Lawrence Journal World and News
Lawrence, Kansas
Mental illness
November 16, 2007
To the editor:
Gun control is the wrong target to stop atrocities like the Virginia Tech shootings. It is time to look at the true cause of the killings: antidepressants. In the Virginia tech shooting, Columbine and seven other shootings, psychiatric drugs were the common factor.
The Food and Drug Administration has already stated that antidepressants cause suicidal behavior, mania, psychosis, hallucinations and hostility. The black warning labels on these drugs were put there for a reason, and these drugs are given to people without proper cause and too freely.
Now, President Bush’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health wants to screen all schoolchildren for mental illness. The law has been passed in some states, and the program is called TeenScreen. Normal kids are labeled mentally ill with an array of disorders such as mathematics disorder, reading disorder, conduct disorder, just to name a few. This is ludicrous, and parents need to be aware of what is happening so they don’t let their children fall into a statistic.
Despite the evidence linking psychiatric drugs to suicide and violence, these drugs are prescribed to millions of children and teens based on subjective diagnoses made without any physical tests, such as blood tests, brain scans or X-rays.
It is time to take a stand and quit drugging our children. Let them have a life, not be turned into zombies because someone doesn’t want to “put up with them.”
Melanie Wertin,
Lecompton
Letter to the editor here: http://www2.ljworld.com/submit/letter_to_the_editor/
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Children find homes during Adoption Day in White Plains
The sad part is the public actually believes that these children were in need of homes, because they had been abused in their own homes.
I'll bet my last dollar that 99% if not 100% of these children have good loving parents that are exhausted from years worth of fighting this wonderful system of ours desperately trying to get back these children that were never abused in the first place, but were legally kidnapped for money!
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: November 17, 2007)
WHITE PLAINS - About 900 children are in foster care in Westchester County, but 17 lucky youngsters found permanent homes today.
The children, along with Westchester County court officials and adoptive parents gathered this afternoon in White Plains to celebrate the 8th annual Adoption Day.
Judge Kathie Davidson, supervising judge of the Westchester Family Court, along with Family Court Judge Colleen Duffy and Acting Family Court Judge William Edwards, finalized the adoptions of the children to Westchester families in honor of the day.
"In the New York court system, we believe in families," Edwards said. "This day represents the culmination of a family. Nothing is more precious than gathering a family to come together."
I'll bet my last dollar that 99% if not 100% of these children have good loving parents that are exhausted from years worth of fighting this wonderful system of ours desperately trying to get back these children that were never abused in the first place, but were legally kidnapped for money!
God help us all, how do any of em sleep at night?
By STACY A. ANDERSONTHE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: November 17, 2007)
WHITE PLAINS - About 900 children are in foster care in Westchester County, but 17 lucky youngsters found permanent homes today.
The children, along with Westchester County court officials and adoptive parents gathered this afternoon in White Plains to celebrate the 8th annual Adoption Day.
Judge Kathie Davidson, supervising judge of the Westchester Family Court, along with Family Court Judge Colleen Duffy and Acting Family Court Judge William Edwards, finalized the adoptions of the children to Westchester families in honor of the day.
"In the New York court system, we believe in families," Edwards said. "This day represents the culmination of a family. Nothing is more precious than gathering a family to come together."
Friday, November 16, 2007
State Attorney Admits No Law Makes Vaccines Mandatory
A state prosecutor involved in bringing potential criminal charges against hundreds of parents in a county just outside Washington D.C. for failing to allow their children to be vaccinated admitted yesterday on a national radio show that there is no law that mandates any vaccine, despite a Fox News report falsely claiming otherwise.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/151107_attorney_admits.htm
High on life: the biggest health care fraud in history?
As a new study suggests treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with drugs can do more harm than good, one lifelong 'sufferer' questions whether the condition even exists.
It was probably nailing my teacher’s coat to the desk while he was still wearing it that did it. That and glueing his packet of peanuts to the classroom ceiling, at a precisely-calculated five millimetres beyond his furthest reach.
