|
Crimes
against humanity?
confession and re-acculturation:
using
shame and guilt, and separation
to induce body
carvings and suicide attempts
by
Wesley Fager
(c)
2000
| You
don't
mind
a
bit
of
a
stink,
do
you,
Karras?
|
|
I
need
treatment.
I
do
also
believe
at
some
point
I
need
the
forgiveness
of
these
men.
| Former
Straight
counselor
Arthur
Nicol
(who
is
a
former
judge)
speaking
to
Pinellas-Pasco
Circuit
Judge
Brandt
C.
Downey
III
after
receiving
a
seven
year
sentence
for
sexually
abusing
a
15
year-old
Straight
student
and
his
14
year-old
friend. |
|
|
Introduction.
Any serious student of thought
reform, including the
Straight planners, knows
that there will likely come a
point when a person undergoing
the deprivations and humiliation
of "brainwashing",
shamed and made to feel
overwhelming guilt
from his extorted confession,
will come to fear total
annihilation of self and might
become preoccupied with thoughts
of suicide. At the height
of brainwashing of the general
populace in Red
China people would
not walk down the sidewalks for
fear of someone jumping from a
building and landing on
them. Public parks were
fenced-off to keep citizens from
hanging themselves from public
trees. Chinese thought
reform students are
watched continuously, 24
hours a day, even when
they used the bathroom to make
sure they do not slice their
wrists on a loose nail or
screw. In
this chapter we will see how
Straight students,
suffering from physical
hardships and mental
tortures, undergoing a perverted
sexual therapy to treat a drug
problem that most did not have,
resorted to carving on their
bodies or attempted suicide to
escape from their tormentors.
Coinciding with the many
suicides and suicide attempts by
Straight thought reform students
or former students, was a study
conducted by a Straight research
doctor named Richard
Schwartz to determine why
so many teenage girls carve on
their bodies. His results are
published in the 1989 report
"Self-Harm Behavior
(Carving) in Female Adolescent
Drug Abusers." (1)
Straight's position is that its
clients are druggie kids and
druggie kids are violent and
have to be restrained, and that
druggie kids commit suicide.
There are major flaws with
Straight's reasoning.
For example, many Straight
clients are entered for non-drug
related reasons like eating
disorders and emotional
problems. Many
being treated for drug abuse
have no drug problem at
all--they have been shanghaied
in at intake interviews
fraudulently disguised as
sibling interviews.
Often when a Straight sibling
turns 12 program officials
convince his parents that he
also needs treatment.
Further, of those who have
indeed used drugs, many are not
really drug addicts; rather they
have experimented with alcohol
or marijuana. One just need look
at the restraint rate of the
Sembler-based synanon SAFE, Inc.
with a reported restraint rate
of
compared to a restraint rate of
at all other juvenile
residential drug treatment
programs combined in the same
state health district in which
it operated!
The previous
chapter points out case
after case of outright child
abuse and human misery inflicted
on American teenagers at
Straight-based synanons.
That chapter and this one
are building towards
the next chapter which
discusses known suicides and murders
(known to this author) committed
by former students in
Straight-based synanons.
But before
addressing the specific suicides
and murders, we will need
to look at a few more depraved
aspects of Straight-like
synanons in order to better
determine whether Straight
itself caused any of these
deaths. We need to look at
sexual abuse issues at Straight
and we need to determine whether
there is any historical basis
for suicide related to so-called
"brainwashing."
With that data in hand we will
try to profile the attributes of
a young suicidal candidate in
America as established by expert
opinion. We will then show
that Straight creates an
environment and establishes a
mindset among its young clients
that completely replicates the
mental state of a typical young
suicidal person--if there is
such a mindset--and to that pot
Straight adds another
suicide-inducing agent, namely,
brainwashing itself. In other
words it will be shown that
Straight creates a situation
that is bound to lead to
suicidal ideations--in many
instances. And that is
what this current page is about.
