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The roots of Democrat Care, formerly Obama Care. Part I:
Sheriff John Hanlin: We the People Have Your Back
Not Ronald Reagan's Evolution
By: Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
June 26, 2015
June 19, 2015
Today should be a day in which all Americans mourn, pray and share the pain of those devastated by the Charleston church shooting. Nine innocent lives are lost and we care.
Snatch the Kids & Gag the Mom~ Government at Work
December 14, 2015
by Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
Despite its 2700 page length, Democrat Care simplified, is two things. One part is about funding; the forced premiums, fines, taxes, mandates, charges, etc., to pay for the monster that will enslave and destroy us. The other part is about what kind of so-called care all those money grabbing schemes will provide and to whom. The second part is the most dangerous. People can be guaranteed to howl and screech when government paws claw into private pockets to extract hard earned cash.
The beauty of the second part of Democrat Care is it will only be noticed when a citizen becomes a sick person. Socialist plans are always about the masses, not individuals. Well or reasonably well people are similar and are the majority living under Democrat Care. Sick people are individuals in their suffering and socialist systems are very good at destroying and marginalizing individuals. Therefore each individual horror story becomes a mere anecdote soon forgotten. The collective shriek, such as we have already hear over Democrat Care taxes, mandates, higher premiums and deductibles, will never be raised in defense of pitiable and abused patients.
You will not feel this at the gut level until you or one of your loved ones fails to fit the pattern of population health. Democrat Care is about treating the population, not the individual. If you and your loved ones live the way government attempts to mandate, perhaps you will remain deserving of so-called "health" care. Democrat Care is about 'Social Justice" and who deserves and who is less deserving, or who should be denied entirely, if it stays in power and expands.
The basic system went into practice in the state of Oregon over twenty years ago. Way back in 1989 then governor, and now recently disgraced and resigned Governor Dr. John Kitzhaber, helped develop a new scheme to manage Medicaid within the state. The plan was so radical that special dispensation was needed from the Clinton administration since federal money was involved. On the edge of the failure of Hillary Care, the Clinton regime was apparently happy to sanction what began in February 1994 as the Oregon Health Plan. OHP provides at least some of the worst kind of roots for Democrat Care so let us take a look at what Governor Dr. Kitzhaber intended.
In the first place the scheme was up front a rationing system for medical care. The word rationing was openly used though it had to do with a complex list of what Medicaid dollars would and would not pay for, and that the legislature could decide to fund or not. At the same time in 1994 it seemed there was a more pernicious form of rationing in Oregon and it applied to everyone, not just those on Medicaid. Self paying and fully insured patients who admitted smoking tobacco received harsh and belittling treatment from their doctors. It became clear via the sudden brutality of a number of Oregon doctors, as observed by me, my friends and family members,* that tobacco smokers were undeserving. If patients questioned this attitude the doctors became flustered for a moment before doubling down on the attack. The few doctors who would make a rational comment said something to the effect that medical resources were "scarce" and smokers used too many "scarce resources". So if the patient is prescribed antibiotics, since when is the U.S. running out of such medication, a rational mind asks? Antibiotics are fed to livestock by the ton yet smokers are using up this "scarce resource"? What the heck?
"How do we decide who should receive the benefits that medical science has to offer?" wrote Kitzhaber in a paper about the Oregon scheme titled, 'Prioritising health services in an era of limits: the Oregon Experience'. [1] (A complete read indicates this paper was written for British consumption and British spellings are used throughout.) "What are we buying with our health care dollars and what is the relationship between these expenditures and health?" he asks in paragraph two after giving mention to various socialized systems in the world.
Kitzhaber then considers government medical expenditure in a same list with other "pressing social problems such as environmental pollution, crime, and substance abuse." Therefore he concludes, this competition means, "...we can no longer afford to do everything that medical science has to offer for everyone who might benefit from it." "In short we must set priorities," says the governor who was forced out of office in 2015.
The next lengthy section refers to Aristotle and teleologic view which forms Kitzhaber's framework of liberal logic. Leave it to liberal progressives to obfuscate a life and death discussion with reasoning from a Greek who died millennia ago. My job as a technical writer is to take the complex and explain it at the eighth grade level. The liberal progressive's job is to take a kindergarten level idea, cloak it in complications and pass it as law that even court judges cannot understand. Liberal logic IS the very definition of nailing Jello to the wall. Teleology is a deeply philosophic way to ask "why", apparently. An example of teleology has something to do with a fork; it exists because it got made and it can be used because it has tines. Or something. [2]
Aristotle helped Kitzhaber form several questions that he answers. "Why do we want to reduce costs? Because cost is a major barrier to access. Why do we want people to have access to health care? Because we want people to be healthy, which is important to individuals and to our society."
A long passage follows wherein Kitzhaber criticizes Medicare and Medicaid as serving only people who fit in certain categories, thus leaving others without, even among the poor. He further notes that this category approach allows eligible, "wealthy retired citizens, such as former presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan...publicly subsidised health care that is paid for in part by the tax contributions of working poor citizens who have none." Stoking the fires of class warfare Kitzhaber elaborates, "Under this system, millionaires over the age of 65 are entitled to coverage for all the latest medical technology while poor childless women are entitled to no coverage whatsoever~not even for basic preventive care..."
In nailing his Jello logic to the wall Kitzhaber has conveniently forgotten that young workers have been told for over half a century that a certain percentage of their wages are to be withheld for Social Security and Medicare and that they "will be glad for that" when they reach retirement age. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan in retirement get the same as the "poor childless woman", provided all have paid in and all have reached the age when the government allows pay out.
Interwoven in the next three pages are explanations about how Kitzhaber and various boards plus public input came up with a rationing plan for Medicaid under the Oregon Health Plan. I have written about the rationing list in previous articles and will write more about it in subsequent explorations of what, in my opinion, has gone horribly wrong in Oregon. Utterly simplified, let us compare the list of allowed medical conditions and treatments to food stamps. In short the Oregon list covers a wide, and according to my research, adequate list of approved, that is what government will pay for, medical treatments. Not EVERY condition is covered, similar to the idea that food stamps purchase food but not toilet paper, cleaning supplies, baby diapers, or pet food.
Attempting to nail the wriggling Jello, Kitzhaber sets certain objectives, "...who is covered, what is covered, and how is it financed and delivered..." Ominously he suggests, "~society must come to terms with the relationship between the provision of health care and the pursuit of health."
"We asked ourselves whether the objective was to give all Oregonians access to health care, or to keep Oregonians healthy," Kitzhaber explained. "We determined that the objective must be health--not universal coverage, not access to health care, not cost containment, but rather, health," he proclaims. "Health care is a means to an end, not an end in itself--that is, health care is not synonymous with health," is yet another Kitzhaber nail driven into the liberal Jello running down the wall.
Are we getting an idea now why Kitzhaber's progressive brethren like nanny Mayor Bloomberg tried to tax big sodas and Michelle Obama calls school lunch a matter of national security? We are certainly seeing rationale behind Oregon marginalizing and neglecting smokers with disastrous results as I have seen. Perhaps you don't care about smokers but keep in mind Obama's Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is extremely anti-gun and would like to put guns under public health control. When smokers were first brutalized in Oregon, those same doctors began asking odd social questions. Circa 1994 I WAS asked if I had guns in my home. The NRA seems to have blocked Democrat Care from asking questions about guns but who knows what the future will bring. If one socially undesirable segment of society can be punished by government, who is to say YOU won't be socially undesirable by the next legislative session?
Dr. Ben Carson, now leading the GOP race for president said Democrat Care, "is about restriction and control." In a more memorable quote he said it is, "the worst thing...since slavery...and it was never about health care, it was about control."
In his quest for "health for all Oregonians", let us examine the wide ranging field former Governor Kitzhaber considers necessary for health as he defines it. "Infant mortality...reflects more than just a lack of prenatal health care," he states. "It also reflects housing problems, environmental problems, teenage pregnancies, and the growing problem of substance abuse," he explains. Kitzhaber maintains "health cannot be achieved without addressing social conditions that lead to ill health. "And that means having the budgetary flexibility to invest in such things as housing, education and economic opportunity," he somewhat clarifies. (In federal hands, Democrat Care seems to be funding a number of things on the governor's wish list, in the name of "health". Then we are to be left to wonder why there isn't enough "care" to go around unless costs continue to sky rocket.)
Let that brightly colored blob of Jello slide down the wall for just now. The Oregon rationing list covers only medical conditions and treatments, at least for now. Like Kitzhaber notes three quarters of the way into his paper, Oregon law requires a balanced budget. Imagine what he could have called health care if such was not the case! Even so, the legislature allocated funds to treat the poor on Medicaid for hundreds of medical conditions. Food stamps are backed by a deficit running federal government and limited by the amounts allowed per person or family. It is easy to see how the Oregon health care rationing list was somewhat open ended. What if Portland, Oregon had the level of gang violence and shooting as does Chicago, for instance? It seems such a plan could be quickly overwhelmed. Even a flu epidemic the same as what happened in 1918 seems like it could be an Achilles heel in Kitzhaber's scheme.
Thus I have an idea the scheme was sold to doctors via educational seminars as the beginning of a fundamental transformation before Obama popularized that term. As with Democrat Care at the federal level it isn't just about paying for medical care for poor people. At both the Oregon state and federal level there is the implication of "scarce resources" from the very beginning. In Oregon I will guess political powers in the state put intense pressure on doctors to show the rest of the world how it should be done, not to mention there was something about owing money back to the federal government if it didn't work. (Not covered in Kitzhaber's paper.) When pushing a plan of government rationing with questionable funding behind, is it not likely that between various health commissioners and the doctors in practice, there was an agreement to eliminate those deemed not to be maintaining overall "health", those who take too much? Oregon's plan is not about buying medical care for poor Oregonians. It is about "health for ALL Oregonians." (emphasis mine)
"A health Services Commission was created to consider clinical effectiveness and, through public involvement, to attempt to integrate social values into the priority list," wrote Kitzhaber in his opening. Social value leads to social justice and distributive justice, terms used by UN/WHO in their global health initiatives. When everyone is dependent on government for everything, government gets to decide who is worthy or unworthy. Democrat Care, making us all dependent on government regulations for medical care, is about control and was never about health care.
Kitzhaber, though devising laws, fails to define "health". This leaves the doors wide open for anything on the government wish list for control of the people. Health can mean anything short of debilitating illness and death. Kitzhaber's "health for all" system became so abhorrent to me that I moved across the border to Idaho. What happened to smokers happened to other patients with other issues.
When I began writing for FFOA in 2013 one of my goals was to point out the horrors that were to come to all via Democrat Care. I knew what I had seen but hundreds of hours of research failed to uncover universal keys to what was wrong. I described medical care in Oregon as "creepified" because for some of us it made our skins crawl. Going to the doctor became an ordeal to be avoided. We at FFOA discussed how best to present the subject, perhaps writing individual articles on different facets of what government was doing to us or planned to do to us. In 2013 a lot of it was still in the beginning or planning stages. I am proud of my article on the "Readiness Ruler", a Democrat Care pocket tool used to identify as alcoholics, people who consume more alcohol than government says they should. Government says women consuming more than one alcoholic drink per day or men imbibing more than two, should be subject to an intervention.
Still, I knew the monster's embryo was conceived in Oregon. My activity on the internet indicates other states are not as extreme but I believe they will be if we don't dump Democrat Care. The (Un)-Affordable Care Act is not written like a true law. Much of it is a wish list for those anxious to implement social controls. Without the universal keys I as a writer am in the same position as was Sarah Palin when she exposed Death Panels. She is both right and wrong. The loud, militant left will make sure she is ridiculed unmercifully to this day, and the liberal media will make sure Palin's detractors are heard while her voice is suffocated.
Without knowing the ultimate plan, attempts to warn are like trying to kindle a campfire with freezing wet wood. It will flare and die, flare and die. Governor Palin's comments on Death Panels are like quickly burned paper under the wet wood. The fire seems to catch then dies. In the camping scenario one could freeze to death while failing to kindle the life saving fire. Kerosene is the key to starting a life saving fire with wet wood. Knowledge of what government plans to do to us is our key to save ourselves from government control of every aspect of our lives in the name of "health" for all.
Until now I have felt my writing on Democrat Care amounted to nailing Jello to the wall. I have recently found information that shows liberal, progressive, Democrat thinking is the actual Jello. The nails are the laws and executive orders they use to hammer the large, messy glob to the wall of public resistance. We're going to melt that Jello, take a sip, find it consists of poisoned Kool-aid, then spit it out!
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* Somewhat deliberately vague. Many years ago I worked in the medical profession, primarily special duty nursing which was caring for the dying, pre-hospice. In more recent times I have done charitable volunteer work and have cared for many friends and others. This has given me a unique perspective to observe different patient and doctor interactions. There are of course limitations in numbers of incidents I have observed. One doctor "rationing" one patient because of a smoking habit might be dismissed as the doctor having a bad day. There were a number of such incidents witnessed by me and since I started asking questions as a journalist more people have shared their stories of maltreatment. There are also a couple articles available which tend to support what I am saying. PART II in this series will explore the social control and social justice aspects of marginalizing smokers. Today smokers, tomorrow gun owners? The doctors are watching...and probably reporting.
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[1] 'Prioritising health services in an era of limits: the Oregon experience', Aug. 7, 1993, J.A. Kitzhaber
[2] 'Teleology-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleology
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Sheriff John Hanlin: We the People Have Your Back
October 6, 2015
by Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
In early 2013 county sheriffs across America vowed to protect our Second Amendment rights, even if it meant defying a potentially gun-grabbing federal government intent on re-writing the Constitution. Some sheriffs called meetings in their counties to explain to the people that they would follow their oath to follow the Constitution of the United States. I attended one of the first of these meetings which was held in Oregon.
On December 14, 2012 one of those twenty-something, insane, bug-eyed mass shooters entered Sandy Hook Elementary and did the unthinkable. 26 young children and teachers were killed ten days before Christmas.
President Obama had just been reelected in November. Those of us who did not vote for him knew we would never be free of his unaffordable health care. Worse yet, since he had nothing to lose in his second term, we assumed he would make a move against the Second Amendment, the peoples' right to keep and bear arms. No anti-gun film maker could have crafted a better scenario demanding Obama's action, than Sandy Hook.
While Chicago gang shootings banged along merrily, Chicago's dead dropped like plague victims and gravely injured survivors absorbed the "scarce health care dollars" we keep hearing about, law abiding gun owners felt a sense of doom. It was just a matter of time, many felt, before Obama and Biden found a way around the Second Amendment in the "living" Constitution they strive to kill.
It was a total shock that any jurisdiction in proudly Progressive Oregon would lead the way to defend the Constitution. (I had just moved back to Idaho to escape the Progressive health care system in Oregon which had monopolized choices and endangered my life.) Yet there are areas in the state that are fairly conservative.
The hard left is concentrated on the west side of the state but their population numbers ensure a left oriented Democrat majority legislature and Democrat governor in office. East of Bend, Oregon which is in the center of the state, ranchers, loggers, and others living rural, have more conservative views. Despite my comment about western Oregon, there were a few counties there where sheriffs in 2013, also stood for the Constitution. One of those was Sheriff John Hanlin of Douglas County, the same sheriff now presiding over the October first, Umpqua Community College shooting.
What began in the 2013 winter of discontent over Obama's threatened executive orders may well have a political showdown in Roseburg, Oregon later this week, where Obama seems determined to bring his gun control politicking, despite the wishes of the grieving residents who support the Second Amendment right to own firearms.
A friend active in the National Rifle Association [NRA] invited me to one of these meetings. It was a blustery winter night and I knew something big was happening when I had to park a quarter mile from the armory where the meeting was held. Inside on folding chairs were close to a thousand people. The meeting started with an invocation. We said the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem was sung by all.
A local teacher spoke first, giving a short history lesson. The American Experiment had never been tried before, he said. The US was the first time in history where "man ruled himself", said the teacher. This experiment, "Required smart, good people who would remain engaged," he said, our country was, "not built for the uneducated or people lacking virtue."
Common sense solutions should be found at the local level, the teacher continued. "Solutions are found right here in the community, not in 2,000 page bills from Salem [Oregon's capital] or DC," said the teacher. At that the audience groaned and sniggered at the 2,000 page reference to Obama Care.
The sheriff said he knew he would have to stand for our Second Amendment rights and stated there were, "incremental infringements on our constitutional rights, Second Amendment and all rights." He talked about governmental checks and balances and the sheriff's position in defending the constitution. He promised to defend the constitution against any unconstitutional laws coming from the federal government.
"Thank God we have an elected sheriff who has your back. Give him yours. His feet are to the fire on this one," said a spokesman. A chill went through the crowd~we were watching history, we understood what it all meant, and we took it seriously.
Across the state in Douglas County, in the bleak early months of 2013, reelected Sheriff John Hamlin, the same man we see on TV releasing information on the Oregon shooting, sent a letter to Vice President Biden, who Obama had just put in charge of the gun control effort. On this day liberals are frothing all over their blogspots, saying the letter is "infamous", though paragraphs later in the liberal rant it is noted this was a form letter sent by a number of sheriffs at the time. In a www.thenation.com article says the letter, "evokes certain themes of violent antigovernment movements." [1]
The same source reproduces two paragraphs in the form letter to support their comment about antigovernment activities:
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that when a sheriff chooses to enforce an unconstitutional directive, he is violating his Constitutional Oath. I will NOT violate my Constitutional Oath. Therefore the second purpose of this letter is to make notification that any federal regulation enacted by Congress or y executive order of the President offending the Constitutional rights of my citizens shall not be enforced by me or by my deputies, nor will I permit the enforcement of any unconstitutional regulations or orders by federal officers withing the borders of Douglas County.
In conclusion, it is my position as Sheriff of Douglas County, Oregon that I will refuse to participate in, nor tolerate enforcement actions against citizens that are deemed unconstitutional.
The letter specifies "executive orders", just what law abiding citizens feared in the early days of 2013. Rather than anti-government, this letter reads to me like it is anti-Obama's-pen-and-phone executive orders. Only a liberal can see defending the Constitution, our very foundation, as anti-government.
Understandably Obama's overtly anti Second Amendment political speech delivered on national television before the death toll in Roseburg was fully known, was not well received in Douglas County. Neither is Obama's announced trip to the town. In an unprecedented move, Obama has been asked to stay home in DC.[2]
David Jaques, publisher of the 'Roseburg Beacon' newspaper, speaking for his community, county commissioners and sheriff, told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, that Obama will not be welcome. Obama, "will grandstand for political purposes," says Jaques. "He wants to come to our community and stand on the corpses of our loved ones and make some kind of political point," Jaques emphasized the position of the community.[2][3][4]
Breitbart refers to any visit by Obama equalling a campaign stop for an agenda to take away American citizens' right to own firearms, according to Jaques.[3]
"The region is proud of Sheriff John Hanlin who he [Jaques] said, 'put the administration on notice that if you pass any laws, edicts or executive actions that are either unconstitutional or extra-constitutional, they will not be enforced in Douglas County,'" continues the Breitbart article.[3]
Last night a comment on Fox News said Obama is going to Roseburg on Friday, welcome or not, apparently.
Oregon went farther left than any other state in the 2014 elections. Therefore it is amazing that one county in Oregon has put its collective foot down in defense of the Constitution and the constitutional right for citizens to own firearms, while rejecting the anti-gun president.
This Friday Douglas County will come up against District of Columbia. DC vs. DC. Sheriff Hanlin defends the Constitution. Obama gets a selfie with a casket or two, while blaming guns and threatening more executive orders.
For those of us who take great comfort in law enforcement officers like Sheriff John Hanlin who promise to enforce the Constitution first; We the People say thank you for having our backs. We have yours. We know your feet are to the fire on this. Thank you for preserving our American Experiment, people governing themselves, from even the smallest constitution protecting localities like Douglas County. Thank you for protecting us from pen and phone wielding rejectors of our Constitution in that DC 3000 miles from the little DC.
Sources:
[1] https://www.thenation.com ; The Oregon sheriff's position on gun control is more radical than we thought, George Zornick, 10/5/15
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Not Ronald Reagan's Evolution
by Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
September 28, 2015
When Communist Party USA started the fashion of calling anyone who disagreed with Obama Care, RACISTS, our constitutional right to free speech took a punch to the gut. Disciples of Alinsky doubled down on the idea. Subsequently, people who knew their medium sized communities could not handle bus loads of unaccompanied immigrant children who had illegally run across our border as fast as their little Obama shoes* could carry them, were called RACIST HATERS.
It all worked so good that any voice of dissent against the Democrat agenda was called some kind of hateful "phobe'. Xenophobe. Homophobe. Islamobhobe.
A dry windstorm of fear, increased in strength by the mainstream media who rubber stamped the Democrat agenda, began to suck the life juice out of our free speech. Ideas dried and became shrivelled on the vines of thought.
When it looked like free speech would forever be controlled by parties, Democrat and Communist, along came Donald J. Trump. Every time he opened his mouth there was a spew, the likes of which had never been tolerated under the past seven years of the Obama regime.
Listeners, like wanderers dying of thirst in the Sahara Desert, cast off their sense of oppression and ran like parched automatons to what seemed like a deluge after an intolerable drought. The Donald broke political correctness with every sentence, and he either got away with it or someone powerful has given him permission and a free pass to say anything.
Are Trump's followers reaching for the life giving water that revives free speech, or is he a mirage that merely looks like what everyone desperately wants? We all feel empowered when we hear anyone vehemently giving the verbal middle finger to the PC crowd that denies free speech.
Trump is always good for a laugh but that does not make him POTUS material. Talking is what he does best. Flapping his gums. Opens his mouth and lets fly. All talk. Before he gets the vote people better start asking where is the substance? What in Trump's many decades of life makes him worthy of being president of the United States?
"He says what everyone wants to hear," is a common sentiment. Another shared observation is, "He talks about what the people want." No one can disagree with either statement, but all politicians say what they think the voters want to hear. One needs to look at a candidate's whole life to judge the person. Does Trump's life show him to be the real thing or is he a mirage that looks and sounds like the real thing?
What if The Donald is just a shimmering mirage of words the people want to hear, but when approached too close, has no substance to offer? Is there a way to sort this out before Trump supporters run themselves ragged only to find they are still in the politically correct, arid, Progressive desert?
Trump's ardent supporters are sure he isn't a fake image. They blithely shrug off decades of inconsistencies as they run toward their vision in the distance. No problem that he was for abortion before he was against it. He said he was "liberal on health care" before he said Obama Care was a disaster. He was Democrat and a strong Democrat supporter before he filed to be a Republican candidate for POTUS.
"I have EVOLVED like Ronald Reagan," Trump smirked when Megyn Kelly asked when he became a Republican. Emphasis on "evolved", almost like it's a sarcastic punchline or a code word that makes the listener the butt of an inside joke. The rest of his answer to Kelly's debate question was almost incoherent but the part about Reagan stuck in the minds of followers and detractors alike.
Channeling Reagan is Trump's blanket of absolution. Some followers on social media want to believe Trump is the new Reagan. As long as I have been on Twitter there has been nostalgia for President Reagan. I have no idea how many who yearn for the Reagan years are old enough to remember those times. Some I think are young and wishing for a past that was said to be better than Obama's FORWARD to Hope, Change and Fundamental Transformation.
Reagan was indeed a Democrat who became a Republican. By claiming to following the same path Trump does not become a new Reagan. It's fun to ask Trump supporters when The Donald had his epiphany, the shining light that told him he was truly a Republican in Democrat garb.
Ronald Reagan did more than EVOLVE, and unlike Trump, he could articulate why he evolved.
Ronald Reagan, "The Great Communicator", could easily explain why he left the Democrat Party. Or as he put it, he didn't leave the party, the party left him. His reasons were clear and concise.
"Reagan had been a Republican in all but name prior to officially switching parties in 1962," says an article at reddit/AskHistorians. [1] Two issues drove him in that direction; fiscal policy and anti-communism, according to the same piece.
Born in 1911, Reagan's film career was coming to an end in the late 1940s. He felt he had a short time to ensure financial security for his retirement but this was hard to do when the top income tax bracket was 90%.[1] I remember hearing him explain this, that with the tax rate that high, the achievers achieved less. Success was punished and nobody wanted to work for ten cents on the dollar. Ronald Reagan instinctively knew this was wrong.
In the early 1950s Reagan was host of General Electric Theater and part of his job was travelling and giving speeches for GE about free enterprise. According to the Reddit article this, "buttress(ed) his growing allegiance to Republican principles." [1]
As president of the Screen Actors Guild Reagan had personal experiences with communists and communist sympathizers. "Communists threatened to 'fix it so he would never work again,' implying they planned to throw acid in his face," explains the Reddit writer. Faced with such examples Reagan believed communists would "stoop to anything to expand their influence," says this writer.[1]
A communist sympathizer, "declared the ideology of the Communist Party as 'a lot more Democratic' than the Bill of Rights, and declared he would support the Soviets in a war against the United States." notes the Reddit article. Reagan understood, "communists would say or do anything to gain power and then oppress those it claimed to help," according to this writer. [1]
How did Reagan live his political life? In 1950 as a Democrat he campaigned for Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas for US Senate, against Richard Nixon. In 1952, still a registered Democrat, Reagan campaigned for Republican Eisenhower. In 1956 Democrat Reagan campaigned to reelect Eisenhower. In 1960 Reagan supported Nixon for president [2] and it is said Nixon asked Reagan to stay registered Democrat because that endorsement meant more to the voters.[1]
In 1962 Reagan officially registered Republican. In 1968 Reagan announced his candidacy for president at the GOP convention, but ended up supporting Nixon. Again in 1975 Reagan was a candidate, but lost to Gerald Ford. In 1980 Ronald Reagan, Republican, was elected president of the United States. [2]
"When did you actually become a Republican," Megyn Kelly asked Donald Trump during the Fox debate. Those expecting a clear answer were soon lost in a rambling torrent of partial thoughts and life experiences.
Trump channeled Reagan's evolvement and pinged onto "pro-life" and how he hates the "concept of abortion". This he illustrated by the personal experience of friends who considered then rejected abortion. The grown child, "is a total superstar", according to Trump who ended the subject with, "and other instances."[3]
Um...commendable as is this position, the Republican Party, indeed being POTUS, consists of more than this.
Moving on from being against abortion, Donald took another nip at his past record of decades of supporting Democrat candidates and causes. His business is headquartered in New York which is highly Democrat.[3] (So was Ronald Reagan's California, and Reagan supported Republicans long before he switched parties.)
Trump finished the time allotted for, "when did you actually become a Republican," by taking a swipe at Jeb Bush, thus breaking Reagan's Eleventh Commandment about not saying bad things about other Republicans. Trump snarled in an aside to Jeb that his brother's, "last eight months were a catastrophe that gave us Obama, and you can't be happy about that." [3]
Nothing encourages Republican loyalty like having the so-called front runner say the last GOP administration was a catastrophe that gave us Obama, and we should all be unhappy about that. What a clear illustration of why Reagan's Eleventh Commandment really matters.
Two wandering points were Trump's reasons for being Republican, plus he excused his Democrat past by saying he had to be to run his New York business. All his supporters seemed to get was that Trump had EVOLVED and that was perfectly OK because he could be the new Reagan. This is what we get after allowing free speech to be throttled for seven years. By merely speaking his mind, no matter how meandering or senseless, Trump is a political star.
Reagan was a closet Republican while registered Democrat. Encyclopedia Brittanica, in it's piece on Trump states, "In 1999 he switched his voter registration from Republican to the Reform Party and established a presidential exploratory committee. Though he ultimately declined to run, he set forth his socially liberal and economically conservative political views... Trump rejoined the Republican party, and he maintained a high public profile during the 2012 presidential election...he got much attention for criticising President Barack Obama but did not run." [emphasis mine] [4]
Yet another source says, "It is interesting to note that Donald Trump was once a Democrat, and he actually switched over to the Democrat Party in 2001 after being a registered Republican." [5] Take your pick. Perhaps Donald Trump doesn't know when he "actually became a Republican."
Trump famously refused to agree not to run as a third party candidate. Instead of threatening a third party run Reagan twice gave way for others; once for Richard Nixon and once for Gerald Ford.
In a 2004 interview with Wolf Blitzer Trump said, "In many cases I probably identify more as a Democrat." Then he continued, "It just seems that the economy does better under the Democrats than the Republicans." Trump said it shouldn't be that way, but looking back, he thought it was so. [5] (Perhaps HIS business did well in Democratic New York after Trump had made generous campaign donations to Democrats? Just asking.)
Rambling as Trump does when he spews, he ended with a slash at Republicans just like he did when he blamed Bush during the Fox debate. "But certainly we had some very good economies under the Democrats," he told Blitzer, "But we've had some pretty bad disasters under Republicans." [6]
Somehow I can't hear Reagan saying anything like that.
Eventually, in August 2015, radio host Hugh Hewitt told Trump during an interview that Trump needed to "swear off the third party." "Because a lot of Republicans will never vote for someone who, like Ross Perot, will hand the election to the Democrats," Hewitt is quoted.[7]
Trump's response in the same source is reported as, "I've never heard it put so strongly...When you said it the way you said it, that's very interesting, so I'll be thinking about that." [7]
Loyal, evolved Democrat, now Republican? If elected the voters will have said yes, or it doesn't matter.
Reagan was an actor, then governor, then president. Trump is a businessman and an actor who had a television show. He is still an actor playing the part of politician, playing to the audience, saying what the crowds want to hear, just like all politicians. Why do so many fall for the same old political play acting? Is Trump the better actor of all the pack of candidates? Is that all the voter masses are yearning for?
Perhaps so, but in the process do not allow Reagan's stellar record be tarnished by comparison to another who claims to have evolved like Reagan. No similarities here. Reagan clearly stated his reasons for changing parties. Do we have ANY IDEA why Trump switched parties? I honestly do not and my inquiring mind would like to know!
Trump's unending talk sounds as refreshing as the rain after a seven year drought on free and unfettered speech. Listen carefully. Is he actually saying anything of substance, or is he a glittering mirage that will lead desperately enthusiastic followers to more Progressive doom? If elected by his faithful, this mirage may drag all the rest of us deeper into the same empty desert.
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SOURCES:
* Obama shoes, sneakers adorned with Obama's face and/or slogans, said to be worn by many immigrant children who illegally crossed our southern border. (Unable to attach picture. Sorry.)
3 months ago by RugbyTime
[2] www.npr.org , Reagan Timeline
(Film clip of Trump's answer available here.)
[6] www.cnn.com/2015/07/21/politics/donald-trump-election-democrat/ , by Chris Moody
[7] www.huffingtonpost.com/.../ , 8/26/2015, 'Trump Telling GOP Brass He Will Forego a Third Party Run'
Sam Stein and Ryan Grim
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September 4, 2015
by Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
Trump the magic braggart...(Democrat at heart and by action)...Lives to deceive...(says he's running for office so he can)...Live in a land called DC.
"I hire lots of Hispanics", said The Donald. Then he broke into one of his sing-songs, "I love them, they love me..." He quickly becomes the magic braggart in the incarnation of Donny the Purple Dinosaur with the weird comb-over and a nauseating, cloying song aimed at the kindergarten level, low information voter mentality: I love them, they love me, we're one happy family. [1]
Never mind he said some of the illegal Hispanic immigrants are rapists, criminals and thugs, or that he plans to make Mexico build the Great Wall of Trump on the southern border. In the end he has to nullify those comments by insisting he hires lots of Hispanics. What's he really saying? I'm against unlimited immigration, but there are lots of ways around that? Worse yet, may we translate his comments to mean: I really prefer hiring Hispanics to hiring American citizens?
In an article in The Guardian one of Trump's workers on the DC post office job is quoted as saying, "I have many legal immigrants working with me. And many of them come from Mexico." [1] Legal immigrants. Everyone wants to talk about ILLEGAL immigrants because, well, if they cross the border illegally, no matter how much the Democrat Party and its sanctuary cities welcome them, technically they are law breakers. If they steal something, or perhaps find a loaded, cocked gun in a sack at the park and accidentally kill a young woman like Kate Steinle, they are criminals acting like criminals and everyone can be righteously indignant and furiously angry, demanding the law do something.
Nobody has the guts to talk about legal foreign national Hispanics stealing jobs American citizens of all colors, including Hispanic-Americans, need. Stealing is an inappropriate word here because these foreign Hispanics, mostly Mexicans, aren't actually stealing anything. But I suggest our fellow citizen employers who conspire to hire them rather than citizens ARE stealing money from the pockets of American citizens, and at times bread from the mouths of American children, and they have been doing this for at least four decades.
Before the mantra of, "There are some jobs American citizens just won't do," it was real quiet. The only time a citizen knew about it was when jobs were scarce and citizens were denied the only jobs available in some cases because Mexican "crews" were contracted to do the work. Forty years ago out west here it was all Mexican "crews", brought here on an unbreakable contract that guaranteed them work no matter how much citizens begged for those jobs.
My first ultra personal experience with this was in the 1970s, and without an internet in those days, on which to complain, I have been more or less quietly seething inside ever since. In fact I have a few mental glitches I can't seem to get over, the main one being what the amnesty pushing liberals love to call "food insecurity". Nearly forty years later I am financially secure, but I am never positive I will have enough to eat and even if I do, I worry about others who are hungry. Years ago I grieved for months after I saw a train hit a herd of deer and I couldn't get governmental permission to field dress the meat to feed the hungry. The meat was wasted while I knew people in that community who struggled to get enough food because there weren't enough jobs.
I had married young but a crazy aunt broke up the marriage so at 19 without much experience, I held what are now called entry level jobs. My boss at a nursing home had made it plain that sexual intercourse would be part of the job description if I expected to keep working. This was before the term sexual harassment was coined and before women sued for this sort of thing. I foolishly quit, leaving a message with a four letter word used as a verb~one of the first times in my life I had ever used a word like that~and my boss' name taped to the time clock.
In the late 60s and very early 70s it had been fairly easy to get minimum wage jobs. (Minimum wage at that time was about $1.35 and waitresses could be paid 75 cents an hour while tips of nickles, dimes and pennies equaled about $5.00 per shift.) Unfortunately for me, the Oregon town where I lived had one of the first environmentalist driven job crises. Environmentalists had closed an aluminum factory for fear water emitting from the factory might raise the temperature of the Columbia River by one degree or something equally stupid. (I have also been firmly anti-environmentalism since then.) Workers displaced from the factory had all the usual minimum wage jobs filled for miles around.
Any savings had long run out and there wasn't much food left on my pantry shelves in a day when soup could be bought for as little as 10 cents per can, when a friend told me a certain fruit orchard was hiring pruners. My friend knew the orchard's owner and was sure I could get a job; the friend said to call Saturday evening and use his name. Real hope; I had past experience professionally pruning trees and I was young and strong.
The orchardist had contracted all his jobs to Mexican "crews". How I hate that word "crew"! I always write it in quotation marks, when it applies to foreign workers, to emphasize, because nobody can hear my sarcastic, disgusted snarl when I write. Polite but firm, he didn't care about my experience. He was sorry. No, he couldn't add me to a crew. There was no room for me. He had signed a contract that guaranteed ALL the jobs to the Mexican "crew". Couldn't break his contract. Eventually I cried. He was sorry but he couldn't break the contract.
It was a few years before I was a journalist and when I started writing I would never write about this episode in my life. There was something shameful about being hungry in America, I thought. Raised in a middle class family I had ignorantly believed everyone in America had SOMETHING to eat, yet after I learned that Mexican "crews" had contracted rights to jobs I was not allowed to have, I experienced starvation. Grilled cheese sandwiches affect me to this day, something like communion wafers taken at church. Though I was too ashamed to tell anyone I was starving, a friend invited me over for a "snack" of grilled cheese sandwiches and one sandwich was the biggest meal I had in one week.
(The injustice ate at my soul and I invented the food bank in my mind. Pre-internet, pre-writing career I had no one with whom to share my idea, but I knew there had to be some place where food would always be available for hungry people, and that food waste was criminal. It was many others plus gleaners who really invented and put into practice the food bank movement.)
Enough about my experience. God gave me many talents and a few years after this I tumbled into journalism simply because someone thought I could write. In the end I have been fortunate, though I will never in my deepest soul believe there is enough food or that there are enough jobs with which to earn money for food. Mostly I do not believe there are enough jobs because many employers, just like Donald Trump, hire Mexican and other Hispanic "crews" rather than citizens. I have consistently told my girl friends in abusive marriages to stay where they are, because food and a roof over their heads is all it comes down to, and here in the west Mexicans have most of the entry level jobs these women, if childless, would need to leave their battering husbands.
Beyond entry level, increasingly Mexicans do tax dollar funded road work. So much for all the blather about funding "infrastructure" to provde jobs unless the politicians are talking about employing and enriching Mexicans. Very recently construction jobs which used to be middle class work for American citizens are mostly done by Mexican "crews". I have seen this with my own eyes and very little research validated what I had seen, but that is a different story.
All the candidates are begging for the "Hispanic vote" because somewhere along the line Hispanics, legal or illegal, English speaking or not, became a voting block to be considered, courted and pandered to. Under the best days of Barak Obama and his PC storm troopers, to say anything negative was to be a racist and a hater. Somewhere along the line Trump the magic braggart was given a dispensation to be allowed to break PC. Hispanics in construction bring us right to Trump's front yard specifically.
Ivan Arellano, a mason, was interviewed by the Washington Post while working on the DC construction site which will become the Trump International Hotel. In the article Mr. Arellano was quoted, "'The majority of us are Hispanics, many who came illegally," he said in Spanish. 'And we're all here working very hard to build a better life for our families.'" [2] Shades of Jeb Bush saying foreign workers and illegals are committing acts of love. Of course they are! But why are their "acts of love" so sacred that American citizens must go without? Since when is America an orphanage for the third world at the expense of our own? Ask the politicians.
On Twitter I retweeted something alleging Trump hires illegals. A Trumpkin swiftly attacked saying Trump hired legal immigrants, very much allowed by law. "Trump follows the law, imagine that'" the Trumpkin Tweep snotted. While there may be some question about how legal ALL of Trump's workers are (see article above and judge for yourself), I find no honor in Trump bragging about hiring what I believe are "crews". I'd bet if an American citizen begged Trump for a job he would say what the orchard owner said to me so many years ago; all the jobs are pre-contracted to Hispanic crews. In fact this kind of hiring disturbs me more than hiring of illegals because the employer legally hiring "crews" is covered with the shiny veneer of legality. Americans go unemployed or homeless because of these employers.
The Chicago Tribune in January of this year has an article titled, "Teen unemployment remains stubbornly high, study finds." [4] It cites a Drexel University study that shows the current unemployment rate of teens, identified as 16 to 19, in Chicago is the lowest in the nation at 16%. Being more specific it states, "Chicago black teens have the lowest employment rate at 10.5%, followed by Hispanic teens at 21%." Angelo Ross was interviewed, "At 18, he lives with his mom, eight siblings, and four nieces and nephews." Angelo, after hunting for a job for three years had just gotten a job as an intern at a fast food restaurant. "Thanks to his paycheck, he's been contributing $30 to $60 a month to the family budget," the article continues.
OK, all you politicians, but specially you Mr. Trump, you who brag about managing all your own affairs and your billion dollar business like you do it all by yourself, how about doing something to train and hire citizens? How dare you go before the American voters and brag about how you hire Hispanic "crews" while young people like Angelo Ross struggle for a job! Bernie Sanders can blather all he wants about income inequality while ignoring the giant sucking sound pulling dollars to Mexico, earned by members of "crews" that take jobs from our own! Tell us, Mr. Trump, what are you going to do for citizens like Angelo Ross? Better yet, when are you going to apologize for hiring "crews" and ignoring citizens?
I have a deep sense about injustice, real injustice, not the made up injustices community organizers use to further Big Government. I am not a hypocrite and I seldom complain if I don't think I have a solution. Employers insist they "need" foreign workers because "Americans just won't do some jobs'. (That garbage has been pushed down our throats so long that nobody seems to have a clue why our welfare, unemployment and food stamp rates are so high.) Until this mess gets figured out once and for all, the answer is simple.
If an American citizen wants one of those jobs contracted to foreign "crews", the citizen gets it. A "crew" member gets dumped. PERIOD. American CITIZENS first. NO non-citizen has ANY so-called right to ANY job in this country. Contracts be damned! CITIZENS FIRST! Simple!
After that, Mr. Trump, if you really want to say how good you are for Americans, why don't you take some of your billions and use it to train and hire young, unemployed people from across our nation? Call it the Trump School of Construction. Teach the Trump method of building. Call students the Trump scholars. It'd be the best in the world you know because it would have the Trump name.
Mr. Trump, why don't you help young Americans like Angelo Ross instead of bragging about how many Hispanics you employ? "Teenagers who work fare better later in life, earning wages 20 to 25 percent higher than those who didn't have jobs as teens," said Paul Harrington, an author of the report cited in the Tribune article. Do you care enough about America to Invest some of your Trump billions in our own young people!
Or is it possible, you Mr. Trump, and other candidates snuggling up to Hispanics, figure young people like Angelo Ross living with his mom and eight siblings will just swallow the income inequality line shovelled out by the likes of socialists Bernie and Hillary, that they will automatically vote Democrat anyway? Are these people your 14%, like Mitt Romney got in trouble for his comment about a certain 14%?
No candidate that brags about what he or she is doing for Hispanics can count on my vote because when I hear "jobs for Hispanics" I think of "crews" legally taking jobs from citizens. Lifelong politicians may know nothing more than how to get votes. You, Mr. Trump, actually build things you put your name on and you apparently, proudly hire Hispanic "crews" to work on your projects. And you brag about it to the unemployed who are supposed to vote for you! Put your money where your big mouth is and do something for the Angelo Rosses of the world. Then I may not automatically remember my past miseries and be so tempted to come up with doggerel like:
Trump the magic braggart...lived by deceit...and frolicked in the voters' mental mist until he lived in DC....
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SOURCES:
[1] www.theguardian.com ; Donald Trump Says He Will Win Latino Vote Despite Calling...", Adam Gabbatt, 7/8/2015
[2] www.washingtonpost.com ; At Trump Hotel Site, Immigrant Workers Wary, Antonio Olivo, 7/6/2015
[3] www.chicagotribune.com ; Teen Unemployment Remains Stubbornly High, Study Finds, Alejandra Cancino, 1/30/2015
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Equal Misery For All?
August 6, 2015
by Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
Presidential campaign season is upon us once again, the time when once free Americans are allowed to choose their new masters for the next four to eight years. If we are lucky it may only be eight years max; there is a persistent rumor Obama is considering a third term and the present SCOTUS that rubber stamps DemocratCare over and over again, will certainly have no problem overturning the Constitution once again. Calling Justice Roberts...
The Republican candidates will soon begin the seemingly endless debates, where they savage each other relentlessly until the left overs are thrown to the voters. Each of the ten will tell us why we should elect him to rule over us. It is not sexist for me to say "him" since Carly Fiorina didn't make the cut.
Ruling over American people who once invented freedom and liberty, should be like herding cats. Impossible. Instead in this Twenty First Century the bulk of us are easily herded like cattle, patiently chewing the cud from food stamps, while peacefully plodding to the slaughterhouse of the ObamaCare Death Panels. Ah yes, Sarah Palin caught a lot of flack for that bit over the Death Panels. Don't bother sending me flack. My dear friend Suzanne Ohrling passed away June 30, 2015 while under care of something her family and I believe was a Death Panel. [1]
Whether or not you want to believe the elderly and disabled are at risk of Death Panels, our unborn young certainly are. Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry appear to be selling baby parts and congress can't even muster the vote to cut the supply of tax dollars to that slaughter house. Hillary and the left persistently call abortion "women's health" and swear there will be no de-funding lest all us females die as collateral damage in the War Against Women. Or some such idiotic nonsense. (Before I get sued for libel perhaps I should clarify that baby parts aren't actually being sold, but there seems to be a hefty shipping and handling charge applied. Like all that "free" stuff on TV~free, but just pay shipping and handling. Uh-huh.)
For nearly eight years Obama and his pack of race baiters and LGBT militants have viciously enforced political correctness (PC) until almost everyone was afraid to express an opinion the left had not first approved. It was the Communist Party USA that said it was RACIST for voters to question Obama's policies, especially the enslaving medical ponzi scheme that took over one sixth of our economy and bears his name for now. I say for now because some of us intend to make Obama's party own this disaster in 2016. To that end it is DemocratCare.
The wolves of the left had effectively silenced the lambs who feared being called sexist-racist-homophobic-islamophobic-haters. Then into the void leaped Donald Trump in sheep's clothing, claiming to be one of the lambs, indeed the only lamb left who could still bleat. Was it accumulated fear of Governor Scott Walker that caused the left to allow Trump unfettered speech? Very soon Trump surpassed bleating and began to bray like a jack ass. Coincidentally Jeb Bush who loves Hillary and Common Core and is the darling of the GOP elite moved into the number two polling position, just below the braying jack ass. Gov. Walker is now somewhere near the bottom.
Trump hee-haws about making Mexico build a border fence while bragging about how many Hispanics he has employed. Does he hire legals or illegals? Nobody cares. Citizens have so long sopped up the garbage about "jobs Americans just won't do" that a majority probably supports any kind of foreign labor as long as the welfare checks keep coming.
When I was young, many years ago, we weren't a bunch of pajama boys living with mom and dad until we were declared adults at age 26. Most of us left home in our teens and got entry level jobs. Now, at least in the end of the country where I live, most of those beginners' jobs are held by Mexicans. I note with angst and sorrow that construction jobs, once good paying work, must now be among those jobs Americans won't do. I watched for almost a year as a large apartment complex being built by what I understand was Mexican nationals, for low income Americans. Those now moving in say they are thankful for the nice apartments. Would they be even more thankful if they could rent their own apartment without government help, if they had been able to earn the probably more than $15.00/hour that was paid to those who built the complex?
In centuries past there was something called Manifest Destiny which originally meant something about America being so special that we had the chance to rebuild the world in our image, and we should claim a lot of land on this continent. Amazingly even way back then this was something Democrats supported and Whigs who turned into Republicans at Lincoln's election, did not necessarily support. [2]
The part about claiming a lot of land led to some wars and tragically the near genocide of many Native Americans. Considering the latter, it was assumed that the Native way of life would disappear because Manifest Destiny would provide what was best. In our enlightened state today we know the Native Americans got the nasty end of that stick.
President Obama, the anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, despises the idea of Manifest Destiny. He and his political ilk on the left, and those who claim to be on the right while bending all the way left, have a new mission and a new destiny designed to render the once free American people as helpless and dependent as the old mission and destiny left the Native Americans.
Disguised as "Hope and Change" or "Fundamental Transformation", we are in the process of being conquered by a ruling class that herds us like cattle. FORWARD!, they shout as they crack whips and the fangs of their vicious PC dogs slash at our hamstrings.
We have had so much Fundamental Transformation in the past seven years it is hard to know how to take it back, or if we can take it back. Perhaps DemocratCare is the final nail in the coffin of liberty, freedom and democracy.
To give an example of DemocratCare in action, several years ago I lived in a small, poor area where the median income was something like $36,000/year. I moved out when I determined the Obamatized hospital monopoly would likely cause my death. Since then the hospital has taken over ALL the medical clinics in at least a fifty mile radius. The excuse from the small clinics is they can't handle the DemocratCare regulations and paperwork but the giant for the area, federally subsidized hospital can. Now patients have no choice, doctors treat populations, not individuals and the so-called care is standardized, electronically recorded and I suppose reported to the federal government.
How can a low income population under 50,000 people un-do something like that? Declare DemocratCare unconstitutional, pull the funding, dump the mandates, and what? Have a cluster-cluck about the challenges of rural health care? Nope. Those people in that area are fully enslaved if they get sick.
That's the point. The Manifest Destiny of the federal government of the U.S. in the Twenty-First Century is that they know best and the voters know nothing. The new masters we will elect~at least they say we still have the vote~will continue to decide how and where we live, what we can and cannot eat, how much we can weigh and whether or not we may partake of adult activities like tobacco and consumption of alcohol. As for the other adult pleasure, sex is still allowed because abortion is encouraged and infant body parts are worth big money.
President Lincoln said America was the last best hope on earth. President Obama says we are no better than any other nation, and he has said other stuff about us being mean and bad Christians like the Crusaders in the Eleventh Century.
We grew complacent when we agreed with Lincoln. For decades our way of life created success such as the world has never seen. In that American Exceptionalism Obama despises we shared our wealth and technology with the whole world. We won WWII for the allies and then rebuilt Europe and Japan. Even so we grew fat and lazy and apathetic. We fought communism overseas but never paid attention to socialism creeping into our own schools and government.
While we fought communism in Viet Nam and I was in grade school, our teachers were teaching us that there is no such thing as stealing. Some liberal teacher's college had got it into the curriculum that nobody really owns anything and everything is to be shared equally. Many years later we are expected to call taxes "our fair share" and not complain because complainers are greedy haters. The government will tell us what we can have and what we can do with what they let us have.
The equality of mediocrity is to replace American Exceptionalism. Our borders are open and the Third World streams in. Our neighborhoods are to be integrated through sub-prime mortgages for struggling minorities. Failure to integrate as government demands will cut off government grants to communities. By the way do you know that sidewalks, frequently provided by federal grants, are part of DemocratCare? Without nice, safe, smooth sidewalks people are afraid to exercise and thus they become obese and get diabetes and cost the government a lot of money. So be sure to integrate your area so the sidewalks will keep getting built and the Death Panels won't have to kill so many people who get fat and sick.
Whatever I have forgotten to mention will surely be covered by the EPA which will gleefully regulate us to death in the name of saving the planet. I think Obama said something like that yesterday when he described how he was going to batter the energy industry to stop global warming.
Complacency and apathy got us here. Some of us are willing to fight with our last breath to take back our freedom and liberty but we wonder if the takeover is too far gone. We think Obama was the capstone on the pyramid of tyranny the Progressives have been building the last fifty years.
And so in this mayhem and confusion, we once again stoke up the billion dollar industry of a presidential election. Are we merely choosing new masters we are to fear? Or will be choose leaders who will fear us because We The People are their employers?
If we choose wrong or if the elite give us no choice, such as the Jeb Bush vs. Hillary Clinton scenario we expect, I think we can never recover. The Manifest Destiny the elite plan for us is equal misery for all.
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SOURCES:
[1] 'Let the Death Panels Begin', my article here at FFOA, July 2015. See also 'Safety or State Sanctioned Land Grab', December 14, 2014 and 'The Crime is Old Age',
September 2014, about the same subject.
[2] Manifest Destiny; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny
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Equal Misery For All?
July 2, 2015
by Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
This is the death watch for Suzanne Ohrling, 83, incarcerated against her will in an Oregon nursing home, "for the crime of old age", as she said to me last September. Within the next 24 hours she is expected to depart this life, after having been mostly unconscious due to aspiration pneumonia for most of the past week, according to her son Randy Lytle of Las Vegas, NV. They gave her antibiotics earlier in the week but she did not improve and then she was unconscious, said Lytle who is unable to get to Oregon to see his mom one last time.
Not that it would necessarily do much good for Randy to make the trip. His brother Brett Lytle of Milwaukie, Oregon was with their mother, Randy said, emphasis on was. Distraught because the nursing home insists his mother must die, Brett called 911 that his mom could go to a hospital for acute skilled care and IVs since she can take nothing by mouth, Randy told me in a recent call. He said, "911 came but left because Mom had signed an end of life agreement," and continued, "then the nursing home called the police and they escorted Brett from the premises."
"Will your mother die alone?" I asked gently.
"I suppose," Randy said in an exhausted, fatalistic voice. "They are treating it like hospice', he explained, "her house is on the market or sold for $150,000, the money has run out and they want to get rid of her because she costs too much". "She has to die and we don't have anything to say about it", was his opinion.
Unaware that his mom had ever signed an advanced directive to end her life, Lytle said he believes the state appointed guardians coerced her into signing sign one after they had declared her "demented". "What good is that?" he demanded.
Senior Citizens Council of Clackamas County, Inc., the entity that eventually succeeded in taking Suzanne Ohrling's freedom, filed court papers November 26, 2014 which detail the plan. In the copy I have before me, Mrs. Ohrling is primarily referred to by the dehumanizing term respondent. "Respondent needs a guardian appointed for an indefinite period of time to ensure her physical safety and continued placement in a secure facility," Section 6., page 09. [1] (emphasis mine)
It now appears this indefinite period of time will end in matter of hours. Humanizing her once again, Suzanne Ohrling, mother and grandmother, it seems, is kept in a facility so secure that a 911 ambulance called by her son must be turned away. In addressing physical safety, as her son Randy says, "they will make sure she is dead, but we can have the body." At the time of this writing, following numerous calls back and forth between Randy Lytle and myself, it appears Suzanne will die alone, because as he understands, it was considered "disruptive" when his brother called 911. For this sin of a despairing son, the poor mother must die alone. She has state ensured "safety", but her last agonies will be without family, with whom she was exceptionally close, to comfort her.
"The proposed guardian intends to keep respondent in a medical care facility", the papers state, Section 7., page 09. On page 12 there is a request to the court, "Revoking any and all outstanding powers of attorney and appointments of health care representatives granted by respondent to any person." [1]
Suzanne's oldest son Randy did everything in his power to extricate his mother from the grasping hands of the state that he alleges wanted her property more than her safety. In September 2014 he borrowed money and flew to Oregon with an extra plane ticket to take his mother home to Las Vegas. A couple days before he arrived Suzanne told him she did not think they would allow her to leave. At that time Randy asked me to interview her and that interview formed the basis for my September 2014 article for FFOA, ' Nursing Home Inmate, The Crime is Old Age'. [2]
In that telephone interview Mrs. Ohrling told me she believed "they" would never let her leave. It was just a feeling, she told me; nobody had come out and said she could not leave, but she believed she would be prevented from leaving one way or another. Subsequent events eerily supported what she said.
When her son arrived he called me to say he found his mother incoherent and unable to stand. He said she had never been like that before and in that condition there was no way he could take her with him. He insisted at that time that his mom go to an acute care hospital and though he said the nursing home objected they ultimately had to do what family requested. On that hot September day Randy the son was still considered to be family. In a number of weeks he was no longer treated as family by the various state officials. Also at that time he wanted to have his mother drug tested but she was in and out of the hospital ER so fast there was not time. When he pursued the matter through the Ombudsman Office it was decided nothing could be done. Mrs. Ohrling had been assigned a new doctor when she was forced into the nursing home and the doctor was reputed to have close connections to that facility.
February 6, 2015 Randy once again flew to Oregon to oppose the Senior Citizens Council of Clackamas County in the court. Unable to afford an attorney, he had not filed appropriately and he said the judge would not listen to him. He has subsequently had to receive permission from this Senior Citizen Council to even take his mother to dinner, and he explains, they have always placed a humiliating curfew on these outings. The first time he was allowed to take her out for a meal he was half an hour late bringing her back and according to him representatives of the state at the nursing home were nasty. In May 2015 Randy had driven the 1200 plus miles to see his mom and he again reported to me the difficulty in gaining permission to take his mother to dinner. He told me the hoops he had to jump through, and after all that the guardians set the time as well as the amount of time allowed.
Both sons, Brett and Randy, say their mother was never on antidepressants before being forced into the nursing home. Both say their mother was put on antidepressants in the nursing home because she wanted to go home. Randy vaguely remembers someone calling him when he had one foot out the door to go to work. He says it was someone from the nursing home asking to double his mother's dose of antidepressants, which at that time required family permission. Randy told me they said it was for her comfort and he gave permission. That may be the last time Randy or any family member was consulted about their mother's care. Shortly after that he was denied even basic information about his mother, he says. Before there was any court decision, Randy said someone at the nursing home told he had no rights because there was a guardian appointed, except Randy found out much later this was not true. Time was lost during which Randy might have been able to improve his mother's situation.
After he allowed an increase in antidepressant drugs, Randy says his mother was hardly ever awake. Many times he has told me, "they just wake her up to feed her and put her back to bed; all they are doing is warehousing her". When he called the nursing home he said he was regularly told she was sleeping. (When I called during the holiday time I was told the same and I was never able reach her.) Randy began arranging with his brother to call her on the phone when Brett was physically there and could make sure she was awake to communicate.
Though Suzanne fed herself when she was in her own home, according to family, the court papers claim she had to be fed by others. Apparently somewhere between sleeping and being fed, Suzanne aspirated some food or fluid or stomach contents into her lungs and pneumonia resulted.
Exactly one year ago, Suzanne Ohrling, was enjoying her last happy days of freedom in the home she owned; the home her father built with his own hands decades ago, the family home. On or about July 2, 2014 the state of Oregon removed her from her home with an overwhelming show of force, according to family members.
She was then declared "demented" by a doctor her family said had never seen her before, a doctor the family believes was appointed by the nursing home. Considering the requested revocation of any prior health care directives in the court papers, do we suppose Mrs. Ohrling was someway coerced to sign her own death certificate, the end of life papers, AFTER she lost her rights earlier this year?
Suzanne's oldest son Randy did everything in his power to extricate his mother from the grasping hands of the state that he alleges wanted her property more than her safety. In September 2014 he borrowed money and flew to Oregon with an extra plane ticket to take his mother home to Las Vegas. A couple days before he arrived Suzanne told him she did not think they would allow her to leave. At that time Randy asked me to interview her and that interview formed the basis for my September 2014 article for FFOA, ' Nursing Home Inmate, The Crime is Old Age'. [2]
In that telephone interview Mrs. Ohrling told me she believed "they" would never let her leave. It was just a feeling, she told me; nobody had come out and said she could not leave, but she believed she would be prevented from leaving one way or another. Subsequent events eerily supported what she said.
When her son arrived he called me to say he found his mother incoherent and unable to stand. He said she had never been like that before and in that condition there was no way he could take her with him. He insisted at that time that his mom go to an acute care hospital and though he said the nursing home objected they ultimately had to do what family requested. On that hot September day Randy the son was still considered to be family. In a number of weeks he was no longer treated as family by the various state officials. Also at that time he wanted to have his mother drug tested but she was in and out of the hospital ER so fast there was not time. When he pursued the matter through the Ombudsman Office it was decided nothing could be done. Mrs. Ohrling had been assigned a new doctor when she was forced into the nursing home and the doctor was reputed to have close connections to that facility.
February 6, 2015 Randy once again flew to Oregon to oppose the Senior Citizens Council of Clackamas County in the court. Unable to afford an attorney, he had not filed appropriately and he said the judge would not listen to him. He has subsequently had to receive permission from this Senior Citizen Council to even take his mother to dinner, and he explains, they have always placed a humiliating curfew on these outings. The first time he was allowed to take her out for a meal he was half an hour late bringing her back and according to him representatives of the state at the nursing home were nasty. In May 2015 Randy had driven the 1200 plus miles to see his mom and he again reported to me the difficulty in gaining permission to take his mother to dinner. He told me the hoops he had to jump through, and after all that the guardians set the time as well as the amount of time allowed.
Both sons, Brett and Randy, say their mother was never on antidepressants before being forced into the nursing home. Both say their mother was put on antidepressants in the nursing home because she wanted to go home. Randy vaguely remembers someone calling him when he had one foot out the door to go to work. He says it was someone from the nursing home asking to double his mother's dose of antidepressants, which at that time required family permission. Randy told me they said it was for her comfort and he gave permission. That may be the last time Randy or any family member was consulted about their mother's care. Shortly after that he was denied even basic information about his mother, he says. Before there was any court decision, Randy said someone at the nursing home told he had no rights because there was a guardian appointed, except Randy found out much later this was not true. Time was lost during which Randy might have been able to improve his mother's situation.
After he allowed an increase in antidepressant drugs, Randy says his mother was hardly ever awake. Many times he has told me, "they just wake her up to feed her and put her back to bed; all they are doing is warehousing her". When he called the nursing home he said he was regularly told she was sleeping. (When I called during the holiday time I was told the same and I was never able reach her.) Randy began arranging with his brother to call her on the phone when Brett was physically there and could make sure she was awake to communicate.