It was the climax of what I – and most of my pre-teen classmates – considered a sustained comedy campaign, a bit of light-hearted high-jinx designed to redress the teacher-student balance of power. It wasn’t my first and nor would it be my last, even though this particular incident triggered a catastrophic sense of humour failure in said faculty member, who mysteriously vanished overnight.
Had I been born a decade or so later, I doubt I’d be writing this today. Rather than spending almost 20 years inventing new ways to terrorise a succession of teachers, lecturers and employers – fuelling other forms of creativity, including writing, in the process – I’d have been given a massive dose of Ritalin and left in a corner to rot.
Ancient roots
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), described by Hippocrates as early as 493BC, is billed by the modern medical fraternity as a neurological disorder usually characterised – especially in children – by inattentiveness, restlessness, forgetfulness and hyperactivity. Genetic in nature, it affects around five per cent of the world’s population and is often treated with a combination of medications, behaviour modification, lifestyle changes and counselling.
In 1999, a study in the US concluded that, after a period of 12 months, medication was more effective in the treatment of ADHD than behavioural therapy. In the years since, prescriptions in the UK have tripled. Around 500,000 children in Britain are currently believed to have ADHD. Of those, 55,000 are on medication, at an annual cost to the NHS of roughly £28m.
Recent revelation
But new research – by the authors of the original study – suggests drugs don’t work in the long-term and, alarmingly, their impact may actually be negative. Take 14-year-old Craig Buxton, whose family kept a video diary of his behaviour. The footage, which was screened on Panorama, shows in shocking detail his night terrors, explosive tantrums and relentless acts of aggression. At one point, Craig breaks down and cries: “Why am I like this, mum? I don’t want to feel like this, I don’t want to be like this. Help me.” He has been taking ADHD medication for a decade.
Critics are now questioning whether this so-called chronic developmental disorder is really a disorder at all. Dr Fred Baughman, a child neurologist on the other side of the Atlantic, has spent his professional life examining hundreds of children supposedly suffering from ADHD – and has found nothing abnormal or diseased about them. Nor has he found any hard evidence to suggest ADHD is actually a disease, or that it needs any treatment other than willpower, love and support. As he puts it, “it is the biggest health care fraud in history.”
An expert opines
Speaking to MSN UK News, Dr Baughman said: “I have discovered and described real diseases and, having examined hundreds said to have this ‘disorder’ or ‘disease’, I have Fred Baughman found nothing wrong, abnormal or diseased about them. I have also found no proof in the medical scientific literature of the world that ADHD is an objective, demonstrable abnormality, disease or disorder. It is the biggest health care fraud in history.
“The bigger-than-ADHD picture is that they – psychiatry in collusion with Big Pharma – have pledged to call all emotional and behavioural, psychological or mental symptoms ‘diseases’ due to chemical imbalances of the brain, needing not willpower, not love, support or adaptability, but ‘chemical balancers’ – in other words, pills.”
Cash cow
A conspiracy theory? Perhaps. But when drug-making leviathans in the US (the pursuit-of-superficial-perfection capital of the world) have dedicated ADHD sales forces, you can’t help but wonder who’s really creating the demand. One thing is beyond question: there is an awful lot of money to be made selling drugs – and not just the illegal ones. In the current climate of offspring-as-accessories, any quick-fix for children perceived as less than perfect is unlikely to gather any dust on the shelves.
There are, of course, some children who genuinely need pharmaceutical intervention. However, more often than not, this so-called disorder is really the result of combining excessively spirited children with criminally sub-standard parenting skills – quite the Molotov cocktail. In cases where a child becomes disruptive due to lack of parental care, affection or stimulation, the impairment belongs not to the child, but to the surrounding adults.
