the Straights dot com editor Wes Fager speaking at The 2nd Int'l Conference on Adolescent Treatment Abuse, June 8-9, 2003, St. Petersburg, Fl. [Professor Arnold Trebach on left]
Best. Quote. Ever. Headline on Wes' comment to Washington Post. swamp city
Agity Hero of the Year 2002 (web division): Wes Fager, for his tireless efforts to bring the Straight, Inc. story to the public
"Swamp City is all over PumpGate: [quoting Wes Fager] 'The story is not about a man's penis pump -- it's about child abuse." Wonkette!
"In honor and appreciation of the heroic effort in the cause of saving children from institutionalized abuse; and in memory of those hurt most by it, we survivors present this award to Wesley Fager - 2002". The 2002 Richard Bradbury Award for Heroism
"FAGER, WESLEY M., author, editor. . . Author: A Clockwork Straight, 2000. . . Avocations: .exposing destructive, mind[control] cults. . ." Marquis Who's Who in America, 2002
About the editor, Wes Fager
"They [stories compiled by Wes Fager] are stories of suicides and attempted suicides, rapes, forced abortions, molestations, physical abuse, lawsuits, court testimonies, and extensive documentation of profound psychological abuse at Straight chapters all over the country." Radley Balko, FOX News
"Wes has become an expert on such matters . . . he worked with me in developing a conference that would expose harms done by these programs." Arnold Trebach, J.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Law and Social Justice, American University, Washington DC, author and former head of the Office of Civil Rights, US Justice Department
"Thanks to Wesley Fager for commemorating the victims of this abuse, who died for reasons unknown, but whose deaths should not go unacknowledged." StantonPeele, J.D., Ph.D., and world-renowned author on addictions
"The legal battle has been covered extensively on TheStraights.com, a site run by Wesley Fager, 58, of Oakton." . . . "The story [says Fager] is not about a man's penis pump--it's about child abuse." Richard Leiby, The Washington Post
"[Ambassador Sembler's] holy image [of Straight] is compromised by Wes Fager, a father who made discovering the truth about Straight his crusade. . ."The Semblers should be in jail for what they did. But how could that be possible since the people who should investigate them sit on the Advisory Board for Drug Free America Foundation [Straight]?" Fager concludes." Stefania Medetti of la Rebubblica, Italy's top selling newspaper
"Articles about the purloined pump [Ambassador Sembler's penis pump] have been published in the St. Petersburg Times and the Washington Post, and there's a blog called Pumpgate [published by Wes Fager] with links to court documents and quotes from the players." St. Petersburg Times front page article Nov. 12, 2006.
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They don't care about civil liberties or our nation's children. . . They only care about getting rich . . . Straight cofounder Betty Sembler writing about groups she says are hoping to profit from drug legalization. From a letter dated 07-06-04 to a US Representative
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Dr. Miller Newton, Mel Sembler's
national clinical director at Straight,
settles for an undisclosed sum
01-25-07 In the ealry 1980s Reverend Doctor Virgil Miller Newton was the national clinical director for Straight, Inc. until he fled Florida on the heels of criminal and health investigations for child abuse. con't
updated 1-25-07 PumpGate: Sembler Caves
12-28-06 The long awaited trial was to have occurred on Feb 12, 2007.[con't]
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Ray Bradbury prepares to enter the courthouse on Jan. 25, 2007 carrying his appeal to Judge Shames' ruling that rummaging through the trash is stalking. Where's the outcry from law enforcement and the press?
