Cambridge, MA City Councilor Wants $15 minimum Wage By Any Means Necessary

“I’m not super concerned with how we implement it,” Mazen said. “What I am concerned with is the absolute imperative to increase wages in the city.” There's an un-American theory of government. Under that standard police could eliminate drunk driving, domestic violence, rape, and drug use in Cambridge by beating anyone they see doing it until they are senseless. That's the way to implement policy determined by personal mandate. Did Councilor Mazen learn this system of legislating at MIT?

[From article]
“I’m not super concerned with how we implement it,” Mazen said. “What I am concerned with is the absolute imperative to increase wages in the city.” There's an un-American theory of government. Under that standard police could eliminate drunk driving, domestic violence, rape, and drug use in Cambridge by beating anyone they see doing it until they are senseless. That's the way to implement policy determined by personal mandate. Did Councilor Mazen learn this system of legislating at MIT?

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/11/24/cambridge-minimum-wage-effort/

City Councillor Leads Effort Advocating $15 Minimum Wage
It remains unclear whether such a policy shift would affect some of Harvard’s temporary and part-time employees
By HANNAH NATANSON, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Harvard Crimson
November 24, 2015

White House Promotes Globalism and Increased Business For Lawyers

White House is well aware of misguided rape policy it promotes. Administration moves to place all police under federal jurisdiction. No more state and local police departments is the goal. Part of the effort toward globalism, breaking down borders and nations. It is why so many Republicans support the secret trade deal. Globalists are in both parties. Immigration abuses are part of this also. Useful idiot journalists divert attention with fake race and rape statistics most of which are made up by PR flacks. What is shocking is the silence of police agencies and lawyers about this destruction of the legal system. Police, prosecutors and hospitals all have taxpayer funded specially trained investigators of rape. Colleges have none of these. But it does increase potential for more lawsuits by men falsely convicted without Due Process protections. The White House encourages the rule of lawyers replacing the constitution.

[From article]
I have a problem with any organization judging what is clearly a criminal matter and being the judge and jury of someone's guilt or innocence. We are supposed to be a nation of laws, where anyone accused of a crime is innocent until proven guilty. We have all seen, at some point, videos or pictures of someone clearly committing a crime. The MSM is always very careful to refer to the person committing the crime as the "alleged" criminal or perpetrator. Why should institutions of learning be an exception and be able to follow their own arbitrary rules or the rules of any administration in matters of sexual assault, or any other criminal matter? Why should the alleged perpetrator be considered guilty until proven innocent? If there were a shooting on a campus, wouldn't the police be called immediately and the matter be turned over to the judicial system?
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After we rode around for a while, he said he had some records at his room we could listen to in order to kill time. Once we were in his room, he attacked me viciously. I fought and fought, and screamed to the point where I subsequently lost my voice for several days. It was to no avail, as he was considerably stronger than me. When I finally blacked out due to a pillow being pressed on my face, he raped me.
I won't go into all the details of the rape or how I got away, but get away I did, and I ran to my friends, who were waiting for me with the police. When I hadn't turned up at the appointed time, they knew something was wrong and started to search for me. When the police went to his motel room looking for him, they found pieces of the clothes he had ripped off me and chunks of my hair he had torn out.
I was then terrorized for days by phone calls made by him to the motel where I worked, to the point where my employer got someone else to take over my switchboard duties. I also had Ocean City police officers voluntarily driving me each day to work and then back to where I was staying. I was perfectly willing to press charges, but my rapist escaped and returned to his home in Canada, which didn't have extradition for rape.
Sandra Jones appears to be one of a growing number of young women trivializing true rape by crying rape when they get drunk and do something they later regret. By doing so, they ruin young men's lives. These young women should be educated about what sexual assault truly is. Maybe the Obama administration should be educated as well.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/06/rape_on_campus_guilty_until_proven_innocent.html

June 22, 2015
Rape on Campus: Guilty until Proven Innocent
By Claire Hawks

DEA Seizes Cash From Amtrak Passenger, Without Charge of Crime

Henry Louis Mencken's observed, "First they pass laws against the SOBs. Then they use them against the rest of us." In Harvey Silverglate's book, "Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent," he argues that Congress passed so many laws, ordinary citizens usually violate three felonies a day without knowing it. Making the victim "whole" is a curious legal notion. In this case the government thugs simply seized property. 

In 1973 government psychiatrists drugged me using hallucinogens for 80 consecutive days contrary to law. I was not under the care of any psychiatrist. There was no court order to permit the criminal abuse. I never volunteered as a human subject for any medical research project. Some of the elite political geniuses thought I was a spy. They asked, "How did he know that?" If they did not reveal secrets no one is capable of figuring out what they do, was their thinking. 

Compassionate FBI agents and police scared me, then used me for 15 years to fight organized crime. They did not pay me one cent. They stole my personal journals and culled all of the women I mentioned and married them off to FBI informants. They told everyone I knew, know and met, "He's homosexual." adding, "He's a retired drug dealer." "He's a racist." "He's crazy." He's homeless." He's a high school dropout." and more. This continues in 2015. 

