On 2006-04-06 20:13:00, Anonymous wrote:
"I gather you meant to say" many times , we do what we are told".....Well, sir/mam, through history that lame excuse never held up and it does not today... What if it was 'your daughter'..'your son'...While your at it, look at the pictures of the dead little souls that are a result of garbage, that turned their cheeks..They are a sad legacy of these 'Therapeutic Boarding Schools"...You will find their pictures on Teen Torture, etc..One little girl was only 10 years old....
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I won't argue with that, but I feel very strongly that the need for real understanding of how things like this happen, by far and away, outweighs the need to place blame and get retribution.
I know just exactly how a whole group of people, from top staff right down to the lowliest misbehaving newcomer, can come to accept the most outrageous, shocking, inhuman kinds of behavior w/o question. I know this because I've done it, helped induce this sort of hypnotic state in others and seen it done to so many others. It's SOP where I spent my 16th and 17th years on this planet. Never saw anyone raped w/ a branch, but I took part in driving a boy into a catatonic state. And when I realized it, close on the heels of that horrifying reality was the complimentary and ever present truth that, given my position, there was not a god damned thing that I could have done to help. Staffers could have, should have. And I honestly can't condone or forgive their inaction. But the rest of us, we could have bought ourselves a little dose of the same, but it wouldn't have helped. If anything, it would have further cemented the perception that we had all better fucking damned well keep mum and go along OR ELSE!
Lunacy en mass, is what we're dealing with. And, believe me when I tell you that the people making and enforcing juvenile justice, education, law enforcement, legislative and economic policy in this country today fully condone and approve of it.
They are dangerously unbalanced people, maniacal sadists of the TOUGHLOVE stripe. And now that you know, I'm not sorry for you. Misery loves company, that's true enough. But not nearly so much as
relief from misery! So now that you have an inkling, a clue as to what's going on, the onus is on you, all of you, to speak up. Take a little risk, damn it! What have you got to lose, really? Is it
that valuable? Weighed against the well being of your very soul and the future we bequeath to the next generation?
Now, all that said, this should go without saying but I dare not leave it at that. I tend to believe the story because, unbelievable as it may seem to outlanders, I understand the circumstances under which such things can and do happen. And I have enough info to stongly suspect that those circumstances exist at HLA. That's not the same as saying I KNOW it happened, though. Factually, I do not. And I wouldn't put it past these fuckers to plant and spread a false, sensational and easily refuted story just such as this in order to protect their real secrets.
Time will tell, or maybe not. If I were that girl or her mother, I'd have to think long and hard about whether or not to expose her to the rigors and stresses of the criminal justice system after all she's been through.
In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is every citizen's responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
--Martin Luther King
