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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Straight, Inc. and Derivatives => Topic started by: Erinys on March 29, 2005, 05:03:00 PM
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Just posted today on Wes Fager's site
update 3/29/05 Father Cassian Newton (formerly known as Reverend Doctor Miller Newton), Straight's former national clinical director, has motion filed against him to revoke his final decree of bankruptcy. Father Cassian, a board member of a DFAF subsidiary, was recently in the news applying for a permit to run a chapel in Florida. After Newton and his team settled with former clients for $11.5 million for abuse in New Jersey he filed for bankruptcy. You were probably wondering along with us where he got the money to buy and operate a chapel. So is his bankruptcy trustee Stephen Meininger. On July 24 Meininger filed a motion with Bankruptcy Court in Tampa to revoke the final decree. The motion will be heard before Judge Glenn on April 29 at 9:00 AM.
Everybody's lost just waiting to be found. Everyone's a thought just waiting to fade.
-- Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins
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Where's my goddamn money, Virgil?
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I think I'll attend this one too.......
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Mark your calendar! Save the date:
http://stpetetimes.com/2005/03/23/Neigh ... reli.shtml (http://stpetetimes.com/2005/03/23/Neighborhoodtimes/Chapel_leaves_up_reli.shtml)Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
--Edward Everett
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Chapel leaves up religious symbols
Christ at the Sea Foundation hasn't met conditions set at a hearing. One resident threatens to sue.
By SHEILA MULLANE ESTRADA
Published March 23, 2005
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MADEIRA BEACH - A controversial private chapel is again in violation of city codes and faces a potential fine of up to $500 a day unless its owners remove all exterior religious symbols.
The city has formally cited Christ at the Sea Foundation for failing to comply with conditions set during a hearing last month before Special Master Herbert Langford Jr.
Chief among those conditions were removal of the church's roof-top cupola and cross, as well as all other religious symbols and signage on the exterior of the building, located at 13280 Fourth St. E.
None of those conditions have been met, Director of Community Development Paula Cohen says.
Now, the foundation and its leader, Dr. Miller Newton, will have to appear once again before Langford, this time sitting as the city's special master for code violations. The hearing is set for 2 p.m. April 13 at City Hall.
If no resolution can be reached, the city could levy fines of up to $500 a day - and even a jail term of up to 60 days, according to Cohen.
Only two things could stop this process - compliance with the conditions set by Langford or a court injunction.
Meanwhile, residents in the area, who originally protested conversion of part of a single family home into a private chapel, are not pleased.
An e-mail sent by resident James Kelley to Mayor Charles Parker two weeks ago castigated the city for failing to take action against Newton and the foundation.
"I am considering suing the city for failure to enforce its zoning laws," wrote Kelley, who accused Parker and City Manager Jill Silverboard of favoring Newton and his church.
However, Parker said Friday that he "believes in the legal process" and approves the code violations filed against Newton.
"Mr. Newton had his day in court (the special master hearing) and he has apparently refused to comply with that ruling. He will have to bear the consequences," Parker says.
But, Newton may be seeking a different kind of "day in court." His attorney, Rena Lindevaldsen of Liberty Counsel, wrote to the city recently declaring Newton's intent to fight the special master ruling in federal court.
"It is unconstitutional for a government entity to impose a land use regulation on a religious organization," Lindevaldsen wrote. "(The order) has created a substantial burden on the ability of Christ at the Sea to use its property in furtherance of its mission."
She asked the city to halt its code violation hearing process until the issue could be decided in federal court.
No federal lawsuit has yet been filed. The deadline for appealing Langford's conditions in state Circuit Court has passed.
Silverboard said the city's attorney instructed her not to postpone the code hearing unless a court stay or injunction is issued.
The home on the property was expanded, with city permitting, in 1998 to include a recreation structure that has since been used, in violation of city code, as a private chapel for the Orthodox Church of Antioch. Newton is a priest in the church and originally owned the building before turning it over to the foundation.
The controversy began months ago when neighbors protested the building of a cupola with a cross on the roof of the foundation's building, which is in a residential neighborhood. The foundation uses the building as a temporary residence and prayer center for members of the church.
