Sembler's Straight program
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Inc.: rehabilitation, thought reform, $95 million and the destruction
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To
sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. Abraham
Lincoln
They
run very close to really performing psychic murder.
Marge
Robertson, ACLU
Ambassador
de Sade
an
expose of Ambassador Melvin Sembler by John Gorenfeld.
See Gorenfeld's blog
for updates.
.
Radio
Air America
heard in 84 states
the
sordid sadistic history of Bush crony
Melvin Sembler
Listen
to 12-03-05 interview with John Gorenfeld.
Contact
co-host attorneys Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and
Mike Papantonio
Montel
brings down an ambassador
Within
hours after the Montel Williams Show aired a segment
on Jan 18, 2005 about Straight with Straight survivor Sammie
Monroe, Ambassador Mel Sembler called it quits. video
trailer story
..
VIDEOS
updates
1-6-05
WATCH
WPCO Cincinnati VIDEO
on
Kids Helping Kids.
11-14-05
State
criminal authorities closed Straight - Cincinnati in
the 1980s. Now Kids Helping Kids (founded by Straight's
former national education director) operates out of
the old Stright facility in Milford.
Related articles:
KIDS1
...KIDS2
.
WATCH
WAMI VIDEO
ON SAFE
The
very day Straight Orlando closed, the program's executive
director opened SAFE.
Related articles:
Orl
Week Straight-Orl
WATCH
Stoughton Checkpoint News Center 9 on closing of Straight-Boston
VIDEO
(Notice
Straight replaced motivating with hand-raising
before being closed.)
Motivating
at KIDS of North Jersey on West 57th Street VIDEO
Tampa's
Channel 13 News Special - 3 day series on Straight 6/92
Former
Straight rap leader and former chairman of Straight's
7th Step Society Ray Bradbury re-enacts unwarranted
restraints VIDEO1
VIDEO2
.
These
days, if you want to learn of the abuses of Straight don't
turn to Mel Sembler's hometown newspaper The
St. Petersburg Times, its
gossip columnists or its Florida
Trend magazine--you
have to go to the Washington
Post or the Italian paper peace
reporter; or to a magazine like New
Times in Broward County/Palm Beach County, Fl., Orlando
Weekly, La
Carta in Italy or EXPRESSEN.SE
in The Netherlands (we think). Even Bill
O'Reilly has problems with The Times.
.
Letters
to the editor
update
11/29/05
...
Suicides.
What do these three young men have in common. They
are among the 40+ known former Straight clients
who have committed suicide. suicides
suicide
attempts
Mel
Sembler and the Great Fairfax County Virginia juvenile
suicide epidemic
report
Miller
Newton
Betty
Sembler touts accussed child abuser
 Rev.
Dr. Miller Newton: Straight's
former national clinical director
Photo
is Miller
Newton entering Tampa's federal courthouse on April
29, 2005. He has acknowledged fraud in his bankruptcy
filing.
Dr.
Newton settled in New Jersey with clients at KIDS
for $11
million for abuse. He settled with federal
prosecutors for $45K in return for not being prosecuted
for 254 counts of insurance fraud.
New
Jersey Law Journal labels his implementation of
Straight
quackery.
 Father
Cassian is what he goes by these days.
He is featured on Pokrov
which tracks abusive priests. Also a special hearing
master has told him to remove the cupola
from his beach property in Madeira Beach, Fl.
Read
the incredible Miller
Newton story now.
Latest
on Miller
Newton.
Nancy
Reagan
recommends Miller Newton on film.
Betty
Sembler has
Dr. Newton on her medical forum. In Sept. 2005
in a court deposition for PumpGate she stated
[Dr. Newton is] "an outstanding individual
. . . [and] a very close and dear friend and a
valued one."
.
Our
Straight web page
.
If you believe that, I've got some
swampland in Florida I'd like to sell you
.
The
Sembler clan & the Great Cooper's Point Land Scam
by Wesley Fager
Cooper's
Point deal is rotten
St.
Pete Times
.
Judge George Greer, who pulled the plug on Terri Schiavo,
voted for Sembler.
