I
added this banner to denote three important American works of film or
literature, which pertain to either Lake County, Illinois; child
abuse; or both.
The Great Gatsby takes place in Lake Forest, and is about the death of the American dream and how wealth doesn't bring true happiness.
The
Catcher in the Rye
is about a teenage boy named Holden Caulfield, who sees himself
catching children in order to save them from the adult world. Both
John Lennon's assassin Mark David Chapman, and Ronald Reagan's
shooter John Hinckley Jr., reportedly had the book on them when they
were arrested.
Ordinary
People
takes place mostly in Lake Forest. It was directed by Robert Redford,
and part of it was filmed at Lake Forest High School. In Ordinary
People,
Mary Tyler Moore's character is a cold, removed, narcissistic mother,
who is struggling to maintain a feeling of normalcy in her family
following the death of her son and a suicide attempt of her other
son. The film concludes with the mother abandoning her husband and
son (perhaps permanently, perhaps temporarily) by driving away in a
taxicab.
Students who attended Lake Forest High School in the first decade of the 21st century read "Gatsby", and were taught it well, and I know because I went to L.F.H.S. at that time. Many of us were also aware of the film "Ordinary People" because it was filmed in our community.
Unfortunately,
we were not taught to focus on The
Great Gatsby's
theme of the death of the American dream enough; nor did we have
sufficient opportunities to discuss what happens when people try to
keep-together deeply dysfunctional families, or when they try to
"smile through the pain" (the pain of emotional abuse, or
traumatic experiences, such as the loss of a son which occurred in
the film).
Nor
did we notice that, in Catcher,
Holden admits that he was subjected to sexual activity as a child,
when he discusses meeting a prostitute. Perhaps the most important
lesson which discussion of this book could impart, is that you have
to be looking
for
child sexual abuse and child neglect in order to find them; they're
not just going to pop out at you. Lake
Forest High School students were not taught this lesson.
Perhaps
the fact that Holden Caulfield was molested as a child, has something
to do with why the book is references so heavily
in Mel Gibson's film Conspiracy
Theory;
the main character compulsively buys copies of the book because he
was drugged and brainwashed as part of the C.I.A.'s MK-ULTRA program,
possibly while he was a child.
Maybe
if the people of Lake Bluff and Lake Forest had talked more about
this book, and kidnapping, and Diane Ross's crimes, in the first
decade of the 21st
century, then they would have been open much earlier to the
possibility that the government is involved in the trafficking of
children for sexual purposes.
The residents of Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, and other Lake County towns in which child molesters live, must come together as a community to discuss this problem openly, to ensure that accusations of child sexual abuse and related crimes are never silenced, and that children are protected from abusers as well as properly educated about the topic of child predation.
Most
importantly, Lake Forest students should be made aware of their
town's reputation for not only affluence and wealth, suburban charm,
and love of trees; but also its problems of child sexual abuse, child
neglect, drug and alcohol addiction, and white supremacy.
The
children of Lake Bluff and Lake Forest deserve to grow up knowing the
truth about the place they live and how the rest of the country
perceives it.
For more information:
Read
about Diane Ross's child pornography bust, at the following links:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-07-02-0007020099-story.html
Read
my statement to Lake Bluff police regarding the child sexual abuse I
experienced at the hands of my father, at the following link:
Watch my video about a Lake County prosecutor declining to file charges against my father:
Read
about the allegations against Dave Miller, at the following link:
Read
my letter to Kathleen o'Hara, at the following link:
Read
my message to Lake Bluff and Lake Forest parents regarding child
molesters in their area, at the following
link:
http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/07/message-to-lake-bluff-and-lake-forest.html
Read the description of a Facebook group I created to facilitate discussion of child sex crimes in Lake County:
http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/07/description-of-facebook-group-lake.html
http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/07/message-to-lake-bluff-and-lake-forest.html
Read the description of a Facebook group I created to facilitate discussion of child sex crimes in Lake County:
http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2020/07/description-of-facebook-group-lake.html
Image Created on June 29th, 2020
Article Written on June 29th, 2020
Edited and Expanded on July 2nd, 2020
Article and Banner Originally Posted to the
"Lake County C.S.A. Survivors Uncensored" Group on Facebook, on June 29th, 2020
This Article Originally Posted to This Blog on July 2nd, 2020
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