It will show that Straight,
by its depraved methods,
creates an environment for
suicide and
concludes by discussing many
known suicide attempts and body
carvings by Straight students
while in Straight . We
will read statements by many
Straight officers admitting that
Straight has a terrible problem
with suicide attempts, but
writing off the problem to
"druggie" kids,
deprived of their drugs want to
kill themselves. I think
the evidences are going to
show otherwise. That it
was Straight itself causing the
suicide attempts. And if
Straight was the cause
then what was Straight's plan
should the parents withdraw the
child after he's been
broken-down but not yet rebuilt;
or if a child escapes at the
same stage of his
"treatment";
or if the child makes
phase and can be left alone at
his own own but now secretly
harbors suicidal notions;
or if she graduates but is
depressed because of her
treatment.
| "The only time in my entire life I ever considered suicide was while I was actually in Straight. I was 15, and at the time I did not realize that all I had to do was ride it out, my parents
didn't have the money to keep me there. So I was SURE I was stuck until I played the phase game, which I figured was probably gonna' take at LEAST 16 months, or, even worse, wait until I turned eighteen. Mind you, I was considering these options about one hour into my stay at Straight! As the next few weeks went on, I decided I would much rather be dead than to deal with the madness of that place for the next 3 years. I actually made a few weak attempts while I was there. Although I never did have a period during the time I was there (I guess from stress) I told my oldcomer I had started and asked for a tampon. I had decided (rather creatively I thought) to try and give myself toxic shock syndrome. My plan was, either I would luck out and die, or at the very worst maybe merit a trip to the hospital, and hopefully a chance to run. After a couple of days, this option became uncomfortable, not to mention it did not seem to be working, so I gave that one up! I managed to sneak a mirror into the bathroom with me once (of course what did it matter, I was still watched all the time). The plan was, I would smash it really quick, and boom, slit my wrists. Well, that whole thing kinda' makes me
squeamish--needless to say I never bothered even trying that one. Sadly, some days, just knowing that mirror was with me helped. I guess I figured if it ever got so bad I didn't think I could stand it, I HAD THE POWER to off myself, and in some warped way it made me feel better to know I had SOME sort of option,
never mind
how bizarre
or detrimental."
|
|
Case
history:
a
boy
named
Donald
Donald
(not
his
real
name)
was
15
years
old
in
1985
when
he
was
admitted
to
Father
Newton�s
KIDS
of
Bergen
County
(a
Straight
spin-off).
He
says
that
at
that
time
he
had
used
alcohol
and
smoked
marijuana
five
times
but
if
you
were
to
read
his
admission
report
he
admitted
to
using
much
more
than
that.
Why?
He
says
in
his
December
16,
1999
deposition
for
the
Rebecca
Erlich
case
that
he
gave
in
out
of
"sheer
terror"
from
having
his
two
intake
counselors
(two
kids
further
along
in
their
own
treatment)
scream
at
him
and
spit
on
him.
".
.
.by
the
time
my
intake
was
done,"
he
stated
in
deposition,
"I
came
up
with
a
list
of
drugs
by
most
of
which
I
never
seen
or
couldn�t
describe
to
you
what
they
looked
like
or
what
they
tasted
like
or
anything
else.
I
didn�t
even
know
what
they
were
.
.
."
KIDS'
attorneys
must
have
been
impressed
with
stories
like
Donald's
which
I'm
about
to
tell.
They
must
have
been
because
in
April
2000
they
just
gave
up.
They
settled
out
of
court
with
Ms.
Erlich
for
$4.5
million.
|
| Donald
says
that
he
refused
to
write
a
daily
confessional
called
a
MI
because
he
felt
he
didn�t
have
a
real
drug
problem.
To
get
him
to
comply
he
says
they
stood
him
in
a
corner
all
night
and
denied
him
food
until,
after
about
two
days
of
this,
he
decided
to
comply.
One
day
as
he
sat
in
his
chair,
he
states
in
sworn
deposition,
he
didn't
have
his
hands
in
his
knees
and
KIDS�
officials
felt
they
should
be
on
his
knees
so
he
was
restrained
by
five
people.
The
back
of
his
head
was
cracked
open
when
they
got
him
to
the
floor
and
he
was
sent
to
Holy
Name
Hospital.
He
estimates
that
he
was
restrained
300
-
400
times
at
KIDS
but
has
trouble
placing
dates
because
he
was
not
allowed
to
look
at
a
watch
or
a
calendar
during
most
of
this
period.
