I sent a note to the email link on the "committee/movement" website 3 days ago.
Just like DFAF's site, I have gotten no response.
HMMM....I shall share with you all.
isac@tampabay.rr.comMarti and friends,
I hope this note makes the rounds at your next meeting. The Fornits board helped a lot of people come to grips with suppressed memories, nightmares and gave a way to laugh a bit now and then. Now it is a screaming match between people who do not even KNOW each other, slamming on whether or not someone is a looser or winner based upon whether or not they believe that the efforts being put forth by the committee are worthwhile.
I wonder why I hear statements such as recent posts by "serpico" and "dragnet" and Falcon where I swear if it doesn't sound like Miller Newton bashing opinions in a post open meeting rap. Was that Doug Hemminger or Marti that is slamming "Fuelaw" for his real world of law inputs which happen to be against the grain of what we ALL wish we could do but some know that we can't, at least not in the ways being purported by the committee as doable?
I think that newbies are running for cover. Ask Ginger how many new registries we have. Definitely off the pace we were hitting, and damnit, I still hope to have some of my old friends show up, not run back to their suppression when they see what is on Fornits now. When's the last time a brilliant post by Bob "85 day jerk" was posted? When did Jeff bellflower drop out? Beating up on Clay?? He is a successful systems guy for a big company. Where did our MD, "hedwigfan" go? WHOA, we are loosing voices worth respecting here. As an RN I fight tough fights for people and regularly stick my dick on the line, but not for a questionably run cause.
I would love to string up the bad guys too, but the St Pete times has tried for 25 years and nobody out there cares except us.
I decided to put my energy posting to parent help boards, treatment center opinion bbs's, and making a difference now for some kid today.
Maybe one kid won't end up at Tranquility Bay or some other WWASP type shithole. Attempting to embarrass Mel and Betty won't save one kid . If a flood of straight veterans is hitting those boards, a parent could see a different opinion from a person who'd been there point of view. That's an effort I bet 100% of the Fornits audience could support.
I wish you guys could see that there are survivors who need help coming to grips with it all. Remember crying in front of your monitor when you first found the board, not sleeping due to the rush of it all coming back? Well, that wouldn't happen today.
Bill Hadley aka
Tampa survivor