Yuke

Keep it on topic. This has NOTHING to do with pizzagate.

VoatisCIA

STFU YOU IDIOT!!! YOu clearly didn't WATCH THE FILM! IF you had, you would've noticed the OBVIOUS COLLUSION WITH POLICE, Many times the abused victims cry out of help were silenced by LE and Melvin murdered a Nurse! With many witnesses, that case was swept under the rug!!!! when A SERIAL PEDO RAPIST / MURDERER gets away for YEARS with it,,,nothing to do with PIZZAGATE ..FUCK YOU!!!

Shizy

Watched this years ago. Terrible story of a sick dude who preyed upon every innocent child in the family. Glad he's dead, but the documentary never linked him to a larger ring or network that I can remember. Maybe he was but the grandson who made the film wasn't aware of it? It still gives good insight into how this type of abuse can destroy the lives of victims

VoatisCIA

MElvin was part of a ring.... same ring that helped him get away with MURDER..

Shizy

The guy seemed really stupid and backwoods so it did make me think he had to be involved in a larger organization with people who had IQs over 70

Goodfella

Ok documentary, but not quite on topic especially regarding sex traffickers i would say zero to do with. More seems an isolated case of a poor family with a demented patriarch "melvin" who obviously is not right in the head and diddled his extended family if i remember correctly.

Pizzagaters who want a documentary proving their world view is correct i would suggest "who took johnny" i think is the title. About Johnny gosch disappearance and its many corroborating companion pieces like "conspiracy of silence" which exposed deep state pedophilia/ kidnapping network and its path to the white house but was mysteriously purchased and pulled at the 11th hour just before release with our tax dollars im sure by everyones favorite alphabet soup agency right before broadcasted.

Also the johnny gosch story makes a strange turn 20 years later when he (possibly) re-emerges as a softball question lobbing white house press corp journalist. Regardless whether its gosch or not, its blatantly obvious that this mk ultra'd reporter who admittedly has no experience in journalism but does have plenty of experience working as a gay male prostitute where his schtick was playing some military type fag s&m style shit in the d.c. area to elite clientele (not sure exactly what/how these elite bathomet worshipping queers work (luckily) but one thing can be strongly deduced from the hug scene on youtube shared between gosch (?) and dubyaw is George obviously knew this gay hooker cum coveted pass holding reporter and was not only overly comfortable with him but seemed familiar and close with the admitted ex gay prostitute enough to even kiss him in front of cameras. All the proof anyone needs that somethings fishy in Washington is this youtube clip that ACTUALLY shows pres george dubyah hug and kiss this queer prostitute! Lol wish i had a link but im at work... you can find it though.

Other interesting companion pieces of this twisted saga is ex senator john decamps book about the nebraska boys town underage prostitution and drug mule ring that actually ensnared white house v.p. George Bush sr at the time, and numerous YouTube interviews (although ive heard and have reason to believe decamp was a plant to mitigate what actually happened and what comes out and protect the biggest perpetrators).

Most interesting to me is paul bonnacci... formerly kidnapped and mk ulta'd multiple personality disorder suffering former child sex slave turned perpetrator who admits to kidnapping gosch for his elite handlers. This dude actually had enough courage and conscience to turn the table and blow the whistle on his handlers even under threat of retalatory violence and prison threats which i believe he did serve the longest sentence ever for libel or slander that scared all other whisteblowers to change their minds on testifying (except for one brave female who took her 8 year prison sentence in exchange for telling the truth, talk about true HEROES my friends!) Paul kept a journal which corroborates all of our worst fears. One example is he describes hunter s Thompson filming a horrific pedo snuff videos at a place on the russian river with giant trees and a huge owl statue at a time when very few knew anything of bohemian grove and def not in the public lexicon as is today.

Not trying to hijack your thread brother and i know this info has been posted on voat before but wanted to make another recommendation just in case some are unaware. This i consider important to know and familiarize yourself with this. This has ACTUALLY happened and fact is indeed stranger than fiction that this could be swept up under the rug.

Merry Christmas to all my brothers and sisters fighting the good fight. Stay safe and dont stop! Righteousness is a hell of a weapon.

VoatisCIA

Melvin had HElp and WAS working with other PEDOs to PIMP OUT HE KIDS TO FUCK..WATCH THE FILM. HE had help to evade Murder charges,,this is obvious to anyone WHO REALLY WATCH THE FILM!

VoatisCIA

**Just, Melvin: Just Evil is a 2000 American documentary by James Ronald Whitney about his grandfather, Melvin Just, and the devastating consequences of the sexual abuse Just inflicted on their family. It premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO on April 22, 2001. The film was well received overall; critic Roger Ebert called Just, Melvin "one of the most powerful documentaries I've seen."[2]

Contents [hide] 1 Synopsis 2 Reception 3 Awards 4 References 5 External links Synopsis[edit] Whitney, at the time a Wall Street executive, returns to his rural hometown of Carlotta, California, and interviews his family members about his maternal stepgrandfather, Melvin E. Just. Just sexually abused 10 of Whitney's relatives, including his mother, uncle, aunts and step-aunts, some as young as 2 years old. The abuse resulted in dysfunction spanning three generations of the family. Several of the aunts reveal they are sleeping in their vehicles. Whitney's aunts discuss their struggles with alcohol and drug addiction, and bouts of homelessness and prostitution.[3]

Just's first wife, Fay (Whitney's grandmother), and mother of six of Just's children/step-children is interviewed throughout and shows naivete, alternating between whether she knew or believed before charges were brought, when it was happening, or whether she believed it immediately after Just left her for another woman. Whitney's Uncle Jim is caretaker to a feeble, aged Fay and laughingly recalls pulling three of her teeth out. His sisters seem to dislike this arrangement but keep their distance from both as Jim has propositioned two of his half-sisters to live with him "as his wife", while he cares for Fay. Jim states what happens between two consenting adults is fine, then mumbles a tirade about fathers sleeping with their daughters. Both of his half-sisters vehemently turn him down. Whitney then reveals he was molested by his Uncle Jim at the age of 6.

