RE: Police raid on 3 (arch) dioceses
January 17, 2012 at 8:34 pm
(This post was last modified: January 17, 2012 at 9:14 pm by Rokcet Scientist.)
A little 'anecdote' about the prodigal foot in mouth:
Demonstrating how utterly stupid and disconnected RC clerics are, the Dutch cardinal Simonis – when quizzed about RC child abuse on prime time TV, a year ago – had the naieveté to say, in German, quoting a German post-war 'standard expression': "wir haben es nicht gewußt"...
That literally means: "we didn't know". But in The Netherlands that German phrase is an infamous winged expression as the standard Nazi cop out, when, after the war, they were interrogated about their involvement in the war crimes and genocide.
"Wir haben es nicht gewußt" ("we didn't know"), to the Dutch, really means "we did know everything, but we're lying through our teeth". And the cardinal qouted that, 65 years later, without flinching on live TV...
He intended to use it in the literal sense – apparently having heard it bandied about a lot, but very obviously never understanding the 'double entendre': what it actually meant to the traumatized post-war Dutch population. His flock, godammit! How it ripped open very deep and painful sentiments re the holocaust.
How fucking disconnected can you be to bring stuff like that up? A totally separate atrocity and the cardinal manages to associate them...! Why, for God's sake! What was he thinking? What a hyper asshole!
Those 3 seconds are already the most sarcastic soundbite of the century in The Netherlands.
I don't expect to see the cardinal talking into a microphone ever again.
But that's not enough. The cardinal, however stupid he may be, is a 'prince of the church'. He is the top dog. He is ultimately accountable for condoning, facilitating, and whitewashing the abuse of, conservatively estimated but uncontested, twenty thousand children since WWII in his 'church province'!
I want to see him in court like every two-bit mafia don! For leading a criminal organisation. Escobar and Bin laden were gunned down like rabid dogs for less! For God's sake!
Demonstrating how utterly stupid and disconnected RC clerics are, the Dutch cardinal Simonis – when quizzed about RC child abuse on prime time TV, a year ago – had the naieveté to say, in German, quoting a German post-war 'standard expression': "wir haben es nicht gewußt"...
That literally means: "we didn't know". But in The Netherlands that German phrase is an infamous winged expression as the standard Nazi cop out, when, after the war, they were interrogated about their involvement in the war crimes and genocide.
"Wir haben es nicht gewußt" ("we didn't know"), to the Dutch, really means "we did know everything, but we're lying through our teeth". And the cardinal qouted that, 65 years later, without flinching on live TV...
He intended to use it in the literal sense – apparently having heard it bandied about a lot, but very obviously never understanding the 'double entendre': what it actually meant to the traumatized post-war Dutch population. His flock, godammit! How it ripped open very deep and painful sentiments re the holocaust.
How fucking disconnected can you be to bring stuff like that up? A totally separate atrocity and the cardinal manages to associate them...! Why, for God's sake! What was he thinking? What a hyper asshole!
Those 3 seconds are already the most sarcastic soundbite of the century in The Netherlands.
I don't expect to see the cardinal talking into a microphone ever again.
But that's not enough. The cardinal, however stupid he may be, is a 'prince of the church'. He is the top dog. He is ultimately accountable for condoning, facilitating, and whitewashing the abuse of, conservatively estimated but uncontested, twenty thousand children since WWII in his 'church province'!
I want to see him in court like every two-bit mafia don! For leading a criminal organisation. Escobar and Bin laden were gunned down like rabid dogs for less! For God's sake!
