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I heard ART retired
FaceKhan:
On the matter of a cult vs being like a cult. I remember the Lawyers saying that after KIDS essentially ceased to exist as a "treatment program" it remained as a cult that still exists. So, deprived of their key source of income ( the abusive therapy con-job) the programs do end up surviving as cults, albeit small ones.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: ""Scarlett Chiclet"" ---I just found about about another Synanon spin off in the Miami area around the late `70's. The place was called Operation Reentry.
I don't really look at Art as having started anything. I think Chuck Dederich and Jim Jones were probably the pioneers in brainwashing as therapy. But they would have been nowhere and Art, Joe Ricci et al would never have been in business if it hadn't been for NIDA funding, lobbying and general protection and promotion.
Art was always a very spooky little man. Libbi and Shelly too. They probably still believe they're some kind of messianic trinity.
--- End quote ---
Hello, anybody still watching this thread? I know about Operation Reentry! I was there, and was just thinking about it today, and found this as one of the top results!
"OR", as we used to call it, was originally run by a nut named Warren Klein... I think I remember some old stuff about the "Seed", but the stories I heard of it sounded evil, or at least suspicious. But I loved it, especially after the change in management. I went there for the 7th grade, right there on Miami Beach, and I guess I could tell as many bad stories as good ones, but in the end, they got shut down when the city stopped all support. We tried to fight it, but it did not work.
I remember several people from there, though, that I've always wondered where they went... Could you be one? :)
--JJ
GregFL:
Nope. But, what were the names of the people in charge?
hanzomon4:
Wait the seed was still operating pass the year 2000!??!
Anonymous:
What about Art Barker's stand-up comedy?
What was his material like?
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