Dem Senate Campaign Committee Attacks Scott Brown on Abuse Revelation
- Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:21pm by
Meredith Jessup
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The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) is circulating reports suggesting that Republican Sen. Scott Brown’s recent revelation of sexual abuse as a child is either a political stunt or a hypocritical move.
Politico’s Ben Smith reports that one such report appeared in a column written by the editor of one Rhode Island website:
Many have questioned how Brown could let a pedophile run free instead of stopping what could be a serial molester who may now have been at it for upwards of 40 years. Among the “believers” are many who are appalled that a U.S. senator would throw a literary grenade at a respected Christian summer camp and not disclose a name so that Cape officials can pursue the attacker and defend their reputation.
On the other side are alumni and friends of the camp who accuse the senator of fabricating the whole matter for political purposes – or at least to sell more books – leaving Camp Good News with a damaged reputation and no way to refute his accusations.
Neither story line is playing well with readers of CapeCodToday.com. Those who believe Brown’s story feel that his political career cannot survive his sheltering of the molester. Those who feel he fabricated the account feel he should step down from office if he is proven to have lied.
The DSCC has reportedly also circulated pieces by the Boston Globe‘s Glen Johnson and Joan Vennochi about Brown’s sexual abuse revelation, labeling Brown as hypocritical after endorsing Jeff Perry, a failed GOP congressional candidate who was accused of covering up a sexual abuse charge while he was a police officer.
“Democrats still find it hard to accept that Kennedy’s seat went to a Republican who brilliantly rechristened it ‘the people’s seat,’” Vennochi writes. Now, Brown will be collecting new accolades for bravery… But it’s still fair to wonder: given his life story, why did he stand behind a man who allegedly stood by while a young girl was under assault?”
Brown has responded to the criticism, saying there is “no correlation’’ between his story and Perry’s case and it is “really inappropriate’’ to link them.






















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DVT
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:30pmwow…just when you think the progressives cant get any lower,they DIVE right into the toilet and swim with the turds!
Report Post »Charles Hopewell
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:39pmThey tend to eat their own…
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:49pmThis is starting to sound real nasty….
Report Post »valarie
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 9:43amThey tend to eat their own….turds? Probably.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 27, 2011 at 3:34amThanks Valarie.
Capt Obvious.
Report Post »icediva
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:17pmBrown’s my senator and I no longer like him. Its very liberal here in MA and he‘s been getting it from all sides and I think he’s cracking. Not to say what happened to him isn’t true but there is more to this than what has come from his mouth.
Report Post »At the union rallies, the thugs were out and they were very abusive being investigated by police, but police are Unionized too.
hogtrashhd
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:59pmI have a pretty good read on people for the most part and I have to say I felt from the get go something was wrong with this guy.. I didn’t rejoice when he won his election like so many conservatives did even though it was a great pick up for us… I just felt something was and is off… I feel bad about seemingly to be piling on a sexual victim.. but something like that can really warp you and I think he’s warped…
Report Post »danlb0y
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:56pmOH the humanity! If Teddy had made that revelation, the far left would be falling all over him with sympathy! You see…Republicans are not allowed to be victims. Remember how sympathetic liberal voters were to the girl that died at Chappaquiddick. They couldn’t wait to keep old Teddy in office! Hey…I wonder if she was a Republican?
Report Post »Charles Hopewell
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:36pmScott Brown is a republican in name only. Sarah lost my respect when she endorsed this clown.
Report Post »Ezekiel
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:51pmFree speech unfortunately can mean, FREE SPEECH. This is how the real world works, in a court of law you are innocent until proven guilty. In the world of lies and malice, you are guilty because of all the people yelling, that you are. It is sad, but truth.
Report Post »redbone007
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:48pmTo bad, he wanted to play with the democrats and the Obama. Only the lefts can claim they were abused as a child.
Report Post »spreadcommonsensenot pc
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:47pmScott Brown is a progressive republicrat—-hes still a human that was effected by whatever—–NOW what has effected the progressive dems to attack?
Report Post »Army Ant bites on their……………..
Charles Hopewell
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:41pmChickens sometimes cannibalize each other…
Report Post »mill
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 9:32amAttack because you see Brown is injured by his vote. Like a deer with a broken leg
Brown wants sympathy.
If you are going to tell the world you were molested tell us why want the world to know.
