No.9501
With the outing of Justin Sane and several other big names in the punk movement I need help finding out who this one other abuser could be.
In vidrel, this woman mentions how she was in a relationship with a "very famous" guitarist in a DC punk band named Brian. She said he pressured her into an abortion and she went along with it because she wanted to be this "punk rock icon's wife". This abortion made her suicidal and turned her into an alcoholic for years.
According to testimony she wrote several years ago, this particular incident took place in December of 1998. She also mentions DC was this guitarist's home town. The other clue is that she and her boyfriend were heavy drinkers, so he definitely wasn't straight-edge.
https://www.standtrue.com/educate-yourself/document.aspx?docid=9433In this interview at the 14:14 mark she talks about how she was at a CD release party a few months later (so, in 1999) where she saw Brian.
https://radiomaria.us/podcast/the-gospel-of-life/january-20-2015-healing-the-shockwaves-of-abortion/(Apologies for all the anti-abortion propaganda.)
I'm asking if there's any idea of who this guitarist named Brian could be. My first thought is it was Brian Baker but he was no longer in DC in the late 90s when all of this took place. My other thought was that it was the guitarist from Bluetip but he joined the band in 1999 and wouldn't have been super-famous in DC in '98.
Any speculation would be helpful.
No.9503
>>9501>drama from 25 years agowho fucking cares?
No.9505
>prolife
lel idc
No.9506
>>9501Anti-abortion freaks are asinine.
But from all the clues it sounds like Brian Baker although he did nothing wrong and this is NOT a #metoo situation.
No.9509
As much as I oppose police and prisons, I feel like the "no snitch" culture in punk leads to a lot of this abuse continuing.
Lefty men will beat, rape and force women like this Brice Griffin woman into abortions because they know lefty women will refuse to tell on them until years down the line when the statute of limitations has already passed.
No.9515
>>9506TBH I think Baker is the only punk guitarist named Brian who was "very famous" in punk circles.
No.9516
>>9509Close-knit communities are paradoxically very prone to internal abuse, because people are more concerned about keeping the group together than they are holding abusers accountable.
No.9517
>>9503To be fair, some of the girls Justin Sane abused were abused around the same time (late 90s-early 2000s).
No.9518
>>9501>When I called Brian to share the news, he simply said, “Let’s take care of it.” I WAS SO RELIEVED. I felt so lucky to have such a caring boyfriend who wouldn’t make me face this “choice” on my own. He reassured me, “Don’t worry I’ve done this before.” PHEW. So lucky! When we arrived at the clinic, I checked in and Brian paid for the procedure with his band’s AMEX. That actually made me laugh. It was a little over seven hundred dollars, because I was lucky enough to be able to afford to be anesthetized for the procedure. So lucky. I remember very little about the procedure. I remember the abortionist introduced himself (though I didn’t feel like I was making the best first impression, there on the table in nothing but a surgical gown) and the nurse inserted my IV. He told me he had a daughter and actually started talking to me about mutual interests that she and I had. In retrospect, I am so disgusted. This father was making a living sucking the life out of women, and had the nerve to mention his own daughter to me. As he performed an ultrasound, he looked over my shoulder (the screen was behind me) and said, “Perfect! You’ re just about eight or nine weeks.” Obviously I knew nothing about fetal development, but I felt so lucky that I was “just about eight or nine weeks.” And shortly thereafter, I fell asleep. When I awoke, I was being wheeled to the recovery room. I was helped into a recliner. Then I sat, in a room full of recliners, with girls who obviously couldn’t afford the anesthesia, who were all sobbing. I felt so lucky sitting in that room, thinking I must be the only one with such a wonderful boyfriend who would help me through this. When I had waited long enough, Brian picked me up. He had been at Home Depot to pass the time. Seriously. He was considering home improvements while a child of mine (maybe not his) was being killed. It really was no big deal. I was so lucky. Schizo
No.9519
OP, reddit (specifically r/punk) would be the place to post this.
No.9520
>>9506Baker was on tour with Bad Religion all throughout 1998-99. If she was eight or nine weeks pregnant in December 98 that means they would have fucked in October 98 and he wouldn't have been in DC then.
No.9522
>>9520Their last show in 1998 was in September.
The timeline matches if they didn’t date for very long.
No.9526
>>9506>>9520>>9522So Brian Baker is cancelled then?
Is there a way to get in contact with him via social media to confirm if this was really him?
No.9534
>>9501Notice how they only regret their abortions after becoming Catholic/Christian?
No.9535
>>9501Abortions are good tho. She made the right decision.
No.9536
>>9534Isn't that what happened with Dorothy Day? Got an abortion to get out of an abusive relationship only to "deeply regret" it years later after her conversion?
No.9539
>>9537I double-dog-dare you to post a comment in OP's video comments section saying something along the lines of: "Stop trying to get Brian cancelled."
No.9540
>>9539Why tho? Maybe I should post a link to this thread so we can get more internet sleuths on the case.
No.9545
>>9544The anti-abortion movement attracts the most fucked up people.
No.9546
>>9542>>9539I need a burner google account. I don't know what's the point commenting on a video that only got 744 views in year.
No.9547
>>9546Do it for leftypol.
No.9553
>>9522She said in her interview with Radio Maria that she and Brian hadn't been dating long when she found out she was pregnant.
No.9554
>>9544> This is who leftypol is standing withI am reminding you once again I do not give af about this goofy ass drama from 100 years ago
No.9556
>>9555She wasn’t even “forced” to abort. She willingly went along with it because neither of them were in a situation to have a kid.
No.9558
>>9501The people being interviewed are both Operation Rescue affiliates.
I would highly recommend researching what OR used to do and how they’re responsible for some of the most vile anti-abortion terrorism in American history.
No.9559
>>9501> When I woke up the morning after my abortion, Brian asked how I slept. I said, “Like a baby.” He said, “You mean like a baby KILLER?!”So. Lucky. For months after that, I knew nothing except that I wanted to die. Death was the only certain escape from the horrific pit that had formed in my soul.Bruh.
No.9586
Daily reminder there is literally nothing wrong with abortion.
Religion says life begins at conception
DiaMat does NOT.
No.9610
>>9604I fucking hate these people.
No.9679
More abortions are a good thing.
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