Simply semantics
Let’s take another look at those symptoms listed earlier: inattentiveness, restlessness, forgetfulness and hyperactivity. In non-medical speak: fidgeting, forgetting things, talking excessively, running around a lot and being easily distracted. What child isn’t? The problem here is one of perspective. I was thrilled to be alive and found my teachers’ monotonous tones, disinterest in their subject and failure to challenge me a total turn-off. They, in turn, found me disruptive (which I was: it helped relieve the brain-putrefying boredom).
But the real concern isn’t the noisy kids vaulting over furniture and terrorising their teachers (within reason), it’s the quiet children who are completely incapable of engaging with the people around them: the silent insular ones, who go unnoticed by society until they massacre their school mates.
If I ever have children (which I won’t), and they turn out to be unusually spirited (which they would), I like to think I’d turn not to pharmaceutical drug barons, but to Hippocrates, who described people exhibiting ADHD-type behaviour as “restless souls” with a simple “overbalance of fire over water.” The physician-scientist’s remedy for this overbalance? “Barley rather than wheat bread, fish rather than meat, water drinks, and many natural and diverse physical activities.' Beats being doped up to the eyeballs any day.
An opinion piece by Laura J Snook, MSN UK News Editor November 13, 2007
It was probably nailing my teacher’s coat to the desk while he was still wearing it that did it. That and glueing his packet of peanuts to the classroom ceiling, at a precisely-calculated five millimetres beyond his furthest reach.
It was the climax of what I – and most of my pre-teen classmates – considered a sustained comedy campaign, a bit of light-hearted high-jinx designed to redress the teacher-student balance of power. It wasn’t my first and nor would it be my last, even though this particular incident triggered a catastrophic sense of humour failure in said faculty member, who mysteriously vanished overnight.
Had I been born a decade or so later, I doubt I’d be writing this today. Rather than spending almost 20 years inventing new ways to terrorise a succession of teachers, lecturers and employers – fuelling other forms of creativity, including writing, in the process – I’d have been given a massive dose of Ritalin and left in a corner to rot.
Ancient roots
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), described by Hippocrates as early as 493BC, is billed by the modern medical fraternity as a neurological disorder usually characterised – especially in children – by inattentiveness, restlessness, forgetfulness and hyperactivity. Genetic in nature, it affects around five per cent of the world’s population and is often treated with a combination of medications, behaviour modification, lifestyle changes and counselling.
In 1999, a study in the US concluded that, after a period of 12 months, medication was more effective in the treatment of ADHD than behavioural therapy. In the years since, prescriptions in the UK have tripled. Around 500,000 children in Britain are currently believed to have ADHD. Of those, 55,000 are on medication, at an annual cost to the NHS of roughly £28m.
Recent revelation
But new research – by the authors of the original study – suggests drugs don’t work in the long-term and, alarmingly, their impact may actually be negative. Take 14-year-old Craig Buxton, whose family kept a video diary of his behaviour. The footage, which was screened on Panorama, shows in shocking detail his night terrors, explosive tantrums and relentless acts of aggression. At one point, Craig breaks down and cries: “Why am I like this, mum? I don’t want to feel like this, I don’t want to be like this. Help me.” He has been taking ADHD medication for a decade.
Critics are now questioning whether this so-called chronic developmental disorder is really a disorder at all. Dr Fred Baughman, a child neurologist on the other side of the Atlantic, has spent his professional life examining hundreds of children supposedly suffering from ADHD – and has found nothing abnormal or diseased about them. Nor has he found any hard evidence to suggest ADHD is actually a disease, or that it needs any treatment other than willpower, love and support. As he puts it, “it is the biggest health care fraud in history.”
An expert opines
Speaking to MSN UK News, Dr Baughman said: “I have discovered and described real diseases and, having examined hundreds said to have this ‘disorder’ or ‘disease’, I have Fred Baughman found nothing wrong, abnormal or diseased about them. I have also found no proof in the medical scientific literature of the world that ADHD is an objective, demonstrable abnormality, disease or disorder. It is the biggest health care fraud in history.
