On 2006-04-03 04:14:00, mandelduke wrote:
Parents are told that these camps will change their children, and this I can vouch from experience. But if they knew what they change them into, they wouldn?t approve.
That's the part that concerns me most. Maybe I developed a healthy aversion to the concept based on my own experience. But isn't that a chilling phrase? "Don't worry, Mrs. Jones, we'll change your child for you in
no time!" Fuck! If anyone said anything like that to me, I'd grab hold of my kids and
run the other way!
I know what this routine did to my family. While you were locked up in the public sector thought reform experiment, my parents actually paid Art Barker to reprogram 4/5 of my elder brothers and sisters. By `80, it was my turn and I got the "new and improved" regimin at Straight, Inc.
There is no more family. 6 kids raising or having raised 8 grandkids; no two families in the same state. The only terms by which I can have any part of their occasional get togethers is if I play along w/ their view of me and my one brother as total fuckups. He and I never completed our programs; therefore we were cut off from all manner of familial supprt. They were trying to help us, you see, to reach our "rock bottoms" on our own w/o any toxic "enabling". Sympathy kills, remember?
So now we're all coasting into or in the midst of middle age. I wouldn't even know if my mother has already died or if any of my nieces or nephews have kids of their own, cept for one I know of and we don't really communicate either.
If it had just been my crazy assed family having joined a crazy assed cult, I wouldn't be speaking of it publicly today. It just wouldn't be relavent or interesting, except as a tragic human interest story, to the vast majority of readers.
But if you put together the private sector thought reform gulags w/ the public sector programs like Green River then do the math, this ammounts to a total scorched earth maneuver on family and community throughout the land.
THAT is what keeps me up at night!
Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.
--Thomas Paine