Holy shit. I was surfing around on YouTube today and found this. I nearly shit. Couldn’t believe the trash he said. It’s a vid from Moriak’s visit to Holy Trinity Cathedral in Chicago two weeks ago (24 March).
Part 1 is his sermon. Part 2 is his “defence,” with some of that in Part 3. I ran into a layperson I’d not seen in a while recently. Konvertsy and total Moriak supporter. Doesn’t think Moriak did anything wrong at all.
I didn’t make this up, nor did my interlocutor. They truly DO believe all the shit that they spout. Read n’ heed… then, don’t argue with them… oppose them.
Police arrested Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running-mate, Cheri Honkala, after they tried to enter the site of last night’s presidential debate at Hofstra University. Stein’s campaign website says that local police arrested the presidential candidate and her vice-presidential nominee when they tried to enter the grounds of Hofstra University, in Hempstead NY. The two were protesting against the exclusion of all but the two major political parties from taking part in the debate.
The Long Island Report observed, “Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for president, along with her running-mate Cheri Honkala, attempted to gain access to the debate hall. Hofstra representatives denied Stein entrance to the campus because she didn’t have credentials”. Eventually police barricaded the entrance. Stein told the police and crowd that gathered to watch her demonstration, “If you’ve done the work to get on the ballot, if you’re on the ballot and could actually win the Electoral College by being on the ballot in enough states, then, you deserve to be in the election and you deserve to be heard”.
A video posted on YouTube shows police officers ushering Stein and Honkala away after they apparently tried to stage a sit-in. The arrest came after an announcement by the Green Party that the candidates would make an “Occupy the Commission on Presidential Debates” action on the night of the debate. Stein told The Philadelphia Weekly by phone as she headed to the debate site, “This is a great day for democracy. It’s a great day for the politics of courage”. She said they attempted their performance because fighting the exclusion of this debate is a “push-back against the stranglehold of the economic élite… and, especially, of this forum”.
The candidates claim that the Commission on Presidential Debates is an unfair entity formed by Democratic and Republican leaders designed to exclude any opposition. Jill Stein is the Green Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election. A Harvard-educated physician, she also stood for election for Governor of Massachusetts in both 2002 and 2010. A staple of her campaign is the “Green New Deal“, a plan to recharge the USA by giving “every American willing and able to work” a job on renewable energy projects in the country. American leftist icon Noam Chomsky, and acclaimed journalist and harsh critic of unregulated capitalism Chris Hedges back her candidacy.
If anything like this had happened during the Russian or Belarusian elections, the American media would be caterwauling… as would Foggy Bottom and Langley. However, it didn’t happen in Russia or Belarus… it happened in the USA. The American media was silent. None dare call it complicity, cowardice, and selling-out. It DOES put a new face on Willard Romney’s boasts and threats, doesn’t it?
Former Marine Patrick Downey appealed to the President of the Russian Federation, asking for political asylum. Patrick told Pravdathat he faces severe punishment at home. Downey said that his intention to publish material about American support for Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili, including the war with South Ossetia, is behind all of it. Patrick Downey is a nice young man who speaks some Russian. He said, “Actually, I love reading. Not newspapers, but books, for example, Dostoevsky‘s short stories”. Whilst Patrick doesn’t read Russian newspapers, he still thinks they represent a free press, unlike those in his home country, noting, “You have lots of newspapers, but you write about various things, including views that aren’t shared by your government. I believe that this is freedom. In the USA, there’s a taboo… you can’t write objectionable things about corporations or people close to the White House… it’s suppressed, at times, in a very harsh manner. A financial network rules our country and this is a real problem. This isn’t my first time in Russia, but this visit is due to the fact that my life’s in danger and I need help”. We walked in one of Moscow’s parks and Patrick told me about himself and about how he came to come to Russia.
Downey worked at the American embassy in Georgia, but said that he was disappointed in the Foreign Service, so, he then took a job as a private English tutor to Georgian oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili and moved to Tbilisi. There, Downey obtained documents that led to the present problems in his life. The documents confirmed that the USA funded anti-Russian activities by Ivanishvili. In a document dated 2007, it stated that the World Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 60 percent of whose shares is owned by the USA, transferred 12 million USD to Ivanishvili’s bank account. The stated purpose of the transfer was structural development. A year later, in August 2008, Georgia sent troops into South Ossetia and, according to Downey, again, not without American financial aid, including the money transferred Ivanishvili’s bank account.
Downey returned to the USA, he decided to make this information public, but faced strong opposition. The media flatly refused to publish the sensational material. As a result, the government took interest in the former Marine, he received the nickname “Trouble Man”; in consequence, according to Downey, American special services tried to neutralise him. He observed, “I began to feel that it was simply dangerous for me to be in the USA. They removed the documents that I uploaded online, they blocked my videos on YouTube, and they began to threaten me. Threats also came from Georgian sources, which demanded that I be quiet”. The Trouble Man tried to get political asylum in Ireland, but the authorities reacted belligerently to him staying there, he landed in jail, and, later, they deported him.
Patrick explained, “I didn’t want to be quiet, I wanted to tell the truth. However, because of that, I had to leave my home in New York, and, indeed, my country. I don’t want to say that the USA is an ‘evil empire’, but I’m asking for protection from the evil that’s stalking me”. In New York, Patrick left family, his parents and a pregnant sister. Now, that he’s in a foreign country, Downey’s tried to call home, but no one’s responding to his calls. On 21 September, Downey asked the Immigration Service for political asylum. Despite the fact that Russia hasn’t agreed to provide him sanctuary, Downey said he felt supported even without official documents covered with seals, saying, “In Russia, I’ve met people who wanted to help. They’re ordinary people. I want to live here; I love this country and hope that it’ll protect me”.
