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Jim Graham said something about shedding light but I forgot which post it was. I tried to shed a little light but look where it got me. Here’s another appropriate saying: "No good deed ever goes unpunished." From: Dyna [EMAIL PROTECTED]>This is about our own homegrown, made in Minneapolis, governmental stupidity. >This is the city government that tore down existing housing during a housing shortage. I tried to fix up a house. Because I have been active for the last 10 years to try to get better treatment for people who have emotional or mental disorders or just plain problems in living, I was asked to take the job of conservator for a young man. If he had had any money, the professional Conservators would have accepted the job. I was told they needed a conservator so the city could tear down his house. I told the judge that I wanted to fix up his house so that the young man could eventually come home. The powers-that-be had put a label on him of "mentally ill" and then, after another sham of a court hearing, a label of "dangerous" was applied. This man had not done anything wrong nor violated any laws, except yelling at his front door. I have monitored the courts when people were committed for the reason that "he was angry" or "she was crying." Many of them end up disabled for life after the treatment which consists mainly of drugs. These drugs have the same molecules and the same effect on the body as the street drugs we spend so much money trying to curb. Since I started monitoring the courts, they require someone who has seen these behaviors come to court to testify. They used to just have someone come in and read off a chart. In any case, there is no penalty for perjury in the courts. The last time I went to monitor the commitment court, they called it off when the patient’s mother and I were standing at the door of the court waiting to go in. I assume that meant they were able to give drugs, or force drugs, without a court order. Right now, in Pasadena, California, six--now four--survivors of the psychiatric system are on the 21st day of a liquid-only fast. The purpose is to get answers from the American Psychiatric Association, the Surgeon General, and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. NAMI is an organization of parents and others who are highly subsided ($11 million) by the drug companies. The strikers are asking for any shred of credible, scientifically legitimate evidence that mental illness is a brain disease. The entire mental health system across the country is built on this idea. People are diagnosed on their behavior; still, the system and the doctors claim this is a medical condition. The strikers also want to know of any study that can show that the drugs forced on people are of any benefit to those people they so label and are anything more than a non-specific tranquilizer, sedative or stimulant. No answers are forth-coming. Cut to the chase: I am being fined $20,000 for having tried to fix up that patient’s house in the previous administration. But we were told last summer that the City still has the same policy—that the people in a neighborhood get to decide which houses get torn down and which can stand. The naming of me as conservator was delayed eight months because I told the judge I wanted to fix up the house. They tore it down. Now they tell me I should have sold it for $20,000. I had had one bid of $5,000. It was on a 25 foot lot and nobody would have been allowed to fix it, I am now convinced. I had planned to hire a University Psychology student to live with the man in what would be a healing community as Dr. Polvoll started and wrote about in "The Seduction of Madness." My attorney will not say any of this. He is only arguing that the County did not use due process in notifying me that they were going to fine me $20,000. The Appeals Court hearing is a public event and anyone is invited who is interested and can maintain the proper decorum. It will be at 11:35 a.m. on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 in the Minnesota Judicial Center, 25 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Boulevard, just downhill from the Capitol. If you look for it on the map, it is still labeled "Constitution Avenue." I think that each attorney will speak for 15 minutes, then each will have 5 minutes for rebuttal and the court will be adjourned. Louise Bouta, Kingfield Well Mind Association of Minnesota 4003 Pillsbury Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55409 Phone: 612-823-8249 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wellmindminnesota.org |
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