Damian M. Schloming ideas and information

Naomi Wolf on rape: "...ours is increasingly an age of geopolitics by blackmail."

This website is to allow me to present intelligibly my thoughts and insights on various social, political, historical and even scientific issues I've been studying in the past two years. 

Some of which I have background knowledge of due to having been involved with and interested in various political movements many years ago. 

My political viewpoint leans towards libertarian, except that I am not completely happy with the way some of them think. Libertarians want limited government and civil liberties. As a matter of principle, that is excellent. But then libertarians seem to suffer from this ingrained bias of Western Culture that you can somehow intellectually decide that government "should be" a certain way and then the perfect society can then be achieved by some legislative body sitting down and crafting some written rule decreeing that that is how society is to be from now on.

 

Actually, I think government and the larger society it is embedded in is more like some kind of living beast that you can train or that can morph in one direction or another, but it can't be so easily manipulated or changed as we think. Written rules don't have the exact effect they literally intend, but instead enforcement of the rules and all sorts of other considerations regarding government bureaucracies results in all sorts of ripple effects or unintended consequences. As a result, the most free society does not necessarily result from the one with the nicest and most free sounding written constitution or constitutional rights guaranteeing liberty. A very good example of this issue is the liberal Warren Court expanding all sorts of fifth amendment procedural and technical criminal protections for defendants. Liberals saying they want to do this might be arguing this is to help the poor. The opposite is the truth. This is to help defense attorneys, and why is that a bad thing? Because criminal procedures and technicalities of the liberal Warren Court only resulted in defendants having protection IF they could hire an expensive enough attorney to do a good enough job PRESSING them. Public defenders are part of the corrupt court system, they deliberately do a bad job so as to make sure well heeled defendants find it worth their while to pay extra. Huge sentences ALSO give well heeled defendants more incentive to pay extra. Thus, defense attorneys representing rich criminal defendants have a vested interest in maintaining the strict sentencing policies responsible for Mass Incarceration. Furthermore, there was a law school bubble which burst, and now law schools are doing poorly because lawyers are not finding it worth their while to spend so much money on a law degree. Fact of the matter is, those liberal Warren Court protections indirectly increased legal fees for defense attorneys, thereby contributing to the upward pressure on college tuition and law school tuition, simply because the amount of money attorneys could make from a law degree made it more worthwhile. 

It also is true that the regulatory state increased in many other ways, increasing demand for attorneys in other spheres besides the criminal justice system. But I am going to talk about the criminal justice system here for now to use it as an example.

This is just one example showing how a policy that, examined in the most superficial way you think it's designed to help criminal defendants overall in the long run has the exact opposite effect. Because these protections are ones that only can be accessed by those with the money to pay for top dollar attorneys. And, it isn't always necessarily related to the facts of the case. The attorney usually has an incestuous relationship with everyone else in the court system, so much so that basically if you pay the right attorney enough money, you will get off because he is friends with all the judges and prosecutors, and parole officers, etc.

And for me to say that could lead to others thinking it is rather awful to have a court system so incestuously corrupt. Except, these are all nice people who know each other and court systems have ALWAYS been like this, more or less. And they always will be this way. Government is incapable of being perfect. Understanding its inherent imperfections such as this are necessary when it comes to avoiding passing laws which interact with such a culture in a way to produce very bad outcomes.

 

After all, we have always had government and, for some reason, it would appear if we always have had it, that is because we need it. The inner workings of government are so awful, you discover after you observe it, it can easily lead many to think we should just abolish it. But, given that that is impossible, the best alternative is to understand it as inherently flawed, and realistically think of how to make things "the least bad."

This is what I have thought for a long time, yet only recently have I stumbled across some law professors who subscribe to a movement called "legal realism." It turns out they think exactly the way I do, and see the same flaws in our society (or in the thinking of popular culture which leads to wrong-headed policies in our legal system) that I see.

Oddly enough, they seem to describe themselves as leftists yet they are not the kind of ordinary mainstream leftist most people would understand to be "of the left." Which is strange because I never would have thought of myself as a liberal -- but not a conservative either. But maybe this is because of certain strands of liberalism I have been exposed to which are quite awful. 

In any case, why categorize oneself? As I study and learn more about society, I like to share various insights and not limit myself to any one "box" or "category" that I pigeonhole myself into.

