Well, staff (peer staff, I mean) were not compensated very well. As I remember it, going all the way back to the Seed, group staff lived in communal apartments, drove shitty little broke down economy cars, wore torn, worn out clothing, etc. They were there, scurrying around trying to cover their asses in a state of perpetual hypervigilance just like phasers for 10, 12, 20 hours a day sometimes. The ticket to keeping a cult cohesive is to keep the inductees, especially the enforcement cadre, too busy, too paranoid and too stressed out to think clearly.
Some of the parents, for a time, were in pretty nearly the same state. Yes, there's money involved, huge piles of it. And there are those cretans into the mix who really are rollin' in it, gloating. But most of the staff got as pooched as any of us, probably more.
When I talked to Charles Pendergrass (Pendergrast?) I thought I was going to maybe get some clues, some details about my own history and Program history. Instead, well you can check that thread if you want to. But I would talk to him again if I thought he'd be willing to speak his mind. I don't care anymore whether these people are sorry, whether they're fer us or again us. I want them to speak their minds publicly on the topic of the Program. I know that most of them won't be willing to do that. But some will.
There's a former staffer reading and, very occasionally, posting here lately. Nice guy. I remember him that way at the time and he seems so now. But totally clueless about what he was involved in. If he and folks like him would speak their minds, I think it would help make a little more clear to most people just what we were all involved in.
Here's the thing. I don't think there exists any small, or even mid-sized, cadre of complicit evil doers who we can just identify, indict and punish. Even if we did, it would only make them martyrs in the eyes of the truely devout. So, for all the casualties, it would probably backfire.
And check this, cuz you know it's true. Even the ones who did and do get off on the sadism and the money, well karma is a very real force of nature. Those poor bastards sold their souls and they are damned in this life and undto the 5th generation, I'm convinced of it.
Pirate (and all the good ppl who came up fed and nurtured in the very holy mecca of the prison-industrial complex) ya'll are a bit spooky sometimes. Sorry, I know
I'm one to talk on that point. I had the spooky kid quality long before the Program, it's just hereditary in my case, I think. But I think you're perspective on what is and is not American culture is somewhat sullied by virtue of that influence. A whole lot of Americans are skeered these days, very like the way some of us complied, played along and humored the lunatics till we could see a clear path to gone for good. But their hearts are not w/ the fascists. And I do believe there's a sea change afoot, whereby good Americans up and down and all the way accross the political, social and economic spectrum are starting to see the danger.
How 'bout some fuckin' creds for bein' a target of the Beast even ??
Much cred, much love for you my brother! You are the American ideal. Not tryin to suggest that you or I or we should suffer the damnation we've felt the urge to heap on the mindfuckers. Just sayin' leave vengence to the gods or nature or whatever you believe in and let's us kind and decent souls set about enlightening our good fellow travelers to the slight of mind, the dirty tricks and the impending perril.
They need to be schooled so as to see the mindfuckers for what they are
before they fall for the same scam our rents did.
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
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