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TRANSLATIONS
BY SAMMIE MONROE.
Ok so my
Italian sucks but I wanted to translate this word for
word. This
way it remains as the author intended.
I will rewrite it with the appropriate grammar and the
slang and Old Italian
words translated.
For now you get to read it as written
Peace and Love
sammie
In Italia Mr.Sembler si chiama Soggiu.
Sta creando le prime carceri private
In Italy Mr. Sembler is called Soggiu. It is
creating the first prisons
deprived
ALSO WE have our Sembler. Or rather, the Sembler
break like mushrooms
everywhere. Some day does, Mauritius Costanzo
thought to throw its
inexhaustible country for it "struggle to the
drug" and invited, besides the
usual don Mazzi and to the usual mommy beaten from the
usual son
cocainomane, also the new prefect antidroga, Pietro
Soggiu.
Susanna Ronconi is occupying itself, for the Group
Abele, of to get ahead
the country of adherence to the appeal promoted from the
Net of operating
"The freedom is therapeutic", against the
business of the prisons deprived
and of the forced therapies. Says: "In The 'war to
the drug' of the
government, after the raising of the criminal code and
of the prison for the
consumers and the privatization of the. The
prefect antidroga, Pietro
Soggiu, declared that 'there are structures,
residenziali and not, that
there are asking actual questo'. But, parallel of
therapeutic community
than they could not look at in no face simply of to
replenish the actual
places read, and that after repressive decades of
politics have not still
the honesty of to recognize it the fallimento, exists a
world of operating
of the public and of the private citizen not profit that
affirms with force
the law to the care and to the therapeutic
freedom". I am now about
thirteenth century, the associations and the operating
social and doctors,
included very operating of community, that adhered to
that appeal "Just say
no! Dì of no!", promoted from the national
Net of operating and citizens.
In the appeal it is read: "we Say no to the
transformation of the community
in total founding for the forced treatments, no to the
offers of management
or co-management of new prisons per person
tossicodipendenti". All the
operating are invited to leave from the actual concrete
experience and to
remember that "the coazione never produced health,
while undermined the
fundamental exercise of right. The coazione is not
acceptable from our
professional deontologia".
"The esternazioni of the Prefect Soggiu give back
transparent the interest,
also economical, that are behind to the hypothesis of to
involve the
community and the social private citizen in the
management of the prisons
and of forced structures per person tossicodipendenti",
it is read still,
and that "the resolutions and the executive of the
government in subject of
drugs and dipendenze give sap to the penalty of the
consumption and put a
new emphasisLike shape of 'coazione to the therapy'.
The binomio
repression-care is at the base of this politics. to
carry out prisons serve
it more, and more prisons 'specialized' for
tossicodipendenti: not only:
serve new structures residenziali improntate to the
contenimento, to the
control, to the holding 'to therapeutic purpose'".
And, in effects, "I am about fifteen the structures
prisons that the
government individualized to questo purpose, and for two
of is already it I
am discussed the management: Castelfranco Emilia and
Legnano. This
management was offer to structures of the social private
citizen that
operate in therapeutic field. How operating of the
public and of the social
private citizen, like consumers, like citizens and
associations we ask to
all the operating, the cooperative and the associations
of not to lend
itself to this dramatic operation of repression".
The adherence they are
readable on the site of Fuoriluogo:
www.fuoriluogo.it/highlights/carcere_firme.html.
Antiproibizionisti to Bologna they Will Be these,
between the other, the
subjects of the days antiproibizioniste bolognesi of 27,
28 and 29 June.
Between the a lot of initiatives in program, an
assembly, 27 morning, from
the title "the perfect enemy" : consumers,
urban safety, penalty and social
control. It is in dance for some time, besides,
the idea of to organize an
initiative against the opening, to Castelfranco Emilia,
of the first prison
private Italian, givened in management to the community
of San Patrignano.
Of thing it will be treated, it is still soon to say it,
but of secure it
will be an attractive surprise. ll program includes then
different seminars
and the announcement of the birth of an initiative
between social forum for
the creation of a coordination that you are taken care
of social, total
welfare
founding, also in view of the appointment of the
European forum to November
to Florence. For contacts: istituzionitotali@libero.it.
