Messages By: ronin2

Todays show was about false accusations. But what if the accusations could be true, I just don't know.

I have been communicating online with a young girl. I have never actually met her  before but  she lives in the same state as me and we became sort of online friends. She recently confided in me  that her father, who she lives alone with, is sexually abusing her. Had been for some time. He makes her do everything.

She knows she ought to tell someone who can help her. But she's not going to. She's too scared. She's terrified of ending up like Edward. She feels that being in a foster home for the rest of her child hood would be worse than living with her drunk, sexually abusive father.

All I know about her is her first name, the city she lives in, and what school she goes to. I my mind that should be enough to track her down, but I was told that even if I did call that wouldn't be enough information to make a report.

I thought about calling the citys police department directly and seeing if they could help but after watching this show I am even more reluctant to try to find her. I don't know her, I don't know her family or her life, I don't even really have any evidence except the conffesion. Even in I could find a way to report it, what if she  has to go through what Edward did. Whose to say that wouldn't be just as bad?

I just don't know.

I am very glad Dr. Phil has decided to address this issue. It is an international crisis but America often cannot bring itself to admit that  we are not  immune to this epidemic. If you want to learn more about it, at least from a hypothetical first person account, I would recommend the book Sold. All the best.

I wasn't even at my first college a full year and there were three sexual assaults. All of which involved alcohol. When my literature proffesor brought up the subject, one girl said "don't get drunk and cry rape." Its a touchy subject, on the one hand, someone who is under the influence is incapable of giving consent, on the other hand, should a person take responsibility for their condition. Young people, particularly girls, are constantly being warned about the dangers of excessive drinking (at least in my experience). Yet they continue to binge and party, socially no less. A teacher told me a story about a girl who drank to the point of passing out cold. When she woke up she wasn't in the bar anymore. She was in a house in a dark neighborhood on someones bed, none of which she had ever seen before. She could've easily been raped and had no idea. All because she wanted to get smashed.

On a different note, parents are kidding themselves if they think a campus being designated "dry" means anything. I was in a dry dorm and the RAs knew damn well there was alcohol. Their attitude was, and I quote, "if we don't see it, it's not here."

This story sounds insane. Most people think this kind of stuff and only happens in movies but it effects real people all the time. On all different levels at least.

I was at my graduation party when one of my classmates got knocked backward in a friendly wrestling match. I found out when I sat down next to him later and he looked at me with a blank, wide eyed expression and said, "I can't remember anything." He couldn't remember graduating, or anything after the previous afternoon for that matter. We were able to coach him along and by the end of the night he had recollected everything. We would ask him things like, "Where did we go first after the graduation?" and his face would light up as if remembering something from long ago and say, "The Pool!"

On a more extreme level. I was talking with an old coworker and she told me about a friend of hers who suffered from stress induced amnesia. She woke up one day and couldn't remember the last 15 years of her life. She was found wandering around the house looking for her daughter, trying to find a three year old, when her daughter was 18.

Crazy stuff, but it happens.

I'll tell you what happened to majority rule. Our founding fathers put rules and mechanisms in place when they wrote the constitution to GUARD AGAINST IT. James Madison stated that "to give the people uncontrolled power is not the way to preserve liberty." We are not a country of mob rule. We have seen over and over again that when people act out of fear and aversion to a specific group of individuals they consistently make the wrong decision. The majority is not always right. The legislation that resulted from the african american and womens civil rights movment was not decided on by popular vote.

Eisenhower had to send national guard troops to Arkansas to ensure that the schools were integrated for heavens sake!

If the majority always had the final say...THEN we would be in chaos my friend!

And no! We the people are NOT going to LET IT GO!!!! The dam is broken my good citizen! In the words of the greatest civil rights leader of all time...

"We are NOT satisfied and we WILL NOT be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream!"

-Dr. Martin Luther King

How can you look at yourself in the mirror while associating homosexuality with murder!?! This is exactly the kind of ignorance and blind hatred that motivates to stand outside courthouses and grin while holding signs that say "THANK GOD FOR AIDS." I'll give you just one thing that sets them apart; murder ends someones life and devestates many others, and a gay relationship DOESN'T HURT ANYONE!!!!!

I had two gay male proffesors my freshmen year of college while I was dealing with depression and let me tell you their compassion, humor, love, and zest for life was what helped me get up in the morning! I am disgusted you would even think of comparing these people with murderers.

My literature proffesors made me smile and laugh and feel like I was a worthwhile human being with gifts and talent at a time when I felt so inadequate that I needed to punish my body to amend for my flaws.

These guys wore their orientation on their sleeves and if anything it made me love being around them all the more.

And yet...you would call them and how they spend their free time SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE AND COMPARE IT TO MURDER!!!! YOU WOULD CONDEM THEM SOLEY FOR THE FACT THAT THEY ARE GAY!!!

Disgusting.