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First, is the matter of expert witnesses. As FTM's Yuma correspondent informs, Judge John Nelson refused to allow Dr. Ralph Underwager, a former Lutheran pastor and world-renowned psychologist and expert on child sexual abuse, to testify at the trial of Gregory Speers.

"Dr. Underwager and his wife, Hollida Wakefield, also an expert in this field," writes FTM's correspondent, "reviewed all the interview tapes, police reports, case filings, etc., in Gregory's case and were immediately convinced of his innocence. Dr. Underwager doesn't take a case for review unless it is understood that he will report the truth of his findings, regardless of whether or not it is on the side of the party who hired him. He saw every possible improper investigative and interviewing technique used against the children by the police detectives in Gregory's case.

But to add insult to injury, Judge Nelson, FTM's correspondent continued, "allowed a sleazy counselor, Robert Emerick, to testify for the State against Greg. It was unmistakable that Emerick was there to satisfy the court in whatever they wanted him to say, to the point of reversing his testimony when the prosecutor guided him to do so. Emerick is unlicensed (his license had been revoked) and he has numerous complaints filed against him on the Arizona Board. Emerick was the Director of the 'Sexuality Addiction Program' that was shut down by Phoenix Memorial Hospital in the early 1990s, engaging no in abuse that is too sick to describe here. (See http: / /www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/266?/Target2.htmt) but which makes me wonder why Emerick isn't serving time in prison for committing, crimes against children.

"His escape from justice is probably because his wife (at least she was his wife then) is the chief criminal prosecutor for crimes against children in Phoenix, Cindy Nanetti. Greg, in his sentencing statement at his first trial, alluded to Emerick's past activity- The State shortly thereafter dropped Emerick as their witness, and substituted Wendy Dutton as their expert witness. Wendy Dutton was a cohort of Emerick in the Phoenix Memorial Hospital scandal. She also served on numerous boards with Cindy Nanetti...."

Before we get to the computers issue, FTM will wade into the sick stuff at Phoenix Memorial which its Yuma correspondent mentioned.

...In "Target: Your Child," written in 1997, Ray Thomas probed the burgeoning child sex abuse industry and the media hysteria that heralded it, and in a chapter entitled "Government-Financed Child Sex Abuse," looked at the program at Phoenix Memorial:

"....In 1992, it was discovered that Phoenix Memorial Hospital, in Phoenix, Arizona, was routinely raping children, some as young as ten years old, with what they called 'penile plethysmography,' which was, simply, government-financed rape of the child. This 'treatment' was used to determine just what 'turned the child on,' by applying a detector to the genitals of the child (in the case of a boy, it was a ring that was attached to the base of the child's penis -- while girls got a phallus-shaped detector inserted into the vagina (these are children, for gawd's sake!). Then the child is shown pornographic pictures (kiddie porn!) of other children in sexually suggestive poses. The 'detectors' are used to measure the degree of arousal in each child and to record exactly which pictures were responsible for the arousal. Is this not rape of a child?

"So what did they do when a child became so traumatized by what was being done to them that they refused to cooperate? They tortured them. They tortured the child by forcing him or her to inhale ammonia fumes until he or she agreed to the rape....

"This 'therapy' was kept so quiet that it had been used for many years, before it came to the attention of the public. And when it did, the hospital, and Child Protection Service personnel did everything they could do to mislead the public (definition: lie) as to just what went on in these 'torture chambers,' and as to the ages of the children involved (they claimed that only a very small number of children under 12 were involved, when in fact, it was later determined that fully one-third of the patients they treated were under 12)....

"An interesting sidelight here is that Robert Emerick, director of the Sexuality and Addiction program at Phoenix Memorial was completely incompetent to direct such a program. He had a master's in education, but was, at best, an uncertified lay therapist with no formal training in psychology or the treatment of sexual abuse and disorders. By the way: Robert Emerick is married to Maricopa County's chief sex-crimes prosecutor, Cindi Nannette. That helps a lot in getting referrals, wouldn't you think?

"This program netted this hospital about $30,000 per patient, and this doesn't even include ancillary charges such as the $500 per visit for a 'retest' (more rapes) every three months. Most of the children who were in the program were referred by juvenile courts, Child Protective Services, Indian Health Services, and tribal courts --which means it was financed with federal money.

"The hospital initially denied it, but was later forced to admit that 90% of the program's funding, came from the government. Mary Chapman, director of Arizona V.O.C.A.L.(Victims Of Child Abuse Laws) said of this: 'I think they're a whole bunch of perverts over there.' Arizona State Senator Stan Furman said: 'At best, what is happening to these children is an unproven, offensive procedure. At worst, this is child abuse and torture under the guise of treatment'....

"The program at Phoenix Memorial shut down shortly after hearings into their activities began, but they aren't, by any means, alone in the use of controversial, unproven sexual treatments for children...."

Read on, and you'll see that Emerick and his cohorts make the late Fr. John Geoghan and Fr. Paul Shanley, the Boston priests whose crimes against children outraged a nation, look like the good humor men.

In the Introduction to "Target: Your Child," Thomas warns:

"The federal government has an agenda -- to take control of what your children are taught in school without interference from you. To accomplish this, they will kidnap your children, use them in depraved 'sexual experiments' they call 'psychological treatment,' and condition them against you and your values under the guise of - 'counseling'....

"The Hegelian Principle"

"There has been a big upsurge recently" - remember: this was written five years before the "sex scandal" in the Church broke in Boston - "in the number of stories in the news about parents who abuse their children. This fits with the well-known (to those of us who pay attention) Hegelian Principle looters (also known as: collectivists, socialists, liberals) use when trying to put over a con.

"Using the Hegelian Principle involves three steps:

"Create a problem: Or call attention to something you can con the public into believing is a problem;

"Publicize the problem: Make use of every propaganda method known to man to condition the public to believe there is a problem and get your friends in the mass media to publish one or more 'horror stories' every day to condition 'the masses' to believe there is really a problem that needs to be solved;

"Offer a solution: One that takes away one (more) 'small' rights (But hey -- you can afford to give up that 'itty-bitty right' in order to solve the problem,' can't you?) or adds one more small tax. In this manner, they get their victims to give their sanction for their own enslavement. The victims agree to changes they would not have agreed to without this prior conditioning...."

From this perspective, don't the Church's sex scandals, and the bishops' response to them in the form of criminal background checks for every active Catholic and "talkng about touching"programs for Catholic school kids, take on a different hue?

On the matter of the child porn images found in Speers' computer, Speer supporter Carol Wray relates:
''Greg Speers has been convicted on two counts of "Sexual Exploitation of a Minor."

 

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