Newton then applied for a special exception to use the property as a church to resolve the dispute.
Langford's final ruling in February not only required the removal of all religious symbols on the exterior of the property, but also restricted the use of the building, as well as the type and number of services and the number of people who could participate in those services.
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damn, that dude is such a prick
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I want my fucking money, Virgil!
Gimme my goddamn brain back, asshole....
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Christ at the Sea. Is that like Chicken of the Sea? Is it Christ or is it Tuna?
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Altar Boy says it tastes like chicken.....
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Ask the Fr., I'm sure he knows what an alter boy tastes like........chicken?
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Imagine the confusion if Jessica Simpson heard about Christ at the Sea.
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it is a fitting end for newton- going down in a blaze of glor for the cross--- a martyr of the Christian right wing represented by Jerry Falwell's lawyers- YUCH
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Seems to me that with as many people as he's f**ked with over the years that there'd be some way to see an asshole like that thumbcuffed and hung up to serve a life sentence while the flames of a campfire is kept kindling and barely singeing his flesh 24/7...The only visitors he's allowed are those whom he was involved in torturing and brainwashing to allow them the venting process to show him what they learned about the fine art of brainwashing, by doing so to him until he cracks...fully believing he's dead and now sentenced to hell....
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cool - I can't wait for the movie!
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On 2005-04-01 23:31:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Seems to me that with as many people as he's f**ked with over the years that there'd be some way to see an asshole like that thumbcuffed and hung up to serve a life sentence while the flames of a campfire is kept kindling and barely singeing his flesh 24/7...The only visitors he's allowed are those whom he was involved in torturing and brainwashing to allow them the venting process to show him what they learned about the fine art of brainwashing, by doing so to him until he cracks...fully believing he's dead and now sentenced to hell...."
sweet
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It's at the Federal court house in Tampa why don't you attend?
I plan to and I am going to put the pictures on the internet.
I have a few things to say to him. Perfect place for it, while he goes down big time.
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heres some more news http://thestraights.com/people/medical- ... nician.htm (http://thestraights.com/people/medical-doctors/newton/newton-theclinician.htm)
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I don't know who is putting those pictures on the net when they get them but I think I love you.
Thank you!
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I want this girl the fuck out of my group . . . --Reverend Miller Newton at Straight-St Pete in Leigh Bright's face having just thrown her to the floor by her hair." [The Great Drug War, p. 40]
I want Newton the fuck off the face of the Earth.
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Sadly, if Miller takes it to the Feds, he will win. City, state, and county law cannot supercede federal law (and in an ideal world the converse would be true). What makes the pill even more bitter.. if he does take it to the feds, I have to agree with him. As much as I feel Miller should be forced to an eternity of Near-Death-Experience torture via the medium of ticks and leaches and other psychologically damaging parasites, I value my first amendment rights too much to risk presedent being set by that worthless turd and his ultimately meaningless case. Everyone has a right to display a religeous symbol on private property... Sorry if the crazy ass political fringe wings don't agree, but it is a right afforded by the Constitution. End of story. We had a case like this up in Massachusetts where some guy erected a 30 foot lit cross on his property... typical story, bleeding hearts took offense, big legal battle happened, and guess who prevailed?.. The Constitution of the USA. I don't agree with the situation.. I think the Catholic/christian dogma should suffer its own Inquisition and be eradicated... but I do agree the guy has a right to his beliefs, and a right to scream them at the top of his lungs for the world to hear whether they want to or not.
A much more satisfying and elegant solution to the problem at hand is to let him have his precious way.. and then unleash the full fury of Beaurocracy on him.. Since it would be a public building.. force every city code on him... Initiate Dept of health and fire code searches daily under the guise of concerned anonymous phone calls. With the neighbors being so upset, I'm sure that vandalism would run rampant, and the helpless feeling he would have without police cooperation may mconvey some of the feeling 100K+ kids felt through the years.
