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Jesuits: You Know Them By Their Students: How Georgetown affected the truthfulness of Bill Clinton, back when he campaigned as a MAGA guy

 

Bill Clinton addresses a crowd in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1992 © AP

Sam Leith

Published: Nov 8 2017


“Believe it or not,” Bill Clinton said in a speech at Georgetown University on Monday, “we thought it was pretty polarised” back in 1992: “we had income inequality, we had alienation, we had unequal opportunities, and we had a lot of social division”. But, as he reflected, America now looks even more polarised. 

It’s 25 years ago this month that the boy from Hope, Arkansas, was elected president of the US — an event that he celebrated from the steps of the Old State House in Little Rock with the resonant pay-off (made possible by his birth town): “I still believe in a place called Hope.” 

He has an enduring reputation as one of the most effective speakers in the modern history of the presidency. But there are two Bill Clintons that we tend to remember, oratorically. There’s the great empathiser who said, “I feel your pain”; and there’s the Jesuitical lawyer who could argue straight-facedly about “what the meaning of ‘is’ is” or redefine “sexual relations” in a hitherto unique way. 

At his most effective, he combined those two things: argument and passion; or logos and pathos, in Aristotelian terms. It’s seldom remembered, for instance, that “I feel your pain” was delivered not in gooey Oprah Winfrey mode but in great anger. On the 1992 campaign trail, the then governor Mr Clinton was heckled by an Aids activist called Bob Rafsky. The sound bite was delivered as part of an angry response to Mr Rafsky’s off-beam jibe that Mr Clinton was “dying of ambition”. 

“Let me tell you something. If I were dying of ambition, I wouldn’t have stood up here and put up with all this crap I’ve put up with for the last six months. I’m fighting to change this country. 

Mr Clinton has always been at his best as a speaker when combining intellectual sinew with well-pitched displays of emotion. 

“And let me tell you something else. Let me tell you something else. You do not have the right to treat any human being, including me, with no respect because of what you’re worried about. I did not cause it. I’m trying to do something about it. I have treated you and all the people who’ve interrupted my rally with a hell of a lot more respect than you’ve treated me, and it’s time you started thinking about that. 

“I feel your pain, I feel your pain, but if you want to attack me personally you’re no better than Jerry Brown and all the rest of these people who say whatever sounds good at the moment. If you want something to be done, you ask me a question and you listen. If you don’t agree with me, go support somebody else for President but quit talking to me like that. This is not a matter of personal attack; it’s a matter of human wrong.” 

Here, rather than a passive surrender to empathy, was a venomously articulate call for courtesy, and for active pragmatism over yah-boo displays of feeling. 

And — though in softer and more sinuous mode — he combined a display of feeling with a lawyer’s precision when seeking to turn things around during the investigation into the Lewinsky affair. He chose the occasion of a White House prayer breakfast to mount a shamelessly political fightback, by turning a legal and political issue into a spiritual one. While noting that “I will instruct my lawyers to mount a vigorous defence”, he said: “But legal language must not obscure the fact I have done wrong.” 

In a speech at Georgetown university this week, Bill Clinton says America is even more polarised than it was when he became president in 1992 © Reuters

Casting himself as a humble repentant, he quoted scripture, apologised to those he had hurt, and (in a foxy shift of translative stasis) put his spiritual renewal into the hands of God — thus, by implication, raising it above and beyond the petty realm of impeachment proceedings. He even — as a notoriously fluent improviser — made the slightly hammy gesture of reading his remarks from a piece of paper and craving his audience’s indulgence in his wearing his glasses to do so. Here was an object show of human vulnerability, and a token of his seriousness. 

“I was up rather late last night thinking about and praying about what I ought to say today. And rather unusually for me, I actually tried to write it down. So if you will forgive me, I will do my best to say what it is I want to say to you. And I may have to take my glasses out to read my own writing.” 

To his opponents, that speech will have been enragingly brilliant. Mr Clinton, then, has always been at his best as a speaker when combining intellectual sinew with well-pitched displays of emotion. He’s an iron fist in a velvet glove; sentimental as a fox. 

And what of his comparison, in Georgetown, of then with now? Well. It’s curious, and salutary, to look back at the rhetoric of 25 years ago. Did you remember, for instance, that when he accepted the presidential nomination Mr Clinton gave a speech in which he railed against “Washington”, warned that we’re “losing the American dream”, approvingly described “citizens banding together to take their streets and neighbourhoods back” from “crime and drugs”, vowed to “rebuild America”, reform healthcare, “demand fair trade policies”, stick up for the “forgotten middle class” — and ended by promising to “make America great again”? Me neither. But he did. That shows, perhaps, how ideologically flexible the clichés of the political speech can be. [SOURCE]

Bill Cooper_The Original Red Pill: Lansing, MI address, 1996_pt IV

 


Jesuits_How The Society Of Jesus Carries Out Its Goals: Declared list of Jesuits accused of sexual relations with children

Jesuit priest and former USF professor Donald McGuire with one of his alleged sexual victims in Walnut Creek, 1982.  Image, SF Weekly staff.
 
Feb. 8, 2023

The Jesuits USA Central and Southern (UCS) Province in December 2018 released a list of Jesuits with credible allegations of sexual abuse of a minor. For the purposes of this list, a finding of credibility of an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor is based on a belief, with moral certitude, after careful investigation and review by professionals, that an incident of sexual abuse of a minor occurred, or probably occurred, with the possibility that it did not occur being highly unlikely. “Moral certitude” in this context means a high degree of probability, but short of absolute certainty. Inclusion on this list does not imply that the accused individual has been found guilty of a crime or liable for civil claims.


Since this list was first released, the province has periodically updated the list and is doing so today by adding the names of two persons: the late Daniel Campbell, SJ and David V. Meconi, a former member of the UCS Province who has now departed the Society of Jesus and the priesthood.

Reporting Abuse

The province urges anyone who experienced sexual abuse as a minor to report the offense to the law enforcement or child protective services in the locale where the abuse happened. Survivors are also encouraged to advise the Jesuits by calling Carol Zarinelli Brescia, Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She can be reached confidentially by phone at 314-915-7168 or email at ucsoutreach@jesuits.org.

Original Announcement

Dec. 7, 2018 – The Jesuits U.S. Central and Southern Province today released a list of names of Jesuits with credible allegations of sexual abuse of a minor. This list contains the names of the Jesuits who are or were members of the U.S. Central and Southern (UCS) Province and its predecessor entities: the New Orleans Province, the Missouri Province, or the Independent Region of Puerto Rico of the Society of Jesus. These men fall into one of three categories:Jesuits of this province against whom one or more credible claims of sexual abuse of a minor or a vulnerable adult have been made;
Jesuits from other provinces against whom there are credible claims resulting from their work while assigned to this province;
Jesuits of this province whose names have been published on diocesan websites or the websites of other Jesuit provinces.

This list is based on investigations that have been completed. Jesuits with allegations that are currently being investigated have not been included on this list. Inclusion on this list does not imply that the allegations are true and correct or that the accused individual has been found guilty of a crime or liable for civil claims. Additional information about each man follows the initial list. While a list of each man’s assignments is included, it is important to note that the allegations do not necessarily stem from any of the listed assignments.

List of Jesuits with Credible Allegations
Michael O. Barry, SJ
Charles Bartles, SJ
Jody Blanchard, SJ
Br. Everard J. Booth, SJ
José Angel Borges, SJ
Claude P. Boudreaux, SJ
Daniel V. Campbell, SJ
John Campbell, SJ
Cornelius J. Carr, SJ (New York Province which is now part of USA East Province)
Mark A. Clark, SJ
Francis X. Cleary SJ
James A. Condon, SJ (Chicago Province which is now part of USA Midwest Province)
Charles G. Coyle, SJ
Edward D. DeRussy, SJ
Donald Dickerson, SJ
Burton J. Fraser, SJ (Wisconsin Province which is now part of USA Midwest Province)
Chester E. Gaiter, SJ
Thomas J. Hatrel, SJ
Thomas J. Hidding, SJ
John W. Hough, SJ
Francis J. Kegel, SJ
Dennis P. Kirchoff, SJ
Bernard P. Knoth, SJ (Chicago Province which is now part of USA Midwest Province)
Patrick H. Koch, SJ
Philip D. Kraus, SJ
Francis M. Landwermeyer, SJ
Gerhardt B. Lehmkuhl, SJ
James D. Loeffler, SJ
Alfonso Madrid, SJ (Province of Mexico)
Eugene A. Maio, SJ
Vincent R. Malatesta, SJ
James L. McShane, SJ
David V. Meconi, SJ
Edward P. Murphy, SJ
Thomas J. Naughton, SJ (Priest of the New Orleans Province, NOT Brother Thomas Naughton of the Missouri Province)
Patrick H. O’Liddy, SJ
Vincent A. Orlando, SJ
Claude L. Ory, SJ (Brother, formerly in New Orleans Province, now USA East Province)
Austin N. Park SJ
J. Donald Pearce, SJ
George M. Pieper, SJ
Paul C. Pilgram, SJ
Samuel H. Ray, SJ
Elmo J. Rogero, SJ
Norman J. Rogge, SJ
Anthony J. Short, SJ
Benjamin Smylie, SJ
Arthur O. Verdieck, SJ
J. Patrick Walsh, SJ
Richard H. Witzofsky, SJ (Brother)
Benjamin Wren, SJ

