Bernie and Jane Sanders are under criminal investigation for a deal which resulted in a 10 million property deal (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/17/burlington-college-campus-purchase-still-coming-back-haunt-jane-sanders)). Jane was in charge of Burlington College. She lied on loan documents to obtain a loan and then used that loan to buy property. The property was bought from the Catholic Church in Vermont and this Church just so happens to be in debt for a sexual abuse scandal.
I have done limited research on this and results on what happened hasn't been easy for me to find. But get this. One of the head priests in this Church was a Kenneth Angell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Angell)). This is from his wikipedia page, 'In 1989 he promised to "take care of it" when a Providence priest was accused of misconduct with boys while working at a Haitian orphanage'.
WTF is that, how is this topic of Haitian orphanages popping up in a Bernie Sanders criminal investigation about loans.
To sum up what happened. The Sanders helped to steal 10 million dollars and then funneled it off to a Church which has a proven record of sexual abuse of children and sexual abuse of children in Haiti.
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BlowjaySimpson ago
Be pro nationalist, pro compatible peaceful cultures. None of that has anything to do with races. People need to stop conflating that.
Think of it like food. I like Hamburgers, I like Curry, I like Tacos, I even like fusions of them, but I still need to maintain a malleability of sorts so I can always separate them and not only have some shitty tasting stew.
Pretty much fuck all religions though.
Blacksmith21 ago
Same here. I'm areligious. I'm not a fan of any organized religion, though I appreciate its purpose and role in the world.
I prefer to identify as "spiritual". There is a God. He is more powerful than I. And I must ask for him to help me be a better human. Plain and simple. No more. No less.