The Orange County Register published Peter Larsen's previous blog review of my Orange County: A Personal History book (go to the Yost tonight! 7pm! Corner of Third and Spurgeon in SanTana! 714-973-7900) in today's paper. Larsen didn't particularly like it and threw in a bunch of digs--it happens. I only take issue with one of his criticisms, involving a subject I've been covering for years: the Catholic Diocese of Orange sex-abuse scandal.
Here's an outraged Pedro:
In trying to be clever and cutting, he can go too far. We get that the whole alt-weekly deal is to push the envelope, spout off outrageous opinions, and try to get people riled up at the same time other people are laughing. Still, there’s a line that you sometimes might not want to cross. Like when Arellano lays into the Diocese of Orange for its piece of the priest abuse scandals, and refers to it as ”…the most horrific crime perpetuated in Orange County’s history, even more disgusting than Taco Bell: the rape of innocents.” Comparing mediocre Mexican food to molested kids? Does that really help make your point? Really?
Yes, Peter: yes it does. The Orange diocese sex-abuse scandal is so absurd in how county residents, politicians, and the law have never really given a shit about it that the only way to truly cover the story is by belittling it, by treating the Orange diocese hierarchy that covered everything up and its supporters as the jokers they are.
The Taco Bell mention isn't even the worst comparison I've written regarding this subject. The best of the worst after the jump!
In the five years I've covered the sex-abuse scandal for the Weekly, I've:
*Called Mater Dei High a "pedophilic piñata."
*Said St. John's Seminary in Camarillo--alma mater of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown and many of OC's pedo-priests--produced rapists the way USC wins Heisman Trophies (I reworked this joke in the book to say Mater Dei has hired statutory rapists the way Notre Dame once won college football championships.
*Made a comparison chart between Brown, disgraced ex-Sheriff Mike Carona, and Michael Corleone
*Published a pedo-quiz involving former Bishop Michael Driscoll
*Once did a story comparing an Angels and Dodgers trade to a trade between the Orange and Los Angeles diocese regarding Eleuterio Ramos and Ted Llanos, who would become the worst rapists in the history of each respective diocese.
*Wrote this headline: Boy-Buggering Bingo!
*Covered the Boner Jesus mural at St. Joseph's in SanTana
And it goes on like this. Honestly, the only people who have ever been offended by such language in covering the scandal are pedo-apologists, their supporters and Larsen. The only people whose opinion truly matters in this--the actual innocents destroyed by the Orange diocese and other Catholic priests--have always praised my flippant coverage because they have the gallows humor necessary to deal with terrestrial evil. Larsen isn't a bad reporter--he did a great series on my pal Howard F. Ahmanson, Jr. a couple years ago--but to express shock about my sex-abuse scandal angle is bizarre and pretty petty.
qdpsteve says:
Hey Gustavo, could you please provide a link to Larsen's review? Like to see it for myself... have been searching but not having much luck, thanks.
Posted on Thursday, Sep. 18 2008 @ 2:29PM
Albino Luciani says:
Taco Bell is served EVERY day in Hell.
Tod Boy Brown gets most of his rough sex pick up boys at Taco Bell.
Donald Pelotte, former Bishop Of Gallup, New Mexico, has lots of "gentle little friends with masks" he first met at Taco Bell.
Eddie Egan's deceased (AIDS) ordained NY Archdiocese priest lover, who's family is trying to sue Egan for "wrongful death and employment practices" loves Taco Bell.
Bernie Law misses Taco Bell, in luxury multi million dollar embezzlement retirement, in Roma, at Boston Archdiocese laity and priests' pension fund expense.
Francis George and the Chicago Archdiocese Boy's Club normally cruise on Friday nights, for boy ass, at Taco Bell.
Billy 'Darth' Leveda has nevet met an '"aid or abetter" in the curia, or CDF, and has no idea what a 'rump ranger' is...but he stilll likes Taco Bell.
