MONTREAL MEDIA REMAINS SILENT Re: VANDALISM
John Lauzon
Hate Crime Charges Ruled Out
MONTREAL, MAR 16 (ZENIT).- It has been a little over a week since a group of
feminists came into Montreal's Mary Queen of the World Cathedral shouting
anti-Catholic slogans and littering it with sanitary napkins, condoms, and
women's underwear. Nonetheless, the media in Montreal has been oddly silent
about the matter.
On March 13, Mark Steyn wrote in Toronto's "National Post" about his quest
to find the event in the local Montreal paper. The attack was, in fact,
reported, but not on the front page, nor in section A at all. A small
one-paragraph article was placed on page C9 among the classified ads, the
adults-only classified ads, according to Steyn. Apparently the other
English-language Montreal paper, "The Globe and Mail," didn't even print
that much about it.
Hate Crime?
Montreal police charged the seven persons they apprehended with "unlawful
assembly," declining to apply such laws in the criminal code as "disrupting
a clergyman in the performance of his duties," "interrupting persons
assembled for religious worship," "nuisance," "mischief to property," and
"theft." Testimony of witnesses would indicate that all of these took place,
and all carry a stiffer penalty than unlawful assembly. (Two were charged
with assaulting a police officer, however, and another with obstruction.)
Police ruled out applying Montreal's "hate crimes" law from the start. A
spokesman pointed out that the statute exempts discourses made "in good
faith, attempting to establish by argument an opinion on a religious
subject."
These vandals burnt crosses on the steps of the cathedral, shouted slogans,
and painted the altar with the phrase "Neither God Nor Master" and a pillar
outside the cathedral with "Religion, a Trap for Fools." This was, however,
judged to be simply an "argument about religion."
Another "National Post" editorial on March 9 concluded that "Anti-Christian
hostility is one of the last acceptable bigotries in Canada. It is
observable not only in the bigots and thugs who attacked the cathedral, but
also in the federal bureaucrats who instructed mourners at the Swissair
crash site to make no mention of Jesus Christ, and in the Ottawa tax
department's decertification of Christian charities while secular charities
retained their tax-free status."
Meanwhile, workers at the cathedral have cleaned up the mess. Father
Jean-Pierre Couturier, vicar of the Cathedral, thanked Catholics around the
world for their prayers, and continued his ministry.
Dr. Ian Hunter, professor emeritus of law at the University of Western
Ontario, summed up his March 12 editorial saying, "There is one reaction to
all this that is not understandable -- at least not rationally -- and that
is the one that the Church will exemplify, forgiveness. Why? Because even
greater indignities were heaped upon Him whom the Church glorifies, and His
response was 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.' "
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V. Petersen
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> MONTREAL MEDIA REMAINS SILENT BEFORE CATHEDRAL VANDALISM
Let's not forget that if our buddy Johnny wants to gain back
at least a small part of his lost credibility, he still has to
1) explain to the readership of van.general why it should care
about Montreal media
2) renew his prescription
3) fix the Caps Lock key
- VP
J. Lewin
That is par for Quebec. I went to school in Quebec City during the
1980's. Protestant & Jewish kids often stood outside the churches
yelling and hollaring while Catholic services went on inside.
I remember being at 11 a.m. Mass one very cold January Sunday. The
kids outside kept yelling, " Roman Catholic priests are homosexuals.
Why are you Catholics in there listening to that homosexual?"
I also recall being at the Way of the Cross on Holy Thursday evening.
The Protestant & Jewish kids got up in the trees outside and kept
yelling, "What are you Catholics doing in there? Is the Holy Ghost
coming down? Are you going to have a seance with the Holy Ghost?"
JL
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:41:00 GMT, bk...@torfree.net (John Lauzon)
wrote:
> MONTREAL MEDIA REMAINS SILENT BEFORE CATHEDRAL VANDALISM
>
Mercy to Unborn Children
jle...@intergate.ca (J. Lewin) wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> That is par for Quebec. I went to school in Quebec City during the
> 1980's. Protestant & Jewish kids often stood outside the churches
> yelling and hollaring while Catholic services went on inside.
>
> I remember being at 11 a.m. Mass one very cold January Sunday. The
> kids outside kept yelling, " Roman Catholic priests are homosexuals.
> Why are you Catholics in there listening to that homosexual?"
>
> I also recall being at the Way of the Cross on Holy Thursday evening.
> The Protestant & Jewish kids got up in the trees outside and kept
> yelling, "What are you Catholics doing in there? Is the Holy Ghost
> coming down? Are you going to have a seance with the Holy Ghost?"
