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Trump: Please put Somalia on your watch list

11/17/2017

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The Danish Television station TV2 broadcasted a documentary about children from Europe and the United States who were detained in religious boarding schools in Somaliland. In connection with this documentary we will publish this appeal to the president of the United States and his administration:

When Trump became president, he considered to restrict people from 12 countries from entering the United States.

We believe that he should put all those countries which were formerly a part of Somalia on this list.

In one part now known as Somaliland a new industry has established itself. It is a industry of extreme religious boarding schools where parents who live in the United States and Europe can send their children to if the children become too American or too European in their customs.

That is a problem when we address the security issues in every country in the world because closed school environments can be abused allowing the children to be forced into being taught about violence and that terrorism can be a tool to change the world.

We ordinary citizens in Europe and United States want to live in peace. Allowing children to leave our countries so they are placed in schools abroad where they learn to disgust our way of life and even fight it, is a serious threat against our peaceful lives.

We urge Trump and the American administration to put the area of Somalia on a watch list. We ask their customs to detain and interview every traveller leaving for and coming from the Somali area so it can be determined if they are parents or relatives to a child being detained at one of these boarding schools.

If they have a child at one of these schools they should be detained until the child is safely back in the United States where they then should be put under the protection of the social services.

If the parents then should be allowed to stay in the United States must be up to the court system to decide.

We are aware that many of the parents of Somali origins believe that they are only doing what other American parents do when they hire professionals to put their children in handcuffs and shackles so the children can be taken to Missouri or Utah where they are put into likewise religious boarding schools. The parents have a point.

Why target children with one religion when children are put through similar abuse just inside the United States?

Well. In an ideal world the United States should also put their foot down on all closed boarding schools in the United States. No child should be allowed to be contained under conditions which allows them less rights and more severe conditions compared to what they would experience in local prisons if they had broken the laws and the conditions in local boarding schools in Missouri and Utah are really bad.

But the laws are not there. Federal legislation making it difficult to bring children across state lines into states where legislators and law authorities do not care about children are not in place.

But border control to and from outside United States exist. Here is a chance to put the foot down and prevent abuse and the possibility that the children are introduced into terrorism.

That is why the United States should put the areas of the former Somalia on their watch list and restrict travelling to and from this area.

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Midwest Academy in Keokuk tried to silence an embarrassing case

1/31/2016

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When an employee acts improper with a child in the care of the facility you work for, you should be able to report it with facing consequences. The welfare of the child must be prioritized first. In most countries and states there are even laws mandating employees to report the dangerous interaction between an employee and a student. There are laws mandating the facilities to report it to the authorities.

So when an employee reported such a relationship between a student and an employee at Midwest Academy in Keokuk all the management had to do was to call the local sheriff and turn all evidence over the authorities so an investigation could be started. Regardless of the outcome the facility would not have faced any consequences. It could turn out to be a misunderstand. It could turn out that an employee would have been convicted.

But the management at Midwest Academy fired the employee instead and failed to report the incident to the authorities. So when the employee filed a lawsuit for wrongful dismissal the authorities looked secretly into what was going on at Midwest Academy.

Their initial investigation turned into a full scale raid and now the parents were told to collect their offspring. Of course that is kind of traumatic and causes a lot of disturbance for the parents. Midwest Academy is that kind of place where you place your unwanted children at; Children who might be the result of a rape; Children who might be the product of a previous marriage causing memories of a relationship the parents rather would forget; Children who were just born too late in life so parent fell robbed of the opportunity to retire early and go on cruises.

Now they have to collect what they had thrown into the streets so to say. Of course some of the children will be sent to Louisiana, Utah or Mexico where you find places of similar standard with a structure where the children have to pass exams based on mind-games where they have to take acceptance for every misdeed they experienced in their life. Mind-games where they learn that they have to take responsibility for incest they were exposed to, rapes they were exposed to, being in the wrong place that means being alive when their parents wants to remarry other people.

