Posted on 04/22/2002 2:48:06 PM PDT by TroutStalker
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:46:27 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The latest obstacle to Gerald Amirault's freedom came without fanfare. A three-member panel of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections has now decided that, since the prisoner has refused participation in treatment programs for sex offenders, he was considered to be "in denial." Permission for him to appear before the Board that could grant early parole would therefore be denied.
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Here are links in the earlier post linked above, courtesy of Interesting Times:
Here are all the Rabinowitz articles in the series that I could find:
A Darkness in Massachussetts II
A Darkness in Massachussetts III
The Pursuit of Justice, Continued
Through the Darkness (on Grant Snowden in Dade County, Florida)
24 Posted on 07/10/2001 11:29:39 PDT by Interesting Times
Deserves repeating.
Unfortunately there hasn't yet been a capable playwright to recast the material into the pablumatic pre-digested form young students and dottering socialists need. It is raw and messy.
Remember Albee's play "The Crucible"? Well, that play was a 1960's socialist's retelling of the actual witch trials held in Salem, Massachussetts in 1692. Albee had his target set on the Red Scares, the long series of anti-communist and anti-socialist hysterias that had swept up mnay Americans since the 1880's or so. And in particular what was to become the watershed mark of that long series of mass hysterias, the McCarthy hearings and the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
Albee hit his target square on and devastated it.
In our own time, in the 1980's and early 1990's, we too had a major mass hysteria. Maybe there wasn't yet enough Prozac to go around, whatever.
The subconscious guilt root of that hysteria, I firmly suspect, was in the big increase in working mothers of very young children, and the fact that by working full-time these fertile young women in the peak of their sexual and maternal instinct bloom had to place the very naturally beloved objects of their conceiving and motherhood into the hands of disinterested unrelated parties, whilst at the same time placing their maternally lovely and sexually-peaking selves into the dog-eat-dog work-a-day world where male co-workers and male bosses at best ignored their maternal and sexual blossoming and more than often enough did note it and all the longings and desires for being cherished, longed for, mothering, wife-ing etc.
So much misplaced young motherhood in bloom. Society had not yet adapted. There was an great and serious counter-reaction thrust out of the social subconscious.
The Day Care Sex Scare. From tales of mutilated rabbits used in some weird cultic sexual rituals with toddlers, evil clowns, secret tunnels, to more prosaic yet highly charged claims of sex games with kiddies. All the evil and dark forces of the imagination unleashed!
Evil persons like the Reno herself were quick to the chase and to the exploit of this poisoned cultural well.
And poor sods and innocent good souls, as usual, where burned at all the many stakes the mass and mad public craze was able to muster.
("...Well Jack, we're outside the courthouse waiting for the jury to return a verdict. Nothing has happened since yesterday, we don't know when anything is going to happen, but if something DOES happen, we'll be here to cover it! Back to you in the studio, Jack! ")
The whole thing was a media circus because the media is too greedy, lazy, and stupid to do anything important and they smelled fresh, ratings meat. Beyond the witchhunt mentality that the propaganda ministry I worked in was all too happy to capitalize on, Scott Dirtburger, er Harshbarger, is one of the biggest parasites ever produced in Massachusetts - right up there with Teddy.
To right the wrong government must admit it is wrong. There is no principled person, Democrat or Republican, in a position of authority to do this. So sad. Regards.
Have you ever seen the "anatomically correct" dolls used by social workers and child psychologists for interviewing young children about sexual abuse? They have big round gaping holes at the mouth, vagina, and anus, and a perfectly matched big round cylinder for a penis. Any kid who has ever played with "put the round peg in the round hole" type toys can figure out exactly what the adult wants them to do with these dolls. This is the sort of thing which forms the basis for nearly all convictions of sexual abuse of small children in which there is no physical evidence and no adult witnesses.
A couple of months ago a link to this site, about sex-offender recidivism, was posted on Free Republic.
Her roomate in college was Hi!!ary.
She was the perfect "fall guy", so to speak, in the clintoon administration. They had the goods on her.
She made her mark in Dade county, FL, prosecuting similar cases which were later overturned.
Didn't she already turn him down?? But what about Mitt Romney (should he succeed in his bid)?
Don't forget her role in the Bobby Finje (sp?) case (Reader's Digest, Jan '94 if I recall correctly). Kept a 12? year old in isolation for two years before trial -- only to see him acquitted. That one was so stinky that even Time had to make a passing comment (but oh-so-quick, and oh-so-vague) in its paean to the (then) new Attorney General in '93.
(I'd noted the comment in the article but didn't understand until RD published the story.)
This case is certainly the biggest travesty in the nation and the only news outlet that cares is the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal because of the extraordinary Dorothy Rabinowitz.
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