Now that ain't right!

I think it's about time to mention a rather delicate subject again.

I remember back in the 1970's when a Toronto shoe shine boy named Emanuel Jacques was raped and killed by a group of 4 pedophiles. What made the crime all the more horrendous was a report about a pedophiles magazine that actively promoted homosexual relations between men and young boys.

Get this, the title of the offending article was; "Men loving boys loving men," and the response of the gay community in Toronto was "Well, what's the matter with that!" (As if pretending it was within societal norms gave it a veneer of respectability.)

The latest shemozzle, (is that a word?) and the reason I went on this rant today is a report out of Montreal that got me up to high "doe" again! (As in doe, re, me!)

Montreal police are investigating a website that recommends pedophiles attend the city's popular children's summer festival to watch little girls.

The website bills itself as a place to "celebrate the splendor of watching little girls," said a spokesman!

The site gives the festival a five-heart rating, describing it as an event where "there are always plenty of little girls."

"Be sure to watch carefully," the site reads, warning that the festival is "mainly for family, so a single GL [girl lover] on his own might be slightly suspicious."

The listing also provides a link to the City of Montreal's website, which promotes the festival.

Officials with the city said they contacted police as soon as they found out about the link.

Police investigators said they'd already been tipped off about the site and wanted to reassure parents that the festival will be safe.

"I understand parents who could be stressed with that, but on the other hand, I'm telling you, there's nothing to be stressed about," said Montreal police spokesman Ian Lafrenière. "We'll be present. The organization is aware of that and we'll do everything possible to find out what was the intention of those people."

The site says it was influenced by Jack McClellan, a self-identified U.S. pedophile who is notorious for creating websites about "little girl watching." It also lists family-oriented events in California.

These kinds of websites are all too common, said Earla-Kim McCall, an RCMP officer in charge of the National Child Exploitation Co-ordination Centre in Ottawa.

"People interested in these websites are people sexually interested in children," she told CBC.ca. "Prior to the Internet, anyone who had an inclination to be sexually attracted to a child was very isolated and alone, and perhaps would not act on those urges.

"The Internet has allowed them the opportunity to validate their feelings, connect with other like-minded individuals, learn grooming techniques and gain the confidence perhaps to act out. That is what makes it so frightening for parents."

The site explicitly states it does not encourage direct contact with children, but that doesn't mean the web page is legal, McCall said.

"The [Canadian] Criminal Code indicates that if you have any written material that advocates sexual activity, then it's criminal," she said. "Where that line is drawn depends entirely upon the information we come across and whether or not it would support a prosecution."

The site is linked to a web page based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which makes policing it here difficult, McCall added.

But there are ways for authorities to block some sites, as has been done by the Canadian Coalition Against Internet Child Exploitation, a group of Internet service providers (ISP) and police forces.

Your "hang'em high" scribe;
Allan W Janssen

Random Notes!

Pamela Anderson is back in the news.

Canada's second most popular sweetheart, (After Shannia) made headlines again. (?)

First of all, because she went to Finland for a holiday, and then she said she has Finnish ancestry and would like to learn to speak the language!

Yippie shit!

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On a more serious note an article in the Toronto Star this morning states that Muslim girls in Toronto schools are being targeted for sexual assaults because attackers consider them less likely to report the incidents to authorities.

Nasreen Karim, an assistant manager at the Muslim Welfare Home in Whitby, said sexual assaults are embarrassing for immigrant from Pakistan and India because of their cultural ethos, not their religion.

He said; "I have a daughter myself and it would be embarrassing for parents to publicise things like this. They don't want to report incidents because of the shame it would bring on the family. That's just the way our culture is.

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Guest post by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Columnist;

In 1960 something like 30 percent of respondents told pollsters that they wouldn't vote for a Catholic. That didn't keep John F. Kennedy from winning the White House in November.

Anti-Mormon prejudice reared its head during Mitt Romney's first political campaign which was his 1994 run for the Senate against Ted Kennedy.

