Another One Bites the Dust

Anyone pick up on this news item from LA?

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-arrest5may05,1,7948287.story?coll=la-headlines-california

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_5823596

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2007-05/29527339.jpg

One of my first thoughts about this situation was how Don seems to have become another one of Berg & Zerby's self-fulfilling prophesies: Why would anyone believe what a crazy, bitter apostate have to say? (Nevermind that Dad & Mama programmed children of the royal household to self-destruct.) Well, I'm no prophet, but I'm willing to predict that sooner or later, at least one of Berg & Zerby's "Manchurian candidates" (young adults raised among the leadership elite) will still be inside the group when the time-bomb in his or her head goes off. It won't be a pretty picture, but we may never know the full extent of the insanity, because the top leadership has always had the economic resources to cover up its crimes. Kind of like when Pete & Karen put Faithy out to pasture on a stipend. What's she gonna say about Dad's pedophilia as long as she's living on an inheritance and has trouble staying sober? She was perfectly programmed to self-destruct.

For those on the outside who seek justice, I think there is a real danger in becoming the thing you most despise and behaving like the people you have rejected. What Don is accused of doing--all in the name of a noble cause--reminds me very much of how people in TFI conduct self-advocacy--through threats, intimidation, character assassination, slurs & innuendo.

People who have been the most outspoken about what happened to them as children are at particularly high risk of a descent into Family-induced madness, imo. Maybe this is because some of those who have spoken out the most forcefully are also among the most damaged. The realization of the extensive, lasting psychological and social damage done by Berg & Zerby's social experiment in childrearing has got to be devastating to a young person in their 30s. What's to keep a person from going over completely over the edge if he feels like he's got nothing to lose?

It's sad, really sad. I've heard that the quickest way into California's mental health system is through the jailhouse door. Maybe Don will take advantage of this opportunity and get the help he so desperately needs in order to cope more effectively with the extensive psychological trauma of his childhood. Maybe he'll learn the difference between survival and recovery. I still have a lot of hope for Don as a decent, worthwhile human being. I hope he makes it out of the snake pit.