Israeli Child Model Pimps in FL & the Covenant House

[Dreams End]

Interesting post, there, Z...uh whatever your name was. <br><br>Anyway, voz de Aztlan sucks. In fact, it's SOOOO extreme, I wonder if it's some kinda COINTELPRO to discredit Latino groups. I wonder if in LA, for example, there are many Jews who contribute to Latino causes and this is an attempt to drive a wedge a la Black Panthers/Leonard Bernstein....be worth checking out. But anyway...<br><br>What I would do is try to track that actual article down. Personally, I'd never pull anything off VOA unless I was dead sure that it was verbatim from some more reliable source.<br><br>post more, z...you seem to have some interesting knowledge.<br><br>woops...hadn't read the article yet. It's an editorial that simply refers to Bruce H. I'd flush it and start all over and try to get source material. You can take a legit report and ellipse it here and tweak it there and get whatever you want out of it. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dreamsend@rigorousintuition>Dreams End</A> at: 10/4/05 1:08 am<br></i>

[Dreams End]

I found much of the information about the website to be reworked from this wired article:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,45346,00.html">www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0...46,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>The article does not mention the name of the owners, only a spokesperson. No one mentioned what his religion was.<br><br>I haven't seen the pics, but according to Wired, they are very questionable but legal..no mention of secret explicit pics.<br><br>Anyway, it's late and I have to go to bed. Shouldn't be that hard to get more info on this story from more reputable sources.<br><br>Oh, I did a whois on voz de Aztlan and a couple other searches. tech contact is in Lithuania of all places.<br><br>I'm disturbed to say that all my searches of them revealed two types of hits, quotes from left sites, like Indymedia and quotes from freeper type sites to demonstrate how them mexicans is a takin' over our country. No sites mentioned the anti-semitism except one little bulletin board exchange. I'd keep that list of articles and if you see them quoted on indymedia again, you might want to pass it on.<br><br>And if anyone says, "but they don't blame ALL jews"...oh nevermind. <p></p><i></i>

[albion]

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>The second source is Bruce Harris who is the Regional Director of Casa Alianza in Latin America. Casa Alianza (<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Covenant House</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->) is an organization that defends children’s rights in Latin America...</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>I don't know anything about Aztlan, Florida or borderline websites, but Covenant House has a confusing history. It was founded by a Franciscan catholic priest named Father Bruce Ritter as a home for "street kids" in NYC. Reagan mentioned CH in his 1984 inaugural address, and CH later became one of GHWB's "thousand points of light." In the 80's Ritter apparently crossed paths with the the, uh, Contra re-supply crowd & eventually resigned amid sexual and financial scandal.<br> <br>The Real History of Covenant House: GroupWatch Files<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.blythe.org/nytransfer-subs/99cov/The_Real_History_of_Covenant_House:_GroupWatch_Files">www.blythe.org/nytransfer...atch_Files</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Breaking the Faith – A Close Look at Covenant House<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.russbaker.com/Village%20Voice%20-%20Breaking%20The%20Faith.htm">www.russbaker.com/Village...0Faith.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Friends of Guatemalan Children<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.guatemalanchildren.org/">www.guatemalanchildren.org/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>The early Covenant House saga, or a version of it, was also the subject of a 1992 book by Charles Sennott called "Broken Covenant."<br><br>For a completely different take on the scandal listen to rightwing conspiracy theorist Michael Corbin's 2002 radio interview with detective Jim Rothstein on the subject of CH and Father Bruce Ritter. Rothstein basically turns the whole thing inside out - his contention is that Ritter was a good guy who was set up, says there are analogies with Franklin Credit Union, etc. <br><br>"Jim Rothstein is a retired New York City Detective. Jim will discuss his investigation as a police detective into allegations concerning Father Bruce Ritter, founder of Covenant House, a Catholic youth hostel, and how his investigation led him into a larger world of crime, child prostitution and abuse."<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.4acloserlook.com/2002archives.html">www.4acloserlook.com/2002archives.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>(streaming audio - scroll down to September 1, 2002)<br><br>Remember Jim Rothstein? He popped up a few times during the "Is Gannon Gosch?" thing (which is when I collected the above links). <p></p><i></i>

[albion]

<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Remarks by the President at White House Conference on Missing, Exploited, and Runaway Children </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>"[...]There are as many as 100,000 runaway children every year. And these children are vulnerable; they're vulnerable to exploitation. There are some great programs in America, people who are soldiers in the armies of compassion -- one of which is the <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Covenant House</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->. We're honored today to have Sister Mary Rose McGeady here. She runs the Covenant House. And if you don't know anything about the Covenant House and if you're interested in helping, support the Covenant House, or programs like the Covenant House, because these people help those on the street, those young, vulnerable children on the street, to realize there is love in our society and there is hope for a better way."<br><br>-George W. Bush<br>October 2, 2002<br><br>from the White House website:<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021002-4.html#">www.whitehouse.gov/news/r...02-4.html#</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><br>24 months later...<br><br><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Bruce Harris Resigns in Scandal</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Published by the Miami Herald, 9/20/04<br><br>A British man who won several international prizes for his defense of children's rights in Central America has been fired for paying a 19-year-old male for ''sexual favors,'' his organization announced Friday.<br><br>[...] The outspoken Harris had announced Thursday from his home in Costa Rica that he was retiring as executive director of Casa Alianza, the Latin American affiliate of the New York-based Covenant House, to spend more time with his family.<br><br>[...] <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Harris gained international fame with his allegations that police officers and other security forces were executing street children, </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->many of them petty criminals addicted to sniffing glue and industrial solvents.<br><br>Casa Alianza maintains shelters and other programs in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Mexico.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.americas.org/item_16425">www.americas.org/item_16425</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br>Maybe another poster can fill in a few of the blanks here... <p></p><i></i>

[Dreams End]

Any relation to Boystown? <p></p><i></i>

[albion]

I couldn't say. Its been months since I listened to the Rothstein/Corbin interview. IIRC, Franklin/Boystown was mentioned as an analogy, I don't recall whether he claimed a direct connection.<br><br>Makes me feel icky just to type about it. <p></p><i></i>

[FourthBase]

I'm confused but really intrigued by the Bruce Harris/Covenant House connections. I knew there would be layers to this. Seems like a can of worms that Jeff might explore in the blog. <p></p><i></i>

[FourthBase]

Look, there is something here relatively unexplored, and something we could do something about.<br><br>Jeff, any opinion? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=fourthbase>FourthBase</A> at: 10/5/05 1:29 pm<br></i>

[albion]

I agree, FourthBase. I just listened to the Jim Rothstein '02 interview again, and while he doesn't talk about anything terribly recent, it's a wide-ranging interview and he drops a lot of names, almost in passing: Marcinkus, Sindona, Calvi, Gambino crime family, Ed Koch, Son of Sam, Medjugorje, the Finders... Says Ritter/Manhattan was a "different part" of the Franklin/Boystown thing. I dunno how credible he is, but to my ears anyway, he <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>sounds</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> straight-up. <br><br>Quote:<br><br>"I don't think they're going to go after Manhattan as long as Robert Morgenthau is district attorney." <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :eek --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/eek.gif ALT=":eek"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>