The parents must be angry at the management of Midwest Academy because now they suddenly have to step up their responsibility. It is here the case become odd. Now the parents have created petitions defending the facility. It is far from the first time parents create petitions defending the unspeakable. When the authorities raided Reclamation Ranch in Alabama which was a place where the religious employees shackled the teenagers in their care a petition also was made. Regardless of the petition the court fined the manager and both Reclamation Ranch and Rachel Academy was closed.

Hopefully the authorities in the home states where the children at Midwest Academy come from will look into the dysfunctional structure of the families who have sent children to the Academy. There might be younger siblings to save. Some of the children are even sent to Midwest Academy because their parents want to expose them to the damaging gender therapy several states ban.  We recently learned about such a case involving a Josh Bruno. We hope the recent events have freed him.

In the future we can only encourage employees to be as brave as the employee who started the process which has led to the closure of Midwest Academy. There is a reason for these laws mandating facilities to report this. It is about protecting the children.

Sources:
Agents investigating abuse claims at Iowa boarding school_ (Newsbug Info)
#SaveJoshuaBruno_ (Tumblr)

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A US girl exiled to Israel

9/18/2015

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A girl born in the United States has been taken by force to live a year in Israel. The girl named Hannah Nuszen was forced to attend a private detention facility marketed as a therapeutic boarding school in Utah. The facility New Haven is mentioned on several websites and blogs being operated by human rights organizations in several countries. She is now no longer attending the Utah facility but was pressured to go to Israel where she has no social network of family and friends to live for what looks like an entire year.

Whether this is sanctioned by family court judge Jim York is not known at this moment but the fact is that this girl has been flown to a part of the world located near a war zone. A country which was the target of missile strikes as late as last year.

Sources in Denmark which as country unfortunately are among those countries who delivers warriors for fundamentalist groups in Syria speak of motivated and well-educated youth who have left Denmark for this area and are ready to attack Israel if their religious leaders speak in favor of it.

Hannah Nuszen could be victim of such an attack and had she stayed in the United States she could have avoided being exposed to this danger. We have to ask: Where is her right as a United States citizen to remain in her own country?

We are not talking of a girl wanting to go for adventure with elements of near death experiences built into her trip. We are talking of a girl who wants to remain at home in Houston, Texas where she has her friends and family.

Please stop this exiling of a girl who might not survive this stay.

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Solhaven wants to reopen

4/8/2015

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It is with huge concern that the Danish group home Solhaven, which ran a WWASP like program for 20 years will reopen. They were forced to close due to a police investigation into possible abuse in the program. They were acquitted in a trial because based on the difference in the social status between the reputable citizens and the foster children who came from poor families. Social heritage matters – especially in Denmark.

At another group home a 15 year old girl was isolated in a cottage with a counselor. They had sex and the counselor received 60 days in jail. The evidence was a confession the girl had taped and sperm the girl had sampled from herself. The 60 days illustrate how the authorities look upon children from underprivileged children in foster care. 

At Solhaven the employees used force to control the teenagers. They accept that and the question in the trial was whether this use of force was illegal. The court found that it was an acceptable use of force. They also forced the teenagers to remain sitting on a wooden chair for many hours.

In relationship with the closure the local community lost 250 jobs. Basically there are not that many jobs to get in that area so the authorities who were given the task to supervise the facility had to balance the security and welfare of the children against the number of possible jobs in the local community.

Why did the case then get to the court when they so to say were protected by the local authorities? A number of policemen were issues a lot of gifts but fortunately for the children not every police officer were on the gift-list and it created jealousy at the police station. Some years ago the entire Danish police were undergoing a restructure which placed new officers in charge of the area. Officers not on the gift-list and not prepared to receive things in exchange for looking at another direction when problems with Solhaven occurred.

It started the case. It closed Solhaven. 250 people lost their jobs. Of course now where they were acquitted their lawyers have been harassing witnesses using the Diamond Ranch Academy method. They want to open again. The question is: Can they be monitored thorough so no foster children are put in harms way?

