I don’t have link, because it came from what I think is a somewhat reputable Facebook page. It’s basically what Shipley said.

“Final thing about this joker. The DD214 has been secured.

Nathan Phillips aka Nathan Stanard was a refrigerator mechanic in the Marine Corps Reserves who went AWOL twice, and was confined to the brig and kicked out of the Marines as an E1 - Private in El Toro, CA after spending most of his USMC Reserve service in Lincoln, NE, and never left the States.

He was NOT a Recon Ranger (whatever the f*ck that is) which he is directly quoted as claiming. He also never went to Vietnam, even though he never corrected multiple major news outlets when they inferred that from his statements, and subsequently reported that he fought in Vietnam.”

I love me some Don Shipley!

https://www.powerlineblog.com/...-pattern-emerges.php

Is Nathan Phillips, the American Indian who tried to intimidate Covington Catholic students by banging a drum in their faces, an anti-Catholic bigot? That’s how it looks. It turns out that the day after the March For Life, Phillips and a gang of followers tried to disrupt a service at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington:

While chanting and playing ceremonial drums, a group of Native American rights activists reportedly led by Nathan Phillips attempted Jan. 19 to enter Washington, D.C.’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception during a Saturday evening Mass.

The group of 20 demonstrators was stopped by shrine security as it tried to enter the church during its 5:15 pm Vigil Mass, according to a shrine security guard on duty during the Mass.

Video footage showed one supporter saying that the group had gathered at the shrine to listen to Phillips, and to hold the Catholic Church “accountable” for the alleged actions of the Covington Catholic students and for the “colonial violence that the Catholic Church reproduces every day.”


Phillips’ attempted invasion of the Basilica was much like his invasion of the group of Covington Catholic kids who were minding their own business, waiting for a bus.

Bigotry was indeed on display at the March For Life, and after. It came from the blacks who harassed the Covington Catholic kids for over an hour, calling them “faggots” and worse, and from Nathan Phillips, who attacked Catholics wherever he found them. Against this background of bigotry, the Covington Catholic kids are to be commended for keeping their cool and smiling through it all.

Diocese of Covington webpage, New Message

Calling in a Third Party to make the hard call on what happened.

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Diocese of Covington webpage, New Message

Calling in a Third Party to make the hard call on what happened.

Idiots



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"It is important for us to gather the facts that will allow us to determine what corrective actions, if any, are appropriate".

Yeah...like you did the other day?

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Yeah...like you did the other day?

The proper corrective action is to can him. Talk about a terrible example of standing by your students and showing them how adults are supposed to act - totally failed them. Appears like the high school students are the only ones thinking rationally, all the adults around them in this mess are lunatics and racists.

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Originally posted by kimber1911:
Diocese of Covington webpage, New Message

Calling in a Third Party to make the hard call on what happened.

Idiots



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Bring in the attorneys and fire up the lawsuit machine. The diocese needs to pay through the nose for their continuing despicable behavior. What 'really' happened is not in question anymore, and these leftist cowards need to be bled dry and driven from Covington for helping to perpetuate the lie.

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Talk about a terrible example of standing by your students and showing them how adults are supposed to act - totally failed them. Appears like the high school students are the only ones thinking rationally, all the adults around them in this mess are lunatics and racists.

Yes... the good shepherd should defend his flock, not abandon them.

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The diocese needs to pay through the nose for their continuing despicable behavior.

That's not really the answer either. The Bishops are never really the ones harmed by the lawsuits. The current Bishops are all 60's era leftists. The tide has turned though with the younger generation of priests. The Church has the ability to correct and reform over time.

The tide will turn. The laity demand it.

Who Am I to Judge? (Except Kids in MAGA Hats)
By Thomas Farnan
January 22nd, 2019

At the outset of his papacy, Pope Francis was asked about a suspected gay lobby in the priesthood and he famously said, “Who am I to judge?”

Well, for starters, he is their boss and the church is raising money off claims that its priests and bishops are such singular crusaders in the cause of evangelization that they have forsaken even sexual relationships.

He could have said, yes, while it is not his place to condemn sexual inclinations, any phony celibate pose is a lousy trick to play on the faithful.

For starters at least.

Doing so, though, would have run afoul of the Davos catechism preached by the high and mighty that counsels a certain open-mindedness in this area.

This came to mind on Saturday as I read the Diocese of Covington’s statement about the poor kid who was being hounded on the internet for the look on his face as a supposed indigenous Vietnam-era veteran pounded a drum at him.

The statement begins with the words “We condemn the actions of the students,” exhibiting the sort of definitive judgment that the pope could not muster.

Here, the paradigm was reversed. The Davos catechism says that white males who dare not protect themselves with the armor of political correctness must be condemned and destroyed at the slightest provocation.

The MAGA hat wearing kids were being served up to please that god.

Incredibly, their Catholic diocese was leading the mob, casting the largest, sharpest, most carefully aimed stone, launched from the consecrated hand of a bishop who must have known his condemnation would be regarded as the most credible in the ensuing media frenzy.

There is a reason that Dante reserves the lowest place in Hell for those who turn on their own, Judas-like.

Make no mistake, either, even the initial false reporting showed only a slight provocation.

Every January the Diocese of Covington charters buses so that the faithful—children included—can go to Washington, D.C., to exercise their First Amendment right to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade.

