Hey Antigen, the video didn't load there, but all the other words did... yee hah! yer welcome too, LOL
dime therapy wrote:
The following comment was written originally by Antigen. This has been posted as a courtesy on Antigen's behalf:
I wish I could say I can't believe the blatant advertising thinly veiled as news!
My family became involved in The Seed back in the early `70's and continued to be involved through the early `80's and Straight, Incorporated. The Seed was one of the early public/private funded Synanon based programs for teens and the infamous Straight, Incorporated's direct parent. PFC is just one of the names adopted by various branches of Straight when it was shut down due to rampant abuse.
There is an ongoing Government Accountability office investigation into overt abuses as well as unintentional harm done by the core methods used in these programs. They've even put out video!
The Austin Chronicle is investigating their diversion program, which seems to derive from a hybrid of Seed/Straight and Elan derivatives.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase ... oid=645915I can tell you that the methods described in Patricia Ruland's article and those employed in the Straight, Inc. I was in are remarkably similar to what we're hearing from kids coming out of these same places more recently. And it doesn't take that much effort to find out about these places before you decide to support them. Just because someone says they're helping drug addicts doesn't mean that they are. David Koresh said the same thing. So did Chuck Dederich.
8/6/2008 10:21 AM CDT on post-trib.com
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dime therapy wrote:
Kitty, I am hoping you meant to say that the organization is a plague and not the survivors. But, bein only worth 10 cents, what do I know... LOL
This looks to me like an article written by yet another seemingly naive reporter who is essentially offering free advertising for the shameful ONDCP flagship drug treatment program. She should know that Porter County commissioners already took out $200,000 of taxpayer money (without voting on it) to give to PFC, so what else is new? Now PFC will get more thousands of dollars, convince dozens of vulnerable parents/kids that they HAVE to get help at PFC since the ONDCP pushes its propaganda throughout the nation and is supposed to be some expert-laden group. The money just pours right into their pockets and coffers. Drug free this, drug free that... who's going to argue with that? Certainly not a kid on FIRST PHASE or a suicide victim. The sad thing is that the reporters will avoid the TRUTH, more kids will continue to be abused, the management of PFC will get a hefty salary increase and the IRS will let them slide by tax free... Gotta love that about America, right? Get paid to abuse kids. Everyone else goes to jail for that type of activity, but not these folks; they get PAID! The studies they do are based on the STRAIGHT, Inc. mentality. That goes in part something like this: "Oh no, a beer is on the kitchen table! I must look away!! I will die or go insane and maybe even to jail if I go as far as to TOUCH this bottle, much less consume its contents at which point I will have relapsed and must commit suicide..."
The Post should stop what amounts to be this type of free advertising for PFC.
Check out:
www.isaccorp.orgwww.melriddile.infowww.webdiva.orgwww.rickross.comwww.melsembler.comGOOGLE: Miller Newton, Betty Sembler, DFAF... you'll be amazed.
DT
8/6/2008 10:14 AM CDT on post-trib.com
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mushroomkitty wrote:
Anyone who considers funding this organization should do their homework first. I work with a group of survivors who have all suffered greatly because of this "rehab" facility and know that they are a plague on this country and it's youth.
What Mr. Beatty fails to mention is that the only reason they need to open a new facility is because one of their old ones are no longer welcome. He had to move from directing the said program to another after the Milford location was protested on multiple occasions by survivors who have been locked away behind those doors before and have seen first hand the torture that goes on there.
This facility denies teenagers of their basic human rights and uses psychological abuse to cause mental break downs that can later lead to problems like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, and many other mental and physical illnesses. It does stop there, some adults after receiving 'treatment' from this program have gone as far as to commit suicide just to get away from the horrible memories of what happened to them in these centers.
There are many who have suffered at the hands of Pathway Family Center, and before anyone considers donating money to these monsters they should learn the truth first. Which can be done by contacting the survivors at
http://www.edrugrehabs.com/8/4/2008 1:06 AM CDT on post-trib.com
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rehab center wrote:
Government and private organizations are supporting to many rehab and alcohol treatment centers in states. It is an effortful task. And it is our responsibility as well to give our best to such institutes, than only they can work for public welfare.
http://www.edrugrehabs.com/8/3/2008 11:26 PM CDT on post-trib.com
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