Though Suzanne fed herself when she was in her own home, according to family, the court papers claim she had to be fed by others. Apparently somewhere between sleeping and being fed, Suzanne aspirated some food or fluid or stomach contents into her lungs and pneumonia resulted.
Exactly one year ago, Suzanne Ohrling, was enjoying her last happy days of freedom in the home she owned; the home her father built with his own hands decades ago, the family home. On or about July 2, 2014 the state of Oregon removed her from her home with an overwhelming show of force, according to family members.
She was then declared "demented" by a doctor her family said had never seen her before, a doctor the family believes was appointed by the nursing home. Considering the requested revocation of any prior health care directives in the court papers, do we suppose Mrs. Ohrling was someway coerced to sign her own death certificate, the end of life papers, AFTER she lost her rights earlier this year?
Sarah Palin was ridiculed for talking about "Death Panels", but realistically, how might Death Panels operate if a patient is very old and costing the system too much money? Undoubtedly the state could be disappointed that Mrs. Ohrling's beloved family home will only bring $150,000 or less as a "tear down", minus a large mortgage and deferred taxes? In this tragic case are we perhaps seeing how Death Panels can work? Suzanne's son says they are enforcing her right to die but he questions whether failing treating aspiration pneumonia fits that argument.
Just as I typed Death Panels, Randy called me to say his mother Suzanne passed away a few minutes ago. She was without family or loved ones, all alone in a narrow bed in a room at Milwaukie Convalescent Center. Her son Brett who had been holding her hand this afternoon, as has been said, who was removed from the premises by police for calling 911, was not present according to his brother.
The guardians insisted she must die. They incarcerated her for her "safety" according to the papers, yet in one year almost to the day, of state "care", Mrs. Ohrling had become a bed patient who was awakened to be fed by others. At first she fought to be released, a fact to which I can attest. Around the time when Randy came to take her to his home there seemed to be an overnight mental decline from which she never recovered. Prior to that I found her to be a good conversationalist, fully knowledgeable of some complex business details in her life.
Three hundred and sixty-three days after she was taken against her will from her family home, she died without family present, under what the state of Oregon calls "care". The papers state, "...she is not safe to go home". They prevailed in court, so may we say SAFETY is dying alone in a nursing home you hated? Perhaps.
Suzanne Ohrling's personal hell in the claws of the state of Oregon is at an end. I told her last fall we would keep fighting for her. One way or another she was silenced in life. I will give her the last word now. In death she shall speak again the words I recorded a few days before she suddenly became incoherent on the day her son came to take her home.
"I don't think they will let me leave. It is just a feeling I have that they won't let me leave. I would like to go home; to be able to go home. They won't let me because of old age. I have a right to go home to my own home." (She began to cry.) "I'd do anything to get out of this place. I haven't done anything wrong. Why are they holding me here? Because of old age. The crime is old age."
RIP Suzanne Ohrling~ November 4, 1931 ~ June 30, 2015
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Suzanne's family's financial resources have been depleted through the court fight to liberate their mother from state control. Until a year ago the family assumed the family home could be sold to meet these expenses but the state has taken the home. If any of our loyal FFOA readers wish to contribute toward burial expenses, please contact me by email at: marielisette.am@gmail.com. I will act as intermediary to put you in touch with Suzanne's family. Thank you.
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SOURCES:
[1] Court papers: Circuit Court of Oregon, Clackamas County Probate Department; In the matter of guardianshi anp/conservatorship of: Suzanne M. Ohrling, Respondent. Filed November 26,
2014. Proposed Guardian/Conservator: Senior Citizens Council of Clackamas, Inc. / P.O. Box 1777/ Oregon City, OR 97045/ .503-657-1366. Represented by Attorney/Petitioner:
Susan E. Snell, OSB # 853356, of Martin, Elliot & Snell, P.C./ P.O. Box 575/ Tualitin, Oregon 97062
[2] My article, 'Nursing Home Inmate: The Crime is Old Age', September 2014. Found on my page, scroll down or find by title here: freedomfightersofamerica.blogspot.com/p/advertise-with-us.html
[3] See also my article, 'Safety or State Sanctioned Land-Grab, December 14, 2014, here: freedomfightersofamerica.blogspot.com/2014/12/ffoa-exclusive-safety-or-state.html
Sarah Palin was ridiculed for talking about "Death Panels", but realistically, how might Death Panels operate if a patient is very old and costing the system too much money? Undoubtedly the state could be disappointed that Mrs. Ohrling's beloved family home will only bring $150,000 or less as a "tear down", minus a large mortgage and deferred taxes? In this tragic case are we perhaps seeing how Death Panels can work? Suzanne's son says they are enforcing her right to die but he questions whether failing treating aspiration pneumonia fits that argument.
Just as I typed Death Panels, Randy called me to say his mother Suzanne passed away a few minutes ago. She was without family or loved ones, all alone in a narrow bed in a room at Milwaukie Convalescent Center. Her son Brett who had been holding her hand this afternoon, as has been said, who was removed from the premises by police for calling 911, was not present according to his brother.
The guardians insisted she must die. They incarcerated her for her "safety" according to the papers, yet in one year almost to the day, of state "care", Mrs. Ohrling had become a bed patient who was awakened to be fed by others. At first she fought to be released, a fact to which I can attest. Around the time when Randy came to take her to his home there seemed to be an overnight mental decline from which she never recovered. Prior to that I found her to be a good conversationalist, fully knowledgeable of some complex business details in her life.
Three hundred and sixty-three days after she was taken against her will from her family home, she died without family present, under what the state of Oregon calls "care". The papers state, "...she is not safe to go home". They prevailed in court, so may we say SAFETY is dying alone in a nursing home you hated? Perhaps.
Suzanne Ohrling's personal hell in the claws of the state of Oregon is at an end. I told her last fall we would keep fighting for her. One way or another she was silenced in life. I will give her the last word now. In death she shall speak again the words I recorded a few days before she suddenly became incoherent on the day her son came to take her home.
"I don't think they will let me leave. It is just a feeling I have that they won't let me leave. I would like to go home; to be able to go home. They won't let me because of old age. I have a right to go home to my own home." (She began to cry.) "I'd do anything to get out of this place. I haven't done anything wrong. Why are they holding me here? Because of old age. The crime is old age."
RIP Suzanne Ohrling~ November 4, 1931 ~ June 30, 2015
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Suzanne's family's financial resources have been depleted through the court fight to liberate their mother from state control. Until a year ago the family assumed the family home could be sold to meet these expenses but the state has taken the home. If any of our loyal FFOA readers wish to contribute toward burial expenses, please contact me by email at: marielisette.am@gmail.com. I will act as intermediary to put you in touch with Suzanne's family. Thank you.
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SOURCES:
[1] Court papers: Circuit Court of Oregon, Clackamas County Probate Department; In the matter of guardianshi anp/conservatorship of: Suzanne M. Ohrling, Respondent. Filed November 26,
2014. Proposed Guardian/Conservator: Senior Citizens Council of Clackamas, Inc. / P.O. Box 1777/ Oregon City, OR 97045/ .503-657-1366. Represented by Attorney/Petitioner:
Susan E. Snell, OSB # 853356, of Martin, Elliot & Snell, P.C./ P.O. Box 575/ Tualitin, Oregon 97062
[2] My article, 'Nursing Home Inmate: The Crime is Old Age', September 2014. Found on my page, scroll down or find by title here: freedomfightersofamerica.blogspot.com/p/advertise-with-us.html
[3] See also my article, 'Safety or State Sanctioned Land-Grab, December 14, 2014, here: freedomfightersofamerica.blogspot.com/2014/12/ffoa-exclusive-safety-or-state.html
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American Swastika
By: Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
June 26, 2015
Thumbing a ride on Air Force One with President Obama was no problem
for Boise, Idaho's Mayor Dave Bieter. Perhaps it is not a surprise that
on Tuesday of this week Mayor Bieter banished the Mississippi state
flag from the display of all fifty states' flags, in front of
Boise city hall. One quarter of the Mississippi state flag is the
Confederate battle flag, aka Stars and Bars, aka rebel flag.
In the scant week since that white supremacist nut-case used a
Charleston bible study for a shooting gallery, the Confederate flag has
become the American Swastika; to be rooted out where found, and never to
be displayed again.
Even so, the people of Idaho seem to be kind of stunned by the mayor's
action. Local talk shows are hard put to find any caller who can speak
coherently about the matter, pro or con. One fellow Idahoan I
interviewed, not a citizen of Boise, had a few strong words. "I am
shocked", said this person, "it is ridiculous and stupid. He (Bieter)
does not speak for the people."
Perhaps Mayor Bieter, expected to be the Democratic candidate in a
future gubernatorial election, is speaking for President Obama with whom
he hitched the ride in January. Quoted on www.ktvb.com,
Bieter enthused, "About half an hour out of Boise, the president comes
walking back, and at first you can't get your head around it." "As cool
as you think it would be, it was that cool", bubbled Bieter.
Bieter
and Obama then had a "one-on-one" chat about politics and Bieter's
Basque heritage. Obama referenced the mayor's tales of his Basque
immigrant grandfather in the speech he gave in Boise. It is interesting
to note that Bieter was in D. C. for the national Conference of Mayors
when he got the idea about hitchhiking on Air Force One. [1] There is no
mention of pressing business requiring Bieter's presence in his city.
Indeed the KTVB articles states, "Bieter is headed back to D. C. after
the speech for the rest of the mayor's conference..." An Idahoan I
spoke with made a comment about Democrat Bieter kissing
something-or-other which I will not directly quote.
Though Dave Bieter is mayor of the city, the fact that Boise is our
state capital puts a bit more sting into the action of censoring the
Mississippi flag from in front of city hall. Idaho statesman newspaper writes, Mike
Journee, mayor's office spokesman, "...said Boise has a strong
reputation as a welcoming city and one that embraces diversity." [2]
"This flag has been out there for many years. The connotation and the
understanding of the connotation has changed, especially with recent
events", Journee was quoted. [2] Do we understand that for many years
the Mississippi state flag was not a threat to "welcoming" and
"diversity", yet one week ago the Stars and Bars quarter of that flag
instantly became the American Swastika? "The flag's symbolism is not
consistent with Boise's stance as a welcoming community to diverse
cultures, Journee said", according to the Statesman article. [2]
If the past must be punished and history revised and erased, may I
suggest Mayor Bieter also remove the Oregon flag, which state seal
depicts hardy white pioneers emigrating? Undepicted is that no blacks
were allowed. "Oregon passed laws against African Americans twice during
the 1840s, considered another law in the 1850s, and in 1857 approved an
exclusion clause as part of its constitution. Exclusion laws were also
passed in Indiana and Illinois and considered in Ohio, but Oregon was the only free state admitted to the union with an exclusion clause in its constitution," writes historian Elizabeth McLagan. (emphasis mine) [3]
(
Full disclosure: Until 1863 Idaho as well as the current states of
Washington and Oregon were all part of the Oregon Territory, therefore
these Exclusion Laws also covered the current state of Idaho.)
More exclusive to Oregon since Idaho never had any sea ports, an 1849
exclusion law said, "Ship owners were responsible for their black crew
members and could be fined $500 if the crew member jumped ship and
remained in Oregon," wrote historian McLagan. [3]
In 1857 another exclusion clause was inserted into the state
constitution, "...prohibiting new immigration of African Americans, as
well as making illegal their ownership of real estate and entering into
contracts," McLagan notes. "They were also denied the right to sue in
court," the article continues. "The exclusion clause received more
popular votes than the approval of the constitution...," according to
the historian. [3]
Ah, well, today we root out symbols of a past deemed embarrassing,
perhaps after the next crisis we can ban symbols that are not inclusive
enough. The brave pioneers depicted on the current Oregon flag obviously
did not include any African Americans and that must some way be racist,
considering past history, written in black and white. Perhaps it would
be worth another ride of Air Force One if Mayor Bieter preemptively also
tore down neighboring Oregon's state flag from in front of city hall?
Dave Bieter, the first mayor of Boise to be elected three times to that
office, "...was an early supporter of Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S.
presidential election," according to Wikipedia. [4] A bit behind the
times, this Wiki article opines that Bieter might be the Democratic
candidate for governor in 2010 or 1014. Didn't happen. Boise mayor's
position if non-partisan but Bieter is definitely a Democrat.
Trying to understand the nature of Bieter, it is hard to find many
accomplishments, pro or con. On a disjointed Facebook page several
comments against his administration accuse him of welcoming Muslim
refugees to Boise while wondering if these immigrants are vetted for
ISIS or terrorist connexions. One commenter wants to move to Boise to
vote against Bieter. [4]
Good
Democrat Bieter's main accomplishment until now seems to be that he is
one of the very few western mayors to sign the U. S. Conference of
Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. The www.usmayors.org
site home page begins, "Scientific evidence and consensus continues to
strengthen the idea that climate disruption is an urgent threat to the
environment and economic health of our communities." [5] "Consensus"
must mean the scientists got together to agree upon the political
expedience and advantages of blaming humans for changes in the weather
and a misbehaving sun.
Anyway, these mayors endorse the Kyoto Protocol and the agreement calls
for urging the federal government to enact policies and programs to
reduce global warming. There are twelve actions for the mayors that
follow. Number two calls for "land-use policies that reduce sprawl" and
"preserve open space". Boise already lost that fight long ago as housing
developments sprawled up the mountains, across the deserts and half way
into some wilderness areas. (Though I was in Boise yesterday I did not
seek out city hall for pictures of the flags, minus the one from
Mississippi, because I did not want to navigate from the sprawl called
Meridian, into the old town of Boise.)
Perhaps signing up Boise for the abatement of global warming got Bieter
his first ride on Air Force One. His second main nationally
recognized accomplishment , banning the Mississippi flag because it is a
threat to diversity, coupled with the first, ought to rate a special
pass to fly the friendly skies of Obama!
Until now my opinion about the Confederate flag was that it was a
matter for states, primarily southern states, to decide for themselves.
Certainly an opinion from Idaho would not be warranted, but suddenly
Idaho took a top spot in the debate. Call me ignorant, but certainly not
racist, I have always personally viewed the Confederate flag as a
symbol of states' rights and rebellion. I am a product of the Pacific
Northwest and born in Idaho. The racist past here, such as the exclusion
laws previously mentioned, is very different than that same past in the
southern United States.
For the last seven years we have experienced the federal government
jack-booting the necks of the American people. I joined the political
fight when my doctors became unable to treat me as an individual, when
Democrat Care/ ObamaCare demanded "population health" and "public
health" replace the private doctor/patient relationship. We have
regulations and policies flowing from the president's pen and
phone replacing congress. In the past year we see the feds increasingly
breathing down the necks of local police departments. Some of us believe
the Obama regime has plans to federalize all policing. There are
murmurs about Texas having the right to secede. Some say we need a
constitutional convention. There are rumblings of a new revolution
coming because of federal tyranny.
The Civil War was slave holding states against free states, though as
we can see from such things as the exclusion laws previously mentioned,
that the so-called free states were sometimes almost as vicious to
African Americans as was the state of slavery. That said, those
southern Confederate states also fought for states' rights, something
that was never well defined from the beginning of our country. They
rebelled and their battle flag was the rebel flag. That's how lots of
us in the west see it, including my former neighbors who flew the
Confederate flag, yet had interracial marriages within the family.
A friend whose family history includes some of those rebels said
another way to understand the confederate side is, "The odds were
against us but we still tried." She points out that once the war began
all the people in the confederacy were fighting for their way of life.
For some that included owning slaves, yet most owned no slaves. The
rebels rejected federal control of their lives and territory.
This friend is also part Native American. She wryly commented that to
her the swastika is a Navajo symbol denoting the four directions. Indeed
the swastika is an ancient symbol found in a number of cultures around
the world. Hitler supposedly ripped off the symbol from India, to brand
his special version of hate and genocide. Even so the swastika remains a
respected and positive symbol in other cultures.
If the Mayor Dave Bieters of this country can arbitrarily censor what
has, in less than a week, become the American Swastika, what other
instant censorship policies can good Democrats devise from the rampage
by the murdering, 21 year old white supremacist suspect; the thug with
the bowl cut & the usual crazy eyes? As well as waving the rebel
flag, the suspect pictured himself burning the U.S. flag. That is
constitutionally protected free speech, as is flying the Confederate
flag, at least for now. How far is the leap from the self censorship of
politicians like Dave Bieter, to showing the confederate flag being a
hate crime?
Democrats have used Trayvon Martin, Ferguson and Baltimore among other
incidents to divide us by race. Now at least one Democrat mayor who
hitched a ride on Air Force One, plans to unite us by opposing a flag.
My Native American friend with confederate ancestors sees this action
as another divider that, "...pushes further anger and hatred where there
is none. Most people don't want to be racist. Most people, black and
white, are just trying to get along and raise their families. Concerning
Obama dividing us by race for political gain she said, "It's PATHETIC,
the way he could make things better, but instead he fosters hate." About
Mayor Bieter's action she continued, "We don't need further
controversy; he insulted one of OUR states. Mississippi is a piece of
us."
In the meantime self censorship is alive and well in Boise, Idaho.
Democrat Mayor Dave Bieter, a supporter and on-flight guest of Obama,
the president who divides us by race for political control, has
apparently used his mayoral pen and phone to decree that we can unite
this one time. Like Rush Limbaugh said yesterday, the southern states
are a Republican stronghold, and he suggests THAT could be a good reason
for Democrats to focus attention on the Confederate flag. On the other
hand we could point out it has been Democrats who supported
the pro-slavery, racist aspects represented by that flag. Perhaps
Democrats are simply revising their own history when they declare a
purge of the flag that has suddenly become American Swastika.
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SOURCES:
[1] www.ktvb.com/story/news/local/2015/01//22/bieter-obama-ride/22158293/ ; Mayor Bieter Hitches Ride on Air Force One
[2] www.idahostatesman.com/2015/06/23/3866122/report-mayor-wants-mississippi.html ; UPDATE: Mississippi flag in front of Boise City Hall taken down
[3] www.blackpast.org/perspectives/black-laws-oregon-1844-1857 ; The Black Laws of Oregon, 1844-1857
[5] www.usmayors.org/climateprotection/documents/mcpagreement.pdf .
This site also contains a map of the U. S. showing locations of
mayors who have signed this agreement. Good source to see what YOUR
local mayors are doing!
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Flames of Division Incinerate Our House
by Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of AmericaJune 19, 2015
Today should be a day in which all Americans mourn, pray and share the pain of those devastated by the Charleston church shooting. Nine innocent lives are lost and we care.
Yet politics take no holiday; thus President Obama took the opportunity to attack the Second Amendment and call for gun control, while implying America is the most violent developed country in the world.
A gun is a tool like any other tool and the brain behind any tool is the brain of the person using the tool. Pressure cookers did not kill and maim in Boston, the Tsarnaev brothers' twisted minds turned cooking utensils into bombs. Box cutters did not crash jets into buildings on 911, terrorist minds rotted with hatred of America powered the fists that held those blades to throats. The gun used in the Charleston church yesterday was powered by a brain festering with racial hatred.
The 21 year old man arrested this morning is a suspect until proven guilty so let us look at the shooter and the crime without a name for now. It is reported the shooter allowed one person to live so that a message could be delivered. The message was a short, idiotic rant about raping "our women" and taking over our country. Because of this African Americans, "have to go". No wonder the various news feeds are calling the shooter a deranged psychotic.
Suppose the shooter is mentally deficient. How does he process the last six years of racial division for political purposes? Strife and division are the tools of community organizers, the job our President once held. The base is Cultural Marxism which makes the normal abnormal and the abnormal normal. Differences are emphasized and crises never go to waste. If necessary, crises may be created, and thus we have the "grievance industry", and the race baiters. A Tweet today had a picture of vultures picking over a well eaten carcass and the caption said Al Sharpton was heading to Charleston.
Many of us who are sane and mentally stable feel fear. The community organizers in DC pit us against them and them against us. It doesn't matter who us or them are. Gay vs. straight. Christian vs. Muslim. Black vs. white. Hispanic vs. black. Immigrants illegally entering our country vs. American workers who are unemployed. Environmentalists vs. business, Smokers and the obese vs. the healthy. Taxpayers vs. welfare recipients.
The goal is division which leads to chaos that will cause once free, constitutionally protected Americans, to forsake the constitution and beg Big Government to solve the problems of chaos. Yes, those of us who value freedom and liberty know fear as we watch the chaos of division grow in strength from crisis to crisis, some of which are manufactured.
How might an unstable person of any color process the concept of "White Privilege"? Will a mentally ill person of color kill white people? Will a deranged white person think African Americans are taking over and find solace in committing mass murder in the name of white supremacy? News commented that the Charleston shooter wanted to start a civil war. Many of us who are sane have wondered if the anti-police rhetoric is preparation for the federal government forcing a federal police force on the citizens. Little by little the powder kegs are filled and undoubtedly there are others, perhaps more sane, who itch for the revolution to begin.
Day by day the racial powder kegs are filled and tamped down. Everyone's pet grievance is on parade on Twitter. Why was the white shooting suspect arrested alive when a black suspect would have been shot down? News says the suspect was very cooperative and offered no resistance. If the shooter was Muslim he would be called a terrorist? The shooter supposedly wanted to start a civil war, so call him a terrorist thug. ISIS kills Christians, the shooter killed Christians in bible study. Terrorist thugs all, by their behaviour.
Once upon a time a church would have been considered sacred and any misbehaviour therein would have been a desecration worthy of eternal damnation and hell fire. At this point we have had six years of hearing America is not a Christian nation, and most recently that Christians should not be on a "high horse" because of the Crusades about a thousand years ago. Indeed our President is well known for saying the world does not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam, and that he would stand with Islam if the winds blew the wrong way.
Coincidentally an absolute need for Cultural Marxism to succeed, is that Judeo Christianity be ripped out by the roots.
Especially today there are those who loudly spew that those of us who criticize President Obama stoke the fires of racial hatred. Communist Party USA pushed the idea of calling anyone racist who disagreed with the political policies of Obama's administration. The President proudly allowed Democrat Care to be called Obama Care and CPUSA doubled down on calling those of us who objected, racists. Race and law and policy have become tangled in such a way that free speech is too often called hate speech.
When Barack Obama was elected in 2008 I was sorry my candidate lost but I had hope that Obama's win would heal race relations once and for all. Hillary Clinton had fallen by the wayside early on, and in the end we had a first black president before we had a first woman president. Surely that said something? I thought he might favor minorities one way or another and that would have been OK with me if it helped heal the past.
Six years and one reelection later the sores of division have been picked raw and contaminated with a festering gangrene of fear and suspicion supplied by the community organizers whose duty is to divide.
In Portland, Oregon some bright public school teacher used peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to teach about "White Privilege". The reasoning, on a day less sorrowful than this, would be laughable. It has something to do with Mohammed maybe only eating pita bread and Juan only having tortillas at home. White bread sandwiches are a sign of White Privilege apparently. Nobody dares point out that if White Privilege was an emperor, he would have no clothes, for that too would be racist.
Destabilizing this country is a Marxist goal. If an individual with a diseased mind reacts violently to the instability, he presents one or more crisis, on a platter for those seeking total control of a once free American people. The ends justify the means, say the Marxists. If the glorious crisis contributes greatly to those ends, do nine innocent lives become collateral damage? If gun control is achieved THIS time will some secretly rejoice over fallen martyrs? One thing is sure, the grievance industry got a boost; finally one white racist guy went nuts with a gun, proving racism is alive and well. Perhaps now is the time to remember that Oprah said racists just have to die? Who is next?
Dr. Ben Carson* has been one of my heroes for many years. Today he said what I wish President Obama had said. "The tragic shootings in Charleston, South Carolina yesterday are a manifestation of the evil that has gripped our society. Many of us have allowed the purveyors of hatred and division to create conflict between races, the genders, religious groups, age groups and income groups. The Bible says that a house divided against itself cannot stand." (emphasis mine) [1]
"The heart of the matter is not guns. The heart of the matter is the heart, the heart and soul of people. I hope we the American people can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies", Dr. Carson later said on 'Kelly Files'. "The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division trying to divide us in every category and weakening us as a society." [2]
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*Full disclosure: As an individual, I have donated both to Dr. Carson's PAC and to his presidential candidate fund.
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Sources:
[1] www.youngcons.com/ben-carsons-response-to-charleston-shooting-is-one-youll-want-to-hear ; 6/18/15
[2] 'Kelly Files' transcript and video; insider.foxnews.com/2015/06/18/ben-carson-obamas-south-carolina-remarks-heart-matter-not-guns
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Snatch the Kids & Gag the Mom~ Government at Work
by Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
May 17, 2015
"Melissa Diegel HAS BEEN NOW DEMANDED BY A JUDGE TO HAND OVER the NAMES, ADDRESSES, TELEPHONE NUMBERS and EMAILS of ALL HER FRIENDS and FAMILY and ANYONE she has communicated with regarding her children OR go to jail on Monday the 18th of May, 2015," begins today's post on the A miracle for Two Sisters Facebook page. Melissa Diegel is the mother of two beautiful girls who are said to be the victims of Arizona child protection services gone wild. [1]
We Americans used to think we had a right to free speech because the first amendment of our Constitution says congress, "shall make no law...abridging freedom of speech or of the press." Today we live in a time when courts, executive orders and government mandated policies evade the constitution and steal our rights on a daily basis. When all else fails draconian policy can be supported when it is "for the children" or worse yet, for the "protection" of children.
Meet Melissa's daughters, Hannah and Kayla Diegel who were 10 and 12 years old respectively when they, "...were taken from Phoenix Children's Hospital in April 2014, by CPS/DCS on the accusation that their mother, Melissa, committed medical abuse by following doctor's orders...", according to the Facebook page. [1] This is the first of the five fast facts on the case. The other four facts cover emotional and medical trauma to the girls and their family. Number five states, "The girls are experiencing severe emotional trauma from being medically kidnapped..."
As with the previous case of Justina Pelletier [2] in Massachusetts, the Diegel case in Arizona has at least two major parts. One is the issue of medical kidnapping.[3]Keeping it simple, let us leave this complex subject aside for now. The second issue is simple and if anyone cares, it should be unconstitutional. It is the gagging of the parents; under threat of jail, the parents must not use their constitutional right to free speech. When Justina's father could stand it no longer he broke his silence, at risk of jail, and told his daughter's story on national television. Soon Harvard law professor and "legal legend" Alan Dershowitz weighed in. He told FoxNews.com in 2014 that he was interested in joining the Pelletier's other attorneys concerning "broader constitutional issues". The same source continues, "Dershowitz also said a gag order imposed by the judge to stop the family from talking to the press was, 'without a doubt unsonsittutional'." [3]
Justina Pelletier was released shortly after Dershowitz made those comments. After 16 months in state custody, in what was also deemed a medical kidnapping, the then 16 year old teen was released in June of 2014. [4]
Governor, now presidential candidate Mike Huckabee had championed Justina's case on his FoxNews program. Hannah and Kayla Diegel have not yet had this level of publicity. It seemed like Justina was barely released from state custody when the Diegel sisters' plight got my attention on Twitter in late 2014. My first impression was of a horror in two acts; medical kidnapping alleged and mother had to shut up and take it or else.
The website medicalkidnap.com [5] broke the story at the time. On that site Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News editor wrote, "...the mother, Melissa Diegel, had just been ordered by the court to take down her blog, Facebook Page, and other social media sites where she told the story of her daughters' medical conditions, and how the State of Arizona...took custody away from her because she allegedly questioned the doctors' treatment."
Shilhavy continues, "Seeking to obey the court order with hopes that she could regain custody of her children, she took down all of her information on the internet." He then notes that an advocacy group put up a different Facebook page containing information on the case.
Continuing, Shilhavy writes, "We had never spoken or corresponded directly with Melissa Diegel, but she sent us this email message on October 3, 2014: The court has ordered that I contact you and ask you to remove information regarding my daughters case. Sincerely, Melissa Diegel" [5]
"Health impact news did not comply with this request, and neither did several other media sources practicing their Constitutional right to freedom of speech," wrote Shilhavy. [5]
It was about this time also that we at Freedom Fighters of America took up the cause, covering and re-Tweeting everything we had on the Diegel sisters' plight. I personally Tweeted something like, "When courts deny parents the right to speak, we will give speech to the voiceless."
Decades before President Obama promised to fundamentally transform America, his kind of progressive fundamental transformation had taken root. Parents in my age group learned the hard way starting in the early '80s, that Child Protective Services held the whip and there was no defense against accusations. My best friend was charged with a felony for swatting her rambunctious boy on the bottom in a public place. I was observed the incident. It was just a swat on the bottom and the boy laughed afterward! A progressive do-gooder turned her in. Ignorant of the fact that corporal punishment was suddenly illegal, my friend admitted the swat and in so doing admitted a felony for which there was no defense. A plea agreement got it down to a misdemeanor if she "agreed" to oversight by CPS.
Young families could not afford to fight. Whispers of abuse practically guaranteed a finding of guilt so "agreements' to cooperate with CPS became the norm. Without being given inches, the government was taking miles. In those days our only recourse was to write to congress members or letters to the media that like as not would end up in the round file under the editor's desk.
After almost 30 years of ineffective opposition from the people it seems the government, which now controls all our health care, has moved up to medical kidnapping. The difference early in this century is that we have the internet and we have social media. No wonder courts slap gag orders on parents who object!
The very first amendment to the US constitution states: Congress shall make no law respecting...; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press... [https://www.law.cornell.edu] Abridge when applied to rights in the legal sense means among other things, restrict, seize, strip, take away or deprive of. [legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com] So where does a gag order fit in?
Law.com defines gag order specifically: A judge's order prohibiting the attorneys and the parties to a pending lawsuit or criminal prosecution from talking to the media or the public about the case. The supposed intent is to prevent prejudice due to pretrial publicity which would influence potential jurors. A gag order has the secondary purpose of preventing the lawyers from trying the case in the press and the television, and thus creating a public mood (which could get ugly) in favor of one party or the other.
Where does a heart broken mother fit in that definition? When was the last time CPS ever impanelled a jury? On the other hand the public mood could get ugly if truths were openly discussed.
Freedom of speech does not allow us to yell FIRE in a crowded theater...chuckle, chuckle. That probably comes under "prior restraint", a legal term that defines when speech can be limited, such as time and place, or requirement for a license. A second form of prior restraint is by "judicial injunction" [6] This seems to be the legal term for gag order. "Both types of prior restraint are strongly disfavored, and, with some exceptions, generally unconstitutional," according to www.law.cornell.edu. [6] Isn't it amazing how Justina Pelletier was released within weeks after Alan Dershowitz mentioned unconstitutionality!
For now Hannah and Kayla Diegel are still in state custody. On Monday, May 18, 2015 their mother Melissa has been ordered by a female judge no less, to turn over to the court all the names and particulars "she has communicated with regarding her children OR go to jail..." [1]
I have never had communication with Melissa Diegel but she is welcome to add my name to the list, along with Freedom Fighters of America.
"On behalf of Melissa Diegel we are asking every supporter here to share this blatant court order, which threatens Melissa's freedom of speech, with every news outlet across the country." "This is America and we CANNOT allow this in a Democracy!!!", says the website. [1] If you agree, please visit A Miracle For Two Sisters https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Miracle-For-Two-Sisters/327945754501748?sk=timeline . You can donate to the family at: http://www.gofundme.com/MiracleNeeded . Follow them on Twitter: @jftsisters ; Amiraclefortwopsisters.org #Miracle42S Go to the Facebook page and see the many ways you can help, can say none of this is right and it must stop now.
My generation could not effectively fight back and in our parenting years parents lost all rights to raise their children. Now everyone has powerful means to fight through information and judges apparently cannot stand light being shone upon what has previously been done to helpless victims behind closed doors. So those judges will write injunctions that induce prior restraint, which the Supreme Court frowns upon.
In plain English those judges issue gag orders which equal censorship and that's not what America is about. Please help the Diegels fight. Information and the sharing of that information is their weapon and therein lies their power.
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SOURCES:
[1] A Miracle For Two Sisters https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Miracle-For-Two-Sisters/327945754501748?sk=timeline . Also Twitter @jftsisters
[3] www.newsmax.com/TheWire/justinapelletier-alandershowitz-custody-fight/2014/04/02/id/563232 ; Justina Pelletier: Alan Dershowitz to Represent Teen in Custody Fight, Nick Sanchez, April 2, 2014
[4] www.nydailynews.com/news/national/justina-pelletier-released-state-custody-article-1.1848028 ; Justina Pelletier Back Home With Family After 16 Months in State Custody: 'No one was on my side, Nicole Hensley, June 28, 2014
[5 medicalkidnap.com/2014/12/15/arizona-mother-of-two-girls-medically-kidnapped-breaks-gag-order-and-speaks-out/ ; A History of Civil Rights Abuse in Arizona? , Brian Shilhavy, 5/16/15
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Jeffrey Williams: Shootings, Gangs, Drugs and Fatherhood
By Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
March 16, 2015
Today at 1:49 AM
Jeffrey Williams, 20, admitted firing shots but claims he was not aiming at police last Wednesday night when two officers were wounded by gun fire toward the end of another night of protest in Ferguson, MO, according to an article in today's 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch'. Williams has been charged with two counts of first-degree assault and armed criminal action, as well as one count of firing a weapon from a vehicle, the article continues. Cash-only bail is set at $300,000. [1]
Williams will be 21 in fifteen days. His DOB is March 30, 1994. Thank God the police officers did not die. Even so, various talking heads on TV theorize Williams could get life in prison if convicted of this escapade. The 'Post-Dispatch' article citing a telephone interview with an un-named reporter, names Danielle Dear as Williams' 27 year old girlfriend who claims to be pregnant with his child. [1]
Danielle Noluv Dear had a Facebook page until late this afternoon and through her posts Jeffrey Williams Facebook page was easily located under Jeff Loc Williams. [2] Jeff has several friends with the middle name Loc.[3] There are a number of indications of his interest in gangs and www.urbandictionary.com associates the word "loc" with the Crips gang. [4]
Jeff has 5,000 Facebook friends. His profile says he studied at Riverview Gardens Senior High and says he lives in St-Louis, Saint-Louis, Senegal. There is no indication if the Senegal mention has anything to do with the African country though there is nothing in his lengthy Facebook timeline that indicates anything foreign.[3]
On Saturday, March 7, Williams' last post at 5:56 pm read, "Missing my girl like a mf". A few days later the police officers were shot and the intense manhunt began.
The available Facebook posts begin 1/23/2010 when Williams was presumably yet 14. Perhaps he chose a funny status, but it reads, "...is in a relationship and it is complicated." The first post of a personal nature is June 2010, and is a homemade video of a group of black teens goofing around, it looks like in a basement somewhere. They look very young, singing and dancing. Williams wrote, "we was fucked up kush blunts in all." Does that mean the group was smoking blunts, i.e. marijuana?
There are a number of references to alcohol and drugs from 2010 until now. On 3/10/11 there is a picture of Williams smoking something that might be described as a blunt. A relative commented that Williams should not post pictures like that on the net. A few months before a post reads, "Boring at home by self...it don't matta how much weed, money or video games u got u gne need some friends...man i kant wait to i go bak to skool...wtf."
Beyond friends there are a lot of interactions with people who seem to be uncles and cousins of Williams and they seem to care and be there when Williams is down. On 12/27/14 Jeff posted, "Stop making threats cuz I swear I hate living...nigga shut up or kill me." That got 19 Likes and at least two concerned replies. "Stop little cuzz u got a lot to live for," said one. Another was more detailed, "don't say that nephew we all want u to do better and make better and wiser decisions...live for your kids and fam and live for self." At a different low point Danielle Dear wrote, "I'm praying for you bby."
Early February, 2014, Williams posted, "HAPPY BDAY TO MY SON HE 2 NOW BT THEM 2 YEARS WENT BY SO QUICK." A 2013 picture of Williams barely shows at the bottom corner, a beautiful toddler drinking orange colored juice from a bottle. "Look at my baby at the bottom," Jeff wrote.
In August 2014 the post reads, "In a relationship with Danielle." Her picture shows her to be pregnant in a tight dress with a blonde curly wig. Three months before that there was another picture said to be Danielle, wearing a tight tropical patterned dress and having very long black hair. This one is unromantically titled, "Danielle Noluv Dear, Her drunk ass." Two months before that, on Williams twentieth birthday in March, he and Danielle were hugging and kissing. Someone commented, "I hate it when u fuck up wit Danielle...she is a good woman for u lil brother i wish i can just smack sum sense into yo ass wtf."
I was only able to read part of Ms. Dear's Facebook before she shut it down. [2] Working from memory, it appears she has more than one child. There were pictures of toddlers and pre-grade school age children. All were beautifully dressed, with hair elaborately styled. Danielle's comments showed love and pride in these children. Again from memory, and I assume referring to older children, she expressed her pride in more than one of the children getting something like 3.6 gpa in school.
A short time ago Ms. Dear also posted that she had been in the hospital due to complications from her current pregnancy. She had asked for prayers
There were some crude comments online about Danielle being the "baby mama" of Jeff Williams kids. The slang term may be technically correct, but the children are beautiful and their mother's Facebook posts indicate she wants them to succeed and have good lives. However it is another child will soon come into the world and prayer is always good.
Jeff Loc Williams Facebook has very little about the events in Ferguson. September 23, 2014 he posted, "Dam i heard mfs on west florissant again on tht looting sht again...lhh gotta make my way tht way." Replies under that post implied some arrangements were agreed upon but it is unclear.
January 2015 Williams posted a "Fuked [sic] up video" which purports to show two versions of the Michael Brown shooting incident that led to the Ferguson protests. The video animation uses stark white figures~think Pillsbury Dough Boy white~to illustrate. The first version covers Brown with his hands over his head, being shot anyway. The second version was more difficult to understand as the bullet pattern on Brown's body was introduced. This version showed Brown surrendering, then the officer walked forward and began firing at close range. Though the posting on Williams site only got two Likes, a notation with the video says it has been viewed 1,713,278 times.( My experience visiting the Facebook page was that the video ran itself repeatedly and may yet be playing itself.)
January 2014 Williams posted, "Police fuk up everything", but he did not elaborate. There was only one bare mention of Williams' legal issues as reported other places.
Repeated themes from 2010 until now are drugs and alcohol, gang interests and women. A number of pictures show Jeff Loc Williams making what look like gang signs with his fingers and there are pictures of others with him doing the same. Way back in October 2010 Williams wrote, "...IMA CRIP NIGGAS CAUSE THATS HOW I WAS RAISED NIGGA NORTHSIDE DUB HEAD CRIP SHIT............(JEFF LOC)" March 2011 Williams posted a selfie simply labelled "LOC".
Ten days ago Williams posted, "Fuck ya'll niggas...all I need is God." God is capitalized and that has to mean something since there are few capital letters in the many posts. I did not see anything about high school graduation or a work history.
In the end I believe I see a young man who was drifting in life, lightly anchored by his children. For the children there seems to be a deep love and pride, but identity was not found in fatherhood. The identity I see Williams striving for is gang status, though I have no idea if this was reality for him or a desire for manhood through a gang.
Something about the reported story that Williams admitted shooting at some people in a crowd and that he accidentally shot two police officers, strikes me as absurdly unbelievable. Is he covering up for someone else's actions? Where do gangs fit in? Does any of this have to do with the Crips and what is the meaning of Loc as a middle name? Maybe time will provide answers.
In the meantime Jeff Loc Williams will apparently be a father again in a few weeks.
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SOURCES:
[1] www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/prosecutor-man-held-in-wounding-of-two-officers-at-ferguson/article_a25d4fc3-5889-5f15-a8fe-2995af5 ; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3/15/15
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Keep What Doctor?
March 10, 2015
by Anna Morris, Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
The medical consumer cannot win with Obama Care. By now President Obama's blatant lies about "keep your doctor" are nothing more than sick jokes and catch phrases. In rural areas, as competition was eliminated, the system seems now to be rigged so nobody can keep his or her doctor. The much touted Primary Care Physician delivering so-called patient-centred medical care may become something like a flavor of the month.
My friend Laura* emailed me this morning wondering if Dr. Aguilera* is leaving town as his house has a for sale sign on the front lawn. Laura commented it has been awful hard to see the doctor recently, there is a horribly long wait to get an appointment. (*Names changed to obfuscate actuality.)
Dr. Aguilera used to be my doctor before in my opinion, incompetent, government driven people ruined the doctor/patient relationship, and I moved to Idaho to save my life and my sanity. Dr. Aguilera was the best doctor I ever had, but beyond my opinion as a medical consumer, very soon after he came to town, many other people said the same thing. Dr. A. was the best doctor the town had ever had and hospital personnel gushed, as with stars in their eyes, they said, "We are so lucky to have him".
Amazingly I had the answer to Laura's question as I had recently been in Cow Camp*, Oregon, attending to business. Even though I no longer live there, I still know a lot of people who know a lot of things, and an associate from deep inside the local hospital monopoly had told me that a bunch of doctors were leaving, including Dr. A. Their five year contracts were up and they would be moving on. Several years back I had asked this same associate how a small rural town could get so many specialists and good doctors on the payroll of the hospital monopoly. Most if not all of these doctors were foreign nationals and my acquaintance attempted to explain something about foreign doctors getting extended visas and study opportunities if they agreed to practice in a rural area. That seemed a rosy picture five years ago, not so comforting today.
Even before Obama Care was rammed through in the dark of night, there were hints of how government planned to control different segments of medical care. Rural health was one of their targets. I have lived almost my whole life in rural areas, mostly in towns under 40,000 population. Growing up, the town doctors were family men with kids in the local schools. For the most part they were GPs~General Practice. They did what would now be called Family Practice as well as general surgery and orthopaedics. The business end of practice was an office with one or more doctors, a nurse or two and a receptionist/bookkeeper. This was long before the days of fifteen or more "girls" per office, adding to medical inflation by pushing paper for insurance companies. Many of these rural family doctors were very good though a few were not. I think of one fellow who got sued every time he did surgery because it seemed every case was in some way botched. When a young patient of this sometime surgeon ended up at death's door for months, the doctor lost his ability to perform surgeries.
About the 1970s or '80s it became hard to keep doctors in rural areas. The expensive education and ability to earn big bucks supported a crop of practitioners who wanted the fine things available in city life. I knew some of these doctors. Their wives in particular hated country life and every weekend or day off was spent going to a big city somewhere to dine or shop or go see live entertainment. (Back in those days I was told, after I bitterly complained about a certain movie never being shown in town, that our theater had something like a red neck label and we were not allowed to have movies the locals might not understand.) However it went, unless the doctors had an affinity for the country life, they stayed only a couple years and left for greeneer pastures.
Some doctors and their families who enjoyed skiing, or horses or the outdoor life did stay, forming small practices here and there in town. Before Obama was elected the first time, these little practices started closing. I mention Obama's tenure to point out that strange things have been going on in medical care for a number of years and positing that Obama Care is simply the cherry on top of a system government has been building for at least two decades and likely since the early 1970s. After Obama Care was foisted upon us without the citizens being consulted, it seemed the last of the small practices closed about as surreptitiously as the ACA was passed. Occasionally one heard of a doctor who was retiring or planning to devote his life to caring for children in the third world, but on average as noted by the basic consumer, they seemed to disappear.
Another friend who was a medical transcriptionist said her job was going to end because the hospital was forming a monopoly, which in her mind equated socialized medicine. Her job did end and the doctors each individually got a lap top computer and adopted Obama Care EHR, electronic health records. By that time all the doctors worked for the hospital and as I understand it received salaries from the hospital. Beyond that much I do not know the actual nuts and bolts of the pay system. One supposedly independent clinic remained open though when I snarked to my acquaintance who knows the inner workings of the hospital, that this clinic really wasn't independent, he readily agreed. In other articles I have written for Freedom Fighters of America I have detailed "creepified" medical care and I can say with certainty that the so-called independent clinic takes its marching orders from the government. I now know what I call "creepification" is what happens when doctors no longer treat individuals, but practice population health as directed by the government.
Whatever the absolute truth, for all intents and purposes the local Cow Town hospital has a monopoly and the poor patient has to travel about a hundred miles to find an independent doctor not grafted onto a presumably government dependent hospital monopoly.
Once resident in a town where all of these things took place, I was at first intrigued by the array or specialists and superbly trained, English speaking, foreign doctors who arrived one after the other to fill several clinics. In keeping with Obama Care guidelines every patient was encouraged or coerced into having a Primary Care Provider (PCP, the last P standing for Physician in common usage), who would coordinate all of their care in their Medical Hone, the hospital monopoly.
Whether or not the new GOP congress can get rid of Obama Care, the roots of "creepified" care began growing, probably before Obama was even a senator from Illinois. It took Obama, Pelosi and a Democrat majority in both houses to spring the trap that is ACA. At that point the slow growing roots of creepified care began spreading faster than crab grass in a rose garden. This is an important point because to end the miseries of Obama Care, these other things need to be squelched quickly. Folks who lost doctors they loved due to Obama Care were simply being prepared, in my opinion for the cluster-chaos of revolving doctors and other providers. Forget the codswallop about a PCP really KNOWING his/her patient and coordinating care with a team who cares about the patient receiving patient-centered care in a benevolent medical home.
Before Obama's ACA that bears his name, in 2007, various physicians' groups, for example American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), had already developed the plan that Obama Care would cement into THE LAW that can't be changed according to Democrats. [1] In the 'Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home', it is stated, "Personal Physician-each patient has an ongoing relationship with a personal physician trained to provide first contact, continuous and comprehensive care."[1]
Expanding, the same publication explains, "...the personal physician is responsible for providing all the patient's health care needs...includes care for all stages of life; acute care, prevention services' and end of life care."
Under various Obama Care titles "personal physician" has been changed to primary care provider, "who provides integrated, accessible health care". This PCP will integrate health care services by, "...developing a sustained partnership with patients," and wil practice, "in the context of family and community..." [2]
Wow! The PCP on the five year contact will have an amazing amount of control over the patient's life, death, family an community interactions. Considering Obama's fundamental transformation of the US medical system is about population health, not individual health, we can easily see where the reference to community comes in.
TITLE III--Improving the Quality and Efficiency of Health Care; Subtitle f, Sec 3502(f) DEFINITION OF PRIMARY CARE, notes the clinician, "developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and community." [2]
Just how sustained is that so-called partnership when the clinician will be moving along in five years? This might not mean very much if the government framework was just about making medical care available. Unfortunately as we see, the PCP in the medical home is to have a great deal of power. The PCP will, "provide a care plan to the care team for each patient...," (Sec 3502 d). [2] The health care team may include, "specialists, nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists, dieticians, social workers, behavioral and mental health providers..." [2] In other words a great variety of people will be analyzing the patient/doctor/care relationship. A group has replaced the old time family doctor.
It might not matter a great deal except that ObamaCare and whatever plan was growing previous to the law, plans to have the health care system burrow into every aspect of a patient's life, for example family and community aspects. Do we really want strangers working with a team, including social workers and mental health people, deciding what is best for our personal lives beyond whatever issues brought us to the "medical home" in the first place? Note too that the PCP or personal physician will be dealing with end of life care, presumably with the team.
I do not know all the business factors that led to the small rural clinics closing and being replaced by a hospital monopoly and one other clinic which practices government-based health care in lock step with the monopoly. As a medical consumer I can see that patients lost choices. I also see that for patients who are supposed to put their total lives in the hands of the all powerful Primary Care Provider, at least in this instance, that power is likely to reside in the hands of a doctor on a five year contract. I have no idea if the five year contracts can be expanded, but from what I understand this one community will lose a large number of doctors in 2015. They will probably be replaced with new doctors on contract.
Two of my friends are patients of Dr. Aguilera whose contract is up and whose house is for sale. Both of these friends are middle aged with somewhat complex medical needs. They chose Dr. A. because he had the reputation of being the best. They are both shocked and stunned that they will have to get a new doctor.
Perhaps all this could be excused in the context of the difficulties of getting doctors to practice in rural areas. Looked at another way, with government-based population health systematically replacing individualized care, is it a plan to shift doctors every five years so nobody gets attached? Rationing and so-called death panels come to mind. Just how much power should a doctor have if he or she will only know patients for a few years? Worse, if all this is an example of patient-centered health care, why are the patients first learning about losing their doctors from rumors, and by reading the real estate ads? Does this system deserve the patients' trust?
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SOURCES:
[1] Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home, February 2007; Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative. www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/practice_management/pcmh/initiatives/PCMHJoint.pdf
[2] PCMH and the Affordable Care Act. https://www.aapa.org/threecolumnlanding.aspx?id=1705
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Enemy of Obama's Enemy
January 14, 2015
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
Things in life are seldom simple though we would make them so. Especially now after President Obama's no-show at the Paris Unity March, it is easy to say he is a Muslim supporter of ISIS at a time when the rest of Western Culture has declared war on radical Islam.
Not only did Obama not go but Bill O'Reilly reported yesterday that Attorney General Eric Holder was in Paris and was told not to attend. O'Reilly contacted Holder's office and received "gobbledegook", as Bill said with a snort of disgust. On the Sunday political shows Holder squirmed away from saying we are at war with any form of Islam, even the ones who plan to kill us in the name of Allah.
My personal issue with Obama is Obama Care that has the federal government telling doctors how to practice. I believe I have to choose between treatment for pain that makes life not worth living, and treatment for something that will probably kill me. I choose pain control and I blame Obama's "care" for my trouble. So I have no problem undercutting Obama every chance I get. If I can participate in painting him as an ISIS fellow traveller at a time when Americans are attacked and beheaded, so much the better.
Unfortunately that poisoned dart lands far from the center of the target. I believe Obama is personally agnostic. In "Audacity of Hope" Obama explains his mom's attitude toward religion, "...it was a phenomenon to be treated with a suitable respect, but with a suitable detachment as well." [page 204] Though this chapter of the book ends with a description of Obama finding the Christian faith in Jeremiah Wright's church, I still believe Obama is detached from religion and that includes Islam as a religion.
What Obama is NOT detached from, I believe, is the dreams of his father and the communist mentors of his youth. Obama is a proud Alinskyite community organizer in the best Cultural Marxist traditions.[1] The goals of Cultural Marxists are almost the same as radical Islam in respect to Western Culture which must be destroyed from both perspectives. As eloquently explained in Dinesh de Souza's film "2016", Obama is anti-colonial, or the term I am familiar with from Obama's milieu at Occidental College, anti-imperialist. The West became rich and successful by abusing people in what is now the third world, say the anti-imperialists, and the West must be made to pay.
Islam and Cultural Marxism are two very different groups with a common goal to make the West pay for its supposed sins. Both are enemies of Western Culture and both, as I see it, are friends of Obama. That reasoning does make Obama a collaborator with the large segment of Islam that wants to kill us, but it does not make Obama a Muslim.
I would rather he was a Muslim because there would be some boundaries in which to judge his actions. Cultural Marxists have no boundaries in their race to destroy Western Culture. Ecomonic Marxists got a rude awakening in the chaos of WWI when they wrongly assumed that the working class would turn against their overlords and rebuild the western world as a communist utopia. Instead the working class overwhelmingly embraced nationalism and fought for their established countries. With the exception of the bloody Bolshevik takeover of Imperial Russia, Europe failed to be communized.
At this point Marxists realized there would be no communist utopia in the western world unless Western Culture was first destroyed. The Frankfurt School in Germany was their think tank and when Hitler kicked them out they came to America. [2] By adding Freud to Marx Political Correctness and multiculturalism were born. When enough division and chaos is created in Western Culture the people are supposed to rise up and beg for a Marxist solution.
"The No. 1 goal of that Cultural Marxism, since its creation, has been the destruction of Western Culture and the Christian religion," states an editorial titled 'Who Stole Our Culture?' www.wnd.com. [2] This editorial blasts PC which created the "new normal" that Obama and his ilk proclaim. In plain English, "...all the old sins become virtues and all the old virtues become sins. Homosexuality is a fine and good thing, but anyone who thinks men and women should have different social roles is an 'evil fascist'. That is what political correctness now teaches children in public schools all across America." The Frankfurt School said it didn't matter is kids learned anything in school so long as they graduated with the right "attitudes". [2]
Sayyid Qutb, called a radical Egyptian scholar of the last century, "...declared Western civilization the enemy of Islam...'' That must be music to Obama's ears! "According to bin Laden's 1998 fatwa (religious decree), it is the duty of Muslims around the world to wage holy war on the U.S., American citizens, and Jews." www.infoplease.com [3]
Al Qaeda does not have sponsorship of a political state. AQ is made up of a loosely organized network of cells. [3] Cultural Marxist, Alinskyite community organizations have similar structures. Islam fanatically believes in God. Marxism rejects God. Both groups are enemies of Western Culture in general and the U.S. in particular. Enemies of the enemy.
In 'Islam's Threat to America: An Unintended Consequence of Cultural Marxism' a blogger writes, "...the Cultural Marxist's goal has always been to transform and replace American culture, values, and traditions with their ideology." The point is to turn society upside down through victimology. The dominant groups are labelled oppressors while marginalized or subordinate groups are elevated as victims. The victim groups include, " economically deprived, women, racial minorities, and homosexuals..." suthenboy.com [4]
Political Correctness, that bread and butter of Cultural Marxism, has worked well for Muslims who are not one of the dominant groups in Western Culture. "Muslims know very well that in Progressive (Marxist) dominated America they are considered a minority, and as such are included as an 'oppressed' group," says Suthenboy in his blog entry. Muslims, "...have been emboldened by the consistent success Jackson, Sharpton and their ilk of vermin has achieved playing the race card," he notes. Finishing the paragraph he states, "Equally important they have seen ranking left wing politicians, e.g., Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Holder, and Obama play the race card with the same degree of deftness and success." [4]
Cultural Marxists and Islamists are similar in other ways. Marx defined peace as "the absence of opposition to socialism". Islamists describe peace as the absence of opposition to Islam. Both groups oppose "free discussion" and want to curtail free speech. "Both consider facts to be irrelevant and deconstruct them to fit their intended purpose," writes the blogger. "Ultimately, Islamists and Marxists want absolute power over a totalitan state." [4]
Obama's "fundamental transformation" of America and his tactics are those of Alinsky, the Cultural Marxist who dedicated his book "Rules for Radicals" to Satan. Meanwhile Cultural Marxist political correctness allows the fundamental transformers to supplant Judeo Christianity with Islam, in that the established and more powerful group is considered bad while the smaller group is allowed special privileges with victim status.
I personally will not take the easy way and call Obama a Muslim even at this time when his actions favor Muslims who want to kill us and destroy our society. This simple explanation lets the Cultural Marxists off the hook when it comes to the fundamental transformation that has fractionated us and which works to destroy us from the inside out.
I can understand why a fundamental Muslim whose mind is in the Seventh Century, wants me to convert or die. I do not understand why leaders and voters in my own country want to destroy our way of life. Indeed Obama's way seems to be convert AND die~accept Marxist control over the U.S. medical system for example, AND receive less or worse care, and eventually perhaps even death panels. I believe Obama's goal is the goal of all anti-imperialists. Tear down the West and make it pay for success that they claim came from the blood and toil of people in under developed countries.
Obama's father's enemy was the so-called imperialists and Western society and culture. In fulfilling the dream of his father, I believe Obama is now the pen and phone wielding, executive order writing, semi-dictator over people and a way of life he is sworn to destroy. Most important Obama is the product of the people who elected him twice and of the people who idiotically swallow the PC drivel. Calling Obama a Muslim makes him a bit foreign, removed and excusable for the disaster that is his fundamental transformation.
Cultural Marxism and radical Islam are outspoken enemies of America. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so the Arab proverb goes. Of course Obama won't criticize his friends, the Marxists and Muslims who help fulfill the dream of his father; destroying Western society, culturally and financially. Wonder why Obama won't use words like "Muslim terrorists"? That would break PC with his Cultural Marxist buddies while putting the spotlight on his radical Islamic friends. It's one of those Progressive-commie WIN/WIN things.
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SOURCES:
[1] billmuehlenberg.com/2014/06/28/cultural-marxism ; Culture Watch, Cultural Marxism, 6/28/14
[2] www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/ ; Accuracy in Academia Address by Bill Lund , 2/5/2000
[3] www.infoplease.com/spot/al-qaeda-terrorism.html ; Al-Quaeda, Osama bin Laden's Network of Terror, by Laura Hayes, Borgna Brunner and Beth Rowan
[4] suthenboy.com/scriptfolder-blog/preview_archive.php?id=16&p=&search= ; Islam's Threat to America: An Unintended Consequence of Cultural Marxism, 5/21/14
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Safety or State Sanctioned Land-Grab?
December 14, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
Suzanne Ohrling age 81 invited home health care workers into the home her father built nearly a hundred years ago in Milwaukie with an ie, a suburb of Portland, Oregon. Approximately two and a half months later, according to Mrs. Ohrling and her family, she was taken with force from her home, and stuck into a nursing home from which she has told me she thinks she will never be allowed to leave.
Mrs. Ohring's story was the subject of my previous article 'Nursing Home Inmate: The Crime is Old Age', published here at FFOA 9/4/14. In that article I did not use any names nor even name the state as the family which had contacted me had borrowed money to remove their mother to another state. The family reasonably in light of further actions, feared their mother would not be released. Mrs. Ohrling in a telephone interview with me had stated, "I don't think they will let me leave. It is just a feeling I have that they won't let me leave." She denied that anyone had specifically told her she could not leave but her feeling was chilling. I chose not to use names though I had permission to do so, so as not to endanger the plans of her family.
Early on the morning or September 9 Suzanne's son Randy Lytle who resides in Nevada, spoke with his mother on the phone. According to Lytle who had purchased two airline tickets, his mother was anxious to fly home with him. I had put him in touch with the Oregon State Ombudsman Office which looks out for the rights of nursing home residents. According to Lytle they had warned him the nursing home might call the police if he tried to remove his mother but that the police could not do anything and it would be a scare tactic.
Mid afternoon on the ninth Mr. Lytle called me on his cell phone, telling me he was at the nursing home, Milwaukie Convalescent Center, 12045 SE Stanley Ave., and his mother was unresponsive. Mr. Lytle described to me a horrible smell coming from his mother and said she could not stand nor be dressed. Lytle said nursing home staff had threatened to call the police and he had told them to go ahead, he had been warned about that and the police couldn't do anything. State workers appeared he said.
According to Mr. Lytle it was decided his mother had a bladder infection and he demanded that she be treated immediately. He said the convalescent care staff had said that was not necessary, but a representative of the state said if family requested, it was OK to take the patient to, as it turned out an emergency room. Lytle wanted to have his mother drug tested but in the end this was not done and later could not be done.
That September day apparently a family member could request care for Mrs. Ohrling and family wishes needed to be acted upon. Between then and now according to Randy Lytle, the state of Oregon has, without notifying any family, appointed a guardian over his mother. Last week Lytle says he was denied medical information concerning his mother. He believed his mother was "sleeping way too much", inquired about her blood sugar numbers and was told he could not have that information as his mother had a guardian appointed! Randy said today that several family members have now received notices to appeal the guardianship with a two week filing date and a $250 fee required. He does not yet have his copy which he plans to file and pay for with his Christmas bonus from work.
Provided all this is true, how can something like this happen in America? Why is it happening in Oregon? Randy Lytle gave me some contact numbers for state workers who he notes have taken over his mother's life and shut out family. Adult Protective Services was a term I was not familiar with and a quick Google search elicited the information that APS is very similar to Child Protective Services (CPS) but that the grist for the grinding stones of APS are those who are disabled or over age 65. [1] This is frightening indeed in my opinion.
Spring of 2014 Suzanne Ohrling lived in the home her father had built, with her son Brett Lytle who has lived with his mother about 50 of his 53 years. Brett is a licensed construction worker; never married he has lived with his mother as a friend and companion. There is deep affection in this family. In the past few years his mother's arthritis and diabetes have worsened, especially the arthritis and Brett also became a care giver. Brett told me in an interview that this year he had also been seriously ill though he continued to work and care for his mother.
