Back to a frequent subject of interest, and criticism, to/by your Veritaspac editorial board:
This one is in the category of “stories the press sees no reason to follow up on because it might ruin a narrative”:
Maybe some readers recall one of the ‘jovial’ rants by Pope Francis from a year or so ago. In that one he issued his usual criticism of borders, ‘lack of welcoming’ by nations to any and all “immigrants”, legal or illegal, “refugees”, legitimate or not, and virtually anyone who decides they can get a better deal in some other sovereign nation than they can get in their own, and shouldn’t have to conform to its laws, values, or culture . You know the shtick…’build bridges, not walls, blah, blah’.
At the time, a big deal was made of the Pope ‘reaching out’ to refugees in Syria. In a visit there and in a ceremony, Francis selected three Syrian families, including six children to “take back with him to the Vatican”. He noted that, while he understood the concern that Europe had about “the refugee influx”, they “deserve to have their basic human rights respected”. Accordingly, the Pope suggested that he was thus doing so for those three families.
It seemed to us at the time that there was a faint odor of “publicity stunt” to the gesture.
I must have missed it, but my impression at the time was that, at least, Pope Francis was “welcoming” these three “refugee” families into the Vatican, safe in their ‘basic human rights’ within the walls of the Holy See.
But researching the stories of the time, I realized that I had gotten a mistaken impression:
“The Vatican said the three Syrian families, including six children, who were taken back with the pope will be supported by the Holy See and cared for initially by Italy’s Catholic Sant’Egidio Community, which for years has been active in providing assistance to refugees in Italy.
So he didn’t apparently bring them into the Vatican confines for an unlimited stay (if at all) as he admonishes others to do.
“God will repay this generosity,” Francis said.”
So, it seems that the Holy Father was merely bringing those families to the Vatican where their care will eventually become the responsibility of the Italian government.
I wonder what has become of those families since Pope Francis’s expression of charity and generosity…since they have served His Holiness’s ‘high purpose’? dlh
CNN Newsroom:Verified” ” Attorney General Barr “has virtually disqualified himself to be the kind of person we expect to stand back and make sure that justice is served,” @SenatorDurbin says when asked if Barr should step down or be impeached. https://cnn account
Congress than Maxine Waters (D, CA) (Whom Trump has dubbed “Low I.Q. Maxine”)?
Schiff is in a class by himself! He is far too dishonest to be excused by his very low intelligence; and the depth of his very low intelligence makes him ineligible for any competitive match; Waters still reigns in the low intelligence category because Mr. Schiff has received (from us) the “Lifetime Idiocy and Lack of Positive Achievement” award” and is thus no longer eligible to compete for further such “low intelligence honors”.
Yet, in concluding his column, Mr. Jenkins could not resist taking a characteristic cheap shot at the President: “…nothing is surprising here (the report’s exposure of the FBI’s efforts to destroy the Trump campaign, and, administration), but (he writes) it raises a question: ‘Why are we impeaching Donald Trump when the people trying to remove him are no better than he is?”
Sen. Graham: “Mr. Magoo, Do you know what the term ‘political bias’ means?”
Having been beneficiary of concerted analysis of the Justice Department Inspector General Horowitz’ report by Republican personages, conservative writers and legal beagles explaining how the report goes a long way toward nailing FBI and Justice Department upper echelon for misfeasance, malfeasance, lying, abuse of power etc., along with statements from Attorney General Barr and US Attorney Durham, we are heartened that there could still be a reckoning afoot for elements of the deep state actors and elected politicians who have been intent on subverting the 2016 election of Donald Trump. Some of that could come from Attorney General Barr and US Attorney Durham’s pursuit of related matters with their enhanced ability to do so.
And we are not fantasizing a full reckoning unless the likes of Obama, and a long list of his law enforcement apparatus, along with Pelosi, Nadler, Schiff receive the legal prosecution they deserve for their actual law-breaking and high crimes and misdemeanors. But our cynicism would be surprised by a clear historical record resulting in the ignominy they deserve.
Two informative recaps and predictive articles this morning in anticipation of the Inspector General Michael Horowitz report regarding FISA court abuse in FBI applications targeting people associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian collusion / interference investigation.
