Judge Melissa Jackson, acting like a Saudi judge for a sheik, has further
punished Pastor Michael Vincent Crea, raped in the NY Archdiocese’s St.
Joseph Seminary, while ordering protection for Cardinal Edward Egan, 75,
even as trial testimony clearly proved Egan’s cover-up at St. Patrick’s
Cathedral and possible obstruction of Justice. Cathedral usher and DA witness
Caesar Garcia broke a cover-up of existing reports and videos, denied
subpoenaed evidence, after Egan’s lawyer James Curran twice lied before
the Court.

On January 10, less than week
after Pope Benedict XVI’s call for 1 billion Catholics to pray
unceasingly to end priests’ pedophilia, Judge Jackson has threatened to put the
raped Pastor in prison for 1-year, while ordering 5-years of protection for
Egan, for whom the Pastor prayed aloud publicly, last April 3 at St. Patrick’s
Cathedral. For any arrest in the next 12 months, she’ll take a year of his
life.

Found not guilty for
trespassing, yet, guilty of disrupting a religious service, Crea prayed that
Catholics would ask Cardinal Egan to investigate his being raped in 1979 and
for Egan to meet with his own sexually violated New Yorkers. To date, like the
late Pope John Paul II and Benedict, New York’s Boston-born, patrician
Egan has refused to meet personally with a single violated person.

Judge Melissa Jackson, who
once told a court officer to slap handcuffed, disabled defendant Foxy Brown,
slapped the Pastor with a five-year order of protection, despite his attorney’s
First Amendment rights argument. Pastor Crea’s pre-sentencing statement
brought all in court to silence, until Jackson’s put aside her black robes,
assumed her ‘sheik’s head scarf,’ and then, interrupted the spiritual Pastor’s
statement to inflict her severe ‘Saudi’ sentence, that observers characterized
as “mean spirited.”

FULL STORY

After reading a card from Sanda
Aronson, founder of Disabled Artists Network and a rape survivor, telling
the Court, “…I never had a means to do something about the stranger who raped
me (followed me into an elevator 40+ years ago.) one does not forget. Ever.
To me, saying a prayer a protest, in a church, is a nonviolent civil/religious
act to make a point. As a citizen of this city and state, I do not see a
reason for [Pastor Crea] to receive punishment for speaking…” Judge Melissa
Jackson became very visibly and viscerally agitated. Assuming her ‘Saudi’
stance toward victims of sexual crimes speaking-up, abruptly Jackson said,
“I’ve heard enough!”

In a very personal,
high-pitched tone, breaking the solemnity of respect for the Pastor’s statement
that had brought some observers to tears, Jackson began reprimanding Crea for
not showing “any remorse, now, or during the trial.” Like Pontius Pilate,
being asked by corrupt religious leaders for civil authorities to kill Jesus,
Jackson wash her hands of her own discretionary powers, impotently stating “I
didn’t convict you. A jury of your peers did.” One juror fell asleep during
her instructions. Another of six didn’t know English.

Speaking harshly, she then
imposed greater penalties upon Pastor Crea. He had first been offered a plea
deal of “time served,” for his one overnight stay in the ‘Tombs’ before his
arraignment last April. He chose trial, so not to have him or the Court
complicit with the ongoing Church cover-up. Now, Jackson stripped the Pastor
of any contact whatsoever with Egan, including at his business and work,
granting requests of the Cardinal’s lawyer. In effect, she imposed a ‘civil excommunication’
on him for Egan’s ‘religious’ purposes.

Without ever a criminal
record, Pastor Crea’s only offense was his prayer reporting and asking for an
investigation of his being raped. Like a 19-year old Saudi woman reporting
that she was gang raped, only to be given 200 lashes and 2 years in prison by a
Saudi Arabian judge to international outcry, Crea’s witness to the Truth found
a twisted and tortured ‘Saudi’ sentence by Judge Melissa Jackson, not an
American one. She killed Crea’s comments before his allusion to 1964
non-response for Kitty Genovese’s hour-long “screams until her killer
silenced her voice. Her soul echoes especially to ecclesiastics and those that
would try to do the same now.”

Judge Melissa Jackson, who
once sided with a visual artist’s First Amendment rights, went even further
toward supporters of the long-suffering Pastor, whose home was loss on December
6, admittedly by HRA Adult Protective Services staff. Jackson denounced their
democratic rights as citizens “to petition the Government for a redress of
grievances.” She demanded that Crea stop “your people… the people in your parish,”
from sending her any more mail, cards, and letters. Ironically misspeaking, Jackson told the Pastor to “tell your people to cease and disrupt.”
Afterwards observers laughed aloud, if she wanted them to pick-up the Pastor’s
cause, now.

