Sunday, February 14, 2010

Are These Pictures of the Same Man?

I generally check out Bob Felton's blog, Civil Commotion every day. Bob's an amazing source on some of the idiocy and hypocrisy of the Christianists and similar religious nutcases and frequently makes me look religion friendly. One thing that I have noted is that supposed Christian groups seem to attract a lot of crooks and con men who either gravitate to religion while in prison - convicted Watergate felon Chuck Colson is a good example - so that they can have a lucrative lifestyle while fleecing the simple and ignorant. Others see the monetary opportunity from the get go and prey upon those who ought to know better by wrapping themselves in religion. In this area, disbarred attorney and recently convicted on 39 counts Troy Titus is a prime example. Bob has found this interesting issue in respect to the Baptist missionary kidnapper story coming out of Haiti:
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The man on the left is Torres Orellana, sought by Interpol for child trafficking. The man on the right is Jorge Puello, who has represented the Baptist missionaries arrested in Haiti on allegations of kidnapping and child trafficking. Puello claims to be a lawyer, licensed in the Dominican Republic, but that country has no record of him.
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The Americans’ families say that the missionaries knew nothing of Puello’s possibly illicit background, that he appeared to them to be no more than a Good Samaritan trying to help:
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Jorge Puello was not known to the missionaries’ church group before their arrest for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti, and members failed to check his background, Sean Lankford, the relative who dealt most closely with him, said Saturday.
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Somehow I doubt that Orellana-Puello will be the last crook to resort to helping "good religious people" after reinventing themselves to hide a criminal past.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

YES it is the same guy.