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Revision as of 11:44, 26 December 2006 by 87.78.178.85 (talk) (→Sept 24 2006 Rewrite)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Straight, Inc. was a brutal teen torture facility. Hundreds of kids were abused there every day, many by noted criminal child abuser Miller Newton, who served as National Director of Straight, Inc. until 1983.
Sept 24 2006 Rewrite
This is essentially a complete rewrite. I've kept some of the first paragraph, everything else is changed.
I removed the entire section on the phases, which was most of the article -- they didn't seem very relevent, and they were completely uncited. If someone finds a good way to put a summarized version of them in, that'd be great.
I had trouble keeping this NPOV -- the only sources I could find talk about its abuse towards its clients and mention various lawsuits. And none of them mention their own sources. Unfortunately, I think I left a fair amount of information out just because I couldn't lose the POV ...
LamilLerran 10:08, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
- Some things can simply not be viewed from a neutral point of view. Straight is one such thing. Every honest attempt at putting them in a neutral light has to trigger use of some adjectives. Like appalling, bigoted and illegal. But, as wikipedia goes, even Hitler surely was a nice guy after leaving his office and it would be against policy to simply write that he was a human monster. 87.78.178.85 11:44, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
Let Us Put the Names of the People Who Profited From This Torture On the Web
Having known many people who were very badly abused by these programs (2 of my best friends, and 10 others), I would like to know who made the money from this.
We prosecuted the Nazis and the Japanese. Let's get the names on the web for people.
Apparently, a Mel Sempler was involved as co-founder. Let's get ALL the names. All who profited.
Xchanter 01:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)Xchanter