We don’t believe so. We will continue to watch them and alarm the authorities in Copenhagen so the local authorities in the community cannot protect the management.

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Denmark reverts to old fashioned treatment approach

1/28/2015

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Before 1972 the most used method in Danish group homes were corporal punishment. But in 1972 the authorities intervened and ordered the most well-known facility Godhavn to stop this approach and start using a more humane approach.

Still some treatment facilities and group homes continued to see at-risk teenagers as some individuals they had to break down leaving no methods unused. If breaking them down meant beating them up it was accepted.

Recently the police have conducted an investigation into a treatment facility known as Solhaven.

A complex case involving the use of gifts to the local police in order to make them look the other way took more than 2 years to handle in court.

Today the case came to a conclusion. The employees and the management of Solhaven were acquitted. It is basically a decision which revert the treatment approach used in Danish group homes and treatment facilities back to the time before 1972.

The legacy of Solhaven is that the methods used in the 1960s at Godhavn were acceptable even viewed with modern knowledge about the complexity of the problems teenagers of today face.

There is time for an appeal but there is also time for new legislation.

Based on this ruling there is no protection for a child placed in Danish group homes and treatment centers left. Maybe protection of these vulnerable teenagers is too much of a task for the Danish government. Maybe human rights agencies down at the European Union should set some standards for Denmark to follow.


Source:
Dom i Solhaven-sag: De tiltalte frifindes (Danmarks Radio)
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Diamond Ranch attacks former students and their supporters

11/4/2014

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It is with big concern we have learned that Diamond Ranch Academy is targeting old students and people who are helping the former students to speak about against what they consider to be bad treatment.

Diamond Ranch Academy was founded in Idaho where the authorities raided the facility only for the owners to relocate the company to Utah where legislation is a lot more relaxed.

2 teenagers have died while they were forced to live at the boarding school.

Suicide cases among former students are counted in an alarming number.

This boarding school needs to be monitored and the management doesn’t like it.

That is why the management has hired agents to investigate and stress not only former students but also humanitarians who help the former students.

A recent number of cases against individual humanitarians concern because if the laws don’t protect the teenagers at the boarding school and they cannot tell their story what prevents a third teenager from dying at the boarding school?

Please reach out to your local politician and media if you had a bad stay at the boarding school. You could save a life and prevent free speech from coming to an end.

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Thoughts about Boko Haram's intervention

5/12/2014

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Boko Haram adducted several hundred girls because they were afraid that the girls instead of following the local social norm being an uneducated house wife would seek education and career. They have seen themselves as interventionists saving the girls from western influence.

However we must condemn the entire process of removing children from the society so they can be forced to adapt religious and social standards. While the focus of the international media is on these poor girls abductions like these are everyday life in many countries. In a country like the United States goons hired by parents remove teenagers from their bed every night. The teenagers are taken to wilderness programs or enclosed boarding schools which resembles prisons to serve out their sentence until they adapt social or religious standard as defined by their parents.

Why do we find it acceptable to hire goons to drag teenagers out of their homes just because their lifestyle doesn’t suit the one we had in the 1970’s where there were no Internet, no emo-movement, and no steampunk clothes?

We fail to realize that our children grow up to a new world with new standards where recreational drugs are sold legally in some states and strong work ethics doesn’t count when you are competing for a job in a globalized world where it is seem normal to accept loses among the workers as a cost just like the clothing industry in South East Asia experience. We live in year 2014, not 1970. We cannot parent our children like the last 40 years hasn’t happen.

It is not a risk free operation. First a lot of teenagers have lost their lives in Utah programs. Crushed to death during manual restraints, killed by the elements during wilderness expeditions, died of thirst during the same, you name it. The causes of death are many and in some residential programs the survival rate is the rate if the teenager had been hard core drug addicts for decades.

