Send Postcards to Brendan

[Anonymous]

 Kidnap and imprisonment is illegal, you freak. So is brainwashing and abuse.

Exactly!!  So show us some police reports where anyone was arrested for kidnapping and false imprisionment.  You cant because it is all in your head, moron!!  You make such a joke of yourself.  Have you ever read the papers and see what happens when a kid really is kidnapped?  Do you think all these thousands of kids are kidnapped an imprisoned and no one knows about it?

You are screwed up in the head.  Then add the waterboarding and abuse?  Your a sick person for even thinking anyone would buy your story thats why no one believes the stories here because you guys heap on the bs so much we cant tell what is real or not.

Good question. Why do the police not arrest people who kidnap in the name of "help"? http://www.nospank.net/labi.htm
If only John D Reuben hadn't paid for his son's abudtion and imprisonment. If only John had been arrested for that terrible crime he financed. Maybe his son would have been rescused and be alive today.

[Anonymous]

Notice the style of writing in all those reports against Diamond Ranch are the same.  All the reports were written by the same person with nothing better to do then story writing.  It is amazing how far people will go to discredit a place trying to help children.
Disgusting.

Notice no names were given because they didnt have any and if they did add them they would have been sued for slander.  So there is no way to verify the info, no newspaper articles or police reports.

Just like ISACcorp, HEAL retains the originals on file but keeps the named and signed declarations (under penalty of perjury) private.  That's their right.  Considering your threat, it's probably also a wise decision.  If you claim they were never signed and were all written by the same person, you're implying heal to be complicit in the deception.  If that's the case, why don't you sue HEAL.  Go ahead.  Make Angela's day.

i have personally spoken with or have exchanged emails with three of the statement writers.  They are all real people, believe you me.  All those kids needed was someone to care enough to ask about their experience.  DRA is no Tranquility Bay, but the indoctrination model of crediting the program for your "sanity" is our philosophical objection.  We know Brendan needs help, but not at the price DRA and his parents want him to pay.  Adolescence is not a disease.  You can also find an example of how adults and teens can work together to problem solve at http://www.freechild.org.

Have you gone to the police about Brendan's kidnap? What did the police say they would do? Will they arrest his kidnappers?

[Whooter]

 Kidnap and imprisonment is illegal, you freak. So is brainwashing and abuse.

Exactly!!  So show us some police reports where anyone was arrested for kidnapping and false imprisionment.  You cant because it is all in your head, moron!!  You make such a joke of yourself.  Have you ever read the papers and see what happens when a kid really is kidnapped?  Do you think all these thousands of kids are kidnapped an imprisoned and no one knows about it?

You are screwed up in the head.  Then add the waterboarding and abuse?  Your a sick person for even thinking anyone would buy your story thats why no one believes the stories here because you guys heap on the bs so much we cant tell what is real or not.

Good question.

Thank you, guest, so you see if kids really were being kidnapped left and right the media would be all over it.  This is a given (unless you live under a rock) But almost everything you read here is made up. There is no one in jail for murder or abuse, kidnapping from these schools.  These are just stated here for sensationalism and to get attention.
 People here are pissed off because Brendon has decided to stay and get help and most of the posters here lost their chance long ago, blew for themselves and cant stand others getting the help they should have gotten.  They are still blaming the programs from decades ago and stuck in neutral.

[Anonymous]

 Kidnap and imprisonment is illegal, you freak. So is brainwashing and abuse.

Exactly!!  So show us some police reports where anyone was arrested for kidnapping and false imprisionment.  You cant because it is all in your head, moron!!  You make such a joke of yourself.  Have you ever read the papers and see what happens when a kid really is kidnapped?  Do you think all these thousands of kids are kidnapped an imprisoned and no one knows about it?

You are screwed up in the head.  Then add the waterboarding and abuse?  Your a sick person for even thinking anyone would buy your story thats why no one believes the stories here because you guys heap on the bs so much we cant tell what is real or not.

Good question.

Thank you, guest, so you see if kids really were being kidnapped left and right the media would be all over it.  This is a given (unless you live under a rock) But almost everything you read here is made up. There is no one in jail for murder or abuse, kidnapping from these schools.  These are just stated here for sensationalism and to get attention.
 People here are pissed off because Brendon has decided to stay and get help and most of the posters here lost their chance long ago, blew for themselves and cant stand others getting the help they should have gotten.  They are still blaming the programs from decades ago and stuck in neutral.

the media has been all over it. There are many many articles about abduction, imprisonment (and torture and brainwashing) by the gulags you are emotionally enmeshed in, as cult disciples.

