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In Reply to: Why the bleeding heart? posted by count me out on November 30, 2005 at 10:09:17:
I've thought about her role in all of this many times. I have wanted to be so mad at her for not speaking out when she could have, but she, instead, jumped on the bandwagon and lapped up all the excesses for her own pleasure.
When Deborah wrote her book, that would have been a perfect time for Jane to have stood with her daughter and spoken up. Instead, she criticized her for it. When I saw Jane on that Love Prophet Doco, she looked me to me like a broken, souless woman, who had been so abused she no longer had any life left in her. she looked so empty and pitiful. She was talking about how when Berg was womanizing and lusting after young women, her son - Hosea - told his mom to get a grip and let Berg do what he wanted. So, not only was she being abused by Berg (I still can't forget that account in the letters where Berg was mad at her for not being loyal or something, so he made her sit at the table topless and let people come in and out with her sitting there topless for several hours - God, that is so awful), but her own family, her own son, weren't supportive and were under Berg's spell. No one stood with her. Then the abused became the abuser. I just think Berg ruined the lives of all he touched while he sucked up the souls of those around him for his own pleasures with Maria as his counterpart. It's a tragedy, really.
