On 2003-10-13 05:53:00, Carey wrote:
"That was me!
Let me add this, look at all of those luney-tunes out there right now who are working on "blind trust", don't you think if they thought they could be held accountable "if" their child was being abused, they might want more than just "blind trust" to work off of?"
Carey, what do you think about parents who blindly trust their pediatricians and allow their babies to receive dangerous vaccinations that leave them hopelessly autistic?
Just a few years ago, the heretical view was that any mother who would question the conventional wisdom and refuse vaccinations was either a religious nut or a dangerously negligent mother. Now it's starting to come out that these safe and trusted vaccines actually are dangerous and are more likely to seriously harm some children than the diseases we're trying to prevent.
Now, all along the way, for decades, there have been doctors, researchers, pharmaceuticals and parents who are guilty of failure to do due dilligence. We all just trust eachother, right? Blindly. Do what everyone does, right?
Now the medical people and the pharm people just go about their merry way, wouldn't even recognize their victims if they tripped over them panhandling on the street 40 years later. But the parents are still the parents. There's no getting away from it for them. They get to live out their old age reflecting on what might have been if they had been just a bit more skeptical.
They don't need to be punished any more. We just need to let make next generation of parents understand the danger.
One more thing. I don't know if there's anything to the accusations that this is all about getting back at your ex or not. Frankly, I'd understand very well if you're enraged at him and completely unable to understand why he did what he did and how he can possibly hold to notion that it was the right thing. I know parents who, decades later, will
still tell their adult child that they'd do it again. Incomprehensible to me. And my own mother's one of them!
However, most of them eventually come around, at least to some degree. Their kids are luckier than the others. I get to see it from both perspectives.
I think some of your critics have a good point when following your reasoning to the next logical step. If your ex is that big a sadistic asshole and/or that negligent in trustng WWASP, then aren't you just as liable for trusting him?
If you get right down to it, damned near everyone is liable, complicit (at least by silence) in this criminal industry. Am I at fault for not speaking out 20 years ago? Maybe. I know I feel a pang of guilt very often when I read some sad story that happened just a couple of years ago or about someone like you and your kids who are living it now. Aren't you mad at me for cowering away and not giving you the heads up?
This could go on forever.
If you want to destroy market demand for these demented little cults, there's one sure way to do it. Make sure the public knows just what they're about. Just the facts, ma'am. Whether you're ready now or able ever to understand it, they do recruite the parents through manipulation and trickery. That only works if the mark doesn't know the scam. So let's just do all we can to get the word out on the scam and let the powers that be deal with whatever retribution might be in order.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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