this may be heavy for survivors
Sex-abuse victim backs veracity of repressed memories by Robin Washington 3/17/03 "As the Archdiocese of Boston prepares its defense in the Rev. Paul R. Shanley civil trial by questioning the repressed memories of plaintiffs claiming the priest raped them years ago, a man who has gained near folk-hero status among sexual abuse victims says his long-buried memories are real. And, says Frank Fitzpatrick, who hunted down former priest James R. Porter 11 years ago and was the first to accuse the now-convicted pedophile of abuse...But the case for repressed memory may be strengthened if incidents can be shown where abusers have admitted crimes long recessed in victims' minds, advocates say.``Certainly, the fact that some perpetrators have admitted to abuse in these cases proves beyond a doubt that repressed memories can and do happen,'' said David Clohessy of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests.Though in Fitzpatrick's case....In another high-profile case, however, the Rev. James L. Gummersbach did specifically admit to the abuse recalled in a repressed memory when he gave a written apology to Henry Bachmann for molestation occurring in a St. Louis, Mo., church in 1964, Bachmann's lawyer, Rebecca Randles, said.``In terms of repressed memory, that case was absolutely clean. There was no prior counseling,'' she said, discounting the notion a therapist could have ``planted'' the memory in her client's mind by suggestive questioning. As further proof, she said, Bachmann recalled the priest tying him up and taking pictures - a fetish Gummersbach's psychiatric records subsequently revealed he had engaged in with other children." http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/repr03172003.htm
Young Brides Stir New Outcry on Utah Polygamy By Michael Janofsky 2/28/03 Salt Lake City "Despite its unlawful status, polygamy is thriving throughout Utah, practiced by fundamentalist Mormons who shun mixing with the outside world and live by traditions their ancestors brought west in the mid-1800's. The number of people in polygamous families in Utah is estimated at perhaps as many as 50,000. Separated by their beliefs from the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which condemned polygamy as a condition of Utah statehood in 1896, fundamentalist Mormons believe that a woman exists to embody the spirit of her religious teachings and serve her husband, responsibilities that include bearing children as soon as possible." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/28/national/28POLY.html?pagewanted=print&position=top
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SFPD spies are back Undercover cops monitoring peace protesters, documents show By A.C. ThompsonThe San Francisco Police Department has been monitoring a radical Web site, using undercover officers to spy on antiwar protesters, and apparently collecting personal information about political dissidents, the Bay Guardian has learned. A confidential police memo, part of a dossier obtained under the Sunshine Ordinance, acknowledges that at least some of the activities appear to violate the department's own rules. The internal SFPD documents and a new audit performed by the city's police watchdog agency, the Office of Citizen Complaints, indicate the department has been gathering intelligence on the militant wing of the antiwar movement since last fall. Taken as a whole, the documents suggest some SFPD commanders may have orchestrated a secret spying program without the knowledge of top police officials.
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Americans abused us, say two freed Afghans March 16, 2003BY KATHY GANNON PESHAWAR, Pakistan--There was a thin layer of ice on the dirt floor of his cell. His interrogators, American soldiers, ordered him to strip. ''Everything,'' they said. ''Take everything off.'' Shivering, naked in his cell, two men threw a bucket of ice cold water on him.''I couldn't say anything. I was so frightened. I didn't know what they would do next,'' Saif-ur Rahman said two weeks after his release from U.S. detention in Afghanistan.Rahman's account and that of another recently freed Afghan gave a rare firsthand look into interrogations of prisoners held by the United States in the war against terrorism. Human rights groups have criticized U.S. interrogation methods as abusive. Two prisoners died in December after being beaten at a prison in Bagram Air Base, the U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan. <A HREF="">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
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