Donald
states,
"There
were
an
immense
number
of
times
where
I
was
forced
to
urinate
and
defecate
on
myself
because
they
basically
took
my
bathroom
privilege
away.
I
wasn�t
allowed
to
go
to
the
bathroom.
And
I
witnessed
a
lot
of
other
people
in
there
ending
up
urinating
and
defecating
on
themselves
because
being
in
a
restraint.
They
told
you
were
too
dangerous
to
get
up
and
go
to
the
bathroom,
those
who
asked.
If
you
asked
to
go
to
the
bathroom,
you
were
afraid
because
if
you
did
ask,
then
you�d
be
afraid
to
end
up
getting
your
tooth
through
your
lip
and
I
had
it
done
many
times."
When
Donald
made
second
phase
he
was
allowed
to
see
his
childhood
pediatrician.
Donald
testified
that
this
doctor
prescribed
Inderal
to
treat
an
irregular
heartbeat
but,
according
to
Donald,
Dr.
Newton
blasted
him
for
"using
drugs
to
deal
with
my
feelings
and
I
had
to
use
the
program
to
deal
with
my
feelings
.
.
."
He
was
not
allowed
to
take
the
medication.
Dr.
Panjwani,
a
KIDS
affiliated
psychiatrist,
at
one
point
put
Donald
on
Ritalin,
but
after
about
3
-
4
weeks
Donald
states
that
Mrs.
Newton
(Ruth
Ann
Newton,
the
founder's
wife)
decided
to
take
him
off
it.
According
to
Donald�s
deposition,
one
day
Bergen
County
prosecutors
came
in
and
told
him
that
he
was
a
legal
adult
and
did
not
have
to
stay
in
treatment.
Donald
left
along
with
a
group
of
other
adult
students
but
after
a
few
hours
of
freedom
he
says
he
began
to
feel
he
could
not
make
it
on
the
outside
world
so
he
called
Mrs.
Newton
asking
to
come
back.
A
few
weeks
later
Donald
left
for
good.
After
4
and
a
half
years
of
"treatment"
he
had
attended
2
weeks
of
high
school!
He
was
not
allowed
to
associate
with
the
only
kids
he
had
known
for
the
last
five
years
of
his
life
because
he
left
in
"bad
standing"
and
could
have
no
contact
with
anyone
from
KIDS.
He
declared
that,
"Mrs.
Newton
said
I
had
30
days
to
live
and,
you
know,
in
her
professional
opinion,
I
had
to
go
to
Bergen
Pines
after
I
left
the
program
because
she
thought
I
couldn�t
make
it
in
the
real
world."
When
Donald
finally
left
KIDS
at
age
19
he
says
he
used
no
drugs
but
he
did
drink
alcohol.
Was
it
a
self-full-filling
prophecy?
Here
he
describes
his
first
alcoholic
drink
in
4
and
a
half
years.
(His
story
about
how
he
almost
tasted
Kellog�s
Frosted
Flakes
once
after
fleeing
the
cult
is
more
amusing.
KIDS
students
are
not
allowed
to
eat
sugar):
|
|
Q.
Why
did
you
go
off
the
wagon?
A.
Good
question.
I
was
still
under
the
impression
that
a
lot
of
the
things
that
I
had
been
told
in
Kids
were
true
and
one
of
the
classic
and
most
disturbing
things,
I
think,
about
my
involvement
with
Kids
was
the
fact
that
they
kept
stressing
to
me
during
those
four
and
a
half
years
that
if
I
ever
left
Kids,
no
matter
what,
black
and
white,
I
would
drink
again.
It
would
not
work.
It
would
not
work
for
me
or
anybody
else
in
the
Kids
program
and
we
were
doomed
for
failure.
So
I
went
to
prove
them
wrong,
but
I
always
had
it
in
the
back
of
my
mind
that
it
wouldn�t
work.
When
I
picked
up
a
drink
again
and
I
relapsed,
I
can�t
even
say
that
I
did
it
because
I
was
feeling
some
kind
of
urge
to
drink.
I
just
kind
of
got
tired
of
fighting
that
constant
thinking
of,
you
know,
it�s
bound
to
happen.
It�s
just
going
to
happen.
It�s
going
to
happen.
