The many failures of our society are linked to the truth that only the evil people are playing for keeps.
Very few people not named Donald Trump on the side of good play for keeps.
He can’t get more done because most GOPers are cowards and/or globalist traitors.
There are too many people who appear to be products of incest and/or boarding school abuse and/or polygamy like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan and the Bushes in the GOP.
The Democrats are united as globalist traitors. They have always united, whether the bad cause they rally around is slavery, killing the American Indians, segregation, embracing Communism, making America’s blue-collar people jobless due to sending factories to China and importing illegal laborers and Asian techies, abortion, or militant homosexuality, lesbianism, and sexual confusion.
Part of this is our fault. We don’t do more to kill the political careers of the vermin in office.
We need term limits for all politicians, including judges. There are so many infesting federal, state, and local courts who ought to be living in rubber rooms wearing adult diapers.
Over the summer, you may have missed some stories that illustrate the ongoing cultural defecation of our police, our bureaucrats, entertainment figures, the clergy, and the schools. Here’s a sampler of the scumbags on parade that shows you why you need to be informed and why you need to be active in your church, your school district, your community, your nation. And you need to be kings and queens of your families when it comes to banning the jokers, the jesters, the jagoffs, and low knaves of the entertainment industry from your realms.
Let’s start with the cops and robbers, errr, bureaucrats.
From the Arizona Republic 7/20/2019, this:
Typical Arizona Politician. Courtesy of Warner Brothers.
“A disabled veteran whose Arizona mobile home was seized and sold over a few hundred dollars in back taxes will keep his home.
Maricopa County officials brokered a deal Friday that will allow Jim Boerner to stay in his home.
Boerner’s plight captured national attention after a story by The Arizona Republic detailed how he lost his home and faced eviction over a few hundred dollars in back taxes —even though he already paid the bill.
Calls to help Boerner have been pouring in from around the world. People have expressed outrage that the county sold the home out from under a wounded veteran, whatever the reason. A GoFundMe page was established for Boerner this week.
Boerner paid the bill seven days before the Sheriff’s Office sold the home on June 20. But the Sheriff’s Office was unaware of the payment at the time.
Sheriff Paul Penzone confirmed his office didn’t learn about the payment until after the mobile home was sold. The county sought an opinion from (Maricopa County Attorney) Montgomery to decide if Boerner’s home was legally seized and sold or if the auction should be reversed.
After learning his home was in jeopardy of being auctioned, Boerner made a $405.70 tax payment on June 13 to pay his 2017 property tax bill. That was seven days before the Sheriff’s Office put the home on the auction block. Normally, the payment would have been enough to cancel the auction. But the Sheriff’s Office, which is charged with seizing and selling property to cure delinquent taxes, said officials weren’t aware of the payment until after the home was sold.
Penzone said his office followed proper policy in auctioning off the property, which was handled no differently than any other sale. The Treasurer’s Office, which collects and administers taxes, says the payment was legally processed and the outstanding debt was paid on June 13, whether the sheriff knew about it or not.
What’s more, the treasurer said Boerner received a “final notice” stating he had until June 30 to pay off his total tax bill, including $405.70 from 2017 and another $235.97 for 2018.
“In reality, it was paid seven days before (the home) was sold,” Deputy County Treasurer Ron Bellus said. “We believe the sheriff is on good grounds. He can reverse this sale.”
Penzone laid blame for the situation on miscommunication to Boerner from Maricopa County call center officials, saying the Treasurer’s Office provided misinformation to Boerner in the days leading up to the sale. Bellus denied the allegation, saying Boerner had the right information and acted accordingly. He said the Sheriff’s Office should have reviewed the records more thoroughly.
Boerner is unable to work because of spinal and brain injuries he suffered during a training exercise in 1991 at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi. He said Thursday he was trapped in a maddening bureaucracy.
“Why are there not double and triple fail-safe procedures for this?” he said, fighting sobs. “When you’re talking about taking away a man’s home? Why isn’t there better communication between the treasurer, who had my money, and the sheriff, who auctioned off my home? It is not my fault.”
