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Story about AARC
Anonymous:
It is so horrible, evil and disasterous that
1. no news organization has uncovered the plot, probably due to the far reaching nature of the conspiracy
2. no law suit has been launched, even though close to 300 albertan families have been through treatment there (even the prisoners from Afghanistan and Iraq have sued the US gov.)
3. law enforcement ignores the "human rights abuses", as of course, they are part of the conspiracy
4. parents and prisoners of Kids of Bergen County who have seen the facility like what they see
5. AARC has flown under the radar of any NGO like the Red Cross that would investigate alleged abuses for 12 years despite huge fundraising events, articles in all media outlets and a discussion board where people make unsubstantiated claims - often people who were never clients! Sneaky buggers!
velvet2000:
1) News programs and a documentary have interviewed survivors of AARC and uncovered the "plot".
2) Lawsuits have been launched. One former Kids of Bergen County client did succeed in court however she accepted a gag order in settlement.
3) Much of law enforcement is ignoring the problem, however some are trying to investigate. Social services has been investigating on its own and has tried to reason with AARC by laying down new guidelines.
4)Parents and clients from "Kids" who associated with AARC while still programmed later left and now denounce it.
5)AARC is still being watched while officials decide what to do. I've spoken with everyone from ombudsman to child and youth care and everyone has agreed that AARC's process is wrong and something needs to be done, but the youth need to press criminal charges before movement can be made.
6) The solution is simply youth need to be informed of their rights and provided security (safe housing away from family who may still be involved with AARC) and connected with those who are able to properly guide them and/or represent them.
However the anonymous poster I am replying to is using a shining example of how AARC works. Keep saying the same thing over and over again despite the fact that it's not true, and maybe people will start repeating the mantra.
Anonymous:
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"1) News programs and a documentary have interviewed survivors of AARC and uncovered the "plot".
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Do tell! That would be great to see! Which news programs and documentary are you referring to specifically?
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2) Lawsuits have been launched. One former Kids of Bergen County client did succeed in court however she accepted a gag order in settlement.
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I believe I was referring to AARC, not Kids
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3) Much of law enforcement is ignoring the problem, however some are trying to investigate. Social services has been investigating on its own and has tried to reason with AARC by laying down new guidelines.
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Really! And for more than 12 years of being allowed to operate, social services has yet to do any more than "reason" with AARC. Wow, AARC is powereful!
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4)Parents and clients from "Kids" who associated with AARC while still programmed later left and now denounce it.
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Really! I'd love to see that on tape or in writing!
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5)AARC is still being watched while officials decide what to do. I've spoken with everyone from ombudsman to child and youth care and everyone has agreed that AARC's process is wrong and something needs to be done, but the youth need to press criminal charges before movement can be made.
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After only a decade. I guess you wouldn't want to rush into anything! An of the hundreds of people who have been through the program, including you, none have pressed charges?
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6) The solution is simply youth need to be informed of their rights and provided security (safe housing away from family who may still be involved with AARC) and connected with those who are able to properly guide them and/or represent them.
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But I thought anti-AARC people were against safe house for youth like the PCHIP program? But you are for it for someone who leaves AARC? God knows we need to keep 15 year old prostitutes out on the streets!
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However the anonymous poster I am replying to is using a shining example of how AARC works. Keep saying the same thing over and over again despite the fact that it's not true, and maybe people will start repeating the mantra. "
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Funny how when someone disagrees with you, they are "brainwashed" and "repeating the mantra". But I am ok if I repeat the Mantra "aarc is evil". Well, I am still waiting for someone to do something if AARC is so evil. Talk is cheap.
Hamiltonf:
Nobody ever said, as far as I can see that AARC was a conspiracy.
Simply put, like any private organization that sees a "niche" for its "services", AARC has done a very good job of "selling" itself by appealing to fear and some of its clients' worst nightmares. That makes it enterprising in much the same way as the Hard Christian Right and the Bushites have managed to seize power in the United States. If 55% of Americans believe in Creation, that doesn't make them right, it makes them deluded. If the inmates of AARC think they have been "saved" from a fate worse than death by a methodology of brainwashing that defies some of the most fundamental tenets of freedom of thought and association, that doesn't make them free, it makes them prisoners.
It's not a conspiracy when the Chancellor of the University of Calgary, and MLA Marlene Graham come out in supprt of AARC. They've been targetted, and they've succumbed to very skilled propaganda.
You should read the history about a movement called "Moral Rearmament" which emerged prior to the 2nd World War and how it supported Naziism. They sucked in some very important people all around the world.
The parallels are significant --- the origins and methodology learned at Kids of North Jersey.
Everthing that I saw on the CBC & CTV broadcasts that featured AARC (even though David Suzuki was and continues to be "impressed" by AARC he's not a psychologist or a lawyer)convinces me that the pathway to hell is paved with good intentions. And no matter what the good intentions of AARC'S sponsors might be, it continues to be a process that, like the war in Fallujah is designed to destroy people in order to "save" them.
And when you say, "why haven't there been any lawsuits," consider this, given the immensity of the problems of evidence, the need for expert psychological evidence, the massive amount of disclosure that would be required who is going to bankroll a lawsuit that could cost in excess of $250.000.00 ?
What lawyer would be able to accept a retainer of anything less than $1000.00 up front? And considering that AARC has some of the most prominent lawyers in Calgary on it's payroll and is able to fundraise up to $6,000,000.00, who, pray tell, is going to be able to face that?
Cockney song
"It's the same the whole world over...
...
It's the rich as gets the pleasure, and the poor as gets the blame"
[ This Message was edited by: Hamiltonf on 2004-12-04 13:38 ]
Anonymous:
Sounds like you think you've got the answers to everything from---how to raise kids---design school programs--end war---pick the politically correct form of religion for everyone else---
Hey maybe you're one smart dude--or maybe you're a bagof real hot air,pissed that the world doesn't see fit to recognize how clever you are
I don't know for sure---but reading your posts I get the sense of an old flower child type hunkered down with her stash blissfully high, lamenting the world as it passes by---and hostile to anything like AARC that tries to help kids be real and motivated and succesful---well of course--- it's a personal assault on your life and world view
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