Boston Globe Bigotry

Boston Globe Bigotry

The Boston Globe and its editors report medical records only of persons
with disabilities as if they have no rights to privacy. (Franci R. Ellement,
"Slay suspect had mental health problems," Boston Globe, November 4, 2007) This
indicates the Boston Globe's bigotry.
Franci Ellement and the headline editor demonstrate irrational prejudice
toward persons with disabilities. What is the rational basis for saying the
suspect "was voluntarily committed to the psychiatric ward [. . .] after making
paranoid statements to his wife?"
If paranoia is a cause of crime, police officers, members of crime
families, politicians, psychiatrists, soldiers, spies and newspaper reporters
must be locked up in a hospital before they commit crimes.
What is the causal connection between "mental health problems" and crime?
How is being "hospitalized" relevant to the report on crime? It is as rational
to say the suspect eats Cheerios for breakfast.
Why is "mental illness" the only form of illness that police enforce
diagnoses? Why don't police force people with rashes and broken legs to get
treatment?
Stop demonizing persons with disabilities. The Boston Globe would never
print such hateful statements about women, persons of color or homosexuals.
Do all persons accused of mental illness commit crimes? If they do why not
put them all in jail? It would save a lot of time and money with the courts. Why
not force all people to take drugs until the drug companies have all the money?
The Globe ignores scientific studies which show that psychiatric drugs are
often the cause of violence. That is because of their blind trust of
psychiatrists and drug companies.
The Globe's editors do not question psychiatry and what a mental illness is
the personal opinion of a group of people masquerading as scientists.

Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM

Slay suspect had mental health problems
Missing person report says he had been hospitalized
By Franci R. Ellement
Boston Globe Correspondent
November 4, 2007

NORWOOD - The suspect charged in the beating death Friday of a 78-year-old
Needham man was suffering from mental health problems this summer, according to
a missing person report his wife filed with Norwood police in August.

William B. Dunn, 41, of Norwood, a father of three young boys, was voluntarily
committed to the psychiatric ward of Norwood Caritas Carney Hospital in August
after making paranoid statements to his wife, the Aug. 30 report said. His wife
filed the report after Dunn walked away from the hospital.

Dunn is accused of bludgeoning Robert J. Moore Sr. to death with a bat-like
object, after an argument between the two in Moore's basement, said a law
enforcement source with direct knowledge of the investigation. Dunn, working for
Quincy-based Mass Irrigation Co., had been installing a lawn sprinkler system at
the residence.

The homicide touched off a manhunt that led to a lockdown of local public
schools. The chaos was intensified by a standoff at a local pizza restaurant.
Police said the two cases were unrelated.

In a release about the pizza parlor, police said they were called shortly after
3 p.m. about a man with a gun causing a disturbance in the CVS and nearby Stone
Hearth Pizza on Great Plain Avenue.

But police secured the Needham Common area and contacted the man, who
surrendered. No weapon was found, and witnesses later said he had been motioning
as if he had a weapon.

The man was identified as Hillel Neuer. Police said he was charged with
disorderly conduct.

Kenneth Bandler, spokesman at the national headquarters of the American Jewish
Committee in New York, said Neuer is executive director of UN Watch, the
Geneva-based affiliate of the AJC.

"He's an internationally recognized human rights" advocate, Bandler said last
night by telephone. "He's the nicest person you will ever meet."

Neuer was visiting the United States at the invitation of Yale University and
traveled to Needham for private meetings with local supporters. He planned to
observe the Sabbath then address the group today, Bandler said.

"It's pretty clear he was the unfortunate victim of a profound mix-up," Bandler
said. "We're hopeful all this will be sorted out."

On Friday, Dunn was captured in a marsh alongside Route 128 by a trooper with a
dog. He is to be arraigned tomorrow at Dedham District Court. Calls to Robert
Griffin, his lawyer, were not returned.

In the weeks before his admission to the hospital, Dunn told his wife, Susan,
that "he stumbled upon a stock scandal and there were people after him,"
according to the report. Dunn told her husband that he was being paranoid, which
seemed to calm him for a few weeks.

But on Aug. 29, she again became concerned about his mental state. She called
for an ambulance. Dunn went willingly to the hospital, where he was admitted to
the psychiatric ward.

While visiting Dunn at the hospital that day, his wife and sister, Elizabeth,
left the area for a short time so a social worker could meet with him. When they
returned, he was gone.

His wife sought help from police. He was found the next day walking near a
cemetery in Norwood, and he returned to the hospital, again willingly, police
said.

On Friday, Dunn also allegedly assaulted the victim's daughter-in-law. Nancy
Moore was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. A hospital spokeswoman
would not comment yesterday on Moore's condition or acknowledge she was there.

Nancy Moore's father, Edward Lanigan of Needham, said his son-in-law told him
"that she's coming along." But, he said, "I don't know too much about what is
going on there."

The pastor at St. Bartholomew's Church in Needham, where the family worshiped,
declined to say much about the Moore family, citing a request for privacy. "He
was very, very devoted to his family," said the Rev. Phil McGaugh. "This is a
real tragedy."

Moore was very active in the monthly breakfasts at the church, said Selectman
James G. Healy. And Moore's wife, Fran, had devoted more than 6,000 volunteer
hours over the past 10 years at a hospital in town.

In Norwood yesterday, neighbor Paul Hughey, 46, said Susan Dunn had returned to
her Cape-style home to gather some things and then left shortly thereafter.

John R. Ellement of the Globe staff contributed to this report.