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>Luke does not have to prove his involvement to me. I >have heard enough from him through personal contact >which confirms it. It is a shame that people here who >know that it is the JA practice to rubbish ex members >are joining the JA in trying to undermine Luke just >because his experience of the JA was so much more >awful than ours. > >I know I am repeating myself, but it is healthy that >most of us have no experience of abusive behaviour and >laudable that we find it hard to believe, even of JA >members of whom we are critical ourselves, that anyone >we knew there could have been involved in anything so >nasty. > >I personally have a natural tendency to disbelieve >nasty accusations because, as a teacher, I have >frequently seen allegations ruin teachers who the >evidence has later shown were innocent all >along....and I hate the casual way that people >denegrate probably innocent JAs on here out of >personal malice, which is why I sympathise with Luke >not wanting to name his abuser. An accusation is a >serious business. > >But I also know the harm done when someone, especially >a child, is not believed, even by her own mother, who >then protects her abusers. It is altogether a nasty, >invidious business and nobody has a right to call a >stranger a liar when they have risked approbrium by >speakign out about a horrible abuse. > >At this point I know that Barbara will say, in effect, >"but that isn't how you were with me when I said I had >been abused in the JA", to which I would respond that >she was deliberately vague about the "abuse" she >suffered; allowing people to infer that the "sexual >abuse" she had suffered could have happened in the JA, >when actually, what she later claimed was that the >abuse was "spiritual". > >Barbara's accusations against the JA all have to do >with not having been sufficiently well treated in the >JA as a victim of abuse suffered pre-JA. She believes >that the JA actually hate victims of child abuse, >which I find a rather perverse bit of reasoning.....a >cliam which is made less credible by her claims that I >must hate them too, which she bases on the fact that I >will not agree with her analysis of the "abuse" she >suffered in the JA.
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