Presumed Guilty
Via LA Observed: Kyle Zirpolo, one of the kids the Gestapo manipulated 21 years ago to bankrupt the McMartin preschool and destroy the lives of the innocent individuals who ran it, has publicly apologized as an adult. To the best of my knowledge, however, none of the true villains in that story have. Not Kee MacFarlane or her Children’s Institute International, which continues to pat itself on the back for all the wonderful things it supposedly does for kids today, but whose web site contains no mention of the McMartins or any of the self-styled “specialists” they employed to pressure the kids to “recover” their nonexistent “memories” about them. Not from Assistant D.A. Lael Rubin, who intentionally withheld key evidence from the defense and lied about the defendants ot keep them from making bail, yet was never disciplined by the bar and is allowed to practice law to this day, nor from William Pounders, the idiot judge who let Rubin get away with all that and more. Nor, apparently, has there even been an apology from Zirpolo’s own mother. I guess one of the fringe benefits of accusing somebody of a terrible crime against The Children means never having to say you’re sorry.
UPDATE: Now that same idiot judge is presiding over the trial of an accused serial killer. Lovely.
October 29th, 2005 at 2:41 pm
Oh man, did you have to remind us of that. There are few events that angered me as much as those series of witchhunts that destroyed innocent people, their families and communities. And of course the children, some of whom will simply never recover from the abuse inflicted on them by child counselors and abuse ‘experts’ who alienated them from the mothers and fathers (et al) who they should have been allowed to love and be loved by.
Just sickening. And, as you said, none of the guilty were brought to justice. I could cry thinking about those poor helpless people and their families. It is amazing no one was killed in retaliation for such an arrogant injustice.
October 29th, 2005 at 2:46 pm
NB: The link at LA Observed does not require registration.
October 30th, 2005 at 11:10 am
One of the more pernicious liberal dogmas is the idea that humanity is getting better over time, that we are superior to our anscestors. And one of their proofs is that we no longer have witch trials like Salem did.
But we do have witch trials like Salem did; we’ve just changed the wording a bit.
October 30th, 2005 at 11:52 am
We certainly haven’t progressed as far as I’d like, but then again, as bad as Buckey et al. got it, the Salem “witches” fared worse.
October 31st, 2005 at 12:11 pm
I read that this weekend. He’s sorry. The McMartins are still dead.