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27 Apr 2018, 7:45 pm

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The petition to have this prison closed on Change.org has about a quarter of a million signatures now. It's still open there if you wish to sign it.
Can you post a link so that we can sign it from here?


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27 Apr 2018, 7:47 pm

https://www.change.org/p/fda-ban-tortur ... optheshock

You're welcome. Hope many here sign it.



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27 Apr 2018, 8:13 pm

B19 wrote:
https://www.change.org/p/fda-ban-torture-of-people-with-disabilities-and-stoptheshock

You're welcome. Hope many here sign it.

Great. I will definitely sign it


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27 Apr 2018, 10:23 pm

I've signed the petition.


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27 Apr 2018, 10:37 pm

That's shameful. I've signed the petition.



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28 Apr 2018, 1:33 am

ASAN continues to lobby to stop the abuse:

http://autisticadvocacy.org/2018/04/asa ... k-devices/



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28 Apr 2018, 12:50 pm

It's things like this that make me think the US is no better than Nazi Germany. :x



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28 Apr 2018, 1:05 pm

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It's things like this that make me think the US is no better than Nazi Germany. :x


Well, in the US they don't exterminate the entire ethnic communities just on the basis of their ethnicity. Even if you look at slavery, at least they didn't exterminate their slaves.



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28 Apr 2018, 3:58 pm

^ let's not go there as it will derail the thread from its topic focus.

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Has anyone here seen the JR centre? Been there as a visitor or witness?

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In 2015 New York city gave $30 Million in funding to the this centre:
http://www.autismdailynewscast.com/judg ... urel-joss/