See Fr. Ronald Mercier’s 2018 Statement

Frequently Asked Questions

Jesuits of the U.S. Central and Southern Province (and its predecessor entities) with Credible Allegations of Abuse of a Minor


This list contains the names of the Jesuits who are or were members of the U.S. Central and Southern (UCS) Province and its predecessor entities: the New Orleans Province, the Missouri Province, or the Independent Region of Puerto Rico of the Society of Jesus, and against whom a credible claim of sexual abuse of a minor has been made.

A Single Allegation


Michael O. Barry, SJ
Birth: 1948
Ordination: 1979
Status of Individual: Deceased 1987
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1983-85
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments: Regis High School, Denver * (see explanation at end) Cardinal Ritter High School, St. Louis
Saint Louis University Hospitals, St. Louis
White House Retreat, St. Louis


Jody Blanchard, SJ
Birth: 1953
Ordination: 1983
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus 1994 Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1980s
Removed from Ministry: Left Society of Jesus 1994
Pastoral Assignments:
St. Charles Borromeo Church, Grand Coteau, La.
Tulane Catholic Center, New Orleans
Immaculate Conception Parish, Baton Rouge, La.
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Houston


José Angel Borges, SJ
Birth: 1932
Ordination: 1969
Status of Individual: Deceased 2007
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, El Paso, Texas
Colegio San Ignacio, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Instituto Ignacio, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Parroquia San Ignacio, San Juan, Puerto Rico



Daniel V. Campbell, SJ
Birth: 1909
Ordination: 1940
Status of Individual: Deceased
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1955-59
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments:
Saint Louis University, St. Louis
Jesuit Retreat House, Cushing, Okla.
Sacred Heart Retreat House, Sedalia, Colo.
St. Francis Xavier (College) Church, St. Louis
United States Army Chaplain
Missouri Province Mission Band (based at St. Joseph Hall, Decatur, Ill.
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisc.
Holy Rosary Mission, Pine Ridge, S.D.
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis


Mark A. Clark, SJ
Birth: 1954
Ordination: N/A
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus 1989
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1980s Removed from Ministry: N/A – had already left when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments:
Regis Jesuit High School, Denver* (see explanation at end)


Francis X. Cleary, SJ
Birth: 1929
Ordination: 1963
Status of Individual: Deceased 2010
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s
Removed from Ministry: Restricted 1988; Removed from ministry 2002
Pastoral Assignments:
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis
Fusz Memorial, St. Louis
Saint Louis University, St. Louis
Fusz Pavilion, St. Lou


Thomas J. Hidding, SJ
Birth: 1950
Ordination: 1986
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus 2003; Deceased 2005
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1980s
Removed from Ministry: 2002
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, Tampa, Fla.
Jesuit College Preparatory School, Dallas
Holy Name of Jesus Parish, New Orleans
Loyola University, New Orleans
Sacred Heart Church, Tampa, Fla.
Immaculate Conception Parish, New Orleans
Gesù Parish, Miami


John W. Hough, SJ
Birth: 1939
Ordination: 1973
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus and priesthood 1977
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – had already left the Society of Jesus when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments:
Kapaun High School, Wichita, Kansas
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis


Francis J. Kegel, SJ
Birth: 1919
Ordination: N/A
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus 1953; Deceased 2009
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1940s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – already left Society of Jesus when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments:
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis
Rockhurst High School, Kansas City, Mo.


Dennis P. Kirchoff, SJ
Birth: 1955
Ordination: 1987
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus 1995
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1990s
Removed from Ministry: 1991
Pastoral Assignments:
Rockhurst High School, Kansas City, Mo.
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis




Philip D. Kraus, SJ
Birth: 1941
Ordination: 1975
Status of Individual: Removed from ministry and lives under supervision
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s
Removed from Ministry: Restricted from ministry with minors 1996; Removed from ministry 2003
Pastoral Assignments:
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis
Regis Jesuit High School, Denver, Colo. * (see explanation at end)
St. Francis Xavier Parish, Kansas City, Mo.
Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Mo.
White House Jesuit Retreat Office, St. Louis
Catholic Social Services, Peoria, Ill.
Sacred Heart Retreat House, Alhambra, Calif.
Jesuit Hall Community, St. Louis


Gerhardt B. Lehmkuhl, SJ
Birth: 1942
Ordination: 1974
Status of Individual: Deceased 2012
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1990s
Removed from Ministry: 2002
Pastoral Assignments:
Regis Jesuit High School, Denver * (see explanation at end)
De Smet High Jesuit Community, St. Louis
Jesuit Hall Community, St. Louis


Eugene A. Maio, SJ
Birth: 1929
Ordination: 1960
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus 1970; Left Priesthood 1971
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1960s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – had already left when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments:
Regis High School, Denver * (see explanation at end)
Loyola University, Los Angeles
Saint Louis University, St. Louis


James L. McShane, SJ
Birth: 1907
Ordination: 1941
Status of Individual: Deceased 1993
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1950s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments:
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis
Missouri Province Mission Band
Sacred Heart Parish, Denver
St. Malachy Parish, St. Louis
Yoro, Honduras
Firmin Desloge Hospital, St. Louis
Fusz Memorial, St. Louis
Mt. Carmel, Pueblo, Colo.
De Smet Jesuit High School, St. Louis
Fusz Pavilion, St. Louis


David V. Meconi, SJ
Birth: 1965
Ordination: 2003
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus and Priesthood 2023
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 2015-16
Removed from Ministry: 2021
Pastoral Assignments:
Saint Louis University, St. Louis
Xavier University, Cincinnati


Edward P. Murphy, SJ
Birth: 1908
Ordination: 1942
Status of Individual: Deceased 1975
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1940s – 1950s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments:
St. Ignatius Loyola Parish, Denver


Thomas J. Naughton, SJ
NOTE: This is Fr. Thomas Naughton of the former New Orleans Province, not Bro. Thomas Naughton of the former Missouri Province
Birth: 1933
Ordination: 1965
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus 2009; Deceased 2012
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s
Removed from Ministry: 2002
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
Jesuit High School, El Paso, Texas
Jesuit High School, Tampa, Fla.
Jesuit College Preparatory School, Dallas
St. John’s Co-Cathedral, Shreveport, La.
Manresa House of Retreats, Convent, La.
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Houston
Jesuit Seminary and Mission Bureau, New Orleans
Montserrat Retreat House, Lake Dallas, Texas
St. Killian Parish, Mission Viejo, Calif.


Patrick H. O’Liddy, SJ
Birth: 1956
Ordination: 1990
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus 2000; Left priesthood 2001
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1990s
Removed from Ministry: 1999
Pastoral Assignments:
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis
Regis University, Denver * (see explanation at end)


Vincent A. Orlando, SJ
Birth: 1941
Ordination: 1974
Status of Individual: Removed from ministry and lives under supervision
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1980s
Removed from Ministry: 2002
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit College Preparatory School, Dallas
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Houston
Jesuit High School, Tampa, Fla.


Elmo J. Rogero, SJ
Birth: 1908
Ordination: 1944
Status of Individual: Deceased 1959
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1950s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
Loyola University, New Orleans
Spring Hill College, Mobile, Ala.
Immaculate Conception Church, New Orleans
Jesuit High School, New Orleans


Anthony J. Short, SJ
Birth: 1939
Ordination: 1971
Status of Individual: Deceased 2020
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1960s, 1970s
Removed from Ministry: 2008
Pastoral Assignments:
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis
St. Francis Xavier (College) Church, St. Louis
St. Stephen’s Mission, St. Stephen’s, Wyo.
Regis Jesuit High School, Denver * (see explanation at end)
Fusz Pavilion Jesuit Community, St. Louis
Sacred Heart Jesuit Retreat House Community, Sedalia, Colo.
Xavier Jesuit Center, Denver


Arthur O. Verdieck, SJ
Birth: 1918
Ordination: 1950
Status of Individual: Deceased 1980
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1950s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – Deceased when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments:
Campion High School, Prairie du Chien, Wisc.
Marquette High School, Milwaukee, Wisc.
Regis High School, Denver * (see explanation at end)
Regis College, Denver
Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City


Patrick Walsh, SJ
Birth: 1923
Ordination: 1952
Status of Individual: dismissed 1979; deceased 1993
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1959-60
Removed from Ministry: N/A-dismissed from Society and deceased when allegation established.
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Houston
Jesuit High School, El Paso, Texas
Jesuit High School, Dallas
Corpus Christi Minor Seminary, Corpus Christi, Texas
St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, La.
St. Louis High School, Lake Charles, La.


