Hosanna Church Update - The Evidence Emerges

News about the evidence found in the infamous storage shed, and some intriguing information about buried refrigerators and a CD copying setup.

And the swords, of course, are clearly collector's items, and not linked to occult rituals in any way...

I'd really love to see that list of evidence for myself. Whatever happened to the bags of costumes?

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Church case documents say weapons confiscated
By BOB ANDERSON
banderson@theadvocate.com
Florida parishes bureau

AMITE -- Guns, ammunition, several swords, a crossbow pistol and more than 25 knives showed up in a search involving the Hosanna Church investigation, according to documents prosecutors provided to the defense Tuesday.

Detectives found the cache of weapons at a storage facility during an investigation of allegations of sexual abuse of children at the Hammond church, the records indicate.

Computer equipment was confiscated from the church in a separate search, the documents show.

Nine people, some of whom lived on church property, have been arrested in connection with the child rape investigation.

During Tuesday's court appearance answering a discovery request by the defense, prosecutor Don Wall provided the documents, but did not comment on what significance the confiscated items might have.

He said neither he nor investigators have had a chance to go through all of the material confiscated in the searches to determine which items may have "evidentiary value."

Though most of the items inventoried from the mini storage facility are weapons-related, the list also includes American Flag pins and "ministry pamphlets."

In the search of the church, authorities confiscated computers and related data storage devices that may have been used for making copies, the documents say.

"One of these (computer) towers could be described as a copying station due to the multiple number of CD units it contains," an affidavit states.

One of the affidavits for a search warrant cites statements from the church's minister, Louis David Lamonica, in which he talks of pictures being taken of children during sex acts in the church's "youth room."

It also states that further information indicated that refrigerators containing unknown items "may have been buried on the grounds of the Hosanna Church."

Authorities said those refrigerators have since been dug up from the grounds of the now closed church. They contained nothing.

The weapons were found in a search of a Hammond storage facility rented under the name of "Trich Pierson," according to the documents.

Patricia Pierson, one of the people accused in the case, appeared briefly in court late Tuesday. The 54-year-old blonde woman said nothing as attorneys discussed discovery before Judge Bruce Bennett of 21st Judicial District Court.

Pierson has pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated rape of a juvenile.

War Plans Drafted To Counter Terror Attacks in U.S.

Goodbye Posse Comitatus...

From the Washington Post:

The U.S. military has devised its first-ever war plans for guarding against and responding to terrorist attacks in the United States, envisioning 15 potential crisis scenarios and anticipating several simultaneous strikes around the country, according to officers who drafted the plans.

The classified plans, developed here at Northern Command headquarters, outline a variety of possible roles for quick-reaction forces estimated at as many as 3,000 ground troops per attack, a number that could easily grow depending on the extent of the damage and the abilities of civilian response teams.

(snip)

...the new plans provide for what several senior officers acknowledged is the likelihood that the military will have to take charge in some situations, especially when dealing with mass-casualty attacks that could quickly overwhelm civilian resources.

Skull and Bones Island

Deer Island, owned by the Skull and Bones Society's "Russell Trust." I took this photo while boating by on a suitably overcast day in June, 2005. There's a larger, though more blurry, photo here.

More historical information about the island can be found here.

Jeff Wells has an interesting take on things, and you can find a good summary of the secret society at these links:

"Skull & Bones: The Secret Society That Unites John Kerry and President Bush" from Democracy Now!

Wikipedia

Hiroshima, Nagasaki

The anniversary of Hiroshima just passed. This photo of a Buddha melted by the blast is remarkable.

From the Hiroshima Archive.

The Armageddon Plan: Cheney & Rumsfeld Have Practiced Running the Country

The Plan, eh?

Rumsfeld and Cheney were principal actors in one of the most highly classified programs of the Reagan Administration. Under it U.S. officials furtively carried out detailed planning exercises for keeping the federal government running during and after a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. The program called for setting aside the legal rules for presidential succession in some circumstances, in favor of a secret procedure for putting in place a new "President" and his staff...