Should
Mel and Betty Sembler be imprisoned for what they let happen
at Straight?
OR
Should they set national and international drug policy based
on what they learned at Straight? STORY
.
.
SAFE
(or else)
by
Jeffery C. Billman
1/16/03
The
day Straight - Orlando closed, SAFE opened.
Read Jeff Bilman's expose on SAFE.
RELATED
STORIES:
-The
Naked Crusader police report
-Straight-Orlando
-SAFE
on WAMI TV
-SAFE
9/11 2003 protest
-SAFE
sued
-SAFE picket 2002
-SAFE
picket 2000
-SAFE
-SAFE forum
-Straight-Orlando forum
.
.
Suffering
Together
by
Trevor Aaronson
12/9/04
Read
Trevor Aaronson's expose of Growing Together -- a second-generation
Straight in Lakeworth, Fl.
RELATED STORIES:
--Judge:
Girl's treatment smacks of abuse
--Fornits'
LIFE/GT discussion forum
--The Naked Crusader police report
--LIFE, Inc.: Ross & Peterman
.
The unauthorized biography
of Melvin Sembler
TURN
ON AUDIO
.
From
Arizona Republic
What
this site is about and who is behind it
archieves
after
mid July 05
before late July 05 p1
before late July 05 p2
Note: After mid July 05 older articles
will either be archieved in an appropriate blog or placed
in the general
(after mid Jlyl 05) archieve blog.
.
Coming 2006
Marijuana, a John Halowach film documentary
on national drug policy interviews Wes Fager.
trailer
windows media QuickTime
MPEG-1
Straight
Kids,
a documentary feature film.
view
trailer
The
stupidest story ever told
.The
Christmas Story
a la L. Ron Hubbard
 This
incredible story is the basis for the Church
of Scientology™
..
 .
Synanon
Church
where therapeutic communities started
Who
are they?
Straight
officials
Foundation officials
Has
Straight really closed?
Why Straight is
a cult
.
Straight
Foundation (DFAF)
a
shell
corporation to protect Mel Sembler and the money. Renamed
(with new, non-treatment mission) in 1995 to its current name--Drug
Free America Foundation, Inc.
DFAF:
national drug policy
Mel's
plan for drug testing teens in order to get a driver's license,
or DFAF's growing influence on national drug policy. link2
link3
DFAF:
internat'l drug policy
DFAF is a major player behind Drug Prevention Network of the
Americas and Global Drug Prevention Network for global demand
reduction.
link2
Incorporated
Apr. 22, 1976
ISAC's
Insurance fraud report
.
WWASP,
et. al.
. .
.
Was
Mel's daddy a bookie? From
1976 to 1993 Mel and Betty Sembler operated one of the
most destructive juvenile drug rehabilitation programs
the world has ever seen. Over 50 former clients from
their Straight and related programs are known to have
committed suicide. We've taken an in-depth look at Straight's
board of directors starting with Ambassador Mel Sembler,
AO. Was his daddy really a bookie? report
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Illustrated
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records on-line
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the world's foremost on-line resource on destructive,
mind control cults, carries our Lulu Corter story on
its front page!
.
Who
links to us.
Commercial
Real Estate Watch
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Atlanta
American
Family Foundation,
Jordan
Riak's
Project NoSpank
on boot camps
Lermanet
is dedicated to exposing Scientology™
WANTED
MELVIN SEMBLER, AO
$100,000
REWARD
for
information that is material to
either a criminal conviction . .
.
Accountable
America, a liberal group, is offering
a $100,000 reward for information that
is material to either a criminal conviction
for committing a felony or a misdemeanor,
or a final and unappealed judicial or
administrative determination of civil
liability that entails the imposition
of fines or penalties of at least $10,000,
for a violation of federal campaign finance,
tax or other statutes or regulations by
an organization that operates or purports
to operate under Internal Revenue Code
Sections 501(c)(4), 501(c)(6) or 527 and
that primarily serves business or ideologically
conservative interests. Tom Matzzie, a
leader of the reward organization, has
specifically named Melvin Sembler as an
example of the type of person being looked
at according to The
Wall Street Journal and to the New
York Times.