Seriously, why bring up this soul cleansing revelation to the world?, other than ‘sympathy” votes..because you know you screwed up and showed who you really are with your vote.
But why worry, he walks both sides. The kennedy voters will probably like him more now, he’s becoming one of the gang. no respect here
Report Post »Capt_Spalding
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:45pmAs opposed to the Rep. who decided to bring up her abortion story? What a bunch of bums who only want to keep their “power” at any cost / story.
Report Post »Rob@AmPre
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:45pmThe left wants you to behave like a victim, they don’t approve of you actually being one.
Report Post »Unit_of_Fire
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:43pmsure the progressive democrats are filthy hypocrites. saw him on 60 minutes and thought that he’s been co-opted…Barney Frank gives him props and then revealing his ‘victimology’ and then a book deal and all on a state-controlled media outlet. Witness the purchase in a co-opting of a politician. maybe the camp will sue and compel him to reveal the abuser…a long-time progressive democrat congressman from MA perhaps?
Report Post »mill
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 9:22amhuh?
Report Post »Oatsy
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:36pmJust when you think the Left has sunk as low as they can go, they prove they can go lower.
Report Post »Tnredneck
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:43pmWhat do you expect from bottom feeders. The progressives swim at the bottom to keep away from the light…..
Report Post »FiveChels
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:47pmI keep thinking they have to bottom out some time.
Report Post »saviorammo
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:35pmThey use or make up anything to cover up or divert attention from their treasoneous, seditious actions they are doing elsewhere.
Who gives a freak’n crap. Our country is in it‘s fight for it’s life. When we’re done with the Unions, time to hang the media for dissefecton. Read the Alien and Sedition Act. Same punishment as Treason or Sediton.
I forgot, some jerkweed suspended the act by Exec order. Maybe that needs to be reviewed as well as Judicial review. Both actions are Unconstitutional by definition. The circumvent the will of the people and the role of the legislature. Why vote on anything anymore?
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:33pmI wonder what Mary Jo thinks about this issue – oh that’s right, she can’t think or do anything, she is deceased……..”Teddy, Teddy, my unborn child and I are I’m drowning…..Teddy, Teddy, where are you?…..Don’t leave me here Teddy……” (moral compass spinning out of control)
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:33pmThis story is just plain weird, but isn’t everything concerning Democrats and their accusations. Sexual abuse as a child is not something that is easy to talk about and I‘ve heard it’s even harder for a man. Really I think it’s a hard subject for anyone, but this is between Scott, his abuser and God. Scott does have my prayers though.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:52pmIt was a 13-year-old.
Report Post »mharry860
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:31pmFurther proof that Dems are looking up at the gutter, there is nothing beneath them, but hell.
Report Post »Oatsy
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:37pmWell said!
Report Post »SHASTADIANE1
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:29pmThese people will stoop to any level to reach the means they want to be the USA. I can’t stand to even listen to them anymore. I hear all kinds of stuff being spouted, but you only have to watch the video from this mess in WS to know what is REALLY going on. They HATE us, they want us all to DIE..they keep saying it over and over. I don’t hear this crap from the right or the Tea Party. They just want EQUAL rights, Only to be heard and to have an equal say in this country to bring it back to what the “Founding Fathers” had in their minds…and this is certainly not it. I fear for our country, and if Glenn Beck is a conspiracy theorist then so be it, that is what the Bible says also. The only ones who don’t buy this, are ones who will also not believe what the Bible says. I am sorry for them all. I fear for my family, for my grandkids, and I can only say, “Lord come quickly”..I am watching and waiting for you. I fear however that we must all manage to survive the first 3 1/2 years of the Tribulation Period, before the Lord takes the Saved in Christ out of this world. Believe it or not, someone is going to have been right on this stuff. In my case, I believe that we all will have to live through a portion of it. There will be people saved during the time after, but they will be people who have not taken the mark, and they may very well have to die for it..a martyers (sp) death. God be with us all. God Bless the USA, but i fear we will not be, not with these people in control and dictating policy…
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:31pmPlease remember democrats act on emotion not substance!
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:30pmMarginalize and discredit, isn‘t that one of Alinsky’s “rules”
Report Post »smartypoop
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:46pmdebase, deminish and dismiss
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:29pmLibs will stoop to any level to attack a conservative. It doesn’t matter if the conservative was a victim or not, they want to attack and discredit. They have to attack the person because they can’t discredit facts and reason and that is infuriating to them.
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Showtime
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:50pmScott Brown is no conservative.
