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Topic started on 2-9-2007 @ 12:40 PM by loam
While I have already posted this article in this thread. I think the subject merits its own thread:







School of Shock

Rob Santana awoke terrified. He'd had that dream again, the one where silver wires ran under his shirt and into his pants, connecting to electrodes attached to his limbs and torso. Adults armed with surveillance cameras and remote-control activators watched his every move. One press of a button, and there was no telling where the shock would hit—his arm or leg or, worse, his stomach. All Rob knew was that the pain would be intense.

Every time he woke from this dream, it took him a few moments to remember that he was in his own bed, that there weren't electrodes locked to his skin, that he wasn't about to be shocked. It was no mystery where this recurring nightmare came from—not A Clockwork Orange or 1984, but the years he spent confined in America's most controversial "behavior modification" facility.

In 1999, when Rob was 13, his parents sent him to the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, located in Canton, Massachusetts, 20 miles outside Boston...

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It seems pretty clear that this isn't about therapeutic treatment, but a depraved notion concerning what is appropriate when disciplining young children.

As I said in my other thread, this article is a six page description of a society gone mad.

Color it any way you want, I think this practice is indefensible and disgusting beyond all belief!

God help us.



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reply posted on 2-9-2007 @ 03:52 PM by WyrdeOne
A note to Loam and anyone else reading - please don't re-edit staff edits. They're always done for a reason, and if you believe they were done in error use the complaint feature or a U2U to discuss it - we usually keep a copy of whatever we're editing, so it can be undone if it was done in error. Thank you.

On topic - That is mighty strange. The treatment they're using is not allowed for adults in the prison system - it would be considered cruel and unusual punishment.

I guess the message being sent in Massachusetts is that if you want to train a human like a dog, you'd better get them young.

This facility has traditionally had the support of very powerful people, and they've dodged the executioner's blade a number of times over the years. A bill to ban aversive therapy continues to pop up and get knocked down. Here's a history of the place, in their own words. The paste below is from a section detailing an effort to shut them down.


www.judgerc.org...

In 1987 the bill passed its initial committee and even passed the entire House of Representatives. Fortunately, because Michael Dukakis was running for president in 1988, the legislative session was abbreviated to help him spend more time on the campaign trail and the bill was not taken up by the Massachusetts Senate.


So if it wasn't for Dukakis, that place and their therapy would be a memory - or so it appears.

Multiple regulatory agencies have tangled with the owners/operators of the place, and the oversight duties have been passed like a torch from one agency to another.

It's a fascinating story, and I've got to look into it more. There's a lot going on here, beyond the initial revulsion. I can't even argue against the results, but clearly there's a lot more to the issue than just results. If all we need is results, with no consideration given to the methods..well, let's just not go there.

Thanks for bringing this up Loam, I had no idea there was such a facility so close to me.


reply posted on 2-9-2007 @ 04:49 PM by D.E.M.
en.wikipedia.org...

Thats another, very similiar facility. It seems to me that these places cater to the type of parents who want a "nice" "docile" young child (read, completely willing slave) who never thinks for themselves nor crosses what they are told.

Want to breed a generation of dociles completely trained to behave the way you want, do what you want, and NEVER cross your lines, then send them to one of these hell holes.

NWO. More like power-mongering parents with a disgustingly twisted view of the world.
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