PFC collapsed Tuesday. It's gone.

Well, folks, it's finally over for Pathway Family Center.

It's gone. No more. Finished. Kaput. History.

They just said it on (brrrrring) Channel 9!

And it was all happening Tuesday just as I was writing about the fact that this gulag had been evicted from its Indianapolis location. PFC lost its last building and its revenue stream generated by new recruits, and now this cult realizes its time is up - so they've had no choice but to call it quits.

One still wonders what happened to the hundreds of thousands of dollars PFC raised in northwestern Indiana, where it shut its facility almost as quickly as it opened.

PFC likes to blame the bad economy for all of its closures - which have occurred only in the past 10 months. But when was the last time America had a good economy? Make no mistake: Pathway Family Center was done in by negative publicity. The facts came out about PFC, so nobody wanted to patronize it any longer. Simple.

I'm proud to say I was a part of the roadside rallies against PFC, but I don't deserve all the credit. Others had been protesting the center for years before. As protests were stepped up over the past 2 years, these rallies contributed to the closure of a program that had been in existence since around the time Reagan took office (if you count PFC-related programs like Kids Helping Kids).

Best of all, it appears as if anyone who was recently confined at PFC is home now - at long last. And that's where they'll stay - as long as PFC doesn't try to place them in a different program. Luckily, many of the kids trapped at PFC knew there were folks on the outside working to close the program. If only kids in every program knew they had such support.

Also, it's important to never take our eye off the ball. We'll have to keep one eye on the situation to make sure PFC doesn't come back in any form. Kind of like the Republicans' political prospects.

If abusive programs become much more widespread than they have been, it's a certain route to any society's collapse.

Pathwaste's closure is indeed a pivotal event for America's youth. PFC is R.I.P.