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  Help Pass The National Sex Offender Registry Act of 2004

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  http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5096002.html .

  http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm .

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  Out from the shadows
  RUBÉN ROSARIO
  Pioneer Press
  http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/10347857.htm
  
  
  'After years of physical and
  mental abuse, I couldn't help at the time. I would like to help
  now, for those that are still afraid to speak.' Amy Blom,
  ex-wife of Donald Blom
  
  Out from the shadows
  
  The woman who stood by one of Minnesota's most notorious
  killers is ready to talk after years of shame and depression.
  
  The e-mail sent to two Minnesota legislators last week was
  brief but spoke volumes.
  
  "I was married to Donald Blom, a six-time sex offender who
  was released from prison and killed Katie Poirier,'' the e-mail
  from Amy Blom begins. "After years of physical and mental
  abuse, I couldn't help at the time. I would like to help now, for
  those that are still afraid to speak."
  
  For seven years, Amy Blom, 38, says she endured black eyes,
  punches, bruises and constant verbal put-downs at the hands of
  her ex-husband, one of the most reviled criminals in recent
  memory. The mention of her husband's name, as well as that of
  Dru Sjodin's suspected killer, evoke images of cold-blooded
  killers and repeat sexual predators who should have been kept
  locked up.
  
  Now, the woman who stood by and lied for a 55-year-old
  convicted sex predator and killer is slowly but finally emerging
  from the shadows of the "guilt, shame and depression'' she says
  she feels surrounding the Poirier case.
  
  "I have looked back so many times and know in my state of
  mind and the control he had over me I would not have been
  capable of doing different,'' Blom said last week as she sat in
  the kitchen of her immaculately clean Richfield home.
  
  "I have never spoken to the Poirier family or know if they
  would ever want to hear from me, but I would like to ask for
  forgiveness,'' added Blom, who has been treated for
  post-traumatic stress disorder and battered woman's syndrome.
  "I don't want to make the situation worse, as much pain as they
  are in.''
  
  On the night of May 26, 1999, a grainy surveillance video
  caught a man resembling Blom, whose legal name is Donald
  Michael Pince, with his hands to the back of Poirier's neck,
  leading her out of the Moose Lake, Minn., convenience store
  where she worked.
  
  She was never seen alive again. Human bone fragments and a
  tooth identified as Poirier's were found in a fire pit on Donald
  Blom's nearby vacation property. Blom, with a string of
  abductions and sexual assaults of young females in his past,
  confessed to the abduction and murder of the 19-year-old
  Poirier. But he later recanted and went to trial.
  
  He was convicted and sentenced to life without parole. For
  safety reasons, he was moved out of Minnesota and is serving
  time in Waynesburg, Pa. He could not be reached for comment
  last week.
  
  Earlier this year, concerned her husband could win an appeal to
  overturn the conviction, Amy Blom contacted authorities and
  admitted that Donald Blom was not home the night of Poirier's
  abduction, as she had told investigators at the time. The appeal
  ultimately failed.
  
  "I don't believe that I could have prevented it (Poirier's
  murder),'' said Blom, who was not aware of her husband's
  criminal history or previous marriages until his arrest in the
  case. "I was so under his power, in fear of him, but at the same
  time connected to him. When they accused him, it was like
  they were accusing me and my children. I know now that I was
  in many ways his hostage, paralyzed to speak up.''
  
  Susan Neis, executive director of Cornerstone, a domestic
  violence program in Bloomington where Blom and some of her
  children have sought counseling, says Blom's experiences are
  common among victims of spousal abuse.
  
  "There is no more horrific pain I can imagine than someone
  losing their daughter like that,'' Neis said of Poirier's parents.
  "But I think what the public doesn't realize in Amy Blom's case
  is that she and her children were also victims of this man."
  
  Amy Blom, a former nursing home assistant, married Pince, a
  maintenance worker, in 1992. Amy Blom's two sons from a
  previous marriage ? then 6 and 1 ? considered their mother's
  husband as their father. The marriage also produced two
  daughters, now ages 10 and 11.
  
  Blom thought it strange but flattering that her husband took her
  last name, unaware he had done the same twice before with
  ex-wives she did not know about. Authorities believe he did
  that to conceal his criminal record from employers, cops and
  others.
  
  Donald Blom's demeanor toward his wife changed drastically
  six months into the marriage, she said. Angry disputes turned
  physical.
  
  "He is bipolar and there were two sides to him,'' Amy Blom
  said. "He would be happy, a jokester fixing stuff around the
  house and he was a great cook. He would make these great
  five- or six-course dinners. But then something would happen,
  something would trigger in him, and then I knew the change
  was coming.''
  
  His two sons witnessed some of the assaults.
  
  "He yelled at her constantly,'' recalled Chris Blom, now 19 and
  a laborer working to complete his high school GED. "I saw him
  hit her. She would have black eyes and stuff. He scared the hell
  out of me.''
  
  Blom's other son, now 14, also has been treated for
  post-traumatic stress and oppositional defiant disorders, and
  has been in and out of heath care facilities for three years, his
  mother said.
  
  Wallflower timid, Amy Blom said she felt constantly on edge,
  wanting to make her husband happy and not do anything that
  would provoke an episode.
  
  The disbelief over the arrest, the taunts endured by her sons at
  school and a relentless news media that camped outside the
  home for weeks drove her to become more supportive and
  protective of her husband and family.
  
  "He said he didn't do it, and it felt like when they accused him,
  they were accusing me also,'' she recalled.
  
