local terrorist groups. We’ve known that quite from the start, maybe even beforehand.

Turkey grabbed one of the perps, Ali Ani al-Harzi, a known terrorist. Turkey packed him off to Tunisia, which refuses to let him be interrogated by these United States, and with good reason. Tunisia thinks he is a terrorist. We don’t. That’s right, Obama says that the well coordinated, military style violent takeover and destruction of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the torture and murder of the U.S. Ambassador, his aid, and two Navy Seals was not an act of terrorism on the anniversary of September 11 by known terrorists tied to al-Qaeda and other local terrorist groups, but that the gentlemen such as the fellow pictured above are to be tried (but not by us) merely for a civil act of not being nice, not for terrorism. If it’s not terrorism, it’s not an act of war, and the U.S.A. has no right to the prisoner.

Obama has protected terrorists again and again. Remember Fort Hood, where the perp was tied to the most wanted terrorist of the day, and that was not called terrorism, but an act of not being nice in the workplace?

What’s going on, you ask? I think this is Obama’s diplomacy. He’s giving al-Qaeda a trophy with impunity so as to calm the islamicists down after the loss of Obama Osama bin Laden. Permission to do a tit for tat. Or am I jumping to conclusions? The trouble is, everything points in that direction. It’s the theory that answers the most questions. I’m just wondering out loud. Correct me if you think I’m wrong, but with that which answers more questions than what I’ve come up with.

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More on Obama the terrorist collaborator: In late 2012, the Fort Hood victims families and survivors tell their story

This video was very recently made by the families and survivors of the 2009 Fort Hood Terrorism catastrophe.

They are not being political. It’s just that they don’t want the sacrifice of the victims made on our behalf to continue to be downplayed so cynically as an act of workplace violence. That it’s out and out terrorism, with this guy in communication with the leading terrorist in the world at the time, is clear. We can’t stop terrorism if anti-American terrorists are protected by the President of the United States. Obama is protecting this terrorist just like he’s protecting the terrorists of Benghazi.

The question is this: Does Obama absolutely refuse to call this an act of terrorism because he himself is a collaborator, a terrorist? If it walks like a terrorist, talks like a terrorist, and acts against the interests of the American people and all poeple of good will, then it’s a terrorist.

Hey, wait just a minute there hermit guy… That can’t be! We didn’t vote for a terrorist! We voted for love and being nice and stuff like that there!

Sigh. In honor of the families of the victims and of the survivors, just watch the video.

How Obama can possibly remain president even until the election is incomprehensible.

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“This has to do with honor, integrity and justice” (not politics) — Father of murdered Navy Seal in Bengahazi

HERE

Why is anti-American Terrorist Obama still President of the United States?

Why? No, I mean, really?

And look… I’m not making this political, but it has political consequences.

Meaning that it has to stop now. We can’t be putting our men and women at risk like this.

Obama has got to go. And he’s got to go now.

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nervous breakdowns: a note to the institute

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I bet you guys at המוסד and your righteous friends among the nations are still having some anxiety with this one more than a year later, and for some weeks more recently. Good luck. May God be with you. Don’t get a nervous breakdown. But, if you do, that’s alright. You did your best. You gave your all. That’s more than most do. Thanks for the efforts. Just keep people safe in their travels, O.K.?

To regular readers of HSH: I apologize for this post, which is rather cryptic, so to speak.

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Updated again… Obamacare enforcement: “Catholics ought to immitate the submissive cooperation of the Jews” in their final solution

You spooky friends of mine (CIA, FBI, DHS…) ought to check out the fellow who was seated next to me on my U.S. Air flight from Paris to Charlotte on 26 July, 2012. All seats were assigned except for mine, until the last second.

The last time I was not assigned a seat was back in 1984, on my way to war torn Managua from Miami, on route to the Bluefields Vicariate. It was an open seating, first-come first-served situation. Though I and a friend were one of the first in line, we weren’t allowed on the half-empty plane, given the excuse that the plane was already full! The next day, it looked like we were to be refused again, but then a gentleman arrived and we were given assigned seating, with that gentleman between us. It turns out that he was CIA agent who wanted to know what we were doing going to such a country just then. He was very courteous, figuring us out, and gave us some expensive liquor to give to the great Cardinal of Managua, which we did.

