Morning Star: Kenneth Putnam
To those who attended the Putnam v. Morning Star Boys Ranch trial and who listened carefully to the story of the life of Kenneth Putman, a great sense of sadness for the young man was, had to be, felt.
Kenneth Putnam is one of those people who, as a newborn, was rejected by those who should have loved him. I sensed there was a great rift in his spirit, his soul – a great deep pain and an unrequited longing. I sensed that the real cause of this was the rejection and the emotional and physical suffering he experienced in the “care” of his mother and father.
Things might have been different for Mr. Putnam if the state, as parens patriae, had stepped in at his birth and put him in the hands of loving people. That did not happen. The state simply did not do that, though it could have. It had the power, but it did not have the will. I wonder if the state has the will to take such steps today? One wonders how many children are terribly damaged due to the lack of real love from parents.
Is it possible for the broken soul of Kenneth Putnam to be repaired today? I think it is, but I think it will only come about as a choice by Mr. Putnam. The choice, if he is to make it, is a choice to see the substance of being in himself. The choice will be made when he chooses to live and and when he chooses to stop denying the “death” he experienced as an infant, a small child. The choice will have nothing to do with self-discipline or being tough. It will have everything to do with a quiet, unspoken, acceptance of that which is transcendent.
Kosnoff and Company go through the state of Washington telling people who are alleged to have suffered as children at the hands of those who may have sexually abused them that they should sign contingent fee agreements to let them bring an action damages here or there against this or that “evil” entity — for example, the whole of the Catholic Diocese of Spokane or Morning Star Boys Ranch or some other organization which was 30 years ago or more being taken advantage of by a bad person. They say they will get justice, that their efforts will make their lives better.
This, of course, is nonsense. Money damages may be gotten but money is not going to repair the damage which might have taken place. Kosnoff and Company pitch a falsehood, an impossibility.
And, in doing so they make millions. One wonders how much of the $50 million paid out of the Bishop of Spokane Bankruptcy went to Kosnoff and Company? Was it $20 million. Maybe more?
Kosnoff and Company are running a money gathering enterprise by which they get a percentage of the money they can obtain. This enterprise may be dressed up in the words of justice and so on but it does not provide true help to those who suffer. And, the enterprise certainly does not help those who make false claims.
Tim Kosnoff has not helped Kenneth Putnam. Not at all.