Campus Police Want to Carry Arms
The violence villain is hiding in plain sight. University administrators
are unable to see him. (Marcella Bombardieri, "Campus police renew call to carry
arms," Boston Globe, April 28, 2007) If universities stopped drugging their
students they could greatly reduce the potential for violence. Psychiatric drugs
are a known cause of violence among young people. It continues to be ignored by
journalists and university officials due to public discourse controlled by the
drug companies. This would free young people to grow and to learn without being
subjected to psychiatric abuses.
Arming police will not stop such determined murderers, unless you would
have officers in every classroom. Arming civilians would prevent some of the
killings. If a student had a pistol when the shootings began at VA Tech, he or
she could have stopped it immediately.
A further problem with arming campus police is that they are mostly
unaccountable for their errors and abuses of power. Unless and until they are
held to the same oversight and accountability as city police they should not be
permitted to carry deadly weapons.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Campus police renew call to carry arms
Va. Tech slayings rekindle debate
Lieutenant Pam Curtis, an officer at Framingham State College, patrolled a
corridor of the science building yesterday. School officials are discussing
whether the police should be armed. Lieutenant Pam Curtis, an officer at
Framingham State College, patrolled a corridor of the science building
yesterday. School officials are discussing whether the police should be armed.
(BILL POLO/GLOBE STAFF)
By Marcella Bombardieri,
Boston Globe Staff
April 28, 2007
Campus police at several Boston-area colleges are renewing calls to be allowed
to carry arms in the aftermath of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech.
Brandeis University, which has rejected calls to arm its police in the past, has
agreed to reconsider the idea. Framingham State College officials are talking
about it, and students at Suffolk University are circulating a petition calling
for an armed force.
[...]
May 18, 2007
The Violence Virus
The Violence Virus
Susan C. Scrimshaw says, "law enforcement, [...] is only part of the
solution" to youth violence. (Susan C. Scrimshaw, "The violence virus," Boston
Globe, April 22, 2007)
One element is the role of psychiatric drugs. Psychiatric drugs created a
generation of violent monsters from chemicals ingested under advice of the adult
community that should know better.
Another element is the effect of elected officials and police on setting
standards for young people. Police treat victims as suspects. Politicians ignore
abuses of police and the FBI.
Young people recognize hypocrisy in application of the laws. Public
officials ignore inconvenient laws. University development offices pressure
local communities to approve projects contrary to laws. There is no outrage
among the educated voters in eastern Mass. The one party-system permits abuses
of law and power not usually tolerated under a democratic republic.
There is no accountability for harms by wealthy and powerful persons. Young
people know this as well as adults. They join gangs for self protection. The
police do not perform their primary function, i.e., to protect citizens from
harm. Gangs fill the vacuum.
Respect for individuals will end much violence. But there is no respect for
poor powerless person by politicians and police and journalists.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
The violence virus
Boston Globe
By Susan C. Scrimshaw
April 22, 2007
IN URBAN areas across our nation, hardly a day goes by without news of a
shooting. Many such incidents start with a rash argument between young people
armed with guns. The typical response, when shootings increase, is to enhance
law enforcement, but that is only part of the solution.
This deadly cycle of shootings is a public-health epidemic. By approaching it as
such -- as a contagious disease of underlying expectations and pressures, one
that is both treatable and preventable -- we can make significant progress
toward halting it.
Urban violence is spread largely by expectations among youths in many gangs: If
you insult or harm me, I must harm you. That powerful peer pressure and behavior
is transmitted, like a virus, from person to person and gang to gang -- until
there's a violent outbreak, and someone is killed. Then the virus is quiet until
another outbreak .
[...]
Susan C. Scrimshaw is president of Simmons College in Boston.
Susan C. Scrimshaw says, "law enforcement, [...] is only part of the
solution" to youth violence. (Susan C. Scrimshaw, "The violence virus," Boston
Globe, April 22, 2007)
One element is the role of psychiatric drugs. Psychiatric drugs created a
generation of violent monsters from chemicals ingested under advice of the adult
community that should know better.
Another element is the effect of elected officials and police on setting
standards for young people. Police treat victims as suspects. Politicians ignore
abuses of police and the FBI.
Young people recognize hypocrisy in application of the laws. Public
officials ignore inconvenient laws. University development offices pressure
local communities to approve projects contrary to laws. There is no outrage
among the educated voters in eastern Mass. The one party-system permits abuses
of law and power not usually tolerated under a democratic republic.
There is no accountability for harms by wealthy and powerful persons. Young
people know this as well as adults. They join gangs for self protection. The
police do not perform their primary function, i.e., to protect citizens from
harm. Gangs fill the vacuum.
Respect for individuals will end much violence. But there is no respect for
poor powerless person by politicians and police and journalists.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
The violence virus
Boston Globe
By Susan C. Scrimshaw
April 22, 2007
IN URBAN areas across our nation, hardly a day goes by without news of a
shooting. Many such incidents start with a rash argument between young people
armed with guns. The typical response, when shootings increase, is to enhance
law enforcement, but that is only part of the solution.
This deadly cycle of shootings is a public-health epidemic. By approaching it as
such -- as a contagious disease of underlying expectations and pressures, one
that is both treatable and preventable -- we can make significant progress
toward halting it.
Urban violence is spread largely by expectations among youths in many gangs: If
you insult or harm me, I must harm you. That powerful peer pressure and behavior
is transmitted, like a virus, from person to person and gang to gang -- until
there's a violent outbreak, and someone is killed. Then the virus is quiet until
another outbreak .
[...]
Susan C. Scrimshaw is president of Simmons College in Boston.
Gentle Brutality
Gentle Brutality
Jeff Jacoby quotes Robert F. Kennedy an abrasive upper class politician
with little compassion and mercy for his opponents saying, "Let us dedicate
ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of
man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that,
and say a prayer for our country, and for our people." (Jeff Jacoby, "A time for
tears and silence, not politics," Boston Globe, April 22, 2007) Isn't it typical
of politicians to say one thing and to do the opposite? How soon Jacoby forgets if
he ever noticed.
Answering those prayers is the psychiatric industry and the drug companies,
who tame "the savageness" of man with the approval of control freak
journalists. Using the police power of the state to force an alleged medical
diagnosis shows how brutal contemporary officials are who are making people more
gentle. Friendly persuasion under threat of police powers and chemicals is not
the way to end the cycle of violence. Using psychiatric drugs, often the cause
of violence, in the name of ending violence is expert spinning of the facts.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
A time for tears and silence, not politics
Boston Globe
By Jeff Jacoby
April 22, 2007
Paul Helmke didn't miss a beat. The bodies of the Virginia Tech shooting victims
weren't yet cold when the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun
Violence was out with a press release.
"Details are still forthcoming about what motivated the shooter in this case to
act," Helmke's statement said. "It is well known, however, how easy it is for an
individual to get powerful weapons in our country. . . . It is long overdue for
us to take some common-sense actions to prevent tragedies like this from
continuing to occur."
[...]
Jeff Jacoby's e-mail address is jacoby@globe.com.
Jeff Jacoby quotes Robert F. Kennedy an abrasive upper class politician
with little compassion and mercy for his opponents saying, "Let us dedicate
ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of
man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that,
and say a prayer for our country, and for our people." (Jeff Jacoby, "A time for
tears and silence, not politics," Boston Globe, April 22, 2007) Isn't it typical
of politicians to say one thing and to do the opposite? How soon Jacoby forgets if
he ever noticed.
Answering those prayers is the psychiatric industry and the drug companies,
who tame "the savageness" of man with the approval of control freak
journalists. Using the police power of the state to force an alleged medical
diagnosis shows how brutal contemporary officials are who are making people more
gentle. Friendly persuasion under threat of police powers and chemicals is not
the way to end the cycle of violence. Using psychiatric drugs, often the cause
of violence, in the name of ending violence is expert spinning of the facts.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
A time for tears and silence, not politics
Boston Globe
By Jeff Jacoby
April 22, 2007
Paul Helmke didn't miss a beat. The bodies of the Virginia Tech shooting victims
weren't yet cold when the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun
Violence was out with a press release.
"Details are still forthcoming about what motivated the shooter in this case to
act," Helmke's statement said. "It is well known, however, how easy it is for an
individual to get powerful weapons in our country. . . . It is long overdue for
us to take some common-sense actions to prevent tragedies like this from
continuing to occur."
[...]
Jeff Jacoby's e-mail address is jacoby@globe.com.
