At the beginning of his Easter homily this morning, six idiots, Donte Smith, 21, Ephran Ramirez Jr., 22, Ryane Ziemba, 25, Mercedes Phinaih, 18, Regan Maher, 25, and Angela Haban, 20, disrupted the service by staging a "die-in" while splashing themselves with fake blood.
The group "Catholic Schoolgirls Against The War" is claiming responsibility for the incident. The protesters included some men, and the "girls" are women.
From Chicago Indymedia:
The group of young men and women, dressed in their Easter best, sat through the 11AM mass until George reached the homily. A few seconds into the cardinal’s main holiday message, the protesters rose from their seats, turned to address the thousands of parishioners in the auditorium, and talked about the continuing death of both Iraqis and Americans in Iraq as the war enters its sixth year.
Why did the choose Holy Name? Cardinal George, by all accounts the leading American Catholic, is no different than other Catholic bishops: He wants our troop out of Iraq as soon as possible.
But because George met with President Bush two months ago, they viewed the holiest day of the Christian calendar as the best time to act like children.
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If you go over to Chicagoist, they metnioned this. The posters there agree that it was moronic
ReplyDeleteWill do.
ReplyDeleteThose characters look horrible!
ReplyDeleteFrom The Tribune article:
ReplyDelete"If Cardinal George is a man of peace and is walking the walk and talking the talk, he should have confronted George Bush and demanded an immediate end to the war," said Kevin Clark of International Solidarity Movement, who attended the service to serve as a witness for the protesters.
I hope that Attorneys for the Archdiocese of Chicago, Serious News Reporters, Chicago Police, the Cook County States Attorney and the Office of Homeland Security give Kevin Clark and International Solidarity Movement an intensely close, personal, thorough look at his role in this act of violence on people at worship.
Hate Crime sounds like a good fit- it it's one books give it a look!
After all, what is martyrdom without some discomfort?
http://hickeysite.blogspot.com/2008/03/code-s...
ISM...Those are the radicals who sent Rachel Corrie to her death.
ReplyDeleteQuite Right, Mr. Rubery.
ReplyDeleteI sent the following not to the Tribune, as today's report left the nefarious Mr. Clark out of these tory for some reason.
ISM has been discredited by as left-wing a journal as Mother Jones.
Clark was arrested for trying to interrupst President Bush along with local yokel Andy Thayer, who wroks for Cop Lawsuit Lawyer Jon Loevy, as recently as January 2008.
This louse Clark needs some attention.
Dear Tribune Reporters,
Please continue to make Mr. Kevin Clark, 57 of International Solidarity Movement ( ISM) a focus of your report,
Mr. Clark had a hand in the deaths of several people involved with ISM's Pro Palestinian work in 2003.
Yesterday, Mr. Clark was more than happy to 'be a witness' to the actions of the arrested protesters.
Stay on this guy. I intend to do so,
Sincerely,
Mr. Pat Hickey
Chicago, IL
The Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church has been consistently against the war, so this whole protest was simply misguided. Why didn’t the protesters go to one of those war-mongering Evangelical Churches and protest there? Probably because they were too cowardly to face down genuine American Imperialists!
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