Mr. & Mrs. Sembler question of Radley
Balko The signor Sembler, the
ambassador of George W. Bush in Italy, and lady.
Two very interesting
characters. He, already owner of chains of shopping
center, specially in the
Flourishing one of the brother of Bush, and republican
manager being able,
is above all the fondatore, with the wife, of Straight
Inc., hit the center
of of "recupero" antidroga denounced, and
condemned, for abuses of every
type. until changed name. SAMANTHA MONROE had
twelve years in 1981, when
its parents the iscrissero in the branch of Sarasota,
Flourishing, of the
Straight Inc., a riabilitazione center for minor with
problems of drug.
Just adolescent, Samantha had not some problem of drug.
And yet it passed
the successive two years of its life wanting to survive
the Straight. It
was beaten and starving, it the possibility was denied
them of to use the
bath for whole days. It was granted them alone a
shower to week, also
during the period mestruale. Often it came held in
isolation for days in
its stanzetta. Samantha says that, after to to be
been raped from a
"nurses", "the state of the Flourishing
one paid to compel miscarry me".
There are hundred of stories on the Straight Inc. like
that of Samantha.
Wes Fager had registered its son in the institute
Straight of Springfield,
behind advice of a social assistant of the superior
school. Fager did not
see its son for three months, until the boy succeed to
scappare, after to
have developed a serious mental disorder. Since
then, Fager decided to
unmask the Straight. It collected stories like
that of Samantha and of its
son on a situated web. There are cases of suicide
and tempted suicides, you
rape, Indian miscarriages, annoyances, physical
violences, cause,
depositions given back in tribunal, and an extensive
documentation of the
serious psychological abuses in the institutes Straight
in all of the
country. And yet, the I model Straight of rehabilitation
is having luck.
The tendency, in growth costing, is towards the
riabilitazione center you
draft "school of survival" and the fondatori
of the Straight Inc., Mel and
Betty Sembler, powerful supporter of the republican
Party, earned enormous
flu in the politics against-drug of the united States.
Mel Sembler is at
present the ambassador of the president Bush in Italy,
and the Sembler
compaiono in the Advice of almost all the greater
national programs
against-drug. They are friends of old person given
some family Bush, and
support the countries to block the initiatives of
experimentation of the
therapeutic marijuana in all of the country.
Although the horrors that is
emerged from the story of the Straight, they are proud
of their program, and
not if regret of it. The Straight is born from a
program of riabilitazione
called "The seed" [the seed, ndt], based on
the method of treatment
"synanon" [a religious religion born in the
sixties, ndt]. Started in 1972,
Seed lost the federal funds after that an inquiry of the
Congress dimostrò
that the program of recupero it is based on methods of
lavaggio of the brain
and tactical of psychological control typical of seven.
A deputy of the
Flourishing one, Bill Young, hard tenne. It find
support in the Semblers
and them convinse to start a like riabilitazione center
to St. Petersburg,
always in Flourishing, that venne called Straight
Incorporated.
From Nancy Reagan to Jeb Bush Although the accusations
of maltreatments,
presented from the who succeeded to escape, and although
the proceeded
pendants, in the successive 15 years the Straight
ottenne credit from the
republican circles. Personality of outstanding,
from Nancy Reagan to the
Princess Diana, visited the centers of the Straight,
exciting their success,
for how much, second most of the studies, alone 25
percent of the
"customers" Straight has completed the
treatment. The methods Straight,
however, ended quite soon in tribunal. An
university student vinse a cause,
for unjustified holding, in 1983, obtaining 223 thousand
dollars of
compensation. Another cause, in 1990, is cost to
the Straight 721 thousand
dollars. The institutes of the Straight in all of
the country, then, began
to close, until the last fallimento, that of Atlanta, in
1993. A gemmazione
of the Straight, called Kids of North Jersey, was
condemned, in another
cause, for 4 millions and means of dollars. The
philosophy Straight,
however, is quite distant from the esaurirsi. Very
filial and a lot of
directors have open clinical news, with the same methods
but with different
names, like Kids, Growing Together and Safe. The
governor of the Flordia,
Jeb Bush, went to make visit to the Safe and praised it,
although an issuing
television one of Miami had revealed abuses "style
Straight" in a question
of 2000. To make front to the increasing
denunciations and to the bad
publicity, during all of the years ninety, the Straight
Inc. change name, in
1996, the Drug becoming Free America Foundation.
