tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post6139983042414113973..comments2024-03-28T02:08:17.990+02:00Comments on Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity: Abuse: Pope vs Belgium - Problems with self-policingDaas Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252904288544083215noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-69597527345865198942010-06-30T09:33:43.436+03:002010-06-30T09:33:43.436+03:00Sounds like sensationalist trash covering a typica...Sounds like sensationalist trash covering a typical power-play between institutions.<br /><br />The Pope's comment is of course entirely merited, and despite the "logic" of the article, his stance on the issue has nothing to do with it: These sorts of sweeping searches are deplorable & the stuff of totalitarian regimes. Somehow because the crime of which you are _suspected_ is itself so grave (even though it's entirely sofeiq you've done it) endows your "investigator" with unlimited power summarily to confiscate indefinitely whatever things he deems even possibly relevant & detain you without proper due process? Even with proper "due process" it's frightening. Suspects have rights; that's what trials are for!<br /><br />Only instead of suspected "Enemy of the State" here it's suspected "Child Molester". Doesn't mean anything; it's just the State coopting it's legal role to knock the clergy down to size with all the usual metaphors (cleansing, extricating cancers, crusading for victims rights, etc.)<br /><br />Yes, the Irish priests molested children & did untold damage committing some of the worst betrayals & sins imaginable. Therefore, all Belgian priests files belong to the Belgian government & get locked in detention chambers. The Commissioners must have smiled as he signed off on that one....<br /><br />Remember that Orwell's state in _1984_ ("Oceania") was secular. Stuff like this gives me goosebumps. Big Brother is rising, and he's looking to oust his competition: religious institutions.Constitutionalistnoreply@blogger.com