“The bigger-than-ADHD picture is that they – psychiatry in collusion with Big Pharma – have pledged to call all emotional and behavioural, psychological or mental symptoms ‘diseases’ due to chemical imbalances of the brain, needing not willpower, not love, support or adaptability, but ‘chemical balancers’ – in other words, pills.”
Cash cow
A conspiracy theory? Perhaps. But when drug-making leviathans in the US (the pursuit-of-superficial-perfection capital of the world) have dedicated ADHD sales forces, you can’t help but wonder who’s really creating the demand. One thing is beyond question: there is an awful lot of money to be made selling drugs – and not just the illegal ones. In the current climate of offspring-as-accessories, any quick-fix for children perceived as less than perfect is unlikely to gather any dust on the shelves.
There are, of course, some children who genuinely need pharmaceutical intervention. However, more often than not, this so-called disorder is really the result of combining excessively spirited children with criminally sub-standard parenting skills – quite the Molotov cocktail. In cases where a child becomes disruptive due to lack of parental care, affection or stimulation, the impairment belongs not to the child, but to the surrounding adults.
Simply semantics
Let’s take another look at those symptoms listed earlier: inattentiveness, restlessness, forgetfulness and hyperactivity. In non-medical speak: fidgeting, forgetting things, talking excessively, running around a lot and being easily distracted. What child isn’t? The problem here is one of perspective. I was thrilled to be alive and found my teachers’ monotonous tones, disinterest in their subject and failure to challenge me a total turn-off. They, in turn, found me disruptive (which I was: it helped relieve the brain-putrefying boredom).
But the real concern isn’t the noisy kids vaulting over furniture and terrorising their teachers (within reason), it’s the quiet children who are completely incapable of engaging with the people around them: the silent insular ones, who go unnoticed by society until they massacre their school mates.
If I ever have children (which I won’t), and they turn out to be unusually spirited (which they would), I like to think I’d turn not to pharmaceutical drug barons, but to Hippocrates, who described people exhibiting ADHD-type behaviour as “restless souls” with a simple “overbalance of fire over water.” The physician-scientist’s remedy for this overbalance? “Barley rather than wheat bread, fish rather than meat, water drinks, and many natural and diverse physical activities.' Beats being doped up to the eyeballs any day.
An opinion piece by Laura J Snook, MSN UK News Editor November 13, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Parents Must Immunize Their Children Or Go To Jail
Mark CenturyTruthNews
Wednesday November 14, 2007
Prince Georges County, MD
1,600 school children and their parents have been ordered to appear in circuit court this Saturday where health workers will immediately force them to receive required shots. Parents who don't bring their children to court for the shots are to be jailed.
"We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way, but it's going to have to get done." said State Attorney Glenn Ivey.
Original Article
Parents Must Immunize Their Children Or Go To Jail
Wednesday November 14, 2007
Prince Georges County, MD
1,600 school children and their parents have been ordered to appear in circuit court this Saturday where health workers will immediately force them to receive required shots. Parents who don't bring their children to court for the shots are to be jailed.
"We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way, but it's going to have to get done." said State Attorney Glenn Ivey.
Original Article
Parents Must Immunize Their Children Or Go To Jail
Monday, November 12, 2007
Jury Trial in Divorce and Custody Cases?
I thought this site may be of some interest to some of you out there so here it is..
Case Law Development: Jury Trial in Divorce Actions
In most states, there is no right to a jury trial in dissolution actions.
Only eleven states allow juries in any aspect of divorce litigation (Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin). Most of these limit the right to a jury to try issues regarding grounds or entitlement for divorce only.
Texas provides jury trial rights most broadly, including even the right to a jury trial on questions regarding child custody. (For citations, see the annotation on the subject at 56 A.L.R.4th 955).
Accordingly, cases discussing evidentiary issues in divorce actions are a rarity.