Brett described to me how his mother had applied for in home care and that they came about May of this year. The health workers came frequently until mid-summer when late one day the police, fire department, code enforcement and Adult Protective Services workers kicked in the door, according to Brett, and took away his mother.
Suzanne has little memory of being hauled out of her home. "People cheated me when I went to sleep, they cheated me", she explained plaintively.
Her son Brett is soft spoken like his brother Randy. His voice is even when describing horrors that would send many into rage and despair. Brett admits things were not as good as he wished they were, but he comments that he was also seriously ill at the time the home health workers came to his and his mother's home. The home was temporarily condemned. Randy says his mom saved a lot of things. There were some mice. Randy and Brett both note that the condemnation order also required the repair of one plugged kitchen sink and that ALL electrical outlets must be working. I have not seen a copy of the condemnation order but it is my understanding that the home was inspected and the condemnation lifted within weeks.
When his mother was hauled out of her home Brett was charged with two counts of Class A misdemeanor neglect of his mother. How I wonder, was he neglecting his mother when state provided health care workers had been coming for something like two and a half months?What in the world were those workers doing in all that time? Why did not these workers work with Brett to correct any deficiencies before there were actions that appear to be draconian, heavy handed and unnecessarily cruel?
Brett claims an female official state worker whom he named told him, "In six months you will be convicted and your mom will spend the rest of her life in a nursing home."
The state next filed a restraining order against Brett which prevented him from even calling his mom on her birthday which occurred last month.
Suzanne never understood why her beloved son was kept from her. "Brett has never done anything wrong. No one has talked to me about this case," she told me. "I will not go against Brett. He has been awful nice to me," she said with obviously deep feeling.
The family has always been close and affectionate. Brett and Randy have periodically lived with their mother while they worked. Suzanne also had one daughter who, when she was a young mother, was brutally beaten to death by a killer. There has been tragedy in the family and surely the restraining order that separated Brett from his mother was another.
Brett told me the restraining order came about because a couple years ago or so his mother had become very ill and the ambulance EMTs had come to the home. Brett said one EMT said, "Your mother would be better off in a nursing home." Brett said he answered that he had promised his mom she would never have to go in a nursing home and that he made a the statement, "No way in hell she's going in a nursing home." According to Brett notes or possibly a tape recording from that event was used to bring and perpetuate the restraining order that would not allow him any contact his mother for months. I have been unable to this date, to ascertain that there was anything more to the restraining order.
Mrs. Ohrling has rapidly deteriorated in the nursing home according to her sons. Fearing that she could die without being allowed to see the son who had lived with her for years, just after Suzanne's birthday and just before Thanksgiving Brett, with the urging of his court appointed attorney pleaded guilty to neglecting his mother. When he was finally allowed to see her he was shocked by her physical condition. He told me he thought the nursing home was not taking good care of her.
For me to write this story with names or even the location there was always a gamble that I would do harm. Something does not feel right and the family seems to me to be getting steamrolled by the state.Would using names cause the home to remain condemned? Would Brett's legal troubles get worse? Would the state tighten their grip on Suzanne?
I know these people and they are hardworking and decent. They do not have money to hire lawyers though I have been told by experts that a family law attorney is needed. Whatever deficiencies may have been found in Mrs. Ohrling's home I believe there was also a great deal of love and caring and Mrs. Ohrling wanted to remain in her home. According to her and her sons no one has discussed discharge planning with her though Milwaukie Convalescent Center's web page states they, "provide discharge planning for each patient." [www.milwaukiecc.com]
Now the state of Oregon has apparently appointed a guardian for Mrs. Ohrling without consulting family. This too is a point of confusion. In a few days I will have copies of the form for the family to appeal what they apparently were never consulted about until it was too late. There seems nothing to loose in writing the story at this time, names and all.
Randy Lytle thinks his mother's home may be worth about $350,000. A civil rights expert I consulted off the record asked who was paying for Mrs. Ohrling's confinement in Milwaukie Convalescent Center. I mentioned the land value and this expert grunted uh-huh in a knowing way.
A friend of mine who works with similar issues in Idaho suggested Mrs. Ohrling's civil rights were violated because her son had been kept from her. I have been assured by sources off the record she has no other right than to be kept safe as determined by the state. If state provided home care workers were in the home for almost two months, and if the issues that seem to have led to Mrs. Ohrling's removal from her home were fixed in a short period of time, what kind of safety does the state need to provide? Why should this state mandated "safety" spill over onto other family members who now seem to be legally cut out of their mother's life decisions?
Shortly after his mother was put into Milwaukie Convalescent Center her son Randy tried to reach her long term doctor. According to him and as he understood it, the convalescent center had dismissed his mother's regular doctor and assigned her a doctor connected to the facility. He told me this was why he could not have his mother tested for drugs when she was too weak to even stand when he came to fly her home.
What of Milwaukie Convalescent Center? Their web site www.milwaukiecc.com shows pictures of pleasant one story buildings, a small manicured green lawn, flowers and a cement bird bath. Under the heading "Nursing Services" this statement appears: We believe that a nursing home should be more than just providing excellent care. IT SHOULD BE ABOUT INCREASING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN FAMILIES. (Emphasis mine.)
On another page describing social services within the facility it is stated, "Social services maintain contact and open communication between the facility, families and the residents..." It is also written, "there is discharge planning for each patient." Also, "We stand up for resident's rights and strive to make Milwaukie Convalescent Center their home."
An article at www.katu.com [2] is titled "Looking for a nursing home? Make sure you do your research". Citing 'Pro Publica' information about Oregon nursing homes in genera the article makes this specific statement, "The Milwaukie Convalescent Center has the highest number of deficiencies at 78." Another article at http://www.golocaldx.com [3] also using 'Pro Publica' as a source shows that Milawukie CC is a "for profit" nursing home with 96 beds, 58 of which are filled. The date of this article is September 16, 2014. If these stats are accurate for that date we can assume that Suzanne Ohrling accounts for one of the 58 filled beds. Fines and deficiencies or not the state of Oregon has, it appears to me, decided unilaterally, this is the proper place for Suzanne to continue to deteriorate while being kept "safe".
It is almost Christmas. Randy Lytle is counting the days until he receives his Christmas bonus check from his work. In between long days at work he must cash his check and apply it to the filing fees for the appeal of something the state did, according to him, without consulting the family. He will spend more and take time from work will fly to Portland, Oregon for whatever court proceeding will follow. He loves his mom.
"If she dies will the state even let us have her body?" he has asked me. I said I thought so. Even if the state has managed to brand his brother Brett as a criminal why is the rest of the family seemingly punished? There is an adult grandchild of the murdered daughter. She barely knew her mother and now it appears she will lose again with her grandmother. (If I was in a snarky mood I would mention that Oregon allows "Death With Dignity' which is assisted suicide. What happens when Mrs. Ohrling's likely soon to be seized assets run out?)
We at Freedom Fighters of America will continue to pursue answers in this story. If this case is what it appears perhaps we will be served a gag order such as happened in the Justina Pelletier case and that of the Diegel sisters in Phoenix, Arizona. In the meantime we will have our version of the Friday document dump with a weekend article dump. Dear friends at FFOA, share this around the world. Protect your elderly and disabled loved ones with knowledge of your state's policies.
Mrs. Ohrling has not been declared incompetent in a court of law to the knowledge of her family. Sources tell me that sort of thing is now a battle of experts and Suzanne's family cannot afford to hire the experts~or lawyers. Therefore Mrs. Ohrling's desires are not considered as I understand it. Let Suzanne's own words end this article:
"I would like to go home; to be able to go home. They won't let me because of old age. I have a right to go home to my own home" (Here she began to cry) "I'd do anything to get out of this place I haven't done anything wrong, why are they holding me here? Because of old age. The crime is old age."
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[1] htto://www2.webster.edu ; Elder Abuse and Neglect ; a quick understanding of Adult Protective Services
[2] http://www.katu.com/news/problemsolver/ ; Looking fir a nursing home? Make sure you do your research, by Shellie Bailey-Shah, 4/26/13
[3] http://www.golocaldx.com/news/oregon-nursing-homes-with-most... ; Oregon nursing homes with the most health and safety deficiencies, 9/16/2014
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Kaci Hickox' Middle Finger
October 30, 2014
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by: Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
"You know...we have to be very careful about letting politicians make medical and public-health decisions", whined Kaci Hickox the Ebola quarantined nurse to Candy Crowley, as reported in HuffingtonfPost. [1]
Nurse Hickox' complaint sounds an awful lot like what we who oppose Democrat Care, aka ObamaCare, have been saying. The difference is when we criticize politicians running health care, the Communist Party USA says we should be called RACISTS, since our African American president's name is on the sacred act that turned individual medical care into public health.[2]
About as soon as Hickox opened her mouth about inhumane treatment in her Ebola isolation tent in New Jersey, social media chorused that she was a left wing Obama supporter who worked for the CDC. One need not have an extremely twisted sense of humor to get a belly laugh out of that one. On Sunday it was reported that Hickox had hired former Occupy Wall Street and civil rights attorney Norman Siegel to effect her release from Governor Christie's isolation tent jail. Siegel is quoted in referring to Hickox' confinement it, "...raised substantial civil liberties issues." [1]
Earlier Hickox wrote an editorial published in www.dallasnews.com .[3] An included short bio for Hickox says she has a nursing degree from UTA. She holds a Masters Degree in public-health and nursing from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and had a CDC fellowship in epidemiology.
In her editorial Hickox bitterly criticized the, "frenzy of disorganization, [and] fear," she encountered from officials upon returning to the US from the Ebola hot zone. [3] The TSA screeners with their thermometers apparently acted more like cops, than medical professionals.
This and Hickox' quarantine for the public good, in the clutches of Governor Christie, reminds me of the few Tweets that say, "Don't politicize Ebola". (Which is a humorous comment since politicians are being pressured to cough up tax dollars, commit troops and in the case of America, import Ebola cases here for treatment, to stop the epidemic in Africa.)
Since Democrat Care, aka ObamaCare has politicized all medical care in the US I doubt politicizing Ebola can be avoided any more than politicization of school lunch has been avoided. School lunch is now a matter of "national security". [4] We can add to that list politicized Big Gulps and cigarettes.[5] A frenzy of disorganization and fear has replaced individual choices and individual doctor to patient care as the federal government has mandated government-centered care in the name of public health.
Nurse Hickox doesn't want and openly defies politicians who tell her what to do,[6] all the while politicians ARE making medical and public health decisions for the rest of us. We are expected to accept this paternalism and shut up because government knows what's best, after all. That former CDC employee Hickox is openly defiant [7] when government paternalism messes up her life, to me is rank hypocrisy.
Governor Chris Christie under pressure all the way from the White House, defended his quarantine, "The government's job is to protect health and safety of our citizens." [4] He inconvenienced one nurse who, by her own writings, self-describes as a hero from the African Ebola hot zone. [3] Government hacks like CDC Director Tom Frieden would like to inconvenience all of us with his Big Gulp ban. [8] While Governor Christie grabs Ebola by the horns, Frieden has blown his time touring Kentucky, crying about the health disparities of those who use tobacco. Deadly Ebola had nothing on tobacco! [9]
Thus we see population health Governor Christie style or population health Democrat Care, leftist style. Tobacco has killed more people than Ebola (so far) claim people like Frieden, therefore it is more in need of stopping. Never mind that Ebola passed from person to person~the CDC now admits up to three feet away~and the ones infected die in agony with blood leaking out of all body openings as well as openings made by the virus! [10] Tobacco regulations are about CONTROL only, the panacea that if everyone lives healthy, like Big Gov says, there won't be any sick people to bust government budgets.
Those in charge of this public-population health rule over the rest of us in ObamaCare's new healthtocracy. Heroes like Hickox rule because they know best. Indeed she taunts Christie for not being a doctor and says medical decisions must be based on science. Junk science perhaps, like tobacco is worse than Ebola and climate change will kill us all unless we pay a UN carbon tax directly into the pockets of third world dictators.
The ObamaCare healthtocracy turns what once was individual medical care into a branch of public health. It reverses, "...the historic division between public health and private health care services", states an article in medicalnewstoday.com , drawn from an original article in 'The Lancet'. [11] In addition to providing "security of health" through enforced insurance, a secondary goal is to "improve population health". ObamaCare moves America away from the traditional "sick care system" which "largely focused on treating illness". Instead the focus is now on prevention, health promotion and public health. US doctor/patient health care and public health are working together for population health! [11]
Judging by how Ebola Angel Hickox is whining about her human rights, flaunting home quarantine in her home state of Maine and lawyering up, one might get the idea government and politicians shouldn't be making health care decisions. Or do we read between the lines and understand that politicians like Christie should stay out of health issues, but Democrat party hacks like the new Ebola Czar and CDC's Frieden should have free rein to save us from ourselves. Governor Christie has no rights to make decisions about the spread of a deadly African It all seems to depend on who is being controlled. It's in the national interest to control the peasants but not the elite.
Of course the emphasis is on eating what government tells us to, taking your preventive medicines courtesy of Big Pharma, exercising, and no smoking or drinking. Also there is no mention of Ebola, but that would get into sick care or something, wouldn't it?
In "9 Diseases the CDC Considers More Important Than Ebola" www.conservativeblog.org [8] notes that we can tell about government priorities by how budgets are spent. This article posits that the CDC is totally absorbed in such non-infectious diseases/conditions as smoking, drug and alcohol abuse, obesity, car accidents and safety, suicide, breast feeding, heart disease/stroke and cancer. Only one press release since 2009-2014 has been mentioned Ebola.The Conservative Blog article also notes that there have been three Ebola outbreaks in Africa since Tobacco-Is-Deadlier-Than-Ebola Tom Frieden took over the CDC. [8]
"Political crusades have become more important to the CDC," states the Conservative Blog. "Campaigns against smoking and obesity or promoting breast feeding, no doubt please various parts of the political left." Other pressing CDC issues are climate change, sexual violence and medical bills. [8]
With the CDC(and Prevention) intent on protecting US citizens from themselves rather than deadly African viruses, Governor Christie acted. The left of course is furious and that is hilarious since it is the left who would protect us from everything, especially things we find pleasurable. The message is clear, we shouldn't have the right to drink a Big Gulp but we should have the right to self-determine whether or not we can spread a murderous, viral heamorrhagic fever.
Does she support DemocratCare aka ObamaCare? Does she believe she deserves to be left alone by government because she is a nursing hero, or does she now believe everyone deserve the same freedoms she demands? Does she believe Big Gulps and tobacco are bigger threats than Ebola? Is she in favor of government trying to deny us these legal items in the name of public/population health? Is quarantine in a tent in New Jersey REALLY worse than doctors practicing government guidelines rather than individualized medicine? (Because of government guidelines I personally take risks with a deadly heart condition, in order to get treatment for pain that makes my life not worth living. I wouldn't have this crisis if it wasn't for the government's insistence on population health over private health.)
A final question for Hickox is, how smart was it for the CDC to ignore Ebola for so long? Don't go into a political diatribe about sequestration. There are always plenty of tax dollars to waste on programs to protect us from ourselves, to study things like why lesbians are fat! [12] I'd say the Ebola virus got lucky in the US. The various directors of public health ignore the virus while they bore down on private lives in the name of control.
As of today Nursing Ebola-Angel Hickox is still defying any quarantine requirement, according to a quick scroll of headlines. She has defied Maine state police and went for a bike ride. Perhaps she will go Trick or Treating tomorrow night.
Kaci Hickox is giving government control a viral middle finger. Let THAT be contagious in matters that don't endanger other people! What we eat, drink or smoke is not government business. Stopping the spread of contagious disease IS government business. If Hickox' "human rights" trump government's ability to protect citizens at large from a deadly virus, the rest of us have human rights not to be told how to live.
Wave the collective middle finger at the "frenzy of disorganization and fear" that is government-centered, public health for population health, aka ObamaCare. If Nurse Hickox can't be quarantined for the public good, we can't be told how to live for the public good. Hickox is saying SHOVE PREVENTION, even though she might spread a killer virus. We can certainly say SHOVE PREVENTION when it's none of government's business in the first place!
Like Hickox said, "we have to be very careful about letting policians make medical and public health decisions." Let that go viral!
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Sources:
[2] www.tpnn.com/.../communist-party-usa-chairman-urges-race-card-again... ; Communist Party USA Urges Race Card Against ObamaCare Opponents
[4] www.washingtontimes.com/.../feds-tout-school-lunch , 8/27/2014
[5] www.downtrend.com/vsaxena/cdc-dr-frieden-smoking-soda-bans ; CDC Head Dr. Tom Frieden Behing Smoking/Soda Bans, 10/16/2014
[6] ibid.
[7] www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2812760/PIERS-MORGAN-Selfless-Ebola-Nurse-Kaci-actually-utterly-selfish-Three-weeks-quarantine-won-t-kill-just... ; Three Weeks Quarantine Won't kill
Her And It Might Just Save Someone's Life, Piers Morgan, 10/29/14
[8] ibid [5]
[9] www.kentucky.com/2014/08/24/3393541_deadly-ebola-has-nothing-on-tobacco,html/?rh=1 ; Deadly Tobacco Has Nothing on Tobacco, 8/24/2014
[11] www.medical newstoday.com/articles/278970.php 7/1/2014; Obama Care means 'better public health' through prevention
[12] www.redstate.com/.../fat-lesbians-got-all-the-ebola-dollars-but-b... ; Fat Lesbians Got All the Ebola Dollars, 10/13/2014
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Obola, Ebola and Shinola
October 19, 2014
by: Anna Morris, Senior Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
"There's not a sane reason to take 4,000 troops and send them into a hot Ebola zone without expecting at least one of them to come back with Ebola; unless you want to infect the nation with Ebola," says Dr. Michael Savage*, host of the top rated 'Savage Nation' radio program. www.wnd.com [1] Dr. Savage, alone among the top radio talents, had a Phd in epidemiology and nutritional science from University of California Berkely.[1]
Jake Tapper, host of CNN's 'The Lead' , on his blog, translates Dr. Savage's statement as, '...suggesting that this is all some Obama plot to purposely infect America." thelead.blogs.cnn.com [2] Two days ago Savage on his radio program repeatedly played a clip of Tapper further reacting, "It's hard to even know where to start with that one---the idea that the president wants to infect soldiers and then Americans. It's so unhinged, we should probably not bother dignifying it with fact checking." Tapper, winner of an Emmy award for his part in the ABC broadcast of President Obama's inauguration [3], also notes on his blog that Dr. Savage has, "...one of the biggest radio audiences in the country". [2]
A couple weeks ago Dr. Savage said the man in the White House should be called President Obola. This in turn must have spawned the cute photo shopped graphic of the formally dressed President and First Lady wearing blue face masks with the Obama...er...Obola logo smack across their mouths. "Meet the Obolas', runs the caption.
The Obama regime has worked from day one to change the language to their advantage. Thousands of illegal immigrants are Dreamers for instance. Criticizing Obama policy is racist. We the People are now stakeholders as opposed to citizens. In big business terminology stakeholders refers to all the people who are affected by actions while SHAREholders have rights in the process.As shareholders we would have been consulted before Obamacare was passed without reading. As stakeholders we suck up the consequences, victims when Big Government policy goes wrong. Think: You can keep your doctor and your plan...
No wonder Jake Tapper and others on the left missed the point. What Dr. Savage is really saying is that President Obama is asking for an Ebola epidemic in this country. To understand, one has to go back to days of personal responsibility.
Remember doing something elaborately stupid when you were a little kid? Your parents knew it was stupid and they had warned you, but since whatever it was wasn't going to cause serious injury or death, they let you experience the consequences. The last warning before the consequences came naturally was likely to be, "You're really asking for it."
Any willingly foolhardy risk was a case of asking for it. I kept my friend's dog for a couple weeks. A confirmed cat chaser though he never caught one, he had to be on a long chain firmly attached to a tree when I worked in the yard. One of my wild barn cats figured out exactly how far the dog could reach when the chain was strained to the maximum. One foot beyond that point the cat sedately began her daily bath, carefully licking and brushing face, neck and back. The final insult came when the cat assumed her most helpless position to lick her lower abdomen and private parts. That cat was asking for it, or using another old fashioned term she was tempting fate. Like my friend said, that cat was acting like she WANTED to get killed.
Dr. Savage said, "...unless you WANT to infect the nation". Want in this case is stronger than ask; it implies a wanton disregard of risk. Like the barn cat tempting the dog and betting the chain would never snap, Obama carelessly throws politics at a deadly virus which is beginning to break its chain.
Almost a hundred years ago when the American citizenry was first ceding freedoms to political progressives through the income tax, Prohibition and other Government-Knows-Best policies, President Woodrow Wilson reigned somewhat like Obama does today. He had the advantage of entering World War I which gave him the excuse to curtail free speech and control the press. Concurrently the most deadly epidemic the world has ever experienced spread through troops, and from the military to civilians, from continent to continent and country to country. The 1918 influenza epidemic likely started here in Kansas though official misinformation in this country eventually led to it being called Spanish Flu.[4]
Though not officially a hemorrhagic fever like Ebola, the 1918 flu sometimes caused hemorrhage from all body openings and some patients turned so dark in color that race was not recognizable. [4] Fortunately for us though we have another JV progressive leadership in the White House, Ebola will likely never spread as easily as did the flu in 1918.
"He was one of those rare men who believed almost to the point of mental illness in his own righteousness", author John Barry wrote of Wilson in his 2004 book The Great Influenza. [4]
In October 2014 Dr. Savage said, "Obama cares about nothing except himself, so he continues to go on and on about things of which he knows nothing." [5]
Fortunately today our right to free speech is blessedly unrestrained and nearly a hundred years of technology has given everyone a voice on the world wide web. We cannot say that Obama has blocked our speech as Wilson did in his day, but today's progressive regime and its minions do attempt to control speech and opinion. All who disagree with whatever government decides is best are called racists, Right Wing Nut Jobs and haters. Complex ideas that seriously criticize government are quickly labelled conspiracy theories, just like Tapper invoked against Dr. Savage, adding that Savage's comment is too crazy to fact check!
So let's fact check. Does President Obama merely lack good advisers or is President Obola handling the deadly Ebola outbreak for political purposes? Can it be said, if only through negligence and political expedience, that he WANTS to infect the nation?
This year's Ebola outbreak started in West Africa in March of this year. [6] During that time Michelle Obama with full backing of the regime has made a huge point that school lunch is a matter of national security. [7] The same was not said of Ebola, nor of ISIS/ISIL though suddenly we are using troops to fight both.
We have had no full time Surgeon General in this year. We the People strongly opposed Obama's far left wing candidate who believed guns should be a matter of public health. [8] When Vivek Murthy was not approved perhaps we saw another example of Obama's his way or the highway. At any rate there is no official Surgeon General though Boris D. Lushniak is listed as a fill-in. By clicking the link on that page we can see that he is all for Obamacare prevention and wellness through My Plate, SBIRT and all the other government enforced theories that say if we eat what government tells us, exercise as much as they tell us, NEVER smoke nor imbibe more than one alcoholic drink per day, we will have wellness. [9] Obama-DemocratCare depends on this being so because healthy people do not need "sick care", which the health care ponzi scheme likely will not be able to deliver, say in case of a killer pandemic crossing our open borders.
A mental montage of news is built in the mind over these past weeks. There was Obama saying Ebola would not hop a plane and come to America. In about a week the Ebola virus had hopped a person who hopped a plane and came to America. Some blame Mr. Duncan the patient from Liberia, for lying to get here, but on the other hand Obama had said, when Ebola sickened Americans were flown here for treatment, that we could treat Ebola in this country. We are now extremely familiar with the Texas hospital initially turning away a fatally ill Mr. Duncan and blaming initially a software glitch. Speaking of misinformation, the software glitch excuse was quickly retracted by the hospital which gave Jesse Jackson the opportunity to move in and say Mr. Duncan was initially turned away due to racism. [10]
Two nurses from the Texas hospital have developed Ebola despite having worn hazmat suits while caring for Mr. Duncan. There is also a nasty controversy about whether the second case was properly handled by the CDC whose full title is Center for Disease Control AND PREVENTION, the last at this point seeming to mean preventing Americans from consuming sodas of sizes not approved by the federal government. . [11]
Speaking of the CDC we have Dr. Tom Friedan as head. He previously worked with former NYC Mayor Bloomberg. Friedan's main claim to fame may be trying to protect the public from Big Gulps which are obviously more contagious than Ebola. [12] Indeed, little more than a month ago Friedan multi-tasked in Kentucky as he, "juggled an Ebola outbreak in Africa", while obsessing about supposedly tobacco caused, "stark health disparities" in that state. Appropriately the article is titled, Deadly Ebola Has Nothing on Tobacco. [13] This big soda banning hack advises President Obola on Ebola if he can take time away from investigating tobacco and advising Ebola infected nurses to go ahead and fly on commercial airlines.
No wonder Dr. Savage also refers to the CDC as the Center for Disease Transmission and has said of CDC's Friedan, "Obama is being advised by someone who doesn't know the difference between Ebola and shinola". [4]
Then there was yesterday's big news that Obama appointed a political crony to the newly created position of Ebola Czar. I was travelling yesterday and my friend was driving, so I took notes off the various car radio broadcasts. Ron Klain is the new Czar's name and he was a former chief of staff for Vice Presidents Biden and Al Gore. He is a lawyer, not a doctor and he had something to do with getting money for failed Solyndra. Klain is said to be a strong Obama supporter and partisan Democrat who understands government not Ebola. [14] Since Klain has worked for Al Gore we can probably expect Climate Change to be blamed for causing Ebola, and the way to stop the epidemic is likely to be a hefty carbon tax with funds given to African dictators to build hospitals...or something.
Scrolling online titles of news articles it appears the left is whining about Dr.Vivek Murthy the surgeon general candidate who was not confirmed because of his anti Second Amendment, gun grabbing for public health position, not being named the Ebola Czar. Perhaps Murthy would be preferable in that position, but the left has no one to blame for Klain's appointment over Dr. Murthy, than President Obola himself.
Dr. Savage has also said repeatedly, "...the U.S. government is violating the primary rule of epidemiology by exposing our young men and women to this deadly virus".[2] Obama has violated, "...every rule of science, medicine, public health and epidemiology," declared Savage on radio.
Thinking about sending American soldiers to the West African Ebola hot zone made me think of the near genocidal disasters Old World diseases wrought on Native American populations after Europeans came here. Ebola has been recognized in Africa since at least 1976 and has erupted in some form about every other year in the region since then. [5] Is it possible that at least some African people might have immunity whereas for example U.S. soldiers would have no chance of having immunity? Is Obama's decision to send U.S. troops to fight Ebola a little like sending Native Americans of two hundred years ago, to fight a smallpox epidemic in Europe?
Common sense would indicate that some Africans would have immunity to Ebola and research does indeed show this to be true. As with most anything to do with Ebola there has not been a lot of studies done, but there is one written about in 2010, last updated October 15, 2014, by IRD. "A surprisingly high proportion of the Gabonese population could have immunity against Ebola," the article states. In forest zones it was noted that between 19.4% to as high as 33.8% of the population have antibodies to Ebola despite never having has signs of the disease! [15]
There are multiple human interest stories about African Ebola survivors doing everything they can to help the newly stricken or burying the Ebola dead. We keep hearing how poor Africa is, how the US must send lots of money or the Ebola epidemic will spread worldwide. Indeed WHO predicts 1.5 million new cases in about a year unless we send lots of money now.
Before sending never exposed to Ebola U.S. troops to the hot zone, why couldn't African Ebola survivors and those who have the antibodies to the disease, be organized into disease fighting troops? Pay them decent wages, even to U.S. scale, and let them built the tent hospitals and do all the other work our troops are expected to do.
In the spirit of never let a crisis go to waste because you can get away with doing stuff you otherwise wouldn't, President Obola has left in and promoted politicians to conquer Ebola. He even passed over the doctor he so recently tried to foist on all of us as U.S. Surgeon General. So what is he and his partisan cadre planning to do to us? Add all of the above to what Obama fails to do, like restricting air travel and securing our borders, it is easy to see that a U.S. Ebola epidemic would be a political windfall for Obama and his party. "If you like your Ebola, you can keep your Obola; it is part of the new Obamacare plan," suggests Dr.Michael Savage.* [1]
Thank God the progressives of 2014 only have the less virulent Ebola to mismanage, instead of the 1918 flu which spread like a gasoline fire. But we are still in trouble with the JV Obola team in power. In the WIN/WIN Democrat political world it doesn't matter if the nation is infected on purpose, by purposeful accident or ignorant omission. If there is a conspiracy theory present it may be simply a conspiracy of ignorance for political purposes. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
*Dr. Michael Savage is the host of The Savage Nation on radio. He has recently published his thirtieth book: Stop the Coming Civil War.
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Sources:
[1] www.wnd.com/2014/10/cnn-
"There's not a sane reason to take 4,000 troops and send them into a hot Ebola zone without expecting at least one of them to come back with Ebola; unless you want to infect the nation with Ebola," says Dr. Michael Savage*, host of the top rated 'Savage Nation' radio program. www.wnd.com [1] Dr. Savage, alone among the top radio talents, had a Phd in epidemiology and nutritional science from University of California Berkely.[1]
Jake Tapper, host of CNN's 'The Lead' , on his blog, translates Dr. Savage's statement as, '...suggesting that this is all some Obama plot to purposely infect America." thelead.blogs.cnn.com [2] Two days ago Savage on his radio program repeatedly played a clip of Tapper further reacting, "It's hard to even know where to start with that one---the idea that the president wants to infect soldiers and then Americans. It's so unhinged, we should probably not bother dignifying it with fact checking." Tapper, winner of an Emmy award for his part in the ABC broadcast of President Obama's inauguration [3], also notes on his blog that Dr. Savage has, "...one of the biggest radio audiences in the country". [2]
A couple weeks ago Dr. Savage said the man in the White House should be called President Obola. This in turn must have spawned the cute photo shopped graphic of the formally dressed President and First Lady wearing blue face masks with the Obama...er...Obola logo smack across their mouths. "Meet the Obolas', runs the caption.
The Obama regime has worked from day one to change the language to their advantage. Thousands of illegal immigrants are Dreamers for instance. Criticizing Obama policy is racist. We the People are now stakeholders as opposed to citizens. In big business terminology stakeholders refers to all the people who are affected by actions while SHAREholders have rights in the process.As shareholders we would have been consulted before Obamacare was passed without reading. As stakeholders we suck up the consequences, victims when Big Government policy goes wrong. Think: You can keep your doctor and your plan...
No wonder Jake Tapper and others on the left missed the point. What Dr. Savage is really saying is that President Obama is asking for an Ebola epidemic in this country. To understand, one has to go back to days of personal responsibility.
Remember doing something elaborately stupid when you were a little kid? Your parents knew it was stupid and they had warned you, but since whatever it was wasn't going to cause serious injury or death, they let you experience the consequences. The last warning before the consequences came naturally was likely to be, "You're really asking for it."
Any willingly foolhardy risk was a case of asking for it. I kept my friend's dog for a couple weeks. A confirmed cat chaser though he never caught one, he had to be on a long chain firmly attached to a tree when I worked in the yard. One of my wild barn cats figured out exactly how far the dog could reach when the chain was strained to the maximum. One foot beyond that point the cat sedately began her daily bath, carefully licking and brushing face, neck and back. The final insult came when the cat assumed her most helpless position to lick her lower abdomen and private parts. That cat was asking for it, or using another old fashioned term she was tempting fate. Like my friend said, that cat was acting like she WANTED to get killed.
Dr. Savage said, "...unless you WANT to infect the nation". Want in this case is stronger than ask; it implies a wanton disregard of risk. Like the barn cat tempting the dog and betting the chain would never snap, Obama carelessly throws politics at a deadly virus which is beginning to break its chain.
Almost a hundred years ago when the American citizenry was first ceding freedoms to political progressives through the income tax, Prohibition and other Government-Knows-Best policies, President Woodrow Wilson reigned somewhat like Obama does today. He had the advantage of entering World War I which gave him the excuse to curtail free speech and control the press. Concurrently the most deadly epidemic the world has ever experienced spread through troops, and from the military to civilians, from continent to continent and country to country. The 1918 influenza epidemic likely started here in Kansas though official misinformation in this country eventually led to it being called Spanish Flu.[4]
Though not officially a hemorrhagic fever like Ebola, the 1918 flu sometimes caused hemorrhage from all body openings and some patients turned so dark in color that race was not recognizable. [4] Fortunately for us though we have another JV progressive leadership in the White House, Ebola will likely never spread as easily as did the flu in 1918.
"He was one of those rare men who believed almost to the point of mental illness in his own righteousness", author John Barry wrote of Wilson in his 2004 book The Great Influenza. [4]
In October 2014 Dr. Savage said, "Obama cares about nothing except himself, so he continues to go on and on about things of which he knows nothing." [5]
Fortunately today our right to free speech is blessedly unrestrained and nearly a hundred years of technology has given everyone a voice on the world wide web. We cannot say that Obama has blocked our speech as Wilson did in his day, but today's progressive regime and its minions do attempt to control speech and opinion. All who disagree with whatever government decides is best are called racists, Right Wing Nut Jobs and haters. Complex ideas that seriously criticize government are quickly labelled conspiracy theories, just like Tapper invoked against Dr. Savage, adding that Savage's comment is too crazy to fact check!
So let's fact check. Does President Obama merely lack good advisers or is President Obola handling the deadly Ebola outbreak for political purposes? Can it be said, if only through negligence and political expedience, that he WANTS to infect the nation?
This year's Ebola outbreak started in West Africa in March of this year. [6] During that time Michelle Obama with full backing of the regime has made a huge point that school lunch is a matter of national security. [7] The same was not said of Ebola, nor of ISIS/ISIL though suddenly we are using troops to fight both.
We have had no full time Surgeon General in this year. We the People strongly opposed Obama's far left wing candidate who believed guns should be a matter of public health. [8] When Vivek Murthy was not approved perhaps we saw another example of Obama's his way or the highway. At any rate there is no official Surgeon General though Boris D. Lushniak is listed as a fill-in. By clicking the link on that page we can see that he is all for Obamacare prevention and wellness through My Plate, SBIRT and all the other government enforced theories that say if we eat what government tells us, exercise as much as they tell us, NEVER smoke nor imbibe more than one alcoholic drink per day, we will have wellness. [9] Obama-DemocratCare depends on this being so because healthy people do not need "sick care", which the health care ponzi scheme likely will not be able to deliver, say in case of a killer pandemic crossing our open borders.
A mental montage of news is built in the mind over these past weeks. There was Obama saying Ebola would not hop a plane and come to America. In about a week the Ebola virus had hopped a person who hopped a plane and came to America. Some blame Mr. Duncan the patient from Liberia, for lying to get here, but on the other hand Obama had said, when Ebola sickened Americans were flown here for treatment, that we could treat Ebola in this country. We are now extremely familiar with the Texas hospital initially turning away a fatally ill Mr. Duncan and blaming initially a software glitch. Speaking of misinformation, the software glitch excuse was quickly retracted by the hospital which gave Jesse Jackson the opportunity to move in and say Mr. Duncan was initially turned away due to racism. [10]
Two nurses from the Texas hospital have developed Ebola despite having worn hazmat suits while caring for Mr. Duncan. There is also a nasty controversy about whether the second case was properly handled by the CDC whose full title is Center for Disease Control AND PREVENTION, the last at this point seeming to mean preventing Americans from consuming sodas of sizes not approved by the federal government. . [11]
Speaking of the CDC we have Dr. Tom Friedan as head. He previously worked with former NYC Mayor Bloomberg. Friedan's main claim to fame may be trying to protect the public from Big Gulps which are obviously more contagious than Ebola. [12] Indeed, little more than a month ago Friedan multi-tasked in Kentucky as he, "juggled an Ebola outbreak in Africa", while obsessing about supposedly tobacco caused, "stark health disparities" in that state. Appropriately the article is titled, Deadly Ebola Has Nothing on Tobacco. [13] This big soda banning hack advises President Obola on Ebola if he can take time away from investigating tobacco and advising Ebola infected nurses to go ahead and fly on commercial airlines.
No wonder Dr. Savage also refers to the CDC as the Center for Disease Transmission and has said of CDC's Friedan, "Obama is being advised by someone who doesn't know the difference between Ebola and shinola". [4]
Then there was yesterday's big news that Obama appointed a political crony to the newly created position of Ebola Czar. I was travelling yesterday and my friend was driving, so I took notes off the various car radio broadcasts. Ron Klain is the new Czar's name and he was a former chief of staff for Vice Presidents Biden and Al Gore. He is a lawyer, not a doctor and he had something to do with getting money for failed Solyndra. Klain is said to be a strong Obama supporter and partisan Democrat who understands government not Ebola. [14] Since Klain has worked for Al Gore we can probably expect Climate Change to be blamed for causing Ebola, and the way to stop the epidemic is likely to be a hefty carbon tax with funds given to African dictators to build hospitals...or something.
Scrolling online titles of news articles it appears the left is whining about Dr.Vivek Murthy the surgeon general candidate who was not confirmed because of his anti Second Amendment, gun grabbing for public health position, not being named the Ebola Czar. Perhaps Murthy would be preferable in that position, but the left has no one to blame for Klain's appointment over Dr. Murthy, than President Obola himself.
Dr. Savage has also said repeatedly, "...the U.S. government is violating the primary rule of epidemiology by exposing our young men and women to this deadly virus".[2] Obama has violated, "...every rule of science, medicine, public health and epidemiology," declared Savage on radio.
Thinking about sending American soldiers to the West African Ebola hot zone made me think of the near genocidal disasters Old World diseases wrought on Native American populations after Europeans came here. Ebola has been recognized in Africa since at least 1976 and has erupted in some form about every other year in the region since then. [5] Is it possible that at least some African people might have immunity whereas for example U.S. soldiers would have no chance of having immunity? Is Obama's decision to send U.S. troops to fight Ebola a little like sending Native Americans of two hundred years ago, to fight a smallpox epidemic in Europe?
Common sense would indicate that some Africans would have immunity to Ebola and research does indeed show this to be true. As with most anything to do with Ebola there has not been a lot of studies done, but there is one written about in 2010, last updated October 15, 2014, by IRD. "A surprisingly high proportion of the Gabonese population could have immunity against Ebola," the article states. In forest zones it was noted that between 19.4% to as high as 33.8% of the population have antibodies to Ebola despite never having has signs of the disease! [15]
There are multiple human interest stories about African Ebola survivors doing everything they can to help the newly stricken or burying the Ebola dead. We keep hearing how poor Africa is, how the US must send lots of money or the Ebola epidemic will spread worldwide. Indeed WHO predicts 1.5 million new cases in about a year unless we send lots of money now.
Before sending never exposed to Ebola U.S. troops to the hot zone, why couldn't African Ebola survivors and those who have the antibodies to the disease, be organized into disease fighting troops? Pay them decent wages, even to U.S. scale, and let them built the tent hospitals and do all the other work our troops are expected to do.
In the spirit of never let a crisis go to waste because you can get away with doing stuff you otherwise wouldn't, President Obola has left in and promoted politicians to conquer Ebola. He even passed over the doctor he so recently tried to foist on all of us as U.S. Surgeon General. So what is he and his partisan cadre planning to do to us? Add all of the above to what Obama fails to do, like restricting air travel and securing our borders, it is easy to see that a U.S. Ebola epidemic would be a political windfall for Obama and his party. "If you like your Ebola, you can keep your Obola; it is part of the new Obamacare plan," suggests Dr.Michael Savage.* [1]
Thank God the progressives of 2014 only have the less virulent Ebola to mismanage, instead of the 1918 flu which spread like a gasoline fire. But we are still in trouble with the JV Obola team in power. In the WIN/WIN Democrat political world it doesn't matter if the nation is infected on purpose, by purposeful accident or ignorant omission. If there is a conspiracy theory present it may be simply a conspiracy of ignorance for political purposes. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
*Dr. Michael Savage is the host of The Savage Nation on radio. He has recently published his thirtieth book: Stop the Coming Civil War.
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Sources:
[1] www.wnd.com/2014/10/cnn-
[4] The Great Influenza, The epic story of the deadliest plague in history, John M. Barry, 2004, Viking Press
[5] www.wnd.com/2014/10/savage-
[15] en.ird.fr/the-media-centre/
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When Airborne Ebola Hits the Fan
October 6, 2014
by: Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
In common, everyday language, Ebola is airborne. In scientific medical terms Ebola is NOT airborne.[1] Actually this is not another government cover up, though it looks like the CDC has made the most of the public's lack of knowledge until very recently, when they seem to be carefully updating some things on their website. www.dcclothesline.com [2] Perhaps insisting on correct terminology bought the CDC some time which was wasted while CDC head Dr. Tom Friedan investigated and reported that tobacco in Kentucky kills more people than Ebola, thus proving once again tobacco is a bigger enemy than anything else. "Deadly Ebola Has Nothing on Tobacco" is the title of an article. [3]
So if regular folks fearing for their families' lives and safety would call Ebola airborne, why won't medical professionals? Does it matter? Knowledge is liberating; understanding a subject is power and when people understand and think for themselves they are not frightened sheeple easily herded by government entities.
Ebola can be transmitted by DROPLETS in the air which is why medical professionals wear face shields, masks or goggles any time they come near Ebola patients. Infective droplets are microscopic or nearly microscopic drops of body fluid from sick people (or in some cases animals), created by coughing, sneezing, vomiting and so forth. A common size for these droplets is one micron which is about 1/10 the diameter of a human hair. Some droplets are smaller, undoubtedly some are bigger. These droplets enter the air but they don't exactly hang there or blow around and that is where things get complicated. [4]
There is a fantastic, easy to read article written by four scientists, 'Ebola Virus May be Spread by Droplet' at VDU Blog, www.virologydownunder.blogspot.com. [4] Please read it. It is one of the best written and informative articles I have found on the subject. Step by step in a fairly short article the authors present a guide that is very helpful in deciphering what various government agencies are telling us.
CDC has repeatedly told us Ebola passes by "direct contact". We think of cleaning up blood or vomit, contact with saliva or mucus, and recently it has been mentioned that handshaking is not a good idea. Droplet infection in medical lingo is also a form of "direct contact". It is not the same as airborne. The droplets in the air can complete the act of direct human to human contact. They are not in a cloud in the air and they are not on intermediate objects, according to VDU Blog. [4]
The same article says the drops are aerosols but that aerosol is an "over-arching term". Droplets the size of a micron fall to the ground or surfaces in seconds without evaporating. Smaller droplets may evaporate in dry air in less than 1/10 of a second. In addition to water the droplets contain proteins, salts and suspended viruses and bacteria. The authors describe droplet size and action by comparing spray paint and fly spray. Spray paint has larger droplets which fall quickly to the surface to be painted. Fly spray is designed to have smaller droplets which can remain in the air longer.[4] Getting back to Ebola, remember the smallest droplets evaporate rapidly, so theoretically they are not hanging around in the air like fly spray.
These same authors point out that when the droplet evaporates, the proteins, salts, viruses and or bacteria are left to form a "droplet nuclei". Only droplet nuclei can become truly airborne, "capable of tiding air currents through a hospital, shopping center or office building". The authors writing in August 2014, state that Ebola has not been found to spread that way in nature. They suggest that Ebola virus may not be able to stay virulent after it is dried out. [4]
Under basic infection control at cdc.gov , these diseases are listed as airborne: tuberculosis, measles, chickenpox, herpes. The same site gives these examples of droplet infections: respiratory viruses e.g. influenza, para influenza virus, Bortadella pertussis , group A streptococcus and others. [5]
Whooping cough and flu are on the CDC list of droplet infections and that's not comforting, is it? On the other hand we all know how fast flu spreads and Ebola is not spreading that fast if we believe the reports. I have a book written a number of years ago, that focused on the mystery of Ebola; at that time the severely hemorrhagic form which led to blood and vomit sprayed onto walls of rooms where patients died. The gist of it was that periodically African people who went deep into the jungles and forests became infected with Ebola. The disease spread among contacts of the original case(s) supposedly from contact with massive amounts of body fluids. Even some funerary practices which required cleaning the bowels of the deceased with bare hands, added to the infection toll. After a period of time the outbreaks ended and the virus stayed hidden in the forest until its next contact with humans. This 2014 outbreak is not abating and it seems it has to be spread without extreme contact with body fluids, i.e. droplets in the air. Even so it is not moving as fast as the various respiratory viruses we and our doctors all lump under the term flu.
"Like all things that involve biology, there are hardly ever clear-cut lines and yes or no definitions and explanations", write the authors of the VDU Blog article. [4] They also provide a graphic showing Ebola virus doing the direct contact thing, person to person, in larger, heavier droplets that don't move very far. The same graphic shows flu viruses moving in smaller drops that cover greater distance. One of the miracles of our time is the ability to photograph viruses through electron microscopes. Flu viruses are round, fuzzy-appearing balls. Ebola the filo (threadlike) virus looks like a tapeworm. In the microscopic world viral weight could have something do do with how far a virus can travel in a droplet, or what size droplet is needed to travel.
The CDC allows for Ebola to be aerosolized in droplets. At cdc.gov/vhf/ebola, last updated 8/17/2014, states, "Standard, contact and droplet precautions are recommended", when dealing with hospitalized Ebola patients. [6] This is the answer to the frequently Tweeted question, "If Ebola is only passed in body fluids why do they (medical professionals) all wear masks?" Specifically for "droplet precaution" the CDC recommends, "Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)...eye protection (goggles or face shield), face mask." Clean up after an Ebola patient or suspected Ebola patient has been in an exam room for example is basic disinfection. For airborne disease the CDC recommends not using the room for at least an hour and this is not suggested for Ebola.[6]
There are a lot of other factors that determine whether people will get certain diseases. My point here is to unravel the question of Ebola being airborne and why experts insist it is not. At this point it appears certain Ebola is transmitted through air by airborne droplets, just like flu. Unlike flu Ebola seems to need larger droplets to travel and therefore it does not travel as far as common respiratory viruses which can use smaller droplets and go farther in distance.
"It is important to pass a message that is correct..." notes the VDU Blog article which was written specifically to address what I am writing about here. Those four scientists note fears and real concern and distrust because the public may not understand what is said. "Hyperactive #Ebola social media", is mentioned. By using absolutely correct medical terms and playing with words government entities such as CDC and WHO have stalled panic in my opinion. As the DC Clothesline article points out, it looks like the CDC will incrementally dole out the truth. The truth has actually not been withheld for as we see droplet transmission IS a form of direct contact. To date I remember a number of spots in the media where "direct contact" was defined by stern looking, serious sounding media people who listed all possible body fluids one might contact, and whose final line has been, "Ebola is not airborne".
The truth is there, twisted a tiny bit so We the Sheeple can remember to assure each other "Ebola is not airborne", and thus we should feel better about President Obama not imposing travel limits as a number of other countries have done.
If the Sunday shows are any indicator I predict the CDC will try to explain Ebola transmission by aerosol droplets very soon. In an Ebola discussion on Sunday TV I remember someone saying, "How often does someone sneeze right in your face?" There IS a point there. Ebola passes through droplets in air, but not very far. So we can probably discount the sneeze across the room scenario, but as with anything there are variables. "When Airborne Ebola Hits the Fan" is more than a mildly crude attention getting device. What if that sneeze across the room is aimed directly at a fan and the larger Ebola laden droplets are churned, chilled, spun and spewed across the room? There are lots of variables.
Federally funded Center for Disease Control AND PREVENTION would rather prevent and track smokers than Ebola as I see it. By using "evidence-based" findings almost any ill can be attributed to tobacco use. Population and public health worries about numbers not individuals. Until Ebola kills more than the inflated tobacco mortality stats claim, I believe government agencies will not be very alarmed. They will be very careful not to alarm the people for an alarmed public might demand something radical like secured borders.
Until then evidence-based medicine is kind of like circumstantial evidence in a court of law. Evidence points to Ebola virus borne on the air in droplets. For what it's worth it isn't medically correct to call it airborne.
~~~~~~~~~~We at Freedom Fighters of America will continue to research and report on Ebola virus, keeping our readers up to date.
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SOURCES:
4) www.virologydownunder.blogspot.com/2014/08/ebola-virus-may-be-spread-by-droplets.html ; Collaborately written by: Dr. Katherine Arden, Dr. Graham Johnson, Dr. Luke Knibbs
and A. Prof Ian Mackay ; 'Ebola Virus May Be Spread By Droplets' , 8/15/2014
6) www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/infection-prevention&control-recommendations.html , last updated 8/17/2014
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September 30, 2014
by Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
Accused Oklahoma beheader Jah' Keem Yisrael's Face Book page shows a thought pattern far more dangerous than just radical Islam. Beginning in 2013 Yisrael does write about Islam; posts in 2014 do glorify Islamic terrorists and terrorism, but Yisrael's theology and worldview are off the mark even for a radical jihadist. Yisrael's true religion it seems is black supremacy to which he tacked Islam. I have no doubt in his legal defense he will claim to be a soldier of Allah because that is fashionable and convenient. Black supremacy is less palatable.
All day Friday after the beheading and stabbing of two of Yisrael's coworkers, journalists tread familiar territory with terms like "workplace violence" and the more hopeful "mental illness". When I found Yisrael's Face Book page at http://www.facebook.com/alton.threadgill I was fairly sure he was mentally ill. He mixed up quotes from the "Glorious Q'uran" and the Christian bible, mentioned the apocryphal book of Barnabus and said over and over that African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans are the true Jews, the Children of Israel, chosen of God. I could not imagine a true Muslim, even a recent convert writing these things. Add in bad grammar, worse spelling and an increasing use of all capital letters and I was thoroughly convinced Yisrael had mentally decompensated, and was a prayer rug short of even having the doubtful sanity of a wannabe jihadist Muslim convert.
OK, so President Obama would label the beheading of one woman and near fatal stabbing of another as "workplace violence", demand billions for improved mental health and write an executive order banning knives large enough to decapitate other human beings. Problem solved. It was late at night and I was tired, but the story would not be fully researched unless I put some of Yisrael's craziest ideas through a google search. "African Americans are the true Jews" was the search term, I clicked enter and instantly multiple results introduced the Black Hebrews who consist of various groups in the US. This politico/religious movement is an offshoot of slavery and is an American invention. One of their sites is: The Real Jews Are Black, www.therealjewsarenlack.com/ .
My first clue that alleged beheader Alton Alexander Nolen, 30, was something other than a Muslim radical was his adopted name. Yisrael is a Hewbrew name, period. It means "triumphant with G-d" or "wrestle with G-d". www.leveller.com/jewish_names [1] Over 30 years ago I lived with Middle Eastern Muslims and I have never heard of a Muslim, convert or not, take the name Yisrael. Put into context of ISIS/ISIL/Hamas radicalism, wouldn't it be a bit embarrassing to yell "Death to Israel"' if that is your chosen personal name? For the same reason I suppose, we do not see Muslim radicals adopting the name America which would be equally awkward when shouting, "Death to America".
Jah' Keem was a little harder to bust. That spelling seems to be a recent invention which in the last couple years has gained popularity according to several baby naming sites. It sounds a lot like Joachim though, and that is another Hebrew name. Some other journalists dug into the anomaly and sure enough, Jah' Keem is an African American, Black Hebrew version of Joachim or Yakim. It is not Arabic or Muslim at all. www.frontpagemag.com [2]
Furthermore the radical Muslim convert Nolen-Yisrael claimed Jerusalem, Israel as his place of birth. Why not Mecca? He seems to have truthfully claimed graduation from Idabel High School and Langston University, both in Oklahoma. Langston U in south eastern Oklahoma, has the distinction of being the westernmost black college in the US. [3] A September 27 article at www.nytimes.com cites an interview with a high school friend who Nolen, long before he was Yisreal. Predictably Nolen is described as a "normal kid", "not a trouble maker", "played defense on the football team", and that he "joked around". Also predictably there is mention of Nolen being passed from family member to family member during his school years. [4]
Close reading of his Face Book page indicates Nolen also has more than one American surname which may be indicative of a proverbially broken home. His Face Book timeline begins in 2010 when he had a job of some kind that he does not name. He posted a picture of himself at work standing before shelves stocked with food items. Perhaps he worked in a restaurant. He seemed proud of his job and subsequent posts show he likes to work. There is a break in the timeline, all of 2011 and half of 2012. When posts begin again Nolen first writes about a job he hopes to get, his interview for the job and getting hired. Perhaps this was his job at Vaughan Foods but he does not say. Presumably still Alton Nolen and fresh out of prison, he writes at that time that he is in a, "Halway [Halfway] House".
In 2011 according the article in nytimes.com [4] Alton Nolen was convicted of multiple drug charges, assault and battery, and escape. The assault and battery was on a female police officer who Megyn Kelly interviewed on her show. Lt. Betsey Randolph said she should have been tougher when arresting Alten, known to her as a convicted felon but his girlfriend and a child were in the car. One minute he seemed fine and the next minute he attacked, officer Randolph recalled. ['Kelly Files', Fox News, 9/26/14]
Widespread news reports have now made it common knowledge that Jah' Keem Yisrael converted to Islam while in prison. Though he was subsequently proud of attending the mosque in Oklahoma City, it made sense to me that a prison conversion might indicate conversion to the so-called Black Muslims or Nation of Islam. That may be so but while Louis Farrakhan espouses a mild version of what Yisrael appears to believe, it is necessary to research Black Hebrews to fully understand Yisrael's writings on Face Book which stray far from Islamic theology. That came later.
From August 2012 until May 2013 Nolen was happy with his job, interested in sports ("upset wit da 49ers"), and confused about women. "Feel Like Lil Wayne Wish I Kld F** Every Gurl N Da World", he wrote in April though he noted that was a sin. Spelling-challenged Alten wrote the F-word with three letters. Minimum wage was expected to rise to $9.00/hour and that would put joy on "Face$$$$$". He had a tendency to capitalize the first letter of every word. In 2014 he frequently shouted in all capital letters.
A picture of a happy pit bull pup has the caption: Da Homie Killa!!!!!!! Another bit of Nolen-Yisrael philosophy is, "I'm Mo Hood Than Food Stamps In A Dice Game". A couple pictures show him getting ready for work. He appears to have a large knife in his right hand. Humorously early news feeds said the knife Yisrael is accused of using to behead, was a knife used to cut lettuce at the food packing plant where he worked! Later it was noted he worked in a meat packing plant. Perhaps the original reporter was a vegan.
Shortly after Yisrael's Lil Wayne sentiments he offered Happy Mother's Day greetings on May 12, 1013 and for the first time the last line of the post is an Islamic greeting. Later that month, illustrated by an old engraving depicting African slaves, Nolen wrote, "Arrived in Amerika 1555 Hur it is 458 yrs. later and were still dumb as a rok...Wake Up O U Children of Israel." An educated black woman replied, "Wow, that may have been a great message...had it not been full of misspellings and poor grammar. Still dumb as a rock, indeed."
On November 11 Yisrael wrote, "Muslims, When They Do Kill It's For God." May we imagine this will be part of his defense at trial? On November 17 he strays far from Islam to write, "African-Americans Are True Israelites And Chosen People", and later, "...don't like whites claiming to be Jews". True Islam is racially color blind; why would a Muslim care what color are Jews? Furthermore he seemed to be OK with parts of the Aryan Brotherhood because they are, "against the Pope". Early December of 2013 Nolen-Yisrael noted his grandfather's death: RIP Grandpa.
The rest of 2013 until September 23, 2014, Yisrael's ideas committed to the Face Book world are increasingly bizarre as he uses Islamic greetings, quotes from the "Glorious Q'uran" and the Christian bible at the same time. Not all original to Yisrael, the posts cover such subjects as, Illuminati symbolism is all over the US dollar bill, and in another, it is a sin for Muslims to pay taxes, though this seems to have to do with African American Muslims who were once slaves. Yisrael is fascinated by black madonnas in some Polish Catholic churches, and he posted a video on why pork is unclean. Coins are real money, paper is not. The bible supports reincarnation, Ecclesiastes 1:9. Jesus will kill the antichrist. Attached to a link is, "My mama played every Sunday before church: O'jays 'Stairway to Heaven'.
February 8 of this year Yisrael asked how to do al hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Three days later more twisted logic appears: Israelites are Native Americans, Egyptians, Hispanics and Blacks. These are the true Jews. "Arab slavery turned us into Muslims and this was before we got shipped to Amerika!!!!!! Never forget your history!!!!!" In the same vein, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Dominicans have the same language but different skin~Spaniards enslaved them, "raped them from their original language which was Hebrew and forced them to speak Spanish." Again why would a devout Muslim care so much about Jews?
Yisrael thanked Islam for turning his life around and he noted several good deeds throughout the year, including buying food for a homeless man, of buying food for a homeless man, "4 burritos and an energx drink lol. Alahu Aikbar"
Of nearly 2000 Face Book friends, most are women and most of those women appear to be Muslimas by their dress. I was surprised to see there is a Muslim singles web site and have a sneaking suspicion Yisrael used it.( Muslima.com) More women should be like Moses' sister Miriam, Yisrael opined though I have no idea what he meant. A couple weeks ago he wrote, "Yo wut up wit U females wearing jeans (faded ones at that) ...even broke men don't wear faded...why when you females get a new pair U want to make sure I see them!!!!!!! I mean it doesn't look good for U to be calling yourself a independent chik!!!!!!!" Concerning virgins in the next life Yisrael wonders, "...why will He (Allah) not just give the individuals a woman whats so gud about a virgin IDK." Nolen-Yisrael's two alleged victims were women.
Some of the most extreme Muslim sentiments were apparently removed before I saw Yisrael's Face Book but I have no doubt those things were there as reported by various news sources. There were two pictures of beheadings but the gory parts were blurred. These were not available by Sunday. There are still a couple pictures of the Twin Towers burning, with the Statue of Liberty in the foreground. Yisrael sees the Statue of Liberty going up in flames based on bible Revelations 18:8. "Everything God says don't do Amerika does", accompanies a picture of the Twin Towers burning. The pathos turns to farce with what I presume is Yisrael's manifesto detailing "Amerika's" failings. Intoxication, gambling and lust head the list. Marijuana is fourth though it is described as being "put here to cook with your food". Apparently brownies are OK but don't inhale? Same sex marriage is wrong as is eating pork. Amerika should cut off the hands of thieves. Circumcision should not be a choice, it should be mandated. (Did Obama Care miss that one?)
Much of the rest is the same mix of Q'uran and bible with increasing mentions of the end times. The whole is peppered with Islamic greetings and proper referrences to Allah and Mohammed (PBUH), Peace Be Unto Him. This year Yisrael seems to have converted a white appearing male. It is widely reported that Yisrael was proselytizing at his job. His last post on September 23 appears to be more conflicted nonsense. In all caps which I will not use he wrote, "Shalom [which is Hebrew by the way] Alhakeium (O ye Muslims) Allah (sWT) says in the last days, "People will be lovers of themselves, proud and unholy". So to all of U that's masturbating which I think is 80% of the world and for whatever the desire it is in your heart that U doing it for-U can get it!!!!!! (warning) This is the last days...[sic] 2nd Timothy 3:2. Throughout his signature is ****InfoFromAMuslim****
Is Jah' Keem Yisrael a Muslim? Yes because he converted and called himself Muslim. Does his seemingly messed up theology make him less of a Muslim? The simple answer is no. The more complex answer I suggest is far more dangerous than if he was a straightforward America and Israel hating Muslim terrorist. Yisrael espouses a mix of religions unlike any true Muslim thought. This matters because Yisrael's total Face Book saga is best understood and researched as Black Hebrew theology, a faith that festers in US prisons, which serve as its divinity schools. Yisrael was a recent graduate of one such school.
