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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / i thought they closed all straights
« on: August 01, 2001, 04:41:51 PM »
Re: Dallas Based Straights
I just emailed Wes about this thread. Here's what he's got in his page now.


"Texas: Straight-Dallas.

In 1987 the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (TCADA) forced Straight to stop strapping sanitary pads and towels on kids who were "acting out." In 1989, David Tatum, a TCADA administrator, says he started receiving complaints for allegations like: staff member choked and kicked a client, a host-home father tied up a client with an automobile towing strap; a client received a broken nose but was not given medical treatment. During an investigation ending in Oct 1989 he received 15 complaints including: 5 incidents of kids restrained for trivial reasons like 'failure to sit up properly' and 'failure to move.' One staff member allegedly tied a client with a nylon rope to prevent him from escaping; another did nothing while kids scratched themselves with pieces of metal. A parent reported that a staffer hit client Chad Barnes in the face. As a result of the investigation Straight fired one paraprofessional counselor and signed an agreement order in December 1989 that only trained staffers would be allowed to restrain clients, that time-out rooms would be banned, and that host homes would be required to provide better living arrangements. In return Straight would not have to admit to any of the allegations of abuse. But in January a reporter witnessed a client being restrained. There were 2 adults and 3 kids watching 100 clients. In August 1991 TCADA informed Straight that its license would not be renewed for consistently violating the law and for failure to abide by the 1989 agreement order. Among the citations cited in the order were the unsupervised dispensing of medications, treating clients who did not meet Straight's criteria of being chemically dependent, forcing clients to sleep in beds with other clients, failing to provide medical care to injured clients, and restraining clients with nylon rope. One finding was for a foster home which gave the kids only a container to urinate in the evening. Straight announced that it was closing for economic reasons."


Here's the url http://fornits.com/straight/why-success/behind_the_tallahassee_curtain.htm'>Behind the Tallahassee Curtain:

Infiltration, Intimidation and Suing of State Health Offices

-If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them even if it kills them.
http://trebach.org/conference.html'>Saving our Children from Drug Treatment Abuse


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / i thought they closed all straights
« on: August 02, 2001, 12:53:31 AM »
Re: i thought they closed all straights
Hi Chad,

  Welcome.


Well, they did close the last Straight, Incorporated operating under that name in `93. But most of the rehabs just changed their names. Straight Foundation, the education, public policy branch of Straight, Inc., changed their name to Drug Free America Foundation. Betty Sembler, cofounder of the original hell hole (after The Seed) in St. Pete, is founder and still on the BOD. She's also president of DARE, International. (I thought I had just been imagining DARE was the Program light....)


Glad you found us. Tell all your friends and enemies.  

-If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them even if it kills them.
http://trebach.org/conference.html'>Saving our Children from Drug Treatment Abuse


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / I'm such a big Loser
« on: July 01, 2001, 01:31:17 PM »
No you're not
Hey Colleen, I'm going to try and get the tape of James Lloyd's speech to you. Just to make light of things, he had then make up two name plates; one with his real name and one with the alias under which he registered because he thought we might be setting some kind of trap. And he's a middle aged white Republican man!


It was a great conference and we would have loved to have seen you there, but it's not the end of anything. We'll be having another in Orlando in December. Mean time, if you're ever in So. Florida, look me up. If you need a place to stay, we have a single in a spare room and double hide-a-bed with a decent mattress. Or lets just do lunch or something.  

-If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them even if it kills them.
http://trebach.org/conference.html'>Saving our Children from Drug Treatment Abuse


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Funny you should say that
« on: August 01, 2001, 11:05:34 PM »
Funny you should say that
That's exactly the sort of thing I need for the archive! It's going in. I was wondering if ya'll would help me out with a little research on another article?


The following story, and photo-op for block monitoring that it tels about, both look like a minor rework of any of a number of such media stunts put together by a tightly knit, unimaginably well funded, carefully camaflaged conspiracy to normalize fascism; the DFAF.