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  • Today
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    1:09pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Doesn't reading HUFFPO propaganda get so tiring

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    1:18pm

    Damian Schloming

    its annoying yes

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    1:18pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Ur nickname hildebeest is perfect

     

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    1:18pm

    Damian Schloming

    apparently Michelle Obama was the one who nicknamed Hillary The Hildebeest first

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    1:19pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Ugh so it was supposed to be flattering?

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    1:19pm

    Damian Schloming

    no apparently they hate each other - this is all according to the guardian

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    1:19pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Or was that when they were competing?

    Gotcha

    I'm taking my play to colleges and it's so tiring talking to all these young "activists" who can't see that govt IS THE PROBLEM and SOURCE with systemic and systematic rape

    They think GOVT IS THE ANSWER 😐

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    1:23pm

    Damian Schloming

    well do you know how it is? They are young and -- well that's the thing. They either know the truth from their parents -- and are ambitious. Or they don't know and are easily manipulated.

    but if you pay attention to the things Naomi Wolf and Gloria Steinem say, you can see that as people get older, they wise up

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    1:24pm

    Heather Marlowe

    I'm 30 I'm not *that* old but I fucking get it. Yes you're right.

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    1:24pm

    Damian Schloming

    you get it -- but I think you get it because of what your experiences were

    that's why I get it

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    1:24pm

    Heather Marlowe

    YAS!

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    1:24pm

    Damian Schloming

    I totally understand -- but I sure didn't understand before I learned the hard way

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    1:25pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Yes I have to be patient with the youngsters lol

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    1:25pm

    Damian Schloming

    now if you ever talked to women like Naomi Wolf, Gloria Stiemen, or even Jane Fonda, they are somewhat measured in their public statements, but I think if you talked to them privately, you wouldn't experience that frustration

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    1:26pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Agree but they are silent to the young ppl bc they are embedded at this point

  •  

    1:26pm

    Damian Schloming

    I've been paying attention to things they say recently - in videos online

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    1:26pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Maybe not wolf

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    1:26pm

    Damian Schloming

    Steinem hints

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    1:27pm

    Heather Marlowe

    I'd like to see that I saw her talk in Marin and YAWN

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    1:27pm

    Damian Schloming

    in Marin?

  •  

    1:27pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Yes she was out here in CA

  •  

    1:27pm

    Damian Schloming

    oh

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    1:28pm

    Heather Marlowe

    she spoke about taking everything with love and measuring ones sacrifice

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    1:28pm

    Damian Schloming

    who did?

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    1:28pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Steinem

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    1:28pm

    Damian Schloming

    oh

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    1:28pm

    Heather Marlowe

    So I'd like to see her hinting is all I'm saying

    Bc I'm sure her vote will be with Hillary lol

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    1:28pm

    Damian Schloming

    yup

    there was a recent video of camille paglia

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    1:31pm

    Heather Marlowe

    W steinem?

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    1:31pm

    Damian Schloming

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88_3AhU0-B0

    Everything's Awesome and Camille Paglia is Unhappy!

    www.youtube.com

    Growing up as "a gender nonconforming entity" during Eisenhower's America wasn't easy for cultural critic and best-selling author Camille Paglia. Her adolesc...

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    1:31pm

    Damian Schloming

    no

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    1:32pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Also do your posts get taken down on FB lol?

    Mine do!

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    1:32pm

    Damian Schloming

    what she said was the rape activists that she doesn't like are the ambitious GRADE HUNGRY ones who have been helocopter parented

    well I started documenting any controversial posts so if they were taken down I could prove it

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    1:32pm

    Heather Marlowe

    YES! The rape activists who are trying to "get famous"

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    1:32pm

    Damian Schloming

    let me put it this way fb likes to censor things maybe but they sure don't like it if such censorship backfires

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    1:32pm

    Heather Marlowe

    EVE ENSLER

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    1:34pm

    Damian Schloming

    well in my experience, the one thing that was done to me that would qualify as rape -- definitely was rape, I mean it was pre-meditated, not really ambiguous -- was unpleasant but fairly mild and not that upsetting compared to most of the other things done to me

    being involuntarily drugged and ending up in a dangerous situation -- that's so much worse

    and then all the politics afterwards

    now maybe if you are a woman, it's worse, I don't know.

    but if I look at what they define as rape or make the biggest fuss about, and then I look at what experiences hurt me the worst, it's two different things

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    1:36pm

    Heather Marlowe

    It's not worse in "the system"! Rape victims are all treated the same!

    Agreed.

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    1:37pm

    Damian Schloming

    well I think there are a few "favored" rape victims out there, you know

  •  

    1:37pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Yes!

