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Entry: A Tale of Two Normans: Podhoretz and Finklestein Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_tale_of_two_normans_podhoretz_and_finklestein#8105 Post contents: Just a few simple comments on the subject of pedophilia. The incidence of pedophilia actually occurs more often in the general population than it does in Catholic Priests. To the extent that it was covered up as some have suggested I would respond that it is treated much the same as a public school that is also not obligated to report it to law enforcement authorities. The Church mistakenly hoped to reform many of the known pedophiles, others were defrocked, while others remained at large and their crimes unknown. The whole sad affair has suffered from a large media bias against the church. When the crime occurs in the general population it is not linked to a particular group as the supposed progenitor of the pedophilia. For example, Michael Jackson, by the way found not guilty, but let's assume he was found otherwise, did not inspire outcries into investigations of pop singers. Other cases where pedphilia have been proven have similarly not inspired investigations of teachers, lawyers, doctors, or parents. No larger group has been assumed to be suffering a sex scandal because one of it's members was found guilty. @Sid, I am not sure why you persist in trotting out your usual list of boogeymen. I don't see where they are extant in conservative groups. It is surely the mentality hat we must always be on guard for these groups that gives the neo-cons the notion that can easilly slap these tags on someone like Ron Paul. You have to accept the fact that this tag will be applied to anyone who is doing the right thing. The only way to avoid having these tags applied to you is to join the neo-cons and accept their doctrine of unfairly marginalizing the competition. I wish you luck but warn you also that you will find only false friends there. Your first task for them will be to set upon decent people and slander them as nazis or some equivalent group. Sine you talk so much about neo-nazis you must be able to name for all of us the current leadership of this very dangerous group. I would be interested to hear who they are so that they can be more easily avoided. I anxiously await the revelation of these criminals. Sent at: 2008 05 15