http://www.comedycentral.com/episodes/lvzjwg/workaholics-to-friend-a-predator-season-1-ep-108

When the guys try “To Catch a Predator”, a local child molester, he turns out to be the coolest guy they ever met.

And people wonder if there is an attempt to normalize child abuse and sexual exploitation. Really? This is what people are watching on the idiot box? Cause this is simply another example of what I am talking about.

So a “friend” of mine that I have worked with for 5 1/2 years now- who I felt was close, got caught secretly taping our conversations today and I had to ask her to leave. After what I just experienced with Zachery, I can’t help but think that I got tag teamed this weekend with the people who are looking for anything to take me down or find something they can hurt me with. I was asked the question today- who can I trust- and the only people it seems are people who have never been involved or expressed an interest in what I am involved with.

People seem to be crawling out of the woodwork trying to get me to talk with them privately while trying to catch me up on things that I believe concerning the shamanic stuff that I am practicing. Why? Because they believe that this is the easiest way to discredit me- as most dismiss what they don’t understand. We are all brothers and sisters of Jesus- if you read the Bible- and the kingdom of Heaven- according to Jesus- is within, so why people have such an issue with my spiritual beliefs is beyond me. Shamanism was the first spiritual practice of mankind- and is known universally throughout the world, so why people believe it is any more crazy than Moses talking to a burning bush, parting the red sea, and a boat that actually carried every animal known to man in a flood without eating each other is an enigma. God has ALWAYS spoken through visions and dreams, and so why this is considered evil or satanic is illogical when this is how it has happened throughout time. It was only in using what I was taught as a child that got me through to the man I am today- and I am not going to get into a question of ethics when there are very few who have walked in my shoes.

The production of the documentary is already well on its way- and it will be released as it is filmed so that people can see the creation of it for themselves. I think that this will be interesting- and there is a great roster already of people who are willing to be interviewed. Always taught that if you control the perception of the thing- you control the thing itself, I- and a list of others- think that it is time that the truth finally comes out- and in the process, hopefully it will set us free.

So it seems that the film maker from LA has been in contact with Nick Bryant before he was in contact with me- and after being caught in a series of lies about it- I have come to the conclusion that Zachery Alexander- if that is indeed his real name, is either playing for Bryant, or is working with his own intent- with no regards as to what the truth is in the matter. Wanting to make it all about me- the philosophy this man was offering regarding the film was against everything that I feel to be true, as it is not about me but rather a collection of people, and those that offer themselves up as experts in all of this are NOT to be trusted.

Telling my friend that he had Nick Bryant’s number but hadn’t used it, he later told me- when confronted- that he had called Bryant but that it was only because he had found a 40 million dollar connection to a bank account in the name of Larry King in Seattle- which I could tell was a lie. Why? Because Alexander made it an issue not to speak about Franklin- and simply wanted to focus it as a human interest story about me- appealing to my ego by naming it “What happened to David”. However, all he was able to achieve was fluff on me- as there was a personality clash with yet another of my friends, who wanted to go along and help. Doing his best to isolate me and gain my trust, I warned him that I had a great group of people who continue to look out for me and that he would have a hard time pulling a fast one if that was his intent. Catching him in a series of lies, I was glad I pulled out when I did- as I avoided going into things that I would later have no control over- as I don’t know anything about the man at all.

I basically figure that this whole escapade is just another example of the targeting against me, as I first met Zachery Alexander at the SMART conference years back- and it was not until this whole difficult situation with Bryant being supported by Brick (the lone head of the SMART conference) that Alexander surfaced. Desperate to get anything they can to discredit me- I am content in that, since I only tell the truth, I didn’t say anything I regret- even though he recorded me on private phone calls thinking I was unaware of it as it was happening. Now- judging by the search strings I have on my blog- I am assuming that he is making contact with my stepmother in some desperate hope that she will give him something that he can use against me- although Joanne C. Shurter- my stepmother, prime abuser, and partners in crime with my father Robert Lynn Shurter, has nothing but her opinionated dirt on me- as if she had anything- she would have used it a long time ago.

