NATIONAL NEWS STORY TO BE PUBLISHED SOON

[Richard Bradbury]

I do not have the exact date but my best guess is about 6-8 weeks.  I have no further information for release at this time other than it has been something in the works for about 24 months.

Will advise of exact date and time as soon as the information becomes available.  Can say, it's much bigger than anything you have ever seen to date.

Thank you Richard Bradbury

[Anonymous]

Blah blah whatever. ::

[animals all of us]

I dislike hype.  If you can speak about what is to come, for the future, why can't you tell us what it is now, Rich?

Is this going to be like MCG where you wind up getting us excited, only to have myself (the black sheep) discover the information that they wouldn't help us and finally get it leaked out to those many who have been eagerly told that MCG found a way around the statute of limitations and were proceeding with the case ?

I'm not trying to be rude here, it just seems like this adult/child cause is so much 'news' to be expected or something.  You get me.  I used to let this shit drive me nuts, but not anymor3.  If you need me for something real, you can call me.  Until then I really don't care to expect anything from this or that anything is really going to come from Pumpgate.  

Unfortunately, the experiences of this board and protests and useless speaking to attorneys has lead me to these conclusions.  So much so that many times I really want to kill myself because we all sense, and many have already told me in post, that nothing will likely come of this.  I just dont like getting my heart beaten faster when its already tired from being kicked around for three years and thensome, only to be told that now is the time to get even.

You know what has to happen.  I have expressed what I am willing to commit.  There is no way around this statute of limitations, at all and you know it.  I dont care for this 'news'.  Those who were commited shall will to stand up with baseball bats and with knives and guns and make themselves known.  Protesting only offers Sembler and his shitty kind further publicity. The only thing that will make him pay at this point is to have someone (NOT ME) take a loaded fucking gun to his family,  have that person (NOT ME) murder some of them and let him see how it feels to really lose and feel humiliated, to feel taken advantage of and powerless over his existence next to others who deserve to watch him suffer as we did for so many decades while he ate cavier off our backs.  I am not the one to use the gun or a bat or a knife on anyone, if someone would stand up and walk the fighting path with anyone then this Irish boy will make right by what was done to us, not fucking talk some fucking hype and then expect others to follow.  

There are no children here anymore, though the pain may linger from yesterday.  Zombies who still lurk and wait for the light to prevail on the way we are made to continue to act like we were the guilty ones.  All eyes are open.  You know in your heart what has to happen, I dont even need to fucking mention it.  The made law has Completely failed so many since the inception of any cult for teens, and there is No one powerful to change it the way it presides in the minds and enforcements of our society.  Richard, I do not consider you a leader.  

What I am saying may or may not piss you off, perhaps you are apathetic, I dont presume to really know you.  I am asking for a war, not blind apprehensiveness.  

There is a saying that is very convenient here.  "Keep your friends close, your enemies closer."
You record conversations when others call you, dates of birth are not necessary when dealing with attorneys until full on acceptance of any case is given out.  No news is necessary, guy, until you know for sure.  Stop dicking around with hearts, man.  If you want a real war, then I will be equally aside my sisters and brothers as we destroy those who still continue to oppress the millions of people who are captured under myths about drugs and behavior modifications and inequality of any class or whatever.

Until the truth is MADE to be heard, then I've heard it all before and its bogus just like it always has been.  Please lets do something more than just speaking and talking about this and waiting.  In the meantime, don't be an Anslinger.

I made a really fucking bogus website awhile back.  I got alot of flack for it because people were all like "I dont want any part of these lies, this is not right and it takes away from credibility and our cause.  This is like preaching to the choir."  

Why all this talk?  When is someone going to step forth and make some real lasting action against Sembler?  Savior, I do invoke thee to step forth!!!  Kill thineself, oh martyr!!!  Lay low our masters who enslave us.  But, shutup while you're doing it.  I am tired of the hidden meanings and intentions.  I do not have any credibility when it comes to getting even, you already know me.  

By any means necessary shall the meek take back their own, but you wont' hear them coming, they dont' make 'news' of their steps.  

I dont' have ethics - and if a few more people die to keep some pure enemies of evil from polluting those who are merely trying to live peacefully on this planet and not subjugate others in doing so, then let the people make the laws that govern that action.  And it will be ameable and shall not be monopolized by any one person.  When I get my wish of War on American Terrorists (Bush, Reagans, Semblers, etc), all those in their wake shall be irradicated.  I will follow the savior who is said to return soon.  

Did Gore really create the internet?  Did Richard really shut down Straight?   [ This Message was edited by: animals all of us on 2004-08-05 16:21 ]

[animals all of us]

Looks like Reagan said it in better and less words than I did.  Ha ha.

