83 7th Stepper and Krock.... Just so we can get this straight (no pun intended). You mean to tell me that you condone the way kids were treated during your stay??? Do you not remember the cruel and unusual punishment that we all endured in that facility???
When I arrived at Straight on my intake before being taken back to group, he called me in his office, shut the door, and got right up in my face telling me he wasn't going to take any of my shit. Starting the torment and abuse that I and many others would have to endure.
You know your minds must be seriously "PROGRAMMED" to where you do not acknowledge the TRUTH about the way things actually were.
Tell me something... Would you send your kid to Straight if it still exist??? Would you want then to go through the type of abuse and punishment we saw every day??? Don't you remember people poking each other in the back so they had to "sit up straight," being pinned to the ground with 5 people holding you down with one of those people holding their hand over your mouth making it almost impossible to breathe, being put through sleep deprivation, being fed that slop from Sands Cafeteria which was probably left overs that were donated (and God did that shit taste bad)?
These must have been really good times for you. Don't you remember the night that the newcomers were taken in the bathroom and physically abused??? Remember Jeff Ambrose being taken into the bathroom and having his head forced into the toilet by a bunch of kids just doing what they were told "whatever it takes to make him change"?
How did you like being stripped away from your family and friends for an undetermined amount of time only to be surrounded by abuse and Chinese brainwashing tactics?
Do you really consider your lives to be normal now??? Going to fucking AA/NA meetings all the time, labeling yourself an Alcoholic/Addict, unable to sit and have a guilt free beer and feel a sense of being "Normal"
During the course of all this Sober/Clean time you are bragging about, have you ever really reached deep down inside during that 4th step and
"GET HONEST"[/color] about your true feelings about that place???
This is the place that Dennis Buttimer ran, these are the tactics in which he prided himself of using to turn out good little subserviant Straight Robots. This is a man who condoned the forementioned abuses or else he would have stopped it.
Just food for thought. By the way.....
By the way I was in Straight Atlanta (Marietta, Ga) 83-85
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