Businessman Narvin Lichfield is asking the 10th Circuit to revive his defamation lawsuit against Netflix documentary “The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping.”The lawsuit argues the documentary falsely portrayed him as:“a criminal and child abuser”Judges debated whether statements like: “the children he abused, the parents he conned” were protected opinion/hyperbole or factual accusations.The documentary focuses on WWASP-affiliated troubled teen programs.https://www.courthousenews.com/businessman-asks-10th-circuit-to-revive-defamation-suit-over-netflix-troubled-teen-documentary/
What the hell is WWASP?
>>1514915had to look up the acronym, but its this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Association_of_Specialty_Programs_and_Schools
>>1514915Company that ran bunch of troubled teen programs that tortured children they locked in them in dog cages in mexico, and children died.
>>1514899Screams frivolous trumpian lawsuit to censor the truth.
>>1514928>>1514943Why did society agree that it was fine for parents to arrange for their kids to pretty much be kidnapped and sent to reeducation camps? Clearly a sign of a deeper societal problem and the death of communities raising kids as a collective
>>1514960>fine for parents to arrange for their kids to pretty much be kidnapped and sent to reeducation camps?It's fine for parents to let their 8-year-old children transition?
>>1514960>Why did society agree that it was fine for parents to arrange for their kids to pretty much be kidnapped and sent to reeducation camps?M8, children are considered property in much of the world.
>It's fine for parents to let their 8-year-old children transition?https://i.postimg.cc/nV0NSbjZ/trump-approves-of-transitioning.pngWell, Trump agrees, don't bother him about it.
>>1514960To be fair, the republican supreme court just declared that Conversion Therapy, which is brainwashing, and widely discredited by actual science to be legal.
>>1514996Jesus christ, I forgot about that. Fucking nightmare world.
>>1514960this is old as the hills. Kids were sent to military schools or reform schools over a century ago when the parents were unable to properly raise them. Going back even further, it wasn't a problem for the working class and poor - they had their kids out working or, more likely, working around the farm as soon as they could walk.We have child labor laws now. We have (or had) public schools, instead of workhouses. The right has been trying to destroy public schooling since the 1960s.
>>1515008schooling is day care in disguise, there is no good alternative in a post-industrial world, aside from exploitation
>>1514996Robert Lichfield who was ceo of wwasp was Mitt Romney's Treasurer in his Utah campagin,
>>1515008Child Labor laws are joke children are used Ranch staff at turn-about ranch
>>1515023Spoken like a fucking moron.