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    1:37pm

    Damian Schloming

    family connections and status make all the difference in the world

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    1:37pm

    Heather Marlowe

    You're right.

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    1:37pm

    Damian Schloming

    it's all politics

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    1:37pm

    Heather Marlowe

    I'm not talking about that.

    I'm talking about the common person

    Watching parliament

    Whoops

    Paglia

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    1:38pm

    Damian Schloming

    so police look at who the alleged perpetrator is and who the alleged victim is, and they think about whose mother is most likely to do a better job of lodging the sort of complaint against them with city hall that might hurt their careers, and they act accordingly

    you know mothers are more blindly protective of their children than fathers are - and are often able to far more successfully pull strings to get their own children favored treatment than men are

    if there are some young men out there who think they can get away with things -- isn't it more likely due to who their mothers are?

    ditto for complainants too

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    1:42pm

    Heather Marlowe

    yes. It's been interesting listening to the 1% mothers here in SF who are telling their sons that if any woman tries to cry rape they will have that woman taken down

    Also encouraging men to date off campus

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    1:42pm

    Damian Schloming

    yup

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    1:42pm

    Heather Marlowe

    We've created this though!

  •  

    1:42pm

    Damian Schloming

    however there are also mothers of daughters who encourage them to set men up

    for their careers

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    1:42pm

    Heather Marlowe

    RAPE HYSTERIA

    YES!

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    1:43pm

    Damian Schloming

    I've had tons of gay men try to set me up in different ways over the years -- manipulate me in all sorts of ways into bad situations

    there must be women who do this to to men

    because it's sort of an industry

    they get paid to do it

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    1:45pm

    Heather Marlowe

    ugh it's so dark.

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    1:45pm

    Damian Schloming

    oh and the thing with mothers telling their sons if any woman accuses them of rape, they will have her taken down, is sometimes it really happens. And sometimes he really did rape her.

    it all depends on how powerful a family is

    actually in my case -- I think the guy who raped me was probably asked to do so as a favor. And was rewarded for it. Because they WANTED me to do a complaint which could then be used to instigate a whole bunch of crimes against me

    they wanted me to go to the crooked police

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    1:47pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Yes for sure! I am surprised none of the alleged attackers at all of these colleges haven't sued yet. That says a lot.

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    1:47pm

    Damian Schloming

    I think some have

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    1:47pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Oh really?

    I know the fraternity at UVA is

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    1:47pm

    Damian Schloming

    there are a lot of men who have been expelled who are suing

    what they need to do is have separate dorms for men and women -- which make it harder to hook up so easily

    stuff like that

    if it's really a problem

    but this obsession with after the fact judicial processes -- no good

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    1:49pm

    Heather Marlowe

    No good. Did u try to sue the cops who fucked U over?

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    1:49pm

    Damian Schloming

    I went to an attorney

    and forwarded him all the documentation

    which was a huge amount

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    1:49pm

    Heather Marlowe

    and nothing...😐

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    1:50pm

    Damian Schloming

    well.....so far nothing really

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    1:50pm

    Heather Marlowe

     

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    1:50pm

    Damian Schloming

    but, if he were part of some cover up, I'd be dead and not talking about what happened to me online

    And he didn't TELL me that he dd anything about it, though he hinted.

    However, supposed there were some sort of investigation going on over it, it makes sense he might not have let me know about it

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    1:51pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Gotcha

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    1:52pm

    Damian Schloming

    look at it this way, if they want to solve a crime, they might send people in undercover, and would want certain people to not be expecting it

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    1:52pm

    Heather Marlowe

    of course.

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    1:53pm

    Damian Schloming

    but, the way I look at it, at first it looked like the attorney was handling things corruptly -- however, if that's what he really was doing, I'd either be dead or they'd have figured out some way to do something to me

    so I feel somewhat better now

    gradually -- it's a relief I can be less scared. But emotionally it's difficult

    the moment you stop being scared, you start thinking about the things people did to you, things you blocked out because you were in survival mode and numb

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    1:55pm

    Heather Marlowe

    yes! The victims suing down in Memphis are followed and threatened constantly

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    1:55pm

    Damian Schloming

    really?

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    1:55pm

    Heather Marlowe

    By the city

    Oh yes.

