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5/23/2009
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Woman Charged With Killing A Rooster At A Grave
Author: Jim Patten and Yadira Betances Source: Eagle Tribune (MA)
Title: WOMAN CHARGED WITH KILLING A ROOSTER AT A GRAVE
As several people looked on in horror yesterday afternoon, a 47-year-old city woman slit the throat of a rooster and splashed its blood on a gravestone at Bellevue Cemetery, police said.
Witnesses told police the woman, later identified as Maria Portalatina, of 97 Oak St., placed candles around the grave, pulled out a rooster that was tied at the feet and sliced it open. She then sprayed the blood of the rooster over the grave and then set fire to the rooster and the ground at the grave site.
The grave was very old and the stone had been knocked over, police said. It was not immediately known whose grave Portalatina was at, police said.
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| MA Lobsters & Fact Finding | May 26th. at 10:05:24 am EDT
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karrie9 (Kenosha, Wisconsin) - Email Me - Web
MA. One of those states in which it's a practice to bind helpless lobsters' claws and lower them live into boiling water, a small sacrifice for a tasty dish. But that's okay because no one involves a religion that socially sanctioned creedism demonizes with abandon and refers to with gobs of buttery partial truths and purposeful ignorance (purposeful ignorance being known as a "bad faith decision") .
As far as the reader can tell, the woman didn't state her religion or if religion was even involved. No worry. The article quotes a Christian pastor who **speculates** her religion is Santeria despite the fact that sacrificed animals of that religion are eaten afterward (not torched over a grave) .
It would have been better for the journalist to come up one or more educated guesses that would then be treated to investigative fact finding, reality checks, and the stuff of excellent journalism.
Also not revealed in the article is how much of the ground was affected by fire (a spot the size of a dinner plate, half the graveyard?) , how the gravestone got tipped over, how long it stayed tipped over, and how on earth it'd cost her "five years in jail, two and a half years in the house of correction, and a fine of not more than three times the value of the damaged property"...for what very well may have been (was it or wasn't it?) a dilapidated grave that nobody cares to even be able to identify (was it or wasn't it?) .
Not that damage to others' property, especially sacred grounds, is ever okay. It's not.
...But violent criminals have gotten less?
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| Read, I Mean Really Read, The Article | May 25th. at 11:07:30 pm EDT
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nasionnaich (Stanchfield, Minnesota) - Email Me
I did read the article, and there was not even one mention of just whose grave it is. Was the grave that of a relative, a close friend, perhaps simply a friend of a friend? The article doesn't say.
On the other hand, the article doesn't say whether the woman knocked the headstone over, either. Perhaps her ritual was intended to "purify" a desecrated grave -- the article (again) doesn't say.
Willful, deliberate desecration of a grave by performing "selfish" rituals at/on it are very much not ok by me -- but neither is willful, deliberate speculation based on non-existent "facts". Back to my previous post, and the point made in it...
"Religious Freedom". Is it just another catch-phrase where everyone is "free" to worship as they choose - as long as it's in a manner YOU happen to approve of, or is it what y'all LIVE BY? Think long and hard upon the answer you choose to give, because your own "freedom" to worship as YOU choose may someday depend on it.
--nasionnaich
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| Mental Illness | May 25th. at 5:01:11 pm EDT
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karrie9 (Kenosha, Wisconsin) - Email Me - Web
I'm no expert but at least I know enough to make the educated guess that the spectacle was not a ritual for her stated (blamed) religion but expressive of mental illness.
How is incarceration addressing that? What was not attended to before this incident? Will we see more mentally ill people acting out because they do not have access to necessary professional help?
And how long will media fall short of sufficient intelligent provoking coverage of such stories...coverage that better explores the applicable talking points, both timeless and of our times?
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| Read All Of Your Reactions Here. | May 25th. at 4:19:18 am EDT
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Roy Linford Adams (Buxton, Maine) - Email Me
Yep, this proves it. We're all pro-Animal sacrifices here. The 700 club was RIGHT!
After all people, God is against it. That's why in the bible he liked Able's offerings over Cain's
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| For The Logic Challenged... | May 24th. at 1:42:11 pm EDT
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WitchPoet (Claremont, California) - Email Me - Web
What is a grave?
The final resting place of the Human remains of a person. The ultimate end of the Earthly life.
Most all burials are conducted with the MOST solemn of religious rituals held dear to heart by both the deceased and the survivors.
Respect for the burials sites of other religions is the sin qua non of religious freedom.
ANYONE who imposes THEIR religious or magical rituals on another person’s grave.
"placed candles around the grave, ... sprayed the blood of the rooster over the grave and then set fire to the rooster and the ground at the grave site."
Anyone who BELIEVES in magical ritual in ANY WAY has to see that this is a willful DESTRUCTION and DESECRATION of a person’s most intimate resting place for the SELFISH purposes of this dizzy dame.
That this was not an old abandoned grave in a park somewhere but in a cemetery makes the crime even worse!!!
This was a graveyard with all the solemnity that the word implies.
Unless it is shown that the grave was of an immediate ancestor of HERS and that the ritual was solely a positive one. (i.e. not the cursing of a "bad" relative) then the full weight of the law should fall on her shoulders!!!
For the truly self centered and hypocritical "Pagan" minds out there consider this:
AN EVIL NASTY CHRISTIAN decides to do a full on baptism on the grave of a glorious witchy great great grandmother. They do this in the Pagan graveyard in which she was buried with all honors. They do this in contempt and violation of any and all rituals and "energy" set in place by her family.
NOW how is an "enlightened" mind supposed to feel about it?
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| Religious...Freedom? | May 23rd. at 11:29:41 pm EDT
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nasionnaich (Stanchfield, Minnesota) - Email Me
Perhaps there will be some over-reacting, but perhaps not. I say that she should look into suing the town for religious persecution. The woman was obviously performing some sort of ritual associated with Santeria, a widely recognized and ***accepted*** religion (even the pastor of the local Catholic Church has admitted that some Santeria rituals are for doing good) .
She was charged with "malicious damage to property over $250, animal cruelty, willful and malicious killing or poisoning of an animal, willful destruction of a gravestone and setting a fire in the open without the permission of the Fire Department". I wonder just how much it really costs to re-plant and wash a grave marker (headstone) . And how much does a handful of grass seed cost? I bet the total is less than $50.
So, among other things...before you light any fires in a public area in that community, you better have written permission from the fire department. Even when the fire is confined to your barbecue grill, in a public park. And make sure you don't accidentally "splash" the barbecue sauce on a park bench.
But getting back to my opening paragraph..... If you plan to do an animal sacrifice according to the Jewish Laws in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, alert the news people first, and make sure they are there when the cops show up. We all want to know if that kind of animal sacrifice is allowed, since it is Commanded by the Christian God.
--nasionnaich
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| The Link To The Full Article Won't Work For Me. | May 23rd. at 5:52:46 pm EDT
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Aurora Callo (Olympia, Washington) - Email Me
But I find the part I can read pretty disgusting. Not just killing an animal, but setting a grave on fire? How is that okay? Poor rooster...
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| Take A Deep Breath | May 23rd. at 3:01:50 pm EDT
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WitchPoet (Claremont, California) - Email Me - Web
Let us all take a deep breath before responding to this.
Remember that this was a persons grave.
If you have even a bit of mild discomfort at scientists pawing over old graves I think you might also feel that co-opting a persons burial place for your own, self chosen if not selfish, rituals is a bit uncooth. (to say the least)
I bet the animal related charges will be dropped from religious considerations but the property and fire laws will be enforced on her.
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