1-25-07 Bradbury files appeal. Mel Sembler dropped his case against Ray Bradbury on Dec. 28, 2006. But he left one element in and Judge Shames ruled on it. Rummaging through Sembler's trash is stalking. Ironically, the Semblers left in the one piece that is sure to keep PumpGate in the public eye for ever--can cops and reporters rummage through your trash. Will FBI agents be jailed for stalking terrorists if they lift DNA off a discarded cigarette? Will thousands of convicted drug dealers be released on appeal because of evidence gathered through the trash. Has Judge Shames written new law? On Jan 25, 2007 Ray Bradbury filed an appeal with the clerk's office to stop this outrageous ruling. See Notice of Appeal 1 2 3 4 and Amended Notice 3 4
12-29-06 The Huffington Post: Penis Pump Case Goes Limp, But Serious Issues Remain by Maia Szalavitz link
01-02-07 Transcripts of the concession hearing 12-28-05 link
12-29-06 The St. Petersburg Times' coverage of the capitulation by the Sembler camp link
12-29-06 Corrected St. Pete Times article link
updated 01-07-07 Blogs on the concession DailyRotten PenisPumpExperience LiveJournal RayleneFlaugher chatter zinsoprods teaoodle Majikthise penis pump PeaceTrain sexo penis-enlarge TrailRank Bot fornits
11-12-06 Dirt & the diplomat by Lenora LaPeter: The St. Petersburg Times' front-page story on PumpGate. our editorial special report
la Repubblica, Italy's biggest selling newspaper, reports on Sembler's Straight program and links to us 9-16-06 story
01-16-07 Pathway Family Center, a second-generation Straight, to expand to Porter County, Indiana amidst controversy story
01-07-07 Database of Publicly Accused Priests in the United States link
01-04-07 Ching Chang Charlie, an editorial by North Country Gazette link
12-29-06 The Trouble with Troubled Teen Programs: How the "boot camp" industry tortures and kills kids by Maia Szalavitz in the January 2007 issue of Reason Magazine. Ms. Szalavitz's article traces the controversial teen help industry from Synanon Church through Straight to WWASPS and modern-day boot camps. Bradbury and Sembler are in it. What a chilling legacy Mel and Betty Sembler have wrought upon this land of ours. on-line version
12-28-06 PumpGate: Marlene McCord's deposition, part 1. page 1 pages 2-5
12-15-06 PogoWasRight, a blog dedicated to privacy issues, picks up on Sembler's penis pump claim link
12-15-06 "Mel Sembler's Penis Pump, Privacy Claim Headed To Trial" North Country Gazette
12-15-06 PumpGate tagged in ZoomClouds link
12-13-06 More legal woes for Ambassador Sembler. It appears that Jeff Fisher of Wellington, Fl. is suing Sembler, Straight, Inc. (under its current name DFAF) and a Dr. Joseph Klock in federal court in Virginia on RICO charges. link
12-13-06 The coronation of King Charles of Florida has been dropped. For tickets costing up to $500,000 you could have gotten your picture with governor-elect Charlie Crist, engraved cuff links, a tote bag and a silk. Brent Sembler co-chaired the proposed gala events. The proposed coronation caused such a media backwash that King Charles to be has decided to cut out the inaugural ball altogether and just have a prayer breakfast. story
11-15-06 Mel Sembler and the women in his life by Wes Fager story
updated 11-18-06 : 1100 Georgia state Rep. says Sembler's deal seems fishy. Wes Fager responds to Creative Loafing. link
11-14-06 Huffington Post responds to Times' expose to remind us of the damage done to thousands Read The Ambassador's Penis Pump and The Damage Done by Maia Szalavitz
SERIES: Lenny Englander, Charlie Crist, Judge Logan & Kane'sâ„¢ Furniture
09-21-06 Englander's engineered gag orders onBradbury (Straight) and Gonzales (Kane'sâ„¢) and how gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist plays in this by Wes Fager. link perma link
09-26-06 Old case of Crist's resurfaces: It involves campaign donations & a settlement with Kane'sâ„¢ Furniture by Steve Bousquet, St. Pete Times
09-27-06 "Kanes Furniture Fraud" site back up. Donald Rehm
11-16-06 A petition: Straight, Inc. survivor's letter to Nancy Regan, George Bush, et. al. requesting acknowledgement and an apology petition
11-14-06 Amorous Propensities, a forum on "sexuality in its amusing, unexpected and baffling forms", links to The Times article on the ambassador's penile pump link
Dateline Treasure Island, Fl., 3-15-04. About 15 members of the Uhuru, (a political group seeking social justice for black Americans) picketed the US residence of Ambassador Sembler calling him a racist. STORY
10-23-06 Sembler's shameful dalliance with political gadfly Doug Guetzloe by Wes Fager. The Orlando Sentinel calls him "the king of sleaze campaigns" whose stock and trade is "politics of the gutter," and it wants to know "who pays to support his tactics that divide and embarrass this community." Well we happen to know that Sembler Company does for one. This is an incredible story. blog Related: 11-16-06 An editorial: The timing of Doug Guetzloe's announcement that he has cancer. story
Wanna' learn about Straight and WWASPS? Order Help at any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids by Maia Szalavitz.