I
had
no
urge
to
drink
at
the
time,
none.
Q.
In
a
sense,
what
they
said
came
true?
A.
It
was
a
self
full[-fill]ing
prophecy,
yes.
|
Donald
describes
resorting
to
body
carvings
at
KIDS. |
|
A.
Right.
There
were
other
times
in
Kids
when
I
felt
extremely
discouraged.
I
felt
extremely
trapped.
I
was
convinced
that
I
would
never
get
out
because
that
was
the
message,
if
you
ever
leave,
you�re
going
to
die.
So
if
you�re
going
to
die
anyway
and
I�m
never
getting
out
of
here
unless
I
live
with
their
system,
which
I
couldn�t
give
myself
into,
I
couldn�t
totally
push
down
my
sense
of
self
to
comply
with
their
group,
I
felt
discouraged
and
in
conflict.
In
that
conflict,
I
began
to
--
and
maybe
I�m
going
to
reword
what
I
said.
I�m
not
saying
the
other
three
attempts
were
not
serious,
which
they
weren�t
suicide
attempts.
What
they
were,
they
were
self-destructive
actions.
Q.
What
were
they?
A.
I
would
take
plastic
forks
and
cut
my
body
just
out
of
pure
rage,
pure
despair,
discouragement.
Something
to
kind
of
deal
with
that
pain
because
I
really
didn�t
have
any
kind
of--
any
other
kind
of
other
devices
that
would
have
been
unhealthy
is
totally
taken
away
and
stripped
from
me.
A.
It
wasn�t
three.
I
could
probably
say
it
was
closer
to
fifteen.
There
were
very
minor
incidents
with
moderately
sharp
to
dull
objects
that
I
would
cut
my
body
with.
Q.
So
that
was
your
modus
operandi
on
this
type
of
thing,
you
cut
your
body
with
a
sharp
object?
A.
Yeah.
I
got
to
a
point
where
I
kind
of
lost
hope.
I
was
filled
with
despair
and
it
was
my
only
vice.
|
Donald
had
drunk
alcohol
and
smoked
five
marijuana
cigarettes
and
now
found
himself
in
a
very
abusive
destructive-mind
cult.
He
felt
so
overwhelmed
and
utterly
hopeless
that
he
had
resorted
to
carving
on
his
body.
Was
Dr.
Newton
concerned
that
Donald
might
escape
in
this
KIDS-induced
demoralized
state?
Donald
describes
his
first
serious
attempt
to
kill
himself
which
occurred
within
two
hours
of
his
escape
from
KIDS.
Like
drinking
alcohol
was
this
another
self
full-filling
prophecy? |
|
A.
No.
I
ran
away.
I
was
gone
for
about
two
hours
and
I
thought
everything
that
they
had
told
me,
that
I�m
going
to
die
if
I
leave,
I
can�t
make
it
in
the
world
because
I
lack
the
skills
everyone
else
has,
so
I
decided
if
that�s
the
case,
I
don�t
want
to
go
back.
I
might
as
well
die
and
I
cut
my
arm
then.
Q.
Where
did
you
cut
your
arm?
I
don�t
mean
on
your
arm
physically.
Where
were
you?
A.
I
was
in
the
parking
lot
at
Riverside
Square
Mall.
Kind
of
hiding
out.
.
.
Q.
What
did
you
do
in
an
attempt
to
commit
suicide?
A.
I
broke
a
bottle
and
took
the
center
piece
out
of
the
bottom
of
the
bottle
and
I
gashed
my
wrists
very
deeply
to
the
point
where
the
vein
was
very
obvious.
|
Donald
says
he
was
found
and
forcefully
taken
back
to
KIDS.
That
they
refused
to
take
him
to
the
hospital
and
that,
"when
I
had
asked
Tony
K.
and
Mrs.
Newton
if
I
could
go
to
the
hospital
that
first
time
and
they
said
no.
They
told
me
to
build
my
ego
off
the
scar
and
at
that
point
was
when
one
of
the
veins
in
my
arm
was
showing
pretty
clearly."
Donald
describes
his
second
serious
attempt
at
suicide.
This
time
he
was
at
the
KIDS
treatment
camp
but
wearing
a
sweater
so
as
to
conceal
his
deadly
attempt
to
escape
from
KIDS.
|
|
Q.
