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rantings of a meglomaniac

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GregFL:
"If the Seed doesn't become a model program in this country in five years, you can forget about the nation. The YOuth will crawl off and die, and it'll be a whimpering kind of death."

Art Barker, describing what would happen if the Seed didn't become the standard of treatment thruout the nation.

Source   The St Pete times.
...it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One is to construct an ideal goal, so that incremental changes can be judged by whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from that ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis requiring or facilitating radical change does arise, alternatives will be available that have been carefully developed and fully explored."

Milton Friedman
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GregFL:
"Who are you and where do you work"

Art Barker to a audience member at a town meeting in St Pete. The audience member was questioning his claimed 90% sucess rate.

source   The St Pete TImes.
Life is like a shit sandwich; the more bread you got, the less shit you gotta eat.
--Anonymous
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GregFL:
"our 90% succes rate is documented by the NIMH (national institute of mental health).


Art Barker in July 1973 in response to questioning of the claimed 90% sucess rate.  The NIMH responded to the St Pete times by saying they had not even assessed the success rate of the Seed program.

source- The St Pete times.


Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
--Thomas Jefferson
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GregFL:
"the pushers are scared to death about the honesty of the Seed"

Describing to the Times why the Seed is guarded and his office windows are bricked over to protect him against bullets.




The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The people who ran straight had the best of intentions. I hope they reached their destination.

James Lloyd
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GregFL:
"jesus said a long time ago, you can't be a prophet in your own town"

Art Barker, quoted by the St Pete times.


It is criminal to steal a purse. It is daring to steal a fortune. It is a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases

--Schiller (1759-1805)
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