Was Charlie Crist in The Seed?
The Seed was a chain of controversial juvenile drug rehab programs founded in Ft. Lauderdale in 1970 by a Playboy Club comedian named Art Barker. The St. Petersburg times once reported that Barker had a mail order degree in psychology. The US Senate studied The Seed in 1974 and determined that it was using brainwashing methods like those employed by North Koreans on American servicemen in the Korean War. Pinellas County School Board Chairman Reverend A. L. Albers visited The Seed – Fort Lauderdale in 1973 and reported, “I didn’t get any feeling of brainwashing, but even if there were, we’re all brainwashed somewhat and is it really bad if it’s for the good?” [SPI, 3/21/73, p. 5A.] Programs like The Seed and Straight indoctrinate parents to make positive public pronouncements about the program in what is called “paying back.” Parents find themselves proudly releasing to the media that they had a kid in Straight the way they normally boast about having a kid in Harvard or West Point. Lik