endorsements order
VIDEO: Ray Bradbury protests SAFE (a 2nd generation Straight in Orlando) link
Straight founder Am. Melvin Sembler's scheme to get US taxpayers buy a $113 million mansion in Rome and name it for himself! indymedia blog
Sembler is now saying he wasn't in on the day-to-day operations of Straight. I've got real problems with that blog
Yer dern tootin' Mel Sembler knew of Straight's abuses link
10-27-05 Mel and Betty Sembler: issues with human rights and civil liberties link
Sembler influences local politicians link1 link2
Am. Melvin Floyd Sembler, AO
WHY GEORGE BUSH SENT HIM HOME
An inexperienced, sad old man who can't even speak Italian who bought his way in only to become an embarrassment to the Bush administration.
Japan Today, Japan's leading international news network, reports on Sembler's abuse of American kids link
Cuba's Prensa Latina and Radio Cuba carries John Gorenfeld's article on Ambassador Sembler's private Abu Ghraibs article PL front page radio cuba escambray
Peace Reporter joins Carta, another Italian magazine, to report on Sembler's abuse of American kids Peace Reporter Carta Balaboitt
War Without End the global war against terror from a British perspective Republican child abusers His own Abu Ghraib
Fox News report on the Semblers and child abuse in Italian Carta fisicamente
Danish Drug Users Union on Kids and Straight link
War Crimes on Straight -- English link
Jolt forum (UK) link
War Without End (British) link
ANNOTICO Report (St. Louis USA)
side6: (Denmark?)
Italian Italy Indy Media
Fuoriregistro (Italian) translation
Polunatic, a Canadian blog link
Mike Davis calls people responsible for Straight and its spinoffs war criminals and calls for filing paperwork with the UN Human Rights Commission. He says that those responsible "should see War Crimes Tribunal charges pending." link
German Deusch indymedia
USA 12 Forums
USA Rigorous Intuition Board
USA Peace Corps
International News Tracking Log
USA Barcopnation
PumpGate, Ambassador Sembler's lawsuit against anti-Straight activist Ray Bradbury, who tried to sell on eBay the Ambassador's discarded penis pump, has been told in publications from The Washington Post to magazines in Norway and the West Indies, to blogs like Wonkette all over the world. PumpGate links
Montel Williams and the straw that broke the camel's back link
12-24-05 Mel Sembler is one big hypocrite--Sembler's op-ed on human rights by Wes Fager op-ed
10-29-06 Angelo Cappelli's secret weapon by Wes Fager blog
10-26-06 Crist Denies Trysts, GOP frontrunner: I have never had sex with a man by Bob Norman News Times Broward-Palm Beach
10-24-06 Sembler's proposed $600 million complex in DeKalb County, Ga. blog
5-01-05 PumpGate becomes bad business for Sembler Company: the snowball is growing link
10-17-06 Paul Bishop, The Franklin pedophile ring and Straight Twenty years ago a boy named Johnny Gosch was kidnapped from his Des Moines, Iowa paper route. Could he be George Bush's pool reporter Jeff Gannon, an alleged male escort?
