Oliver has a new twist?

[TrueTomHarley]

My wife and I recently saw a rerun of the musical Oliver. I had seen it before.

I have read the Dickens book that it is based on, Oliver Twist.

At no time when I read the book or initially saw the movie did I take Fagin for anything other than as portrayed: as a wicked man who trained his army of children to be his pickpockets, and thereby reap gains.

This time around my very first thought was: A pedophile! What else is he doing with those young boys!?

THAT is the best validation of Anthony Morris’s statement of several years back:

’When the epidemic of child sexual abuse initially came to light, we were all a little naive as to the severity of the problem.’

Ever so much of the froth over the JW organizational response to child sexual abuse is the determination to judge yesterday’s abuses by today’s standards.