Dealing With Monsters

Hi Elizabeth,

Happy Monday Night. I hope your week is off to a good start, though I saw one of your posts on FB via Joel Wanasek that referred to being sick, so I hope that's not the case. If it is, take care of yourself and don't overwork - like stay up all night editing, lol. Better yet would be if you aren't sick at all. :)

I saw a few other posts, all having to do with music. One was about Guns & Roses; are you gonna go see 'em? You will have a blast if you do.

A typical workday for me, and I took The Crew to Lake Balboa once again this afternoon. The lake is a habitat for birds, and their different calls came from the trees and filled the air with languages and conversations, which - though unknown - were beautiful to hear. We had a nice time as always.

I have been writing about my experience with Mr. Rappaport, and I'm not quite done. I could write an entire book about that one incident alone, but I won't, and actually even after I write a couple of blogs about it, the steam starts to go out of me, because I have examined, and written about, the Rappaport event so many times before - on and off for more than ten years - that, while it's easy to delve into, it's harder to get motivated to continue to write about it or explore it because for years now I have been fresh out of new information.

Every single bit of information I do have, has come from myself, from my memory and my detective work. All of it has taken an enormous amount of effort, and when I do work on The Rappaport Case it can involve a lot of concentration, which can be very taxing.

Still, I will never let it go, because..........well, would you?

I mentioned the girls from the Cleveland case in yesterday's blog, and while I in no way would compare my suffering to theirs, I would nevertheless definitely compare, in a relative way, the psychotic criminal urges and primitive emotional drive of Mr. Rapaport to the Monster from Cleveland.

The Monster abducted those girls and tormented them for, what? 12 or 13 years? Then one girl escaped and he was finally caught.

Jared Rappaport abducted me, and I was in his captivity for one night and the following day. About 24 hours, total, compared to years and years for the girls in Cleveland. And yet, I experienced at the very least a similar, full-blown aggressive pychosis involving violence against me, and torment. I have chosen not to write about that part, but it was horrible and terrifying. So while I did not experience years of captivity, I do know the terror of it, and in these matters it does not serve a purpose to "compare suffering".

A murderer is a murderer whether he kills one or one thousand, and a victim is a victim, no matter the magnitude of their suffering.

I will butt in here, and go off on a brief tangent, to say that I am well aware that we live in a bi-polar culture where so-called victims are concerned. One side of this culture says that everyone is seemingly a victim, and therefore every small slight or perceived injustice is even counted as something to be suffered unto. This has brought about the PC Culture of the Easily Offended. "I'm a Victim (Capital V), because....(fill in the blank).

This comes from an Entitlement Culture in which no one is responsible for themselves, and so every tiny thing must be somebody else's fault, hence "I am a Victim".

Then there is the other side of the coin. Many New Age "Religions" and so-called philosophies now espouse the view that "there are no victims". This is called "Moral Equivalency", i.e "who is to say that the murderer is any worse than his victim"?, or to put it more politely, the way these people would put it, "oh, the poor murderer. What a horrible life he must have had".

These folks who promote this view are almost always New Age Liberals (and you wonder why I don't identify as a liberal, haha), and some of them have the belief that it's all just karma spinning around and around, even Adolph Hitler was not a "bad person", just someone who did bad things. Everyone is reedeemable, is their belief, and in their naivete and simplistic mentality, they believe they are following the teachings of Christ.

But they feel, in their limited, simplistic thinking, that Monsters are redeemable right here on Earth, in real time, in our lifetimes. I am not talking about petty criminals, guys who have made a mistake and can be rehabilitated. I am not even talking about lifetime criminals, people who cannot function in society.

I am talking about Human Monsters, the ones even the most experienced psychologists and psychiatrists have no answers for. The "No Victims" crowd think that mass murderers are not only redeemable by Christ, but by human redemption, in the form of leniency and "understanding". This is why you read about beachfront prisons with no fences, for killers in countries like Norway. At worst, they get 7 year sentences.

So that is what that mentality brings you, a world in which no behavior is seen as "bad", but only misguided.

This is why I plug away at Jared Rappaport, the film professor at Cal State Northridge who still teaches there to this freaking day.

I plug away because, like those girls in Cleveland, I know what a Monster is. Even though the duration of my experience was not even near theirs, I still know.

And when you know what a Monster is, you also know that the Monster must be put away, or at the very least have to answer for his crimes.

It is very easy, and simplistic, to have a cheap philosophy - that even Hitler wasn't a bad guy, per se - when you have not experienced a Human Monster in your life.

If you have had that experience, you know better.

And you do not give up in your quest to make the Monster known to the world, even though it can be debilitating to do so.

You just do it because it's the Right Thing To Do.

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