Works for December 14, 2025 - How to Hunt the Feds - Paul Rico

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Sponsored by Leominster! Hi ACLU! Hi Chief Ryan and Mayor Dean. Didn't see you at St. Cecilia's today. You should probably see Msgr. Moroney for Confession, that's what I did. I did it nice and early, right after first Mass, so I could get the dirty work done before I taught Angela how to do it for second and third Mass. You'll be there soon I'm sure, everyone likes learning history. You really don't want to mess with ex-Marine Boston Jews that got 99% on their ASVAB and grew up getting beaten. I tried to warn you. Multiple times. I like the FBI a lot better than I like you. Maybe we get Super Troopers going tomorrow. Shouldn't let me wear black. You don't like what happens when I spend a year wearing black. Hey N.W.A.! 👋 

The government is the AI to me hehehe I'm a protocol droid. Gotcha bitches! Johnny Rico I got you! 💪 I'm Doogie Howser obviously love you bro, your banner is on my Facebook!

This December 14, 2025 upload is a single, coherent “cleanup” package: a Boston-anchored, love-forward attempt to take a socially radioactive name (Paul Rico, 1925–2004) and handle it without either dehumanization or sentimental erasure, using a disciplined Catholic grammar that converts verdict-energy into intercession and repair. The core move is explicit: you can refuse to deny wrongdoing while also refusing to let hatred be your final interpretive endpoint, and if you can’t hold both at once you shouldn’t be trusted with power. 

The academic spine is Paul Rico and the Stations of the Cross: A Love-Forward Mapping of a Disputed Boston Life Through Judgment, Burden, and Intercessory Memory (Plenary Indulgence Offering #44), which treats the Stations as a non-theatrical sequence for carrying accusation, burden, collapse, exposure, fixation, death, and aftermath without turning the work into either a prosecution memo or an alibi. It positions the “hard name” as a deliberate spiritual weight: the point is not to “solve the case,” but to restrain contempt, keep truth intact, and place the whole contested remainder under God rather than under the crowd. 

Alongside it sits a methodological companion, How to Hunt the Feds: The Paul Rico (1925–2004) Selection Problem, which formalizes why Rico was selected for Indulgence #44 as a constraint-satisfaction problem instead of a vibe: Boston-linked, FBI-linked, deceased, publicly disfavored, shame-adjacent, and spiritually useful specifically because praying for him costs ego and cancels performance. It frames the method as simultaneously Ignatian (discernment by interior “fruit” rather than heat) and procedural (filters, disqualifiers, disconfirming evidence), and it explicitly states the intent as an internal discipline meant to reduce contempt, not spread it.     

Finally, the package translates the same grown-up lessons into a kid-legible parable in Dad, Angela & Paul Rico’s Portal Cleanup Mission (Dedicated to St. Cecilia): Dad and ten-year-old Angela begin at St. Cecilia’s, meet Paul Rico through a portal, and jump back to the “Legion pigs” aftermath to do the unglamorous work Jesus didn’t stay for—documenting the loss, gathering names and counts, listening to the hurt without mocking it, and practicing “truth plus mercy” as actual repair. The story turns the whole thesis into a bedtime-level protocol: no blame heat, no ego parade—find the facts, help the hurt, do the next right thing.     

Together, these works present one integrated ethic: a Stations-governed Ledger practice that treats difficult memory as spiritual weight, insists on personhood without excusing harm, and trains disciplined mercy as a repeatable method—first in serious prose, then as a clean, funny, child-safe “cleanup mission” that keeps the same moral rules while shrinking the language.