A recent Georgia Supreme Court decision demonstrates that, few evidentiary errors will be likely to be sufficiently egregious to rise above the harmless error standard. Husband had alleged numerous evidentiary errors in the divorce action, including, for example, allowing cross examination regarding husband's opinion as to fair alimony and property division, admitting an improperly authenticated document, and allowing witnwitness testimony impeaching the testimony of the husband's lover before the lover testified. As to each, the supreme court found the error harmless. The court also rejected husband's appeal of the denial of a mistrial based on improper closing arguments due to a failure to object during that argument.
Moxley v. Moxley, 2006 Ga. LEXIS 987 (November 28, 2006)
Case Law Development: Jury Trial in Divorce Actions
In most states, there is no right to a jury trial in dissolution actions.
Only eleven states allow juries in any aspect of divorce litigation (Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin). Most of these limit the right to a jury to try issues regarding grounds or entitlement for divorce only.
Texas provides jury trial rights most broadly, including even the right to a jury trial on questions regarding child custody. (For citations, see the annotation on the subject at 56 A.L.R.4th 955).
Accordingly, cases discussing evidentiary issues in divorce actions are a rarity.
A recent Georgia Supreme Court decision demonstrates that, few evidentiary errors will be likely to be sufficiently egregious to rise above the harmless error standard. Husband had alleged numerous evidentiary errors in the divorce action, including, for example, allowing cross examination regarding husband's opinion as to fair alimony and property division, admitting an improperly authenticated document, and allowing witnwitness testimony impeaching the testimony of the husband's lover before the lover testified. As to each, the supreme court found the error harmless. The court also rejected husband's appeal of the denial of a mistrial based on improper closing arguments due to a failure to object during that argument.
Moxley v. Moxley, 2006 Ga. LEXIS 987 (November 28, 2006)
Sunday, November 11, 2007
WTC $wine Dinning
Tell me- have they all gone MAD?
I think the answer to that is YES- Those in power have gone stark raving insane over the last decade! WTF? Is it the water? Ohhh silly me- It's the love of money!
November 11, 2007
Lawyers and executives for the $1 billion World Trade Center insurance fund - who've already spent more than $100 million in overhead and legal fees - are also wining and dining with money meant for sick 9/11 responders, records show.
Invoices obtained by The Post show that high-paid lawyers and employees of the WTC Captive Insurance Co., a nonprofit governed by Mayor Bloomberg appointees, have tapped the federal fund for cocktails and gourmet dinners.
After a court hearing in Manhattan last year, when the city argued unsuccessfully to dismiss all claims by 9/11 responders, a top lawyer for the fund filed an expense report totaling $1,390 for "drinks and dinner."
The June 23, 2006, tab submitted by Margaret Warner of the Washington, D.C., firm McDermott, Will & Emery included $138 for "cocktails" for six at Sir Harry's, a plush bar inside the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. The dimly lit lounge, decorated with antique oil paintings, serves $8 Budweisers and highballs for $12 and up.
Warner billed another $342 to spend the night at the luxe Park Avenue hotel.
After Sir Harry's, she and seven others ran up a $1,250 bill for "food and beverage" at Giovanni Ristoranti on West 55th Street, which boasts two Michelin stars. The cheapest bottle of wine goes for $50, and the northern-Italian cuisine features entrees like veal chop Milanese ($38.75).
Besides Warner - who bills the fund $583 an hour - the diners included James Tyrrell, the city's lead defense lawyer; two colleagues from his firm, Patton Boggs; and WTC Captive CEO James Schoenbeck and general counsel David Biester.
Warner's firm billed a total of $1,543 for "business meals" in August 2006, including the June feast.
The WTC captive fund manages $1 billion in 9/11 federal aid awarded by Congress to cover claims from the Ground Zero cleanup and protect the city's coffers from huge liability.
A spokesman, Caroline Gentile, defended the meals: "It is perfectly appropriate for the WTC Captive to reimburse its outside counsel for expenses, including dinner meetings incurred for a legitimate business purpose."
