[Vision2020] Happy Schwallers Day

[Art Deco]

Perhaps you could also bring your inside information to focus on a circa 
1997 incident at Logos and the part that the Cultmaster played in it.  Hint: 
In this incident, the father wasn't blamed -- the victim was.

W.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dougs Hero" <bherodotus at yahoo.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 9:30 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Happy Schwallers Day


> Dear Dr. Campbell and fellow Visionaries,
>
> I am afraid that Mr. Schwaller cannot accept your
> invitation to meet for coffee today, as he has a
> preexisting date to speak at the annual ACCS
> conference, which is a yearly gathering of so-called
> educators who couldn't follow an argument if you
> marked it with bread crumbs. However, in lieu of his
> company I shall provide you with the conclusion to
> yesterday's tragic story of the Greyfriar who learned
> his lessons well and the Pastor who taught him how to
> finish the job, because it did not end when Pastor
> Douglas Wilson threatened the victim's father with
> discipline. There remains yet one more chapter.
>
> Happily, the father of the victim successfully removed
> himself from Pastor Wilson's predatory threats and he
> lived to talk about it. Indeed, he spoke to the SPLC's
> Intelligence Report, which reported,
>
> "The father of the girl in the second incident told
> the Intelligence Report that church officials tried to
> keep that quiet as well. At one point, he said, they
> threatened to bring him under church discipline for
> failing to protect his daughter. "It would be like me
> getting robbed and the police coming over and
> arresting me because I didn't have five locks on the
> door, only one," he said. "It was just bizarre.""
> http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=665
>
> This paragraph is fair enough. A father analogizes the
> pastoral abuse he suffered at the hands of Douglas
> Wilson and concluded it "just bizarre." But if
> anything's true about Pastor Wilson, he has to have
> the last word. Consequently, he lashed out at the
> father when he saw the article, writing,
>
> "Let's just say that I have never seen quite so
> striking an example of a father neglecting his
> daughter. But this is not one that you have to take my
> word for. Just look at the previous paragraph. This is
> a father who was willing to talk to Intelligence
> Report about this particular incident because he
> doesn't believe his daughter has been through enough.
> And the ghouls at SPLC were willing to print it."
> http://dougwils.com/index.asp?Action=Anchor&CategoryID=1&BlogID=3002
>
> After you've picked up your jaw, please track Pastor
> Wilson's argument. First, with typical Wilsonnuedno he
> implied that the Greyfriar sexually assaulted the
> child because of the father's negligence. Stay with
> it; this is not a gratuitous whack at the father.
> Pastor Wilson really believes this and, quite frankly,
> everyone knows it's the father's fault when the
> student molests the child after the pastor vouches for
> him. Remember, if you can't trust your pastor, who can
> you trust?
>
> Second, Pastor Wilson conceded that the victim had
> "been through enough," though he implied it was at her
> father's hands, not the molester's. And third, Pastor
> Wilson proved his point by affirming that when the
> father spoke to the media, he aggravated his child's
> ordeal. Unfortunately, Wilson failed to state how
> speaking to the media about Wilson's pastoral abuse
> exasperated the child's suffering. Nevertheless,
> Pastor Wilson's point stands: if you discuss the
> incident in the media, no matter what context, you
> compound the victim's pain.
>
> Fair enough. Let's say the Greyfriar sexually
> assaulted the child because of the father's neglect,
> and let's say that the father worsened the child's
> torment by talking to the media. In fact, let's go all
> the way. Let's impute ALL blame and guilt for this
> incident to the father: HE DID IT ALL. But let's not
> forget to grant Pastor Wilson's point either: anyone
> who brings publicity to this incident adds to the
> child's suffering and establishes their own guilt.
> This crime is so reprehensible that the ghoul who
> commits it stands self-condemned by their action.
>
> If this true, then why would Pastor Wilson blog it?
>
> On that note, I want to wish Pastor Wilson a happy
> Schwaller's day!
>
> Dougs' Hero
>
>
>
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