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Diamond Ranch Academy is trying to silence statements from former students
Oscar:
It has and will always be about the money. The Save Victoria Campaign hurt them. A lot of former student let their stories being heard outside the Facebook groups at various blogs, Safeteens, Drasurvivors etc. for everyone to read. Any school can be safe if testimonies are kept in closed groups in social networks. If they appear in the open, it becomes dangerous. So they will try to take these public sites out by targeting the site owners. I know that some called in reinforcements reaching out to veteran bloggers fighting for the freedom of speech. It is a dangerous path because they don't care who they hurt. During the cartoon war 200 people were killed in the middle east as result of aggressive blogging aiding the already intense diplomatic crisis.
I do however feel that there is no choice. Only by letting DRA's attack be claimed as a general attack on the Freedom of Speech we can gather support enough to break DRA.
Here are some of the blog-entries. Most of them had no experience with this area. They just react because Freedom of Speech in Denmark is an area where Danes feel that it means Duty to Speech and a chance to lecture the world.
http://crybabydanishimmigrant.blogspot.com/2014/11/attack-on-freedom-of-speech.html
http://sorenhansondk.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/i-am-happy-that-i-stayed-at-home/
http://henrikhansen93.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/if-a-boarding-school-wants-to-hide-deaths-of-students/
http://jack1993us.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/i-feel-that-i-am-a-part-of-something/
http://ordinarydane.blog.com/2014/11/05/diamond-ranch-academy-in-utah-doesnt-like-criticizm/
http://secret-prisons-for-teens.blogspot.com/2014/11/diamond-ranch-academy-against-free.html
http://rotsne.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/were-you-there-when-diamond-ranch-academy-was-raided-in-1999/
Che Gookin:
Shens a foot. Stay tuned.
Oscar:
Some research show that they while they were operating from Idaho used 3 locations:
* Timber Creek Ranch, Lemhi Valley, Salmon, Idaho
* Swan Valley Ranch, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
* Pitchfork Ranch, Twin Falls or Boise, Idaho
Che Gookin:
Swan Valley Ranch, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Idaho does not equal Wyoming and Wyoming does not equal Idaho.
Oscar:
--- Quote from: Che Gookin on November 10, 2014, 02:47:38 AM ---Swan Valley Ranch, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Idaho does not equal Wyoming and Wyoming does not equal Idaho.
--- End quote ---
Yes. That is rather confusing. They used to own the domain-name: http://www.teenranch.org back in 2004 which is now belonging to some kind of activity in Scotland.
Having investigated it on the Internet Archive these 3 places where mentioned. Some years ago Rob Dias wrote a piece about how hard it was when he worked for another program before he started his own operation. We know that they were raided and made a deal to move out of state in exchange for the case to be dropped. We are looking to find this piece of information. A raid is always good information to throw at people regardless of the outcome. The battle has to be moved to their part of the field so they can be in the defensive instead of offensive.
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