They coordinated teams of crime family associates who retaliated for the next 23 years. For 42 years crime families, FBI informants, local police, Harvard University campus police, building superintendents, and graduate students in psychology at Harvard Medical School, Communists and assorted psychopaths, took turns harassing me. At no time has the government ever admitted what they did. At no time has the government ever tried to make me half or three quarters whole. They continue stirring up more and more animosity to cover up what they did and continue to do. Democratic politicians want more of this kind of government. 



[From article]
Carly Fiorina told a packed audience that a huge, complex and sometimes corrupt government was "crushing the potential" of Americans.
"That is not hyperbole," she said. "That is fact."
When democracy becomes so big and powerful, and so costly and complex, Fiorina said, only the big, powerful, wealthy and well-connected can handle it.
"The small and the powerless get crushed," she said.

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Carly Fiorina: Big government is crushing Americans

Jon Offredo

The News Journal
1:59 p.m. EDT May 30, 2015

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[From article]
McLellan owns L&M Convenience Mart in Fairmont, N.C., a restaurant and store that opened in 2001. Last year, the Internal Revenue Service seized all of the money in the store’s bank account—$107,702.66—after accusing McLellan of committing structuring violations.
McLellan, though, was never charged with a crime.[. . .]
Structuring involves making consistent cash deposits of less than $10,000 into a bank account for the purpose of avoiding reporting requirements. The procedure began as a way to combat money laundering and drug trafficking. However, more and more instances have come to light where innocent Americans have committed structuring violations without knowing it.
[. . .]
Though the government will return all of the money it seized from McLellan, it dismissed the case without covering the store owner’s legal fees and expenses, as well as interest on the money.
In 2000, Congress passed a law that entitles McLellan to those fees and expenses, which total more than $20,000.
Additionally, government policies require the $107,702 seized is kept in an interest-bearing account. Though McLellan will receive the money, the government wants to keep the interest earned.
[. . .]
“But at the same time, the government needs to make Lyndon whole.” “They came into his store and turned his life upside down, caused him all kinds of heartache and expense, and now they’re just trying to walk away as if nothing happened and forcing Lyndon to bear all those costs,”

http://dailysignal.com/2015/05/14/federal-government-to-return-107702-irs-seized-from-north-carolina-convenience-store-owner/

Federal Government to Return $107,702 Seized From North Carolina Convenience Store Owner
Melissa Quinn / @MelissaQuinn97

May 14, 2015

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[From article]
DEA agents approached Rivers, the only black passenger in the train car, and asked to search his bag. Inside the bag, agents found $16,000 in cash—money Rivers said he had saved up and received from family members to pursue his music video aspirations.
The agents detained Rivers and asked him about the cash. According to Rivers and his lawyer, Michael Pancer, a San Diego-based attorney, Rivers had the agents call his mother to confirm his story, but the DEA nevertheless seized his money, believing it was somehow connected with drugs.
The DEA agents then released Rivers, leaving him penniless in Albuquerque. He was never charged with a crime. The incident, first reported by the Albuquerque Journal, is the latest case to highlight the practice of civil asset forfeiture.
Under civil asset forfeiture laws, police and federal agents can seize property on the mere suspicion that it is connected to criminal activity. The property owner does not even have to be charged with a crime, since asset forfeiture is technically an action against the property itself.
“We don’t have to prove that the person is guilty,” Sean Waite, the head of the DEA’s Albuquerque office, told the Albuquerque Journal. “It’s that the money is presumed to be guilty.”

http://freebeacon.com/issues/dea-seizes-amtrak-passengers-life-savings-without-charging-him-with-crime/

DEA Seizes Amtrak Passenger’s Life Savings Without Charging Him with Crime
Latest case to highlight practice of civil asset forfeiture
BY: CJ Ciaramella Follow @cjciaramella
May 12, 2015 4:59 am

Cambridge, MA Architect Laments Permit Process For Building Housing

MIT Dormitory, Cambridge, MA

Mr. Boyes-Watson laments difficulty with permit process for new housing. Is it the need to get permits at all, that is a problem, or only some of the process? He does not explain. He does not suggest that any part of the process is corrupt, or can be ignored with due consideration. He does not mention why developers want to build in Cambridge with all of the problems getting permits. Do the high prices of real estate have anything to do with it? Is building in Cambridge a good investment? Is blaming "we in the community" for "loading up housing construction with more and more obligations and fighting each project that is proposed" misguided blame? How much influence do "we in the community" have over decisions by the Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals? 

 
Are official requirements too high for low income housing? Shoddy construction, no heat and hot water would lower costs and allow more poor people to live in the city. Allowing flop houses for single room occupancy would get rid of, or at least mitigate the homeless problem. Standards are too high. Look at places like the Sudan, Jordanian and Syrian refugee camps, Gaza, asylum seekers in Italy, for low cost housing of millions who are refugees. The same standards could be used in Cambridge to increase housing and to reduce the homeless problem. Look at the large tent Harvard University erected on city owned land on the overpass near the Fire Department headquarters, which Harvard calls Science Plaza. A great place for low cost housing near a major transit hub. 20 stories of low income housing would go well there. Then there is Cambridge Common where a fifty story building could easily be built, even closer to major transportation and shopping.

