Post by: Tony LL on June 01, 2001, 06:12:46 PM
Is there a website for this organization? I'm always interested in the new brainwashing facilities and what new twists they bring to the table.
Post by: ramprato on June 01, 2001, 10:14:50 PM
Here's the linkyou're looking for.
Ken
Post by: sullyceltic on July 01, 2001, 04:16:31 PM
i just took at look at the pathway family centers
website. sounds a lot like straight. a few things...
what about the speaking engagements we had to do?
does anyone else remember that stuff? being on 4th or
5th phase and going to some middle school or highschool
to give a talk about straight. pathway seems to have that
same idea too. ever heard the expression "don't worry
about the horse going blind, just load the ****ing wagon"?
that's what we were doing. we cheerfully did straights
bidding while intense paranoia raced through our body
preventing us from breathing a single negative comment
about "the program" - because if we did, it was back to front
row, again.
i've talked about this before, but how come we couldn't see a
priest or rabbi? howcome, now matter what out religious
affiliation, there were no services or clergy made available to
us? this has recently bothered me a lot. i am just your
garden variety catholic, baptized and confirmed, by no strech a regular church goer. but if one is in the middle of some
kind of crisis, as i was, would it not make sense to occasionally see a priest for counseling?
i know that if i was in group saying this half the room would be motiovating, ready to blast me. saying things like "you don't need to worry about religion, you need to work on getting better, and accepting your alcoholism"
i may give pathway a call this afternoon and ask them if
their clients can see a priest if they ask.
sullyceltic
Post by: BostonBrave on July 01, 2001, 04:50:49 PM
Excellent point.Let us hope that the Bush Administration,which seems keen on faith-based initiatives, will look unfavorably at programs that cut off clients' access to clergy.
Post by: Kathy on May 01, 2001, 09:20:42 AM
Washington Post Article
"DC Students Underwent Strip Search ON Jail Tour"
Kathy
Post by: Kathy on May 01, 2001, 07:05:21 AM
D.C. Schools Find More Strip-Search Victims
Seventh- and Eighth-Graders Tell of Humiliation, Threats on Jail Tour
Kathy
Post by: Lorraine on June 01, 2001, 06:12:35 PM
Good grief, I think I'd have to be suing somebody if I was the parent of one of those children. How dare they! And how dare they strip search us at Straight and make us keep silent about it too!
Post by: ladyjerrico on March 07, 2002, 07:39:00 PM
I know I did wrong.. but I believe that the staff enjoyed doing something like that and humilating you in front of your peers just to make their ego skyrocket!
I understand very well that every action people take in life has a reaction and a consequence to it.. but they went too far!
The staff at Straight really knew how to convince us that things were legit and legal.
To this day my mother thinks that it was the best place for me to be, but she never saw behind the curtain who really was the "wizard of oz" so to speak.
I wish I could film my memory of that place and everyday I had in it.. I'm sure that everyone who was and wasn't in this torchure facility would have quite an eye opening experience