Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!sjc70.webusenet.com!c03.atl99!news.webusenet.com!telocity-west!DIRECTV!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Gnomedplume@aol.com (Gnome d Plume) Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: Curio Arrested for Stalking Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 18:17:22 GMT Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <3e1c6799.1000750@trialnews.peoplepc.com> References: <3e13bfb7.682786@trialnews.peoplepc.com> <5X3R9.75$g61.67637@news.uswest.net> <3e14ef1f.11525026@trialnews.peoplepc.com> <3e163865.4784587@trialnews.peoplepc.com> <73_R9.30$Mi6.52509@news.uswest.net> <3e187196.2486331@trialnews.peoplepc.com> <3E1BA577.657C7EC4@attbi.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 67 Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:331565 On Wed, 08 Jan 2003 04:13:53 GMT, Joseph wrote: >Re O'Stat wrote: > >> Gnome is exactly correct on this. >> >> The SCA conspiracy survived because of a few basic things. Some of them >> include: > >Actually, I'm with Re on this one. Gnome may be guilty of a bit of >"extremism in the defense of liberty", but he's not so very wrong about >the facts. The whole period was a fucking disaster and left a trail of >human wreckage that many in the media and psychology fields either >condoned or looked the other way. A siginificant number of them managed >to make a pretty good living of it until the fad died out and the >backlash began. Some, like Geraldo Rivera and several book publishers, >made quite a bit of money off it. It may have died out even sooner if it >weren't for the concurrent rise of the Internet in the early 1990s and >provocateurs like Curio. > >But one factual error in Re's post should be pointed out: > >> But not one has ever apologized for their gullibility or for the >> destruction they've caused. When are you going to admit you were a >> sucker and you were wrong, Geraldo? You pushed all that Michelle >> Remembers crap. Do you think we've forgotten? > > >Geraldo Rivera Recants and Apologizes, 1995-DEC-12 >http://www.religioustolerance.org/geraldo.htm > >Geraldo hosted a program on CNBC with the theme "Wrongly Accused & >Convicted of Child Molestation." The program was broadcast on the night >of the acquittal of Pastor Roby Roberson and Connie Roberson in the >Wenatchee WA sex abuse scandal. Guests included Charlotte, "Tookie", and >Violet Amirault of the Fells Acres Day School case, Georgetown Law >School Professor Paul Rothstein and Loyala Law Professor Stan Goldman. >During a discussion involving the legal panel, he stopped and said: > >"I want to announce publicly that as a firm believer of the 'Believe The >Children' movement of the 1980's, that started with the McMartin trials >in CA, but NOW I am convinced that I was terribly wrong... and many >innocent people were convicted and went to prison as a result....AND I >am now equally positive [that the] 'Repressed Memory Therapy Movement' >is also a bunch of crap..." > > >Geraldo apparently had a change of heart at some time during the latter >half of 1995. He is to be commended for stating his new belief in >public. Unfortunately, a one minute apology and recantation is hardly >sufficient to reverse the damage done by many hours of sensational >programming, grounded on misinformation. > >- Fr. A.o.C. > **** Thanks much for posting this. Geraldo is not the only one to apologize. Dr. Pazder, the co-author of *Michelle Remembers*----which, along with *Rosemary's Baby* (book and film), were the original psychic enseminations behind SRA --- eventually admitted that he could have polluted Michelle Smith's recovered "memories" with his own horrific personal experiences in West Africa. There probably have been other admissions and apologies, but they will never make up for the wide spread damage to personal lives, families, and reputations; and the loss of respect for our institutions that this modern mass-mania caused.**** Gnome d Plume