Uuuhhh....this whole thread has taken off in some really weird directions, thanks to a very fanatic Anon. This WWASPie Anon has a tricky way with quotes, or she doesn't know how to respond without the "yellow", so I've given up wading through her babbling and can't really address what the heck she's talking about.
To go back to the basics;
...this is a legal action, in which a good law firm has a contingency interest. This is just fine, and is the way that 99% of such matters are processed. There's money to be made, and Huron and Masrey is a business. ALL businesses are working for the money, even if they are St. Jude's Hospital or the Sierra Club, since all businesses need money to continue. The prospect of a large profit ($$$$ :eek: ) also tends to involve the more competent legal minds, as one would have to think twice before handing such a volatile case to 4 new law school graduates operating out of a storefront, eager to change the world with their first case.
...PURE and Sue and Paula are zooming in from Left Field again. When all else fails, Anon, you can always drag these names into the conversation. 99% of your readers will say, "Huh?"
...Deborah has no experience of WWASPS, so she has invalid input? This is really stupid, as we know that Deborah has scads of background information, has researched this INDUSTRY [WWASPS is absolutely no different from any other behavior modification group], and is an intelligent, articulate, and accurate voice in Fornits. FWIW, I DO have experience with WWASPS, and I know it sucks, Big Time.
...let's see, on 3/07/04 at 15:19, Anon mentioned "...SO many more, thousands, that can attest to the success...". On 3/07/04 at 18:39, Anon mentions "...hundred [sic] of families that disagree with ya'll." Hundreds, thousands???..., close enough. Suffice it to say A LOT, huh, Anon? How many kids-turned-adults, 5 years or so out of The Program?
...I don't believe any plaintiff in this suit has stated that the primary goal of this action is to stop abuse. There are as many reasons as there are plaintiffs for joining this suit, and I suspect bringing down the vehicle of their torment (WWASPS) is paramount in their minds. However, a civil suit does not work that way. One cannot go into court and "shut down" a business by claiming they abuse. That is not the function of a civil court. That is a legislative or criminal action. Publicity is a strong weapon, as is depleting the coffers of the defendent by winning a large judgement against them. But a civil suit is a very good way to implement one's vision, and there is nothing wrong with going this direction. Remember, Al Capone was finally beaten by the Feds for evading income tax...not murder, mayhem, and racketeering... but evading income tax, a proveable Federal offense. Same end result; clever method to enforce the public's will.
The legal suit being formulated by Huron Law is just one arm of the tentacles that will envelop WWASPS. The really sad thing is that there are parents (hundreds? thousands?) who are so at odds with their children that they hire an expensive intermediary to implement what they cannot. It is OK with them if their children are poorly fed, under-educated, isolated, harangued, beaten down emotionally by other kids, made to give up their own personalities in favor of The Party Line, made to lose their childhood, and eventually alienated from the parents that every person should have. If all we can do is bring the light of truth to the deceitfull advertising, try to expose the more-intelligent parents to what real BM practices are, to encourage parents that what they are going through with their incorrigible teenagers is really pretty normal (even extensive drug use), then we will have triumphed. We can't fight all the windmills of clueless and evil parents, but we can make it very hard to shunt children off into the dark and abandon them. If children are being abused, Society has to step in when parents fail. That's all there is to it.
