Catholic Bishop arrested in protest

[Checkmite]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/26/sprj.irq.war.protest.ap/index.html

Yeah, fine...Ellsburg, and the Nobel laureates.....unfortunate. And I certainly do not condone the hopping of police barricades during protests, as such activity can turn a peaceful protest into a riot very quickly.

However....isn't it funny that a Catholic bishop can be arrested for hopping a barricade, yet can't be touched for continuing to allow known sexual predators access to children in their parishes? Something ain't stirring the soup, here...

 

[jj]

However....isn't it funny that a Catholic bishop can be arrested for hopping a barricade, yet can't be touched for continuing to allow known sexual predators access to children in their parishes? Something ain't stirring the soup, here...

You know, this does show just how far from "free" this country has become. Protest against the government, get arrested. Set predators up with kids, don't get arrested. That's how it is, today, March 27, 2003.

And I agree, hopping barricades is )(&*(*& dangerous, yes, it can start riots, yes, I used to do police work (not as a policeman, no, as a campus cop) of sorts, and yes, when one person charges, the idiots tend to react, on all sides.

 

[ceo_esq]

Not to belabor the obvious, but the bishop who jumped the police barricade was arrested because there was a reasonable and immediate basis to conclude that he had committed a crime. That's the essential difference here.

I’m not sure which bishops you’re implying should have been arrested for “set[ting] predators up with kids” – presumably not the barricade-hopping bishop specifically – but perhaps you could elaborate, since arrest and indictment turn on highly individualized circumstances. In this regard, though, I suspect you’re overlooking that the reason Catholic bishops have not been arrested, much less indicted and convicted, in connection with sex-abuse cases is that there is very little evidence to suggest that they were guilty of crimes.

I made a similar observation in an earlier thread, expressing guarded optimism that further investigation would yield evidence of criminal wrongdoing, but that evidence never really materialized.

If you’re simply making a “there oughta be a law” type of observation, could you be more specific?