Questions, Lots of Questions Part 4

Part 1

One way the cult offenders can keep their victims trapped and doing their bidding is by convincing a personality that she/he is as bad as their abusers. There are many ways that set a victim up to believe this.

The most powerful is to make a child believe they have participated in something when in fact the 'deed' was done before the child ever arrived. Or a child might be co-erced to do something that they would never do without extreme duress. Victims don't give themselves the benefit of the doubt, they easily take on responsibility for things they shouldn't. That is one of the hallmarks of victim behavior.

The alter ends up believing that she/he is indeed evil and discontinues fighting against the programming. The alter is hopelessly caught in ."if you can't beat them, join them" thinking. It seems better to participate than to be continually tortured. Small children and life-long victims are easily tricked and trapped.

As an adult viewing that child's graphic memory of such events, it was easy for me to see that these instances were nothing more than set-ups. Because parts of me already had the benefit of sorting through our victim behavior, we could easily spot the games and assign responsibility to the offenders where it belong.
But bear in mind that was not the case for me before therapy. I never could have sorted those memories. I would have easily fallen victim to my internal enforcers. I had literally no skills to protect me against such manipulations.

I wish I could say that this behavior will be stopped sometime soon. But since it's rarely even talked about anymore, I don't think there's much chance of that. Back in the late 70s and early 80s when childhood abuse was really coming out of the closet, it seemed to be a normal progression to discover victims like me discovering deeper darker secrets.

The talk shows and magazines picked up those stories right along in that progression but just like the offenders of incest and child rape were screaming loudly that they were wrongly accused, so did the offenders in the darker arts of perversion. Organizations like VOCAL and FACT sprang up in the name of "the falsely accused."

The result was to quiet the victims by taking away their voice. All of the victims lost valuable ground in the fight to educate the public. But particularly the victims of ritualistic abuse and satanism lost huge in the credibility department. It was much easier to believe that someone made it up, than it could possibly be real.

False accusations became a battle cry against those speaking out against abuse. Motives were everything from ex-partners getting even to professionals grasping for glory. Even the famous McMartin Day Care case got thrown off balance by the allegation that memories were planted by unscrupulous professionals. Questioning of those children was so mishandled no one will ever know the truth. So instead of seeing it as the confusing mess it became, it's been written off as more proof that this kind of stuff doesn't really happen.

False memory syndrome became the catch phrase of the day (and still is) to dismiss any and all allegations. Those accused actually began to receive more airtime and press than victims. The result was that ritualistic abuse and satanism were swept back under the rug.

As long as they stay there, those individuals who engage in such activity will continue to do what they do. There can be no protection for children when no one will believe.

I'm not going to pretend that sometimes evil people do not accuse some one of abuse to further their own purposes. Nor am I going to profess that there is no way a therapist would plant ideas into client's heads. I, for one, know what human beings are capable of. As easily as adults can rape children, others can accuse when no abuse is there and therapists are not exempt from being evil.

However, to throw out all abuse as unreal is just wrong. The world is just not that black and white. I believe that most reported cases of child abuse are accurate. The courts have seen all too many cases where children have been abused only to have the court case turn into mom versus dad in the divorce as motive for the child not to be believed.

Juries have let offenders off saying in one breath they believed the child and in the next the prosecution didn't make their case while multiple victims (of which the jury only new of one) sat in the court room awaiting a verdict. For me how does that even make sense. If the jury believed the child, isn't that the case.

But manipulation is the name of the game in our court system and every where else along the way in our country. And who are the experts of manipulation? Well, the answer to that question, the offenders, of course.

Since confusion is the fodder upon which offenders feed, the way to combat them is to be informed.We, as a society, need to wise up and wade through all of the crap to figure out who is really who and what is really what. Until we can do that, there will be no protection for children of abuse, all forms of abuse.



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