How do you think wwasps gets clients? I'll let the vets confirm this, but isn't recommending the program to others common amongst program-kids? Don't most every program bread these walking talking ads?
I don't think that it is common. IMO, they are usually doing it because their parent got into the referral thing and when they get home their parent uses them as a showcase to show other parents the kid and have the kid explain how great the program is. I don't think this is common though. Most of the referring and all that is done in the parental arena, not in the survivor community. Not to say survivors do not do what you are talking about, but I have never seen one do it by themselves without a parent being involved or another third party. They get used. A lot of the promotional material WWASPS uses is taken during seminars, and not that many kids and families make it to the end of the program. When a facility has 500 kids and only 5-10 are graduating per couple months you know that this is a program designed to never end. Don't forget about home contracts, if a kid comes home their parent becomes the program and many kids are sent back for breaking the contract. If the kid slips up they are awoken at 1am by thugs to take them back to private prison. When a kid graduates from WWASPS, remember they have been locked up for 1.5-2 years on average, sometimes longer. They don't have any friends when they get home. Even if someone they knew happens to remember them, they are totally changed and two years behind every one else. So the kid loses all their friends, by design. Who is the kid going to start telling this private prison is a good idea? Other kids? Are they going to send themselves? No, they are simply a tool to be used by Ed Cons which is another name for program parent who took it to the next level. These kids are two years out of society, no friends or anything on that level, trapped in a home with a strict contract where the new religion is 'the program' as designed by david gilcrease. The brainwashing wears off too and only a small percentage of WWASPS kids remain fanatical about the program for very long. I think the one's who have to maintain the lies in their own mind are the one's who were put in a position to hurt others, and took it.. willingly or not, they took it and that's something they have to live with. Most kids at WWASPS had no reason to be sent anywhere, let alone a brainwashing gulag such as that. If they committed crimes they would be in jail. Most of the younger kids never even smoked marijuana or tried any real drugs. It's like pre-emptive brainwashing or some shit. I don't get it. Never did. You will have to ask the program parents. I know there's a lot of talk about parents being duped, parents have to go to a seminar when they put their kid in wwasps called discovery. It's pretty fucking obvious that the place is not legit after going to one of those, but most parents just give in and give themselves to the program at the cost of their child. I am sure that this is a point that some parents pull their kid. God bless them. They might have been fooled up until that point, but after that they should of seriously asked some questions. Not to mention the letters, but I won't get into that. Or maybe they are like my parents and never got around to going to the seminars, just because they didn't want to do them. So were they fooled because they were too lazy to do the one thing wwasps asked them to do? Doesn't matter, because they would have eaten that shit up and absolutely loved it, and that's the funny thing right there. What I see as abusive and unfit treatment for teens they see as a revolutionary idea of how to deal with teens. Kevin is the first WWASPS survivor I've seen go out on their own into the teen ref eral business. All the rest I've seen are just being dragged along by their parents. So brain damaged by their years of torment and brainwashing the only thing left in their life is to be held up like a puppet to speak the good word of gilcrease and the program. Sure you have sympathy for them, but only so much because they are converts to the side that recruits other kids to be hurt just like them. That is why this is a never ending cycle. To them we are just the unsavables who aren't really worth saving anyways, disposable people who really are the coolest one's around.. strong headed creative individuals who refuse to give up their sovereignty of mind in order to satisfy a few worldly comforts and beliefs. And they call us crazy? Please.
