Reactionary : Institutional defence against transparency and justice

We live within a Hierarchy of Wealth, Power and Violence Dominator Culture.
Reactionary : Institutional defence against transparency and justice

The last 40 years of Survivor testimony emerging world wide and how religious and state institutions have reacted to that testimony tells us something and has established the following observations as scientific evidence.

Every institution built up within this culture - the industrialised militarised competing powers culture -that has degrees of power over people and resources will contain within it people who will enter into that institution with the express purpose of using any available leveraged power to exploit any emergent vulnerability in targeted populations subject to the existing power disparity.

Institutions are extensions of human behavioural dynamics around power, control and management of resources. They tend to reflect that values and behavioural biases of the people who created them in the first instance.

Many of the institutions themselves were originally set up to exploit the population in one way or another. Those that were created to nurture the population tend to become corrupted over time, at best co-opted by the ruling class to dilute their potential to challenge the hierarchy and at worst active participants in exploitative behaviour.

Churches, Mosques, Synagogues, Media Organisations, Corporate Organisations, Trade Organisations, Police Forces, Military, Sports Clubs, all Care Settings, Academia, Think Tanks, every profession with public facing entertainment for profit, Schools, Families and Cults.

Every institution that has degrees of power will seek to protect it's power, image, wealth and status above the welfare or the needs of any of the people targeted by abusers within it's ranks, above the welfare of survivors who come forward, and those survivors who do not come forward will be ignored until they do come forward.  All survivors that do come forward will face intense challenges seeking justice and open accountability, derived largely from the defensive tactical stance of the institution protecting it's image and status.

This means the executive branches of these institutions will actively, intentionally mask the presence of abusers, they will often through that masking enable abusers to continue to operate by neglecting to hold them to account, they will deal with abuses that become known to them privately, internally and they will be more tolerant of abuse of power than they should be, given that that is precisely how many people progress up the ladder of power, the greasy pole.

The only way to counter this is to demand 100% transparency and 100% democratic accountability as a legal, statuary precondition of continued public funding and standing of any of these institutions that operate as part of Government.

When it comes to Policing, a three year training period, with psychological profiling and counselling designed to identify potential behavioural threats and help defuse them or reject resistant applicants, would be really wise.

With regard to private and other non-governmental institutions, legislation that requires or mandates 100% transparency and access to all files, information and data held by the institution for study, analysis and review related to any incidence of abuse of power is necessary.

Privacy is one thing, secrecy another.

The only way to resolve the harms of the past is total honesty, for entities to put their hands up, admit and tell the truths that have been masked, make appropriate reparations, expedite justice and provide for full accountability for al harms caused. 

It is reasonable to expect institutions to build in transparency as a core element of the institutional ethic - then, and only then will we be able to be assured that serious, materially effective efforts are being made to prevent the harms that have been previously caused.

This needs all of the electorate to be aware of this dynamic and on board with the steps and vigilance to correct it.

A useful blog on the subject of bullying as a political strategic behavioural dynamic.

https://politicsandinsights.org/2015/01/22/how-bullying-works-projection-and-scapegoating/

"Very few people, when put to the test, have the integrity and moral courage to stand up against bullying, harassment, abuse, threats and corruption. The targets of adult bullying are selected often because they DO have the moral courage to challenge; many people will pass by on the other side.

A target of adult bullying is most often chosen because of their strength, not their weakness. Research shows that targets of bullying tend to have highly developed empathy, and sensitivity for others, a high degree of perceptiveness, high moral values, a well-developed integrity, a strong sense of fair play and reasonableness, a low propensity to violence, a reluctance to pursue grievance, disciplinary or legal action, a strong forgiving streak and a mature understanding of the need to resolve conflict with dialogue. 

Often, targets of bullying are independent, self-reliant and “different” in some way. Dysfunctionally abusive people often disingenuously confuse these hallmarks of character with weakness.

Bullies aim to inflict psychological injury more often than physical injury. Their main aim is to control, discredit, isolate and eliminate their target."

