Get use to it... it will be a long 8 years for you otherwise.. :)
Posted on 07/22/2007 3:08:25 PM PDT by hardback
Really, don't you have to be nominated by one of the two parties first?
“Monsignor Alan J. Placa, who works for Mr. Giuliani’s consulting firm, Giuliani Partners, was legal adviser in the 1980s to the House of Affirmation, where priests accused of sexual abuse were sent for psychotherapy....”
If that’s the connection, then it seems like the title is a bit misleading.
Oh, you’re so mad you went to html... good for you!!
I see, said the blind man as he picked up the hammer and saw.
People, read this carefully. In fact, read everything carefully.
Rudy was friends with a guy who has been accused of wrongdoing.
One, people are innocent until proven guilty.
Two, was he supposed to read the guy’s mind?
Anytime you read a hot story in the MSM, ask yourself these questions: Who benefits from this story? And why is it coming out NOW???
Get use to it... it will be a long 8 years for you otherwise.. :)
I applaud people who are standing up to the Church on these abuse issues. But I think some of them get really wrapped up in self-righteousness. If there’s an opportunity to punish someone, even if he isn’t himself guilty (like Rudy), they’ll take it because they’re so damned angry and vengeful. Just because people were innocent victims doesn’t mean that they’re morally pure for the rest of their lives. Sometimes being wronged turns a person into something bad.
“A lot of people accused of child abuse are not guilty. Look at the McMartins ...”
Yeah, that too. Mega-dittoes.
"Alan Placa is one of the finest people I know. He has helped thousands of people as a priest, as a teacher and as a friend. ... If most people did half the good that Alan's done, the world would be a wonderful place."--Rudy Giuliani“I am able to give some of my time to helping other bishops and religious congregations with delicate legal problems involving the misconduct of priests. ... In the past 10 years, I have been involved in more than two hundred such cases in various parts of the country."--Alan J. PlacaWho is Alan Placa? And what are his many connections to Rudy Giuliani?
Monsignor Alan J. Placa, a former high-ranking adviser in the Diocese of Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York.• One of Giuliani's two oldest and dearest childhood friends.
• 1960s - Together with Giuliani, attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn and Manhattan College.
• 1968 - Served as Giuliani's best man in his first wedding, to Regina Peruggi.
• 1970 - Ordained a priest
• 1983 - Credited with finding the loophole that allowed the Vatican to annul Giuliani's first marriage from Regina Peruggi (second cousins)
• 1984 - Officiated at Giuliani's second marriage to Donna Hanover.
• 1986/89 - Baptized Giuliani's children from his second marriage, Caroline and Andrew.
• Early 1990s - Florida property transferred to Placa's name by his friend Rev. Thomas A. Kane shortly before Kane declared bankruptcy. Kane was the co-founder and former director of the House of Affirmation in Massachusetts, a treatment center for priests with sex abuse and other problems. Kane left the House of Affirmations in 1986 amid allegations of financial impropriety; the facility closed in 1989. Alan Placa acted as a lawyer for the House of Affirmation, settling sexual abuse cases.
• Jan 1994 - At Giuliani's swearing-in ceremony for his first term as mayor, Placa said a prayer for the new mayor before he took the oath of office.
• 2000 - Ministered to Giuliani when he was suffering from prostate cancer.
• Sep 2001 - Giuliani asked his staff to consult with Placa on canon law and how to expedite declarations of death and payments of life insurance policies to families for those missing in the 9/11 disaster.
• Apr 2002 - Placa removed by Bishop William Murphy of the Diocese of Rockville Centre from a panel investigating clerical sexual abuse after several families claimed Placa had used his role as a spiritual adviser to get information from victims that would bolster the diocese's legal position.
• Jun 2002 - Placa on leave from the Diocese after allegations surfaced that he molested a teenage seminarian about 25 years ago.
• Sep 2002 - Placa receives special permission from Diocese to preside over the funeral of Giuliani's mother, Helen Giuliani.
• Feb 2003 - Grand Jury report released outlining allegations against Placa of sexual abuse involvement in cover-up of priest sex-abuse scandals.
• Aug 2003 - Begins employment at Giuliani Partners, as an attorney, where partner Michael Hess, the ex-mayor's corporation counsel, also handled Placa's legal matters.
McCarthyite smear.
“If you support Giuliani, then you support all of the above.”
Forget it, Spiff - I tried. Good luck to whomever you support - if you could ever utter a positive word about anyone.
More specifically — like John Edwards?? ;)
I used to think that the difference between Roody and the Klintoons was that at least Roody’s friends weren’t criminals — obviously, I was mistaken.
" P-u-u-l-e-e-z-e make me look conservative."
Man, they're killing me on FR just b/c I had three wives, several mistresses,
was honored by NARAL, donated to Planned Parenthood, marched
for gay rights under the NAMBLA banner, and hired a pedophile."
"And my stupid advisors told me I didn't need those dumb,
pro-life Christianconservatives to make a primary showing."
Guess who heads the law firm that is legal counsel for the NAFTA Superhighway? You guessed it!
NAFTA Superhighway has Giuliani as key player:
http://www.huliq.com/25662/nafta-superhighway-has-giuliani-as-key-player
I must have hit some nerve, by merely pinging other FReepers to an article of interest.
See post #29... lots more connections. He has long been described as one of Giuliani's two best friends, the other being Peter Powers.
I’m still looking for an article about Hillary’s “connection” to those murdering, Puerto Rican terrorists that she and her husband pardoned prior to their giving up the keys to the White House. I know it wouldn’t have any real affect on her devoted, worshipers in the ‘RAT party but it could do damage to her voter base of “conservative republicans.”
Definetly. France has a real man in charge now.
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