[Vision2020] Give Steven Sitler a Chance

[Saundra Lund]

Hi Wayne,

OK, I get the sarcasm in your post.

However, your post ***really*** bothers me, so I'm going to speak up.

I just don't think it EVER appropriate to suggest putting children in harm's
way just to prove a point, sarcasm or not.

The children you reference have done NOTHING to deserve such treatment, and
it is deeply offensive to me that you bring the these precious beings up to
make a point.  As probably most here know, I think children deserve to be
completely OFF LIMITS as "targets" here on the Viz, and your post is one of
the most offensive I've read here.  The children to whom you refer -- along
with every single child in our community -- are our future, and to suggest
deliberately putting these innocents in harm's way is indefensible, IMHO.

Just for the record, I'll disclose that except for the newest addition, I've
met & spent time with the truly delightful children you've dragged into
this.  But, even if I hadn't, I'd be just as . . .  disgusted.

Please, please, PLEASE LEAVE individual CHILDREN OUT of this discussion, a
discussion we wouldn't be having were it not for the fact that Steven J.
Sitler, a serial child predator who has already victimized far too many
children in this country, came to our community.

Discuss Sitler; discuss his crimes; discuss the failure (IMHO) of the
judicial system; discuss the failure of our newspapers; discuss why Sitler
came here; discuss the failure of Christ Church to warn our community once
his crimes were known by the church hierarchy; discuss the failure of the
Christ Church community warn the rest of us once they knew; discuss the
problem of child sexual abuse in general or in our community, region, state,
nation, world.

I don't know that I've expressed this well, but your post crosses a line for
me, Wayne . . . a line I hope to never again see crossed here on V2020.

Some, no doubt, will ask the trite question, "By whose standards?!?"

My response to those who will lack the courage to ask the question here is,
"If you have to ask that question about this subject, you are already a lost
soul for whom I'll pray."



Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.
- Edmund Burke

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-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Art Deco
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 1:00 PM
To: Vision 2020
Subject: [Vision2020] Give Steven Sitler a Chance

Perhaps we should give Cultmaster Douglas Wilson and Steven Sitler a chance
to prove that Sitler has been cured of his habit of debauching children.
 
Since Wilson is so convinced and has managed to convince the court that
Sitler is not a risk to re-offend -- thanks in part to Wilson powerful
pastoral and sexual deviancy "counseling", here a plan that will prove it to
all us unworthy doubters once and for all:
 
Wilson could petition the court to allow Sitler to board at his daughter's
and son-in-law's (the Merkle's) home with their horde of children for the
next two or three years.
 
If Wilson is willing to do this, it would sure shut us skeptics up, be a
major coup for him, and be a demonstration of his self-acclaimed pastoral
and sexual deviancy "counseling" prowess.
 
If Wilson is not willing to do this, then we will conclude that he really
doesn't have confidence in the elimination of Sitler's propensity to
interfere with children.  If he is not willing to do this, then we will
conclude that Wilson is not afraid to risk the community's children, but is
afraid to risk his own grandchildren.
 
Please let me know when the very accomplished Wilson schedules a court
hearing to execute the above plan.  I am sure there are many in the area who
would attend and give their full support to this decisive,
proof-of-the-pudding test of both Sitler's cure and Wilson's honesty.
 

Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
deco at moscow.com