Thursday, October 20, 2011

"Protest group says it wants to be self-contained community"

Hmm, a "self-contained community". What could go wrong?

Read this and see if any of it sounds familiar:
Efforts by the Occupy Baltimore protest group to evolve into a self-contained, self-governing community have erupted into controversy with the distribution of a pamphlet that victim advocates and health workers fear discourages victims of sexual assaults from contacting police.
The pamphlet says that members of the protest group who believe they are victims or who suspect sexual abuse "are encouraged to immediately report the incident to the Security Committee," which will investigate and "supply the abuser with counseling resources."
They, not the law, will investigate and they will supply "the abuser" with counseling. In case, you don't recognize that philosophy, it's exactly how the Catholic church (mis)handled sex abuse in the 1960s and 1970s.

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