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Anonymous:
of course the programs do not send 40% of the revenues to WWASP - because it doesn't come to them in the first place...parents send their monies to it R&B (Robert and Brent) billing registered to Jennifer Christianson, Korby and Mandy Facer (Brent's kids) with the state of Utah....then they send part to the progams...and then I would guess the amount would be closer to 25-30% of the monies...
R&B must think it doesn't require much cash when you pay locals a dollar or two and hour to serve up their program. :eek:
Anonymous:
That's interesting to say the least. An article from 1999 saying the same things, basically, as the NY Times article. So people are STILL upset about the same stuff? so with regular inspections, parents on campus every day, the several hundred of graduates since that was written 4 years ago...and there's really only a handful of parent and child "victims?" It just doesn't wash.
I read the info on the the Teen Help fees. Don't ALL educational consulting firms charge a few thousand dollars to refer to the programs they contract with and aren't those programs usually double the tuition of wwasp with the same allegations of abuse from their troubled teens? I guess I'm looking at it differently than what I read from most on this board.
And, what's the Big Whoop about the seminars? If someone is opposed to letting go of crap that they been hanging onto for most of their lives...then don't go! Don't admit your kid to a behavior change program! It's that simple!
The only "stupid" parents are the ones that think their kid is just going away for a while to cool off and learn their lesson. What the hell do you think programs are for anyway?
So if NOTHING has changed in 4 years, it must work pretty good. Maybe things have changed and you're still stuck in the year 1999? :wink:
Antigen:
--- Quote ---On 2003-09-12 16:42:00, Anonymous wrote:
and there's really only a handful of parent and child "victims?"...
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Who are so outraged over the crimes committed against them, who are on good enough terms to work together against the perpetrators, who still have enough money to pursue legal action and who are willing to go through the mountain of bullshit that organizations like WWASP, Scientology and the Semblers routinely heap on their critics.
When I was in these folks' shoes a couple of decades ago, I didn't realize that all these years later these same lunatics would be escalating their abuse and expanding their operations and I really didn't want to take part in anyone's war. I just wanted to get some space, breath, get on my feet and go on with my life.
Had I known that the brainwashed masses were using my silence as a marketting tool to sucker in the next generation, I would certainly have more seriously considered making some noise back then.
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anon:
There used to be a phrase reffering to the lack of outcry - the Silent Majority.
Anonymous:
The U.S. Congress also has taken interest in the Utah-based WorldWide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP), the behavior-modification umbrella organization to which Dundee belonged.
House Representative George Miller of California, the ranking Democrat on the House Education Committee, last month asked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to review WWASP's tax-exempt status and investigate whether the organization has received any special tax treatment in the past.
One of Rep. Miller's congressional aides said this week that the congressman also is preparing to ask U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft to open a federal criminal investigation into alleged child mistreatment at WWASP programs -
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