Dangerous Propaganda
Dangerous Propaganda
Marc Seigel asks, "Is there any science behind the fears of these useful
meds?"(MARC K. SIEGEL, "DANGEROUS WARNINGS," New York Post, May 12, 2007, Page
21) Better unasked questions are "Is there any science behind the mental illnesses
created by consensus? Is there any science behind the fantasy that there is a
biological basis to mental illness? Is there any science behind the personal
opinions of psychiatrists?" The answers are no, no and no.
The American Psychiatric Association is unable to provide any evidence of
their claim of a biological basis for mental illness. Does Marc Seigel receive
any funding from any of the drug companies or their lobbyists? What explains his
misguided propaganda encouraging use of anti depressants which are a proven
cause of violence among humans?
[Dr. Siegel responded to my email assuring me that he does not get any money from drug companies.]
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
DANGEROUS WARNINGS
New York Post
By MARC K. SIEGEL
May 12, 2007 -- CONGRESS may soon increase the Food and Drug Administration's
oversight of pharmeceuticals. I certainly don't think we should simply trust
what drug companies tell us, but I have my worries about the FDA, too.
Why? Consider one of my patients. Last year, the teen was in trouble - fighting
with both parents during an ugly divorce and becoming severely depressed and
violent. He'd had a fistfight with a relative and been expelled from his school
[...]
Dr. Marc K. Siegel is author of "False Alarm."
Marc Seigel asks, "Is there any science behind the fears of these useful
meds?"(MARC K. SIEGEL, "DANGEROUS WARNINGS," New York Post, May 12, 2007, Page
21) Better unasked questions are "Is there any science behind the mental illnesses
created by consensus? Is there any science behind the fantasy that there is a
biological basis to mental illness? Is there any science behind the personal
opinions of psychiatrists?" The answers are no, no and no.
The American Psychiatric Association is unable to provide any evidence of
their claim of a biological basis for mental illness. Does Marc Seigel receive
any funding from any of the drug companies or their lobbyists? What explains his
misguided propaganda encouraging use of anti depressants which are a proven
cause of violence among humans?
[Dr. Siegel responded to my email assuring me that he does not get any money from drug companies.]
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
DANGEROUS WARNINGS
New York Post
By MARC K. SIEGEL
May 12, 2007 -- CONGRESS may soon increase the Food and Drug Administration's
oversight of pharmeceuticals. I certainly don't think we should simply trust
what drug companies tell us, but I have my worries about the FDA, too.
Why? Consider one of my patients. Last year, the teen was in trouble - fighting
with both parents during an ugly divorce and becoming severely depressed and
violent. He'd had a fistfight with a relative and been expelled from his school
[...]
Dr. Marc K. Siegel is author of "False Alarm."
Inadvertent Theft?
Inadvertent Theft?
Cambridge City Manager Robert "Healy said the city would not take back the
extra money and would instead try to treat all employees equally." (Janice
O'Leary, "One way to support the troops: full pay," Boston Globe, City Weekly,
May 13, 2007) The Manager has a generous way with taxpayer funds. Isn't that
called theft?
Councilor Decker declared at the council meeting, "It is only a handful of
employees." Oh? If only a handful of people commit a crime it is not a
violation? Not many people commit murder in Cambridge. It is only a handful. If
they are military veterans who need money for food shall we approve?
Councilor Galluccio shut off all debate saying, "No one would disagree with
this." If the handful of police officers did not demand equal treatment would
the "inadvertent illegal pay" be revealed?
These city officials wonder why young people refuse to cooperate with the
police. Well, duh.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
CAMBRIDGE
One way to support the troops: full pay
Firefighter Stephan Jeffres received full pay from the city when he served in
Iraq with the Air National Guard. Firefighter Stephan Jeffres received full pay
from the city when he served in Iraq with the Air National Guard. (Christina
Caturano FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE)
One way to support the troops: full pay
By Janice O'Leary,
Boston Globe Correspondent
May 13, 2007
City employees called up to serve in combat would get their full salaries in
addition to military pay, under a home rule petition sponsored by the Cambridge
City Council.
The council voted unanimously last Monday to endorse the bill, which now must go
before the state Legislature because it differs from state law.
Councilors recently discovered a disparity between several city departments in
how military personnel were being paid. The Fire Department, for instance, paid
full salary to a firefighter while he was deployed in Iraq.
However, the Police Department was paying its enlisted officers the difference
between their normal salaries and their military pay, which is what state law
dictates. Twenty officers appealed to the council this month for equal
treatment.
"If you have a family, it's beneficial for spouses, especially those with kids,"
said Stephan Jeffres, the firefighter who received full pay in addition to his
military salary. "Military pay, even with special allowances, is usually less
than you normally make. It keeps you from detail and overtime pay, which you
count on."
City Councilor Marjorie C. Decker, who chairs the council's Veterans Committee,
said she learned of the inequity when she was putting together a welcome home
package for returning soldiers.
At last week's meeting, the council approved the language for the petition
presented by City Manager Robert W. Healy, who said the city has no authority to
institute the policy without approval from the state, despite any urgency
councilors may feel.
"I am not authorized to make such a payment unless the home rule petition goes
through," he said.
While noting that the Fire Department "inadvertently" paid Jeffres his full
salary, Healy said the city would not take back the extra money and would
instead try to treat all employees equally.
[...]
Cambridge City Manager Robert "Healy said the city would not take back the
extra money and would instead try to treat all employees equally." (Janice
O'Leary, "One way to support the troops: full pay," Boston Globe, City Weekly,
May 13, 2007) The Manager has a generous way with taxpayer funds. Isn't that
called theft?
Councilor Decker declared at the council meeting, "It is only a handful of
employees." Oh? If only a handful of people commit a crime it is not a
violation? Not many people commit murder in Cambridge. It is only a handful. If
they are military veterans who need money for food shall we approve?
Councilor Galluccio shut off all debate saying, "No one would disagree with
this." If the handful of police officers did not demand equal treatment would
the "inadvertent illegal pay" be revealed?
These city officials wonder why young people refuse to cooperate with the
police. Well, duh.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
CAMBRIDGE
One way to support the troops: full pay
Firefighter Stephan Jeffres received full pay from the city when he served in
Iraq with the Air National Guard. Firefighter Stephan Jeffres received full pay
from the city when he served in Iraq with the Air National Guard. (Christina
Caturano FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE)
One way to support the troops: full pay
By Janice O'Leary,
Boston Globe Correspondent
May 13, 2007
City employees called up to serve in combat would get their full salaries in
addition to military pay, under a home rule petition sponsored by the Cambridge
City Council.
The council voted unanimously last Monday to endorse the bill, which now must go
before the state Legislature because it differs from state law.
Councilors recently discovered a disparity between several city departments in
how military personnel were being paid. The Fire Department, for instance, paid
full salary to a firefighter while he was deployed in Iraq.
However, the Police Department was paying its enlisted officers the difference
between their normal salaries and their military pay, which is what state law
dictates. Twenty officers appealed to the council this month for equal
treatment.
"If you have a family, it's beneficial for spouses, especially those with kids,"
said Stephan Jeffres, the firefighter who received full pay in addition to his
military salary. "Military pay, even with special allowances, is usually less
than you normally make. It keeps you from detail and overtime pay, which you
count on."
City Councilor Marjorie C. Decker, who chairs the council's Veterans Committee,
said she learned of the inequity when she was putting together a welcome home
package for returning soldiers.
At last week's meeting, the council approved the language for the petition
presented by City Manager Robert W. Healy, who said the city has no authority to
institute the policy without approval from the state, despite any urgency
councilors may feel.
"I am not authorized to make such a payment unless the home rule petition goes
through," he said.
While noting that the Fire Department "inadvertently" paid Jeffres his full
salary, Healy said the city would not take back the extra money and would
instead try to treat all employees equally.
[...]
Psychiatric Abuse in NJ Schools
Psychiatric Abuse in NJ Schools
Superintendent Glenn Kamp said "any time a student threatens someone, they
are immediately suspended and must undergo a psychiatric evaluation before they
are allowed back in the school." (BARBARA WILLIAMS, "West Milford teacher may
lose job," The Record, May 4, 2007) Under what system of mental health care is
psychiatry punishment?
Does the school system believe that mental illness is a cause of crime or
violence? If an allegation of mental illness is made the schools must protect
the student against disability based discrimination. It does not matter if the
student in fact has a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. What
matters is that the government has that perception.
