http://ficanetwork.net Fighting Institutional Child Abuse since 2000. Mon, 23 Aug 2010 06:43:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://ficanetwork.net/straight/straightinc/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Sam Kinison Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:16:52 +0000 http://ficanetwork.net/?page_id=81#comment-60 My intake was three weeks after Straight's first anniversary.Everything this OBM said,at least from where I sat,was honest.Helen Petermann gets in by one vote.How made history may have been changed if the vote went the other way.Her ignorance and megalomania made the program hell on everybody.Because they were skating on such thin ice at the time,a lot of the overt abuses by staff which we heard about later didn't happen then.Not that there weren't any,it was just that Jim Hartz knew that his head was on the chopping block and he wasn't going to jail for anybody.When I asked about the differences between Straight and the Seed at that time,I was told that the Seed worked out of fear and Straight worked out of love and many really bought into that.A shaky start grew into bigger and worse things as Mel Sembler's star rose with the Bush family and charlatans like Miller Newton could run roughshod on kids without impunity. My intake was three weeks after Straight’s first anniversary.Everything this OBM said,at least from where I sat,was honest.Helen Petermann gets in by one vote.How made history may have been changed if the vote went the other way.Her ignorance and megalomania made the program hell on everybody.Because they were skating on such thin ice at the time,a lot of the overt abuses by staff which we heard about later didn’t happen then.Not that there weren’t any,it was just that Jim Hartz knew that his head was on the chopping block and he wasn’t going to jail for anybody.When I asked about the differences between Straight and the Seed at that time,I was told that the Seed worked out of fear and Straight worked out of love and many really bought into that.A shaky start grew into bigger and worse things as Mel Sembler’s star rose with the Bush family and charlatans like Miller Newton could run roughshod on kids without impunity.

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