All of this was not for naught, as Alexander gave me some great ideas to finally get the word out effectively- and so I have joined forces with a group of people who are helping me to do our own video investigation that we are going to release as it comes- as it is more about getting the info out than making a buck or making a case. Alexander is going home without getting anything substantial from me, and it is because of my council that I found the initiative to stop what was presenting itself as a great opportunity but under the surface was anything but. Yet another attempt to target me- I just have to assure those who are interested that not only did it not work, but rather it has helped a group of us to garner what we needed to get all of this going effectively and creatively. Thanks.

One last thing- we are looking to interview anyone who would have anything to say about the Franklin Credit- as we are looking for the REAL stories in order to expose all of this. It is my contention that it is not MY story but rather is a collection of ALL OF OUR STORIES that will bring the truth and justice to all of this that it deserves. We all must stand together and speak up- as each one of us has a puzzle to the whole of this mess. It is together this we will be able to break this apart. If you have something you would like to share- please contact me at davidshurter1@gmail.com . Thank you for caring and being strong enough to reach out!

Some things are starting to come to light since I have been filming this recent documentary, and I wanted to share some of the things I have heard and seen in the last week.

First off- I find it interesting that the old Antiquarium bookstore that was fundamental in the mess during Franklin with child prostitution is all burned up now. Could this be because they didn’t want anyone finding out or exploring the private room that was used? Just like Larry King had a “bedroom” inside the credit union, Tom- the owner, had also turned this secret back room into his as well. Funny enough, although I was just down there the day before yesterday filming the workers pulling the burned parts out of the building, I can’t find ONE article that showed that this happened. The Antiquarium is not only down in the most prestigious area of town (the Old Market)- but it- and it’s owner- who has since moved to Brownville- are notorious here in town. Could this “secret” fire have anything to do with that room in the back?

Secondly, it has come to my attention that Peter Citron, columnist for the Omaha World Herald, convicted pedophile and Franklin Credit participant, who also happened to be my mother’s best friend for many years- DID NOT die of natural causes like it was reported but, in fact, supposedly “suicided” himself by drinking Drano. This sounds like a “hit” to me, and though it isn’t surprising- I just chalk it up to more of the disinfo that has been raging around this case for decades. Omaha is still a small place- and I have found people to be more than willing to tell what they know of Franklin now- even if it is only in hushed tones, so it is inevitable that the truth is going to escape.

Also, Offutt Air Force Base is doing a three million dollar renovation- and the underground bunkers that I remember so well are to be filled in with concrete. All of this is taking place this summer- and I just find it all to be incredibly coincidental.

The key to much of this is has not been completely eradicated but rather resides in the Brandeis mansion on Davenport street. It would be interesting to see what cadaver dogs would pull up- esp. in the attic part of the house. Alan Baer was a sociopath, and if the walls of his house could talk- it would speak of the atrocities that happened within that dwelling. Although it seems that Omaha is busy erasing the physical reminders of Franklin, this one place stands as a testament to what happened.

Felicity LeeIf anyone needs a recommendation to groups that are safe, private, and reputable, just email me – It is my personal preference to NOT post personal information on fb – there are many reasons for this preference – ‘safety’, to me means: that people who will mock me on some other blog (which has happened) do not have access to what I post. It means that my posts remain where I put them – and, if I want to take them down later, I can make that decision, and the owner will be able to completely remove them from the web – knowing that they are not sitting in everyone’s email and published on the web. It means that I know that there are guidelines, they are being enforced, and that the ‘owner’ has a reliable and long-term reputation within the survivor community – . I know that only the people who I know have access to pm me – and, I know that they have been screened before accessing me. I know that participating takes time and community – people can’t just jump in and read and respond on a whim. There are laws that therapists and drs. follow pertaining to confidentiality – for a reason. If my therapist were to breach confidentiality – not much I can say if my personal, mental health, and medical information has been spread all over the internet by ME – that is hypocritical. This is the very reason why IGDID fb page is blank. I do not and will never ‘encourage’ survivors to write there, but rather to take a few seconds to apply to and participate on safe boards which are not part of a ‘social network’ like fb. Owners of boards have spent many years – not a couple months – building community – something worthwhile and precious. Just wanted to put this out there. Safe care to you all