Moreover is the school system stereotyping the student that they accuse of
having a disabilty violates state and US laws, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, etc.
All too often school
administrators use psychiatry to control students. Their regulations show that
the schools have unlawful regulations.
Psychiatry is a means of social control with no due process protections. It
is a system of personal opinion masquerading as science. But their illnesses
are created by consensus not science. Here the teacher is not being protected
from criminal threats. The administtarors usadministratorsnstead of the criminal
justice system. It is what the Nazis did, i.e., medicalize social problems.
There is no appeal from a medical diagnosis.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
West Milford teacher may lose job
Friday, May 4, 2007
By BARBARA WILLIAMS
The Bergen Record
STAFF WRITER
WEST MILFORD
A high school teacher may lose her job in a battle with the administration over
who should discipline poorly behaving students.
Cheryl Bachmann is claiming the decision to offer her tenure was reversed after
she fought to have a female student permanently removed from her class. She said
the teen was heard screaming in the hallways of West Milford High School using
expletives and threatening to stab her after Bachmann told her to leave the
class for using inappropriate language.
Administrators are saying it's ludicrous to think the district doesn't take
threats seriously. Rather, a memo states that Bachman will not be rehired
because of poor management skills. Superintendent Glenn Kamp said anytime a
threat is made, an established protocol is immediately followed.
[...]
E-mail: williamsb@northjersey.com
Superintendent Glenn Kamp said "any time a student threatens someone, they
are immediately suspended and must undergo a psychiatric evaluation before they
are allowed back in the school." (BARBARA WILLIAMS, "West Milford teacher may
lose job," The Record, May 4, 2007) Under what system of mental health care is
psychiatry punishment?
Does the school system believe that mental illness is a cause of crime or
violence? If an allegation of mental illness is made the schools must protect
the student against disability based discrimination. It does not matter if the
student in fact has a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. What
matters is that the government has that perception.
Moreover is the school system stereotyping the student that they accuse of
having a disabilty violates state and US laws, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, etc.
All too often school
administrators use psychiatry to control students. Their regulations show that
the schools have unlawful regulations.
Psychiatry is a means of social control with no due process protections. It
is a system of personal opinion masquerading as science. But their illnesses
are created by consensus not science. Here the teacher is not being protected
from criminal threats. The administtarors usadministratorsnstead of the criminal
justice system. It is what the Nazis did, i.e., medicalize social problems.
There is no appeal from a medical diagnosis.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
West Milford teacher may lose job
Friday, May 4, 2007
By BARBARA WILLIAMS
The Bergen Record
STAFF WRITER
WEST MILFORD
A high school teacher may lose her job in a battle with the administration over
who should discipline poorly behaving students.
Cheryl Bachmann is claiming the decision to offer her tenure was reversed after
she fought to have a female student permanently removed from her class. She said
the teen was heard screaming in the hallways of West Milford High School using
expletives and threatening to stab her after Bachmann told her to leave the
class for using inappropriate language.
Administrators are saying it's ludicrous to think the district doesn't take
threats seriously. Rather, a memo states that Bachman will not be rehired
because of poor management skills. Superintendent Glenn Kamp said anytime a
threat is made, an established protocol is immediately followed.
[...]
E-mail: williamsb@northjersey.com
One-sided slant on psychiatry
One-sided slant on psychiatry
Letter to John Wilpers, Publisher of Boston NOW.
I noticed two articles within two days by Scott Wachtler promoting
psychiatry. I am aware of the control of the public discourse on psychiatry by
the big four -- the drug corporations, the psychiatric industry, the human
services industry and the academic research industry. There are great unreported
abuses by psychiatrists.
Regarding "Massachusetts missing courts for mentally ill," May 10, 2007,
page 6, having separate courts for persons with disabilities is an egregious
violation of state and US discrimination laws. I am aware of the extreme
negative bias among lawyers, journalists, police, judges and the court system
toward persons accused of mental illness. Having a separate court for certain
hated persons does not mitigate the abuses by psychiatrists. All persons are
entitled to the same due process protections. There are no exceptions in the
constitution for persons accused of mental illness.
Regarding "Children's mental health system fractured," May 8, 2007, page 6,
here again is the industry focus on promoting drug treatment instead of
protecting the rights of persons with disabilities. The drug companies hide
behind a made up grass roots organization called NAMI which gets $2 to $3
million per year from drug corporations to promote drug treatment. The state
Dept. of Mental Health also promotes drug treatment. How is the MA DMH different
from a lobbyist for drug companies?
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Letter to John Wilpers, Publisher of Boston NOW.
I noticed two articles within two days by Scott Wachtler promoting
psychiatry. I am aware of the control of the public discourse on psychiatry by
the big four -- the drug corporations, the psychiatric industry, the human
services industry and the academic research industry. There are great unreported
abuses by psychiatrists.
Regarding "Massachusetts missing courts for mentally ill," May 10, 2007,
page 6, having separate courts for persons with disabilities is an egregious
violation of state and US discrimination laws. I am aware of the extreme
negative bias among lawyers, journalists, police, judges and the court system
toward persons accused of mental illness. Having a separate court for certain
hated persons does not mitigate the abuses by psychiatrists. All persons are
entitled to the same due process protections. There are no exceptions in the
constitution for persons accused of mental illness.
Regarding "Children's mental health system fractured," May 8, 2007, page 6,
here again is the industry focus on promoting drug treatment instead of
protecting the rights of persons with disabilities. The drug companies hide
behind a made up grass roots organization called NAMI which gets $2 to $3
million per year from drug corporations to promote drug treatment. The state
Dept. of Mental Health also promotes drug treatment. How is the MA DMH different
from a lobbyist for drug companies?
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Let Truth Win by Mary Collins
Let Truth Win
by Mary Collins
http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2006/09/846258.shtml
Dark, black clouds are covering all our lands. These clouds are formed
by lies, dishonesty and fraud, so much that no bright sun can send its
rays of truth to penetrate and reach the view of man.
The clouds come from Psychiatry, the new born faith that's based on
whim, on false created ills and deadly drugs given "to help" but which
instead cause suicides and death.
Schools are temples for TeenScreen, and other screenings now run by the
priests of the God known as �Drug�. They carry out their sacred ritual
with devotion and make sure that no priests or ministers of other creeds
or faiths offer and do help. Drug is a jealous God; spiritual help is
now forbidden, and help for the real diseases of the body are not looked
for and are left without real help.
Our children do not get the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic.
Instead of giving them the help they need to learn their language, they
are given drugs; instead of teaching honesty and morals they are given
substances that cause violence; instead of helping them with math, they
then are told they have a mental problem called a �disorder� and can
only learn by obeying the God Drug.
From Media, we hear psychiatry's disciples preach each day of ills that
are "so rampant" in our lives. They warn us of the horror of these ills,
and encourage us to be afraid we'll suffer greatly. We hear them
advertise the great salvation � drugs that have been made to "cure"
those ills. They speak without intelligence, with no true knowledge, but
with certainty that's based on blind devotion and blind faith.
Though "mental illness" is but fraud, since no facts are there that can
prove a mind disorder really is, and so all are false, the faithful
still cry out in great alarm that these are valid ills. They cry out,
"The children left without the sacred drugs are doomed". And because so
many dark clouds hide the truth, our children get addicted, become ill,
both in their minds, but also physically; have twisted drug-induced
hallucinations, kill friends, their families and themselves.
And all because they followed the commands of Drug, the deadly God who
rules.
They're falsely told their brain has an "imbalance" which can only then
be helped by taking drugs. They're told they have a �mental illness�,
and so are stigmatized for life. They're normal beings who have
problems, yet real help is lost to them as soon as they bow down and
worship Pharma, Psychiatrists and those who follow the God Drug.
In clouds of false euphoria, children, people, millions, feel so "good"
and act out all their lives like puppets, now subservient to the God
named Drug. The substances are of a nature same with morphine, opium and
cocaine. The God Drug's slaves hope they can continue to feel numbed;
yet do forget the spark of life has dimmed and finally gone.
There are among us Knights of Decency, Giants of Intellect, those men
who are courageous, who are strong, and who are really our true leaders.
They are the doctors, teachers, parents � all who will and do speak out
against the crimes that others dare not look at, the crimes that many
cannot see because the horrors are so covered with the false, deceitful
darkness.
