Daily Link for 2007/07/23
One of Mitt Romney’s national finance co-chairs, Mel Sembler, was the founder of a drug/alcohol-recovery “boot camp” for teens called Straight Inc., where teens were “subjected to unusual punishment, infliction of pain, humiliation, intimidation, ridicule, coercion, threats, mental abuse… and interference with daily living functions such as eating, sleeping and toileting,” according to the LA Times.
Romney has more than one financial co-chair with abusive “boot-camp” ties in their past. Read the article at Reason magazine.
If you want to know more about these wretched “boot camps” for troubled teens, please read “Children’s Gulags” at the Orange Papers website. It’s an eye-opener, readers.
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July 24th, 2007 @ 08:47
- smoked em’, brother.
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July 25th, 2007 @ 16:32
f Strm hd gn t n f Ml’s cmps, h mght hv bn svd frm hs fts wth th ‘mnchs’ tdy.
Tns wh’s prnts cn’t cntrl thm nd smthng lk ths r thy nd p lbrls lkng fr th gvrnmnt tt r gsts f th txpyr (ffctvly n th tt nywy).
f crs th mr n prsn, th bggr th DNC ptntl vtng blck.
July 25th, 2007 @ 16:44
I know you like the idea of tough, no-frills, scare-’em-straight “boot camps,” but did you actually read any of the material I linked to? Those “boot camps” are basically the perfect opportunity for some maladjusted people to torture some other maladjusted people.
July 25th, 2007 @ 17:22
Yh rght. Cnsrvtvs trtr ppl - frgt th lbrl tmplt.
f th cmp ws ms-mngd tht s dffrnt ss nd nt wht y prsntd n yr snd lttl blgpst. Y r lnkng th ‘trtr’ f pr lttl tns drctly t Rmny nd t s vry lm bt f mdslngng.
Why dn’t y dbt Hllry’s crrnt ssrtn tht w nd t “rplc mrcn scty’ r ‘ wnn tk th l cmpny prfts’ wth m?
Nw, tspn mdslngng s sr thn dfndng bltnt cmmnsm frm r nxt prsdnt.
July 25th, 2007 @ 17:31
What planet are you on today? Let’s see how much craziness you managed to cram into one comment:
>Conservatives torture people
Actually, creepy pseudo-cons like you applaud torture, but you don’t torture people yourselves. What that might have to do with this blog post, though, is something only you seem to know.
>You are linking the ‘torture’ of poor little teens directly to Romney
Romney => Romney’s cronies => “boot camp” torture
That’s not much of a stretch, now is it? Do you need a diagram?
>Why don’t you debate Hillary’s current assertion that we need to “replace American society’ or ‘I wanna take the oil company profits’ with me?
Link? I think you’re making that up.
July 25th, 2007 @ 21:40
LOL. Dank opens mouth not knowing what he’s talking about.
And Dank, you shouldn’t be squalkin’ about parents controling anything - I had ‘parents’. … We don’t want to drill down too far on why you’re such punkass coward and a psycho.
July 25th, 2007 @ 23:12
I thought that creep’s name sounded familiar.
Hank’s new role model, ‘Ambassador de Sade’, was a real big fundraiser for the Bush’s, too.
They just re-cycle these guys. Romney made Sembler his ‘national finance co-chair’ knowing about this guy?
I can see Hank getting excited about Mel but Romney has to be a lot smarter than that.
July 25th, 2007 @ 23:42
>They just re-cycle these guys.
Yeah, they just keep turning up, like the proverbial bad penny. Talk about “wingnut welfare.” But this guy is really an egregious example. Check out his contribution history.
August 4th, 2007 @ 10:10
I didn’t like high-school bullies.
I don’t like former high-school bullies either.