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We are pleased to announce that Angela Smith (HEAL HQ) has donated all of her webspace at www.beyondbusiness.net (here) to HEAL as of October 14th, 2008. We are in the process of revising this site and will be primarily using it for archiving, support, and additional web space for Teen Liberty projects and actions! There is a lot of tweaking to be done. In the meantime, check out below.
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Imagine a
place where people who tell the truth are hushed. Imagine a place where abuse is commonplace. Imagine a place where there are no rights
for victims. Imagine a place that gets
away with murder, and worse, torture.
Imagine a place with no windows.
Imagine a place where hierarchy and hope exist only if you sell your
soul. Imagine being sent to such a
place by the people you love and trust to take care of you and protect you
against such atrocities. Unimaginable,
right? Wrong. Places like this exist all over the United States of
America. They are called behavior
modification programs. They are called
reform schools. They are, as remembered
by survivors, hell.
These places
can’t exist. They violate national and
international human rights laws. They
get away with it by operating in states with little to no patient protection
laws. They operate by brainwashing,
beating, and sometimes killing those in their care. It’s a tragedy when these “accidents” happen. But, they pick their locales very
carefully. In rural communities and on
sites with acreage surrounded by treacherous mountains and desert sands are
windowless buildings filled with unheard and unseen suffering, pain, and
tragedy.
I have no
proof but my memory, my experience, and my words. My fellow survivors have no remedy for their proof is like mine
and falls too often on disbelieving parents.
It is more often than not that the horrors experienced are locked in a
vault in the minds of the victims guarded by post- traumatic stress, shrouded
in the most heinous fears. These
centers of “behavior modification” employ unethical, violent staff who hide
behind college degrees and the illusion of respectability to avoid proper and
much needed prosecution. If a survivor
goes to an attorney, we are told that our stories will be combated with
doctor’s reports stating that we made it up, were on medications that cause
paranoia, anxiety, hallucinations, or other psychosis, that we have a history
of exaggeration or lying and that we should be disbelieved by any “rational”
human beings.
I doubted my
experience for a short time because of their excuses. But, after writing down my memories and re-reading my journals
from back then as well as receiving countless e-mails from other survivors, I
know that my memories are real and that these concentration camps for teenagers
exist. Please visit the sites on Provo
Canyon School and visit
www.heal-online.org to learn what you can do
to help stop this American tragedy.
Thank you.
For more commentary, please click here. You may e-mail the author of the above commentary at angela@heal-online.org.
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