The Dfaf, today,
prosperous, thanks to 400 thousand federal dollars of
subsidies, received in
2000, and other 320 thousand packed across the Small
business admistration.
"Nothing of whom to excuse itself"
"surprises Me the fact that although them
you it it and the accusations of abuses, the institutes
of the Straight
riescano to continue their activity simply change
name", Rick said Ross,
expert of seven and social intervention of politics of
specialist. Ross
says that exists an unlucky market for the centers of
"riabilitazione", that
themselves take on boys difficult, togliendoli to
parents that do not
succeed manage them. to. More worrying, however,
it is the considerable and
continuous political covering of whom enjoy the
fondatori of the Straight
Inc. Bush father even is appeared in an ad of the
Dfaf, and has indicating
in the program of the one Semblers of its "one
thousand bright points"
[reference to the program of devolution of the welfare,
ndt] Presence
costing in the republican circles of the Flourishing
one, Mel Semblers venne
named ambassador in Australia in 1989. Today
serves Bush the young one like
ambassador in Italy, and participated in 2000 to the
executive advice of the
national Convenzione of the republican party that chose
Bush like candidate
president. Betty Sembler, the wife, co
was-president of the electoral
committee of Jeb Bush. Like reward, the governor
of the Flourishing one
declared the 8 August of 2000 "Betty Sembler
day". A recognition, Jeb said
Bush, to its work "to protect the children from the
danger of the drugs".
Betty was in the advice of the to Give, program
against-drug I upset to the
students of the elementary schools, unsuccessful width.
The Drug free
America foundation has working with it then governor
George W. Bush in the
programs antidroga of the Texas, and today affirms to
have the actual one
"voice" also in the choices against-national
drug. Rick Romley, in fact,
favored some Sembler and public ministry in Arizona, was
on the strip of the
candidates to the place of zar antidroga. Even
though Romley does not be
been chosen, Bush has however chosen for a
"hard", John Walters. "We had
not the leadership and the support of the white House,
for now", annotated
Betty Sembler after the appointment of Walters.
"It is really crazy that
the Semblers come still praised and honored after
everything that is emerged
by the way of their organization", Rick says Ross,
that states to be
republican. The past year a reporter of the
reviewed Canadian data
transmission Cannabis News, churches to Betty Sembler in
person news on the
stories of horror that had read from the sopravvissuti
to Straight. "They
should be sentenced to the life in prison",
answered Betty Sembler: "I Am
proud of everything that we did. There is not
nothing to ask excuse. The
antiproibizionisti I am those that would have to ask
excuse". Questo is the
thought of the powerful duet of the war to the drug.
They have not remorse
for the lives that destroyed because believe in an
approach
"costi-quel-che-costi".Vite to pieces,
suicides, miscarriages forced, psyche
fratturate - all necessary victims of the war to the
drug. And nothing for
that ask excuse.
The article is appeared on the site web of Fox News.
Radley Balko,
journalist freelance, manages an actual situated web:
www. theagitator. com
with questions and comments on different appearance of
the politics and of
the American society.
The warriors against the drugs in America Of Arnold S.
Trebach Professor
Distinguished American University
Washington DC, 6 June 2002
From proud American as I am, I find that Melvin Sembler,
our ambassador in
Italy, and its wife, Betty, is for myself I cause of
deep embarrassment. Is
mattering that their expedients on the struggle to the
drug and in
particular manner on the treatment towards the patients,
they be of
everything been unaware of. Certainly, it has been
better that the Italians
listened to what has to say on the drugs this powerful
couple, for then to
follow precisely the opposite politics. Also the
better countries in the
world have their weak point. One of the worse weak
points of the fine mine
country it is our dedizione to the war to the drugs.
One of the worse
appearance of the American war to the drugs it is the
support to the
treatment "Toughlove" [literally violent Love,
ndt] for the abuses of drugs.
The treatment Toughlove stresses the hard methods
towards the young
tossicodipendenti. An of the worse organizations
that it employs the
violent measures of the Toughlove towards the young it
is the Straight, Inc.
