The Vatican Rap

Universal jurisdiction;
Prompts a Papal crucifiction;
Causes caustic Catholic friction;
Needs political interdiction.

When it’s Jews, no legal fiction;
They’re guilty; UK depiction;
British duty dereliction;
International confliction.

What are we to make of this essay??? Thought-provoking, hair-raising, moronuc or is it onto something even if it’s grossly crude and histerical?

http://4international.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/people-cannot-escape-
reality-jews-are-in-horrible-danger-from-iran-nuclear-bomb/

Shows that when you make a promise, you should keep it.

Hopefully Catholics will not forget this when they cast their vote in the forthcoming election.

Ahmadinejad; crimes against Israel, common sense, stability and basic decency.

Again, not to be taken seriously but worth pondering.

You’ve pretty much covered all the ground here of this ludicrous, and vaguely disgusting attempt to basically pull what amounts to a stunt.

I will add just these thoughts – and I am Jewish, not Catholic, and hold no brief for the Pope.

The Catholic Church must realize that it has to reform itself, and, as usual, that change can only come from within. Arresting the Pope, which will never happen of course, or even proposing it, will only stiffen resistance to change.

There is a sort of prurient nastiness about this “lawfare” being levied by interest groups against a variety of targets – Israelis, Blair, the Pope, whoever – a kind of desire by some Brits to poke their noses into everyone else’s business with a sort of holier than thou attitude, when, in fact, there is so much that Britain could be blamed for in the past and even now for those opposed to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. There are groups in Britain who believe that they have a higher level of morality and understanding of justice based on some personal issue or other (the Pope, pedophilia, the I/P conflict) that sets them above the rest of us, and allows them to take advantage of a ludicrous “citizen’s arrest” type loophole in British law to embarrass representatives of other countries or religions.

As usual, what starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews. The use of “lawfare” against Israelis is now being copied to the Catholics. Of course, the Catholics never had much to say about it when it was the Israelis being subjected to these ludicrous stunts (and I’ll spare you the well-known poem about this – you know – first they came for ..), shamefully by Jews like Daniel Machover, but now its not only a few million Jews who have sat up and taken notice, but a billion Catholics.

Hopefully, that anger plus, as you say, the foolishness of Dawkins’ and Hitchens’ attempt to embarrass the Pope, will jog the saner elements of British society and lawmakers into action to put an end to “lawfare”.

It is ironic and tragic that the Catholic Church finds itself in so much trouble over pedophilia when this crime is contrary to Christian morality.

Yet, the Islamic prophet Mohammed married a nine-year old and is still considered a moral exemplar in Islam. In more recent times, the Ayatollah Khomeini married a ten-year old when he was a 28-year old seminary student. But nobody prosecuted him in Iran (no problem under Shariah) or tried to apply universal jurisdiction to him in Britain or elsewhere.