  She tried desperately to believe her husband's proclamation of
  innocence. But deep down, she had doubts. She recalled a
  conversation while he was being held for trial after authorities
  discovered the human remains in the fire pit.
  
  "Don, but what about those human bones they found?'' she
  recalled asking him over the phone.
  
  "You're not f - - - - - - stupid, are you?'' she said he responded.
  Blom has steadfastly maintained he did not kill Poirier.
  
  She is convinced her husband may have committed more
  crimes.
  
  She and others are curious about his connection to the unsolved
  1983 murder of Wilma Jean Johnson, a 42-year-old homeless
  drifter whose strangled, battered and nude body was
  discovered outside the Cathedral of St. Paul's chancery.
  
  Blom, then in jail awaiting trial in Dakota County for sexually
  assaulting a teenage girl, called St. Paul police investigators
  days after the 1983 murder and volunteered that he had
  witnessed part of the assault on the woman, and could describe
  the assailant.
  
  "He said he knew he had done bad, but that he wanted to pay
  his debt to society by coming forward,'' recalled Jim Frank, a
  case investigator and now the Washington County sheriff.
  
  A black homeless man was arrested, chiefly based on Blom's
  description of the killer. But the man was let go because of a
  lack of evidence.
  
  After the Poirier case broke, Frank remembered Blom and
  contacted St. Paul police, suggesting they might want to give
  the cold case another eye. The case remains open.
  
  "What struck me about it is that he said he was sitting on a park
  bench when it happened, and there was supposedly a torrential
  downpour that night,'' Amy Blom said. "I also remember Don
  and I were watching an episode of 'Law and Order' several
  years back and he casually commented that all homeless people
  and prostitutes are better off dead."
  
  State Reps. Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove, and Doug Meslow,
  R-White Bear Lake, who plan to reintroduce legislation that
  calls for harsher penalties against repeat sex predators,
  received the e-mails from Amy Blom.
  
  "I really do appreciate what she did, and her courage for doing
  so,'' Zellers said. "We welcome her gesture.''
  
  Blom also sent an e-mail to U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn.,
  offering her help in ensuring that a proposed national sex
  offender registry named after Dru Sjodin becomes law.
  
  "We appreciate the offer and would love to work with her as
  this issue moves forward,'' said a spokesman for Dayton.
  
  Amy Blom, who obtained a divorce two years ago and no
  longer corresponds with her ex-husband, says she's not looking
  for pity or empathy or absolution.
  
  She just wants predators like her husband put away and kept
  there. She wants her children to be proud of one of their
  parents, to one day be able to shed the cloak of stigma and
  shame draped on them by their father's crimes.
  
  "They are suffering also,'' she said. "I have a hard time
  forgiving myself for what happened. I don't know if I ever will,
  but I need to come forward because there are people right now
  living in the same situation I was in.''
  
  
  Rubén Rosario can be reached at [email protected]
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  i need help learning about ths religion.....i have no one else to ask

  by needinfo in

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  NewLight2

  Check out these two Links
  
  Links to Major Counter JW Sites
  
  Johannes Greber's Home Page
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  Another newbie - groan

  by JustTickledPink in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  new to this site, not new to the internet or message boards, so i hope i get the hang of this site soon and "get" what's going on.. i'm 30 yoa, live in fl, happily married, living a very normal traditional lifestyle in my new house with our cute poodle.

  i am df'd and proud of it.

  was raised as a jw and spent the first 20 years of my life under the influence, the last 10 years happily living life!.

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  NewLight2

  Welcome!!
  
  My advice is to read the "Active topics" list which will give you a real fast update on what topics are "hot". When you notice that you really "like" the way a few posters respond - go to the "members list" and read the "topics posted" by these individuals. You will soon find yourself a feeling a part of this community! Have fun!!
  
  NewLight2
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  I found this interesting . . .

  by NewLight2 in

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  2. friends

  here is an obituary from my local paper.

  i have removed all personal info before posting.

  her loving husband thanks jehovah god that he had x .

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  NewLight2

  Here is an Obituary from my local paper. I have removed all personal info before posting.
  
  
  Her loving husband thanks Jehovah God that he had x
  years with a wonderful woman. A woman who at
  age 13 dedicated her life to obeying a command
  Jesus gave all his followers (Matt 24:14). For x
  years she visited people telling the message
  described at John 17:3. She looks forward to the
  government of all governments described at Dan
  2:44. The government all Christians were told to
  pray for in the Lord's prayer (Matt 6:9,10). She
  now rests in deaths sleeping awaiting a resurrection
  to life anew as promised at John 5:28,29.
  
  Memorial Service at Kingdom Hall of Jehova's Witnesses
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  Info Needed

  by NewLight2 in

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  2. friends

  i've begun to research the islamic religion since i find that more and more news involves this religion in some way or another.

  i've noticed quite a few cult-like behaviors too, within this religion.

  1. islam calls sects within itself or former members 'apostates'.

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  NewLight2

  I've begun to research the Islamic Religion since I find that more and more news involves this religion in some way or another. I've noticed quite a few cult-like behaviors too, within this religion.
  
  1. Islam calls sects within itself or former members 'apostates'.
  2. Islam calls itself 'the only true religion'.
  3. Family members shun (and sometimes kill) anyone who was born into this religion and later rejects its teachings.
  4. The religion uses 'brainwashing' to control its members.
  
  These are only a few items out of many that could be listed. I have made a web-page with many links to help in my research.
  
  

• My Islamic Links Page


Can anyone help me find an ex-muslim discussion forum that is the same quality as JWD is for ex-dubs??

Thanks

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