I Commented on this Facebook Post

Facebook sells EVERYTHING- why does anyone think what they post on here is exempt? Prospective employers look at Facebook- and many times demand the access to it- so to put really private things- like being demon possessed- could hurt any potential employment, housing, or any number of licensing. PLEASE DO NOT POST PRIVATE THINGS ON FACEBOOK. To do so publicly is NOT empowering- it is pure and utter stupidity that sets you up to look bad in anyone’s eyes that don’t understand or have the compassion to get involved. Despite what others- who are less than a year old- like Insomniac- who no one knows, let alone her friends- are DANGEROUS. Considering what others have gone through- why does anyone think that Facebook couldn’t be used in the same way. A therapist DOES NOT HAVE THE TIME TO SIT ALL DAY ON FACEBOOK AND MAKE “THERAPY” ROOMS. But I know someone and his group of friends- who do. Why would anyone think this place would be exempt. People are being lead- and they are being stupid- and if you wish to publish intimate details- then why don’t you just do so everywhere- and tell everyone that you see- because that is effectively what you are doing in here. Think before you speak. Otherwise- there are trolls who are looking to destroy the survivor community. They will do their best to rip everything apart- and they are focused, and they are VERY VERY REAL. So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don’t put private intimate details on Facebook- and for God’s sake-= and your own- stop feeding the trolls. PLEASE.

Insomniac answered on a post

Insomniac In · Friends with Judy Byington and 2 others
why do you think I am dangerous?
I’ve never said I am a therapist, because I’m not. And I do know some people face to face and work with them and other survivors.

Published in this summer’s issue of Paranoia magazine. It is broadly distributed, but you can order copies of this article through Publisher Ron Patton- at paranoiapublishing@gmail.com.
It will also be put up on Paranoia’s website… http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/

A History of Silence:
Child Trafficking in the United States
By David Shurter

As a survivor of parents who sold my older siblings and me for sex throughout the 1950s-1970s in Omaha, Nebraska, human sex trafficking can be nothing but personal to me. Because they were involved with an organized pedophile ring, I don’t find any of it to be particularly new, but I do admit to being incredibly frustrated by the history of silence that continues to surround human sex trafficking in our nation.

Contrary to popular belief, human trafficking and child prostitution are not a new phenomenon, nor are they just a problem in developing nations, as detailed in journalist Benjamin Skinner’s book A Crime So Monstrous. The United States has a long and sordid history, too, and it is this that I would like to focus on.

The other day, I went online to search for photographs of human trafficking victims and was struck by the fact that there was not one picture that depicted boys being sold. Why is that? I wondered, considering our nation’s long history of selling, raping, and trafficking boys.

Now it’s all about Jerry Sandusky’s atrocities at Penn State, but even that official story doesn’t make sense, given that those involved risked neither their livelihood nor reputation to support and hide one lone pedophile. Before it even became public, a prosecuting attorney disappeared, along with his laptop hard drive.

It is not hard to see the similarities to what happened here in Omaha and the events concerning the prostitution of boys and the downfall of Franklin Credit in the 1980s. Chief investigator Gary Caradori and his eight year old son AJ were blown out of the sky close to the jurisdiction of one of the very people he was investigating: ex-Omaha Chief of Police Robert Wadman, who was on scene of the crash suspiciously soon. Quite a coincidence, you might say, and that’s not counting all of the incredible “coincidences” surrounding the sex trafficking of boys. Less coincidence than pattern, it is apparent that there is a group of people working to control the public’s perceptions of our nation’s problem with sex trafficking boys.

