Class Action on Vatican May Wait, but Now Is Time to Organize, Gain Power in Numbers, by Kay Ebeling, Examiner, March 10, 2009

Class Action on Vatican May Wait, but Now Is Time to Organize, Gain Power in Numbers

By Kay Ebeling
Examiner
March 10, 2009

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Reality sets in and weighs down another dream. I announced a Class Action lawsuit against the Vatican here last Thursday and suddenly lots of lawyers wanted to talk to me. Who is behind this, what do you think you're doing, we already have a class action going - Aargh. Any class action against the Holy See has to wait for about a year for a ruling by the US Supreme Court, unless the Catholic Church decides not to appeal the 9th Circuit Court decision from last week. Which is unlikely as the Church always fights to the end against plaintiffs, using its bottomless briefcase of cash to pay legal fees. Once that hurdle is passed, THEN there are class actions we can join, or we can start a new one. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

So to get ready, I'm making videos that will go on YouTube, as a kind of preview of coming attractions for America, as we approach the time to file lawsuits against the Vatican. As it's likely once Jeff Anderson's Oregon case gets over that one last hurdle, and goes forward in suing the Vatican, we can anticipate hundreds of people wanting to join class action lawsuits against the Vatican. The green light to go forward may not be for a year. So we have time to get ready, and when the time is right, we will go forward with strength in numbers. I'm already planning the first video, and GOOD NEWS: a video editor has volunteered, to make the videos better than the ones I have been posting so far.

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First trips planned to New Mexico, then Santa Barbara

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The best advice I could get, before the lawyers realized they were giving me free advice and stopped emailing, was: A class action already in progress identifies named parties plus all others similarly situated. So after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in a year or so, either we'd join a current class action or start one on our own. Either way we have a year to get ready, and that's what I'm doing now with a video project, working titled: The Similarly Situated, an Action with Class. That title is up for change…

The more people who are attached to this project, the stronger our case becomes when whatever action happens at a judiciary level and we can go forward with a class action, or to join one in progress as "similarly situated" persons. The videos will prove the extent of the crimes and help communicate the story to civilians, all the non-Catholics and others who've not been close to the explosion of information the past 7 years.

Rape by a Catholic priest when I was five years old skewered my life so bad, my sexuality interfered with everything I tried to do, and I got fired from some damn good jobs as a result. I want at least one fresco from the Vatican to put in my living room here where I live in the slums of Hollywood to make up for what the Church let happen to my life. For one. First trip to Albuquerque is on, probably next month, to travel to the Paracletes property and interview one survivor from New Mexico, maybe more.

A new friend / survivor who wants to remain anonymous, came out of the Ethernet and is now the official Video Editor for Similarly Situated Action.

So videos will no longer go up in crude form that I've been posting so far. Things get a little bit better all the time. The videos will be seen by anybody who comes to YouTube. BUT you can join the Action with Class without making your story public. There are very few rules, except MOVE FORWARD

People outside the "movement" don't realize there was a pedophile epidemic in the Catholic Church and that we've dug up only a spoonful of dirt where an entire excavation needs to take place.

So for now email me at cityofangelslady@yahoo.com if you want to be added to the list of people suing the Vatican in an action with class, for now, because of sex crimes committed against us, and let me know if you want production of a video to be part of your involvement.

The Vatican has to pay for unleashing pedophiles upon the American landscape, and the attack of the crime victims should be on many fronts. So I'm pushing forward with this project. I'm 60 years old, my teeth are falling out, I don't know how much longer I can fight this battle, and I don't want to wait.

Apparently 15 people agree with me, because they asked to be added to the list to be in this Similarly Situated Action with Class against the Vatican.

The more of us there are, the more we can negotiate with attorneys when the time comes.

I understand it will be as long as a year before we can go forward, so I will spend the next year getting ready, rounding up documents, and putting together videos of our stories

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By the way, if you want to help make Similarly Situated Action Videos happen, it takes money to make these videos. To put cash into the fund, go to City of Angels 5 http://cityofangels5.blogspot.com and click on the PayPal button.

So far I have raised $250 from two donors,

$200 to go to the New Mexico trip,

$50 to go to Santa Barbara.

We need Amtrak train fares and cash to stay in Motel 6's and the like as we travel, and ALL CASH will go only into the travel fund for these videos, to be used for nothing else. I use public transit and hoof it on foot, no cabs, no steaks, no wasted money.

I use the word "we" because I hope soon there will be other people doing this with me. And now I have a video editor, from a remote location, and that is a start. Things keep getting better.

Join up now...

And I need suggestions for a better title than: Similarly Situated Action Videos....with Class...