A Hero has gone on too early Barry L. Beyerstein
I've not made it much of a secret that I'm a HUGE fan of Lindsay Beyerstein over at Majikthise.
I was deeply saddened today to read that her beloved father, Barry L. Beyerstein has passed away much too young.
What ASTONISHED and lifted me and revealed how little I know about the world I live in (still, no matter how much I read and read) is that in re-reading the comments I discovered a common thread between myself, some of my friends, Florida, Lindsay and Barry Beyerstein.
(and disgustingly enough, another connection to DICK Cheney, Mel Sembler, Joe Lieberman etc...)
Seems that some time back in the 1990's Barry Beyerstein investigated and then wrote a report on the psychological abuse occurring in Mel Sembler's Straight program which was run with iron fists by some loonies. I knew some people that went through that program back in the day. I believe they are enslaved somehow. Smoke a joint, whack for life. Once they went in all of a sudden their parents would try to talk OTHER parents into putting their own children through the program. Those who went through Straight report being stalked and other heinous activities and the ones who have normal-ed out either FIGHT them, sue Sembler or run scared.
I don' t mean this in a light-hearted way. Some of these people still are not quite 'right' and some of them have really struggled to return to some semblance of normalcy.
So, Florida ----- every one of you here has a reason to thank and mourn Barry Beyerstein whose courage and honesty exposed a monstrous archaic practice that was performed by one of our very own local developers.
I, for one, know that I am very grateful that a person took time out of his life to expose something heinous that apparently so many others were happy enough to profit from or overlook.
Amazing man.
A true loss for us.
If any of you can remember how scared you were when you found out one of your friends was being sent to 'straight', you will understand how thankful I am that someone like Barry Beyerstein came along and did the right thing.
Thank you, Mr. Beyerstein. There could have been many more victims !!
Lucky us that you passed this way and it's my understanding from reading the HUNDREDS of comments that were left that this was just one of many life accomplishments for you.
If you'd like to read about a good man, please go and read about Mr. Beyerstein. Truly special.
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