From The Sunday Times
April 11, 2010
Richard Dawkins calls for arrest of Pope Benedict XVI
RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”.
Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.
The pair believe they can exploit the same legal principle used to arrest Augusto Pinochet, the late Chilean dictator, when he visited Britain in 1998.
The Pope was embroiled in new controversy this weekend over a letter he signed arguing that the “good of the universal church” should be considered against the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys. It was dated 1985, when he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with sex abuse cases.
Benedict will be in Britain between September 16 and 19, visiting London, Glasgow and Coventry, where he will beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman, the 19th-century theologian.
Dawkins and Hitchens believe the Pope would be unable to claim diplomatic immunity from arrest because, although his tour is categorised as a state visit, he is not the head of a state recognised by the United Nations.
They have commissioned the barrister Geoffrey Robertson and Mark Stephens, a solicitor, to present a justification for legal action.
The lawyers believe they can ask the Crown Prosecution Service to initiate criminal proceedings against the Pope, launch their own civil action against him or refer his case to the International Criminal Court.
Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, said: “This is a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence.”
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NOTA DESTE BLOGGER:
Dawkins foi bolinado ou sodomizado por um cura anglicano quando tinha 7 anos de idade se não me falha a memória. Está lá no site do Dawkins. Eu agora entendo o por que do seu ateísmo que vai na jugular dos crentes de subjetividades religiosas, mas não consigo entender o por que de Dawkins querer agora criminalizar o homossexualismo. Ou pedofilia não é homossexualismo praticado contra crianças? Pedofilia é crime, homossexualismo não, mas Dawkins arrasta junto o homossexualismo como crime que merece prisão.
Em que tempos nós vivemos... e eu ainda não via a turma do GLS sair em defesa dos seus colegas homossexuais que estão sendo 'perseguidos' pela Grande Mídia... E olha que a Grande Mídia é dominada por editores e jornalistas GLS.
