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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: Antigen on August 29, 2007, 02:36:55 PM
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Let's have a round of applause! Ok, ok, enough of that. What can we do to foster this kind of journalism and community interest around all of the industry big wheels?
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DeKalb neighbors make sure Sembler feels their clout: ...
... News: Feature. DeKalb neighbors make sure Sembler feels their clout. Residents
weigh in on proposed $1 billion development. ...
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Letters to the editor: A mom says thanks, Sembler, and ...
... Feedback: Going Postal. Letters to the editor. A mom says thanks,
Sembler, and reading on the edge. ...
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Mayhem on Moreland: Traffic. People. Big retail boxes. ...
... Cover: Cover Story. Mayhem on Moreland. Traffic. People. Big retail boxes.
Sembler's plans for Moreland would change intown Atlanta forever. ...
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The Sembler predicament: Neighborhoods oppose plan to widen ...
... News: Feature. The Sembler predicament. Neighborhoods oppose plan to widen Moreland
near L5P. BY ALYSSA ABKOWITZ. Published 06.24.04 ...
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Sembler planning new development: Massive Brookhaven project ...
... News: News Briefs. Sembler planning new development. Massive Brookhaven
project threatens affordable housing. BY COLEY WARD. ...
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City's turn to chime in on Sembler project: Planners want ...
... News: Feature. City's turn to chime in on Sembler project. Planners want
smaller, more transit-friendly project. ...
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Not a rousing endorsement: But enough to get Sembler Co. a ...
... Archives: Arts. Not a rousing endorsement. But enough to get Sembler Co. a
step closer to its plans for Moreland Avenue. ...
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Changes afoot at Sembler project: News Briefs: News: Creative ...
... News: News Briefs. Changes afoot at Sembler project.
BY MICHAEL WALL. Published 02.26.03 ...
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Potential Impact: Sembler proposal draws questions from DeKalb ...
... News: News Briefs. Potential Impact. Sembler proposal draws questions from
DeKalb commissioners. BY SCOTT HENRY. Published 11.08.06 ...
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Damn! Ya know, a while back I was contacted out of the blue by someone from CL here. It wasn't the guy who's written the ATL articles. He was supposed to set up an interview but then backed out of the story on Straight/Sembler altogether.
I think I'll email him again.
Love this part....
Sembler spokesman Angelo Fuster says Jones has no direct vote on the billion-dollar project at Briarcliff and North Druid Hills. True, but Jones has considerable clout, and sets the agenda in DeKalb government. Fuster also has worked for Jones in the past, adding a little coziness to the affair.
As to why Sembler contributes, he put it best in 2000, while chief fundraiser for the Republican National Committee: "You pay a little more, you get a little more."
The most stunning stories about Sembler involve Straight Inc., a nationwide drug-rehab outfit he founded in 1976 that treated more than 12,000 addicts. The U.S. Senate – citing "cruel and inhuman" procedures – in 1993 shut down Straight by making it ineligible for federal subsidies. In media reports, books, numerous lawsuits and in testimony to the Senate, Straight was accused of utilizing beatings, starvation, sleep deprivation and locking children in closets for days dressed in clothes soaked in their own excrement. At least 40 people have committed suicide related to Straight "treatment," according to ex-patients.
A state of Florida audit of Straight pointed to typical Sembler style: "It appears that pressure may have been generated by Ambassador Sembler and ... state senators" to avoid scrutiny, the audit stated.
Hatred of Sembler is so intense, activists still demonstrate at his home. One of the most vocal, Richard Bradbury, has spent years picketing and protesting Sembler – and rummaging through the ambassador's garbage. In 2003, he found a penis pump in Sembler's trash, and offered it for sale on eBay for $300,000. Sembler sued, but that only attracted media attention in Florida newspapers and the Washington Post.
Those are bits of Sembler lore to think about. In a few years, will angry Atlantans be digging around in Mel's trash – or Vernon's – looking for little embarrassments?
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Holy crap, it made the front page!!!
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyro ... d%3A291076 (http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/AllArticles?issue=oid%3A291076)
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Get the fuck out of my city Mel Sembler! Don't fuck with Atlanta!
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Wow, what a head line!!! lol
ot@Scarlett Chiclet, I ran your sig in a terminal and got "function if>". I was using zsh but, anyway what does it mean?
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Get the fuck out of my city Mel Sembler! Don't fuck with Atlanta!
People should vandalize any developments put up in their town by Mel Sembler. Smash the windows, spray paint the walls (with anti-str8 slogans), spill corrosive chemicals in the halls, set fire to them, etc. etc.
Show your "love" for Mel and have fun with it! Get creative!