Word: patricks
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Chicago Today. Weisman had recently published several stories that embarrassed the mayor, including one about his son John Patrick, who seemed to bring millions of dollars of city business with him to a recent job with an Evanston insurance agency. Shaking Daley's hand firmly, Weisman congratulated the mayor on "your beautiful headquarters." The mayor thanked him politely. Still gripping Daley's hand, Weisman leaned forward and asked, "By the way, when will you be releasing your promised statement on your sons' economic interests?" Pulling back and trying to shove Weisman on down the line, Daley yelled...
...have pressed kidnaping charges against Voll's abductors except for one fact: they included his mother and father, a junior high school principal in Farmington, Conn. The Lockwood disappearance involved his father, a stockbroker in Los Angeles, plus an uncle. The black man in both cases was Ted Patrick, 42, a former community-relations consultant for California Governor Ronald Reagan. He now heads a "deprogramming" organization that helps parents recapture children who have taken up with exotic religious sects. Patrick, a church-going Methodist, began heretic hunting as a leader in the FREE COG (Free Our Children from...
...Patrick and his team members -mostly concerned parents, already deprogrammed kids and an occasional clergyman-are not known to have any professional credentials in psychology. Nevertheless, they claim their treatment always works. They liken it to an encounter group session. Other accounts of deprogramming indicate that the process, which can last from two days to two weeks, is something between a brainwashing and an inquisition. According to Pat ("Biff") Alexander, 23, a former member of the Jesus movement who recanted and is now a member of Patrick's team, the first step is an in tensive interrogation, sometimes lasting...
Alexander participated in Wes Lockwood's successful reconditioning, along with Ted Patrick and Father Gregory Flohr, a religion teacher at Pennsylvania's Seton Hill College...
Frailties. Jerry Sharpe of the Pittsburgh Press is perhaps the only journalist who has observed a deprogramming in process. It involved a girl from the Children of God who was imprisoned in a room near Pittsburgh until Ted Patrick could fly in to take charge of her. Patrick is "an amazing guy," says Sharpe. "This girl was clutching the Bible, staring ahead, and repeating 'Praise the Lord' all the time. Patrick walked over and ripped the Bible out of her hands so hard that he almost threw her against the wall. He said...