.
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on Pinellas County, Fl
The
Royal Court, 6 Cir Fl
Drug
Free America Fdn.
Miller
Newton
PumpGate
Republican
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releases
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Melvin
Sembler
teen
rehab abuse
A
CLOCKWORK STRAIGHT, an eBook on Straight,
Inc.
.......... by Wesley
Fager
la
Repubblica, Italy's
biggest selling newspaper, reports on Sembler's
Straight program and links to us 9-16-06
story
01-16-07
Pathway
Family Center, a second-generation Straight,
to expand to Porter County, Indiana amidst controversy
story
01-07-07
Database
of Publicly Accused Priests in the United States
link
01-04-07
Ching
Chang Charlie, an editorial by North Country
Gazette link
12-29-06
The
Trouble with Troubled Teen Programs: How the
"boot camp" industry tortures and
kills kids
by Maia Szalavitz in the January 2007 issue
of Reason
Magazine. Ms. Szalavitz's article traces
the controversial teen help industry from Synanon
Church through Straight to WWASPS and modern-day
boot camps. Bradbury and Sembler are in it.
What a chilling legacy Mel and Betty Sembler
have wrought upon this land of ours. on-line
version
12-13-06
More
legal woes for Ambassador Sembler. It appears
that Jeff Fisher of Wellington, Fl. is suing
Sembler, Straight, Inc. (under its current name
DFAF) and a Dr. Joseph Klock in federal court
in Virginia on RICO charges. link
12-13-06
The
coronation of King Charles of Florida has been
dropped. For tickets costing up to $500,000
you could have gotten your picture with governor-elect
Charlie Crist, engraved cuff links, a tote bag
and a silk. Brent Sembler co-chaired the proposed
gala events. The proposed coronation caused
such a media backwash that King Charles to be
has decided to cut out the inaugural ball altogether
and just have a prayer breakfast. story
11-15-06
Mel
Sembler and the women in his life by Wes
Fager story
12-28-06
PumpGate:
Marlene McCord's deposition, part 1. page
1 pages
2-5
updated
11-18-06 : 1100
Georgia state Rep. says Sembler's deal seems
fishy. Wes Fager responds to Creative Loafing.
link
11-14-06
Huffington Post responds to Times' expose
to remind us of the damage done to thousands
Read The
Ambassador's Penis Pump and The Damage Done
by Maia Szalavitz
11-16-06
A petition: Straight, Inc. survivor's
letter to Nancy Regan, George Bush, et. al.
requesting acknowledgement and an apology
petition
 Dateline
Treasure Island, Fl., 3-15-04.
About 15 members of the Uhuru,
(a political group seeking social
justice for black Americans)
picketed the US residence of
Ambassador Sembler calling him
a racist. STORY
10-23-06
Sembler's
shameful dalliance with political gadfly Doug
Guetzloe by Wes Fager. The Orlando Sentinel
calls him "the king of sleaze campaigns"
whose stock and trade is "politics of the
gutter," and it wants to know "who
pays to support his tactics that divide and
embarrass this community." Well we happen
to know that Sembler Company does for one. This
is an incredible story. blog
Related: 11-16-06
An
editorial: The timing of Doug Guetzloe's announcement
that he has cancer. story
 Wanna'
learn about Straight and WWASPS? Order
Help at any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen
Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids
by Maia Szalavitz.
endorsements
order
VIDEO:
Ray Bradbury protests SAFE (a 2nd generation
Straight in Orlando) link
Straight
founder Am. Melvin Sembler's scheme to get US
taxpayers buy a $113 million mansion in Rome
and name it for himself! indymedia
blog
Sembler
is now saying he wasn't in on the day-to-day
operations of Straight. I've got real problems
with that blog
Yer
dern tootin' Mel Sembler knew of Straight's
abuses link
10-27-05
Mel
and Betty Sembler: issues with human rights
and civil liberties link
Sembler influences local politicians link1
link2
Am.
Melvin Floyd Sembler, AO
WHY
GEORGE BUSH SENT HIM HOME
An
inexperienced, sad old man
who can't even speak Italian
who bought his way in only
to become an embarrassment
to the Bush administration.
