. But the discoloration of his face spoke volumes of what was churning inside. And his eyes where cold as death itself.
I guess we can take some joy in "what's churning inside" Newton........but the facts are, he is living in a large waterfront home, has a steady gig at his latest brainwashing facility, I mean, "church", and has more followers willing to attend boring civic meetings on his behalf than the number of survivors of his abuse that opposed him. I guess that's what bothers me the most, that this child-abusing con man in a priest costume is doing better than most of his victims, materially, anyway.
Until some survivor of his abuse kidnaps and tortures him to death, and does the same to his syphilitic consort, Ruth Ann, I don't think we can say that he has paid for his crimes. If anything, he continues to profit from and enjoy the fruits of his crimes. A damn shame. We can congratulate the participants in the hearing, and each other until we are blue in the face, but that is not going to make a damn bit of difference. Chances are, Miller Newton lives in a nicer house than you do, and has more money at his disposal. He was able to rally more supporters to come out to the hearing, and although we may be annoying to him, no real justice has been served---even in the Corter case, Miller didn't lose a goddamn dime. It was paid by his insurance company. Compared to most of his victims, Miller Newton is living pretty large. And that is the real injustice that needs to be addressed.
Yes, you said it well, he has "more money at his disposal", and "Lives in a nicer home", there is no question about that.
And yes, it woud appear more of his supporters/followers attended than did Survivors. (I personally didnt feel out numbered, cant speak for AB or RB...but he (RB) has almost a foot on me, and maybe 25lbs on me....I dont think he felt out numbered either) I think its pretty simple to figure out. Miller and his crew only live a few blocks from the city hall. The Survivors, two of us live in the county inwhich he resides, and one lives in the next county. I can not speculate why more Survivors couldnt book a flight to Tampa, or Clearwater/St.Pete airport, get a hotel, arrainge transportation, meals, take time from work, possible leave family behind to attend the hearing. My guess is however, the logistics of such a venture would have been impossible for a vast majority of us, since we are spread across the country and the globe.
As far as congradulating Survivors in attendance "Till we are blue in the face"....STOP!, why, because you are right. Our purpose was not the "couplua", I still dont know what one is, or even what one looks like, for me, it's irrevelent. However, I have been told I am am annoying, so, why not put it to good use? Sure, we are thorn in his side (can ya feel us sticking). But that is strickly for Millers benifit and to that end, look at his face, its clear to see we annoyed the hell out of him. and at the same time informed those in the hearing of his past. We aslo made valuable connections in the Madria Beach community that either live adjacent to his property, or very close by.
We approached people, without yelling, screaming, hootin and hollering ( have done that before for Mel Sembler). This type of action raises eye brows of the social elite, at least at the gatherings for Mel Sembler. Once the eye brows go up, our credibility goes down. We are viewed as crack pots, lunitics, angry mob of druggies, disenchanted misfits with an axe to grind. As such, it is easy to dismiss such a mob. Not just dismiss us as a group of people, but also dismiss everything we say. It is an approach that has been used with little if any degree of success.
Now, with the introduction of the idea of kidnapping, torture and death (not that I dont understand the sentiment) is not an answer either. Actually it is the issuing of a Terroristic Threat, illegal in most states! Issuing a Terroistic Threat, how eactly is that going to help our cause? It may satisfy a murderious rage of one or more people, yet as a whole, the Survivor community would have a huge blemmish. We are not murderers, kidnappers, or torture mongers. This is not a viable plan of action. Slowly but surely more and more Survivors are coming from the wood work and out of hiding, just beggining to get thier feet on the ground, just starting to connect the dots and come to grips with what took place and are just tasting the sweetness of VALIDATION. Then it is suggested to kidnap, torture and kill. Again, I understand the authors sentiment, I respect the years of anger and rage carried on your shoulders, I know you want nothing less than to be free of this burden, who wouldnt?
Yes, Miller is living large and I agree it is an injustice and it need be addressed. Violence will not resolve this matter. Miller got where he is today after suffering a major defeat by using legal manuvers (sp), circumventing the laws and using powers of persuasion to achieve what he has thus far. Sooooooo, if it works for a fuck like Miller, it could work for us. We have to ask ourselves, are we as tenacious as Miller Newton? Can we think outside the box?
I am not sure of the order of the church his is suppossed to be a priest of, I know "Stillahippie" is a member of the church, not Newtons church, but the Church Miller represents. Why not have him defrocked? Why not have the real CHURCH strip him of his stained collar. If the city can not remove him from his residence, and his 'church/organization', why not approach his higher authority?
You see, there are ideas that have not been explored, much less even looked at. In our Survivor Community we have several LawDawgs, Lawyers. Ok, so Lawyers have said our time is up, whatever they call it , satutue of limitations. But this is no longer about money, for some it may be, for me personally, it is not. Yet, I have never heard anything beyond the Statute of Limitations door being slammed shut....Fine, what else? Defrock the Priest? Approach leaders of his Church, present to them the facts of our lives.They suppossedly ordained him, if they reviewed the facts, with names, places, dates, information found on the internet, youtube, personal testimony. If officials of the church have no problem with his transgressions with children....we have a biger problem than Miller.
You, or some one asked for a derainged Survivor of his abuse, abduct, torture and painfully extracts the ultimate vengence upon Miller Newtons sorry ass. Your asking for a martyar (sp)? You suggest "Some derrainged survivor" to do this, who would that be? Under examination, any of us that had anything to do with Miller Newton, if closely looked at could be considered derrainged, shell shocked, suffering from PTSD, battle fatigue...whatever, that person then spends his/her life in prison and the rest of us are then viewed as a Terrorist orginization. I havent read the full "Patriot Act" but I know it touches every aspect of every American. And I am pretty sure it covers home-grown Terrorists as well. And should anything happen to Miller or Ruthie, who do you think would be first suspects? Every Survivor site would recieve search warrants to hand over IP addresses and dont think they wouldnt scour every written piece of correspondence. Once the ISP hands over the IP address's, feds knocking on the door wouldnt be far behind, confisgating every harddrive, placing everyone as a suspect. And the post suggesting kidnapping, torture and death would be charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
Again, I understand your reasoning, your emotions, your anger, your rage, your wrath, and your wish for vengence/justice. I am afraid however all of these things combined is clouding your judgement. I am not writing to offend your emotions or to dismiss them in any other way except to say, what your purposing puts us all at risk.There is but one Miller Newton and he achieved everything he has thru loop holes in the law. There are thousands of us, most extremly intellegent, We have to put our minds and body together as one and unify. What ever action we take, we must do with in the boundary of the law, we must repect his neighbors if we wish to have thier continued support. Rash statements, threats of bodily harm and the like will destroy any work that has been done up untill now.
As heated as this situation with Miller is, we must keep our cool, we have to maintain a sense of civility. We have to present ourselves with dignity, integrity, honesty and a singleness of purpose. I am not dismissing any of our emotions, I am saying that for the time being, our emotions need to be kept in check, if we ever hope to have an acceptable outcome.
Then again, I tend to fall for the Dark Humor. I mistake it for being exactly what it looks like, and so my passionate plea here. If in fact, this post I am replying to is Dark Humor...Ok ya got me again, Mea Culpa. Yet, if you were sincere, and meant notihng to be humorious in your statment, understand, that we understand. But the Law may see it as for what said. Kidnapping, torture and death.The legal system most probably will not appreciate your humor, especially in the event of harm coming to Miller or Ruthie.
I encourage:
Much Heaing
Much Peace
woof