Guest posted one, others are easily accessible to anyone who can google

[Anonymous]

Now start sending them to staff encouraging them to conceal recorders on their person and show the world exactly what the fuck goes on in there.

DRA is aware of this thread and I will continue to update them.

[Anonymous]

They're probably very aware of the postcards they've been receiving as well so ....whatever

[Anonymous]

Just in case people are too lazy to get to the postbo and/or buy stamps, you can make a postcard online and have it sent wherever you want for $1.50 a pop.  Don't be cheap.  Put it on your todo list and send one a day.
http://www.hazelmail.com/

Also, using the above service you might want to send DRA a tiny reminder about mail tampering, courtesy of the USPS:
http://fornits.com/psy/mailTampering.jpg

Someone had the idea to flood DRA with postcards for Brendan. We want an absolute DELUGE of letters. kind of like what they do in China when they imprison religious leaders. as a form of peaceful protests, the people inundate the prison with so much mail that they cannot function. Here is the addy for DRA:

Brendan Spelman
c/o Diamond Ranch Academy
1500 East 2700 South
Hurricane, UT 84737

Postcards are cheap, even cheaper than a stamp on an envelope.

Just address it to Brendan Spelman and write a message of hope.

Let's do it!

also, please repost this group and the DRA address to your own wall. Then all YOUR friends can do the same thing!

I'll be sending 5 postcards off tomorrow, might even send a couple of empty packages as well. Knowing DRA they won't let him get anything not authorized by his parent's so it has the potential for amusement.[/quote]

[Anonymous]

Notice the style of writing in all those reports against Diamond Ranch are the same.  All the reports were written by the same person with nothing better to do then story writing.  It is amazing how far people will go to discredit a place trying to help children.
Disgusting.

Notice no names were given because they didnt have any and if they did add them they would have been sued for slander.  So there is no way to verify the info, no newspaper articles or police reports.

Just like ISACcorp, HEAL retains the originals on file but keeps the named and signed declarations (under penalty of perjury) private.  That's their right.  Considering your threat, it's probably also a wise decision.  If you claim they were never signed and were all written by the same person, you're implying heal to be complicit in the deception.  If that's the case, why don't you sue HEAL.  Go ahead.  Make Angela's day.

i have personally spoken with or have exchanged emails with three of the statement writers.  They are all real people, believe you me.  All those kids needed was someone to care enough to ask about their experience.  DRA is no Tranquility Bay, but the indoctrination model of crediting the program for your "sanity" is our philosophical objection.  We know Brendan needs help, but not at the price DRA and his parents want him to pay.  Adolescence is not a disease.  You can also find an example of how adults and teens can work together to problem solve at http://www.freechild.org.

Have you gone to the police about Brendan's kidnap? What did the police say they would do? Will they arrest his kidnappers?

Really, what did they say? (im not a troll--just a person who does not understand how the police do NOTHING on behalf of victims of these criminal organizations)

[Anonymous]

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[Whooter]

the media has been all over it. There are many many articles about abduction, imprisonment (and torture and brainwashing) by the gulags you are emotionally enmeshed in, as cult disciples.

Guest posted one, others are easily accessible to anyone who can google

If there are many then posting one example of where a gulag kidnapped a child and the police tracked the kidnappers down and put them in jail.  Out of the thousands you should be able to find one link to one article.  Did they give the kidnappers the death sentence?

Just one article where the kidnappers were caught and sentenced... only 1 of the 1,000's that occur each year.  How about an amber alert!!!  or americas most wanted, one of these abductions would be sure to make it on one of those shows, hell, they feature 20 year olds who are lost in the woods they must have a few of these kidnappings on their show.

Just 1!!!

