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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Straight, Inc. and Derivatives => Topic started by: Don Smith on April 21, 2004, 03:57:00 AM
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Click here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... Apr20.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28991-2004Apr20.html)
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The Reliable Source
By Richard Leiby
Wednesday, April 21, 2004; Page C03
A Case of One Man's Trash, or Hitting Below the Belt?
Astrange court case involving Melvin Sembler, the U.S. ambassador to Italy and a major GOP fundraiser and buddy of the Bush family, is heating up in Florida.
Sembler is suing Richard R. Bradbury, who has spent years rummaging through Sembler's garbage, picketing and raising a stink about Straight, a controversial drug treatment program founded by Sembler and his wife, Betty.
The case focuses on a penile pump that Bradbury lifted from Sembler's garbage, then posted on eBay last year for $300,000. Sembler, 73, underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 1990 -- and, according to court papers, was prescribed the device. He calls Bradbury a "sadistic" stalker who tried to extort money from him.
"This is an invasion into the sanctity of our home and our bedroom," the couple state in the legal documents filed last month in St. Petersburg, Fla., where the Semblers obtained a temporary injunction against Bradbury, forcing him to keep away from their home there. They also demand he return the pump as well as other materials. Bradbury says he recovered flight schedules for foreign officials and U.S. lawmakers, along with "Republican party materials and strategy documents, personal campaign contribution documents and correspondence" from the Semblers' trash.
Bradbury, 38, calls himself an advocate for victims who, like him, say they were harmed as adolescents by Straight's practices. According to news reports, Straight closed in 1993, amid lawsuits and a Florida state audit that found "a propensity for abuse or excessive force to be used." Sembler's biography on the State Department's Web site says, "During its 17 years of existence, Straight successfully graduated more than 12,000 young people nationwide from its remarkable program." Sembler and his wife remain active in the Drug Free America Foundation.
"They're very philanthropic, very well-meaning people," the Semblers' attorney, Leonard Englander, told us earlier this week. "Nobody should have to endure this." A judge yesterday refused Bradbury's motion to dismiss the case.
The legal battle has been covered extensively on TheStraights.com, a site run by Wesley Fager, 58, of Oakton. "I was in the cult. My son was in it. He was significantly harmed by it," says Fager, who unsuccessfully sued the group in the early 1990s in Fairfax Circuit Court. "The story is not about a man's penis pump -- it's about child abuse."
Bradbury wouldn't comment, but his attorney, Thomas McGowan, said, "I see this as a First Amendment case. . . . There is no right of privacy in garbage."
For Arena, Celebs Survive the Footlights
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The reporter doesn't have his e-mail listed on
the site, so those of you who want to react to this article, the letters to the editor go to:
[email protected]
:smile:
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I just wrote him a letter.
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:tup: Good for you, girlfriend!
I suppose I should get off this board and do something productive too.
Break time is over.
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The reporter does have an e-mail. It wasn't on-line with all the others - but it was on the print-out of the article. Incidentally, for those who subscribe to the post, it was in yesterday's paper on page C3.
Leiby's address is: [email protected]
However, you should send your letter to the Editor and then "cc" Leiby so they both have a copy. :tup:
SOLIDARITY!
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Okay, done. :wave:
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[ This Message was edited by: animals all of us on 2004-05-13 19:02 ]
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ok
did it A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit.
-- In the August 1993 issue, page 9, of PS magazine, the Army's magazine of preventive maintenance
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[ This Message was edited by: The One and Only Anonymous on 2004-05-13 19:06 ]
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You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Your post doesn't deserve any further response from me.
Michael Sherman, Straight Survivor
St. Pete '78 - '80
http://www.safetyintl.org (http://www.safetyintl.org)
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Man Anon(The one and Only) you need to get a grip, your way off obviously a troll or Pro Straight idiot. Everyone don't even bother to pay attention to this Jackass he will go away :wave:
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On 2004-05-05 12:52:00, The One and Only Anonymous wrote:
"When are we going to realize that people like R. Bradbury, C.P. Fager, Monroe; are all on M. Semblers payroll ???
