Torture methods in teens' "tough love" camps banned by the Geneva convention.

[pnwmom]

But they're okay for kids.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/stop-selling-child-abuse_b_106956.html

by Maia Szalavitz

Although I have never heard of waterboarding being used by these programs, the following scenarios have all been reported either directly to me by more than one witness to the incident or in court documents or Congressional testimony in these programs:

1) Boys hooded, with nooses around their necks, made to stand for hours in searing desert heat.

2) A girl forced to dress as a hooker, with "slut, 25 cents" smeared on her with lipstick, made to walk past catcalling boys. Then, she was forced to kneel in front of a middle-aged man who asked if she liked performing oral sex on older men. This occurred in front of around 100 people.

3) Teens were chained for days and spent nights in outdoor dog cages.

4) In subfreezing temperatures, boys were not provided toilet paper, just snow, to clean themselves.

5) Both boys and girls have had their limbs broken in brutal "restraints," inflicted for violations as minor as looking at a member of the opposite sex.

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The House of Representatives will vote next Friday on HR 5876, the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2008, introduced by California Rep. George Miller

Here's how to show your support:

http://www.youthpolicyactioncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewPage&pageID=686&nodeID=5&iframe=http%3A//capwiz.com/mobilize/issues/alert/%3Falertid%3D11385551%26type%3DCO&stopRedirect=1

[varkam]

1. Yeesh. That's disgusting.

Perhaps the CIA interrogators could learn a thing or two from these folks.

[Hugabear]

2. Donchya know that stuff builds character?

Yessirree, nothing builds character in a young man or woman than beating them senseless, subjecting them to sexual humiliation, and stuff that would make a Nazi guard flinch.

:sarcasm:

Seriously, how is this stuff even legal under our current laws?

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I don't know. *fuming*

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. In their minds, psycho = good and civilized = bad.

I, for instance, was educated without violence, hence I'm useless for them. A pansy, they'd say.

[pnwmom]

5. It is legal because the Supreme Court has ruled that children

do not have the civil rights that adults have.

I remember a case where a 9 year old had his arm broken in the course of a "paddling" at school. The S.C. upheld the school. It IS disgusting.