What
was
your
second?
A.
I
snuck
a
double-edge
razor
blade
into
group
and
bit
the
plastic
piece
off
and
gashed
my
wrist
open
and
shot
blood
all
over
the
floor.
Q.
Same
wrist?
A.
Yes.
Q.
When
you
did
that
in
the
middle
of
group
at
the
time,
what
happened?
A.
I
was
doing
it
under
a
sweater.
I
had
a
long
sweater
on
and
nobody
could
really
see
what
I
was
doing.
Q.
When
you
began
to
bleed,
I
assume
somebody
noticed?
A.
That�s
how
they
noticed
when
they
saw
blood
spilling
out
of
the
sweater.
Q.
What
happened
then?
A.
They
took
me
out
of
group
and
ran
me
to
the
bathroom.
Q.
What
did
they
do
in
the
bathroom?
A.
Washed
my
arm
out.
.
.
Q.
Take
you
for
medical
attention?
A.
No.
In
fact,
they
refused
medical
attention
when
I
asked.
Q.
Did
they
put
on
any
kind
of
a
bandage?
A.
They
put
gauze
and
they
put
on
some
bacitracin
or
something.
Q.
Nobody
called
the
doctor?
A.
I
asked
staff
to
go
to
the
hospital.
I
asked
them
to
see
a
doctor
and
they
said
no.
|
Donald
says
he
was
allowed
to
see
program-affiliated
psychiatrists
to
discuss
his
anxiety
and
his
suicidal
ideations,
but
always
in
the
presence
of
Mrs.
Newton
and/or
other
program
counselors.
Donald
says
that
one
psychiatrist,
Dr.
Galitizin,
suggested
to
him
that
he
read
books
and
self-help
material,
but
Donald
states
that
Mrs.
Newton
told
the
psychiatrist
that
he
was
not
allowed
to
read
and
that
"that
wouldn't
be
a
good
idea."
Donald
testified
that
he
had
never
been
suicidal
before
KIDS.
|
|
Q.
Prior
to
your
admission
to
KIDS,
had
you
felt
suicidal?
A.
Not
seriously.
Q.
Had
you
un-seriously
tried
it
or
attempted
it?
A.
No.
I
cut
my
arm
on
the
top
of
my
arm
to
impress
my
friends,
but
no,
I
had
not
actually,
with
full
intentions,
planned
or
tried
to
kill
myself.
.
.
Q.
When
you
cut
the
top
of
your
arm
to
impress
your
friends,
you
were
trying
to
impress
them
that
you
were
thinking
about
suicide?
A.
No.
I
was
trying
to
impress
them
by
showing
them
I
can
handle
a
lot
of
pain.
|
When
asked
whether
he
had
engaged
in
any
"suicidal
gestures
or
attempts"
since
leaving
KIDS
Donald
responded
"no"
but
he
did
offer
that
in
1990,
after
leaving
the
program
for
good,
he
went
to
Valley
Hospital
for
emergency
treatment.
He
says
he
was
having
"suicidal
thoughts
from
leaving
the
program."
One
therapist
Donald
has
met
with
since
leaving
KIDS
is
Sharon
Everett
who,
according
to
Donald,
says
he
was
suffering
from
posttraumatic
stress
disorder
and
that
it
could
be
as
a
result
of
some
of
the
incidents
and
his
involvement
in
the
KIDS
program."
Donald
is
alive
and
well
today,
but
he
came
close
to
ending
it
all
from
being
in
one
of
the
most
abusive
drug
rehabs
in
the
world.
Donald�s
story
is
important
to
us
because
it
shows
that
abusive
Straight-like
programs
can
drive
a
kid
to
such
preoccupations
with
suicide
that
they
have
to
be
watched
around
the
clock,
and
even
then
inventive
kids
might
find
a
way.
And
furthermore
his
story
underscores
the
point
that
Straight
has
a
real
problem
of
what
to
do
with
children
it
has
made
suicidal
when
the
child
finally
leaves
the
program
either
through
escape,
graduation
or
withdrawal.
|
Confession:
Perverted Sexual Therapy and the
$traight
School of Homosexuality.
