System drops ball following our protests

When crime is evident, we as taxpayers have a right to expect the system to investigate - and prosecute if the need arises.

But when it comes to the teen torture industry, the system has been dropping the ball too damn much. It has for decades.

Take our July 11 protest against this racket, for instance. You know, the one in which the Harangue stole our sign. Recently I learned that authorities are refusing to charge the Harangue for theft after she stole the sign. It is unknown why - for the theft (which of course was not very professional behavior) was caught on video.

But we should be less concerned about a sign on thin paper that took only a half-hour to make than we should be about apparent misdeeds that would be far more serious. For instance, look at what happened during our July 14 rally. Near the end of the event, a car taking detainees to their host homes pulled out of the facility. A young person in the car pressed a piece of paper saying "HELP ME" against the window, where we could see it.

This is a clear indication that something very serious is going on that shouldn't be. If so, it would have to be either at the facility itself or one of the host homes authorized by the program. We got the car's license plate number, and we called the police. We were told that an alert was put out all over the Tri-State for the car.

I'm fully aware that there's a stock program response to cries for help like this. Almost without fail, facilities accuse the kid of lying. They will call the kid a liar right to their face, no matter how truthful the kid is being. No real investigation is made. And the young person is likely to be punished severely and docked a few levels. It was like this in 1990, and it's probably worse now.

Based on this, it's not surprising when facilities drop the ball - but what about the system?

In Ohio, all roads lead to ODADAS - the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services. If a facility is billed as a drug rehab - which the one that we protest is - ODADAS is supposed to make sure the program meets state standards.

Well, I already knew that this particular center had 38 deficiencies at an inspection not long ago, but ODADAS allowed it to stay in business anyway. And now it turns out ODADAS thinks there's absolutely nothing wrong with the July 14 incident.

For starts, ODADAS claims the police alert was only for Clermont County, not the entire Tri-State. This means that either the police dropped the ball or ODADAS is lying. Based on ODADAS's overall dishonesty, it could very well be the latter.

How full of shit is ODADAS? It also claimed that "there has been nothing to substantiate" that the program "has violated ODADAS standards."

Oh yeah? What about those 38 deficiencies?

It's safe to say ODADAS is corrupt. When "treatment" centers that have so many serious deficiencies don't even get shut down, and when ODADAS lies to cover up for them, it's clear ODADAS is corrupt.

What? Corruption in a government agency? You gotta be kidding me!

(Source: http://www.isaccorp.org/kidshelpingkids.asp)