[whiterabbit]

Thanks for the info. It is maddening to still be fighting to stop the madness, fighting to be heard after 20 years or more. I admire your tenacity.  

Personally, I don't believe that this story will be truly heard or the battle won through a single lawsuit even though the gathering of all the facts and court time is critical. It would be so satisfying to win some huge class action suit and see them get theirs, see the truth headlining newspapers.Most of America simply doesn't have the time or patience or attention span required to follow though. There are so many angles. The politics, the trechery, the various programs, their predecessors and successors, the sheer number of lives affected, the beginnings, the end,  the crimes, and the individuals.There are so many stories to tell. Where do you start? Where do you end? It's a complicated subject as we all know. More likely it will get attention when it has emotional impact. When it is disguised as entertainment. Thats what Americans understand best, relate to well. And when it turns out that this outrageous story is true, it hopefully will shock and anger some people. Propel them into action or guilt them into it. Even if nothing happens at least the true story will be told. That all by itself would be a liberation.

 Little by little the story gets out.The truth gets told. Maybe someday one of the protests, legal battles, websites, documentaries, politics, newspaper articles or individual human stories will strike a chord.Or maybe the combination of them all will inspire some significant piece of legislation. In the meantime, I'm appreciative of the effort regardless of the outcome.


 :nworthy:

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Antigen]

I don't think any one news story or any one piece of legislation is going to do the trick either. As heretic as it may seem at first blush, I think it really works the other way around.

Public policy always follows public sentiment. Look at how smoking laws have come about. When we were kids, if there was a non smoking section at all in a restaurant, it was a couple of crappy tables within sloshing distance of the big swinging kitchen doors. Over time, public sentiment and market demand have shifted to where now it's the smokers stuck in the small section in the back. So NOW the politicians want to pass sweeping bans and take their bows. But they're really not causing these things to happen. They're just doing what politicians are good at, stealing thunder.

It takes a thousand voices to tell just one story. I'm not getting my hopes too high this time either. We may see a really Earth shaking media development here. If that happens, I'll be pleasantly surprised and busy hawking it out far and wide.

But even if it's not all that major, every little bit helps.

All I ask is equal freedom.  When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.
--H.L. Mencken

[whiterabbit]

My thoughts exactly.
One day a  book or movie will be done in a way that hits people in their heart. And my gut is, it won't be about the politics, or broken laws. It will be the story of an individual or two that summarizes all the stories in order to deliver the most emotional impact. Think about 12,000 stories as 12,000 gallons of water. Put it in 12,000 buckets they are many but small and unfocused. Not powerful. Certainly, it would be difficult to put out a fire using all those buckets.Then think of the same 12,000 gallons together pouring out of a firehose. It has enough force to take men off their feet. To put out buildings ablaze. One human story that summarizes the critical elements of all our stories will deliver the most emotional impact. And that could cause outrage, debate, discussion, an interest in the facts, the crimes, the truth.
I won't hold my breath but I will help. Cross my fingers maybe. Wish. And be patient.

There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
-- HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, speech (1965)

[Anonymous]

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; & neither feeling is quite within our control.

- Arthur Schoperhauer

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him

- Booker T. Washington

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick


Nothing Brings People together more, then mutual hatred

- Henry Rollins

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

- Henry Rollins

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

- Hermann Hesse

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.

- Laurrel K Hamilton, "Narcissus in Chains" ( $ )

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.

- Martin Luther King, Sr.

He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemys' life.

- Neitzsche

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself

- Paul Veléry

Hate and bitterness are the only weapons wielded by the blade.

- Thomas Gregory

Beshrew the heart that makes my heart to groan.

- William Shakespeare

 
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.

- Swedish Proverb, In Proverbs

[glider]

I'm a Herman Hesse fanatic and wondering where you got his quote,(any of his books?) it's fantastic.

[animals all of us]

I disagree.

I'm tired of the little helpful quotes.  "Get some help".  "One child at a time".

I see unwillingness, continually, to face truth by not fighting at all.  I mean, this is all talk.  "Lets really chat about it some more."  Lets offer some quotes that will assuage the need to beat some heads together and see what blood pours forth that will repent what was done.  We can chat about bringing our enemy to justice, we can talk about small changes and shit....but I know I dont really think that I was made to MAKE SMALL CHANGES!  

Not at all.   I was taken in hook and line and the whole motherfucking sinker.  Haircut, confrontation, drug admission, sign on the dotted line, strip search, abandoned by family, illegally admitted and coerced.....and hell that's just the first few hours of the very first day of my intake.  I was brainwashed by phase two and too far humiliated by my first week.  How many children were admitted within the month I was admitted?  How many, just in my wharehouse, were given the same bullshit story about how I must deserve to be there because I was on their property?

