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A CLOCKWORK STRAIGHT
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ACCOLADES
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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12-13-08 OLD MURDERS AT A FORMER FLORIDA DETENTION CENTER FOR BOYS? Do any of the tombstones in the photo mark graves of juveniles beaten to death at former detention center in Marianna, Fl. Gov. Crist has ordered an investigation. story
12-09-08 Bradbury sues Florida
for failing to safeguard his Straight medical files
For 17 years former US Ambassador to Italy Mel Sembler operated Straight, Inc., arguably the most destructive juvenile drug treatment program in the world. Ray Bradbury had been a client in this cult and later a counselor. Like the so-called Church of Scientology™ Straight is a confession-based cult. Straight kids were starved, beaten, restrained, spat upon and deprived of sleep in an effort to force them to sign a confession of their life before Straight. Kids admitted to intimate details of their lives prior to Straight, including their sex lives. Kids often invented stories of drug usage and abnormal sexual activity in order to stop the torture. Sometimes, in a cult of confession, kids confessed to things they had not done at all in order so as not to be outdone by a fellow confessor. con't
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12-09-08 Bradbury representing himself:
help if you can
Ray Bradbury is suing the state of Florida for failing to safeguard his Straight medical files. We at The Straigths dot com feel that Florida's alleged negligence in this matter is of concern to all who were in one of the Straights. We therefore encourage readers to donate to this brave man's cause.
