UPDATE: Mass Graves at Brantford

Communique from The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS)

The Mass Graves at Brantford:

An Update from the ITCCS Indigenous Elders Advisory Council and Kevin Annett

June 5, 2012

The first successful uncovering of apparent mass graves at a former Indian residential school in Canada began in October, 2011 at the “Mush Hole” Mohawk Institute: the former Church of England (Anglican) facility in Brantford, Ontario.

After being formally authorized by Mohawk elders to begin the inquiry, two teams associated with the ITCCS successfully surveyed the grounds of the Mush Hole with Ground Penetrating Radar. This survey revealed massive soil dislocation in areas where eyewitnesses describe seeing burials of children who died in the Mush Hole.

Based on this discovery, the ITCCS teams sunk two small test digs which revealed positive evidence of burials. These included remains of clothing and buttons positively identified as coming from school uniforms, as well as bone samples which turned out to be primarily animal mixed with probable human remains of small children.

The very success of this dig, and its kindling of similar independent excavations at two other former residential schools during 2012, has sparked a counter-attack by the government of Canada and the Anglican Church which has caused the Brantford inquiry to be put on temporary hold.

This counter-attack has followed the usual pattern of divide and conquer tactics utilizing the already factionalized atmosphere in the Six Nations community in Brantford.

Early in 2012 after the test digs had uncovered the first bone samples, a government-funded operative named Jan Longboat recruited and paid one of the tribal members who had authorized the ITCCS inquiry, Frank Miller, to begin criticizing the inquiry and calling for the expulsion of ITCCS field worker Kevin Annett from the Mohawk community.

Miller successfully factionalized the original group of authorizing Mohawks by stoking fear and spreading state-sponsored smears about Kevin Annett in the community, despite Kevin having been adopted into the Mohawk Nation and given a name.

Nevertheless, to solidify the ITCCS inquiry, in late March, 2012, a new group of ten Mohawk elders and Mush Hole survivors issued a new statement authorizing Kevin Annett and ITCCS to proceed with the Mush Hole inquiry and excavation.

To counter further disruptions and rally native supporters, ITCCS has also established a seven-member Indigenous Elders Advisory Council with representatives from the Cree, Anishnabe, Haudenosaunee, Squamish, Mohawk, Wyandotte, and Maliseet Nations.

The Mush Hole inquiry will be proceeding under the authority of the ten authorizing Mohawk elders, along with a new international team of archaeological and forensic specialists who will seek to recover and identify the remains of children who died at the Mush Hole, for analysis and traditional re-burial.

This inquiry is now joined by similar independent excavations on Cree and Squamish territory, authorized by survivors at the site of residential schools in Ontario and British Columbia.

Obviously, this initiative is a direct challenge to the present state and church-funded whitewash known as Canada’s “truth and reconciliation commission”, which has no mandate to lay criminal charges or search for the remains or cause of death of the 50,000 and more children who died in these schools.

We can therefore expect further efforts by Canada and its guilty churches to disrupt and discredit the independent search for the missing children at the Mush Hole, and elsewhere. And so we urge all people of conscience and all survivors of Canada’s genocide to rally behind our efforts, and to launch similar digs in their own communities.

For further updates and information, see www.itccs.org and contact genocidetribunal@yahoo.ca .

ITCCS International Communique, 5 June 2012
Brussels

Kevin Annett (left) is adopted into Mohawk Nation, Brantford, 2011

Read the truth of genocide in Canada and globally at: www.itccs.org
www.hiddennolonger.com  (includes documentary film Unrepentant)
www.hiddenfromhistory.org

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Philadelphia Jury on Priest Abuse Case Requests 1994 List of Accused Priests

After deliberating in the afternoon, Philadelphia jurors broke for the weekend in the trial of a former Roman Catholic church official. Seven men and five women sit on the city jury. They said they could judge the case fairly, although many have ties to Catholic schools or parishes.

Monsignor William Lynn, the former secretary for clergy, is charged with conspiracy and child endangerment for allegedly keeping predator-priests in ministry.

Jurors quickly asked for a half-dozen exhibits, including a gray folder found in a locked safe at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The folder contains a list of 35 suspected predator-priests. Atleast one priest on the list was a parish pastor until this year. Lynn testified that he created the list in 1994 from secret church files containing hundreds of child sex-abuse complaints.

Two years after Lynn left the archdiocese, the gray file was found when the safe was smashed open in 2006. It’s unclear who put the surviving copy of Lynn’s list in the safe. 

As per an in-house lawyer, he put the gray folder in his files in 2006 without realizing the list was inside. This list was sought by a grand jury in 2004.

Another secret memo shows Bevilacqua had the list shredded. Jurors asked to review the “shred memo” as well.

The new team of outside lawyers for the archdiocese turned it over to prosecutors in early February, days after Bevilacqua died.

Lynn faces about 10 to 20 years in prison if convicted of conspiracy and two counts of child endangerment.