Had Judge Jackson permitted
Pastor Crea to finish his faith filled statement, the Court would have learned
that his efforts brought a Resolution by Rome’s City Council member Mario
Staderini calling on Pope Benedict and all bishops worldwide to meet with
the violated on December 28 for the feast of the Holy Family [Holy Innocents].
Crea believes his breaking the silence is working.

Once more, cut off before ever
being heard fully, the praying Pastor’s statement ended as this entire matter
began, “I pray that the Court recognize my witness for healing, harmony and
holiness’ sake and in so doing receive in Spirit all the violated, living and
deceased…Being so blessed to be standing, here today, I submit to my sentence
as the Court may decide, in the words of the Catholic saint, martyr and lawyer,
Thomas More, “Now, it is not a matter of reason; now, it is a matter of love.”

“Since the right to
command is required by the moral order and has its source in God, it follows
that if civil [or church] authorities legislate for or allow anything that is
contrary to that order and therefore contrary to the will of God, neither the
laws made nor the authorizations granted may be binding on the consciences of
the citizens [or the faithful] since we must obey God rather than men or
women.Otherwise, authority breaks down
completely and results in shameful abuse.As Saint Thomas Aquinas teaches: “Human
law has the true nature of law only insofar it corresponds to right
reason, and therefore, is derived from eternal law.Insofar as it falls short of right reason, a
law is said to be wicked law; and lacking the nature of true law, it is rather
a kind of violence.”[Pope John
XXIII, Pacem In Terris/Peace
On Earth, April 11, 1963 9fotnote35:Summa Theol., Ia-IIae,
q. 93, a. 3 ad2; cf. Pius XII’s Radio Broadcast
Christmas Eve 1944, A.A.S., XXXVIII [1945] pp.5-23]

Taken from Pope John XXIII’s “Pacem in Terris,” that is, “Peace
On Earth,” and based on St. Augustine’s
“an unjust law is no law at all,” as well, as citing Pope Pius XII from his
1944 Christmas Eve radio address during the height of fascism of that time,I appeal to Her Honor on this 10th of
January 2008 to set aside the verdict of guilty for disrupting a religious
service, as has been found against me, for the sake of Justice at this time.

Insofar as the jury has found me not guilty of trespass at
the Mass of Chrism at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on April 3, 2007, I, first, then ask
the Court to consider, as to whether it is rightfully under the purview, either
of the Court or the People, to determine indiscriminately, as to whether a
member of any spiritual group is, in fact and in law, disrupting any religious
service without a jury of peers, being members and having knowledge of the religious
practices and liturgical law, as such.Furthermore,
the lone witness testified neither senior ushers saw it fit or necessary to
intervene, as Cardinal Egan, according to testimony, only paused for “about two
seconds.”

Now,
while the late Justice William C. Goodloe of the
Washington State Supreme Court rightly returned the founder’s emphasis in
charging a jury “to determine for yourselves the law, as well, as the facts,”
advocating jury nullification, this adherent to the Declaration of Independence
in every issue of the monthly Goodloe
Report would not abide a government establishing religious space over
secular space, as what happened when the law changed raising a violation to a
Class A Misdemeanor in penalty imposed upon me to the exclusion and expression
of the rights inherent in the Declaration, as well, as my rights protected by
the First Amendment.

In the instant case and event, as I attested on the stand,
in fact and in law of the gospel and the Catholic Church, I was freely
exercising my religion, adhering assiduously, peaceably and pastorally, following
Jesus’own gospel against any member, most
particularly a leader of the community, in being called upon to correct abhorrent,
deviant and, contrary to a Christian way of living, sinful behavior.The New American Bible of the Catholic Church
in a footnote regarding this teaching on fraternal and or sororotal
correction states it clearly:

“Passing from the duty of Christian disciples toward those who have
strayed from their number, the discourse now turns to deal with one who sins
and yet remains within the community.First there is to be private correction; if this is unsuccessful,
further correction before two or three witness; if this fails, the matter is to
be brought before the assembled community (the church), and if the sinner
refuses to attend the correction of the church, he is to be expelled.The church’s judgment will be ratified in
heaven, i.e., by God.This three-step
process corresponds, though not exactly, to the procedure of the Qumran community.”[Matthew 18.15-20, footnote]

MVCrea

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Therefore, Her Honor is asked first to consider my own
adherence to my faith and First Amendment rights, in consideration that being
found not guilty of trespassing, that in fact and in law, it follows to right
reason that the verdict ought to be set aside, insofar as I only assiduously,
peaceably and pastorally exercised my Catholic faith, moral duty and pastoral
obligation to both God and faith community vis-à-vis my fraternal correction of
Cardinal Egan.Furthermore, the
disorderly conduct statute, now, stands as an unconstitutional and unjust law.