Their participation in the extra-constitutional continuity-of-government exercises, remarkable in its own right, also demonstrates a broad, underlying truth about these two men. For three decades, from the Ford Administration onward, even when they were out of the executive branch of government, they were never far away. They stayed in touch with defense, military, and intelligence officials, who regularly called upon them. They were, in a sense, a part of the permanent hidden national-security apparatus of the United States...

This is a must-read article, from the March, 2004 issue of The Atlantic.

Child Prisoners - Iraq Saddamized Redux

From Sadly, No!

Dr. Condoleezza Rice, October 8, 2003:
"Saddam would have remained in power -- with all that entails: More mass graves, more children in prison, and more daily depredations of the Iraqi people."

President Bush, April 16, 2003:
"Two weeks ago, the Iraqi regime operated a gulag for dissidents, and incredibly enough, a prison for young children."

President Bush, July 10, 2003:
"We discovered a prison for children -- all aimed at -- for Saddam Hussein to intimidate the people of Iraq."

Rape rooms, torture chambers, imprisoning and abusing innocent kids... it's the American way!

Children of Abu Ghraib

Sy Hersch was the first to mention the abuse and rape of children at Abu Ghraib -- the U.S. military's own kiddie porn production house.

Link to compilation of sources from boingboing.net.

"Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about, okay? Videos, um, there are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib... The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out."

It's no surprise that Bush and crew won't release the second round of photos and videos, as they were ordered by a Federal judge.

Now the Sunday Herald has discovered that coalition forces are holding more than 100 children in Abu Ghraib and other Iraqi prisons, and that some of these children have been raped and sexually abused.

If you're a sadistic pedophile who gets off on raping and torturing children, contact your local military recruiter and ask for a transfer to Abu Ghraib. There's never been a better time to serve your country.

More on the hot, hot, hot goings-on paid for by your tax dollars:

Sex, Drugs, Mind Control, and Gitmo

Abu Ghraib and the Overlook Hotel

On Discernment

If I get one more email about Bush, Blair, and the entire neocon cabal being under indictment I am going to fucking puke. You've probably seen it linked somewhere -- on a blog, an email list, or discussion board. A loose confederation of pablum-pushers currently headquartered under the Cloak & Dagger moniker -- Sherman "The Queen Did It" Skolnick, Tom "Viva La France" Heneghen, and others in the COD (Conspiracy of Dunces) cabal (Lenny Bloom, Tom Flocco) -- are claiming that Special Prosecutor Fitzgeral has indicted Blair, Bush, Condi, Karl, and the rest of the affair-de-Plame criminals. Oh yes, and war has broken out between France and Great Britain.

And I'm Captain Crunch.

The enemy of deep political analysis is not the servile mainstream media, or Machiavellian Murdochs, but the shallow gullibility of too many conspiracy theorists who eagerly gobble up parapolitical poop because they (like their patron saint Fox Mulder) want to believe.

I forced myself to listen to the radio broadcast in which the COD drop the steaming pile of horseshit. At one point, Skolnick's phone (or maybe Heneghen's -- they're both shrill and annoying) cuts out, and he laughs knowingly -- clearly, he's being targeted by some kind of NSA phone zapper, operated by one of the many secret agents surrounding his house 24/7, so that his amazing revelations won't reach his audience. A few minutes later, he says he's on his cell phone and doesn't want to wake up anyone in his home. You know -- cell phones. Those ever-so-reliable pieces of communication technology.

I'm not kidding.

They're nuts, folks. Take your bullshit detectors back to Radio Shack and get an upgrade.

Whitley Strieber's flip-flop

No, I'm not talking about the man's footwear.

I've never understood Strieber's take on the "visitors." He vacillates from calling them evil and demonic to praising them as facilitators of human evolution -- in essence, gods. I'm sure I'd be a little kooky if I had endured the amount of high strangeness he has, but if there was ever an award for paranormal flip-flopper of the late 20th/early 21st century, Whitley would take the trophy.

At the same time, I always enjoy reading his contradictory theories, and I believe Whitley is sincere.