In the general Black Hebrew movement there has been murder, with Miami-Dade group Nation of Yahweh members charged with 14 counts of murder in 1990. Leader Yahwey ben Yahwey went to prison for, "conspiring to kill random white people (including one beheading)...", according to Steven Thrasher in a www.villagevoice.com article from 2011. Thrasher adds that Yahwey told new followers, "kill me a white devil and bring me an ear." [5]
Black Hebrews specifically in Oklahoma City are covered in a 2013 article by Troy BeCall in okc.net entitled 'Black Supremacy in OKC: Who are the ICGJC?' BeCall describes them as looking like KKK in white robes and black caps with a Star of David. He notes at the time of his writing, "three rallies within the northwest side of OKC"' and describes them as 10-30 African American men crowded on curbs in front of convenience stores or harassing people getting gas at filling stations. They are intimidating and ages of attendees range from young, possibly as young as 14, to old.[6]
Citing LukesCorner.net BeCall shares this gem attributed to the Black Hebrews, "God hates America and He will destroy it." Answering the question in his title BeCall says ICGJC stands for Israelite Church of God In Christ. It is a group specific to Oklahoma and formed in 2000 from a previous Black Hebrew organization, the Israelite School of Practical Thought. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) according to BeCall has declared them a hate group. This surprises me as I doubt SPLC would ever scream hate crime if Black Hebrews start killing and beheading white people because they are white. As with Jah' Keem Yisrael's writings, to ICGJC white Jews=impostors.
BeCall writes in 2013, "What is strange is that they have recently become more aggressive in terms of tactics and visibility." [6]
To me it is not about whether a victim is any more or less dead or maimed, depending on the mindset of the killer. We are rightly alert to Islamic terrorists who say they kill us because we are Americans. We are not alert to black supremacist groups like Black Hebrews.
What exactly did Alton Nolen who became Jah' Keem Yisrael learn while in prison? About half his writings and opinions after his release are Black Hebrew teachings, not Nation of Islam. All I suggest is that in addition to traditional ISIS-style, "Death to America and Israel and get US troops out of the Middle East", we need to be alert to groups that teach blacks to hate whites. Yisrael appears to have been radicalized in prison where these ideas fester. We will be in a bigger mess if radical Islam becomes the excuse to rationalize racial hatred. So far news sources have not covered the Black Hebrew angle in writings of Yisrael, and therefore have left their audiences less able to protect themselves. We at Freedom Fighters of America will continue to investigate this subject.
During Obama's presidency many of us believe race relations have "degraded", to use one of the president's favorite words. His views on race, inequality, disparity, poverty and injustice have taken us back 50 years according to some.
Almost echoing some of Obama's general ideas Yisrael posted, "Israelites (blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, according to Black Hebrew teachings) being destroyed~~AIDS, prison population, abortion rates, no justice, being shot down in cold blood by police, single moms, high school drop out rates, crime, self hate, no unity, poverty."
Today on Fox News, referring to accusations against her son, Yisrael's mother said, "That's not my son!"
Especially considering the last quote from Jah' Keem Yisrael, perhaps he is another one of Obama's sons.
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SOURCES:
[3] Langston University site on google
[4] www.nytimes.com/20114/09/27/us/oklahoma-man-is-sais-to-behead-co-worker.html?_r=0 ; Woman is Beheaded in Attack at Oklahoma Food Plant, 9/27/2014
[5] www.villagevoice.com/2011-03-30/news/black-hebrew-israelites-new-tork-s-most-obnoxious-prophets/full/ ; by Steve Thrasher, 3/30/20l2
[6] okc.net/2013/18/black-supremacy-okc-icgjc/ ; Black Supremacy in Oklahoma City: Who are the ICGJC?, Troy BeCall, 9/18/2013
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Be sure to read my August article on Ali Muhammad Brown's murder spree, here at FFOA:
'Cross Country Serial Jihadist Ignored'; 8/29/14, by Anna Morris==>> www.freedomfightersofamerica.blogspot.com/2014/08/cross-country-jihadist-serial-killer.html
Are we getting a pattern here? Is Islam the cause or the excuse?
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Nursing Home Inmate: The Crime of Old Age
When Airborne Ebola Hits the Fan
October 6, 2014
by: Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
In common, everyday language, Ebola is airborne. In scientific medical terms Ebola is NOT airborne.[1] Actually this is not another government cover up, though it looks like the CDC has made the most of the public's lack of knowledge until very recently, when they seem to be carefully updating some things on their website. www.dcclothesline.com [2] Perhaps insisting on correct terminology bought the CDC some time which was wasted while CDC head Dr. Tom Friedan investigated and reported that tobacco in Kentucky kills more people than Ebola, thus proving once again tobacco is a bigger enemy than anything else. "Deadly Ebola Has Nothing on Tobacco" is the title of an article. [3]
So if regular folks fearing for their families' lives and safety would call Ebola airborne, why won't medical professionals? Does it matter? Knowledge is liberating; understanding a subject is power and when people understand and think for themselves they are not frightened sheeple easily herded by government entities.
Ebola can be transmitted by DROPLETS in the air which is why medical professionals wear face shields, masks or goggles any time they come near Ebola patients. Infective droplets are microscopic or nearly microscopic drops of body fluid from sick people (or in some cases animals), created by coughing, sneezing, vomiting and so forth. A common size for these droplets is one micron which is about 1/10 the diameter of a human hair. Some droplets are smaller, undoubtedly some are bigger. These droplets enter the air but they don't exactly hang there or blow around and that is where things get complicated. [4]
There is a fantastic, easy to read article written by four scientists, 'Ebola Virus May be Spread by Droplet' at VDU Blog, www.virologydownunder.blogspot.com. [4] Please read it. It is one of the best written and informative articles I have found on the subject. Step by step in a fairly short article the authors present a guide that is very helpful in deciphering what various government agencies are telling us.
CDC has repeatedly told us Ebola passes by "direct contact". We think of cleaning up blood or vomit, contact with saliva or mucus, and recently it has been mentioned that handshaking is not a good idea. Droplet infection in medical lingo is also a form of "direct contact". It is not the same as airborne. The droplets in the air can complete the act of direct human to human contact. They are not in a cloud in the air and they are not on intermediate objects, according to VDU Blog. [4]
The same article says the drops are aerosols but that aerosol is an "over-arching term". Droplets the size of a micron fall to the ground or surfaces in seconds without evaporating. Smaller droplets may evaporate in dry air in less than 1/10 of a second. In addition to water the droplets contain proteins, salts and suspended viruses and bacteria. The authors describe droplet size and action by comparing spray paint and fly spray. Spray paint has larger droplets which fall quickly to the surface to be painted. Fly spray is designed to have smaller droplets which can remain in the air longer.[4] Getting back to Ebola, remember the smallest droplets evaporate rapidly, so theoretically they are not hanging around in the air like fly spray.
These same authors point out that when the droplet evaporates, the proteins, salts, viruses and or bacteria are left to form a "droplet nuclei". Only droplet nuclei can become truly airborne, "capable of tiding air currents through a hospital, shopping center or office building". The authors writing in August 2014, state that Ebola has not been found to spread that way in nature. They suggest that Ebola virus may not be able to stay virulent after it is dried out. [4]
Under basic infection control at cdc.gov , these diseases are listed as airborne: tuberculosis, measles, chickenpox, herpes. The same site gives these examples of droplet infections: respiratory viruses e.g. influenza, para influenza virus, Bortadella pertussis , group A streptococcus and others. [5]
Whooping cough and flu are on the CDC list of droplet infections and that's not comforting, is it? On the other hand we all know how fast flu spreads and Ebola is not spreading that fast if we believe the reports. I have a book written a number of years ago, that focused on the mystery of Ebola; at that time the severely hemorrhagic form which led to blood and vomit sprayed onto walls of rooms where patients died. The gist of it was that periodically African people who went deep into the jungles and forests became infected with Ebola. The disease spread among contacts of the original case(s) supposedly from contact with massive amounts of body fluids. Even some funerary practices which required cleaning the bowels of the deceased with bare hands, added to the infection toll. After a period of time the outbreaks ended and the virus stayed hidden in the forest until its next contact with humans. This 2014 outbreak is not abating and it seems it has to be spread without extreme contact with body fluids, i.e. droplets in the air. Even so it is not moving as fast as the various respiratory viruses we and our doctors all lump under the term flu.
"Like all things that involve biology, there are hardly ever clear-cut lines and yes or no definitions and explanations", write the authors of the VDU Blog article. [4] They also provide a graphic showing Ebola virus doing the direct contact thing, person to person, in larger, heavier droplets that don't move very far. The same graphic shows flu viruses moving in smaller drops that cover greater distance. One of the miracles of our time is the ability to photograph viruses through electron microscopes. Flu viruses are round, fuzzy-appearing balls. Ebola the filo (threadlike) virus looks like a tapeworm. In the microscopic world viral weight could have something do do with how far a virus can travel in a droplet, or what size droplet is needed to travel.
The CDC allows for Ebola to be aerosolized in droplets. At cdc.gov/vhf/ebola, last updated 8/17/2014, states, "Standard, contact and droplet precautions are recommended", when dealing with hospitalized Ebola patients. [6] This is the answer to the frequently Tweeted question, "If Ebola is only passed in body fluids why do they (medical professionals) all wear masks?" Specifically for "droplet precaution" the CDC recommends, "Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)...eye protection (goggles or face shield), face mask." Clean up after an Ebola patient or suspected Ebola patient has been in an exam room for example is basic disinfection. For airborne disease the CDC recommends not using the room for at least an hour and this is not suggested for Ebola.[6]
There are a lot of other factors that determine whether people will get certain diseases. My point here is to unravel the question of Ebola being airborne and why experts insist it is not. At this point it appears certain Ebola is transmitted through air by airborne droplets, just like flu. Unlike flu Ebola seems to need larger droplets to travel and therefore it does not travel as far as common respiratory viruses which can use smaller droplets and go farther in distance.
"It is important to pass a message that is correct..." notes the VDU Blog article which was written specifically to address what I am writing about here. Those four scientists note fears and real concern and distrust because the public may not understand what is said. "Hyperactive #Ebola social media", is mentioned. By using absolutely correct medical terms and playing with words government entities such as CDC and WHO have stalled panic in my opinion. As the DC Clothesline article points out, it looks like the CDC will incrementally dole out the truth. The truth has actually not been withheld for as we see droplet transmission IS a form of direct contact. To date I remember a number of spots in the media where "direct contact" was defined by stern looking, serious sounding media people who listed all possible body fluids one might contact, and whose final line has been, "Ebola is not airborne".
The truth is there, twisted a tiny bit so We the Sheeple can remember to assure each other "Ebola is not airborne", and thus we should feel better about President Obama not imposing travel limits as a number of other countries have done.
If the Sunday shows are any indicator I predict the CDC will try to explain Ebola transmission by aerosol droplets very soon. In an Ebola discussion on Sunday TV I remember someone saying, "How often does someone sneeze right in your face?" There IS a point there. Ebola passes through droplets in air, but not very far. So we can probably discount the sneeze across the room scenario, but as with anything there are variables. "When Airborne Ebola Hits the Fan" is more than a mildly crude attention getting device. What if that sneeze across the room is aimed directly at a fan and the larger Ebola laden droplets are churned, chilled, spun and spewed across the room? There are lots of variables.
Federally funded Center for Disease Control AND PREVENTION would rather prevent and track smokers than Ebola as I see it. By using "evidence-based" findings almost any ill can be attributed to tobacco use. Population and public health worries about numbers not individuals. Until Ebola kills more than the inflated tobacco mortality stats claim, I believe government agencies will not be very alarmed. They will be very careful not to alarm the people for an alarmed public might demand something radical like secured borders.
Until then evidence-based medicine is kind of like circumstantial evidence in a court of law. Evidence points to Ebola virus borne on the air in droplets. For what it's worth it isn't medically correct to call it airborne.
~~~~~~~~~~We at Freedom Fighters of America will continue to research and report on Ebola virus, keeping our readers up to date.
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SOURCES:
4) www.virologydownunder.blogspot.com/2014/08/ebola-virus-may-be-spread-by-droplets.html ; Collaborately written by: Dr. Katherine Arden, Dr. Graham Johnson, Dr. Luke Knibbs
and A. Prof Ian Mackay ; 'Ebola Virus May Be Spread By Droplets' , 8/15/2014
6) www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/infection-prevention&control-recommendations.html , last updated 8/17/2014
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September 30, 2014
by Anna Morris, Co-Editor, Freedom Fighters of America
Accused Oklahoma beheader Jah' Keem Yisrael's Face Book page shows a thought pattern far more dangerous than just radical Islam. Beginning in 2013 Yisrael does write about Islam; posts in 2014 do glorify Islamic terrorists and terrorism, but Yisrael's theology and worldview are off the mark even for a radical jihadist. Yisrael's true religion it seems is black supremacy to which he tacked Islam. I have no doubt in his legal defense he will claim to be a soldier of Allah because that is fashionable and convenient. Black supremacy is less palatable.
All day Friday after the beheading and stabbing of two of Yisrael's coworkers, journalists tread familiar territory with terms like "workplace violence" and the more hopeful "mental illness". When I found Yisrael's Face Book page at http://www.facebook.com/alton.threadgill I was fairly sure he was mentally ill. He mixed up quotes from the "Glorious Q'uran" and the Christian bible, mentioned the apocryphal book of Barnabus and said over and over that African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans are the true Jews, the Children of Israel, chosen of God. I could not imagine a true Muslim, even a recent convert writing these things. Add in bad grammar, worse spelling and an increasing use of all capital letters and I was thoroughly convinced Yisrael had mentally decompensated, and was a prayer rug short of even having the doubtful sanity of a wannabe jihadist Muslim convert.
OK, so President Obama would label the beheading of one woman and near fatal stabbing of another as "workplace violence", demand billions for improved mental health and write an executive order banning knives large enough to decapitate other human beings. Problem solved. It was late at night and I was tired, but the story would not be fully researched unless I put some of Yisrael's craziest ideas through a google search. "African Americans are the true Jews" was the search term, I clicked enter and instantly multiple results introduced the Black Hebrews who consist of various groups in the US. This politico/religious movement is an offshoot of slavery and is an American invention. One of their sites is: The Real Jews Are Black, www.therealjewsarenlack.com/ .
My first clue that alleged beheader Alton Alexander Nolen, 30, was something other than a Muslim radical was his adopted name. Yisrael is a Hewbrew name, period. It means "triumphant with G-d" or "wrestle with G-d". www.leveller.com/jewish_names [1] Over 30 years ago I lived with Middle Eastern Muslims and I have never heard of a Muslim, convert or not, take the name Yisrael. Put into context of ISIS/ISIL/Hamas radicalism, wouldn't it be a bit embarrassing to yell "Death to Israel"' if that is your chosen personal name? For the same reason I suppose, we do not see Muslim radicals adopting the name America which would be equally awkward when shouting, "Death to America".
Jah' Keem was a little harder to bust. That spelling seems to be a recent invention which in the last couple years has gained popularity according to several baby naming sites. It sounds a lot like Joachim though, and that is another Hebrew name. Some other journalists dug into the anomaly and sure enough, Jah' Keem is an African American, Black Hebrew version of Joachim or Yakim. It is not Arabic or Muslim at all. www.frontpagemag.com [2]
Furthermore the radical Muslim convert Nolen-Yisrael claimed Jerusalem, Israel as his place of birth. Why not Mecca? He seems to have truthfully claimed graduation from Idabel High School and Langston University, both in Oklahoma. Langston U in south eastern Oklahoma, has the distinction of being the westernmost black college in the US. [3] A September 27 article at www.nytimes.com cites an interview with a high school friend who Nolen, long before he was Yisreal. Predictably Nolen is described as a "normal kid", "not a trouble maker", "played defense on the football team", and that he "joked around". Also predictably there is mention of Nolen being passed from family member to family member during his school years. [4]
Close reading of his Face Book page indicates Nolen also has more than one American surname which may be indicative of a proverbially broken home. His Face Book timeline begins in 2010 when he had a job of some kind that he does not name. He posted a picture of himself at work standing before shelves stocked with food items. Perhaps he worked in a restaurant. He seemed proud of his job and subsequent posts show he likes to work. There is a break in the timeline, all of 2011 and half of 2012. When posts begin again Nolen first writes about a job he hopes to get, his interview for the job and getting hired. Perhaps this was his job at Vaughan Foods but he does not say. Presumably still Alton Nolen and fresh out of prison, he writes at that time that he is in a, "Halway [Halfway] House".
In 2011 according the article in nytimes.com [4] Alton Nolen was convicted of multiple drug charges, assault and battery, and escape. The assault and battery was on a female police officer who Megyn Kelly interviewed on her show. Lt. Betsey Randolph said she should have been tougher when arresting Alten, known to her as a convicted felon but his girlfriend and a child were in the car. One minute he seemed fine and the next minute he attacked, officer Randolph recalled. ['Kelly Files', Fox News, 9/26/14]
Widespread news reports have now made it common knowledge that Jah' Keem Yisrael converted to Islam while in prison. Though he was subsequently proud of attending the mosque in Oklahoma City, it made sense to me that a prison conversion might indicate conversion to the so-called Black Muslims or Nation of Islam. That may be so but while Louis Farrakhan espouses a mild version of what Yisrael appears to believe, it is necessary to research Black Hebrews to fully understand Yisrael's writings on Face Book which stray far from Islamic theology. That came later.
From August 2012 until May 2013 Nolen was happy with his job, interested in sports ("upset wit da 49ers"), and confused about women. "Feel Like Lil Wayne Wish I Kld F** Every Gurl N Da World", he wrote in April though he noted that was a sin. Spelling-challenged Alten wrote the F-word with three letters. Minimum wage was expected to rise to $9.00/hour and that would put joy on "Face$$$$$". He had a tendency to capitalize the first letter of every word. In 2014 he frequently shouted in all capital letters.
A picture of a happy pit bull pup has the caption: Da Homie Killa!!!!!!! Another bit of Nolen-Yisrael philosophy is, "I'm Mo Hood Than Food Stamps In A Dice Game". A couple pictures show him getting ready for work. He appears to have a large knife in his right hand. Humorously early news feeds said the knife Yisrael is accused of using to behead, was a knife used to cut lettuce at the food packing plant where he worked! Later it was noted he worked in a meat packing plant. Perhaps the original reporter was a vegan.
Shortly after Yisrael's Lil Wayne sentiments he offered Happy Mother's Day greetings on May 12, 1013 and for the first time the last line of the post is an Islamic greeting. Later that month, illustrated by an old engraving depicting African slaves, Nolen wrote, "Arrived in Amerika 1555 Hur it is 458 yrs. later and were still dumb as a rok...Wake Up O U Children of Israel." An educated black woman replied, "Wow, that may have been a great message...had it not been full of misspellings and poor grammar. Still dumb as a rock, indeed."
On November 11 Yisrael wrote, "Muslims, When They Do Kill It's For God." May we imagine this will be part of his defense at trial? On November 17 he strays far from Islam to write, "African-Americans Are True Israelites And Chosen People", and later, "...don't like whites claiming to be Jews". True Islam is racially color blind; why would a Muslim care what color are Jews? Furthermore he seemed to be OK with parts of the Aryan Brotherhood because they are, "against the Pope". Early December of 2013 Nolen-Yisrael noted his grandfather's death: RIP Grandpa.
The rest of 2013 until September 23, 2014, Yisrael's ideas committed to the Face Book world are increasingly bizarre as he uses Islamic greetings, quotes from the "Glorious Q'uran" and the Christian bible at the same time. Not all original to Yisrael, the posts cover such subjects as, Illuminati symbolism is all over the US dollar bill, and in another, it is a sin for Muslims to pay taxes, though this seems to have to do with African American Muslims who were once slaves. Yisrael is fascinated by black madonnas in some Polish Catholic churches, and he posted a video on why pork is unclean. Coins are real money, paper is not. The bible supports reincarnation, Ecclesiastes 1:9. Jesus will kill the antichrist. Attached to a link is, "My mama played every Sunday before church: O'jays 'Stairway to Heaven'.
February 8 of this year Yisrael asked how to do al hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Three days later more twisted logic appears: Israelites are Native Americans, Egyptians, Hispanics and Blacks. These are the true Jews. "Arab slavery turned us into Muslims and this was before we got shipped to Amerika!!!!!! Never forget your history!!!!!" In the same vein, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Dominicans have the same language but different skin~Spaniards enslaved them, "raped them from their original language which was Hebrew and forced them to speak Spanish." Again why would a devout Muslim care so much about Jews?
Yisrael thanked Islam for turning his life around and he noted several good deeds throughout the year, including buying food for a homeless man, of buying food for a homeless man, "4 burritos and an energx drink lol. Alahu Aikbar"
Of nearly 2000 Face Book friends, most are women and most of those women appear to be Muslimas by their dress. I was surprised to see there is a Muslim singles web site and have a sneaking suspicion Yisrael used it.( Muslima.com) More women should be like Moses' sister Miriam, Yisrael opined though I have no idea what he meant. A couple weeks ago he wrote, "Yo wut up wit U females wearing jeans (faded ones at that) ...even broke men don't wear faded...why when you females get a new pair U want to make sure I see them!!!!!!! I mean it doesn't look good for U to be calling yourself a independent chik!!!!!!!" Concerning virgins in the next life Yisrael wonders, "...why will He (Allah) not just give the individuals a woman whats so gud about a virgin IDK." Nolen-Yisrael's two alleged victims were women.
Some of the most extreme Muslim sentiments were apparently removed before I saw Yisrael's Face Book but I have no doubt those things were there as reported by various news sources. There were two pictures of beheadings but the gory parts were blurred. These were not available by Sunday. There are still a couple pictures of the Twin Towers burning, with the Statue of Liberty in the foreground. Yisrael sees the Statue of Liberty going up in flames based on bible Revelations 18:8. "Everything God says don't do Amerika does", accompanies a picture of the Twin Towers burning. The pathos turns to farce with what I presume is Yisrael's manifesto detailing "Amerika's" failings. Intoxication, gambling and lust head the list. Marijuana is fourth though it is described as being "put here to cook with your food". Apparently brownies are OK but don't inhale? Same sex marriage is wrong as is eating pork. Amerika should cut off the hands of thieves. Circumcision should not be a choice, it should be mandated. (Did Obama Care miss that one?)
Much of the rest is the same mix of Q'uran and bible with increasing mentions of the end times. The whole is peppered with Islamic greetings and proper referrences to Allah and Mohammed (PBUH), Peace Be Unto Him. This year Yisrael seems to have converted a white appearing male. It is widely reported that Yisrael was proselytizing at his job. His last post on September 23 appears to be more conflicted nonsense. In all caps which I will not use he wrote, "Shalom [which is Hebrew by the way] Alhakeium (O ye Muslims) Allah (sWT) says in the last days, "People will be lovers of themselves, proud and unholy". So to all of U that's masturbating which I think is 80% of the world and for whatever the desire it is in your heart that U doing it for-U can get it!!!!!! (warning) This is the last days...[sic] 2nd Timothy 3:2. Throughout his signature is ****InfoFromAMuslim****
Is Jah' Keem Yisrael a Muslim? Yes because he converted and called himself Muslim. Does his seemingly messed up theology make him less of a Muslim? The simple answer is no. The more complex answer I suggest is far more dangerous than if he was a straightforward America and Israel hating Muslim terrorist. Yisrael espouses a mix of religions unlike any true Muslim thought. This matters because Yisrael's total Face Book saga is best understood and researched as Black Hebrew theology, a faith that festers in US prisons, which serve as its divinity schools. Yisrael was a recent graduate of one such school.
In the general Black Hebrew movement there has been murder, with Miami-Dade group Nation of Yahweh members charged with 14 counts of murder in 1990. Leader Yahwey ben Yahwey went to prison for, "conspiring to kill random white people (including one beheading)...", according to Steven Thrasher in a www.villagevoice.com article from 2011. Thrasher adds that Yahwey told new followers, "kill me a white devil and bring me an ear." [5]
Black Hebrews specifically in Oklahoma City are covered in a 2013 article by Troy BeCall in okc.net entitled 'Black Supremacy in OKC: Who are the ICGJC?' BeCall describes them as looking like KKK in white robes and black caps with a Star of David. He notes at the time of his writing, "three rallies within the northwest side of OKC"' and describes them as 10-30 African American men crowded on curbs in front of convenience stores or harassing people getting gas at filling stations. They are intimidating and ages of attendees range from young, possibly as young as 14, to old.[6]
Citing LukesCorner.net BeCall shares this gem attributed to the Black Hebrews, "God hates America and He will destroy it." Answering the question in his title BeCall says ICGJC stands for Israelite Church of God In Christ. It is a group specific to Oklahoma and formed in 2000 from a previous Black Hebrew organization, the Israelite School of Practical Thought. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) according to BeCall has declared them a hate group. This surprises me as I doubt SPLC would ever scream hate crime if Black Hebrews start killing and beheading white people because they are white. As with Jah' Keem Yisrael's writings, to ICGJC white Jews=impostors.
BeCall writes in 2013, "What is strange is that they have recently become more aggressive in terms of tactics and visibility." [6]
To me it is not about whether a victim is any more or less dead or maimed, depending on the mindset of the killer. We are rightly alert to Islamic terrorists who say they kill us because we are Americans. We are not alert to black supremacist groups like Black Hebrews.
What exactly did Alton Nolen who became Jah' Keem Yisrael learn while in prison? About half his writings and opinions after his release are Black Hebrew teachings, not Nation of Islam. All I suggest is that in addition to traditional ISIS-style, "Death to America and Israel and get US troops out of the Middle East", we need to be alert to groups that teach blacks to hate whites. Yisrael appears to have been radicalized in prison where these ideas fester. We will be in a bigger mess if radical Islam becomes the excuse to rationalize racial hatred. So far news sources have not covered the Black Hebrew angle in writings of Yisrael, and therefore have left their audiences less able to protect themselves. We at Freedom Fighters of America will continue to investigate this subject.
During Obama's presidency many of us believe race relations have "degraded", to use one of the president's favorite words. His views on race, inequality, disparity, poverty and injustice have taken us back 50 years according to some.
Almost echoing some of Obama's general ideas Yisrael posted, "Israelites (blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, according to Black Hebrew teachings) being destroyed~~AIDS, prison population, abortion rates, no justice, being shot down in cold blood by police, single moms, high school drop out rates, crime, self hate, no unity, poverty."
Today on Fox News, referring to accusations against her son, Yisrael's mother said, "That's not my son!"
Especially considering the last quote from Jah' Keem Yisrael, perhaps he is another one of Obama's sons.
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[3] Langston University site on google
[4] www.nytimes.com/20114/09/27/us/oklahoma-man-is-sais-to-behead-co-worker.html?_r=0 ; Woman is Beheaded in Attack at Oklahoma Food Plant, 9/27/2014
[5] www.villagevoice.com/2011-03-30/news/black-hebrew-israelites-new-tork-s-most-obnoxious-prophets/full/ ; by Steve Thrasher, 3/30/20l2
[6] okc.net/2013/18/black-supremacy-okc-icgjc/ ; Black Supremacy in Oklahoma City: Who are the ICGJC?, Troy BeCall, 9/18/2013
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Be sure to read my August article on Ali Muhammad Brown's murder spree, here at FFOA:
'Cross Country Serial Jihadist Ignored'; 8/29/14, by Anna Morris==>> www.freedomfightersofamerica.blogspot.com/2014/08/cross-country-jihadist-serial-killer.html
Are we getting a pattern here? Is Islam the cause or the excuse?
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Nursing Home Inmate: The Crime of Old Age
September , 2014
by: Anna Morris, Contributor, Freedom Fighters of America
"They treat me like I have committed a crime but the crime is old age", said an 80-something woman in a telephone interview with me. She was forcibly removed from her home and locked into an acute care hospital and then a nursing home, apparently because the state thinks it knows what is best for her. "I want to go home, to be able to go home but they won't let me because of old age. I have a right to go home to my own home", she continued and I could hear her starting to cry.
The woman's son had contacted me in late July, saying he thought his mother would die in the nursing home because she did not want to be there. It appears at this time that the state made no attempt to contact extended family before or after the woman was incarcerated in the nursing home. I had barely begun investigating the story when the son who contacted me was able to obtain a loan from a friend that would enable him to remove his mother from the facility and transport her to his home in another state. Then things got nasty and that is why I am not using any names.
The out of state son obtained airline tickets and formulated a plan to care for his mother. A worker at Adult Services in charge of his mother's case said she was free to go and could make her own decisions. Even so the son felt concerns. He discussed his plans with his mother who readily agreed to leave even if it wasn't to go back to her own home. She was so happy that she told people at the home that her son was coming to get her.
Next the son informed an administrator at the nursing home that he would be taking his mother on a certain day in August. That was when the administrator informed the son that his mother was not going anywhere. She is demented the man said. The son said that was odd because she seemed normal to him. The administrator allegedly said that comment was, "disturbing". Whatever that meant, the woman could not leave until the out of state son had been investigated and found fit to care for his mother. This was in the best interest of the woman incarcerated against her will in a nursing home she detests.
At this point I dropped my investigation for the moment and contacted the state Ombudsman's office which operates out of the governor's office in the state capital. Ombudsmen~frequently women, despite the name~are assigned to patients in long term care facilities. They watch out for the rights of patients in these facilities.
I identified myself to the woman who returned my call and told her I was investigating a story for Freedom Fighters of America, but that I was uneasy about proceeding because I did not want to cause harm to the elderly patient. I explained that I had never seen a case like this. I had advised the son to contact the Ombudsman's office early on, he had done so and his mother had been assigned an ombudsman. The woman commented that the patient's home had been condemned and there were legal issues outside the scope of the Ombudsman's office.
I said I was investigating the legal ramifications as the case was indeed odd, but in the meantime the patient's son had planned to remove his mother to another state, had obtained airline tickets for which he fortunately was able to get his money back, and the nursing home refused to allow her to leave. The Ombudsman woman seemed surprised and asked, "Do you mean the son would have been here yesterday?" I said, "Yes", and please call the son.
The assigned ombudsman got busy enforcing the patient's RIGHTS. The son from out of state emphasized what the ombudsman person told him, that his mother is not a ward of the state, has not been judged incompetent and has the RIGHT to leave the nursing home anytime she desires. The son went on to say, according to the ombudsman that the nursing home had tried to decide what was in the patient's best interests as they saw it, but that had nothing to do with rights.
The son has again purchased airline tickets, rented a car and plans to remove his mother from the nursing home on September 8, next Monday. The Ombudsman's office warned him the nursing home may call the police but that if his mother was able to state that she wants to leave, the police can do nothing. I am unable to be at the location next Monday but have advised the son to call me if anything goes wrong. He says his mother does not believe she will be allowed to leave.
I called the patient yesterday and asked her about that, had anyone told her she could not leave? She said no one had but was just a feeling. She is anxious to leave the nursing home because she is afraid if she does not leave the state she will never be free of the government. She has told me she is afraid they will pull her out of bed when she is sleeping and lock her up again, like they did a couple months ago.
I believe her. Like I said earlier this case is very strange and just as soon as the elderly woman is across state lines I will dig into the legal issues.
Roughly, based on interviews with the woman and two of her sons, here is an outline of the bigger story. For a number of years the woman, now a nursing home inmate, lived in a house her father built many years ago. She has been living with a son who is the brother of the man who called me initially. As the woman aged she became partially disabled with arthritis and some other medical issues. Her live-in son did all he could but also worked a certain number of hours in the week. He also became seriously ill earlier this year though was still able to work and care for his mom.
Also earlier this year everyone involved, including the mom, agreed to seek part time in-home care. Due to cost it was necessary to obtain the care through Medicaid in a state that is eye ball deep in Obama Care. I have no idea at this time if the last statement has anything to do with what happened but it will be a main point of my further investigation.
Once Medicaid was approved things moved swiftly to the point when the woman was snatched from her home and locked up due to old age as she says. Home health workers entered her home and according to her started going through her things. The patient said she thought that was, "a bit nervy" and she "didn't feel good about it". She said she was scared though and felt she had to let them do it as, "I didn't want my house taken away". I asked her if she had given them permission to go through her things or if she had ever told them no. She said she was afraid to.
Both sons note there were some issues with the home but both say the issues noted in the subsequent condemnation concern one blocked drain, that not all electrical outlets work, the home is not as neatly kept as the state would like and there had at least been mice. The live-in son told me he had had a disagreement with the county over a smaller issue about a year ago and that he had not responded to a warning notice. He also told me he had been ill and had not been able to clean as much as he would like to have.
According to this son one night without warning the police busted in the door along with Adult Services workers, fire department and others. His mother was taken away and her nursing home incarceration began. The story gets worse but that will have to wait for part two, to follow as soon as the woman crosses state lines and I feel she is safe from any reprisals from my ongoing investigation.
These are people I have known for a long time. I believe all of them have told me the truth as they know it. The live-in son readily admitted the house was not perfect and he had been very ill, but since when is a house condemned and the owner locked up for one blocked drain, old wiring and poor housekeeping? There are government programs and groups that help elderly, low income seniors repair old homes. According to the live-in son his mother was boosted to the top of a list at one of these organizations but that he got a call saying they dropped her to the bottom of the list, because she was never getting out of the nursing home".
It smells of collusion and if so, is home health which is Obama Care in that state, colluding with code enforcement people? Can this happen to other elderly people if they do not live as the state says they should? Earlier this year I attended a curt hearing in that same state that dealt with a very different matter. Criminal charges were dropped against a poor, young woman but she was sentenced to mental health counseling because she was a bad housekeeper. I can obtain the transcript for that one. Is this the point where Obama Care home workers invade homes? Perhaps.
I apologize for not using names in this article. I could have used fake names but I fully intend to write a follow-up in part two and I have permission to use names. I will do so then. For now I pray nothing I have done as a journalist will cause the state to hold this woman, my friend, against her will any longer. Until she can be somewhere where she feels free of the government I must be cautious. Please, patriot readers, hold this family in your thoughts and prayers, especially next Monday the eighth. Be alert concerning your own elderly loved ones. It seems in the brave new world of Obama Care that there are some who would decide anyone over 65 has just as few rights as those under 18. In such cases as with children, the state will decide what is in the individual's "best interests" based upon whether or not the elderly person's lifestyle and means are approved by the state. Stay awake and remain alert!
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Cross Country Jihadist Serial Killer Ignored
August 29, 2014
by Anna Morris, Contributor, Freedom Fighters of America
When two gay men were shot to death June 1 of this year, Seattle, Washington area authorities were sure they had a hate crime. A possible suspect was identified and his picture was distributed in the King County area. Shortly thereafter the suspect in the pictures fled to New Jersey and was eventually arrested in that state for a new murder, of a talented college student who no one to date has identified as gay. Instead of denying his crimes entirely, the self-admitted serial killer of three or more, proudly cites Islamic jihad as his excuse www.kirotv.com [1]
Critics of hate crime legislation will say the species of hate involved in any murder attributed to "hate crime" doesn't make the victim(s) any more or less dead. Such critics, and I am one, will also point out that victims of cold blooded murder are not killed because someone loved them too much! Therefore we believe, proving hate is ridiculous, especially when proving motive need not be part of the prosecution of a crime. legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com [2] That said, in this case the accused killer eagerly proclaims his hatred for US government policy while proclaiming his love for Islam. While our federal and state governments are busy trying to root out hate among largely law abiding citizens, for instance bakers who refuse to provide decorated wedding cakes for gay couples, this newly caught killer is spouting a form of hatred the current administration would probably rather ignore in the name of diversity.
While Attorney General Eric Holder is bringing the full force of the federal government to Ferguson, MO, investigating the death of unarmed teen Michael Brown, the latest domestic jihadi killer coincidentally named Brown, is being processed for killing Americans for Allah. Ali Muhammed Brown, a 29 year old African American, from the Seattle, WA area has admitted up to four shooting deaths of unarmed Americans as vengeance for "millions" of civilian lives "taken every single day" by US bombings in the Middle East, according to rt.com, citing court documents. www.rt.com [3] At this point Ali Muhammad Brown's case is split between Washington state (3 murders) and the state of New Jersey (1 murder); the feds seem uninterested and the media has barely mentioned anything about it.
"My mission is my mission between me and my lord. That's it", Brown who claims to be a devout Muslim, is quoted as saying to New Jersey investigators. [3] Brown describes at least one of the murders as a "just kill", meaning that the victim was an adult man and no women, children or elderly people were present or in danger during the violent attack. www.nydailynews.com [4]
Actual details of the serial killing spree vary somewhat, perhaps especially because the story has largely been covered only by local press both in Washington state and in New Jersey where killings actually took place. From various sources a timeline emerges beginning with Leroy Henderson, 30, who was shot multiple times near Seattle, WA, the night of April 27, 2014. Henderson was said to have been returning from the store to his home; his body was found on the side of the road. This is the first murder in the string of four that Ali Muhammad Brown has admitted or for which he has been charged. [3] Mr. Henderson has been accorded no special status in the news reports so perhaps we may assume this was a basic, garden variety serial killing, the first in the spree.
The next two murders committed by the budding serial killer introduced the possibility of hate into the deadly equation. On the night of June 1, 2014 two gay men, Dwone Anderson-Young, 23, and Ahmed Said, 27, were shot to death execution style. [3] Accounts of this crime are unclear. Some sources say Anderson-Young and Said were at a Seattle club but left to meet a friend who turned out to be Brown. Other sources suggest Brown selected these men through a gay dating service. Either eye witness information or records involving a "hook-up app" for gay men brought Brown into the picture.
Shortly thereafter authorities released the suspect's picture, which was not difficult because Brown has an interesting criminal record. The most salacious aspect of Brown's criminal past is that he is a convicted sex offender. According to Sibile Marcellus of www.myfoxtwincities.com [5] Brown was convicted of raping his own six-year-old daughter multiple times. At the time of the murders Brown was also in trouble for not registering as a sex offender.
The charge and conviction most predictive of the killing spree would seem to be Brown's 2004 arrest for a, "massive Seattle bank fraud scheme". The elements of the scheme involved depositing fraudulent checks and withdrawing funds before the checks were discovered to be bogus. Investigators at the time believed the money might be getting funneled overseas but it could not be proved.[3] Some reports say the bank fraud ring consisted 13 other men and Brown. Blogs.seattletimes.com [6] mentions three other men and further comments that many of the men involved were supporters of terrorism in Somalia. Whatever the truth the government could not make its case and Dan Ivers of www.nj.com [7] writes that Brown was arrested for the bank fraud in 2004 and released in 2005 for time served.
In almost a footnote seattletimes.com reports that Brown pleaded guilty to "communicating with a minor for immoral purposes" in March 2012 and that he received a year in jail. On one hand it may seem that Brown does not learn from experience. On the other hand Sibile Marcellus reports that Ali Muhammed Brown is alleged to have received jihadi training somewhere in California in April of this year, so perhaps at least in his chosen path of jihad, Brown did try to improve and not repeat past mistakes. [5]
When his picture was distributed by authorities in the Seattle area Brown obtained a car and fled 3000 miles to New Jersey where he had some past experience. There in July Brown is reported to have pumped 10 shots into 19 year old Brian Tevlin's vehicle while it was stopped at an intersection. Brown then drove the car to an apartment complex and abandoned it. Some sources credit Brown's "just kill" remarks to the Tevlin murder but other sources state Brown has pleaded not guilty to that murder. [1]
Ali Muhammad was arrested at a "makeshift camp" about July 18, in New Jersey. Ballistics matched the three Washington killings to the New Jersey murder. Brown, a convicted felon, may have stolen the gun from his mother. Other sources state he took the gun and his get away car the mother of his children. [3]
At this time New Jersey is holding the jihadi suspect on $5 million bail. There is no action filed to extradite him to Washington state where he could face the death penalty. He may be charged in the future with terrorism. In the last two attacks the victims' cars were moved and abandoned by Brown. In New Jersey two young alleged accomplices were also arrested and they do not appear to claim any jihadi motivations. Brown is also accused of armed robbery and attempted car jacking in New Jersey. I suppose a way out for government that is squeamish about even admitting there are terrorists, could be to claim that Ali Muhammad Brown is just a regular criminal, claiming political motives to make himself look less like the average registered sex offender/serial killer.
In the meantime any attempt to sweep the crime spree under a prayer rug has to acknowledge Brown's own words from court documents. "All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government", the devout Muslim is quoted, "So a life for a life." If that is not enough, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray says the motive appears to be, "... based on anti-American sentiment and an extreme interpretation of the Muslim faith." [6]
No more "extreme interpretation of the Muslim faith" can be found than that of ISIS, now shortened to IS which stands for Islamic State. Daily we hear of new outrages so big that the media cannot totally ignore them. Even so, President Obama is quoted in a speech today, "We do not have a strategy yet..." to deal with ISIS/IS. Other news bytes this past week detail ISIS/IS plans to bring their terror activities to the streets of America, specifically mentioning the Obama's home territory of Chicago..
Ali Muhammad Brown did his best to bring IS-style terrorism to America according to his own confessions, yet because two of his victims were gay authorities initially missed the point and may be able to continue to avoid the stickier Muslim terrorist issue by insisting two of the serial killer's murders were hate crimes against gay men. President Obama won reelection in 2012 at least in part by reminding his supporters Osama bin Laden was dead and therefore terrorism was on the run. Nobody dares consider that a killing spree could be terroristic and even when the killer spells out terrorist motives, authorities and the press are slow to react. Avoid at all costs any acts of political incorrectness, seems to be the blueprint for the new normal. In the resulting general confusion political incorrectness may breed unintentional hate crimes. Or something.
Foreign inspired terrorism was the last thing on anyone's mind in the early June aftermath of double homicide in Seattle.Three days after the murders of the gay men in Seattle capitolhillseattle.com[8] flanked an article with pictures of the victims. Ahmed Said as his name suggests, appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent. Dwone Anderson-Young was black. "It's important we come together and try to figure out the motives that might be behind this crime", is how the article ends. The gist of the article is that the two murders touched "three communities" in the Seattle area. Said was a member of the Somali community. Young represented the African American community. Both men were members of the LGBTQ community. [6]
A normal response is to acknowledge the grief of survivors, but the 3-community comment is enough to make a patriot shriek, "Only in Obama's America!" In the America that Obama and his political party has fractionated into "communities" based on race, sexual orientation, gender and whatever other designation that can be manufactured, Ali Muhammad Brown's summer of serial killing becomes a joke on the community organizers. His self-defined terrorist spree was missed and is now ignored by the established media probably out of fear of being politically incorrect. How can any jihadi hope to terrorize Americans if Americans no longer exist in a patriotic sense, but are relegated to sub-groups devised and managed by community organizing politicians intent on power for power's sake?
Ali Muhammad Brown remains a failure as a criminal. As a child molester he was caught, convicted and registered. As a bank fraudster he was caught and jailed. As a jihadi serial killer he intended vengeance against America and nobody seems to care beyond how individual communities experience grief. Continuing in his roster of failure Brown's terror spree will likely be remembered as a gay hate crime.
Ali Muhammad's continuing criminal failure is aided and abetted by the established media sources. Allen B. West on his site says this, "Consider the fact that we have a massive media army in Ferguson. Missouri but hardly a peep on this very disturbing series of jihadist murders." [9]
It is I suppose more comfortable to assume the enemy is our fellow bigoted citizens. It is easier to understand that not everyone in the country is ready to wave the rainbow flag, than that domestic raised or foreign terrorists would enjoy killing us simply because we are Americans. For the present political power structure to work the community organizers whose tactic is us against them and them against us, must keep Americans working against Americans. In the destabilization of the new normal power addicted politicians thrive. The last thing they want is for Americans to unite against a common enemy such as ISIS. Thus political correctness labels the Ft. Hood shootings as "workplace violence". If Ali Muhammad Brown's bit of serial killing can be firmly labelled as a domestic hate crime against gays, the politically correct crowd will be vindicated and gain strength at the expense of America's safety.
Future jihadists wanting to kill Americans for Allah should certainly know to what "community" their intended victims belong. Avoid gay-Americans and make sure skin colors are appropriately matched. For example a light brown jihadist doing a suicide bombing in a predominantly black neighborhood is likely to be dismissed as a KKK member rather than a brave member of the Army of Allah. The safest target would probably be white, heterosexual, Christian men gathered at TEA Party meetings, but members of the other "communities" probably wouldn't care and the goal of universal terror in the US would be diluted again.
"Vengeance is my mission", declared Ali Muhammad Brown. What's so hard to understand? [1] We can unite as Americans against the real haters and hate crimes of the world or we can become increasingly divided to the point we manufacture imaginary hate crimes that cover up the true evil done among us. Terrorists plan to kill all colors of Americans if they can; black, brown, red, white and blue.
President Obama running again in 2012 assured the country that terrorists were on the run and that helped him gain reelection. In this he told the truth. The terrorists ARE on the run...STRAIGHT AT US!
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SOURCES
[4] www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/suspect-killed-n-teen-vengeance-military-article-1.1911964 ; Meg Warren, 8/21/14
[5] www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/26222470/brown-pleads=not-guilty-in-brendan-tevlins-murder ,8/7/2014, Sibile Marcellus
[9] Allen B. West; allenbwest.com/2014/08/real-islamophobes-american-media-jihadist-mass-murder-us-goes-unreported/ ; Jihadist Mass Murder in US goes Unreported
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September , 2014
by: Anna Morris, Contributor, Freedom Fighters of America
"They treat me like I have committed a crime but the crime is old age", said an 80-something woman in a telephone interview with me. She was forcibly removed from her home and locked into an acute care hospital and then a nursing home, apparently because the state thinks it knows what is best for her. "I want to go home, to be able to go home but they won't let me because of old age. I have a right to go home to my own home", she continued and I could hear her starting to cry.
The woman's son had contacted me in late July, saying he thought his mother would die in the nursing home because she did not want to be there. It appears at this time that the state made no attempt to contact extended family before or after the woman was incarcerated in the nursing home. I had barely begun investigating the story when the son who contacted me was able to obtain a loan from a friend that would enable him to remove his mother from the facility and transport her to his home in another state. Then things got nasty and that is why I am not using any names.
The out of state son obtained airline tickets and formulated a plan to care for his mother. A worker at Adult Services in charge of his mother's case said she was free to go and could make her own decisions. Even so the son felt concerns. He discussed his plans with his mother who readily agreed to leave even if it wasn't to go back to her own home. She was so happy that she told people at the home that her son was coming to get her.
Next the son informed an administrator at the nursing home that he would be taking his mother on a certain day in August. That was when the administrator informed the son that his mother was not going anywhere. She is demented the man said. The son said that was odd because she seemed normal to him. The administrator allegedly said that comment was, "disturbing". Whatever that meant, the woman could not leave until the out of state son had been investigated and found fit to care for his mother. This was in the best interest of the woman incarcerated against her will in a nursing home she detests.
At this point I dropped my investigation for the moment and contacted the state Ombudsman's office which operates out of the governor's office in the state capital. Ombudsmen~frequently women, despite the name~are assigned to patients in long term care facilities. They watch out for the rights of patients in these facilities.
I identified myself to the woman who returned my call and told her I was investigating a story for Freedom Fighters of America, but that I was uneasy about proceeding because I did not want to cause harm to the elderly patient. I explained that I had never seen a case like this. I had advised the son to contact the Ombudsman's office early on, he had done so and his mother had been assigned an ombudsman. The woman commented that the patient's home had been condemned and there were legal issues outside the scope of the Ombudsman's office.
I said I was investigating the legal ramifications as the case was indeed odd, but in the meantime the patient's son had planned to remove his mother to another state, had obtained airline tickets for which he fortunately was able to get his money back, and the nursing home refused to allow her to leave. The Ombudsman woman seemed surprised and asked, "Do you mean the son would have been here yesterday?" I said, "Yes", and please call the son.
The assigned ombudsman got busy enforcing the patient's RIGHTS. The son from out of state emphasized what the ombudsman person told him, that his mother is not a ward of the state, has not been judged incompetent and has the RIGHT to leave the nursing home anytime she desires. The son went on to say, according to the ombudsman that the nursing home had tried to decide what was in the patient's best interests as they saw it, but that had nothing to do with rights.
The son has again purchased airline tickets, rented a car and plans to remove his mother from the nursing home on September 8, next Monday. The Ombudsman's office warned him the nursing home may call the police but that if his mother was able to state that she wants to leave, the police can do nothing. I am unable to be at the location next Monday but have advised the son to call me if anything goes wrong. He says his mother does not believe she will be allowed to leave.
I called the patient yesterday and asked her about that, had anyone told her she could not leave? She said no one had but was just a feeling. She is anxious to leave the nursing home because she is afraid if she does not leave the state she will never be free of the government. She has told me she is afraid they will pull her out of bed when she is sleeping and lock her up again, like they did a couple months ago.
I believe her. Like I said earlier this case is very strange and just as soon as the elderly woman is across state lines I will dig into the legal issues.
Roughly, based on interviews with the woman and two of her sons, here is an outline of the bigger story. For a number of years the woman, now a nursing home inmate, lived in a house her father built many years ago. She has been living with a son who is the brother of the man who called me initially. As the woman aged she became partially disabled with arthritis and some other medical issues. Her live-in son did all he could but also worked a certain number of hours in the week. He also became seriously ill earlier this year though was still able to work and care for his mom.
Also earlier this year everyone involved, including the mom, agreed to seek part time in-home care. Due to cost it was necessary to obtain the care through Medicaid in a state that is eye ball deep in Obama Care. I have no idea at this time if the last statement has anything to do with what happened but it will be a main point of my further investigation.
Once Medicaid was approved things moved swiftly to the point when the woman was snatched from her home and locked up due to old age as she says. Home health workers entered her home and according to her started going through her things. The patient said she thought that was, "a bit nervy" and she "didn't feel good about it". She said she was scared though and felt she had to let them do it as, "I didn't want my house taken away". I asked her if she had given them permission to go through her things or if she had ever told them no. She said she was afraid to.
Both sons note there were some issues with the home but both say the issues noted in the subsequent condemnation concern one blocked drain, that not all electrical outlets work, the home is not as neatly kept as the state would like and there had at least been mice. The live-in son told me he had had a disagreement with the county over a smaller issue about a year ago and that he had not responded to a warning notice. He also told me he had been ill and had not been able to clean as much as he would like to have.
According to this son one night without warning the police busted in the door along with Adult Services workers, fire department and others. His mother was taken away and her nursing home incarceration began. The story gets worse but that will have to wait for part two, to follow as soon as the woman crosses state lines and I feel she is safe from any reprisals from my ongoing investigation.
These are people I have known for a long time. I believe all of them have told me the truth as they know it. The live-in son readily admitted the house was not perfect and he had been very ill, but since when is a house condemned and the owner locked up for one blocked drain, old wiring and poor housekeeping? There are government programs and groups that help elderly, low income seniors repair old homes. According to the live-in son his mother was boosted to the top of a list at one of these organizations but that he got a call saying they dropped her to the bottom of the list, because she was never getting out of the nursing home".
It smells of collusion and if so, is home health which is Obama Care in that state, colluding with code enforcement people? Can this happen to other elderly people if they do not live as the state says they should? Earlier this year I attended a curt hearing in that same state that dealt with a very different matter. Criminal charges were dropped against a poor, young woman but she was sentenced to mental health counseling because she was a bad housekeeper. I can obtain the transcript for that one. Is this the point where Obama Care home workers invade homes? Perhaps.
I apologize for not using names in this article. I could have used fake names but I fully intend to write a follow-up in part two and I have permission to use names. I will do so then. For now I pray nothing I have done as a journalist will cause the state to hold this woman, my friend, against her will any longer. Until she can be somewhere where she feels free of the government I must be cautious. Please, patriot readers, hold this family in your thoughts and prayers, especially next Monday the eighth. Be alert concerning your own elderly loved ones. It seems in the brave new world of Obama Care that there are some who would decide anyone over 65 has just as few rights as those under 18. In such cases as with children, the state will decide what is in the individual's "best interests" based upon whether or not the elderly person's lifestyle and means are approved by the state. Stay awake and remain alert!
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Cross Country Jihadist Serial Killer Ignored
August 29, 2014
by Anna Morris, Contributor, Freedom Fighters of America
When two gay men were shot to death June 1 of this year, Seattle, Washington area authorities were sure they had a hate crime. A possible suspect was identified and his picture was distributed in the King County area. Shortly thereafter the suspect in the pictures fled to New Jersey and was eventually arrested in that state for a new murder, of a talented college student who no one to date has identified as gay. Instead of denying his crimes entirely, the self-admitted serial killer of three or more, proudly cites Islamic jihad as his excuse www.kirotv.com [1]
Critics of hate crime legislation will say the species of hate involved in any murder attributed to "hate crime" doesn't make the victim(s) any more or less dead. Such critics, and I am one, will also point out that victims of cold blooded murder are not killed because someone loved them too much! Therefore we believe, proving hate is ridiculous, especially when proving motive need not be part of the prosecution of a crime. legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com [2] That said, in this case the accused killer eagerly proclaims his hatred for US government policy while proclaiming his love for Islam. While our federal and state governments are busy trying to root out hate among largely law abiding citizens, for instance bakers who refuse to provide decorated wedding cakes for gay couples, this newly caught killer is spouting a form of hatred the current administration would probably rather ignore in the name of diversity.
While Attorney General Eric Holder is bringing the full force of the federal government to Ferguson, MO, investigating the death of unarmed teen Michael Brown, the latest domestic jihadi killer coincidentally named Brown, is being processed for killing Americans for Allah. Ali Muhammed Brown, a 29 year old African American, from the Seattle, WA area has admitted up to four shooting deaths of unarmed Americans as vengeance for "millions" of civilian lives "taken every single day" by US bombings in the Middle East, according to rt.com, citing court documents. www.rt.com [3] At this point Ali Muhammad Brown's case is split between Washington state (3 murders) and the state of New Jersey (1 murder); the feds seem uninterested and the media has barely mentioned anything about it.
"My mission is my mission between me and my lord. That's it", Brown who claims to be a devout Muslim, is quoted as saying to New Jersey investigators. [3] Brown describes at least one of the murders as a "just kill", meaning that the victim was an adult man and no women, children or elderly people were present or in danger during the violent attack. www.nydailynews.com [4]
Actual details of the serial killing spree vary somewhat, perhaps especially because the story has largely been covered only by local press both in Washington state and in New Jersey where killings actually took place. From various sources a timeline emerges beginning with Leroy Henderson, 30, who was shot multiple times near Seattle, WA, the night of April 27, 2014. Henderson was said to have been returning from the store to his home; his body was found on the side of the road. This is the first murder in the string of four that Ali Muhammad Brown has admitted or for which he has been charged. [3] Mr. Henderson has been accorded no special status in the news reports so perhaps we may assume this was a basic, garden variety serial killing, the first in the spree.
The next two murders committed by the budding serial killer introduced the possibility of hate into the deadly equation. On the night of June 1, 2014 two gay men, Dwone Anderson-Young, 23, and Ahmed Said, 27, were shot to death execution style. [3] Accounts of this crime are unclear. Some sources say Anderson-Young and Said were at a Seattle club but left to meet a friend who turned out to be Brown. Other sources suggest Brown selected these men through a gay dating service. Either eye witness information or records involving a "hook-up app" for gay men brought Brown into the picture.
Shortly thereafter authorities released the suspect's picture, which was not difficult because Brown has an interesting criminal record. The most salacious aspect of Brown's criminal past is that he is a convicted sex offender. According to Sibile Marcellus of www.myfoxtwincities.com [5] Brown was convicted of raping his own six-year-old daughter multiple times. At the time of the murders Brown was also in trouble for not registering as a sex offender.
The charge and conviction most predictive of the killing spree would seem to be Brown's 2004 arrest for a, "massive Seattle bank fraud scheme". The elements of the scheme involved depositing fraudulent checks and withdrawing funds before the checks were discovered to be bogus. Investigators at the time believed the money might be getting funneled overseas but it could not be proved.[3] Some reports say the bank fraud ring consisted 13 other men and Brown. Blogs.seattletimes.com [6] mentions three other men and further comments that many of the men involved were supporters of terrorism in Somalia. Whatever the truth the government could not make its case and Dan Ivers of www.nj.com [7] writes that Brown was arrested for the bank fraud in 2004 and released in 2005 for time served.
In almost a footnote seattletimes.com reports that Brown pleaded guilty to "communicating with a minor for immoral purposes" in March 2012 and that he received a year in jail. On one hand it may seem that Brown does not learn from experience. On the other hand Sibile Marcellus reports that Ali Muhammed Brown is alleged to have received jihadi training somewhere in California in April of this year, so perhaps at least in his chosen path of jihad, Brown did try to improve and not repeat past mistakes. [5]
When his picture was distributed by authorities in the Seattle area Brown obtained a car and fled 3000 miles to New Jersey where he had some past experience. There in July Brown is reported to have pumped 10 shots into 19 year old Brian Tevlin's vehicle while it was stopped at an intersection. Brown then drove the car to an apartment complex and abandoned it. Some sources credit Brown's "just kill" remarks to the Tevlin murder but other sources state Brown has pleaded not guilty to that murder. [1]
Ali Muhammad was arrested at a "makeshift camp" about July 18, in New Jersey. Ballistics matched the three Washington killings to the New Jersey murder. Brown, a convicted felon, may have stolen the gun from his mother. Other sources state he took the gun and his get away car the mother of his children. [3]
At this time New Jersey is holding the jihadi suspect on $5 million bail. There is no action filed to extradite him to Washington state where he could face the death penalty. He may be charged in the future with terrorism. In the last two attacks the victims' cars were moved and abandoned by Brown. In New Jersey two young alleged accomplices were also arrested and they do not appear to claim any jihadi motivations. Brown is also accused of armed robbery and attempted car jacking in New Jersey. I suppose a way out for government that is squeamish about even admitting there are terrorists, could be to claim that Ali Muhammad Brown is just a regular criminal, claiming political motives to make himself look less like the average registered sex offender/serial killer.
In the meantime any attempt to sweep the crime spree under a prayer rug has to acknowledge Brown's own words from court documents. "All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government", the devout Muslim is quoted, "So a life for a life." If that is not enough, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray says the motive appears to be, "... based on anti-American sentiment and an extreme interpretation of the Muslim faith." [6]
No more "extreme interpretation of the Muslim faith" can be found than that of ISIS, now shortened to IS which stands for Islamic State. Daily we hear of new outrages so big that the media cannot totally ignore them. Even so, President Obama is quoted in a speech today, "We do not have a strategy yet..." to deal with ISIS/IS. Other news bytes this past week detail ISIS/IS plans to bring their terror activities to the streets of America, specifically mentioning the Obama's home territory of Chicago..
Ali Muhammad Brown did his best to bring IS-style terrorism to America according to his own confessions, yet because two of his victims were gay authorities initially missed the point and may be able to continue to avoid the stickier Muslim terrorist issue by insisting two of the serial killer's murders were hate crimes against gay men. President Obama won reelection in 2012 at least in part by reminding his supporters Osama bin Laden was dead and therefore terrorism was on the run. Nobody dares consider that a killing spree could be terroristic and even when the killer spells out terrorist motives, authorities and the press are slow to react. Avoid at all costs any acts of political incorrectness, seems to be the blueprint for the new normal. In the resulting general confusion political incorrectness may breed unintentional hate crimes. Or something.
Foreign inspired terrorism was the last thing on anyone's mind in the early June aftermath of double homicide in Seattle.Three days after the murders of the gay men in Seattle capitolhillseattle.com[8] flanked an article with pictures of the victims. Ahmed Said as his name suggests, appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent. Dwone Anderson-Young was black. "It's important we come together and try to figure out the motives that might be behind this crime", is how the article ends. The gist of the article is that the two murders touched "three communities" in the Seattle area. Said was a member of the Somali community. Young represented the African American community. Both men were members of the LGBTQ community. [6]
A normal response is to acknowledge the grief of survivors, but the 3-community comment is enough to make a patriot shriek, "Only in Obama's America!" In the America that Obama and his political party has fractionated into "communities" based on race, sexual orientation, gender and whatever other designation that can be manufactured, Ali Muhammad Brown's summer of serial killing becomes a joke on the community organizers. His self-defined terrorist spree was missed and is now ignored by the established media probably out of fear of being politically incorrect. How can any jihadi hope to terrorize Americans if Americans no longer exist in a patriotic sense, but are relegated to sub-groups devised and managed by community organizing politicians intent on power for power's sake?
