Non Prophet
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Member # 5273
posted September 20, 2006 03:32 PM
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Originally posted by WillieNelson:
Fornits has a very clear agenda- to bash all teen help programs. It is a very biased site filled with incorrect information posted by people who have no experience with the programs or whose experiences occurred several decades ago.
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This is demonstrably false on many levels. Anyone who reads the site can verify this, although I do agree that most of the posters on fornits are "anti-program," insofar as "program" means "unlicensed, unregulated, abusive behavior modification center." Fornits, however, as I stated before, is merely a free to use, unmoderated message board - not a business of any kind.
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It appears you registered for this site for the sole purpose of making sure the readers know about the recent lawsuit.
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Willie, please try to refrain from speculating about my motives for registering for this site. Your speculation is wildly inaccurate. My comment was designed to demonstrate that there is a bias to this website and how it reports "news" about the teen-help industry. I think my point was made abundantly clear, and I believe you have further demonstrated that self-same bias by posting the ignorant statement quoted above in regard to the content on fornits. You clearly have not used it as a research tool or, apparently, even taken the trouble to read the content. In this way, false premises ("Fornits has a very clear agenda- to bash all teen help programs") trump reality.
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I remind you that anyone with $50 or so can file a lawsuit. Until the merits are demonstrated by evidence at trial, it is not worth a whole lot. So-time will tell.
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Yes, Willie, I'm fully aware of that fact. Since you mention it, however, this lawsuit is simply another piece of a growing body of evidence that shows that this particular program has been operating in a fraudulent manner and has exercised gross negligence in its dealings with its attendees and their loved ones. I suppose you can understand that this lawsuit is a result of years of investigations - that are still ongoing - into this facility and its principles by quite literally a dozen different entities including CPS, IRS, FBI, DFACS among several others, including both governmental agencies and oversight committes. I suspect there will be some criminal charges as well. This is not a personal injury case brought by shylocks and ambulance chasers, Willie - this is the real deal.
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Posts: 3 | From: Stamford, CT USA | Registered: Sep 2006 | Logged: 24.161.94.22 |
Michael Muldoon
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Member # 4278
posted September 20, 2006 04:25 PM
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I think it is important to remember that like the parents say many of the Fornits posters are not parents themselves, the parents were never in programs like the majority of the posters on Fornits. Also it is important to undersand that many of the reactions are emotional reactions. These posters have been traumatized and want to do everythng in their power not to have someone else be traumatizd also.I think some people have to understand that more.I think some posters here lack emotional intelligence.Also, There are some parents who had kids in programs who are anti-program at least to a certain degree. How about Karen Burnett? She was a parent of a son in more than one program and is anti program to a certain extent. So, I hope I have provided some food for thought also.
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Posts: 5 | From: Bronx, New York | Registered: Jun 2004 | Logged: 4.173.207.190 |
Non Prophet
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posted September 20, 2006 04:51 PM
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Also it is important to undersand that many of the reactions are emotional reactions. These posters have been traumatized and want to do everythng in their power not to have someone else be traumatizd also.
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I belive this to be a bang-on assessment of the motive of a very large segment of fornits posters.
There are also several former TBS/OBH/RTC staff members who have insight into what transpires in many of these places that fully corroborates victims' accounts - things that parents have seldom heard and almost never seen.
In order for one to appreciate fully the teen-help business, one must have a clear understanding of exactly what happens behind closed doors at some of these facilities. I've no doubt but that many of the posters on this site, if they were ever to get an unvarnished, unedited viewing of what happens to some children in the name of "helping" them, their perspectives would be greatly altered from their present paradigm.
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