More Than One Allegation


Everard J. Booth, SJ
Birth: 1917
Ordination: N/A – Jesuit brother
Status of Individual: Deceased 1986
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1960s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegations received
Pastoral Assignments:
St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, La.
New Orleans Province Provincial Office, New Orleans
St. Michael’s College, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
St. Joseph’s College, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Jesuit Seminary and Mission Bureau, New Orleans
Jesuit High School, New Orleans


Claude P. Boudreaux, SJ
Birth: 1924
Ordination: 1955
Status of Individual: Deceased 2016
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1960s
Removed from Ministry: 2004
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, Tampa, Fla.
St. Michael’s College, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
St. Mary’s Church, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Spring Hill College, Mobile, Ala.
Jesuit High School, Shreveport, La.
Sacred Heart Parish, El Paso, Texas
Jesuit College Preparatory School, Dallas
Curia of the Society of Jesus, Rome, Italy
Jesuit House of Studies,
New Orleans Jesuit High School, New Orleans


John Campbell, SJ
Birth: 1920
Ordination: 1950
Status of Individual: Deceased 2009
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1960s – 1980s
Removed from Ministry: Restricted from minors 1985; Removed from ministry 1987
Pastoral Assignments:
Marquette University High School, Milwaukee, Wisc.
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis
Queen’s Work, St. Louis
St. Francis Xavier (College) Church, St. Louis
White House Jesuit Retreat Office, St. Louis
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis
Fusz Memorial – Saint Louis University, St. Louis
Regis College Jesuit Community, Denver * (see explanation at end)
Xavier Jesuit Center, Denver


Charles G. Coyle, SJ
Birth: 1932
Ordination: 1965
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus 2004, deceased 2015
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1960s – 70s
Removed from Ministry: 2002
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
Jesuit College Preparatory School, Dallas
Jesuit High School, Shreveport, La.
Spring Hill College, Mobile, Ala.
Woodstock College, Woodstock, Md.
Newton High, Newton, Mass.
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Houston
Holy Cross High, New Orleans
Tulane University, New Orleans
Ignatius House Retreat Center, Atlanta, Ga.
Montserrat Retreat House, Lake Dallas, Texas
Pastoral Ministry, New Orleans


Edward D. DeRussy, SJ
Birth: 1926
Ordination: 1957
Status of Individual: Deceased 2001
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s
Removed from Ministry: Restricted from ministry with minors 1991
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
Jesuit High School, Tampa, Fla.
Jesuit High School, El Paso, Texas
Spring Hill College, Mobile, Ala.
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Houston
Sacred Heart Church, Tampa, Fla.
St. Joseph Church, Zephyrhills, Fla.
St. Benedict Church, Crystal River, Fla.
Ignatius Residence, New Orleans
St. John’s Hospital, Nassau Bay, Texas


Donald Dickerson, SJ
Birth: 1936
Ordination: 1980
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus 1986; Deceased 2018
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s, 1980s
Removed from Ministry: 1986
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
Jesuit College Preparatory, Dallas
St. John Berchmans Parish, Shreveport, La.
Loyola University, New Orleans


Chester E. Gaiter, SJ
Birth: 1939
Ordination: 1976
Status of Individual: Deceased 2010
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s – 1980s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – infirm at time of allegations
Pastoral Assignments:
Rockhurst High School, Kansas City, Mo.
St. Matthew’s Parish, St. Louis
Cardinal Ritter High School, St. Louis
St. Joseph’s Parish, East St. Louis, Ill.
Jesuit Hall Community, St. Louis
Fusz Pavilion Jesuit Community, St. Louis


Patrick H. Koch, SJ
Birth: 1927
Ordination: 1957
Status of Individual: Deceased 2006
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970’s, 1980’s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegation established.
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
Spring Hill College, Mobile, Ala.
Jesuit College Preparatory, Dallas
Corpus Christi Minor Seminary, Corpus Christi, Texas
Montserrat Retreat House, Lake Dallas, Texas
Holy Trinity Seminary, Irving, Texas
St. Rita Parish, Dallas
Sacred Heart Academy, Tampa, Fla.
Treemont Retirement Community


Francis M. Landwermeyer, SJ
Birth: 1934
Ordination: 1966
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus and Priesthood, 2011; Deceased 2018
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1960s, 1970s
Removed from Ministry: 2010
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit College Preparatory School, Dallas
Jesuit High School, Shreveport, La.
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
Jesuit High School, Tampa, Fla.
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisc.
Loyola University, New Orleans
Mercy Cross High School, Biloxi, Miss.
St. Thomas the Apostle, Charleston Heights, S.C.
Nouvel Central Catholic High, Saginaw, Mich.
Cardinal Newman High School, Columbia, S.C.
Central Catholic High, San Antonio Antonian High School, San Antonio
St. Cecilia, San Antonio


Vincent R. Malatesta, SJ
Birth: 1936
Ordination: 1961 (for the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey; entered Society of Jesus 1979)
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus 2004
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1980s
Removed from Ministry: 2002
Pastoral Assignments as a Jesuit Priest:
Jesuit College Preparatory School, Dallas
Spring Hill College, Mobile, Ala.
Ignatius House Retreat Center, Atlanta


Austin N. Park, SJ
Birth: 1918
Ordination: 1955
Status of Individual: Deceased 2013
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1960s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – already out of ministry due to dementia when allegations received
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, Shreveport, La.
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
Spring Hill College, Mobile, Ala.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish and Shrine, San Antonio
Colegio San Ignacio, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
Jesuit High School, El Paso, Texas
Gesù Parish, Miami, Fla.
Christ the King Church, Grand Coteau, La.
Sacred Heart Church, Tampa, Fla.
Immaculate Conception Parish, New Orleans
St. Joseph Church, Houston
St. Mary’s Church, Greenville, S.C.
Our Lady of the Rosary, Greenville, S.C.
Sacred Heart Parish, El Paso, Texas
Oakdale Facility, Oakdale, La.
St. Philip Neri, Kinder, La.
St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, La.


J. Donald Pearce, SJ
Birth: 1925
Ordination: 1959
Status of Individual: Deceased 2016
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1960s
Removed from Ministry: Retired from Ministry in 2003 due to poor health
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, Shreveport, La.
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
Spring Hill College, Mobile, Ala.
Loyola University, New Orleans
Corpus Christi Minor Seminary, Corpus Christi, Texas
Gesù Parish, Miami
Holy Name of Jesus Parish, New Orleans


George M. Pieper, SJ
Birth: 1917
Ordination: 1948
Status of Individual: Deceased 1998
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegations received
Pastoral Assignments:
Campion High School, Prairie du Chien, Wisc.
St. Francis Mission, St. Francis, S.D.
Kapaun High School, Wichita, Kansas
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis
Fusz Pavilion, St. Louis
Hallahan House Jesuit Community, St. Louis


Paul C. Pilgram, SJ
Birth: 1939
Ordination: 1970
Status of Individual: Deceased 2021
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s – 1990s
Removed from Ministry: Restricted from ministry with minors 1991; Removed from ministry 2003
Pastoral Assignments:
St. Stephen’s Mission, St. Stephen’s, Wyo.
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis
Regis Jesuit High School, Denver * (see explanation at end)
Rockhurst High School, Kansas City, Mo.
Fusz Pavilion Jesuit Community, St. Louis
White House Jesuit Retreat Office, St. Louis


Samuel H. Ray, SJ
Birth: 1894
Ordination: 1925
Status of Individual: Deceased 1983
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1940s, 1950s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegation established.
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
Loyola University, New Orleans
St. Joseph Church, Mobile, Ala.
St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, La.
Our Lady of the Oaks Retreat House, Grand Coteau, La.
St. Ann Parish, West Palm Beach, Fla.
U.S. Navy, Chaplain – Pacific Theater (World War II)
Manresa House of Retreats, Convent, La.
Jesuit High School, Shreveport, La.
St. John’s Parish, Shreveport, La.
Sacred Heart Parish, El Paso, Texas
Ignatius Residence, New Orleans


Norman J. Rogge, SJ
Birth: 1925
Ordination: 1956
Status of Individual: Deceased 2009
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1960s, 1970s
Removed from Ministry: 2002
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, Tampa, Fla.
Jesuit College Preparatory School, Dallas
Sacred Heart Church, Tampa, Fla.
St. Charles Parish, Grand Coteau, La.
St. Ignatius Church, Mobile, Ala.
St. Patrick Church, Montgomery, La.
Immaculate Conception Parish, New Orleans
St. Charles College, Grand Coteau, La.


