On 2003-09-11 07:17:00, Anonymous wrote:
" Ditto, to the last post. some of y`all act like such experts and the advice is anything but helpful.Whoever wrote the first post obviously was angry, does that make them sick? I can`t blame them for blasting you, you seem very enabeling.I`ve never found that to be to helpful in real life, forget about kids. "
It's readily apparent that someone hasn't gotten fully de-programmed, if at all.
You'll either see your bullshit for what it truly is or you'll die brainwashed.
Neither option is pleasant, but one makes for a lot happier lifetime.
"Study history, lest ye be damned to repeat it." I'm not going to be so pompous as to say I know the source of this quote. I don't.
But it's all too poignant.
Our history involves an abusive rehabilitation facility that damaged the lives of hundreds of adolescents, including most of the readers of my words. It involves (present tense, as Newton & Co. still have their emotional grip on his loyal followers and possibly others of whom we know nothing) incomprehensable abuses and cult-like brainwashing techniques, in the name of salvaging the lives of youth from drugs or food or behavior or sex or whatever that wanna-be saviour thought he could 'cure' us of.
I choose to prevent this from being repeated, so I remember Kids. I remember the loneliness. I remember the humiliation. I remember the pain. I remember the bullshit. I remember the staff-imposed guilt. I remember the restraints, the violence, the anger, the sadness, the fear and the lost feeling of floating in a sea of disfunction guided by Capt. Newton.
What about you? Are you going to merely forget that this ever happened so that if it happens to your son/daughter or the son/daughter of someone you know & care about, you can forget about that too? Perhaps turn a blind eye towards what other atrocities are being committed against other teen-agers.
What's sad is every day some screwed up teen is put into a facility for "help" and leaves worse off than when they entered. They all feel that exact same fear you did on day one. They get a piss test, some Kwell shampoo and a shitty haircut. They will have to spend an undetermined amount of time in an unforgiving environment with all dignity and humanity stripped of them, all in the name of bettering their lives.
Just like you & I.
I will remember Kids until the day I die. It will always be a vivid memory that stirs up emotion, mostly unpleasant, yet necessary to prevent it from happening to anyone I know.
