USA sided with pedophile priests, and soon after, the nation fell Chapter 3
By Kay Ebeling
"Pick up your trauma and make it a sword" -Angela Shelton
(Berkeley Springs WV to Chicago to Antelope Valley to Lake
Tahoe)
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“The Moon landing was faked, everyone knows that.”
I stared at him, his pinkish white face, trimmed hair, government issue quality
eyeglasses, and asked, “Didn't you say you were an engineer?”
“NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center thirty years retired,” he said proudly. He was beaming at me with an impish look.
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| Berkeley Springs WV |
“But…” I was uncharacteristically mum.
In that coffeeshop in Berkeley Springs, WV, spring 2011, was first time I encountered the phenomenon of smart Americans repeating goofy disinformation, which has in 2024 become an epidemic, indeed disinformation warfare, causing permanent damage in our nation today.
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When I left Albuquerque on my way to Chicago, a curious sequence of events caused me to end up in West Virginia. I have a Word file called “Abandoned in Appalachia” where I try to prove the church put people in my life who messed with me this way. In this case, one guy picked me up in New Mexico and was to take me to West Virginia, where another guy was going to drive me up to Chicago, after I stayed for a while with Cindy Falter, whose story I’d published at CofA Blog (See 2008 post "Another from L.A." at bottom of this post) All of these persons had appeared in my life as "fellow pedophile priest survivors" offering "support" but I've since grown to wonder if any of them were real...or which ones were real.
Think of it. The Vatican / Conference of Catholic Bishops would likely hire operatives, handlers, to work behind the scenes doing damage control as the pedophile priest stories came out; and City of Angels Blog in its heyday 2008- 2011 was doing damage. They found my weak points, a need for close friends especially as I've never had them. Nobody likes a slut after they're done with them. Wow. So the pedophile priest caused the behavior that made me friendless so these Vatican pukes could use that weakness to get to me. Soon after I started the blog in 2007, this set of individuals showed up in my life and kinda monitored me as I wrote and traveled. By the time I got back home to L.A. in 2013, all these new “friends” had disappeared, “ghosted me” as we say today in 2024.
I was so naive thinking I could publicly publish their crimes from the Vatican to local parishes and no one would try to stop me.
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I was abandoned in Appalachia for one whole year
The meeting in Boston celebrating ten years of progress uncovering pedophile priest crimes and plans for the future was supposed to include me. I couldn't get there. In the end, the meeting was uneventful. If I had been there more would have happened as Robert Costello and I had plans.
For a year I walked around and round the town plaza. The first weeks manic and agitated. Over the weeks I slowed down, shook less, mellowed out. So as much as this interference in my plans slowed me down, a year in this town changed my metabolism, in a good way.
I did finally make it to Chicago. Honestly I stayed a whole year as I had to sign a year's lease and then few months later the snarling landlady kept my 700 dollar deposit anyway so I should have just left earlier, that's my peculiarity.
While I was stranded in this dark town, my relationship with my daughter was wonderful. I'd hear her ring tone and jump to life...
Now I don't even know if she's still alive.
BULLYING (writing Oct 31, 2024)
(not final draft)
I fell in love with Mikey first time I
saw him
so I never let him touch me. In all those years of being compulsively
promiscuous, in pursuit of the priest I call it, I never had sex with anyone I
really loved.
This is hard to explain.
Even before I connected
it with being molested by a priest at age 5, I knew there was something sick
and twisted in the way I had sex, so I saved it for strangers. Men I loved, or
liked a lot, could only be friends. There was almost an electromagnetic field
pushing away anyone who was decent, as … I was mean to men after having sex with
them, literally kicked them out of my bed onto the street in the middle of the
night.
After realizing in
1996 that all my sexual compulsion was caused by being molested by a priest, the
sexual compulsion stopped. But I never replaced it with anything else. It just stopped.
To this day in October 2024, no one has touched me. I have not been intimate with anyone in 28 years.
Mikey is also part of
the political side of this story. When I met him he watched a lot of television.
When I left to go home to L.A. 16 months later, Mikey had been watching Fox News all day long; and
instead of saying goodbye, he swore “fucking liberal” at me as I went out the
door.
