This is something the mainstream media has refused to report enough on. A company in Utah named "Teen Escort Services" is regularly contracted to kidnap LGBT teenagers in the middle of the night, deport them to a concentration camp in a country that doesn't extradite to the US, and torture them. The goal of these concentration camps is to beat "the gay" out of them. It's legal because homophobic parents sign over legal documents allowing them to go to these camps to "cure" their homosexuality. They are not allowed to leave these camps and are regularly tortured, they are also banned from speaking about the outside world. According to some testimonies, the teenagers tried to rebel against their Nazi overseers, but were gunned down with rubber bullets. Please don't blame the entire United States for these crimes against humanity. In Utah (and Jamaica, which is where one of the concentration camps is located) teenagers lack the same basic human rights as adults and Utah is known for being predominantly Mormon. For those of you who don't know, Mormonism is a radical far right wing sect of Christianity that often does outrageous things and promotes incest, inbreeding, and now apparently the kidnapping & false imprisonment of minors. This is legal because the companies involved "donated" large sums of money to many politicians and the leader of one of the concentration camp operating companies, World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools, is a close personal friend of many politicians, including Mitt Romney. Here's one victim's story: http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteens/comments/hk0xy/a_gay_teen_describes_her_experience_at_a_utah/ Original Discussion on Facepunch: http://www.facepunch.com/threads/10...erience-at-a-Utah-WWASP-brainwashing-facility Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Association_of_Specialty_Programs_and_Schools
those kids should be given to social services that will find them more appropriate people who will be called parents. in a mean time, those 'homophobic' maniacs should be in jail.
I agree with this. I don't see how kidnapping children and treating them this way can be legal, whether the parents arranged it or not. This is horrible.
if the parents arranged it, it's not kidnapping. but even if it's not a crime, that still doesn't make it right.
btw anyone though about making anti-maniac-parents-with-lack-of-parent-education concentration camp ?!
LBGT teens are not the only ones being abused in concentration camps. There are many other camps in rural locations in the USA where overwhelmed parents send their "troubled" teens. Teens may spend several years of their lives living under severely restrictive circumstances. If they try to go off on their own without adult supervision, they may actually be locked up in a cell, even if they are 17 years old. Often they are not allowed to have a cell phone or internet access. Frequently they must "earn the privilege" to be allowed to have even a CD player! The food is little better than prison food, and there is not even a microwave for them to cook their own food with. Most of these teens are not even allowed to be in possession of any personal money! (it is all locked away from them) At many of these places, the teens are not ever allowed to leave to compound. Or they only get the opportunity to go on an adult-supervised outing once a month, which is of course considered a "privilege" tied to good behaviour. Those who misbehave may be forced to wear a jump suit and have all their ordinary clothes confiscated from them as punishment. Many of these teens have never even had any problems with the law. This type of mistreatment is surprisingly common in the USA. I am surprised there have not been more "exposées" about this.
Concentration Camps.....I like it. Our prisons are more like country clubs......Maybe outdoor concentration camps would be better punishment. I know some great swamp land that would be ideal locations.
i didnt know they had concentrations camps anymore, thumbs up hitler. especially the homosexual part, they are corrupting the era.
It's not kidnapping. It's parents getting control of their children with the assistance of others. No different than what mental hospitals do. Also, from reading the links from the wiki link provided, it seems this isn't just for LGBT teens, its for troubled teens of all sorts. They are basically privately run "boot camps."
To me, it seems like a convenient, pro-gay conspiracy theory so they can make themselves out to be the victims again. Sorry, but I'm not buying it.
Mormons, no offense to you religious people, are a bunch of morons that believe what one guy said one day in America that everyone should believe. That's it. If you believe in that crap, you are simply believing what your family taught you to believe when you were growing up. Now that you are an adult, and now that you can read this message board, try doing some research on faith, and religion, and making your own decision. Only reason you are Mormon is because mommy and daddy were.
It wouldn't be kidnapping if it's the kids parents who have the kid shipped off. Sick, sick, sick. I hope you're right that it's BS.
From reading the girls story kidnapping is an exageration. The guys showed up, said her mom was sending her off to the same camp that her brother had been sent to, packed her bags, and took her through the airport. She just went along. I'm sure that, especially in the airport, she could have made a stink and gotten cops involved or whatever. So not kidnapping. Child abuse or child endangerment? Probably. From the wiki it sounds like the whole operation has folded under litigation, so this is mostly a historical discussion. Though I suppose something similar may have just popped up to fill the void. Well, it was certainly a troubled youth camp. And the teen in telling her story certainly had some issues. She mentions drugs, but implies more. Regardless that doesn't mean they didn't also have an anti-gay mentality. Though I suppose the OP is being a bit dramatic with the thread title.
even NPR has standards-they're holding back until Romny gets the nomination and is ahead in the polls in October.
Doesn't make it any less true.....These type of "Camps" are real....and Mitt Romney does actuallyu support it.... He just tends to ignore all of the torture aspects.
This is highly unethical to me. This is really crazy, I can't believe people would be willing to go this far through their homophobia.
um i dont recall people at church ever telling me to send kids to other nations to have the gay beat out of them i was told incest was wrong its ok you dont like Mormons and there practices i dont like things about the lds faith myself but there are different sects please dont lie about people and entire churches for the sake of your generalizations But ya anyone who sends there child to be broken should go to jail and those kids could do with some rescuing