Now, on the flight from Paris the other day, a way overbooked flight with all assigned seating, I did not have an assigned seat, even though there were some 100 people behind me in line. My boarding gate was changed to the “Envoy” gate. Just as I was about to board the plane, the airport speaker system announced my name. With that, I was told to go to a certain counter of another gate on the far side of that part of the terminal. There I was provided with a special ticket, this time with assigned seating. Next to my seat was a gentelman who, instead of sitting with his wife, he said, up in the front of the plane, came to sit next to me in a just-happened-to-be-vacant seat of a terribly overbooked flight. His excuse was that his wife was sick. Maybe the fellow who was supposed to be next to me had to sit next to his sick wife! All just coincidence, surely…

Anyway, this fellow is the present chairman of a super-NGO affecting untold numbers of run of the mill NGOs and a multitude of directly vetted and chosen individuals of countries around the world, all of them hyper-influential people. His super-NGO makes it it’s business to very effectively steer perspectives of countries and regions of countries with large sums of money as bait, though making this appear to be a grassroots initiative. No debate. No room for inititive. All participants must be sycophants, of which there are many in this world, apparently. This fellow liked to talk, so he couldn’t but mention now and again the branches of the U.S. government which had a direct, dicisive interest in his activities. Of course, I also like to ask questions and make comments that are bound to get things out of people, but I digress. In effect, he was happy to be a government pawn, changing his decades old, prestigious super-NGO into a willing puppet of the Obama administration.

He reeked of a liberalism which gets nervous around principled people. The stakes were jacked up in the conversation (perhaps five hours total), every time he realized I was more studied up in whatever direction the conversation wandered, for instance, into liberation theology (my teacher having been Gustavo himself). Soon he let himself repeat all the lines of Obama and the HHS, for instance about Catholics illegally “forcing” others not to contracept because Catholics didn’t want to pay for abortifacients. He insisted that the common good of encouraging sex followed by abortion had to be protected by the government, even if that meant forcing Catholics to go against their consciences, having them pay for the misbehavior of others.

When I brought up the great film of this Summer called “Cristeros”, about the self-defence of the Catholics who were getting slaughtered in Mexico in their tens of thousands as their religious rights were being trampled, he came out with the line in the title of this post: “Catholics ought to immitate the submissive cooperation of the Jews in their final solution.” He said this with a tone of voice that indicated praise for the Jews who so nicely went along with their own executioners. Get it, my Jewish friends? If you don’t help us Catholics now, don’t think it will not happen to you as well, all over again. This has got to stop, and it’s got to stop now. He’s just as willing to kill Jews right now as he is willing to kill Catholics. Get it? What kind of influence is he spreading with your tax dollars?

Now, if I was at a real computer, I would check out this fellow who was sitting next to me on the plane. But I’m not. But some of you reading this post are. Help us Catholics. Help the Jews. It’ll give you work, but that’s good, no?

Update… Touched a button. Good.

Updated again (27 August 2012): You’ve surely heard the stupid saying that religion is responsible for all violence in the world. That’s usually said as a throwaway line by atheist knuckleheads who have an axe to grind against whatever member of the Church, somehow speaking to the violence that they would like to do as revenge against any real or perceived stupidity by that individual. Well, take an advance course in all this:

The other day I went into a business and was asked how I was doing, and how my trip overseas went. I said fine, except that I had the strangest conversation with a gentleman on the return flight. I told the story above. Both examples, mind you, as above, were about the Nazi government killing off all the Jews and about the Socialist government of Mexico slaughtering the Catholics  in the earlier part of last century.

