Author: R J Adams

It’s not often that Sparrow Chat lends its support to a religious organization. Regular readers will be aware of the distaste this publication has for hierarchical, organized, religion. As a means of controlling large groups of the populace, and making vast sums of money into the bargain, religion is one of the greatest marketing, and propaganda, tools ever devised.

Today, though, the Catholic nuns of America have Sparrow Chat’s wholehearted support. A male-dominated, Mafia-style organization, known as the Vatican is accusing them of promoting ‘political views at odds with those expressed by U.S. Roman Catholic bishops, “who are the church’s authentic teachers of faith and morals.”‘

From Reuters:

The Vatican chastised the nuns for airing discussions about the ordination of women, the church patriarchy and ministry to gay people.

The Vatican also rebuked the nuns for spending too much time “promoting issues of social justice” while failing to speak out often enough about “issues of crucial importance to the life of the church and society,” such as abortion and gay marriage.

Determined to cleanse the sisterhood of “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith,” the Vatican appointed Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle to effectively take control of the Leadership Conference, rewriting its statutes, supervising its meetings, and investigating its relationships with politically active groups.^[1]

The second paragraph of that Reuters quote encompasses much that is wrong with the Roman Catholic Church:

“The Vatican also rebuked the nuns for spending too much time “promoting issues of social justice””

Social justice is never a priority for the Catholic Church. The Vatican is much more concerned with maintaining its hold over the faithful by pious doctrine and false moral teachings.

Women have never held any position of equality in this medieval organization. They are downtrodden, expected to be subservient to their male ‘superiors’, and above all, not allowed to think for themselves.

Being male in the Catholic Church has many advantages. A man can become Pope, even though his youth was spent as a Nazi. Male priests can sexually abuse young boys and girls while enjoying the protection of their bishops and cardinals.

While the nuns of America toil to do the work of their Savior, the men of the cloth preen their egos by sitting around pontificating over contraception, abortion, and the evils of being gay.

Can anyone doubt for one moment to which group Jesus of Nazareth would have pledged his support?

^{[1] “Vatican crackdown on U.S. nuns a long time brewing” Reuters, April 20th 2012}

You gotta laugh! What a farce! US Secret Service agents getting their hands smacked for dallying with prostitutes? Give me a break. This is the CIA we’re talking about. And all over $47.^[1]

Apparently, one of the floosies didn’t give value for money and rather than cough up an additional $47, the disgruntled guy raised a rumpus that now has the whole lot of them confined to barracks, and being laughed at by Mossad, Ogpu, Stazi, MI5, and every other shower of psychopathic, government-sponsored assassins on the planet.

“We let ‘the boss’ (Barack Obama) down,” says US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey.

Give me a break!

^{Psst! The President’s the one NOT wearing the shades.}

Less of a laughing matter is the irresponsibility of the US Internal Revenue Service, which is denying citizens their legal tax rebate because gangs are fraudulently infiltrating their ‘system’ (or lack of it) and claiming the rebates of dead servicemen and other unfortunate victims of this taxation scam.

Instead of doing the decent thing by admitting their security is non-existent and coughing up what they owe to the proper tax payer, the IRS just says, “Sorry, we’ve already paid you out. Not our fault if someone has hoodwinked us and stolen your money.^[2]

Perhaps if they came up with a proper ‘Pay As You Earn’ taxation system, like every other ‘civilized’ nation on the planet, such fraud could never be perpetrated.

The drawback is they then wouldn’t get to keep your overpaid tax money for twelve months, and earn all that lovely interest, which, by the way, legally belongs to you.

Still, if the prostitute you hired tonight didn’t perform to your satisfaction, and you got home to find a letter from the IRS informing you your tax rebate had been claimed by someone in Uganda, you can always head on over to New Jersey where they’ve just issued their first cannabis-growing permit to a company called, “Greenleaf Compassion Center.”^[3]

Who the hell thought up that crazy name?

There’s one minor drawback: the permit is for growing pot, but ‘Greenleaf Compassion Center’ isn’t disclosing their cultivation site. Now that’s hardly compassionate.

