The history of All About Receiving Cash is discernible for the most part from reading the posts on this forum. Fortunately, Pablo Escobargrant is always willing to shed light on the creepier aspects of the phenomenon, accidentally of course, as he thinks he's selling the program.
Escobargrant, in his story of a sad and lost suburban kid falling into the clutches of a money hungry cult leader, mentions a couple of fellows with whom he used to get high in his youth.
I know both of these men, having attended high school with one. The one I knew got caught selling cannabis oil at school. In order to reduce the repercussions for this bust, he provided a list of anyone in the school that he even suspected of using any kind of drugs. This was in fact rather laughable, as the school was fairly divided along class lines. The children of the elite families of Calgary attended this school, but so did the children from a number of the more hard-scrabble neighborhoods. The "dealer" in question was from the former class, and so the "suspect" list was mostly drawn from this group. Drug panic swept the parents, and as with most drug panics, provided an instant excuse to some parents whose children proved "troublesome".
Anyhow, parents began sending their children to the marvellous programs like that of V.M. Newton.
Enough kids ended up going to the U.S. that it occurred to some "entrpreneurial" individuals to set up shop in Cowtown. Straight was already opened up in Edmonton to attract clients.
The Wiz got wind of Kids, and with the typical lust for order and power of many a good psycho went to the Eastern Seaboard. He worked for Kids, a mutation of another child prison called Straight.
The man in charge of Kids, V.M. Newton had been clinical director of Straight. He was in no way qualified to run any type of medical treatment facility, but he had a phony Ph.D. and called himself "doctor". Newton has been successfully sued for over eleven million dollars by former clients, and settled with the U.S. government to avoid prosecution for defrauding Medicaid. Additionally, a number of his staffers have been convicted of crimes perpetrated against clients in Kids and Straight.
The health care system in Alberta represents one of the great virginal territories for business, and the creation of a drug treatment program that drew funding principally from right (Right?) thinking charities and the families of clients held great appeal.
Thanks to Pablo's step-dad falling in love with the advanced scientific methods of V.M. Newton, the Wiz came back to the prairies.
By this time the Wiz had discovered the wonders of the Union Institute, a fake school. (I simply won't entertain any further discussion of this. If you have a problem with this, ask the U of A what credit they'll give you for Union studies.) This fake school had given V.M. Newton his phony doctorates. The Wiz had also realized that he didn't need to franchise for V.M. Newton. He had an equally complete lack of qualifications to treat drug-addicted kids, and at least as much greed and lust for power and prestige, so Kids of the Canadian West went by the wayside.
A number of willing freaks, associated with Kids, helped the Wiz along by holding meetings in their homes. The fetishists from the Spinny club gave the Wiz the money he needed to get into the shitty building on Forge Rd.
Not long after opening his Perv Palace and Torture Emporium, the Wiz and/or his supporters tapped Diane Mirosh to sell AARC to the Alberta Legislature.
Mirosh presented a raft of testimonials from people who called themselves "doctor", in order to make the Government think that All About Receiving Cash had medical legitimacy. Of course most of these "doctors" were anything but. They were in fact hacks from the Union Institute. One other was from the Yankee Institute, and a Dr. Ray Baker of UBC approved AARC based on it's costing model.
So the Provincial Government sold all these children down the river based on the fact that the money would stay in Alberta.
Being a single-minded and driven predator, the Wiz used his particular disgusting methods to charm and swindle more and more people into supporting this abomination. Due to the viral nature of the cult, various officials were used to funnel children to AARC, and a board made up for the most part of parents of clients kept the dough rolling in.
So dear former prisoners of AARC, when you come to Fornits dismayed at how these crazy fucks were allowed to attack your mind and your soul, hopefully you will at least be able to understand how the system came into being.