These Knights of Decency can see the truth; they see that children die,
they see that suicides are happening, that violence does occur, that
minds are altered for the worst, and all from the devotion to God Drug
and Psychiatry.
We must stop the evil acts that kill our children and adults. When we do
this, we'll have people who're sane. Happiness will fill the atmosphere
and artists can create the beauty we all need, the beauty which will
lift our spirits and will give us hope for better lives; we'll make our
country one where creativity, intelligence and advances in the arts and
science can thrive.
Let�s see and tell the truth, take away the dark clouds and be free
again, so Human Rights can then be sacred, and honesty is king.
http://www.petitiononline.com/TScreen/petition.html
Mary Collins is a 72-year-old grandmother living in New Hampshire. She
attained a BA in English Literature with a minor in History in 1954 from
Millsap's College in Jackson, Mississippi and was involved in education
for over 20 years. You can contact her here:
--
Mary Collins
Email: marycollins_16_2@(NOSPAM)rushpost.com
Note: Remove (NOSPAM)
by Mary Collins
http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2006/09/846258.shtml
Dark, black clouds are covering all our lands. These clouds are formed
by lies, dishonesty and fraud, so much that no bright sun can send its
rays of truth to penetrate and reach the view of man.
The clouds come from Psychiatry, the new born faith that's based on
whim, on false created ills and deadly drugs given "to help" but which
instead cause suicides and death.
Schools are temples for TeenScreen, and other screenings now run by the
priests of the God known as �Drug�. They carry out their sacred ritual
with devotion and make sure that no priests or ministers of other creeds
or faiths offer and do help. Drug is a jealous God; spiritual help is
now forbidden, and help for the real diseases of the body are not looked
for and are left without real help.
Our children do not get the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic.
Instead of giving them the help they need to learn their language, they
are given drugs; instead of teaching honesty and morals they are given
substances that cause violence; instead of helping them with math, they
then are told they have a mental problem called a �disorder� and can
only learn by obeying the God Drug.
From Media, we hear psychiatry's disciples preach each day of ills that
are "so rampant" in our lives. They warn us of the horror of these ills,
and encourage us to be afraid we'll suffer greatly. We hear them
advertise the great salvation � drugs that have been made to "cure"
those ills. They speak without intelligence, with no true knowledge, but
with certainty that's based on blind devotion and blind faith.
Though "mental illness" is but fraud, since no facts are there that can
prove a mind disorder really is, and so all are false, the faithful
still cry out in great alarm that these are valid ills. They cry out,
"The children left without the sacred drugs are doomed". And because so
many dark clouds hide the truth, our children get addicted, become ill,
both in their minds, but also physically; have twisted drug-induced
hallucinations, kill friends, their families and themselves.
And all because they followed the commands of Drug, the deadly God who
rules.
They're falsely told their brain has an "imbalance" which can only then
be helped by taking drugs. They're told they have a �mental illness�,
and so are stigmatized for life. They're normal beings who have
problems, yet real help is lost to them as soon as they bow down and
worship Pharma, Psychiatrists and those who follow the God Drug.
In clouds of false euphoria, children, people, millions, feel so "good"
and act out all their lives like puppets, now subservient to the God
named Drug. The substances are of a nature same with morphine, opium and
cocaine. The God Drug's slaves hope they can continue to feel numbed;
yet do forget the spark of life has dimmed and finally gone.
There are among us Knights of Decency, Giants of Intellect, those men
who are courageous, who are strong, and who are really our true leaders.
They are the doctors, teachers, parents � all who will and do speak out
against the crimes that others dare not look at, the crimes that many
cannot see because the horrors are so covered with the false, deceitful
darkness.
These Knights of Decency can see the truth; they see that children die,
they see that suicides are happening, that violence does occur, that
minds are altered for the worst, and all from the devotion to God Drug
and Psychiatry.
We must stop the evil acts that kill our children and adults. When we do
this, we'll have people who're sane. Happiness will fill the atmosphere
and artists can create the beauty we all need, the beauty which will
lift our spirits and will give us hope for better lives; we'll make our
country one where creativity, intelligence and advances in the arts and
science can thrive.
Let�s see and tell the truth, take away the dark clouds and be free
again, so Human Rights can then be sacred, and honesty is king.
http://www.petitiononline.com/TScreen/petition.html
Mary Collins is a 72-year-old grandmother living in New Hampshire. She
attained a BA in English Literature with a minor in History in 1954 from
Millsap's College in Jackson, Mississippi and was involved in education
for over 20 years. You can contact her here:
--
Mary Collins
Email: marycollins_16_2@(NOSPAM)rushpost.com
Note: Remove (NOSPAM)
Censorship at Tufts University
Censorship at Tufts University
Dear President Bacow,
Dear Professor Grossman,
The decision to reprimand the editors of the Primary Source was misguided.
I've followed the details and wrote to the Primary Source on previous occasions
supporting their expression.
I know the First Amendment does not apply to Tufts, but that is no reason
to promote less free expression on a university campus. This is a national
problem of citizens supporting censorship. What ever happened to rational
speech? Silencing expression increases the number of misinformed people.
The principle used to justify censorship at Tufts, is not applied equally
to all groups. Negative speech is only an issue if the targeted group is wealthy
and/or powerful. I see this regularly as I try to raise awareness of the issue
of demonizing persons with disabilities. Criticizing certain ethnic, religious,
racial and gender groups is prohibited. But it is still acceptable for public
humiliation of persons with disabilities.
The action at Tufts is no different from elected officials catering to
wealthy and powerful interest groups. That abomination has spread to the campus
which is unfortunate at best.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Dear President Bacow,
Dear Professor Grossman,
The decision to reprimand the editors of the Primary Source was misguided.
I've followed the details and wrote to the Primary Source on previous occasions
supporting their expression.
I know the First Amendment does not apply to Tufts, but that is no reason
to promote less free expression on a university campus. This is a national
problem of citizens supporting censorship. What ever happened to rational
speech? Silencing expression increases the number of misinformed people.
The principle used to justify censorship at Tufts, is not applied equally
to all groups. Negative speech is only an issue if the targeted group is wealthy
and/or powerful. I see this regularly as I try to raise awareness of the issue
of demonizing persons with disabilities. Criticizing certain ethnic, religious,
racial and gender groups is prohibited. But it is still acceptable for public
humiliation of persons with disabilities.
The action at Tufts is no different from elected officials catering to
wealthy and powerful interest groups. That abomination has spread to the campus
which is unfortunate at best.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Censorship at Brandeis University
Censorship at Brandeis University
Dear President Reinharz,
The decision to reprimand the editors of the Gravity was misguided. I know
the First Amendment does not apply to Brandeis, but that is no reason
to promote less free expression on a university campus. This is a national
problem of citizens supporting censorship. What ever happened to rational
speech? Silencing expression increases the number of misinformed people.
The principle used to justify censorship at Brandeis, is not applied
equally
to all groups. Negative speech is only an issue if the targeted group is wealthy
and/or powerful. I see this regularly as I try to raise awareness of the issue
of demonizing persons with disabilities. Criticizing certain ethnic, religious,
racial and gender groups is prohibited. But it is still acceptable for public
humiliation of persons with disabilities.
The action at Brandeis is no different from elected officials catering to
wealthy and powerful interest groups. That abomination has spread to the campus
which is unfortunate at best.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Dear President Reinharz,
The decision to reprimand the editors of the Gravity was misguided. I know
the First Amendment does not apply to Brandeis, but that is no reason
to promote less free expression on a university campus. This is a national
problem of citizens supporting censorship. What ever happened to rational
speech? Silencing expression increases the number of misinformed people.
The principle used to justify censorship at Brandeis, is not applied
equally
to all groups. Negative speech is only an issue if the targeted group is wealthy
and/or powerful. I see this regularly as I try to raise awareness of the issue
of demonizing persons with disabilities. Criticizing certain ethnic, religious,
racial and gender groups is prohibited. But it is still acceptable for public
humiliation of persons with disabilities.
The action at Brandeis is no different from elected officials catering to
wealthy and powerful interest groups. That abomination has spread to the campus
which is unfortunate at best.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Too Many Police Meetings?
Too Many Police Meetings?
Let's see, in recent weeks Cambridge MA held City Wide Task Force meetings on Neighborhood Crime, Sergeants meetings with Riverside, Cambridgeport, North Cambridge, two meetings promoting the use of TASERs on persons with disabilities. That takes up a lot of time of supervising officers. How can they supervise if they are attending meetings? How can a committee run a police department?