[From article]

I can categorically state that it is hard, very hard, to obtain permits to build housing. In my opinion is far too hard, in fact so hard that despite the strong desire of developers to invest in housing in the city not enough new housing is being permitted and built here. This throttling of new housing supply means that well-to-do, moderate-income and low-income folks are all competing for what is a too limited, too static resource.
[. . .]
This is a problem of not permitting enough housing, period. Every unit is very expensive to get permitted and built, so the new housing is, inevitably expensive.
[. . .]
It is disingenuous to suggest we are powerless to slow the rise of housing costs in Cambridge. Those who have control can and should address the rise in housing costs by permitting more housing to be built. We in the community cannot behave like Marie Antoinette and bemoan rising housing costs while loading up housing construction with more and more obligations and fighting each project that is proposed. It is hypocrisy.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150505/NEWS/150508332

Guest column: Permit more housing in Cambridge to slow rising costs
By Mark Boyes-Watson
Posted May. 5, 2015 at 10:49 AM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Wisconsin State Government Malicious Prosecutions Target Conservative Activists

[From article]
Apparently conservatives in Wisconsin are being targeted by officials for working with budget reforms, and their houses are literally being invaded by police and their stuff is carried out right in front of them. And because of some stupid law in the badger state these conservatives are getting no due process and are required to be unconstitutionally silenced.

http://therightscoop.com/dana-loesch-exposes-intimidation-campaigns-against-conservatives-by-wisconsin-officials/

Published on Apr 21, 2015
You Will Not Believe What Is Happening In America Today

Who Needs Rules?

Cambridge City Council which is obligated to run its meetings using Robert's Rules of Order has a simple solution. Few Councilors know those rules. They suspend the rules (MA legislature does it too) when they want to do something. As for speaking too long the US Senate and US House restrict members' speaking to one minute on occasion. The Cambridge City Council has no limit for their members who drone on, and repeat what others say even after saying "I want to echo what my colleague said." It is humorous to watch them. Try it you'll like it. In olden times high school fraternities used Robert's Rules and it was never a problem. But that was then. Robert's Rules are way too rational for today, when emotions rule and propaganda dictates. Too bad that students are "very busy and have different time priorities” preventing them from learning how to run meetings.

Another consideration is how courts are run allegedly according to strict procedural rules. They too take time and are tedious. It is called Due Process. Perhaps for expediency those rules too can be ignored. Then people can just punish suspects who are accused of crime. It is not even necessary to give the suspect notice of what they are accused. Just punish them for whatever someone says. That is what numerous local police agencies, crime families, FBI informants, Communists, Harvard University campus police, building superintendents, and graduate students in psychology at Harvard Medical School did to me for 45 years. 

[From article]
As a result, some members of the Council are questioning the effectiveness of following parliamentary procedure, which they say causes meetings to run too long.
“I’m for it in theory, but it’s tedious in practice,” Nasrollahzadeh said.
[. . .]
Currier House representative Stephen A. Turban ’17 [. . .] said he believes parliamentary procedure should be done away with altogether.
“We exist as a student government, not a real government,” Turban said. “We’re a group of students that are very busy and have different time priorities.”
Council members point to some representatives’ lack of understanding of the procedures to explain why it slows down the process.
[. . .]
“You don’t want to give the power in the meetings to the few people who know parliamentary procedure,” he said. “It’s ironic.”
[. . .]
“People talk for far, far too long,” Kanuparthy added. “It’s the nature of things that people like to hear themselves talk.”

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/3/6/UC-procedures-process-tediousness/

‘Tedious in Practice’: UC Questions Meeting Procedures
By JALIN P. CUNNINGHAM

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
March 5, 2015

Government Control Freaks Take Freedom From Advocate for Persons With Disabilities, They Discredit Her and Diminish Her Spirit

Left: Alison Hymes attends a friend's wedding in Washington in 1984. (Courtesy of Alison Hymes) Right: Hymes is seen at the entrance of Riverdale Assisted Living on Dec. 17, 2014. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post)
Contrary to its image of love and compassion, psychiatry is a means of social control with no due process protections. Among the misguided standards is if a person denies the entire concept of mental illness that too is a mental illness. Human emotions, ordinary protected speech and behavior are classified as illnesses. Using arbitrary standards psychiatrists take a person's freedom for speech and behavior which they do not like or do not understand.  

