http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/a-different-kind-of-christmas/Content?oid=1416705 Comments On: A different kind of Christmas by Mara Leveritt en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 02:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Matt Taylor]]> Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:08:28 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by joptaylor]]> Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:28:13 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Susie Hommacher]]> Sun, 12 Dec 2010 06:08:34 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Drackman]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:47:38 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by B. Donalson]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:58:35 -0600 Arkansas Times
I knew from your opening two sentences: “People are so gullible. I can't believe that Mara Leveritt wrote such a one-sided story without analyzing the situation.”

Right away I knew we were in good hands. Everybody is so gullible. (Thank God YOU’RE not!). We can look to you for the truth, here. Not only are we, your readers, all gullible (thanks for telling us; maybe now we can turn our lives around), but Mara Leveritt is one-sided and her whole story is “without analyzing.”

I know that’s right.

As if begged, YOU proceed to analyze it all brilliantly, B. Donalson! Honestly, where would we be without your looking “into this child’s fiction with an unbiased eye?” Alle’s fooled everybody but you and the gullible community is grateful.

Let’s see. She’s fooled her grandfather, both her parents, her brother, her hotline people, her friends in Hillcrest and Cathedral School, Zay Whitaker, her dad’s boss, the personnel at the hospital where her dad detoxed, his pals at Alcoholics Anonymous, the police who charged Whitaker with rape and sexual assault, the Little Rock judge who granted the order of protection AND Circuit Judge Herbert Wright, her counselor Angela McGraw, the staff at Safe Places, her psychiatrist (surely the LEAST analytical among this bunch of gullible fools, B. Donalson, am I right?) and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Rounding off I’d say at least 100 people were taken in by this child’s lie. You saw through it all along. You alone.

Just a coupla quibbles, B. Donalson, and I’ll wrap up. Don’t want your head swelling!

You say Whitaker doesn’t fit the profile by encouraging Alle’s dad to get her into therapy. “Why would a rapist care about his victim's mental health?” you ask.

Far be it from me, B. Donalson, just one in a world of gullible fools, to remind you that sociopaths, including child molesters, aren’t interested in anybody’s mental health, least of all their own.

Sociopaths are about power, control, grandiosity, elevating themselves by manipulating and diminishing others (who are just objects and not real human beings) through histrionics.

I needn’t review the old tactic of requesting therapy for their victims (even themselves, as a last resort) -- a common and terrific feint for sociopaths to gain another layer of cover and make fools of still MORE people – like therapists.

“But she’s LYING, your honor! Why would I have suggested therapy if I had done anything wrong!”

See, B. Donalson, to sociopaths EVERYBODY else is wrong, foolish, stupid, gullible. Sociopaths KNOW it. Facts cannot dent their certainty. Making therapists look stupid is the sociopath’s crack.

How COULD trained professionals, much less the gullible public like Mara Leveritt and us, believe this girl’s lie? I feel terrible now, thanks to you.

We appreciate your detailing and discounting all the family’s generational dysfunctions, B.D.

May I call you B.D.? I feel like I know you.

You’re so right, B.D. People with all THAT dysfunction in their backgrounds, which Mara uncovered and relates, can never tell the truth. And truly abused children NEVER lie to protect themselves and their family and their abuser, or deny the abuse to authorities. NEVER!

Then – my last little quibble, B.D. – you dredge up the 1980s child abuse cases! “All those lives that were destroyed when children, prompted by police and psychiatrists, lied about abuse.”

You mean like the McMartin thing in California? The ensuing copycat rash of other “satanic child molester” cases around the country spearheaded by fundamentalist Christians? None of which turned out to be true – lack of evidence – but sold lotsa books? That what you mean, B.D.?

Sorta like the Memphis 3, now that I – oh, never mind.

All the ACTUAL evidence ultimately showed those pre-K children being repeatedly prompted and manipulated by adult “authorities” to tell these fabrications.

So what you’re saying, B.D., absent any such evidence in Alle’s case, is that she’s somehow comparable to those 1980s cases where pre-K kids were prompted to lie and hence destroyed people’s lives. Right?

You’re saying people prompted Alle, well beyond pre-K age, to lie about Whitaker to over 100 people?

Well, thank God for you, AGAIN, B.D.! The rest of us gullible non-analytical souls would never have seen any relation between Alle’s case and the rash of trumped-up 1980s satanic child abuse cases if it weren’t for you!

You’re truly unique and AMAZING, B.D.! I hope word spreads and you become FAMOUS and are honored for seeing through this case when everybody else’s eye was blind or biased.

Because, dumb as we are, we don't want to see an egomaniacal sociopath act out delusions of power through childish but destructive attention-getting Dramas and Lies about herself versus everybody else.

Or himself, B.D.

And make fools of us in real life OR on blogs.

We really don't.




Posted by Norma Bates]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:12:30 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by B. Donalson]]> Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:45:59 -0600 Arkansas Times

Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 05 Dec 2010 09:28:50 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by theinem]]> Sat, 04 Dec 2010 23:20:11 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by joptaylor]]> Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:47:46 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by joptaylor]]> Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:17:35 -0600 Arkansas Times
As a community, we must be gratified every time we hear a victim speak well of our law enforcement, our prosecutors, advocates and counselors, and others who work to ensure that victims are treated with respect and justice.

Good for this family! Good for those who have worked with them and who continue to provide long-term support!

And most of all, good for this young girl who will continue to move through all that has happened to her, becoming a little stronger each day!

It takes courage to heal, and Alle has found that courage within herself.
Posted by Kalliope]]> Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:07:49 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:46:37 -0600 Arkansas Times