Japan
Today, Japan's
leading international news network,
reports on Sembler's abuse of
American kids link
Cuba's
Prensa Latina and Radio
Cuba carries John Gorenfeld's
article on Ambassador Sembler's
private Abu Ghraibs
article
PL
front page radio
cuba escambray
Peace
Reporter joins Carta,
another Italian
magazine, to report on Sembler's
abuse of American kids
Peace
Reporter Carta
Balaboitt
War
Without End the global war
against terror from a British
perspective
Republican
child abusers His
own Abu Ghraib
Fox
News report on the Semblers
and child abuse in Italian
Carta
fisicamente
Danish
Drug Users
Union on Kids and Straight
link
War
Crimes on Straight --
English
link
Jolt
forum
(UK)
link
War
Without End (British)
link
ANNOTICO
Report (St.
Louis USA)
side6:
(Denmark?)
Italian
Italy
Indy Media
Fuoriregistro
(Italian)
translation
Polunatic,
a Canadian
blog
link
Mike
Davis calls people responsible
for Straight and its spinoffs
war criminals
and calls
for filing paperwork with the
UN
Human Rights Commission.
He says
that those responsible "should
see
War Crimes Tribunal charges
pending."
link
German
Deusch
indymedia
USA
12
Forums
USA
Rigorous
Intuition Board
USA
Peace
Corps
International
News Tracking Log
USA
Barcopnation
PumpGate,
Ambassador Sembler's lawsuit
against anti-Straight activist
Ray Bradbury, who tried to sell
on eBay the Ambassador's discarded
penis pump, has been told in
publications from The Washington
Post to magazines in Norway
and the West
Indies, to blogs
like Wonkette all over the world.
PumpGate
links
Montel
Williams and the straw that
broke the camel's back
link
12-24-05
Mel
Sembler is one big hypocrite--Sembler's op-ed
on human rights by Wes Fager op-ed
10-26-06
Crist Denies Trysts, GOP frontrunner:
I have never had sex with a man by Bob Norman
News Times
Broward-Palm Beach
10-24-06
Sembler's proposed $600 million
complex in DeKalb County, Ga. blog
10-17-06
Paul
Bishop, The Franklin pedophile ring and Straight
Twenty years ago a boy named
Johnny Gosch was kidnapped from his Des Moines,
Iowa paper route. Could he be George Bush's
pool reporter Jeff Gannon, an alleged male escort?
And what does a politically-connected pedophile
ring, Paul Bishop and Straight have to do with
any of this? story
PermaLink
10-17-06
INFORMATION
REQUEST: If you have any information on a PI
named Paul Bishop who was allegedly used by
Straight-Springfield to retrieve
runaways, please send your information, in confidence,
to wesfager@thestraights.com.
10-22-06
Tough-love' programs prey on parents'
fears StarPress
10-13-06
Pathway
Family Center (a 2nd gen. Straight) trying to
expand in Indiana
story
10-06-06
The
Church of Scientology™ rewrites
its history of Mark Foley
by Wes Fager story
10-10-06
Has Sembler violated
Florida election laws? link
10-19-06
humor:
Hillary for President in 2008 commercial
12-02-05
Sembler
Company CEO Craig Sher doesn't think $500 contributions
from Mel Sembler and gang can influence politicians.
We disagree. story
5-16-06
Have
the Sembler's violated medical privacy?
link
10-15-06
Fuoriregistro, an Italian
blog, covers the Sembler story link
10-15-06
Politica OnLine, an
Italian blog carries series on Ambassador Sembler's
machinations link
12-28-05
SHOP IN THE BOX:
Sembler's Gas Light Mall opposed in
Atlanta link
10-10-06
Joe
Lieberman is running with a bad crowd by
Lindsay Beyerstein. Beyerstein's
blog
10-15-06
Scientology™'s Narconon™
trying to establish drug treatment facilty in
Leona Valley, Ca. ReligionNewsBlog
10-10-06
Jeb Bush praises Scientologists, George
appoints a Moonie link
10-04-06
The
St. Pete Times knew of some Foley emails last
November but did not report. Read their
explanation and our response. here.