From a friend of mine:
“He was once a “Scott Brown Republican.” He rode the support of the tea party to beat Martha Coakley in last year’s special election in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts to fill the Senate seat once held by Ted Kennedy. He bragged about ‘driving a truck.’ Since then, he’s proven to be the chowder-head male version of the Maine twins, voting with progressive liberal crap like the START Treaty and the Frank-n-Dodd financial reform bill. He also voted for repealing Don’t ask Don’t tell which isn’t really an issue for me, but is for a lot of people.”
Report Post »Charles Hopewell
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:24pmYea, Scott Brown did not waste any time in his betrayal. But to be fair, I blame Sarah Palin for Scott Brown. Then they both endorsed McSame. Enough said…
Report Post »drbage
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:26pm@SHOWTIME>
Report Post »What many non-New England supporters of Sen. Brown failed to realize at the time was that a Republican in New England is what Democrats were in the Pres. Kennedy era; Dems are now truly Progs with the exception of Bernie Sanders in VT who at least has had the honesty to come out of the fictious names closet and calls himself a Socialist. Sen. Brown is just like former Gov. Romney–how else could Romneycare have been inflicted on the people of MA–and God forbid that Romney shake out as the best Republican choice for 2012!
texanpatriot
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:29pmWhine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, Whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, Whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, Whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine. Are there any real men in the Dems who can stand up for someone who does something heroic? Maybe I have already answered this in the first part of my comment…
Report Post »smartypoop
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:28pmThere is apparently no level that the progressives wont stoop to. If he had a D after his name, he would be a hero.
Report Post »Frankly, Im not a fan of Browns, but really, your going to belittle and deminish him for being a victim? Really?
chazman
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:28pmHey! He has something he want’s to get off his chest … namely an adult from his past. Hell, he told his Mom first before he spilled it to the media! Wow …
Report Post »ARealCharliesAngel
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:27pmHow dare the Democrats behave this way! They are supposed to be the champion of the “under-dogs”. Hey, how about all the liberals that discuss abuse they suffered in their younger years.? Wasn’t precious Oprah one of those? Such hyprocracy from these folks!!!
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:15pmAnd Bill Clinton too in his book called
Report Post »My Wife …. or something
CLTORE
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:28pmDITO io you, I’m so sick of the “righteous’ LEFT.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:27pmThese people associated with the DSCC are just plain and simply sick.
Report Post »frjimt
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:27pmBlame it on the diocese of Boston, the Cardinal and the DSCC will proclaim Brown a saint!
Report Post »FiveChels
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:45pmNow that is a good point… Anti-Catholic always sells.
Report Post »icediva
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:11pmYea, but hasn’t the church suffered enough? Why harm it more? I have to question Brown‘s motives I don’t think he’s genuine! Just my opinion. He‘s actually my Senator and things just don’t add up.
Report Post »LSX
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 8:50amBlame it on the diocese of Boston, the Cardinal and the DSCC will proclaim Brown a saint!
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Nope – it’s “George W Bush’s” fault!
Get your DNC talking point correct! :-)
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Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:23pmMuch ado about nothing!
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:30pmYea, but it says alot about those attacking him.
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WISEPENNY
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:35pmI don’t believe Scott Brown has the right to bring up such a heinous allegation and then clam up about pursuing the pedophile for criminal charges. He’s the one that posed nude for some scag mag, wasn’t he?
He needs to put up or shut up. If he’s psychologically damaged from the incident, he needs to step down or seek restorative help. It sounds a whole lot like a “cheap trick” for some sympathy votes, to me. JMHO
My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:36pm“Don’t care, don’t care”
Report Post »Stan Marsh when being told of an alien plot on South Park when the possession of his “Okama Gamesphere” is in question…
Showtime
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:37pmActually Brown is getting it from all sides. He’s claiming toi be a “Reagan Republican” and is giving the keynote speech at the Reagan Library. He’s pimping his book, “Against All Odds.” He’s no Reagan Republican. He’s a rat fink!
Report Post »GONESURFING
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:42pmDon’t know, don’t care, though was a little surprised about Scott Browns’ abuse revelations. Democrats lying as usual, nothing new here.
