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In Reply to: Dear Mr. Boobola posted by One Who Knows on February 24, 2006 at 06:50:43:
Though you may not care if the Family goes merrily along wrecking lives, it is reasonable that some that have been the most greviously injured and that would be those SG surviving camps and sexual sharing schedules, sanctioned molestation by adults and Some FG who suffered as single mothers or people who got ill and then dumped after being sheared of what resources they had, for many of them it matters.
To compare the criminality in the Family with society at large is ludicrous because you are talking about a criminal society where some of its rules and practices are recognized and sanctioned crimes compared to societies at large where crime is recognized as varying degrees of illegal activities, identified as societal ill and is prosecuted. Maybe your few friends still there would want to think about that. I think if adults choose to live in a commune and do all kinds of weird things like LJR with each other and channel un dead people that is their business but it is society at large's business when minor children are brought into it.
I don't think the exposure of a society of child molesters/abusers is something that is popular anywhere in the world. Do you mean because in some third world countries it is over looked and even allowed that this makes the Family a "normal" minority? It's what NAMBLA would like to be-- a normal minority. But most of its readership is in PRISON.
Regarding compensation, I think the symbolism of the act of society finding any perpetrators guilty of child sexual abuse and other forms of abuse, and a court of law pronouncing it as illegal and passing a judgement against people involved is more of a validation of those hurt that the cult denies hurting. That is paramount in importance above and beyond how ever limited resources may be. Bottom line, those abused have every right to their day in court if that is what they choose to do. I personally care more about the people that were hurt than I do about protecting the people still within that choose to continue supporting the beast.
After what you wrote about your friendships within the cult and your concern about your adult friends over the concern of the people so seriously harmed by CULT DOCTRINE and practice, I can't take much of what you say as being legitimate to any degree though in your own mind it seems to make sense. This is NOT about the ends justifying the means. When ENRON fell for corrupt business practices, the CEO's were not the victims because of white collar crime being more widespread. Does widespread criminal practice make the criminals the poor victims?
Or do the survivors who lost all under unscrupulous business people, the ones who lost everything because of that have a right to be angry?
But we are talking pedophilic organization who denies it, outright lies about its past and covers up it's guarded present, blanketing some core doctrines under secrecy.
When two sides of any given story are told in a court of law a judge has to weigh things out by the evidence before making a ruling. In the situation you are talking about it is one thing to state your opinion but another thing to call a person stating an opinion based on information they have which quite honestly seems more legitimate, as someone who is "twisting facts" or even lying. I don't think so. I think the one who needs to stop lying is PETER, MARIA and their PR people and "friends" speaking on their behalf because they "LIKE" some current members and don't want to see them hurt.
If they don't want to get hurt, maybe they could get OUT and get HELP. At this point there is so much info out there on the true history of the Family and Berg, Maria and co. that people can't plead ignorance anymore.
Imagine people surviving human trafficking being told that prosecuting their abductors was a "paradigm", an agenda they had and a core belief to address what happened to them as if THEY were the perpetrators trying to bring the traffickers to justice. Poor traffickers. NO. I don't think so.
