Captain Wrongway Peachfuzz… the perfect mascot for oca.org under the bumbling care of John Matusiak… where did you dig that guy up from? At least, get somebody who can get the facts straight!
URL for article I am referring to:
http://www.oca.org/news/2077
Here’s the latest howler from Matusiak on oca.org. Supposedly, JP met with a Mr Christopher Smith (R-NJ), who is the chairman of the House International Relations Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations Subcommittee according to oca.org. There is a problem with that. There is no such committee. There is a Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight… but Mr Smith is not a member. In addition, there is a Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, of which Mr Smith is a member.
There is yet another glitch. All committee and subcommittee chairmen are of the majority party. I heard rumours that the majority party is the Democratic Party, whilst Mr Smith is a member of the Republican Party, which is not in the majority. Therefore, he cannot be a committee chairman, and he is not such. Mr Matusiak has screwed up yet again. Mr Smith is the ranking minority member of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, quite a different thing from the subcommittee chairman, who is Mr Donald M Payne (D-NJ). In addition, Mr Smith is not the co-chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (also known as the US Helsinki Commission). Mr Alcee L Hastings (D-FL) has that position. Mr Smith is only an ordinary member of this body.
There is no Committee on International Relations in the US House of Representatives at present. It existed as such from 1995-2007. There is a Committee on Foreign Affairs, but the ranking minority member is Ms Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL). Mr Smith is not the co-chairman of this body either.
In short, this is shoddy and nasty workmanship. It is as bad as the piece handed out by Ms Belonick on the so-called award to SVS in Moscow. By the way, don’t tell me how “good-hearted” someone is… that doesn’t count. If someone does shoddy work in an attempt to hide the full truth or inflate something past its due proportion, I’m going to speak up… and loudly, too. This makes everything on the OCA official website open to question. Don’t think that wearing a riassa exempts you from the normal and expected standards that apply to all of us. Mr Matusiak is an incompetent fool, and the sooner that he is replaced, the better. Should I mention that he was an important part of the old régime… or, is that verboten as well?
It’s certainly not boring covering Orthodoxy!
Barbara-Marie Drezhlo
Wednesday 4 February 2010
Albany NY
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