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The plan is to get an institution that misuses charity, government and private funds while running a treatment centre using discredited methods overseen by unqualified people shut down.  The examples of the Straights and Sembler's removal from the Villa Sembler in Italy are good examples.  The situation in Alberta is a little different than in the US, where it is in the intersts of those opposed to the GOP to bloody their noses once in awhile.  There is no political opposition in this province, so a slightly different approach is required.  But it's coming.

Bush and Clinton are the same.  They are politicians who represent powerful interests.  They have different bases of support in the voting public, but they act on behalf of the same moneyed power.  There is nothing special about the US in history.  Powerful people have done what they wanted since the dawn of civilization.  People choose sides or have their sides chosen for them, but in the end it comes down to the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few, whether Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, French, British, American, Russian or Israeli.  The international configuration that allowed Americans to be the richest people in the world no longer exists.  The US citizenry is in debt beyond what they can ever pay.  The government is in the same boat.  Foreign central banks hold a good deal of this debt.  The country is being sucked dry by gamblers, who take all of their money and tuck into hedge funds down in the Virgin Islands.  The "War on Terror" is a last ditch attempt to allow the US elites to maintain their position by controlling resources and isolating rival economic blocs militarily.  Not long after the birth of the US, most of the big countries of the world were on a similar footing in terms of industrial advancement.  Over the next couple of hundred years, some, like the Asian Big Two, China and India, collapsed into ruin.  Now, the leader for the last hundred is losing its industrial base in order to maintain the status quo for the wealthy who owned US industry.  Those two sad sack Asian countries are seeing an increase in manufacturing and communications industries at the expense of the US work force.  The one way the US can temporarily stay afloat is to control the oil producing nations and the transportation corridors.  The elite can stay in control by holding the light switch for China, India, Brazil etc. and at the same time keep Russia from having a resurgence.  The problem is that the US would need millions of soldiers to conquer the Arabs and Persians and to  isolate China and Russia.  They just can't do it.  As the US citizen is less able to consume, it becomes more important for the elites to control the one thing that made Americans, Americans, cheap energy.  If the workers of these new industrial and communications powerhouses have money to spend and cheap energy, then the US consumer is no longer the market of last resort.  Also, very importantly, countries begin to sell oil in currencies other than the US dollar, then the US dollar will lose its value.  If it has no value, then even the low-paying jobs that more and more Americans are left with will not provide consuming power.
But if the US Air Force can keep control of the world's petro resources in the hands of the US elite, then the hollowing out of the US can continue for awhile longer.

In addition, of the folks independently evaluating AARC, Imbach is a staffer, and Patton is on the board of... you guessed it, "The Union Institute".  Another triumph for ethics.

Two of the people offering glowing endorsements of the "program" on the website are also products of the illustrious pillar of academe, "The Union Institute".  This is the very same non-school that awarded "the leader" and his mentor "Father" Cassian Newton their special pieces of paper.  There is an ethical hole here big enough to sail an aircraft carrier through.

Another curious and wholly ridiculous facet of 'the leader" is that in lieu of a dissertation for his "PhD", he wrote about how good his own program was.   He just wrote about what a great job he was doing.  This is precisely what his mentor, Newton did for his piece of paper from that renowned font of higher learning, The Union Institute.  This is also the same technique used to "evaluate" AARC, whereby "the leader" and this Goresky individual, who are on the board, evaluated their own program.

I came across this forum while searching for information online about AARC.  As I stated in other posts, I have a very close friend who is a graduate of AARC.  While at AARC, this person was subjected to a physical assault in the home of an AARC board member by the sibling of a client.  For reasons known only to the staff of AARC, my friend was forced to recant the account of this assault.  My friend was also sexually assaulted in another home by a "client".  It is not a great leap of logic to assume that placing vulnerable children into the homes that produced children with severely destructive behaviors puts these vulnerable children at risk.  There is no question that Dean Vause has attempted to misrepresent himself as a psychologist. The question one must ask is "Why?".  Whether or not some children emerged from AARC able to live productive lives is not the issue.  The issue is the harm done to many children while in AARC.  Graham James was a successful hockey coach in the most elite junior league in the world, and was able to work for years while allegations about his behavior swirled about.  In the end he was convicted for sexually assaulting a number of his most successful charges.  People with wealth and power in this province have lent their support to AARC.  This includes holders of political office.  It is never in the interest of people whose positions entail an element of public awareness to be associated with a scandal, particularly one involving the harming of children.  The unravelling of AARC could encompass a great many unsavory things: abuse of children, misappropriation of charity and government funds, fraud etc.
If some former "clients" feel that they were mistreated in AARC, a forum such as this to discuss their experiences makes sense.  It does not make sense for those former "clients" who advocate AARC to post here.  If one was not harmed by AARC, it does not mean that others were not.
I just wanted some info so that I could have a greater understanding of the profoundly negative experience of my friend.

It seems very odd that someone would tease a youth in drug treatment.  Lying to prisoners about the outside world was a technique applied in a number of situations to break prisoners, such as Argentina and North Korea.  In this instance, the lie re-enforces the image of the victim as deviant insofar as the victim is also a drug user, drug users have forced an everyday item like light bulbs to be restricted.

It doesn't detract from the seriousness of the forum.  It bears out the damage done to young people in AARC. One would hope that a graduate of a recovery program would at minimum be capable of empathy, but the abuse seems to prevent that from developing in some cases.  I have met four people who spent extended periods in AARC, all four of whom were very intelligent, but were emotionally very stunted.