Hatred is a wonderful thing sometimes. I can really get juiced up about Straight and everything that happened to me... but I won't let it make me blind to the things that really matter. It's bad enough my personal freedoms are horribly trounced upon in this world we live in now. I refuse to let some piece-o-shit garbage have a chance at taking away any more of my rights.
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The issue here is land use regulation. The City imposed reasonable conditions on operation of church in a residential area. These conditions included far more than taking down a religious symbol. Land use regulation is a function of local government and all entities, including churches and the local government itself must comply with local land use laws.
Besides the bad father newton lied in bankrupcy (sp?) court and therefore will lose the church and duplex anyway. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Hatred is a wonderful thing sometimes.
It's true....
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On 2005-04-03 12:22:00, Graelin wrote:
Sadly, if Miller takes it to the Feds, he will win. City, state, and county law cannot supercede federal law (and in an ideal world the converse would be true). What makes the pill even more bitter.. if he does take it to the feds, I have to agree with him.
Yeah he'll win if he plays it right. No, I don't agree w/ him. He agrees w/ me. Remember that this mother fucker would not allow kids in his care a bible or a prayer after a long day of demoralization. He denied his inmates "permission" to attend their own family members funerals; including parents. Honor thy father and thy monther? (fuck you, you don't haven't earned it!) Have no god before me? "I'll tell you who your God is!"
Fuck this sanctimonious son of a bitch. He'll win, alright. Cause he's just that cynical. But this is a falacious appeal to that soft spot for faith in his audience. The man (and I use that term loosely) is a whore. The religious schtick is going to sell, he knows it. That doesn't make him any better than he is.
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with all other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
-- John Muir
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I was talking with a friend the other night about this Newton shit. He and I were in St. Pete with sadistic son-of-a-bitch from 82 - 84 so believe me when I say that there is NO ONE who would like to see this guy fry for what he did more than we would, but I'm not holding out much hope. It sucks, but all is not lost. I've seen him numerous times now in the past couple of years. He's NOT a happy camper!!!! ::kma:: ::kma:: :rofl: :rofl:
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its God to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
--Freidrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
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On 2005-04-09 07:33:00, Cayo Hueso wrote:
Again, remember that we're dealing with a major narcissist here...how DARE anyone question Newt!!!!!
No shit! Remember that the SPX article on the land use hearing? They quoted him as refering to his neighbors and others opposed to the variance (or whatever) as "dissidents".
Main Entry: dis·si·dent
Etymology: Latin dissident-, dissidens, present participle of dissidEre to sit apart, disagree, from dis- + sedEre to sit -- more at SIT
: disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief
I don't think he's capable of realizing his actual place in the world. He actually thinks he's in the mainstream!screening pre-school kids for anti-social behavior is about as useful as screening the Christian Coalition for sanctimonious behavior.
Sanho Tree
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On 2005-04-08 21:06:00, Antigen wrote:
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On 2005-04-03 12:22:00, Graelin wrote:
Sadly, if Miller takes it to the Feds, he will win. City, state, and county law cannot supercede federal law (and in an ideal world the converse would be true). What makes the pill even more bitter.. if he does take it to the feds, I have to agree with him.
Yeah he'll win if he plays it right. No, I don't agree w/ him. He agrees w/ me. Remember that this mother fucker would not allow kids in his care a bible or a prayer after a long day of demoralization. He denied his inmates "permission" to attend their own family members funerals; including parents. Honor thy father and thy monther? (fuck you, you don't haven't earned it!) Have no god before me? "I'll tell you who your God is!"
Fuck this sanctimonious son of a bitch. He'll win, alright. Cause he's just that cynical. But this is a falacious appeal to that soft spot for faith in his audience. The man (and I use that term loosely) is a whore. The religious schtick is going to sell, he knows it. That doesn't make him any better than he is.
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There is something VERY SEXY about an angry woman using foul language.
Do I need treatment for this feeling...?
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:wink:
They serve so that we don't have to. They offer to give up their lives so that we can be free. It is, remarkably, their gift to us. And all they ask for in return is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. Will they ever trust us again?
Michael More