Benjamin Smylie, SJ
Birth: 1934
Ordination: 1985
Status of Individual: Deceased 2004
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1980s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegations received
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit College Preparatory, Dallas, Texas
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Houston
St. Rita Church, Dallas

Incardinated into the Diocese of Tyler, Texas in 1994


Richard H. Witzofsky, SJ (Brother)
Birth: 1929
Ordination: N/A (Jesuit brother)
Status of Individual: Deceased 2003
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s
Removed from Ministry: 2002
Pastoral Assignments:
St. Stanislaus Seminary, Florissant, Mo.
St. Louis University High School, St. Louis
Hallahan House Jesuit Community, St. Louis

Jesuits of Other Provinces/Regions
The following names are those of Jesuits who worked in what is now the Jesuits U.S. Central and Southern Province at the time of reported offense or were removed from ministry while working there. Also included here are Jesuits who are no longer members of this province, but the allegations address their actions while members of this province.

A Single Allegation


James A. Condon, SJ
(Former Chicago Province, now part of the Midwest Jesuits)
Birth: 1906
Ordination: 1939
Status of Individual: Deceased 1993
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1960s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments in this province:
The Queen’s Work, St. Louis — only assignment in Missouri Province


Burton J. Fraser, SJ
(Originally a member of the Missouri Province, became a member of the Wisconsin Province when it was created in 1955)
Birth: 1899
Ordination: 1935
Status of Individual: Deceased 1971
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1950s (while still a member of the Missouri Province)
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments:
Rockhurst High School, Kansas City, Mo.
St. Mary’s College, St. Marys, Kansas
St. Francis Mission, St. Francis, S.D.
Sacred Heart Parish, Denver
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisc.
Chaplain, U.S. Military
Mt. Carmel, Pueblo, Colo.
Creighton University, Omaha, Neb.


Bernard P. Knoth, SJ
(Former Chicago Province, now Midwest Province)
Birth: 1948
Ordination: 1977
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus and Priesthood 2009
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1980s
Removed from Ministry: 2003 by the Chicago Province
Pastoral Assignments in this province:
Loyola University, New Orleans


More Than One Allegation


Cornelius J. Carr, SJ
(Former New York Province now USA East Province)
Birth: 1920
Ordination: 1951
Status of Individual: Deceased 2013
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s, 1990s
Removed from Ministry: 2005 (by the New York Province due to allegations they received)

Pastoral Assignment under this province:
Jesuit High School, New Orleans

Cornelius Carr also worked at the following locations. Although they are in the area covered by the New Orleans Province, he was under the jurisdiction of the province of which he was a member, now known as the USA East Province, Society of Jesus:
St. Augustine Cathedral Basilica, St. Augustine, Fla.
Christ the King Church, Jacksonville, Fla.


James D. Loeffler, SJ
(New England Province)
Birth: 1901
Ordination: 1953
Status of Individual: Deceased 1984
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1950s, 1960s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – allegations discovered during file review after his death
Pastoral Assignments in this province:
Gesù Parish, Miami
St. Ann Parish, West Palm Beach, Fla.
Sacred Heart Parish, El Paso, Texas
Immaculate Conception Parish, Albuquerque, N.M.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, San Antonio, Texas
Sacred Heart Parish, Augusta, Ga.
Christ the King Parish, Grand Coteau, La.
St. Mary, Star of the Sea, Key West, Fla.


Alfonso Madrid, SJ
(Province of Mexico)
Birth: 1915
Ordination: 1950
Status of Individual: Deceased 1982
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1960s, 1970s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegations received
Pastoral Assignments in this province:
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
San Felipe Church, Albuquerque, N.M.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, San Antonio
Sacred Heart Parish, El Paso, Texas
Note: The Province of Mexico staffed St. Ignatius Parish in El Paso, Texas; Madrid worked there under the Province of Mexico.


Claude L. Ory, SJ (Brother)
(Former New Orleans Province, now USA East Province)
Birth: 1938
Ordination: N/A (Jesuit Brother)
Status of Individual: Member of USA East Province; removed from ministry and lives under supervision
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s
Removed from Ministry: 2007
Pastoral Assignments:
Spring Hill College / Jesuit House of Studies, Mobile, Ala.
Jesuit High School, El Paso, Texas
St. John’s Parish, Shreveport, La.
Loyola University, New Orleans
Jesuit College Preparatory School, Dallas
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory, Houston
Ignatius House Retreat Center, Atlanta
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
Ignatius House Retreat Center, Atlanta
Loyola College, Baltimore

Jesuits of the Province who have been named in listings by other Provinces, Regions, Archdioceses or Dioceses

A Single Allegation


Thomas J. Hatrel, SJ
Birth: 1922
Ordination: 1952
Status of Individual: Deceased 1988
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1980s while applied to the Oregon Province
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, New Orleans
Jesuit High School, Tampa, Fla.
Immaculate Conception Grade School, Fairbanks, Alaska
St. Ignatius Church, Alakanuck, Alaska


Benjamin Wren, SJ
Birth: 1931
Ordination: 1961
Status of Individual: Left Society of Jesus 1996; Deceased 2006
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s-1980s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – no longer a Jesuit, deceased when allegation received
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, Dallas
Jesuit High School, El Paso, Texas
Loyola University, New Orleans
Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
Loyola University, New Orleans
Community of John the Evangelist, New Orleans

More Than One Allegation


Charles Bartles, SJ
Birth: 1936
Ordination: 1965
Status of Individual: Deceased 1993
Estimated Timeframe of Abuse: 1970s or 1980s
Removed from Ministry: N/A – deceased when listed
Pastoral Assignments:
Jesuit High School, Shreveport, La.
Jesuit High School, Tampa, Fla.
Campion College, Kingston, Jamaica
Marist High School, Atlanta
Alaska Mission (Oregon Province)
Immaculate Conception Church, Bethel, Alaska
St. Ann Church, West Palm Beach, Fla.
Instituto Souza, Campinas, Brazil


* Until the fall of 1990, Regis University and Regis High shared the same campus and Jesuits assigned to either work lived in the same community. However, Jesuits who were assigned to the high school did not normally work in the university and those assigned to the university did not normally work in the high school.

[SOURCE]

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Bill Cooper_The Original Red Pill: Lansing MI, 1996_pt II

 


DSSO_Righting (some of) The Wrongs: FBI whistleblowers who got punished during Biden's administration appeal their treatment under Trump



Carmine Sabia
March 29, 2025


FBI agents who say that they were punished after exposing wrongdoing in the department during the administration of former President Joe Biden are asking new FBI Director Kash Patel to review their cases.

In early March the group, Empower Oversight sent letter to Samuel Ramer, who serves as the FBI general counsel, in which is asked for assistance related to the alleged improper treatment of the whistleblowers, which included FBI agents and employees Garret O’Boyle, Marcus Allen, Stephen Friend, Zach Schofftsall, Monica Shillingburg, and Michael Zummer, Just The News reported.

Another four clients mentioned in the letter had their names redacted, including one who wants to share information on his time working under the infamous Peter Strzok.

One of the whistleblowers, staff operations specialist Marcus Allen, had his security clearance suspended “for questioning whether Director (Christopher) Wray had testified truthfully to Congress and other allegations based on SOS Allen’s political beliefs and concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine.”

The agent, who was assigned to the FBI’s Charlotte Division, “was suspended indefinitely without pay.”

The group said that the FBI reached a settlement with Allen but that it did not completely fulfill its obligations under the agreement. It said that the FBI still needs to fix its client’s W2 tax forms and pay him the correct amount of leave he is owed.

“While I feel vindicated now in getting back my security clearance, it is sad that in the country I fought for as a Marine, the FBI was allowed to lie about my loyalty to the U.S. for two years,” the formerly suspended agent said. “Unless there is accountability, it will keep happening to others. Better oversight and changes to security clearance laws are key to stop abuses suffered by whistleblowers like me.”