The mobile home sold for $4,400.
The buyer, Lester Payne, bought it through a company called Advanced Dynamic Energy Limited.
Payne is a convicted felon (emphasis mine) with a record of several arrests. Boerner figured he could pay $5,000, giving Payne a 16% profit. But Payne wanted more and upped the price. He made demands for $26,000, $30,000 and $52,000, according to text messages Boerner shared.
After the two men engaged in a dispute, Payne rescinded his offer and said he was no longer interested in selling. He asked Boerner to leave the home, which was Payne’s right as the legal owner. (Comment: This scumbag felon was not the legal owner. The veteran was the legal owner.)
Just hours before the deal was struck, County Treasurer Royce Flora had negotiated a deal with the Payne family to personally buy back the mobile home for $25,000. Now, he won’t have to.
Flora for weeks has been offering his own money to get Boerner’s mobile home back. He first pledged $15,000. On Thursday, he challenged Penzone to pledge $10,000 of his own to buy the mobile home.
Penzone did not respond to questions about the challenge.
County officials did not provide specific details about the deal to save Boerner’s mobile home, only that an agreement had been worked out. Flora said he could not comment citing a request by the county attorney not to make any public statements.”
Here’s my two cents:
Why was there a deal at all? The government leaders should have told the felon to pound Arizona sand.
Montgomery, the county attorney, is a Republican. He should have voided the auction as soon as the county pinheads figured out they had crapped their pants in not crediting Boerner for paying his bill on time. He’s a typical GOPer, a day late and a dollar short.
Sheriff Paul Penzone, who beat Joe Arpaio to become the sheriff of a county with almost 4 million people, many of them illegals who voted Democrat, is a Democrat. He logically favors seizing people’s property to generate money for bigger government.
Treasurer Royce Flora is a Republican. Public outcry made him retreat. He knew his bureaucrats screwed it up. To save face and his cushy government job, he negotiated with scumbag felon Lester Payne.
Penzone, as a Democrat, blamed his own bureaucrats’ failings on Flora’s people. Penzone, as a Democrat, took the side of the scumbag Lester Payne. After all, they allow many felons to vote now, and felons overwhelmingly vote Democrat.
If Penzone had been a man of respect, he would have had the felon pulled in and questioned about where he got the money from, and warned that his actions constituted extortion and he would be going back to the pen. This would have corrected the problem … the felon would have gotten the auction money back and the veteran would have gotten his mobile home back. But Penzone doesn’t seem to have what it takes mentally or morally to handle such a situation.
Penzone never put up any of his own money, because stealing the veteran’s mobile home didn’t embarrass him, and the Democrats in Maricopa County didn’t pressure him. Democrats don’t give; they take. In fact, Democrats, due to their closeness to career criminals and their own inherent dishonesty, have at their disposal rent-a-mobs and individual felons they will use to intimidate critics and creditors. Look at the trail of bodies behind the Clintons. Jim Boemer is lucky he’s not dead.
This is a teaching point. A GOP official will cave to pressure long before a Democrat will. Democrats aren’t any braver; they are just better organized as a criminal enterprise. Democrats have criminal lawyers and criminal judges behind them …. and if they all hold together, none of them will go to prison. For this reason alone, no person who loves America should ever vote for a Democrat.
Vote GOP for no other reason than to be able to squeeze him or her when he or she foolishly, crookedly, or out of cowardice does something wrong.
Recently there was some mental masturbation in the social justice crowd about U.S. women’s soccer player Carli Lloyd kicking a field goal in the Philadelphia Eagles’ training camp. The social justice knuckleheads said she was better then men and should play in the NFL.
Problem: She was in shorts, not pants and pads and a helmet. The uniform alone would shorten her kicking distance.
Also, kicks get blocked, and kickoffs get returned. How badly do you think she will get hurt if one of pro football’s many felons decides to see if he can separate her head from her shoulders?
