Get-The-JRC-Shut-Down Campaign-- post ideas in point form

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1. put up posters with the headline "Special ed school uses high-voltage electric shocks-- Nagging? Zap. Swearing? Zap." Put them up in schools, mental health units of hospitals, shrinks' offices, and places where ytou know support groups for parents of mental--disordered kids congregate.

2. Go door to door and tell them to put up one of the posters in their window facing outwards.

3. Put them up in other places too, paper the city in them.

4. Put them in the windshield of your car, on your fridge, on your locker door, etc.

Any other ideas?

I see what you are saying.

I discourse. Electroshock was good for me. (especially the accidental water live current ones).

Whereas I can see that an irresponsible 'person' utilizing electric shock to induce at moment behavior changes on a child is awful.

Yes Ban it. No Ban it. Conflict? Mediate/Regulate it.

My self assesment was at moment to the positive. I'm sure this might sound crazy, but there is something to opening up the neuropassages with a jolt. As for trying to shut someone up with one, or make them conform to another's idea of when to be calm and when to be active-it will never work.

Only brain washing works. And fear. That's just plain inhumane.

But a loving (know the word as if that child would consider you that at any given moment) person using electroshock by way of professional professional (not just those ones with the doctorates) to say induce speech in the slow, sight in the blind, calm in the hyper, hyper in the atrophied. Well-my heart tells me I couldn't survive a police tazering, but the facts speak that I do survive my bumbleness around electricity and water-AND that it has been good for me. A freak accident with electricity broke my depression.

I'd go for low doses on purpose, but I think I would get addicted.

I do know that in general, organizations who rely on funding can corrupt and go overboards to get that funding; by fluffing their numbers with individuals who maybe don't need the treatment?

Best of Luch to the right action.

You could plauge your representatives with emails and encourage others to do the same. There are a few lobbying groups on the net (one that I know of if I find the link....) that makes web proposals and sends all it's members the option to write to their representatives. If you for instance get on with one of these groups 1. you will have access to the reps contact information 2. you will have access to those who are minde or practiced at making those reps aware of what is going on and what changes the public would like to see.

I think one is called MOVEON. I get mail from them. It also lets me know what my reps are voting on.

It is pretty neat because the form comes electronically and allows for comment to those reps (likely read by their assistants and compiled into a 'public wants this' briefing) But with new topics that are not heard often enough about, such as yours, you might just get read and seriously pondered. Repeat and perservere.

SeaBright, I know what you're saying... I wish that someone had tasered me in the head when I was depressed and seeing black holes! It's good for the people who ASK for it, who WANT it, because who knows their brains and thus their suffering better than them?

But shocking people for nagging, swearing... NOT ALLOWING THEM TO *EVER* talk to each other... food deprivation... that is just wrong IMHO.

There's [url=pulltheplugday.googlepages.com]Pull the Plug day[/url].

I think inundating the Massachusetts representatives is a good method.

To get the word around via posters and pamphlets, that will either take money and/or a lot of people who are very dedicated. (And I've noticed it can be a bit difficult to get large numbers of autistics to put a lot of effort into something that isn't one of their obsessional interests.)

It may help to link to new articles on JRC, especially the more recent ones with the criminal charges, on larger sites like MySpace, etc. Particularly groups involved in Psychology, Medicine, etc.

The more people know about it, someone may come up with a brilliant idea to attack the situation, one we hadn't yet thought of.

Also, supporting research which directly contradicts some of the methods that JRC is founded on may give better leverage for those who have continually attempted to shut the centers down.

It's rather odd though that one would need research to show something cruel is harmful to children when it is generally considered as such when applied to adults and animals.

In humans there is no evidence it actually works except by causing bad anxiety and PTSD. It is less successful therapy than immersion/avoidance/CBT. I'm not a big fan of straight immersion also called 'shock therapy', it is has a low success rate but gradual immersion with cognitive reinforcement like CBT does have a better success rate on many things. Study showed that CBT for anxiety is no less effective with or without antidepressants but antidepressant on there own were less effective long term in general and the improvement was less marked (sort of like the bottom rung of a ladder).

Avoidance can be applied where it is something that you wouldn't miss can live without.