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I reposted James from Open House

Posted by Coordinator on October 31, 2005 at 22:50:05

In Reply to: (Reposted from NDN's Open House) posted by James Seemore on October 31, 2005 at 22:41:05:

At the risk of wearying those of you who may feel that James is not a legitimate Family member, I wanted to repost this to clear up a matter. (As to whether James is a current Family member or not, I don't know, but for the sake of argument I'm going to assume that he is.) With that in mind, I'd like to re-address a point James raised. He said in the post above:

My personal reason for going onto the xFamily site was to simply say that we parents do not abuse our children or allow others to do so in the Family. It seems there where numerous people on that site coming out on a regular basis to say abuse was still happening and that someone should take the Family out, you know, a Ricky type approach.

That this is a very real concern/fear James has is evident in his previous post on this board:

Posted by James Seemore on October 29, 2005 at 09:12:00
I am a current SGA Family member - As an individual, do I have to conform to your way of thinking? You want to take out the Family, but I got kids, so it will be over my dead body (so to speak). Go after your culprit and stop lumping us all in it together or you as a poor "abused person" will become the "abuser".


To that statement, a coordinator of this board replied:

Posted by Coordinator on October 29, 2005 at 15:58:04
In Reply to: THE ABUSED BECOME THE ABUSERS! posted by James Seemore on October 29, 2005 at 09:12:00:

Nobody thinks Ricky should have killed anyone, including himself. Anyone who thinks so is not welcome to post on this board. I think we can get that point settled and out of the way.