I'm looking for anything, past or present, hard print or vague memory, relating to every individual, organization and project mentioned in this article. I'm going to stuff them into a database and add a search box to the search results. That way, we can wander through the x-references just by copying and pasting words from the article to see what we've got.


If this flies, I think I might do the same for different geographic locations. So please forward this out to anyone who might be interested no matter where they are?


Thanks,

Ginger



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>From: mapnews@mapinc.org

>Subject: MN: US FL: East Tampa Residents Seek Help In Drug War

>Sender: owner-mapnews@mapinc.org

>Organization: Media Awareness Project www.mapinc.org/lists/webmistress@fornits.com

>

>Newshawk: JohnC, The November Coalition www.november.org/tribletters@tampatrib.com

>Website: www.tampatrib.com/www.mapinc.org/media/446

>Author:  Laura Kinsler of The Tampa Tribune

>

>EAST TAMPA RESIDENTS SEEK HELP IN DRUG WAR

>

>TAMPA - From the back seat of a sport utility vehicle, Vivian Heyward gives

>directions to the driver.

>

>``Turn left here,'' she says, and the driver pulls onto 38th Street.

>

>Heyward has a list of sites to see today, but this is no usual tour of her

>east Tampa neighborhood. The driver is a Tampa narcotics officer, and she

>wants to make sure he knows where to find the dealers and hookers.

>

>``See, there's no streetlights,'' she says. ``They sell drugs here all

>night because it's so dark.''

>

>The drive past a Caribbean restaurant. ``See that, in the alley behind the

>restaurant,'' she says. ``They congregate there, especially on the first of

>the month. They've got everything, from crack to quaaludes.''

>
D >http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/grin.gif' alt='>D'> riving on Osborne Avenue, the car passes a group of men grilling on a

>vacant lot. ``That's just a throw off,'' Heyward says. ``They're not having

>a barbecue. They're selling drugs.''

>

>A community activist, Heyward and her neighbors have declared war on the

>crime that is so pervasive around their homes. They organize drug marches.

>They hold crime watch meetings. They pleaded with the Tampa City Council

>for help.

>

>Earlier this month they even asked the governor to send in the state police.

>

>Queen Miller, who lives on 25th Street, wants her neighborhood back. The

>users and sellers take over the street, especially at the beginning of the

>month.

>

>``I can't even sit on my front porch,'' Miller says. ``I feel like a hostage.''

>

>The dealers sell dope at package stores, in front of houses, even across

>the street from schools and churches, Miller says.

>

>The complaints are nothing new to the police department's QUAD squad, which

>stands for Quick Uniform Attack on Drugs. QUAD commander, Capt. Mike

>George, said the undercover units were formed to attack street- level drug

>dealing.

>

>``We're doing a tremendous amount of work in this area,'' George says.

>

>Every day the QUAD team works, the officers spend a portion of their day on

>22nd Street or at Lake Avenue and 29th Street. In the three months from

>February through April, Tampa police made 81 drug-related arrests in east

>Tampa. Police seized 13 vehicles, 922.5 grams of marijuana and 118.4 grams

>of cocaine. On one weekend in April, police arrested 32 suspects in an

>sweep termed ``Operation Nexus.''

>

>And they don't just go after the dealers. Undercover officers pose as

>sellers in reverse sting operations.

>

>``We arrest the buyers,'' George says. ``And we can seize their car. You

>can't attack the supply without also going after the demand.''

>

>The SUV makes its way down 22nd Street, past the empty lot where College

>Hill public housing used to be. The apartments may be gone, but the

>prostitutes and dealers still work the area, says Toni Watts, who works

>with an east Tampa community development corporation.

>

>``People aren't living here anymore, but there's still kids standing out

>there,'' Watts says.

>

>George understands their frustration. The city's three QUAD Squads made

>more than 2,000 arrests last year, and Chief Bennie Holder has asked for

>funding next year to add a fourth squad. But the problem is vast.

>

>``Drug dealers are different from every other type of crime,'' he says.

