Internet game on paedophile priests

Posted on July 3, 2007 by petrel41

This video from the USA is called Boston Clergy Abuse Scandal – Geoghan Documents Released. It says about itself:

In January 2002, the Boston Globe published troves of once secret documents surrounding the case of notorious Boston pedophile priest John Geoghan. News reporters and the public react with dismay amidst further calls for resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law. News report by David Boeri of WCVB TV Channel 5 in Boston.

The Italian Internet game makers Molleindustria have a new game, on the scandal of paedophile priests in the Roman Catholic church, and attempts by the church hierarchy to keep the lid on this.

In the game, the mission of you as a player is to help the church leadership to hush up the scandal.

You can play the game, in English, here.

Death by hanging in eighteenth-century London, England

Posted on June 5, 2006 by petrel41

This video from the USA is called Dead Man Walking – Execution.

This video is about arguments against the death penalty.

This 2018 video is called Horrific details of death penalty [by hanging] execution revealed by retired judge.

From London daily The Morning Star:

Hang ’em high

(Monday 05 June 2006)

The London Hanged by Peter Linebaugh
(Verso, £11.99)

GORDON PARSONS discovers the economic uses of execution in the 18th century in a thought-provoking history of hanging.

“WHAT’S in a name,” asked Shakespeare’s Juliet. Well, as Freud well knew, a hell of a lot!

Peter Linebaugh launches this second edition of a book that is as certain to become a classic with the telling observation that the word capital denotes both “crimes punishable by death and the accumulation of wealth.”

Linebaugh’s book, which is subtitled Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century, could justifiably have been entitled The Hanging of the English Working Class.

There are few historians who could as engrossingly encompass the wealth of detailed information now available to scholars and at the same time, with the skill of the novelist, keep the reader turning the pages.

Using the 18th century periodical The Ordinary of Newgate, which contained the brief personal biographies of the victims of “crampjaw” or “the breath stopper,” just two of the familiar terms among the London poor for Tyburn’s gallows tree, Linebaugh breathes life into the obscene statistics.

Mary Dyer, hanged in Boston (now USA) in 1660, for being a Quaker: here.

USA: Students, parents rebuff military recruiters

Posted on November 17, 2005 by petrel41

Iraq war chickenhawks, cartoon

By Kate Randall:

17 November 2005

Students and parents are reacting to increasingly aggressive tactics by US military recruiters on high school campuses across the country.

Unable to meet recruitment quotas and facing growing opposition to the war in Iraq, the Pentagon has boosted its advertising budget, launched a new TV ad campaign, and contracted a private firm to compile a massive database of potential recruits, some as young as 16 years old.

Since 2002, under the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind law, high schools are required to provide the military with lists of students—including their names, addresses and telephone numbers.

Students, or their parents, must make a written request to their schools to have their names taken off the lists.

In Massachusetts, more than 5,000 high school students in five of the state’s largest school districts have asked that their names be removed from the recruitment lists.

In Boston, about 3,700 students, or close to 20 percent of those enrolled in the city’s high schools, have opted out.

At Cambridge Rindge and Latin school in nearby Cambridge more than half the students, or about 950, have requested that school administrators not pass their names on to the military.