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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: MacKinnon Suffers Snuff Harassment (was: Feminists, Radical and Otherwise)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.201102.10618@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Nov17.080026.27340@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:11:02 GMT
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- farthing@leland.Stanford.EDU (ljf) writes:
- : >
- : >And some people who call themselves "survivors" of alleged child abuse
- : >also claim to have suffered ritual abuse at the hands of a vast,
- : >underground network of Satanic cults. Does *this* seem believable to
- : >you as well?
- :
- : A vast underground network of Satanic cults? No.
- :
- : Child abusers who use "Satanic" images to terrorize their victims?
- : Yes.
-
- Or the suggestions made by over-imaginative social workers, when talking
- to the children. That is what it has turned out to be in all the cases
- of which I have heard recently.
-
- : What better way of discrediting a child than to make her/his story
- : sound so ridiculous that no one believes it? If I wanted to molest a
- : child and get away with it, mind-fucking would be the first thing I
- : would do.
-
- If the child's testimony is made worthless by the people doing the
- questioning, then it would not matter what the child was told by the
- molestor. Most victims of child abuse are victims of their immediate
- family or close relatives. Very few are victims of strangers.
-
- Bill
-