In the second consideration of the matter before the Court,
my exercising epikeia, the principle in ethics that a
law can be broken to achieve a greater good, I would like to raise the Court’s
awareness of why I am here today.

In the tradition first and foremost of my LOVE and Savior,
Christ Jesus, as well, as secular and spiritual leaders such as Henry David
Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day and
Mother Teresa, my “Leave Your Gift at the Altar” efforts of the past five years
for recognition, reception, reparations and reconciliation with the authorities
of the Catholic Church have been carried out and witnessed under St. Paul’s
advise of “living the Truth with charity.”

From Gandhi, a devout Hindu, who followed and studied the
teachings of Jesus, I began learning about Satyagraha after leaving the seminary
because of my being raped.I have
openly, fairly, honestly search out and lived the Truth; endured hunger and
thirst for Justice’s sake; and have not inflicted injury or harm toward those
that would make themselves my enemies.For these, most especially the Catholic authorities, I have prayed.

I stand before you because Dennis Brown and James Thomas
Kelly, both victims of priestly sexual violence succumbed to suicide, as their
unspeakable pain and incurable wound of pedophilia became too much to bear.

I stand before you because at the Italian Parliament’s
premiere of Joe Cultrera’s documentary “Hand of God”
about his older brother Paul’s being molested and covered-up by Cardinal Law
and other Catholic authorities, they and I met parents of a six-year old girl,
who with hundreds of others were videotaped while being violated at a nun’s
school.Her Italian parents’ two letters
to Pope Benedict have never received the respect of a response.

I stand before you, living with my own depression, post
traumatic stress disorder from being raped, losing house home, family but not
my faith, because I must witness to the Truth in love, pain, suffering and yes,
strength for those who can neither speak for themselves, now, like Dennis or
James or our, yes, yours and mine, little six-year old sister, and those still
incarcerated inside themselves from this institutional incest and domestic
violence in the ‘households of God.’The
children of Rachel and Rwanda,
the innocents of Herod and Hitler, the companions of Charles Lwanga and the African diaspora,
all ancestors cry out for Justice, here, today.

I stand before you for those who cannot stand or like others,
unable to print out a Christmas card but still have strength to greet Her Honor
and the Court, in my behalf.If it
pleases the Court, I read from a card sent to me by the founder and executive
director of the Disabled Artists’ Network, my sister, Sanda
Aronson, who writes:

Dear Michael Vincent Crea,

I heard Karen Lewis’ announcement on “Al Lewis
Lives” on WBAI, about you, yesterday.I
just rec’d your vmail message (you are welcome.)My gift was given from one rape survivor to
another.//I never had a means to do something abut the stranger who raped me (followed
me into an elevator 40+ years ago.) one does not forget.Ever.//To me, saying a prayer a protest, in a
church, is a nonviolent civil/religious act to make a point.As a citizen of this city and state, I do not
see a reason for you to receive punishment for speaking.//You have my
permission to use this note with the Judge.//I wish you a safe and healthy New
Year and hope you find a lovely, affordable home immediately.//Peace.

Sincerely,
Sanda Aronson.

MVCrea

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I stand with all of these men, women and yes, our children,
against the cover-up, the recalcitrance and thus far, silence of the Vatican, New
York and, maybe more disconcerting out of denial, of
the people in the pews.

For my standing, here today, is my bearing witness to a
lesson that I learned in Catholic high school on Staten
Island, telling us that we, Catholics, as Christians are not able
to be innocent bystanders to a crime being committed.The example given to us then and remains
remorsefully clear still, that of Kitty Genovese, whose crying out loud for an
hour brought no response from her neighbors, who heard her screams until her
killer silenced her voice. Her soul
echoes especially to all ecclesiastics and those that would try to do the same,
now.

That either the DA, the Cardinal’s lawyer or his own fear of
being forthrightly and faithfully challenged again, thus, asking the Court like
the religious hypocrites of Jesus day to have Her Honor act like Pontius
Pilate, infamous not for what he did but what he chose not to do in the case of
Jesus, is simply sad and contemptuous of Christ and the mission they portend to
ask the Court to protect by civilly excommunicating me.

I am the mission of the Christ Jesus:I am feeding the hungry; I am clothing the
naked; I am sheltering the homeless; I am visiting the sick and welcoming the
stranger; I am setting the prisoners free, giving sight to the blind and
helping the lame to walk; I am and who I am, declaring a year of favor of LOVE,
of the Lord, that all might be free to taste and see the goodness of God, the
gospel of Christ Jesus and the Truth that sets all free.

