I recall the meanest girl phasers. They got me when I was stood up, but in general I escaped the full force of their wrath. Cleverly, Straight got children to perform their abuse against other children. Although I might feel anger toward individual girls, I truly have zero desire to see any of them suffer further, as i imagine they must feel embarassed at the very least for the way they acted in there. They were pawns and used TERRIBLY -- to encourage and reward them for abusing other girls in the intake rooms is really a terrible form of abuse that we don't even talk about that much around here.
When I am talking about the inability to redress wrong through the justice system, I am NOT talking about phasers therefore feeling justified in going after each other in the present time, and thank you for bringing to my attention that my previous post could have been misconstrued to mean that, Antigen.
Yes I have said before that I feel responsible for my own actions in Straight, and I apologize to anyone in there in my time whom I hurt, and hope and imagine others would do the same. That would make us all better than the true perpetrators of the crimes...
There is a blind rage that I feel at times toward the people who were in charge. However, as Nietzsche said, whoever fights monsters should be careful that he does not become one... The best of what the Justice System can do is provide a venue for seeking redress of wrongs, so that we do not become engaged in destructive violence.
I posted what I did about the Statute of Limitations because I think it is accurate, when people feel they have no other recourse they often turn to violence.
Alternatives:
1. venting here
2. working to rescind the Statute of Limitations
3. seeking justice in the court of public opinion by outing the TRUE perpetrators of the crimes -- that is, the people in power, the owners, the board, the executive staff, the people who knew they were using thought reform techniques, NOT THE CHILDREN.
4. working to change this society so that the form of abuse against children that we all know so painfully becomes completely unacceptable in society. "domestic violence" did not become a topic in our society until about the 1970s -- we should work to expose institutionalized child abuse and bring it front and center in the consciousness of this society in the same way so that it is visible and understood to be unacceptable. (SHAME on "Dr." Phil!)
