Dear FRUSTRATED guest,
Don't be so frustrated. I don't have anywhere near as much time for this activist stuff as I used to, but this Crist/OTNews project is probably my number one priority in this corner of my hectic life. I'm very interested in running with this and thankful to you for the tip. I'll need a little help from any who offer, though, in crafting a cogent, concise response before making contact with them or any other potential allies. To that end, let me respond to Psy and maybe get this plan perking a little bit.
Its FUSTRATING that you "activists" don't even try.
There are higher priorities. Punishing Crist is an after-the-fact punitive matter best left to Straightlings. It could bring attention to the industry as a whole, but I doubt it as political blogs are interested in how issues can be used politically. Do they really care about the kids who have been hurt or are being hurt? Doubt it.
It's not about punishing Crist. I have less than 0 desire to punish anybody involved in this mess. Remember that, except for one brother and my dearly departed dad, my entire family stands pretty firmly on the other side of this ideological line. And, like every other family chewed up in the maw of this horrible machine, we've all been punished enough. My only interest here is in taking away from these misguided lunatics the power to continue their monstrous plan.
Here's what worries me most about a guy like Charlie Crist. First off, he's not a Straightling, he's a Seedling. There's a crucial difference. Almost down to a man, every former Straight client knows by now that that was some fucked up shit and that we all were harmed in various ways by it. Even those who still believe that it was a necessary thing and that it saved their worthless druggie lives will usually concede that the Program methods did unnecessary and unacceptable harm to us. Not so with the Seed. Look over the Seed forum and I think you'll see the difference. There are a lot of Seedlings who, to this day, are either more-or-less neutral or rabidly devoted to the cult. I believe Charlie is one of these. He sincerely believes that the basic idea and agenda behind the Program proper (as well as the broader drug war in general) is worthy and even crucial to our way of life and survival as a nation. He is a doctrinaire, which makes him and his cronies so much more dangerous than your typical larcenous fraud.
You're forgetting, also, that the Straight program never died. It's only migrated bit by bit to the public sector. Martin Lee Anderson's death brought about a shift from the boot camp model to something called STAR Academies. AND doubled the funding. Both the boot camps and STAR Academies were designed, founded and propagated by DFAF (sembler) affiliates. I believe that Charlie Crist will use whatever power he has to further propagate similar programs such as STAR Academies, Teen Challenge, school based snitch and indoctrination programs such as DARE.
And that's just on the Program proper. There's the rest of it to consider. We're at the brink of all out war with Mexico (actually, have been conducting covert war a la Vietnam "advisors" and "foreign aid") for somewhere around 30 years now. The only people with any clout who continue to inflict our insane drug policy on the rest of the world are Charlie's cronies. The rest of the politicians, law enforcement et al are only afraid of the political backlash if they dare speak the truth in public. That is only true because these NAZIS have carried out such a successful propaganda war. I think we can at least chip away at that effort by properly publicizing the simple fact that Charlie Crist
is The Manchurian Candidate!
Besides... putting a political spin on an issue can have unintended consequences (such as having a particular issue being percieved as partisan).
Yes, I think we should take care to mitigate those unintended consequences as much as possible, but it's an acceptable risk. Remember that we are not the ones who politicized this issue; Straight, Inc. (aka the Semblers and their cronnies) did that when they established DFAF, PDFA, Drugwatch International, DPNA, MCTFT, DARE, PANDA, IDEAS, COPS, Safe and Drug Free Schools|Workplaces|Cities, etc and a whole plethora of other alias organizations to fuck with us on the public dime in every area of our public and private lives.
So, Frustrated, Psy and anyone else who cares to weigh in...
Do you think my take on this is on spot?
How best can we pitch the message to
this outlet and others?