US Women’s Soccer jerk Megan Rapinoe plays with herself
Recently, Carli had problems fighting off a much smaller adversary – Jennifer Lopez. From Newsweek, 7/14/2019, this:
“During her concert Friday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City, Jennifer Lopez gave soccer star — and now two-time World Cup champ — Carli Lloyd a lap dance.
The U.S. Women’s National Team midfielder was celebrating her recent World Cup victory by sitting in the audience of J. Lo’s “It’s My Party” tour stop in Manhattan. The two-time Olympic gold medalist was also celebrating her upcoming 37th birthday, which takes place this upcoming Tuesday, July 16.
“I’ve got a little present for you. Are you ready for this? I don’t know if you’re ready for this,” Lopez told Lloyd. “I’ve got a little present for you. Actually, Carli, I got two presents for you.”
Lopez left the stage while two of her female backup dancers handcuffed the World Cup champ to a cushy, high heel-shaped chair.
Next, the two dancers dressed in animal-print leotards and over-the-knee boots gyrated on Lloyd to the 2009 hit “Birthday Sex” by R&B singer Jeremih.
Lopez soon returned to the stage in a new costume, and with her female backup dancers the trio moved sensually in front of Lloyd.
“Carli, you doing OK?” Lopez asked, then sitting on the Olympic gold medalist’s lap herself as she sang a slowed-down version of her debut single “If You Had My Love” that was released in 1999.
Lloyd seemed thrilled by the experience, later tweeting, “A first for everything,” along with a laugh-cry emoji. USWNT fitness coach Dawn Scott hilariously reacted to her tweet simply with two wide-eyed emojis.
Many fans took to social media to comment on the now viral lap dance. “It was so awkward to watch – poor Carli,” one commented.
“Why are so many people weirded out by this?” another asked. “It’s a show. It’s a lap dance key word dance. This is a moment of empowerment. Why does it always have to be a man? We all know Carli is married. Y’all act like married, straight, World Cup champs, New Jersey natives can’t [have] fun.”
(The above poster must be probed embarrassingly thoroughly by law enforcement. His/her/its answer is what you would expect from a sex offender.)
Carli’s Angela Merkel lookalike dyke coach and many of her mis-sexed teammates were likely aroused and jealous of the liberties J-Very Lo took. Including the lesbian predator Ashlyn Harris, who wants to do the raping herself.
The national women’s soccer governing body has not punished Ash-hole for her advocacy of lesbian rape.
Ashlyn’s head is just not in the game
Ashlyn’s an evil bitch who deserves major punishment. The least of these should be expulsion from the team. And permanent barring from contact with youth soccer too.
The US Women’s Soccer organization must donate their entire take from the World Cup to rape victim and rape prevention programs.
Ashlyn deserves jailing for advocating the rape of women and children.
If women’s kickball, errr, soccer authorities don’t act on the first three, then they should lose all taxpayer subsidies and accreditation.
At least one homosexual rapist does appear to be heading for court and prison. The freak is a prominent Democrat fundraiser.
Per Fox News, 7/31/2019, this:
“Prominent Democrat donor Terry Bean was indicted earlier this month on two counts of sodomy and one count of sex abuse for allegedly having sex with a teenage boy.
Bean was arraigned Thursday on the charges, TV station KGW8 reported. He pleaded not guilty and was taken into custody at Lane County jail in Oregon. He was released Thursday and told KGW8 he was “innocent.”
The indictment was filed on Jan. 4 but made public following the arraignment.
(Comment: Why did it take six months for Oregon authorities to arraign Bean? Were they that stoned or stupid? Or compromised by his donations?)
Bean, a gay rights activist who donated almost $70,000 of his own money to former President Barack Obama’s campaign, was charged with sexual abuse in 2014 but the case was dismissed after the alleged victim did not testify. Prosecutors refiled the charges after this, court records stated, according to The Oregonian. The “alleged victim is not named in the new indictment” but the dates are similar to the previous charges, KGW8 noted.
