« Reply #15 on: August 01, 2001, 03:49:02 PM »
Laws
Well, at least if the laws changed so that teens could get out of these places, then those teens who are able to escape temporaily or contact someone, could get out. I remember the story of one person at Tranquility Bay who managed to contact someone while being abducted and the government sued to get him out of there, but his parent's lawyer (who was also a program parent) managed to keep him from being pulled out of the program to testify. I am not sure what happened to him? Kids are in the unfortunate position of having to live with the people who they tried to sue.
You should not be locked up without a fair trial and anyplace where you can't physically walk out the door and leave is a lock-up.
There will always be cults that abuse kids, by changing the law we can at least state loud and clear that these programs are not rehab, or therapy, or schools, or hospitals. They are cults and scams, they are dangerous and illegal. Sure there are laws against child cruelty, kidnapping, assualt, false imprisonment, fraud. The laws only need to be tweaked a little so that they are more clear in this area. Slavish discipline makes a slavish temper... If severity carry'd to the
highest pitch does prevail, and works a cure upon the present unruly
distemper, it often brings in the room of it a worse and more dangerous
disease, by breaking the mind; and then, in the place of a disorderly young
fellow, you have a low spirited moap'd creature, who, however with his
unnatural sobriety he may please silly people, who commend tame unactive
children, because they make no noise, nor give them any trouble; yet at
last, will probably prove as uncomfortable a thing to his friends, as he
will be all his life an useless thing to himself and others... Beating them,
and all other sorts of slavish and corporal punishments, are not the
discipline fit to be used in the education of those we would have wise,
good, and ingenuous men...
John Locke, 1692
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