Cruise Bruise Blog
November 6, 2009
November 6, 2009
Holding The Keys To Closets Full Of Skeletons
It wasn't suppose to happened. A crew member hanging by the neck on the deck of a cruise ship, quickly taken down and even more quickly stuffed into a closet full of skeletons, behind locked doors.
He had a name, a name no American cruiser would ever read or hear, because Carnival Corporation had done their job, ensuring the news never hit the American newspapers. They called him a suicide, his co-workers called it murder. Until yesterday, the dirty little secret was safe.
Suddenly, not only his name, but the outrage of his co-workers, present and past appears on Cruise Bruise, along with very specific details Carnival never shared with the media, his family nor his wife. It is a message to the cruise lines that they can stuff their closets full of secrets, but Cruise Bruise has our own set of keys.
While I don't have time to open every closet, the day will come when I will be able to hire enough people to investigate the cases in those closets and bring them all out into the light of day.
Read this tragic story and decide for yourself if this loving father, husband, son and Carnival employee of ten years hung himself, or he was murdered aboard because he became a problem to those above him in the ranks. The case is here
November 6, 2009
Several Dozen More Deaths Added To The Data Base
I worked through a stack that was three inches high in the past month, along with everything else you saw posted here. That stack was the tip of the iceberg for deaths at sea, comprising several dozen at this point in time.
Those several dozen deaths are now added to the data base. Since in recent months I had expanded the Deaths category index into two pages when it was busting at the seams on a single page, this expansion once again required me to add yet another page to the Death index.
The Deaths category is now divided into three sections 2009 and 2008 which will soon include 2010, 2007 and 2006, then the older cases 2005 and before. You will note the change on the links to left of cases in the Overboard, Missing and Deaths categories.
Unless things go differently than currently planned, I hope to get through another three inches of death case documentation by the end of this weekend. When these other cases are added, I may have to break down 2008 and 2009 into separate pages.
November 6, 2009
Convicted Child Molester Back In Prison For 15 Over Kiddy Porn Charges
I understand advocacy, really I do. Having said that, it is my person opinion that when you have a stated mission, a goal to reach on behalf of your represented group, you choose your soap boxes very carefully. Aligning with the evil forces of the world while trying to protect the huddled masses is a mistake beyond measure, one that surely should and in this case could have been avoided.
Timothy David Webb was a convicted child molester and registered sex offender, caught in the act involving a child in a parked car, in the state of Virginia. He was the kind of vile slime, that if I had stepped on him, I would have burned the shoes rather than have them cleaned.
In May of this year, he disembarked Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur of the Seas, where his laptop was searched. U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents pulled him from the line of passengers disembarking and searched his laptop, which contained 69 child pornography videos.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) challenged the search and seizure, saying there was no just cause and it violated his constitutional rights. When an organization that has stated mission of being "our nation's guardian of liberty" defends a child molester's right to own child pornography, they have clearly missed their mark.
This is not the quest for justice for the huddled masses; it is the support of a blackmarket industry that victimizes children, nothing less. Not a minute of donated time, nor a cent of donated money should go to ensure Timothy David Webb gets out of jail. He was a convicted offender, who offended 69 more times.
Further, to have throughout history a landmark decision, referenced in court cases for every more, based on the decision of the Supreme court in the matter of a child molester who was secretly satisfying himself while watching young children on 69 videos is so distasteful, I can't imagine any decent American wanting that precedence used to defend his or her constitutional rights. It was a battle, that if the ACLU wins, will forever more base American justice on the victimization of children.
What we need is a landmark case that doesn't permit not-for-profit organizations such as the ACLU to use videos of children being raped as evidence without having first convicted every pedophile and child pornographer within those 69 videos. To use the videos as evidence in a constitutional challenge, but not to have convicted every slime ball associated with them, is a severe miscarriage of justice.
November 6, 2009
The Final Stretch New Legislation Is Near
Years in the working, the hard work of the International Cruise Victims Association is about to pay off. Kendall Carver, president of the International Cruise Victims Association tells me that The United States House Of Representatives (House)
passed critical language authored by Congresswoman Doris O. Matsui (D-CA) ensuring the safety of cruise ship passengers on the high seas.
Matsui`s Cruise Vessel Safety and Security Act of 2009, included in H.R. 3619, the Coast Guard Reauthorization Act of 2010, requires cruise lines to report all crimes aboard cruise ships to both the United States Coast Guard and the FBI.
Kendall Carver says of the bill, "Congresswoman Matsui has taken the lead in the House on this issue, and her efforts have made the difference in moving this legislation forward. Her efforts are appreciated by myself and all other victims and
their families that are members of International Cruise Victims Association.
Without Ms. Matsui`s efforts in the House and Sen. Kerry's efforts in the U.S.
Senate this legislation would have not moved forward and we are forever indebted
to both of them. I look forward to the upcoming Senate floor vote and the
President`s signature as soon as humanly possible."
H.R. 3619 modified over many months of discussion, finally was endorsed by Cruise Lines International Association, Inc. (CLIA), and move onto being passed in the Senate.
