[Vision2020] shamelessness

[Douglas Wilson]

Visionaries,

Only one kind of thing could have induced me to come back into this 
discussion group.

Michael, in order to defend your reprehensible behavior in this, you 
have /already /discussed a conversation your wife had with someone in 
the victim's family on your blog. Although you did not identify them by 
name, you doing this distressed that family greatly. Way to go. The 
mother of some of the victims has called you up and begged you to take 
your postings down, and you refused. Way to go again. I am not using 
these people as a shield -- you are using them as a spear. You were told 
by that mother that you were not "hurting Doug Wilson, you are hurting 
us." What is wrong with you? How could you refuse a request like that? I 
can easily envision a circumstance (like this one) where you would face 
a grim choice indeed -- that of accepting the humiliation of public 
refutation, or continuing to keep the issue confused by dragging them 
into it (and then blaming me for involving the victims, as you have 
already sought to do). Think about this; we have now both made claims 
about the victims' families. I have done so because your pathetic 
behavior made it necessary. So how are we going to check who is telling 
the truth about them without making them go on the record? You are the 
one who has created this awful situation, and you need to take 
responsibility for it. You have published privileged information in the 
past, and I have no reason to believe that if your astounding emotional 
insecurities are in any way threatened that you will be trustworthy with 
this kind of information in the future. On this issue, the only 
honorable thing for you to do is to apologize like a man, take down your 
postings, and shut up.

Tom, when Steven was caught he was reported to the legal authorities 
within a matter of hours. In the aftermath of that initial discovery, in 
counseling sessions with me (allowed by the state), he confessed to me 
his previous activities back before he had been caught. I told him that 
he needed to make a full confession of all that to the court, which he 
agreed to do. So we found out about what his crimes in 2005. We did not 
know in 2003 what he was doing in 2003. We found out in 2005 what he was 
doing in 2003. As soon as we knew, within hours, the legal authorities 
knew. Your malice toward me (and that of J. Ford), is causing to you to 
make wild, unsubstantiated and libelous claims about how children were 
endangered by our behavior. It was just the reverse. Ant the transparent 
attempt to roll this issue in with the boarding house/zoing complaint 
shows what the real interest in this is.

I repeat my request. The families involved do not want this. They do not 
want their story in the papers (which it now is, thanks to Michael). 
They want everybody to drop it. What about it?

Douglas Wilson