If they were serious about filing some suit now against the powers that be, they would have done so. This court case is a joke being run right in your face survivors.
Come on. I have been to Sembler's home. I know for a fact there is know way that R. Bradbury could have gotten near the garbage. Sembler has said that his garbage is locked up. What kind of idiot believes this bullcrap ?
I have seen these people's posts and see the facts in what they say. They are for your enemy. They get paid to lie."
are you kidding me.
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Anon you do a really shitty job of making a point..For one thing your argument makes no sense and you have no facts or even claims to back it up..so its just words and we all know what thats worth..
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Stealing a page or two from the armed and radical Pagans...[ This Message was edited by: Triumvirate on 2004-05-06 11:51 ]
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The One and Only Anonymous
Shove it up your ass dickhead, you don't have a clue
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Let me show you around, maybe play you a sound.....
You seem like you may have once been pretty groovy.
We can try something visual, that's not too abyssmal, like maybe the new Reefer Madness DVD movie?
Because your brains have gone flat (how 'bout that?) but listen coward, don't get too pissed.
By the end of the night, it will all be alright....
I'll get you a qualified THERAPIST!!!!!
Cuz around here you're a hit, always talking your shit.......
Trying to cause doubt and dissention.
And I find you amusing, just what drugs are you using? It is'nt helping your Anal Retention.
Well now I'll leave you alone, to jack on your ANONYMOUS bone, which you probably do all the while when you read......
You better spring for some lotion, to go with the motion, before your pathetic weiner starts to bleed!!!
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Oh man!, that was just too funny! Where the hell you been hiding Doc?
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[ This Message was edited by: The One and Only Anonymous on 2004-05-13 19:07 ]
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why is Animals deleting all his posts????
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fuck you. Im doing it because I don't have to explain myself to anyone. The advice here motherfucker, is that as long as you are not my jailer, my lover, or my creditor - you ain't got shit on me. I know what I'm doing bitch, I'm just as crazy as you are. Now back the fuck up and stop cramping my fucked up retarded style.
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[ This Message was edited by: GregLeclaire on 2004-05-31 10:40 ]
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Wes Fager hates commies and Bradbury loves the press.Ever see that whacko's website?Pathetic!
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Ok come up with someting better.
You can't and you won't so shut the fuck up!
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On 2004-05-31 09:03:00, GregLeclaire wrote:
"Wes Fager hates commies and Bradbury loves the press.Ever see that whacko's website?Pathetic!"
Which one are you referring to? Fager or Bradbury?
Don
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Don,
weren't you in the Pinellas headquarters Straight Inc. in the mid 80s ? I may remember you, fat ass. If its not you please disregard the slander. If it is you, please go on a diet.
ha ha ha. Just kiddin man. Please tell me.
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Does Bradbury have a website?
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http://www.pumpgate.com (http://www.pumpgate.com)
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On 2004-06-03 22:47:00, animals all of us wrote:
"Don,
weren't you in the Pinellas headquarters Straight Inc. in the mid 80s ? I may remember you, fat ass. If its not you please disregard the slander. If it is you, please go on a diet.
ha ha ha. Just kiddin man. Please tell me."
I was in the St. Pete building from November 28, 1981 to January 5, 1982. But I was in with the Cincinnati group the whole time.
Weighed in at 135 lbs. upon Intake, top weight was 155 lbs on 5th Phase. Don't think it was my fat ass you're thinking of. LOL
Don
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Umm, nah. Not you. Oh well, looks like none of my people ever come to this website. Whenever I think I find one, they don't be them. Pity me.
Well, I was in Straight in Pinellas from 1985 - 1989.
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When ya'll write the reporter; Do you explain the connection between the Republician party and Straight InC? You need to. Espically as this is the Washington Post.
You might also point out other such programs are currently a Major contributor.
This would be a great story for an election year.