Warner's representative said she billed for the June 23 drinks "in error." Warner said she will reimburse the captive and look for other such errors.
Gentile said the captive will review other meal bills.
Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler was appalled by the fancy food and booze.
"The captive fund was never meant to serve as an open-ended expense account for well-paid lawyers," he told The Post. "Every dime wasted is money that could, and should, have gone to those who continue to suffer because of their exposure at Ground Zero."
A 9/11 responder agreed. "They're having lobster tail and champagne while I'm scheduled for another surgery," said retired NYPD Detective John Walcott, 42, who has fought leukemia.
The fund's financial reports through Sept. 30 show it has churned through more than $100 million in administrative and legal fees since 2004. Because of interest earned, the fund still has $15 million more than when it started, Gentile said.
It has paid out $320,000 to six workers with "orthopedic injuries." Most of the 8,600 other claims cite respiratory and toxic injuries.
Additional reporting by Susannah Cahalan
I think the answer to that is YES- Those in power have gone stark raving insane over the last decade! WTF? Is it the water? Ohhh silly me- It's the love of money!
November 11, 2007
Lawyers and executives for the $1 billion World Trade Center insurance fund - who've already spent more than $100 million in overhead and legal fees - are also wining and dining with money meant for sick 9/11 responders, records show.
Invoices obtained by The Post show that high-paid lawyers and employees of the WTC Captive Insurance Co., a nonprofit governed by Mayor Bloomberg appointees, have tapped the federal fund for cocktails and gourmet dinners.
After a court hearing in Manhattan last year, when the city argued unsuccessfully to dismiss all claims by 9/11 responders, a top lawyer for the fund filed an expense report totaling $1,390 for "drinks and dinner."
The June 23, 2006, tab submitted by Margaret Warner of the Washington, D.C., firm McDermott, Will & Emery included $138 for "cocktails" for six at Sir Harry's, a plush bar inside the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. The dimly lit lounge, decorated with antique oil paintings, serves $8 Budweisers and highballs for $12 and up.
Warner billed another $342 to spend the night at the luxe Park Avenue hotel.
After Sir Harry's, she and seven others ran up a $1,250 bill for "food and beverage" at Giovanni Ristoranti on West 55th Street, which boasts two Michelin stars. The cheapest bottle of wine goes for $50, and the northern-Italian cuisine features entrees like veal chop Milanese ($38.75).
Besides Warner - who bills the fund $583 an hour - the diners included James Tyrrell, the city's lead defense lawyer; two colleagues from his firm, Patton Boggs; and WTC Captive CEO James Schoenbeck and general counsel David Biester.
Warner's firm billed a total of $1,543 for "business meals" in August 2006, including the June feast.
The WTC captive fund manages $1 billion in 9/11 federal aid awarded by Congress to cover claims from the Ground Zero cleanup and protect the city's coffers from huge liability.
A spokesman, Caroline Gentile, defended the meals: "It is perfectly appropriate for the WTC Captive to reimburse its outside counsel for expenses, including dinner meetings incurred for a legitimate business purpose."
Warner's representative said she billed for the June 23 drinks "in error." Warner said she will reimburse the captive and look for other such errors.
Gentile said the captive will review other meal bills.
Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler was appalled by the fancy food and booze.
"The captive fund was never meant to serve as an open-ended expense account for well-paid lawyers," he told The Post. "Every dime wasted is money that could, and should, have gone to those who continue to suffer because of their exposure at Ground Zero."
A 9/11 responder agreed. "They're having lobster tail and champagne while I'm scheduled for another surgery," said retired NYPD Detective John Walcott, 42, who has fought leukemia.
The fund's financial reports through Sept. 30 show it has churned through more than $100 million in administrative and legal fees since 2004. Because of interest earned, the fund still has $15 million more than when it started, Gentile said.
It has paid out $320,000 to six workers with "orthopedic injuries." Most of the 8,600 other claims cite respiratory and toxic injuries.
Additional reporting by Susannah Cahalan
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