Empower Oversight wants a “fresh review” of his and other whistleblower cases as well.

“The actions taken against our clients were in reprisal for protected whistleblowing and/or improper targeting because of their political beliefs,” organization founder and chairman Jason Foster said in the letter to the FBI.

“The common theme among most of our clients who had their security clearances suspended and or revoked is the FBI’s ability to indefinitely delay the process and financially pressure FBI employees by suspending their pay and blocking their ability to earn a living any other way. Most facing that dilemma simply resign with no prospect of a fair process to challenge it, which allows the pattern to repeat without remedy,” he said.

The attorneys representing the FBI agents said that “if the review by your office alone does not lead to direct managerial action to remedy the harms and resolve our clients’ pending matters, we would be willing to propose to our clients that they enter into mediation facilitated by a neutral mediator — assuming an acceptable senior official with no animus toward our clients is delegated settlement authority to represent the FBI in the mediation.”

The group said that “while we appreciate your review of these cases to explore ways to amicably resolve and remedy the harms the FBI has inflicted on our clients, we are also willing to engage in other good faith efforts to reach the same goals.”

“A lot of our work has to remain confidential because some clients do not wish to become public figures. Sometimes though, it takes public scrutiny to move the needle,” Foster said when he spoke to Just the News.

“These FBI clients have waited a very long time on a system that, as of today, is still failing to keep its promises to protect whistleblowers from retaliation. It’s past time to make good on those promises and give them real meaning in these cases,” Foster added. 
[SOURCE]

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Experts Agree_The Psychosis Of These Types Of "Victims": watch the delirious professor explain his thinking (or hysteria)

Trans Activism_Mental Illness Defined: The case of the "Zizians"



Transgender vegan 'cult' members arrested

Post Millennial senior editor Andy Ngo unpacks what led to the arrests of members of an apparent transgender vegan cult on 'The Ingraham Angle.'

The apparent head of a radical transgender cult linked to six killings, including a U.S. Border Patrol agent, told a Maryland judge last week, "I haven’t done anything wrong" while pleading for access to vegan food behind bars.

"I might starve to death if you cannot answer me," Jack Amadeus LaSota, 34, who goes by "Ziz," told Judge Erich Bean during a bail hearing in Allegany County District Court in Maryland on Feb. 18, according to audio obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle. "I need the jail to be ordered for me to have a vegan diet. It’s more important than whatever this hearing is."

During the hearing, LaSota said at another point that releasing him on bail "may be a matter of survival if I don’t get vegan food. . . . I haven’t done anything wrong. I shouldn’t be here."

He continued, saying that he might be in a "mild state of delusion" due to a lack of vegan options in the Allegany County Detention Center and that he is not a flight risk since he is homeless.

ZIZIAN LEADER JACK LASOTA: WHO IS TRANSGENDER, VEGAN CULT HEAD LINKED TO BORDER AGENT KILLING?

Maryland State Police arrested three members of the group — Jack Amadeus Lasota, Michelle Jacqueline Zajko and Daniel Arthur Blank — on Feb. 16 in connection with the Jan. 20 killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Maland during a traffic stop in Vermont, the Maryland State Police said. (Allegany County Sheriff's Office)

LaSota and two other reported Zizian members, Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, 32, of Media, Pa., and Daniel Arthur Blank, 26, of Sacramento, Calif., were arrested on Feb. 16 in Maryland.

LaSota and his affiliates face multiple charges, including trespassing and possession of a handgun. Their arrests brought attention to the "Zizian" cult – a group of radical young people who mostly identify as transgender, who are known for their affinity for veganism and their link to violent killings.

The Zizians' violence was most recently linked to the Jan. 20 killing of Vermont Border Patrol Agent David Christopher Maland, 44.


In September 2022, a brief obituary was published in LaSota’s hometown paper, the Daily News-Miner, in Fairbanks, Alaska. The obituary claims that LaSota was killed in a "boating accident" on Aug. 19, 2022. (Legacy.com)

During the hearing, Allegany County Attorney James Elliott described LaSota as someone who "appears to be the leader of an extremist group known as the Zizians. That group is tied to multiple homicides."

"It’s important to note Mr. LaSota has ties to Alaska, California, Vermont, [and] Pennsylvania at this point that the state is aware of," he said.

Fox News Digital has reached out to LaSota's public defender in Maryland, Rebecca Francoeur-Breeden.

TRANSGENDER VEGAN ‘CULT’ MEMBERS ARRESTED

Prosecutors in Vermont have charged one of LaSota’s associates, Teresa Youngblut, 21, in connection with a shootout that left Maland dead.

Youngblut was driving with German national Felix Bauckholt, also a reported member of the "Zizians," when the pair were pulled over by federal agents on Interstate 91 in Coventry, Vermont. According to police, the two opened fire on agents. Bauckholt was killed, and Youngblut was wounded. Youngblut has pleaded not guilty in the case.


Image Zajko is also a "person of interest" in the 2022 deaths of her parents, Richard and Rita Zajko, in Media, Pa. No one has been charged in their killings, according to authorities.

The group exhibits cult behavior, according to Dar Dixon, an actor and the podcast host of "The Art of Being Dar," who shared his cult expertise with Fox News Digital.

"The thing that I noticed about this ‘Zizian’ cult is that it hits all the major points that will set somebody up to be involved in it. You've got transgender human beings, alright? You're dealing with sexuality. You're dealing with sexual identity, and you're dealing with sex. Anytime you do all those things, you've already got someone, as they say, by the tight and curlies," he said.

MANHUNT TIED TO 'ANARCHIST' VEGAN CULT IN BORDER PATROL AGENT KILLING: REPORT

"The second thing is they were on a restrictive diet. In this case, they were vegan," he said. "So, when you start to mix in the sexual aspect, then with a restrictive diet, now what you're doing is behavior control."

Referencing cult expert Steven Hassan's BITE Model of Authoritarian Control, Dixon discussed how cults emotionally control their members.

"I'm sure there was a lot of sleep deprivation going on, also, which affects your thoughts, which affects your emotions, which also affects your behavior and your ability to take in and process information," he said.

"This is part of the emotional control. You're never allowed to feel your feelings or to discuss your feelings. If you don't step in line with the party line, you're immediately reprimanded, sometimes severely, either verbally or physically, or you're shunned."

"So, the culmination of sexual identity, food restriction, sleep restriction and emotional restriction, well, now I've got you," he said. "I own you. And I can take you any direction I want to take you now."[SOURCE]

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Reality Check_When The Chickens Come Home To Roost: Detrans Awareness Day sparks awakening of the fraud that is trans

 

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by Nathanael Blake

Gender ideology is unraveling. It’s fraud all the way down. There is no good evidence that “transitioning” helps anyone, especially children. And people are realizing that the entire premise — that a boy can somehow be born into a female body, or vice versa — is superstitious nonsense. Indeed, transgender ideology is so insane that the coalition against it ranges from conservative Christians to lesbian feminists.

Transgender ideology has many enemies, but the most effective are those who have been victimized by wrongly named “gender-affirming care,” especially the detransitioners who have realized that so-called transition is a pursuit of the impossible, driven by lies. The power of their testimony was displayed during the recent Detrans Awareness Day, which was organized by Genspect and hosted at the U.S. Capitol on March 12. There were interviews and meetings with administration officials and members of Congress. The public centerpiece was an outstanding series of panel discussions involving activists, doctors, policy experts, and especially detransitioners.


The first panel included Dr. Eithan Haim, the whistleblower whom the Biden administration persecuted after he exposed the continued medical “transition” of children in Texas. He warned that transgender programs resist being shut down and explained how doctors may be committing fraud to keep performing trans experiments on children. Put simply, they may deliberately use the wrong billing codes to hide what they are doing.

For example, if a girl claims to be transgender, a doctor might change her chart to show her as male, which is easily done in the Epic medical records system, and then “diagnose” her with testosterone deficiency. The doctor could then prescribe testosterone for her and get either private insurance or the government to pay for it without them knowing it was to “transition” a child. Leftist groups are promoting this scheme, publishing literal guides to committing insurance fraud.

Transgender ideologues are resorting to insurance fraud because of laws and policies restricting the medical fraud that is “gender-affirming care.” Pro-trans doctors were confident that if they just kept transing people, eventually evidence would come in and vindicate them, but the opposite happened. Among other examples, the U.K.’s Cass Report found there is no good evidence that performing transgender medical interventions on children helps them. It has also been revealed that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) suppressed a review of the evidence it had commissioned, and that Johanna Olson-Kennedy, one of the nation’s leading pro-transgender pediatric doctors, is suppressing the results of her own taxpayer-funded study.

