hi Larc,
Treborr Jones and sf's posts above speak a lot to your question.
You know already how difficult it is for an abused child to be "heard" and believed. Unless the child (or adult survivor, no matter how many years later) is believed, their chances of recovering from or even learning to live with the scars are lessened, if not impossible. Not wanting to imply you or anyone else is dense, I'm gonna use this illustration anyway:
scenario 1: Kid falls and breaks leg. Caring, loving parents take him to hospital and get him medical treatment. They provide emotional support in an impersonal hospital setting. They listen to him cry and hold him while he's in pain. They stand by him and meet his special physical needs extending dignity to him in his disabled state while he endures the healing process. His leg heals, he doesn't feel guilty for the amount of time required of loving caretakers, because they allowed him to have "normal" reactions to a traumatic occurance. He goes on with life with some capacity for joy.
scenario 2: kid breaks leg. He lies there alone for a long time because there is no one looking out for him. He drags his body home. He gets in trouble for being out. His leg is not broken, he's just using that as an excuse. Legs don't break. His leg is permanently damaged, but he learns to compensate. His obvious personality flaws are due to his weakness of character, laziness, or maybe he's just mental? Years later, he tries to explain to someone what happened to him. No one can believe him; it's just too preposterous. Things like that don't happen. He's just "bad", and that's the explanation for his difficulties.
What does this have to do with your question to me?
Silentlambs exists because some people couldn't tolerate the fact that pedophiles had license to perpetrate abuse right under their noses and they said "enough". They are listening to and believing what victims say, and are advocating for them, and are trying to stop it from happening to others. Is there anything more wonderful than this?
Some people practicing freemasonry also abuse children. To ensure secrecy and to force those in the higher levels of the sorcery they practice to remain loyal to the oaths they take, children are tortured and maimed. It's a hideous blackmailing tactic. The vast majority of people in these "societies", whatever, engage in bake sales and knit booties, but there are those in the higher degrees who engage in truly evil, hideous, unspeakable criminal acts.
I'm interested in healing from the abuse I endured. I don't care about comprehending these pig-fuckers, don't believe that's even possible. I do want very much though some validation of reality as I experienced it....(very difficult to achieve when you are drugged, dissociative, tortured and then told it didn't happen, and then threatened with additional torture and/or death if you speak of it).
Other people want to expose them and stop what is happening. I'm all for it, and I fear for them and cringe when they are slandered and vilified for their efforts. It would help me in ways I can't even imagine if ....
It's easier for me to believe that I'm psychologically impaired, a weak, lame liar, better off dead, etc. than to accept what actually happened. If there was some evidence to the latter, it would help me.
What others' motives are in looking into the connections between masons and Russell, et al are their concerns and if and when they see fit to explain or comment on their personal reasons, cool. Like skally has said, repeatedly, over and over, consistently: she's just doing search engine stuff and posting it. She does this at risk to herself, imo. I think she's brave. I am scared about retaliation for just writing this little post. They can't kill me though, because I'm already dead.
I believe your question was sincere, Larc, and hope that in this convoluted little note that part of it might have been addressed...
Respectfully, lauralisa