Ali Muhammad Brown remains a failure as a criminal. As a child molester he was caught, convicted and registered. As a bank fraudster he was caught and jailed. As a jihadi serial killer he intended vengeance against America and nobody seems to care beyond how individual communities experience grief. Continuing in his roster of failure Brown's terror spree will likely be remembered as a gay hate crime.
Ali Muhammad's continuing criminal failure is aided and abetted by the established media sources. Allen B. West on his site says this, "Consider the fact that we have a massive media army in Ferguson. Missouri but hardly a peep on this very disturbing series of jihadist murders." [9]
It is I suppose more comfortable to assume the enemy is our fellow bigoted citizens. It is easier to understand that not everyone in the country is ready to wave the rainbow flag, than that domestic raised or foreign terrorists would enjoy killing us simply because we are Americans. For the present political power structure to work the community organizers whose tactic is us against them and them against us, must keep Americans working against Americans. In the destabilization of the new normal power addicted politicians thrive. The last thing they want is for Americans to unite against a common enemy such as ISIS. Thus political correctness labels the Ft. Hood shootings as "workplace violence". If Ali Muhammad Brown's bit of serial killing can be firmly labelled as a domestic hate crime against gays, the politically correct crowd will be vindicated and gain strength at the expense of America's safety.
Future jihadists wanting to kill Americans for Allah should certainly know to what "community" their intended victims belong. Avoid gay-Americans and make sure skin colors are appropriately matched. For example a light brown jihadist doing a suicide bombing in a predominantly black neighborhood is likely to be dismissed as a KKK member rather than a brave member of the Army of Allah. The safest target would probably be white, heterosexual, Christian men gathered at TEA Party meetings, but members of the other "communities" probably wouldn't care and the goal of universal terror in the US would be diluted again.
"Vengeance is my mission", declared Ali Muhammad Brown. What's so hard to understand? [1] We can unite as Americans against the real haters and hate crimes of the world or we can become increasingly divided to the point we manufacture imaginary hate crimes that cover up the true evil done among us. Terrorists plan to kill all colors of Americans if they can; black, brown, red, white and blue.
President Obama running again in 2012 assured the country that terrorists were on the run and that helped him gain reelection. In this he told the truth. The terrorists ARE on the run...STRAIGHT AT US!
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[4] www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/suspect-killed-n-teen-vengeance-military-article-1.1911964 ; Meg Warren, 8/21/14
[5] www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/26222470/brown-pleads=not-guilty-in-brendan-tevlins-murder ,8/7/2014, Sibile Marcellus
[9] Allen B. West; allenbwest.com/2014/08/real-islamophobes-american-media-jihadist-mass-murder-us-goes-unreported/ ; Jihadist Mass Murder in US goes Unreported
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Are you a stakeholder or citizen?
August 3, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
Today at 12:33 AM
"Borders language and culture define a nation", is the profound catch phrase of radio personality and author Michael Savage. If you only hear his program once in awhile you will remember that phrase and think about it. Dr. Savage wrote a book titled "Saving America From the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture".
Borders are easy to define. Culture less so. Language would seem simply to mean that the US is an English speaking country and that's why we feel enraged when asked to "press one for English", especially if we are calling a tax payer funded government office.
While thoroughly researching the ACA~aka Democrat Care as that party is forced to own it when we vote this fall~I noted that it may as well have been written in a foreign language. That was scary since it was thousands of pages, all about what the government planned to do to me and other Americans personally, via private medical care. State and even local documents were no easier to understand. As I would with any foreign language I looked up definitions, learned them and became reasonably fluent in reading about government-based health care.
At the same time I noticed certain words and phrases that came into use with President Obama, were becoming part of everyday speech. "Forward thinking" is one of those. Years ago Marxists used the one word: FORWARD! Exclamation point! Obama campaigned the second time on something about if you don't go forward, you go backward, so let's go forward, and he won because folks thought they didn't want to go backward.
FAST FORWARD to last week when I read my old hometown newspaper online. Each edition has more and more Obama inspired words and those words lend themselves to Obama-style thoughts. Perhaps we could say the newspaper is "fundamentally transforming" or something. Reading that recent edition almost caused my brain to explode, because of a caption under a picture. Local people were photographed touring a city facility and they were labeled "stakeholders".
Regular local individuals were in the photo, so what caused them to be called "stakeholders" and what in the heck does STAKEHOLDER mean anyway? What other words might have been used under that picture prior to President Obama taking office? "Citizens" is one word that comes to mind. In Obama-speak is the word citizen being replaced with stakeholder? The scary answer is maybe or probably, which is about as definite as anything the current government turns out.
Just as the ACA can be interpreted to mean whatever the next executive order says it means, so can the word stakeholder mean whatever a political entity says it means. It appears the current government definition comes from the business definition which has been around for a number of years. The easiest way to define it is that shareholders OWN part of the business. Stakeholders do not necessarily OWN part of the business. www.businessdictionary.com [1] From there it gets fuzzy since nobody has an exact definition of stakeholder, and that fact is readily admitted. Broadly interpreted a stakeholder can be any person, group or organization affected by a business, including unions and the community. Stretched to the outer limits "Stakeholder Theory" can have something to do with business morality and responsibility. en.wikipedia.org [2]
Right here it seems appropriate to paraphrase President Obama: You didn't build that and you don't own it! Shareholders own stuff while stakeholders are affected by stuff they (generally) don't own. So it all fits together that before Obama we were citizens, individuals, even owners, and now we are mere stakeholders. Practically quoting another great Democrat leader: What difference does it make?
"From Citizens to Stakeholders...Or Just Call it the new Obama Constitution", is part of the title of an excellent article written in 2009 by Angelo M. Codevilla. He notes that neither voting nor paying taxes means a person is a stakeholder. He proposes that stakeholders become the only citizens as, "unelected stakeholders" are "gathered by czars around big tables", forming "unelected political bodies". Codevilla also notes that some regimes in the world already have this form of government by stakeholder, and he mentions specifically Argentina, Mexico and the European Union countries. www.spectator.org [3]
Perhaps Obama's solution to the border crisis is to make our country just like Mexico; then their citizens, even their little children, will just stay home. WIN/WIN like the lefties say!
Put a different way Codevilla quotes Manhattan Institute writer Michael Knox Beran who wrote that Obama rejects, "Anglo-American politics of limits" and seeks a "communitarian paradise" (wherein citizens would leave behind) "their own swinish pursuits" (to) "become happy in pursuit of the common good" and love each other.[3]
Swinish? That means pig, doesn't it? Selfish individualism perhaps? When it is left behind for the collective good, the hive mind will hum in perfect three part harmony? Mentioning collectivism, it's time to check in with the community organizers, keeping in mind that was Barak Obama's main job prior to jumping into the presidency. How do community organizers create the stakeholders who will usher in Obama's "communitarian paradise"?
It turns out community organizing is all about stakeholders which are defined as members of groups. Individuals and citizens may exist within groups, but it is only as representatives of groups, aka stakeholders, that they matter. www.blueprintforchange.net [4] Despite the words "organizing" and "organizer" coming after "community", the activity is really about dividing people into groups, then pitting the groups against each other to gain money and control.www.fgfbooks.com [5] The stakeholders are members of groups that are affected by the actions of other entities. Specific groups from which come stakeholders, can be but are not limited to: environmental groups, public and private schools, industry and business associations, senior citizen groups, politicians, etc. [4] The Chamber of Commerce and AARP fit right in that line up as do many smaller groups at the local level.
One group category I have not seen listed is religious, which doesn't mean they can't produce stakeholders~I just have not found it in the community organizing articles I researched. It is probably a safe bet that Reverend Wright's church had produced plenty of stakeholders to further Obama's career. "G--D--- America", sounds more like something that would be preached to non-owning stakeholders than to patriotic citizens.
There is a training article at Quizlet.com [6] about community organizing a health education effort. The word citizen is used once in the fairly short article. Stakeholder is used nine times. Individuals are sometimes referenced as units within the groups. The scary part is that individuals are singled out for "interventions" from the stakeholders and groups that will be providing the health educator, and so I wonder if this non-specific health education is some form of reeducation for errant individuals who have strayed from the hive mind. I mean, if the individuals were doing everything the group(s) deemed necessary for health, they surely wouldn't need the health education, would they? Is an individual identified by the groups as being in need of a health education intervention, a stakeholder or a stakeholder individually gone astray?
Going backward instead of forward, remember that stakeholders are members of groups that are affected by the actions of others. Negatively or positively that could pretty much be everyone, especially if he or she is a stakeholder and therefore a member of a group that can be organized and used for political purposes.
In the beginning I thought stakeholder was a new-normal synonym for citizen. As a journalist I might have used the words "local citizens" under that newspaper picture in the hometown paper. WRONG! Citizens have loyalty to a country and in turn are protected by their country. There is a sense of belonging and rights. Stakeholders are merely affected by things. Negatively put stakeholders are members of the victim class; no borders, language or culture required.
I was curious if pro-amnesty advocates had the guts to say the immigrant children flooding our borders were some form of stakeholders. I haven't found it yet, but those kids are certainly affected by our policies once they cross the border. Some would definitely argue that the policies of countries even create stakeholders in other countries. Feel free to blow your mind with www.migrationpolicy.org [7]
The federal government that demands control of every aspect of our lives cannot clearly define terms in the new language it is creating. Use a word or phrase often enough, it develops its own meaning in the context of so-called laws that are written too sloppy to enforce. Language matters. How many repetitions will it take before the open border crowd has reduced us all to victimized stakeholders instead of proud citizens who as individuals, make up this government? Think about that every time you hear the word stakeholder~and firmly reject that title for yourself.
Words become definitions and definitions are part of laws that control our actions and take our freedoms. Pressing one for English is nothing compared to what this government is really doing to us.
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[3] spectator.org/articles/40981/citizens-stakeholders-new-american-constitution; 'From Citizens to "Stakeholders": The New American Constitution~Or Just Call it the New Obama Constitution', Angelo M. Codevilla, 9/2009
[6] Quizlet.com ; Competency 2.1 Involve Priority Populations and Other Stakeholders in the Planning Process
[7] www.migrationpolicy.org/research/stakeholder-citizenship-idea-whose-time-has-come ; by Rainer Baubock, 4/2008
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About Jobs~Not Race
July 13, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
A Tweet about Murrieta, CA protest of busloads of immigrant kids reads: Did U see the 50 or so #patriot TRASH in #Murietta CA that blocked WOMEN & CHILDREN fleeing for their lives? Despicable! Less than human. The writer's profile is "Progressive Democrat" as well as "agnostic, Animal Lover, tree hugger, #ProChoice".
Recently on radio news a father in Murietta, CA said, "There are not enough jobs for us to afford to raise our own children. How can we afford to raise theirs?"
Liberals have made many statements recently about how we as a country can afford all these immigrant children and that it is immoral not to take and keep as many as come here. Anyone who opposes this is labeled inhumane and racist.
Like Greta Van Susteren has her "Off the Record" segment, this is my Rant From the Heart segment. I am the technical writer at Freedom Fighters of America, the one who cites sources and footnotes stuff, which I am not going to do here. This is about my own feelings and fears based on 50 years of watching immigrants and "guest workers" take jobs many Americans would take if they were allowed to do so. If our citizens have reached the breaking point over hundreds of thousands of Central American children belatedly labeled "refugees", it took fifty years of lost jobs to get here.
I am not going to use the word "illegal" because as far as I know what I intend to criticize involves people here legally one way or another. At this moment the influx of children crossing our border is illegal but the government is fast working to declare them "refugees", at which point I presume their entry will become legal. My ultimate point will be, there have never been enough jobs to go around in America during my adulthood, since the early 70s. It is popular to demean citizens who live on welfare, food stamps and other government handouts but nobody attempts to describe how this sort of thing became a way of life and how it was encouraged by our government and policy makers.
A Baby Boomer in my fifties, I reject the idea of being "old" which has negative connotations in our society. This dates back at least to my generation that popularized, "Never trust anyone over 30". The good thing about living a lot of years is that a person lives through a lot of changes and therefore has a first hand account of history as it was made. Many times the bits of history will have had personal effects on the person who lived in that time.
For example I have watched wave after wave of immigrants, amnesty decisions and failed promises to control our southern border destroy jobs US citizens need. I have watched citizens give up on trying to find work while immigrants and guest workers get the jobs. The pattern seems to be that both major parties work against We the People. Business wants cheap labor and their lobbyists work on one party. Liberal leaning people have dreams about world government without borders and thoughts about America owing the rest of the world because we have been successful. Therefore all the "huddled masses" should be allowed to come here for a better life and after all, our families were all immigrants at one time, unless we are Native Americans, and look how bad our immigrant grandparents treated them. Unlimited immigration is the answer to the guilt we should be feeling for our success. Or something..
This is a great over simplification but somewhere along the line one or both sides put forth the idea there were jobs Americans were unable or unwilling to do and only foreign workers could fill the gap. Americans won't pick fruit, it was said. After about 40 years of such propaganda we have moved up to the point where many service industry jobs are held by guest workers and American citizens need not apply. Americans are supposed to all have college educations and a high school diploma means absolutely nothing in this new century. The problem is not every single person born in America is suited to college or a professional career and jobs those folks would have traditionally taken are largely filled by people from other countries.
Way back in the Dark Ages when I was a teen, somewhere between the Kennedy assassination and Nixon's resignation, kids had summer jobs. One place I lived was semi-agricultural and families owned the orchards and farms. Young people, some under 13 years old, did various jobs like picking fruit, weeding certain crops by hand, sorting potatoes and when they were older, bucking hay bales in the fields. Other teens got service industry jobs for the summer, like dish washing in restaurants. Lots of the kids so employed were from working class families, many of which barely made it from paycheck to paycheck. At the end of the month families like that might have only potato soup made of boiled potatoes, milk, salt an pepper, to eat for a week. (Moms cooked most meals at home in those days.) Teens' summer jobs provided money for the teens themselves to buy school supplies, school clothes or maybe even coats and boots for the harsh winters. These summer jobs were a way of life for a lot of kids and they looked forward to the work experience. Like President Reagan said, "The best social program is a job".
Starting more or less in the 70s kids stopped getting these summer jobs as even family owned agriculture employed "Crews", largely from Mexico, to to all the work. The Crews were on contracts that made promises to "Jobbers" who were the middlemen. There were sacrosanct guarantees that no one but the Crews could work in the fields or orchards.
Over the years "the community pulled together", as leftist Progressives are fond of saying, and now in the 21st Century by early August there are drives to donate school supplies, clothing and shoes to the poor kids of poor families. Kids no longer even look for summer work because there isn't any. Instead of working kids up to age 18 get free federally provided lunches all summer at a local school. About the end of September various charities begin drives for coats and boots to aid children during the long, bitter winters. Around Christmas other drives seek gloves, hats, scarves and mittens for the same kids. Long, long ago kids with summer jobs bought their own stuff. Now it is the "community's responsibility", or something. Like Hillary's book said, "It takes a village"~especially when few have jobs and welfare is encouraged by government as a necessity.
As a young adult there were still some entry level jobs and I worked a few. (Back in the 60s we were anxious to be on our own and we would have been disgusted with the Obama Care idea that we would be "children" on our parents' insurance till age 26.) One place where I lived in Oregon slowly had its job market strangled and killed by environmental regulations. I had a job but my married, male boss decided to make sexual intercourse a job requirement. This was before the term sexual harassment had been invented so I stupidly quit that job and rapidly found out there were no others since environmentalists had shut down a nearby factory in the middle of the winter. After weeks of no work a friend told me the orchards were hiring pruners. I had experience doing this work and was young and strong. Orchard after orchard turned me down because they had "made promises to Crews" which could not be broken. By that time I was literally hungry and I begged for the work. We are supposed to automatically feel a great deal of pity for immigrants and workers coming to this country, but nobody gave a damn when I begged for a job that was contracted to a foreign national.
Indeed it was a time of sheer terror. Back in those days homelessness was not yet an accepted way of life and in many areas it was illegal. Our moms had taught us to always have at least one dollar in our pockets because to have NO money at all could lead to an arrest for vagrancy if one was questioned by police and could not prove a place of residence. Growing up in a middle class family I had been blessed to always have enough to eat and a home to live in. I had been taught that you take ANY job necessary to feed yourself and you never take welfare. It was a total shock to learn that jobs could be available but they were promised to foreign workers, American citizens need not apply, and that desperately begging for a job received a smug comment about Crews needing the work.
I went jobless and hungry and I seethed inside. Surely the only fair solution would be that if a citizen needed a job a foreign worker should be kicked off the Crew instantly and be replaced by the citizen. To the best of my knowledge no legislation like this has ever been introduced.
In a few weeks I had hitch hiked out of that area with only the clothes on my back and was able to finally land a job. Eventually I used special talents God has given me, to go into business for myself. From this position I continued to watch a lot of my friends struggle as jobs became even scarcer.
The word went around from under-employed citizen to unemployed citizens, that there was no stigma to accepting welfare and food stamps. Indeed these government instructed struggling folks that these programs gave dignity to the poor, and the poor were expected to partake from the government trough. In a little over a decade lining up for government cheese and standing in line at the food bank was a way of life for parents and children.
As families obtained their dignity through handouts, employers became bolder in shutting out American workers. Earlier I mentioned the service industry~restaurants, motels and the like. I have an acquaintance who will only hire Mexicans for jobs other than wait staff in his restaurant. He pays higher than minimum wage and says Mexicans work harder. Americans need not apply to wash dishes, cook or bus tables, jobs that were once entry level staples for young citizens. He won't hire them and what he is doing is legal.
The place I used to live is highly dependent on federal grant money from taxes to build sidewalks and pave roads. The crews spreading the concrete and asphalt I am told come from the Vera Cruz area of Mexico. Meanwhile citizens live in subsidized housing and get food stamps. The food banks take full page ads in the newspaper at holiday time, begging for increased donations because the need increases every year. This is not because the locals won't work. Indeed a few poor, welfare families recently relocated to the new oil fields in the mid west and for the first time in years they are now employed. Why should people from Vera Cruz get our jobs, receive wages from our tax money, and send that money back home, while our own people are herded onto the welfare roles?
Then there is a never ending supply of immigrants who come here to live. Vietnamese boat people had the right to come here because of the Vietnam War, which is known in Vietnam as the American War. Jimmy Carter was elected president mostly because he looked super honest and that's what people wanted after Nixon resigned for dishonesty. Carter, like Obama worked hard to make America look weak and he talked about human rights all the time. So of course Castro emptied Cuban prisons and asylums and his rejects became the Mariel Boatlift. Since I have been online I have learned of all kinds of other immigrants that came here that didn't really make the news. Seems like we took in a bunch or Somali people and groups from the Middle East. In fact in reality it looks like we have taken in groups from everywhere except Sudan where human rights are non-existent and most recently Miriam Ibrahim, a young mother, was to be hanged for being Christian.
The latest wave is children, some accompanied by "women", supposedly mothers, but most of the kids we are told, risk death and rape travelling alone. At first news reports said the kids were illegal immigrants hoping to benefit from President Obama's executive orders concerning the Dream Act. We were told these were little Dreamers. This apparently didn't go over too good with the people so recently the child immigrants have been renamed "refugees" and we are told they are escaping war and vicious drug cartels back home. This new designation makes it hateful, racist and ungodly to call for the deportation of the children back to their countries of origin.
People in Murrieta, CA, afraid the immigrant/refugee kids would be placed or escape into their town and stay permanently, dared to protest. Many hateful comments have been made by loving and tolerant pro-immigration folks on the left, calling Murietta protesters Nazis, KKK, intolerant and inhumane. The spin from immigrant to refugee took hold awful fast and is a whole lot more successful than was that spin about a video causing the Benghazi attacks. I guess the administration has learned how to lie faster and create more convincing false narratives since 2012.
As the refugee angle is embellished more each day, those of us who would send the kids back home are increasingly vilified. I prayed long and hard about my position and whether or not I should write about it and honestly searched my conscience. After forty years I still have emotional issues and insecurities about food and shelter because I starved while jobs were given to non-citizens. From then till now I have watched friends struggle with hunger and shelter because there were not enough jobs. I have watched my friends' kids grow up on welfare and boxes from the food bank, and I have helped some of them along the way. None of my friends' kids ever had summer jobs because there weren't any. None of them ever worked after school for the same reason. I have told girl friends they ought to stay in abusive marriages because they had food and shelter and that's all there is to life; a full belly and a roof.
It's not just me who feels these things, but I get mad and try to figure out answers and then I write. I did a lot of charity work for a number of years, helping the poor. Because when I was a teen worker on my own, I suffered hunger and homelessness which led to emotional terror and feelings of hopelessness, I want to help others not to suffer that way. Even so, I can't save the world and neither can my country. Americans are generous by nature, frequently noted as the most generous people in the world. As our government taxes us harder and tells us we have to have less, our patience is running thin. Our own citizens who are fortunate enough to have jobs are supporting multitudes of our own citizens who have no jobs.
The immigrant/refugee kids are pawns used by our government for its aim of forcing so-called amnesty through congress, and by their parents who hope their children will be a stepping stone to American citizenship for the whole family, in my opinion. It is time people in other countries fight for their own rights and decent government at home. It is said people get the government they deserve. Tough as it is, ordinary folks who unite can and do overthrow brutal dictators. Those poor children need to be treated humanely while they are here but sent home to their parents ASAP.
This is not racist. There are people from all over the world waiting in line and following the law to immigrate to this country legally. Inventing a refugee label for hundreds of thousands of children who want to immigrate today amounts to spitting on the folks of many colors and nationalities who are doing it right.
These little kids were called immigrant "Dreamers" a couple weeks ago and now are officially called refugees, "women and children running for their lives" it is said. This reminds me of the saying, "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining". The American people are tired of being peed on by their government, then told they are racists or right-wing-nut-jobs if they don't accept it is only rain, because the government declares it so.
Going back to the Tweet at the beginning that maliciously ridicules patriots; true patriots want their country to be strong and to have secure borders. From strength comes generosity, from weakness comes nothing. Our own people are suffering from high taxes and lack of jobs, and more than a generation has been taught there is dignity in taking welfare while foreign Crews and immigrants who gain amnesty take many of the jobs Americans once had.
There is nothing racist about saying jobs for every citizen first. It is obscene that many of our veterans are jobless. First, jobs for every citizen especially every veteran. If a citizen needs a job a non-citizen holds, the citizen gets the job and the non-citizen is instantly terminated. Then we can talk about immigration. After the border is under control.
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Fresh Prince of Voter Fraud
July 3, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
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No Revolutionaries~Just Uber-Losers
June 11, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
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Did Obama Post a "KICK ME" Sign?
May 29, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
While serving two tours of service in Afghanistan, Marine Andrew Tahmooressi saved 8 marines from the Taliban. He saved another marine from bleeding to death after that marine lost his leg stepping on an IED. Tahmooressi himself sustained a concussion when his vehicle was hit by an IED. Tahmooressi has been in the marines four years. March 20 this year, our VA diagnosed him with PTSD. [1]
After Tahmooressi accidentally crossed the border into Mexico with three legally owned guns, just as border guards may have let him turn around and return to the US, it is said "the military" jumped him, beat him with a bat and dislocated his jaw. He then spent four weeks naked and chained to a Mexican prison cot by four point restraint. According to friend and fellow Marine Mark Podlaski, while chained Tahmooressi was fed with "juice boxes" and given a bed pan. Things have been better the last two weeks after the media got involved. When finally released from restraint Tahmooressi's muscles were atrophied according to Podlaski. [2]
Fox News' Greta VanSusteren went to the exact spot where Tahmooressi claims to have made a forced entrance into Mexico. On her show she noted the poor signage and difficulties turning around.[3] (Haven't we all had the experiences of forced exits and entries on regular US freeways?)
One of Van Susteren's last comments was, "and clean the graffiti off the signs". A picture on gretawire.com shows a small yellow sign with the words "No USA Return". There is unintelligible graffiti over the word "return" so that the sign reads "No USA". The graffiti appears to be a basic obscenity, or is it code for "Gringo Go Home"?
What I want to know is did we post a "KICK ME" sign on the other side? It seems to me Mexico would be in a lot worse shape if the Estados Unidos were not one small border crossing to the north. In fact that border crossing is a mere hip hop on the Highway to Heaven for Mexican citizens desperately travelling north for jobs and opportunities, and if they get real lucky at just the right time, citizenship. The same line apparently demarcates the Highway to Hell for Americans who make mistakes. Before Tahmooressi there was Marine Jon Hammer. I am sure there are other Americans similarly treated who are not military, do not get attention and simply do their time in Mexican prisons.
Tahmooressi's story is a bit confusing in our news or in news from the Mexican perspective. Roughly he has a poor sense of direction, got in the wrong lane at the border, couldn't turn around, crossed over, explained his dilemma to Mexican authorities and called 911 which could not help him because he was already in Mexico. According to all sources Tahmooressi declared the guns in his car to Mexican authorities.
San Diego Red [4] an apparently Spanish language publication alleges Tahmooressi did not answer questions properly, acted suspiciously and has been treated reasonably. The article mentions US court treatment of "blind mules", Mexican nationals who accidentally smuggle drugs into the US, and further suggests Andrew Tahmooressi deserves whatever the Mexican courts decide.Putting both news versions together it seems PTSD from his military service influenced Tahmooressi's actions.
The San Diego Red article which is critical of the US media, ends with the line that thankfully this case will be tried in court, not the media.
Not so fast! The case of Mexico v. Andrew Tahmooressi is firmly in the court of public opinion. It is trending in the New Media, formerly called social media, which is the peoples' voice. No longer do the masses grumble in front of TVs and send letters that nobody reads. We the people are the reporters, feature writers and editorialists in the New Media and our global conversation goes on 24/7. Indeed one commentator said people on social media can probably do more to #BringBackOurMarine than can our State Department. Keeping the pressure on was mentioned.
Which brings me back to my question. Have we posted a "KICK ME" sign on the back of the graffiti covered "No USA Return" sign?
Trying to help Tahmooressi, CA Rep. Duncan Hunter has asked Secretary of Defense Hagel to stop military aid to Mexico until our Marine is released. Our country is giving military aid to Mexico while that country has had one of our heroes chained hand and foot to a prison cot? A TV commentator said Mexico can't just release our Marine because they have to "save face"! How about a muchas gracias for our military aid?
Gretawire.com has several opinion polls about the case. One concerns the military aid to Mexico and the voters overwhelmingly say stop the aid. A second question is, "Would you vacation in Mexico while Sargent Tahmooressi is in prison there?" 98.09% say NO. Tourism is Mexico's third largest source of national income. Several years ago an article quoted a Mexican woman in the tourism industry who lamented that "US government statements" can negatively affect the industry.[5] Our government is apparently being very careful not to make any negative statements that would be harmful to Mexico as leaders have said little about the Tahmooressi case. #BoycottMexico is popping up on the New Media and gaining strength. I do not have accurate figures for the dollar value of US tourism to Mexico though the industry total is in the billions of dollars.
Americans are forgiving folks and chances are a Boycott Mexico movement will never take off over Andrew Tahmooressi or anything else. Our tourist dollars will continue to flow south. We are pretty good neighbors despite the Mexican government acting like we did indeed post a "KICK ME" sign at the border. Possibly it is President Obama's attitude that the US is no better than any other country. His willingness to literally bow down as part of foreign diplomacy can be interpreted as "KICK ME". Putin seems to take it that way and that is probably a reason the Mexican government can play with our Marine like a cat plays with a half dead mouse.
Mexican nationals navigating their Highway to Heaven north over the border provide Mexico's second largest source of national income! Remittances is the official term for the money wires Mexicans send home from their jobs in the US. Tens of billions of dollars are wired from here to there every year. We could Boycott Mexico but the dollars would still flow. Our government whose policies support millions of Mexican people, is apparently helpless in releasing one Marine who is a war hero.
For at least 40 years our government policies have favored Mexican guest workers over our own citizens. Our government falsely propagates the idea that Americans just won't do some jobs. Our far left politicians say it is a humanitarian thing to let poor Mexicans work in our country and send money home. Our own citizens can always get the welfare and food stamps paid for by tax dollars. No longer do American teens from poor families earn school money or save for college by working agricultural jobs. Those are all taken by contracted "crews". Forty years ago before food banks and food stamps some Americans went hungry when "crews" took jobs desperately needed by Americans.
Americans are generous by nature. In addition to giving jobs to "crews" our many charities provide further aid and care to Mexican people in our country. Several years ago the small town where I lived had a dentist shortage, I had a bad tooth and couldn't get an appointment. All the local dentists had volunteered a week at the local migrant camp, ministering to the "crews". One dentist finally agreed to see me in the migrant camp where they were giving free care to Mexican people who had never in their lives seen a dentist.
Some how we Americans are always supposed to feel sorry for the "poor Mexicans". Even that country's own political problems are blamed on us. Our people buy drugs so Mexico has vicious drug cartels, is an example. That reasoning reminds me of what is reported about Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi almost being allowed to turn around and go back home except the Federales jumped him, beat him, dislocated his jaw, and locked him in a prison where he was chained to a bed for four weeks. This would be an international incident if our government chose to make it so. Instead it is my understanding that our government continues to mull over citizenship/amnesty legislation even as Mexico is careful not to disrupt this process while they toy with our injured war hero.
Somewhat paraphrasing Michelle Obama I say, "All this for a damn country?"
It is blessed to give without receiving. American people have done this for Mexican people for decades. We are supposed to feel good about it but when we ask to have one of our own people returned it is not done. The Tahmooressi case is a very human story which may only be solved by the people and not governments. Are the Mexican people petitioning their government for the release of Sgt. Tahmooressi? Are they secretly proud of making us squirm? Are they laughing with us, at our president who bows and posts "KICK ME" signs all over the world?
There are things we can do. Greta Van Susteren has been very active in the effort to free Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi. There are two good opinion polls on gretawire.com. Please vote. Bill O'Reilly has a petition to sign online which he says will be hand delivered in a few days by Jesse Watters . Please sign that at billoreilly.com. Greta says to keep the pressure on and use the Twitter hashtag #MarineHeldInMexico. Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto has a Twitter account which is @EPN. We in the New Media have a lot more power than we believe. Use it!
President Obama's foreign policy may say "KICK ME" but We the People say, "Don't bite the hand that feeds you"! Let's get Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi back home NOW!
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[2] Video available, gretawire.com
[3] gretawire.com
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It's about Control, not Health
May 21, 2014
by Anna Morris, Co-Editor for Freedom Fighters of America
We The People have until Wednesday, May 21 to comment on a convoluted plan our government has devised that appears to link our medical care to the World Health Organization (WHO), Climate Change, and environmentalism. This is the National Health Security Strategy plan or NHSS.
One Health Initiative is mentioned in the NHSS and this links all medical providers together for the health of humans, animals and plants![1] Veterinaries will become part of the human health scene and of course they are encouraged to protect pets from second and third hand cigarette smoke in the home. Some nut job figured out more people might quit smoking if they knew second hand smoke harmed pets. Veterinaries will also be looking out for obesity in pets, for now.[2] Wonder how soon before they advise obese pet owners to walk the obese dog so many hours a day so that everyone can achieve wellness for the good of the planet? How soon before our Brave New Government runs out of Obama Care dollars, implements Death Panels and delegates veterinaries to euthanize our sick and burdensome elderly and unwanted children?
OK, that gives us the idea the 52 page NHSS document is out in left field. We are invited to comment on the direction, focus and activities contained in the 52 pages which are labeled as a draft, and marked at the top of each page in bold letters: DO NOT QUOTE OR CITE! I see this as the journalistic version of the old "Kick Me" sign. To me the writer it translates to "Sensationalize Me". Gladly!
If one can find a theme in the verbiage it would be that our federal government plans to get together with WHO and their International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) which we support, and which come in the form of a legally binding agreement. The main purpose is to protect us and the world from things like bio-terrorism, WMDs, emerging diseases and animal and plant diseases that affect economies and crops. Climate Change and the environment is sloppily mentioned. Possibly weather events are meant since it is suggested to have preparedness parties in private homes just prior to hurricane season.
Health Security and Health Resilience are two terms used. (Gosh, I hope I didn't just quote something inadvertently. If I'm in trouble I guess my next article will be sent from GITMO, where I will plan to be lying on a prayer rug on the warm, sandy beach.) Anyway these terms have something to do with well-being and good mental health which will be provided by the federal government through behavioral health specialists. There is even a part about providing adequate behavioral health specialists to minister to faith based leaders in time of crisis. Do we translate this as a government psychiatrist for every minister, priest, rabbi, etc.? I always thought God was there for people of faith or that faith leaders and congregations were there to strengthen each other.
There are handy diagrams and flow charts depicting different aspects. I like the pyramid that shows families and all the little people at the bottom and the federal government as the cap stone on top. Throughout the government is listed as a federal partner who partners with non-federal partners or something. Non-federal partners include you and me and service organizations and nosy neighbors who like to spy and report stuff because getting all that health security is a collective effort. (Yes I saw the word COLLECTIVE but I'm not quoting the whole line, and no we won't be publishing the pyramid which depicts the federal government at the top. BTW, since the federal government plans to take over, that pyramid capstone ought to have the all seeing eye, like the one on the dollar bill.)
Collectively then we are all supposed to be part of Health Security for the good of the world. We must stay healthy, eat right and get our exercise so we will be resilient in case of disaster, human caused or otherwise. Collectively we need to watch out and identify threats to our well-being and Health Security. The world depends on it just like the planet depends on cows not farting out all that CO2 gas! We must have good behavioral health so we are alert to emerging threats and we can bounce back right away if there's another 911, or someone puts anthrax in our bottled water supply, or if that swine virus keeps spreading and there is no more bacon. Ever.
Realistically public health has always covered things like spread of contagious diseases and sewage leaking into the public water supply. Such things have been reported for decades. Individuals are reported to government if they have a "reportable disease" like TB or diptheria or bubonic plague. Theoretically public health departments can still quarantine people in their homes due to contagious diseases. Most recently we see how governments tracked, isolated and treated two cases of the Middle Eastern Respiratory virus (MERS) that occurred in the US. I doubt any of us object to this nor would we feel violated if we personally had a reportable disease that got reported.
The DO NOT QUOTE OR CITE, 52 pages of the NHSS draft document are not nearly that clear. Bio-surveillance is a somewhat new term that crops up. Simply defined it means watching and reporting emerging diseases, the spread of diseases of humans, plants and animals. Even the plant and animal part isn't far fetched. There are 7 billion people to feed on earth and we cannot afford a good old fashioned famine. We want all the help we can get if crops and livestock are threatened.
On the other hand a question of patient privacy has come up. Democrat Care aka Obama Care or the UnAffordable Care Act, has provisions that doctors MUST use electronic health records (EHR) or suffer economic consequences. The main purpose of this is data sharing between doctors and various government agencies. Probably WHO too. Talk about hanging out dirty laundry for all to see! As with everything else the government is doing to We The People, exactly what they are "sharing" and with whom and under what circumstances is unclear. "Creating Situational Awareness" discusses identifying "frail" and "chronic" "populations" via EHR, during national emergencies.[3] I believe we lost all of our medical privacy as soon as EHR came into use.
It is one thing to track emerging and contagious diseases, and quite another to track lifestyles and private lives. The big practice "metric" in EHR is set up to "tracking and surveillance" of tobacco use. "Smoking status" is considered the fifth vital sign as pushed by the makers of EHR and is reported to CDC which is the government. Other chronic and lifestyle issues are also tracked and reported.
WHO is interested in smoking habits because they have tagged that issue as an intolerable burden in the developing world, which helps spread TB and caused all the rest of the attendant poverty and misery therein.(That's why WHO insists cigarettes must be highly taxed, thus making the poor poorer.) As a matter of fact last night I heard on late night radio some new finding that cigarettes and even e-cigs harbor the MERS virus and help it spread. Golly! Before a disease with a 25% mortality is allowed to spread, shouldn't we outlaw cigarettes?
The NHSS document on which we can comment, moves all health issues up to national security level. From national security our health becomes a matter of global security. The document contains many poorly defined terms interspersed with undefined words like behavioral, environmental, well-being and resilience. I believe this document means anything they want it to mean, that anything can be a national health emergency requiring draconian action for national security. Small bits mention preserving the government at time of crisis. Kiss personal privacy good-bye because we are all a part of the collective, preserving the federal government at home and the UN in the guise of WHO globally
Bio-surveillance and shared records allow pretty much anyone who wants to do research to look at any and all records so that quick findings and instant solutions can form public policy, as I read it.
Commenting on the National Health Security Strategy (NHSS) unquotable document is difficult, but comment we must. It is a four year plan reminiscent of the old Soviet communist five and ten year plans. From 2015 to 2018, as I understand it, the federal government plans to worm its way into every area of our lives that has to do with health. The way they see it, that is everything in our lives. The federal government will make sure we are healthy, strong and mentally fit in case they declare something a disaster or national emergency. The federal government plans to "partner" with our groups and places of worship. It plans to work through health coalitions and community organizations. There is even provision for people or groups to identify STATE LAWS that could hinder these federal actions! Implication is the state laws may need to be changed.
The ACA was passed without reading by the Democrat party when they gained control. Obama proudly allowed it to carry his name, but he didn't write it. Obama acted hurt that the people didn't get behind the flawed sign up and work through all the other serious problems. He cannot understand why people criticize his "signature health care bill", and will not quietly accept loss of doctors and plans, higher premiums and deductibles, all for the good of the collective. We The People were never consulted or even informed about the ACA prior to passage.
The federal government took over every aspect of our private lives for our own good, they told us. Now the next planned phase is here, presented as National Health Security, where the federal government runs our private lives for the good and preservation of the federal government. Of course police and other law enforcers will be involved in some aspects because the NHSS is a mish-mash of anything health related. It covers WMD attacks, bio-terrorism, and hurricanes intermixed with "resilience" which covers good behavioral and social health as well as exercise and well-being for the Fatherland...uh...I mean federal government.
How dare the government put out a 52 page draft headed DO NOT QUOTE OR CITE, then attach a comment deadline! Is the document that describes federal control over our health via national security, too poorly written to quote? Perhaps it is written so that it can be changed at will with a pen and a phone! That seems to be the way Obama and his party write law these days. NHSS provisions for a flu epidemic? Change the part about school closures and teleworking to martial law! Nothing would surprise me.
Check it out, read it and see what you think it means. National Health Security Strategy (NHSS) 2015-2018; www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/authority/nhss/comments/Pages/default.aspx . There is a link to click on that page that provided the unquotable document and another link for comments.
By all means comment! Comments lets the government know We The People are watching and we won't let our freedoms be taken without a fight. We are informed and we will resist!
The next step is our private health as a matter of national security. Now we more fully understand the famous words of neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson: The ACA was never about health. It was about control. Period.
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[1] One Health Initiative~ links human, animal and plant health. www.onehealthinitiative.com/aboutphp (Mentioned in the NHSS document which is the subject of this article
[2} Stop Smoking For Your Health and Your Pets' Health; https://www.avma.org/public/PetCare/Pages/Stop-smoking-for-your-pets-health.aspx
Article from veterinary association.
[3] Creating Situational Awareness; information about how individual states use private electronic health records (EHR) in case an emergency.
www.ncbi.nim.nih.gov/books/NBK328601. In particular Alabama identifying "frail and chronic populations" via EHR
ADDITIONAL SOURCES MENTIONED WITH NHSS DOCUMENT WHICH IS FOCUS OF THIS ARTICLE:
[1] Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan
www.healthit.gov (about electronic health records)
[2] National Bio-surveillance Strategy for Human Health Version 2.0 ~ Link here to document but the document is unavailable at this time. Tried several places.
disasterlit.n/m.nih.gov/record/5582
[3] National Strategy for Bio-surveillance; President Obama's action July 31, 2012
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Dennis vs Goliath
May 13, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
Dennis Linthicum is challenging career politician Rep. Greg Walden in Oregon's primary election to be held on May 20, 2014. Political reporters make a big deal out of Walden's bottomless pockets. Jeff Mapes at www.oregonlive.com reported on April 21 of this year that Walden had raised $500,000 the first three months of this year. Linthicum raised just under $13,000 in those same three months and that amount included a $6500 loan from Linthicum himself to his own campaign.[1]
Presently an elected Klamath County commissioner, Linthicum's working career has included software developer and owner of a small ranch.[2] I was invited to a noon meeting back in March where Dennis spoke, introducing himself to the crowd as a "Constitutional Conservative". The Constitution equals freedom, liberty and rights he expanded, and added that government regulations are ruining business.
This primary challenges congressman Greg Walden who is presently the only Republican in Oregon to hold a national office. Oregon District 2 is the seventh largest district in the US and comprises 19 counties and parts of two others.[Wikipedia] Eyeballing the territory on the map District 2 appears to be two thirds of the state's landmass, possibly more. Citing the 200 census Wikipedia gives the District 2 population as 684,280. In comparison Oregon's largest city Portland has a population of 603,106 according to the US Census Bureau. The median income in this district is $35,600 according to Wikipedia. District 2 in Blue:
The huge District 2 territory is pretty much everything west of Portland and Salem, the state capital. In this area are the large wheat fields, cattle ranches and timber. With the exception of Bend the towns are mostly small, mostly under twenty thousand in population. There are miles of sagebrush desert and forested mountains. People hunt and fish and the eastern part of the state is where real cowboys do real ranch work. Pendleton, far east and near the Washington border is the home of the world famous Pendleton Round Up. It is also where the Pendleton Woolen Mills began making the beautiful and collectible blankets.
Politically Oregon District 2 is conservative. Oregon is well known as a Blue State, easily reelecting President Obama in 2012, however in district 2 Obama only got 47% of the vote and Romney won. [3] The voters in this district generally know the populous western side of the state will out vote any conservative tendencies. From time to time there is good natured but slightly serious talk of merging Eastern Oregon with Red State Idaho right next door.
Mark Levin on his radio program referred to Rep. Walden as "Boehner's Hatchet Man". You can listen to the clip on Linthicum's site, Dennis2014.com . Holding his office since 1999, Walden is well entrenched in Washington and has received abysmal grades from a variety of conservative organizations. One thing I noted at the meeting where Linthicum spoke was that the people present are tired of career politicians who go-along-to-get-along. These people strongly favor term limits of some sort. At Dennis2014.com Linthicum states, "The election cycle was designed to keep power dispersed..."
Walden spent $338,000 in three months travelling in his district as well as "fundraising stops in other states", according to www.oregonlive.com. One specific expense was $3,036.70 for lodging at the New York Palace.[1] That is certainly an interesting name for a lodging spot for a career politician. It sounds more like a vacation destination for Mrs. Obama, but I digress...
Meanwhile Dennis Linthicum and his beautiful wife Diane drive thousands of miles, all over District 2 which is practically the whole state, in their own vehicle with magnetic campaign signs attached. They stay with friends and supporters in private homes.
On May 9 under "News From the Campaign Trail, The Rest of the Story", Dennis posts, "Beltway elitists and political reporters think that campaigns are won and lost by out of state money and lobbyist power~may the man with the largest war chest win." Dennis v. Goliath. He speaks of the rancher that left his fields early to attend a TEA Party meeting, who gave a $20 bill, and of a retired couple who offered a night's lodging. Dennis praises the "hardworking Oregonians" who have nothing more to offer the campaign than their "name and vote". [Dennis2014.com]
Under "First Principles" Dennis2014.com has printed the Declaration of Independence. The commentary following states, "We have strayed from these ideals and we no longer allow families and individuals to make their own choices and create their own happiness..." "Instead we meddle in other's affairs and prevent innovation and creativity through regulation and taxation. This is unfair and Un-American."
Linthicum is for state and local control of lands within the state. "The environmentalist movement has recently been motivated by a faulty paradigm~that humans are the earth's enemy...EPA has become a political bully", he writes on his site.
Elected, Dennis will vote to repeal Obama Care. I asked him if this was even possible since the gargantuan act has tentacles in a number of entitlement areas including Social Security. Dennis assured me this can be done through the House since spending issues arise there; steadily hacking away at every aspect could indeed accomplish repeal. Dennis also commented that Obama Care will bankrupt Medicare and Medicaid and that legitimate funding is needed for the programs. He advocates getting people out of dependence.
Under Education, Linthicum writes, " Parents and communities are the best advocates for children and education." He stares clearly that he is against central planning for education. For immigration Linthicum advocates securing the border first, then establishing a guest worker program. State sovereignty is another important matter. "I oppose legislative acts that unconstitutionally enlarge government authority and threaten our individual freedom," Linthicum writes.[Dennis2014.com]
At the meeting I attended candidate Linthicum said, "The American Federal Government has gorged itself on power and is yielding that power indiscriminately."
Jeff Mapes in the oregonlive.com article attributes Rep. Walden's nearly half million dollar war chest to PAC money, "connected by a wide swath to the business sector", particularly, "agriculture, health care and communications". Of the more than $338,000 Walden spent travelling, remember the same article notes, "fundraising stops in other states".
One doesn't have to be the proverbial rocket scientist to question what out of state donors who make large contributions, expect to get from an Oregon congressman who represents a district of hard working folks, whose median income is under $40,000 per year. What exactly does "Boehner's Hatchet Man" do in Washington and is it in the best interests of the Oregonians in District 2?
Those District 2 Oregonians who live close to the land and depend on it for a living have a choice to make thanks to a Klamath County commissioner who believes in limited government, freedom and self determination and the constitution. Asked at the meeting what his strategy was considering Walden had unlimited money, Dennis said it was "shoe leather". Driving himself multiple trips across the vast area demonstrate that kind of determination. Forget Mr. Smith going to Washington. Very likely Oregonians will be able to say' "Mr. Linthicum goes to Washington".
This David...er...Dennis has his sling loaded with the Constitution of the United States and it is aimed straight at the head of the special interest supported Goliath.
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[1] www.oregonlive.com, 4/21/14, Jeff Mapes; Rep. Walden's campaign cash continues to bury primary opponent...
[2] Dennis2014.com~Candidate Dennis Linthicum's web site. He is also on Facebook and Twitter @DennisLinthicum
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Are you a stakeholder or citizen?
August 3, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
Today at 12:33 AM
"Borders language and culture define a nation", is the profound catch phrase of radio personality and author Michael Savage. If you only hear his program once in awhile you will remember that phrase and think about it. Dr. Savage wrote a book titled "Saving America From the Liberal Assault on Our Borders, Language and Culture".
Borders are easy to define. Culture less so. Language would seem simply to mean that the US is an English speaking country and that's why we feel enraged when asked to "press one for English", especially if we are calling a tax payer funded government office.
While thoroughly researching the ACA~aka Democrat Care as that party is forced to own it when we vote this fall~I noted that it may as well have been written in a foreign language. That was scary since it was thousands of pages, all about what the government planned to do to me and other Americans personally, via private medical care. State and even local documents were no easier to understand. As I would with any foreign language I looked up definitions, learned them and became reasonably fluent in reading about government-based health care.
At the same time I noticed certain words and phrases that came into use with President Obama, were becoming part of everyday speech. "Forward thinking" is one of those. Years ago Marxists used the one word: FORWARD! Exclamation point! Obama campaigned the second time on something about if you don't go forward, you go backward, so let's go forward, and he won because folks thought they didn't want to go backward.
FAST FORWARD to last week when I read my old hometown newspaper online. Each edition has more and more Obama inspired words and those words lend themselves to Obama-style thoughts. Perhaps we could say the newspaper is "fundamentally transforming" or something. Reading that recent edition almost caused my brain to explode, because of a caption under a picture. Local people were photographed touring a city facility and they were labeled "stakeholders".
Regular local individuals were in the photo, so what caused them to be called "stakeholders" and what in the heck does STAKEHOLDER mean anyway? What other words might have been used under that picture prior to President Obama taking office? "Citizens" is one word that comes to mind. In Obama-speak is the word citizen being replaced with stakeholder? The scary answer is maybe or probably, which is about as definite as anything the current government turns out.
Just as the ACA can be interpreted to mean whatever the next executive order says it means, so can the word stakeholder mean whatever a political entity says it means. It appears the current government definition comes from the business definition which has been around for a number of years. The easiest way to define it is that shareholders OWN part of the business. Stakeholders do not necessarily OWN part of the business. www.businessdictionary.com [1] From there it gets fuzzy since nobody has an exact definition of stakeholder, and that fact is readily admitted. Broadly interpreted a stakeholder can be any person, group or organization affected by a business, including unions and the community. Stretched to the outer limits "Stakeholder Theory" can have something to do with business morality and responsibility. en.wikipedia.org [2]
Right here it seems appropriate to paraphrase President Obama: You didn't build that and you don't own it! Shareholders own stuff while stakeholders are affected by stuff they (generally) don't own. So it all fits together that before Obama we were citizens, individuals, even owners, and now we are mere stakeholders. Practically quoting another great Democrat leader: What difference does it make?
"From Citizens to Stakeholders...Or Just Call it the new Obama Constitution", is part of the title of an excellent article written in 2009 by Angelo M. Codevilla. He notes that neither voting nor paying taxes means a person is a stakeholder. He proposes that stakeholders become the only citizens as, "unelected stakeholders" are "gathered by czars around big tables", forming "unelected political bodies". Codevilla also notes that some regimes in the world already have this form of government by stakeholder, and he mentions specifically Argentina, Mexico and the European Union countries. www.spectator.org [3]
Perhaps Obama's solution to the border crisis is to make our country just like Mexico; then their citizens, even their little children, will just stay home. WIN/WIN like the lefties say!
Put a different way Codevilla quotes Manhattan Institute writer Michael Knox Beran who wrote that Obama rejects, "Anglo-American politics of limits" and seeks a "communitarian paradise" (wherein citizens would leave behind) "their own swinish pursuits" (to) "become happy in pursuit of the common good" and love each other.[3]
Swinish? That means pig, doesn't it? Selfish individualism perhaps? When it is left behind for the collective good, the hive mind will hum in perfect three part harmony? Mentioning collectivism, it's time to check in with the community organizers, keeping in mind that was Barak Obama's main job prior to jumping into the presidency. How do community organizers create the stakeholders who will usher in Obama's "communitarian paradise"?
It turns out community organizing is all about stakeholders which are defined as members of groups. Individuals and citizens may exist within groups, but it is only as representatives of groups, aka stakeholders, that they matter. www.blueprintforchange.net [4] Despite the words "organizing" and "organizer" coming after "community", the activity is really about dividing people into groups, then pitting the groups against each other to gain money and control.www.fgfbooks.com [5] The stakeholders are members of groups that are affected by the actions of other entities. Specific groups from which come stakeholders, can be but are not limited to: environmental groups, public and private schools, industry and business associations, senior citizen groups, politicians, etc. [4] The Chamber of Commerce and AARP fit right in that line up as do many smaller groups at the local level.
One group category I have not seen listed is religious, which doesn't mean they can't produce stakeholders~I just have not found it in the community organizing articles I researched. It is probably a safe bet that Reverend Wright's church had produced plenty of stakeholders to further Obama's career. "G--D--- America", sounds more like something that would be preached to non-owning stakeholders than to patriotic citizens.
There is a training article at Quizlet.com [6] about community organizing a health education effort. The word citizen is used once in the fairly short article. Stakeholder is used nine times. Individuals are sometimes referenced as units within the groups. The scary part is that individuals are singled out for "interventions" from the stakeholders and groups that will be providing the health educator, and so I wonder if this non-specific health education is some form of reeducation for errant individuals who have strayed from the hive mind. I mean, if the individuals were doing everything the group(s) deemed necessary for health, they surely wouldn't need the health education, would they? Is an individual identified by the groups as being in need of a health education intervention, a stakeholder or a stakeholder individually gone astray?
Going backward instead of forward, remember that stakeholders are members of groups that are affected by the actions of others. Negatively or positively that could pretty much be everyone, especially if he or she is a stakeholder and therefore a member of a group that can be organized and used for political purposes.
In the beginning I thought stakeholder was a new-normal synonym for citizen. As a journalist I might have used the words "local citizens" under that newspaper picture in the hometown paper. WRONG! Citizens have loyalty to a country and in turn are protected by their country. There is a sense of belonging and rights. Stakeholders are merely affected by things. Negatively put stakeholders are members of the victim class; no borders, language or culture required.
I was curious if pro-amnesty advocates had the guts to say the immigrant children flooding our borders were some form of stakeholders. I haven't found it yet, but those kids are certainly affected by our policies once they cross the border. Some would definitely argue that the policies of countries even create stakeholders in other countries. Feel free to blow your mind with www.migrationpolicy.org [7]
The federal government that demands control of every aspect of our lives cannot clearly define terms in the new language it is creating. Use a word or phrase often enough, it develops its own meaning in the context of so-called laws that are written too sloppy to enforce. Language matters. How many repetitions will it take before the open border crowd has reduced us all to victimized stakeholders instead of proud citizens who as individuals, make up this government? Think about that every time you hear the word stakeholder~and firmly reject that title for yourself.
Words become definitions and definitions are part of laws that control our actions and take our freedoms. Pressing one for English is nothing compared to what this government is really doing to us.
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SOURCES:
[3] spectator.org/articles/40981/citizens-stakeholders-new-american-constitution; 'From Citizens to "Stakeholders": The New American Constitution~Or Just Call it the New Obama Constitution', Angelo M. Codevilla, 9/2009
[6] Quizlet.com ; Competency 2.1 Involve Priority Populations and Other Stakeholders in the Planning Process
[7] www.migrationpolicy.org/research/stakeholder-citizenship-idea-whose-time-has-come ; by Rainer Baubock, 4/2008
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About Jobs~Not Race
July 13, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
A Tweet about Murrieta, CA protest of busloads of immigrant kids reads: Did U see the 50 or so #patriot TRASH in #Murietta CA that blocked WOMEN & CHILDREN fleeing for their lives? Despicable! Less than human. The writer's profile is "Progressive Democrat" as well as "agnostic, Animal Lover, tree hugger, #ProChoice".
Recently on radio news a father in Murietta, CA said, "There are not enough jobs for us to afford to raise our own children. How can we afford to raise theirs?"
Liberals have made many statements recently about how we as a country can afford all these immigrant children and that it is immoral not to take and keep as many as come here. Anyone who opposes this is labeled inhumane and racist.
Like Greta Van Susteren has her "Off the Record" segment, this is my Rant From the Heart segment. I am the technical writer at Freedom Fighters of America, the one who cites sources and footnotes stuff, which I am not going to do here. This is about my own feelings and fears based on 50 years of watching immigrants and "guest workers" take jobs many Americans would take if they were allowed to do so. If our citizens have reached the breaking point over hundreds of thousands of Central American children belatedly labeled "refugees", it took fifty years of lost jobs to get here.
I am not going to use the word "illegal" because as far as I know what I intend to criticize involves people here legally one way or another. At this moment the influx of children crossing our border is illegal but the government is fast working to declare them "refugees", at which point I presume their entry will become legal. My ultimate point will be, there have never been enough jobs to go around in America during my adulthood, since the early 70s. It is popular to demean citizens who live on welfare, food stamps and other government handouts but nobody attempts to describe how this sort of thing became a way of life and how it was encouraged by our government and policy makers.
A Baby Boomer in my fifties, I reject the idea of being "old" which has negative connotations in our society. This dates back at least to my generation that popularized, "Never trust anyone over 30". The good thing about living a lot of years is that a person lives through a lot of changes and therefore has a first hand account of history as it was made. Many times the bits of history will have had personal effects on the person who lived in that time.
For example I have watched wave after wave of immigrants, amnesty decisions and failed promises to control our southern border destroy jobs US citizens need. I have watched citizens give up on trying to find work while immigrants and guest workers get the jobs. The pattern seems to be that both major parties work against We the People. Business wants cheap labor and their lobbyists work on one party. Liberal leaning people have dreams about world government without borders and thoughts about America owing the rest of the world because we have been successful. Therefore all the "huddled masses" should be allowed to come here for a better life and after all, our families were all immigrants at one time, unless we are Native Americans, and look how bad our immigrant grandparents treated them. Unlimited immigration is the answer to the guilt we should be feeling for our success. Or something..
This is a great over simplification but somewhere along the line one or both sides put forth the idea there were jobs Americans were unable or unwilling to do and only foreign workers could fill the gap. Americans won't pick fruit, it was said. After about 40 years of such propaganda we have moved up to the point where many service industry jobs are held by guest workers and American citizens need not apply. Americans are supposed to all have college educations and a high school diploma means absolutely nothing in this new century. The problem is not every single person born in America is suited to college or a professional career and jobs those folks would have traditionally taken are largely filled by people from other countries.
Way back in the Dark Ages when I was a teen, somewhere between the Kennedy assassination and Nixon's resignation, kids had summer jobs. One place I lived was semi-agricultural and families owned the orchards and farms. Young people, some under 13 years old, did various jobs like picking fruit, weeding certain crops by hand, sorting potatoes and when they were older, bucking hay bales in the fields. Other teens got service industry jobs for the summer, like dish washing in restaurants. Lots of the kids so employed were from working class families, many of which barely made it from paycheck to paycheck. At the end of the month families like that might have only potato soup made of boiled potatoes, milk, salt an pepper, to eat for a week. (Moms cooked most meals at home in those days.) Teens' summer jobs provided money for the teens themselves to buy school supplies, school clothes or maybe even coats and boots for the harsh winters. These summer jobs were a way of life for a lot of kids and they looked forward to the work experience. Like President Reagan said, "The best social program is a job".
Starting more or less in the 70s kids stopped getting these summer jobs as even family owned agriculture employed "Crews", largely from Mexico, to to all the work. The Crews were on contracts that made promises to "Jobbers" who were the middlemen. There were sacrosanct guarantees that no one but the Crews could work in the fields or orchards.
Over the years "the community pulled together", as leftist Progressives are fond of saying, and now in the 21st Century by early August there are drives to donate school supplies, clothing and shoes to the poor kids of poor families. Kids no longer even look for summer work because there isn't any. Instead of working kids up to age 18 get free federally provided lunches all summer at a local school. About the end of September various charities begin drives for coats and boots to aid children during the long, bitter winters. Around Christmas other drives seek gloves, hats, scarves and mittens for the same kids. Long, long ago kids with summer jobs bought their own stuff. Now it is the "community's responsibility", or something. Like Hillary's book said, "It takes a village"~especially when few have jobs and welfare is encouraged by government as a necessity.
As a young adult there were still some entry level jobs and I worked a few. (Back in the 60s we were anxious to be on our own and we would have been disgusted with the Obama Care idea that we would be "children" on our parents' insurance till age 26.) One place where I lived in Oregon slowly had its job market strangled and killed by environmental regulations. I had a job but my married, male boss decided to make sexual intercourse a job requirement. This was before the term sexual harassment had been invented so I stupidly quit that job and rapidly found out there were no others since environmentalists had shut down a nearby factory in the middle of the winter. After weeks of no work a friend told me the orchards were hiring pruners. I had experience doing this work and was young and strong. Orchard after orchard turned me down because they had "made promises to Crews" which could not be broken. By that time I was literally hungry and I begged for the work. We are supposed to automatically feel a great deal of pity for immigrants and workers coming to this country, but nobody gave a damn when I begged for a job that was contracted to a foreign national.
Indeed it was a time of sheer terror. Back in those days homelessness was not yet an accepted way of life and in many areas it was illegal. Our moms had taught us to always have at least one dollar in our pockets because to have NO money at all could lead to an arrest for vagrancy if one was questioned by police and could not prove a place of residence. Growing up in a middle class family I had been blessed to always have enough to eat and a home to live in. I had been taught that you take ANY job necessary to feed yourself and you never take welfare. It was a total shock to learn that jobs could be available but they were promised to foreign workers, American citizens need not apply, and that desperately begging for a job received a smug comment about Crews needing the work.
I went jobless and hungry and I seethed inside. Surely the only fair solution would be that if a citizen needed a job a foreign worker should be kicked off the Crew instantly and be replaced by the citizen. To the best of my knowledge no legislation like this has ever been introduced.