For the first time I wondered,
did Fox News somehow cause Mikey to hate me?
Mikey lived on the floor below me and his was the room where people gathered to smoke weed. “Drop by tomorrow morning,” he said from the back of the elevator where he towered over everyone else.
“I
have to make my nectar,” he called from the kitchen when I showed up next day.
He took cheap whisky that he bought in 1.75 liter bottles by the case. He
poured out half a can of Mountain Dew and filled it with the booze and took a
long pull on it. “Can't start the day without my nectar.”
Mikey was sensitive and willing to listen, so I
opened up to him about my blog and my mission in Chicago, to find more information
about the priest who molested me in 1953, maybe find proof or evidence for my
case.
A few days after that conversation, this
massive body of humans, about 20 residents of the high rise senior complex in
Elgin I’d gotten into where Mikey and I lived, en masse the group of residents
swarmed towards me telling me yes there was a Christmas party coming up for the
building but “You're not invited.”
She was huge and round, with
an Italian face that could have been on a mobster in a movie, leading the pack
of angry old people in Elgin shouting, “Yeah you're not invited.”
Next time I saw Mikey I said, you didn't tell anyone what I told you did you? He shrugged yeah. He came out of the kitchen with his odorific Mountain Dew can and said “Can't start the day without my nectar" again. And I had trusted him, and now this building full of apparent Catholics who thought the pedophiles should have been left alone hated me.
I began a habit that year and it still works
for me today, wait until middle of night to come down for my mail if possible,
otherwise avoid my neighbors.
All because USA sided with pedophile priests and let everything fall apart from there on.
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Here is a pattern that happens three times in this story. I left L.A. in 2010 hoping to interview other pedophile priest victims in different cities and also to get to Chicago to research my own case from c. 1955. I used low income senior housing or extended stay hotels as a way to have a home in different cities.
When I returned to L.A. in 2013, the only low income housing I could find was in Lancaster two hours north by train.
Both in Chicago and Lancaster, as soon as my neighbors found out I was writing about pedophile priest crimes, I’d get bullied, so badly I’d have to move.
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INS: Here short description of Lancaster and Jimmy and the roses
Lancaster and makeshift Christians
As I typed, the words on my screen started to disappear. Delete delete delete, the words I'd just typed back-spaced back to a blank screen in front of my eyes; my hands were in the air not touching anything. So I hit Save over and over to save at least some of the last hours’ work, but all my computer would do was backspace and delete delete delete and soon the entire Word file was gone, no sign of it in “recent places” or recycle bin, no history of the doc anywhere in Word, the whole file was just Gone.
I looked up and light from Lancaster's new LEAPS aircraft beamed like a UFO in the sky right at me through my window.
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| LEAPS camera |
It was around 2 AM. I was copy and pasting letters to the editor from the local newspaper website into a Word file. When I moved there months earlier, I discovered, in the daily paper,, letter writers from this Mojave Desert area repeating everything Fox News said word for word, and the Antelope Valley Press was publishing them, often from same writer several times a week. When I realized what was happening, I jumped into the fray in my own letters to the editor, then get bombarded with replies to me, more repetition of Fox News lies.
I was in a kind of panic and rage after reading letters on the AV Press editorial pages: lies and schemes about Barack Obama who was President at the time, racist and other misreadings of history, such as calling young black men shot down by police thugs who deserved to be shot a day after the story breaks on the other side of the country, opinions and slander that astonished me.
As a one-time Editorial Page Editor, it shocked me that these letters were being published, one after another.
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This blog post is a segment of Chapter 3 of my online book
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After living in the AV less than a year, I’d become a controversial figure on the editorial page for pointing out, for example, that Barack Obama actually was born in Hawaii which is a state and that Rush Limbaugh was not good for the radio industry.
That night I was in a kind of frenzy, copy and pasting their letters into a Word file I called “AV Press Weirdness” to get quotes for later.
My desk was in front of a window that looked out over the vast blue-black Mojave Desert sky. A bright light shined directly into my window from the East Lancaster sky.
