Brian, come clean. How much is Lenny paying you to run diversion?
The rest of you named in this rather comical little diatribe, he's got a point. Ya'll are spending way too much time in the company of Program people. It's so obvious what's going on here. I can't say why he's doing it, but Brian is running a distraction campaign. I say we just fucking ignore him.
Now then, interesting tidbits from Betty Sembler's depo. I read it all in one sitting a few days ago. It's all in graphic format and, therefore, unsearchable. If anyone cares to OCR it and correct it, I'd be happy to dump a text version into the pile. Mean time, from memory, here's what I found interesting and useful about Betty's sworn testimony.
Most of it was all about trying to find out what Betty thinks is the legal definition of a threat. She said that yes indeed, she does consider criticizm of the Straight program to be personally threatening. I wish Tom had asked her opinion about all those judges and juries, all those wittnesses and investigators who have found in favor of Straight's abuse victims in various courts around the country.
I just would love to see in black and white that she discards out of hand all of these respected professionals in the same lot as all us lying, cowardly cockroaches. Oh wait, that was Loretta. :roll: Birds of a feather. . .
Oh well. There are some nuggets in there. For instance, did you know that, even after the facts in Lulu Corter and Karen Norton's lawsuits, Betty still considers Virgil to be a wonderful human being and a dear friend? Oh yeah, it's true! She said so under oath. And she considers any criticizm of him as a personal threat to her, too. I wonder if she's going to try and sue all of the judges who have found him to be a contemptable, frightening and dangerous sort of individual?
In a nutshell, I came away from that mini-novel w/ the distinct impression that Betty Sembler views our legal system and personnell very much the same as her personal staff in the Program. Anyone who dares to question anything she says or does or any of the littany of bogus public sector programs and agencies in which she is involved should rightly be prosecuted w/ extreme prejudice and at our expense.
In my humble opinion, Betty Sembler is the biggest, dumbest most ignorant, shifless WELFARE MAMA out there.
We ought to be grateful that our government monopoly schools are such a failure. If today's 18 year olds could do arithmetic, they'd be out buying enough rope to hang everybody over 40.
--Alan Handleman on Social Security
