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Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
From: Monica Pignotti <monica.pignotti....@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 04:23:13 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Jun 9 2011 7:23 am
Subject: Re: Smear Campaign against Whistleblower Monica Pignotti Continues
On Jun 9, 1:36 am, John Dorsay <restimula...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/9/2011 12:24 AM, Dennis Erlich wrote: Yes, exactly. Once again, Dennis could say the same thing about > > John, I'm sure that more children are killed or injured by not wearing > Fair enough. But I am not aware of an organized anti-seatbelt lobby Scientology. There are far more people killed from not wearing seatbelts than from Scientology. Does that mean that it is not a valid cause to speak out against? I doubt he would think so. It seems to me he is being very selective here and just doesn't want to believe that I just might be doing something of value here. And yes, the organized lobby for not banning prone restraints does have a vested interest. There is a whole industry built up around these so-called safety containment trainings. > As I said, I have direct experience with abusive, credentialed > But *many* people who should have been much more able than I to get That's very true. Here in the US there were many parents of autistic > the government's ear tried and failed to do so. children who were lobbying to get prone restraints banned in schools by the passage of the Keeping Students Safe Act, which so far has failed to pass. As a result, children are still being prone restrained in schools in many states and some are being injured and deaths have continued. As for private therapists, they are still free to do whatever they please. The only law even close to banning this is Candace's Law in Colorado, but all it does is ban rebirthing therapy, not other forms of restraint. It does not ban the prone restraint proposed by Federici in his self-published book. >It was *only* Very true. At least with Scientology, no one is credentialed or > because of the fluke of a personal connection that I succeeded where > they had tried and failed. If not for that fluke, I believe the > quack would have built a large and lucrative business that did > little more than abuse vulnerable people behind closed doors, beyond > the scrutiny of the authorities and with the naive support of > desperate families. > Unfortunately, this is not an exceptional story. Abusive licensed and so it is seen for what it is by all but the true believers. What is particularly of concern is that many of the people using these dangerous techniques are licensed and all too often their boards seem to be looking the other way. This is a classic example of a real-life Milgrim experiment, obedience to authority and anyone who questions this gets hit with a smear campaign (I am not the only one, just look at the smear campaign against others who have spoken out -- Federici sued 5 people and a non-profit). The good news, if there is any, is that there is a growing awareness in the mental health profession that self-proclaimed therapy gurus who believe they are above question, are not any longer and are increasingly being challenged. Federici is far from being the only one this applies to. > There is a whole government-sanctioned "health-care" industry in the Fair enough. Thank you for being smart enough to give the validity of > US and Canada which consists of people like Federici exploiting > desperate families of vulnerable individuals. There is a > particularly disgusting subgroup that preys on the severely > autistic. Some search terms that will give you a taste are "Matthew > Isreal", BRI, IARET. People like Israel are attempting to gain broad > government sanction and funding for something they call "Applied > Behavior Analysis". The presentation of ABA is quite benign. In some > cases ABA might even be useful, I don't know enough about it to say > that this is never the case. But at the end of the day ABA is the > justification for atrocities such as this.http://tinyurl.com/65alj4t > http://www.bostonmagazine.com/scripts/print/article.php?asset_idx=231327 > Please don't misunderstand me. I am not defending Monica personally, this cause priority over any other disagreements or conflicts we might have had, as well it should be. You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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