I'm pretty sure it was Lancaster’s “Eye in the Sky” aircraft the city had recently launched to assist law enforcement that beamed into my apartment and hacked my laptop so it could destroy the Word file where I was copying evidence of the weird misinformation being published in the local paper.
I had called it information warfare several times. I had said, look at the camera angle on Fox News, they point right up the female’s skirt where she sits on the couch and got harangued with replies that hell yeah that's what we like. Honest.
That night I learned the LEAPS aircraft optics were capable of more than fighting crime in Lancaster. They hacked my computer and deleted my work. A few weeks later I lived in South Lake Tahoe where I’m hidden in the trees.
Having a Word file deleted right in front of my eyes as the “Eye” beams straight at me from the sky tells me, LEAPS was being used for more than crime fighting. There's not much about LEAPS online*** or in the Antelope Valley news since that period 2012 when it was launched.
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| LEAPS aircraft |
I first heard of “weaponized disinformation” when Hillary Clinton said those words in 2012, sitting and writing at that same desk;s finally I knew how to describe what Fox News was doing.
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NOTE TO SELF: I have to remember to stick to the original theme, as I write this “USA Sided w Pedophile Priests” series, that the reaction people had to my blog about pedophile priests ran right alongside the rise of the right, especially the hate and misinformation of MAGA Qanon et al. There were so many similarities it made me write this entire project. Because whatever USA Catholics and supporters did wrong by siding with the pedophile priests and rejecting the victims as liars who were only after money, it set off a kind of energy on the world, or it just set an example for the world, and here we are now with Trump taking over America along with whoever is behind him.
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I’d just returned to L.A. from Chicago but only place I could afford to rent was way out on the end of the Metro line so here I was, in Lancaster CA, encountering America’s emerging right wing political class, a phenomenon I now call Fox News zombies: low-income people totally dependent on government benefits who support Trump; they were just finding each other and becoming a movement in 2012, pre Elon Musk and X.
Only time I had seen Fox News in Spring 2012 was when Mikey in Chicago started watching it, Mikey, who I wrote about previously in this chapter, who turned before my eyes from an adoring friend to a hostile Fox News mesmerized person who shouted "fucking liberal” at me as I left Chicago for L.A.
Now I was in a wonderful apartment in Lancaster with a big picture window overlooking the sheriffs station then East Lancaster and beyond.
Except when their newly created spyware in the sky was used by Someone to hack my computer and scare the bejeebus out of me. .
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| LEAPS controls |
The low income senior building was infested with Fox News brainwashed neighbors, way back then in 2012; same thing I'm finding in Tahoe in 2025, people who are brainwashed, to me, into being Republicans while on welfare, repeating Fox News sound bytes word for word, not realizing that they're cheering on their own demise.
In Lancaster at a barbecue for the building, I mentioned I wrote a blog about pedophile priest crimes and had a group of people holler at me, “That never happened!”
In Antelope Valley, the brainwashing was already going on in the daily newspaper as far back as 2012.
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Written by Kay Ebeling
This blog post is a segment of USA sided with pedophile priests, and soon after, the nation fell, the book/ series I am writing online. This episode is in “Ch3 Track the rise of hate in USA in reactions to my blog about pedophile priests 2011 to present,” the series I hope will someday be produced for online streaming. Find it under “Lancaster and Makeshift Christians” here: https://cityofangelslady.blogspot.com/2024/09/ch3-track-rise-of-hate-in-usa-in-way.html
***This story is not over:
Here is best coverage of Eye in the Sky, from Antelope Valley Times which is now out of business but has left its articles up. I'm copy pasting it here along with the letters to the editor about the LEAPS project that kind of stay with the theme of this story also
https://theavtimes.com/2012/08/23/eye-in-the-sky-takes-off/
LANCASTER – The Law Enforcement Aerial Platform System (LEAPS) is up and running in the skies over Lancaster, city officials announced Thursday. This means the city is now under constant surveillance by the sheriff’s department, who has a bird’s eye view of activities happening anywhere in the city.
“As of tomorrow (Aug. 24), every day of the week we’ll be capturing video,” said Lancaster Station Captain Bob Jonsen.
