Just Call It "Therapy"-- Illegal Interrogation Tactics, Child Labor Instantly Acceptable

Just wondering...

......why Mitt Romney immediately dissociates himself with a guy caught trying to have sex with another adult in a public toilet... but not from the head of a teen tough-love "anti-drug" organization in which a top executive still employed by the company said under oath [large PDF file] that he didn't think it was always abusive for his employees to have sex with the teenage inmates?

The same organization is currently being sued by over 100 plaintiffs for amongst other things, sexual abuse of teens, making them eat their own vomit and keeping them in stress positions in outdoor dog cages -- and there are videotapes from the Mexican police of the teens in the dog cages. And another still-active Romney financier headed another "anti-drug" program in which kidnapping, using sanitary napkins as gags, beatings, sexual abuse and unlawful detention were repeatedly documented by regulators and civil suits.

Also wondering... why the American Psychological Association now bans its members from participating in government interrogations involving sleep deprivation, stress positions and sexual humiliation, but does not ban its members from using those practices or working at programs that use them on teenagers so long as they are called "therapy"?

And...why the U.S. government just doesn't label its interrogation practices as "therapy" since restraint, isolation, electric shocks, food deprivation, sexual humiliation, sleep deprivation and beatings have all been practiced and continue to be carried out on children and teenagers as part of "tough love" and "behavior modification programs? If it's good enough for our kids, why not for terror suspects?

And... why the CBS show Kid Nation is getting all this attention for child labor law violations when "Brat Camp" violated the same regulations? If Kid Nation had called itself "Kid Therapy" or "Anti Drug Camp" no one would have batted an eye.

And... why pain patients can be denied needed medication [video: well worth watching] (a violation of the Geneva conventions if done to prisoners of war) in the name of "anti-drug" policies, even though fewer than 1% without a prior history of addiction ever develop problems related to prescribed pain treatment?

What a strange world we live in, and what incredible power the ideas of "therapy" and "fighting drugs" have to blind people to human rights abuses.

Comments

[PastorBlossomsLoveChild]

The comments are very similar to earlier staff response from New Horizons Youth Ministry in Marion IN. They made claims early on that the child who was sexually abused was in an "emotional relationship" with the abuser. Current comments have been revised to exclude the phrase "emotional relationship". You can find the actual court document at www.nhymalumni.org

[PastorBlossomsLoveChild]

I've read similar comments given by faculty at New Horizon's Youth Ministry. I read somewhere on the internet that lead staff viewed the sexual abuse of a female student by New Horizons Academy faculty Rob George as an "emotional relationship". I am hunting for that comment to provide a link. I've also come across conflicting stories of how long it took to remove Rob George from New Horizons. Here is a link to a survivors site which has a pdf file of the affidavit.

[commonsenselives]

This is a truly disgusting situation. I can't believe some people.

"a top executive still employed by the company said under oath [large PDF file] that he didn't think it was always abusive for his employees to have sex with the teenage inmates? "

This line alone made me want to puke. I thought that we were supposed to encourage teens to WAIT to have sex? Now lecherous adults are forcing it on teenagers under the guise of "therapy"? Getting off on the misery of others? Just wonderful. What a fuzzy bedtime story for my future family...

Sometimes I wish this earth would just take itself back from all the misery humans have inflicted upon it and each other. Why do we treat each other this way?

[steven]

Just take a look at the "people" that are running or should I say ruining our country- it's possible that they may have something to do with this perversion.

[Cayo]

Bush I visited Straight St. Pete and named it one of his 'thousand points of light'. The entire Bush family is either on the board of Straight (now Drug Free America Foundation) or does promos for them. Funny how Jebby didn't send his kid to one of these places.

Start looking into Sembler/Lichfield/Bush/Romney. It's a disgusting mess. The Semblers still brag about their involvement in Straight. I'd love to see them say it to some of our faces.