Happy Holidays everyone!
So I bring you all a holiday update for the Free Mickey group.
I am sure if not already, most likely at least one bottle of champagne will or had been uncorked. With glasses raised high, the corrupt paid Scouters of the Rip Van Winkle Scout Council and their cronies who have kept them in power will be together toasting the new year. They will be doing so as National BSA has given them an early Christmas present. They have finally ended the facade of their non-transparrent process or should I say theater to finally do what they made up their minds to do 16 months ago. Reguadless that there was a lack any real reason and a total lack of due process at all, the revocation of my membership has been sustained.
I am sure there will be Scout Handshakes, winks and nods as they feel they have somehow won a victory. Don't ruin it for them by telling them, it is the holidays afterall, but they have lost in ways they will never realize.
They lost 63 years of Scouting experience and knowledge and a traditions. They selfishly robbed themselves of the "wonderful" that could have been in the future from the Profera boys who were enthusiasticly participating in the program as they watched their fathers get pushed out. For what? Greed? Having to feel they are always right? Never wanting or knowing how to handle constructive critisim? Needing to be the final word in every difference of opinon? If they cared about the program I would say they smited their noses for the rest of their faces, but I have come to the conclusion through the disenfranchisement of this experience that they could care less about the program or the youth.
What they care about the most is what they have also lost from my family. They have lost the future profits from what they could have made from the sales of; candy, popcorn, coffee, hot chocolate, patches, books, uniforms, official scout equiptment, summer camp fees, year round event fees and lets not forget their favorite slush fund "Friends of Scouting". A lot of profits, ALL, that primarily line their pockets. Their loss.
As for those young Profera boys who were the ones I was most concerned about. They have moved on to new passions and have continued to be happy and healthy boys who at times are in inspiration for the rest of the family.
I did not mean for this to be an angry tyrade rather than an update. I wish I could say that after a year of silence from National that I am surpised, buy I am not. I been over feeling upset about any of this for the better part of that year. If anything I feel a tremendous amount of empathy for those paid scouters and their volunteer cronies who have lost their moral compass. Those who have failed to absorb the true meaning behind the ethics and values that the program was originaly built upon and only ever now hinted at in recent handbooks.
If you are reading this, please harbor no hate, no anger, no discourse in your hearts. I harbor none in my heart. I forgive them for what they have done. I have been in the process of moving on for quite while. It is my wish that everyone do the same. If they ever feel the slightest pang of regret about any of it, its my hope they will forgive themselves. Hate does not undo hate, only love wil do that. Keep them in your prayers everyone.
There is no path to happiness, happiness is the path.
Always remember to leave things and more important people better than you found them.
Thank you who all signed the petition, offered a shoulder, helped in so many ways. Some may think I am accepting defeat when in fact I am recognizing reality. I have been offered no further appeal or recourse. So, I guess its time to move on. Life is too short to get stuck on something like this. As I have discovered there is life after Scouting and the rest of the world to discover, in many ways, its Awesome.
With love, seasons greetings to ALL! Perhaps we will all meet again at the end of the trail sitting at the final campfire together. I will save you all a seat and put the coffee on.
-Mickey
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Sadly, it appears that this will be the final update from Mickey as National BSA has completed their farce of an appeal process. This page was created to support Mickey in his fight for justice against an unjust and perverted establishment that used to be a great organization. While we are waiting for Mickey's request to us, discussions with him have indicated his wish to move on. So this page and blog will probably end in the near future.