Aunt Ted McCarrick regularly 'counsels' first year/fresh bait seminarians at Taco Bell, before weekend retreats, in a one bed beach house, on the coast.
Jaime Soto is checking out all the Taco Bell's in the Sacramento Diocese - wink-wink....
Bobbie Brom, in the San Diego Diocese, calls Taco Bell an insitutional 'must stop', after the gay orgies, at St. John's in Camarillo.
Danny Walsh hands out Taco Bell coupons in the Santa Rosa Diocese, to escaping priests, a few days before they have to high tail it to Mexico.
Georgie Pell wishes Taco Bell would come to Sydney...
Norbeto Rivera of Mexico City's Archdiocese has never been to Taco Bell, and can assure everyone there is also no crime, in all of Mexico.
Claudio Hummes affirmed that there is less than one half percent of all Taco Bell employees that are 'credibly accused' worldwide. Accused of what remains "a mystery".
Chrisopher Schonborn likes to sit in Taco Bells, to review the confiscated huge cashes of kiddie porn, from the Austrian seminaries, prior to it's burning (or relocation acroos the Tiber).
Tarsicio Bertone and The Society of Don Bosco (Salesians) have always had the best interest of young boys at heart, or below the belt, and regularly introduce them to Taco Bell...
Angelo Sodano and Augusto Pinochet own many Taco Bells together...
Why just the other day, Rog Mahal Mahony said "anyone buying a 'sky box' in the OLA crypts, gets a year free of Taco Bell coupons, or a retirment annuity to Ireland, Mexico, Asia, or other not extraditable country of your choosing"; whichever choice is "more professional".
Joseph Ratzinger's gay nephew (his sister's son) who owns and runs a gay bar in Munich, serves air lifted Taco Bell for Octoberfest each year...
TACO BELL: the leading choice of current curia globally!
"Think INSIDE the bun!"
Posted on Thursday, Sep. 18 2008 @ 4:31PM
Art says:
The Orange County Register has to try something (ANYTHING) to smear Our Gustavo A., the HERO of every clergy abuse victim in California; indeed, the United States. Week after week, the stories of pervert priests raping, sodomizing and orally copulating (and worse) the children of California, appeared in The Orange County Weekly, but there was nothing in the Orange County Register. This left me to believe that The Diocese of Orange, The Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Orange County Register were ALL, "In Bed Together". I am certain there are many things Gustavo could have written about these pervert priests and their criminal enabling bishops but, out of respect for the victims, he did not.
Posted on Thursday, Sep. 18 2008 @ 5:59PM
john manly says:
It's amazing that this writer would cite that quote in the book. The cold reality is that no other writer (save Steve Greenhut) has spoken out for the victims in Orange County. In fact no reporter has done more to expose the Diocese crimes than Gustavo. For example he was the first to break the story about Bishop Brown himself being accused of sexual abuse.
It's interesting that Mr. Larsen accuses Arellano of crossing lines but never mentions the Diocese crossing lines. One example that comes to mind is concealing pedophile priest Al Ramos with the full knowledge he was molesting altar boys at donkey shows in Mexico. The diocese conduct continues to this very day. Somehow, the latest Orange priest arrested in June for sexually assaulting a boy after feeding him tequila and attempting to rent a porn movie in a cheap anaheim motel managed to avoid felony prosecution all together. He was charged by the Anaheim City attorneys office wit "commercial burglary". He recieved no sex offender registration and a misdemeanor burglary conviction. Amazing. Not a word of criticism from anyone other than victims advocates and Mr. Arellano. More disgusting than taco bell? You bet. I wonder if Peter Larsen is Matt Cunningham's new pen name?
John Manly
Posted on Thursday, Sep. 18 2008 @ 10:40PM
Donkey Show Times In Tj Tonight Only says:
Matt are you back again. How much are you being paid Matt? What does your wife think about your affiliation with NAMLBA?
