On 2004-03-29 23:42:00, Anonymous wrote:
"All this worthless bitching is a waste of time.
I don't think so--even if it were, it's my time, so why should you care? First off, it gives me a chance to vent the anger I feel from being in Straight. You wouldn't want me "pushing my feelings down" would you? Second, it lets those ex-Staff members who either put on their victim costumes or who don't think the program was "that bad" to know how I feel about them and their lack of remorse in no uncertain terms. Call me selfish, but I like expressing my opinion on this subject. Also, if it's such a waste of time, why do you bother to call attention to this thread by responding? Feeding the fire if you ask me.
While you moan about your tormenters and flounder back and forth about who is right and who is wrong, who is good and evil this shit is happening all over the place.
You're right--Straightlike programs still exist all over the USA and in foreign countries,too. If I were to delete every post I have made on this subject, it wouldn't bring those programs one minute closer to closing time. On the contrary, maybe something I say will jar the memory of some ex-Staff. This has already happened at least once--the ex-Staffer, who shall remain nameless in this post, "ammended" (sic) his previous denial that he abused anyone and changed it to "I'm not sure...I don't remember...if I did, I'm sorry." See? The healing is beginning! It just took some confrontation. Didn't you learn anything at Straight?
So rage and rant , vent, whine and spew your hate all you want.
Thank you for your permission. I think I will.
If you just took a fraction of that energy and put it toward doing something constructive, maybe you wouldn't sound like you are still blasting the people you never got to confront and you wouldn't sound like a twelve year old boy who got picked on and wants his revenge, what 20 years later?
So what if I AM blasting the people I never got a chance to confront? I waited twenty years to tell some of these assholes to fuck off, and if they see these posts, then it was worth writing them. Again, it's my time--if you don't like it, don't read it. I don't see anything wrong with revenge, personally, whether it's for something that happened twenty years ago or twenty minutes ago. Cayohueso covered this point pretty well under the "Jeff Leugers Fan Club" thread. Read it if you give a damn.
And maybe if you invested your energy into something constructive you could help to prevent some other kid from going through what we all experienced, and maybe some desperate parent who stumbles accross this site might think twice about placing their kid in a place like Straight, but how could they ever take this forum seriously and view the bits and pieces of truth as anything substantial if huge blocks of space are filled with this trash.
If I were a parent, and I came across an RTP2003 post about Straight, or hell ,even a Fucktard or whoever post, I damn sure would not want to chance my kids coming out of a place like Straight one tenth as fucked up they are. I'm the first to admit that STRAIGHT INC. FUCKED ME UP DAMN GOOD. If you have any brains at all, you would be able to see that this kind of anger, hatred, and disgust doesn't just pop out of nowhere. If my posts can give an ignorant ex-Staffer cause to think twice, I think they can also serve as an indicator to a concerned parent that the place they're thinking about sending little druggie Johnny might not be what it's advertised as.
Some staff were mean and I can't figure out why you choose to mimic them day in and day out. "
No need to get insulting, Anon. I have to take exception--drawing a parallel between my posts, no matter how heinous you may find the subject matter or the suggestions I make,and the systematic pattern of abuse that Staff dished out, day in and day out, is to make light of the abuses they perpetrated, and is an insult to me or any other survivor of the "treatment" and "therapy" we received at Straight, Inc. Now please walk off a cliff.
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