Why focus on the police when the City Manager Robert Healy is the chief law enforcement officer of the city according to state statute? All decisions regarding what laws to enforce and what ones to let slide come from him.
The Manager and the City Councilors have a relaxed notion of law enforcement. It
is to be expected that some persons realize that there is little reason to obey
laws. If the elected and appointed officials violate laws and say it is
inadvertent why should civilians obey laws?
The problem with lawlessness is a state wide problem. The legislature, the
courts and the Governor all selectively follow the laws. Young people and
criminals recognize the lawlessness of the government and imitate the role
models.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Let's see, in recent weeks Cambridge MA held City Wide Task Force meetings on Neighborhood Crime, Sergeants meetings with Riverside, Cambridgeport, North Cambridge, two meetings promoting the use of TASERs on persons with disabilities. That takes up a lot of time of supervising officers. How can they supervise if they are attending meetings? How can a committee run a police department?
Why focus on the police when the City Manager Robert Healy is the chief law enforcement officer of the city according to state statute? All decisions regarding what laws to enforce and what ones to let slide come from him.
The Manager and the City Councilors have a relaxed notion of law enforcement. It
is to be expected that some persons realize that there is little reason to obey
laws. If the elected and appointed officials violate laws and say it is
inadvertent why should civilians obey laws?
The problem with lawlessness is a state wide problem. The legislature, the
courts and the Governor all selectively follow the laws. Young people and
criminals recognize the lawlessness of the government and imitate the role
models.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Patients with Disabilities Sue State
Patients with Disabilities Sue State
Dr. Judy Ann Bigby, health and human services secretary, said "Providing
comprehensive services in the most appropriate setting to persons with
disabilities, including brain injuries, is a priority for the administration,"
she said. "Overall, the [state] spends over $900 million per year in
community-based, long-term-care services." (Raja Mishra, "Brain injury patients
sue state, Boston Globe, May 18, 2007)
A bigger priority for the Harvard corporate lawyer Governor is providng $1
billion to the bottomless biotech research industry pit. Like all deceptive
politicians they make it up as they go.
Why is the Globe silent on this issue for so many years? Journalists share
perspective with business interests, providing goods and services but not rights
to persons with disabilities shows their lack of concern.
Why did it take the taxpayer funded lawyers so many years to bring this suit?
The ADA is law since 1990, the Rehabilitation Act since 1973.
There can be no damages unless the Dept. of Justice brings the action. That
is why the state court judges make agreements and then ignore them. Persons with
disabilities have no protection from lawless, shameless psychopathic government
officials.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Brain injury patients sue state
Lawsuit seeks community care
By Raja Mishra,
Boston Globe Staff
May 18, 2007
Catherine Hutchinson strolled in from gardening one day 11 years ago and
collapsed in her Attleboro home, suffering a brain-stem stroke that left the
single mother of two paralyzed from the neck down and mute.
Yesterday, in a written statement composed with the aid of caretakers and
special computers, Hutchinson said that her life in nursing homes since the
stroke has heaped misery on her mis fortune.
"I feel isolated from the real world. I have little to no privacy. I don't want
to live this way, and I can't think of anyone else who would," she said in the
statement, read during a press conference in Boston.
[...]
Dr. Judy Ann Bigby, health and human services secretary, said "Providing
comprehensive services in the most appropriate setting to persons with
disabilities, including brain injuries, is a priority for the administration,"
she said. "Overall, the [state] spends over $900 million per year in
community-based, long-term-care services." (Raja Mishra, "Brain injury patients
sue state, Boston Globe, May 18, 2007)
A bigger priority for the Harvard corporate lawyer Governor is providng $1
billion to the bottomless biotech research industry pit. Like all deceptive
politicians they make it up as they go.
Why is the Globe silent on this issue for so many years? Journalists share
perspective with business interests, providing goods and services but not rights
to persons with disabilities shows their lack of concern.
Why did it take the taxpayer funded lawyers so many years to bring this suit?
The ADA is law since 1990, the Rehabilitation Act since 1973.
There can be no damages unless the Dept. of Justice brings the action. That
is why the state court judges make agreements and then ignore them. Persons with
disabilities have no protection from lawless, shameless psychopathic government
officials.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Brain injury patients sue state
Lawsuit seeks community care
By Raja Mishra,
Boston Globe Staff
May 18, 2007
Catherine Hutchinson strolled in from gardening one day 11 years ago and
collapsed in her Attleboro home, suffering a brain-stem stroke that left the
single mother of two paralyzed from the neck down and mute.
Yesterday, in a written statement composed with the aid of caretakers and
special computers, Hutchinson said that her life in nursing homes since the
stroke has heaped misery on her mis fortune.
"I feel isolated from the real world. I have little to no privacy. I don't want
to live this way, and I can't think of anyone else who would," she said in the
statement, read during a press conference in Boston.
[...]
May 10, 2007
Lobbyist PR
Lobbyist PR
In two Cambridge Chronicle notices PR flacks for the psychiatric
industry and the drug companies promote more treatment and pretend to be
advocates for persons accused of psychiatric illness. ("Cambridge
media co. wins accolades," Cambridge Chronicle, June 1, 2006, page 28; and
"Vinfen hosts mental health forum," page 32)
The first the notice describes the award being for "significant
contributions to people with mental illness . . . advocacy, public education,
treatment, research and rehabilitation." Advocacy can be for anything. Is there
any advocacy to protect the basic constitutional rights of persons accused of
psychiatric illness? There are few individuals or organizations which treat
persons accused of psychiatric illness as citizens with rights. They are almost
always treated as consumers or patients. Corporate professionals always speak
for the patients. Under what system is the patient denied their voice?
The second notice mentions NAMI, which is a lobbyist for the drug
companies. Vinfen is a not for profit human services corporation providing
treatment. Vinfen's president earns more than $300,000 per year plus benefits.
NAMI gets millions from drug companies to promote drug treatment.
NAMI masquerades as an advocate for patients. They are advocates for the
drug companies not for humans. The MA Department of Mental Health is a taxpayer
funded lobbyist for the same corporate interests as NAMI. The DMH provides no
protections against psychiatric abuses of vulnerable citizens in the
Commonwealth.
Through campaign contributions, Vinfen and NAMI influence the legislature
to fund more and more treatment. The money goes for made up illnesses denying
treatment to poor persons who have real diseases.
This is a boondoggle that must defunded. The Chronicle does a disservice to
taxpayers and to persons accused of psychiatric illness by printing these
press releases.
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
In two Cambridge Chronicle notices PR flacks for the psychiatric
industry and the drug companies promote more treatment and pretend to be
advocates for persons accused of psychiatric illness. ("Cambridge
media co. wins accolades," Cambridge Chronicle, June 1, 2006, page 28; and
"Vinfen hosts mental health forum," page 32)
The first the notice describes the award being for "significant
contributions to people with mental illness . . . advocacy, public education,
treatment, research and rehabilitation." Advocacy can be for anything. Is there
any advocacy to protect the basic constitutional rights of persons accused of
psychiatric illness? There are few individuals or organizations which treat
persons accused of psychiatric illness as citizens with rights. They are almost
always treated as consumers or patients. Corporate professionals always speak
for the patients. Under what system is the patient denied their voice?
The second notice mentions NAMI, which is a lobbyist for the drug
companies. Vinfen is a not for profit human services corporation providing
treatment. Vinfen's president earns more than $300,000 per year plus benefits.
NAMI gets millions from drug companies to promote drug treatment.
NAMI masquerades as an advocate for patients. They are advocates for the
drug companies not for humans. The MA Department of Mental Health is a taxpayer
funded lobbyist for the same corporate interests as NAMI. The DMH provides no
protections against psychiatric abuses of vulnerable citizens in the
Commonwealth.
Through campaign contributions, Vinfen and NAMI influence the legislature
to fund more and more treatment. The money goes for made up illnesses denying
treatment to poor persons who have real diseases.
This is a boondoggle that must defunded. The Chronicle does a disservice to
taxpayers and to persons accused of psychiatric illness by printing these
press releases.
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Immigration Laws and Police
Immigration Laws and Police
Do police say if they enforce pot smoking laws and gambling laws that they
would not be able to solve other crimes? (Casey Ross, "‘Out of control’
Immigration laws make local enforcement a joke," and "Police fear backlash in
crime-fighting," Boston Herald, June 5, 2006)
Wakefield Police Chief Rick Smith said “We have to operate within the
rules.” Lowell Police Superintendent Ed Davis said, “We clearly need some
direction from the federal government.” I thought police took an oath to defend
the Constitution. What are state laws for?