This organization, been born in the seventies,
grew until twenty in all
seats the united States. The essential features of
the Straight include,
between the a lot, the following: suspect incarcerazione
forced of young
consumers and in abuse of drugs, often later on to the
request of parents
irritated. The Straight is besides accused of: to
have detained young in
regime of isolation from the outside world for years
either months; to have
reduced the contacts with parents or other next
relatives, except
particularly circumstance monitored; to have obliged
these prisoners to sit
in a large room for ten, twelve hours and also more,
every day obbligandoli
to listen to readings or confessioni of colpevolezza the
one of the other
one; to have used theI monitor; to have provided their
to the smaller
quantity of food, with the result that a lot of the
young prisoners lost
sensitively weight; the possibility of to use the bath
based on the
schiribizzi of the moment of the staff of the Toughlove,
the that means that
often a lot of the young sat themselves on the their
same escrementi; the
use of the physical force to block those who objected to
questo. Around
twenty youngsters I am himself procurati I cut on all of
the body or tried
the suicide without that some succeeded yourselves, for
how much I know of
it, likely because watched costantemente.
Tragedian, tens of them succeeded
in their intent car-destructive, after to have left the
centers.
Numerous civil causes and criminal procedures were
conducts towards some
persons of the Straight of a lot of seats in the united
States. You were
tens, also hundred the events told on the card printed
and in the television
media care to these horrible abuses aside of the
Straight. I same I wrote a
lot of care to the Straight and one of their prisoners,
the young Fred
Collins, in one of my book on the politics pertaining
the drugs, "The large
war to the drug" [The great drug war], published in
1987 from the Mac
millian. Collins testified in a federal court the
abuses that he himself
has immediately and compensation of dollars 220mila
ottenne in 1983. Other
young victims received also greater sums winning civil
causes, from the
Straight or other organizations to be correlate.
For years I have working
to close the Straight. I did it like professor and
independent writer and
like fondatore of the Drug Policy foundation, that
counted 20mila registered
in the united States and in other countries. So
did very other persons, a
lot of which, like Wes Fager, they were parents of
prisoners from the
Straight, other, like Richard Bradbury, had
"stayed" from the Straight. For
the first years it was unaware of the existence of
Melvin and Betty Sembler.
All change during a visit to It, in Australia, in
1989, when fui invited
to an international lecture on the drug. A day
during the lecture, i had
been introduced like speaker in the panel that pertained
the reforms of the
lecterns on the drugs, with an Australian majority of
oratories, but also
expert provenienti from all of the world. One of
the oratories it was
Donald Ian McDonald, main advisor about of the president
Reagan. When it
its shift arrived of to speak, McDonald proruppe in a
personal attack in my
comparison: my presence there was a disgrace.
Rimasi of stucco and when
salii i on the podium to speak, said more or except for
so: "I Am grateful
for questo I attach: she, dottor McDonald siede to the
right flank of the
president Reagan and she advised it on the national and
international
politics on the struggle to the drug. She shows,
thanks to questo I attach,
better than how much could have done i, how it is loaded
with anger the
heart of the American politics on the drug. It is
however a disgrace that
she is allowed itself so facing tanta people and before
the American and its
ambassador wife, sat in the first file". I
had not ever met Mel Sembler,
but I have been indicating, sat near the wife, sat in
first line. The main
speaker of that evening in a hotel to five stars is not
other that the
onorabile Melvin Sembler. When taken the word, was
very courteous and
thanked "the dottor McDonald and the signor
Trebach" for their presence,
since, said, was interested to listen to all of the
point of view on questo
I deduce. Therefore it a thing said that it
shocked me and my wife, Marj
Rosner, and us fece jump on the chair. It said
words that: "conosco a
little one the problem of the politics on the drugs and
on the treatments
since a lot of years does, with other eight persons to
St. Petesbourg, in
Flourishing, I have been based on an organization,
called Straight, Inc.,
that helped a lot of boys with problems of drug".
Therefore it began to
explain how it worked the program of recupero, facendolo
to seem
meraviglioso. While it continued, i and my wife we
did not succeed to
believe our ears. In front to an international
platea of officials and
experts, the American ambassador in Australia was
supporting that one of the
worse programs of riabilitazione was instead one of the
better, without not
even a sign to all the proceeded loser and to load.
