State Senator Joyce speaks out

State Senator Brian Joyce explains a lot of the details of what's been going on, "profiting from the abuse of children," and "held in restraints while some 70 or so of these extraordinarily painful electric shocks were applied to him." and "one of those individuals ended up hospitalized as a result."

We heard a lot of testimony today at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist in Canton.  It's even worse than what I had seen so far.  I hope to get a lot of this information into this blog.

Eventually, when we reach a critical mass, I'd like to start publicizing the blog to get a significant number of readers.

This is a jaw dropping speech made to the Massachusetts State Senate:
State Senator Brian Joyce speaks out on the Senate Floor


Here's a CNN news segment interviewing Brian Joyce about the issue.  A very important issue that he brings up is that he says a huge amount of taxpayer money is flowing into this center and a large amount of that money is fed into lawyers and lobbyists (which should be public information... can we get a link to the documentation?).  This would be the fuel that keeps this whole thing going.

There were also allegations at the testimonies today, and people I talked to, that parents of the students are afraid to speak out against the center due to some sort of real or implied threats against the children.  Also, a lot of the parents supposedly fall victim to wanting it to be a good thing in order to not feel like a monster for putting their children through that.  Another claims is that many of the parents have reached wits end and are tired of dealing with the problems of their children.

I believe the best approach is sunlight: show everything that's going on and let people be horrified by it.

Here's a similar speach by State Senator Brian Joyce