The response was to ask me whether I was a Catholic priest. I said yes, and that it is difficult, isn’t it, to know it someone wearing a Roman Collar is really just a Lutheran or Anglican “priest”. The response to my saying that I’m a Catholic priest was to say that religion is responsible for all the violence in the world. Get that? The hatred against Catholics and those of any religion has been jacked up recently. What’s going on?

Just to say, huge persecutions have been taking place in this most bloodiest, violent, hellish past century. And it’s still going on. It may be that America will be next. There are those who hate religion, who hate life. They should be voted out of office. But most importantly, there is prayer: Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. And… Our Father…

I think I might mention all this to the Jewish community in Brevard. They use Sacred Heart Catholic Church. I mean, how can we forget the horror, and who did it? Here’s the video I made, once again, of the names of the children being read out at the Yad vaShem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem:

The banner of the Cristeros:

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SWAT-ing Holy Souls Hermitage? Hoaxers will regret they ever even thought about it!

If Holy Souls Hermitage were to be hit by a SWAT-ing hoax, the guys would be so bored that they would want to hunt down the hoaxers and SWAT them!

A wonderful reader who works in the government of a certain State sent this link in to Holy Souls Hermitage, a story about SWAT-ing conservative bloggers (FoxNews). A growing phenomenon. Rather dangerous, that.

What spurred this concern for HSH? Probably this post about the Executive Office of the President of the United States nefariously visiting HSH blog: HERE. Steps are being taken about this. They’re pretty brave, shamelessly signing up as followers of the blog after doing their dirty work. I hope they are inspired and convert to the goodness and kindness of Jesus!

Actually, I don’t think that there’s much danger of any SWAT-ing coming the way of your’s truly, since I think I’m known to our great local and state police and our wonderful sheriffs well enough where they would just give me a call, or give a call to my highly respected neighbors, to see what this was all about. I mean, I don’t know about you, but in Western North Carolina, we still live in America. At any rate, the bored SWAT team would surely then hunt down the hoaxers and slam their back ends right into jail, rather roughly I’m sure. In my case, they might well find that the hoaxers (not too swift with such things) are hirelings of the Executive Office of the President, as noted above. Whatever. They can be slammed to the pavement and handcuffed like anyone else, right? They might think they are above the law, but they’re not.

I think all that any law-enforcement has to do is enter my name into a database to see if my name has been flagged, and then get some info on the flag. Already in Rome, already back in 1996, I was told by the FBI guy in charge of investigating the spate of Embassy bombings at that time that my name has, in fact, been flagged, internationally, by the U.S. Department of State (DOS) (who are also occasional visitors of the blog). This FBI guy went way out of his way to have the Embassy help me out, as I’ve said, by going so far as to give me a passport with a new identity (which I didnt’ accept). You can be sure I’m on their radar, for the good! I do find myself from time to time in rather violent circumstances. I was, for a while, more recently, it seems to me, the most researched man in America, with my new blog being flooded with rivers of visits, back to back and simultaneously, from uncountable offices of the Department of Defense (DOD), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Navy Network Information Center (NNIC – Warfare Command), the USAIC (United States Army Intelligence Center), all sorts of military contractors, and so on. I especially like those visits which, to this day, only provide the time of the visit, without any place or IPv4 noted. Nothing. Beyond mere proxies. Pretty cool, that. They surely know by now my rather high placed and respected friends in Europe, in the Middle East and now, increasingly, in the USA. It seems they are quite happy with me, though they still visit the blog, even just to see the ninja chicken photo ops that I occasionally put up. I’m very happy that. I think that under any other administration I would get a Presidential Medal of Freedom. If any of them don’t know why, they should find out. It would be quite the education, I’m sure.

Perhaps I should mention a very recent post of “interest”: The Judas Crisis (Interesting)

I may get the occasional beginner pilots practicing with some out of date AH 64s literally hovering just feet above the roof of the hermitage, but, as I say, this practice area is about the safest place on the planet for that very reason! Let hoaxers beware!

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Terroristic threat to HSH in NC to “right” the “wrong” of claiming Victory! for the “one man & one woman = marriage” amendment in North Carolina

Too sad. It took less than an hour for the threat to come in to the comment box.

