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feb 7th, 2010
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Your Crime is Not Diminished by Time, or Apology
Why Nothing has Changed for Victims of Church Torture, or for the Victimizers
By Rev. Kevin D. Annett
"Its worse now, because I m supposed to be healed. They get away with everything and Im still here on the corner." -- Bingo, a homeless native survivor of Catholic Indian Residential schools, Vancouver, August 10, 2009
Here in Canada, I have an odd deja vu feeling these days that I'm working again on the Intensive Ward of the UBC Psychiatric Hospital, except somehow the patients have taken over.
It's a feeling that's reinforced whenever a smiling government or church official announces that the residential school era has "finally found closure" now that a few words have been uttered, and a bit of money thrown around. Somehow, these guys mistakenly believe that their liability and guilt as been diminished by their lawyers.
To stay sane, I stay close to people like Bingo and the many thousands of others who imagine they survived the electric shocks, the beatings, the sodomizing and starvation and tortures that were daily residential school life. It was official policy in Canada to destroy innocent children. [color="#FF0000"]Probably one hundred thousand children died at the hands of priests and nuns and other clergy, and their minions[/color], many of whom still walk around free.
[color="#0000FF"]"Then I saw the priest take that little baby and throw him into the furnace. I heard a little cry and heard his body go pop in the flames. We weren't ever supposed to tell."[/color]
Irene Favel saw the burning alive of a newborn baby in the summer of 1944, not in Auschwitz, but in Lestock, Saskatchewan, at theÃâ Muscowequan Catholic Indian school. And she described it live on a national CBC television broadcast on July 3, 2008.
After the broadcast, no-one protested, save a handful. No outraged editorials responded with passion or appeal. No church official was ever charged or brought to trial.
[color="#0000FF"]In May of this year, an aboriginal woman named Charlotte Stewart and her sister Beryl held a press conference in Vancouver where they described watching their sister Vicky, age nine, get murdered in Edmonton by a United Church residential school employee named Ann Knizky.[/color]
"We want the United Church held responsible" said Charlotte to the two reporters who showed up.
"We want this woman brought to trial and the church to admit what happened. Vicky needs a memorial site so she won't be forgotten."
The church said all the predictably correct words, in a letter to Charlotte a month later, written only after the Stewarts threatenedÃâ church officialsÃâ with a lawsuit. But no-one is being held responsible, and the police are refusing to investigate.
[color="#0000FF"]On a national scale, this protection of perpetrators has been guaranteed by the Canadian government's refusal toÃâ bring criminal charges against the churches for their killing of all those children. And the same guilty churches have even helped to choose the "Truth and Reconciliation" commissioners who will pretend to "investigate" the residential schools while promising that no names will be named or wrongdoing reported.
This kind of miscarriage of justice is called "healing and reconciliation" in Canada.[/color]
I won't ask the obvious question anymore, which is how can church and state get away so easily with such a huge and monstrous crime. We know exactly how. The question is not even why might makes right, or how religion can sanctify murder, for history teaches us why.
[color="#800080"](Yes: because the non-existent jeebus willed it so.)[/color]
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