Thread: Anti-Gay Concentration Camps

Originally Posted by SigTurner

Why does this sound like a Romney smear campaign?

Well, it's anti-Mormon propaganda, regardless.

Originally Posted by perdidochas

Well, it's anti-Mormon propaganda, regardless.

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.

Originally Posted by Squall

This is something the mainstream media has refused to report enough on.

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Here's one victim's story: http://www.reddit.com/r/troubledteen...nce_at_a_utah/

Original Discussion on Facepunch: http://www.facepunch.com/threads/109...shing-facility

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_W...ms_and_Schools

So how come PBS/NPR hasn't jumped all over this?

This sounds like BS to me.... Kidnapping is against the law and carries stiff penalties.

Originally Posted by Squall

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/troubledteen...nce_at_a_utah/

Original Discussion on Facepunch: http://www.facepunch.com/threads/109...shing-facility

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_W...ms_and_Schools

Originally Posted by Squall

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/troubledteen...nce_at_a_utah/

Original Discussion on Facepunch: http://www.facepunch.com/threads/109...shing-facility

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_W...ms_and_Schools

...... and who says religion is a bad thing?

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.

Originally Posted by Squall

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.

Oh God. Please let this be a lie, or an exaggeration. That is sick.

Originally Posted by Margot

This sounds like BS to me.... Kidnapping is against the law and carries stiff penalties.

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.

Originally Posted by Automaton

Oh God. Please let this be a lie, or an exaggeration. That is sick.

You need to read the rest of the story. It's not anti-gay, it's a troubled youth camp.

Originally Posted by Margot

This sounds like BS to me.... Kidnapping is against the law and carries stiff penalties.

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.

Originally Posted by perdidochas

You need to read the rest of the story. It's not anti-gay, it's a troubled youth camp.

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.