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    1:55pm

    Damian Schloming

    the victims who are suing in memphis are suing because of blatant corruption

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    1:55pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Yes

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    1:55pm

    Damian Schloming

    and refusal to process evidence

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    1:56pm

    Heather Marlowe

    It's a little different but I'm just talking about the aftermath

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    1:56pm

    Damian Schloming

    and these were unambiguous rapes too, right?

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    1:56pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Yes "perfect rapes"

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    1:56pm

    Damian Schloming

    yeah -- not these situations where it is a he said she said and the reason why justice didn't happen was because there was no evidence other than her word

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    1:56pm

    Heather Marlowe

    All the journalists trying to report on their case are threatened and black balled too

  •  

    1:56pm

    Damian Schloming

    well I think the New York Times engaged in selective reporting

  •  

    1:57pm

    Heather Marlowe

    New York slimes is what I call it

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    1:57pm

    Damian Schloming

    yes

    see I don't like the push for affirmative consent or to chip away at due process

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    1:58pm

    Heather Marlowe

    of course not!

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    1:58pm

    Damian Schloming

    if it is a he said she said and ambiguous -- even if it was rape, it's one of the less serious circumstances, and if you go and accuse a man who took advantage and was pushy but otherwise there is no physical evidence, he will get a scare and will watch himself next time

    and that's enough

    what's really bad are the obvious rapes where they are stonewalling

    falsifying evidence

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    1:59pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Yes and destroying evidence too

    As is what's going on in SF

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    1:59pm

    Damian Schloming

    now it's true sometimes a rapist will do a premeditated rape and be clever enough to make it look like he was just someone who was overly enthusiastic and had poor impulse control.

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    1:59pm

    Heather Marlowe

    at the crime labs

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    2:00pm

    Damian Schloming

    but, still, that's far less disturbing than the really egregious crimes that are covered up due to deliberate corruption

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    2:00pm

    Heather Marlowe

    YES! Deliberate. Systematic. Controlled. Corruption

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    2:01pm

    Damian Schloming

    they want to make it easier to push false allegations through -- so as to intimidate people into not pushing too hard against the really bad corruption

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    2:01pm

    Heather Marlowe

    This is the "movement"

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    2:01pm

    Damian Schloming

    yeah

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    2:01pm

    Heather Marlowe

    You just nailed it

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    2:01pm

    Damian Schloming

    well there are some people who are sincere and some people who are not

    did you read some of my posts I made regarding how I noticed the recent rape movement seems to have paralleled the withdrawal of troops from Iraq?

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    2:02pm

    Heather Marlowe

    No!

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    2:03pm

    Damian Schloming

    http://forums.avoiceformen.com/showthread.php?15592-Need-local-guinea-pigs-2011-Iraq-withdrawal-precipitated-campus-rape-movement

    I post a lot on avoiceformen -- even though they are kind of hostile to me

    I kind of use their server in a sense

    I've had a few people basically tell me that the rape issue gets used by medical companies to blackmail people in such ways that help them get guinea pigs for medical experiments

    And they did tons of medical experiments in Iraq and developed some very interesting procedures

    and now they can't do it in Iraq anymore -- and.......

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    2:05pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Reading rn

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    2:06pm

    Damian Schloming

    they probably use both accused rapists AND rape victims as guinea pigs. And some are individuals being blackmailed because they did wrong, others are individuals who may not have done wrong but have been effectively socially marginalized by those who have.

    now that's the thing -- people definitely HAVE told me all this stuff is true. However, I've been manipulated before and had people feed me lies trying to get me to repeat them so they could discredit me. So I'm a bit wary about it -- but it probably is true

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    2:17pm

    Damian Schloming

    if you just google enough stuff you will notice since the Iraq War they have made tons of progress -- with robotics and with transplants. It looks like with this man they gave him new sphincter muscles -- which they attached to his former nerves. And they got it half right but not completely right. Like they need to do more experimentation to figure out how to perfect it

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    2:17pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Im still reading the experiment chat

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    2:18pm

    Damian Schloming

    I was upset and somewhat freaked out when I wrote it

    I got to see......

    kind of creepy

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    2:19pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Did they solicit rape victims for this experiment?

