On 2006-02-13 13:32:00, Eudora wrote:
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On 2006-02-13 04:48:00, Anonymous wrote:
Then Miss Pete would preech about how lucky we were to be in the L.I.F.E. Program rather than Straight,then she would threaten to send us to "the 4 year program in Okeechobe,where our heads would be shaved and we would have to get up at 4:AM every morning and eat grule" if we continued to misbehave.
Oh, well then! Never mind! As long as she was outsourcing the really brutal stuff to, whom, Jack Eckard? Then everything's just fine then, right kiddies?"
And Herman Fountain too. When I was there in '87, the big threat to misbehavors was that we would get sent to Mississippi (Bethel), where I had already been once, before I was in LIFE. There, we had our heads damn near shaven, got up at 5 every day, ate grule, and spent all day doing slave labor. We were also beaten with a stick for such trivial things as using the word "crap" instead of "dung", or for not being able to memorize a Bible verse in 5 minutes.
But I guess that pales in comparison to only being psychogically tortured on a daily basis, and occaisionally being physically tortured. And I guess there's nothing wrong with false imprisonment and kidnapping.
After I finally escaped from LIFE, and they had enough of me (I'm sure my Dad failing to pay his half of the bill had nothing to do with it), Petermann and Company helped organize a kidnapping to take me back to Bethel. Nothing abusive about being thrown in a van and sat on.
Why do I even bother to repeat myself? Am I angry? Yeah. Is that my motivation for posting this shit over and over? Hell no. IT IS STILL GOING ON TODAY. And people like Wendy West, Peggy Kelly, etc. saw/directed this kind of thing. When asked to address the specifics, they just reply with some BS and simply say, "I never saw any abuse".
Fine, if you want to reconnect with old friends (wrong thread, I know). But quit acting like it was a fucking summer camp. I have no problem with people like Mike, who say it was beneficial to them, and will at least admit that there were serious fundemental flaws in the design of the Program. But for people like Wendy to tout themselves as a "Professional", and imply that that somehow shows that she knows how to recognize abuse, therefore, if she says there was no abuse, then there was none... WTF? People like that are at least partly responsible for the success of the other Straights that are still in business, and the whole freaking Teen Gulag industry.
Anyway... I have some code to write, and some corporate paperwork to do. Since my whole shitty life revolves around focussing my hate and bitterness on blaming the Program for the fact that I'm such a loser. Why can't they come up with some new material to avoid the issue with?
[ This Message was edited by: TimeBomb on 2006-02-13 14:31 ]