HOUSE TAKES A STAND AGAINST TORTURE OF AMERICAN KIDS ON AMERICAN SOIL
WILL SENATE FOLLOW HOUSE'S LEAD?
Special Report from the Creative Youth News Team

June 25, 2008

The House of Representatives has passed Congressman George Miller's bill to regulate American Gulag Schools by a vote of 318 to 103 with 13 members of the House failing to vote.  HR 6358, titled "Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act of 2008" was aimed at regulating behavioral modification facilities where minors are sent against their will and tortured and often killed.  Next to prisons, the Gulag School industry is the largest growing industry in America, handling 20,000 child victims each year.  Youth who are sent to these schools are often from middle and upper class families.  Parents of tens of thousands of kids actually pay $10,000 to $100,000 to have their children tortured in America.   If the kids are unwilling to be tortured, the parents hire abductors to shackle and take their kids away to the facilities against their will.

Much of the money from these American Gulag Schools is funneled into the Republican National Committee.  Much has gone to George Bush, Dick Cheney, the Arizona Republican Party, and Mitt Romney.  Two organizers of these schools were ambassadors, appointed by the Bushes.  Another was a financial director for Mitt Romney's campaign.  It's no surprise that the 103 votes against the bill all came from Republicans.  However, there was some Republican support for the bill.

George MIller's Education committee conducted hearings into the abuses at these facilities, where the deaths and torture were documented.  Even the lead Republican on the committee was shocked at the abuses.  Congressman Dennis Kucinich also checked into the matter and co-sponsored the legislation.

This year, the California Democratic Party Platform called for the legislation that passed the House.  The issue was brought to their attention by Alex and Natasha Hull-Richter, two leaders in the National Youth Rights Association.  Alex, the Chief of Western Affairs for the National Youth Rights Association has served on the national board of directors for two years.  This year, he has decided not to run for re-election so he can devote more time to his studies aimed at assisting him in designing environmentally-friendly vehicles.  Natasha is the President of the Orange County Chapter of the National Youth Rights Association and the Youth Chairman of the Patrick Henry Democratic Club.  Both attended platform hearings of the CDP and educated the committee members on the abuses taking place within the Gulag Schools.

Asked for comment, Natasha pointed out that the Gulag School abuses and other abuses against youth would not be taking place if the voting age were lowered.  "Young people are treated as second class citizens with fewer rights, including the right to protect their own bodies.  Both political parties are guilty of perpetuating the abuse of minors because both parties deny them basic rights."

Dennis Kucinich, a hero to most young Americans, is expected to be introducing legislation to lower the voting age in the near future.  If young Americans are allowed to vote, it is expected that elected officials will care more about the mistreatment of youth.  The National Youth Rights Association has been fighting the Gulag Schools for years and only recently has Congress looked into the abuses taking place in those facilities.  Most voting adults continue to be unaware of what is taking place in America.  Next time, Creative Youth suggests voters asking the youth for current event updates.

The next question is "What will the Senate do?"  Will the Senate allow the torture to continue or will it have the courage to follow the House in regulating Gulag Schools. 

This is a first step.  If Thomas Edison and other inventive youth had been sent to a behavior modification facility, Americans would be reading by candlelight and communicating on clay tablets while never having heard of Mozart.  All creativity in America could die if these behavior modification facilities are not ABOLISHED altogether.

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