Oh, well, I guess it just isn’t your night.

^{[1] “Secret Service revokes security clearances of 11 accused of misconduct” CBS News, April 16th 2012}

^{{2] “Tax refund fraud affecting many innocent people” CBS News, April 16th 2012}

^{[3] “N.J. issues first permit for legal pot growing” CBS News, April 16th 2012}

I’m no great sports fan. I’d never heard of Ozzie Guillen until today, and frankly, it doesn’t bother me if I never hear of him again. I understand he has a passion for bullfighting. Those who take pleasure from cruelty to animals deserve no respect from me.

Yet today, I found myself sympathizing with Ozzie Guillen. He’s been punished for speaking his mind. Here, in the America that boasts constantly of its freedoms, Ozzie Guillen has been punished for daring to say he admires Fidel Castro.

Why are Americans not roaring their disapproval and demanding his reinstatement? He wasn’t being racist. He wasn’t suppressing a minority. He merely said he admired Fidel Castro. As a result, he’s been suspended for five games.

Oh, did I forget to clarify? Ozzie Guillen is the new manager of the Miami Marlins. I believe they’re a baseball team in…guess where?

Florida – yet again! It all happens in Florida. I’m tired of writing about the place.

Apparently, in Florida, you have the legal right to shoot unarmed boys on their way home from the candy store, but you mustn’t announce publicly your admiration for a socialist dictator.

Florida is full of Cuban people who fled the regime of Fidel Castro. America welcomed them with open arms because America hates Castro. They’ve tried to assassinate him on numerous occasions. In America it’s okay to assassinate people the government doesn’t like. These days they’re murdering folks in the mountains of Pakistan by remote control .

In 1959, Castro toppled the previous dictator of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista

Batista was America’s boy. He loved capitalism. He aligned himself with all the wealthy sugar plantation owners on the island, while keeping the rest of the populace in near slavery. America helped him by supplying the weapons for his secret police to commit gross acts of violence, torture, and public executions. In total, America’s boy was responsible for the deaths of around 20,000 Cubans.

Why was America so keen on Fulgencio Batista? Here’s what John F Kennedy had to say on the subject:

At the beginning of 1959 United States companies owned about 40 percent of the Cuban sugar lands—almost all the cattle ranches—90 percent of the mines and mineral concessions—80 percent of the utilities—practically all the oil industry—and supplied two-thirds of Cuba’s imports.”

And Kennedy didn’t stop there:

“Fulgencio Batista murdered 20,000 Cubans in seven years … and he turned Democratic Cuba into a complete police state – destroying every individual liberty. Yet our aid to his regime, and the ineptness of our policies, enabled Batista to invoke the name of the United States in support of his reign of terror. Administration spokesmen publicly praised Batista – hailed him as a staunch ally and a good friend – at a time when Batista was murdering thousands, destroying the last vestiges of freedom, and stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the Cuban people, and we failed to press for free elections.”

Despite these remarks, John F Kennedy still did his level best to have Castro assassinated. The notorious Bay of Pigs affair was probably his greatest blunder.

It was to topple Batista’s evil, US-backed, regime that Fidel Castro returned to Cuba from exile in 1956. It took three years, but eventually Batista was forced to flee the island and Castro took over control.

He nationalized the industries and threw out the US corporations. In retaliation, the US began an economic embargo of the island, which began in 1960 and continues to this day, devastating the Cuban economy and forcing many into poverty.

While it could be argued that Castro’s regime was far from perfect – tales of torture, executions, and political prisoners kept in appalling conditions, abound – there is no doubt that the American government has taken every opportunity to blacken Castro’s name.

During Eisenhower’s presidency the CIA even joined forces with the Mafia in an attempt to assassinate him. When a superpower stoops that low it should ring warning bells right around the globe.

So, today, I join with Ozzie Guillen in stating my admiration for Fidel Castro. He’s stood against the corrupt and arrogant superpower of the United States for over sixty years, and they haven’t got him yet.

Now that’s some achievement.