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juniper2:
What goes around comes around, and it is coming..
They have had a pro-telecast with DR. Phil, but what
happens if Montel, Oprah, or Katie decides
to take the show....???Interesting...
Antigen:
What? I missed that. I remember hearing that McGraw shipped a kid to Provo Canyon, but I never knew about him sending kids to HLA. Do tell!
Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experimanet, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. [The Eighteenth Amendment, enacting Prohibition.]
Letter to Senator W.H. Borah
--Herbert Hoover (Feb 28, 1928)
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Troll Control:
--- Quote ---On 2006-01-26 08:00:00, Dysfunction Junction wrote:
"Anybody else get sued yet today? Just curious.
You know, I've been doing some thinking about this subject. As an MBA, I often ponder the effects of business decisions. I must admit that I am in a quandry as to why this facility would even want to broach the subject of suing its former patients.
It seems to me that not only does it look really bad from an ethical viewpoint, it is absolutely horrible from a public realtions perspective. Surely the marketing management cannot believe that this will do anything but severely constrict revenue.
Exactly how do these people think a prosepective client would view the constant campaign of lawsuits against former patients? If it were me, I would say to myself, "Gee, not only are they charging an exorbitant amount of money for their services, they might also sue me if I ever talk about my experiences." This is a definite deal-killer. There are no two ways about that. It simply looks, sounds and feels completely unethical.
My second point is that should any one of the targets of this baseless litigation take the matter to trial or even to discovery for that matter, there is going to be a heck of a lot of damaging information made a matter of public record.
The media is already beginning to seize upon the issues raised by former patients. Once there are publicly documented statements and evidence entered into the public record, the "anti-program" media is going to have an absolute hay-day with it. It's going to be picked up by outlets like AlterNet first, then it's going to spin off into more mainstream media and it's going to eventually find its way into anti-program websites like ISACCORP.org as a matter of abundantly documented public record for which there will be no rebuttal.
Are Kathleen and her cronies really so obtuse that they can't see which way the wind is blowing without checking the weathervane? It is absolutely astounding to me that these people even entertain the idea that they can prevent the dissemination of damaging information to media outlets through litigation against patients. I have the distinct intuition that this is going to blow up in their faces and destroy their already tenuous public image.
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Yes, their very own behavior will definitely hit them in the pocketbook. Suing kids so they shut up about what happened to them is patently crazy.
Antigen:
This is also common to the Troubled Parent industry. Check this out
The Horse Leah Stole. Now Leah, in my opinion, is one stout minded and dignified young lady! The Suds are facing trial soon on the charges to which Leah is a testifying wittness.
The cops in Nephi were not the least bit amused over the threats of violence coming to this gal. See, that's the problem w/ a scam like this. It's high turnover and money hungry. You know less about your marks than they do about you. Ya' just never know who you might be permanently pissing off.
Don't worry about temptation--as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
-- Old Farmer's Almanac
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odie:
Sounds like someone is getting really close to the truth here. Endless litigation to take the focus off of something. Can't imagine what it can be. Will I be there next target because I dare ask a few questions? :rofl:
A fundamentalist Christian President who claims God told him to invade Iraq ? an act that killed more than 150,000 civilians, mostly women and children ? is not that much different from a fundamentalist Islamic fanatic who claims it is the will of Allah that he send young men to America to crash airliners into office buildings and kill 3,000 plus.
DOUG THOMPSON
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