[Whooter]

Growing up the abductions were performed in broad daylight.  We were dressed up and placed as close to the edge of the street as possible and these yellow vehicles would come by and force us into them and we were held against our will for hours each day being subjected to humiliation and abuse.  We were forced to read out loud and walk in single file.  We were not allowed to speak for hours on end.  It was behavior modification in the truest sense of the word.  We endured this for 12 years.  I believe Brendon will get off easy with only a year or more (lucky stiff)

Like Brendons abduction none of these ever made the evening news although we felt we should have been.  We had been denied our day in court and due process, just forced against our will.  I was so glad when I turned 18.  Brendon will get thru it as I did.
Hang in there Brendon,
Signed,
Life survivor (so far)

[psy]

what would keep him there other than force?  

lmao@! you of all people should know the answer to that.

Good point.  But in a sense thought reform and depriving a person of their resources is "soft" force.

[Anonymous]

Brendan was a misfit who verbally abused, physically abused and sexually abused other people.  He deserved to be "Escorted" to DRA.  People, stop your Jihad crusade and move on.

[Anonymous]

the media has been all over it. There are many many articles about abduction, imprisonment (and torture and brainwashing) by the gulags you are emotionally enmeshed in, as cult disciples.

Guest posted one, others are easily accessible to anyone who can google

If there are many then posting one example of where a gulag kidnapped a child and the police tracked the kidnappers down and put them in jail.  Out of the thousands you should be able to find one link to one article.  Did they give the kidnappers the death sentence?

Just one article where the kidnappers were caught and sentenced... only 1 of the 1,000's that occur each year.  How about an amber alert!!!  or americas most wanted, one of these abductions would be sure to make it on one of those shows, hell, they feature 20 year olds who are lost in the woods they must have a few of these kidnappings on their show.

Just 1!!!

http://www.isaccorp.org/brightway/brigh ... 03.03.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 41,00.html
http://www.people.com/people/archive/ar ... 24,00.html

Here are 3 more. There are thousands of media reports on the subject. If you google you can get more.

No the kidnapper was not put in jail. For whatever reasons, law enforement allows these "help" organizations to kidnap people, as you well know, john d.

 Loving neighbors took one of these evil kidnappers to court, on behalf of the kidnapper's victim.
http://www.caica.org/OPINIONS%20VanBlaringen.htm

By Adam Cohen

Time, January 26, 1998

"Since you have sent me here, I will take care of my issues so that I can come home soon and be a better, happier and nicer and smarter person than when I came here. The water is so blue, the beach looks so sandy, the hills are so green, the weather is so nice--and the chain link so high."

Letter from David van Blarigan, Tranquility Bay, Jamaica, to his parents, Dec.15, 1997

Just past midnight, David van Blarigan, 16, woke up in his Oakland, California home to find his parents at his bedside with two burly strangers they had called to take him away. "Why are you doing this?" the teenager cried out. "Because you're unhappy here," his mother replied. "If you don't cooperate," one of his escorts said, "we'll have to put you in handcuffs." David's first stop was Brightway Adolescent Hospital, a mental facility 700 miles away in St. George, Utah. Although David had no criminal record, was not violent and hadn't been abusing drugs or alcohol, a Brightway psychiatrist determined that the boy required prolonged treatment. He prescribed a one-year stay at Tranquility Bay, a "behavior modification school."

That is David's account of how he ended up at Tranquility Bay, and it's at the heart of a lawsuit asking a court to order him returned to California over his parents' objections. David's case, on which a superior-court judge in Oakland is expected to rule this week, pits the civil liberties of a teenager against the right of a parent to decide how to raise a child. It also shines a spotlight on the shadowy world of for-profit "attitude adjustment" camps and schools. Some parents who have resorted to such programs say their intensive boot camp-style approach has been the crucial factor in turning around their troubled children's lives. But critics charge that many of the camps hold children prisoner, inflict what they consider to be physical and mental abuse--and sometimes cause death.

Behavior modification schools advertise in the back of mainstream magazines like Sunset, and their slogans are as no-nonsense as a five-mile run at sunrise. "Attitudes adjusted here," says an ad for the Ascent Program. Sea Hawk Academy promises "the wake-up call your teenager needs." Many offer to arrange the kind of "escort service" David van Blarigan found at his bedside. The schools and camps are often isolated, either in rural America (Thompson Falls, Mont.) or in faraway locales (Western Samoa). They number as many as 2,000, estimates Alexia Parks, author of a new online report on the subject, An American Gulag, and they come in many varieties: religious, military-style, and some focused on special issues, like drug abuse. A few try to "shock" gay children back to heterosexuality.