Detransitioners are flesh-and-blood proof of what the numbers show. Their testimonies indict a medical profession that is either in the grip of radical gender ideology or cowed by those who are, and which has therefore betrayed its duties to patients and the public. The detransitioners speaking in the Capitol described a conveyor-belt approach to transgender medical interventions that quickly affirmed trans identities and encouraged each new step of so-called transition.


Thus they were harmed by those who were charged above all with doing them no harm. In the words of Laura Becker, “I have to wear a mastectomy bra for the rest of my life because I was lied to.” She “was a traumatized girl” who needed help, not a “gay trans man” who needed her breasts cut off.

The malfeasance of the medical system is fed by the internet (increasingly joined by the school systems and social services), which is filled with encouragement to embrace a transgender identity. Instead of addressing trauma or the difficulties of being different, there is the false hope of fleeing into another identity.

The online world and transgender ideology intersect in other malevolent ways. As Chloe Cole put it, exposure to online pornography makes many young women want to escape their femininity; if that is what being a woman is, many girls will want nothing to do with it. Meanwhile, Forrest Smith noted that for males there is often a sexual aspect to the desire to transition, which may also be the result of pornography exposure and use.

Though there are common themes to their stories, and insights to be gained from them, detransitioners are not interchangeable, so it was important to have more of them sharing their distinct experiences. Yes, some detransitioners are more publicly prominent and polished, but they are hardly alone. As Detrans Awareness Day demonstrated, the number of people speaking out about the harms transgender ideology inflicted on them is increasing.


These detransitioners are leading the way to defeat radical gender ideology. Their stories expose the lies and fraud of “gender-affirming care.” Their boldness in speaking out informs both politicians and the public. And their lawsuits against the medical systems that have injured them will likely be the final nail in the coffin of the medical industry’s embrace of transgenderism.

Suing “gender” doctors may make “gender-affirming care” impossible by making it uninsurable. As Soren Aldaco explained, it is not about money but about holding the medical system accountable. The first lawsuits will be the hardest. But it will get easier after the first few wins, and then the floodgates will open as trans-experimenting doctors are rightly sued into oblivion for their fraud and malpractice. [SOURCE]

Reality Check_What They Don't Want You To Know: Why Dr Dave Weldon's nomination for Director of CDC was derailed

 


Dr Weldon/Youtube
Jennifer Galardi



In a statement released on the day of his abruptly canceled confirmation hearing, Dr. Dave Weldon, President Trump’s initial nominee to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said concerns that Big Pharma was behind the subversion were “probably true.”

“They are hands-down, the most powerful lobby organization in Washington DC giving millions of dollars to politicians on both sides of the aisle,” he wrote.


Weldon said that Wednesday evening, before the morning of his hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee, he had received a call from a White House assistant telling him his nomination had been withdrawn due to a lack of affirmative votes.

According to Weldon’s statement, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told him Sen. Susan Collins of Maine suddenly “had reservations” about confirming him despite having “a very pleasant meeting” with Weldon previously.

“I can assume that the White House staff had my nomination withdrawn also because the Republican Chairman Dr. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana was also voting no,” Weldon wrote.

His claim that “politicians on both sides of the aisle” receive millions of dollars from pharmaceutical companies and lobbyists is undoubtedly true. Pharmaceutical companies spend almost $300 million on lobbying, far outpacing competitors such as the electronics manufacturing industry and insurance companies.


Why might Big Pharma have an interest in pressuring members of Congress to deny Weldon the job? You don’t have to look very far for the answer. Just review the hearings of every health official Trump has nominated to a cabinet position over the past month or so and count how many times “anti-vax” is said.

As a congressman from Florida 25 years ago, Weldon had the “temerity,” as he said in his letter, to question the pharmaceutical companies on what he called two “critical childhood vaccine safety issues.” Weldon said he, like Kennedy, had been approached by hundreds of parents insisting that vaccines had caused injuries, including autism, to their children. Back then, the concern was over a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines known as thimerosal, which is considered a neurotoxin.

Eventually the CDC and pharmaceutical companies agreed to remove thimerosal, though the preservative is still allowed in small amounts in some flu vaccines. The AI overview that pops up in a Google search claims “Extensive scientific research … has concluded that there is no credible evidence linking thimerosal to autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders.” Could it be because the major scientific and medical bodies were incentivized not to find credible evidence?

Weldon asserted that when the “CDC ended up publishing a research study claiming the mercury had done no harm,” there were “credible accusations that CDC had incorrectly manipulated the data to exonerate themselves.”


Weldon also took on the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) shot, according to his letter, after coming across research by British pediatric gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield suggesting that many children had suffered a form of inflammatory bowel disease upon taking the MMR shot.

Wakefield sent samples to Irish virologist John O’Leary, “who was able to show … that the inflammatory bowel disease biopsies in these children contained the vaccine strain measles viruses,” Weldon wrote. The theory was that it “also might have been affecting their central nervous system and causing the autistic features.”

Measles cases rose after parents became hesitant to give their kids the MMR shot, due to Wakefield and O’Leary’s research. Essentially, Weldon concluded, O’Leary was pressured to retract his findings and Wakefield lost his medical license.

Weldon believes these two objections killed his shot at being CDC director. He has forever been tarnished as an “anti-vaxxer” despite his insistence that he just wants solid, unbiased research done on the safety of vaccines.

“I have learned the hard way don’t mess with Pharma,” he wrote.

It raises the question: Can Big Pharma be beaten? Can Kennedy and his cohorts at the multiple health agencies really change the way people view health? The entire medical-industrial complex includes not only pharmaceutical companies, but hospitals, insurance companies, and even large food conglomerates, and it propels a good chunk of the American economy.

According to the Census Bureau’s 2019 American Community Survey (ACS), the healthcare industry employs 22 million workers, or 14 percent of the American workforce. Healthcare employment growth is projected to exceed the national average, even though access to primary care physicians is decreasing, suggesting growth in medical bureaucracy and administration rather than direct care providers.

People seem to forget that sickness is a very lucrative business. Pharmaceutical companies, more than any other industry in the medical establishment, are selling you a product. They pressure you to buy — and doctors to sell — their products through commercials, complete with musical dance numbers.

Pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of money researching why people might be hesitant to inject a vaccine into their body, so they can better shut down those concerns. However, according to a report in The Washington Post last week, the NIH will be terminating or limiting grants to fund research related to vaccine hesitancy. It’s a good first step to undoing the propaganda consistently forced down our throats when it comes to so-called healthcare.

Dave Weldon would have been an excellent choice to continue that trend at the CDC. Let’s hope President Trump will find someone equally courageous to follow in his footsteps — someone who can’t be purchased. [SOURCE]

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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Trans Activism_The Case Of The WDBJ Murderer: Vester Lee Flanagan II


FROM WIKIPEDIA:
ABC News received a 23 page fax at 8:26 a.m. allegedly sent by Flanagan[53] titled, "Suicide Note for Friend & Family". In the document, Flanagan described his grievances over what he alleged to be racial discrimination and sexual harassment committed by black men and white women in his workplace, believing that he was targeted because he was a homosexual black man.[8][17][54] He claimed to have been provoked by the Charleston church shooting, two months before, and made threatening comments about Dylann Roof, the perpetrator of that crime.[51] Flanagan described the church shooting as a "tipping point", saying that his anger had been "building steadily" and describing himself as "a human powder keg ... just waiting to go BOOM".[8] A spokesman for the Franklin County Sheriff's Office said that Flanagan "very closely identified" with "individuals who have committed domestic acts of violence and mass murder, as well as the September 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S."[55] Flanagan said that Jehovah had told him to act and expressed an admiration for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who perpetrated the 1999 Columbine High School massacre; and Seung-Hui Cho, the perpetrator of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting.[17][56] Flanagan said in the note, "Yeah I'm all fucked up in the head."[57]
[SOURCE]

ByABC News
August 26, 2015, 2:03 PM

A man claiming to be Bryce Williams called ABC News over the last few weeks, saying he wanted to pitch a story and wanted to fax information. He never told ABC News what the story was.

This morning, a fax was in the machine (time stamped 8:26 a.m.) almost two hours after the shooting. A little after 10 a.m., he called again, and introduced himself as Bryce, but also said his legal name was Vester Lee Flanagan, and that he shot two people this morning. While on the phone, he said authorities are “after me,” and “all over the place.” He hung up. ABC News contacted the authorities immediately and provided them with the fax.