They are met by sneering counter protesters and given little advance instruction on how to react, except the universal understanding that they should not permit themselves to be cowed or silenced, as it is their right to protest.

The indigenous drummer’s initial criticism was that he was disrespected when the kids were not stricken silent at his approach. He cried over that, considering it racist.

Even if someone had said “build a wall”—and nobody did—half the congressmen and senators were down the street at that moment saying the same thing. It is not hate speech.

The diocese could have said the students were there to protest and appearing to stand firm in the face of opposition probably emanated naturally from that disposition.

Note the irony, here, that church leaders call themselves “father” because that is what a father would have done.

Providentially, God created cell-phones and everyone has one and there were two hours of video of the ten-minute incident. The full footage showed the initial reporting to be doctored to suggest a confrontation that did not happen.

The young man who was being singled out, especially, did nothing. He did not engage in his school chants. Nor react to the rhythmic drumming. He simply stood there, politely, in the face of an unprovoked assault by an adult who should have known better.

The drummer was behaving toward students in way that would have made a real father jump in and say, “get lost, they’re waiting for a bus.”

Full disclosure: My brother is a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, and I am one of those true believer types who is always criticized as stupid in stilted cultural criticisms.

I count among my high schoolmates seven who became priests, all good men who are as horrified as you are at what is happening. This causes me to be more reflective than most about the Church’s crisis.

The cover-up presently being adjudicated is that Catholic bishops sacrificed children to avoid bad publicity.

The horror is that it continues to happen, from the universal Church’s clumsy attempt to sweep away its Theodore McCarrick problem, to the Diocese of Covington’s Pavlovian condemnation of its protesting students.

At some point the Church—at the episcopal level at least—lost its countercultural imperative and took a place at the banquet with the powerful and important.

Its teaching authority is now misused to scold the American middle class to pay higher taxes to stop global warming, a “scientific consensus” as phony as that drummer’s grievance.

And, too often, to chide the president to violate his solemn oath to enforce America’s more-generous-than-the-Vatican’s immigration laws.

The Davos class is pleased, yes, but excuse the faithful if they have thrown political support to the wildly coiffed casino owner with the Maxim model third wife. Unlike the bishops, he has the guts to scatter the proud in the conceit of their hearts, using Twitter blasts to do it no less.

MAGA forever, Covington kids. Oh, and you have handled this better than I would have at your age. Well done.

https://www.amgreatness.com/20...t-kids-in-maga-hats/

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Originally posted by Bigdeal:
The diocese needs to pay through the nose for their continuing despicable behavior.

That's not really the answer either. The Bishops are never really the ones harmed by the lawsuits. The current Bishops are all 60's era leftists. The tide has turned though with the younger generation of priests. The Church has the ability to correct and reform over time.

The tide will turn. The laity demand it.

Forgive me, but I don't care about the Covington Diocese, these particular bishops, or the Catholic church as a whole. I care about these kids and how they've been treated. The one group that should have had their backs, stabbed them in the back to try and appease the political correctness gods. I think the Covington Diocese, not unlike the media, should pay and pay dearly for their despicable, intentional, attacks and slander on these kids. If I were a Catholic (which I am not) living in Covington with children in that school, I'd be wanting scalps (and lots of them) from that diocese. And if I couldn't get scalps, I'd settle for a huge dollar legal settlement.

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The students are called “hyenas,” “dogs,” “white crackers,” and “faggot.” They are ridiculed for being lice-ridden and told to “go back to Europe where you come from.”

Maybe those shouting that crap should consider exactly where they came from.

Phillips, 1/1024 Marine.

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Phillips, 1/1024 Marine.

Nice.

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Forgive me, but I don't care about the Covington Diocese, these particular bishops, or the Catholic church as a whole.

I forgive you. I too care about these kids and how they've been treated. My own kids have been on the March for Life. That could have been my son.

Socialism is a disease. Political correctness, a way of shouting down opposition, is how it is spread. Many Bishops, including the current Pope, by taking a seat at the banquet with the powerful and important, have been complicit in spreading this heresy.
Still, there are good people who fight within the Church, rather than seeking to destroy it.

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Maybe those shouting that crap should consider exactly where they came from.

Correct. Maybe all the black folks that were shouting ugly, hateful, comments at the kids could be put on a boat and shipped back to mother Africa. I'm sure they'll be fine living in a mud hut and wiping their ass with their hand given how bad the US is.

And the story keeps going:

https://www.usatoday.com/story...sandmann/2655464002/

Nathan Phillips is saying he got between the Beast-Covington students- and the prey-the Black Hebrew Israelites-, to diffuse the situation. Seems the exact opposite happened. The media loves stories like this.


There was that moment when I realized I've put myself between beast and prey," Phillips told the Detroit Free Press. "These young men were beastly and these old black individuals was their prey, and I stood in between them and so they needed their pounds of flesh and they were looking at me for that."

If the students hold a fundraiser by selling Covington Catholic gear count me in for a hat or t-shirt.

Perfect opportunity for them to turn lemons into lemonade.

I'm not following this story, but I understand it perfectly.

Catholic High school has changed since I attended in the 70s.

I am confident that had myself and my classmates encountered chief two dogs fucking, one or more of us would have had him wearing his drum. Jus sayin. Regards 18DAI