An excerpt from his latest:

Looking back, I consider the doctor's failure to remove the little white disk that moved off into the tissue of my ear when he touched it with his scalpel as one of the luckiest breaks I ever had.

I have learned how to use this implant--at least, begun to--and I see it now as a tremendous and powerful gift, a technological device that has freed me from the bondage and illusion of space-time and enabled me to travel in realms undreamed.

It is not a mind control device, nor does it read my mind. I know this because I have learned to turn it on and off myself, and to begin to use it as what it is: a tool.

More at link.

Operation Withdrawal Scam

This article sums up clearly what I've been thinking -- that we will continue to hear about phased pullouts and plans for withdrawals from Iraq while the bloodshed and chaos continues unabated. It's a brilliant and (according to the subtext of the article) Rovian ploy.

And of course anyone who thinks the neocons want out of Iraq is smoking too much Afghani hash. The plan is, and has always been, to stay parked on top of all that delicious black gold.

From the article:

A recent letter in The New York Times shed more light on the Bush administration’s intentions than hours of network punditry. “My brother-in-law just returned from a stint in Iraq with the Minnesota Air National Guard,” wrote Ronald M. Asher II. “Although he couldn’t tell me where in Iraq he was stationed, he did say that the level and type of construction going on at the air base convinced him that the United States military planned on being there for a very long time.”

Well, duh.

Hosanna Church Cult and "Brainwashing"

The latest spin? All of the alleged perpetrators have been "brainwashed." From the Courttv.com article:

...Lawyers for the nine codefendants, ages 24 to 55, say that, not only are their clients innocent but they are the victims of a brainwashing scheme.

"There is absolutely no evidence, medical or otherwise, to suggest that there is any truth to these allegations," said A. Wayne Smith, lawyer for codefendant Allen Pierson, who pleaded not guilty in June to four counts of aggravated rape of a child under 13.

And...

"It appears that one of the leaders of the church exercised a tremendous influence over its congregants to the point of making them say they did things that they never did," Smith said.

In a twist, he was not referring to Lamonica, who inherited the once large parish after his father's death, but to another parishioner, Lois Mowbray, who was charged with obstruction of justice and failing to report a crime after the fact.

In particular, Smith cited Mowbray's 586-page journal in which she allegedly had other parishioners write out their confessions to the sex acts.

The journal's contents were not detailed in a June grand jury proceeding [Why not?], but a detective described Mowbray as the church's pastor and suggested there had been infighting among the congregation, whose membership had eroded to about 15 members before its doors were permanently shut in 2003.

And...

References to an occult element were dropped from the case, as were the bestiality charges, prompting lawyers for the accused child rapists to decry a lack of evidence.

Will Saddam stand trial?

Ever since Saddam Hussein was captured, I have been wondering if he will be allowed to testify -- as we well know, Saddam was quite cozy with the Bush cabal, and has lots of dirt that he has no reason to keep to himself anymore.

I am surprised this story hasn't gotten more play. From the Sunday, July 31st New York Times:

In a curious develpment in the crminal case against Saddam Hussein, the former dictator's legal team said Saturday that he was attacked by a man as he left a courtroom agter a hearing on Thursday. But the American authorities responsible for his security denied that such an incident had occurred, Reuters reported.

Abdul-Haq al-Ani, an Iraqi-British adviser to Mr. Hussein's legal team, said Mr. Hussein and the man had engaged in a brief scuffle before they were separated. The man had been in the courtroom during the hearing but was never identified, said Mr. Ani, who said he had been briefed on the episode by Khalil al-Dulaimi, a lead attorney for Mr. Hussein.

"It was not an accident that someone would stand up and assault him," Mr. Ani said... He said many questions remained, including "how this happened, how the person -- whoever he was -- came to bein the courtroom, and why didn't the Americans protect the man in their custody." Mr. Ani said he did not know whether Mr. Hussein was injured, and repeated attempts to reach Mr. Dulaimi, who Mr. Ani said was the only member of the legal team present, were unsuccessful.

Several attempts to reach officials with the American detainee system in Iraq were also unsuccessful, and the office of the spokesman for the American military command here had no comment on the matter.