The psycho rapist freakshow conundrum

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NIKI2

Thursday, September 3, 2009 1:03 AM

The Dugard story asks: How do you make sense of the ugliest abuses of man?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

As a passionately jaded observer of news media and the insane human spectacle it is so painfully wont to wallow in, I find there are always a number of choices when it comes to analyzing something like the horrific Jayee Lee Dugard/Phillip Garrido saga, that sickening kidnapping/rape/confinement tale spanning 18 years, multiple offspring and countless layers of psychological torment often too disgusting and sad to ponder for long without a book of poetry, a puppy and a large glass of Scotch.

Nevertheless, it remains one of the more fascinating and revealing of questions: How do you parse it? What the hell do you do with such bizarre and soul-curdling information? Through what sort of lens do you observe, take in, try to make even a passing hint of sense of such stories? Do you even try?

Maybe you take the easy route. Maybe you, like millions of others, go for the knee-jerk, right-wing reaction and simply say, "Great, another psycho rapist madman. Let's just kill Phillip Garrido right now and be done with it. Or maybe throw him in prison and let him suffer for a while first and then inject him, hang him and zap him with 2,000 volts all at once because he's obviously an unspeakable monster who doesn't deserve another breath on this planet."

Easy, right? It's a hugely typical, mindless, even comfortable sort of all-American pseudo-cowboy response, allowing all sorts of bogus calls for "justice" and retribution while doing absolutely nothing to offer perspective and help you walk down the street with just a little less taste of fear and misanthropy in your mouth. But hey, it's what we do.

Or perhaps you realize the ignorance and small-mindedness of such a perspective, and hence you go a layer or two deeper, attempt to examine such a bizarre spectacle from various socio-psychological angles, try to see how it might fit into the human circus, the Jungian shadow side, the convoluted world in which we live, as you ponder the seemingly endless levels of cruelty the human animal is capable of.

This is where it gets ugly. This is where you start to imagine the worst, the nastiest, the darkest deeds of man, as you begin to tie the Jaycee Lee Dugard story into all the other horrors you've read about over the years, every sort of rape and incest and brutality -- like that recent saga from Austria, the even more horrific tale of Josef Fritzl who raped his own daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children by her and kept most of them locked deep in a homemade suburban dungeon.

But then you get a bit trapped. Because then it becomes all sorts of terribly morbid, horror-movie fun to imagine, in your most cynical fears, that these sociopaths are surely not the only ones, that there are probably thousands more like them who just haven't been caught, living right this minute in all sorts of neighborhoods, maybe even down the street from where you live, maybe right next door, and, gosh, maybe it's more wicked and scary out there than you ever thought possible, and maybe sustained fearful disgust/mistrust really is the best way to endure this horrible little planet. You think?

The unrelenting media coverage, of course, plays right into this perspective, amplifies the fear to such a degree that you think this sort of thing simply must be happening all the time, even if it's completely untrue. Like Internet predators, like porn exploitation, like a hundred other largely bogus cultural terrors that have been exaggerated to the point of undue paranoia, and so we are trained to think the worst. It doesn't really matter if they're often completely fallacious.

Or perhaps you wonder, in your inverse cynicism, why it's always the God zealots, or the right-wing militants, or the gun-loving fanatical loners who seem to be the ones who enact the worst offenses. Isn't there an obvious pattern here?

Why do you never read about, say, that pacifist Buddhist yoga teacher who suddenly snapped and opened fire o

BYTEMITE

Thursday, September 3, 2009 2:11 AM

Or maybe some people are psychopaths, have delusions of grandeur, and enjoy forcing themselves on other people as a power statement.

My thinking is that people like this are FAR from the normal individual. Even if everyone entertains thoughts about raping their children, or abducting children to rape, they clearly don't do it. And they don't do it, not because of a fear of punishment, but because in most people the thought is as repulsive to the thinker as it is to other people.

Speaking of which, Frem, if you ever see this, I read the story you posted.

FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, September 3, 2009 3:53 AM

Which one, Byte ?

As to the discussion at hand...

Simple - I find out how they GOT that way, what made them into what they are, the factors and influences that created them.

And then "go upstream" (nods to Rue) and make damn sure they'll make no more.

Pretty damn good at it too.

-F

BYTEMITE

Thursday, September 3, 2009 4:04 AM

The twisted magical girl one.

I feel silly saying that...

I kinda saw the events of the ninth chapter coming, so that didn't really shock me, but I thought the rest of it was a neat concept.

FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, September 3, 2009 4:54 AM

Oh yes, I realized that only after I had walked out the door - good story, reasonates pretty hard for me, and I am quite fond of General Cobalt, especially when he gets on a verbal roll, cause I SO know what it's like to cat-herd morons.

I got a longish background post for you and Niki in progress, since y'all weren't here for earlier explainations, and some of it's stuff I ain't referred to before, relative to the topic at hand...

But I am currently on a wireless laptop in the middle of site three's park typin this stuff in between walking security rounds - so it's gonna be a while.

-F

BYTEMITE

Thursday, September 3, 2009 5:02 AM

I was surprised by how sympathetic I felt for General Cobalt... He didn't care about letting the demons he made have fun, he wanted them to get to work making things in THEIR world not such a shithole. I can respect that.

Didn't see Argon coming, so that was fun, though it became kind of obvious when he opened the way up.

FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, September 3, 2009 10:50 AM

Ok, where to even start...
(Oh lordy some folk will be gnashing their teeth about it, but I really don't care no more.)

Yah, now, the whole diagnose and medicate bullshit, that's been goin on a lot longer in schools than most folk realize, it just wasn't at the SCALE it is now, cause they had other methods of dealing with square peg problems, too.

One of which was those second-chance schools, which seem to have fallen by the wayside somewhere in there, in favor of worse, but lemme expound on that a little.
See, if you were "potentially useful", you'd get that "second chance" yeah, hah, if we knew then - but we didn't.

It always struck me wrong that they didn't seem to be makin no realistic effort to stop the violence, and in fact it ALMOST seemed they were encouraging it, we did not know at the time that particular second chance system was in part funded by the Army, and overseen by a friggin spook dual-hatter from one of the darker branches thereof.
(Talkin bout YOU, William Archibald Haroth)
Makes it all the more amusingly ironic that we actually tried to assassinate his ass once, and came close enough to really piss him off.

If we weren't so woefully ignorant (deliberately kept so) the name itself would have tipped us off to it's purpose, Phoenix, ha! - rising from the ashes my ass, go find out what Phoenix *DID*, and you'll figure out pretty quick what they wanted somewhat controllable violent psychopaths FOR.
Nothin to it now, the program is for the time being dead as a doornail, apparently they went off the leash in falluah and the brass responded by shelling their area of operations into dust and splinters, sent in the third to finish the job, and no one shed a bitter tear, least of all me - just a couple more dead terrorists ain't no one gonna miss.
Does explain why the cabal needed new hatchetmen (blackwater) too, does it not ?

And yeah, I bit the hook - leastways they thought I did.
No family, no friends, just an endless wellspring of nihilistic hate who wanted nothing more than revenge on humanity itself, a perfect candidate.
And enough of that was true, but in the end, I am my mothers child.
Her tykebomb, her revenge on an unjust society, and what better source of the skills to do it but the very structures that would someday be the victims - what better way to understand them than to BE one of them ?

You know how a cuckoo bird operates, right ?
Lays it's egg in another birds nest, which hatches first, and then pushes the other eggs over the side to eliminate the competition, then milks the host for all it's worth before bailing out.
That very analogy in fact completely outs me, but anyone who'd care enough to do something is pushin up daisies now, as is every other original member of VI so what do I care anymore.

The break came when they wanted some folk to help out in Nicaragua, and we smelled enough of a rat to spring early, plus they bailed out on payin up for college, which pissed us off - I didn't push em out, I co-opted em, remember I went to school with some of these creeps.

And so "VI" was born, Column Six, aka Vengeance Incarnate.
And you bet we had a cause, cause the former's just a side order.

You have to first understand, that back then the hellcamps were "just a myth" and "did not exist" - as much a joke as Catholic altar boys walking funny, everyone knew and nobody much cared.

But WE knew - the official euphemism was "transferred".
What happened to Billy ?
Oh he got transferred.
And Billy's parents would tell you shit, that for a fact.

You have any idea what it's like in an already hostile environment, when folk who don't toe the line start gettin "disappeared" ?
And some of them come back, but so mentally fucked up there's almost nothing left of em but a cheery gung-ho facade over a ticking bomb ?

Kids are way, WAY smarter than most folks ever realize, completely capable of giving you an appropriately glazed, vapid look while droning out the socially acceptable challenge responses like "just say no", "tell a teacher" (*snort*), and wha

BYTEMITE

Thursday, September 3, 2009 2:29 PM

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I mention it cause she found out what happened to Madeline McCann, who is now also listed as a /null - although her parents are indeed innocent.

There's a tie-in to that case in the Baltic area? Ohhh, does it have anything to do with the black site you mentioned in Eastern Europe? Who called in the transport on her, do you know, and what was the motive, they have something against the parents?

