Posted by norski
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I also experienced sexual abuse as a child. My grandfather, minister of our lutheran church, and great-grandfather, abused me, my sister, cousins, neighbor children, and so on. I know what this looks like and how perpetrators explain away and try to defend themselves.
Based on my own experience, I believe Dr. Ford was sexually abused. However, Ford seems much more like a victim of systemic abuse, along the lines of MKUltra, than the victim of a single episode. Her childlike and scattered demeanor suggests a person who has struggled to keep things together her entire life. Her unreliable memory and erratic testimony could easily be a natural outgrowth of trauma. My impression of her is that she is very fragile, almost hollow. She seems like someone who is looking for another person to define her, to tell her what to do. She’s a good wife, friend and mother, fulfilling the desired projections of others. Her immediate family has been largely unavailable for comment, which reinforces my suspicion that there is much more here than meets the eye.
Pervasive abuse severely damages a person’s mental coherence, making him or her susceptible to suggestion and manipulation. I think Ford was selected and groomed for her role. Unwittingly. That thought absolutely terrifies me. If this is the case, the Kavanaugh hearing is a witch trial, of the worst kind.
I found Kavanaugh highly believable. My sister and I confronted the pedophiles who assaulted us and others. Not one responded as Kavanaugh did.
Having been a victim of this kind of abuse, one becomes fairly adept at reading unspoken body language. It’s a defense mechanism. Kavanaugh didn’t strike me as someone who was trying to avoid, equivocate or escape but as someone who was absolutely horrified by the accusations and filled with moral outrage. He did not waiver in his opening statement and was justifiably beside himself.
Can any one of us imagine what it would feel like to he falsely accused, tried and convicted on the basis of one person’s unsubstantiated allegations? If we allow this man to be destroyed because of these unsubstantiated allegations, we don’t deserve the constitutional due process we have been afforded. And, this slippery slope will certainly continue to erode what’s left of our civil liberties. These are very dangerous times indeed.
Re: Kavanaugh Hearings a National Disgrace
. In my brain there is a group in avalon which I labeled real truthers. Thats where I put you. This group I admire love and all the goodies I can think of
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