This is getting a bit darker, actually.
Vance Egglestone, aka Shauna Taylor, now 52, was one of the people who participated and survived three Canadian programs of "rehabilitation" in the 60s, 70s and 80s.
Perhaps little known in the USA is the fact that, unlike most countries around the world, Canada allowed for human experimentation with prisoners until fairly recentyl (1989).
People in prisons and teens in reformatory places could be "treated" with drugs, electricity, and other methods now considered "torture" just to see how their behaviour could be modified.
Three of those methods were:
- Motivation, Attitude, Participation Program -
"The M.A.P. program involved rotating groups of between four to eight men who were forced to sit on a bare Terrazo floor for approximately eight hours daily without being permitted more than two moves per group. Standing was not permitted and failure to comply with the non-movement orders and other directives with the M.A.P. program resulted in the individual being verbally confronted, heavily sedated with Nozinan or Largactil, put in restraints or placed in solitary confinement.
Prior to placement in the M.A.P. program, participants were placed in solitary confinement for a period of time."
http://www.oakridgeclassaction.ca/map.htm- Total Encounter Capsule Program -
"The Capsule is a small windowless room with dimensions approximately 8’ x 10’. Groups of four or more men would be stripped naked and placed in the Capsule for periods of up to two weeks at a time. The space was always lit, leading the men to be unable to distinguish day from night, confusion, disorientation, and serious confrontations between the men ensued.
During detention in the Capsule, the men were given various drugs including LSD and other hallucinogens.
The only nourishment provided to the men in the Capsule were in beverage form and had to be consumed through the use of straws inserted through holes in the Capsule food dispensers."
http://www.oakridgeclassaction.ca/capsule.htm- Defence Disruptive Therapy -
"Defence Disruptive Therapy program was an experimental program developed by Dr. Barker in the mid-1960’s. The program consisted of injecting inmates with drugs suggested to psychiatrists by other patients. These included LSD, amphetamines and Ritalin, and were frequently mixed together with alcohol resulting in toxic hallucinogenic cocktails.
Predictably, by late 1967, the patients who received “treatment” under this program experienced an increased risk of homicide and suicide."
http://www.oakridgeclassaction.ca/ddt.htmAn interesting statistic is that out of over 100 people who participated in those programs, 62 committed suicide, according to what I've read. Most of the others died of drug overdoses or in accidents. In fact, Vance Egglestone (who was one of the guinea pigs when he was 16-21) is the only survivor left of the group in the Penetanguishene Youth Rehab Program that functioned from 1967 to 1979.
There is a class action suit against the people involved in the human experimentation in the camp (which lies by what today is a Naval Base) and the only person fit to declare against those people is, you guessed it, Vance Egglestone:
http://bacque.graeme.tripod.com/HRA/HRA_14.htmlThe systematic torture of teens in Penetanguishene and two other places in Ontario unleashed a full investigation of Canada as a violator of Human Rights back in the 80s, which ended with the cancelation of all programs using drugs, sleep deprivation, injection of extraneous substances and isolation in Youth Camps (interestingly, most of the subjects were First Nations).
There may be a lot more to what we see in the initial article. I have my suspicion that Mr. Egglestone may commit "suicide" any of these days. Some of the people who tried accusing the perpetrators of these crimes died under very shady circumstances (one was detained for a speed violation and overdosed himself
while in custody back in 1992).
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