Oh, I forgot to add this. I initially set up the AnonAnon site in around `98. From there, a reader requested a forum, so I set up Side Talk. Then another reader set up one for Straight on a free forums server, then another on Kids, etc., etc.
So now, when you google Sembler or Straight, Inc. or Miller Newton or any of a long list of other keywords, you get a pretty good representation of the other side of the story. Journalists and layers have used these resources to locate interviews and wittnesses. And it's not uncommon at all to hear from a parent or two who found the other side of the story here while researching a program for their own kid. I expect the other website hosts have the same experience.
Virgil has been busted out to several employers for his shady past by ppl who came together right in these forums. I can't take credit for that, of course. I never even bothered to show up. But I think it was helpful to host these sites so that people who
want to look into this weird little history of ours can find each other, compare notes and do with it whatever they will.
Now, all that said, I'm one of those radical, intemperate, provocative people who makes comparisons between the drug warriors and the Nazis. I think it's valid. I also think I'd rather never see any defining moment or retribution than to see things end the way they did for the Nazis. Misguided and cruel as they may be, what happens to them happens to the country that I love. I'm happy w/ gradual change through reason. The alternatives are just unthinkable at this point.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid
of the dark. The real tragedy of life is
when men are afraid of the light.
--Plato
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