This is not snark, sarcasm, or humor.
I am aware that this sounds over the top but you have to hear me out.
There are some very disturbing facts about the people Mitt Romney keeps around him, but of course the media is no where to be found.
This is probably a new low for Mitt's investments and Bain Capital.
This man will literally do anything for a buck.
UPDATE: Here is more on this story from the Huffington Post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
And Salon http://www.salon.com/...
I've been doing some reading about the LDS culture, and the duties of a Mormon bishop (like Mitt Romney) in particular. There's some pretty creepy stuff -- and a whole damned boatload of repressed sexual energy. We'll get to that later.
But first, what I'm coming up with are numerous accounts of child abuse -- and child sexual abuse, as spelled out in "Scout's Honor," an award-winning investigative series about how the LDS church and its Idaho Falls scouting program covered up for the sexual molestation of Scouts by a Mormon pedophile.
Funny thing: Peter Zuckerman, the reporter who did the series, was outed as gay in a full-page newspaper ad paid for by billionaire Frank VanderSloot, Romney campaign finance co-chair and chairman of Melaleuca, Inc., an MLM company. VanderSloot is famous for threatening reporters, bloggers and publications with lawsuits. He's also a major donor to the Restore Our Future superPAC.
I also discovered a long chain of stories about "ranches" and "camps" owned and run by very politically connected Utah Mormons - especially the World Wide Association of Specialty Schools, founded by Robert Lichfield, who was Mitt Romney's finance co-chair back in 2007. He either resigned or was asked to resign after the abuse stories broke:
Robert Lichfield, a businessman with no clinical training in psychology, formed the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs in 1998. The Utah-based organization promoted itself as an umbrella company that linked independently run programs operating under WWASP guidelines to families in need. Further investigations have revealed, however, that all programs were operated and run by family members and business associates of Robert Lichfield. WWASP operated programs both in the US and abroad.
Multiple lawsuits have led to the closure of all official WWASP facilities, though rumors persist that several schools have reopened under new company names. Accusations include locking children in dog cages, severe physical beatings, food and sleep deprivation, pepper spraying of minors, isolation, lack of communication to parents, unreported sexual abuse, unsanitary living conditions, and brainwashing/emotional abuse.
http://crooksandliars.com/...
So we have two guys who are/were co-chairs for the Romney campaign. One takes out an ad to out a gay reporter publicly as revenge for making an investigative series on the LDS church covered up child molestation and the other ran an organization that tortured and molested children.
These men were hired by the Romney Campaign.
And then theres this...
In 1997, Aspen Education Group was founded in part by Elliot Sainer. A subsidiary of CRC Health Group, Aspen Education is owned by Bain Capital Group, founded in 1984 by Mitt Romney. Aspen Education Group provides therapeutic programs for youth including wilderness therapy, residential treatment facilities, therapeutic boarding schools, and weight loss facilities. Aspen Education is one of the most profitable teen treatment chains, boasting annual revenue of $150 million plus.
According to an article by Keith Chu of The Bulletin, many of Aspen Education Group’s programs – including now defunct Mount Bachelor Academy – were based directly on the CEDU methods of treatment. Lauding support by celebrity figures such as Dr. Phil and several other TV programs including “Brat Camp,” “I Know What You Ate Last Summer,” and “Intervention,” Aspen Education has become one of the most revered and successful programs of its kind.
Recent lawsuits and scrutiny, however, have led to the closure of multiple facilities and a total restructure announced in March of 2011. Mount Bachelor Academy, once one of Aspen Education’s top programs, closed in 2009 after lawsuits alleging sexual reenactments of past sexual abuse in front of peers, sleep deprivation, forced lap dances as part of therapy, and emotional and physical abuse. Sagewalk, one of Aspen’s top wilderness therapy facilities, was called “reckless” by State authorities following the death of 16-year-old Sergey Blashchishen. At least four other teenagers have died under Aspen’s care. Criticisms of Aspen’s weight loss facilities have also indicated child abuse, noting that children within its care were subjected to diet plans of under 10 grams of fat daily.
http://crooksandliars.com/...
CRC Health Group, controlling the Aspen brand name, is not just a for-profit organization but it is owned by a private investment firm Bain Capital with a fiduciary responsibility to maximize return on investment. The reality is that the best care in therapeutic facilities is not necessarily the care that produces the greatest return on investment. We would like to hear a commitment directly from Bain Capital that they have directed CRC Health Group to provide the highest quality of care they can, observing that while short-term financial gains might result from taking shortcuts, the long term best financial performance will result from delivering the highest quality services with the highest standards of ethics.
http://www.familylight.com/...
In shorter terms, Mitt Romney & Bain Capital owned a facility that tortured, molested, and even killed children.
I'm not a media conspiracy nut, that shit is for the right. I don't like to blame the media or polls when things aren't going our way.
With that being said, this man is in a close race for the Presidency of the United States and his career, investments, and wealth are all built from the pain and misery of others. A candidate for President will personally profit from Sensata being outsourced to China one day before the election and we have to get down and beg for news coverage?
But we have a liberal media, right?
Now we learn that in 1997, when Romney was still at Bain Capital, they owned a facility that tortured, molested, and killed children and profited from it the entire time.
Just close your eyes and try to fathom the outrage we would experience if Obama had done this.
The media and the right would come at us so hard our heads would spin.
Maybe Mitt Romney is a genius. Maybe his strategy is to be such a greedy, lying, deceitful piece of shit that it no longer shocks anyone no matter what he does and instead of being the truth it becomes a meme.
A Candidate for President's company owned a facility that tortured, molested, and killed children.
If this doesn't make people really sit down and give this guy a second look or isn't enough of a concern that the media might want to report it to people who will vote in 2 weeks, I'm not sure what will.