>
> JL
Hi JL, your story reminds me when I was a kid. In the winter, a large
crowd of protestant kids from the much larger protestant school up the
street from our small Catholic school would attack us kids in our school
yards with rock filled snowballs for no reason at all except our little
school was Catholic. The street was filled, roadway and all, with these
protestant kids, so 5 or 6 of us would rally and run at them yelling and
screaming and chase them all back up to their own school yard, great
fun!....:)
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J. Lewin
Thanks for letting me in on your childhood experiences, now back to
Montreal.
Did you ever hear of the, Blue Bird Café. It was a downtown Montreal
spot where Roman Catholic girls used to hang out when they started
giving up going to dances in the parish basemant. They liked to go
there to meet Catholic boys from other parishes.
One night some Protestant guys crashed in and yelled and hollared that
they wanted to dance. None of the girls would dance with them. They
left and came back with two 5 gallon cans of gasoline and poured gas
in the front and back stair way. Then they set the two entrances on
fire.
Over 100 Roman Catholic girls were burnt to death. The RCMP caught the
guys. Canada had the death penalty at the time. Canadian Justice
didn't even sentance the Protestant guys to death.
Bye for now.
JL
Mercy to Unborn Children
of jail by now and happily married with kids of their own.
John
In article <38daedcf....@news.intergate.bc.ca>,
for which the last decades of the twentieth century are remembered . ."
-C. Everett Koop, MD-
J Blanchard
: Hi John,
<snip>
: Over 100 Roman Catholic girls were burnt to death. The RCMP caught the
: guys. Canada had the death penalty at the time. Canadian Justice
: didn't even sentance the Protestant guys to death.
You really believe in a vindictive god, don't you?
Whatever happened to "turn the other cheek", "love thy neighbour"
and "judge not lest you be judged"?
Would it trouble you if the same accused proved to mature as
"productive members of society"?
: Bye for now.
Toodles.
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J. Lewin
The Blue Bird may have happened a long time ago, but things like that
keep happening and not just in the street. In fact, the Ontario
Securities Commission has even had to stop Protestants & Jews in
Quebec & Ontario from hating Roman Catholics. Let me tell you.
Robert Campeau was a poor Roman Catholic boy who left Sudbury to go
to Ottawa and be a file clerk for the Feds. In his spare time, he
built a house and sold it. That was the start of Campeau Construction.
Like all builders, he was constantly in need of financing. He tried to
buy a controlling interest in a small mortgage company trading on the
TSE called Royal Trustco, An ex Protestant general living in
Sherbrooke immediately went to Montreal & contacted the Protestant &
Jewish Catholic haters there. They in turn contacted the Protestant &
Jewish Catholic haters in Toronto.
There were about 25 Protestant & Jews in all. They manipulated the
stock of Royal Trustco so that Campeau couldn't buy any. The OSC
spotted it, haulted trading and opened an investigation. During the
investigation, the OSC asked these Protestants & Jews why they had
done it. They replied,
" We did it to stop an upstart Roman Catholic from Sudbury get ahead."
That was even written in black & white in the old Financial Post.
JL
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 06:14:11 GMT, Mercy to Unborn Children
J. Lewin
wrote:
> You really believe in a vindictive god, don't you?
> Whatever happened to "turn the other cheek", "love thy neighbour"
>and "judge not lest you be judged"?
>
> Would it trouble you if the same accused proved to mature as
>"productive members of society"?
>
>: Bye for now.
>
> Toodles.
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Those are nice guiding principles and when you live with people who
also respect them, at times they can help promote a more harmonious
society. The problem is, there are many people who want you to live
by those principles, but don't want to have anything to do with them
their selves.
Some of them will kick you in the gut after they slap the other cheek.
Then they will knock you to the ground and trod on you.
If you love your neighbors too much, some of them will end up loving
your wife and take her away. Then the children you made together
won't have a mother.
If you don't judge it's a sign that you don't have any values. You
might just find yourself walking around with whores and thieves.
JL
John Lauzon
: On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 01:24:43 GMT, jle...@intergate.ca (J. Lewin)
: wrote:
: >If you don't judge it's a sign that you don't have any values. You
: >might just find yourself walking around with whores and thieves.
: just like that jesus guy did.
: And then, what do you know, someone will nail you to a tree...
: Talk about lame.
Jesus 'converted' the whores and thieves from they're vice, than THEY
walked around with HIM.
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