No need to apologize. CCHR was fighting RTCs long before Fornits or any other advocate site existed. Ever heard of the Hartford Courant report "Deadly Restraint" that is referenced here frequently?http://www.charlydmiller.com/LIB05/1998hartfordcourant11.html
You can thank CCHR for compiling the data for that expose and drawing media attention to the issue in 1998.
In 1998, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a group with a 30-year history of investigating and exposing psychiatric abuse and responsible for more than 100 reformed mental health laws around the world, worked directly with the Hartford Courant in Connecticut, providing them with detailed, documented cases of restraint deaths in psychiatric institutions.
The Hartford Courant conducted a five-month investigation resulting in a five-part series exposing the 142 deaths, as identified by public agencies, advocacy offices and news accounts. The reporting team focused on deaths in psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric wards of general hospitals, group homes and residential facilities for troubled youths, as well as mental retardation centers.1 Thirteen children had died in the past two years alone, the youngest a 6-year-old.
If it were the baptists, or methodists, or catholics, mentioned in the story, would you feel compelled to apologize? You may not support scientology, but don't cut your throat to spite your face. They've been fighting this fight for a long time and have already done more to protect kids than anyone on this site will ever do.
Hate them, Fear them, but their fight against psychiatric abuses benefits everyone. Acknowledging that we benefit from their efforts doesn't make you a cult member. The only people who fear so-called cults are those who don't trust themselves to accurately assess a situation, who fear being roped in and brainwashed.