Forget small change.  Nothing happens.  Anslinger worked his way, through small change, to build the world of myth that he did.  Through one movie, one person, etc etc.  I understand what you mean by small change.  But I believe that when the rubberband stretches so far out of shape that it becomes time for that rubber band whips the fuck back to the way it is, and fast before it snaps.

Don't get me wrong, I think what Bradbury is doing is good.  In some fashion he is fighting, though I'd rather have him dug in the trash to find some of that cash Mel has or maybe his wife's head.  I can appreciate the patience it takes, I certainly have none, to be involved in litigation.  In some way I feel for the guy even though he's not easily reached.  




So, I disagree.  

While you sit there pitifully and wonder why your life is pathetic sometimes, and you wonder why you failed and why you aren't the person you should have been and life handed you a raw deal you already know by now its because nothing is free.  Everything you have is because you had to fight for it.  The government is going to see to it, even if these 'philanthropists' comes to court and depose themselves or whatever happens, that they stay unscathed.  And so I don't care for the court systems and their 'tiny changes' that happen over ten or a hundred years.  Are they changes?  How long have we been waiting for justice?  

I will take donations to scathe them.  And I have some better sayings that are still used by the common people, not by dead book writers....

- "Nothing is free that isn't worth fighting for."

- "Keep your friends close, your enemies closer."

[Anonymous]

I have waited 25 years. . . I can wait for the Bradbury piece to come out.   Richard has Sembler et all by the balls (yes, Betty even your balls).  The ball has started rolling and is fixin to pick up speed.

[Richard Bradbury]

I want to thank everyone for your continued support through my current legal situation and thank each of you for being patient.

These things take time.  I have been an activist for 19 years, come this October 26, 2004 the date I resigned my staff position at Straight, Inc.

Let me assure you that togther we will continue working to assure that no one ever forgets "The Straight Holocuast."

Those responsible will and are legally being held accountable even as I write this to you.

Understand, everything can't be published on a open internet forum.  The people responsible for our abuses and torture read this site, print all material and comments and keep detailed files on each of us.

When people write stuff like bringing harm to those "war criminals", i.e., those responsible for abusing and harming us while at Straight, Inc., it hurts our credibility as a whole and makes us look foolish.

Let the legal system work; it takes time but it will work.  Don't be a victim become a leader; picket, give educational talks. work to change laws, etc, etc, etc. (It does work)

I have carried this quote in my pocket everyday since October 26, 1985 10:00 pm est, the day I resigned from Straight, Inc.

Ben Franklin once fired off a letter to his friend Joseph Priestley, a clergyman and scientist in England, suggesting that he put the following arithmetical problem berfore their mutual friend Richard Price, who enjoyed such puzzlers:

"Britain, at the expense of three millions, has killed 150 Yankies, this campaign," Franklin wrote, "which f20,000 a head: and at Bunker's Hill she gained a mile of ground....During the same time 60,000 have been born in America.  From these data his mathematical head will easliy calculate the time and expenese necessary to kill us all, and conquerour whole territory."

The answer, he wanted England all of England to understand, was obvious.  There would never be enough time or money.

Richard Bradbury
Tampa, Florida

[Kathy]

Hey Richard when you get a chance, check your private messages on this site.  

Thanks,
Kathy
 :grin:

[smack]

Everyone that was ever held captive for profit is allowed to bitch, be upset and get justice for their inconvience. The sembler crew are criminals and assholes. They came up with their little scheme to make money and gain political positions. They are all corrupt. Who gives a shit if something looks bad. It is the truth. Anyone's feelings about how they were treated is the truth. Sembler put himself in a position to be scrutinized and we will all judge him. He is a bad example of a leader and almost anyone could do better. Of course kicking his ass might be wrong but who doesn't want to do it? Straighten out this straight ashole. He created it. He is it. Fuck him.

[Anonymous]

As someone who was IN a similar program, many years ago, and benefited from it greatly, I will let you know that most of the posts I've read here are very child-like, vengeful and some authors could pass for mentally ill.   This Bradbury has been an activist for almost 20 years, and what does he have to show for it?  I've never even heard of this "cause" til someone told me about this site last week.  I think most people would think many of you are just a bunch of disgruntled druggies who are still pissed that you were put in a drug program as a teen, and have never willingly accepted any help that you need.  (Kids did not GO to these programs for being a little problematic -- face it).  If you really want to make a difference,  get involved with children organizations that help prevent kids from becoming "troubled teens", or better yet, form your OWN organization to make a POSITIVE difference in your community.
  If all these founders and staff that you so dispise were placed on an island somewhere to die, that would not "bring you to a better place" with yourself.  People have to look inside themselves and make the changes there. Go, be healthy and find your inner peace. (and yes - I expect to get a "fuck you" or "your brainwashed still " responses -- that appears to be typical here).