On 2003-10-13 09:46:00, Carey wrote:
"Karen, when I read about the facilities, I have to ask...WHAT KIND OF PARENT WOULD LEAVE THEIR CHILD IN A FACILTIY SUCH AS THE ONE DESCRIBED IN THE ARTICLE ABOVE? What kind? One that doesn't care or one that just has not taken the time to see for themselves, what kind?
I am sorry, I just don't undertand."
Karen's right. The kind of parent who would leave their kids with these sadistic lunatics are the kind who simply refuse to believe that they are sadistic lunatics. Here's a big, blinking clue as to how they pull off the divide an conquore slight of mind.
"Child Torture and Violation of the
U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. In response to the arrests, WWASP rallied parents and accused the Czech authorities of "
reverting to their communist past", with majority owner Ralph Atkin noting that dealing with the Czech's was "
like dealing with the KGB."
Now, if the only thing that terrifies you more than the mythical power of a joint to transform your kid into Charles Manson is the corrupting and horrifying prospect of Communist world rule, this might look like a pretty compelling argument.
This is just a simple, obvious ad hominem attack. Smear the critic, call them commies and KGB. Crude, but effective. At the same time, as you well know, WWASP and their philisophical brethren carry on a concerted and sustained damage control campaign. They'll bribe, intimidate and smear parents and former clients who dissent and they'll bribe, cajole and smooze the authorities to deflect serious investigations. That's where a lot of the money goes; to lobbying. How much of the "Faith Based and Community Initiatives" billions do you think WWASP is in line for if they can keep Goldsmith and Ashcroft well funded and protected till payday?
I can tell you that the steady diet of HRS ad hominems on which I was raised (Floridas Health and Rehab Svcs, since renamed and reorganized a few times) was so effective that, when HRS came to my aid to help me fight through the courts against being returned to Straight, I didn't know who to be more afraid of.
And there is some merit in the criticizm of these state agencies. While in HRS care, most of the other kids I met did not really view what was happening to them as very helpful. A lot of them just wanted to go home and spent a lot of time and energy trying to figure out how to make that happen.
This makes it very easy for a desperate parent to see these fine, upstanding Mormons who are accused of unimaginable cruelty are really nobel, martyred victims of a Communist conspiracy. The parents know that they signed consent to have their kid restrained "if they're a danger to themselves and others" They simply do not believe that these "good Christians" would use that authority inapropriately.
If you can imagine it, the WWASP staff don't really believe that what they're doing is inapropriate either. They're no different in that respect from those people who all put on nice new sneakers and offed themselves trying to hitch a ride on a passing commet. From their viewpoint, suicide was not really an inapropriate action, given the circumstances.
Hear me people: We now have to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possessions is a disease with them. These people have made many rules which the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.
http://www.powersource.com/gallery/people/sittbull.html' target='_new'>Chief Sitting Bull, speaking at the Powder River Conference, 1877