I have spent a great deal of time trying to expose what happened here in Omaha. First, I set up DavidShurter.com, then wrote my autobiography of those years in Omaha, Rabbit Hole: A Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivor’s Story. Throughout all of this, all I’ve gotten is resistance from the local police, the Nebraska State Patrol, Mayor Jim Suttle, Judge Marlon Polk, and Nebraska Senator Ernie Chambers, to name a few. Their wish is to disregard and overlook the serious allegations I have put forth concerning major people involved in government and its tentacles of power back when savings and loans were failing all over the nation and drugs-for-guns deals with the Contras abounded. In other words, the problem of human trafficking was fueled by a complex crime history penetrating to the highest offices in the land.

Still, those behind it might be rich and powerful, but they are human beings like the rest of us, no more and no less. To stop the deplorable practice of child sex trafficking, we must first understand the problem, which means opening our minds to what we may not even wish to consider, then finding the power within ourselves to hold the traffickers and users accountable. It will take all of us as a society to awaken to the gravity of this problem and learn from it in order to put a halt to the practices.

The 1981 documentary Boys for Sale shows that Omaha was not alone in the sex trade of boys in the 1980s. It depicts the pervasive practice of sex with boys in Houston, Texas—yet another dark tale of government and local authorities failing to live up to their electorates’ expectation that they will protect our most vulnerable citizens. Frank Morrow hosts a show in which Dr. Tom Philpott, history professor at the University of Texas, details the issues concerning the prostitution of boys and the power structure behind it that helps to promote and profit from the business.

Boys for Sale is mirrored in the later documentary The Conspiracy of Silence (1995), which concentrates on Omaha in the same years. Sadly, on October 9, 1991—soon after his interview was aired—49-year-old Dr. Philpott was “suicided” and investigations into what was happening in Houston came to a halt—much like what happened to “Baer boys” just before the Franklin Credit Union investigations began, though I don’t think that Dr. Philpott decided to wrap plastic around his face like the boys around here had done to them.

It is common knowledge that pedophiles do not like to work alone but prefer to share with others the exhilaration of their “conquests.” This was true long before the Internet, as groups like Dreamboard have taught us, not to mention the North American Man Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) whose motto is “sex before eight or it’s too late” and whose documentary Chicken Hawk is in its entirety on the Internet to share the beliefs and practices of those who founded and fought for its establishment.

Unfortunately, instead of becoming less prevalent, it seems that pedophiles have become more empowered, like the man on Amazon, for example, who published a book on the nuances of pedophilia and how to seduce a child. Amazon eventually pulled it, but not before it hit the news and exposed the propensity of some men to publicly flaunt their perverse sexuality.

What is not well understood are the women who abuse young children, both girls and boys. Statistics indicate that pedophiles are generally straight men, but that doesn’t rule out women as predators, nor does it diminish the harm done to the male child when abuse and exploitation occur. The unfortunate belief is that female abusers either don’t happen or are no big deal when they do, which helps to feed the public perception that abuse of boys is not occurring, or at least to minimize the cases that do come up by disingenuously overlooking their complexities. And all abusing women are not sexually attractive teachers (like Mary Kay Letourneau) living out schoolboy fantasies. Understanding that women can be victimizing pedophiles and not just victims has been as muddied by media as the perception that men can be victims as well as victimizers. The fact to keep in mind is that violence and degradation of victims is less about gender and more about the adult’s own early trauma. Sexual abuse of boys knows no gender boundaries.

Society’s cultural mores are manipulated to suppress just how pervasive the trafficking of boys is, which is why it was surprising that Frontline ran a special on the Afghani practice called bacha bazi in the documentary The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan. In English, bacha bazi means “boy play”: young boys forced to dress and dance as women, after which they are sold to the highest male bidder and sexually molested. Even in countries where this is supposedly taboo, The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan shows that the sexual exploitation of boys is happening quietly all over the world, beyond religious or class paradigms. Those who try to stop it eventually find that the roadblocks to making a difference are overwhelming, disheartening, and even dangerous.

