On 2004-04-22 08:45:00, Timoclea wrote:
"I was never in a program. But I tend to cut people that were a certain amount of slack. If they have lasting problems, I frequently chalk them up to the understandable after-effects of what was done to them.
Regardless of what the other programs are or aren't like, I think it's pretty well established that the Straight survivors went through hell on earth.
If the ISAC folks are sometimes a bit eccentric, it's not like there aren't darned good reasons for it.
They seem to me to be doing good work, and more good than harm.
If they're not perfect, so what? Who is?
At least they're not holding other human beings incommunicado against their will.
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Anonymous . . . for obvious reasons
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True that, but they have a history of shouting down all critics and trying to cause them personal problems. Perhaps this is abberent behavior from the cult they haven't been able to shake?
They have a website that by innuendo seems to claim they are a giant organization when in fact it is just a couple people.
They also have a tendency of taking other peoples research and claiming it as their own, making false statements and inaccurate conclusions. Their "research" seems to consist of rehashing newspaper articles and magazine articles, drawing improper parallels between Straight, Inc. and WWasp and other CEDU derivitive programs. To them, all roads lead back to their personal boggieman, Mel Sembler and Straight, Inc.
Like it was said earlier, they are way too emotionally scarred to be credible.
Be that the fault of straight Inc. or some pyscosis non-related, it appears to be a given. Therefore, The critizism they receive is well placed. They are hurting, not helping, the crediblity of those trying to bring this topic to those that were unaffected personaly by it.