[From article]
Hymes was no ordinary patient. Before landing at Western, she spent years urging others with mental illness and their families not to let doctors, judges and social workers make decisions for them. She was part of a state task force charged with reforming civil commitment laws at the time of the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, serving alongside doctors, academics, and law enforcement officials.
The daughter of a prominent University of Virginia linguist, Hymes argued vehemently — and unsuccessfully — against loosening the state’s commitment criteria.
[. . .]
Anyone who knew Hymes from her days on the state’s commitment task force would not have recognized the timid woman in the hospital waiting room.
She had been a fixture at public meetings on mental health issues for years, with a reputation for challenging anyone, no matter how important.
[. . .]
Author Pete Earley, who served with Hymes on the state panel, described her as the loudest, fiercest voice against involuntary hospitalization and forced medication. “She wouldn’t give an inch and celebrated being an outsider,” he said. “She was relentless if you disagreed with her.”
[. . .]
Years of taking lithium had ruined Hymes’s kidneys. She was on a transplant waiting list as she served on the task force, spending much of her free time going to dialysis.
[. . .]
More significant for Hymes, the state adopted the approach to involuntary hospitalization recommended by the task force. It no longer required that people pose an “imminent danger” to themselves or others before they could be committed, but it also allowed involuntary hospitalization of those who showed a “substantial likelihood” of harm because of an inability to protect themselves from harm or to provide for their basic human needs.
[. . .]
When asked whether she was mentally ill, she replied, “I don’t really believe in mental disability.”
To clinicians, her answer was a sign of her illness, and they sent her to Western for what became a one-year stay. To her friends in what’s called “the psychiatric survivors movement,” her statement was a sign of sanity. She shared their view of involuntary hospitalization, forced medication and the use of restraints as traumatizing and a violation of civil rights. To them, she was not a patient but a political prisoner.
[. . .]
When outside pressure against her hospital commitment did not work, Hymes grew dejected. A doctor described her as “feeling hopeless and helpless” and saying, “ ‘I give up.’ ”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/she-fought-for-patients-rights-then-she-was-put-in-a-hospital-against-her-will/2015/01/31/c306f01c-a1b0-11e4-903f-9f2faf7cd9fe_story.html

She fought for patients’ rights, then she was put in a hospital against her will
By Annys Shin

January 31, 2015 at 8:15 PM

Washington Post 

IRS Seizes Money Without Evidence of A Crime

Cash inventory: Jeff Hirsch, one of three brothers who own Bi-County Distributors on Long Island is still out $446,000 as the government sits on the company's cash and won't explain why

[From article]
The federal government is using a legal process called 'civil forfeiture' to seize massive amounts of money from unsuspecting Americans – without alleging that they've committed any crimes.
Laws put on the books to help the government track drug trafficking proceeds and terrorists' cash reserves are regularly contorted, according to a civil rights group, by prosecutors who see easy access to piles of cash that ultimately pays their salaries.
The financial seizures leave some honest small businessmen and women out of luck when their life savings disappear and their family trades teeter on the edge of insolvency.
In one case, the IRS took $446,000 from a mostly cash-only small business that distributes candy, snacks and cigarettes to convenience stores. Brothers Jeffrey, Richard and Mitch Hirsch lost that money two years ago when the federal government raided their bank account.
In another, the government grabbed $33,000 from Iowa restaurateur Carole Hinders, who deals only in cash. No criminal charges have been brought in either case.
[. . .]
Equally troubling, he said, is that the laundry list of federal agencies that take Americans' property on a regular basis can keep it – pocketing cash and selling other assets – in order to pay salaries and grow their budgets for the next round of seizures.
While they ultimately refer criminal cases to the U.S. Department of Justice for prosecution, forfeited assets stay with the investigating agencies.
[. . .]
In the Hirsches' case, the government never formally applied to a court for permission to take their cash. That's a clear violation of the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act, the Institute for Justice says.
Congress passed that law in 2000 to curb abuses by prosecutors under forfeiture laws.
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'The government can take this money and just sit on it, and try to force you into a settlement. Which is what they've done in this case and in others.'
In the Iowa case, the Times reported Monday that Hinders got a knock on her door last year from two federal agents who told her that her checking account had been seized.
'How can this happen?' she asked the Times. 'Who takes your money before they prove that you've done anything wrong with it?'
Hinders won't see a judge until at least May 2015, since she's not entitled to a preliminary hearing where a judge might conclude the IRS had no justification to take her earnings.
'We're just saying the government should have to show it has probable cause to hold that money,' Salzman said. 'Why not give a prompt post-seizure hearing to make sure the government doesn't have the facts wrong?'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2809632/IRS-uses-drug-trafficking-terror-laws-seize-bank-accounts-taxpayers-without-proof-crime.html

IRS uses drug trafficking and terror laws to seize bank accounts from taxpayers without ANY proof of a crime
Agencies that seize the cash can KEEP IT to pay salaries and grow their budgets
Feds seized $446,000 from NY candy and cigarette distributor that deals mostly in cash;Iowa grandma lost $33,000 from her restaurant business
Government can take money if it thinks people are evading financial reporting laws by depositing money in specific amounts
Deposits of $10,000 or more trigger bank reporting requirements, so drug kingpins, terrorists and racketeers often limit their deposits to $9,900
Law-abiding people can have their money seized; IRS can sit on the cash and try to pressure ordinary businessmen and women into settlements
Institute for Justice, a nonprofit law firm, is pushing back and demanding hearings before federal judges
By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 13:09 EST, 27 October 2014 | UPDATED: 15:18 EST, 27 October 2014

Quarantine Restrictions Rasie Concerns of Those Quarantined

Sounds like NJ Gov. Christie is acting responsibly. Here's one more example of a dumbed down population, journalists and political class. Under the MA state constitution the Commissioner of Health can take a person into custody with no due process and isolate the person to protect the public health. That is what Christie is doing in NJ. Don't know what other state constitutions say but this is something that elected officials and voters should know. It is certainly an inconvenience. But it is more of an inconvenience if they spread deadly viruses.

