THE STRUGGLE TO CHANGE PERCEPTION
Some of those who have suffered at the hands of Child Protective Services have warnedme to be very brief. They say that Senators and Representatives have little time to readmore than a page or so. I understand. I also believe I understand some things about people.When Mr. James Rodger Brown testified before the US house Ways and Meanscommittee about Organized Crime in the US government, I can just see in my mind’s eyehow some would take it seriously and some would smirk. As I see it, at least, Mr. Brownwould interpret any systematic, organized illegal acts done in concert with others directlyor indirectly as Organized crime. While I am sure this may be off a bit, I am positiveunder his definition, the Inquisition, Slavery and the Salem witch hunts would beincluded. (1)I think most of us, when we think of organized crime, think of the Mafia. We envision participants who know that they are involved in unlawful pursuits and who intentionallywant to be part of such unlawful practices.Regardless of how evil the inquisition, the witch hunts and slavery were, people didn’tsee them selves as participating willingly in evil or unlawfulness.This last fact makes the Family justice system all the more dangerous. Like during theinquisition, most people involved just knew they were part of a righteous cause, exceptthe people who suffered. No commissions, if there were any, appointed to see if theslaves were being well taken care of came back with a recommendation that the solutionwas to end slavery as a practice. Whole industries were dependant on it. What this didwas to make a large share of people hold their peace lest they lose a livelihood. Now ask yourself this question. Would anyone without very strong convictions pitthemselves against an industry whose beneficiaries brought so much money to stores, blacksmiths and other seemingly unrelated endeavors? Would your representative or senator do much more than hear your story? That’s what has happened in every State andUS Congressional hearings, to many. There have been few meaningful changes.Wither you were deemed a witch, heretic or slave, in times past, public hysteria, falsescience and other misinformation was always involved. People thought they knewsomething that they didn’t and there were no powerful or easy avenue to those afflicted toexpress themselves in a way to cause the masses to quickly reevaluate their thinking.When looking in the past, we cannot imagine how anyone could have done the thingsthey did. They were evils and we suppose ourselves to be better than they.A curious incidence, in the Bible is where the religious leaders of Jesus’ time made astatement that if they had lived in the time of the old prophets; they would not have
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