Immigrant advocates and police lament, "You can’t have significant numbers
of your population afraid to call the police." This is disingenuous.
American citizens are reluctant to cooperate with the police. During
prohibition, the Volstead Act, ordinary citizens feared cooperating with the
police then too.
So it is not the immigration laws which are the problem. Perhaps it is a
problem with the police. If FBI agents likely cooperated with organized crime
hitmen in New York and in Boston, why should citizens trust local police?
Therefore, police don't enforce immigration laws because illegal immigrants
fear reporting other crimes. Police don't enforce pot smoking laws because pot
smokers would not help police in other investigations. And, police do not
enforce gambling laws because bookies would not help police solve other crimes?
Do the Herald editors and reporters believe this?
If those laws are not enforced criminals know they can exploit illegal
immigrants, pot smokers and gamblers too. It is a question of priorities.
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
‘Out of control’ Immigration laws make local enforcement a joke
By Casey Ross
Boston Herald Reporter
Monday, June 5, 2006 - Updated: 05:44 PM EST
Police officials statewide are decrying revolving-door treatment of illegal
immigrants they are forced to release when overwhelmed federal authorities fail
to take action, a Herald review found.
Immigration and the law
Police fear backlash in crime-fighting
ICE query statistics
Even in cases when cops verify a person is illegal, police chiefs say their
officers often can do nothing because federal immigration agents with the power
to detain them are seldom available to respond.
“It’s out of control,” Wakefield Police Chief Rick Smith said. “A lot of
them (illegal immigrants) are running around gainfully employed and it’s tough
to get a handle on it. We have to operate within the rules.”
The nation’s rules on immigration enforcement discourage local police from
becoming involved because authority is almost exclusively vested in Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency empowered to detain illegals
and initiate deportation proceedings.
[...]
Do police say if they enforce pot smoking laws and gambling laws that they
would not be able to solve other crimes? (Casey Ross, "‘Out of control’
Immigration laws make local enforcement a joke," and "Police fear backlash in
crime-fighting," Boston Herald, June 5, 2006)
Wakefield Police Chief Rick Smith said “We have to operate within the
rules.” Lowell Police Superintendent Ed Davis said, “We clearly need some
direction from the federal government.” I thought police took an oath to defend
the Constitution. What are state laws for?
Immigrant advocates and police lament, "You can’t have significant numbers
of your population afraid to call the police." This is disingenuous.
American citizens are reluctant to cooperate with the police. During
prohibition, the Volstead Act, ordinary citizens feared cooperating with the
police then too.
So it is not the immigration laws which are the problem. Perhaps it is a
problem with the police. If FBI agents likely cooperated with organized crime
hitmen in New York and in Boston, why should citizens trust local police?
Therefore, police don't enforce immigration laws because illegal immigrants
fear reporting other crimes. Police don't enforce pot smoking laws because pot
smokers would not help police in other investigations. And, police do not
enforce gambling laws because bookies would not help police solve other crimes?
Do the Herald editors and reporters believe this?
If those laws are not enforced criminals know they can exploit illegal
immigrants, pot smokers and gamblers too. It is a question of priorities.
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
‘Out of control’ Immigration laws make local enforcement a joke
By Casey Ross
Boston Herald Reporter
Monday, June 5, 2006 - Updated: 05:44 PM EST
Police officials statewide are decrying revolving-door treatment of illegal
immigrants they are forced to release when overwhelmed federal authorities fail
to take action, a Herald review found.
Immigration and the law
Police fear backlash in crime-fighting
ICE query statistics
Even in cases when cops verify a person is illegal, police chiefs say their
officers often can do nothing because federal immigration agents with the power
to detain them are seldom available to respond.
“It’s out of control,” Wakefield Police Chief Rick Smith said. “A lot of
them (illegal immigrants) are running around gainfully employed and it’s tough
to get a handle on it. We have to operate within the rules.”
The nation’s rules on immigration enforcement discourage local police from
becoming involved because authority is almost exclusively vested in Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency empowered to detain illegals
and initiate deportation proceedings.
[...]
Let's Keep it Rational
Let's Keep it Rational
A repeating problem with local reporting on the City Council is the focus
only on comments made by public officials. Many concerned citizens take the time
to speak to the Council but the journalists ignore them just as the arrrogant
officials do. Now we are told that concerned citizens are haters. (Erin Smith,
"Haters: Illegal immigrants should move in with Tim," Cambridge Chronicle, July
6, 2006)
Illegal immigration is a major problem straining the emergency services and
health care systems. The solution is not easy. There is no consensus. But
designating a group of persons as haters, because a journalist does not agree
with their position on this issue is journalism at its worst. Ad hominem attacks
have no place in rational debate. It has less of a place in a newspaper that
pretends to be objective. Save the personal attacks for the political hack's
back rooms where they belong.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Haters: Illegal immigrants should move in with Tim
By Erin Smith/ Chronicle Staff
Thursday, July 6, 2006
If you're an illegal immigrant, one anti-immigration group wants you to pack
your bags and move to Sixth Street.
A Washington, D.C.-based organization, angered by the council's vote to keep
Cambridge an immigrant sanctuary, is advertising city councilors' personal
contact information and home addresses on its Web site. The group, ProjectUSA,
has launched a campaign to move immigrants from New Jersey to Cambridge and
urges Web browsers to buy an illegal immigrant a bus ticket to Cambridge.
ProjectUSA concentrates most of its ire on Vice Mayor and state Rep. Tim
Toomey, who recently co-sponsored the measure.
On the Web site, Toomey is depicted wearing two golden halos, and immigrants
are urged to call him for any of their needs.
"Tim's house. Looks big. Move in," reads the caption over a satellite view
of Toomey's East Cambridge home, which is circled in red. [...]
Erin Smith can be reached at esmith@cnc.com.
A repeating problem with local reporting on the City Council is the focus
only on comments made by public officials. Many concerned citizens take the time
to speak to the Council but the journalists ignore them just as the arrrogant
officials do. Now we are told that concerned citizens are haters. (Erin Smith,
"Haters: Illegal immigrants should move in with Tim," Cambridge Chronicle, July
6, 2006)
Illegal immigration is a major problem straining the emergency services and
health care systems. The solution is not easy. There is no consensus. But
designating a group of persons as haters, because a journalist does not agree
with their position on this issue is journalism at its worst. Ad hominem attacks
have no place in rational debate. It has less of a place in a newspaper that
pretends to be objective. Save the personal attacks for the political hack's
back rooms where they belong.
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Haters: Illegal immigrants should move in with Tim
By Erin Smith/ Chronicle Staff
Thursday, July 6, 2006
If you're an illegal immigrant, one anti-immigration group wants you to pack
your bags and move to Sixth Street.
A Washington, D.C.-based organization, angered by the council's vote to keep
Cambridge an immigrant sanctuary, is advertising city councilors' personal
contact information and home addresses on its Web site. The group, ProjectUSA,
has launched a campaign to move immigrants from New Jersey to Cambridge and
urges Web browsers to buy an illegal immigrant a bus ticket to Cambridge.
ProjectUSA concentrates most of its ire on Vice Mayor and state Rep. Tim
Toomey, who recently co-sponsored the measure.
On the Web site, Toomey is depicted wearing two golden halos, and immigrants
are urged to call him for any of their needs.
"Tim's house. Looks big. Move in," reads the caption over a satellite view
of Toomey's East Cambridge home, which is circled in red. [...]
Erin Smith can be reached at esmith@cnc.com.
Grass Roots
Grass Roots
Tom Davis reports, "Mind Freedom has developed an international
coalition that unites 100 grassroots groups -- as well as thousands of
its members -- who seek to protect the human rights of people diagnosed
with psychiatric disabilities." ("Drug-free treatment promoter," The Record, May 23, 2006)
One problem with some of these groups is that the corporate public relations industry has turned the notion of "grass roots" on its head. Most of the alleged disability rights organizations are fronts for human services corporations. Davis mentions that MindFreedom "clashed" with NAMI, a lobbyist funded by the drug industry.