Back then it usually manifested itself not as opposition to Romney's religion per se, but to the conservative political views of the Mormon Church, which Romney, as a faithful Mormon, was presumed to share.

But those were exceptions. While Romney's religion was often mentioned, there was a nearly universal taboo against explicitly condemning him for his faith. "In 1994," I wrote at the time, "no one dares suggest that Romney, by virtue of being a Mormon, doesn't belong in the Senate."

Thirteen years later, anti-Mormon hostility isn't so inhibited:

In Florida, televangelist Bill Keller informs his 2.4 million e-mail subscribers: "If you vote for Mitt Romney, you are voting for Satan!"

The Associated Press reports that a Romney trip to New Hampshire "started on a sour note" when Al Michaud, a Dover resident and self-identified liberal, shouted, "I'm one person who will not vote for a Mormon" and refused to shake Romney's hand.

In Warren County, Iowa, the local chairman of Senator John McCain's presidential campaign reportedly tells Republican activists that the Mormon Church funds Hamas and treats women the way the Taliban did in Afghanistan.

Al Sharpton, during a debate with atheist Christopher Hitchens, gratuitously says of Romney: "As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways."

Nevertheless, election campaigns are for choosing political leaders, not popes.

A candidate's public record has far more to say about his fitness for office than his private devotions do.

All the presidential hopefuls, Romney included, have made their mark in the worlds of politics, business, the military, or the law. Each has a history.

That, not what they believe about Jesus or Joseph Smith, is what voters should care about most.

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Guest post Michael Coren, Tornto Sun;

Now that the Gay Pride parade in Canada's largest city has ended we really should pose some of the serious questions that mainstream media seemed terrified to ask last week.

Questions that apply to any such event in Canada or elsewhere in the world.

First is the basic issue of truth.

The media constantly claimed that at least a million people attended the Toronto event. Which would indicate enormous approval of and support for homosexuality.

The million myth was given again and again until it became, as it were, a self-evident truth.

There may have been, tops, 250,000 people present, maybe less.

Anyone who has seen a photograph of a million strong crowd knows that such a mass of humanity could never fit into the core of a city.

It's also entirely relevant and wonderfully fitting that those assemblies that actually do attract a million people are invariably religious, orthodox and conservative. The Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, World Youth Day with the Pope, evangelical rallies in Asia and Africa.

It's part of the fraudulent politics around this issue that if the leadership of the gay community make a statement it is automatically believed.

(For the longest time it was "fact" that 10% of people were homosexual. We now know that the number is between 2% and 3% but, hey, we all make mistakes!)

The police have a sophisticated grid system that indicates the size of a crowd.

Odd, then, that they have said nothing when we hear of the magic million. Just as odd as their failure to arrest people over the years who take off their clothes during the Pride march.

There is ample photographic evidence of the nudity and of officers standing by, grinning and doing nothing.

For a community that claims only to want equality, one wonders why the law does not apply to all when it is broken.

Which bring us to question of whether it is abusive to take a small child to a parade where a significant minority of people are semi-naked, simulate sexual activity, bump and grind and even whip each other for some bizarre form of titillation.

There were many parents who took their small children to Gay Pride.

Yet if, for example, a parent sat a five or six-year-old down in front of a television and showed a DVD of people pretending to have sex and taking their clothes off, would we regard them as loving and responsible moms and dads or would we call the Children's Aid Society?

Taking vulnerable and powerless little children to Pride, however, has become a badge for those who boast how progressive they are. Proving that broad-minded often means empty-headed.

Gay men and women deserve respect and dignity and have the same right to march as any other group. Difficult to see what was dignified about what went on a few days ago and hard to understand why so many people are so reluctant to state the obvious.

You can e-mail Michael Coren through his website;

http://www.michaelcoren.com

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God-101 (what the church doesn't want you to know!) at www.God-101.com