Right-wing lawmaker ran gulag

If you're from Utah, you may have heard of State Sen. D. Chris Buttars, a Republican. You may have even heard of his links to abusive teen gulags. But for the rest of the world, this is a new story.

When Chris Buttars was criticized for a racist remark he made about a year ago, he cried that he was a victim of a "hate lynch mob." This episode occurred a couple years after Buttars's criticism of the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling. The intolerant bigot with a fucked-up face also sponsored a bill to require public schools to teach creationism.

Another Buttars bill would have required students to be taught that sex outside of marriage is "criminal conduct."

It turns out that - unbeknownst to most Americans - Buttars was director of Utah Boys Ranch - now known as West Ridge Academy - for years. This facility claims to "treat" boys and girls between the ages of 9 and 17, but it's actually an abusive gulag. Last year, the facility became the target of a lawsuit accusing it of allowing a detainee to be sexually assaulted. There have also been confirmed cases of physical abuse there.

Not long ago, a report emerged that Chris Buttars himself had personally ordered 2 staffers to rip a 13-year-old's clothes off and shave his head. The victim of this attack described Buttars as "the worst human being I've ever been eye to eye with."

Accounts like this however have been swept under the rug by the media.

Now another account has emerged about Buttars's reign of terror. According to this account, a 15-year-old who was sent to Utah Boys Ranch for the "crime" of not liking church met Buttars. Buttars boasted of his political influence and threatened to have a judge keep him there until he turned 21.

There's more in these and other accounts, but this should at least acquaint you with Buttars's fascism.

Teen gulags like to boast of influence they have with judges. CPH did it too. Why? Because they're run by scuzzballs.

Chris Buttars however recognizes his competition. I'm as against Ritalin as anyone, but Buttars's anti-Ritalin bill seemed like more of an effort to fight a competitor than anything. He apparently thought Big Pharma's forced drugging approach competed too much against Utah Boys Ranch's forced beating approach. In 2004, he supported a bill to permit state regulation of gulags, but that's only because he felt the bill would have a greater effect on facilities that competed with his own.

That bill of course never passed, because it was opposed by the founder of the abusive WWASPS chain, who was a major Republican donor.

I think what it boils down to is: Follow the money.

(Source: http://www.mormongulag.com/;
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/5/8431/61882/90/680293)