To that end and the final consideration, I ask of the Court,
today, for Her Honor’s consideration in setting aside the guilty verdict, is
that I have been on ROR, released on my own recognizance, now, for nine months
and seven days.At my arraignment I
refused a ‘time served’ offer, so not to be complicit nor allow the washing of
the Courts’ ‘hands’ for what still is being denied and covered-up by civil and religious
authorities, either by being co-dependent enabling ecclesiastics and or by
condemning those, like myself, that have courageously spoken the Truth to church
and civil authorities.

However, this week, my five-year “Leave Your Gift at the
Altar,” pastoral paln saw some first fruits, finally, forhaving stayed
steadfastly faithful to satygraha and the Spirit of
the Gospel.Two days ago, I received
another ROR—yet, this one is a recognition of my own
efforts in the Resolution of Rome City Council by Member Mario Staderini, Vice President of the Municipal Council of
Historic Central Rome.It reads:

Resolution [Translation:ItaloCannone;
edited, Michael Vincent Crea]

Whereas, in the course of the recent
past years many cases of sexual violence against minors perpetrated by the
Catholic clergy have come to light; Whereas, in that same period the
hierarchy of the Catholic church has always avoided to meet, outside the legal
context, the victims of such a violence; Whereas, such a phenomenon of priest
pedophilia, especially in the USA, has provoked a great commotion and scandal
in the public at large and in the entire Catholic community; Whereas, one of those victims was
Michael Vincent Crea, now a Pastor, has been leading
a effort to obtain a meeting between the hierarchy of the Catholic clergy and
the victims of such a violence, so that a human and spiritual reconciliation
can take place;

Be it resolved, therefore,
That the President of the Municipal zone of the "Rome historical
center" will ask Pope Benedict XVI to proclaim the day of December 28th,
2007 , the religious holiday dedicated to the Holy Family, the day of a
worldwide reconciliation with the victims of the Vatican pedophilia, and have
all the victims, in each of the Catholic dioceses all over the world, meet with
all the bishops responsible for those dioceses.

I attach the resolution that I wanted to vot in the
council but it was impossible fot procedural problem andh few time till 28 december I
hope you all the best fot the sentencing, and that's
true, Popo said sunday
something similar you asked!

love
Mario

Now, with cynics or in politics, one might say Council
Member Mario Staderini failed in his efforts to
elicit his colleagues to act before Christmas and the Feast of the Holy
Innocents and the Holy Family, December 28 and 30, respectively, this 2007
Christmas season.Yet, in politics some
measures don’t pass because of who shall get the credit.My recognized efforts are sustained by my
deposit of faith, drawing from the Divine who alone can reward me, with my
having no need for credit but as a follower of Christ Jesus, whose currency is
good.

Yet, also this week, after both my calling on the Pope with
the Council member Staderini and other participants
of the Italian Parliament’s premiere of the Hand of God and then, demonstration
outside of Pope Benedict’s lit windows at St. Peter’s Square, the Pope
announced that he would like the over 1 billion Catholics worldwide

to offer incessant prayers for the
priesthood to repent from the pedophilia and other crimes of sexual violence.

I offer for Her Honor’s consideration, therefore, that my
efforts of the past five years, our Italian Parliament and Vatican protest on
June 22, my witness and trial for praying for Cardinal Egan, in the Spirit even
if not the manner Pope Benedict prefers, and finally and most significantly,
that Council member Mario Staderini’s Resolution of
Rome’s City Council, in fact and in faith, moved the Pope to declare what is
necessary and just to begin real recognizance of ourselves: both the violated
and those who look upon us whom they have pierced.

My own prayer remains constant that “Charity begins at home
in Rome,” where the Pope, prior to coming to America in April, needs to meet
face-to-face at the Vatican with a representative delegation of the violated
and their loved ones, before embarking outside of the epicenter of accountability
and the major fault line of these ecclesiastical, earth-shattering events of
sexual violence and their cover-up that are why we are here, today.

In my “lighting a candle instead of cursing the darkness” of
all ecclesiastical crimes and cover-up, I ask Her Honor not to blow out what
progress can be seen in today’s proceedings brought about by my conscientious
pastoral LOVE-action, less the Court punishes me further for reporting a rape,
like that of the Saudi 19-year-old woman, who had her insane sentence and 90
lashes increased to 200 by a Court and a monarchy that knows not Justice nor Human
Rights, let alone right from wrong in its own judiciary.

I pray that the Court recognize my witness for healing,
harmony and holiness’ sake and in so doing, recognize and receive in Spirit all
the violated, living and deceased, from around the worldwide Catholic community
of faith.Being so blessed to be
standing, here today, I submit to my sentence as the Court may decide, in the
words of the Catholic saint, martyr and lawyer, Thomas More,