Red
Chinese citizens in
thought reform schools confess
to and criticize themselves for
being reactionaries and
saboteurs; they publicly
criticize their fathers for
being counter- revolutionaries
and slackers who harbor western
ideals.
Western missionaries trapped in
China after the Communist
takeover who underwent thought
reform confessed to using their
church as a front for OSS (CIA)
spy activities or for exploiting
Chinese citizens (they had cooks
didn't they).
U.N. soldiers confessed that the
United States was the aggressor
in the Korean War, that the war
was wrong, that Americans
mistreat blacks, that America
was dropping chemical bombs on
North Korean children. Straight
kids are not made to denounce
their church or country, or to
confess that they are
reactionaries or even that the
Vietnam War was wrong. Rather
Straight kids are coaxed into
confessing to exaggerated drug
usage and to confessing to being
sexually promiscuous or to
being sexual perverts. [f]
-------------------------------
Interim notes:
[f] Straight
planners probably got their
ideas about sexual confessions
from the Communist Chinese also.
Consider this from a Chinese
soldier's diary found by British
soldiers during the war in
Malaya the following entry is
made:
| " All comrades are
present in the field. They are
ready to attend the criticism
meeting, scheduled for 7. P.M. .
. . The self-criticism made by
the comrades at the meeting was
all frank. Some even told us how
they came to know the real taste
of masturbation, how they felt
when they first joined the army.
. . As a matter of fact,
masturbation is quite ordinary,
only comrades must bear these
points in mind: 1. Masturbation
will ruin your lives and will
affect your revolutionary work.
2. We must always try "to
part from the evil and follow
the good." |
| From
Brainwashing
in Red China, the Calculated
Destruction of Men's Minds
[p.189]. |
|
"No
man who is not himself honest
can be free--he is his own trap.
When his own deeds cannot be
disclosed, then he is a
prisoner; he must withhold
himself from his fellows and is
a slave to his own conscience."
|
L. Ron Hubbard, the
founder of the Church of
Scientology, and one the biggest
liars to have ever lived.
|
|
"It's
a game Wes. The only
problem is everybody knows it
but you."
|
A former official of the old Cult
Awareness Network
enlightening the author on how
cults get confessions. |
|
Straight�s
Statement of
Philosophy, About the Program (Sect.
AB, p. 10, item 10) states:
"Honesty
(total self-disclosure) is the
standard for therapeutic
communication in Group, at home,
and with self."
In a Straight pamphlet
titled THERAPY for Guilt and
Shame in Adolescent Drug-Use and
Recovery Therapy, � 1982, by
Straight�s national clinical
director, Dr. V. Miller Newton
is found these bullets:
Therapy
for GUILT
1.
Talking about behaviors that
produce the guilt.
2. . . .
3. The supportive love of others
who say: "I
can relate to you.
I did the same thing, and feel
the same way."
Dr. George Ross, PhD in
education and Straight's former
education director,
left Straight in the early 1980s
to form his own Sembler-based
synanon in Sarasota, Florida
which he called LIFE.
He subsequently founded
Kids Helping Kids in Hebron,
Kentucky (which today runs out
of the old Straight facility in
Milford, Ohio) and
then he founded Possibilities
Unlimited in Lexington, Kentucky
which dissolved shortly after he
was cleared of criminal charges
for falsely imprisoning
teenagers. In his 1994
book Treating Adolescent
Substance Abuse Understanding
the Fundamental Elements Dr.
Ross addresses sexual issues
with young people. This is what
he has to say, in part. But
such issues as pregnancy,
abortion, homosexuality, rape,
masturbation, and sexual
promiscuity must be talked about
openly, compassionately, and
frankly if recovery is to occur.
Experience has taught that these
issues are best discussed in
segregated group therapy
sessions. And
then he gives a useful method in
helping recovering teenagers
overcome the challenge of
revealing past sexual secrets
by quoting from a lecture he
gave in Lexington, Kentucky in
1983 titled, We�re
Only as Sick as the Secrets We
Keep.
From that lecture he writes that
before each Sex Rap he reads a
passage to Group from the
Hazelden Meditation Series
titled Each
Day a New Beginning.