Posted on Thursday, Sep. 18 2008 @ 11:00PM
Bob Squalonero says:
Hey Albino,
So according to you, we should stop donating laity $$ to the "preistly, papal pedophiles", as well as stopping $$ to Taco Bell (I much prefer Del Taco anyway).
Posted on Friday, Sep. 19 2008 @ 5:07AM
Albino Luciani says:
Ciao Bob Squalonero e tutti:
And now it's time for another addition of a blog within a blog: 'ASK A MURDERED POPE?'
Based On Overwhelming Evidence, It Is MORE Than Clear, Anyone Donating Money To The Ongoing Curia Criminality, Culpability, Enabling, Aid & Abetting, Racketeering, Perjury, Kidnapping, Murder For Hire, Embezzling, Tax Evasion, Destruction Of Evidence, Child Sexual Assault, Sodomy, Money Laundering, Bribery, Gaming the Courts, Harboring & Assisting Fugitives From Justice Across International Borders, Hush Monies, Oral Copulation, Violation Of Church & State Constitutional Amendment, Rape, Physical Maiming, Mental Torture, Collusion To DeFraud, Child Deliquency, Lobbying Against Criminal & Civil Statutes Of Limitation Reforms, & Obstruction Of Justice, ALL WITH DIVERTED LAITY DONATION MONIES, IN THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, & COUNTING, Is Committing A MORTAL SIN.
The Devil Himself blushes in envy at the utter EVIL commited by the current cardinals and bishops of the Roman Cathilic Church.
Both:
www.bishop-accountability.org and
www.bishop-accountability.org/abusetracker
Clearly Provide MASSIVE Daily Verified Evidence (Vetted) For The Uninformed, Or DUPED, Laity & Readers.
At www.amazon.com, or your local public libraries, we suggested the salient & cogent recently published books (over 100 and counting), from such honest and truthful authors as: Roman Catholic Bishops Thomas Gumbleton & Jeffery Robinson, as well as Richard Sipe, Dr. Robet Grant, MD, David Yallop, Dr. Leon Podles, Jason Berry, Attoney Marci Hamilton, Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ, Fr/Dr Howard Bleichner, SS, & Fr/Dr/Canon Lawyers Thomas Doyle, OP, to name only a few.
At www.youtube.com, or for FREE on DVD at your local public libraries, you should watch:
2006 US Academy Award BEST DOCUMENTARY nominated: 'DELIVER US FROM EVIL'
or
2007 Critically Acclaimed: 'VOWS OF SILENCE', detailing the Mexican pedo-cult founder & serial mutiple decades child sexual assault enabler, Marciel, of The Legion Of Christ (Carols Slim is a big donator and launders BILLION$ through the Vatican Bank via The Legion Of Christ) as well as Regnum Christi (the laity organization affiliate)...
or
2008 'DOUBT' , soon in national move theaters everwhere; starring US Academy Award winning BEST ACTRESS Meryl Streep, & US Academy Award Winning BEST ACTOR Phillip Seymor Hoffman (Movie Trailor out in the internet already)
Pedophiles and sexual assaulters of minors, children, and infants, are NOT curable; this is a proven FACT.
Equally, pedophile and sexual assault enablers (cardinals & bishops) are NOT curable; also a proven FACT.
Both above groups are a clear and present danger, as well maligent cancers, within The Body Of Christ (The Roman Catholic Church).
Both above groups must be eliminated, immediately, if not sooner, with EXTREME PREJUDICE.
How is this accomplished, you ask a Pope, who was given laced poison in his heart medication, on the 33rd day on his Pontificate?
Ergo, it is fortunately, like many things truly HOLY, simple, to answer.
100% of all revenue in the global RC Church comes from the laity....(that's about $8.1 Billion Tax Free Dollars Annually In The USA alone, or about 43+% of the annual global take of The Holy See).
So, as St. Peter Damien suggested, almost 1,000 years ago, to the overt corruption and sexual deviancy of the cardinals and bishops of that era, "STOP DONATING"!