In a few weeks I had hitch hiked out of that area with only the clothes on my back and was able to finally land a job. Eventually I used special talents God has given me, to go into business for myself. From this position I continued to watch a lot of my friends struggle as jobs became even scarcer.
The word went around from under-employed citizen to unemployed citizens, that there was no stigma to accepting welfare and food stamps. Indeed these government instructed struggling folks that these programs gave dignity to the poor, and the poor were expected to partake from the government trough. In a little over a decade lining up for government cheese and standing in line at the food bank was a way of life for parents and children.
As families obtained their dignity through handouts, employers became bolder in shutting out American workers. Earlier I mentioned the service industry~restaurants, motels and the like. I have an acquaintance who will only hire Mexicans for jobs other than wait staff in his restaurant. He pays higher than minimum wage and says Mexicans work harder. Americans need not apply to wash dishes, cook or bus tables, jobs that were once entry level staples for young citizens. He won't hire them and what he is doing is legal.
The place I used to live is highly dependent on federal grant money from taxes to build sidewalks and pave roads. The crews spreading the concrete and asphalt I am told come from the Vera Cruz area of Mexico. Meanwhile citizens live in subsidized housing and get food stamps. The food banks take full page ads in the newspaper at holiday time, begging for increased donations because the need increases every year. This is not because the locals won't work. Indeed a few poor, welfare families recently relocated to the new oil fields in the mid west and for the first time in years they are now employed. Why should people from Vera Cruz get our jobs, receive wages from our tax money, and send that money back home, while our own people are herded onto the welfare roles?
Then there is a never ending supply of immigrants who come here to live. Vietnamese boat people had the right to come here because of the Vietnam War, which is known in Vietnam as the American War. Jimmy Carter was elected president mostly because he looked super honest and that's what people wanted after Nixon resigned for dishonesty. Carter, like Obama worked hard to make America look weak and he talked about human rights all the time. So of course Castro emptied Cuban prisons and asylums and his rejects became the Mariel Boatlift. Since I have been online I have learned of all kinds of other immigrants that came here that didn't really make the news. Seems like we took in a bunch or Somali people and groups from the Middle East. In fact in reality it looks like we have taken in groups from everywhere except Sudan where human rights are non-existent and most recently Miriam Ibrahim, a young mother, was to be hanged for being Christian.
The latest wave is children, some accompanied by "women", supposedly mothers, but most of the kids we are told, risk death and rape travelling alone. At first news reports said the kids were illegal immigrants hoping to benefit from President Obama's executive orders concerning the Dream Act. We were told these were little Dreamers. This apparently didn't go over too good with the people so recently the child immigrants have been renamed "refugees" and we are told they are escaping war and vicious drug cartels back home. This new designation makes it hateful, racist and ungodly to call for the deportation of the children back to their countries of origin.
People in Murrieta, CA, afraid the immigrant/refugee kids would be placed or escape into their town and stay permanently, dared to protest. Many hateful comments have been made by loving and tolerant pro-immigration folks on the left, calling Murietta protesters Nazis, KKK, intolerant and inhumane. The spin from immigrant to refugee took hold awful fast and is a whole lot more successful than was that spin about a video causing the Benghazi attacks. I guess the administration has learned how to lie faster and create more convincing false narratives since 2012.
As the refugee angle is embellished more each day, those of us who would send the kids back home are increasingly vilified. I prayed long and hard about my position and whether or not I should write about it and honestly searched my conscience. After forty years I still have emotional issues and insecurities about food and shelter because I starved while jobs were given to non-citizens. From then till now I have watched friends struggle with hunger and shelter because there were not enough jobs. I have watched my friends' kids grow up on welfare and boxes from the food bank, and I have helped some of them along the way. None of my friends' kids ever had summer jobs because there weren't any. None of them ever worked after school for the same reason. I have told girl friends they ought to stay in abusive marriages because they had food and shelter and that's all there is to life; a full belly and a roof.
It's not just me who feels these things, but I get mad and try to figure out answers and then I write. I did a lot of charity work for a number of years, helping the poor. Because when I was a teen worker on my own, I suffered hunger and homelessness which led to emotional terror and feelings of hopelessness, I want to help others not to suffer that way. Even so, I can't save the world and neither can my country. Americans are generous by nature, frequently noted as the most generous people in the world. As our government taxes us harder and tells us we have to have less, our patience is running thin. Our own citizens who are fortunate enough to have jobs are supporting multitudes of our own citizens who have no jobs.
The immigrant/refugee kids are pawns used by our government for its aim of forcing so-called amnesty through congress, and by their parents who hope their children will be a stepping stone to American citizenship for the whole family, in my opinion. It is time people in other countries fight for their own rights and decent government at home. It is said people get the government they deserve. Tough as it is, ordinary folks who unite can and do overthrow brutal dictators. Those poor children need to be treated humanely while they are here but sent home to their parents ASAP.
This is not racist. There are people from all over the world waiting in line and following the law to immigrate to this country legally. Inventing a refugee label for hundreds of thousands of children who want to immigrate today amounts to spitting on the folks of many colors and nationalities who are doing it right.
These little kids were called immigrant "Dreamers" a couple weeks ago and now are officially called refugees, "women and children running for their lives" it is said. This reminds me of the saying, "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining". The American people are tired of being peed on by their government, then told they are racists or right-wing-nut-jobs if they don't accept it is only rain, because the government declares it so.
Going back to the Tweet at the beginning that maliciously ridicules patriots; true patriots want their country to be strong and to have secure borders. From strength comes generosity, from weakness comes nothing. Our own people are suffering from high taxes and lack of jobs, and more than a generation has been taught there is dignity in taking welfare while foreign Crews and immigrants who gain amnesty take many of the jobs Americans once had.
There is nothing racist about saying jobs for every citizen first. It is obscene that many of our veterans are jobless. First, jobs for every citizen especially every veteran. If a citizen needs a job a non-citizen holds, the citizen gets the job and the non-citizen is instantly terminated. Then we can talk about immigration. After the border is under control.
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Fresh Prince of Voter Fraud
July 3, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
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No Revolutionaries~Just Uber-Losers
June 11, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
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Did Obama Post a "KICK ME" Sign?
May 29, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
While serving two tours of service in Afghanistan, Marine Andrew Tahmooressi saved 8 marines from the Taliban. He saved another marine from bleeding to death after that marine lost his leg stepping on an IED. Tahmooressi himself sustained a concussion when his vehicle was hit by an IED. Tahmooressi has been in the marines four years. March 20 this year, our VA diagnosed him with PTSD. [1]
After Tahmooressi accidentally crossed the border into Mexico with three legally owned guns, just as border guards may have let him turn around and return to the US, it is said "the military" jumped him, beat him with a bat and dislocated his jaw. He then spent four weeks naked and chained to a Mexican prison cot by four point restraint. According to friend and fellow Marine Mark Podlaski, while chained Tahmooressi was fed with "juice boxes" and given a bed pan. Things have been better the last two weeks after the media got involved. When finally released from restraint Tahmooressi's muscles were atrophied according to Podlaski. [2]
Fox News' Greta VanSusteren went to the exact spot where Tahmooressi claims to have made a forced entrance into Mexico. On her show she noted the poor signage and difficulties turning around.[3] (Haven't we all had the experiences of forced exits and entries on regular US freeways?)
One of Van Susteren's last comments was, "and clean the graffiti off the signs". A picture on gretawire.com shows a small yellow sign with the words "No USA Return". There is unintelligible graffiti over the word "return" so that the sign reads "No USA". The graffiti appears to be a basic obscenity, or is it code for "Gringo Go Home"?
What I want to know is did we post a "KICK ME" sign on the other side? It seems to me Mexico would be in a lot worse shape if the Estados Unidos were not one small border crossing to the north. In fact that border crossing is a mere hip hop on the Highway to Heaven for Mexican citizens desperately travelling north for jobs and opportunities, and if they get real lucky at just the right time, citizenship. The same line apparently demarcates the Highway to Hell for Americans who make mistakes. Before Tahmooressi there was Marine Jon Hammer. I am sure there are other Americans similarly treated who are not military, do not get attention and simply do their time in Mexican prisons.
Tahmooressi's story is a bit confusing in our news or in news from the Mexican perspective. Roughly he has a poor sense of direction, got in the wrong lane at the border, couldn't turn around, crossed over, explained his dilemma to Mexican authorities and called 911 which could not help him because he was already in Mexico. According to all sources Tahmooressi declared the guns in his car to Mexican authorities.
San Diego Red [4] an apparently Spanish language publication alleges Tahmooressi did not answer questions properly, acted suspiciously and has been treated reasonably. The article mentions US court treatment of "blind mules", Mexican nationals who accidentally smuggle drugs into the US, and further suggests Andrew Tahmooressi deserves whatever the Mexican courts decide.Putting both news versions together it seems PTSD from his military service influenced Tahmooressi's actions.
The San Diego Red article which is critical of the US media, ends with the line that thankfully this case will be tried in court, not the media.
Not so fast! The case of Mexico v. Andrew Tahmooressi is firmly in the court of public opinion. It is trending in the New Media, formerly called social media, which is the peoples' voice. No longer do the masses grumble in front of TVs and send letters that nobody reads. We the people are the reporters, feature writers and editorialists in the New Media and our global conversation goes on 24/7. Indeed one commentator said people on social media can probably do more to #BringBackOurMarine than can our State Department. Keeping the pressure on was mentioned.
Which brings me back to my question. Have we posted a "KICK ME" sign on the back of the graffiti covered "No USA Return" sign?
Trying to help Tahmooressi, CA Rep. Duncan Hunter has asked Secretary of Defense Hagel to stop military aid to Mexico until our Marine is released. Our country is giving military aid to Mexico while that country has had one of our heroes chained hand and foot to a prison cot? A TV commentator said Mexico can't just release our Marine because they have to "save face"! How about a muchas gracias for our military aid?
Gretawire.com has several opinion polls about the case. One concerns the military aid to Mexico and the voters overwhelmingly say stop the aid. A second question is, "Would you vacation in Mexico while Sargent Tahmooressi is in prison there?" 98.09% say NO. Tourism is Mexico's third largest source of national income. Several years ago an article quoted a Mexican woman in the tourism industry who lamented that "US government statements" can negatively affect the industry.[5] Our government is apparently being very careful not to make any negative statements that would be harmful to Mexico as leaders have said little about the Tahmooressi case. #BoycottMexico is popping up on the New Media and gaining strength. I do not have accurate figures for the dollar value of US tourism to Mexico though the industry total is in the billions of dollars.
Americans are forgiving folks and chances are a Boycott Mexico movement will never take off over Andrew Tahmooressi or anything else. Our tourist dollars will continue to flow south. We are pretty good neighbors despite the Mexican government acting like we did indeed post a "KICK ME" sign at the border. Possibly it is President Obama's attitude that the US is no better than any other country. His willingness to literally bow down as part of foreign diplomacy can be interpreted as "KICK ME". Putin seems to take it that way and that is probably a reason the Mexican government can play with our Marine like a cat plays with a half dead mouse.
Mexican nationals navigating their Highway to Heaven north over the border provide Mexico's second largest source of national income! Remittances is the official term for the money wires Mexicans send home from their jobs in the US. Tens of billions of dollars are wired from here to there every year. We could Boycott Mexico but the dollars would still flow. Our government whose policies support millions of Mexican people, is apparently helpless in releasing one Marine who is a war hero.
For at least 40 years our government policies have favored Mexican guest workers over our own citizens. Our government falsely propagates the idea that Americans just won't do some jobs. Our far left politicians say it is a humanitarian thing to let poor Mexicans work in our country and send money home. Our own citizens can always get the welfare and food stamps paid for by tax dollars. No longer do American teens from poor families earn school money or save for college by working agricultural jobs. Those are all taken by contracted "crews". Forty years ago before food banks and food stamps some Americans went hungry when "crews" took jobs desperately needed by Americans.
Americans are generous by nature. In addition to giving jobs to "crews" our many charities provide further aid and care to Mexican people in our country. Several years ago the small town where I lived had a dentist shortage, I had a bad tooth and couldn't get an appointment. All the local dentists had volunteered a week at the local migrant camp, ministering to the "crews". One dentist finally agreed to see me in the migrant camp where they were giving free care to Mexican people who had never in their lives seen a dentist.
Some how we Americans are always supposed to feel sorry for the "poor Mexicans". Even that country's own political problems are blamed on us. Our people buy drugs so Mexico has vicious drug cartels, is an example. That reasoning reminds me of what is reported about Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi almost being allowed to turn around and go back home except the Federales jumped him, beat him, dislocated his jaw, and locked him in a prison where he was chained to a bed for four weeks. This would be an international incident if our government chose to make it so. Instead it is my understanding that our government continues to mull over citizenship/amnesty legislation even as Mexico is careful not to disrupt this process while they toy with our injured war hero.
Somewhat paraphrasing Michelle Obama I say, "All this for a damn country?"
It is blessed to give without receiving. American people have done this for Mexican people for decades. We are supposed to feel good about it but when we ask to have one of our own people returned it is not done. The Tahmooressi case is a very human story which may only be solved by the people and not governments. Are the Mexican people petitioning their government for the release of Sgt. Tahmooressi? Are they secretly proud of making us squirm? Are they laughing with us, at our president who bows and posts "KICK ME" signs all over the world?
There are things we can do. Greta Van Susteren has been very active in the effort to free Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi. There are two good opinion polls on gretawire.com. Please vote. Bill O'Reilly has a petition to sign online which he says will be hand delivered in a few days by Jesse Watters . Please sign that at billoreilly.com. Greta says to keep the pressure on and use the Twitter hashtag #MarineHeldInMexico. Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto has a Twitter account which is @EPN. We in the New Media have a lot more power than we believe. Use it!
President Obama's foreign policy may say "KICK ME" but We the People say, "Don't bite the hand that feeds you"! Let's get Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi back home NOW!
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[2] Video available, gretawire.com
[3] gretawire.com
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It's about Control, not Health
May 21, 2014
by Anna Morris, Co-Editor for Freedom Fighters of America
We The People have until Wednesday, May 21 to comment on a convoluted plan our government has devised that appears to link our medical care to the World Health Organization (WHO), Climate Change, and environmentalism. This is the National Health Security Strategy plan or NHSS.
One Health Initiative is mentioned in the NHSS and this links all medical providers together for the health of humans, animals and plants![1] Veterinaries will become part of the human health scene and of course they are encouraged to protect pets from second and third hand cigarette smoke in the home. Some nut job figured out more people might quit smoking if they knew second hand smoke harmed pets. Veterinaries will also be looking out for obesity in pets, for now.[2] Wonder how soon before they advise obese pet owners to walk the obese dog so many hours a day so that everyone can achieve wellness for the good of the planet? How soon before our Brave New Government runs out of Obama Care dollars, implements Death Panels and delegates veterinaries to euthanize our sick and burdensome elderly and unwanted children?
OK, that gives us the idea the 52 page NHSS document is out in left field. We are invited to comment on the direction, focus and activities contained in the 52 pages which are labeled as a draft, and marked at the top of each page in bold letters: DO NOT QUOTE OR CITE! I see this as the journalistic version of the old "Kick Me" sign. To me the writer it translates to "Sensationalize Me". Gladly!
If one can find a theme in the verbiage it would be that our federal government plans to get together with WHO and their International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) which we support, and which come in the form of a legally binding agreement. The main purpose is to protect us and the world from things like bio-terrorism, WMDs, emerging diseases and animal and plant diseases that affect economies and crops. Climate Change and the environment is sloppily mentioned. Possibly weather events are meant since it is suggested to have preparedness parties in private homes just prior to hurricane season.
Health Security and Health Resilience are two terms used. (Gosh, I hope I didn't just quote something inadvertently. If I'm in trouble I guess my next article will be sent from GITMO, where I will plan to be lying on a prayer rug on the warm, sandy beach.) Anyway these terms have something to do with well-being and good mental health which will be provided by the federal government through behavioral health specialists. There is even a part about providing adequate behavioral health specialists to minister to faith based leaders in time of crisis. Do we translate this as a government psychiatrist for every minister, priest, rabbi, etc.? I always thought God was there for people of faith or that faith leaders and congregations were there to strengthen each other.
There are handy diagrams and flow charts depicting different aspects. I like the pyramid that shows families and all the little people at the bottom and the federal government as the cap stone on top. Throughout the government is listed as a federal partner who partners with non-federal partners or something. Non-federal partners include you and me and service organizations and nosy neighbors who like to spy and report stuff because getting all that health security is a collective effort. (Yes I saw the word COLLECTIVE but I'm not quoting the whole line, and no we won't be publishing the pyramid which depicts the federal government at the top. BTW, since the federal government plans to take over, that pyramid capstone ought to have the all seeing eye, like the one on the dollar bill.)
Collectively then we are all supposed to be part of Health Security for the good of the world. We must stay healthy, eat right and get our exercise so we will be resilient in case of disaster, human caused or otherwise. Collectively we need to watch out and identify threats to our well-being and Health Security. The world depends on it just like the planet depends on cows not farting out all that CO2 gas! We must have good behavioral health so we are alert to emerging threats and we can bounce back right away if there's another 911, or someone puts anthrax in our bottled water supply, or if that swine virus keeps spreading and there is no more bacon. Ever.
Realistically public health has always covered things like spread of contagious diseases and sewage leaking into the public water supply. Such things have been reported for decades. Individuals are reported to government if they have a "reportable disease" like TB or diptheria or bubonic plague. Theoretically public health departments can still quarantine people in their homes due to contagious diseases. Most recently we see how governments tracked, isolated and treated two cases of the Middle Eastern Respiratory virus (MERS) that occurred in the US. I doubt any of us object to this nor would we feel violated if we personally had a reportable disease that got reported.
The DO NOT QUOTE OR CITE, 52 pages of the NHSS draft document are not nearly that clear. Bio-surveillance is a somewhat new term that crops up. Simply defined it means watching and reporting emerging diseases, the spread of diseases of humans, plants and animals. Even the plant and animal part isn't far fetched. There are 7 billion people to feed on earth and we cannot afford a good old fashioned famine. We want all the help we can get if crops and livestock are threatened.
On the other hand a question of patient privacy has come up. Democrat Care aka Obama Care or the UnAffordable Care Act, has provisions that doctors MUST use electronic health records (EHR) or suffer economic consequences. The main purpose of this is data sharing between doctors and various government agencies. Probably WHO too. Talk about hanging out dirty laundry for all to see! As with everything else the government is doing to We The People, exactly what they are "sharing" and with whom and under what circumstances is unclear. "Creating Situational Awareness" discusses identifying "frail" and "chronic" "populations" via EHR, during national emergencies.[3] I believe we lost all of our medical privacy as soon as EHR came into use.
It is one thing to track emerging and contagious diseases, and quite another to track lifestyles and private lives. The big practice "metric" in EHR is set up to "tracking and surveillance" of tobacco use. "Smoking status" is considered the fifth vital sign as pushed by the makers of EHR and is reported to CDC which is the government. Other chronic and lifestyle issues are also tracked and reported.
WHO is interested in smoking habits because they have tagged that issue as an intolerable burden in the developing world, which helps spread TB and caused all the rest of the attendant poverty and misery therein.(That's why WHO insists cigarettes must be highly taxed, thus making the poor poorer.) As a matter of fact last night I heard on late night radio some new finding that cigarettes and even e-cigs harbor the MERS virus and help it spread. Golly! Before a disease with a 25% mortality is allowed to spread, shouldn't we outlaw cigarettes?
The NHSS document on which we can comment, moves all health issues up to national security level. From national security our health becomes a matter of global security. The document contains many poorly defined terms interspersed with undefined words like behavioral, environmental, well-being and resilience. I believe this document means anything they want it to mean, that anything can be a national health emergency requiring draconian action for national security. Small bits mention preserving the government at time of crisis. Kiss personal privacy good-bye because we are all a part of the collective, preserving the federal government at home and the UN in the guise of WHO globally
Bio-surveillance and shared records allow pretty much anyone who wants to do research to look at any and all records so that quick findings and instant solutions can form public policy, as I read it.
Commenting on the National Health Security Strategy (NHSS) unquotable document is difficult, but comment we must. It is a four year plan reminiscent of the old Soviet communist five and ten year plans. From 2015 to 2018, as I understand it, the federal government plans to worm its way into every area of our lives that has to do with health. The way they see it, that is everything in our lives. The federal government will make sure we are healthy, strong and mentally fit in case they declare something a disaster or national emergency. The federal government plans to "partner" with our groups and places of worship. It plans to work through health coalitions and community organizations. There is even provision for people or groups to identify STATE LAWS that could hinder these federal actions! Implication is the state laws may need to be changed.
The ACA was passed without reading by the Democrat party when they gained control. Obama proudly allowed it to carry his name, but he didn't write it. Obama acted hurt that the people didn't get behind the flawed sign up and work through all the other serious problems. He cannot understand why people criticize his "signature health care bill", and will not quietly accept loss of doctors and plans, higher premiums and deductibles, all for the good of the collective. We The People were never consulted or even informed about the ACA prior to passage.
The federal government took over every aspect of our private lives for our own good, they told us. Now the next planned phase is here, presented as National Health Security, where the federal government runs our private lives for the good and preservation of the federal government. Of course police and other law enforcers will be involved in some aspects because the NHSS is a mish-mash of anything health related. It covers WMD attacks, bio-terrorism, and hurricanes intermixed with "resilience" which covers good behavioral and social health as well as exercise and well-being for the Fatherland...uh...I mean federal government.
How dare the government put out a 52 page draft headed DO NOT QUOTE OR CITE, then attach a comment deadline! Is the document that describes federal control over our health via national security, too poorly written to quote? Perhaps it is written so that it can be changed at will with a pen and a phone! That seems to be the way Obama and his party write law these days. NHSS provisions for a flu epidemic? Change the part about school closures and teleworking to martial law! Nothing would surprise me.
Check it out, read it and see what you think it means. National Health Security Strategy (NHSS) 2015-2018; www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/authority/nhss/comments/Pages/default.aspx . There is a link to click on that page that provided the unquotable document and another link for comments.
By all means comment! Comments lets the government know We The People are watching and we won't let our freedoms be taken without a fight. We are informed and we will resist!
The next step is our private health as a matter of national security. Now we more fully understand the famous words of neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson: The ACA was never about health. It was about control. Period.
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[1] One Health Initiative~ links human, animal and plant health. www.onehealthinitiative.com/aboutphp (Mentioned in the NHSS document which is the subject of this article
[2} Stop Smoking For Your Health and Your Pets' Health; https://www.avma.org/public/PetCare/Pages/Stop-smoking-for-your-pets-health.aspx
Article from veterinary association.
[3] Creating Situational Awareness; information about how individual states use private electronic health records (EHR) in case an emergency.
www.ncbi.nim.nih.gov/books/NBK328601. In particular Alabama identifying "frail and chronic populations" via EHR
ADDITIONAL SOURCES MENTIONED WITH NHSS DOCUMENT WHICH IS FOCUS OF THIS ARTICLE:
[1] Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan
www.healthit.gov (about electronic health records)
[2] National Bio-surveillance Strategy for Human Health Version 2.0 ~ Link here to document but the document is unavailable at this time. Tried several places.
disasterlit.n/m.nih.gov/record/5582
[3] National Strategy for Bio-surveillance; President Obama's action July 31, 2012
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Dennis vs Goliath
May 13, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
Dennis Linthicum is challenging career politician Rep. Greg Walden in Oregon's primary election to be held on May 20, 2014. Political reporters make a big deal out of Walden's bottomless pockets. Jeff Mapes at www.oregonlive.com reported on April 21 of this year that Walden had raised $500,000 the first three months of this year. Linthicum raised just under $13,000 in those same three months and that amount included a $6500 loan from Linthicum himself to his own campaign.[1]
Presently an elected Klamath County commissioner, Linthicum's working career has included software developer and owner of a small ranch.[2] I was invited to a noon meeting back in March where Dennis spoke, introducing himself to the crowd as a "Constitutional Conservative". The Constitution equals freedom, liberty and rights he expanded, and added that government regulations are ruining business.
This primary challenges congressman Greg Walden who is presently the only Republican in Oregon to hold a national office. Oregon District 2 is the seventh largest district in the US and comprises 19 counties and parts of two others.[Wikipedia] Eyeballing the territory on the map District 2 appears to be two thirds of the state's landmass, possibly more. Citing the 200 census Wikipedia gives the District 2 population as 684,280. In comparison Oregon's largest city Portland has a population of 603,106 according to the US Census Bureau. The median income in this district is $35,600 according to Wikipedia. District 2 in Blue:
The huge District 2 territory is pretty much everything west of Portland and Salem, the state capital. In this area are the large wheat fields, cattle ranches and timber. With the exception of Bend the towns are mostly small, mostly under twenty thousand in population. There are miles of sagebrush desert and forested mountains. People hunt and fish and the eastern part of the state is where real cowboys do real ranch work. Pendleton, far east and near the Washington border is the home of the world famous Pendleton Round Up. It is also where the Pendleton Woolen Mills began making the beautiful and collectible blankets.
Politically Oregon District 2 is conservative. Oregon is well known as a Blue State, easily reelecting President Obama in 2012, however in district 2 Obama only got 47% of the vote and Romney won. [3] The voters in this district generally know the populous western side of the state will out vote any conservative tendencies. From time to time there is good natured but slightly serious talk of merging Eastern Oregon with Red State Idaho right next door.
Mark Levin on his radio program referred to Rep. Walden as "Boehner's Hatchet Man". You can listen to the clip on Linthicum's site, Dennis2014.com . Holding his office since 1999, Walden is well entrenched in Washington and has received abysmal grades from a variety of conservative organizations. One thing I noted at the meeting where Linthicum spoke was that the people present are tired of career politicians who go-along-to-get-along. These people strongly favor term limits of some sort. At Dennis2014.com Linthicum states, "The election cycle was designed to keep power dispersed..."
Walden spent $338,000 in three months travelling in his district as well as "fundraising stops in other states", according to www.oregonlive.com. One specific expense was $3,036.70 for lodging at the New York Palace.[1] That is certainly an interesting name for a lodging spot for a career politician. It sounds more like a vacation destination for Mrs. Obama, but I digress...
Meanwhile Dennis Linthicum and his beautiful wife Diane drive thousands of miles, all over District 2 which is practically the whole state, in their own vehicle with magnetic campaign signs attached. They stay with friends and supporters in private homes.
On May 9 under "News From the Campaign Trail, The Rest of the Story", Dennis posts, "Beltway elitists and political reporters think that campaigns are won and lost by out of state money and lobbyist power~may the man with the largest war chest win." Dennis v. Goliath. He speaks of the rancher that left his fields early to attend a TEA Party meeting, who gave a $20 bill, and of a retired couple who offered a night's lodging. Dennis praises the "hardworking Oregonians" who have nothing more to offer the campaign than their "name and vote". [Dennis2014.com]
Under "First Principles" Dennis2014.com has printed the Declaration of Independence. The commentary following states, "We have strayed from these ideals and we no longer allow families and individuals to make their own choices and create their own happiness..." "Instead we meddle in other's affairs and prevent innovation and creativity through regulation and taxation. This is unfair and Un-American."
Linthicum is for state and local control of lands within the state. "The environmentalist movement has recently been motivated by a faulty paradigm~that humans are the earth's enemy...EPA has become a political bully", he writes on his site.
Elected, Dennis will vote to repeal Obama Care. I asked him if this was even possible since the gargantuan act has tentacles in a number of entitlement areas including Social Security. Dennis assured me this can be done through the House since spending issues arise there; steadily hacking away at every aspect could indeed accomplish repeal. Dennis also commented that Obama Care will bankrupt Medicare and Medicaid and that legitimate funding is needed for the programs. He advocates getting people out of dependence.
Under Education, Linthicum writes, " Parents and communities are the best advocates for children and education." He stares clearly that he is against central planning for education. For immigration Linthicum advocates securing the border first, then establishing a guest worker program. State sovereignty is another important matter. "I oppose legislative acts that unconstitutionally enlarge government authority and threaten our individual freedom," Linthicum writes.[Dennis2014.com]
At the meeting I attended candidate Linthicum said, "The American Federal Government has gorged itself on power and is yielding that power indiscriminately."
Jeff Mapes in the oregonlive.com article attributes Rep. Walden's nearly half million dollar war chest to PAC money, "connected by a wide swath to the business sector", particularly, "agriculture, health care and communications". Of the more than $338,000 Walden spent travelling, remember the same article notes, "fundraising stops in other states".
One doesn't have to be the proverbial rocket scientist to question what out of state donors who make large contributions, expect to get from an Oregon congressman who represents a district of hard working folks, whose median income is under $40,000 per year. What exactly does "Boehner's Hatchet Man" do in Washington and is it in the best interests of the Oregonians in District 2?
Those District 2 Oregonians who live close to the land and depend on it for a living have a choice to make thanks to a Klamath County commissioner who believes in limited government, freedom and self determination and the constitution. Asked at the meeting what his strategy was considering Walden had unlimited money, Dennis said it was "shoe leather". Driving himself multiple trips across the vast area demonstrate that kind of determination. Forget Mr. Smith going to Washington. Very likely Oregonians will be able to say' "Mr. Linthicum goes to Washington".
This David...er...Dennis has his sling loaded with the Constitution of the United States and it is aimed straight at the head of the special interest supported Goliath.
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[1] www.oregonlive.com, 4/21/14, Jeff Mapes; Rep. Walden's campaign cash continues to bury primary opponent...
[2] Dennis2014.com~Candidate Dennis Linthicum's web site. He is also on Facebook and Twitter @DennisLinthicum
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When a Contract is a Trap
April 15, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
Today at 6:08 PM
The devil in some contracts has been tamed down in Georgia. A friend of mine just made sure Ackerman security alarm service understands the finer points of the law attacking automatic renewal clauses that took effect July 1, 2013. How many millions of dollars are still being ripped off from consumers in this contract scheme?
Ten states now have laws controlling the automatic renewal clauses which can make it very difficult for consumers to discontinue services they originally purchase on contract. Also referred to as an "evergreen clause", they work to make sure an original contract never ends without written notification from the consumer. Ignorance or failure to notify intent to cease doing business with whatever provider or company leads to an automatic extension of the contract usually for a period of years. Such clauses are enforceable in court.[1]
A quick browsing of the issues concerning automatic renewal clauses, shows that many different types of businesses ranging from cell phones to software, use or have used this practice. Using search words specific to the security alarm industry reveals the mother load of consumer problems with these so-called evergreen clauses. The home security alarm industry seems to rely on these consumer traps to make expenses and guarantee a profit in an industry where it is hard to project actual future income.
My friend intended to not renew his service with Ackerman after his initial contract ended. Ackerman apparently depended on nailing my friend with an automatic renewal clause which became much more difficult in the state of Georgia with enactment of HB-234 on July 1 of last year.
Rep. Lynn Smith (R) of that state introduced the bill in response to consumer complaints. [2] On his website Georgia Assemblyman Alan Powell addresses the passage of the law and writes that it, "...protects Georgia consumers from getting trapped in contracts that automatically renew the contract on the cancellation date without notice." (emphasis mine) (www.alanpowell.net , 2/27/13)
The law requires businesses to make consumers aware of any automatic renewal clause in a contract and further to notify the consumer within 60 to 30 days before the contract terminates, if there is the ability to use such a clause. The business must also clearly provide the consumer with addresses, phone numbers and so forth so opting out is easy if that is the consumer's choice.
Being generous, I will say it appears Ackerman may have been ignorant of the new law so my friend eloquently explained it to them in a letter addressed to their "Customer Care Assistant".
In case they did not fully understand the impact of the law my friend added, "This will serve as notice to Ackerman that I respectfully request you to cancel/ discontinue my service..." effective 4/2/14. Further, "...I revoke any automatic deductions from my checking or debit card..." "I've contacted (my bank) and places stop payment hold on any future debits from my account." "Any attempts to debit money from this account will be viewed as Attempted Theft and reported to local authorities for future investigation."
Ackerman got the point and acknowledged the law. They supplied a form I find a bit curious, noting that termination of the security alarm service will be reported to home owners insurance of record, but that is probably another matter.
Like my friend says, how many companies in Georgia (and ten other states with such laws), are simply ignoring the laws or depending on the ignorance of consumers to continue business as usual? My friend notes this could amount to millions of dollars being bilked out of consumers who believe they are trapped by almighty contracts enforceable in the courts.
In Georgia and the other states with similar laws, these businesses who operate on contracts for services will have to hold customers through other means. Some websites addressing this issue actually suggest such businesses hold customers through good service and positive contacts with their customers. How old fashioned!
My friend knew the law and he fought. Lest the alarm company misunderstood or tried any shenanigans, my friend bluntly mentioned "Attempted Theft" and the authorities. He refuses to be pushed around and intimidated.
Know the laws of your state, especially automatic extension clauses on contracts. If this is legal in your state, understand what it takes to avoid automatic renewal you do not intend to continue the service. If your state, like Georgia has a consumer protection law reigning in this practice, understand it, use it and fight back if necessary like my friend did. Since automatic renewal seems to be the meat and potatoes of the security alarm business, if you use one of these businesses, fully understand any contracts and be especially aware of your rights.
A contract is supposed to be about agreements made after a "meeting of minds". Contracts were never intended to act like legal fly paper that keeps consumers stuck and buzzing mad until their financial life blood is drained away. Thank you, my friend in Georgia for knowing the law and fighting for everyone's rights!
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[1] www.mclane.com ; Evergreen Clauses: How Enforceable are "Automatic Renewal" Provisions?; by Steven J. Dutton
Also: www.Kirschenbaumesq.com ; Automatic Clause Issue, specific to alarm systems companies
Freedom Fighters of America urges all State Attorney Generals to investigate this issue. Not only Alarm Companies need to be fined and pay restitution but I'm sure that there are a lot of other greedy businesses out there and especially in this economy.
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Incarcerated for being sick? Free Justina!
April 9, 2014
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
Justina Pelletier is the 15 year old girl who has been taken away from her family by doctors, hospitals and courts in Massachusetts. She was originally under the care of doctors at Tufts Medical Center, who referred Justina to Boston Childrens' Hospital when she had the flu. How then can she be taken from her family on grounds of "medical child abuse"?
Munchausen's by Proxy was a term used before medical child abuse. The older term is not specific to children.
Munchausen's Syndrome is defined as a factitious disorder with factitious coming from Latin and roughly meaning artificial or created. [1] The Munchauses's patient has a history of hospitalizations, seeking doctors, travelling, drama and telling tall tales. The patient supposedly craves attention, sympathy, reassurance and so forth. The term is a bit frivolous as it is named for Baron Munchausen who liked to tell tall tales about his life. A slang term for the condition is Hospital Addiction Syndrome. [2]
Munchausen's by Proxy is when someone, like a parent of care giver causes a victim such as a dependent child, to seek unneeded medical care such as diagnostic testing and multiple procedures, possibly including surgeries. In extreme cases the victim is made ill or is injured by the person who seeks the attention, drama and sympathy. [2] There have been some horrific cases documented on various TV programs where nurses brought patients to the brink of death so they could be lauded as heroes when they performed resuscitation in the nick of time.
These two syndromes have similarities to the better known 'hypochondria' which is also a factitious disorder. These psychiatric diagnoses are convenient for doctors and other providers when they fail to diagnose and heal patients with rare diseases. Put in layman's terms, the doctor tells the patient, "It is all in your head". We women are very used to this indeed!
In Justina Pelletier's case it seems that neurologist, Dr. Jurriaan Peters and a psychologist (Ioana) Simona Bujoreanu decided Justina's illness was all in her parents' heads, that Justina was receiving unnecessary medical care to her detriment and the best thing for her was to be shut up in Bader 5, a locked psych ward. [3]
I am still mystified that Justina's doctors at Tufts did not do more to prevent their teen aged patient from being locked in a psych ward for over a year. Personally I would think Tufts doctors' opinions would carry a lot of weight but apparently not. Meanwhile Ms. Bujoreanu does not appear to be a medical doctor and though some articles append 'Dr.' to her name the most my research yields is that she is a PhD. type of doctor. [4] She has strong ties to Massachusettes Department of Children and Families according to articles. [3] I am sure any allegation of child abuse is sufficient to silence any doctor, no matter their expertise or affiliation. What doctor would want to be called to explain his or her diagnoses and treatments if someone of Ms. Bujoreanu's qualifications could make stick allegations that a child's illness was all in the parents' heads?
Since the 1980s parents have not known the freedom of raising their children without fear of government in the form of various child protective services. Child abuse became the new witch hunt late in the last century. Sadly in this new century, especially with government takeover of medical care, 'medical child abuse' is yet another weapon in the arsenal of government control, to be used against the sanctity of parental authority.
The multiple articles covering Justina's case seem to agree that her doctor(s) at Tufts had diagnosed mitochondrial disease (Mito),and that her older sister has had the same diagnosis. Mitochondria, inherited directly from the mother, are organelles within cells in the body which are responsible for producing energy and are involved in handling proteins and fats. If they do not function properly other parts of the body have a rough time. The nervous system which requires a lot of resources, can be agonizingly disrupted. Thankfully for the human race, these diseases seem to be fairly rare.
Unfortunately for Mito patients, because of the difficulty of making an absolute diagnosis and because the symptoms can be odd, it is common for the sufferer to receive a psychiatric diagnosis. Also because of these vagaries Mito is said to be a common diagnosis in cases of actual medical child abuse. [4] This is very unfortunate for the Justina and her family, as their personal suffering entered the realm of statistics and government intervention.
As I read and listen to Justina's saga I want to shriek, "Why isn't anyone standing up for these people?" After all licensed doctors should have the guts to defend their diagnoses and not allow their patients to bear the brunt of accusations, in my opinion.
Actually one organization has actively attempted the Pelletier family. The Coalition for Diagnostic Rights wrote a letter to the judge in Justina's case. They made ten legal points about patient and parental rights. The letter is published on line and 23 copies were sent to a variety of people ranging from Massachusetts Governor Duval Patrick to doctors, administrators and the press.It is available for viewing at www.diagnosticrights.org
Their website states: Not One More Patient Should be Denied Care in Error. Also, "Rare disease patients wait an average if 7 years for accurate diagnoses", and during those years most of those patients, "will match the criteria for somatoform diagnosis to a tee."
Somatoform disorder, more or less another new term for hypochondria, is the ultimate diagnosis that led to Justina Pelletier being locked into a psych ward for over a year. According to Coalition for Diagnostic rights the Bader 5 locked ward "aggressively" treats somatoform disorder.
Justina it seems to me is victimized twice. In the first place medical professionals accuse her parents of seeking too much medical attention, supposedly for their own twisted psychological needs. Thus the teen has been kept from her family, month after month. One would assume if her parents were the cause of her illness, she would improve when removed from her parents.
She did not improve and indeed got worse, so the same medical professionals then insisted the illness that was in Justina's parents' heads was all in her head. She was making herself sick, if I understand their reported reasoning; Justina created or imagined her own symptoms and God only knows what kind of psychological torture in a locked ward might be the approved treatment.
Justina's case is complex both legally and medically. I have concentrated on medical aspects. What has happened to her and her family could happen to any parent, family, child or patient. As I said earlier, we women are used to the, "It's all in your head diagnosis".
I have been there, done that and my thoughts and prayers are with Justina and her family. Almost 40 years ago I had a severe reaction to a prescription drug which sent my blood pressure into a deadly range. Doctors said I was young and I could take it. I survived but was left with tachycardia~ a severely rapid pulse. Doctors said I was "too young to have heart trouble". They drilled it into me that I was mentally ill and it was all in my head. (I was also once diagnosed with Munchausen's syndrome because I didn't give a doctor the answers he considered normal.) My suffering was unrelenting until a couple years ago my resting pulse went up to 185 and would not come down. I nearly died. Suddenly doctors didn't think I was mentally ill and they insisted I see a cardiologist. A simple, old fashioned cardiac drug has finally given me some quality of life, even though I am at risk of dropping dead at any time.
Mental diagnoses can rarely be proven with quantitative tests and therefore they remain in the realm of opinion. The doctor cannot prove his psychiatric diagnosis and the patient cannot disprove it. Doctors have all the power and they sit in judgement over their patients. It is nothing new that when children are involved the law, in the form of child protection divisions, declare parents and other adults guilty until or unless they can prove their innocence. This is not new but Justina's case appears to me to be a new extreme in the state sponsored witch hunts of the Twenty-First Century.
It seems Justina was taken away from her parents because those in authority thought her parents made her sick. When she got worse she was locked in a mental ward because the same authorities believed she was making herself sick! Talk about punishing the victim!
Please pray for Justina and her parents Linda and Lou Pelletier. Visit their website :
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[1] Tabor's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 1977 edition
Also used: www.merriam-webster.com
[2] Wikipedia
Neil Swidey, Patricia Wen
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Missing Plane Remotely Viewed
This article was written by Freedom Fighters of America, Senior Writer.
March 19, 2014
I've believed Anna from the beginning and thought everyone else should read her story. Thank you for reading and passing this onto all of your friends. We pray for the passengers and their families.
A television news graphic diagrammed the likely change in direction of Flight MH370, after it had been missing for several days. A light red line detailed the slight left turn and somewhat of a backtracking pattern over the Malacca Strait. The news anchor described it in words and pointed out locations.
My mind tuned out the talk and wandered slightly. The faint red line on the televised map became in my private viewing, a bright orange-red fish hook design headed straight to Iran. I didn't think too much about this mental change in graphics because I regularly "see" a wide range of even mundane things in colors and pictures; however from that point I never saw anything but the burning bright trajectory extended toward Iran, whenever maps of the supposed flight pattern were shown. It actually seemed to make a lot of sense as Iran is constantly in the news over various controversies and that country would be a heck of a good place to hide a stolen 777 in my opinion.
Moving beyond reason, I have had unbidden "remote viewing" experiences off and on for a long time and if I silently ask questions "impressions" will frequently flash into my consciousness in the form of pictures and diagrams. This started when a close friend was murdered a number of years ago. The night she was tortured and killed I had an experience that wasn't a dream or even a nightmare. Though provably hundreds of miles away I had gained knowledge only the victim and killer would know. In an altered state that seemed to last all night I had experienced impressions and emotions from my friend's perspective as she became the victim of a killer.
This experience seemed to open some new windows in my mind. Following it, I occasionally had strong impressions about unsolved things. After the mysteries were solved I was amazed that I had someway known at least partial answers in advance. I prayed deeply and sincerely that I would never receive anything that was not from God. Later I became familiar with remote viewing which is all about "impressions", the same word I used to explain my experiences.
I didn't think deeply about the blazing orange line my mind saw for the missing 777 until I heard on radio that remote viewers and psychics were being asked to look at the situation. I cleared my mind, said a prayer and waited. The first impression was a grey/green map of Asia. The orange line of the changed trajectory seemed to be on fire and showed the plane after the left turn, swinging a bit south and then in a straight line to the region of northern Iran.
I say northern region because now I saw the northern border of Iran, light orange on grey-green back ground. Slightly north of the Iranian border an area blazed with the fire colored orange seeming to say "the plane is here, intact". While I can find Iran on a map I am not familiar with its borders, nor can I accurately name bordering countries. The impression I had received was very clear and easy to find and understand on a map. I "saw" the missing plane slightly north of Iran on the Turkmenistan side of the border. There is a town marked on the map named Ashkhabad. I visualize the plane to the right of that town on the map. Farther to the right is the smaller town of Tedzhen and that is too far. An area between the two towns but closer to Ashkhabad burns bright.
I made a conscious attempt to visualize the plane. A picture flashed of the plane intact on a flat runway area, surrounded by jagged tan colored mountains. There are a couple scraggly, vine like trees that are barely green. Everything was the tan color of mountain terrain so high that little vegetation can survive.
A radio broadcast said Uri Gellar had been asked to remote view the missing plane and that he had asked other remote viewers to share their impressions on his Facebook page. I visited his page and wrote two lines succinctly describing my impressions near the Iranian border.
I felt guilty even writing that much. There are over two hundred people missing along with the plane. Those people have grieving and terrified families waiting for any word about their loved ones. As a legitimate writer, is it right for me to publish my impressions which could be nothing more than imagination?
In all honesty I feel nothing, have NO impressions about any of the people. I "see" a blank screen or alternately the word ZERO in bold, black letters. I feel strongly the plane did not crash. I "feel" uninterrupted peace as though nothing terrifying ever happened. This does not seem reasonable. Even a change in direction and a landing in an unexpected place should evoke strong emotion. Remote viewing is not one hundred percent reliable for anyone. I pray to God who knows all, for the people aboard the plane and for their families.
Someone posted on Twitter a couple days before the 17th, that she believed the solution to the missing flight would be discovered on St. Patrick's Day. I instantly felt this was very wrong. I immediately got an impression of the calendar. Yesterday the 18th appeared in heavy black numbers on a grey background. Today the 19th, toward the bottom of the date square, in the late afternoon as I interpret it, there are faint sunset colors appearing over the grey. I feel there will be a new development just being announced. Tomorrow the 20th is bright as the story develops. The 21st sparkles and flashes indicating to me that the developing news will be hot and well developed. This impression holds strong over these past days until now.
Last night as news coverage seemed to be leaning toward the idea of Flight MH370 being intact in the vicinity of Iran, I decided to share my impressions with my friend Lynn who created Freedom Fighters of America. He encouraged me to write this. He believes, as it seems the Israeli government believes, that the missing plane could be reloaded with possibly nuclear explosives and flown on a suicide mission to detonate over Israel.
I detect no human emotion or thoughts. Whether or not any of my impressions are accurate, I humbly leave in the hands of God. I pray to Him for a quick and safe solution of the international mystery.
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Speak Now, the IRS Wants to Hear From Us!
February 19, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~In the soap opera drama that US politics has become, the IRS is asking We The People to speak now or forever hold our peace. (Silence. Organ music. Cut to commercial.) Actually the IRS is seeking comments from all of us concerning rule and regulation changes pertaining to 501(c) tax exempt organizations, especially (c)(4) groups.
~The specific items for which the IRS invites comments concern areas directly involved with that ugly subject, "IRS targeting TEA Party groups". ALL of the issues are not addressed in the proposed regulations but some are. It is my understanding that by commenting prior to February 27, 2014, those who comment now will have the ability to comment further as the rule changes develop. Not commenting I believe puts a citizen in the position of "forever holding his peace". Commenting is simple and certainly worthwhile.
~"IRS blocks free speech" is a sensational exclamation frequently heard lately. Since government treats us like frogs in boiling water, nothing is ever that simple. Please read the proposed regulations at the Federal Register; https://federalregister.gov/a/1013-28492. If necessary enter IRS REG-134417-13. [1]. The whole thing is a lot simpler than one paragraph of Obama Care/ Democrat Care. My take on the proposals is that they are trying to define ACCEPTABLE speech within the context of tax exempt charitable organizations. From my perspective any government regulation that tells a citizen what, how or when he or she can say something, is a limit on free speech through the back door.
~Of course the IRS is not telling groups what they can or cannot say, EXCEPT if the groups want tax exempt status they can't say certain things the IRS is or will deem as "candidate-related". Proposed restrictions have to do with both content of speech and timing of speech. Group activities or planned activities can also have to do with obtaining tax exempt status as I read it. [1]
~The IRS proposes to define what is "candidate-related" speech at least partly based on a time frame of 30 or 60 days prior to certain elections. These are especially sticky areas because the IRS goes way beyond saying a 501(c)(4) for instance, cannot say, "Vote for (or against) Joe Blow". The (c)(4) designation usually concerns organizations tax exempted for the purposes of "social welfare". That is a poorly defined term that covers subjects we might consider educational, more or less, areas that have very much to do with free speech and exchange of ideas, as we understand those terms.
~It appears that mere ideas could be considered "candidate-related" and prohibited. For example if a pro-life group in Texas as part of its mission opposes abortion, their speech, publications, web sites, etc. could become political speech within 30-60 days of an election wherein Wendy Davis, known as an abortion supporter, is on the ballot. As I take it the IRS would be the arbiter that decides if opposing abortion in this example, would be prohibited in that while the group could say it, they could also lose their tax exempt status for saying it at the wrong time. Loss of exempt status can discourage contributors, and since money equals air time, print publications, space rentals, etc., the group's ability to express itself COULD be severely affected. In this money driven world THAT is limiting free speech in my opinion.
~The IRS seems to believe even non-partisan events such as candidate fairs with candidates from both parties could be prohibited political speech within the time limits prior to an election. Also in question is "get out the vote" drives which certainly should not be considered "candidate-related", in my opinion. I do not follow the reasoning of the IRS, but "get out the vote" campaigns are specifically mentioned and it seems to me that encouraging citizens to vote, no matter the party or issues, is for the basic "social welfare" of the republic.
~I found it easy to get on~or is it go through~the portal to make a comment online. Any submissions must include this citation: IRS REG-134417-13. I wrote a long and thoughtful comment and have no idea if it was submitted or not because the whole site locked up and nothing worked. I have no idea if I needed to provide a profile before proceeding. I tried a second time and attempted to click profile first but got the notice I had to comment first. I know people who have successfully left comments so it DOES work.
~Since I have decided to comment by mail I did not leave another comment on the site. Mailing instructions state they want one original, signed document and eight (8) copies! I will be commenting as a member of a 501(c)(3) so everything considered I prefer the mail. The mailing address provided is: CC:PA:LPD:PR (REG-134417-13), Room 5205, Internal Revenue Service, PO Box 7604, Ben Franklin Station. Washington DC 20044. (With 8 copies requested I am sure I will have an envelope large enough to handle such an address!)
~It is easy to complain about the government and to make sensational statements about the IRS targeting people and groups, which I believe they have done. I have no idea how much weight our comments will have. The last number of comments I saw listed at the portal was over 31,800. Out of hundreds of millions of citizens that does not seem like much. We feel our government makes too many decisions without in put from We The People. In this one instance the IRS is asking for our opinions and every one of us should read the proposals and leave whatever well thought comments that come to mind.If it is true that those who comment now will have their feet in the door for further in-put as the process goes along, so much the better.
~Speak now and know you are part of the solution or be prepared to hold your peace and know you did nothing, if these rules are adopted and there are subsequent reports of the IRS targeting political groups. Defense of free speech is up to us and it starts with the free speech we have now. Tell the IRS what you think!
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Sources:
"New IRS Rules Would Scuttle Tea Parties"
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Jahi McMath - Hope Denied by Court Order
December 28, 2013
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Is "BRAIN DEAD" a legal death sentence? Apparently it is. First two doctors must reach that diagnosis in exams separated by a number of hours. If family or next of kin objects the next step is the court system. If a judge declares the patient dead, there is no hope, or so it seems in the case of Jahi McMath the 13 year old Oakland, California girl whose heart failed following hours of hemorrhage following tonsillectomy.
~California is a state where actual executions of convicted heinous murderers are basically never done. Richard Ramirez the "Night Stalker" got 24 years on death row before dying of cancer in June of this year.
~The same state's legal system has grudgingly given teenager Jahi McMath 18 days. That is the time from the December 12 finding of "brain dead" until 5:00 pm. December 30 when a judge says her ventilator must be unplugged.
~Language in an California Assembly Bill* states that in a case of diagnosed brain death, the hospital shall provide family or next of kin with a, "...reasonably BRIEF period of accommodation...", emphasis mine. Religious and cultural needs are to be respected. As a Catholic, I can't resist translating this to mean the priest better pray fast!
~All this is necessary because loved ones who are found to be "brain dead" are likely to be on machines that keep the body functioning, but it is presumed not living and therefore beyond hope. That loved ones are still warm and hearts still beat while a machine does the breathing leads families to believe there is actual life. Many sources state that no one has ever recovered following a diagnosis of brain death. Ever. **
~Another angle that makes "brain dead" sacrosanct is that this decision is the human determination when an organ donor, cadaver if you will, is dead enough to donate fresh, very usable organs. I am a registered organ donor and have no problem with this but organ donation seems to require a level of agreement and meeting of the minds between a living person's wishes, family and the medical establishment. None of this seems to pertain to the saga of Jahi McMath.
~Most of us do not want loved ones keeps alive on machines indefinitely. Some are choosing to see Jahi's family's fight as doing just this. I do not. Their child had a tonsillectomy on December 9, hemorrhaged and was declared brain dead December 12. A judge said they could have till Christmas and extended time for an appeal to 5:00 pm December 30. In the name of human decency I do not believe the hospital or judge should have the rights to make such cut and dried decisions.
~The first right to die case was Karen Ann Quinlan in 1976. At age 22 she entered what we now call a persistent vegetative state and the hospital kept her alive on breathing machines. Her family sued to allow her to die and the hospital fought hard to keep her on machines. The family won and Ms. Quinlan who never regained consciousness was able to breathe on her own until she died of pneumonia in 1985. Precedents for the right to die were set then. Most of us do not want loved ones existing on machines. (I personally enacted and honored my late husband's advanced directive when he had another stroke that left him incapable of any movement or responsiveness, yet life persisted.)
~That said, have we become so reactive to the phrase "right to die" that we are lukewarm about "right to life"? In 1976 a hospital went to court to force Karen Ann Quinlan to "live" on a machine. Oakland Childrens' Hospital has gone to court to make sure Jahi McMath is unplugged from machines next Monday night.
~I do not believe Jahi's family is fighting for her to exist on machines forever. I do believe Oakland Childrens' Hospital has lost their trust. Various sources quote her mother as saying the hospital never explained to her how her child ended up in her present condition. There is human error here because people are imperfect. If the hospital could have foreseen the disastrous outcome they would not have operated in the first place. Somewhere in the reported hours of grisly hemorrhaging following the surgery, humans decided not to go back to surgery and find the source of the hemorrhage, thus allowing Jahi's heart to stop. Now these same fallible humans with advanced degrees insist Jahi's family trust them to say the child is irrevocably dead.
~Even though reportedly a long term care facility will accept Jahi as a living patient and will give her a chance, Oakland Childrens' Hospital is refusing do perform a couple surgical procedures that make her transferable. Many people across the country are willing to donate toward the cost of care.
~All things considered, is it reasonable to say "brain dead" is always absolute death? What is a "brief" accommodation for a family to make? Religious views are to be honored. Jahi's family believes in God and that God can and does perform miracles.
~Most important, who will be harmed if the hospital provides a couple minor surgical procedures so that Jahi can be moved to another facility? What IF God performs a miracle for this child? Would that so shake up the medico-legal establishment that they would lose too much control? Why not err on the side of compassion for people who are already suffering enough?
~The legal system insists Jahi is dead. Her family insists time will bring a miracle. Perhaps she is an officially dead child who is merely sleeping. Why insist on death?
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SOURCES:
UC Davis Health System, AB 2565
US DHS Guideline Summary; Guidelines for
determination of brain death
in infants and children...
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Dead Child Sleeping
December 27, 2013
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Jahi McMath had a tonsillectomy to relieve sleep apnea. She sat up in the recovery room and ate a Popsicle. Then blood began dripping out of her nose and mouth and her mother asked if this was normal following tonsillectomy. The bleeding increased and Jahi was taken to ICU and given transfusions. She asked her mother to wipe her nose~blood clots were sliding down from her nostrils. There were cups full of Jahi's blood in the room her mother said in interviews. After several hours the girl went into cardiac arrest and now she is brain dead. This, according to multiple sources is how Jahi became a dead child sleeping.
~According to the same sources, on December 12, three days after surgery and hemorrhage, Jahi was declared "brain dead" which means in a legal sense that she is dead and not entitled to any more care. It also means her family has nothing more to say about her life beyond what funeral chapel will receive her body.
~Jahi's family believes in God and they believe in miracles. The girl is warm and her heart beats. A ventilator breathes for her. Since "brain dead" equals legal death, correct medical procedure is to stop all life preserving efforts, to unplug the machines and turn out the lights. Jahi's family hired an attorney and have been to court twice. A judge allowed the family to have Christmas with Jahi but a further ruling declares she must be unplugged by 5:00 pm, December 30. According to sources the hospital hopes it will be sooner. The family also requested a specialist of their choosing to examine the girl. The judge said no.
~Since I began writing yesterday, Jahi's family has held a news conference. A long term care facility in the Oakland, CA area, according to a family spokesperson, is willing to accept Jahi and give her a chance to wake up. Originally I planned to write about what "brain dead" means, how it is determined and why it means Jahi must be unplugged next Monday, by court order. Nothing I can write from medical and legal research could illustrate the case better than what is actually happening.
~In order to be moved to another facility at least two small surgical procedures are needed. A tracheotomy must be done to insert a breathing tube and a feeding tube must be threaded into Jahi's stomach so she can receive nutrition. Childrens' Hospital Oakland seems to be refusing to do these things. It seems legal death, decided by a judge after listening to a couple experts, must be the most final form of death, absolutely irrevocable, though possibly subject to appeal in a higher court.
~Chief of Pediatrics David Durand, speaking for the Oakland hospital, quoted in a Contra Costa Times article last night states that the judge was "very clear". "He ruled Jahi McMath to be deceased and instructed the hospital to maintain status quo."
(http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_2... | 12/26/13 )
~In the same article the family's attorney Christopher Dolan is quoted thus, "The hospital's stance defied explanation," and further,"...the hospital is hell bent on the girl going out in a box."
~What I believe I learned about "brain dead" from both medical and legal sources, is that there is a great need, in this age when machines can prolong what appears to be life indefinitely, to legally define death. Since the 1960s such a definition has been sought. Eventually "brain dead" became a sort of standard but it seems it is defined differently in the US than in the UK for example. So much for a term that can be legally used to unplug a girl's life support on a certain date at a certain hour!
~Harvesting organs for transplant is mentioned. There must be an absolute point of legal death so that organs can be taken when they are still in good condition. God forbid the donor might still be alive! It appears the organ donation issue has made the brain death determination a legal definition that slams the door on all miracles or basic human compassion. I will state here that I am a registered organ donor. Such is noted on my drivers licence and all my medical files. I strongly support organ donation and have no desire to cast doubt on the organ donation system. However I am almost 60 and in poor health. Jahi McMath is 13 and her family believes she could have a miracle. I do not believe in this case that the legal finality of "brain dead" should mean unplugged on a certain date by a human hand. If there have been any human mistakes made and the girl does awaken to any extent in the future, there will be many uncomfortable questions.
~Neither the medical or legal issues pertaining to Jahi's case are simple but human compassion should be simple. Did Oakland Childrens' Hospital properly deal with what has been described as hours long hemorrhaging that ended in heart failure? If human error could have led to Jahi's current condition, should not human compassion be part of the balance? What does the hospital have to gain by making sure this teenage girl is unplugged and out of their bed, and in a mortuary, in a coffin by Monday night?
~If the family prevails and Jahi should regain life in another facility, what will that do to the sacrosanct legal-medical definition of brain dead? Perhaps the hospital and court system is afraid to find out.
~For now, at least till 5:00 pm next Monday, Jahi McMath is a dead child sleeping.
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Now that "Duck Dynasty" has our attention....
December 21, 2013
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~If only we would swarm with loud indignation every time our God-given rights are threatened, like people are doing now in support of "Duck Dynasty" and Phil Robertson.
~It's emotionally personal when shows come into our homes week after week. We feel like the stars are part of the family and who doesn't rush to defend family if a member is attacked?
~I do not personally own a TV and I have never seen "Duck Dynasty" so I feel a bit emotionally detached from the controversy. There are other cases that have made me boiling mad this year because those cases absolutely attack freedom of expression and religion. These are the cases where courts order business owners to go against their consciences or else. We have seen a lot of this in the past year. Some recent ones involve same sex marriage and they are most pertinent at this time considering the lack of tolerance being shown for Phil Robertson's opinion.
~*Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop,
Lakewood, CO; has been ordered by a court to
provide wedding cakes for same sex marriages.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government
~*Johnathan and Elaine Huguenin own Elane
Photography in Albuquerque, NM. Court has
told them they cannot refuse to photograph
same sex marriages and further, refusing to
do so is a violation of New Mexico's law on
human rights.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/court-h...