George Bush
stars in
One
Too Many
A
major development in the Straight
saga
 updated
12-24-05 For
30 years Mel and Betty Sembler
have been bragging that they
founded and were the principal
movers behind Straight, Inc.
Now, with the sudden resurgence
of former clients coming forward
to expose the horrors of Straight,
Mel Sembler has declared
he and Betty had nothing to
do with the day-to-day
operations of Straight. We have
factual
reasons to be skeptical of his
assertion. Furthermore, we feel
there is no way in hell the
two could not have known
of Straight's abuses.
10-03-06
"Foleygate" may derail Republican
ticket in Florida
by Andy Martin .
.At the beginning of
last week (September 25th) the question of which
which Florida Republican was “gay”
did not involve US Representative Mark Foley.
Rather, interest was focused on gubernatorial
candidate Charlie Crist. story
09-29-06
Was
a young Charlie Crist ever in a drug rehab?
story
09-29-06
Rolling
Stone: Inside Scientology Unlocking the complex
code of America's most mysterious religion
story
.
09-29-06
Calif.
High Court Slaps Misuse of Anti-SLAPP Laws law.com
.
09-24-06
The Penis Pump, the Ambassador and our Medical
Privacy
Huffington
Post
09-24-06
Lieberman’s
Fundraiser Ran the Abu Ghraib of Rehab
by
Lindsay Beyerstein. In the fall
of 1990 Professor Barry L. Beyerstein of Simon
Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada,
at the invitation of Straight, Inc., visited
the Straight treatment camp in Springfield,
Virginia and reported his findings in a report
titled Thought
Reform Tactics: The Road to Hell is Paved with
Good Intentions. Now daughter Lindsay Beyerstein
has a view choice words of her own about thought
reform, Ambassador Melvin Sembler, AO and his
discarded penis pump in Lieberman’s
Fundraiser Ran the Abu Ghraib of Rehab.
10-01-06
"Straight"
Sicko Raising Funds for Lieberman and Libby
Karena's
blog
SERIES:
Lenny Englander, Charlie Crist, Judge
Logan & Kane's™ Furniture
09-21-06
Englander's engineered gag orders onBradbury
(Straight) and Gonzales (Kane's™) and
how gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist
plays in this
by Wes Fager. link
perma
link
09-26-06
Old
case of Crist's resurfaces: It involves
campaign donations & a settlement with
Kane's™ Furniture by Steve Bousquet,
St.
Pete Times
09-27-06
"Kanes
Furniture Fraud"
site back up. Donald
Rehm
09-30-06
The News Blog carries Beyerstein's
article on Lieberman, Sembler, Straight and
the penis pump link
09-29-06
ANTI-SLAPP
LAW PLAYS ROLE IN DISMISSAL OF TWO DEFAMATION
LAWSUITS Gannett
Legal Watch
.
09-29-06
SLAPP
Happy: Corporations That Sue to Shut You Up
by Source Watch, a project of the Center for
Media & Democracy link
.
09-28-06
FIRST
AMENDMENT PROJECT: The Anti-SLAPP Resource Center
link
09-28-06
States
with anti-SLAPP laws Wikipedia
.
09-28-06
Noerr-Pennington
doctrine in federal antitrust law--the anti-SLAPP
equivalent in federal courts Wikipedia
.
09-28-06
All
States Need Slapp Suit Laws by Stuart Lieberman,
Esq. Realty
Times
09-28-06
WWASP Slammed by US court of Appeals
by Paula Reeves WWASP critic Jeff berryman vindicated.
link
09-18-06
Ambassador Sembler finally deposed
in PumpGate. We'll post transcripts
as soon as they become available.
09-27-06
Jesus'
General on Lieberman and Sembler link
09-17-06
Scientology™ Cruises
Along, Thanks to Command Hypnosis
The
Best Way to Make a Million? Start Your Own Religion
by Tom Glaister in ConsumerAffairs.com.
