Posted on 05/27/2017 8:14:32 AM PDT by GregNH
One of the nation’s most exclusive prep schools – whose graduates include both former Secretary of State John F. Kerry and the new Russia probe special counsel Robert Mueller – has just issued a scandalous, astonishingly-detailed 73-page report outlining four decades of X-rated sexual abuse of students by faculty and administrators.
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... and cougars, oh my! Just because the subjects were boys doesn’t mean it was all “homo.”
So why wasn’t it talked about much as a scandal before this. Well, in the mindset of the kids, sometimes this was viewed as some kind of conquest (however perverted). Doesn’t make it RIGHT to keep it quiet. But probably goes quite a ways towards explaining WHY it wasn’t considered scandal material.
So all told, about 30 people were doing this between 1948 and 1988? What happened after 1988?
This isn’t the usual glib Howie Carr. He’s laying out an indictment against the elite establishment.
And now they have a strange affinity for Comet Pizza . . . can’t get enough of it.
I’m so sorry you had to go through that.
Good point. A lot has been written about the sociology of the English public school system. I don't know enough about it to comment with any confidence, but I gather that a very distant style of parenting somehow became part of British upper-class culture. The frequent absence of fathers was particularly noteworthy. During the heyday of the empire, of course, in the social classes that populated the public schools, a lot of the fathers were out for years at a time civilizing the world (or dead, casualties of the same mission). Boarding schools probably had a stronger rationale then than they do now.
I've only known two families that sent their kids away to boarding schools, for good aspirational reasons in both cases. (Family tradition also played a role in one case.) But I suspect that there's enough of the negative stereotype in play as well to make a difference: some socially elite parents don't have the time and interest to raise their own kids, and they park them in boarding schools to get rid of them. A propensity to homosexuality might well be one response to parental abandonment.
In any major city today, there are enough excellent prep day schools that I would question the decision to board a child. By the same token, many of the traditional boarding schools now accept day students as well. None of this applies, of course, to extremely remote areas where boarding is necessary because there simply aren't enough kids within 200 miles to support a reasonable school.
See “Comet Pizza.” As a member of the Elite there are no moral rules because they have transcended all that. Actually, once one has transgressed consciously a basic tenet of morality, has violated Natural Law, say, then one continues under the attitude of might as well be hung for sheep as goats. When you make pleasure to be the primary good and transgress in matters of sex and murder, then one must continue in that direction striving for more thrilling thrills and one must protect against the hoi polloi that still operates as if there is a God. That requires a lot of terminations. For those for whom Self and self gratification is the only Good, the only limits relate to being snared by the commoners.
Private Schools are gettingcas bad a public schools...homeschool kids, parents...
Sunset strip.
Also, The F.B.I.
Although I watched it diligently all through its 9-year run, it should be obvious by now that The F.B.I. series was an unpaid commercial for a federal agency that, then as now, stepped on our privacy rights without benefit of court orders in its efforts to stomp out crime.
It all came to a head, of course, with the revelations following the Watergate break-in.
Many of us will remember J. Edgar Hoover's testimony when he declared that there was no such thing as organized crime.
Yeah, right, Edgar. Only because the government doesn't like competition.
Surprisingly, the NY Times was kind to Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in his obituary three years ago:
Mr. Zimbalist personified the suave and unflappable leading man as an Ivy League-educated private eye on the lighthearted “77 Sunset Strip” and as a stalwart agent who always got his man on “The F.B.I.,” which ran for nine seasons and made him a household name. “The F.B.I.” was unquestioning in its support of the agency it depicted, and both on screen and off, Mr. Zimbalist became its unofficial symbol.His life imitated his art. Politically conservative, he was a strong defender of J. Edgar Hoover, the F.B.I.’s director, and a close friend of Ronald Reagan.
So nothing is sacred? I guess that is the message. However, if I was one of those parents..........well, I say that, but honestly, my kid went to a school with the grand high poobahs of the city, and believe me, the pressure on the parents to keep their traps shut and carry on was immense.
For the Ruling Class nothing is sacred except the rule that Nothing Is Sacred.
some of the parents left the kids alone in houses and went on European trips.
I liked him on both shows.
And his daughter who followed in his TV detective footsteps.
Mueller is a graduate of St. Paul’s ? I had not been prone to the conspiracy theories about him before. Now I will believe anything they say about him.
St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH, this week named 13 former faculty and staffers and also listed, without naming them, more than a dozen other former teachers and staffers who allegedly assaulted and raped various male and female students between 1948 and 1988.
The report was signed by Luther Scott Harshbarger, a former attorney general of Massachusetts, and was commissioned by the school’s board of trustees, whose chairman is Archibald Cox. Cox’s father was the late Watergate special counsel who was fired by then-President Richard Nixon in the so-called Saturday Night Massacre of 1973. Both Coxs are graduates of the school. Other famous Democrats who have graduated from the posh school with Episcopal roots include Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and the late Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy. Jr. Kennedy was accused of having an affair with his family’s 14-year-old babysitter before dying by skiing into a tree in Aspen in 1997. Other famous St. Paul’s alumni include former NYC Mayor John V. Lindsay and the late TV actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
The late U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds (D-MA), the first openly homosexual member of Congress, taught at the school for years before abruptly resigning from the faculty in the early 1970s. A decade later Studds was censured by Congress for having an affair with a 17-year-old male page after plying him with vodka and cranberry juice while on a foreign trip. Two years ago, a 2014 graduate of the elite prep school was convicted of sexually assaulting a then 15-year-old female student. Owen Labrie’s appeal for a new trial was recently denied.
Other exclusive New England prep schools have in recent years admitted to decades of hushed-up sex scandals, including the Choate School in Wallingford, CT, from which President John F. Kennedy graduated. Last year, Philips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH, was roiled by a sex scandal involving a former English teacher that came to light after the resignation of the headmaster, who was married to then-Gov., now Sen. Maggie Hasson.
But the new St. Paul’s report dwarfs all of the earlier accounts in its volume of detail, which includes accounts from dozens of former students, who are often quoted as describing the school as either “strange,” “creepy” or “very creepy.”
One of the creepiest teachers was “Larry” Katzenbach, who died in 1997. He too had ties to national Democrats – his uncle was Nicholas Katzenbach, attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
I boarded for a few years during the early 70s. wild times. We were too focused on sneaking into the girls houses at night to consider any perverse alternatives.
my younger boarded in PA and they used to meet the girls on a adjacent golf course at night.
when you don’t have a car to neck in - you make do with a letterman’s jacket and sweater to keep the dew off your date. Just don’t forget when the sprinklers come on.
Do they all have long faces?
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