It is easy to understand why some former inmates become so enraged when the real background of AARC and the Wizard is brought to light. It is hard for victims to come to terms with the fact that AARC is a complete fraud, and so is the Leader. The Wizard's antics in cozying up to politicians bring to mind serial killer John Wayne Gacy. One of Gacy's prize posessions was a picture of himself with former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. I doubt that even Dr. Dookie, who bears the guilt for inflicting the Wizard onto the people of Calgary, had an inkling that he was being manipulated by a psychopath.
The original Peer Staffers at AARC, among them the late Brian Neil, and Janne Holmgren, came from Kids. These were people who had been subjected to Miller Newton, and who were then conned by the Wizard. These Kids products were in turn unleashed onto the first victims of AARC. Among the victims of the swindle were David Pablo Escobar Grant and Natalie Oldcomer. Both of these people were adults when they entered AARC, and both came from families that were vital sources of support for the Wizard. Natalie Oldcomer's entire life has revolved around AARC since this time. Escobar-Grant went so far as to write a book perpetuating disinformation about AARC. Escobar-Grant went to great lengths to deny the fact that the entire program at AARC was transposed from Kids, and to obscure the total illegitmacy of the Wizard's claim to call himself "Doctor". Me thinks the former drug kingpin of Western Canda doth protest too much.
The Wizard knew that all he had done was stolen the Calgary franchise from Miller Newton, so he undertook to hide this fact. Victims at AARC were told tales of the awful nature of Kids, and assured that they were fortunate to be inmates of AARC. The Wizard made sure however, not to mention that he was schooled at the foot of the Master at Kids. The Wiz did not want his victims to know that they were in fact only the latest in the long line of victims of Straight, the organization from whence came Miller Newton.
With people like Holmgren slinking off from AARC and not wanting their culpability exposed, the only people who knew the true nature of AARC had a vested interest in denying it. So for almost twenty years you have a barely verbal chimp leaping around group after group of terrified, bewildered children, and using these same children as pawns to aid in the creation of his perverse little world.