[From article]
The restrictions imposed on health workers returning from Africa exposes a dilemma for authorities who are keen for American experts to help staunch the disease in Africa but mindful of public concerns at home.
[. . .]
The New Jersey department of health said Hickox would remain in isolation for the time being. Speaking on Friday, Christie said the state’s health department had determined a quarantine order should be issued; it was not clear on Saturday if it would be issued in New York, where Hickox was traveling to, or New Jersey, where she is in hospital. Hickox is not from the area, Christie said.
Civil liberties activists raised concerns about the constitutionality of the new rules, warning they could discourage health workers from volunteering to fight Ebola in Africa.
[. . .]
The restrictions imposed by New York, New Jersey and Illinois go beyond recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the agency managing the federal response to Ebola in the US. The CDC said in a statement that it “sets the baseline recommended standards, but state and local officials have the prerogative to tighten the regimen as they see fit”.
[. . .]
The new guidelines will require anyone who flies from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea ­– regardless of whether they are exhibiting symptoms ­– to check in daily with state and local health officials. They will be required to report their temperatures and the any appearance of Ebola-like symptoms, such as severe headaches, fatigue and diarrhoea. They will also be required to consult with health officials if they need, or want, to travel.
If an affected individual fails to check in, the CDC said health officials would take immediate action to track the person down and ensure the proper monitoring is carried out. Concern has been raised over the feasibility of such proposed action.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/25/obama-facts-not-fear-public-response-ebola-usa

Ebola nurse 'made to feel like criminal' on return to US
• Kaci Hickox tests negative but stays in New Jersey isolation
• ACLU raises concerns over ‘abuse of police powers’
• WHO: Ebola cases pass 10,000 mark
• NY and NJ introduce tough new quarantine measures
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Saturday 25 October 2014 16.41 EDT

Wire Service Chief Equates Death Penalty to ISIS Beheadings

[From article]
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: “There’s a very big difference between the two ‘death penalties.’ In our justice system, only the very worst murderers are put death — and only after years of trials and appeals — while the ISIS killers behead the innocent in order to terrorize the world to submit to their political demands. You’d think such a long-time journalist would recognize the difference.”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/mainstream-media-scream-reuters-boss-likens-death-penalty-to-isis-beheadings/article/2553019

Mainstream Media Scream: Reuters boss likens death penalty to ISIS beheadings
By Paul Bedard
September 8, 2014 | 3:20 pm

San Francisco Proceeds Along Path to Destroy Freedom

[From article]
San Francisco, which is both a city and a county, is the second major county in California to pass the law, a move that came after contentious discussion. The law will allow judges to order outpatient treatment for people with a record of failed mental health hospitalizations and of violence.
Supporters see the measure as a way to help people who won't, or can’t, help themselves and to ensure they take medication. Critics have warned that enforcing the law will create a system ready-made for civil rights abuses and suggest that expanding community mental health services would be more appropriate.

See the below link for extensive discussion of U.S. law on forced drugging, which includes this delicious piece of wisdom

Corruption in the Courts
It turns out that psychiatrists, with the full understanding and tacit permission of the trial judges, regularly lie in court to obtain involuntary commitment and forced medication orders:
[C]ourts accept . . . testimonial dishonesty, . . . specifically where witnesses, especially expert witnesses, show a "high propensity to purposely distort their testimony in order to achieve desired ends." . . .
Experts frequently . . . and openly subvert statutory and case law criteria that impose rigorous behavioral standards as predicates for commitment . . .

This combination . . . helps define a system in which (1) dishonest testimony is often regularly (and unthinkingly) accepted; (2) statutory and case law standards are frequently subverted; and (3) insurmountable barriers are raised to insure that the allegedly "therapeutically correct" social end is met . . .. In short, the mental disability law system often deprives individuals of liberty disingenuously and upon bases that have no relationship to case law or to statutes.
The ADA and Persons with Mental Disabilities: Can Sanist Attitudes Be Undone? by Michael L. Perlin, Journal of Law and Health, 1993/1994, 8 JLHEALTH 15, 33-34.
The psychiatric profession explicitly acknowledges psychiatrists regularly lie to the courts in order to obtain forced treatment orders. E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., probably the most prominent proponent of involuntary psychiatric treatment says:
It would probably be difficult to find any American Psychiatrist working with the mentally ill who has not, at a minimum, exaggerated the dangerousness of a mentally ill person's behavior to obtain a judicial order for commitment.
Torrey, E. Fuller. 1997. Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis. New York: John Wiley and Sons. 152. Dr. Torrey goes on to say this lying to the courts is a good thing. Dr. Torrey also quotes Psychiatrist Paul Appelbaum as saying when "confronted with psychotic persons who might well benefit from treatment, and who would certainly suffer without it, mental health professionals and judges alike were reluctant to comply with the law," noting that in "'the dominance of the commonsense model,' the laws are sometimes simply disregarded."