One concern with the focus of MindFreedom is their effort to protect the "human rights" of persons accused of psychiatric illness. Human rights are rights that we want for humans. Constitutional rights can be enforced in courts. Few advocates for rights of persons accused of psychiatric illness use the state and US laws that prohibit discrimination, e.g., the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Police, lawyers, judges and journalists regularly violate rights to privacy and portray persons accused of psychiatric illness as if they are criminals. The public discourse on psychiatry is currently under the control of the drug companies and their well funded lobbyists. The 70-year PR campaign to persuade the public, the legislatures and the media executives that psychiatry is scientific is well established in the minds of the opinion makers.
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
The (Bergen, NJ)Record
Drug-free treatment promoter
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
By TOM DAVIS
RECORD COLUMNIST
David Oaks has a simple philosophy about life: If the mind isn't free,
there's no freedom.
Thirty years ago, he was "locked up" five times because of emotional
episodes he had as a Harvard student. He was diagnosed with
schizophrenia.
Each time, he was forcibly drugged. Each time, he was told he'd feel
"better." He says, however, he felt like a prisoner.
"For me, [the drugs were] torture," said Oaks, now [50]. The drugs were
"a wrecking ball to my mind."
[...]
A few years ago, the group held a hunger strike and challenged the
American Psychiatric Association to "prove their claim" that medication
was necessary for managing a chemical imbalance.
In a September 2003 statement released after the protest, the
association expressed dismay that "a small number of individuals and
groups persist in questioning the reality and clinical legitimacy of
disorders that affect the mind, brain and behavior.
"While the membership of the American Psychiatric Association respects
the right of individuals to express their impatience with the pace of
science, we note that the human brain is the most complex and
challenging object of study in the history of human science."
Mind Freedom also has clashed with the National Alliance on Mental
Illness and other organizations for developing "unholy" alliances with
drug companies and accepting money for research.
Tom Davis reports, "Mind Freedom has developed an international
coalition that unites 100 grassroots groups -- as well as thousands of
its members -- who seek to protect the human rights of people diagnosed
with psychiatric disabilities." ("Drug-free treatment promoter," The Record, May 23, 2006)
One problem with some of these groups is that the corporate public relations industry has turned the notion of "grass roots" on its head. Most of the alleged disability rights organizations are fronts for human services corporations. Davis mentions that MindFreedom "clashed" with NAMI, a lobbyist funded by the drug industry.
One concern with the focus of MindFreedom is their effort to protect the "human rights" of persons accused of psychiatric illness. Human rights are rights that we want for humans. Constitutional rights can be enforced in courts. Few advocates for rights of persons accused of psychiatric illness use the state and US laws that prohibit discrimination, e.g., the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Police, lawyers, judges and journalists regularly violate rights to privacy and portray persons accused of psychiatric illness as if they are criminals. The public discourse on psychiatry is currently under the control of the drug companies and their well funded lobbyists. The 70-year PR campaign to persuade the public, the legislatures and the media executives that psychiatry is scientific is well established in the minds of the opinion makers.
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
The (Bergen, NJ)Record
Drug-free treatment promoter
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
By TOM DAVIS
RECORD COLUMNIST
David Oaks has a simple philosophy about life: If the mind isn't free,
there's no freedom.
Thirty years ago, he was "locked up" five times because of emotional
episodes he had as a Harvard student. He was diagnosed with
schizophrenia.
Each time, he was forcibly drugged. Each time, he was told he'd feel
"better." He says, however, he felt like a prisoner.
"For me, [the drugs were] torture," said Oaks, now [50]. The drugs were
"a wrecking ball to my mind."
[...]
A few years ago, the group held a hunger strike and challenged the
American Psychiatric Association to "prove their claim" that medication
was necessary for managing a chemical imbalance.
In a September 2003 statement released after the protest, the
association expressed dismay that "a small number of individuals and
groups persist in questioning the reality and clinical legitimacy of
disorders that affect the mind, brain and behavior.
"While the membership of the American Psychiatric Association respects
the right of individuals to express their impatience with the pace of
science, we note that the human brain is the most complex and
challenging object of study in the history of human science."
Mind Freedom also has clashed with the National Alliance on Mental
Illness and other organizations for developing "unholy" alliances with
drug companies and accepting money for research.
Politikal Langwich
Politikal Langwich
Letter to editor
Councilor Toomey said, "No one knows what the federal government will do.” (Chris Helms, “City: Let’s shelter Immigrants, Cambridge Chronicle, April 27, 2006) U.S. immigration laws remain in effect. Will the Council repeal them?
He wants to "reaffirm the rights of all immigrants." What Constitutional rights do illegal immigrants have? Why are the “rights” of illegal immigrants more important than the Constitutional rights of American citizens with disabilities? Are journalists incapable of reasoning?
Toomey says, “as long as immigrants don’t commit crimes, they shouldn’t be hassled by police.” Is it OK to harass citizens who haven’t committed crimes?
The American heritage Dictionary Second edition defines crime as "1. An act committed or omitted in violation of a law, forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction. 2. Unlawful activity."
Councilor Sullivan says, “immigration is being criminalized.” Illegal immigration is criminal by definition. Everyone supports legal immigration. Deceptive language pollutes the discourse.
Politicians make ridiculous and irrational comments which go unquestioned. When this goes on long enough the politicians get bolder and bolder. George Orwell said, "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give solidity to pure wind."
Salvadorian Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chavez said young people in El Salvador have only three options. But he omitted one, i.e. to leave their country and participate in gang activities in other countries. That is what is happening.
He said they have a war with no one to negotiate in his country. With whom does the U.S. have to negotiate? Politicians defend all immigrants, but ignore the majority of Americans. One poll on April 26, 2006 said 68 percent of Americans want to deport the illegals.
The Chronicle says that taxes will rise again. Will this help to pay for the schooling, and medical care of illegal immigrants, and the car accident victims? Will it help to pay for police overtime, prisons, court system, appointed attorneys and translators too? It is not the politicians’ money!
The Council thumbs its nose at the rights of persons with disabilities, and runs from FBI informants who kill with government protection. The Council wants to thwart the laws of the state and the U.S. They are misled about their self-importance. Do you know who they are?
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Letter to editor
Councilor Toomey said, "No one knows what the federal government will do.” (Chris Helms, “City: Let’s shelter Immigrants, Cambridge Chronicle, April 27, 2006) U.S. immigration laws remain in effect. Will the Council repeal them?
He wants to "reaffirm the rights of all immigrants." What Constitutional rights do illegal immigrants have? Why are the “rights” of illegal immigrants more important than the Constitutional rights of American citizens with disabilities? Are journalists incapable of reasoning?
Toomey says, “as long as immigrants don’t commit crimes, they shouldn’t be hassled by police.” Is it OK to harass citizens who haven’t committed crimes?
The American heritage Dictionary Second edition defines crime as "1. An act committed or omitted in violation of a law, forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction. 2. Unlawful activity."
Councilor Sullivan says, “immigration is being criminalized.” Illegal immigration is criminal by definition. Everyone supports legal immigration. Deceptive language pollutes the discourse.
Politicians make ridiculous and irrational comments which go unquestioned. When this goes on long enough the politicians get bolder and bolder. George Orwell said, "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give solidity to pure wind."
Salvadorian Monsignor Gregorio Rosa Chavez said young people in El Salvador have only three options. But he omitted one, i.e. to leave their country and participate in gang activities in other countries. That is what is happening.
He said they have a war with no one to negotiate in his country. With whom does the U.S. have to negotiate? Politicians defend all immigrants, but ignore the majority of Americans. One poll on April 26, 2006 said 68 percent of Americans want to deport the illegals.
The Chronicle says that taxes will rise again. Will this help to pay for the schooling, and medical care of illegal immigrants, and the car accident victims? Will it help to pay for police overtime, prisons, court system, appointed attorneys and translators too? It is not the politicians’ money!
The Council thumbs its nose at the rights of persons with disabilities, and runs from FBI informants who kill with government protection. The Council wants to thwart the laws of the state and the U.S. They are misled about their self-importance. Do you know who they are?
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Only Us!
Only Us!
Aaron says, "respect for the establishment and the people working there is something he finds sorely lacking. Generally it involves self-absorption and not paying attention to surroundings." Well duh!(Luke O'Neill, "Dude, YOU ordered the burger," Weekly Dig, 04.26.06, page 10)
Is it only restaurant patrons who are self absorbed? What about women putting on makeup while driving, and cell phone freaks everywhere?
Is it only waitstaff who have feelings? What about the poor politicians and the journalists who also have feelings? All right maybe there are only a couple of politicians and journalists.
