I just wrote an article about the cover up of gay activity by the military in World War II.
Now that women are being brought into the service in large numbers, we all know about scandals that have surfaced, and we also know how hard it is for even a woman to report abuse and how it is impossible for her to have a career in the service afterwards.
We all know how prisons are and how they were when a man who reported only got the report as far as the inmate who killed him. We all know the British “public,” meaning private schools, were all male and homosexual activity was a norm. CS Lewis talks about it as a given.
This is why “Why is this information produced?” is such a critical concern.
There is not a single well-known book about how any of the twelve million Americans in uniform was sexually harassed and how the brass covered it up. Such a book would have had twelve million screaming enemies for whoever was responsible for it.
Kinsey’s “Study,” which was one-half prisoners, is quoted as Gospel, not because it was anything LIKE scientific, but because the information produced suited the purposes of a lot of people.
If such truths were ever allowed out, a generation that controls most of national wealth would be in the position of Catholic priests today. How can a man in an all-male institution protect himself from a charge of homosexuality? Every member of that generation would be tainted.
That information is not produced.
And the fact that we never concentrate on why information is produced is what makes the suppression so vigorous. If we looked at this sort of thing the way we look at ex-convicts, that a lot of them were probably forced to have same-sex and others got to like it, it might be discussed.
But when this came out about the priests, it was a huge blow to the Church and made men who had dedicated their lives to the Church ashamed of their collars.
By now we all know that what makes most really huge scandals uncontrollable is the cover-up.
Everybody knows, but nobody says, that you don’t become a bishop in the Catholic Church by being naive. Every single bishop knew what was going on. Court testimony shows that priests who were not molesters would just ignore a boy’s cries for help.
This is an entirely different business from a percentage of priests, or firemen, or police, or any other group contains a certaining number of perverts. It was not that it happened, but that the Church kept it secret and took no real action that caused the explosion.
Like worshippers of the Greatest Generation, the Catholic laity did not want to consider the certainty that an ABSOLUTE absence of news in this matter needed to be checked out.
The 10% figure for male homosexuality, that is, men who actually PREFER sex with other men to sex with women, stays unquestioned at 10% is an example of this sort cowlike acceptance.
When you deal with information, the WHY is as important as the WHAT.
#1 by backbaygrouch on 09/23/2010 - 7:23 am
Today Bob was more explicit than he has been about the WWII Pacific island club incident in the past. It involved sex which changes the dynamic considerably. The silent combat veterans were not just bowing before authority they were covering up the fact that they had not decked the officer in similar circumstances. They were as much ashamed as they were toadies.
This also elucidates the problem of the bishops. Most of the widely publicized cases of clerical abuse involved consensual sex of teenage boys with older men. Ask any vice squad cop, any District Attorney about what is the biggest hurdle they face in prosecuting such cases. The answer will always be, “The boy refuses to testify.”
Philip Lawlor, one time editor of the Pilot, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, in his book, The Faithful Departed, which was critical of the Church, described a meeting with the Archbishop. The paper had received a threat to expose a few priests who patronized gay bars. Cardinal Law’s attitude was, please, let them, so that I can find out where the problem is. Cardinal Law is the poster boy for the Church’s shortcomings. The man on top seldom has all the information that he is believed to have.
You cannot prevail in court without a witness. The officers of the Greatest Generation on the court-martial board had no corroborating evidence to exonerate the defendant. The bishops faced the same roadblock. Allegations of sexual misconduct are with great frequency, falsely brought for a wide variety of reasons. Sorting them out is not easy. If Billy Goat Clinton ever got close to telling the truth it was when he averred that everyone lies about sex. The evidence in such matters is ever suspect. It is almost never conclusive. As a consequence. you cannot cover up what you do not know with certainty.
If anyone knows how you get a 15 year old boy to get on the stand and swear that he had consensual sex with an older man, there are many people who would like to know the magic formula. They are policemen, District Attorneys, school board members, judges overseeing parole boards, and a lot of bishops.
The standard of proof demanded by anti-Catholic, anti-Christian, left wing, Jewish owned newspapers and media outlets is a lot lower than what is needed for a formal charge, much less a conviction. The media’s “truth” in the church scandals is mostly a lie for reasons divorced from the cases exploited. The same mind set that piously excoriates the Church promotes White Genocide. They are part and parcel of the same program.
The same people who screech to the heavens about the Church emit nary a peep about the left leaning teachers’ unions that facilitate their members getting off scot free for a greater number of the same offenses. When comparing the disparate treatment one should ask: Why is information produced? Why is similar information suppressed?
#2 by ANOTHERWHITERABBIT on 09/23/2010 - 9:42 am
Not on my watch
#3 by shari on 09/23/2010 - 11:31 am
Horus mentioned Soros saying they shouldn’t have let some things happen. They, meaning his set. Others say they shouldn’t have let WW11 happen.
What they shouldn’t have tried to do,is destroy the white race. That’s the why, that is going to be stark naked.
I notice that Obama is giving a “peace” speech at the UN today. My thought was “when they say “peace and safety” then “sudden destruction.”
#4 by Alan B on 09/27/2010 - 12:57 am
One thing offense about military service is the constant close proximity to other males 24 hours a day. In the military you are forced to expose your naked ass to dozens of other strangers in a shower, next to a bunk, the toilets were no exception. The only thing more revolting was the idea that a queer may be bumping his ass against yours, or looking you over.
This 10% of males being homo is BS, believe me after a couple of weeks you could spot the queers like a negro at a KKK ralley. Maybe one in every platoon, they got the hint and found the front door.
The second homosexuality becomes open and tolerated by either institution it will spell the end of both and the big wigs know it, the vultures are circling above!