"Diary of an Activist"

My generation was the SILENCED GENERATION. When we complained as children about child sexual abuse no one listened. When we talked about torture, child pornography, and pedophile rings, no one believed us. When we went to the police they told us our cases were too old. So we had to find a way of coping with injustice.  In this monthly blog, I will be writing about my personal search for truth and justice as a survivor. And how I’ve turned to activism to find healing and closure.

11:11

Apocalypse is popular these days. A couple of days ago, Judy Rebbick was on CBC radio talking about the South American In Between Times. But these discussions weren’t common parlance when I was a girl. Still, in the secretive world of RAT pedophiles where I was abused, it was discussed. I was warned repeatedly in the early 1960s that the world was hurtling toward chaos. Not in 2012 but 11:11. The number 11 and many other numbers were often used to terrorize me.  Eleven was the cue to suicide. Eleven Eleven referred to a time of destruction when the dark forces would be unleashed and anarchy would reign in the world. This was something the criminals in my childhood actually looked forward to.

I researched the 11:11 prophecy in the early 1990s and could find almost nothing. The internet was just in its infancy. Finally I phoned a numerologist who had never heard of the prophecy, but could tell me that one was the symbol for the center, so two ones side by side symbolized upheaval. Four is the number of completion, so four one’s = ultimate upheaval.

For years therapists and counsellers have told me that this prophecy is programming, i.e., a belief system purposely instilled in me to keep me silent and stuck in fear. But after 9:11 I wasn’t so sure. I wrote about 11:11 in Mad Dog, my first book, which was launched 9:13, 2001. The twin towers were attacked on 9:11. People died. The book died. What shook me  most was the usage of the term. In the 1960s my tormentors referred to 11:11. Eleven eleven, a usage that only came into vogue that fateful September morning when two planes flew into the towers. From then on we knew it as nine eleven. No one had ever referred to dates in quite that way before.

It’s now ten years later. Last night I went on the internet and googled 11:11. I got a new album. Several YouTube videos. One told me that if I kept seeing 11:11 on the clock little celestial beings were trying to talk to me. Another warned of coming planetary disaster. Another of planetary Shangri-la. There was a bizarre video emphasizing the similar physical appearance of Osama Bin Laden and Barack Obama, the President of the United States. What was clear, was that the number 11 holds special significance to Islamic Fundamentalists and anarchists alike.  The number 11 has significance in the Koran. Both the New York City attack and Madrid bombings were carried out on the 11th day of the month. It stands to reason that 11 squared would hold some attraction. There may be a terrorist attack, anarchy may prevail for a time. But in the end anarchy is impractical and rarely lasts. I like to focus on the Hopi Prophecy, that after the iron fire falls from the sky, the world’s peoples will come together and reign as one for a thousand years of unprecedented peace.

What’s your favourite prophecy?

Montreal Gallery

In December 2009, Kelly Watt, Linda Macdonald and Jeanne Sarson of Persons Against Ritual Abuse-Torture were invited to speak at the 20th anniversary commemoration of the December 6, 1989 Montreal Massacre at the École Polytechnique de Montréal. Their talk was titled: The Torture of Women in Canada: Sexualized and Discriminated into Invisibility. While in Montreal, Kelly was interviewed (in French no less!) by Michelle Briand and Annick Dorkstrader of the Montreal feminist radio program: L’ELLES des femmes. Check out Stuff Happens to hear the interview.

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activismMy generation was the SILENCED GENERATION. When we complained as children about child sexual abuse no one listened. When we talked about child pornography, the torture of children and ritualized pedophilia, no one believed. When we tried to speak out in the early 1990s, the false memory syndrome poisoned the media with false medical science. Denial has ruled the day around most forms of extreme child abuse until just recently. Now the internet is coughing up photographic evidence that adults torture children, even infants, for pleasure and profit. The tide has turned. There is now hope for this generation of victims.

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