I recommend my readers to read this blog article, and bookmark it. Use it as a reference piece. We as citizens need to understand with more clarity the strategies and tactics being used to undermine democratic governance.

Here is a well written article from BylineTimes, laying out what the writers call deception management, a political utility that is utterly, intentionally, brutally abusive.

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/10/05/deception-management-how-mendacity-devoured-british-politics/

"Much is made of how politicians curate their image to appeal to the instincts of voters through the use of perception management. Yet, for the current political class, perception management has become deception management: a way to manipulate opinion in order to mask their own failures.

Britain has entered a state of permanent crisis caused by deeply flawed and incompetent leaders. Politics in Britain is now defined by mutually-reinforcing disasters, followed by scapegoating and the manipulation of reality."

#enoughisenough #thevatican #londonmet #policing #misogyny #parliament #bullying

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Patterns: Institutional defence systems vs the truth : Child Sexual Abuse

Institutional response to Child Sexual Abuse as a culture.
Note: there are a number of inquiries ongoing across the Earth, in different countries and continents, at different stages of development. These inquiries are largely focussed on the ways institutions within which egregious harming criminal actions were perpetrated have sought to respond to the exposure of these crimes.


More are planned.


For many decades we the people have been,if we were paying attention,  hearing evidence and life stories from survivors of child abuse, narratives of harms and assaults that were perpetrated by abusers who found positions of power and within these institutions, which gave them access because of the setting, in schools, reformatories, residential premises.

The predators understood the value of the status and the public trust afforded once they were part of the institution, embedded; these institutions would by their very nature seek to protect their image, status and access to kudos and wealth. The abusers would understand this.

That strategy of protection is played out right before us, in the 21^st Century.

It’s tactics are the stuff of courtrooms, banking, civilian police, media, settlement, intimidation, cover-up, and worse, the practice of protecting the abusers, moving them around large countries, or across continents, and when more assaults are made, the whole process starts again, with  an adversarial response from the Institution, mandating a rapid cash settlement, admitting no responsibility and a confidentiality contract. Thwarting Civil Criminal due process. Subverting the course of Justice....

There are a few common threads, patterns of behaviour to be observed in how Institutions across the world respondeda, throughout these decades of witness testimony, those with prima facie evidence, and whose evidence was corroborated and accepted in court as true, leading to indictments, prison sentences, pay outs, settlements, regulations, exposure.

The primary response appears to be to determine how best to manage what they see as a crisis first and foremost of the Institution itself.

This concern dominates the strategic and tactical arena of politicised clergy, or institutional officers, senior management, executives and leaders.

Tactics range from denial, to settlement, to intimidation, to adversarial court practices, setting Survivors who retain their trust in the system against others who do not hold that trust, for whom that is not an issue, yet whose access to support is filtered by that ‘flaw’.

Inadequate funding of healing services, care services set up to fail, through applying pressure across a range of activities, from funding to counselling, to legal advice, all loyal to The Church, and though they do use the lunch PR to advertise their good work…. The truth is that Charity by Institutions is part of their PR campaign.

A large budget is devoted to lobbying. The ultimate intent of that lobbying is to avoid the most necessary single action.

Total transparency. All their files.

News Media campaigns. The Good They Do.

Internal Inquiries.

‘Independent’ Internal Investigations.

Recommendations.

NO CONVICTIONS.

no indictments.

Settlements.

And

No matter how public the evidence becomes, the Institutional mind set will hold onto it’s power until the bitter end.

Because it is the Power, the exercise of power, the feeling of that, that psychology at it’s experiential base that Institutions and Bureaucracies can amplify; that is the Raison D’Etre of the Institution. The ‘service provided’ is both the medium through which power can be projected, and a decoy sweetener, social grooming.

So when more and more witness testimony comes forward, as it is, as it will as Survivors feel more encouraged that most people will support them, remember this.

Yes, the abusers committed the first crime; and the institution was an accessory after the fact on everything that flowed from that failure to protect the child because the status of the institution was primary in their concerns.

