pinkstarfish
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This day has a bitter-sweet taste for me. With the satisfaction of seeing our government, our president, acknowledge torture, though very meaningful to me makes me think of the torture victims that have never been vindicated or even recognized by our laws, much less brought to justice, even though many are on American soil or owned and run by an American company though in a different country. I have witnessed torture and know first hand how unjust it is. I have seen it hidden and covered up and ignored due to "legal technicalities" and the HIPAA privacy laws that are only located in the fine print of these private gulags' contracts. Most parents don't read them because they:
A)Trust the fraudulent company posing as a "Teen Help" facility.
B) Are pressured to ACT now, read later because their child is in danger and could die. I'm not exaggerating...
I consider myself a POW of the Drug War. I spent ages 13-17 in this industry directly and purposefully fueled by the drug war. I was a captive unable to leave. I was a worker and a prisoner and yes, even brainwashed. I was in two facilities in 5 years and spent 18-21 months in each. I was expected to, as I moved up in my "phases" to implement the same ritualistic, thought reformative, verbal and mental abuse that was inflicted upon me to "break" me and free me from my old "druggie" self. I restrained other kids who were "misbehaving" for long periods of time in a four point restraint with other "phasers" because it was my "privilege" and "responsibility" to the group to help correct a "newcomer" who was a "misbehavior." I saw blood daily. Blood was the only way they'd ever call an ambulance. I saw a 12 year old boy bite his tongue off in order to go "free." I saw and heard solitary confinement, gang-up beatings and interrogations every day also. The "time-out rooms" were directly behind "group" and had no ceilings so you could here the screams, beatings, restraints and crying. There's nothing like being a prisoner right smack in the middle of a business district of north Dallas in a fucking warehouse, although many of these places are "wilderness adventures" as well. I had the joy of experiencing both.
This is a subject I sometimes bring up and I just ask to those of you who like me or hate me to take a moment to understand, or at least try to understand this information and process it and feel it's realness.
Many adult survivors, like myself, have spent years in counseling recovering from the experience of being a POW on American soil. Many people in my "program" died from over doses and suicides because our program specified that we would end up, "dead, insane or in jail" if we faltered from it. Brainwashing is real...
I'm not here for myself, though. I'm here as a messenger. I represent the hundreds to even thousands of minors who have no voice due to death, captivity, or as a result of mental anguish in the form of PTSD, shell shock and many others. Scars they will forever carry yet never have acknowledged as what they are; Drug War casualties.
Please take a few moments, if you can, to look at these links.
All are safe.
Thank you.
http://teenadvocatesusa.homestead.com/INMEMORIAM.html
http://teenadvocatesusa.homestead.com/FrontPage.html
http://isaccorp.org/default.asp
Roberto Reyes is not listed on the memoriam but he died less than 200 miles from where I live. He was there for only two weeks before he died.
Another close case for me that is not listed is the case of Kerry Layne Brown and one of the abusers who administered torture to him daily for weeks on end for an entire 8 months, Randall Hinton.
Randall Hinton was trying to purchase property which would have meant that one of these facilities would have practically been in my back yard.
One of the persons responsible for the most horrendous torture and abuse cases I've ever seen. Layne Brown was only 15 years old when he was a prisoner on the Jamaican prison camp owned by the American Company World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools. It was there where he was hog-tied, pepper-sprayed, starved beaten and left for dead in solitary confinement for most of his nearly year long stint.
Thanks again if you've even read this far...
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