No Curia Accountability? Vocations In The Sewer? Laity Paid For Assets/Closings/SoldOff & Squandered? Miter & Red Hat Criminality Pervasive Without Any Punishment & Removal Of Hundred Of EVIL Office Holders?
No Problem! ALSO, NO LAITY MONIES!
Though you did not ask it Bob Squalonero, I have an additional suggestion in this addition of : 'ASK A MURDERED POPE?'
If you currently subscribe to, or purchase, The Orange County Register; STOP.
Additionally, recycle your old copies, if you have any, of The OC Register (hey, even dead Pope's want to be eco-friendly these days) as for what these copis are best for - toilet paper.
Pace,
Albino Luciani
NOT Smiling, From Heaven
Posto Scripto: You might also want to remind the crooks across the Tiber, that John Paul II, who appointed 99% of them, is NO SAINT, and now where to be found here in heaven.
Posted on Friday, Sep. 19 2008 @ 8:47AM
Albino Luciani says:
Oh Bob, I almost forgot! I prefer Del Taco also...
Ciao,
Albino
Posted on Friday, Sep. 19 2008 @ 8:51AM
Jubal says:
Since Manly always insists on dragging me in, I'll chime in.
The diocese conduct continues to this very day. Somehow, the latest Orange priest arrested in June for sexually assaulting a boy after feeding him tequila and attempting to rent a porn movie in a cheap anaheim motel managed to avoid felony prosecution all together.
And that's the Diocese's fault? I didn't realize it possessed the power to indict and prosecute people in the courts.
i>Not a word of criticism from anyone other than victims advocates and Mr. Arellano.
Untrue.
I wonder if Peter Larsen is Matt Cunningham's new pen name?
Because he disagreed with Gustavo's Taco Bell comparison?
Posted on Friday, Sep. 19 2008 @ 12:22PM
cindy says:
Peter Larsen:
The OC Diocese crossed the line along time ago against the people of Orange County.
Gustavo isn't crossing the line into the church's sacred turf. On the contrary, we have a pedophile fiefdom that crossed into OUR county line and EVERYONE should be speaking up and warning the public.
There are no words to describe the level of evil this insitution has committed again the innocent.
Larsen, wouldn't it be fairer to say, that Gustavo words could be even stronger, because their simply are no words to fully describe the level of evil crimes this Bishop and his fiefdom of pedophiles and enablers have committed.
Don't your recall Fr. John Lenihan, one of the very first publicly admitted child molesters to be exposed in OC in 1991. Of course the public now knows there were many perps before him---they just weren't exposed until their victims were able to make it public by prosecuting these predators themselves thru civil lawsuits. Obviously the DA wasn't going to..something I wouldn't doubt he prayed about when he attended his own Catholic Church masses and decided to look the other way. Michael Harris got a freeby pass too from criminal prosecution!
Surely you don't forget how Lenihan publicly publicly admitted in 91 that he molested a girl after his victim had to come publicly forward with the pd tape recorded admissions and records that the Diocese refused to give to parishioners. The diocese had these records since 1978 and the pd tape recording was done in 1989. Brown finally removed him after pressure from media reports in 2001!!! after Lenihan decided he wan't to talk about how he abused the kid and others! The diocese knew about that all along too.
Surely, you must also recall how after he was exposed in 91 he was then placed on the diocese's clergy personnel board that deals with deciding what to do with known and accused priests. But that wasn't enough, he headed the largest parish in OC and then his buddy, Bishop McFarland put another pedophile in Lenihan's next parish in Dana Point and Lenihan was the head pastor in charge of him. There's been at least 5 molesters who worked at St. Edwards.
So, when you have these crimes/cover-ups going on for decades, you bet, victims and people are grateful for reporters like Gustavo who is warning the public and yelling it from the roof tops, because this accused pedophile, Bishop Brown, and all his predecessors crossed the line of the people of OC's personal space and have violated our children for a very long time. And of couse circulated perps to other dioceses with the help of their fellow complicit bishops.