~Aron and Melissa Klein own Sweet Cakes by
Melissa in Gresham, OR, though it appears
this business may have closed its doors following
"months of harassment" for refusing to make a
cake for a same sex wedding. The gay couple
filed a complaint with the state's Bureau of
Labor and Industry (BOLI), which is investigating.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/0
~Barronelle Stutzman owns Arlene's Flowers &
Gifts in Washington state. She is a florist. You
guessed it. Legal trouble for refusing to arrange
flowers for a same sex marriage.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/38666614/
~Dick and Betty Odegaard of Grimes, Iowa are
court ordered to rent premises they own for
same sex weddings, says the Iowa human rights
commission.
http://m.religiontoday.com/blog/business-0...
~After accessing these articles on the browser, the next titles state that churches feel they will be next, that in the name of human rights they will be forced to perform same sex marriages.
~None of these stories can have the mass emotional impact that the "Duck Dynasty" cancellation has had but they should. Every time any court, government entity, politician or President Obama himself, grabs a chunk of our rights, we should swarm with indignation and make our position clear. LEAVE OUR GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS ALONE!
~Our politicians are in the process of making every human behavior a part of "public health" through Obama Care. EVERY aspect of our lives can be regulated for the "public good" through "public health". That's what Obama Care is all about and why, in my opinion, Obama fights so hard for it.
~It isn't just about GLAAD v. Phil Robertson's Christianity. That is just a skirmish. Everyday there are new ways for government to steal our consciences, faith and freedom of expression. For example, New York City council just banned e-cigs in public places, not because they harm anyone with second hand vapour. Heck, no! The anti-tobacco nuts don't want kids to think smoking is acceptable. Children must not be allowed to SEE something that SIMULATES smoking. A goal of the anti-smoking zealots is to make smoking "abnormal" which is kind of like what other zealots are doing to make the Christian faith "abnormal".
~Do we see a pattern here? Florists, bakers and photographers MUST, by court order, use their God given artistic talents for events that violate personal religious beliefs. While we are at it, don't forget Hobby Lobby forced against conscience to provide contraceptives and worse. God help the little kid that chews a pastry into the shape of a gun and says "Bang! Bang!" Kids can't even point fingers and pretend they are guns without being punished. Pretend guns and adult gizmo's that resemble cigarettes must not be part of free expression according to the thought police!
~To me, these things are more dangerous to all of us that A&E's suspension of Phil Robertson. A business has the right to make a business decision not to alienate a portion of the viewing public. (If you had a super popular show sponsored by the beef industry for example, and expressed your private opinion that meat eating causes cancer, you might get cancelled.) On the other hand gay activists in particular have repeatedly gone to court to deny business owners the right not to violate personal faith and conscience. In a previous article I wrote that such lack of tolerance from any special group could eventually turn the most tolerant among us toward intolerance and lack of empathy.
~So we have new boycotts in behalf of Phil's right to free speech, joining the many other boycotts that have started throughout the past year. I honestly can't remember if we are supposed to be boycotting or supporting Starbucks at this time. (I live far enough from civilization it doesn't matter anyway.)
~Judging by the intense emotion, maybe the effort for "Duck Dynasty" will actually have an impact where other boycotts seem to have made no impression. However it goes, be prepared to defend ALL our rights ALL the time against an increasingly tyrannical government.
~Our founders knew that kind of vigilance is what it would take to maintain our freedoms in perpetuity. Life got too easy and we forgot how to defend our rights. Indeed, we found it comfortable to give up rights for the "greater good", or perhaps from sheer, unpatriotic sloth and laziness. Enjoy the fight in behalf of "Duck Dynasty" and remember to be just as righteously angry over the daily grabbing of rights we experience from Washington DC.
~It has been said, "Never whack a pinata if hornets are flying out of it." Government needs to know that where our rights are involved, We the People are one of that kind of pinata!
Dec 14 at 9:21 AM
~People are just beginning to notice that hospitals are buying up physicians' private practices and forming monopolies.
~Crises are only crises when they happen to you. That is why, when the 2012 presidential vote was critical, noone listened to warnings about impending Obama Care which was designed be be fairly benign until after the president was chosen~or specifically, reelected. It is human nature not to react until you, personally are affected.
~A few years ago, my friend who was a medical transcriptionist began to complain that the local hospital was "taking over everything" and that this was "socialized medicine". She was losing jobs as private practices were increasingly bought and controlled by the local hospital. Eventually the hospital controlled all of the formerly independent practices she no longer had a job.
~While my friend agonized I thought I saw a powerful, small town hospital bringing in specialists and making remarkable improvements in rural care which has traditionally lacked many things, including having enough doctors. MY personal crisis with the hospital monopoly came a few years after my friend's. By then, the hospital was ALL powerful and could do anything. Obama Care can penalize doctors for "adverse outcomes"~if the patient gets sicker instead of better. I had a severe adverse outcome, my permanent E-record got filled with lies and I had no recourse except to move and try to find doctors who still keep paper records.
~Even if I had been the politically aware citizen I am now, when my friend began harping on "socialized medicine", I don't know what I could have done to change things. Back then my friend and I would have looked like ninnies trying to change hospital policy over our personal issues. Today hospital monopolization of private physicians' practices is beginning to get wider attention because it will soon be everybodies' crisis. We may not be able to stop it but we should understand what they are doing to us.
~Just this week, judging by a few online postings, other people seem to be noticing the trend of hospitals buying up and controlling private physicians' practices. A quick search of the subject says hospitals in 2013 won't make the same mistakes hospitals made in the 1990s trying a similar thing which failed. Back then, eventually the doctors freed themselves from the hospitals and managed care and resumed private practices.
~This time around it looks to me like the hospitals are functioning like industrial strength fly paper. I can see the doctors getting stuck in the system and struggling to give good, individualized care to their patients. Eventually I imagine they will succumb to the stickey, socialized medicine schemes the hospitals and government will devise.
~The ever expanding crisis of hospital monopolies will swallow more than private practices. While there are spurious articles about small, mostly rural hospitals being put out of business via the ACA*, the behemouth hospitals that planned ahead are going to survive on POPULATION HEALTH. Memorize that term because it is the meat of Obama Care/ Democrat Care, aka Affordable Care. Ominously, according to some experts, every hospital can't manage population health because, "Smaller hospitals only heal the sick." (www.beckershospitalreview.com/.../why by Sabrina Rodak)
~POPULATION HEALTH about healing the individual sick or injured as I understand it. Population health is more about SDOH~social determinants of health. Going back to the beginnings in 1946, WHO stated that health equals, "...a state of complete physical, mental and social well being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."**
~A quick Wiki read further defines population health as, "health outcomes of a group of individuals, the distribution of such outcomes within the group...", whatever that means. It is a curious note that population health does not refer to plants or animals. So if my herd of cows is all vaccinated for the health of the group...uh, by definition that is not an example of population health because population health only applies to humans. That doesn't sound like a scientific principle to me but then medical care is becoming more about government and less about hard science.
~Some articles note that population health is overly broad, that absolutely anything can be included in the definitions. No wonder this is a strategy hospitals of today are using to avoid whatever mistakes they made back in the '90s! That said, one article attempts to clarify by defining it as, "the distribution of health". Overall health will be rated high if the majority of the population is healthy. This article makes it plain that population health is not public health, though both areas can work together. (www.improvingpopulationhealth.org/.../ Editor David A. Kindig MD, Phd.)
~Translated into the real life experiences of the average Obama Care victim...I mean consumer...population health means your doctors, likely monopolized by the powerful local hospital, will at least partly see you as a member of a group. It could be the Medicare group of people over age 65. It could be a group based on your county, state, race, income, sexual orientation, education level. It could be based on what insurance group you use. (http://www.partners.org/Innovation-And-... PMH In Action)
~There is a "triple aim" of population health which applies to individuals. Pushed by government and hospitals supposedly to save costs, this is the allegedly "patient-centered" care which always strikes me as government-centered care. Patients will have primary care doctors in their "patient-centered medical home", care will be coordinated and in some cases will include intensive case management and doctors will get patients involved in their own care. (Ibid. PMH In Action) Still, the overall goal is a healthy population as I understand it.
~Expanding on this framework, population health has been described as overseeing patients' health outside the exam room via a team of health workers. Or as Care Continuum Alliance put it, "Self management interventions aimed at influencing the targeted population to make behavioral change." (http://www.carecontinuumalliance.org/phi.___ )
Please take note of the "behavioral change" and "targeted population" parts.
~Insurance and government have made it easier for hospitals to get reimbursed for all sorts of care, more so than doctors in private practice. New requirements and regulations under Obama Care are expensive and intrusive. Therefore physicians treating individuals in private practice sell out to hospitals. (http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/16/smallbu... "Doctors Bail Out on their Practices")
~Following the money, hospitals that will survive likely will do so through "Population Health". Why maintain a big hospital facility and wait for sick people? By "treating" the whole population on a daily basis while it is well, a whole new industry is born! Local populations can have lifestyles managed by the reigning hospital monopoly which receives marching orders from whatever political party is in power. Whatever individual care remains, delivered by physicians who are employees only, will be based on hospital/government policy.
~We talk about defunding or repealing Obama Care. There are many things encouraged by the ACA, like this trend of hospitals controlling doctors, that would probably never be affected by any congressional action. In my opinion these things are every bit as dangerous to We The Patients than the whole, giant bill. The smaller things like hospital monopolies will fill any gaps if the complete ACA takeover is slowed down.
~The definition of CRISIS is, "a time of intense difficulty or danger".*** When big hospitals under government control purchase and employ ALL physicians in an area it is a time of difficulty and danger for patients. In areas blessed with independent doctors, everything should be done to keep them in private practice. A dear friend believes politics are eventually the answer to everything. As medical care increasingly becomes government-centered, and concentrated on populations rather than individuals, he may be right. Hospital monopolies are certainly something for grassroots and TEA Party groups to be look at.
~Hospital monopolies should be seen as everybodies' crisis. Like Dr. Ben Carson has said, "Who controls health care, controls you."
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~* Winfield Daily Courier; President's 2014 Budget
May Threaten Small Hospitals by Donetta
Godsey. (A Kansas article but there are many
articles available detailing the same issues in
many other states.)
http://m.winfieldcourier.com/top_story/artic...
~** Wikipedia, POPULATION HEALTH DEFINITION
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_...
~*** Merriam Webster online dictionary
~Forbes; Hospitals Are Going on a Doctor Buying
Binge; Scott Gotleib;
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgotleib/2
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Health Snacking Zone
November 19, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~1.8 million dollars to create a "Healthy Snacking Zone" ought to be a bad joke, except in reality it appears to be a gross waste of government money. If it is a joke, it's a joke on American tax payers.
~A little over a year ago a small town paper in Eastern Oregon announced the $1.8 million SNACZ program which covers one, sparsely populated county about a hundred miles west of the Idaho border, as the crow flies. Union County has a total population of 25,759. 16.6% of this population is below the poverty line; or as locals quip, the food bank is the biggest bank in town. Income per capita is $22,356 and income per household is $40,974. Union County lags behind both Oregon and US income averages according to http://www.biggestuscities.com/demograph... which is my source for these stats.
~According to the newspaper article SNACZ stands for: Students Now Advocating to Create (Healthy Snacking) Zones. It is ultimately a 4-H program initially aimed at Union County fourth and fifth graders.
~4-H clubs started at the turn of the last century, with the idea that young people would share new agricultural practices with older, resistant farmers. The clubs are tied into the Cooperative Extension System of the USDA. 4-H exists in all fifty states and it appears from their web site that 4-H activities increasingly cover environmentalism and global issues. Check out "4-H Revolution of Responsibility", and "Healthy Living Stories of Responsibility" at http://www.4-h.org/about/revolution/ .
~The easily recognized four H's, in a clover leaf symbol, stand for Head, Hands, Heart and Health, and there is a pledge about these elements that is recited at the start of each meeting.*
~Considering the SNACZ Program, there seems to be a fifth "H"; Help Yourself to Tax Dollars. The $1.8 million for the Healthy Snacking Zone came from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Their site has something like a mission statement which reads, "Aims to improve economic, environmental and social conditions in the US and globally". http://www.csrees.usda.gov/
~So how does $1.8 million provide healthy snacking? Well...in fall of 2012 the SNACZ program sought to hire someone who could work with youth. I guess they found someone because the ads are no longer online. SNACZ is a four year program so it seems to me the paid leader would likely be hired for the duration.
~In old-time 4-H there were volunteer leaders who had expertise in subjects like farm animals, sewing, cooking, and pretty much anything anyone could build into a youth oriented educational club. Since SNACZ includes "community organizing", perhaps there weren't any properly trained volunteers. (There must be good money in community organizing since that's about the only job President Obama ever had and he isn't poor.) In addition to community organizing the SNACZ website states that members will learn about nutrition, leadership skills, project planning and research methods.**
~I have no idea what Union County is getting from this large serving of USDA slush. After a little over one year I would expect something spectacular for that kind of money. Five little towns in the county each have their very own SNACZ group and each one has a web page. All of the pages have this notice: "You are not authorized to view this page". Since these are kids' pages, I don't know if they are keeping out perverts or reporters like me. One very tiny town accidentally posted that their SNACZ group had had a booth about nutrition at a local fall festival.***
~The original newspaper article last year touted the idea that kids would advocate for rewards like hikes instead on ice cream parties. This strikes me as extra humorous because Union County is very rural; countryside and mountains are little more than a ten minute walk from downtown anywhere. Hikes are hardly unexpected treats on a par with ice cream parties.
~In addition to kids giving up edibles for exercize, another SNACZ goal is to get stores to promote healthy snacking items, keeping them visible and readily available. The "research" part of SNACZ involves interviewing school teachers over the four year period, tracking what kinds of snacks kids bring to school and what snacks are available in the schools.+
~Hilariously, while this $1.8 million dollars worth of community organizing is going on, the local food banks use full page ads in the paper begging for donations. Indeed, last week a local newspaper article expressed relief that the latest food collection drive brought in almost 36,000 pounds of food which waas desperately needed in light of recent food stamp cuts. Businesses it was noted, donated 20,000 pounds of the total amount.++
~There is apparently more hunger than the food banks can handle. The Union County Friday Back Pack Program provides food for kids over the weekend when school lunches and breakfasts aren't available. As stated on its website http://www.|fbp.org : "Oregon currently has the highest rate of childhood hunger in the nation with 29% of children in the state facing food insecurity." Keep in mind Union County income stats are lower than the state average.
~In 2011 another Union County newspaper article worried about a block grant reduction denying local children free lunches under the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).+++
~Looking at the whole picture, the $1.8 million "Healthy Snacking Zone" infuriates me. I have lived in some of these low income Eastern Oregon communities, if not Union County. Life was always hard and some children have always been hungry at least part of the month, when money and food stamps run out. Timber and railroads provide fewer jobs in this century than the last. Poverty is very much evident. A friend who was in business in Union County for a many years, went to a big city on a trip. She commented, "It was so nice to sit on a park bench and see people who weren't poor!" Depressing.
~To me the most disturbing of the multiple feeding programs is Friday Back Pack, whose premise is that children don't have enough food on weekends, when schools are not providing meals. While this can be debated from many angles, for a moment take it at face value. How can a division of the USDA give almost two million dollars to teach kids to eat less in a county where there are numerous barrels begging to be filled so school kids can have something to eat at home when schools are closed?
~"Fight Childhood Obesity", said another 2012 article about the SNACZ Program. If government was ever wise, perhaps it would find a way to combine anti-obesity efforts with anti-hunger efforts? It is common to personally KNOW hungry kids and families in areas like Union County.
~Instead of blowing $1.8 million on "community organizing" against obesity, why not organize 4-H clubs that offer skills to the hungry? For example, the poor can be taught to cook at home. Prepared and fast foods are supposed to be part of the obesity problem. If club members worry about their own risks of obseity, why not give up fattening snacks and ice cream parties but donate the money saved to the food banks? I can think of about one point eight million other ideas that might actually DO something about hunger and obesity, but what do I know? I'm just a tax payer!
~My opinion is the slush funded SNACZ Program is more about community organizing than anything else. Give it the four years planned. Then perhaps it will join Obama Care and grade schoolers will be going into homes checking fridges and shelves for healthy snacks.
~I find these government redistribution schemes so offensive on so many levels! Divide $1.8 million by fifty thousand dollars~a household income above the national average, and in a place like Union County where living is less expensive, a good income. Thirty six people could have $50,000 in one year. Divide that by four years~the length of the SNACZ program~and nine households could have $50,000 four years in a row! It seems government is worse than business for concentrating wealth in the hands of the few while the masses are in need.
~The "Healthy Snacking Zone" sounds ominous but so far it isn't law, it isn't militarized and it's 200 miles from me. I'm going to make caramel apple pies today. Butter AND shortening in the crust. Light on apples, heavy on caramel. Then I'm going to bake bread. I'd love to share with any hungry kids! The Healthy Snack Police will have to drone strike my kitchen if they don't like it!
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OTHER SOURCES:
~*Meaning of 4-H Clover Leaf;
http://www.laplaza.org/~taos4h/4h21.html
~**SNACZ Websites and pages;
http://extension.oregonstatte.edu/union/uni...
~***Ibid.
~+ Ibid.
~++ www.lagrandeobserver.com/.../Donated-f...
Donated Food Will Make a Difference
Block Grant Threatened
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Insanity For All~Obama Care's Catch-22
October 29, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~"Catch-22 says they have the right to do anything we can't stop them from doing," Joseph Heller writes in his novel.*
~Using that definition, Obama Care should be the mother of all Catch Twenty~Twos. A more clinical definition of the term is, a problem that can't be solved because rules and regulations make the solution impossible. Put crudely by up-cycling a joke from Jr. high, how do you drive a potty-trained puppy crazy? Put him in a round garbage can and tell him to go in the corner! The round garbage can is the health care system and we are the puppies.
~Time to bring in the psychiatrists? No surprise, the ACA like the old Soviet health system, plans psychiatric evaluations for all! Obama Care integrates mental health with physical health under the excuse that mentally ill patients have higher than normal rates of concurrent physical ailments or co-morbidities. Alternately, people who are seriously or chronically ill necessarily have mental illness. Ain't that a WIN/WIN, Catch-22 plan? Everybody is crazy which necessitates lots of government money and new programs to treat and medicate the otherwise healthy, but newly labelled patients!
~Expanding the Catch-22 net so it snares everyone, "Mental Health" is transitioning into "Behavioral Health". Implications are obvious but clear statements by the government on the importance of the change to the term "behavioral" are just as unclear as the rest of the so-called ACA law. Without clarity, those in charge or those who are merely political hacks, most certainly create the right to do anything to us that they think we can't stop them from doing! We all will soon be behaviorally ill because we have lost control of our medical system and hence forth our very "wellness" will be determined arbitrarity by those in power. Very soon, to be human will equal behavioral disease.
~Fortuitously or on purpose for the launch of "behavioral health", the psychiatric diagnostic bible has had its first major overhaul since 1994. The result is the heavily criticized 'DSM-V' that TIME.com noted, "is subject to political influence".** Is that a WIN/WIN from the ACA perspective, or what? The important point is that according to some mental health professionals, pretty much any human experience is now a mental illness of some degree, worthy of diagnosis and treatments from Big Pharma. Dr. Allen Francis, MD, professor emeritus at Duke and former chair of the 'DSM-IV', describes 'DSM-V' as, "...deeply flawed, containing many changes that seem unsafe and scientifically unsound". Francis further admonishes, "...be skeptical and don't follow 'DSM-V' blindly down a road likely to lead to massive over diagnosis and harmful over-medication".**
~On the other hand Dr. Francis is a strong supporter of gun control** so I can imagine him at a future time extolling the social engineering values of the 'DSM-V'. For example, cigarette smoking is no longer a social activity or even a bad habit. According to 'DSM-V' smoking is a behavioral illness labelled "disorder", as in "Tobacco Use Disorder". Can you imagine "Firearm Ownership Disorder"? How very convenient it will be to circumvent the constitution through behavioral labeling!. The next created psycho-social diagnosis is likely to be TEA Party Dysfunctional Disorder!
~Amid the mayhem that is Obama Care, there is one functioning clarity. Not surprising, there is a working system for collecting and reporting psychiatric and social behavior which is already functioning with few or any glitches. This tends to prove what we instinctively know and what Dr. Ben Carson has said~ the ACA isn't about health, it is about CONTROL, period.
~The Meaningful Use Program which is apparently the cover name for Electronic Health Records (EHR), requires doctors and hospitals to establish tobacco use and smoking history (along with BMI) for all patients over 13. This started in several states long before the ACA was passed without reading. Unlike the unfortunate web site, the ability to report us to the government has had years of practice, works fine and is in the final stages of becoming a permanent tracking/ reporting system for all citizens. Indeed they plan to include criminal records with health records at the federal level!
~Smoking and smokers were the practice targets, probably because WHO and the CDC considers tobacco a global scourge, a threat to all humanity bigger even, than global warming. That said, consider that if the NRA hadn't insisted on a part in Obama Care that forbids doctors to ask about guns, guns would probably trump BMI in importance. As much as progressives hate guns I doubt, even without the NRA effort, that guns would ever have been at the top of the list. For peculiar and unknown reasons nothing is more important to the government fiends, than smoking status which is now the actual disease, Tobacco Use Disorder!
~Doctors get paid for reporting smokers, along with BMI, and for doing some other tasks involving EHR. The pay is low but I suppose, comparable to the thirty pieces of silver of two thousand years ago. Stage 1 of Meaningful Use is largely practice and mind control over providers, so qualified providers will only be eligible to receive up to $44,000 from Medicare and up to $63,750 from Medicaid.***
~As the system progresses and solidifies like curing cement, one of the ultimate goals of Meaningful Use, Stage 3, 2016 is, "Improving population health" through a form of mind control in my opinion.*** No surprise again, Meaningful Use is also working out guidelines to report the "behavioral and social health" of each patient to HHS via EHR. As with all Obama Care plans, they seem to make it up as they go along and the latest information I find says they have not yet figured out the rules for evaluating and reporting behavioral and social health. In fact I am not sure they have decided what exactly is "behavioral health". If they have they probably won't tell us until we are all labeled with a behavioral disorder, and will therefore be too crazy to make credible complaints. Classic Catch-22!
~'DSM-5' seems to turn every normal human experience into a diagnostic label. Normal grief is now synonymous with major depression. Over eating 12 times in 3 months is Binge Eating Disorder. The first time substance abuser is classified the same as the hardcore addict. Tobacco is a "substance" and any use is abuse because the state says ANY use is harmful to health and the patient ought to know better! Alcohol "misuse" may have nothing to do with being drunk and can simply mean more than one alcoholic drink per day as I pointed out in my previous article about the "Readiness Ruler" on this site. Indeed the Readiness Ruler is a Catch-22 on a card in the doctor's pocket. This psychological trap renders most users of alcohol as "misusers" in need of labeling and therefore treatment!
~As Heller points out, "...agents enforcing Catch-22 need not prove that Catch-22 actually contains whatever provision the accused violator is accused of violating." What a perfect framework for the Marxist, control driven "fundamental transformation" of health care! Patients have no idea what the rules are and have no hope of doing things right, even if they try. In government-centered medicine patients will forever be subject to arbitrary rules and regulations that may not even exist in reality. Case in point, who ever heard of the Readiness Ruler till I wrote about it? Meanwhile, how many patients have been traumatized by their doctors playing unilateral psychological games no one outside the medical system knows about?
~As bad as it looks there is one bright spot of hilarity which proves that Catch-22 can catch anyone and it may all come down to simply turning the tables. President Obama who so generously gave his name to Obama Care because, as he said in the first debate, "Obama Cares", is an excellent candidate for a behavioral diagnosis. With his insistence on ruling his way or the highway as many say, and his most recent refusal to negotiate during the government shot down, many people believe Obama has temper tantrums. To this end Twitter patriots even hash tagged something like #PresidentStompyFoot. While I don't expect him to enjoy this point any more than he did the rodeo clown, the joke is on Obama. Temper tantrums are now officially labeled as Disruptive Mood Dis regulation Disorders! In the name of humor we have the right to laugh at anything they can't stop us from laughing at! Catch-22!
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SOURCES:
* Wikipedia; "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller, discussion
of book and logic being Catch-22 expression
** http://www.healthnewsreview.org/2012/12/...
'Critics Call APA Approval of 'DSM-V' a Sad Day
For Psychiatry'; Dr. Allen Francis quotes contained
here as well as general information on changes in
'DSM-V'
***http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guida...
www.healthit.gov/policy.../meaningful-us...
Complex government web sites covering
Meaningful Use and how providers will be paid
to collect and report data through EHR
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Who Is "Creepifying" Our Doctors?
October 19, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~My friend who unfortunately lives in Oregon, was recently scheduled for a serious open abdominal surgery. Two days before surgery the hospital told her that because she smokes a couple cigarettes a day the surgery would cause her to die of blood clots! Almost all pre-surgery details had been addressed over a number of weeks but TWO DAYS before surgery someone at the hospital told her she was going to die because she was a smoker!
~After years of watching the Oregon medical system, I know this is standard practice. My friend was terrified and that made me furious. This sort unnecessary cruelty sends me into a rage which would accomplish nothing, except God invented Twitter! I generally view my Twitter account as my personal news broadcast, but once in awhile I succumb to the other definition: A conversation with yourself. I was so angry I made half a dozen personal Twitter mutterings about sadistic doctors in Oregon, assuming nobody would pay attention anyway.
~I was completely surprised and emotionally touched when two Twitter friends with experience in the medical profession wanted details and proof of what I had said, and they called my friend's treatment MALPRACTICE.
~There is a basic framework from the UN/WHO to the CDC, then echoed in Oregon State official documents; that labels tobacco use as a "health burden", and that it is a "disparity" attacking the poor. Organizations like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation further expand on these ideas and they feed back into the government plans. Though I have been searching for more than two years for a protocol that instructs doctors to terrorize smokers, I as yet have nothing definitive.
~In many of my articles I have tried to shine light on who or what "creepified" Oregon doctors. What made receiving care in that state an unpleasant ordeal in my opinion? To me it is so creepified that I moved to the state next door where seeing a doctor feels like it used to. I do not have better words for the Oregon experience so I made up "creepified" and "creepification". (Wonder when the "Oxford English Dictionary" will be adding those new words?)
~Oregon utterly wallows in the idea of "transforming health care" in my opinion, with apparently no idea too outrageous to become policy. It seems to me patients become public health lab rats for the newest made up ideas. Obama Care melds "behavioral health" with physical health for a massive experiment in social engineering. The CDC site's pages on tobacco use advocates a "winnable war against tobacco" with an approach that combines educational, clinical, regulatory, economic and social strategies. (www.cc.gov/chronicdisease/.../ohs.htm)* I follow tobacco because it is the simplest of the areas targeted by the CDC. The target list also includes obesity, lack of exercise, healthy nutrition and drug and alcohol "misuse". If the NRA had not been involved with the ACA, guns would probably be on this list. Tobacco is the first target but when government has complete control, what is next. For now I track anti-tobacco activity but everyone needs to keep their eyes wide open for the next "public health" witch hunts.
~WHO and CDC push, "tobacco control programs" which are actually quite complex and hard to follow. WHO pushes MPOWER which is actually quite innocuous in wording: Monitor tobacco use & prevention practices; Protect people from smoke; Offer to help people quit; Warn of tobacco's dangers; Enforce bans on advertizing, etc.; Raise tobacco taxes. Healthy People 2020 is a federal effort of which it is claimed all fifty states have adopted.** Tobacco use is frequently referred to as "unsustainable" for society. These are some of the bare bones upon which creepification is based.
~It appears these "tobacco control programs" started out as public health efforts. Now, and especially with the ACA/Obama Care in action, tobacco control is lucrative. Multiple federal and private grants are readily available. Jobs are created in the new industry of "smoking cessation". Primary Care doctors may be paid for every smoker they can identify, report to the state and log in the permanent electronic records. Doctors may be rewarded for every referral to the state "Quit Line". It is also possible doctors will be penalized for "adverse outcomes" under Obama Care. Theoretically any smoker who does not recover from whatever, smoking related or not, is likely to be blamed for damaging the doctor's, or increasingly the hospital's over all record.*** When a doctor's income is affected, we are likely one step closer to explaining institutionalized abuse of patients who smoke..
~None of this fully explains the creepification of doctors who terrorize smokers . The only proof for the sadistic malpractice is anecdotal. In 1994 a friend who smoked was denied care from an Oregon doctor at the point where a case of flu had caused paralysis. "You smokers have everything, just go home," she was told. In 2002 another smoking friend, post surgical in a big city Oregon hospital, was harassed and neglected by staff until her life was endangered. She did mention MALPRACTICE when the bill was received and the hospital wrote off the charges. In 2005 an 85 year old Oregon lady, surrounded by family, on the gurney going into the operating room for a mastectomy, was rudely shamed by the anesthesiologist for being a lifelong smoker. The family was outraged but did not make a formal complaint. In 2012 a podiatrist in Oregon told a young smoker she couldn't have a corrective surgery on her foot because "smokers' feet will rot off eventually anyway".
~I surmise from these examples, that a strong message is perpetrated from some government department and the message is so compelling that doctors feel great about sadistic shaming of suffering patients. My friend who threatened the hospital with malpractice later learned that the abuse would have stopped if she had admitted smoking was wrong and agreed to "cessation" classes! She nearly died because she failed this bit of social engineering. There must be a fine line between out and out extortion and sneaky and brutal coercion. "The care will improve when you sign up for smoking cessation classes", is probably actionable. Continuous, cruel comments interspersed with offers of cessation classes are very hard to define for a coherent complaint.
~So sneaky are these cases of abuse that it seems the only proof is personal experience. The difficulty of proof is aided by the fact that most adults are alone in their doctors' offices and thus there are usually no witnesses to back up complaints. My life as a patient became very rough indeed after a doctor I had seen for years went to a government sponsored conference one weekend. I have had excruciating pain in my head and face for years and meekly accepted that I would be almost complete disabled because of it. When various tests and imagings showed that I have at least two of the most painful conditions known to humans, my long term doctor had suggested I take oxycodone,one of the strongest narcotics. I do not tolerate oxycodone so we settled on vicodin~60/month. Several years later I saw this doctor soon after he returned from the conference. Out of the blue he announced that I must be an addict because I wasn't well yet! He cut the vicodin prescription down to 30/month. I had continued to see specialists over those years and excepting a miracle it was and is unlikely I will "get well". Eventually after other discomforting remarks like that I got another doctor.
~My doctor had many times complimented me on being a responsible, cooperative patient. One government sponsored conference completely changed him. How was my doctor creepified? I cannot find any documents or protocols on how this is done. In my opinion his actions toward me were just as sadistic as the way smokers are routinely treated in that state. I think the cause is public health policy indoctrination that plays on baser human natures.
~When the Nazis ran out of money to give every German health care, they rationalized that it was beneficial for society to "euthanize" "imbeciles" and the extremely disabled. Otherwise rational health care providers and the general citizenry accepted these ideas for the public good. In my understanding, the government takeover of medical care now in progress has started with the premise, fostered by WHO that there isn't enough "health care" to go around. "Rationing" is still a dirty word in this country so in a non-transparent way doctors and other providers are being indoctrinated to perceive that some people are less deserving of care. Smokers were a good place to start, especially when "second hand smoke" was tied into environmental "clean air" issues. "Passive smoking"~originally invented by Nazis as 'passivrauchen'~was declared a killer of unknown thousands and an issue of child abuse when children are exposed. In the workplace, employees have a "right" to clean air so the rights of employers to allow smoking, in such places as bars and restaurants, have been usurped by big government orders.****
~That is the groundwork but how did the doctors and others get creepified? Perhaps it is an area of human nature that was understood by Nazis and is understood and used by today's Cultural Marxist types who call themselves progressives.
~When I worked with terminally ill patients in the '70s, every once in awhile we got a patient who had been a lifelong alcoholic, was dying from age and alcohol abuse and had been abandoned by family.
~On a floor with thirty bed ridden patients, a dozen or so requiring spoon feeding, and only three aides or nurses to do the job; it was not unusual for an otherwise compassionate charge nurse to suggest answering the dying alcoholic's call light last because he or she, "caused his/her own illness". It was a suggestion only but it was potentially "creepifying". Many staff members as well as me, treated all patients as good as we could at all times. There were however a few workers with personal negative, or self righteous emotions about alcoholism. They did ignore the alcoholic patients' calls, felt no guilt and had no problems saying this was deserved.
~Obviously we were all overworked in these conditions. There were other aides and nurses who used the excuse that since the patient was dying from self inflicted alcohol abuse, it was permission to slack off in an already exhausting shift. On an extremely busy night, the charge nurse might bark a question from the alcoholic's doorway, "Your light is on! We're really busy out here~whadd' ya' need?" The patients request, if less than life threatening would then be stalled for a less busy time.
~I have heard nurses and aides remind these pitiful, dying patients that they caused their own illnesses and that they should have thought about that a long time ago. Of course such sentiments serve no purpose when the patient will never leave the bed in which they are dying. At some point during the nurses' report the abandoned patients' family statuses would have been mentioned. That went something like: They had abused their families for years and now no one wanted anything to do with them so they were all alone and it was deserved. The facts of abandonment coupled with helplessness also put them at our mercy.
~That is how some people died in nursing homes in the 1970s. It seemed to be an ingrained belief system and it offended my conscience. We essentially had permission to be "creepified". I did not participate and indeed I did extra, small kindnesses for the vilified patients. Whether or not we were abusive depended on who we were as human beings but it was also influenced to some extent by fatigue and working conditions. I noticed the same pattern when my friend had surgery in 2002 and was abused and neglected because she smoked. It was not the WHOLE staff that participated in the abuse. Some were kind but enough were altogether sadistic until my friend became afraid to use her call button no matter what, and that very nearly led to her death.
~The weakest in society will always be at risk for abuse; children, pre-born babies, the elderly, the disabled. Nazis were able to expand this despicable fact to the treatment of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, other non-Aryans and homosexuals to name a few. The Obama administration, aided by congress members like Pelosi who advocates passing bills without reading them, plans to take over all of our medical care through the massive and monstrous ACA. At the same time there is a general Cultural Marxist slant to divide the US population into groups based on race, ethnicity, income, sexual orientation, and other criteria. In medical care government documents like Oregon's OHIP 2020 (Oregon Health Improvement Plan 2020) blatantly state the same divisions in their drive to correct "health disparities". Tobacco use becomes an "unsustainable health burden on society".
~Dr. Ben Carson states that who controls medical care controls the people. When confronted with serious illness or injury it seems to me we are all weak and vulnerable to some extent. In my opinion it is unacceptable that official government documents target any legal activities as unsustainable risks to public health, therefore encouraging the targeting of vulnerable, suffering people.
~My friend mentioned at the first of this article had the abdominal surgery and feels better than she has felt for years. She had been disabled by her condition for a long time. Medicare provided the surgery and she is understandably grateful and also understandably, will not be filing any complaints. Until a patient dies or is maimed as a direct result of medical bullying then I assume there will be no good proof available. As medical care becomes government-centered public health care, it is wise to have someone with us who can be a witness, when we must deal with the "fundamentally transformed" system.
~To my dear, medically knowledgeable Twitter friends who offered to expose this malpractice and asked for proof, I am still looking for the instructions that allow doctors and nurses to act like schoolyard bullies. Perhaps the best I can do right now is to point to unfortunate aspects of human nature in hopes of jogging the memories of those with experience working in the medical profession. How prevalent are such things? Are they getting worse? What is the ultimate goal of such abusive treatment?
~Not every German in Nazi Germany destroyed Jews. Some followed the extreme opposite path and sacrificed their lives and the lives of their families to save Jews. Many others did nothing. A certain percentage "just followed orders". A few like Dr. Mengele were complete, unapologetic sadists.
~That said, who or what is now and has been, creepifying our doctors? In Oregon this trend goes way back to before Barack Obama was even a state senator. As I read so-called Obama Care, plans within the government takeover of medicine intensify and legitimize the idea that some classes of people deserve care more than other people because of "health disparities". Perhaps the question is not who is creepifying our doctors? A better question is how far will this creepification go once the federal government has COMPLETE control? THAT'S A CREEPY QUESTION!
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~COMMENTS AND OTHER SOURCES:
~ * On one of the multiple pages dedicated to
tobacco on the CDC site there is a graphic with
a graphic warning: 50% of smokers will die!
In my opinion, we should be encouraged to
light up if that is the case. Last I knew, 100%
of everyone else will die someday! :-D (Apologies
that I never learned to cut & paste.)
~ ** www.healthypeople.gov
~ *** http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2012...
'How Three Federal Initiatives Are Set to
Transform US Health Care'; "Forbes"; Bob Kocher
11/01/12
~ ****http://archive.ad/.org/braun/dim-14-1-nazi...
'Nazi Medicine and Public Health Policy';
Robert N. Proctor
~ Also on this subject, to the point on 'passive
smoking' and Nazi health care is:
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/smoki...
Article by Paul Joseph Watson, 4/25/07
~ Also, WHO international tobacco control policies
as os 10/07/13 are at http://www.who.int/tobacco/
en/
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In Spite of ObamaCare
October 4, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Lack of power breeds abuse. Years of medical insurance, government programs and insane restrictions created the swamp that spawned Obama Care/ Democrat Care. With or without Obama Care I believe that swamp is draining and medical consumers will have a much healthier environment in which to access their medical needs.
~Indeed, this might be the last point in history when such a draconian, people-controlling, wealth redistributing plan can be forced on a people in the name of "transformation" and "health equity"! Rapid improvements in medicine, in my opinion, will make plans like the ACA obsolete and the Marxists will have to go back to other scare tactics, like "climate change", to control the people.
~Around the time the US enacted the progressive income tax, government also began controlling doctors and pharmaceutical drugs. Of course it is a good thing to have basic standards for doctors and a high level of drug safety but little by little government controls, government programs and the medical establishment itself turned medical consumers into helpless pawns.
~Start with the medical establishment. In the '70s I was a pre-med student for a little while before deciding I preferred biochemistry. Pre-med in those days was a weeding out process. Students were expected to maintain a 4.0 gpa as well as participate in sports, student government and other extracurricular activities. If the wannabe doctors survived that it was known that medical schools had quotas and it was very hard to get accepted even with excellent records. It was said that the offspring of doctors had an advantage. Also in the '70s, Affirmative Action had begun. White, male pre-med students knew they had severe disadvantages. As a female, I would have had a slight advantage even though I am white.
~From the medical consumers' perspective, doctors kept the graduating pool of new doctors small to ensure continuation of the "rich doctor" stereotype. Americans also took note that in countries like the Soviet Union, doctors were not put on a pedestal and they were just an educated version of working stiffs. Indeed, so low on the ladder of job esteem were doctors in such countries, that many doctors were women!
~Meanwhile in the US, in the past twenty years, nurse practitioners have increasingly taken market share from the formerly primarily male, elite medical establishment. Before there was Obama Care there was a quiet medical revolution brewing. Nurse practitioners staff private clinics, are midwives and increasingly work beside doctors in major clinics.
~With the emergence of nurse practitioners have come "emergent care" clinics. Some are open 24 hours a day, servicing a walk-in clientele with frequently low cost options for basic diagnoses and treatments. The ACA targets patients who overuse hospital emergency rooms. In another article I wrote I cited a study that showed the existence of clinics open on weekends and after regular working hours decreased ER usage. Even in the rural west where I live we all know that a visit to the ER is likely to be a seven hour ordeal at least. I hear it is much worse in big cities. I believe many patients will choose walk-in clinics over lengthy waits for appointments in other clinics and over the general discomfort of the ER. CVS Pharmacies are betting on this trend with in-store "Minute-Clinics" staffed by nurse practitioners.
~As regulations loosen and responsibilities are shared with practitioners having less than an MD, things like vaccinations are easier to get. I remember when getting a flu shot meant waiting over an hour in a crowded waiting room full of people coughing and choking from the flu they already had! After paying the price of the office call plus vaccine, you went home and got the flu because you had been infected in the waiting room! No wonder everyone says the flu shot causes flu! Now various vaccines, especially the flu shot, are available at the local grocery store pharmacy. Easy free market access breeds freedom and naturally lowers cost.
~Over the last thirty or so years a number of drugs that were previously prescription only are sold over the counter. Especially in this category are antihistamines and stomach anti-acid drugs. I remember when benadryl was prescription only. A number of other countries are more liberal yet with over the counter pharmaceuticals. I am old enough to remember that until about 1964 codeine containing cough medicine was sold over the counter. Around that time government decided American citizens could not be trusted with any narcotics for any reason. Prior to that our parents taught us that being a "dope fiend" was a nasty thing and medicine was not a toy. That worked for the majority of Americans till the government turned all drugs into forbidden fruit highly sought by the hippies who invented, "Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N Roll"! Even so, the few drugs sold over the counter here reduce the need for actual doctor visits. Perhaps in future our government could trust us with a few more options.
~On the high tech side improvements in treatments develop almost exponentially. For example severe bone fractures have been treated surgically for years, thus ending lengthy hospital stays with patients in traction. Nancy Reagan writes in her book "My Turn" that Ronald Reagan spent eight weeks in the hospital after breaking his leg playing in a baseball game. While this was in the '40s, such treatment continued well into the '70s. Laparoscopic surgeries drastically cut hospital stays. Imaging pinpoints pathologies to be treated or alternately discovers no pathology and prevents costly and risky "exploratory surgeries". Understanding the human genome is beginning to lead to treatments tailored to a specific patients genetic makeup. I firmly believe that very soon "cutting, burning and poisoning" cancers will be a thing of the past. Obama Care seems to have plans to ration "costly care". If high tech solutions are allowed to proliferate, there will be far less discussion about rationing, for example cancer treatments that cost over a million dollars per year!
~Examples such as these could fill a large book or more. In spite of everything, medical consumers are on the verge of better, more effective treatments than have ever been dreamed throughout history. Medical freedom is actually mushrooming even as President Obama and the Democratic senate are paralyzing the country over insistence that the people must be forced to give up medical freedom and choice for a financially ruinous, socially engineering, people-control system designed in hell.
~There is so much that is good now that IF government support is needed for anything it should be used to enhance what is working at this time. Do we need more nurse practitioners? Government could provide tuition. Do we need more walk-in clinics? Government could provide space and buildings? Do we need newer and better devices and treatments? Government can stop taxing "medical devices" for a start! Do we need to keep mental patients from using the ER on a daily basis? Let places like Oregon proceed with a social worker for every homeless/ severely mentally ill patient who once would have been in a state institution. DON'T force the rest of us who are responsible consumers into that bureaucracy in order to enhance social control over the general population!
~As always, my interest is in the actual medical side of Obama Care. As I predicted, the tax, fine and confiscate financial issues would eventually cause the people to erupt in fury. At the same time, the quality of care is another aspect to fight for. Obama Care is about "disparities" and "inequities" which are defined in official documents as "unfair". What will REALLY be unfair is if bureaucracy so weighs down a vastly improving system that regulations and paper pushing creates new, artificial barriers keeping cutting edge treatments from the medical consumers~we the people.
~In spite of politicians and bureaucrats, if we fight for our freedoms as medical consumers, the future of medical care in our country is very bright indeed! Worth fighting for!
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Transforming Obama Care~ GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE
September 27, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~This is a bit of live reporting. I am in a doctor's office in Idaho, beautiful non-Obamatized Idaho. Problem is the receptionist asked me to sign a blank computer screen, one of those little ones like you sign when your credit card is used in small shops.
~"We need you to sign here for the HIPPA agreement", the receptionist said. She pointed to the small, silver screen and stylus connected by black, umbilical cord wiring, probably all the way to the navel in Washington DC.
~"I have already signed HIPPA on paper when I started coming here and I am uncomfortable signing a blank screen", I said. "Why do I need to sign this?"
~"It's for the federal government. It's just HIPPA," said the receptionist, getting a bit flustered.
~Since this had never come up before I asked what had changed. The receptionist said it is a new rule from the federal government as of September 18, 2013. I reiterated I did not want to sign a blank screen for the federal government and especially since I am "self pay", did I have to?
~Another receptionist shoved a couple pages of HIPPA in my hands. I said I had read it before, understand it and write about these things. Further if I must sign something to see the doctor, I want to sign a paper copy whereon I can write, "Signed under duress--Do not agree."
~At this moment apparently I do not HAVE to sign anything for the federal government and I am waiting to see the doctor. I plan to refuse and obstruct as much as I can, any requirement to sign stuff for the federal government; especially blank screens, because someone says I should. What could a patient sign away? No explanation was given other than is was "just HIPPA". My suspicious mind thinks it might be something about signing over rights to HHS or agreeing that the federal government is the rightful purveyor of all medical care.
~The original receptionist seemed to like my courage in refusing and she seemed uncomfortable having the discussion. I don't know what I would have done if I was forced to sign. This doctor~the only doctor I see~does muscular injections that decrease neurological pain enough that I can get up almost every day. This is why Obama Care/ Democrat Care is such a fiendish plan. Sick and injured people, being treated by doctors who answer to the federal and state governments and NOT to the patient, may be asked, coerced or threatened into doing all kinds of things against their wills and against self-interest.
~I have had two major surgeries following trauma, when I was so drugged on morphine and ativan I literally did not know who I was and I asked permission to sign hospital paperwork with an "X", which I did. I felt reasonably sure when I did this that the paperwork had to do with my physical needs and so far as I know they did. With the federal government running health care I would certainly have concerns that future paperwork might be releases allowing Obama Care Health Workers to inspect my home for guns, alcohol, tobacco, working smoke detectors, unhealthy foods and large sodas! In short I do not trust government being involved with my doctors.
~How much worse it will be on parents perhaps needing to have a seriously injured child treated on an emergency basis. They will be over the proverbial barrel especially since Obama Care has its tentacles into child care and education. Sign or get turned over to Child Protective Services? Agree to give your dangerous, child killing guns to the local police department? The way Obama Care works anything is possible.
~I believe we all must resist every step of the way. Don't sign up. Don't sign blank screens when you have no idea what you are signing. Question everything. In fact I think "question everything" is an Alinsky tactic. It was certainly tossed around during the Viet Nam and college protests when I was a teen. Don't fill out forms for "the man" and "question everything".
~Obama/Democrat Care is more about social engineering than medical care. Maybe the blank screen I didn't sign was an exercise in getting patients to sign blank screens without questioning. Maybe it was innocent this time and I may look like a jerk for resisting in some peoples' eyes. I am "self pay". There are no middlemen in my treatment needs. I do not acknowledge the federal government in my care, in my doctor's office in Idaho.
~Obama/Democrat Care makes my skin crawl!
~GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE!
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Transforming Obama Care ~ GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE! part VI
September 26, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Imagine being a working adult and needing a doctor's excuse to get out of mandated "wellness" activities! You will be happy to know Democrat Care/ Obama Care has a provision for that.
~Further, "wellness" activities may be "Activity Only", such as the victim...uh...employee must attempt the wellness activity. An example is trying to quit smoking. The employer must also offer a reasonable alternative activity if the employee cannot perform the original one. I wonder if, in the case of smoking, mastering the use of an e-cigarette would qualify? The whole thing sounds like one of those liberal activities where everyone gets a prize for showing up. Except if you don't "show up", that is participate, the potential fines and costs are very real.
~There is also "Outcome Based" wellness which means the employee has to accomplish something such as quitting smoking. A doctor can excuse you from this. I would guess the doctor could excuse you from a forced exercize/ weight loss program. I can't imagine a doctor excusing anyone from being forced to quit smoking.
~Various articles are beginning to discuss forced wellness exams at your doctor's office where you will be filling out those questionnaires about your sex life and whether or not you always use seat belts and if you've changed the batteries in your smoke alarms.
~So far it looks like the NRA provision in Democrat Care is holding and they can't ask about guns, exactly. I did read a sneaky provision on the bottom of an official state document about asking parents of small children about safe gun storage. The important thing to remember is that all this information is passed on to various governmnt agencies to be used, "accidentally" leaked or shared as the "public good" demands. Missouri gave its CCW list to the Social Security Administration which collated the information against individuals receiving disability payments for mental reasons. The purpose of course was to make sure the "mentally ill", however they define it, don't own guns. (http://www.examiner.com/article/mandate . Article by Kenneth Schortgen Jr.)
~We probably don't need to worry about "mental health" because this seems to be transforming into "behavioral health". It makes sense that resisting your mandated wellness activities might be a sign of poor "behavioral health"; in other words not being a "team player" when the political Wellness Party demands something for the public good! I am sure my behavioral health is very poor. All this "wellness" stuff maks me want to puke! Purely psychosomatic. I get that way when I perceive the government is going to intrude in my private life.
~GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE!
~Another article quotes healthcare.gov , "Preventive care helps you stay healthy. A doctor isn't someone to see only when you are sick. Doctors also provide services that help keep you healthy..."
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September 25, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Who wrote so-called "Obama Care" anyway? I would bet President Barack Obama didn't write a word of it and I would also guess he may never have READ a word of it. Putting Obama's name on the ACA is like putting Jackson Pollock's name on the monumental Sistine Chapel! The problem with this analogy is that the Sistine Chapel is universally recognized as a work of art and very few claim the same for the ACA, but some do and they deserve all the credit if we can figure out who they are!
~It is unfair to let President Obama claim all the fame so until someone claims authorship, this time around we may as well call it Democrat Care since NOT ONE REPUBLICAN voted for it in 2010. Even so it is fun to ask the browser, "Who wrote the ACA", and then do a quick read through Wikipedia which may or may not be accurate. It does give a quick overview that the US government has been wrestling with the peoples' medical care for a long time. Indeed I have read that some of FDR's wage/price controls during the Great Depression led to the widespread use of "health insurance". Employers were not allowed to raise wages so in order to reward and retain good employees "health insurance" was provided. Less than half a century later other Democrat leaders started the War on Poverty and further disturbed medical care with Medicare and Medicaid.
~The federal government is into medical issues up to its collective eyeballs, but where did Obama Care, aka Democrat Care come from? According to Wiki, in 1986 bi-partisan effort produced the Emergency Medical Treatment & Active Labor Act (EMTALA) which President Reagan signed. Roughly this means hospitals receiving federal monies can't refuse anyone emergency treatment based on inability to pay, nor can they refuse a pregnant woman in labor. Back in those days it seems bills were more straight forward and "Labor" really does have to do with child birth and not with some pork barrel stimulus plan to create shovel ready jobs! (On the other hand, the ACA has "Education" tacked onto its name and I don't think it has to do with medical school!)
~Wiki goes on, emphasizing bi-partisanship and mentioning the conservative Heritage Foundation. In 1989 there were ideas about avoiding a single payer system through insurance and I think this is why there are comments about the Foundation approving of the ACA. In 1993 President Clinton settled for HIPPA which is the source of those "privacy" documents every provider forces us to sign. His administration also gave us SCHIP, a program for poor children which is largely funded by a tobacco tax which went into effect about as soon as Democrat Care was passed. Then there was Romney Care in Massachusetts.
~Early in the Clinton administration, Hillary Clinton worked on some behemoth health law that was soundly ridiculed in TV ads back when the Mainstream Media actually tried to report news. I have a sneaking suspicion this Hillary law was laying around somewhere and got regurgitated into Democrat Care. It's something to remember when Mrs. Clinton runs for president about 2016.
~In 2007-2009, Wiki reports that Oregon's Democrat Senator Ron Weyden and Utah's Republican Senator Robert Bennett were introducing the Healthy Americans Act. It appears this largely dealt with insurance issues. The title gets my attention because these "Healthy" acts, whether the "Healthy" subjects are Americans, children, Oregonians, or simply people, are the spring boards for a lot of things I find reprehensible, intrusive and intolerable in Democrat Care. Try it yourself~enter "Healthy People USA", etc. into the browser. Chances are you will find numerous offerings that may go all the way up to the UN/WHO.
~In general Senator Weyden is an OK guy but I suspect the "Healthy Americans Act" was at some point planned to emphasize "health" and not taking care of the sick. From my perspective, that's certainly how Senator Weyden's state was beginning to do things way back in the 90s.
~I am still unclear about who wrote the ACA or how it was ready for passage without reading so soon after President Obama took office. One thing for sure is that the federal government started messing around with medical care as far back as the 1930s and now we have a real mess between insurance, Medicare and Medicaid. It looks to me like the ACA is a new conglomeration of decades worth of rejected plans, with some ideas and language from UN/WHO thrown in. It is not and never was Obama's plan, in my opinion. At this point all I can see is it is firmly Democrat Care~because Democrats Care!
~GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE!
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September 23, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Democrats say Republicans want to deny medical care to the poor, or worse yet, to poor children. Democrats say we need a huge bureaucracy with lots of new rules and "mandates" so the poor can have ANY life saving care. THIS is supposed to be what Democrat Care is all about because Democrats Care. Presumably the free market place is too vicious and greedy to provide for the poor.
~Because my former state rushed into Democrat Care and because I have odd genetic issues, I have a heck of a nasty, prejudicial write-up in my permanent e-record and the only way I can hope to get even decent care is to manage my own records, pay cash and stay away from medical providers in the system. The only way I know to protect myself is to use walk-in clinics and nurse practitioners who keep paper records, if they do that much.
~I use one nurse practitioner in particular and he prescribes the heart drug that is essential to keeping me alive. Once a year this NP requires a "check-up" which doesn't amount to much. I tell him I'm fine and I get twelve months' worth of refills. In June of this year he charged me $50.00 for the check-up! A three month supply of the drug costs me $10.00 at Wal-Mart. Not bad for care that literally prevents my death!
~Both the NP and Wal-Mart are free enterprise efforts. Interestingly it was the nurse practitioner who initially started me on the heart drug. (A very good hospital monopoly doctor believed I was mentally ill with "panic disorder" though I had additional cardiac symptoms.) At that point it was strongly suggested I see a cardiologist so I self-referred to one a few hundred miles away. $650.00 for 45 minutes. Horrible, right? Not necessarily. If I was poor, indeed if I earned only the median income in my former town, I could have seen that cardiologist for free or for a greatly reduced amount. Further, the cardiologist would have come to the town where I lived and I would not have driven several hundred miles.
~As critical as I am of the system where I used to live, all of these things were and are available there NOW, before the state receives dump truck loads of federal dollars and long before every American is mandated to have health insurance.
~Democrat Care is reaching critical mass right now just as its many tentacles are beginning to sting small businesses and average Americans. What if we stopped the rolling train wreck right now and did nothing more than strengthen what is working? Do we need more nurse practitioners? How does the hospital monopoly provide free or reduced cost specialist care now? What if tax dollars simply supported a hospital system that enabled free or low cost care when it is needed?
~My perspective is poor, rural areas in the western US. I do not pretend to know the different kinds of poverty in overcrowded cities, but people are people and all people have similar physical needs. Why can't we simply concentrate on providing medical care to the poor without the bureaucracy, mandates and other intrusive aspects written into Democrat Care?
~GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE!
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Transforming Obama Care ~ GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE PART III
September 22, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff, Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~NOT ONE REPUBLICAN VOTED FOR OBAMA CARE IN 2010. Tweets are short and we spend a lot of time bashing RINOs and others we consider to be liberal minded Republicans. In all fairness, in 2010 before chants of "racism" for disagreeing with President Obama became the norm, Republicans stood up for what the people wanted.
~If no Republicans voted for it, where did "Obama Care" come from? It is, of course, officially called the Affordable Care Act for short. The whole title is much longer, like Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. It was humorous to ask hospital officials about it and hear them scramble for the correct term prior to Barack Obama claiming the title in the first presidential debate of 2012. "Call it 'Obama Care' because Obama Cares", he quipped. I had a strange feeling when he said that, that it meant more than a snappy campaign slogan. I strongly felt even then, that when the man Barack Obama claimed the law, it took a lot of Democrats off the hook at reelection time.
~Theoretically and probably, Obama will never run for high office again. Other Democrats will. All politicians live and die for power and reelection. If enough informed voters figure out "Obama Care" is a disaster by the time the 2014 elections come around, it could be tough on Democrats who voted in the Act WITHOUT ONE REPUBLICAN VOTE supporting it.
~Rush Limbaugh has said the thing Democrats most fear is another TEA Party win like happened in 2010. A big step in this direction is to rename the ACA as "Democrat Care". It's "Democrat Care" because "Democrats Care". Step back for just a minute and see President Barack Obama for the figurehead and lightning rod he is. It took a whole lot of Democrats to bring us "Democrat Care" and NOT ONE REPUBLICAN. I am discouraged that the RNC is not using this fact to garner support. Oh well, the TEA Party knows!
~GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE!
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Transforming Obama Care - GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE! PART II
When a Contract is a Trap
April 15, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
Today at 6:08 PM
The devil in some contracts has been tamed down in Georgia. A friend of mine just made sure Ackerman security alarm service understands the finer points of the law attacking automatic renewal clauses that took effect July 1, 2013. How many millions of dollars are still being ripped off from consumers in this contract scheme?
Ten states now have laws controlling the automatic renewal clauses which can make it very difficult for consumers to discontinue services they originally purchase on contract. Also referred to as an "evergreen clause", they work to make sure an original contract never ends without written notification from the consumer. Ignorance or failure to notify intent to cease doing business with whatever provider or company leads to an automatic extension of the contract usually for a period of years. Such clauses are enforceable in court.[1]
A quick browsing of the issues concerning automatic renewal clauses, shows that many different types of businesses ranging from cell phones to software, use or have used this practice. Using search words specific to the security alarm industry reveals the mother load of consumer problems with these so-called evergreen clauses. The home security alarm industry seems to rely on these consumer traps to make expenses and guarantee a profit in an industry where it is hard to project actual future income.
My friend intended to not renew his service with Ackerman after his initial contract ended. Ackerman apparently depended on nailing my friend with an automatic renewal clause which became much more difficult in the state of Georgia with enactment of HB-234 on July 1 of last year.
Rep. Lynn Smith (R) of that state introduced the bill in response to consumer complaints. [2] On his website Georgia Assemblyman Alan Powell addresses the passage of the law and writes that it, "...protects Georgia consumers from getting trapped in contracts that automatically renew the contract on the cancellation date without notice." (emphasis mine) (www.alanpowell.net , 2/27/13)
The law requires businesses to make consumers aware of any automatic renewal clause in a contract and further to notify the consumer within 60 to 30 days before the contract terminates, if there is the ability to use such a clause. The business must also clearly provide the consumer with addresses, phone numbers and so forth so opting out is easy if that is the consumer's choice.
Being generous, I will say it appears Ackerman may have been ignorant of the new law so my friend eloquently explained it to them in a letter addressed to their "Customer Care Assistant".
In case they did not fully understand the impact of the law my friend added, "This will serve as notice to Ackerman that I respectfully request you to cancel/ discontinue my service..." effective 4/2/14. Further, "...I revoke any automatic deductions from my checking or debit card..." "I've contacted (my bank) and places stop payment hold on any future debits from my account." "Any attempts to debit money from this account will be viewed as Attempted Theft and reported to local authorities for future investigation."
Ackerman got the point and acknowledged the law. They supplied a form I find a bit curious, noting that termination of the security alarm service will be reported to home owners insurance of record, but that is probably another matter.
Like my friend says, how many companies in Georgia (and ten other states with such laws), are simply ignoring the laws or depending on the ignorance of consumers to continue business as usual? My friend notes this could amount to millions of dollars being bilked out of consumers who believe they are trapped by almighty contracts enforceable in the courts.
In Georgia and the other states with similar laws, these businesses who operate on contracts for services will have to hold customers through other means. Some websites addressing this issue actually suggest such businesses hold customers through good service and positive contacts with their customers. How old fashioned!
My friend knew the law and he fought. Lest the alarm company misunderstood or tried any shenanigans, my friend bluntly mentioned "Attempted Theft" and the authorities. He refuses to be pushed around and intimidated.