In the 23-page document faxed to ABC News, the writer says “MY NAME IS BRYCE WILLIAMS” and his legal name is Vester Lee Flanagan II. He writes what triggered today’s carnage was his reaction to the racism of the Charleston church shooting:


Vester Lee Flanagan II, the suspect in the Virginia shootings of a news reporter and cameraman, faxed a 23-page document to ABC News.

“Why did I do it? I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15…”

Sources say Flanagan's firearm was legally purchased from a Virginia gun store.

“What sent me over the top was the church shooting. And my hollow point bullets have the victims’ initials on them."

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What We Know About Suspect Vester Lee Flanagan in Virginia On-Air Shooting

It is unclear whose initials he is referring to. He continues, “As for Dylann Roof? You (deleted)! You want a race war (deleted)? BRING IT THEN YOU WHITE …(deleted)!!!” He said Jehovah spoke to him, telling him to act.


Vester Lee Flanagan II, the suspect in the Virginia shootings of a news reporter and cameraman, faxed a 23-page document to ABC News.

Later in the manifesto, the writer quotes the Virginia Tech mass killer, Seung Hui Cho, calls him “his boy,” and expresses admiration for the Columbine High School killers. “Also, I was influenced by Seung–Hui Cho. That’s my boy right there. He got NEARLY double the amount that Eric Harris and Dylann Klebold got…just sayin.'"

Sources familiar with the investigation tell ABC News that in his attack, Flanagan used a Glock 19 -- a firearm similar to one that Cho used in his mass attack.

In Flanagan's often rambling letter to authorities, family and friends, he writes of a long list of grievances. In one part of the document, Flanagan calls it a “Suicide Note for Friends and Family."
He says he has been attacked by black men and white females
He talks about how he was attacked for being a gay, black man
He says has suffered racial discrimination, sexual harassment and bullying at work

A source with direct knowledge of his complaints against the station said a pair of tweets sent today and attributed to him accurately reflect previous complaints he lodged against the two people he killed today. These are the two Tweets: “Alison made racist comments,” and, “Adam went to hr on me after working with me one time!!!”



Nowhere in the document does he make specific threats against anyone from WDBJ.

In his manifesto, he says he encountered "nasty racist things" while working at WDBJ-7 in Roanoke, and that drove him to sue the station. "I marched down to the courthouse and sued WDBJ7 by myself and they settled! HA!"

He continues: "I can remember one day in particular... leaving the courthouse... feeling overwhelmed... confused... even some fear. But by golly I knew I HAD to fight. ... They truly f----d with my life and caused an awful chain of events." He says he even killed his cats in a forest "because of them."


Flanagan says that, "Hell yeah, I made mistakes," noting that he "should not have been so curt" with photographers in Roanoke. "[B]ut you know why I was? The damn news director was a micromanaging tyrant!!"

And, he writes, "the photogs were out to get me at WDBJ7... one went to HR after only working with me one time... the chief photog told his troops to [record video of] me if they saw be doing something wrong."

Flanagan then suggests that, after leaving WDBJ-7, he was offered a job at a station in Pennsylvania, but WDBJ-7 persuaded the Pennsylvania station to rescind the offer.

"I got to the point, this time around, where I wasn't even looking for a job. I don't need to deal with workplace bullies anymore. THAT is what lawmakers need to focus on," he adds.


Vester Lee Flanagan II, the suspect in the Virginia shootings of a news reporter and cameraman, faxed a 23-page document to ABC News.

“Yes, it will sound like I am angry," he writes in his manifesto. "I am. And I have every right to be. But when I leave this Earth, the only emotion I want to feel is peace....”


“The church shooting was the tipping point…but my anger has been building steadily...I’ve been a human powder keg for a while…just waiting to go BOOM!!!!”

He chronicles the "tough times" he's faced, including some "financial crashes." He says he used to work as a male escort but, "I am proud of it" because he "made thousands."

"[I] tried to pull myself up by the bootstraps," but, "The damage was already done and when someone gets to this point, there is nothing that can be said or done to change their sadness to happiness. It does not work that way. Meds? Nah. It's too much."

"And then, after the unthinkable happened in Charleston, THAT WAS IT!!!"

"Yeah I'm all f----- up in the head," he concedes. [SOURCE]

Trans Activism_The Case Of The Nashville Bible School Massacre: From the lips of the trans activist who vowed, "Religion Won't Save"


The mass murderer who killed six people at a Christian school in Nashville left instructions for the media to refer to her by her transgender name “Aiden,” believed deeply in extreme gender ideology and critical theory, and believed death constituted part of the “deconstruction” of an old society that would be followed by a “reconstruction” ushering in “LGBTQ rights.” Hale idolized the Columbine high school shooters and hated “conservative religion.” On one page, she appears to have drawn an inverted cross and the number 666.

Nearly 18 months after the March 27, 2023, school shooting claimed the lives of three nine-year-old students and three staffers, the media have released more of killer Audrey Elizabeth Hale’s writings describing the reasons behind the deadly rampage. The Biden-Harris administration’s FBI encouraged the Metro Nashville police chief to bottle up Hale’s “confusing” writings for fear they would stoke “conspiracy theories.” Authorities then suppressed the writings over an alleged “ongoing investigation,” and a court ruled this July that the writings could not be released due to copyright infringement.

But on Tuesday morning, The Tennessee Star published a PDF of the nearly 90-page journal Hale kept during 2023, including the days leading up to this shooting. “On July 31, 2024 we appealed the trial court’s ruling to the Tennessee Court of Appeals. We expect to win our appeal,” explained Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO of Star News Digital Media Inc. and editor-in-chief of The Tennessee Star. “[W]e have had the First Amendment right to publish these writings since early June when we first received them.”

The Tennessee Star had published dozens of stories detailing the journal’s contents. But the full journal — released 526 days after the shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School, a Christian school operated by a local Presbyterian church — contains additional information and new details about the killer’s beliefs and motivations.

The journal, which the Star refers to as “The Covenant Killer’s 2023 Journal,” is a Mead Five Star notebook with the name “Aiden” written on the red cover. In the upper-lefthand corner, Hale emblazoned a symbol which adorns many pages that speak of the impending mass shooting: an octagon with a black cross in the center.

The journal’s contents reveal the depth of her commitment to extreme transgender ideology and her mystical belief that, by dying, she would be reborn into a male body that could carry out sexual relations with “brown girls” in the afterlife. She seems to indicate death is part of nature’s process of inverting negative political forces into progressive political change toward “civil rights.”

“Why does my brain not work right? ‘Cause I was born wrong!!!” the journal opens. “Nothing on earth can save me… never ending pain. Religion won’t save.”

“Everything hurts,” she writes repeatedly.

Much of the journal notes Hale’s deep depression at her inability to keep a job or succeed in a creative field. The pervasive tone of suicidal depression clings to every page. “My soul worth nothing but my dead body will be worth more,” she writes. “I hurt bad enough & long enough that I need to die,” she continues. “I hurt too bad. Too many tears. I want to die.”

One page recounts her list of failures, accomplishing only one of four tasks she desired. Hale appears to have considered herself a tortured genius. “My mind is creative, brilliant, but a living hell at the same time,” she writes. “Having a brain like mind has its godliness but also prone to make poor a** decisions.”

“I am shining outside, but my heart is black,” writes Hale.

Hale believed that her death in a mass murder-suicide would open the door to the male sexual experiences she longed to enjoy on Earth — and implied it somehow embodied part of a supernatural change toward “LGBTQ rights.”

After her impending violent death, she writes, “The caccoon [sic] of my old self will die when I leave my body behind and the boy in me will be free; in the butterfly transformation; the real me. If God won’t give me a boy body in heaven, then Jesus is a f*****.” 

Hale appeared to draw an inverted cross and 666 next to that line.

Hale also despaired over politics, in an entry praising everything from transgender ideology to the Second Amendment. A journal entry on February 20, 2023, on politics declares, that “now in America, it makes one a criminal to have a gun or, be transgender, or non-binary. … Soon this g******** country will turn out no fun like England or Europe. No guns, no gender rights, no freedom of speech or pursuing of radical ideas, no mischeif [sic]. … Disabled have rights. Civil races have rights. LGBTQ have rights. Gun owners have rights. … So now because of all of you, I wish death on myself ‘cause of the pure hatred of my female gender. With no rights, anyone’s country is a s***** dictatorship.”

Her writings clearly indicate that she held no belief in human exceptionalism. It is “human nature to kill. Humans kill humans and themselves. Animals kill animals. Bugs kill bugs.”