Bean, a real estate developer, and his former boyfriend, Kiah Lawson, allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old boy in a Eugene, Oregon, hotel in September 2013. They allegedly used the app Grindr to arrange the sexual encounter. Lawson was also charged but his case was dismissed.”
Meanwhile, the lay leaders of a prominent leftist church had to do the right thing and can a minister for cause.
From Fox News, 7/12/2019, this:
“A famous liberal Manhattan church has parted ways with its first female senior minister after complaints she took fellow ministers on a sex toy shopping spree and gifted one of them an unwanted vibrator, according to reports.
The Rev. Amy Butler, an anti-Trump rising star at Riverside Church known as “Pastor Amy,” had a formal harassment claim filed against her in May in a shocking fall from grace for a congregation known for its inter-denominational liberalism and progressive beliefs on LGBTQ, immigration, and environmental issues, according to the New York Post.
And while the charge against the high-ranking woman of the cloth alleges some raunchy, aggressive behavior, her supporters maintain she was let go because she spoke up against harassment and sexism in the church.
The 49-year-old minister, who was hired in 2014, allegedly led one member of her flock and two fellow preachers into a Minneapolis sex shop called the Smitten Kitten, while they were there for a religious conference. She reportedly quipped “Is this a church business expense?” after pulling out the church credit card, though it is unclear if she used it.
While in the raunchy store, Butler allegedly bought a $200 bunny-shaped blue vibrator for one minister — a single mom of two celebrating her 40th birthday — and offered to buy a toy for the second minister — a gay man in a committed relationship. The man declined and repeatedly told her he felt uncomfortable.
(Comment: Maybe it felt uncomfortable too.)
Days later, after harassment claims were filed, the church’s lawyer hired a third-party investigator who confirmed the claims, according to reports.
The sex toy incident was apparently the final straw amid mounting concerns from the Riverside Church Council about Butler’s judgment, as she was seeking a $100,000 raise. She has a $250,000 annual salary and $8,000 monthly housing allowance — on top of other cushy benefits.
The New York Post came up with a caption as only they can. Credit to the New York Post.
Butler’s successor, interim Senior Minister Michael Livingston, broke the news of her departure during his sermon at a Sunday worship service on July 7.
“Rev. Dr. Amy Butler and the Riverside Church Council are announcing that after five years of leadership, Pastor Amy will not be renewing her contract as senior minister,” Marilyn Mitchel, chair of the Church Council, wrote in the announcement posted on Riverside’s website. “The Council thanks Pastor Amy for her leadership and asks all congregants to pray for her continued ministry as a leader in the progressive Christian world.”
My two cents?
“Amy, whatcha wanna do?
They didn’t want to shop with you
For a vibe shaped like a bunny, colored blue ….”
This appears to be a money matter, not a sex matter. This congregation can hire another freak at a much lower salary. Progressive Christians are frugal when it comes to spending their own money.
Sexual predators have hidden in ministry like wolves in sheep’s clothing for millennia. It’s as old as the Bible and as new as today’s headlines.
Two groups of predators the media covers for are female teachers who prey upon girls, and male teachers who prey upon girls or boys.
After all, the lawyers for the Los Angeles County Unified School District destroyed 20 years worth of sex offense records involving their teachers, and odds are you didn’t hear about it until you started reading this website. Teacher unions and their lawyers across the country do similarly slimy things.
From the Daily Caller, 7/8/2019, this:
“Video footage purportedly shows the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) instructing teachers on progressive sexual education and gender theory in collaboration with California school districts and Planned Parenthood.
The video, released by conservative organization Our Watch and published June 26, depicts ACLU staff attorney Ruth Dawson, according to Our Watch, instructing teachers on how to help students obtain abortions without parental knowledge or consent.
Dawson also instructed teachers on how to explain these students’ absences to parents, how to forbid parents from opting their children out of LGBTQ education classes and more.