While i and my wife we annotated more enlivened, the
other persons to our
table, foreign above all officials, kind wondered us
thing had us turban a
lot. We explained short and a high Dutch officer
answered us: "Ah, itself,
conosco the program: the youth hitleriana".
During the following days, some
feci apparitions on the radio and Australian
televisions, among which the
Today Show, warning of not to follow the destructive
advice of the Sembler
on the politics against the drugs, to the same manner in
which hour I warn
the Italians. Fortunately, the politics on the
drugs in Australia are
directed towards a direction more to greet. In the
following years to that
traumatic accident to It, I am happy of to tell be able
that the original
organization called Straight, Inc. was obliged to close
under the
revelations civil and new causes of downpour.
Questo for how much pertains
the good news. I have scoperto that the dottor
McDonald the director was
been of the search for the Straight before becoming
advisor of Reagan to the
white House. Numerous other new methods they are
native on the I model some
Straight, continuing so destructive his practice.
Mel and Betty Sembler
continue to be the greater American leaders of politics
on the drugs,
obtaining support not only from doctors in visa like the
dottor McDonald,
but also from politicians, among which the family Bush.
The Bush have been
based on numerous new organizations for the
riabilitazione, particularly the
Drug-Free America Foundation, Inc., that appears like
the direct heir of the
Straight. The Sembler hold in important fist
positions political in the
republican structure of power, I pertain to the politics
on the drugs. The
site web of the republican Committee national, the rnc,
the group dominating
in the republican sphere, and the same signor Sembler
summarize on other
internet facts very significant: reveal that Sembler is
the mind behind to
the large success of a chain of more of fifty shopping
centers, official of
the national Committee for the finances and the
direction that leaned the
electoral country for Whirlpools Bush President in
theThe installation to
president of Bush father in 1989 and an official of the
museum on the
holocaust. But, likely the thing more mattering to
the moment is that the
signor Sembler is the greater backer of the republican
party: director of
the finances of the rnc. The site web of the
republican Committee national
proudly underlines that "in 1976, Sembler and the
wife were based on the
Straight, a new program of riabilitazione from the drug.
In its seventeen
years of existence, the Straight promoted more of 12mila
boys all over the
world thanks to its program". Therefore, the
Sembler unite a strong
economical power [that serves to buy the assignments
from ambassador] to the
dominating republican departing person and to the
ideological engagement
verse some of the worse dogmas ever created in the story
of the united
States, my country, that [I ask excuse to those who do
not look at noble
questo country with my eyes] i believe to be the large
hope of the world.
It appears still worst the idea than vogliano to export
repressive questo
dogma in other countries in the world, like italy.
To those who itself
oppongono to the programs of the Straight, that abuse
boys in the name of
the riabilitazione from the drugs, Betty Sembler
answered that she and the
husband have not nothing to hide and that those who
criticize look for them
legalizzare the drugs. This is a falsehood and is
misleading, because is
necessary separate soppesare the critics. First,
second it personal mine
opinion, the civil need of treatments and humen have to
be the first one
what. The alcohol is legal practical wherever and
still there is need of
the same positive treatment of that for the cases of
heroin, that instead is
almost wherever illegal. According to, even if
legal everything are given
back the drugs, a position that i lean strong, the
necessity of a human
treatment in the programs riabilitativi continould.
In other words, my
engagement, to world level, for the legalizzazione of
the drugs, does not
mean to encourage the use of the drugs, neither means
that i abstains from
the responsibility of to work for effective methods of
riabilitazione. The
Sembler do not include these concezioni. How a lot
"warriors" against the
drug in the united States, so like in Italy, itself
strong oppongono to the
legalizzazione, approving methodsBrutal and uncivilized
for riabilitare
consumers and depending from the drugs. They seem
not to understand that
the cruelty and the extreme irrazionalità do part is
some lecterns
proibizioniste, is some repressive methods in the
treatments on the drugs.
On the other hand, responsibility of two methods works
in the real life.
The dottor Arnold S. Trebach has to the shoulders a long
experience in
treatments and politics on the drugs and is estimated
and appreciated all
over the world. It wrote numerous books and
articles. Fondatore and former
president of the Drug policy foundation, did part of the
radical Party
transnazionale. E-mail arnold@trebach.com
Situated web www. trebach. com
visited also the site of Wesley Fager www. thestraights.
com [translation of
Carlo Dutto]
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