>``What they do affects everybody in the neighborhood. And we arrest them,

>but they make bail. It takes a year, sometimes a year and a half before

>they go to trial, and we may arrest them five or six times before they

>plead out.''

>

>He promises to keep trying. Two days after the tour, QUAD officers arrested

>a suspected dealer at the corner of 22nd Street and 29th Avenue.

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>receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.

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>MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom

>

>

If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them whether they need it or not.


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Augusta, Gone
« on: July 01, 2001, 09:12:06 PM »
Re: Augusta, Gone
There are two kinds of people in this world; people whos lives have been somehow shaped by harsh tragedy and those you don't know very well.


I don't think kids today are any more troubled or troubling than kids any other day. I think we've just been fed on a whole lot of fear mongering and hate mongering and far too many people are falling for it.


I do have a 17 year old daughter. And it's a white knuckle ride sometimes watching her make some of the same mistakes I did. She's got our help and support if she wants it. She doesn't want it. There's simply nothing that I can do to help her without putting her at more risk than she's doing by herself. But I also know what she's made of and what it was like to be 17. I think she'll pull it out. Why, with any luck at all and go on to make new and interesting mistakes thereby impriving on my work as I try to improve on my own parents'.  

-If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them even if it kills them.
http://trebach.org/conference.html'>Saving our Children from Drug Treatment Abuse


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / help w/ conference
« on: July 01, 2001, 12:54:11 PM »
Re: help w/ conference
Mccoy, send/bring what you can now but come anyway. We probably have extra space at the hotel. I know a couple of people are looking for people to throw in with on rooms. Try mail to trebach.org again so we can hook you up privately with ppl looking for roomates.

-If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them even if it kills them.
http://trebach.org/conference.html'>Saving our Children from Drug Treatment Abuse


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / help w/ conference
« on: July 01, 2001, 10:22:17 PM »
Re: help w/ conference
What's your email address? Mail me at webmistress@fornits.com

-If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them even if it kills them.
http://trebach.org/conference.html'>Saving our Children from Drug Treatment Abuse


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / cnn/robert downey jr./drug war protest
« on: July 01, 2001, 11:58:24 PM »
Re: DARE
I contend that it never was JUST a money making scheme, though money is a big part of it. DARE is primarily a scheme to normalize and promote the snitch culture.


The announced changes make it even more like the Program than it was to begin with. Now THAT's scary!

-If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them even if it kills them.
http://trebach.org/conference.html'>Saving our Children from Drug Treatment Abuse


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / cnn/robert downey jr./drug war protest
« on: July 01, 2001, 11:56:02 PM »
Re: Taking over the world
Yeah, we had those raps. You didn't? DARE was THE main reason why I started looking into homeschooling 4 years ago. Turns out there are a lot of good reasons to do it, but that was the impetus... I saw what the whole zero tollerance, zero respect, zero thought mentality was doing to my older daughter and most of her friends.

-If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them even if it kills them.
http://trebach.org/conference.html'>Saving our Children from Drug Treatment Abuse


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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Dean
« on: December 17, 2001, 08:43:00 PM »
Hi Matt,
   Dean Miller Light is the top dog at Alberta Adolescant Recovery Center. It's a Straight/Kids spin off in Calgary.

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Web forum hosting / Invitation and terms of use
« on: December 17, 2001, 07:42:00 PM »
Just wanted to thank you for dropping in and sort of lay out what I'm planning here.

I'm inviting anyone who's currently admining a web forum that I hang out in to set up camp over here. The main reason is that I'm just tired of waiting so long for each page load and of those pop-up javascript ads that sometimes crash my browser or freeze my system.

There will never be any charge for hosting or using these forums! I may put a 'sponsored by' ad in a footer or header or custom theme or something. But I promise no animations and no annoying pop-ups.

The other benefit is that I have access to the raw data. So, in the event that we ever have to shut this down, it'll be very easy to recover the data.

Register a username and let me know wich one so that I can upgrade your access and you can play with the admin features. Leme know what you think. If there's something you need that this gizmo doesn't do already, there's a good chance I can make it work.

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