    This is so fucked

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    2:19pm

    Damian Schloming

    and the manner in which he talked about it -- not straight forward, tons of beating around the bush and hints which you have to unravel and interpret

    Well I've had many gay men tell me the pedophile priest situation in the catholic church was used SOMEHOW to get guinea pigs for medical experiments, particularly with HIV drugs

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    2:20pm

    Heather Marlowe

    yes I'm following

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    2:20pm

    Damian Schloming

    so the question is, what is pedophile priests who were experimented on? Yeah I think so -- but part of the deal with the Catholic Church might have also involved experimenting on some of their victims too

    however, I do think men have one particular problem when it comes to being molestation victims

    think about the age of consent laws

    you are a child or underage and are molested -- definitely a victim

    but what if the priest or molester stays close to you and molests other children as well -- including group sessions and orgies which you have to participate in?

    and maybe all are children -- but what about when some of the victims start growing up

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    2:21pm

    Heather Marlowe

    yes

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    2:22pm

    Damian Schloming

    one day they are a victim -- the very next day on their birthdays, they turn into perpetrators

    this man was molested starting as a child -- and then forced into a monastery until maybe 24 or 25

    and these pedophile rings are dangerous and if you are forced into one as a result of being a victim, I think they can force you to participate in abuse of others -- and those who refuse to cooperate can get put in danger

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    2:24pm

    Heather Marlowe

    I'm totally following. And I'm sure that the colleges w the biggest endowments are investing in the medical industries and institutions w these experiments and sponsoring the anti rape crisis orgs hysteria

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    2:24pm

    Damian Schloming

    in other words I think there are some abusers out there who aren't even pedophiles but were abused by one as a child -- and they get pressured into doing it just to assuage the fears of their abusers

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    2:24pm

    Heather Marlowe

    I AGREE

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    2:24pm

    Damian Schloming

    yeah

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    2:25pm

    Heather Marlowe

    so dark. I mean look at no more -- they have a corporate medical sponsor JAZZ

  •  

    2:25pm

    Damian Schloming

    and think of how vulnerable and easily controlled you are at age 18, which is usually the age at which one can start to get into trouble

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    2:25pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Jazz markets the date rape drug

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    2:25pm

    Damian Schloming

    who does?

  •  

    2:25pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Think about all the experimentation

    Jazz pharmaceuticals

    They market xyrem

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    2:26pm

    Damian Schloming

    oh ok

    oh and medical doctors are very corrupt

  •  

    2:26pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Very.

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    2:26pm

    Damian Schloming

    and often get involved with illegal drugs -- they are the ones who have the access

    well now you see when I was a student at Harvard I worked for the Harvard development office for awhile -- the corporations and foundations dept. -- and I remember talking to some of them about the issue of corporations who give money and want to attach strings

    force them to do things they don't want to do

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    2:28pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Yes Harvard must "invest" their endowments to see a retune

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    2:28pm

    Damian Schloming

    and I talked to other people in the Harvard Administration about the whole issue at the time

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    2:28pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Return

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    2:28pm

    Damian Schloming

    it's definitely an issue they are aware of

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    2:28pm

    Heather Marlowe

    So they invest in the most corrupt things I'm sure right?

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    2:29pm

    Damian Schloming

    well it's more they get contributions they are dependent on

    what they did say, though, was the corruption is worse at poorer lower teir colleges that are more desperate for money

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    2:30pm

    Heather Marlowe

    But don't they also use their endowments aka donations to invest for a higher ROI in the market?

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    2:30pm

    Damian Schloming

    yeah

    well the thing with investing is it's different

    everyone invests and if there is structural corruption in society, you can't help that

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    2:31pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Yes

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    2:31pm

    Damian Schloming

    the biggest issue is if a corporation tries to donate money and force researchers to falsify experiments

    or cover up things

    it's using the brand name for corruption

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    2:31pm

    Heather Marlowe

    ahhh I'm following

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    2:31pm

    Damian Schloming

    as a product endorsement

    it's the corruption of research and silencing of Key Opinion Leaders

    that is what matters

    but think about it

    it's not just bribery that goes on

    corporations can deploy hit-men to get their way.

    or rapists plus crooked cops plus hitmen.

    carrot plus stick approach

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    2:35pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Of course! Did u watch the doc BIG BOYS gone BANANAS about how dole went after that filmmaker - if he didn't have cameras on they would have sent hit men after him

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    2:35pm

    Damian Schloming

    think about it. if they relied solely on bribery -- you'd get problems with whistleblowers

    no i didn't

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    2:35pm

    Heather Marlowe

    It's on Netflix

    SHOCKINGLY

  •  

    2:36pm

    Damian Schloming

    yup

    to be honest, I have my suspicions about what may go on at top universities

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    2:36pm

    Heather Marlowe

    We should!