Russians helped him to disseminate an address to President Putin on the internet… “Patrick lost the support and protection of the American government for his criticism of its foreign policy, all references to violations of his civil rights and liberties by these bodies went unanswered. The USA left its citizen, who dissented against American government policies without protection. Downey appealed to the Immigration Service in Moscow asking for political asylum. Please, pay attention to the fate of Patrick Downey and assist in the consideration of his application as soon as possible”.
Downey said, “I understand that if Russia gives me political asylum, I probably won’t be able to return home. Nevertheless, I’m ready for that, firstly, for the sake of the safety of my family, who, like me, wouldn’t be left alone if I stayed in the USA. I’m terribly hurt, I’m so far from home, but I don’t have another choice”. We passed a small church, Downey looked up at the domes, and that he wanted to accept Orthodoxy, saying, “This isn’t something that I just dreamed up (laughing). I’ve met a lot of really religious people who helped me incredibly. I became interested in your culture and religion. I started going to church. My desire isn’t fanciful; I just feel that I need it, that it’s mine, too”.
Finally, we asked him what he’d do if the authorities allowed him to stay in Russia, Patrick replied, “What would I do? I’d live! For one thing, I’d get married. I don’t want to fight with anyone; I don’t want to be afraid all the time. I want a family and a home. That what I hope that I’ll get”. Since the collapse of the USSR, Russia hasn’t granted anyone political asylum. It’s possible that Patrick Downey would be the first; if so, his personal “Cold War” would end.
Fr Mauritius Mikhail of St George Coptic Orthodox Church in Bellflower CA acknowledged that the man known as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula attended occasional services at his church three years ago. However, he added that most parishioners didn’t know Nakoula, an Egyptian Copt who also uses the name Mark Youssef. Fr Mauritius said that the man’s arrest this week on a probation violation didn’t surprise him, and he suspects that other Coptic Christians won’t be, either, saying, “I haven’t spoken, because his arrest is something very recent, I heard about it from the news just yesterday. However, the anger, or the disturbance, wasn’t because he was arrested, but because the movie itself was something very inappropriate”.
Two weeks of news headlines that connect Nakoula and his incendiary film, Innocence of Muslims, to Southland Copts have shed unwelcome light on a small low-profile immigrant religious group. Shortly after an Arabic-dubbed trailer for the film surfaced on YouTube, its producer also claimed that Israelis helped to finance the project. There’s no evidence to support that assertion. Fr Joseph Boules, a priest at Ss Mary and Verena Church in Anaheim CA, said that he’s had to explain repeatedly to journalists that the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Los Angeles never endorsed anti-Muslim rhetoric like that found in Nakoula’s film.
Fr Joseph said that news outlets in Egypt and in the USA are equally responsible for offering false representations of Coptic Christianity, saying, “Everyone’s condemned the movie. It isn’t worthy of this attention at all. If we hold people responsible for their actions, then, we do away with the labels… they have no place in the conversation. However, what was behind putting these two words before his name, Coptic Christian? So, for that, I do hold the media responsible to a large extent”. Fr Joseph said that the intense media attention upset many of his parishioners, but he added that the opportunity Copts now have to explain their faith better may turn out, in the long run, to be a “blessing”.
US Green Party Vice-Presidential Candidate said There Isn’t Any Democracy in the USA
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Police arrested Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running-mate, Cheri Honkala, after they tried to enter the site of last night’s presidential debate at Hofstra University. Stein’s campaign website says that local police arrested the presidential candidate and her vice-presidential nominee when they tried to enter the grounds of Hofstra University, in Hempstead NY. The two were protesting against the exclusion of all but the two major political parties from taking part in the debate.
The Long Island Report observed, “Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for president, along with her running-mate Cheri Honkala, attempted to gain access to the debate hall. Hofstra representatives denied Stein entrance to the campus because she didn’t have credentials”. Eventually police barricaded the entrance. Stein told the police and crowd that gathered to watch her demonstration, “If you’ve done the work to get on the ballot, if you’re on the ballot and could actually win the Electoral College by being on the ballot in enough states, then, you deserve to be in the election and you deserve to be heard”.
A video posted on YouTube shows police officers ushering Stein and Honkala away after they apparently tried to stage a sit-in. The arrest came after an announcement by the Green Party that the candidates would make an “Occupy the Commission on Presidential Debates” action on the night of the debate. Stein told The Philadelphia Weekly by phone as she headed to the debate site, “This is a great day for democracy. It’s a great day for the politics of courage”. She said they attempted their performance because fighting the exclusion of this debate is a “push-back against the stranglehold of the economic élite… and, especially, of this forum”.
The candidates claim that the Commission on Presidential Debates is an unfair entity formed by Democratic and Republican leaders designed to exclude any opposition. Jill Stein is the Green Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election. A Harvard-educated physician, she also stood for election for Governor of Massachusetts in both 2002 and 2010. A staple of her campaign is the “Green New Deal“, a plan to recharge the USA by giving “every American willing and able to work” a job on renewable energy projects in the country. American leftist icon Noam Chomsky, and acclaimed journalist and harsh critic of unregulated capitalism Chris Hedges back her candidacy.
17 October 2012
Voice of Russia World Service
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_10_17/US-presidential-candidate-Jill-Stein-arrested-at-debate-site/
Editor’s Note:
If anything like this had happened during the Russian or Belarusian elections, the American media would be caterwauling… as would Foggy Bottom and Langley. However, it didn’t happen in Russia or Belarus… it happened in the USA. The American media was silent. None dare call it complicity, cowardice, and selling-out. It DOES put a new face on Willard Romney’s boasts and threats, doesn’t it?
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