Please tell me how a 15 year old girl sitting in a room with 17 strangers, in a state she's never been to, away from her parents for the first time in her life could possibly feel safe enough to recount intimate details of a rape, and have it be constructive in any way possible. They ask her was it dark out, was it light out. What color was the car she was in the back of. What words did he say to her while he was on top of her. Did he use a condom? Did it make her feel dirty? Did he use a chain or a rope to tie her leg to the front seat? As fucking uncomfortable as it is to read through those questions, imagine sitting in that fucking room having to answer them! And when I hesitated at all I was threatened with punishment and degraded as not wanting to "cooperate" with my "treatment". Please, Who. I am begging you. TELL ME HOW THIS COULD POSSIBLY BE WORTH DEFENDING. I am calling you out. I have never addressed you directly but you'd better step up and show your true colors here.
I have NOTHING to gain from speaking out against HLA. I live my life now, happily devoid of anything having to do with Hidden Lake. I chose not to be involved in the lawsuit. I never spent a penny that I'd want to recapture from that place. My ONLY reason for posting any of this is to get the truth about that place out. To save some other scared shitless little girl from ever having to endure all that I did while I was there.
What is it that YOU have to gain from defending a place like this?
I anxiously await your response.
I dont see myself as a defender of HLA. I see myself as a defender of the truth. I mentioned earlier that I wouldn’t send my kid there. You have been here long enough to know that the truth isn’t a big priority here as long as the program looks bad. Take the inspection results of HLA. The reports clearly stated that the report was a list of discrepancies found, but posters like Bruce and others would rather mislead readers into believing that HLA failed every aspect of the inspection. To me this deception does everyone harm. No one else spoke up except myself. There are posters who feel everyone that dies post program is a result of the program even if they have been out for years. The reason they post crap like this is not for accuracy but to discredit programs. But what they dont realize is that they are discrediting fornits. Virtually no poster would step up and challenge a piece of information that portrayed a program negatively no matter how far fetched the story or information is. Many would rather sit in silence hoping the misinformation will drive readers to believe the worst is true about programs and decide not to send their child based on this. But what people dont see is this backfires and makes the forum look foolish.
But continuously asking questions and challenging answers, playing the devils advocate the truth eventually comes to the surface as it did in the last discussion on licensure.
I do believe that programs prepare kids for what life has to throw at them post program. I dont believe all programs are good or bad nor are they all alike. Many posters here like to envision the worst of the programs and peddle the idea that all programs are the same and damaging which we all know isn’t true but is good for the agenda of discrediting any program that comes along in discussion.
So Lacey, I think it is awful that that had to happen to you. I do not condone that treatment. I dont think all schools would do the same thing and I actually know they would not.
I dont condone harassment.
I do believethat if the rape occured post program you would be in a stronger position to deal with it then you were before hand. But you cannot honestly believe that spreading or allowing the spread of misinformation is going to have any long term lasting effect against these places. They need to be exposed for what they are and back it all up with facts and data. If you try to fool people with lies then the whole site loses its credibility.[/quote]
viewtopic.php?f=41&t=27545&start=45yoink. Its a bitch, I'm sure, not being able to alter your posts as their sheer nonsensical, absurd, cruelty mounts against you, and by extension, Hidden Lake Academy proponents.
As you gotta know that your words can be easily linked to and quoted, one must wonder
what is your motivation for denying them?
What would Charles dederich, or Erhard say about that?[/quote]
Well, TheIt,
you, said Lacey was abused by Hidden Lake Academy. You also said that she is better equipped to deal with her rape, if it were to have happened in the future, because of what Hdden Lake Academy did to her. That is the meaning of this paragraph:
[So Lacey, I think it is awful that that had to happen to you. I do not condone that treatment. I dont think all schools would do the same thing and I actually know they would not. I dont condone harassment. I do believethat if the rape occured post program you would be in a stronger position to deal with it then you were before hand. ?
So, the question remains, how did Lacey's abuse at the hand of Hidden Lake Academy make her better equipped to deal with her rape?
(And just as an aside, how the hell do you live with yourself telling a victim her abuser
helped her? How can you leverage the emotinal pain of both abuse and rape against this girl? A tactic you learned at Lifespring or Est, perhaps? Maybe, Direct from the master, Rudy Bentz?)[/quote]
A person in totalist setting like that of hidden lake academy, not even allowed to make a phone calls to someone on the outside world, allotted punishments for disagreeing with you, and under the influence of a peer group that laughs along to escape punishment, might be influenced by influenced by your denial of reality that’s plain to read. To a certain extent, perception of reality can even be manipulated in controlled milleus
http://www.rickross.com/reference/landm ... rk269.htmlOn the internet, not so much. Sockpuppeting another guest who "agrees with you," who, does not recreate group influence
So you cannot explain how the abuse, or "awful" “harassment†at Hidden Lake Academy, that you “think is terrible†that Lacey “had to go through†helped her?
Didn't think so.