Ha, you probably can't talk about it, otherwise you'd've said more. Guess I should start looking.

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We'd find a sympathetic relative, get their go-ahead, and we would TAKE people back, our first run on that was hilariously B-movie overkill, what with me running down the fence with the car and waving around a tire iron and a coke bottle full of gasoline with a road flare duct taped to it, howling dire threats as the others politely escorted the kid back to the car.
Probably woulda worked just as well to have simply walked in and demanded, given that the hellcamps hadn't even thought of resistance of that nature yet, but it worked out better in the end that they *were* afraid of us - not the kingpins, but the directors and the flunkies, many of whom were former victims who derived a certain amount of satisfaction from being on the other end, and were considered by us to be the lowest form of collaborators.

Kind of telling, that some of the victims become the tormentors. Definitely do see reflections of this in Abu Ghraib and other sections of the military.

NIKI2

Thursday, September 3, 2009 3:33 PM

Well, I'm thoroughly confused. Is this your story? If so, how can you speak of it so openly--surely the people you talked about could put two and two together and figure out who you are if they wanted to. And of course there's no way for me or anyone else to verify it, so why should we believe you?

I mean no offense at ALL, it's just pretty heavy stuff and there's no way I can know anything. It's fascinating, and I wouldn't be surprise if there certainly ARE such places and things...mankind is certainly quite capable of such horrors, there are those in every society willing to be part of them, kids do vanish every day and if they do so with their family's complicity, would easily be written off as runaways, etc.

But I should think more would have come to light along the way and gotten press--to imagine all these things exist and are kept quiet by everyone who comes across them is kinda tough. It's also kind of confusing the way you tell it, there are things I don't understand and--I'm just guessing here--are you saying someone put you in one of these places in the very beginning? I'm just very confused.

As I always do, I take you at face value until/unless you do something to make me think otherwise, but I think you can understand my questions, as this is all brand new to me and pretty dramatic.

Helluva story...helluva world...sigh...

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FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, September 3, 2009 3:59 PM

I'd ask if you were sure you wanted to go down the rabbithole - but you, miss, are so much like me that it's not even a question, is it now ?

http://www.droitfondamental.eu/06-Ylena_lead_to_maddie-GB.htm

Jackie is a damned effective investigator, and her social and political status gives her an edge on top of that.

There's certain things which happen when a person dies, which gives additional evidence beyond blood splatter, which isn't directly mentioned but was also present.

Someone screwed up the snatch, in a lethal kind of way, and that's all the details of it beyond WHO (and we have a very good idea) that needs be known.

Jackie has her own public files, most of which are available via that site, but she plays aboveboard, as someone of her status has to.

The various rings are known to us, despite many of the ringleaders being politically connected so as to be untouchable - one reason the belgian authorities let Nihoul off so easy was that he arranged children for "use" at parties of high level EU officials and would start naming names if the boom came down too hard.

The american pipeline for that material, despite even the possibility being fervently denied, was the candyman yahoo egroup run by wayne camolli of ft lauderdale FL - and yahoo went out of their way to actively protect them initially, whereupon some unnamed individual managed to rile up half the damn userbase and the backlash forced yahoo to back down and quit stonewalling - everyone knew what was going on, but user count and income meant a lot more than morality to them, you see.

And let's not even get into George Burdinsky and AOL's sordid little history, or maybe, yes, let's!

Testimony of Crimmins
http://www.cdt.org/speech/cda/950724crimmins.html

The Florida Lawsuit
http://www.aolsucks.org/flasuit.htm

By allowing safe harbor for those assholes to congregate, trade victims, and validate themselves while sharing tactics and contacts, AOL bears some responsibility for the explosion of online predators into the mainstream from 1991-1997, at which point the rampage of Marcus Lawson and the boys at US Customs kicked them back into their dark little holes.
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2000/04/35684
I love how Adult Check tries to pretend they didn't have their hand in that pie, EVERY billing service did, and it scared the piss out of em.
Tom Reedy got damn near 1400 YEARS, consecutive.

And Parry Aftab sucking up, who then tried to sell me out when the bastards offered $30k for my IRL location and offered to split the bounty with the owner website hosting some of my editorials, who said hell yes only to find out all the contact info I gave her was fake, as if I wasn't ready for that shit after what they did to Luther and The-Underground, when 20/20 sold them down the river in exchange for more advertising $$$ from AOL ?

It was pointing out these billing gateways as the weak point that caused the howling for my head, since it's a clean, clear, undeniable evidence of the crime in question unless the card is reported stolen prior to the transaction.

