Tuesday, April 08, 2008

One down, and another thousand failed Messiahs to go

I see I scoped the Globe and Mail but the G&M account carries the kind of details that were not available yesterday in the Anglo online papers concerning this ‘rabbi’s pastorial activities:
Israel's Yediot Aharonot newspaper said the raid uncovered 30 notebooks of correspondence between Mr. Chen and his followers, in which he explicitly spelled out how the children should be tortured.

The notebooks explain how to bind the children in either “six ties” or “eight ties.” The notebooks describe how to prepare special drinks for the children, made of alcohol, salt, pepper and turpentine. The children were forced to drink the liquids until they vomited. “You see, they vomit the Satan inside them,” a letter tells the mother.

The notebooks also detail how to beat the children with batons and then pour alcohol on their wounds, describing in exact detail how much time to leave the burning liquid on the body of the sufferer. All these acts, the notebooks say, were necessary “in order to remove the ghosts from the children.” The notebooks also direct followers to put hot stones on the children.

In the correspondence Mr. Chen's followers never refer to him by name, calling him instead “His Honor the King of the Messiah.” The writings are conversational, as if Mr. Chen's followers did not speak to him and were only allowed to communicate in writing.

This is one man, the mounties need to apprehend immediately, and then, put on the first El Al plane leaving for Israel asap.

1 comment:

Michael said...

This is one man, the mounties need to be apprehend immediately, and then, put on the first El Al plane leaving for Israel asap.

Kate, you're too gentle.

How about give a shovel, and one day to dig the hole he'll spend the rest of his life in.

Anyone who would advocate hurting kids like that has abdicated his membership in the human race.