My experience of trying to get my family investigated for their role in key child abductions and child trafficking here in Omaha has been futile, given that many live in fear of digging up the past. The first threats when whistleblowers speak out are livelihood and families, or at the very least they are discredited and marginalized to convince those around them that they are “outsiders” and not to be believed. I have been told more than once by more than one person that what I have been trying to expose is a career killer at best.

Some incredibly powerful people are still involved with child trafficking, as became obvious when someone gave one of my booksellers an unwelcome 3 a.m. visit. Who it was, no one knows, but it was enough to convince people that what I am dealing with in Omaha is real.

Even those who do come forward to report such things are generally met with such resistance that only the most tenacious are able to keep going. Most often, they go unheard or are blatantly ignored, disregarded, and disempowered. There are many, many people out there who have lost loved ones only to be told that nothing can be done about it. Even when you tell police and local law officials that your father confessed to literally having “skeletons in his closet,” it isn’t enough to get them to do anything. In fact, they are trained to consider such allegations to be crazy, despite the fact that that is how many viewed the allegations against the Catholic Church before the exposure of their conspiracy to reroute and enable pedophile priests to molest children at will.
Widespread conspiracies exist, given that power always conspires. But these are different times, aren’t they? For the first time maybe ever, the truth has a chance of coming out. We as a nation are beginning to wake up to the issues that have been kept from us.

Why is there such resistance when it comes to child trafficking? To long to protect and defend children at all costs is not radical. You would think that our local officials would do whatever it takes to promote this normal, natural desire. And yet we are ensnared in cover-up after cover-up, and have been for generations.

Like the Catholic Church, our nation’s leaders are bent on overlooking and misrepresenting child trafficking. WHY? Why do media completely disregard and misrepresent this issue? Is it because there are more Jimmy Savile’s hiding in more BBC’s? What lies behind these desperate maneuvers?

Many of the children who have been trafficked have been used in secret government projects that have continued since MKULTRA in the 1950’s. Penn State and MIT were involved in MKULTRA, to name only two complicit institutions of higher learning. Penn State was football coach Jerry Sandusky, and some believe software genius Aaron Swartz was “suicided” because he had discovered a child porn ring at MIT.(1)

Somehow entwined with cult Satanic practices, trafficked and abducted children found their place on our altar when I was a kid. Though I don’t completely understand the connection between MKULTRA and Satanism, that there is a connection is undeniable, and both are in league with human trafficking. Neither MKULTRA nor Satanic practices have gone away; rather, they have shifted and changed in complexity.

In the years that I have been researching my family’s past, many amateur investigators have helped me along the way. The human trafficking at Penn State and possibly MIT make me wonder if pedophilia has settled into our institutions of higher learning with their connections to gifted programs and children foundations such as Sandusky’s Second Mile. So why have the media backed off from so many of the details surrounding Second Mile? Boys Town outside Omaha, THE Catholic institution for “at risk” boys, was pivotal to the prostitution and exploitation of young boys in the 1980s (and may be today, as well).

Americans must question and probe the integrity of these institutions. As a society, we are brought up not to question the authority of our trusted institutions, many of which now serve under a corporate and military dictatorship. The opportunity to stop child and human sex trafficking lies before us, and it is our responsibility as a society to protect our children.

Remember the “satanic panic” of the 1980s and 1990s? Satanic panic was created as a counterforce to Boys for Sale (1981) and Conspiracy of Silence (1995). Children were being trafficked for sexual exploitation and key members of our society wanted to cover it up so they scapegoated therapists for implanting weird Satanic memories in children’s brains. The truth is that our nation was saddled with sociopathic adults indulging in the prostitution and trafficking of children. Reasons for the how and why of this disaster were confabulated into a bunch of nonsense headlines to distract and defend situations in which children were coming home from daycares with sexually transmitted diseases.

