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- If you can judge a person

by the enemies they make,

you know, my enemies are, like,

NAMBLA and politicians.

Now, I can live with that.

- I think the important thing

about Barry is his connection

with trying to make the

world a better place.

That's the thing that never,

never changes, you know'?

He's not become

cynical about it.

He's not allowed it to sort of

poison the way he feels

about people.

I always hit it off with Barry

right from the beginning

because although he

was political,

he wasn't sort of ideological.

- The most memorable show that

I saw Barry Crimmins do

was he was performing

with Billy Bragg

and it was a big tour

that Billy was doing

with the Red Star Army'

and Barry Crimmins was

really opening the show.

He was the emcee

for the show.

- So we invite him on

and he would, you know,

do the equivalent

of a guitar solo.

He would do a

couple of punchlines.

We'd break,

he'd lay in there.

1,2,3,4.

- You know, Billy,

a lot of people ask me...

You say you're from

the United States,

But if I hate that

country so much,

why don't I get out of it?

I say, "Because I don't

wanna be victimized

by its foreign policy. "

- It was almost

like a Socialist

sort of version of Laugh In

where Barry would tell a joke

and then Billy would

go back into a song.

I guess he was...

I guess he would've been

the Goldie Hawn of it.

It's just funny where'

you know, I'm working

in bars every night,

and we're just going, and

we're telling our dick jokes

and going home or

whatever, you know'?

So Barry wins this Peace Award

from this Peace Abbey.

So I go to be at the

ceremony or whatever

and it's... the two recipients...

it's Barry and Maya Angelou.

You know?

So they had the ceremony'

and Gandhi's grandson is there

to present the award

to Maya and Crimmins.

And... he's overweight.

Like, he's pretty overweight.

And I'm just,

we're at the ceremony,

and Crimmins just

whispers to me like,

"That's Gandhi's grandson.

He could lose a few. "

Let me ask you this:

Irish... religious upbringing?

- I'm a Catholic

but it's in remission.

It's in remission?

Based on fear

and real estate.

- Did your religious upbringing

influence your politics,

do you think?

- Yes, those people

mistreated me so much

that they made me start to

believe in that kind of stuff.

I tweet the Pope every day

demanding excommunications.

You know,

we gotta have our hobbies.

I haven't been to mass

in 43 years.

Our trial separation is over.

Please excommunicate me.

Chase away the Monday blahs

by doing something new

like excommunicating me.

I know what you've done.

I know what you represent.

Are you f***ing kidding me'?

I go, send me...

I'll know I'm in hell...

if there's Popes and

Bishops there, shitbag.

Later on... this is now

40 years later...

and my friend John Considine

calls me one day and says,

"Go online, check out the

Syracuse Post-Standard

and there's a story

about Neary in there.

And this guy Charlie Bailey

has gone public

and talked about how

he had been tremendously

sexually abused. "

- Barry's helped me by

telling me, you know,

that, reinforces, that you'

you're told that

you're the only one

and you feel like

you're the only one.

And then Ban? saying,

you know,

he had I'll n-ins

with Neary, and...

you know,

you feel a little bit good

that you found somebody

else that's been in your shoes,

but then you feel awful

that they exist, too.

These guys are masters

at what they do.

I mean, they're...

I would swear to God they

take a class somewhere

because what he did is he

told my mother, he says,

you know, I would be upset

after my counseling sessions

because it's really

hard to be a priest

and there's a lot of pain

and sacrifice involved

in becoming a priest,

so if afterwards I was upset

or I was crying,

I was withdrawn,

just ignore it.

Say a prayer over 'em

and ignore 'em.

And this is all about 6 weeks

worth of grooming

before he finally raped me.

- This piece of sh*t

operated for years,

and was from church to church

all over upstate New York,

harmed hundreds of children.

Countless little boys.

I know of probably 25, 26.

- I had been raped by a priest,

when I was 12, 13 years old

and this guy's name

was Thomas Neary.

I was in a deep,

dark depression,

and I really didn't know

what to do or where to go.

Sometimes I would type this

priest's name in the internet

to see if there was

anybody out there.

So I typed in his name and

up came Barry Crimmins' name.

- If I ever saw anybody

do that to a kid,

I would be over that

f***ing railing so fast'

smashing his head with a

tabernacle or whatever

the lucky magic shiny

sh*t they should sell

and feed the poor with.

I saw people keep their mouths

shut and not break silence

and not take action when

a child was being harmed

right in front of their eyes.

How much did that...

how much did everyone?

silence embolden Neary?

He tested the waters with

what he did to me in public

on that altar every morning.

He did Mo me.

If he could get away

with that sh*t in public,

what do you think he could

get away with in private,

And what he could get

away with was raping kids

and making them swallow

his filthy, f***ing semen

and telling them it's Eucharist,

that's it's the body of Christ.

F*** him.

Burn.

I hope there's a hell you

f***ing piece of sh*t, Neary.

I hope there's a f***ing hell,

and I hope there's an eternity,

and I hope they triple

the time of it,

you f***ing piece of sh*t.

F***ing Pope.

F*** you, Pope!

F*** you, Pope!

And they find Francis of Assisi

after a thousand years?

Oh.

I'm so mad.

I mean, like,

I f***ing hate the Ca-

I mean, really,

God bless everybody.

Nah, I don't mean to say that.

But I don't mean not to.

'Cause I don't like,

you know I...

atheists are just

so evangelical.

It's like you become.

You know,

you become what you resist.

You're evangelists.

You know, like, I don't care.

Telling me that we all

gotta believe the f***ing sh*t'

or I don't gotta believe

the f***ing sh*t,

or whatever the f*** it is.

Leave me the f*** alone!

I got tortured enough

as a child dealing with

the f***ing Catholic church.

And I don'( want to sign off

on your f***ing sh*t

or talk about it anymore!

I just wrote that.

"Many people are so overwhelmed

by the thought of child abuse

that they'll do just about

anything to change the subject

when it's mentioned.

The most common device these

subject switchers utilize

is the ultimate decree.

They'll say, 'I think if someone

gets caught abusing a kid,

they should be

rounded up and killed.

Case closed. '

I wouldn't have

wanted my rapist

put out of his own misery

and into mine.

I started life without

blood on my hands,

and I aim

to keep it that way.

Had the man who had raped me

on numerous occasions

not died in prison while

serving his third term

for sexually abusing

very young boys,

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