Romney Linked To Teen "Torture" Camps

Discussion in 'Politics & Religion' started by dgridley, Jun 30, 2007.

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    When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said he’d support doubling the size of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, he was trying to show voters that he’d be tough on terror. Two of his top fundraisers, however, have long supported using tactics that have been likened to torture for troubled teenagers.

    As The Hill noted last week, 133 plaintiffs filed a civil suit against Romney’s Utah finance co-chair, Robert Lichfield, and his various business entities involved in residential treatment programs for adolescents. The umbrella group for his organization is the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS, sometimes known as WWASP) and Lichfield is its founder and is on its board of directors.

    The suit alleges that teens were locked in outdoor dog cages, exercised to exhaustion, deprived of food and sleep, exposed to extreme temperatures without adequate clothing or water, severely beaten, emotionally brutalized, and sexually abused and humiliated. Some were even made to eat their own vomit.

    more: http://www.reason.com/news/show/121088.html?

    Also implicated in the article is Mel Sembler, long-time friend of the Bushes, with his association to a similar organization known as Straight, Inc.

    The politically motivated articles continue to fly...
     
    dgridley, Jun 30, 2007 IP