In the name of stopping what they deem to be a “witch hunt,” the pedophile protector squads sent out by the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) is even now bashing survivors and survivor advocates such as Judy Byington who just published 22 Faces, both on the Internet and in real life, to prevent a reconsideration of this aspect of our nation’s past. FMSF was designed and formed in 1992 by alleged pedophiles to protect and serve other pedophiles by dismissing allegations of abuse as mental illness and manipulation by our therapy community. Like NAMBLA, FMSF protects child sex exploitation, especially of our nation’s boys.

According to the Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2,185 children are reported missing a day. Tabulated by our own Department of Justice, this number does not include “throw away” children who leave undesirable homes and hit the streets. In Nebraska, children have been sexually exploited for years. There is still virtually nowhere to go for help, except the Salvation Army program called Wellspring, designed for women and not men. With nowhere to go and no one to help them, most trafficked youths, male and female alike, fall through the cracks of societal justice and receive nothing but a cold hand of indifference. By ignoring the problem, we have allowed our borders to become ripe for the selling of young flesh for profit. It is we who have allowed this deplorable practice to thrive. Now, pedophilia is epidemic—the exploitation of young boys as well as babies, girls, and women.

The sexual exploitation and trafficking of boys went straight to the first Bush White House. For those who naysay that George H.W. Bush was involved in trafficking children and secret MKULTRA projects, I must remind them that he was head of the CIA (1976-1977), and once CIA, always CIA. He had intimate knowledge and control of the “real” government instrument of the United States. To maintain that the man’s hands aren’t dirty with the blood of innocents is to deny what the CIA is designed to do. It is nothing more than our American version of the Russian KGB, now known as the FSB. It is no coincidence that Houston had the same issues as Omaha at the exact same time, given that the Bush family and those connected with the Bush wing of the Republican Party had a strong hold on both towns in those years. Nor is it a coincidence that boys were being trafficked in both cities, or that mainstream media eventually reported this activity as gracing the front steps of the White House with the Jeff Gannon affair (2003-2005). Consider all of the other controversies the Bush family has been involved with—drug- and gun-running, the Iran-Contra Affair, October Surprise, presidential election theft in 2000—and then try to convince me that the trafficking of boys was beyond Bush Sr.

Many of the richest citizens of Omaha were involved in what happened in Omaha in the 1980s and 1990s as they helped to fund empires that men in Washington, D.C. were building while the rest of the nation lost its shirt in the savings and loan crisis. One-room pizza joints became a national chain, contractors and real estate moguls amassed huge fortunes from sources beyond what was traditionally available in the average world. Nothing more than a small “cow town” near Offut Air Force Base at the time, Omaha earned a kind of infamy in those decades, due to fortunes acquired from more than normal ingenuity and good business sense. Drugs flowed in from the Contras; prostitution and trafficking of young boys was at its peak.

It was all connected. To separate and examine the distinctive parts is fine, but put them back together into the larger picture playing out at the time—events that have fueled human and child trafficking for generations.

So what can we do as a society to stop these disgusting practices? I wish I knew. Unfortunately, I have been at this for so long that I have run out of ideas. In Nebraska, people like Senator Amanda McGill and her staff are working diligently to shed light on these problems, but as usual, they have encountered serious roadblocks.

Educate yourself and others as to the complexities surrounding child trafficking. If and when you see injustice, get involved and do what you can to alert those around you to the problems. Most importantly, do not look away or ignore those caught up in trafficking, but rather help others to get involved in helping. If our local and government officials are unable to contend with these issues, then it is up to us, like everything else.

Notes

1. Yoichi Shimatsu, “Was Aaron Swartz killed by an MIT Satanic Child Porn Ring?” Rense.com, January 15, 2012.

David Shurter is the author of Rabbit Hole: A Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivor’s Story.

I am taking off this week- until about Friday- the 29th of June- due to the fact that I have a documentary film maker in town who is filming me and the things about my life and so I am not going to have the time to blog this week. I am sorry if this causes any problems- but this is an important project and I am thrilled that someone has taken such an interest in getting the truth out.