Carey, I think you're mistaken in a couple of subtle ways. Let me try and clarify that, point by point.
On 2003-12-16 14:58:00, Carey wrote:
"What innocent people...you parents who were duped and who are being duped again? You are not innocent, you are a trekker.
Yes, duped and then duped again very like a battered woman bouncing from one abuser to the next. No one's entirely innocent and no one's forcing them, against their will, to buy the same bad song and dance again and again. But they're not exactly acting with malice aforethought, either. They're getting rooked. And, as you well know, they're getting rooked for a WHOLE lot more than just money.
All of these Anon posts are coming from only a handful of trekkers.
Nope. Some of them are. But there are others. Doesn't mean you're necessarily wrong about everything or anyone's right about everything. Just means that this is apparently a valid topic of debate.
It is so obvious. All others who post can say who they are because they have not compromised what they stand for, which is no incarceration of teens with out due process.
There are a lot of different reasons why people post anonymously. Very often, it's unfounded fear. Other times, it's because they want to say something they know they'd regret if it ever got back to them. But, often enough, it's because they want to say something really worthwhile and don't want to drag along the extra baggage their name has picked up in some smouldering flame war.
You don't have to believe me or agree with me but the least you can do is believe in yourself and believe in what you say, believe it enough to stand behind it.
Carey, one thing to remember about most of the people involved in this issue is that the Program
is effective! Not the least bit therapeutic, mind you, but very, very effective!
Why would Amberly change her story over and over? Is she getting a little help from some mentor? That seems like a pretty sensible assumption. All I know about Amberly is that she went to work as a director of Dundee. So she must have made it into the inner circle somehow. Is she a program graduate? Don't you think she's probably quite suggestible right about now. She's been broken down and rebuilt mentally twice so far, that we know of.
I won't argue that she's telling the truth. I don't even know what she's saying, frankly. But I would argue that it's very, very likely that she believes what she's saying, even when she contradicts herself. We're not dealing with patently sane people here. Most of the people we're dealing with bought into the Program at some point.
Even those who never really completely bought it are effected. I don't think I ever lost site of my long term plan to get away from the crazy people and never look back. Never the less, when I first got out, I didn't think of most of the Program tactics as abusive. It took me some time to shake it off and catch up on my thinking. These folks haven't had a chance to catch their breath. Right out of the frying pan into the fire.
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
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