G. writes:
"While your underlying sentiment may be pure, your are loose with the facts. First, 500,000 kids did not go thru Straight, Inc...more like 30,000, maybe less..."
Where is your evidence that only 30,000 children went through all Straights nationally ? I say the number is way higher, and I can back it up from years in 70 to when it shut down all around - there was more than that amount. MMMkay.
"Second, you are OVERSTATING the abuse endured by Straight Kids, which weakens your credibility..."
I am understating alot of the evidence. Look at thestraights.com alone and see the testimonies not only of the harm done to survivors while in the program, but what its done to anybody who doesn't want to remember and hasn't come out of the woodwork yet and can't face what happened to them. Marti Heath said it best: The social and economic strain this puts on the government in the long and short run today is overwhelming. If a person is taught to confront people and spit on them daily, what does this do that person when they get back in society ? What kind of counseling or jail time do you give to that many people who think its right to hurt others in the name of wellbeing ? Every child in Straight was abused. This makes my point clear and clears my point accurately on that website, G. If every child was intaken, held against there will, deceived at intake, and if all were stripped and searched either by an unlicensed staff member or by one who is licensed and some nonlicensed patients - at intake you have every child being abused. If you have at any given time a child being treated as a patient by a patient, then you have every child being abused and molested when it comes down to spit therapy and assault methods. Why did Straight shut down ? Cos of child molesting and child abuse. You stated this without OVERSTATING it. Can you name one child in Straight who was not given therapy by another patient or was not at one point held against their will by a patient without the training to do so ? Its all of it chock full of abuse, G.
Perhaps I am overstating my points here.
"Third, you are calling these people child rapists when in fact, this is hardly true in the literal sense of the word which is the implication of your website..."
It has appealed to the part of you at least that I wanted it to. A dictionary might be useful again. You read what you wanted to read and schlepped off the rest of it.
"Fourth, you proclaim kids were molested every day in straight which suggests massive sexual abuse when in fact only isolated incidences of this were alleged. Fifth, calling straight a "holocaust" causes others to view you as a wacko. It was not. I suggest you look the term up in the dictionary."
Weren't you at the protest in Tampa and did you say anything about Betty's credibility and the credibility of the protestors alluding to the Straight Holocaust ? If any child was ever denied privacy to piss or take a dump - its sexually wrong. Taking a shower while others are watching is sexually deviant. Privacy is at least half about sexuality and the rest is probly about respect and the remaining part of privacy is privacy itself. You derived pleasure from picking on others when you were in there, wherever it is that you did time. Just like everyone who tried to play at the Straight game. You never derived pleasure from being an oldcomer and 'knowing more' than the noobcomer ?
I appreciate the constructive criticism. I will look into it and I might be so bold later on to ask more specific questions.
