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Makes one wonder, do state governments pay the Judge Rotenberg Center to troll the internet looking for anything written about it? I would also urge the Mass. Attorney General to investigate whether the "Education Center's" internet records show a pattern of trolling the internet looking for stories on the center.

JRC (Matthew Israel) is known for its culture of total and absolute control over every facet from the monitoring of students and staff, to dictating and "encouraging" all to eat a special diet. When things don't go their way, they simply destroy evidence. The place is a true Gulag.

There are a lot of individuals that make the Judge Rotenberg Center operate. Lawyers, psychiatrists, accountants and banks to name a few. What might be interesting is if those that enabled (by their services) what goes on there were exposed. Wouldn't you want to know who it is that contributes to helping this center manage its business? I happen to know. It's all a matter of public record if you know where to look. Perhaps if others knew, then they could choose whether they want to patronize these businesses or not. If one of the people who spent they're days shocking children lived next door to me, I would want to know. I certainly don't want my family around folks that have become desensitized to what I consider torture. This is something I have been thinking about for a long time, I just haven't moved forward with it yet. I'd be interested in other's thoughts on this. Should I expose those that do business or are employed by the Center? It's a moral question.

Comments

[Ed]

What you are saying sounds similar to list they have of sex offenders that it has been descided that people in the community have the right to know if they live near them.

I think it's a good idea. I also think that the industry that supports and encourages crimes that are justified as punishment motivation (for lack of a better term) that are less offensive than what goes on at the JRC need to be understood for what they lead to. Once torture is uncovered and exposed we can look at what the views are that sometimes are now too often justified as necessary actually lead to. The staff at JRC aren't children. They learned this behavior and they have learned to think that it is O.K.

And I think that exposing those who do business with these people and the employees is absolutely appropriate.

[VAB]

What you are proposing brings to mind the publication of the names and home addresses of abortion providers. It could be seen as in invitation to vigilante action.

We live, or we try to live, ruled by laws, not by indivduals or the mob. What happens at the JRC is against the law (despite what GWB would have us think, torture is illegal in the US). The avenue for addressing this should be the justice system.

[Ed]

I may see things differently than VAB.

The justice system needs to hear our voice about this.

Phil Schwarz made this comment about JRC last month on ABFH's blog:

"Massachusetts lawmakers -- WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO SHUT THIS HELLHOLE DOWN?!"

I ask the same question.
And I am a constituent and Massachusetts taxpayer.

The truth of the matter is that its operator, Matthew Israel, has friends in the right places in the legislature and the judiciary.

The last attempt to shut JRC down via legislation, IIRC, was stopped by a single spoiler vote in committee by Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez, who has a nephew at JRC.

A former commissioner of the state Dept. of Mental Retardation (the state agency charged with providing services for those with MR and developmental disabilities including autism spectrum conditions) attempted to shut JRC down in the 1990s, IIRC, and Israel found the right friends within the judiciary to win litigation against DMR. The commissioner's efforts ultimately cost him his job.

Every time there is a judicial or legislative hearing about JRC, Israel mobilizes a crowd of parents of JRC residents to grab as much testimony time as they can to testify in favor of keeping it in operation.

Israel can get them to ask "how high?" and jump when he says "jump" because he can threaten them that if JRC is shut down, their violent, unmanageable-except-through-electric-shock children will be dumped on their doorsteps with no further support."

O.K. that is the end of part of the comment. That is the part of the comment that most closely refers to this subject anyway.

Law makers and and those who run the justice system commit their own forms of vigilantism because they offend those they are supposed to serve. Many people don't know the culture of many of those within the justice system because they are taught to feel too ineffective and/or vulnerable to learn about that culture or challenge it.

Many people don't know the culture of the justice system inside the walls of institutions like the JRC either. They don't learn about it or challenge it for the same reasons.

I haven't heard anyone suggesting exposing anything that is against any laws that I know about. If we don't work to create a justice system that protects rather than victimizes the most vulnerable amongst us, we all may eventually become victims of a system that we didn't work to correct before we were the ones who needed the correction most.

[Rose]

I would be most interested to see an expose based on public records. I would say, morally, you did it for the "least of these". If you don't feel comfortable blasting it over the internet, please send it to rosewalker1"at"cs.com.

[VAB]

"The justice system needs to hear our voice about this."

Then what needs to be published is the telephone numbers and email address of people in the justice system who need to do the hearing.

Think how you would feel if Foresam or some other character posted the address of your private residence for all the curbies to read as a way of getting you to stop what you do.

[CS]

VAB,

I agree lawmakers should do something about this, and some are trying. Brian Joyce a state representative in Mass has worked tirelessly to close the place.

However, I'm also confronted with the fact that children and adults are being tortured. Their right to human dignity is being violated, and continues to be violated. I know what it is like to be a child, far from home, in a situation of physical and psychological torture, for years. But, my experience doesn't compare to what the children and adults go through at this place so I can only imagine. I have lived for years with PTSD as a result of the constant bullying I suffered as a child in a school. Not able to go home, not able to seek refuge.

I've actually had my name and address broadcast to the world. I've had the "curebies" even broadcast my child's name. I've had them call my schools in an attempt to find information about me and to slander me. I've had a bullet sent to me in the mail. I've received death threats.

Perhaps it comes from experience of being physically and psychologically pummelled over a number of years as a child "locked" away from home with no escape that I can empathize with the JRC "students". I know what it is like to be afraid to leave your room at 13 in fear of being beaten and demoralized on a daily basis.

It is a question of safety for sure, but whose safety are we concerned with? Someone that applies shocks hundreds of times a day? Or Someone that is being shocked hundreds of times a day?

If you knew the existence of an SS guard, would you be silent while he attends church, the Rotary, or acts as a Scout Leader? Or would you let the world know he is a former SS guard? Would you want a child molester living next door to you? Would you not tell your neighbor who also happens to have young children that a convicted child molester is living in the house across the street? What's the difference between that and letting everyone know who the torturers are and the businesses that contribute to the functioning of the JRC? This is not a rhetorical question I'm asking. I would truly like to know if you draw a distinction and why.

Radical abortionists I feel are driven primarily by the delusion of religion and believe the bible justifies a life. No one I know that is fervently against the JRC believes in anything but the law handling the center. I've yet to read or hear someone say they want to kill anyone from the JRC. However, my belief is that a little shame can go a long way in making people think twice if others know they make a living off of the torture of those that are different.

[VAB]

We see things very differently. I've been quiet extensively beaten and bullied too. I know what it is like to be denied security of person.

I think that it is important to act to protect others but, perhaps because of my own experience, I do not believe that we should act to deny others (no matter how evil we may personally judge them to be) security of person. Exposing a person to chastisement their home, or by way of their standing in the community, for crimes that you, a jury of one (or perhaps you and some other people that you get together with) believe they have committed is immoral. You proposing that these people be bullied and humiliated for crimes adjudicated by you alone. You are proposing that they loose the right to feel secure in their own homes. The logic that would support this is the same logic that drives the worst of the bullies and the worst criminals.

I'm sorry to be blunt in expressing my opinion, but I think the matter is important.

[CS]

VAB,

Your correct. You and I do see this very differently.

[Amanda]

I say go for it. If it's public information, it's already out there, but people just aren't finding it, for whatever reason. I personally would love to find out who is supporting this torture center. Maybe if more people knew, they would stop unknowingly supporting it and it would have to be closed down.