Tuesday, October 25, 2011

The Center for Constitutional Rights A Front for the Abortion Industry.

The latest ridiculous claim by The Center for Constitutional Rights (“CCR”) located in New York City, is their claim that the Roman Catholic Church has engaged in crimes against humanity. 

Recently the CCR filed a formal complaint to initiate an investigation with the International Criminal Court (“ICC”).  The ICC is located at The Hague in the Netherlands, and was formed to enforce the Rome Treaty (“Treaty”).  A copy of the full version of the Treaty can be found at:    http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/rdonlyres/ADD16852-AEE9-4757-ABE7-9CDC7CF02886/283503/RomeStatutEng1.pdf

With all due respect to some of the legitimate and worth while cases that the CCR has pursued in the past, this complaint against the Church is a baseless false attack on the Catholic Church at the behest of their friends and financial supports of the abortion industry and assorted other anti-Catholic groups.

The suit has no basis whatsoever in fact or law but was filed for media hype, with the goal of fanning hysteria and to continue to find, or manufacture, any news, even news dating back 50 years or more, claiming that the Catholic Church has been involved in a great conspiracy to molest children.

The claim in essence by the CCR is that the Holy Father Pope Benedict and other members of the clergy have engaged in a conspiracy and cover-up of priests who may have committed crimes while still members of the clergy.

The ICC was established on July 17, 1998 to investigate war crimes committed by individuals.  The ICC was established under the terms of the “Rome Treaty”.  For many reasons not part of this discussion the Treaty was never ratified by a number of countries.  It is worth noting that both the United States and the Vatican are not signatories of the Treaty.  However, it is suspected that one of the reasons that the Vatican and the United States never ratify the treaty was the argument that becoming part of this treaty would give the ICC jurisdiction against a country by a run-away court pursing false claims.

This is one of the reasons why the Vatican made the prudential judgment not to become a signatory because it would subject it to having to defend such a frivolous charge as evidence by the recent charge by the CCR.

In that regards the ICC, under Article 5 of the Act sets forth four types of crimes which it has jurisdiction: (1) The crime of genocide; (2) Crimes against humanity; (3) War Crimes; and, (4) The crime of aggression.

Under Article 7 of the Act “crimes against humanity” means any of the following acts committed as a part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, which are (a) murder, (b) extermination, (c) enslavement, (d) deportation or forcible transfer of population, (e) imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules or international law, (f) torture, (g) rape or any type of sexual violence of comparable gravity, (h) prosecution against any identifiable group because of race, national ethnic, cultural, religious or gender, (i) enforced disappearance of persons, (j) crimes of apartheid, and (k) other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering or serious injury or body or to mental or physical health.

A review of the criteria for the ICC’s jurisdiction clearly shows that the ICC has no jurisdiction to investigate the CCR’s claim.

Today the only organized entity that unceasingly defends the natural law and the rights of all peoples regardless of their economic status, religion, ethnicity, legal status, and race is the Catholic Church.


The CCR loses all credibility when they make such foolish claims against the only institution in the post-modern area that continually defends the unborn, children and depressed peoples of the world regardless of their nationally, gender or religion.

With such a foolish filing it is obvious that the CCR is a front and mouth piece for the abortion industry such as the likes of Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocates which financially support CCR.  The death service providers understand all to well that a false attack on the Church will distract people from the Church’s mission of peace and the protection of the unborn.  A truth (that life begins at conception) that the abortion industry and CCR has a vested interest in hiding.

Competent histories of all the religions of the world for over two thousands years have extolled the virtues of the Catholic Church which humanized the West by insisting through its teachings the sacredness of all human life.  The Catholic Church was the institution that developed the concept of hospitals, universities and modern science.

Pursing such a blandly false case by the CCR against the Catholic Church hurts their credibility and distracts people of good will, intelligence and reason, from supporting such an organization.  If the CCR truly believes what they claim they believe they would defend the rights of all peoples and withdraw this false claim against the Catholic Church and apologies.

“If you want peace work for justice” Pope John Paul, I

Law Office of Vincent J. Sanzone, Jr.
Civil Rights and Criminal Defense Attorney
Elizabeth, New Jersey
Dated: October 25, 2011

Friday, October 14, 2011

Occupy Wall Street Movement and the Constitutional Right of Every American to Engage In Peaceful Protest, And the Need for the Police Not To Engage In Police Brutality.

The First Amendment to the Bill of Rights which is part of the United States Constitution makes it clear that neither the Federal, State or local government can pass no law or abridge in anyway whatsoever the people from engaging in the lawful exercise of the right to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, right to peaceably assemble or from petitioning the government to redress the peoples grievances against the government.

This grass roots movement which is growing day by day is a movement by a segment of the population that understands that the current two party system is going to maintain the status quo, and is not interested in redressing the many injustices present today in the United States.

It is true, and it is no longer a secret, that both the Democratic and Republican parties have only one goal, at the expense of all others, that is doing everything possible to perpetuate their grab for power.  As soon as they achieve their grab for power they reward their close cadre of loyalist, and party friends.  In their quest for power demagoguery and rhetoric has no limits.
    
Politicians are brought and sold by the highest bidders like cheap pawns at an auction.  They have neither the ethics nor fortitude to do the right thing, because doing so would immediately kick them out of their exclusive club.

People are tried of multinational corporate creed and executives and the people whom control these corporations whom are obscenely rewarded for their creed.  Multinational corporations have no loyalty to the people of the United States, and this has been proven time and time again, by their willingness to close factories in the United States and ship them anywhere in search of the cheapest labor cost and tax avoidance.  They hoard billions of dollars in overseas profits overseas, and dare not send the money back to the United States for fear of paying their fair share of taxes.  Thus, the money sits or is invested overseas, thus creating more and more jobs for people overseas.

The working middle class are people who are drowning in housing debt, tuition debt, and medical debt.  The banks have robbed the people in this country with impunity and have been rewarded by government handouts, and higher bonuses and salaries for their executives.  No bank official has been prosecuted for their reckless use of derivative swaps, which carried our nation to the cusp of another great depression.

Recent college and high school graduates cannot obtain a decent job.  And blue collar workers in the millions are left without jobs and no prospect of every finding another job paying a livable wage.

In reference to the Occupy Wall Street protesters, I hope that the police monitoring these peaceful protest do not engage in police misconduct in the form of police brutality, or by tricking protesters in marching into areas which they are prohibited and then arresting them. This type of unlawful behavior by the police has already occurred in New York City last week when many hundred of protesters were told to walk into a particular area and then arrested without notice for being in a prohibited area.  In New York City all of the protesters, except a very small minority, have been peaceful and have exercised their constitutional rights with exemplary behavior.

If the police use unlawful police techniques this will not only anger the protesters, but the general public who by in large support these protests.  The mayors and police commissioners of the respective cities should not tolerate any police brutality.

"If you want peace work for justice." Pope John Paul I

Law Office of Vincent J. Sanzone, Jr.
Elizabeth, N.J.
Telephone: (908) 354-7006 
Dated: October 14, 2011

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