Posted on 04/24/2019 6:03:19 AM PDT by bgill
The lawyers’ ads on the internet aggressively seeking clients to file sexual abuse lawsuits give a taste of what lies ahead this year for the Boy Scouts of America: potentially the most fateful chapter in its 109-year history.
Sexual abuse settlements have already strained the Boy Scouts’ finances to the point where the organization is exploring “all available options,” including Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But now the financial threats have intensified.
The reason: States have been moving in recent months to adjust their statute-of-limitations laws so that victims of long-ago sexual abuse can sue for damages. New York state has passed a law that will allow such lawsuits starting in August. A similar bill in New Jersey has reached the governor’s desk. Bills also are pending in Pennsylvania and California.
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Exactly. If a society can be made to neuter its male population of its own accord, conquering it is far easier.
Thanks!
You bet, N&V!
Unexpected.
I wonder if there is some legal argument against a change in the statute of limitations; in some sense, it is making something that is “no longer a crime” (Because it happened too long ago) into a crime, AFTER it was committed. But the crime itself was always a crime, so maybe it is legal to do this.
long ago, the boy scouts had a problem, in which they seemed to attract gay pedophiles in large numbers, because of easy access to young, impressionable men, in overnight and week-long camping situations.
At some point, they realized what was happening. They started making restrictions on homosexuals serving as leaders, and that worked for a while, but in the end, that policy led to them being socially shamed, they reversed themselves, and now are dying as “Scouts BSA”, which just started letting girls in in the hopes of getting more donations.
Now they are going to be sued into oblivion for not policing gay sex abuse better.
And as a long-term scout, and father of an eagle scout, I don’t really care. My troop had a gay scout leader who I’m pretty sure abused some boys, i remember one night in a van, although I was not personally touched, and frankly had no clue at the time what was happening, and so my “recollection” later is fuzzy.
TO be fair, these are not lawsuits based on the current crop of homosexual leaders abusing boys, it is about abuse that happened long ago, before the BSA realized that the homosexual community was using them as a training ground, recruiting tool, and a sex organization.
Once that happened, they started instituting the two-person rules and severely restricting the ability of any male leader being alone with any unrelated boy.
But now they will be sued for not being proactive enough to recognize what was happening 50 years ago, and also for reacting to it poorly, usually by simply dismissing the leaders, allowing them to move on to other troops and more victims.
>>But now they will be sued for not being proactive enough to recognize what was happening 50 years ago, and also for reacting to it poorly, usually by simply dismissing the leaders, allowing them to move on to other troops and more victims.
Sounds a lot like the m.o. of the Catholic Church.
It really pains me. I have fond memories of Boy Scouts, and there wasn’t even a whiff of that crap in either of the two troops I was in on two Navy bases.
It just makes me angry.
Conservative Boy Scout Alternatives
https://wehavekids.com/youth-programs/Conservative-Boy-Scout-Alternatives
I was a Boy Scout 1961-1968, had two scoutmasters in that time, both were homosexual pedophiles, one went to prison.
Not sure this is really new.
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