The more than a dozen victims, include a nun, a former priest and a series of troubled adults.

Lynn feels he did more than his colleagues to help victims and advance the church’s response to both accusers and the accused priests. Priests were often sent for evaluation or treatment before being transferred to new, unsuspecting parishes. Lynn said that only Bevilacqua had the power to remove priests from ministry.

But prosecutors say Lynn could have quit or called police. Instead, he stayed in the job for 12 years — and acknowledged he never once contacted authorities.
Lynn’s co-defendant, the Rev. James Brennan, is charged with molesting a teen in 1996. His lawyer calls the accuser, who has a lengthy criminal record, a con man seeking a payout. Brennan did not testify.

Lynn spent three days on the witness stand. On cross-examination, he acknowledged that he had not helped the 10-year-old altar boy raped by the Rev. Edward Avery in 1999, seven years after Lynn met with another Avery accuser. Lynn said he was sorry for that.

Avery is in prison after admitting the crime.

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Historic Initiative to Support Sexually Abused Victims of the Vatican

Be a part of the historic initiative promoted by THE ABUSE NETWORK:

"HANG A WHITE CLOTH TO SUPPORT VICTIMS OF THE CHURCH"

June 2, 2012 @ 14:30 - Piazza XXIV Maggio in Milan, Italy

As previously announced, on June 2, 2012 @ 14:30 p.m. a stage will be set up at Piazza XXIV Maggio in Milan where we will show our discord with cursed clergy and barbaric behavior of the Vatican.

* Supporters are also asked to hang a white cloth from their balcony on this date.
* Supporters can also wear a white handkerchief on their arm or a white scarf on their neck

Say: Enough is enough!

The excessive power of the church:
- will not accept any liability for CHILD ABUSE
- discriminates WOMEN .
- discriminates HOMOSEXUALS .
- exploits the WEAK and POOR
- subtracts resources from the citizens to keep their LUXURY
- implements campaigns of disinformation on BIOETHICS and the HIV FIGHT
- are owners of 1/4 of Italian real estate, yet DOT NOT PAY TAXES (ICI, IMU) 
- sets the conditions of PUBLIC EDUCATION .
- has interference in COMMON and PLACES OF POWER 
- exploits IGNORANCE and SUPERSTITION
- preys on PAIN and FEAR OF DEATH
- helps and supports TERRORISTS and the worst: FASCIST DICTATORSHIPS


For these reasons, we call on everyone to participate in this public March against clergy on June 2 in Milan, Italy. We will take the streets of Milan to demonstrate our opposition to the visit of the Pope, the power of the Catholic lobby and at the same time, to claim the freedom, the rights and welfare of all.

The event will be broadcast live on the following WEB-TV channels:
http://www.livestream.com/francescozanardi
http://www.livestream.com/glbt

DELAYED every 15 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/ZanardiFrancesco

The following associations, organizations and political parties will be in attendance:

Collective lgbit Taboo, Feminist Collective Chicas en Revuelta, Shora Feminist Collective ( A feminist Ovul-Coordination Action), the evil Collective, Collective Casiraghi, ResisTenca Collective, Feminist Collective Mujieres Libres, Fatelargo.tk, Derailment Collective-Ateneinrivolta, Democracy and Atheist groups of Savona Milan, KOB (Kollettivo Homosexual Bicocca), GayStatale (University of Milan), Milan ARCI Lesbian Zami, Rainbows running, Feminism in the south, Arcigay Planet Uranus Verona, Italian Gay, spontaneous movement activist, Harvey Milk Gay Activists Association , Left Critics Milan Bresso Critical Left, the Communist Youth Milan, UAAR. Atheists, Agnostics, Union rationalists , Collective Scighera - ARCI Scighera, Cultural Association of Middle Voices, ListediSinistra - University of Milano-Bicocca, Parent Rainbow Network, Rust'n'Dirt, Group Lesbian Subjectivity, Milan Link - Web of Knowledge, the Communist Party Workers - Section of Milan, Giordano Bruno Culture Centre, Milan X, Collective Lambretta, The Abuse Network "We are victims of pedophile priests" section of Savona, Genoa, Milan, Verona.

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Guide on How to Document, Publish, Arrest and Expel Predatory Priests

Now is the Time: Organizing Direct Action to Protect our Children from Predatory Priests and those who aid them

A Practical Guide on How To Document, Publish, Arrest and Expel Public Enemies

A Directive from ITCCS International, Brussels

June 1, 2012

On May 30, our global network of over fifty organizations issued an historic declaration to the Vatican and Joseph Ratzinger. (see www.itccs.org)

This statement announced our intent to globally publish the identity of known child raping clergy and their helpers, and to perform citizens’ arrests of these sick predators because of the continued refusal of police and judicial authorities to do so.

We have begun this campaign by gathering the evidence of the names, locations and pictures of such child rapists in a central archive whose evidence will be made public. If you have knowledge of such criminals, please forward it immediately to this email.