Report Post »SHASTADIANE1
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:54pmMy son is almost 42 years old and says he was molested by one of my brothers friends when he was about 8 years old. He still has not identified the perpetrator. If he did, I’d have pursued the matter to the bitter end, but he can’t remember details. He was young, he was a premmie baby, and some things he just doesn’t retain still to today. I was molested by my Dad’s best friend when I was 12 years old. I never told anyone, because I was afraid they would not believe me. Many years later, this same childless man attempted to get into bed with his adopted girl child of about 12 or 13 and his wife caught him, and divorced him. My Mother was told about this happening when I was grown and in my 30′s, my father NEVER knew. He’d have killed the man and ended in the pen long before he died at 61. But who was the man who came to see my Dad when he was dying,, and he had to be brought under oxygen in the back of a pickup truck to see him??? The man who was the one my Dad would have killed had he known. So many people are so quick to judge the reasons, the causes, but there must be a reason Scott Brown has not named the man. I have never told anyone about my molester, except for my husband and my Mother. My Mother said he was inappropriate with her also. i was just lucky that it didn’t go further. He never made it all the way with me. My son, is nondescript with his molestation…but he swears that no one will EVER mess with his sons, or with his nieces and live to be prosecuted for it.
Report Post »Rednugly
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 10:55pm@ MY SACRED HONOR: Exactly, Stan Marsh knew the spin was side tracking people from the important issue – get the Gamesphere back now, and keep it. A metaphor for the print on Glenn’s newest coffee mug: THE TRUTH HAS NO AGENDA. I wish more of our folks respected many of the messages on SP, a little more.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:13pmExactly, much ado about nothing.
Scott Brown is trying to distract and engender sympathy from people because he knows his proverbial posterior is yard clippings and the Tea Party is the lawnmower because he sold us out on Financial Reform.
Simple as that.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:41pmHe possibly didn’t know his name or anything about him and people at the time might have just bl;own it off. When I was 5, I was abused by a slimeball, but he only masturbated in front of my brother and I, I don’t remember him touching us. I pointed him out to my older sisters and told them what he did, but they just laughed at me. I never knew the guy’s name or if it was even really the same guy I pointed out. The point is, if you haven’t walked in his shoes, you don’t really know.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:51pm….Lantern……
That’s not something I would be discussing in a public forum.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:52pmI personally don’t believe him.
I think he is making it up for.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 12:12amSinista Mace
Posted on February 25, 2011 at 11:52pm
I personally don’t believe him.
I think he is making it up for.
Well, yeah, sure. i would MOST DEFINATELY make up a horrific story, the most aweful and personal of human tragedy for political gain, especially if I were a House member in one of the most secure seats (I was a resident of Athens GA when he was elected) in the country! Instead of winning 55%-45%, I’d MUCH rather win by 60%-40% with a “story” like this!
You stupid failbot liberals. Your tactics will come to bear soon enough, when you realize that more potential sheep are lost by stories like this than are gained, then all you have left is your precious “protests” where you try to convince, through media, that your failed cause is supported by “the majority” just like you tried in Wisconsin, and you realize that “We the People” voted your so called “dictators” in to do the bidding of WE THE PEOPLE and you lost. And your failed minority ran like cur dogs to the winds.
Report Post »American political process wins, and if you keep trying to subvert it, you will find your few remaining socialist members fired and America shall have Her day.
And America shall win and be on top again.
Keep trying harder, lib-bots. Your day will come soon as well.
We are just waiting for the first time you idiots decide to assault, illegally, a member of a state House or Senate, i.e. an American Representative and we will be up your “tail” like a prison rapist.
Lantern
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 12:17am@Sinista
Report Post »The slimeball is probably dead by now. It was roughly 45 years ago, there’s nothing I can do about it.
I am not ashamed, my brother and I were innocent victims.
Sinista Mace
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 12:28amMy Sacred Honor
It’s absolutely hilarious to hear the word liberal fly in my direction.
I’m an INDEPENDENT Conservative Libertarian, and a Tea Party member, get it right.
Scott Brown SOLD OUT THE TEA PARTY ON FINANCIAL REFORM.
Simple as that.
I SUPPORT what the Governor of WI is doing, but I don’t support his alleged comments that he thought about sending in agent provocateurs to infiltrate the protests and stir up trouble. Those protestors have a 1st Amendment right like everybody else.
I LAUGHED at the idiot DEMS fleeing WI. Hilarious. Don’t come back, keep running right on out of my country.
@ Lantern
It isn’t about you being ashamed, it’s about revealing that type of information unneccessarily in a PUBLIC FORUM. Not your group therapy.