I would suggest to Dr. Ross that
in the future, in order to break
the monotony of reading the same
old passage at Sexual Confession
Raps, he might sometimes just go
right to the source and read to
the children the account of Mr.
Hu from Robert Lifton�s THOUGHT
REFORM AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
TOTALISM as the parallels
are obvious.
| From
Each
Day
A
New
Beginning
by
Hazelden
Meditation
Series
as
used
by
former
Straight
education
director
George
Ross,
PhD
as
a
persuasive
catalyst
to
ease
kids
through
their
embarrassing
confessionals:
Harboring
parts
of
our
inner
selves
.
.
.
keep
us
separate
.
.
.
Carrying
secrets
makes
it
impossible
the
attainment
of
serenity.
.
.
Abstinence
alone
is
not
enough.
.
.
And
one
of
[these
many
steps]
is
total
self-disclosure.
.
. When
we
tell
others
who
we
really
are,
it
opens
the
door
for
them
to
share
likewise.
And
when
they
do,
we
become
bonded
.
.
.
Our
struggles
to
be
perfect,
our
self-denigration
because
we
aren�t
only
exaggerates
even
more
the
secrets
that
keep
us
sick.
.
.
. secrets
are
great
equalizers
when
shared.
|
The
story
of
Mr.
Hu
from
THOUGHT
REFORM
AND
THE
PSYCHOLOGY
OF
TOTALISM:
A
Study
of
Brainwashing
in
China,
1969
ed.,
pp.
266
-
277.
Mr
Hu
had
struggled
against
his
classmates--
and
they
against
him--in
school.
Mr.
Hu
began
to
have
nightmares
that
he
was
talking
in
his
sleep
and
giving
away
his
"secret".
A
fellow
student
had
committed
suicide
by
jumping
into
a
well
making
him
think
this
student
must
also
have
had
some
"hidden
secret".
Two
other
students
had
been
sent
to
a
mental
hospital
apparently
having
become
psychotic.
He
estimated
that
a
third
of
all
students
had
"visible
psychological
or
psychosomatic
symptoms--fatigue,
insomnia,
loss
of
appetite,
vague
aches
and
pains,
and
upper
respiratory
or
gastro-intestinal
symptoms."
Hu
himself
suffered
from
fatigue
and
general
malaise,
so
he
went
to
the
school�s
doctor
who
told
him:
"There's
nothing
wrong
with
your
body.
It
must
be
your
thoughts
that
are
sick.
You
will
feel
better
after
you
have
solved
your
problems
and
completed
your
reform."
And
indeed,
he
shared
with
many
other
students
a
state
of
painful
inner
conflict.
In
his
final
confession
Hu
said
he
easily
passed
the
first
part
which
was
about
himself.
He
had
called
himself
an
"exploiter"
and
accused
himself
of
"having
adopted
a
stand
diametrically
opposed
to
that
of
the
people,"
and
having
been
in
the
past
"actually...an
enemy
of
the
people."
But
the
second
requirement
was
not
quite
as
simple,
for
it
was
the
denunciation
of
his
father,
"both
as
an
individual
and
as
a
representative
of
the
old
order."
|
Dr. Ross says
that after the teenagers hear
this passage most will start
sharing some of their sexual
secrets. It is helpful, he says,
to have others who have already
related their sexual secrets to
start talking about them to get
newcomers to start opening up.
By frequently repeating the Sex
Raps, Ross states, it gives old
comers additional
opportunities to report other
sexual experiences they have
forgotten to talk about.
Those currently running
Sembler-based synanons should
note that Mr. Hu had witnessed
one suicide, two of his
classmates had become psychotic,
and there was a multitude of
illnesses amongst the other
students.
In his worst seller
Kids,
Drugs, and Sex
[1986], Straight's former
national clinical director,
Dr. V. Miller Newton,
Ph.D., Ph.D. holds that confession
is necessary for recovery from
addiction by quoting from
Alcoholics Anonymous' famous
STEP 5, "Admitting
to God, myself,
and another
human the exact
nature of my wrongs."[p.28]
He continues, "The process
of dredging up, honestly facing,
and seeing the casual
relationship of drug-use to
guilt-producing behavior is a
fundamental part of the recovery
process." Here are some of the
bizarre sexual confessions that
Father Newton says he has
encountered through the
years--presumably at Straight
and at his own KIDS program.
