The UK government is said to have set in motion a law change that will prevent the Pope from being arrested when he visits the country in September.
Officials in Whitehall – the UK government’s administrative offices – are said to be worried over plans by the atheist authors Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens to have Pope Benedict arrested for crimes against humanity, because of his alleged cover-up of priestly assaults on children.
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Justice Secretary Clarke [says] of the law change: “Our commitment to our international obligations and to ensuring that there is no impunity for those accused of crimes of universal jurisdiction is unwavering.“It is important, however, that universal-jurisdiction cases should be proceeded with in this country only on the basis of solid evidence that is likely to lead to a successful prosecution – otherwise there is a risk of damaging our ability to help in conflict resolution or to pursue a coherent foreign policy.
“The government has concluded, after careful consideration, that it would be appropriate to require the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions before an arrest warrant can be issued to a private prosecutor in respect of an offence of universal jurisdiction.”
Voted yes but it won’t make any difference. Can you imagine the other reptilians ever prosecuting him?
If there is adequate evidence against him, yes.
Seriously, who are the stupid a-holes that voted ‘no’??
We KNOW that he helped cover up child sex abuse and arranged the moving of the kiddie fiddling perpetrators to different areas where their child molesting wasn’t known and they could start all over again.
We KNOW that he was part of the catholic movement to sweep the abuse under the rug and simply throw money at the victims instead of handing the matter over to the appropriate authorities.
However as #1 says, these sick fucks all protect their own. He’ll never end up facing ANY charges.
No..
The entire vatican should be held responsible and summarily dismantled as the popeness takes his marching orders from the vatican council and/or whatever other slime that lives in the bowels of the vatican.
the pope, -should be burned at a stake in vatican square as a symbolic past and payback and future warning for all the manipulative crap they foisted on humanity since their “inception”
I’m sure this particular popeness would be smiling and rather touched at such a gesture nonetheless.
-same goes for all found to be in collusion with vatican and their proxies.
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No. The church is too big to fail and you should know that by now.
The last thing we need is religosheeple rioting and giving the Christian Taliban even more power.
Without doubt the Bishop Of Rome should face charges.
And if you REALLY want to send a message to him and the whole of the Vatican call him Bishop of Rome nothing more.
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Yes but there are all kinds of people getting away with things as least as bad. What ever happened to the person who tortured that prisoner to death at Abu Ghraib? The woman who took the photo of the body and gave a thumbs up got a couple of years in prison. What happened to the murderer?
The Pope is safe. All the leaders are corrupt in some way or another. Only the small fish get caught and punished.
The British government changing the law so as to spare the Pope?
If anything would make Henry VIII rise from his grave and kick ass, this is it!
“otherwise there is a risk of damaging our ability to help in conflict resolution or to pursue a coherent foreign policy”
conflict resolution…. NWO speak
Bush? Rumsfeld? Cheney?
Who is it we want to prosecute????
So “to be real” probably an “advisement” could be issued that the current Pope will be arrested if he ever sets foot in a civilized/uncorrupt society, leaving him free like Polanski and the BushCabal to live their days out in their feathered nests.
Like Religion, Justice is the pipe dream of a fool. Queue Pedro!
Silly Hoomans.
I hate the Catholic Church and Catholics therefore the answer is yes.
I know how to fix this … crowd funded death squads/assassins for all whom oppress and defraud “the people” world wide. Something like Wikileaks, say WikiJustice. Just contribute however much you want and a name you want investigated. If they are found guilty by a Internet tribunal they would be put on a death list and a fund started. The money would go to the first person or group that provides proof of death. Discuss.
I wonder if the Bishop of Rome has diplomatic immunity?
After all, the Vatican is a sovereign state. It has it’s own bank and laws. Maybe pedophilia is legal within it’s walls??
Good luck. This will be as difficult as trying to bring up any other head of state on charges.
I guess you could invade the Vatican, which requires invading Italy.
#12: Leaving out the death part, wouldn’t it be interesting to imagine Jury by Interwebitube?
Rather than a jury of 12 locals who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty, you’d have people online vote on guilt or innocence based on what lawyers present, plus what the public can root out doing their own investigations.
On the other hand, given our short attention span, only those with ‘interesting’ cases would get more than a summary read before getting voted on.
BTW, there is a WikiJustice.
I just mentioned death squads because it is so much easier and less complicated than setting up prisons. That is what a world court should do … like that would ever happen. “We” are going to have to take justice into our own hands if anything is ever going to be accomplished. The Powers That Be are satisfied with the status quo and could care less about the rule of law. In their eyes we are just surfs and they treat us as such.
Improbus–I’ll second Uncle Dave with a kudo except for the death squad thing. Lack of due process which we should all agree is not a good thing. So, symbollic cyberspace condemnation is as far as we should go==maybe a ban on any role playing websites? ((Like any of these power hungry slimeballs “enjoy” anything except the exercise of their power.))
Here’s hoping that WikiJustice website grows and gets even better. Why isn’t the Pope already on the hitlist?
Hey, if you don’t like it, join a different church. You do remember that the protestants started up because they didn’t like the sexual behavior of priests, eh? This has been going on almost forever — like it or lump it.
Pope = Too big to fail.
tHERE IS a SMALL problem..
Which Pope would you like to use??
Gotta figure 23? before this one, and how many more to come after you put this one in jail?
Is 1 pope all you need?
Because ALL the popes BEFORE did the same thing.
So?
What are you going to do?
THIS ONE didnt start this trend..MAYBE priests know something ABOUT molesting kids, That they havent TOLD US.. and they are saving their souls.