http://psychrights.org/force_of_law.htm

See also
[From article]
This double standard needs to end. If we don’t require forced treatment for cancer patients who could be cured by chemotherapy, there’s little justification for keeping it around for mental illness.
[. . .]
if someone were dying from cancer or heart disease, they have an absolute right to refuse medical treatment for their ailment. So why is it that people with mental disorders can have that similar right taken away from them?
[. . .]
Forced treatment is wrong. Just as no doctor would ever force someone to undergo cancer treatment against their will, I can no longer back the rationalizations that justify forcing a fellow human being to undergo treatment for their mental health concern without their consent.
As a society, we’ve shown time and time again that we cannot devise a system that won’t be abused or used in ways that it was never intended. Judges simply don’t work as check for forced treatment, because they don’t have any reasonable basis on which to actually rest their judgment in the short time they’re given to make a determination.
The power to force treatment — whether through the old-style commitment laws or the new-style “assisted outpatient treatment” laws — cannot be trusted to others to wield compassionately or as an option of last resort.
Absent from the discussion about forced treatment and/or treatment without consent is the U.S. Constitution, and/or laws of the state. Taking freedom without Due Process violates the Constitution. American jurisprudence includes the notion of mens rea and actus reus, for a finding guilt of a crime. If a person is a suspect of a crime, police have the option of probable cause for arrest, and/or obtaining a warrant for surveillance. All too often psychiatrists believe they have superior knowledge and morality, that they do not need to obey laws that regulate their behavior. They believe they are above the law. One more problem is that lawyers, judges, psychiatrists, journalists believe that an accusation of mental illness is a finding of guilt of a criminal act. One more concern is how mental illnesses are created, i.e., by consensus. See, e.g., Boston University Psychologist Margaret Hagan's book, Whores of the Court.

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2012/11/26/the-double-standard-of-forced-treatment/

The Double Standard of Forced Treatment
By JOHN M. GROHOL, PSY.D.
November 26, 2012

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/8/sf-supervisors-passlauraslaw.html

SF supervisors pass Laura's Law
The controversial measure will allow judges to compel mentally ill people to obtain treatment
July 8, 2014 10:47PM ET

Northwestern U. Professor Sues For Deprivation of Rights Under Title IX

http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5701

Prof. sues Northwestern officials for gender discrimination over their handling of sex assault allegations

Katherine Timpf, Reporter
@kctimpf
on Jun 20, 2014 at 10:52 AM EDT
The professor is seeking damages for harm to his reputation, 'emotional distress, humiliation, embarrassment and future lost income and benefits.'
Two different graduate students have accused Philosophy Professor of sexual offenses in recent years.
Northwestern hired independent investigator who found one of the claims unsubstantiated.

Drug Corporations Join Police Creating Rules To Take Freedom

This unidentified press release, likely a product of police PR flacks and a lobbyist for drug corporations announces new rules for taking the freedom of vulnerable persons. (no byline, "Cambridge Police begin new training for mental health responses," May 20, 2014, CAMBRIDGE Chronicle) NAMI promotes a deceptive image as being a civil rights advocate for mental patients. Formed as a parents organization it morphed into a lobbyist funded by drug corporations ($11 million or more each year from drug companies) to promote drug treatment. Here is an example of how thoroughly drug corporate interests control treatment and incarceration of troubled individuals. Notice there is no mention of any disability advocates to protect the rights of vulnerable citizens. None of the many taxpayer funded agencies with well paid attorneys contributed to the creation of this protocol for taking the freedom of citizens. There are no assurances of the Right to Due Process as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. It is one more example of how unelected corporate lobbyists make policy, and run government agencies, now police agencies too, who can take freedom and life with no accountability. It is one more dangerous step in the elimination of freedom in this country. The Nazi doctors and Stalin's psychiatrists extensively used psychiatry to silence dissent and criticism, and to incarcerate political activists. Due to dumbed down journalists and the general population the image psychiatrists in America have, is that their genes have been cleansed of mendacity, greed and sadism. They show contempt for laws which regulate their behavior, and abuse humans as control freaks with limitless power, while they speak of love for their vulnerable clients. The state legislature writes laws determining when and how police can take the freedom of civilians. This is a dangerous effort in the name of good.  It needs scrutiny by disability rights attorneys. 