Posted on Friday, Sep. 19 2008 @ 12:33PM
cindy says:
p.s.
Lastly, we still have a whole diocese full of complacent, apathetic and indoctrinated Catholics who just don't want to or can't give up the false image of their priests and church, no matter what and how many crimes they commit against kids and everyone else in the County at risk of their pedophile ring.
Posted on Friday, Sep. 19 2008 @ 12:49PM
SarahTX2 says:
Oh, how the mighty fall.
They can line up apologists from one coast to the other, they can tell every church-going member to scorn the victims, they can bring their Pope back for more empty gestures, but their time is ending and they just don't know it yet.
Their priesthood can never be replenished. Their schools must continue to close. They'll go down kicking and screaming, and that's the last of our frustrations. They will never admit that they know what brought them down. That millstone in the middle of the sea is theirs to keep. Still, they will go down and be gone.
It is not a burning hatred of them that brings them down, it is the human instinct to protect children that has done them in. We could be kinder and more graceful in watching their fall. But child molesting doesn't get that deference. It takes dogged determination to wipe out this practice. So we must carry on making sure that these organized rings continue to be battered.
Thanks, Gustavo
Posted on Friday, Sep. 19 2008 @ 3:06PM
Albino Luciani says:
As St. Paul suggested to the Ephesians, 5:11:
"Do not deal in the fruitless deeds of darkness, but expose them!"
Or as Edmund Burke suggested some 1700, or so, years later:
"The only condition for the triumph of evil is for good men (or women) to do nothing."
No Curia Accountability? No Laity Monies!
Ciao,
Albino
(Off To A Celestial Del Taco)
Posted on Friday, Sep. 19 2008 @ 5:05PM
albinoluciani says:
Does a MURDERED POPE count as a "victim" Matt 'Jubal' Cunningham?!
Just asking?
Or is that 'honor' exclusive to the 100,000+ American Roman Catholic kids (credible number derived from all experts on all sides of the argumentation, reading the sand bagged JJ Criminal Justice Report numbers comissioned by the USCCB) over the past 50 years (not counting the numbers in the MILLIONS, in every other diocese and archdiocese around the globe) that have been systematically: raped, sodomized, orally copulated, physically mained, extorted, kidnapped, suicided, murdered, mentally tortured, hard ball litigated, character assassinated, that the current bishops and cardinals in office (Mahony, Rivera, Brom, Brom, Barnes, Walsh, Curry, Steinbock, Soto, Weakland, Burke, Leveda, Chaput, McCarrick, Egan, George, Rigali, Sambi, Keeler, Foley, DiNardo, Hughes, Hubbard, McCormack, Gregory, Pell, Sodano, Bertone, Re, Scola, Schonborn, Hummes, Law, O'Malley, etc.) you are endorsing (a MORTAL SIN on your soul Matt) & continue to aid, abet, enable, and perpetrate themselves, at total expense in the BILLIONS OF ADMITTED TO LAITY DOLLARS, and counting, under the false and demonic guise of organized Roman Catholicism?
Sincerely,
Albino Luciani
Formerly, John Paul The First
Posto Scripto: Matt, just in case you do not believe I was MURDERED, read David Yallop's 'IN GOD'S Naame'......................... NOT ONE FACT IN THE ENTIRE YALLOP TREATISE, AND EVIDENCE, HAS EVER BEEN EVEN REMOTELY WHISPERED TO BE FALSE!
Yallop's second book: 'The Power & The Glory', with over 8 years of perfectly collaborated evidence and research, clearly demonstrates John Paul II, was FAR from ever being a saint, having appointed 99% of the current curia crooks Matt.
Matt you are backing THE DEVIL; Congratulations....but then again, I strongly suspect you already knew that.
Posted on Saturday, Sep. 20 2008 @ 12:18PM