Personally I think H.R. 911 is a waste of time, but it does generate media attention....and discussion.
Dig it!
The average joe citizen has no clue about this stuff.
I was sent there indirectly by Dr. Marvin Schwartz also.
The Mental Health System and Programs are all the same system.
SAMHSA:http://http://www.samhsa.gov/
Dig, dig!
http://www.samhsa.gov/samhsa_news/Volum ... ticle3.htm Bobby DuPont was Nixon's head of the newly created National Institute on Drug Abuse [NIDA] who first granted The Seed some millions a year for expansion after touring and being very impressed with Synanon. And he's stiiiiiillll at it! Joe Ricci and Seed founder Art Barker have so much in common I've seriously wondered if they went to "school" together. And I wonder if Joe got some of the same kind of funding.
BTW, do you know if Marvin is any close kin to Richard Schwartz?
http://www.thestraights.com/people/medi ... search.htm(`bout halfway down that page you'll find a letter from Jim Hartz and Donald Ian MacDonald (early drug czar and Straight, Inc. Parent Group member) on Straight, Inc. letterhead defining the new position of medical research director.
We've only just begun to peak down dis wabbit hole.
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Now, here's a plan to actually get something done!
[Personally I think H.R. 911 is a waste of time, but it does generate media attention....and discussion.
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I dont really know why media attention has never been focused where it should be, however it amazes me how we even in this forum have some pretty powerful writers and speakers, that there is no reason we cannot start demanding some action. It is like we have for years backed off when the shit gets to hard, Well no more, it is time to make these people answer for this. Not only Elan, but other schools and bootcamps that have the nerve to disregard our youth as they see fit. You cannot tell me with the intelligence roaming these forums no one has any good ideas in them, or spirit to take on the uphill battles. I see you all fight each other, all with bitter tongues. Now lets put that to work damit. We are not talking about something of non importance we are talking about kids. Now if we watch the news we get all pissed off when bad things happen to little kids, well what is the problem here? Why are we not taking action to allow these children the same curtousy we all should of been extended but never recieved?
The mainstream media is supported by advertisers at the pleasure of the FCC--a Federal agency funded at the pleasure of Congress, who are funded at the pleasure of lobbyists in the employ of, among other giants, the Partnership for a Drug Free America. Among those partners are, and I shit you not!, "major pharmaceutical, tobacco and alcohol corporations including American Brands (Jim Beam whiskey), Philip Morris (Marlboro and Virginia Slims cigarettes, Miller beer), Anheuser Busch (Budweiser, Michelob, Busch beer), R.J. Reynolds (Camel, Salem, Winston cigarettes), as well as pharmaceutical firms Bristol Meyers-Squibb, Merck & Company and Proctor & Gamble;"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partnershi ... ee_AmericaNow here's where the rubber usually slips clean off the road. I first got into this program specific interest when I discovered that the most unbelievably insane drug warriors who's names I was familiar with were all directly or closely affiliated with Drug Free America Foundation (formerly known as Straight, Inc.) When I tried to bring this linchpin/bombshell to the attention of the movers and shakers within drug policy reform I found that they wouldn't touch it with somebody else's keyboard cause they were well on their way to jumping on the Treatment not Incarceration bandwagon funded in large part by ASAMS
http://www.asam.org/Board_Directors.htmlYenz might find a familiar name or three on that list.
So I took my ball and went home, so to speak. Not that I ever lost interest in drug policy reform. I'm still convinced that scapegoating users of certain unpatentable substances is just as key to the subjugation of the American people as antisemitism was to the subjugation of the German people away back just the day before yesterday. I felt, however, that they had matters pretty well in hand and this niche issue desperately needed the attention of all who knew about it. Us program vets, in other words.
The model I like best is this one:
http://mapinc.org/I'd like to call it
The Cassandra Project. Basically, anyone who wants to can scan their favorite media for stories relating to the troubled parent industry, snag the article, contact info and editorial policy on letters to share w. like minded friends. We then write letters to editors, producers, etc., compare notes on those, celebrate successful printings, debate points and tactics and, eventually, show the other side of the story that the mainstream won't pick up till the blogosphere forces them to it.
For example, this article mentions a place called Abraxas
http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=display ... ormat=htmlI know a graduate. He's very proud to have been an expediter for 21 months before he finally called their bluff and left, finding out that there never had been any valid court order keeping him there. He's a friend of mine so we just don't talk about Program, but I do get a little tid-bit out of him once in awhile. Looks like a state funded, mostly state mandated Elan spin-off to me. Maybe you guys could scare up some recent program vets and get the skinny? It's current information informed by your age and experience. We all gotta come together that way, ya know?
If this sounds interesting to you, please look over the mapinc.org site and see how it works. I'm no Matt Elrod, but I think that we have enough talent, tech and tenacity to come close enough for government work.