[From article]
Funded through a grant from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, police departments in Cambridge and Somerville, working with the National Alliance on Mental Illness, developed the CIT-TTAC regional program to provide 40 hours of CIT training for police officers, while fostering partnerships between law enforcement and community human services providers, to improve law enforcement response to people with mental illness.
[. . .]
"We laud the Department of Mental Health and our partners — the Cambridge and Somerville Police departments — for their leadership and for serving as a model for communities across the commonwealth," said June Binney, director of the NAMI Mass Criminal Justice Program.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140520/NEWS/140529723

Cambridge Police begin new training for mental health responses
Posted May. 20, 2014 @ 12:13 pm
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Justina Pelletier Remains in State Custody Contrary to Common Sense, Due to Psychiatric Abuses

[From article]
Lawyers Mathew Staver and Philip Moran also challenged Polanowicz on statements in his May 5 letter that said, "DCF (Department of Children and Families) at this time retains custody of Justina" and "only the Juvenile Court has the authority to determine when and if custody should be returned."
The Pelletier attorneys called Polanowicz's claim "inaccurate," saying, "DCF’s own regulations for case closure make it abundantly clear that it is within DCF's power and prerogative to end this situation immediately.
[. . .]
"They’re just shipping her off to another psychiatric facility," Lou Pelletier told FoxNews.com Tuesday. "It’s disgusting."
"They’re totally ignoring her physical needs," he said, citing a heart condition the girl suffers from that Pelletier claims has gone untreated since the teen was transferred to Boston Children's Hospital last year.
[. . .]
Justina was taken by ambulance to Boston Children's Hospital because she was in a wheelchair at the time and a heavy snowstorm was blanketing the region. Because she arrived by ambulance, she was taken directly into the hospital's emergency room, where a "resident refused to send her to Dr. Flores" and, "declared this was his case," according to Moran. He said the unnamed resident then called upon a psychologist who diagnosed Justina with somatoform disorder -- a mental condition in which a patient experiences symptoms that are real but have no physical or biological explanation. Justina was diagnosed with the disorder "within 25 minutes," Moran claims.

This is exposes the criminal abuses of the psychiatric industry. They ignore laws and get support from spineless officials with relaxed rectitude. Ignoring a court order psychiatric control freaks thumb their collective noses at the courts, the legislature and the parents of this young lady. Why are the misguided journalists silent about this egregious abuse of power by mindless officials who support greedy, sadistic mendacious psychiatric predators? It is time to retake the lawless operation of the hospitals and courts from these charlatans of the psychiatric industry.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/08/lawyers-for-justina-pelletier-family-blast-massachusetts-officials-in-letter/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Lawyers for Justina Pelletier family blast Massachusetts officials in letter


By Cristina Corbin
Published May 08, 2014
FoxNews.com

IRS Taking Without Due Process

[From article]
The civil forfeiture law — if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law — is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
[. . .]
In what it probably considered an act of unmerited mercy, the IRS offered to return 20 percent of Terry’s money. Such extortion — pocketing others people’s money — often succeeds when the IRS bullies bewildered people not represented by IJ, which forced the government to return all of Terry’s and the gas station owner’s money.
I[nstitute for] J[ustice]’s countersuit seeks an injunction to prevent such IRS thefts and extortions. Meanwhile, earnest moralists might consider the possibility that Americans’ distrust of government is insufficient.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will050114.php3#.U2Qkkt0--yM

Jewish World Review
Heavy hand of the IRS seizes innocent Americans' assets
By George Will
May 1, 2014

Journalist Sues Over U.S. Law Enabling Military Abuses of Civilians

[From article]
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Chris Hedges, a former New York Times reporter who is the leading plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against the NDAA (Hedges v. Obama).
What follows may well be startling news to you, too: "If Section 1021 stands, it will mean that more than 150 years of case law in which the Supreme Court repeatedly held the military has no jurisdiction over civilians will be abolished.
"It will mean citizens who are charged by the government with 'substantially (otherwise undefined) supporting' al-Qaida, the Taliban or the nebulous category of 'associated forces' will be lawfully subject to extraordinary rendition.
"It will mean citizens seized by the military (including in America) will languish in military jails indefinitely, or in the language of Section 1021, until 'the end of hostilities' -- in an age of permanent war, (which could mean) for the rest of their lives" ("The Last Chance to Stop the NDAA," Hedges, truthdig.com, Sept. 2).

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/hentoff112713.php3#.UpeZSd00i6Y

Jewish World Review
Nov. 27, 2013/ 2 Kislev, 5774
Only some of our young are now independent Americans
By Nat Hentoff

Cambridge City Council Passes Orders Contrary to Law. Are They Valid?

Published September 23, 2013 11:16 AM ET; Last updated September 30, 2013 7:57 PM ET

[This letter was published in the Cambridge Chronicle Thursday, September 26, 2013 print edition at page A11, and online at 
http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x511629963/LETTER-How-far-back-do-City-Council-violations-go

See my comments on Council order to have City Council learn Robert's Rule's of Order and their own rules in this video clip






In "Highlights from the City Council meeting," September 12, 2013, Erin Baldassari reported "the Attorney General [of Massachusetts], ruled in June [2013] that [the Council was] violating open meeting laws by co-sponsoring policy orders before voting on them." Not reported is how far back do these violations go? If the orders going back some months, years are illegal are they valid?