“This program, for a miniscule amount of money, is going to save a lot of lives,” said Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris.
Jonsen and Parris joined city officials at a press conference Thursday to unveil the new airborne crime fighting-tool and provide details on how it will function.
Deputy Pat Griffin demonstrates how the software works at a press conference Thursday.
For at least 10 hours every day, the piloted Cessna 172, fitted with high-tech optical equipment, will surveil the entire city and record imagery at altitudes ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 feet above ground level.
“It has a central track on the outside of the city, and it continually goes around that track,” said Jonsen.
Only assigned LASD personnel will be privy to the information and video transmitted from the aircraft, which will be encrypted and fed directly to the sheriff’s station.
“The operators are going to be audited,” said Parris. “There isn’t going to be anybody looking in their girlfriend’s backyard, because there’s a record of it.”
When not responding to an incident, the system will be in surveillance mode, with the designated officer directing the pilot via an Ipad in the cockpit.
If a call comes in about a crime in progress, the operating officer will enter the location into the system. And within seconds, the officer will be able to zoom in and record images from the location while relaying the information to responding deputies, Jonsen said.
The system can lock in and follow a criminal target from up to three miles away.
The system can also lock in and follow a criminal target from up to three miles away.
“You can see what they’re wearing, what color their shoes are, whether they’re carrying an object,” Jonsen said. “We can get this information to responding units and dramatically increase our effectiveness.”
LEAPS is also effective at night because of its infrared capabilities, Jonsen said.
The system allows the sheriff’s department to access up to two years of video data. So if a crime goes unreported, then is later discovered, authorities will be able to access case-relevant activity footage based on date and geographic location.
“We’ll be able to attach these videos to these cases, so in front of a jury, you’re going to have some pretty substantial evidence…” Jonsen said. “It’s going to make public defenders’ jobs a little more difficult.”
Jonsen said the system will not zoom in and record private property without good reason.
“I don’t foresee a reason to be on private property unless we’re investigating a crime,” he said. “We’re not going to be just randomly recording someone’s back yard.”
In acknowledging the privacy concerns of some residents, Parris said critics needed to educate themselves on the new system.
“Most of what people are afraid of doesn’t exist in this particular system…” Parris said. “I would wish that people would educate themselves before they decide whether it’s good or bad, because the criticism so far is from people who have no idea what the capacity of the system is.”
LEAPS was created by Aero View LLC and engineered and developed by Spiral Technology Inc. The city paid $1.3 million to Aero View to acquire the aircraft, avionics, and other equipment required to develop and deploy LEAPS. The aircraft is fueled, maintained and hangared at William J. Fox Field Airfield in Lancaster. The first 12 months of service and operations are at no cost to the city as part of the management agreement between Aero View and Lancaster. Read more on the agreement here.
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- arrrggg says
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”-Ben Franklin
nuff said
- Rob says
I would much prefer these resources be utilized on the ground and aircraft be used only in response to a crime in process. What a waste to fly an aircraft for 10 hours a day for the sake of taking video to store with the hopes of recording a crime to view later. We would rather have more patrol cars and sheriffs please Rex!
- Michelle Egberts says
Here is our “Eye In The Sky” aircraft report http://report.myairplane.com/index.php
- Michelle Egberts says
http://www.aeroviewllc.com/pdf/leapsbrochure.pdf
- Michelle Egberts says
http://www.aeroviewllc.com/ PILOTS WANTED… PLEASE APPLY… WE MUST HAVE AN EYE IN THE SKY!!!
- Rob says
I would much prefer these resources be utilized on the ground and aircraft be used only in response to a crime in process. What a waste to fly an aircraft for 10 hours a day for the sake of taking video to store with the hopes of recording a crime to view later. We would rather have more squad cars and sheriffs please Rex!
William – The difference is, once they set off their alarm, or call the police.. the camera can be immediately turned to the property, and possibly see the suspects leaving, long before patrol cars even show up. That’s the benefit people don’t grasp yet.
Background on LEAPS:
LANCASTER – The Law Enforcement Aerial Platform System (LEAPS) is up and running in the skies over Lancaster, city officials announced Thursday. This means the city is now under constant surveillance by the sheriff’s department, who has a bird’s eye view of activities happening anywhere in the city.
