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Anonymous:
Thanks Deb!  Always good to see (and read) you on Fornits!

This Anon apparently has no clue that children who come in contact with the BM industry are at serious risk of abuse, neglect, exploitation and victimization.

Some, like Aaron Bacon, Michelle Sutton and most recently Ian August, may even end up begging for their very lives before collapsing and dying out there in the wild.

Here in Aaron's own words, he describes his pain and suffering at a wilderness therapy program called North Star Expeditions before dying in the back seat of a truck.

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Outside magazine, October 1995
Loving Them to Death

Excerpts from Aaron Bacon's personal journal:

Aaron Bacon "working towards success"
1-March-94

I have been shaking from the cold since I got here, my body being used to the weather in Phoenix is going to go into auto shock. I feel like I'm going to die. My whole body is goose flesh and I feel like it's being stretched over my body like the skin of an animal over a drum. I am scared. I don't know when I can talk or if I can. I was given "food" today and I have no clue how to eat any of it. I am being grouped with 9 advanced students (who I can have no verbal contact with, and of course no physical) 5 of the nine are girls, I can't believe that these people are happy and I don't. I have noticed that all of the advanced students have cheese and sausage. I am with one other "A teamer" (I guess that's what I am) he and I can talk as much as I want with him, thank (word scratched out). I've been sitting by the fire since I've been writing and I've been the closest that I've been to another person (or the longest length of time) and I am still cold as all (word scratched out). I have to write as I would speak now because "There is to be no use of profanity. This rule includes never using of the name of deity (God) in vain." What bull (word scratched out). They are . . .


One of the final entries
(This entry is blood-smeared and every sentence grows increasing illegible)

. . . blood every where, my nose has been bleeding for the past couple daze and even that scares me. I never get nose bleeds at home and that sort of reminds me of that airplane movie where (illegible) is always saying he never does that at home.

GOALS

1) Who: Aaron Bacon
What: work on trail (illegible) when we hike
When: on the trail
How: (illegible)

2) Who: Aaron Bacon
What: self discipline
Where: everywhere
When: all of the time
How: listen and don't talk. do!

3) Who: Aaron Bacon
(illegible)
How: soul search and (the rest is illegible)

Barbe
TAUSA

Anonymous:

--- Quote ---On 2005-07-18 13:24:00, Antigen wrote:

"I predict that a whole lot of people will buy into the troubled parent industry based on the tempered down version of it they see on Brat Camp. They'll be extremely upset w/ the actual product and, likely, sue enmass. Overall, I think this will backfire. Time will tell.




When an innocent Californian millionaire gets killed by a drug squad
trying to seize his house with a bogus search warrant, people better ask themselves if they really want to turn their cops into money-makers.
--Vancouver Police Const. Gil Puder
--- End quote ---

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Yes Ginger, I do believe you are absolutely correct. Especially given the "Brat Camp Wannabee" sales and marketing techniques we are now seeing on the Internet following the debut of the show last week.

However, as you say, there is a good chance the show (which is essentially an infomercial IMO)will backfire as parents who buy into the "mirage" discover wilderness therapy is a high-priced panacea and that they'd be wise to seek a less expensive and more effective alternative known as FAMILY COUNSELING.

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Barbe
TAUSA

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