In a previously unreleased passage seemingly inspired by critical race theory, she continues her view that death is a redeeming aspect of nature. The “deconstruction” of “nature” will undo “racism, gay killings, poverty, asylums.” The “reconstruction” will “change” those things into “civil rights, LGBTQ rights, food banks, [American] Disabilities Act.” Sex will transform into “safe sex,” AIDS into “medical care,” gun violence into “gun laws,” and “death” into “life.”

At one point, Hale refers to herself as a “white nothingness” and draws a schematic drawing of her mind. Her brain produced thoughts of “white privilege [sic], an embarrassment to self.”

The 28-year-old Hale obsessed over “brown girls” and repeatedly writes, “No brown girls, no love.”

“I am nothing. Brown love is the most beautiful kind,” she writes. In a previously unreleased drawing, Hale sketches a diagram of anal sex with “a beautiful young brown girl with a big a**” but realizes it will never happen. “Too bad I am a sad boy born w/a puny vagina.” She came to realize she would never have a relationship with most women, who are attracted to men, not women who identify as men. It is a “major blow to girls: I am a boy that has no penis,” she writes.

“I will be of no use of love for any girl if I don’t have what they need: boy’s body / male gender,” she writes. “If there is no love, there is no life. And no life is feeling dead. It’s only natural, wanting to die.”

The writings reveal Hale’s deep commitment to transgender ideology, so much that her birth gender had the power to ruin her day. “A terrible feeling to know I am nothing of the gender I was born of. I am the most unhappy boy alive. I wish to be dead,” she writes. “I hate society [because] society ignores to see me. I’m a queer; I’m meant to die.”

On February 21, she felt happy a worker at a comic book store called her “bud” and “bro,” but it made her feel “embarrassed of my female body. I SHOULD NOT BE IN THIS BODY!!!”

“My body doesn’t make me a female,” she asserts. “When I’m called a lady and ma’am — d*** it, it makes me not want to exist. The [male] body in me exists only to me. I’m just d*** tired of being called & identified by a gender I am not AT ALL. … disgusted at being in a female body. Makes me think about dying.”

On March 8, she writes, “I need a transdoctor … This female role makes me want to not exist … My therapist now is the best I could get 4 autism.”

She also bashed her parents for trying to bring positive, Christian influences into her life. In a passage dedicated to a friend, Hale complains:

“Aren’t parents manipulative? It’s total ignorance when parents step in and try to change their child’s environment. Make them go to youth group & force Christian friends into thier [sic] life because the old ones were a ‘bad’ influence. … Parents actually believe religion can change nature. That could explain why I don’t practice religion anymore. Let kids think for themselves … Kids are not robots. We are the future. That’s how it’s ment [sic] to be.”

She blasted her parents, especially her mother, who do not entirely and immediately affirm their child’s chosen gender identity, blaming it on “thier [sic] preference of conservative religion — gay s***.” Parents should be “willing to listen to their children, not the other way around.” Speaking of puberty blockers, “I’d kill to have those resources.”

A March 11 entry titled “My Imaginary Penis” carries Hale’s transgender ideology to its furthest extent. “My penis exists in my head. I swear to god I’m a male,” she writes, illustrating her journal with a crude image and describing her fantasy of committing sodomy on another woman. During her “tortured” childhood, she “tried to be feminine. But that didn’t last long after high school ended and no longer had to fear being called a dyke or a f*****. It was only until my early 20s I finally found the answer — that changing one’s gender is possible.”

She began “thinking of porn and doing surgery on my boy stuffed animals,” who identify as male but had no male anatomy. “I can pretend to be them [and] do the things boys do [and] experience my boy self as Tony.” Eventually, she realized this consumed too many of her waking hours. “I am such a pervert,” she writes. “I waste too much time in my fantasies.”

Much of the notebook is dedicated to “P.A.P.,” an apparent reference to Paige Patton, who played basketball with Audrey in eighth grade and stayed in touch periodically. Other pages are dedicated to a deceased fellow teammate. Patton, now a Nashville radio host who goes by the name Averianna, revealed that Hale texted her a message the morning of the shooting stating, “I'm planning to die today.” Patton asked Hale not to harm herself and called the suicide prevention hotline, which suggested she inform the police — who did not see the message until that afternoon.

In an entry dated last February 20, she wrote, “It’s infamous to die young! Dying young is my destiny.” On March 2, she wrote that her friend “will live a legend and I will die a shooter — hopefully to become infamous. No one will forget neither [sic] of us. She will be the blessing, and I will be the horror to inflict pain.”

“If I ever cry all day, it’s ‘cause I need your love,” says one page. “All I see is you. … I yearn for you,” she writes. In an entry to her departed friend she writes, “maybe, just maybe you’ll give a kiss to me in heaven. God knows I can’t get it down here. … I’d die to know, Literally.”

“Audrey is not my name but when you say it I am just the little 1 I was back then. I can be a kid again … even if I can’t really be with you,” she writes. “God is love, so are you.”

“There is a better place than being in these bodies, forced to live in [them],” she continues. “You like showing yours. I’m in the wrong body … so … I can’t wait to get there.”

Yet Hale, who began psychological counseling at age six and remained in counseling until her death, felt her neurodivergence held her back. “Love cannot be real if my autism is,” she writes. “Love will find me once my body loses me. (I will be whole again.)”

“I’m told I’m bi-polar by some prideful b****. No one gets me. Everyone misunderstands autism,” she complains at another time.

“I think God will enter me in heaven. If do get there, I’ll be waiting there for you,” she writes to Patton. “I’ve always been different. … My thoughts are a neverending abyss. A DARK ONE.” In another entry, Hale referred to herself as a “cursed soul.”

“Idc [I don’t care] if people die as I am the shooter because I am going 2 die too,” she vows. “My only true motivation = mass suicide [leading to] death.”

Hale infamously hated her father and intended to return home to murder him. In an entry titled “Dad problems,” she writes: “I hate his old cranky-man existance [sic]. All cranky good-for-nothing mentally ill men SHOULD DIE. They’re useless pieces of s***. … I DON’T CARE IF YOU DIE. I WANT TO KILL YOU.” Later, she adds, “A whole day w/o a father will be a better day …”

“I’m sorry innocent lives will be taken,” she writes on March 13, two weeks before the mass murder. She adds she has honed “a plan to near perfection.”

The octagon shape — which is sometimes black with a white cross — appears to represent “dark abyss, my only existence [sic].” She continues, “I think about death every day & fascinated/curious with the idea of dying too much. I know it’s unhealthy, but I just don’t care if it is anymore. … It’s too late now. I’m ready to die.”

Hale makes a number of references to the Columbine high school shooting. “I want my massacre to end in a way that Eric & Dylan would be proud of,” she writes. She also notes the date of the shooting in the notebook.

At one point near the shooting, she refers to herself as “just A.E. (not Audrey Elizabeth). I don’t like that name, never have, never will.”

She left explicit instructions for the news media to refer to her by her transgender name, Aiden, “For media: ‘A.’ A.E. (legal initials). Aiden (illegal name haha). A.E. Hale. Aiden Hale,” she writes. The legacy media strangely insisted on referring to the trans-identified mass child murderer by her birth name and reported that her gender identity was fuzzy.

As time went on, Hale’s resolve strengthened. On the morning of the shooting, March 27, she writes, “Forgive me God. This act will be inglorious.”

On “Death Day,” Hale confesses, “Don’t know how I was able to get this far, but here I am.” She adds, “There were several times I could have been caught, especially back in the summer of 2021.”

“Can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m ready … I hope my victims aren’t.”

“My only fear is if anything goes wrong. I’ll do my best to prevent anything of the sort. (God let my wrath take over my anxiety),” The killer wrote. “It might be 10 minutes. It might be 3-7. It’s gonna go quick. I hope I have a high death count.”

The journal goes on, “Ready to die haha Aiden.”

These writings are different from a spiral-bound notebook police found in Hale’s vehicle at the scene of the crime. That other writing has yet to be released in its entirety. Conservative activist Steven Crowder obtained and released two pages of the spiral-bound notebook, including a “Death Day” itinerary of Hale’s shooting plans and poem dated February 3, 2023, titled “Kill those kids!!!” which reads in its entirety:

“Kill those kids!!!

Those crackers [an anti-white slur],

Going to private fancy schools

With those fancy khakis & sports backpacks,

With their daddies’ mustangs & convertibles.

F*** you little sh***

I wish to shoot you weak a** d**** with your mop yellow hair,

Wanna kill all you little crackers!!!

Bunch of little f******

W/your white privileges.

F*** you f******.”

It is not clear how many more pages of the spiral-bound notebook remain unreleased. You can download the full red Mead notebook from The Tennessee Star here. [SOURCE]