At first glance I thought the bitter, though highly educated language used might be just a bit of frustration from a militant “gay” faction.

But then I saw the name of the website that this fellow entered into the comment form. It seems he sells highly illegal, highly lethal, concealed weapons that. are. just. so — how to say it? — “gay”, but lethal nonetheless, a kind of doubled anti-personnel throwing knife/hatchet.

It seems he wants to overturn the “one man & one woman = marriage” vote in North Carolina by way of violence… “soon”.

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Let’s put Obama’s feet on his desk talking with Israel in context

If you don’t remember this scene from four years ago, do you think you’ll have the opportunity to remember it four years from now?

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Book burning at Holy Souls Hermitage: The Red Brigades

A kind reader sent this book into the hermitage, I suppose with the idea that the experience of solitary confinement of General Dozier, a one time hostage of the Red Brigades, is somehow analogous to my experience as a hermit!

This book reminded me of my own experiences of the “years of lead” over in Rome, along with brushes with the Red Brigades. A priest was gunned down very near to where I lived in Rome, and only some days later a fellow yelling obscenities tried to run me down in his little Fiat Cinque Cento. He went against traffic and along the cobblestones at the entrance of Saint Clement’s Basilica nearly hitting me before speeding on his way again, shaking his fist against all priests. There were a few months that were very tense, and some of the seminarians back in the day did not want to leave their rooms! I never hestitated, but that’s just me.

I had had plans to return home on 27 December 1985, but decided at the last minute to change my ticket for Christmas Eve. Had I not done that, I would have been at the TWA gate at the time when some 17 people were gunned down by the Red Brigades.

Late one evening, after dark, while walking on the terrace-roof of the college where I was living in Rome, I was suddenly under the spotlight, that is, about a dozen spotlights turned upon me from the hospital across the street. Looking over to the hospital, I noted that the entire facade, on all floors, had military snipers all pointing their rifles at yours truly. I found out later that the head of the Red Brigades (at the time) had been injured and captured, and was being treated in the hospital in a room facing mine. Yikes!

I don’t know if this had anything to do with the Red Brigades and their connections to the PLO of the time, but, just to say, another year, returning to JFK from Rome, while the flight was halfway across the pond, over Iceland, all the stewards and stewardesses surrounded my seat and were nervously asking whether or not I (with my roman collar on) had had any training in negotiating with terrorists threatening to blow up the plane. “Hmmmm….” thought I to myself. What could this be?”

In hindsight, I should have made light of it, to settle them down a bit. I should have said that I’ve had plenty of experience negotiating with liberal “liturgists”, with whom no one can negotiate, so that negotiating with terrorists threatening to blow up the plane should be a piece of cake!

“No,” I said, I hadn’t been trained up yet. It must have been that the pilot had had the FBI profile the passengers to see who would be best at negotiating. Perhaps they had seen some of my travels to rather dangerous places in the world. For some minutes, they wouldn’t take no for an answer, and wanted me to talk with them anyway, should the occasion arise. “O.K.” said I, “I’ll do my best.” My mind was racing, but this is not the kind of thing one can prepare for. It has to be an on-the-spot understanding of the very immediate circumstances. Some stayed near me, others went to plot elsewhere. Yikes!

As it turns out, the terrorist crowd didn’t push it. It seems to have been more of a test run to check the preparedness of the airlines. They didn’t have a bomb. However, when we arrived to JFK, we taxied to the most remote section of runway possible, almost in the water next to a marsh, miles, it seemed, from the airport itself. We were immediately surrounded by fire engines, ambulances, armored amphibious troop carriers, and untold numbers of police cruisers and other vehicles.

After some twenty mintues of tense waiting, a heavily armed anti-terrorist unit stormed the passenger compartment of the 747. There must have been two or three dozen… I lost count. Hard to count when you have your head down! They hauled out I don’t know how many _____*-looking people. [*I don't want this censured!] Yikes!

