Jersey Girl wrote: Okay. I was really not planning to get into this but here goes. One difference between your situation and Norton's is that Norton is a public figure. I think there was a certain amount of wisdom in his recording and making the phone call public. He was making it known publicly that Ms. Denson knew where he lived and had had contact with his family in their own home.
In other words, if anything fishy happens to me or my family, check this person out.
I am not saying that I think that MD would have aggressed against him or his family, or that I have any knowledge of violence behaviors on her part except alleged physical harm to herself. I am saying that he allowed for and prepared for that possibility (including potentially making false rape allegations against him) in publishing the recording and in his warnings to her.
There is some detail from his second video (still viewable) that I want to pull out possibly for the purpose of this thread or simply for my own interest and understanding.
People tend to focus on the allegations of sexual abuse and the Bishop case, and Mike's personality. There's more going on here than that.
The problem with Norton's video is not that he expressed fear and tried to protect himself. He was verbally abusive. He threatened physical violence. That is garbage behavior and does horrible damage to the other sexual abuse victims that he says he cares about.
Kishkumen wrote:Oh, you guys. Monday morning quarterbacks.
I don't know exactly who you mean.
But, speaking for myself, Norton's video has re-traumatized my close friends who are already treading water, coping with the ongoing harm from the church as abuse victims who were not supported by their local leaders.
Meadowchik wrote:I don't know exactly who you mean.
But, speaking for myself, Norton's video has re-traumatized my close friends who are already treading water, coping with the ongoing harm from the church as abuse victims who were not supported by their local leaders.
It’s unfortunate that Mike Norton, a fellow victim of abuse, could not deal with the situation more calmly and responsibly.
"Petition wasn’t meant to start a witch hunt as I’ve said 6000 times." ~ Hanna Seariac, LDS apologist
Bill Reel and I recorded a podcast this morning dealing with the recent developments in the McKenna Denson case. With any luck, it should be ready to go up tonight or tomorrow.
FYI
You prove yourself of the devil and anti-mormon every word you utter, because only the devil perverts facts to make their case.--ldsfaqs (6-24-13)
Kishkumen wrote:Oh, you guys. Monday morning quarterbacks.
That’s kind of what we do here, isn’t it?
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
consiglieri wrote:Bill Reel and I recorded a podcast this morning dealing with the recent developments in the McKenna Denson case. With any luck, it should be ready to go up tonight or tomorrow.