Armed with this information, the critical phase in our campaign will then commence: organizing Action Groups to publicly post the identity of these rapists and physically arrest and detain them so they cannot harm any more children.

These Child Protection Action Groups (CPAG) are now being formed in Canada, the USA, Ireland, Australia, Italy and England.

Each CPAG will consist of a disciplined team of between five and ten people led by a Coordinator. The entire team will receive training in common law procedure and protocol for undertaking citizens’ arrests.

The CPAGs are not disorganized “vigilantes”, but principled community protectors who will treat proven child rapists firmly and non-violently, and will remove them from their church and their office in full public view.

The CPAGs will not be disrupting church services but will quickly escort the child rapist from the building after declaring him to be a threat to public safety.

To be clear, the CPAGs will not be acting alone when they enter church property and detain child rapists, but will so as part of a larger public presence.

Our supporters will stage accompanying protests, sit-ins and occupations at the same time as the arrests are being made in order to alert the public and media, and to demonstrate how these actions are a self-defensive public safety measure and are legally necessary to ensure the safety of our children.

One of our ITCCS organizers in the eastern United States, for example, writes,

“There’s a convicted child molester preaching every Sunday in the local catholic church here in (blank). The local Bishop’s ignored all our letters and leaflets aboutthis guy, and so have the police. So now we’re going ahead and we'll defrock him in plain sight. We’ll confront him and tell him he has no right to be a priest, then strip him of his robe and vestments, right there, and escort him out of the church. I’ve seen the Mohawk women do that to their own corrupt chiefs. The public shaming always works best!”

This is the gist of our efforts: to prevent child rapists and the church officials who protect them from being able to operate any longer.

It’s important to remember that since churches are publicly funded organizations maintained through your taxes, churches are public space, and you therefore have every right to enter church property, especially if you suspect or know that child rapists and their protectors are operating in them.

During our actions, if the police are called by church officials and they arrive, a CPAG spokesperson will immediately approach them and read to them a public statement that calls upon the police to exercise their oath of public office and assist us in detaining a known child rapist who is a clear and present danger to children. They will be handed a Public Letter of Demand calling on them to do so.

If they refuse to respond and even begin to challenge our actions, they will then be formally deputized and instructed to assist us in arresting someone who is a clear danger to the community.

If the police nevertheless act to protect the rapist, they will have violated a public responsibility placed upon them, and will have thereby surrendered their right to hold their office. At that point under common law, they can be legally ignored. Any act by the police after that to prevent our defense of children will constitute an illegal assault and obstruction of justice, and they can be tried and convicted of these offenses.

For our own security and defense, every CPAG will be accompanied during their actions by legal observers and several videographers who will witness and record the entire course of events.

From our long experience, it is rare for the police to physically intervene in these situations – especially when the media and witnesses are present - since the church officials fear any possible damage to their property or reputations by engaging in direct confrontations with protestors. Normally, the cops simply stand by and watch, especially when a large crowd is present. So numbers and public exposure are our best allies.

As well, don’t forget that the CPAGs will be showing up at the churches unannounced, and will therefore be able to confront, detain and escort from the building the rapist before the police even arrive.

Nevertheless, tactically speaking, your CPAG may choose to mount a diversionary action to draw off the police if they do show up while the rapist is being detained – such as by staging a church occupation to coincide with the citizens’ arrest. This is especially advisable if your numbers are small.

Once your CPAG has successfully removed the rapist from the church premises and stripped him of his robes of office, and filmed the entire event, a CPAG representative will hand the rapist a formal Cease and Desist Restraining Order banning him from being within a hundred yards of the church in question. He is then to be released. We cannot therefore be accused of kidnapping.

If the rapist ignores this Restraining Order, he can then be permanently detained, and any church officials who aid and abet him can themselves be placed under citizens’ arrest and the church permanently occupied as a public safety measure.

All of the recorded evidence of these actions will be posted on You Tube and on our archived website in order to alert the community to these individuals, and to encourage similar actions around the world.

If you wish to volunteer to be a part of a CPAG, contact this email or the ITCCS organizer in your area. A schedule of training events and other upcoming actions will be published at www.itccs.org and sent to you by email.

The actions we take today will save the lives and sanity of tomorrow’s children. It is therefore our sacred duty to bring our deeds into conformity with our love for all children, by placing their well-being and safety before all other considerations. May that knowledge give you the courage to act!

Contact us directly for more information and assistance. For the children!

ITCCS Communique 1 June, 2012
Brussels

Child Protection Action Groups (CPAGs)


Aims:

1.      Research, Document and Monitor child rapists in churches, and those who protect them

2.      Publicly identify and name them

3.      Arrest, defrock and banish them

4.      Occupy churches and facilities that shelter or aid them

5.      Connect with other CPAG’s and coordinate actions

For more information and updates see the ITCCS website at www.itccs.org or phone 250-591-4573 (Canada).

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