Yeah, Mike, that's the only thing about it that really troubles me. Matt originally asked me to set up this forum because some people felt that Kens was too restrictive and that some of the others were also not meeting their needs.
Most of these forums came here for similar reasons; because their bulk provider had shut them down or because there just didn't exist a public forum about their particular program. (hence the name, where the acronym is no coincidence)
Since then, one after another after another forum or web page on these programs has just blinked out of existance, often w/o any explanation. At least one of the links in AnonAnon is a 404, so I have go get around to fixing that.
There's more. I know so many people who've been jerked around in so many ways for trying to tell their own story about various programs. All of us, I think, understand first-hand how they turn families against eachother. Failing that, they won't hesitate to mount a smear campaign, threaten and/or file lawsuits or really whatever it takes to shut sombody up.
That's what burns my butt about this whole thing. It works. How can this happen in our free country? How can the founders of Straight, Inc. hold ambassadorships, write public policy and receive public funding to carry it out, all the while we who know these people and what they're capable of have to live in fear if we dare speak of it?
Drug War tells us everyone's body is common property
to be managed by the central government for our own
good, even if it kills us. This is Communism!
Anonymity Anonymous
[ This Message was edited by: Antigen on 2004-01-01 11:11 ]