“They talk about mutual masturbation,” said Murrieta School District parent John Andrews. “They discuss gender roles, the gender spectrum, and in the support materials … they take it even further. They discuss everything, topics like roleplaying for different genders, blood play, dental dams … fisting is mentioned. I mean, they mention it all.”
“If I were to show that material to a child, I would be brought up on charges,” Andrews said. “But somehow our public schools are allowed to teach this to junior high and high school kids.”
(Comment: Bullseye, Daddy-o.)
Our Watch President Pastor Tim Thompson told the Daily Caller News Foundation he published the video after uncovering several instances of the progressive agenda through undercover work. Thompson added that they were spurred by the California Board of Education passing legislation in May enacting compulsory sex and gender education.
The Our Watch president says in the video that Planned Parenthood and the ACLU collaborated on both AB329 in 2016 and the Health Education Framework in May. AB329 requires school districts to ensure students take sex-ed and encourages students to push back on sexual topics with their parents – topics explored in the kindergarten through twelfth grade sex education curricula implemented in California schools.
(Comment: Great. The teacher assholes aren’t evidently competent enough to teach readin’ ‘ritin’, or ‘rithmetic. But they seem well qualified to teach sexual perversion. This in-school indoctrination will loosen some kids up to their advances and reduce complaints of sexual abuse even more. They are grooming kids like the predators so many of them are.)
“We don’t want our children exposed to some of these things they are showing, these pornographic, sexually explicit material. It has no place in the classroom. It’s not right, and it won’t be tolerated,” Thompson says.
Thompson told the DCNF that parents are usually unaware of how progressive the California sex educational programs are.
“We knew parents had to see for themselves or else they weren’t going to believe it.”
(Comment: Maybe Pastor Amy can get a gig soliciting kids in California schools. I’m sure she’d find a use for that blue bunny in her presentations,)
A member of Thompson’s team filmed a Riverside County Comprehensive Health Education meeting. The meeting was presented to the public as a curriculum discussion. In reality, the meeting consisted of Cardea Services, a developmental and research group and the ACLU teaching school districts how to keep parents unaware of subjects such as whether their children received abortions.
Riverside County spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars paying Cardea Services for this training, said Advocates for Faith and Freedom attorney Nada Higuera, who told the DCNF that this information was obtained through submitting a California Open Records request.
Cardea Services did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the DCNF.
“Regardless of how old a student is, they can walk into a doctor’s office and consent to these services without parental consent,” says Dawson, according to footage from the video, referring to abortion when she said “these services.” She was initially misidentified in the video.
The ACLU attorney notes that these services include pregnancy and prenatal care, contraception, contraception, emergency contraception and abortion. “And for these there is no parental notification.”
“I think a good way to think about all these services that California has decided are so important that we are going to allow minors to go into a doctor’s office and consent to these services,” Dawson added. “Because they are just that important and students need to be able to access them.”
(Comment: Does Planned Parenthood give volume discounts to teacher unions for members who have to pay abortion bills or morning-after pill bills or VD treatment bills for their victims?)
The video also includes footage of ACLU instruction on gender theory, telling teachers that “opting out of just LGBTQ stuff is illegal and should be impossible.”
“In January, the ACLU of Southern California was invited to a meeting hosted by the Riverside County Office of Education to give a presentation on state laws concerning student access to health care and comprehensive sexual health education,” an ACLU spokeswoman told the DCNF.
“All statements made at that meeting by ACLU representatives are in accord with California law. The video of these remarks has been doctored, thereby distorting the presentation.”
The video appears to show spliced clips of different parts of the meeting and blurred faces to match YouTube requirements.
The ACLU did not describe how the video was (allegedly) doctored.
Thompson says that regardless of whether the ACLU thinks these kinds of comments are within the law, what the ACLU is doing is highly unethical.
“They are clearly coaching school district personnel to mark a child as present, supposedly meeting with a school administrator, while actually seeking medical attention (abortion) without parental consent, just so they can still receive their federal funding,” Thompson told the DCNF.