Second what about the life after the program? Will the now young adults throw themselves into a dangerous lifestyle the minute they become legally adults or will they have to battle the Posttraumatic stress disorder the program gave them?

The girls Boko Haram took from their parents should be allowed to return home as soon as possible. But for every children to do the same, we need to realize that it is not our job as parents to keep them tied to norms from 1970. We need to prepare our children for the future which will be based on their terms eventually.

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Lawsuit involving Island View Residential Treatment center and Dr. Phil

1/30/2014

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A mother of a female teenager reached out for help at Dr. Phil and the family was given an offer which they believed could help the girl which struggled with relationship problems as part of the rite of passage towards adulthood.

What the girl got was isolation and violence at the Island View Residential Treatment Center. She ended up with a broken arm, which could bother her for the rest of her life.

Neither the family or the girl was given any advice of the type of treatment center Island View is. It is basically a level 3 lockdown suited for the most severe and violent teenagers. There is little freedom and isolation from family and friends back home.

The family has sued both the treatment center and the Dr. Phil show for the damages.


Sources:
  • Parents Say Dr. Phil Exploited Their Troubled Teenage Daughter (Court House News)
  • Family sues Dr. Phil, Utah treatment center (Deseret News)



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Teenagers continue to die in programs

1/14/2014

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Teenagers continue to die in residential programs. Here is a partial list of names of teenagers who passed away while they were forced to live away from home. This list covers only the years back to 2010. For a more complete list please consult one of the sources below:

  1. Taylor Mangham  (2010)
  2. Levi Snyder  (2010)
  3. Carnez Boone  (2010)
  4. Shanice Nibbs  (2010)
  5. Natasha Newman  (2010)
  6. Gracie James  (2010)
  7. Michael Owens  (2010)
  8. Roger Eugene Benson (2011)
  9. Dyskeha Streeter (2011)
  10. Benjamin James Lolley (2011)
  11. Caitlin A. Lee (2011)
  12. Daniel Huerta (2011)
  13. Anthony Parker (2011)
  14. Corey Foster (2012)
  15. Joseph Winters (2013)
  16. Unnamed boy who died at Diamond Ranch Academy (2013)


The list could be longer as some programs settle the death with the family in private so they can avoid bad press.


Sources:
  • Victim list - Fornits Wiki
  • Today a child died memorial blog


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Diamond Ranch Academy fights back

1/9/2014

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By locating former students and having them tell positive stories about their stay at the boarding school, Diamond Ranch Academy hopes to address the negative press they have received during the last few years.

When they started their operation there were no internet and former students were not able to reach the established newspapers, radios and television-stations. There was no reason for them to care about what former students might have to say about their stay at the school. As long as the parents who paid for the stay were happy about having been relieved so they could use their time on holidays and other personal activities everything was fine.

But then the former students found each other on the Internet. They were able to compare and found out that they all had the same negative experiences. They began to publish their testimonies online. Teenagers who were in risk of ending up at the boarding began to care. Numerous petitions aiming at saving teenagers from the boarding school were only. They gained support from people not only in the United States but also in other countries. The trademark “Diamond Ranch Academy” lost its value. It has been something you threaten your child with when the child is a toddler. “Eat up your food or you will end up at Diamond Ranch Academy pulling carts all day long”.

When a boy died at the ranch it became clear that the remote location of the ranch posed a danger to the students. An entire new concept for the school had to be invented. They built a brand new campus where the focus is on sport rather than wilderness and ranching activities.

But the boarding school still has its problems which needed to be fixed. Another boy lost his life at the boarding school only a few months ago. In the long run the school cannot survive if the negative press continues. So they are now in the offensive.

Other schools and programs have been in this situation. Usually the next step is to change the name. The family foundation school did that in 2013. Now they are named The Allynwood Academy. What will the new name of Diamond Ranch Academy be? This attack on former students and their negative experiences will not be a success. They have to move on accepting that the past cannot be buried.

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