Puck In The Face

Billets: families who invite players into their homes to be a part of their family during the hockey season. 

London Ontario, Canada

Young men living with billets, families that are not their own, mere teenagers, at a tender and hormonally charged age, are given by their parents to strangers to be housed so that they can play hockey and become competitive, with the hope of being chosen as an elite few, that get to experience the sport as professionals, paid for playing the game they love.  

This is a criminal act against these boys soon to be men: it is a form of child sacrifice. Once the care of these boys to men is relinquished to handlers, there is a no holds barred philosophy seeded into them, hardening their hearts to morals and ethics. Copious amounts of alcohol and sex, along with endless physical training and skill development for their sport, becomes the life of the impressionable, and man alive, it turns some of these young men into rapists and alcoholics. 

There was a hockey team in London a number of years ago. Their manager/handler set his sights on a young girl while the team was at a bar. Methodically, he filled her with alcohol, and something else, to ensure intoxication along with some form of awake-ness. She was alone, and the team had needs that the manager wanted taken care of, and she was the unwitting victim, carried into a hotel room, and abused by at least nine of the team mates. They were all invited to participate, and one by one, they said, via text, I'm in. 

I wonder how many times they did what they did? I wonder how many of them are drug addicts now, or alcoholics, not because they like the stuff, but because as a team, as a small and intimate group that shared the ice, they also partook in perversion, colluding with one another, excusing themselves and each other, despite being rapists, without any signs of regret, remorse, repentance. Sexual "addiction" is something else to consider, a behavioural side effect of wanton indulgence of sexual urges, with people that may or may not, consent to intercourse. When someone feels entitled to impose their body onto someone else's, what difference does it make who they do these things with? 

There is a sick cloak of secrecy amongst many a former and present hockey player. Being excellent at a sport draws eyes, and the sad thing that comes from this is idolatry. The player and their parents sacrifice much for the budding athlete, and the sport becomes the be-all-end-all, love of their life: they become deprived, depraved, and eventually devoid of any sense of caring for others. A teenage boy at the age of 16-17, still needs his father, and especially his mother, to lead the way, and also to call them out when they get too big for their britches. Hockey scouts and managers, team owners and trainers, want the boys to be confident and cocky, to win at all costs. The wicked amongst these handlers keep the boys well occupied when they are off the ice, with all manner of misbehaviour and sometimes, perhaps too often, they encourage heartless rape as a way of getting what they want without any consequences, until of course, someone blows the whistle to end their game. 

I was shocked when I learned there is a "slush fund" for this type of criminal behaviour. Imagine having to build into your budget, money that will cover culprits in cases of rape. Hockey players playing hockey, unimpeded, uninterrupted, is more valuable, then teaching these boys to men, that sisters, aunts, cousins, and mothers, must be protected and treated as precious. How many of these rapists have sister siblings that have had the same things done to them, that they did en mass to their victims? 

The men that were recently on trial in London Ontario, do not want to be found guilt of the crimes they clearly committed. They each had legal representation, and had their mothers by their side in court, and rather than coming clean, despite all the evidence proving them culpable, they tried to cover-up and blame the girl they viciously misused as though she wasn't a person to be kindly considered. Imagine with me, being a mom, or dad, and hearing the despicable things your child did, and now blatantly lies about, as they try to wiggle out from under the law that ought to have them rotting in jail. 

Is it the parent's fault for giving up their children to the god of ice, the idol of sticks, pucks, and catch them nets? I think there is something to look at here, dear reader. We must not ever, hand our vulnerable, susceptible, easily influenced children, over to strangers that take advantage of their talent, and indulge their whims, while encouraging the marinating and soaking of their sins, in alcohol. It makes bad people out of what could have been, good and honest men. 

There is another case pending, while this one is being deliberated by the judge, after hearing evidence and testimonies. These are the few cases that we know about: there is many a rape victim that silent suffers in shame, not knowing who to trust or how to begin the healing process. We live in a godless society, where pleasure is paramount, reigning supreme and effectually, killing conscience and turning people into mindless, merciless monsters. 

God sees all, and while these hockey players are hoping they will be let off the rapist meat hook, they know what they did, and so do their equally ignoble team mates. And ... their moms know too.