After a few exchanges with some of the more ardent young AARColytes, I have found that AARC's practise of disseminating out and out lies continues unabated. These poor young things were all convinced that it was legal to hold inmates in AARC against their will. The Wizard is painfully aware that he does not have this right, which is why the old Synanon practise of intimidating new detainees is used. The Wiz makes no secret of the fact that he needs to obtain a consent from the victim, so that it can be claimed that the AARC prisoners are voluntarily forfeiting their civil and human rights.
The Wiz knows that we're onto him, but as a psychopath he is reflexively capable of lying. He still doesn't have a viable explanation for how AARC came into being.
Let's do a quick run-down, one more time: The Wiz was working at Kids down in Jersey. Miller Newton, head of Kids, was enjoying the fruits of his labor, harvesting plenty o' dosh from Alberta parents. Some of the more "resourceful" parents were receiving government money in Alberta to send their children to Kids in NJ.
Let us pause for a moment to consider this. Kids was subsequently proven to be a complete fraud, rife with physical and psychological abuses of clients, and the boss of Kids, Miller Newton is now widely acknowledged to have been a charlatan, fraud, crook or (insert your own term for snake-oil peddling cult-leader here). These Alberta parents, who were spending their own money in addition to tax-payer's money on Newton, decided that we needed Kids here. A million plus was raised, and Kids of the Canadian West was born. Make no mistake, this was not a proposed entity, Kids of CW had a board, headed by Dr. Atkinson, and to bastardize a phrase, "I solicit charity, therefore I am."
Kids of CW had a major problem however. The Wiz is not now, and was not then, qualified to do anything except coach dodgeball and help you decide whether to take Food Sciences or Phys Ed first period. He ain't no doctor, and Alberta Health knew this. Once the journalists got at Kids in NJ, Kids of CW also had to deal with the issue that the entire Kids program had been revealed to be a fraud perpetrated by Newton.
Lesser people would have been cowed. But not the Wizard. As the parents who had spent their money and sent their children (well, some weren't children, but I digress), off to Miller weren't about to admit that millions of dollars, not to mention the lives of the children, had been spent in the name of...I forget why all those Alberta citizens were handed over to Newton, along with the money, but anyway, we needed a Synanon in Calgary.
The Wiz went underground. Remember dear readers, at this juncture, 1990 or so, the only folks who know the Wiz in Cowtown are the parents from Kids. So who brings him here to "miracalize" the children in the basements prior to the opening of the Forge Rd Temple? Kids of NJ people. Period. There is no other explanation for the nascent period of AARC. Due to a complete lack of qualifications other than coming from Kids, the Wiz had to wait until the link to Kids could be obscured. Meanwhile, folks like good Dr. Dookie from the Rotarians ensured that after lying low for a year or so, the Wiz could take over Kids without having to kick anything upstairs to Newton.
The Wiz was a Kids product, and he was devoid of any other qualifications. The people who brought him here were the ones who backed Kids, and that is why AARC is simply Kids with the Wiz in charge instead of Newton.
Being a cult and not in fact a medical facility, AARC has long since dispensed with any staff with recognizable credentials. All the staff are either related to the Wiz, former clients, or parents of former clients.
So Mylitta, some things have changed. When you were in AARC there were some staffers, no matter how misguided and unqualified, who were not actual products of AARC. Now that is not the case. All staff are full AARColytes. The Board is now entirely made up of relatives of former clients, with the exception of the Empress, (haven't been able to confirm whether or not she is actually related to one of our favorite current staffers).
The Leader made a great coupe as well, when he brought young Krystal under his tutelage. This was one of the creepier projects launched by AARC. One of Krystal's relations happened to be the head of AADAC. The Wiz used his persuasive used car sales techniques, and voila, AARC gets AADAC support and has a permanent ally in Health and Wellness. In addition, this little scam allowed the Wiz to play the shittiest of coat-tail relative tactics. His wife, being the cousing of David Suzuki's wife, managed to get Suzuki to endorse AARC without having set foot in the place. Thus began another in AARC's many sordid chapters. Deputy Minister Meade still runs interference for AARC, and AARC still displays Suzuki's shameful endorsement on their website.
So AARC has changed. There are no non-AARC actors involved anymore.