The institutional crimes are Wilful Negligence, Corporate Murder, Corporate Torture, Obstruction of Justice just to identify the most obvious……

So too when we hear that allegations were made, some upheld, many settled, privately and see that nothing in the way of preventative measures were taken when it was understood to be a common enough culture of exploitation of young vulnerable people in their care, and that we are to accept that behaviour by the standards of those times ….. tell ‘em to piss right off!

Gerroutahere!

The Correct Thing for The Institutions To Do is hand over all the data, evidence, paper work, ect of all known proven cases and allegations recorded within their sphere of influence, locally, nationally, internationally to UN mandated Public Judicial Inquiries, and let Justice be done, transparently.

Logically.

Obvious when it’s clearly outlined, innit!?

That is all they NEED to do, to support genuine Justice, to demonstrate they are indeed, followers of Christ.

They need do nothing else; well,  apart from rapidly prepare to divest much of their institutional wealth in reparations, to meet the civil costs bills...

On my list are all of the following, no order implied;  all should be fully televised.

They ought also be regulated away from any and all political activism, or influence over Governance as a public service, a professional public service, serving all. Equally. No Church more lobbying.

And they must accept criminal responsibility for all egregious actions that caused harms, according to standard criminal and civil tarrifs.

Prostrate in utter Humility before A statue of The Virgin Mary and Infant.

Become the essence of Christ and no other. No Old Testament. Chuck it out. It’s drivel. Sermon on the mount and all child and person friendly aphorisms…. that's as far as it goes.

Return all the wealth and land they stole from Native Peoples.

Have all their gold cloth and braiding recycled as clothes for refugees, homeless people, etc.  VAT free of course!

Remove the crucifixion from the story. It’s the words and actions as a healthy humane person that matter. The rest is all a distraction. Miracles? Hah. They happen all the time, anyways.

Redesign Churches as Community Centers, for everyone.

Cease claiming the Pope has a special line with God.

Not much to ask for in return for retaining the base of the institution, without all the corrupt trappings. given all that they have done - I’d call that a free pass of sorts.

End all forms of indoctrination.

That might be pushing it a bit.

Quakerise it.

Over the top!"

All of that we'd leave out, if ye'd just be honest and out yer hands up, and be done with it. That's what concerns most Survivors. The honest accounting, before the full public. The truth.

Simply put.

But no.

The FA will not do that. The Vatican will not do that. The Church of England will not do that. The BBC did not do that. Then there’s Cyril Smith. And …. And …. And… Public Judicial Inquiries on three or four continents. Massive world wide web of connected offending within Internationalised Institutions.

The Globalisation of Abuse.

The power and the money required to achieve all that.

That is what Survivors are standing up to.

The Institutions do not want to let go of that power and wealth.

For them “Power Matters, (your lives don’t.)”

It is a statement.

The Institution is the excuse to wield the power, and it is the power that is the primary addiction. It afflicts us all, high and low, and it is amplified when bad people gain access to the power of Institutions.

They were designed that way.

Economics as a weapon of conquest, as developed within the East India Company,  for example, over the course of 150 years.

Following on from previous experiments, they included Christianity as part of the myth of British goodness, alongside commerce and civilisation.

That was what the papers wrote. Fake News.

The BBC will not make itself transparently accountable.

That is pretty rough playing.

And more witness testimony emerges. More real news.

In the 1990s, it Ireland it was the Irish Swimming Sport; this week it’s Olympic Swimming in the USA.

Each new wave is a mountainous wave of heart-break, soul death, terror, confusion, anger, rage, shame, guilt, loneliness, despair and then resilience, for some, and the sheer courage it takes to stand up to these huge Institutions.

How strong are these Survivors?

How much do we owe them, really?

Is this not critical information about our societal power structures, beyond opinion, we are talking about evidenced stuff here. They did that. It did happen.

And the honest accounting of all this cannot be set aside so easily, nor, sad to say, is it likely to be easily attained.

It is there.

FAKE NEWS DEFINED!

Fake news is basically all the narratives that support these states of denial, either by ignoring, denying, pretending, distraction, scapegoating, whatever!!

Kindest regards

Corneilius

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