Of course, as of Operation Avalanche, the wealthy and politically connected are allowed to plead identity theft as a dodge since actually prosecuting them would lead to some damned embarrassing questions, wouldn't it now ?

And Jenny came in with the smackdown - you wanna know WHY I supported that lady as Governor of Michigan ?

Not only did she put her boot into AOL's ass over violation of COPA, which caused the supremes to rule that the act meant the exact opposite of what it said and file an injuction against MI prosecuting them for it, an act which all reference to seems to have evaporated, including Rehnquists colorfully worded dissent...

But she took that billing company weakness and exploited it HARD.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020924064334/http://www.ag.state.mi.us/pr
ess_release/pr10350.htm
She cut off the MONEY, and strangled em to death, and for that *alone* the lady has my support and deepest respect.

And while I will back t

FREMDFIRMA

Thursday, September 3, 2009 4:22 PM

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Well, I'm thoroughly confused. Is this your story? If so, how can you speak of it so openly--surely the people you talked about could put two and two together and figure out who you are if they wanted to.

Well, by now, Niki - most of the ones who'd want to do much about it are either dead or rotting in prison, and having passed the torch down to the next generation my presence isn't gonna make or break the efforts I set in motion, and it's too damn late for hanging me out to dry to do em any good at all.

Besides, even now, no one much cares - but we're workin on that, by allowing the growth of people who will.

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And of course there's no way for me or anyone else to verify it, so why should we believe you?

Actually you can - I've been cagey with links cause I don't wanna expose anyone unwilling to some of this awful stuff, but I am naming names here, which an hours worth of Google will verify quite handily.

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I mean no offense at ALL, it's just pretty heavy stuff and there's no way I can know anything. It's fascinating, and I wouldn't be surprise if there certainly ARE such places and things...mankind is certainly quite capable of such horrors, there are those in every society willing to be part of them, kids do vanish every day and if they do so with their family's complicity, would easily be written off as runaways, etc.

But it's so very hard to wrap your mind around the concept, the scale of it, oh I know, it's one reason I *am* so cagey with the details, usually.

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But I should think more would have come to light along the way and gotten press--to imagine all these things exist and are kept quiet by everyone who comes across them is kinda tough.

It WAS kept quiet - not anymore, and some penniesworth of that dollar is mine, something I am right proud of, and also these guys.
http://www.caica.org/
http://www.nospank.net/boot.htm
http://www.isaccorp.org/
http://www.teenliberty.org/
http://www.overthegw.com/
http://wiki.fornits.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

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It's also kind of confusing the way you tell it, there are things I don't understand and--I'm just guessing here--are you saying someone put you in one of these places in the very beginning?

There used to be sort of an in-between stage of these places, "second chance" schools which folks booted out of normal mainstream schools got sent to instead of Juvie or the Hellcamps - but are now defunct, and most of them we found had their own agendas.

The one they sent me to was more or less set up to funnel very aggressive and violent types into the army, which viewed from a certain light was neither that wicked nor that horrible an idea, but their execution of it was pretty awful, and some of the things they set those recruits to doing once enlisted were inexcusable, since they were more or less aggressive psychopaths with little in the way of ethics or morals.

I turned on them and used THEM in a similar fashion that they used me, and then got out cause they broke my enlistment contract by not ponying up for college.

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As I always do, I take you at face value until/unless you do something to make me think otherwise, but I think you can understand my questions, as this is all brand new to me and pretty dramatic.

No doubt - but the thing is, the discussion of this stuff - you have to go to the roots, and we as a society spend so much time and effort dancing AROUND what we're gonna need to face if we ever mean to take the problem seriously.

The bullseye of the matter is that until we treat children as human beings, as people, these horrors are going to continue to exist in one form or another, just as we once sent wives and mothers unhappy with their treatment (and regular beatings) to insane asylums for displaying natural human reactions to that abuse.

Most of the excuses for the way we treat kids, are in fact the same ones for the way society used to treat slaves and women - and are every bit as false in this respect as they were in the others.

Win THAT one, yo

NIKI2

Thursday, September 3, 2009 4:51 PM

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we as a society spend so much time and effort dancing AROUND what we're gonna need to face if we ever mean to take the problem seriously.

I certainly agree with that (!), and am glad to see there are those who force us to face it.

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The bullseye of the matter is that until we treat children as human beings, as people, these horrors are going to continue to exist in one form or another, just as we once sent wives and mothers unhappy with their treatment (and regular beatings) to insane asylums for displaying natural human reactions to that abuse.

and that as well. I might add, women who acted out on their period, and the mentally ill. Your point is well taken.

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