Just's second (and then-current) wife, Venice is mother to four of Just's children/step-children. Venice's interviews recall Just in a loving manner, discussing how difficult it was for her and subsequently Just when he was released to go about their daily business. She states the singular child she and Just had together was "seeking attention all the time", when in reality, this child - Pambi - is actually disabled due to Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, being born with one of the more rare forms that includes clubbed feet. Jenise has two children who appear on the camera. Her daughter Clarissa (age 12) reveals she was molested at age 7. Whitney does not press the issue and allows Clarissa to speak freely, so Clarissa never names her molester, though it's implied that it is Just as he asks why she would want to feel close to Just. Showing the cycle of abuse through the generations, Clarissa notes that she feels sad, "but he is family and I love him".

In the film, Whitney confronts Just on camera about the accusations. Just denies all the accusations, although he was convicted in 1979 of 12 counts of child molestation in his family and sentenced to 13 years in prison. He served fewer than nine years.[1][3] It's further revealed that his aunt, Pambi, was actually severely injured during one of her rapes, where he placed his legs on top of hers to commit the crime. She required multiple surgeries and for over 30 years (at the time of the documentary) had worn leg braces off and on. Her gait is severely affected dating to the hip injuries she sustained.

In addition to the sexual abuse, three of Whitney's aunts say they witnessed Just rape and murder retired nurse Josephine Spegel, who was acting as a social worker. Spegel had arrived to check on the children's welfare only to find Just in bed with his stepdaughter. Just was a suspect in her murder and the documentary interviews Detective Lonnie Lawson. Lawson is convinced of Just's guilt in the murder and notes Just failed his polygraph where a "deceptive" rating is -7, while Just scores a -16 indicating massive deception. Lawson reveals he believes there is more than enough evidence to charge Just with murder, but California declined as Just's doctors in Washington claim he is unfit to stand trial. Just was ultimately never charged in the case, which remains officially unsolved.[1] Towards the end of the film, Whitney asks when the last time he molested one of his children was, Pambi reveals that her stepfather propositioned her just two years before the documentary was filmed. She alleges he took her into the woods, threatened her because she couldn't run - as she had braces on her legs at that time - and paid her for sex, demonstrating that up until Just was confined to a wheelchair, his reign of molestation and terror continued through the adult life of at least one of the children. Whitney's final scene is dedicated to his aunts visiting Just in the nursing home. Several are severely conflicted and cannot face him, while others hug and kiss him. One aunt runs to him and calls him "Daddy" and hugs him. Pambi is seen giving him a hug, but looking rather apprehensive.

The film ends with Whitney revealing just a few months after filming finished, Just "just died", age 71. The credits roll as audio begins to play from Just's funeral. The text credits are interspersed with video, revealing the daughters to struggle between extreme grief and extreme hate, as the clergyman attempts to conduct the ceremony. Several of Whitney's aunts interrupt the clergyman to say how awful Just was, while a few others discuss how much they love him and "we all have our faults".

Reception[edit] Just, Melvin is critically acclaimed and received mostly positive reviews. It holds an 86% approval rate on film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.[4]

Critic Roger Ebert summarized Just, Melvin as a "lacerating portrait of a monster," while praising Whitney's documenting of his own family: "His film is not only devastating but subtle in its artistry, with great attention to a soundtrack that suggests the echoes of long-ago words of hate and current painful memories. Nothing in the film quite prepares us for the closing scenes at a burial service, where a pastor reads futile words of comfort while drunken family members alternate between grief and rage."[5]

Michael Carlson, writing for The Daily Telegraph, praised the film despite its shocking content. "Yet, for all its shocks, Just, Melvin is not a work of morbid depression or a confessional freak show. It is, rather, a challenging film that reveals the real cost of abuse but, also, the deep strength of familial love."[6]

David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun wrote that HBO should be commended for daring to air such a graphic documentary right after its hit Sunday night show, The Sopranos: "The kind of incest and stepchild molestation this film explores is exactly the kind of ugly secret too many of us are all too happy to ignore in the name of propriety, while innocent victims not only have their childhood violated but also their ability to enjoy their adult lives destroyed. This is the kind of documentary that is behind HBO winning all those Emmy, Oscar and Peabody awards."[3]

Emanuel Levy, reviewing Just, Melvin for Variety, was more critical, writing that the documentary was less engaging than it could have been due to its "remote" tone. He wrote, "Scandalous testimony relates how Melvin was paying the girls from 25 cents to one dollar, depending on the depth of penetration, and how he forced them to get “training” by using crayons and hot dogs. However shocking such disclosures are, they’re often presented in a manner that diminishes their emotional effect. Overall, this richly detailed docu suffers from an unnecessarily cluttered structure, which makes it difficult to unravel the family links among its numerous victims."[7]**

LINK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just,_Melvin:_Just_Evil