Life in many attitude-adjustment schools is closer to prison than prep school. Facilities are spartan, discipline strict. At Tranquility Bay, students are supervised from wake-up at 6:30 a.m. to lights-out at 9:30 p.m. Punishment for violations of the 54-page student rule book range from loss of merit points to "observation placement" meaning a student must lie on the tile floor of his room all day, not sitting up except for meals and bathroom breaks. And parents sign a contract allowing the school to use handcuffs, mace and stun guns on their children. "Restraints are rare," says Jay Kay, a former San Diego gas station and mini-mart manager who owns and operates Tranquility Bay. "But we take them seriously, and we train for them."

The love is even tougher at attitude-adjustment wilderness camps. Teens are enrolled for one to three months of rigorous camping and treks through the wild. To establish discipline, food and water are often withheld. For punishment, the camps often impose grueling hikes and uncomfortable sleeping conditions. Cathy and Bob Sutton of Ripon, Calif., sent their 16-year-old daughter Michelle to camp Summit Quest in the summer of 1990 because she had become depressed and dabbled with drugs after she was date-raped. The Suttons, who thought from a marketing director's pitch that the camp sounded challenging but kind, paid $14,000 for 63 days. But Michelle's counselors got lost on an exercise in which the campers had limited supplies of water. When Michelle ran out of water, a counselor told the other hikers not to share, and joked that Michelle's parched mouth was so white "it looks like you've been eating marshmallows." After complaining she couldn't see, Michelle collapsed and died of dehydration. Six weeks later, at another wilderness camp a camper named Kristen Chase died of heatstroke after a forced march in 105 degrees heat. In 1994, yet another camper, Aaron Bacon, died of acute peritonitis compounded by neglect on another wilderness program.

Supporters of schools like Tranquility Bay say it's unfair to lump it with rogue institutions in which children are abused. Life at his school is not easy, Kay says, but no one is harmed. "The first days are very, very rough for the students," he concedes. "But after that they realize we are pretty good people." A 19-year-old said that after her parents sent her to Tranquility Bay, she began reversing her slide into drug use. "When I came here, I was a typical type of person that needed to be here," she says. "It was like I was wearing a sign that said, HELP ME." She was not an athlete when she arrived last March, but since then she has lost 40 lbs. and become a star soccer and basketball player. "You are stripped of your freedom here and take pride in it when you earn it back," she says.

David van Blarigan found another way to try to take back his freedom. When he got off the plane in Jamaica, the escort team from Tranquility Bay was late meeting him. That gave him time to call a friend and neighbor, Neil Aschemeyer, who is also an administrative-law judge. Aschemeyer got in touch with Robert Hutchins, head of the Alameda County district attorney's child-abduction unit. And Hutchins went to court to petition for David's release. For the moment, he isn't bringing criminal charges, but he regards the teenager's abduction as kidnapping. "When they sent this so-called escort service to pick up their boy, they took him against his will," Hutchins says. "That's kidnapping." Normally, a parent cannot kidnap his own child, but Hutchins argues that by giving Tranquility Bay the power to "restrain, control and detain" their son for a year, they effectively handed over custody of him, which, he says, California case law prohibits. Hutchins also contends that David's brief examination at Brightway was a sham and that his parents had already signed a yearlong contract with Tranquility Bay.

The van Blarigans, for their part, say they were stunned to be hauled into court. "I was scratching my head," Jim van Blarigan says of the day Hutchins' office served him with papers. "I asked, what do you mean, kidnapping my [own] son?" They love their son, they insist, and are only doing their duty. "We as parents made a choice to send our son to a boarding school for his benefit," says Sue van Blarigan. "We're being challenged on whether we have that right as parents." If David's suit prevails, he will be placed not with his parents but with the Alameda County family court. "Under the family code, minors have rights," says Hutchins. Of course, parents do too. The question before the judge is where a parent's rights end and a child's begin. -- Reported by Sylvster Monroe/Treasure Beach and James Willwerth/Los Angeles

[psy]

He acted like an idiot, broke laws, smoked hard drugs and was violent.  Brendan did belong in a program.

That's not what his friends who knew him said.  I wouldn't be surprised if he confessed to those things under duress, though.  After all, if you don't confess to what you're accused of, you don't leave.  Some are smarter than others in catching on to this.