(Some educators in Ohio were convicted of a similar scam. Thompson oughta go full automatic and share the film with the Justice Department.)
Thompson’s reference to federal funding refers to a discussion in the video where a person identified as an ACLU attorney reminds the audience that they must mark children’s attendance for “financial” reasons.
Andrews said in the video that California schools are beginning to use Positive Prevention Plus, a curriculum that contains highly explicit photos and drawings explaining the intricacies of every type of sexual activity.
“They talk about anal and oral sex as an alternative to regular sex because you can’t get pregnant,” Andrews reveals in the video. He also explains that the school talks to children about mutual masturbation, gender roles, blood play, dental dams and fisting.
Parental Rights In Education Executive Director Suzanne Gallagher told the DCNF that the video demonstrates “a clear political agenda to destroy the traditional family in America.”
“Until now, the American family was considered to be the foundation of civic life; the smallest form of government, where children are taught responsibility, respect for authority, and national pride.”
“Now, legislation passed throughout the states is designed to support minor rights, not parents’ rights. In the name of equity and inclusion, children are required to know and accept every form of sexual behavior, even though those behaviors are dangerous and contrary to their parents’ beliefs.”
“Get Out Now: Why You Should Pull Your Child from Public School Before It’s Too Late” author, attorney and director of the Catholic Women’s Forum Mary Rice Hasson told the DCNF that Our Watch’s video is “powerful” and “deadly accurate.”
Hasson’s book examines similar cases of progressive sexual and gender education in public schools across the nation.
“Who gave progressive LGBTQ activists, Planned Parenthood, or the ACLU the right to teach other people’s kids about queer identities and explicit sexuality?” Hasson asks. “Especially over the objection of the kids’ own parents?”
Planned Parenthood did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the DCNF.”
As I have said many times, public school teachers are probably the most likely group of adults to molest children. They have access to children, they can coerce children into silence, their co-workers will abuse children who speak up, and they have a union and lawyers to lie for them in court. They also have the back-up of school administrators, many of whom are child molesters themselves, because the school bosses don’t want to pay out to victims money they have worked so hard to beat out of taxpayers.
Now for something different you can do too.
From the Daily Caller, 7/18/2019, this:
“The late champion boxer Muhammad Ali sent a condolence letter to Mary Jo Kopechne’s father after her death 50 years ago, telling him to sue Ted Kennedy “for everything he’s got,” her family said.
The Kopechne family, whose 28-year-old daughter Mary Jo drowned July 18, 1969, after the car driven by Kennedy careened off a bridge into the water, had never shared the letter publicly before, the (Wilkes-Barre. PA) Times Leader reported.
(Comment: Mary Jo did not drown. The car turned upside down, Teddy escaped, and Mary Jo was found, head touching the floorboard (the high side of the flipped car) in an air pocket. She died of asphyxiation (oxygen deprivation). There was hardly any water in her when she was examined. If Teddy had gone for help, she would have been saved. He was a moral and physical coward.)
Think I’m pulling your leg? Here are the best pages of the 800 or so pages of the inquest into Teddy Kennedy’s Midnight Ride into the drink … and how Mary Joe Kopechne was dunked off the Chappaquiddick bridge. I paid $100 or so of the bank’s money to obtain it in the early 1990s.
Click the link to see pages of the inquest.
Kennedy — Mary Jo Kopechne Inquest (50)
The short, handwritten letter is dated July 31, 1969, to Joseph Kopechne, who died in
2003. He signed it “Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay.” The letter was released by cousins of Mary Jo Kopechne.
“Dear Mr. Kopechne, assert yourself in the interests of the good name of your daughter. Get yourself a good lawyer and sue that no good son of a bitch, Edward M. Kennedy, for everything he’s got,” Ali wrote.
“There were no mitigating circumstances. His TV speech was written for him by a dozen lawyers and speechmakers, and was not his own. The cheap two-bit hypocrite!