2-18-06
Szalavitz
on The Brian Lehrer Radio Show Maia
Szalavitz, author of just released Help
at any Cost, was a guest on WNYC Talk Radio
on Feb. 17, 2006. audio
download
MP3
08-26-06
Protect your medical privacy
at healthprivacy.org
7-22-06
Growing
Together closes--suddenly
The
Straight-legacy program Growing Together in
Riviera Beach, Florida closed suddenly on Saturday
July 8, 2006 citing the usual financial difficulties.
Last year GT sold its donated building in Lake
Worth, Florida for $1.5 million. GT parents
are trying to operate the program themselves.
story
8-07-06
Bundling:
Buying votes in Florida Miami
Herald
7-22-06
An aging ambassador passes on political influence
buying to his son Mel
Sembler selects his son Brent to raise money
for Charlie Crist's governership run. story
7-22-06
St. Pete city council ignores concern of its
citizens The St. Petersburg City Council,
ignoring concerns of its citizens, has voted
to send another controversial Sembler development
project to state planners for review. story1
story2
5-16-06
Have the Sembler's violated medical privacy?
Well
Mel Sembler is suing his former employee Ray
Bradbury for violating his privacy. In the process
has Sembler used medical privacy records obtained
from Straight against Mr. Bradbury? And if so
how many other former clients are the Semblers
holding medical data on? story
1-22-05
MELVINSEMBLER
DOT COM--a new link to THESTRAIGHTS DOT COM
The link, MelvinSembler.com
points to theStraights.com. It should
not be mistaken with Shelby Earnshaw ' s
excellent web page on Sembler's misdeeds at
MelSembler.com.
Of course Mel Sembler's own web page remains
at Sembler.com
1-17-05
WWASPS: Robert Lichfield and political contributions
to Republicans link
12-21-05
Four studies suggest that Straight's quackery
can lead to various post-Straight maladies--including
suicide story
permalink
12-21-05
reprint Why the United States Government
should share in the liability for the damages
caused to former Straight clients by Wes
Fager story
permalink
10-01-06
la
Repubblica (Italy's top selling newspaper) reports
on Am. Melvin Sembler and Straight in "Figli
zero tolerance" by Stefania Medetti,
9-16-06. la Rebubblica
delle Donne, the Woman Weekly magazine of Italy's
top selling newspaper la Repubblica, has written
an article about behavior modification institutes
in America. The on-line version links to our
web page link
translated
link. Related blog: celtic
barwoman's blog cbw
blog translated
Newton
Settles. He went to New Jersey and started
his own Straight-like chain called KIDS. The
state health department under a Republican governor
granted him a special license to operate. In
2000 Rebecca Erlich won $4.5 million in a suit
against KIDS. And in 2003 Lulu Corter settled
for $6.5. Today, Jan. 25, 2007, Newton settled
with yet another former client, Antonio Carrera,
26, for an undisclosed amount of money.
Betty
Sembler, wife of Ambassador Sembler and another
Straight co-founder,
has Dr. Newton on her her medical forum. In
Sept. 2005 in a court deposition for PumpGate
she stated
[Dr. Newton is] "an outstanding individual
. . . [and] a very close and dear friend and
a valued one." story
Timing
of Guetzloe's announcement On Tuesday Florida
Republican talk show host and Sembler mouthpiece
in Winter Garden Doug Guetzloe stood
before a judge to argue a motion to dismiss
all charges against him for 14 counts of violating
election laws. The judge denied the motion.
So he argued a motion to reduce the charges
to one count. But the judge dismissed that too.
So he pled no contest. But before the judge
could sentenced him, his attorney announced
that he has cancer. The judge then sentenced
Guetzloe to 60 days in jail. Last month when
Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley was
caught messing with teenage boys, he resigned
from office. Then his spokesperson announced
that he had an alcohol problem. In 2003 Florida
Republican money man Mel Sembler sued Ray Bradbury
to reclaim his discarded penile pump (an instrument
sometimes sold as medical devices and sometimes
as sexual toys.) When the bizarre lawsuit made
it into the news, Sembler's attorney told the
press that his client had had cancer and the
device had been medically recommended. Coincidents?
