Successful Predators Operate In Institutions that Enable Them

Joe Navarro writes about clergy abuse in the Roman Catholic Church and abuse by sports coaches at a renowned university.

Corboy contends that this directly applies to the entire history of Shambhala, starting with Chogyam Trungpa.

Many thanks to Families Against Cult Teachings for mentioning Mr. Navarro's work and making his insights available.

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"Predators, especially smart ones, go into professions where their victims will be easy to access.

In other words, they count on institutions, to wit: the Catholic church or a university as in these cases, to attract and corral the victims for them — thus making predation easier and more plentiful.

Yes, that is how predators think, I know, I have interviewed them. This is what institutions fail to get."

More here:


Larry Nassar, Jerry Sandusky, and the Catholic Church

How institutions contribute to sexual predation.
Joe Navarro MA

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There are many things that are nefarious in these cases but what really stands out and it should make you angry, it is this: Predators, especially smart ones, go into professions where their victims will be easy to access. In other words, they count on institutions, to wit: the Catholic church or a university as in these cases, to attract and corral the victims for them—thus making predation easier and more plentiful. Yes, that is how predators think, I know, I have interviewed them. This is what institutions fail to get.

A sexual predator on the street may be able to sexually assault only occasionally and are in the end more likely to get caught. But an institutional predator, as those described above know they have access to many more potential victims; they will not likely be detected, and they count on blind institutional loyalty. Predators are fully aware that they will be insulated and protected, and most likely they will just be terminated. They know most organizations want to protect their reputation so not much will be done. How else could those Catholic priests, Sandusky, and Nassar have continued to prey on innocents with such impunity? Institutions historically defend the predator first and the victims last.

And not only will institutions protect the predator, they will do the dirty work by questioning the veracity of victims or their memory, or worse, they may decide to just silence the victims. As unctuous as that sounds, that is exactly what they do. Institutions and enablers culpably embolden predators and so predators continue to do more harm.

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Years of researching dangerous personalities has also taught me one other thing. Institutions and even some law enforcement agencies always think in limited terms – in other words, there is just one isolated complaint, probably not much more there. What they negligently don’t realize is that when it comes to predators, the debris field of human victimization is always larger, never smaller than they ever imagined. Institutions in particular want to fixate on the one case, not realizing that part of the pathology of the sexual predator is to prey upon many victims. When it comes to predators, the iceberg is always bigger below the water.

So not only are they negligent, most institutions are reluctant to recognize that they may have hired or are associated with a predator. As if their institution were somehow immune from these individuals.

And (Corboy) steps up:

The most successful predators do not just operate within institutions.

They *create* institutions. They create institutios that empower them to attract admirers, to teach ideologies which normalize abuse in the name of crazy wisdom, and socialize their students and visitors to ignore and rationalize the predator's boundary testing 'shocking' behavior. Sweetest of all, a predator such as Trungpa can despite democracy yet exploit that democracy's trustfulness
of religion that the predator can, as a guru, get tax free status for his sangha and accumulate wealth by being indirectly subsidized by secular tax payers.

As if all that is not enough, these successful predators use all this to identify and test victims who freeze and permit boundary violation - victims.

Corboy dares to suggest that one could contend that Shambhala, created by Trungpa, led by Osel Tendzin and now by Sakyong Mipham is an institution that was created by a predator (Trungpa).

It isnst just Mipham in isolation.

There's a history here and an entire institution permeated by denial that goes back three leaders and 40 plus decades.

Ancient twisted karma, friends. Ancient twisted karma.