synanon cedu and the seed

[Anonymous]

What i don't understand is how a man, who openly got his start in the industry by working for cedu- which has been officially catagorized as a cult by Singer, can get away with stting himself up as a "educational consultant" sening kids to the same sort of organizations as cedu, which was shut down for organized torture.

How are the lawsuits against cedu going?

How did they end?

[Ursus]

What i don't understand is how a man, who openly got his start in the industry by working for cedu- which has been officially catagorized as a cult by Singer, can get away with stting himself up as a "educational consultant" sening kids to the same sort of organizations as cedu, which was shut down for organized torture.

How are the lawsuits against cedu going?

How did they end?

Mmm, perhaps Lon Woodbury's working on the Nixon-For-President campaign in 1968 might shed some insight...  

Coming just after the "Summer of Love" (1967), with the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy having already occurred earlier in the year, not to mention the ongoing build up of anti-Vietnam War protestations, the scene at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago was one hell of a fracas, galvanizing many on one side or the other of the liberal/conservative divide.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Seven
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democ ... Convention
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/1968/ ... eline.html

With nightsticks, tear gas and Mace, the blue-shirted, blue-helmeted cops violated the civil rights of countless innocent citizens and contravened every accepted code of professional police discipline ... No one could accuse the Chicago cops of discrimination. They savagely attacked hippies, yippies, New Leftists, revolutionaries, dissident Democrats, newsmen, photographers, passers-by, clergymen and at least one cripple. Winston Churchill's journalist grandson got roughed up. Playboy's Hugh Hefner took a whack on the backside. The police even victimized a member of the British Parliament, Mrs. Anne Kerr, a vacationing Labourite who was Maced outside the Conrad Hilton and hustled off to the lockup...

In some of the wilder fighting, the demonstrators hurled bricks, bottles and nail-studded gold balls at the police lines. During the first three days, the cops generally reacted only with tear gas and occasional beatings. But on Wednesday night, as the convention gathered to nominate Hubert Humphrey, the police had a cathartic bloodletting. Outraged when the protesters lowered a U.S. flag during a rally in Grant Park beside Lake Michigan, the cops hurled tear gas into the crowd.

The demonstrators, bent upon parading to the convention hall (Daley had refused a permit), regrouped in front of the Hilton, where they were surrounded by phalanxes of cops. Police warned the demonstrators to clear the streets, waited for five minutes for several busloads of reinforcements to arrive. And then the order was given.

Violent Orgy. Chicago cops are built like beer trucks. They flailed blindly into the crowd of some 3,000, then ranged onto the sidewalks to attack onlookers. In a pincer movement, they trapped some 150 people against the wall of the hotel. A window of the Hilton's Haymarket lounge gave way, and about ten of the targets spilled into the lounge after the shards of glass. A squad of police pursued them inside and beat them. Two bunny-clad waitresses took one look and capsized in a dead faint. By now the breakdown of police discipline was complete. Bloodied men and women tried to make their way into the hotel lobby. Upstairs on the 15th floor, aides in the McCarthy headquarters set up a makeshift hospital.

The onslaught ended half an hour later, with about 200 arrested and hundreds injured. Elsewhere, the confrontation continued through the night. Then at 5 a.m. on Friday, with the convention ended, eleven policemen swarmed up to the McCarthy headquarters. They claimed that the volunteers had tossed smoked fish, ashtrays and beer cans at the helmeted cops below. With neither evidence nor search warrant, they clubbed McCarthy campaign workers. One cop actually broke his billy club on a volunteer's skull. Daley stood by his angry defense of his cops' conduct against the "terrorists," who, he snarled, "use the foulest of language that you wouldn't hear in a brothel house."

http://www-cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996 ... e/9609/06/[/list]