A pattern?
the
Straights dot com
editor Wes Fager speaking
at The 2nd Int'l Conference
on Adolescent Treatment
Abuse, June 8-9, 2003,
St. Petersburg, Fl. [Professor
Arnold Trebach on left]
 Best.
Quote. Ever. Headline
on Wes' comment to Washington
Post. swamp
city
 Agity
Hero of the Year 2002
(web division): Wes Fager,
for his tireless efforts to
bring the Straight, Inc. story
to the public
 "Swamp
City is all over PumpGate:
[quoting Wes Fager] 'The story
is not about a man's penis pump
-- it's about child abuse."
Wonkette!
"In
honor and appreciation of the
heroic effort in the cause of
saving children from institutionalized
abuse; and in memory of those
hurt most by it, we survivors
present this award to Wesley
Fager - 2002". The
2002 Richard Bradbury Award
for Heroism
"FAGER,
WESLEY M., author, editor. .
. Author:
A
Clockwork Straight,
2000. . . Avocations: .exposing
destructive, mind[control] cults.
. ."
Marquis Who's Who in America,
2002
About
the editor, Wes Fager
"They
[stories compiled by Wes Fager] are stories
of suicides and attempted suicides, rapes, forced
abortions, molestations, physical abuse, lawsuits,
court testimonies, and extensive documentation
of profound psychological abuse at Straight
chapters all over the country." Radley
Balko, FOX News
"Wes
has become an expert on such matters . . . he
worked with me in developing a conference that
would expose harms done by these programs."
Arnold Trebach,
J.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Law and Social
Justice, American University, Washington DC,
author and former head of the Office of Civil
Rights, US Justice Department
 "Thanks
to Wesley Fager for commemorating the victims
of this abuse, who died for reasons unknown,
but whose deaths should not go unacknowledged."
StantonPeele,
J.D., Ph.D., and world-renowned author on addictions
"The
legal battle has been covered extensively on
TheStraights.com,
a site run by Wesley Fager, 58, of Oakton."
. . . "The story [says Fager] is not about
a man's penis pump--it's about child abuse."
Richard
Leiby, The Washington Post
"[Ambassador
Sembler's] holy image [of Straight] is compromised
by Wes Fager, a father who made discovering
the truth about Straight his crusade. . ."The
Semblers should be in jail for what they did.
But how could that be possible since the people
who should investigate them sit on the Advisory
Board for Drug Free America Foundation [Straight]?"
Fager concludes." Stefania Medetti of la
Rebubblica, Italy's top selling newspaper
"Articles
about the purloined pump [Ambassador Sembler's
penis pump] have been published in the St. Petersburg
Times and the Washington Post, and there's a
blog called Pumpgate
[published by Wes Fager] with links to court
documents and quotes from the players."
St. Petersburg
Times front page article Nov. 12, 2006.
.
They
don't care about civil liberties or our
nation's children. . . They only care about
getting rich . . .
Straight
cofounder Betty Sembler writing about
groups she says are hoping to profit
from drug legalization. From a letter
dated 07-06-04 to a US Representative
.
Doctors
Who Do Harm
04-02-08
"Good
physicians know the bad
ones in their midst. Why
don't they point fingers"--Readers
Digest, Mar 08 in Outrageus
by Michael Crowley
Michael
Crowley gives case
histories of doctors
who have committed
medical malpractice
and yet state licensing
authorities have
failed to report
their histories
when asked for a
reference. The case
of Massachusetts'
doctor Jose Veizaga-Mendez
is highlighted.
Dr. Veizaga-Mendez
paid $652,000 for
mistakeningly attaching
surgical mesh to
a man's bladder.
The state investigated
the quality of care
he provided seven
other patients--two
of whom died. When
Massachusetts yanked
his license he moved
to Illinois and
tried to get a job
at the VA Medical
Center in Marion.
When his supervisors
called the Massachusetts
state licensing
authorities they
failed to disclose
Dr. Veizaga-Mendez's
malpractice history.
Last November the
Department of Veterans
Affairs announced
it was investigating
whether Veizaga-Mendez
was responsible
for the deaths of
10 patients. If
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