His obvious warning to parents
is that if you use drugs you
will fuck animals and become a
homosexual:
| Jan
(age
16)
was
a
virgin
when
she
started
smoking
pot,
but
she
progressed
in
drug
usage
and
to
having
sex
with
anyone
including
two
middle-age
men
and
the
family
dog--now
she
has
crabs
[pp.
18
-
19]. |
| Kevin,
age
15,
was
driven
by
drugs
to
homosexual
experiences
as
well
as
sex
with
several
women
in
their
late
30s,
his
older
sister,
the
family
dog,
and
with
a
friend's
cat
[p.19]. |
| Andrea,
age
23,
went
from
pot
to
"downs
and
morphine
daily."
Now
she
"turns
tricks",
shoplifts,
and
besides
homosexual
sex,
has
had
sex
with
a
people
much
younger
and
much
older
than
herself
and
with
animals
[pp.
21-
22]. |
| Bob
has
used
several
different
drugs,
has
had
sex
with
males
and
females,
but
now
has
VD
and
problems
getting
it
up! |
[Definition--druggie
past. In Straight all
life before Straight is referred
to as one's druggie past.
Thus if a 16 year-old
Straightling had been sodomized
by an older boy when he was
four, he would refer to
the time frame as occurring in
his druggie past and his
assailant as his druggie
buddy.]
Sex is considered by the cult
to be just as addictive as drugs
and students are
forbidden from having
relationships with those of the
opposite sex during therapy and
for six months after graduation.
In some camps male
students are required to look
down if a female passed by.(4)
Male clients can not look at
Playboy Magazines. Clients are
forbidden to even think of
persons of the opposite sex and
are required to turn themselves
in for such mental behaviors. [h]
When new clients enter
the program old comer clients of
the same sex are required to
help search every orifice of the
newcomer--including anuses for
the males, and anuses and
vaginas for the females. Clients
are watched by others of the
same sex while they shower; they
often sleep in their underwear
in beds with members of the same
sex; they may of masturbation
while they wipe themselves on
the toilet as they are
constantly under observation and
as they are constantly
perfecting their confession.
They are conditioned to tell on
themselves if they have sexual
thoughts about someone of the
same or opposite sex. They turn
in one another if they suspect
someone of having feelings
towards the opposite sex. They
raise 5 fingers in Group to
confess sexual confidentially
issues with fifth phase
student priests and hope
their confidentiality will be
respected. They are placed
back in the program and started
back over at Phase 1 if they
date someone within six months
of graduation.
| I remember a girl saying that she had sex with
her dog
and
another
saying
that she
masturbated
with a
carrot
she had
cut and
shaped.
|
-------------------------------
Interim notes:
[h] Journalist
Skip Hollandsworth writing for Texas
Monthly (6/90) observed a
boy at Straight-Dallas openly
confessing to Group that he had
been having thoughts about
girls. "Maybe you ought to
look into those sexual
thoughts," shouted out an
old comer, "because it shows
that you're not taking any pride
in yourself."
|
"I
let
him
beat
me
up,
he
broke
my
lip,
gave
me
a
black
eye.
I
started
having
sex
with
him
when
I
was
12,
then
I
started
doing
drugs.
.
.
I
would
go
to
disgusting
hotels
with
men
and
let
them
do
anything
to
me
just
to
get
more
drugs.
I
got
diseases,
this
terrible
infection.
When
I
was
14,
I
got
pregnant.
The
day
I
got
my
abortion,
I
went
out
on
the
street
to
sell
drugs
so
I
could
buy
some
PCP.
I
was
bleeding.
I
was
sick.
But
I
didn't
care.
Only
drugs
mattered." |
|
Paula,
her
blond
hair
"clipped
back
in
barrettes,
her
face
swollen
from
crying"
telling
her
story
at
MIC
Talk
to
New
York
Times
Magazine
reporter
Esther
Fein
and
125
other
people.
"Some
stories
will
be
even
more
appalling
than
Paula's,"
writes
Ms.
Fein,
adding
.
.
.
"If
she
continues
to
be
this
revealing
Paula
may
advance
to
the
second
phase." |
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