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In reply to the discussion: Woody Allen Speaks Out [View all]reddread
(6,896 posts)This sort of indecent behavior is as much an illness as anything, with the sick perpetrators finding sympathy and understanding in short supply. When you get some exposure to the pedophiles released in the streets of Fresno because they are turned out into homeless "neighborhoods" consisting of invisible boundaries where (until recently) the police forced undesirables to remain or face the threat of arrest. The pedophiles (given a numbered term for their offense and an ankle bracelet) that you see in these situations are often the most pathetic creatures, with mental facilities ranging from raging schizophrenia to developmentally disabled. What is worse, is seeing how other homeless people will treat those folks, and often make false accusations against the people they have grudges against.
When those incidents play out before your eyes, you realize that compassion for everyone or compassion for no one are the choices.
While our society appears to worship marketed celebrities, overlooking their character deficits, marveling at their miseries, thousands of serial perpetrators get away with their crimes until very late in life, or entirely.
What no one making the charges against Woody Allen should expect, is that there would be only one victim.
Until one more person comes forward, the things being said about him are ENTIRELY UNLIKELY.
and not very well thought out.
Maybe you should take all that disgust and outrage and direct it at the known perpetrators-
Ted Nugent. Jimmy Page. Michael Jackson. The Lawrence King Omaha Boystown prostitution ring. These injustices go unpunished.
get on your high horses about them, and wait for corroboration on Allen.
If its true that he is a child molestor, it will come out.