They
run very close
to really performing psychic murder.
| Marge
Robertson, executive
director of the Cincinnati
Chapter of the ACLU,
speaking
of
Straight,
Inc.,
from Cincinnati
Post |
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Straight officials have generously allowed
me to witness some of their group sessions firsthand . .
. I believe that Straight's treatment can be fairly
compared with 'brainwashing' in prisoner-of-war camps as
documented by Brown (1963, chap. 2)*. Thus, procedures
that would be reprehensible in any context outside of a
prisoner-of-war camp are considered acceptable
'treatment' in the case of drug addiction.
| Dr. Bruce K. Alexander of Simon Fraser
University in Peaceful Measures: Canada's Way Out
of the 'War on Drugs', p. 75; [*Techniques of
Persuasion: From Propaganda to Brainwashing by J. A.
C. Brown
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In
1992 when a 13 year old youth
was locked in a bathroom with
his 19 year old oldcomer (as
required by Straight -
Springfield) the youth says he
was sexually assaulted by the
man. The youth sued the
host home parents as well as the
state health commissioner for
granting Straight a license for
several years in spite of its
reputation for
abuse.
In
1984 in Virginia James Wright
sued his own parents as well as
another parent who helped kidnap
him into Straight - Springfield.
In
1989 when Jennifer Woolston
tried to escape from her host
home and fell from the second
story roof of her host home
breaking bones in her arm and
foot, dislocating her shoulder
and damaging cartilages and/or ligaments
to both knees, she sued
KIDS of Salt Lake City (a
Straight legacy program).
She sued her host home parents
for $1,000,000. She sued
two parents for helping to
kidnap her back to KIDS. (Civil
890905886CV)
In
1980 a teenage girl named
Meserak jumped from the balcony
of her host home in either a
suicide attempt to escape the
misery or just an attempt to
escape Straight - Saint
Petersburg. She broke her
back in the fall. She sued
the host home dad.
Straight said that the state
should be part of the suit since
it gave Straight a license. Ed
Bradley once asked a former
Straight parent on 60 Minutes
whether he thought it was
unusual that Straight would have
host parents nail bedroom
windows shut and have deadbolt
locks on bedroom doors where
kids slept, with entry
doors deadbolted from the inside
to keep kids from
escaping. The parent said
that he had been told that the
kid was going to die in a gutter
on drugs anyway so what's the
difference if he burns up in a
fire! In
March 1990 Timothy Nixon took a
baseball bat and beat his mother
Barbara Nixon to death in her
upscale Commerce, Texas
home. In his taped
confession he showed no remorse,
but used many expletives as he
admitted to police how he had
beat his mother, then
stuffed her body into the trunk
of her car and then cleaned up
the mess afterwards.
Timothy Nixon had been in
Straight - Dallas.
[McKinney Courier Gazette
10/2/90.] Straight
legacy parents. You may
have have four or five male
teenagers sleeping in just their
underpants in a bedroom in your
home. In 1997 in Growing
Together, a Straight legacy
program in Lakeworth,
Florida, a youth was
awaken by his three oldcomers
who tried to gang rape
him. Read the police
report here.
If a kid were to be sexually
abused in your home, do
you think you might be
sued? Think about
it. Straight
legacy parents. Think
about this. Let's say your
child had never gotten
involved in the
"druggie" scene.
Would you have ever forbidden
your son from having contact
with females but allowed him to participate
every night in a pajama party
(underpants party) with a bunch
of teenage boys. Would you
have allowed your son to go to
the bathroom to shower or to
defecate always with another
boy? Can you tell me one
place other than a Straight
legacy program where it seems
natural that you can not call or
see your child at reasonable
times, without a third
party. Would you send your
child to a Catholic youth camp
for an extended period where it
is forbidden that you contact
your son or daughter? One
day they they may tell you it is
time to pay back to society for
they having saved your
child. They will quote the
12th Step, "Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs."
Listen to Mic Talks.
Listen to the confessions of the
kids--sex, drugs,
stealing. Go now on 12th
Step tours to PTA meetings and
town meetings. Listen to
the kids tell about sex and
drugs. You will not let
your child stay for extended
periods of time at a religious
retreat where you are not
allowed talk to them, yet
you hear kids in a drug rehab
program tell terrible
stories of sex and drugs from
their "druggie"
past, and
some how it seem reasonable to
you to allow your child to stay
at some place you do not
know, where you can not
call him up. Do you want
to tell us that a kid can be
sexually abused anywhere, at a
church, at a movie theater, by a
police officer, by anybody
but in a Straight drug
rehab. Ask former Straight
counselor Arthur Nichol.
He got seven years in prison for
sexually abusing a Straight
client and his friend--and he's
a former judge! Health
professionals associated with
Straight legacy programs,
insurers of Straight legacy
programs, and criminal justice
personnel. The largest
claim ever awarded against
Straight for abuse is
$721,000. The largest
claim for false imprisonment is
$220,000. In 2000 Dr.
Newton, Straight's former
national clinical director, and
his team of associated
psychiatrists settled with a
client from his Straight legacy
KIDS program for $4.5
million. See www.thestraights.net/news/index.htm#newt45
. Page http://www.thestraights.net/legal/matrix-civil-criminal.htm
lists criminal and civil cases
against Straight and Straight
legacy programs. You've
heard of cults. www.freedomofmind.com/groups/straight/straight.asp
is Steve Hassan's web page on
Straight. Hassan is a
masters level psychologist and a
world renowned cult
expert, the author of at
least two books on mind control
and cults. Why does he
have a page on Straight?
Why did he make a public
statement that SAFE (a Straight
legacy program) fits his model
of a mind control cult? Or
visit Rick Ross's web page at www.rickross.com/groups/straightinc.html
. He's another world
renowned cult expert. Why
does he carry articles on
Straight and Straight legacy
programs? Do you know who
Leo J. Ryan was? He was
the Congressman from California
who went to Jonestown Guyana to
investigate Reverend Jim Jones
and was gunned down by members
of that cult. Hours later
over 900 people committed
suicide. Why did the
journal of the Leo J. Ryan
Foundation, a cult awareness
organization, publish an article
in 2000 about Straight and
Straight legacy programs?
Why did the U. S. Senate liken
the methods of The Seed
(Straight's predecessor) to
those of Communist North Korean brainwashing.
Why have Dr. Barry Beyerstein
and Dr. Bruce Alexander both
published statements that Straight
uses Communist brainwashing
techniques. In June 2002
survivors of Straight and
Straight legacy programs held a
conference on rehab abuse.
Frederick Rice publishes a web
page which is an expose on the
Church of Scientology's
affiliated Narconon drug rehab
program. FACTNET with over
25 million hits is the most
visited cult awareness web site
in the world. Why did both
of these sites advertise the
Straight survivors conference? |