Nihl.... Perhaps, but the politico's and police didn't stop Martin Luther King or Women's Movement to get the right to vote, or the general public's demand in repealing prohibition. When you get enough people behind something that is good and right, it can even bring down a President (remember Nixon?)
Most of us think our one voice in the darkness won't be heard, but put my voice together with yours and others, and you have one helluva choir! Places like Thayer, CEDU,Tranquility Bay et. al are allowed to thrive because they have no opposition.
We have this forum and ISAC and a few other smaller, less organized venues; perhaps sending a donation to these organizations - who do amazing work in keeping these issues in front of the media - would be a way to start. If everyone who came to these boards just sent $1.00, it would help. There are fan clubs for entertainers and others that are better organized and raise more money than our advocates appear to have achieved. Can't we help them?
I would just like to read that after a few more of these places close down, the rest of them are so fearful of retaliation and retribution, they implode.
It has to be a concerted effort because they have deep pockets. For a few of us to stand outside the St. George, Utah headquarters of WWASP is like trying to stop the "johns" from soliciting prostitutes in the seedy side of town with a flashlight and a sign saying "shame on you". It won't make much of an impact. But get a couple hundred of us together and you've got national news coverage.
Do you realize that at Thayer alone, they have approximatly 100 "inmates", @ $4000/per month, per student that is $400,000 a month or $5.4 million dollar a year. That's just one dungeon!!!!! Multiply that by the number of dungeons out there and you can see how they have the dollars to contribute to the power brokers.
They steal the new recruits clothing, bedding, personal hygiene products, so all they have to do is feed them that swill they call food. No medical attention, no nurse/doctor, no teachers salary, no books, no school supplies, no psychologist, no drug counselling, no soap or water for bathing or laundry. They hired a bunch of society rejects,never do a back ground check on these employees, are they pedophiles? sadist? do they have police records? educated, have expertise or experience in child behavorial issues? Then pay them $8 an hour and turn them loose on our children to admonish them, belittle them, beat the spirit out of them, prevent them from furthering their education, deny them medical attention and if they get lucky, kill one of them and not have to go to jail for it.
They do have the additional cost of paying off the local constables and town folks. Not a bad return on their investment for the slave labor of their own recruits.
I suppose I am just a pollyanna and believe that good should always overcome evil, and children shouldn't die in filthy, dark holes lying not on a warm blanket, but in their own excrement, a thousand miles away from their families.
I have great difficulty with that imagine; it haunts me and my heart breaks for his family. Their pain must be excruciating and their sorrow inconsolable.
