"the teen rehab industry has scarred thousands of kids for life"

[donsu]

http://www.alternet.org/story/31000/

No More Nightmares at Tranquility Bay?
Largely unregulated, the teen rehab industry has scarred thousands of kids for life. Now one lone congressmember is pushing to stop the abuse.


From Czechoslovakia to Costa Rica and Mexico, cops have seized American overseers for caging or mistreating American teens at harsh "boot camps" run under foreign flags to escape U.S. law.

But here at home, the companies that ship teenagers to remote reform schools can freely go about their business in many states. You can dial 1-800-355-TEEN to reach the sales staff of Teen Help, LLC, who can arrange for your child to be spirited away. They might put you in touch with "escorts," guys who can pull up to your driveway in a van and transport even the most defiant child to the airport. The next destination is up to you: a "tough love" school here in the 50 states, like Majestic Ranch in Utah or Spring Creek Lodge Academy in Montana?

Or perhaps Tranquility Bay, a barbed-wire discipline facility in Jamaica, where some of the approximately 250 teens can find themselves confined against their will and marched around by guards. Only the devil stands in the way of your consumer choice. The devil, that is, and a lone congressman, Rep. George Miller, D-Calif.

Just ask Ken Kay. He's the president of the tightly knit group of Utah men who run these outposts with their families, under the umbrella company World-Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS), whose leaders, critics say, try to hide their role in running the schools by running them under different names. Ken's son Jay, a college dropout who ran a mini-mart in San Diego, now oversees Tranquility Bay, where he had admitted to the media that he squirted pepper spray on his charges in the past.
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it's so much fun being the child of the religiously insane

and if maryjane was legal these christians would lose a lot of money.

america is a crime scene

[niyad]

1. this is for real?

[htuttle]

3. Yes, and it's been going on for a long time

Several decades at least. Seems like these 'take my troublesome kid off my hands' camps are only getting harsher, more abusive, and more expensive over the years.

[Initech]

2. Oh, wont somebody please think of the children?

Jesus, are these people fucking insane or what?

[WildEyedLiberal]

4. Haven't some kids died at these?

How in fuck is this legal? You can't beat your own kid, so how is it legal to pay someone to beat your kid for you?

[ThoughtCriminal]

5. The "Spare the Rod" Fundy Faction

Really attracts sadists and molestors.

[undergroundpanther]

6. Bush was involved in

A teen abuse camp called the "straights".
http://thestraights.com/frontpageextension.htm
http://www.thestraights.com/index.htm

ALL Authoritarianism destroys a person's inner resourcefulness, so all authoritarians need us to BELIEVE we need them to order our lives and control us and protect us..How is this achieved? By abuse of children,women and trust and hoarding of resources that make one self sufficient. Authoritarians prey upon fear, they get power by puffing up threats with lies .By exerting social domination and group dynamic manipulation and evil cocercion... all the traits of a sociopathic personality..Sociopaths,in order to survive deliberately create a posse and a culture of tolerance for their deviant ways around themselves,they create social structures of authoritarianism.It is pervasive, whether it's a dysfunctional , family,a bully boss on the job or a crook in the white house or a islamic madras school beating kids with the Koran or Dodson beating up his little dachshund.Sociopaths RUIN the world and destroy freedom and life.They are like CANCER on the human soul.

That said all camps like this,all behavior modification programs that are top down in structure lend a "culture" that sociopaths gravitate to.Any culture that says,
Gotta make those kids obey authority,a good crushing of their spirit through domination, abuse,torture, and authoritarian styled discipline and a fascist totally controlled environment to strip away that Independence and defiance of parental and state authority.

Fuck this boot camp shit and fuck the parental control freaks that think this is ok to do to human beings.Fuck all abusers of power,trust and vulnerability.I have been abused by the mental health system.I know how sick and dangerous all authoritarians are when they abuse trust. I hate them with every fiber of by being.

http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/wua4.shtml

This kind of camp is not about helping the kids,it is about instilling fear driven OBEDIENCE to AUTHORITY and a tol;erance and normalization of child ABUSE. It is designed to remake a person,by destabilizing their personality,by tearing them down,terrorizing them violating their boundaries, and destroying their self reliance and inner locus of control,not enhancing it so they can find their own mistakes and learn WHY drugs harm them..These camps are injecting authoritarian /sociopathic traits as"obedience" with a reward/punishment game worthy of B.F.Skinner..all this shit is useful to the state and a control based culture..Basically these sorts of"programs recreate a right wing master/slave culture...BEWARE!


http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/New_World_Order/Gods_Warrior_Twins.html
http://www.socialdemocrats.org/chain.html

A must read to understand this problem in depth and how it effects ALL of us.
http://www.psychohistory.com/

[High Plains]

7. And the Florida Bushite mafia is involved, too.

Folks like Mel and Betty Sembler. After operating several of these abusive concentration camps and helping to finance Republican campaigns in Florida, Mel was rewarded with being named US Ambassador to Italy.

These people are terrible.