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Twitter Says CSPAN videos of Joe Biden at 2016 Senate Swearing-In Ceremony are “Child Sexual Abuse”

Amy Sterling Casil
8 min readOct 9, 2020

It’s not a lot of fun being a survivor of sexual assault or escaping a close brush with a killer CHP officer who targeted young blonde women. When I visited Washington, DC in 1993 to testify (pointlessly, uselessly) in the “Welfare Reform” process, I was afraid to go because of the already-bad reputation of then-President Bill Clinton and his Vice President Al Gore. A little-known politician at the time, much better-known now, spent the boring time of my useless testimony and Q & A trying to see up my skirt. His name? Andrew Cuomo.

I’ve been a board member of domestic violence organizations. I haven’t written about it, but I was a board member of Bethlehem House, a shelter and program for women and children who were survivors of abuse. The program was led by a Rasputin-like aspiring nun, who turned out later to have been a) not a nun; and b) insanely abusive of the young women who were part of the aspiring order of nuns, as well as abusive of the women and children who went to the program in hope of establishing a safe, healthy life for themselves. The actual house was at one time, the home of the Archbishop of the San Bernardino diocese. But now? It’s called “Bethany House” and is the source of haunted house gossip. The middle-aged ghost haunting the house? It could only be the one-and-only Sister Clare Lord.

I’m only saying this because Biden supporters have told me I should support him because he supports the “Violence Against Women Act”. Bethlehem House had funding from that, and also a $1 million Federal earmark from former member of Congress Jerry Lewis.

There’s only two types of women who’d think Joe Biden was a “friend to women” and girls: ones who’ve never been hurt by sexual abuse or battery, or ones who are like good old Sister Clare. Vicious and mendacious exploiters hiding under a nun’s habit. Or hiding behind a marriage that offers financial and personal security, or a job that says they’re supposed to help young people, like the Deans of my women’s college 40 years ago and today.

So, what are we to make of Twitter locking my account when I tweeted a link to a shocking compilation of CSPAN “moments” from the 2016 U.S. Senate swearing-in ceremony?

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Amy Sterling Casil
Amy Sterling Casil

Written by Amy Sterling Casil

Over 500 million views and 5 million published words, top writer in health and social media. Author of 50 books, former exec, Nebula nominee.

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