Wyoming priest jailed on molestation charge
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By SARAH COOKE
Associated Press Writer
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - A priest accused of molesting a teenage boy has
pleaded no contest in the case, but argues that he committed the acts in
question for spiritual reasons and not sexual gratification, his lawyer said
Sunday.
Anthony Jablonowski, 69, was sentenced Thursday to between 15 months and
seven years in prison for one count of taking indecent, immodest or immoral
liberties with a minor, his attorney Dallas Laird said. The amount of time
he serves will depend on his behavior in prison.
The priest denied taking part in any rituals but told authorities the sex
act was for spiritual reasons and not sexual gratification.
The victim, now in his late 30s, stepped forward recently with allegations
that Jablonowski had touched his genitals at least once in the early 1980s
at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Guernsey. He was 17 at the time.
During an investigation, authorities learned that Jablonowski regularly took
men to the church basement, asking them to strip naked before they were
gagged, blindfolded and hung upside down from the ceiling, Platte County
prosecutor Eric Alden told The Denver Post.
According to Alden, the men's genitals were manipulated to induce pain while
they prayed. He could not be reached for comment Sunday.
Laird said his client could not talk about the rituals, citing an oath of
confidentiality concerning prayer and confession.
''He's completely denied the charge he entered the no contest plea to. ...
It's a difficult problem when you have a client who believes he can't
violate his oath to God if he says anything,'' Laird said.
The activities were not sexual, and were tied to a legitimate practice of
penance and redemptive suffering, he said. Several people testified they
found the prayers spiritual - not sexual - in nature.
According to the Catholic Diocese of Cheyenne, Jablonowski was a priest in
Wyoming for about 10 years. He was serving at a monastery in Ohio when the
molestation charges surfaced, Laird said.
''We are certainly praying for anyone who was a victim of Father Jablonowski
and we certainly are praying for him,'' Mons. Gerald Calovini, spokesman for
the Steubenville Diocese, told The Marietta (Ohio) Times. Jablonowski served
a priest in the diocese before devoting more time to the monastery.
''I don't know that he will actually go into the prison system,'' Laird
said. ''There's a safety concern.''
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MACHIAVELLIAN OBSOLESCENCE
There are essentially two forms of obsolescence: Fashion and Mechanical.
Fashion obsolescence comes from things appearing outdated: the necktie is
too wide or narrow; the dress too long or short. Fashion obsolescence is
driven psychologically by peer review. Mechanical obsolescence, also
referred to as functional obsolescence, is caused by things wearing out to
the extent that they can no longer function in the required manner.
Functional obsolescence also applies to old technology being superceded by
the imperatives of the new.
Machiavellian obsolescence is a form of fashion obsolescence. It is a
stratagem by which technologically superior military powers retain hegemonic
domination over inferior powers by condemning (often on "moral" grounds),
the use of tactics or weapons that are easy to manufacture, by declaring
them to be horrific, uncivilized, barbaric, etc. Machiavellian obsolescence
is very self serving to the "peers." hegemonic opportunism; imperialism in
hypocritical overdrive; sophistry played on the world stage; fashion
propaganda
EXAMPLES: (A) Countries with nuclear bombs have summarily declared the use
of poison gas in warfare to be illegal.
NOTE: The use of nuclear bombs is obviously far more ghastly and appalling
than the use of poison gas due to the extremely long toxic life of nuclear
radiation as well as the enormous physical destruction caused thereby.
(B) Some technologically advanced countries use almost depleted (of
radioactivity) uranium in the bullets of their larger bore field
pieces-especially in tank cannon. The use of uranium-which has almost twice
the specific gravity of lead-causes the bullets' trajectory to be flatter,
and concentrates a greater mass on a smaller impact point which increases
its armor piercing capabilities-especially into other tanks. This is most
reprehensible: When the bullets break up on impact, radioactive material is
strewn about which contaminates the soil, and kills innocent people for
thousands of years (semi-eternal terrorism). The slight advantage gained in
ballistics, is more than offset by the extraordinary damage done to the
environment. This practice is truly criminal. See: HUMANITARIAN; EVIL
(C) Advanced countries have declared land-mines to be unfit for war because
they continue to kill people when the conflict is over. Compare A and B
above.
NOTE: Land-mines could readily be built with an internal spring that would
pop open the mine upon the deterioration of an outer rubber band. This would
expose the explosive to the elements (or a neutralizing chemical) and render
it, in time, inoperable.
(D) Suicide bombing and assassinations of civilians may be defined as acts
of terror and are invariably characterized as immoral by the target nation.
Countries without an adequate military will resort to using any tactic or
weapon when they are sufficiently aggrieved. As Clausewitz has written:
"Warfare is a continuation of politics by other means." See: TERRORISM
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