Sincerely, Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay.”
Experts at Beckett Collectibles authenticated the letter, according to Kopechne’s cousin William Nelson. He said Beckett spent hours matching up handwriting and signature as it would have been in 1969 when the letter was written.
Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali aka The Greatest. Outspoken, wrong, right, tough, and larger than life.
“There was a bit of shock when they first saw it,” Nelson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Because they never knew it existed before.”
Kennedy eventually pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident.
Muhammad Ali died in 2016.
The Kopechne family said they waited to release it because they didn’t want a negative letter to reflect badly on the sender, but in the case of the Ali letter they felt it was time to ‘thank those who came to her defense those many years ago.’
The Daily Caller story came out on the 50th anniversary of Mary Jo Kopechne’s homicide. The Times Leader published their story 7/13/2019.
Ali did some bad things in his life, and he did some good things.
This letter shows Ali’s justifiable anger side.
Ali was under suspension from boxing, and was in bad shape financially in 1969. Also, since his suspension was related to his very controversial and wrong refusal to report for the Vietnam Era draft, Ali knew his public support for the Kopechnes would have done more to harm Mary Jo’s parents if they chose to sue.
Mary Jo Kopechne. Sadly, it took her death to keep Teddy Kennedy out of the White House. Rest in peace, Mary Jo, daughter of God!
But Ali was right and charitable in reaching out. He did the Kopechnes a favor. He let them know he cared about them getting some justice. In signing “Cassius Clay,” as well as “Muhammad Ali,”Ali came to the Kopechnes as a son who respected his parents (who had named him for Abraham Lincoln’s abolitionist friend Cassius Clay) and who also respected the Kopechnes as grieving parents.
Most victims and their loved ones have to suffer in silence. When they bare their feelings, other people don’t want to hear it. Victims and their loved ones get tuned out, or told to shut up. So they bear their crosses alone.
Publicly the parents of Mary Jo, who was single at the time of her wrongful death at Teddy’s hands, said nothing. Kin said they got thousands of letters of support from people from all walks of life.
The reaching out of people sustained them, relatives said.
The relatives noted Mary Jo was a civil rights advocate who had taught children in Alabama in the 1960s. They started a scholarship in her name for Misericordia University, a Catholic school in Northeast Pennsylvania, where Mary Jo grew up. (Mary Jo, who was a Catholic of Polish ethnicity, went to Caldwell College, a Catholic school in New Jersey.)
Mary Jo, after teaching school, became a political operative for Bobby Kennedy. She was shattered when Sirhan Sirhan and/or others murdered Bobby in L.A.
Grandpa Charlie, Dad, Uncle Chuck, and Uncle Don, who were JFK delegates to the Democratic Party convention in L.A. in 1960 and voted for JFK, would have understood Mary Jo’s feelings completely. Grandpa Charlie, a Chicago homicide detective, blamed LBJ for JFK’s murder. He, Dad, and Uncle Chuck became Republicans. Uncle Don, who was a union steward with an aircraft manufacturer, had to stay Democrat for obvious reasons. Years later, after he became and aircraft engineer and was no longer a union member, he voted Republican also.
Mary Jo worked for other Democrat campaigns, and was at Chappaquiddick in July 1969 because friends of Bobby Kennedy put together a reunion for the key people in his presidential campaign. Mary Jo, a “boiler room gal” who did a lot of analysis and data entry for Bobby in those days before the Internet, was one of his key people. She also helped Bobby with speechwriting and typing in those days before laptops.
Mary Jo was a young woman who was idealistic, but also practical in trying to elect people who would enact policies she agreed with. She was not a floozy, as Teddy the Dry Swimmer and his coterie would claim, but a serious professional whose savvy and dedication was in demand.
I have called some victims (or their loved ones) and have offered help to some when I have been able to do so. If you can offer monetary help or only empathy and prayers for victims, do what you can. It is one of the corporal works of mercy Our Lord wishes his followers to perform.
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