It is all people in all settings that are inconsiderate, Aaron.
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Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Aaron says, "respect for the establishment and the people working there is something he finds sorely lacking. Generally it involves self-absorption and not paying attention to surroundings." Well duh!(Luke O'Neill, "Dude, YOU ordered the burger," Weekly Dig, 04.26.06, page 10)
Is it only restaurant patrons who are self absorbed? What about women putting on makeup while driving, and cell phone freaks everywhere?
Is it only waitstaff who have feelings? What about the poor politicians and the journalists who also have feelings? All right maybe there are only a couple of politicians and journalists.
It is all people in all settings that are inconsiderate, Aaron.
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
May 9, 2007
Distorted Public Discourse
Distorted Public Discourse
Letter to Editor
While it's true the Cambridge City Council passed a proposed order to create an immigrant commission, the Globe report omits essentials. (News Briefs, Boston Globe, City Weekly, May 7, 2006)
The order was passed with no discussion by Councilors or any input from the public. Two provisions prohibiting discrimination, omitted persons with disabilities from the list of protected groups. Do journalists share the unlawful prejudice of elected officials in Cambridge toward persons with disabilities?
Rather than "promot[ing] equality for non-US citizens in the city" this commission will create inequality for non-US citizens. It will make non-US citizens eligible for benefits meant to compensate historical discrimination against native-born Americans. In short it will make non-US citizens more equal than citizens.
A ridiculous requirement is that prospective members of the commission must have a belief in immigration. This is silly. The government may not dictate beliefs. That's a violation of the First Amendment.
This superficial report is an example of why so many Americans ignore their government and journalists. Lies and half-truths can fool many people much of the time. Once trust is lost it almost impossible to regain it. Is this more advocacy journalism in Boston?
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Letter to Editor
While it's true the Cambridge City Council passed a proposed order to create an immigrant commission, the Globe report omits essentials. (News Briefs, Boston Globe, City Weekly, May 7, 2006)
The order was passed with no discussion by Councilors or any input from the public. Two provisions prohibiting discrimination, omitted persons with disabilities from the list of protected groups. Do journalists share the unlawful prejudice of elected officials in Cambridge toward persons with disabilities?
Rather than "promot[ing] equality for non-US citizens in the city" this commission will create inequality for non-US citizens. It will make non-US citizens eligible for benefits meant to compensate historical discrimination against native-born Americans. In short it will make non-US citizens more equal than citizens.
A ridiculous requirement is that prospective members of the commission must have a belief in immigration. This is silly. The government may not dictate beliefs. That's a violation of the First Amendment.
This superficial report is an example of why so many Americans ignore their government and journalists. Lies and half-truths can fool many people much of the time. Once trust is lost it almost impossible to regain it. Is this more advocacy journalism in Boston?
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA
Loss of Patient-Loving Harvard Psychiatrist
Loss of Patient-Loving Harvard Psychiatrist
Here is an announcement of the death of a Harvard psychiatrist. As usual he
is described as a "caring" man by his attorney. What else would you expect?
Isn't it only caring psychiatrists and brutal, violent patients who make up the
universe? Forced drugging and forced treatment is only done out of love and
caring for the poor unfortunate ones. Ahem!
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
John Mack, Pulitzer Prize winner, alien abduction researcher, dies
By Associated Press
Boston Globe
September 28, 2004
BOSTON --Dr. John E. Mack, the Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry
who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Lawrence of Arabia and also
conducted research on people who claimed to be abducted by aliens, has died.
Mack was struck and killed by an alleged drunken driver in London on Monday
while attending the T.E. Lawrence Society Symposium in Oxford, England,
according to a release on the John E. Mack Institute Web site. He was 74.
Harvard Medical School spokesman Don Gibbons confirmed the death.
Mack, who won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1977 for "A Prince of Our
Disorder" on the life of World War I British officer T.E. Lawrence, better known
as Lawrence of Arabia, was one of several speakers at the symposium.
Mack made two presentations at the symposium on Monday, and was struck in a
crosswalk while walking to the home at which he was staying, according to
police. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Mack's extensive research of about 200 people from around the world who claimed
to have had encounters with space aliens found that they had a heightened sense
of spirituality and environmentalism.
He wrote about his subjects' experiences in two books, 1994's "Abduction" and
1999's "Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters."
His work was also the subject of the 2003 documentary film "Touched."
His efforts, which found that people claiming to be abducted came from all walks
of life and generally had no evidence of mental illness, met with skepticism and
criticism from some elements of the academic community.
In 1994, Harvard Medical School established a committee of peers to review his
clinical care and clinical investigation of the people he interviewed in the
course of his alien abduction research and initiated proceedings to determine
whether he should retain tenure.
After the 14-month investigation, the school "reaffirmed Dr. Mack's academic
freedom to study what he wishes and to state his opinions without impediment."
"I am just so devastated by this news," said Roderick MacLeish, the attorney who
represented Mack during the Harvard investigation. "This is a great loss. John
was one of the kindest, most compassionate mental health clinicians I have ever
met, and I have represented many psychiatrists."
Mack's early work focused on clinical explorations of dreams, nightmares and
teen suicide and how world perception affects relationships. He advocated a move
away from materialism in Western culture, blaming it for the Cold War and global
ecological problems.
"He was so caring to his patients, and I hope that is what he is remembered for,
and not for being the guy who believed in people's stories of alien abductions,"
MacLeish said.
Mack was born in New York City. He earned an undergraduate degree from Oberlin
College in 1951 and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1955. He
served in the U.S. Air Force from 1959-61.
No funeral or burial information was immediately available.
On the Web: http://johnmackinstitute.org
Here is an announcement of the death of a Harvard psychiatrist. As usual he
is described as a "caring" man by his attorney. What else would you expect?
Isn't it only caring psychiatrists and brutal, violent patients who make up the
universe? Forced drugging and forced treatment is only done out of love and
caring for the poor unfortunate ones. Ahem!
--
Roy Bercaw, Editor ENOUGH ROOM
John Mack, Pulitzer Prize winner, alien abduction researcher, dies
By Associated Press
Boston Globe
September 28, 2004
BOSTON --Dr. John E. Mack, the Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry
who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Lawrence of Arabia and also
conducted research on people who claimed to be abducted by aliens, has died.
Mack was struck and killed by an alleged drunken driver in London on Monday
while attending the T.E. Lawrence Society Symposium in Oxford, England,
according to a release on the John E. Mack Institute Web site. He was 74.
Harvard Medical School spokesman Don Gibbons confirmed the death.
Mack, who won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1977 for "A Prince of Our
Disorder" on the life of World War I British officer T.E. Lawrence, better known
as Lawrence of Arabia, was one of several speakers at the symposium.
Mack made two presentations at the symposium on Monday, and was struck in a
crosswalk while walking to the home at which he was staying, according to
police. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Mack's extensive research of about 200 people from around the world who claimed
to have had encounters with space aliens found that they had a heightened sense
of spirituality and environmentalism.
He wrote about his subjects' experiences in two books, 1994's "Abduction" and
1999's "Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters."
His work was also the subject of the 2003 documentary film "Touched."
His efforts, which found that people claiming to be abducted came from all walks
of life and generally had no evidence of mental illness, met with skepticism and
criticism from some elements of the academic community.
In 1994, Harvard Medical School established a committee of peers to review his
clinical care and clinical investigation of the people he interviewed in the
course of his alien abduction research and initiated proceedings to determine
whether he should retain tenure.
After the 14-month investigation, the school "reaffirmed Dr. Mack's academic
freedom to study what he wishes and to state his opinions without impediment."
"I am just so devastated by this news," said Roderick MacLeish, the attorney who
represented Mack during the Harvard investigation. "This is a great loss. John
was one of the kindest, most compassionate mental health clinicians I have ever
met, and I have represented many psychiatrists."
Mack's early work focused on clinical explorations of dreams, nightmares and
teen suicide and how world perception affects relationships. He advocated a move
away from materialism in Western culture, blaming it for the Cold War and global
ecological problems.
"He was so caring to his patients, and I hope that is what he is remembered for,
and not for being the guy who believed in people's stories of alien abductions,"
MacLeish said.
Mack was born in New York City. He earned an undergraduate degree from Oberlin
College in 1951 and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1955. He
served in the U.S. Air Force from 1959-61.
No funeral or burial information was immediately available.
On the Web: http://johnmackinstitute.org
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