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You can attempt to trademark your own name, but it rarely holds up in court, especially against the many fair use defenses. I should know. I run a website that had to deal with a WIPO dispute from a woman claiming her name was trademarked (decision here, full details and all case files here). Her argument was similar that a person could misunderstand my site to be hers, but even if that were true, there are cases dealing with that specifically, finding it to be acceptable for public comment purposes (form of protest). One of the funny things is she registered the mark only after I put up the website about her.

For those not familiar with WWASP, there is a documentary available here (mp4 video).

They don't. They'll also drink themselves to death on water if they're stressed out enough. Probably aquaholism. Like anything, all this depends on the expectations people have when they go into an experiment. Statistics are the mothers of many lies.

I am not entirely familiar with the case but lets just say that it was no ordinary boarding school but a gulag prison for teens whose parents are desperate and get tricked into sending their kids to these places. There is a lot more to this story but defamation lawsuits are usually a way these cult programs deal with criticism. Check out the fornits.com forums for more info. They talk about Sue Scheff a lot there. I am not sure what the full story is but its something along the lines of how these gulags pay large referal fees to "educational consultants" to recruit for their programs. They charge hundreds of dollars a day to basically warehouse and abuse kids.

I don't know about the original comments, but if you're curious to hear some of the aftermath, this link has a lot about what actually happened. The offending accusations appear to have something to do with (allegedly - don't sue me!) the plaintiff referring at-risk teens to a the Whitmore Academy, a youth center that (again, allegedly, although in this case charges were brought and the owner plead no contest - draw your own conclusion) had a history of abuse. In return for these referrals, it seems that the plaintiff was paid some money, and the woman accused of defaming her was real pissed off about this. At least that's what it looks like - the message board is a lot of arguing back and forth, and I frankly don't have the time to sift through it right now. In any case, though, it doesn't look like the original statements were altogether without merit to me...too bad they didn't actually fight it out in court, might have been a more reasonable outcome.

This seems to all have come out of a set of disputes over how to deal with troubled kids that led to them being placed in a school that is part of a group that has a long trail of allegations and convictions for child abuse.
Sue Scheff's site is here: http://www.helpyourteens.com/index.html
A google for "WWASP" and "PURE" "Sue Scheff" gives interesting information.
The original thread and allegations are here.
Members of that board don't have anything particularly nice to say about this event.

This seems to all have come out of a set of disputes over how to deal with troubled kids that led to them being placed in a school that is part of a group that has a long trail of allegations and convictions for child abuse.
Sue Scheff's site is here: http://www.helpyourteens.com/index.html
A google for "WWASP" and "PURE" "Sue Scheff" gives interesting information.
The original thread and allegations are here.
Members of that board don't have anything particularly nice to say about this event.

At the risk of ending up at Camp X-Ray I include these URLs

http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?topic=8281&fo rum=40&102
http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?topic=4340&fo rum=9&12

At the risk of ending up at Camp X-Ray I include these URLs

http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?topic=8281&fo rum=40&102
http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?topic=4340&fo rum=9&12

Remember, in 10 years, by the year 2000, America will have exhausted 80% of her petroleum reserves. Will we then go to war with the Arabs for the privilege of driving our cars; will we stripmine our land for coal, and poison our air so we can drive our autos an extra 100 years; will we raze our forests for our energy needs?

http://fornits.com/curiosity/hemp/biomassa.htm

peace | neut

They might sign away 49% of their custody and send you to a Behavioral Modification Center offshore in Jamaica staffed by uneducated/uncertified people who will "restrain" you into submission.

They'll guaranteed you're kids will come back saying, "I love you mama" while giving you a pretty flower, just like the kids on Maury!

googled this:

PYROLYSIS is the technique of applying high heat to organic matter (ligno-cellulosic materials) in the absence of air or in reduced air.

The process can produce charcoal, condensable organic liquids (pyrolytic fuel oil), non-condensable gasses, acetic acid, acetone, and methanol. The process can be adjusted to favor charcoal, pyrolytic oil, gas, or methanol production with a 95.5% fuel-to-feed efficiency.

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Needless to say, DuPont and ShellOil are quick to point out that a hemp farm turns all widdle children within a 100 mi radius into raging, deliquent, homocidal maniacs.