I very much miss TWA, the Catholic airlines. They always had picnics in Rome over at the North American College (the American Seminary of the USCCB) and did their best to help the priests. In this incident, they stopped my connecting flight from taking off without me, and personally helped me carry my book-laden suitcases all the way across the airport. What a great crowd!

I was forever their favorite passenger after that. After a TWA flight exploded just out of JFK, a stewardess was showing me the scrap book they had made of the disaster before I boarded another TWA flight, much to the consternation of some not very conspicuous FBI agents. Such talk in an airport is totally illegal, even at that pre-911 time, and I think we would have been arrested had she not been so exuberantly talking of the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary for today’s flight, and had I not been wearing my roman collar!

Back to the book burning… As I said, I’m doing some book burning at the hermitage, including this volume on the Red Brigades. I hope that that’s a chapter of my life I’m closing with this post. This post is, I suppose, another entry in the autobiographical “just me” category. I’m trying to clean up the hermitage a bit, getting things in order. It’s imperative not to hang on to everything. Great book though! Thank you.

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Forgiveness on 9-11 — UPDATE on bitter hatred…

  • By the way, forgiveness does not mean that the offending party wants the forgiveness. In that case, it is not received and they don’t benefit from the forgiveness.
  • By the way, forgiveness does not mean that the offending party is given the go ahead to offend again.
  • By the way, forgiveness from the depths of your heart doesn’t mean that your feelings and emotions must follow this act of the will done in God’s grace. Your feeling and emotion might be screaming for hatred and revenge. Whatever. We are weak in this world. But we can make an act of the will to forgive in God’s grace. That does us a great amount of good. “Pray for those who persecute you!” Remember that teaching of our Lord? Yep. Wouldn’t it give great glory to God for a terrorist to turn to the Lord, I mean truly, honestly? Yep. And we must desire that. Otherwise, our lives are dictated by terrorists, and that’s not good, is it? Nope. See the first two bulleted points above.

UPDATE: I’ve noticed that there are some rather violent reactions to the offer of forgiveness by some who congratulate themselves to be hard-core Catholics.

I’d like to remind such people that the wish that others not be forgiven, no matter at what cost for that non-forgiveness, risks drawing down the wrath of Almighty God upon themselves. “Don’t forgive us as we don’t forgive others” is also a prayer that God hears.  It can send one straight to hell.

Is this not spitting on the Son of God as He begs His Father, Our Father: “Father, forgive them! They don’t even know what they are doing.”

Remember: Forgiveness does not mean that the others are able to take in the forgiveness, for they might not want the forgiveness. It doesn’t mean that permission is given to do something wrong. It isn’t a blessing for wrongdoing. It’s an offer of reality before the crucified Christ. It’s not cheap grace. It’s not somehow unmanly. It’s not about peace at all costs. Justice is also necessary. So is the offer of pardon. Again, if we don’t make the offer, we are controlled by the terrorists, and the terrorists win. They want us to hate them, to be their Satan, and we help them when we don’t show them a better Way.

The offer of pardon goes hand in hand, of course, with bullets to stop unjust aggression. If people can’t get this straight, they ought best keep their opinions to themselves. They are promoters of jacking up violence just for the sake of their own private arrogance. Not good for us. Such arrogance is not a way to support the troops. It does no one any good. It mocks the sacrifices, to death, of the military. Not good. Error such as this has no rights. Error has no rights at all.

One last thing: “Pray for those who persecute you.” Too hard? Impossible? Yep, on both counts, for us. But with God’s grace, this is possible. The Lord does not command the impossible. He provides the grace. Our Father… Hail Mary…

Addendum: I am reminded of a Nuncio appointed to a genocidal region of Africa. He preached forgiveness, seeing that those in the region were consumed with violent hatred years later. Consumed. They said they didn’t want to hear about forgiveness. They murdered him. Another was sent. Same thing. Dead. The offer of forgiveness does great good for those who offer the forgiveness, regardless of whether it is taken in or not by offending parties.

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