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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: Rachael on February 12, 2009, 05:43:41 PM
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Hello Everyone,
Here it is:
http://http://www.cbc.ca/fifth
The episode is called Powerless and is airing at 9pm EST on CBC.
After the show is aired, it will be available online at the above url.
Love you all,
Rachael
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CAN WE watch it yet? I don't see it on the site
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You can watch the whole episode here: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2008-2009/powerless/video.html (http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2008-2009/powerless/video.html)
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You can watch the whole episode here: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2008-2009/powerless/video.html (http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2008-2009/powerless/video.html)
Thanks. It's good to know it's not region locked (like most US stations) so it can be watched outside the US.
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fuck me. I'm watching it now and i'm just stunned. I'm only half-way through, but this documentary is *spot on*. It's a straight killer.
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HELL YEAH. it's Phil fuckin Elberg!
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Lots of footage of kids an Miller Newton too.
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hoaa....
AARC is gonna need some MAJOR fuckin damage control now. That's it. The program is dead. fuckin dead.
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Yeah, I think so too.
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Yeah, I think so too.
I gotta hand it to you canucks. You sure know how to produce a balls-out documentary. Nothing like this (that I can recall) has been done about one of the programs in the states (if ever). My guess is political pressure and threats of lawsuits.
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Yeah, I think so too.
So how did you become interested in this topic? Just sparked your interest?
In any case, welcome to Fornits, home to survivors of all sorts of shitpits like AARC.
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So how did you become interested in this topic? Just sparked your interest?
In any case, welcome to Fornits, home to survivors of all sorts of shitpits like AARC.
I was simply watching CBC HD and watched the whole program.
Then I found this site through Google: http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22 ... arch&meta= (http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22Rachael+O%92Neill%22+%2Baarc&btnG=Search&meta=)
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Cool. Believe it or not, AARC is going to take some time to die. What they didn't delve into much was the program for parents and just how brainwashed the parents are as well. I would bet that most current AARC parents are going to keep their kids in, while at the same time their enrollments will probably drop off to nothing. I'm guessing, at this point, the program will keep the kids as long as possible and try to milk the parents for as much money as they can get.
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It takes time for the kids to snap out of the brainwashing too. Sure they're all "the program saved my life from deadinsaneinjail" when they first get out, but that only lasts so long.
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Yeah, they only alluded to the coercion and brainwashing of parents aspect.
I would imagine it's difficult to get a parent on camera admitting they put their child in an abusive situation. So I'm afraid you're right about the current students. But if government and corporate funding gets cut it might be enough to kill it off, or price it out of the range of most parents.
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Yeah, they only alluded to the coercion and brainwashing of parents aspect.
I would imagine it's difficult to get a parent on camera admitting they put their child in an abusive situation. So I'm afraid you're right about the current students. But if government and corporate funding gets cut it might be enough to kill it off, or price it out of the range of most parents.
Most programs have a "cutoff" threshold. When enrollment drops below a certain level, it's impossible to turn a profit. That being said, if AARC relies on a lot of outside fundraising to operate (as it seemed from the opening scenes)... they're finished.
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Yeah, they only alluded to the coercion and brainwashing of parents aspect.
I would imagine it's difficult to get a parent on camera admitting they put their child in an abusive situation.
Most parents have trouble admitting it to themselves. Ask Rachael what her mother is like to this day.
If you watched the full Phil Elberg interview, it really is sad. These programs make money off splitting families up if a member disagrees with the group (a lot like Scientology's policy of "disconnection").
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There are 10s (100s?) of thousands of kids who’ve been through centers identical to or worse than the AARC in the US. These gulags are tolerated by our populous which loves a good punishing, even if the extrajudicial punishing of young adults in cultic private-funded prisons for youth who’ve never even been arrested.
Most of these gulag-cults, like CEDU running springs, RMA, Elan, etc are all descendants of Synanon. Kids, which begat AARC, was a clone of Straight, itself a clone of The Seed, itself a mutant of Synanon. CEDU was opened by Mel Wasserman, a former Synanon disciple.
Today, there’s a 100 million $ industry revolving around the abduction, imprisonment and torture of teenagers. Torture is called treatment. Reports of abuse we are ignored. If a young adult is beaten to death, there are no consequence for the beaters. If a young adult escapes, as Rachael escaped that night, they are hunted, and should the police notice them, they are captured and returned to the gulag. Thousands upon thousands are dead.
Tell somebody.
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There are 10s (100s?) of thousands of kids who’ve been through centers identical to or worse than the AARC in the US. These gulags are tolerated by our populous which loves a good punishing, even if the extrajudicial punishing of young adults in cultic private-funded prisons for youth who’ve never even been arrested.
Most of these gulag-cults, like CEDU running springs, RMA, Elan, etc are all descendants of Synanon. Kids, which begat AARC, was a clone of Straight, itself a clone of The Seed, itself a mutant of Synanon. CEDU was opened by Mel Wasserman, a former Synanon disciple.
Today, there’s a 100 million $ industry revolving around the abduction, imprisonment and torture of teenagers. Torture is called treatment. Reports of abuse we are ignored. If a young adult is beaten to death, there are no consequence for the beaters. If a young adult escapes, as Rachael escaped that night, they are hunted, and should the police notice them, they are captured and returned to the gulag. Thousands upon thousands are dead.
Tell somebody.
damn good post is damn good (and accurate too!)
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So many typos though.
Argh. Really I'm not THAT illiterate.
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I would imagine it's difficult to get a parent on camera admitting they put their child in an abusive situation.
Not for some of us!
So I'm afraid you're right about the current students.
They're never going to understand why they're not leveling up.
But if government and corporate funding gets cut it might be enough to kill it off, or price it out of the range of most parents.
Out of 6.somthing million last year only $400,000 was from gov't. I'm thinking AARC's not TOO concerned about the gov't money anymore.
But if the corporations etc. start pulling out their remaining 6 million, it could be trouble.
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These programs make money off splitting families up if a member disagrees with the group (a lot like Scientology's policy of "disconnection").
Yep. Ask my wife about that, she was denied all contact with her daughter for having the gall to ask questions about the program and photographing her daughter being restrained face down by five fat women, one on the girl's back to take the wind out of her. The program failed to break the bond between mother and daughter, which frustrated the hell out of the treatment team. God knows they tried every trick - telling my step daughter that her mom asked for her to be restrained, calling mom crazy, etc. The kind of thing family courts refer to as "parental alienation" except it's okay when "pros" do it for the parent who pays.
This was at a licensed accredited program that boasts of being different from the ones you read about in the media.