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NY TIMES: Charges of Cruelty at a Jamaica Discipline Academy

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FaceKhan:
I have been informed by lawyers with a lot of experience suing these cult programs that all that is really needed to destroy one is to pick a target. That and have a million dollars or so to put into the case because there will be nothing left to collect on when the dust settles.

There is now a class actions against WWASP as a whole and all the individual facilities and I think the individual owners and executives. I think that a court will see that their corporate umbrella system can't protect them since it is obvious that the Lichfield family and Kay personally profit from the organization as a whole and simply created the umbrella group to limit liability.


Its definitely true how you don't hear the whole thing right away. Even my friends who went to wildnerness programs came back raving about it and only a few months later admitted that there was a lot of problems with the place, like untrained staff yelling at the kids, and some of the kids just being completely messed up. Also they like to threaten you with how they can convince your parents to keep you there or send you to Samoa (thats what alldredge staff said anyways) if you try to escape.

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No greater love hath a man, then he lay down his life for his brother, not for millions, not for glory, not for fame, for one person, in the dark, where no one will ever know or see.

[ This Message was edited by: FaceKhan on 2003-06-20 10:32 ]

MORSEGLASS:
today is a great day!, i would love to be a fly on the wall when this story aired,   a fly in st george utah!!!!!

Anonymous:
We are looking for an attorney in TX. in the Houston area if possible. Our neice was placed in WWASP by her Father and adoptive Mother on or around March 9, 2003. She has now been in three of the facility's, Carolina Springs, Dundee and after Dundee closed she was sent on to the worst of the worst, Tranquility Bay. Our neice just spent her 17th birthday behind bars, because she spoke out about abuse she had suffered at the hands of her parents. If there is anyone out there willing to help please call 651-452-2938 or E-Mail michaelneumann@comcast.net.

Anonymous:
To the Attorney:

  Contact this Man...he can help you.

 Philip Elberg, Newark New Jersey.  He's the lawyer who won 4.5 million against a similar treatment program called "kids of north jersey."
He knows ALL ABOUT these types of places, and he can provide you with much information. I don't have his phone number, but someone here can supply you with the email address. He's easy to find. I think he has an office out of Newton, New Jersey also.

scottT:
...(and in a possibly lighter vein) wire service reports say that at this week's meeting of the European Union,  when Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was told about the upcoming filming of a new movie about Nazi concentration camps, he was overheard to say that based on his experience, he would be an excellent choice for one of the starring roles as "the kapo"  (a prisoner rewarded by the Nazis for informing on fellow prisoners). (This part has been reported on CNN).

I don't care if he IS the prime minister of Italy,  he should have to start at level zero and work his way up through discovery, focus
and visions just like everybody else.

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