But hey, that’s your prerogative, I’m just suggesting some decent advice to you.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 12:43amI’m not here to judge the man, but as soon as I read that he was revealing this moment from his past a week or so ago I thought it was a *really* stupid move. It’s not that it makes him look weak that he was molested; what makes him look weak is a psychological need to tell everyone about it. Politicians do not do well with “Oprah moments.”
I really think he needs some sort of counseling because this speaking out seemed compulsive and psychologically driven.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 12:53amSinista Mace
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 12:28am
My Sacred Honor
It’s absolutely hilarious to hear the word liberal fly in my direction
I think you have seen me defend you on here before whenever someone attacks you as being liberal, but lately I have been reading your posts and you seem to be drinking the cool-ade, and i am worried.
Report Post »You used to be a good “anti-Beck, Pro-tea party” type of poster with good opinions that set the story on a different path than what was posted, but you are becoming more “left’ sided. And you are starting to believe what you see on MSDNC it seems. Please correct me if I’m wrong, because I want to believe you are on the correct side, but our posts suggest otherwise, and I have adapted to that in my move away from defense of you to condemning you.
My Sacred Honor
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 1:43amSinista Mace
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 1:33am
My Sacred Honor
I really don’t CARE about your defense of my opinions
Although i appreciate and admire the defence of your own opinions, and could care less of my “condemnations or endorsements’, I think you should take a step back and consider them. You are wrong, and Alex Jones has feed something into your brain that is dangerous, and the fact that your opinion of Reagan as a “homosexual” speaks volumns. What if he was? What then? What now? How does that matter, even if it were true? What does that point matter in your opinions and postings here? i hold that it was a lie perpetuated by a few serving under him, which that opinion matters even lessor, but i am talking about your “facts”. Tell me please, hoe does that matter?
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 1:50amReagan was a liar.
Deceptive.
He was blackmailed for it.
He tripled the debt.
Alex Jones hasn’t fed anything into my brain but truth.
I’ve been studying this type of stuff long before I found out about Alex Jones.
Report Post »spikebu
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 5:27am@Lantern, Don’t listen to Mace. If you haven’t figured it out, he’s what we are all accused of being, a “right-wing whacko”. Unfortunately, I think a lot of us have similar stories to yours. Thankfully, I told my father and he took care of it. He believed me. Thanks, Dad! Had I told my sister or brother, they probably would have laughed. They were just kids, too.
Report Post »ExpertShot
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 7:58amI disagree, first of all, back in those days there wasn’t the awareness in the general public like there is today (I’m a mandated reporter – meaning I’m required by law to report any suspected child abuse or neglect – they didn’t have those laws back then & sadly, it was seen as something to be ashamed of moreso than today). Secondly, some people don’t have full awareness that it happened or the details until they are much older. My husband has PTSD from the war & has recently started to address things he experienced during the invasion in 2003. This has brought up a LOT of childhood trauma that he’d repressed as a result of the abuse suffered while growing up in fostercare. While Scott Brown may have not been as conservative as Republicans would have liked (I, for one, feel this way about him), he’s still courageous for talking about this abuse, ESPECIALLY in the public arena. Maybe this is what he needs to heal..he doesn’t need to hear from the peanut gallery. Just a thought.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 8:12am@Shastadiane1 and others here
I have read the accounts of many here who have known someone mollested or have been molested by others in some form or another; my uncle did the same, a fanatical muslum to the core, and in my case, the last time it happened I feared he was going to finish the job and my life when he cornered me in the kitchen, I did fight back, and wish to this day I had gelded him instead of just leaving a nice deep puncture in his gut.
My condolences and prayers of peace are offered up to each and every one of you, and my fullest of understanding as well.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 9:07amAnother distraction away from the nation’s dire problems…Many of us were abused as children. You don’t go around advertising it
Report Post »rappini
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 9:15amAll I can say about Scott Brown is one word TARP.
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on February 26, 2011 at 10:37amI have a problem that he didn’t tell his wife first before he wrote the book and she reads it,something’s not right here
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 28, 2011 at 9:42amspikebu
Just because you got sexually molested and decided to air that in a public forum doesn’t make me a right wing whacko.
It makes you a sadomasochist for opening old wounds and displaying them for the world to see, and the world DOESN’T WANT to see it.
Let the wound heal and don’t go picking at it to open it back up and walk around showing folks like “Look at this! isn’t it nasty?”
We don‘t want to see it and didn’t inquire of it.
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