They DID… what do these ramblings tell you about Love BT and Rod Dreher? Nothing good, I’ll warrant…
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Here’s the complete text of Love BT’s comments on Monomakhos:
What are the alleged entries in Father Symeon Kharon’s “criminal record?” With what has he been charged and convicted? To what extent has one diocesan bishop’s continuing resentment of nuns imported from Greece, who say bad things about his own record there, been seized upon as fuel for the attack on Metropolitan Jonah? If a Holy Synod is now going to busy themselves with a rape investigation, how will their expertise exceed that of men trained in investigations and criminal justice? They expect to succeed after the cops and the DA failed? Does the Holy Synod now operate, especially in the area of sex-related sins, according to the rule, ”Guilty until and UNLESS PROVED INNOCENT BY US?” Will this be the exceptionalist American gift to historical Orthodoxy? It looks almost as if they are dying to prove something, anything against Metropolitan Jonah to justify their reversing their malfeasance in electing Metropolitan Jonah? Why, perhaps those who thought the bishops need more management and leadership training, would place a higher priority on their all being given a course in Criminal Justice 101?
Most of the senior OCA and ROCOR clergy in the Bay Area know Igumen Gedeon Kharon, his brother, Alexander Kharon, and Alexander’s son, now Fr Symeon. The whole family lived for a time in the Russian Women’s Home of Mercy, when Father Gedeon was the chaplain there. Seems to me Fr Gedeon might have served out at Russian River as well. Probably, Metropolitan Jonah remembers the family from when he was a monk out here at St Eugene’s/St John of Shanghai Monastery. By the way, someone here wrongfully and unintelligently opined that Metropolitan Jonah had not been a monk very long before becoming an abbot. What an idea! Jonah was a monk for YEARS there. Rather than appoint him abbot, I appointed Fr Nicholas Soraich, the Chancellor, to be “Dean of the Monasteries”. He spent quite a while, with his unique management style and knowledge of Serbian monasticism, in trying to effect and maintain standard order in that monastery. It was, actually, like trying to herd cats. They all had cell phones and laptops; Fr Jonah had a car and travelled a lot, advertising monasticism. In fact, that’s how most people ever heard of Jonah, his peripatetic life extolling monastic life. He did go to Valaam for a while. He once told us about how strict the diet was there and how awful the fish soup. I asked him if he actually followed the monastic regimen. He chuckled in his way and answered, “Your Grace! You must be kidding! I couldn’t have survived on what they eat!”
Remember, the Synod now beginning a rape investigation, apparently did NOT investigate an episcopal candidate enough to know ANYTHING about his qualifications to be First among them, the Primate!!! They admit to being astonished and bewildered!!!! WHY did they elect him? If I had to make a charge against them in a church court, it would be something like, “They acted, contrary to their episcopal vows, ‘in fear of the people’”.
Love BT posted the above drivel at 14.45 today… ergo, Love BT likes kicking people who can’t kick back. That’s maliciousness… that’s sadism… that’s cruelty. Oh, yes… Love BT was one of the bishops who elected Herman Swaiko First Hierarch of the OCA; so, all of the complaints that he levels at the OCA Holy Synod, he levels at himself. Isn’t it amusing how the wicked always end by harpooning themselves?
Rod Dreher is on Monomakhos dumping on JP. That loud ignorant toddler should shut his mouth. He’s still shitting in his nappies, and he’s got the goddamned gall to make comments as though he’s a grounded adult. He’s never once taken “flak” for standing up to crook clergy; he’s the konvertsy faction’s drooling lapdog. He doesn’t know a cannon from a canon… but he’s a great expert! Freddie M-G says so. I’ll be blunt, one of my contacts in Northern California saw Dreher and Freddie driving from Platina, after visiting their guru, Gleb Podmoshensky. He should keep his mouth shut… he’s as deep in the shit pit as JP is. In any case, grounded people know when to stop “kicking”. Immature brats like Dreher don’t. I find him utterly beneath contempt and simply nasty to be around. He’s devilish… simply devilish… and I’m not alone in that opinion of him.
Barbara-Marie Drezhlo
Tuesday 17 July 2012
Albany NY
Voices from Russia 
Russia Submits “Enhanced” Draft Resolution on Syria
Tags: Bashar al-Assad, Britain, China, France, Free Syrian Army, Germany, Great Britain, Kofi Annan, political commentary, politics, Russia, Syria, Syrian Civil War, UK, UN, United Kingdom, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, United States, USA, West, Western world
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The UN Security Council is set for a showdown on Wednesday as Russia has submitted its own, “enhanced”, draft resolution on Syria to counter a new draft resolution on sanctions prepared by Western countries. The UK, supported by the USA, France, and Germany, drafted a new resolution on Syria on the basis of Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which allows sanctions and military operations under certain limited situations. Russia, on the contrary, continues to promote UN Special Envoy Kofi Annan’s six-point peace plan as the only way to end the spiralling violence in Syria, despite the failure of a ceasefire stipulated under the deal.
On Tuesday, Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN Aleksandr Pankin told reporters after a two-hour Security Council meeting on the Russian draft, “We’ve taken into account [in the enhanced draft] concerns over humanitarian situation, human rights, and a localised ceasefire. Kofi Annan discussed this idea with the Syrian leadership in Damascus. It seems to be rather effective”. The new version of the Russian draft focuses, in particular, on the extension of a UN monitoring mission to Syria, which expires on 20 July, for another three months.
Washington and its allies refused to support the original Russian draft; Western diplomats described it as “toothless” and “inadequate”. In response, Russia threatened to veto the Western draft on Wednesday because, if passed, it’d be “a small step towards foreign intervention in Syria”. Both Russia and China… veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council… previously blocked UN resolutions that would’ve introduced tough sanctions against Syria over what Western powers say is the brutal suppression of a now 17-month revolt against President Bashar al-Assad’s régime.
The Syrian conflict, which has grown increasingly militarised over the past few months, has already left between 13,000 and 17,000 people dead, according to Syrian rights activists quoted by the UN. Most recently, intensive fighting between rebels and government forces flared up in the Syrian capital, Damascus, as the Free Syrian Army, a military wing of the Syrian opposition, announced a full-scale military operation in the capital in response to what the group described as “massacres and barbaric crimes” committed by government troops.
17 July 2012
RIA-Novosti
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20120718/174656572.html