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    2:37pm

    Damian Schloming

    if there is a very big name, the incentive for corporations to engage in certain kinds of control are high

    except, what this can result in is individuals -- including high up ones, prominent people -- AT the university literally being forced into situations where they must do certain things.

    to friends, lovers, children, family members

    where the ability of the corporation to deploy hit-men and other means can cause someone to see such stuff as the lesser of two evils

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    2:39pm

    Heather Marlowe

    God only knows what obama has endured!

    Yes!

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    2:39pm

    Damian Schloming

    I'm afraid to mention it too much

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    2:40pm

    Heather Marlowe

    yep smart

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    2:41pm

    Damian Schloming

    but what if some people at Harvard are forced to do horrible things to family members, like have family members get used as guinea pigs, and they go along with it because the corporations behind it have the capacity to cause all those who refuse to cooperate, and all those who would whistle blow to endure torture such as this: http://forums.avoiceformen.com/showthread.php?14420-Violent-threats-Milford-Cubicle/page4

    Violent threats - Milford Cubicle - Page 4

    forums.avoiceformen.com

    I have reason to believe that the following blog by Milford Cubicle constitutes a violent threat directed at me personally: http://forums.avoiceformen.com/entry.php?133-What-a-little-bitch! I submitted a longer report to the AVfM administration, containing confidential information I did not want mad…

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    2:43pm

    Damian Schloming

    And look at it this way -- think about it from the perspective of a CEO engaged in such criminality. They want several layers of protection. They don't want it to look like they forced people to use their family members as guinea pigs -- so they force these family members to engage in behavior which allows them to have a cover story that makes it just looks like they are bad parents, bad husbands, bad wives, evil people.

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    2:44pm

    Damian Schloming

    And then it looks like the university wants to cover it up to protect its reputation - except, universities are made up of individuals, none of whose livelihoods depends on a university's reputation. They can all whistle blow and jump ship somewhere else -- UNLESS corporations were preventing them

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    2:45pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Was that snitches transcript sent to you?

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    2:46pm

    Damian Schloming

    yeah and if you look at the threats he made, I suspect he has read a lot of my writings on various websites

    it's as if it's a veiled threat directed at me

    where I'm the one he is calling a snitch

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    2:46pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Yes

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    2:47pm

    Damian Schloming

    yeah one of the moderators for A Voice For Men was very interested in making sure that I read that transcript and that I watch the video

    and this same moderator is a former bailiff for the court system

    I mean, you know what that means -- bailiffs know stuff, after all they are the ones who are there in those "closed court room sessions" that happen when crooked police and the mafia have flubbed up and they need to quietly make a deal with someone

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    2:52pm

    Heather Marlowe

    It's so dark!

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    2:52pm

    Damian Schloming

    well, Nazi Germany was similarly dark

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    2:52pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Were u freaking out reading that?

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    2:52pm

    Damian Schloming

    there's precedent for it

    No I wasn't, oddly enough

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    2:53pm

    Heather Marlowe

    OMG yes!

    and wait

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    2:53pm

    Damian Schloming

    Because yeah it looks like it is directed at me -- at the same time, I don't believe it

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    2:53pm

    Heather Marlowe

    The moderator drew that to YOUR attention???

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    2:53pm

    Damian Schloming

    yeah

    A Voice For Men is kind of corrupt

    GrumpyOldMan -- he's berrated me often

    but that video is empty threats

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    2:54pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Yes I mean if the moderator is a shady former baillif

    I can't access it

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    2:54pm

    Damian Schloming

    they wouldn't ever threaten to do something like that -- they would actually do it

    yeah it was taken down

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    2:54pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Yep!

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    2:55pm

    Damian Schloming

    yeah the moderator is a former bailiff

    and Paul Elam is a former member of the healthcare system

    who had whatever kinds of inside connections so when he had a daughter he was miraculously able to game the system in such a way so he never had to pay a cent in child support

    These guys who run A Voice For Men are corrupt. Now the thing is, that does mean they know how bad the system is and they know it through and through

    and anyone who isn't corrupt won't know as much as they know

    corrupt people make bad allies -- but non-corrupt people also make bad allies because they are ignorant

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    2:58pm

    Heather Marlowe

    Yes well said! Damian I'm meeting a friend rn for lunch but it's always great to chat w you as DARK AS IT IS. I'll ttyl.

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    2:58pm

    Damian Schloming

    whereas corrupt people are bad allies -- but if they know the truth sometimes you can lean on them to do the right thing.

    yeah

    ok

    i need to run now too