I thought at first glimpse it was some sort of frat party.
yes, and they seem happy....
In my program photo I tried to get the message to the outside world that i was being tortured by having my pain read in my expression and eyes. I wasn't allowed to express that i was being mistreated anyother way so this was my one true communication, and i did it surrepticiously, hoping I would create some record of what was going on. I can't belive i thought anyone would care enough to look.
If I wasn't in group I'd be happy also. The vibe I get from these photographs is the sheer unadulterated release of pent up emotions that come from being in a program in any sort of capacity.
When staff parties we party hard. Imagine it as a volcanic release of mixed emotions that normally have tragic results. I used to get so hammered I'd pass out in the back of my truck in the parking lot of the bar. I saw numerous staffers get in fights, drive drunk, and one dude who was in a hit and run accident. Yet the next day I'd be back at work with the same people who were drinking themselves senseless and smoking dope. We'd be preaching the program line of responsibility for ourselves and our duties to our group and families.
It is all bullshit of course.
Not a single one of us had any right what so ever to be enslaving the kids in the first place. I have nothing personal against the AARC staffers. They made their choices of their own free will. I don't buy the cult line being passed around claiming they are trapped by their holy cult of AARC. If that were true I'd suspect drunken matches of Pain Pong wouldn't be ending up on Facebook. If the cult of AARC was so powerfully effective you wouldn't be reading comments regarding the "smoke pit".
The only reason I agreed to post them is to pierce the myths being spewed about most of Canada regarding the strength of this program. These photos prove that the inmates who now run the asylum have been failed by the system they now serve.
In short the pictures demonstrate the wholesale failure of the cult of AARC.
My hat is off to the young men and women in the pictures. Well not all the way off. At least some of them are still staff or AARC supporters. The day when they have the moral courage to break those bonds of loyalty that grew up in an environment of fear and mistrust is the day they win my full support.
