I have to say after that positive story yesterday, I am back with the same old same old!
Absolutely sickened to hear that yet another well known “victim” of catholic clergy has been appointed to the papal commission into clergy abuse. I don’t think there is a sick bag big enough.
Now I could rant and rave about my own personal feelings about this wretched commission, this avoidance tactic, this disgraceful PR stunt by francis, and the cynical exploitation of deluded people. Lets face it, they are simply behaving true to form and I should not be in the least surprised! So it is pointless to comment further on that!
Appointing “victims” seems to be their latest game, hand picked ones of course, those who are still rather pathetically clinging to the indoctrination of their childhood, they sure as hell wouldn’t look at an atheist survivor! Despite the fact that there are far more survivors who wouldn’t have anything the hell to do with the criminal organisation that fostered the men that abused them.
When asked “why do you think the pontiff singled you out” this man replied “Well I get on with him and I think he saw something in me”!
Yes he certainly did! It is called Sycophancy! They can spot a sycophant at 500 miles! They are never going to listen to any of us who see their true colours or hate their narcissism!
But what is disturbing more than anything is that he really believes he has influence!
Thousands of really brave people have been fighting these monsters for years to no avail- but suddenly this one man has the answer! What utter arrogant Bullshit!
And his language is littered with his usual plea for money! He is a prolific scrounger! A consummate sycophant, and when not licking a backside, he is bleating about lack of funding.
Now I don’t give a damn what he does in his own life, he can play at being the pope’s new best friend as much as he wants, I couldn’t care less. I do of course, pity the man because he is a victim of these creeps, and his behaviour must surely be a result of his damage. (I prefer to have that belief otherwise it would mean that he is self serving rather than just deluded.)
What he MUST do however, is stop saying that he represents survivors – he does NOT!
So while we are on this subject of “funding” he also said in his interview “One of the things I will be telling the pope” is that ” Survivor organisations will need some serious funding”!!
Well here is the thing:
They do NOT need serious funding, most of them actually need to be disbanded!
What possible use can it be to any survivor for a vast amount of money to be given to an “organisation” instead of directly to him, the victim of the crime!
Why would it benefit a survivor to see money that cash strapped tax payers have donated, being used to pay wages and expensive premises, trips abroad to “conferences” where they will meet other “fund raisers” who will compare notes?
And why would anyone stand rattling a tin in competition with others who have no alternative and desperately needed funding?
Why would anyone fund a charity for “victims”when the head of an organisation says his mission is to “help the church”!
They actually should give it all back!
There is vast a difference between being a “charity” and being “charitable”
Should anyone be paid for compassion? for trying to give a leg up to fellow survivors? Surely this should be a labour of LOVE?
How can anyone warrant appointing themselves as a paid “middle man” – Most survivors do not need one! They are STRONG people who have survived – despite the odds.
After being disempowered for so long and manipulated by others, the last thing we need to do is to give our regained power away to a different flavour of “puppet master”
What we do need is to have our OWN personal voice heard! We are not clones! And we are quite capable of speaking for ourselves.
What we also need are GOOD lawyers who will fight like Rottweilers, and a legal system given some teeth that will give every individual real justice!
Survivors may well need professional therapeutic support as they emerge from their ordeals, but that should be THEIR choice, and should only be the very best. (See our guidelines on “finding a therapist! http://survivorsvoice-europe.org/?page_id=649 )
They may feel that they like to be part of a group, sharing their experience strength and hope, but that does NOT entail “funding”
What these self appointed “middle men” do is give the church a get out of jail card!
When they start donating to these “organisations”- (which they will!) complete with the subtle strings they will attach, they will cut out the survivor and tell him he must settle for whatever these “organisations” feel he should have, and then they will, like the little boy with the plum -smugly sit back and say “What a good boy am I!
The general public, often unaware of the complexity of the issues, may see this as a step forward!
Then the church, that criminal organisation that has abused people for centuries, once again is calling the tune, and people are STILL dancing to it! (see our article Stop dancing with the devil! http://survivorsvoice-europe.org/?p=5961 )
We Don’t need another deluded middle man.
We certainly don’t need another bloody hero!
