The question of if he really did will probably never be answered. But if someone w/ a solid stake--the girl who was gang raped or the family of the guy who was burned to death--comes forward w/ substantial evidence into which your eye wittness testimony of his confession fits, then maybe that will amount to something. All these decades later, most likely those folks will be inclined to let sleeping dogs lie, if they're inclined to think about it at all.
The other aspect of the issue, though, I really think that's a lot more salient. And I forgot to add context for the sake of the uninitiated. The context of these horrid confesstions was a group confession session. In it, this guy was the adult mentor to all of these (your?) children who were then encouraged to come up w/ confessions of their own. Human competitiveness and the need for acceptance being what it is, these kids were essentially encouraged to come up w/ confessions to one-up the others.
That's how these fuckers managed to get your kids to confess to things you never even suspected and, thereby, to re-enforce their schtick that you don't know WTF you're doing as a parent and should, therefore, ignore your gut instinct and "trust the process".
I remain thoroughly convinced that the mindfuck is
so much more harmful than any of the physical abuse. I knew going in how to play the game and avoid the worst consequences (or so I thouth) I only got sat on once, and I made the fuckers regret that call. But I didn't get out of it unscathed.
Either cocaine and marijuana are terribly dangerous substances, and breaking the law by consuming them is a major offense that should be severely punished, or these are minor, personal matters that do not really count in the big picture of a man's life. If the latter is the case, then the rationale for a bloody, costly and futile war against drugs simply disappears.
--Jorge G. Castaneda, Newsweek International, September 6, 1999
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