A related matter is the failure of the City Council to run its meetings according to its own rules, e.g., according to Robert's Rules of Order. About 7 years ago I reminded the Council repeatedly that they were not obeying their own rules. The response was to tell me I was violating a rule that they 
never enforced. 

 

Does the Council's weekly work have any legal worth? Why is the City Council permitted to violate Due Process requirements and the Open Meeting Law? Does the Council operate under direction of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, with permission to ignore inconvenient laws as long as they do not anger their master?

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1837083976/60-SECONDS-Highlights-from-the-Cambridge-City-Council-meeting-Sept-9

60 SECONDS: Highlights from the Cambridge City Council meeting Sept. 9
By Erin Baldassari ebaldassari (at) wickedlocal.com
Cambridge Chronicle

Posted Sep 13, 2013 @ 11:08 AM

CO Passes Law To Give Psychiatric Arrest Powers to Secret Service

Here's is one more example of how psychiatry can be used to abuse the powers of police to silence criticism and dissent, as was done in Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. There are no Due Process protections under the civil commitment laws. Giving state arrest powers to the Secret Service violates the Tenth Amendment.

Also mentioned herein is a proposed Texas law which would make it a crime to not enforce laws. That is a good one. In  Massachusetts the Cambridge Police Commissioner and the City police, and many other officials could be arrested if that was a Massachusetts law.


[From article]
Republican lawmakers say that when they asked why the bill was needed they were given a series of conflicting answers.
Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, said he was told the purpose of the bill was to make it easier to hold a person for mental health reasons.
“When I asked in committee why they need this I was told it was so we can exercise 72-hour mental holds on our own citizens,” Lundberg said.
“I found it curious that this was the big reason they thought they needed it. Currently a police officer, doctor, psychiatrists, registered nurses and other professionals just on the strength of their word can say they want a person taken against their will and put in a mental institution for up to three business days, meaning it could be even longer if it was over the weekend, for an evaluation as to whether they are mentally sane or a danger to themselves or others.”
Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, said despite the bill being sponsored by a fellow Republican, the 72-hour mental hold caught the attention of several Republicans in the Senate.
[. . .]
“No federal authority should have the ability to detain somebody for 72 hours,” she said. “If there is a legitimate reason for doing so for someone who is mentally ill, that should come at the local level where people in the community know one another.”
Marble said the mental hold was the reason the bill slipped under the radar.
“The mental health hold was what they testified to in committee, and that was the big thing they didn’t want to get out, but it does give them the authority to put that hold on people.”
[. . .]
In Texas, a Democrat in the state legislature has proposed a bill that would allow the state to remove an elected sheriff for refusing to enforce the law. The bill defines law as including any rule, regulation, executive order, court order, statute or constitutional provision.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/state-grants-secret-service-vast-new-powers/

WND EXCLUSIVE
STATE GRANTS SECRET SERVICE VAST NEW POWERS
Soon will be able to enforce Obama gun laws without sheriffs' help
Jack Minor
March 29, 2013

Simple Solution to Ending Gun Violence

"Elaine Zimmerman [. . .] said that in order to limit gun violence, lawmakers should focus on [. . .] improving mental health resources." Why not ban mentally ill persons and deport them to Iran, Cuba, Venezuela,  and North Korea? That would eliminate all gun violence now and forever. "She criticized the 'shame attached to mental health problems' and said teachers should be trained to recognize mental health issues in their classrooms." Would the shame be how police and prosecutors demonize mental health issues? Should teachers recognize "a history of mental illness" the way that police and prosecutors do? Just ban mentally ill people, and deport them. Due process can be ignored using psychiatry.  It is cheaper, easier and less open to blurring the lines between sanity and insanity. Just ask a local or campus police officer who should be deported and do it. 

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/3/14/Gun-Violence-Forum-Children/

Panelists Discuss Gun Violence Solutions
By CAROLINE T. ZHANG, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Harvard Crimson
March 14, 2013

Life Without Parole Is Insufficient Punishment

Blecker argues that life sentences without parole allow convicts to enjoy life as if they were not in prison. He says there is no punishment beyond taking the inmate's freedom. He is concerned about the most heinous criminals being punished the same as inmates who were convicted of simple theft or non violent crimes. The heinous criminals enjoyed Due Process protections before being denied their freedom. For the past 40 years government thugs and their partner sociopaths in the private sector conducted a brutal relentless campaign of character assassination and punishing me without being charged or convicted of any crime. Not just once for each allegation, but multiple times up to 50 times for each allegation. 

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_4_snd-punitive-segregation.html

ROBERT BLECKER
Permanent Punitive Segregation
What should life be like for the worst of the worst?
City Journal
Autumn 2012
Vol. 22 No. 4