Posted On: June 24, 2008, 12:17 am CDT

Posted By: lastbat

RG - we shouldn't accept decades of wait. That's what's a crock. These people waited decades until money started being handed out. If they truly wanted it to stop, if they wanted action, if they wanted to put their lives back together, they would have spoken up years ago. My family is nothing special. The difference between me and these schmucks is that I just wanted the right thing done. It's easy. You talk to a trusted adult, they call the cops, you talk to a few more people and after all the embarrasment is over you're free.

Stuff like this doesn't have to haunt you and scar you for life. You remember, but you don't have to let it affect you. I don't think they deserve the money, they deserve to be told that if they've dealt with it for 20 or 30 years they can just bloody well go on dealing with it. It's people like this that create a victim mentality and cause more people to crash instead of keeping themselves together and getting over the bad things that life tosses you. My vote is we eliminate the word "victim" from the lexicon. Eliminate the word and eliminate the sentiment.

I get upset when people claim they don't have the strength to go on with a normal life, but if society would just give them tons of cash, or welfare, or something they don't have to work for, that they'll be okay. No. People need a good swift kick in the arse and to be told that they'll be fine.

Sorry. I'll get off my soapbox now.