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A "difficult day" ends peacefully (another Mass ex-con)
The Boston Globe ^ | 12/01/2007 | David Abel and Scott Helman

Posted on 12/01/2007 4:54:14 AM PST by Andy'smom

ROCHESTER, N.H. - A man wearing what looked like a bomb beneath his sweater and tie walked into Hillary Clinton's campaign office yesterday, taking three staff members, a volunteer, and an infant hostage, forcing the closure of the senator's campaign offices throughout Iowa and New Hampshire, and paralyzing this small city on the Maine border, authorities said. ...Eisenberg, formerly known as Ralph E. Woodward Jr., served time at Bridgewater State Hospital and MCI-Concord, according to court records.

In 2002, he filed a lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court against Bernard Cardinal Law, in Law's capacity as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, alleging he had been molested by a priest at St. Catherine's Church in Westwood in the early 1980s, beginning when he was 21.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: clinton; dukakis; eisenberg; hillary; hostages; nh2008
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Convicted rapist, also at one point was in the state mental hospital at Bridgewater. I wonder which judge let him out?
1 posted on 12/01/2007 4:54:16 AM PST by Andy'smom
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To: Andy'smom

An excellent subject for the Sunday morning shout fest on TV.


2 posted on 12/01/2007 4:58:58 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: Andy'smom

He claims he was molested starting when he was 21?


3 posted on 12/01/2007 5:04:34 AM PST by LilAngel (FReeping on a cell phone is like making Christmas dinner in an Easy Bake Oven)
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To: Andy'smom

“I wonder which judge let him out?”

Another rabid liberal Romney appointed Judge?


4 posted on 12/01/2007 5:06:53 AM PST by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: LilAngel; NYer

is THIS the REAL face of the priest scandal? I don’t believe the guy......even his aunt didn’t beleieve him.....yet he scored some big bucks...YIKES!


5 posted on 12/01/2007 5:08:32 AM PST by tioga (Dear Santa..........I can explain....)
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To: Beagle8U

Yeah, I’m surprised they haven’t come after Romney yet.


6 posted on 12/01/2007 5:13:08 AM PST by Andy'smom
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To: LilAngel

Hmmm...yeah...ri-i-ight.


7 posted on 12/01/2007 5:15:22 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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To: Andy'smom

It may not have been a Romney judge. If it was....


8 posted on 12/01/2007 5:16:07 AM PST by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: tioga

I can’t get the Globe’s page to load on my cell phone. Does it explain how he was molested at the ripe old age of 21?


9 posted on 12/01/2007 5:17:11 AM PST by LilAngel (FReeping on a cell phone is like making Christmas dinner in an Easy Bake Oven)
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To: Andy'smom
Sure sounds like he is about to get the kind of care he wanted to chat about with Hillry.
10 posted on 12/01/2007 5:19:01 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Beagle8U

Shall we take bets? How soon will it be before HRC or anyone is screaming this happened because Bush cut the budget for mental health programs!


11 posted on 12/01/2007 5:19:26 AM PST by TNCMAXQ
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To: LilAngel

He claims he was homeless and taken in by a priest. I think the Globe has the church wrong, I believe they meant Westford, not Westwood.


12 posted on 12/01/2007 5:22:11 AM PST by Andy'smom
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To: LilAngel
In 2002, he filed a lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court against Bernard Cardinal Law, in Law's capacity as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, alleging he had been molested by a priest at St. Catherine's Church in Westwood in the early 1980s, beginning when he was 21.

In the suit, Eisenberg said his mother died when he was young and he was abused by his alcoholic father. He alleges he was homeless and living in abandoned cars in an Ayer junkyard when a priest invited him to live and work at St. Catherine's and another priest plied him with alcohol, showed him pornographic material, and molested him.

In an interview with the Lowell Sun in 2002 after his suit was filed, Eisenberg said he was ashamed and mortified after being sexually assaulted by the priest. "Subsequently, I spent years sexually objectifying women and womanizing in a futile to prove I wasn't a" homosexual, the Sun quoted Eisenberg as saying.

The priest denied molesting Eisenberg, and the newspaper reported that Eisenberg's paternal aunt said, "He's telling you a big story."

13 posted on 12/01/2007 5:24:02 AM PST by tioga (Dear Santa..........I can explain....)
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To: WorkingClassFilth

Hey, it could happen. I knew a man who started being molested by diner waitresses when he was about that age. They continued to violate him the rest of his life, which was 70-some years.


14 posted on 12/01/2007 5:25:19 AM PST by LilAngel (FReeping on a cell phone is like making Christmas dinner in an Easy Bake Oven)
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To: Andy'smom

Westford, per the Herald:

“While in prison in Bridgewater, he filed a suit in September 2002 against the Archdiocese of Boston alleging he was molested in his early 20s by the Rev. Richard M. Buntel of St. Catherine’s Church in Westford. Buntel was removed from the ministry and underwent treatment for drug, alcohol and sexual abuse in 1994, only to be reinstated by Cardinal Bernard Law at a Wilmington parish in 1999.”


15 posted on 12/01/2007 5:26:51 AM PST by Andy'smom
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According to CNN and the MSM type thinking, if he’s a dem, he’s mentally ill. If he’s a Republican, he’s a Timothy McVeigh...one of millions of dangerous members of vast conspiracies...(not that CNN sucks or anything...)


16 posted on 12/01/2007 5:30:10 AM PST by GOPJ ("Imagine the Outrage if FOX had Fixed a “debate” like this??" Freeper bray -- "CNN Sucks" - GOPJ)
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To: Beagle8U

NY voters beware. It could have been a William Weld appointee as well.


17 posted on 12/01/2007 5:31:09 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: tioga

This guy reminds me of the one who created Clown Posse. Could this be the same guy?


18 posted on 12/01/2007 5:32:43 AM PST by LilAngel (FReeping on a cell phone is like making Christmas dinner in an Easy Bake Oven)
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To: Calvin Locke

Or Dukakis, some of those judges are still there.


19 posted on 12/01/2007 5:33:10 AM PST by Andy'smom
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To: Andy'smom

No mention of his politics - and neighbors say he’s crazy - that means he’s a dem....


20 posted on 12/01/2007 5:33:32 AM PST by GOPJ ("Imagine the Outrage if FOX had Fixed a “debate” like this??" Freeper bray -- "CNN Sucks" - GOPJ)
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