Lancaster, Calif., Approves Aerial Surveillance System
https://www.govtech.com › public-safety › Lancaster-Ca...
Nov 9, 2011 — Created by Aero View and developed by Spiral Technology, LEAPS uses both visible and infrared imagery for tracking. City officials said that at ...
Aero View LLC_NR_11-04-11 - Lancaster
http://www.spiraltechinc.com › news › 2011-11-04_...
Nov 4, 2011 — Employee- and veteran-owned Aero View LLC has created a Law Enforcement Aerial Platform System (LEAPS) which will help law enforcement agencies ...
“From a public safety perspective, LEAPS can follow a criminal target via visual movement at altitudes ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 feet above ground level, while using both visible and infrared images for tracking,” said Jonsen. “It is an effective and economical resource offering superior surveillance, patrol and investigative capabilities.”
The bullying details were different, in Chicago and Lancaster, and weirdest part is-
It happened again when I moved in 2018 into low income senior housing in South Lake Tahoe. So next thing I have to write is about each bullying episode.
One pattern that is the same in all three bullying incidents is, soon after moving in, I’d befriend someone. I'm proud of my blog about the priest crimes, so when I meet someone I think I can trust, I show it to them, show them how it's linked in Abuse Tracker, show them my Dashboard so I can brag about all my clicks. Then within days of sharing my truth, there's an incident where nearly everybody in the apartment building is ganging up on me, in awful nightmarish ways, which, hmm, would be interesting cinema.
Another pattern is, the people doing the bullying later became staunch Trump supporters, almost without exception.
It's only as I write that I realize the significance of what I'm writing...
ADDENDUM
MONDAY, MAY 12, 2008
Cardboard Cardinal meets with LA plaintiff from 07 civil cases, says her perpetrator George Rucker laicized this year, no one knows where he is, shrug
*****
By Kay Ebeling
When drawing a picture of Cardinal Roger Mahony, the face becomes more lifelike when you begin to erase lines. I sat in on a conference Saturday with the Cardinal and Cindy Falter, one of the LA plaintiffs from last year’s civil cases, in response to Mahony's call for victims of church sex crimes to come to him, meet with him. (Above is raw video, a standup interview with Cindy right after the meeting.) At one point she kept asking the cardinal to answer, “How do you explain George Neville Rucker openly taking children out of the classroom to the rectory to be raped on school days?”
“Well, it’s evil, it’s just pure evil,” was the Cardinal’s response. The room was silent so he repeated, “It was evil pure evil.” That was all he had to say.
Mahony did tell us that Cindy’s perpetrator, George Neville Rucker, was laicized earlier this year, and the archdiocese confirmed to me today by phone, that by a decree from Rome, Rucker was removed in 2008 from the priesthood. Mahony assured us we no longer have to worry about the church expending funds to pay for Rucker’s stay in Nazareth House, where he’s apparently been the past few years.
“He’s on Social Security now,” Mahony told us, which means the pedophile priest George Neville Rucker will have a steady income, he'll stay healthy with MediCare, probably get section 8 housing before long or county funded board and care help until he dies. Rucker was convicted once but the 2003 US Supreme Court Stogner decision released him and a lot of priests from their crimes.
So Rucker won't be on any offenders lists. The archdiocese would not give any information about when or where George Neville Rucker was laicized and turned out for the taxpayers to support.
Where are the documents? Cindy asked, and learned that a lot of plaintiffs ask that question. Apparently they have to get a lawyer and request their perpetrator’s personnel files, then the priest inevitably appeals release of documents claiming privacy issues, inevitably then you have a hearing in front of a judge who finally decides how much of your perpetrator’s documents you can have. So plaintiffs have to take the initial step requesting the documents through lawyers. Mahony held up his hands and flecks of cardboard dust fell to the floor, he is not part of this process.
At one point while Cindy was puking, I took advantage of the break in her talk to pipe in like the ever dreaming flower child I am, seizing the moment to say (Click here to keep reading.)
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ADD Lancaster Eye in the Sky incident
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