Here's the truth of the matter.
Years ago, a dumb, bottom of the class lawyer from one of the worst law schools in America, Jeffrey Anderson, was as you might expect, a stupid, struggling personal injury lawyer, with a solo practice, who couldn't try and win a case. But, one day, he got a referral for a sex abuse case against the Catholic Church.
Pitifully unable to pursue a case in court, Anderson took too lobbing press releases to the media about this case. The facts, as alleged, were horrific. Whether they were true or not was debatable, a class "he said v. she said" case. But the media reported the facts as alleged, and the Church settled because of the bad publicity.
This experience was an epiphany for the otherwise slow-witted Anderson. He could take sex abuse cases, leak facts to the media, and collect money without having to go to court, where he never fared very well because he was not a very good lawyer. So this became his calling. He sought out sex abuse cases against the Catholic Church and employed the tactic of "trying" the cases through the media.
His big break came when it became apparent in 2001-2002 that Cardinal Law of the Boston Archdiocese, in order to avoid scandal, had covered-up for two notorious predator priests, both of whom had victimized numerous children. The Catholic Church had kept meticulous records of the accusations against the priests, and the scandal in Boston became national news because of the retention of records which outlined the facts. As usual, Anderson tried the case in the press and he went home a big winner against Boston.
Even someone as slow as Anderson could figure out if it happened in Boston, it likely happened in other dioceses, and so Anderson went national. His first tactic was to represent the scandal in Boston as "national" in scope, even though, as the facts panned out, there were about 12 dirty dioceses out of nearly 200 in the US. But the lazy secular media, in reporting that over $2 billion in settlement payments had been made by Catholic dioceses, never analyzed the numbers that showed that over 80% of that amount were paid by 12 dioceses. The vast majority of Catholic dioceses had no material abuse exposure, but the media never sought fit to report that fact.
You might think that having hit paydirt against the dirty dozen, Anderson and his "ambulance runners" (SNAP) would be happy. But like any greedy PI attorney, he wanted more. So he concocted cases against the Vatican, filing lawsuits claiming that the Vatican orchestrated a "world-wide" cover-up. He filed RICO cases against the Vatican, and distorted a 1962 memo, but he got nowhere in the US Courts. They rejected the RICO claims because he had no facts, and all the cases were dismissed because there simply was no proof that the Vatican orchestrated a cover-up. The Courts uniformly rejected the interpretation of the 1962 memo as falsified. The media never reported that the memo, which they had cited in prior reports as supporting Anderson, had been rejected by the US Courts as meaningful evidence, or that the courts had found that Anderson was distorting the meaning of the memo.
Unable to get money through the courts against the Vatican, Ander$NAP, Inc. filed a complaint alleging crimes against the humanity with the World Court at the Hague. But, this being a court of law, Anderson failed again and his complaint was dismissed.
But then Ander$NAP, Inc. realized that, in order to get traction against the Vatican, they needed to find a publicity whore equal and comparable to Ander$NAP itself. So they went off the UN Commissions with their complaints. Now the UN Commissions are made up of bureaucrats who are too arrogant to realize how stupid they are, and too stupid to realize how arrogant they are. They have accomplished nothing in life, but feel privileged to lecture people on morals, business, you name it.
So the Ander$NAP whores drag the Vatican before the whores of the UN Commissions, and finally they get somewhere. But at this point even the media itself finally begins to take notice and pans the UN Commissions. No bother. These are arrogant bureaucrats who think they are better than everyone, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
So the Vatican tells the UN Commissions to go F themselves.
True story.
Seriously, who the F cares what any of these commissions do or say?
