THERE IS NEVER going to be trust or respect each other on this board or in person. I don't trust any of you unless you give me shit, and even then I might be nice for awhile but you'd better keep the gifts acomin. If there exists no higher bond or grounds between us than our own petty needs, then there is going to be fighting and bickering and backbiting. This can be seen in human nature.
Our cause is NEVER going to come unless you get out of the way of people like Ray Bradbury, Sherman Mike, Sammie Monroe, Wes Fager, and the rest of the lot of them. And I don't mean that harshly. These people stir up ambiguous controversy at best and don't really do our perceived causes any true and finalizing actions. For example, look at all the judges and officials who have passed bills and claims and the like for numerous survivors of abuse. Those people got their money, and their justice. Not here, B. and the rest of them are too busy trying to bask in the limelight of some old building they lived in for awhile. Peer review has time and time again suggested to these less than stable Straight hacks that they should back off, regroup and show some real genuine action.
Again, this, including this site, forum, straights.com, and the rest, is at best controversially ambiguous. There is not much quantitative information here, Wes, if you've read half of his information, is VERY careful in his wording in order to avoid lawsuits and simply because the information he wished he had, like the actual number of survivors and ex Straightlings, remains unknown. It's all qualitative and normative information that is all about value judgements and doesn't really serve to offer any archival or factual feel or genuine reaching to facts. So he's left with constantly using words like 'it appears' and 'it seems'. Unfortunately the poor old man, who is destitute like the lot of us and knows we'll see our justice in the next life or another, doesn't have alot to go on other than there are some angry folks who want to see their attackers fry for their crimes and for their lost lives.
And even we don't have our ducks in a row, none of us really know the true numbers, only an average of sorts, of all the folks in Straight. Because the files are ALL closed and unavailable to anyone who is NOT an attorney, a sergeant in the force, or a judge. Public record hardly offers light on the subjects poor Fager wants to broach. I want to feel for the guy, I do. I really wish Sembler would pay Fager for all the efforts of advertising that Fager does for our attackers. at least then we could all sleep a tad bit more soundly knowing that someone is getting right pay for all this hoopla and go nowhere b.s.
The shot rang out the day the attorney called and says, there will never be, most likely, a person who will be able to handle any case or merit against Straight Inc. or anything that it did. Unless a judge comes forward, or a president, and issues a retroactive blacklist. The policies and the bills are set in stone more or less, and people, especially politicians never do well with making more than small changes to the status quo. Even radicals recognize that a superbly high change to any policies and laws, especially those so outdate as our drug and child laws, just does not happen over night. These things really do take time.
So, in the meantime, while we realize that there is not actually a fucking thing we can do to make a dent in this brick wall of child laws and statutes and all that bullshit, we can resign ourselves to continuing the disrespect and the untrust and the lies and the backbiting. That is the one thing that remains tried and true blue in our society, the ease of use of negativity and the practical bashing, and trolling, of one another. We like it and its an acceptable form of expressing our discontent with our worlds, and if others get dragged down with us then at least we are not alone.
