[Vision2020] An Open Letter to Dave Johnson, the Daily News, and Lewiston Tribune

[Bill London]

The following is from Joan Opyr, posted to V2020 with her approval:


> >> Dear Dave,
> >>
> >> I've known about the Sitler story now for nearly two months.  I'm an 
> >> opinion columnist, so I didn't feel that it was something I could or 
> >> should break in New West Magazine.  I'd be interested to know, 
> >> however, why the Daily News and the Lewiston Tribune either didn't 
> >> know about it or chose not to report about it until now.  Also, why 
> >> did yesterday's story focus on Internet rumors and Vision 2020 
> >> nonsense?  What Sitler did is terrible, and it has grave consequences 
> >> for the community.  He was a boarder in one of NSA's many illegal 
> >> boarding houses, almost all of which are run by families with small 
> >> children who rely on the NSA money to pay their enormous mortgages.  
> >> That's interesting.  Here's something else: I have complete copies of 
> >> both the Sitler and Jamin Wight court files, and I attended Wight's 
> >> sentencing hearing.  Wight is the Greyfriars Seminary student who, at 
> >> age 24, had a year and 1/2 long sexual relationship with a 14-year 
> >> old girl in his illegal boarding house.  He got a 4-year sentence 
> >> from the judge and is currently serving 4-6 months in Cottonwood.
> >>
> >> Two child sex scandals associated with Doug Wilson and Christ Church? 
> >>  I would not allege a cover-up; that's not what reasonable people are 
> >> thinking.  I would note, however, that Doug warned the elders of CC 
> >> about Sitler but he did not warn the greater Moscow community.  While 
> >> the authorities dragged their feet, Steven Sitler was free as a bird, 
> >> driving himself back and forth to counseling sessions with Pastor 
> >> Wilson.  What counseling qualifications does Wilson have?  Is this 
> >> the only counseling Sitler received before he was sentenced?  
> >> Wilson's letter in Sitler's court file is a classic in 
> >> Cover-Your-Ass.  The other letters in the file (bar one, from the 
> >> parents of a two-year old Sitler molested) are unbelievable.  They 
> >> all declare that Sitler is a "good Christian" and properly repentant. 
> >>  This isn't a criminal matter for most of the letter writers; it's a 
> >> matter of sin and redemption.  One woman goes so far as to blame 
> >> Sitler's actions on his exposure to the evil, secular world of 
> >> Internet pornography.  Passing the buck?  You bet.
> >>
> >> There's a bigger story here than Doug Wilson and Roy Atwood spinning 
> >> like a pair of tops.  There's a sad and sorry tale of pastoral 
> >> negligence and, I think, newspaper negligence.  Why do we not read 
> >> about these sorts of things in the Daily News before they reach the 
> >> rumor mills on Vision 2020?  I can think of several important stories 
> >> the Daily News has failed to cover, from Moscow's massage therapist 
> >> molester to the prominent attorney who was a car stereo kleptomaniac. 
> >>  Will the Daily News or the Tribune be writing anything about Jamin 
> >> Wight, who pled guilty to one count (pled down from three) of felony
> >> injury to a child?  Surely Wight's story is just as interesting as 
> >> that of Chris Morris, Wight's classmate at Greyfriars.
> >>
> >> By the way, you might have asked Morris why it took him four years to 
> >> graduate from a three-year seminary program.  You might also speak 
> >> with the management at Winger's.  It's my understanding that future 
> >> Pastor Morris was fired from that restaurant with cause -- a cause 
> >> that suggests Morris might model his religious career on the likes of 
> >> Jim Bakker rather than Fred Rogers.
> >>
> >> Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
> >> www.joanopyr.com
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