Know the laws of your state, especially automatic extension clauses on contracts. If this is legal in your state, understand what it takes to avoid automatic renewal you do not intend to continue the service. If your state, like Georgia has a consumer protection law reigning in this practice, understand it, use it and fight back if necessary like my friend did. Since automatic renewal seems to be the meat and potatoes of the security alarm business, if you use one of these businesses, fully understand any contracts and be especially aware of your rights.
A contract is supposed to be about agreements made after a "meeting of minds". Contracts were never intended to act like legal fly paper that keeps consumers stuck and buzzing mad until their financial life blood is drained away. Thank you, my friend in Georgia for knowing the law and fighting for everyone's rights!
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[1] www.mclane.com ; Evergreen Clauses: How Enforceable are "Automatic Renewal" Provisions?; by Steven J. Dutton
Also: www.Kirschenbaumesq.com ; Automatic Clause Issue, specific to alarm systems companies
Freedom Fighters of America urges all State Attorney Generals to investigate this issue. Not only Alarm Companies need to be fined and pay restitution but I'm sure that there are a lot of other greedy businesses out there and especially in this economy.
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Incarcerated for being sick? Free Justina!
April 9, 2014
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
Justina Pelletier is the 15 year old girl who has been taken away from her family by doctors, hospitals and courts in Massachusetts. She was originally under the care of doctors at Tufts Medical Center, who referred Justina to Boston Childrens' Hospital when she had the flu. How then can she be taken from her family on grounds of "medical child abuse"?
Munchausen's by Proxy was a term used before medical child abuse. The older term is not specific to children.
Munchausen's Syndrome is defined as a factitious disorder with factitious coming from Latin and roughly meaning artificial or created. [1] The Munchauses's patient has a history of hospitalizations, seeking doctors, travelling, drama and telling tall tales. The patient supposedly craves attention, sympathy, reassurance and so forth. The term is a bit frivolous as it is named for Baron Munchausen who liked to tell tall tales about his life. A slang term for the condition is Hospital Addiction Syndrome. [2]
Munchausen's by Proxy is when someone, like a parent of care giver causes a victim such as a dependent child, to seek unneeded medical care such as diagnostic testing and multiple procedures, possibly including surgeries. In extreme cases the victim is made ill or is injured by the person who seeks the attention, drama and sympathy. [2] There have been some horrific cases documented on various TV programs where nurses brought patients to the brink of death so they could be lauded as heroes when they performed resuscitation in the nick of time.
These two syndromes have similarities to the better known 'hypochondria' which is also a factitious disorder. These psychiatric diagnoses are convenient for doctors and other providers when they fail to diagnose and heal patients with rare diseases. Put in layman's terms, the doctor tells the patient, "It is all in your head". We women are very used to this indeed!
In Justina Pelletier's case it seems that neurologist, Dr. Jurriaan Peters and a psychologist (Ioana) Simona Bujoreanu decided Justina's illness was all in her parents' heads, that Justina was receiving unnecessary medical care to her detriment and the best thing for her was to be shut up in Bader 5, a locked psych ward. [3]
I am still mystified that Justina's doctors at Tufts did not do more to prevent their teen aged patient from being locked in a psych ward for over a year. Personally I would think Tufts doctors' opinions would carry a lot of weight but apparently not. Meanwhile Ms. Bujoreanu does not appear to be a medical doctor and though some articles append 'Dr.' to her name the most my research yields is that she is a PhD. type of doctor. [4] She has strong ties to Massachusettes Department of Children and Families according to articles. [3] I am sure any allegation of child abuse is sufficient to silence any doctor, no matter their expertise or affiliation. What doctor would want to be called to explain his or her diagnoses and treatments if someone of Ms. Bujoreanu's qualifications could make stick allegations that a child's illness was all in the parents' heads?
Since the 1980s parents have not known the freedom of raising their children without fear of government in the form of various child protective services. Child abuse became the new witch hunt late in the last century. Sadly in this new century, especially with government takeover of medical care, 'medical child abuse' is yet another weapon in the arsenal of government control, to be used against the sanctity of parental authority.
The multiple articles covering Justina's case seem to agree that her doctor(s) at Tufts had diagnosed mitochondrial disease (Mito),and that her older sister has had the same diagnosis. Mitochondria, inherited directly from the mother, are organelles within cells in the body which are responsible for producing energy and are involved in handling proteins and fats. If they do not function properly other parts of the body have a rough time. The nervous system which requires a lot of resources, can be agonizingly disrupted. Thankfully for the human race, these diseases seem to be fairly rare.
Unfortunately for Mito patients, because of the difficulty of making an absolute diagnosis and because the symptoms can be odd, it is common for the sufferer to receive a psychiatric diagnosis. Also because of these vagaries Mito is said to be a common diagnosis in cases of actual medical child abuse. [4] This is very unfortunate for the Justina and her family, as their personal suffering entered the realm of statistics and government intervention.
As I read and listen to Justina's saga I want to shriek, "Why isn't anyone standing up for these people?" After all licensed doctors should have the guts to defend their diagnoses and not allow their patients to bear the brunt of accusations, in my opinion.
Actually one organization has actively attempted the Pelletier family. The Coalition for Diagnostic Rights wrote a letter to the judge in Justina's case. They made ten legal points about patient and parental rights. The letter is published on line and 23 copies were sent to a variety of people ranging from Massachusetts Governor Duval Patrick to doctors, administrators and the press.It is available for viewing at www.diagnosticrights.org
Their website states: Not One More Patient Should be Denied Care in Error. Also, "Rare disease patients wait an average if 7 years for accurate diagnoses", and during those years most of those patients, "will match the criteria for somatoform diagnosis to a tee."
Somatoform disorder, more or less another new term for hypochondria, is the ultimate diagnosis that led to Justina Pelletier being locked into a psych ward for over a year. According to Coalition for Diagnostic rights the Bader 5 locked ward "aggressively" treats somatoform disorder.
Justina it seems to me is victimized twice. In the first place medical professionals accuse her parents of seeking too much medical attention, supposedly for their own twisted psychological needs. Thus the teen has been kept from her family, month after month. One would assume if her parents were the cause of her illness, she would improve when removed from her parents.
She did not improve and indeed got worse, so the same medical professionals then insisted the illness that was in Justina's parents' heads was all in her head. She was making herself sick, if I understand their reported reasoning; Justina created or imagined her own symptoms and God only knows what kind of psychological torture in a locked ward might be the approved treatment.
Justina's case is complex both legally and medically. I have concentrated on medical aspects. What has happened to her and her family could happen to any parent, family, child or patient. As I said earlier, we women are used to the, "It's all in your head diagnosis".
I have been there, done that and my thoughts and prayers are with Justina and her family. Almost 40 years ago I had a severe reaction to a prescription drug which sent my blood pressure into a deadly range. Doctors said I was young and I could take it. I survived but was left with tachycardia~ a severely rapid pulse. Doctors said I was "too young to have heart trouble". They drilled it into me that I was mentally ill and it was all in my head. (I was also once diagnosed with Munchausen's syndrome because I didn't give a doctor the answers he considered normal.) My suffering was unrelenting until a couple years ago my resting pulse went up to 185 and would not come down. I nearly died. Suddenly doctors didn't think I was mentally ill and they insisted I see a cardiologist. A simple, old fashioned cardiac drug has finally given me some quality of life, even though I am at risk of dropping dead at any time.
Mental diagnoses can rarely be proven with quantitative tests and therefore they remain in the realm of opinion. The doctor cannot prove his psychiatric diagnosis and the patient cannot disprove it. Doctors have all the power and they sit in judgement over their patients. It is nothing new that when children are involved the law, in the form of child protection divisions, declare parents and other adults guilty until or unless they can prove their innocence. This is not new but Justina's case appears to me to be a new extreme in the state sponsored witch hunts of the Twenty-First Century.
It seems Justina was taken away from her parents because those in authority thought her parents made her sick. When she got worse she was locked in a mental ward because the same authorities believed she was making herself sick! Talk about punishing the victim!
Please pray for Justina and her parents Linda and Lou Pelletier. Visit their website :
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[1] Tabor's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 1977 edition
Also used: www.merriam-webster.com
[2] Wikipedia
Neil Swidey, Patricia Wen
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Missing Plane Remotely Viewed
This article was written by Freedom Fighters of America, Senior Writer.
March 19, 2014
I've believed Anna from the beginning and thought everyone else should read her story. Thank you for reading and passing this onto all of your friends. We pray for the passengers and their families.
A television news graphic diagrammed the likely change in direction of Flight MH370, after it had been missing for several days. A light red line detailed the slight left turn and somewhat of a backtracking pattern over the Malacca Strait. The news anchor described it in words and pointed out locations.
My mind tuned out the talk and wandered slightly. The faint red line on the televised map became in my private viewing, a bright orange-red fish hook design headed straight to Iran. I didn't think too much about this mental change in graphics because I regularly "see" a wide range of even mundane things in colors and pictures; however from that point I never saw anything but the burning bright trajectory extended toward Iran, whenever maps of the supposed flight pattern were shown. It actually seemed to make a lot of sense as Iran is constantly in the news over various controversies and that country would be a heck of a good place to hide a stolen 777 in my opinion.
Moving beyond reason, I have had unbidden "remote viewing" experiences off and on for a long time and if I silently ask questions "impressions" will frequently flash into my consciousness in the form of pictures and diagrams. This started when a close friend was murdered a number of years ago. The night she was tortured and killed I had an experience that wasn't a dream or even a nightmare. Though provably hundreds of miles away I had gained knowledge only the victim and killer would know. In an altered state that seemed to last all night I had experienced impressions and emotions from my friend's perspective as she became the victim of a killer.
This experience seemed to open some new windows in my mind. Following it, I occasionally had strong impressions about unsolved things. After the mysteries were solved I was amazed that I had someway known at least partial answers in advance. I prayed deeply and sincerely that I would never receive anything that was not from God. Later I became familiar with remote viewing which is all about "impressions", the same word I used to explain my experiences.
I didn't think deeply about the blazing orange line my mind saw for the missing 777 until I heard on radio that remote viewers and psychics were being asked to look at the situation. I cleared my mind, said a prayer and waited. The first impression was a grey/green map of Asia. The orange line of the changed trajectory seemed to be on fire and showed the plane after the left turn, swinging a bit south and then in a straight line to the region of northern Iran.
I say northern region because now I saw the northern border of Iran, light orange on grey-green back ground. Slightly north of the Iranian border an area blazed with the fire colored orange seeming to say "the plane is here, intact". While I can find Iran on a map I am not familiar with its borders, nor can I accurately name bordering countries. The impression I had received was very clear and easy to find and understand on a map. I "saw" the missing plane slightly north of Iran on the Turkmenistan side of the border. There is a town marked on the map named Ashkhabad. I visualize the plane to the right of that town on the map. Farther to the right is the smaller town of Tedzhen and that is too far. An area between the two towns but closer to Ashkhabad burns bright.
I made a conscious attempt to visualize the plane. A picture flashed of the plane intact on a flat runway area, surrounded by jagged tan colored mountains. There are a couple scraggly, vine like trees that are barely green. Everything was the tan color of mountain terrain so high that little vegetation can survive.
A radio broadcast said Uri Gellar had been asked to remote view the missing plane and that he had asked other remote viewers to share their impressions on his Facebook page. I visited his page and wrote two lines succinctly describing my impressions near the Iranian border.
I felt guilty even writing that much. There are over two hundred people missing along with the plane. Those people have grieving and terrified families waiting for any word about their loved ones. As a legitimate writer, is it right for me to publish my impressions which could be nothing more than imagination?
In all honesty I feel nothing, have NO impressions about any of the people. I "see" a blank screen or alternately the word ZERO in bold, black letters. I feel strongly the plane did not crash. I "feel" uninterrupted peace as though nothing terrifying ever happened. This does not seem reasonable. Even a change in direction and a landing in an unexpected place should evoke strong emotion. Remote viewing is not one hundred percent reliable for anyone. I pray to God who knows all, for the people aboard the plane and for their families.
Someone posted on Twitter a couple days before the 17th, that she believed the solution to the missing flight would be discovered on St. Patrick's Day. I instantly felt this was very wrong. I immediately got an impression of the calendar. Yesterday the 18th appeared in heavy black numbers on a grey background. Today the 19th, toward the bottom of the date square, in the late afternoon as I interpret it, there are faint sunset colors appearing over the grey. I feel there will be a new development just being announced. Tomorrow the 20th is bright as the story develops. The 21st sparkles and flashes indicating to me that the developing news will be hot and well developed. This impression holds strong over these past days until now.
Last night as news coverage seemed to be leaning toward the idea of Flight MH370 being intact in the vicinity of Iran, I decided to share my impressions with my friend Lynn who created Freedom Fighters of America. He encouraged me to write this. He believes, as it seems the Israeli government believes, that the missing plane could be reloaded with possibly nuclear explosives and flown on a suicide mission to detonate over Israel.
I detect no human emotion or thoughts. Whether or not any of my impressions are accurate, I humbly leave in the hands of God. I pray to Him for a quick and safe solution of the international mystery.
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Speak Now, the IRS Wants to Hear From Us!
February 19, 2014
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~In the soap opera drama that US politics has become, the IRS is asking We The People to speak now or forever hold our peace. (Silence. Organ music. Cut to commercial.) Actually the IRS is seeking comments from all of us concerning rule and regulation changes pertaining to 501(c) tax exempt organizations, especially (c)(4) groups.
~The specific items for which the IRS invites comments concern areas directly involved with that ugly subject, "IRS targeting TEA Party groups". ALL of the issues are not addressed in the proposed regulations but some are. It is my understanding that by commenting prior to February 27, 2014, those who comment now will have the ability to comment further as the rule changes develop. Not commenting I believe puts a citizen in the position of "forever holding his peace". Commenting is simple and certainly worthwhile.
~"IRS blocks free speech" is a sensational exclamation frequently heard lately. Since government treats us like frogs in boiling water, nothing is ever that simple. Please read the proposed regulations at the Federal Register; https://federalregister.gov/a/1013-28492. If necessary enter IRS REG-134417-13. [1]. The whole thing is a lot simpler than one paragraph of Obama Care/ Democrat Care. My take on the proposals is that they are trying to define ACCEPTABLE speech within the context of tax exempt charitable organizations. From my perspective any government regulation that tells a citizen what, how or when he or she can say something, is a limit on free speech through the back door.
~Of course the IRS is not telling groups what they can or cannot say, EXCEPT if the groups want tax exempt status they can't say certain things the IRS is or will deem as "candidate-related". Proposed restrictions have to do with both content of speech and timing of speech. Group activities or planned activities can also have to do with obtaining tax exempt status as I read it. [1]
~The IRS proposes to define what is "candidate-related" speech at least partly based on a time frame of 30 or 60 days prior to certain elections. These are especially sticky areas because the IRS goes way beyond saying a 501(c)(4) for instance, cannot say, "Vote for (or against) Joe Blow". The (c)(4) designation usually concerns organizations tax exempted for the purposes of "social welfare". That is a poorly defined term that covers subjects we might consider educational, more or less, areas that have very much to do with free speech and exchange of ideas, as we understand those terms.
~It appears that mere ideas could be considered "candidate-related" and prohibited. For example if a pro-life group in Texas as part of its mission opposes abortion, their speech, publications, web sites, etc. could become political speech within 30-60 days of an election wherein Wendy Davis, known as an abortion supporter, is on the ballot. As I take it the IRS would be the arbiter that decides if opposing abortion in this example, would be prohibited in that while the group could say it, they could also lose their tax exempt status for saying it at the wrong time. Loss of exempt status can discourage contributors, and since money equals air time, print publications, space rentals, etc., the group's ability to express itself COULD be severely affected. In this money driven world THAT is limiting free speech in my opinion.
~The IRS seems to believe even non-partisan events such as candidate fairs with candidates from both parties could be prohibited political speech within the time limits prior to an election. Also in question is "get out the vote" drives which certainly should not be considered "candidate-related", in my opinion. I do not follow the reasoning of the IRS, but "get out the vote" campaigns are specifically mentioned and it seems to me that encouraging citizens to vote, no matter the party or issues, is for the basic "social welfare" of the republic.
~I found it easy to get on~or is it go through~the portal to make a comment online. Any submissions must include this citation: IRS REG-134417-13. I wrote a long and thoughtful comment and have no idea if it was submitted or not because the whole site locked up and nothing worked. I have no idea if I needed to provide a profile before proceeding. I tried a second time and attempted to click profile first but got the notice I had to comment first. I know people who have successfully left comments so it DOES work.
~Since I have decided to comment by mail I did not leave another comment on the site. Mailing instructions state they want one original, signed document and eight (8) copies! I will be commenting as a member of a 501(c)(3) so everything considered I prefer the mail. The mailing address provided is: CC:PA:LPD:PR (REG-134417-13), Room 5205, Internal Revenue Service, PO Box 7604, Ben Franklin Station. Washington DC 20044. (With 8 copies requested I am sure I will have an envelope large enough to handle such an address!)
~It is easy to complain about the government and to make sensational statements about the IRS targeting people and groups, which I believe they have done. I have no idea how much weight our comments will have. The last number of comments I saw listed at the portal was over 31,800. Out of hundreds of millions of citizens that does not seem like much. We feel our government makes too many decisions without in put from We The People. In this one instance the IRS is asking for our opinions and every one of us should read the proposals and leave whatever well thought comments that come to mind.If it is true that those who comment now will have their feet in the door for further in-put as the process goes along, so much the better.
~Speak now and know you are part of the solution or be prepared to hold your peace and know you did nothing, if these rules are adopted and there are subsequent reports of the IRS targeting political groups. Defense of free speech is up to us and it starts with the free speech we have now. Tell the IRS what you think!
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Sources:
"New IRS Rules Would Scuttle Tea Parties"
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Jahi McMath - Hope Denied by Court Order
December 28, 2013
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Is "BRAIN DEAD" a legal death sentence? Apparently it is. First two doctors must reach that diagnosis in exams separated by a number of hours. If family or next of kin objects the next step is the court system. If a judge declares the patient dead, there is no hope, or so it seems in the case of Jahi McMath the 13 year old Oakland, California girl whose heart failed following hours of hemorrhage following tonsillectomy.
December 28, 2013
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Is "BRAIN DEAD" a legal death sentence? Apparently it is. First two doctors must reach that diagnosis in exams separated by a number of hours. If family or next of kin objects the next step is the court system. If a judge declares the patient dead, there is no hope, or so it seems in the case of Jahi McMath the 13 year old Oakland, California girl whose heart failed following hours of hemorrhage following tonsillectomy.
~California is a state where actual executions of convicted heinous murderers are basically never done. Richard Ramirez the "Night Stalker" got 24 years on death row before dying of cancer in June of this year.
~The same state's legal system has grudgingly given teenager Jahi McMath 18 days. That is the time from the December 12 finding of "brain dead" until 5:00 pm. December 30 when a judge says her ventilator must be unplugged.
~Language in an California Assembly Bill* states that in a case of diagnosed brain death, the hospital shall provide family or next of kin with a, "...reasonably BRIEF period of accommodation...", emphasis mine. Religious and cultural needs are to be respected. As a Catholic, I can't resist translating this to mean the priest better pray fast!
~All this is necessary because loved ones who are found to be "brain dead" are likely to be on machines that keep the body functioning, but it is presumed not living and therefore beyond hope. That loved ones are still warm and hearts still beat while a machine does the breathing leads families to believe there is actual life. Many sources state that no one has ever recovered following a diagnosis of brain death. Ever. **
~Another angle that makes "brain dead" sacrosanct is that this decision is the human determination when an organ donor, cadaver if you will, is dead enough to donate fresh, very usable organs. I am a registered organ donor and have no problem with this but organ donation seems to require a level of agreement and meeting of the minds between a living person's wishes, family and the medical establishment. None of this seems to pertain to the saga of Jahi McMath.
~Most of us do not want loved ones keeps alive on machines indefinitely. Some are choosing to see Jahi's family's fight as doing just this. I do not. Their child had a tonsillectomy on December 9, hemorrhaged and was declared brain dead December 12. A judge said they could have till Christmas and extended time for an appeal to 5:00 pm December 30. In the name of human decency I do not believe the hospital or judge should have the rights to make such cut and dried decisions.
~The first right to die case was Karen Ann Quinlan in 1976. At age 22 she entered what we now call a persistent vegetative state and the hospital kept her alive on breathing machines. Her family sued to allow her to die and the hospital fought hard to keep her on machines. The family won and Ms. Quinlan who never regained consciousness was able to breathe on her own until she died of pneumonia in 1985. Precedents for the right to die were set then. Most of us do not want loved ones existing on machines. (I personally enacted and honored my late husband's advanced directive when he had another stroke that left him incapable of any movement or responsiveness, yet life persisted.)
~That said, have we become so reactive to the phrase "right to die" that we are lukewarm about "right to life"? In 1976 a hospital went to court to force Karen Ann Quinlan to "live" on a machine. Oakland Childrens' Hospital has gone to court to make sure Jahi McMath is unplugged from machines next Monday night.
~I do not believe Jahi's family is fighting for her to exist on machines forever. I do believe Oakland Childrens' Hospital has lost their trust. Various sources quote her mother as saying the hospital never explained to her how her child ended up in her present condition. There is human error here because people are imperfect. If the hospital could have foreseen the disastrous outcome they would not have operated in the first place. Somewhere in the reported hours of grisly hemorrhaging following the surgery, humans decided not to go back to surgery and find the source of the hemorrhage, thus allowing Jahi's heart to stop. Now these same fallible humans with advanced degrees insist Jahi's family trust them to say the child is irrevocably dead.
~Even though reportedly a long term care facility will accept Jahi as a living patient and will give her a chance, Oakland Childrens' Hospital is refusing do perform a couple surgical procedures that make her transferable. Many people across the country are willing to donate toward the cost of care.
~All things considered, is it reasonable to say "brain dead" is always absolute death? What is a "brief" accommodation for a family to make? Religious views are to be honored. Jahi's family believes in God and that God can and does perform miracles.
~Most important, who will be harmed if the hospital provides a couple minor surgical procedures so that Jahi can be moved to another facility? What IF God performs a miracle for this child? Would that so shake up the medico-legal establishment that they would lose too much control? Why not err on the side of compassion for people who are already suffering enough?
~The legal system insists Jahi is dead. Her family insists time will bring a miracle. Perhaps she is an officially dead child who is merely sleeping. Why insist on death?
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SOURCES:
UC Davis Health System, AB 2565
US DHS Guideline Summary; Guidelines for
determination of brain death
in infants and children...
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Dead Child Sleeping
December 27, 2013
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Jahi McMath had a tonsillectomy to relieve sleep apnea. She sat up in the recovery room and ate a Popsicle. Then blood began dripping out of her nose and mouth and her mother asked if this was normal following tonsillectomy. The bleeding increased and Jahi was taken to ICU and given transfusions. She asked her mother to wipe her nose~blood clots were sliding down from her nostrils. There were cups full of Jahi's blood in the room her mother said in interviews. After several hours the girl went into cardiac arrest and now she is brain dead. This, according to multiple sources is how Jahi became a dead child sleeping.
December 27, 2013
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Jahi McMath had a tonsillectomy to relieve sleep apnea. She sat up in the recovery room and ate a Popsicle. Then blood began dripping out of her nose and mouth and her mother asked if this was normal following tonsillectomy. The bleeding increased and Jahi was taken to ICU and given transfusions. She asked her mother to wipe her nose~blood clots were sliding down from her nostrils. There were cups full of Jahi's blood in the room her mother said in interviews. After several hours the girl went into cardiac arrest and now she is brain dead. This, according to multiple sources is how Jahi became a dead child sleeping.
~According to the same sources, on December 12, three days after surgery and hemorrhage, Jahi was declared "brain dead" which means in a legal sense that she is dead and not entitled to any more care. It also means her family has nothing more to say about her life beyond what funeral chapel will receive her body.
~Jahi's family believes in God and they believe in miracles. The girl is warm and her heart beats. A ventilator breathes for her. Since "brain dead" equals legal death, correct medical procedure is to stop all life preserving efforts, to unplug the machines and turn out the lights. Jahi's family hired an attorney and have been to court twice. A judge allowed the family to have Christmas with Jahi but a further ruling declares she must be unplugged by 5:00 pm, December 30. According to sources the hospital hopes it will be sooner. The family also requested a specialist of their choosing to examine the girl. The judge said no.
~Since I began writing yesterday, Jahi's family has held a news conference. A long term care facility in the Oakland, CA area, according to a family spokesperson, is willing to accept Jahi and give her a chance to wake up. Originally I planned to write about what "brain dead" means, how it is determined and why it means Jahi must be unplugged next Monday, by court order. Nothing I can write from medical and legal research could illustrate the case better than what is actually happening.
~In order to be moved to another facility at least two small surgical procedures are needed. A tracheotomy must be done to insert a breathing tube and a feeding tube must be threaded into Jahi's stomach so she can receive nutrition. Childrens' Hospital Oakland seems to be refusing to do these things. It seems legal death, decided by a judge after listening to a couple experts, must be the most final form of death, absolutely irrevocable, though possibly subject to appeal in a higher court.
~Chief of Pediatrics David Durand, speaking for the Oakland hospital, quoted in a Contra Costa Times article last night states that the judge was "very clear". "He ruled Jahi McMath to be deceased and instructed the hospital to maintain status quo."
(http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_2... | 12/26/13 )
(http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_2... | 12/26/13 )
~In the same article the family's attorney Christopher Dolan is quoted thus, "The hospital's stance defied explanation," and further,"...the hospital is hell bent on the girl going out in a box."
~What I believe I learned about "brain dead" from both medical and legal sources, is that there is a great need, in this age when machines can prolong what appears to be life indefinitely, to legally define death. Since the 1960s such a definition has been sought. Eventually "brain dead" became a sort of standard but it seems it is defined differently in the US than in the UK for example. So much for a term that can be legally used to unplug a girl's life support on a certain date at a certain hour!
~Harvesting organs for transplant is mentioned. There must be an absolute point of legal death so that organs can be taken when they are still in good condition. God forbid the donor might still be alive! It appears the organ donation issue has made the brain death determination a legal definition that slams the door on all miracles or basic human compassion. I will state here that I am a registered organ donor. Such is noted on my drivers licence and all my medical files. I strongly support organ donation and have no desire to cast doubt on the organ donation system. However I am almost 60 and in poor health. Jahi McMath is 13 and her family believes she could have a miracle. I do not believe in this case that the legal finality of "brain dead" should mean unplugged on a certain date by a human hand. If there have been any human mistakes made and the girl does awaken to any extent in the future, there will be many uncomfortable questions.
~Neither the medical or legal issues pertaining to Jahi's case are simple but human compassion should be simple. Did Oakland Childrens' Hospital properly deal with what has been described as hours long hemorrhaging that ended in heart failure? If human error could have led to Jahi's current condition, should not human compassion be part of the balance? What does the hospital have to gain by making sure this teenage girl is unplugged and out of their bed, and in a mortuary, in a coffin by Monday night?
~If the family prevails and Jahi should regain life in another facility, what will that do to the sacrosanct legal-medical definition of brain dead? Perhaps the hospital and court system is afraid to find out.
~For now, at least till 5:00 pm next Monday, Jahi McMath is a dead child sleeping.
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Now that "Duck Dynasty" has our attention....
December 21, 2013
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~If only we would swarm with loud indignation every time our God-given rights are threatened, like people are doing now in support of "Duck Dynasty" and Phil Robertson.
by Anna Morris, Senior Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~If only we would swarm with loud indignation every time our God-given rights are threatened, like people are doing now in support of "Duck Dynasty" and Phil Robertson.
~It's emotionally personal when shows come into our homes week after week. We feel like the stars are part of the family and who doesn't rush to defend family if a member is attacked?
~I do not personally own a TV and I have never seen "Duck Dynasty" so I feel a bit emotionally detached from the controversy. There are other cases that have made me boiling mad this year because those cases absolutely attack freedom of expression and religion. These are the cases where courts order business owners to go against their consciences or else. We have seen a lot of this in the past year. Some recent ones involve same sex marriage and they are most pertinent at this time considering the lack of tolerance being shown for Phil Robertson's opinion.
~*Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cake Shop,
Lakewood, CO; has been ordered by a court to
provide wedding cakes for same sex marriages.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government
Lakewood, CO; has been ordered by a court to
provide wedding cakes for same sex marriages.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government
~*Johnathan and Elaine Huguenin own Elane
Photography in Albuquerque, NM. Court has
told them they cannot refuse to photograph
same sex marriages and further, refusing to
do so is a violation of New Mexico's law on
human rights.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/court-h...
Photography in Albuquerque, NM. Court has
told them they cannot refuse to photograph
same sex marriages and further, refusing to
do so is a violation of New Mexico's law on
human rights.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/court-h...
~Aron and Melissa Klein own Sweet Cakes by
Melissa in Gresham, OR, though it appears
this business may have closed its doors following
"months of harassment" for refusing to make a
cake for a same sex wedding. The gay couple
filed a complaint with the state's Bureau of
Labor and Industry (BOLI), which is investigating.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/0
Melissa in Gresham, OR, though it appears
this business may have closed its doors following
"months of harassment" for refusing to make a
cake for a same sex wedding. The gay couple
filed a complaint with the state's Bureau of
Labor and Industry (BOLI), which is investigating.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/0
~Barronelle Stutzman owns Arlene's Flowers &
Gifts in Washington state. She is a florist. You
guessed it. Legal trouble for refusing to arrange
flowers for a same sex marriage.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/38666614/
Gifts in Washington state. She is a florist. You
guessed it. Legal trouble for refusing to arrange
flowers for a same sex marriage.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/38666614/
~Dick and Betty Odegaard of Grimes, Iowa are
court ordered to rent premises they own for
same sex weddings, says the Iowa human rights
commission.
http://m.religiontoday.com/blog/business-0...
court ordered to rent premises they own for
same sex weddings, says the Iowa human rights
commission.
http://m.religiontoday.com/blog/business-0...
~After accessing these articles on the browser, the next titles state that churches feel they will be next, that in the name of human rights they will be forced to perform same sex marriages.
~None of these stories can have the mass emotional impact that the "Duck Dynasty" cancellation has had but they should. Every time any court, government entity, politician or President Obama himself, grabs a chunk of our rights, we should swarm with indignation and make our position clear. LEAVE OUR GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS ALONE!
~Our politicians are in the process of making every human behavior a part of "public health" through Obama Care. EVERY aspect of our lives can be regulated for the "public good" through "public health". That's what Obama Care is all about and why, in my opinion, Obama fights so hard for it.
~None of these stories can have the mass emotional impact that the "Duck Dynasty" cancellation has had but they should. Every time any court, government entity, politician or President Obama himself, grabs a chunk of our rights, we should swarm with indignation and make our position clear. LEAVE OUR GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS ALONE!
~Our politicians are in the process of making every human behavior a part of "public health" through Obama Care. EVERY aspect of our lives can be regulated for the "public good" through "public health". That's what Obama Care is all about and why, in my opinion, Obama fights so hard for it.
~It isn't just about GLAAD v. Phil Robertson's Christianity. That is just a skirmish. Everyday there are new ways for government to steal our consciences, faith and freedom of expression. For example, New York City council just banned e-cigs in public places, not because they harm anyone with second hand vapour. Heck, no! The anti-tobacco nuts don't want kids to think smoking is acceptable. Children must not be allowed to SEE something that SIMULATES smoking. A goal of the anti-smoking zealots is to make smoking "abnormal" which is kind of like what other zealots are doing to make the Christian faith "abnormal".
~Do we see a pattern here? Florists, bakers and photographers MUST, by court order, use their God given artistic talents for events that violate personal religious beliefs. While we are at it, don't forget Hobby Lobby forced against conscience to provide contraceptives and worse. God help the little kid that chews a pastry into the shape of a gun and says "Bang! Bang!" Kids can't even point fingers and pretend they are guns without being punished. Pretend guns and adult gizmo's that resemble cigarettes must not be part of free expression according to the thought police!
~To me, these things are more dangerous to all of us that A&E's suspension of Phil Robertson. A business has the right to make a business decision not to alienate a portion of the viewing public. (If you had a super popular show sponsored by the beef industry for example, and expressed your private opinion that meat eating causes cancer, you might get cancelled.) On the other hand gay activists in particular have repeatedly gone to court to deny business owners the right not to violate personal faith and conscience. In a previous article I wrote that such lack of tolerance from any special group could eventually turn the most tolerant among us toward intolerance and lack of empathy.
~So we have new boycotts in behalf of Phil's right to free speech, joining the many other boycotts that have started throughout the past year. I honestly can't remember if we are supposed to be boycotting or supporting Starbucks at this time. (I live far enough from civilization it doesn't matter anyway.)
~Judging by the intense emotion, maybe the effort for "Duck Dynasty" will actually have an impact where other boycotts seem to have made no impression. However it goes, be prepared to defend ALL our rights ALL the time against an increasingly tyrannical government.
~Our founders knew that kind of vigilance is what it would take to maintain our freedoms in perpetuity. Life got too easy and we forgot how to defend our rights. Indeed, we found it comfortable to give up rights for the "greater good", or perhaps from sheer, unpatriotic sloth and laziness. Enjoy the fight in behalf of "Duck Dynasty" and remember to be just as righteously angry over the daily grabbing of rights we experience from Washington DC.
~To me, these things are more dangerous to all of us that A&E's suspension of Phil Robertson. A business has the right to make a business decision not to alienate a portion of the viewing public. (If you had a super popular show sponsored by the beef industry for example, and expressed your private opinion that meat eating causes cancer, you might get cancelled.) On the other hand gay activists in particular have repeatedly gone to court to deny business owners the right not to violate personal faith and conscience. In a previous article I wrote that such lack of tolerance from any special group could eventually turn the most tolerant among us toward intolerance and lack of empathy.
~So we have new boycotts in behalf of Phil's right to free speech, joining the many other boycotts that have started throughout the past year. I honestly can't remember if we are supposed to be boycotting or supporting Starbucks at this time. (I live far enough from civilization it doesn't matter anyway.)
~Judging by the intense emotion, maybe the effort for "Duck Dynasty" will actually have an impact where other boycotts seem to have made no impression. However it goes, be prepared to defend ALL our rights ALL the time against an increasingly tyrannical government.
~Our founders knew that kind of vigilance is what it would take to maintain our freedoms in perpetuity. Life got too easy and we forgot how to defend our rights. Indeed, we found it comfortable to give up rights for the "greater good", or perhaps from sheer, unpatriotic sloth and laziness. Enjoy the fight in behalf of "Duck Dynasty" and remember to be just as righteously angry over the daily grabbing of rights we experience from Washington DC.
~It has been said, "Never whack a pinata if hornets are flying out of it." Government needs to know that where our rights are involved, We the People are one of that kind of pinata!
Dec 14 at 9:21 AM
~People are just beginning to notice that hospitals are buying up physicians' private practices and forming monopolies.
~Crises are only crises when they happen to you. That is why, when the 2012 presidential vote was critical, noone listened to warnings about impending Obama Care which was designed be be fairly benign until after the president was chosen~or specifically, reelected. It is human nature not to react until you, personally are affected.
~A few years ago, my friend who was a medical transcriptionist began to complain that the local hospital was "taking over everything" and that this was "socialized medicine". She was losing jobs as private practices were increasingly bought and controlled by the local hospital. Eventually the hospital controlled all of the formerly independent practices she no longer had a job.
~While my friend agonized I thought I saw a powerful, small town hospital bringing in specialists and making remarkable improvements in rural care which has traditionally lacked many things, including having enough doctors. MY personal crisis with the hospital monopoly came a few years after my friend's. By then, the hospital was ALL powerful and could do anything. Obama Care can penalize doctors for "adverse outcomes"~if the patient gets sicker instead of better. I had a severe adverse outcome, my permanent E-record got filled with lies and I had no recourse except to move and try to find doctors who still keep paper records.
~Even if I had been the politically aware citizen I am now, when my friend began harping on "socialized medicine", I don't know what I could have done to change things. Back then my friend and I would have looked like ninnies trying to change hospital policy over our personal issues. Today hospital monopolization of private physicians' practices is beginning to get wider attention because it will soon be everybodies' crisis. We may not be able to stop it but we should understand what they are doing to us.
~Just this week, judging by a few online postings, other people seem to be noticing the trend of hospitals buying up and controlling private physicians' practices. A quick search of the subject says hospitals in 2013 won't make the same mistakes hospitals made in the 1990s trying a similar thing which failed. Back then, eventually the doctors freed themselves from the hospitals and managed care and resumed private practices.
~This time around it looks to me like the hospitals are functioning like industrial strength fly paper. I can see the doctors getting stuck in the system and struggling to give good, individualized care to their patients. Eventually I imagine they will succumb to the stickey, socialized medicine schemes the hospitals and government will devise.
~The ever expanding crisis of hospital monopolies will swallow more than private practices. While there are spurious articles about small, mostly rural hospitals being put out of business via the ACA*, the behemouth hospitals that planned ahead are going to survive on POPULATION HEALTH. Memorize that term because it is the meat of Obama Care/ Democrat Care, aka Affordable Care. Ominously, according to some experts, every hospital can't manage population health because, "Smaller hospitals only heal the sick." (www.beckershospitalreview.com/.../why by Sabrina Rodak)
~POPULATION HEALTH about healing the individual sick or injured as I understand it. Population health is more about SDOH~social determinants of health. Going back to the beginnings in 1946, WHO stated that health equals, "...a state of complete physical, mental and social well being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."**
~A quick Wiki read further defines population health as, "health outcomes of a group of individuals, the distribution of such outcomes within the group...", whatever that means. It is a curious note that population health does not refer to plants or animals. So if my herd of cows is all vaccinated for the health of the group...uh, by definition that is not an example of population health because population health only applies to humans. That doesn't sound like a scientific principle to me but then medical care is becoming more about government and less about hard science.
~Some articles note that population health is overly broad, that absolutely anything can be included in the definitions. No wonder this is a strategy hospitals of today are using to avoid whatever mistakes they made back in the '90s! That said, one article attempts to clarify by defining it as, "the distribution of health". Overall health will be rated high if the majority of the population is healthy. This article makes it plain that population health is not public health, though both areas can work together. (www.improvingpopulationhealth.org/.../ Editor David A. Kindig MD, Phd.)
~Translated into the real life experiences of the average Obama Care victim...I mean consumer...population health means your doctors, likely monopolized by the powerful local hospital, will at least partly see you as a member of a group. It could be the Medicare group of people over age 65. It could be a group based on your county, state, race, income, sexual orientation, education level. It could be based on what insurance group you use. (http://www.partners.org/Innovation-And-... PMH In Action)
~There is a "triple aim" of population health which applies to individuals. Pushed by government and hospitals supposedly to save costs, this is the allegedly "patient-centered" care which always strikes me as government-centered care. Patients will have primary care doctors in their "patient-centered medical home", care will be coordinated and in some cases will include intensive case management and doctors will get patients involved in their own care. (Ibid. PMH In Action) Still, the overall goal is a healthy population as I understand it.
~Expanding on this framework, population health has been described as overseeing patients' health outside the exam room via a team of health workers. Or as Care Continuum Alliance put it, "Self management interventions aimed at influencing the targeted population to make behavioral change." (http://www.carecontinuumalliance.org/phi.___ )
Please take note of the "behavioral change" and "targeted population" parts.
Please take note of the "behavioral change" and "targeted population" parts.
~Insurance and government have made it easier for hospitals to get reimbursed for all sorts of care, more so than doctors in private practice. New requirements and regulations under Obama Care are expensive and intrusive. Therefore physicians treating individuals in private practice sell out to hospitals. (http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/16/smallbu... "Doctors Bail Out on their Practices")
~Following the money, hospitals that will survive likely will do so through "Population Health". Why maintain a big hospital facility and wait for sick people? By "treating" the whole population on a daily basis while it is well, a whole new industry is born! Local populations can have lifestyles managed by the reigning hospital monopoly which receives marching orders from whatever political party is in power. Whatever individual care remains, delivered by physicians who are employees only, will be based on hospital/government policy.
~We talk about defunding or repealing Obama Care. There are many things encouraged by the ACA, like this trend of hospitals controlling doctors, that would probably never be affected by any congressional action. In my opinion these things are every bit as dangerous to We The Patients than the whole, giant bill. The smaller things like hospital monopolies will fill any gaps if the complete ACA takeover is slowed down.
~The definition of CRISIS is, "a time of intense difficulty or danger".*** When big hospitals under government control purchase and employ ALL physicians in an area it is a time of difficulty and danger for patients. In areas blessed with independent doctors, everything should be done to keep them in private practice. A dear friend believes politics are eventually the answer to everything. As medical care increasingly becomes government-centered, and concentrated on populations rather than individuals, he may be right. Hospital monopolies are certainly something for grassroots and TEA Party groups to be look at.
~Hospital monopolies should be seen as everybodies' crisis. Like Dr. Ben Carson has said, "Who controls health care, controls you."
~Hospital monopolies should be seen as everybodies' crisis. Like Dr. Ben Carson has said, "Who controls health care, controls you."
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~* Winfield Daily Courier; President's 2014 Budget
May Threaten Small Hospitals by Donetta
Godsey. (A Kansas article but there are many
articles available detailing the same issues in
many other states.)
http://m.winfieldcourier.com/top_story/artic...
May Threaten Small Hospitals by Donetta
Godsey. (A Kansas article but there are many
articles available detailing the same issues in
many other states.)
http://m.winfieldcourier.com/top_story/artic...
~** Wikipedia, POPULATION HEALTH DEFINITION
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_...
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_...
~*** Merriam Webster online dictionary
~Forbes; Hospitals Are Going on a Doctor Buying
Binge; Scott Gotleib;
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgotleib/2
Binge; Scott Gotleib;
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgotleib/2
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Health Snacking Zone
November 19, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~1.8 million dollars to create a "Healthy Snacking Zone" ought to be a bad joke, except in reality it appears to be a gross waste of government money. If it is a joke, it's a joke on American tax payers.
~A little over a year ago a small town paper in Eastern Oregon announced the $1.8 million SNACZ program which covers one, sparsely populated county about a hundred miles west of the Idaho border, as the crow flies. Union County has a total population of 25,759. 16.6% of this population is below the poverty line; or as locals quip, the food bank is the biggest bank in town. Income per capita is $22,356 and income per household is $40,974. Union County lags behind both Oregon and US income averages according to http://www.biggestuscities.com/demograph... which is my source for these stats.
Health Snacking Zone
November 19, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~1.8 million dollars to create a "Healthy Snacking Zone" ought to be a bad joke, except in reality it appears to be a gross waste of government money. If it is a joke, it's a joke on American tax payers.
~A little over a year ago a small town paper in Eastern Oregon announced the $1.8 million SNACZ program which covers one, sparsely populated county about a hundred miles west of the Idaho border, as the crow flies. Union County has a total population of 25,759. 16.6% of this population is below the poverty line; or as locals quip, the food bank is the biggest bank in town. Income per capita is $22,356 and income per household is $40,974. Union County lags behind both Oregon and US income averages according to http://www.biggestuscities.com/demograph... which is my source for these stats.
~According to the newspaper article SNACZ stands for: Students Now Advocating to Create (Healthy Snacking) Zones. It is ultimately a 4-H program initially aimed at Union County fourth and fifth graders.
~4-H clubs started at the turn of the last century, with the idea that young people would share new agricultural practices with older, resistant farmers. The clubs are tied into the Cooperative Extension System of the USDA. 4-H exists in all fifty states and it appears from their web site that 4-H activities increasingly cover environmentalism and global issues. Check out "4-H Revolution of Responsibility", and "Healthy Living Stories of Responsibility" at http://www.4-h.org/about/revolution/ .
~The easily recognized four H's, in a clover leaf symbol, stand for Head, Hands, Heart and Health, and there is a pledge about these elements that is recited at the start of each meeting.*
~Considering the SNACZ Program, there seems to be a fifth "H"; Help Yourself to Tax Dollars. The $1.8 million for the Healthy Snacking Zone came from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Their site has something like a mission statement which reads, "Aims to improve economic, environmental and social conditions in the US and globally". http://www.csrees.usda.gov/
~So how does $1.8 million provide healthy snacking? Well...in fall of 2012 the SNACZ program sought to hire someone who could work with youth. I guess they found someone because the ads are no longer online. SNACZ is a four year program so it seems to me the paid leader would likely be hired for the duration.
~In old-time 4-H there were volunteer leaders who had expertise in subjects like farm animals, sewing, cooking, and pretty much anything anyone could build into a youth oriented educational club. Since SNACZ includes "community organizing", perhaps there weren't any properly trained volunteers. (There must be good money in community organizing since that's about the only job President Obama ever had and he isn't poor.) In addition to community organizing the SNACZ website states that members will learn about nutrition, leadership skills, project planning and research methods.**
~I have no idea what Union County is getting from this large serving of USDA slush. After a little over one year I would expect something spectacular for that kind of money. Five little towns in the county each have their very own SNACZ group and each one has a web page. All of the pages have this notice: "You are not authorized to view this page". Since these are kids' pages, I don't know if they are keeping out perverts or reporters like me. One very tiny town accidentally posted that their SNACZ group had had a booth about nutrition at a local fall festival.***
~The original newspaper article last year touted the idea that kids would advocate for rewards like hikes instead on ice cream parties. This strikes me as extra humorous because Union County is very rural; countryside and mountains are little more than a ten minute walk from downtown anywhere. Hikes are hardly unexpected treats on a par with ice cream parties.
~In addition to kids giving up edibles for exercize, another SNACZ goal is to get stores to promote healthy snacking items, keeping them visible and readily available. The "research" part of SNACZ involves interviewing school teachers over the four year period, tracking what kinds of snacks kids bring to school and what snacks are available in the schools.+
~Hilariously, while this $1.8 million dollars worth of community organizing is going on, the local food banks use full page ads in the paper begging for donations. Indeed, last week a local newspaper article expressed relief that the latest food collection drive brought in almost 36,000 pounds of food which waas desperately needed in light of recent food stamp cuts. Businesses it was noted, donated 20,000 pounds of the total amount.++
~There is apparently more hunger than the food banks can handle. The Union County Friday Back Pack Program provides food for kids over the weekend when school lunches and breakfasts aren't available. As stated on its website http://www.|fbp.org : "Oregon currently has the highest rate of childhood hunger in the nation with 29% of children in the state facing food insecurity." Keep in mind Union County income stats are lower than the state average.
~In 2011 another Union County newspaper article worried about a block grant reduction denying local children free lunches under the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).+++
~Looking at the whole picture, the $1.8 million "Healthy Snacking Zone" infuriates me. I have lived in some of these low income Eastern Oregon communities, if not Union County. Life was always hard and some children have always been hungry at least part of the month, when money and food stamps run out. Timber and railroads provide fewer jobs in this century than the last. Poverty is very much evident. A friend who was in business in Union County for a many years, went to a big city on a trip. She commented, "It was so nice to sit on a park bench and see people who weren't poor!" Depressing.
~To me the most disturbing of the multiple feeding programs is Friday Back Pack, whose premise is that children don't have enough food on weekends, when schools are not providing meals. While this can be debated from many angles, for a moment take it at face value. How can a division of the USDA give almost two million dollars to teach kids to eat less in a county where there are numerous barrels begging to be filled so school kids can have something to eat at home when schools are closed?
~"Fight Childhood Obesity", said another 2012 article about the SNACZ Program. If government was ever wise, perhaps it would find a way to combine anti-obesity efforts with anti-hunger efforts? It is common to personally KNOW hungry kids and families in areas like Union County.
~The original newspaper article last year touted the idea that kids would advocate for rewards like hikes instead on ice cream parties. This strikes me as extra humorous because Union County is very rural; countryside and mountains are little more than a ten minute walk from downtown anywhere. Hikes are hardly unexpected treats on a par with ice cream parties.
~In addition to kids giving up edibles for exercize, another SNACZ goal is to get stores to promote healthy snacking items, keeping them visible and readily available. The "research" part of SNACZ involves interviewing school teachers over the four year period, tracking what kinds of snacks kids bring to school and what snacks are available in the schools.+
~Hilariously, while this $1.8 million dollars worth of community organizing is going on, the local food banks use full page ads in the paper begging for donations. Indeed, last week a local newspaper article expressed relief that the latest food collection drive brought in almost 36,000 pounds of food which waas desperately needed in light of recent food stamp cuts. Businesses it was noted, donated 20,000 pounds of the total amount.++
~There is apparently more hunger than the food banks can handle. The Union County Friday Back Pack Program provides food for kids over the weekend when school lunches and breakfasts aren't available. As stated on its website http://www.|fbp.org : "Oregon currently has the highest rate of childhood hunger in the nation with 29% of children in the state facing food insecurity." Keep in mind Union County income stats are lower than the state average.
~In 2011 another Union County newspaper article worried about a block grant reduction denying local children free lunches under the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).+++
~Looking at the whole picture, the $1.8 million "Healthy Snacking Zone" infuriates me. I have lived in some of these low income Eastern Oregon communities, if not Union County. Life was always hard and some children have always been hungry at least part of the month, when money and food stamps run out. Timber and railroads provide fewer jobs in this century than the last. Poverty is very much evident. A friend who was in business in Union County for a many years, went to a big city on a trip. She commented, "It was so nice to sit on a park bench and see people who weren't poor!" Depressing.
~To me the most disturbing of the multiple feeding programs is Friday Back Pack, whose premise is that children don't have enough food on weekends, when schools are not providing meals. While this can be debated from many angles, for a moment take it at face value. How can a division of the USDA give almost two million dollars to teach kids to eat less in a county where there are numerous barrels begging to be filled so school kids can have something to eat at home when schools are closed?
~"Fight Childhood Obesity", said another 2012 article about the SNACZ Program. If government was ever wise, perhaps it would find a way to combine anti-obesity efforts with anti-hunger efforts? It is common to personally KNOW hungry kids and families in areas like Union County.
~Instead of blowing $1.8 million on "community organizing" against obesity, why not organize 4-H clubs that offer skills to the hungry? For example, the poor can be taught to cook at home. Prepared and fast foods are supposed to be part of the obesity problem. If club members worry about their own risks of obseity, why not give up fattening snacks and ice cream parties but donate the money saved to the food banks? I can think of about one point eight million other ideas that might actually DO something about hunger and obesity, but what do I know? I'm just a tax payer!
~My opinion is the slush funded SNACZ Program is more about community organizing than anything else. Give it the four years planned. Then perhaps it will join Obama Care and grade schoolers will be going into homes checking fridges and shelves for healthy snacks.
~I find these government redistribution schemes so offensive on so many levels! Divide $1.8 million by fifty thousand dollars~a household income above the national average, and in a place like Union County where living is less expensive, a good income. Thirty six people could have $50,000 in one year. Divide that by four years~the length of the SNACZ program~and nine households could have $50,000 four years in a row! It seems government is worse than business for concentrating wealth in the hands of the few while the masses are in need.
~The "Healthy Snacking Zone" sounds ominous but so far it isn't law, it isn't militarized and it's 200 miles from me. I'm going to make caramel apple pies today. Butter AND shortening in the crust. Light on apples, heavy on caramel. Then I'm going to bake bread. I'd love to share with any hungry kids! The Healthy Snack Police will have to drone strike my kitchen if they don't like it!
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OTHER SOURCES:
~*Meaning of 4-H Clover Leaf;
http://www.laplaza.org/~taos4h/4h21.html
http://www.laplaza.org/~taos4h/4h21.html
~**SNACZ Websites and pages;
http://extension.oregonstatte.edu/union/uni...
http://extension.oregonstatte.edu/union/uni...
~***Ibid.
~+ Ibid.
~++ www.lagrandeobserver.com/.../Donated-f...
Donated Food Will Make a Difference
Donated Food Will Make a Difference
Block Grant Threatened
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Insanity For All~Obama Care's Catch-22
October 29, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~"Catch-22 says they have the right to do anything we can't stop them from doing," Joseph Heller writes in his novel.*
~Using that definition, Obama Care should be the mother of all Catch Twenty~Twos. A more clinical definition of the term is, a problem that can't be solved because rules and regulations make the solution impossible. Put crudely by up-cycling a joke from Jr. high, how do you drive a potty-trained puppy crazy? Put him in a round garbage can and tell him to go in the corner! The round garbage can is the health care system and we are the puppies.
~Time to bring in the psychiatrists? No surprise, the ACA like the old Soviet health system, plans psychiatric evaluations for all! Obama Care integrates mental health with physical health under the excuse that mentally ill patients have higher than normal rates of concurrent physical ailments or co-morbidities. Alternately, people who are seriously or chronically ill necessarily have mental illness. Ain't that a WIN/WIN, Catch-22 plan? Everybody is crazy which necessitates lots of government money and new programs to treat and medicate the otherwise healthy, but newly labelled patients!
~Expanding the Catch-22 net so it snares everyone, "Mental Health" is transitioning into "Behavioral Health". Implications are obvious but clear statements by the government on the importance of the change to the term "behavioral" are just as unclear as the rest of the so-called ACA law. Without clarity, those in charge or those who are merely political hacks, most certainly create the right to do anything to us that they think we can't stop them from doing! We all will soon be behaviorally ill because we have lost control of our medical system and hence forth our very "wellness" will be determined arbitrarity by those in power. Very soon, to be human will equal behavioral disease.
~Fortuitously or on purpose for the launch of "behavioral health", the psychiatric diagnostic bible has had its first major overhaul since 1994. The result is the heavily criticized 'DSM-V' that TIME.com noted, "is subject to political influence".** Is that a WIN/WIN from the ACA perspective, or what? The important point is that according to some mental health professionals, pretty much any human experience is now a mental illness of some degree, worthy of diagnosis and treatments from Big Pharma. Dr. Allen Francis, MD, professor emeritus at Duke and former chair of the 'DSM-IV', describes 'DSM-V' as, "...deeply flawed, containing many changes that seem unsafe and scientifically unsound". Francis further admonishes, "...be skeptical and don't follow 'DSM-V' blindly down a road likely to lead to massive over diagnosis and harmful over-medication".**
~On the other hand Dr. Francis is a strong supporter of gun control** so I can imagine him at a future time extolling the social engineering values of the 'DSM-V'. For example, cigarette smoking is no longer a social activity or even a bad habit. According to 'DSM-V' smoking is a behavioral illness labelled "disorder", as in "Tobacco Use Disorder". Can you imagine "Firearm Ownership Disorder"? How very convenient it will be to circumvent the constitution through behavioral labeling!. The next created psycho-social diagnosis is likely to be TEA Party Dysfunctional Disorder!
~Amid the mayhem that is Obama Care, there is one functioning clarity. Not surprising, there is a working system for collecting and reporting psychiatric and social behavior which is already functioning with few or any glitches. This tends to prove what we instinctively know and what Dr. Ben Carson has said~ the ACA isn't about health, it is about CONTROL, period.
~The Meaningful Use Program which is apparently the cover name for Electronic Health Records (EHR), requires doctors and hospitals to establish tobacco use and smoking history (along with BMI) for all patients over 13. This started in several states long before the ACA was passed without reading. Unlike the unfortunate web site, the ability to report us to the government has had years of practice, works fine and is in the final stages of becoming a permanent tracking/ reporting system for all citizens. Indeed they plan to include criminal records with health records at the federal level!
~Smoking and smokers were the practice targets, probably because WHO and the CDC considers tobacco a global scourge, a threat to all humanity bigger even, than global warming. That said, consider that if the NRA hadn't insisted on a part in Obama Care that forbids doctors to ask about guns, guns would probably trump BMI in importance. As much as progressives hate guns I doubt, even without the NRA effort, that guns would ever have been at the top of the list. For peculiar and unknown reasons nothing is more important to the government fiends, than smoking status which is now the actual disease, Tobacco Use Disorder!
~Doctors get paid for reporting smokers, along with BMI, and for doing some other tasks involving EHR. The pay is low but I suppose, comparable to the thirty pieces of silver of two thousand years ago. Stage 1 of Meaningful Use is largely practice and mind control over providers, so qualified providers will only be eligible to receive up to $44,000 from Medicare and up to $63,750 from Medicaid.***
~As the system progresses and solidifies like curing cement, one of the ultimate goals of Meaningful Use, Stage 3, 2016 is, "Improving population health" through a form of mind control in my opinion.*** No surprise again, Meaningful Use is also working out guidelines to report the "behavioral and social health" of each patient to HHS via EHR. As with all Obama Care plans, they seem to make it up as they go along and the latest information I find says they have not yet figured out the rules for evaluating and reporting behavioral and social health. In fact I am not sure they have decided what exactly is "behavioral health". If they have they probably won't tell us until we are all labeled with a behavioral disorder, and will therefore be too crazy to make credible complaints. Classic Catch-22!
~'DSM-5' seems to turn every normal human experience into a diagnostic label. Normal grief is now synonymous with major depression. Over eating 12 times in 3 months is Binge Eating Disorder. The first time substance abuser is classified the same as the hardcore addict. Tobacco is a "substance" and any use is abuse because the state says ANY use is harmful to health and the patient ought to know better! Alcohol "misuse" may have nothing to do with being drunk and can simply mean more than one alcoholic drink per day as I pointed out in my previous article about the "Readiness Ruler" on this site. Indeed the Readiness Ruler is a Catch-22 on a card in the doctor's pocket. This psychological trap renders most users of alcohol as "misusers" in need of labeling and therefore treatment!
~As Heller points out, "...agents enforcing Catch-22 need not prove that Catch-22 actually contains whatever provision the accused violator is accused of violating." What a perfect framework for the Marxist, control driven "fundamental transformation" of health care! Patients have no idea what the rules are and have no hope of doing things right, even if they try. In government-centered medicine patients will forever be subject to arbitrary rules and regulations that may not even exist in reality. Case in point, who ever heard of the Readiness Ruler till I wrote about it? Meanwhile, how many patients have been traumatized by their doctors playing unilateral psychological games no one outside the medical system knows about?
~As bad as it looks there is one bright spot of hilarity which proves that Catch-22 can catch anyone and it may all come down to simply turning the tables. President Obama who so generously gave his name to Obama Care because, as he said in the first debate, "Obama Cares", is an excellent candidate for a behavioral diagnosis. With his insistence on ruling his way or the highway as many say, and his most recent refusal to negotiate during the government shot down, many people believe Obama has temper tantrums. To this end Twitter patriots even hash tagged something like #PresidentStompyFoot. While I don't expect him to enjoy this point any more than he did the rodeo clown, the joke is on Obama. Temper tantrums are now officially labeled as Disruptive Mood Dis regulation Disorders! In the name of humor we have the right to laugh at anything they can't stop us from laughing at! Catch-22!
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SOURCES:
* Wikipedia; "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller, discussion
of book and logic being Catch-22 expression
** http://www.healthnewsreview.org/2012/12/...
'Critics Call APA Approval of 'DSM-V' a Sad Day
For Psychiatry'; Dr. Allen Francis quotes contained
here as well as general information on changes in
'DSM-V'
***http://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guida...
www.healthit.gov/policy.../meaningful-us...
Complex government web sites covering
Meaningful Use and how providers will be paid
to collect and report data through EHR
www.healthit.gov/policy.../meaningful-us...
Complex government web sites covering
Meaningful Use and how providers will be paid
to collect and report data through EHR
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Who Is "Creepifying" Our Doctors?
October 19, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~My friend who unfortunately lives in Oregon, was recently scheduled for a serious open abdominal surgery. Two days before surgery the hospital told her that because she smokes a couple cigarettes a day the surgery would cause her to die of blood clots! Almost all pre-surgery details had been addressed over a number of weeks but TWO DAYS before surgery someone at the hospital told her she was going to die because she was a smoker!
October 19, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~My friend who unfortunately lives in Oregon, was recently scheduled for a serious open abdominal surgery. Two days before surgery the hospital told her that because she smokes a couple cigarettes a day the surgery would cause her to die of blood clots! Almost all pre-surgery details had been addressed over a number of weeks but TWO DAYS before surgery someone at the hospital told her she was going to die because she was a smoker!
~After years of watching the Oregon medical system, I know this is standard practice. My friend was terrified and that made me furious. This sort unnecessary cruelty sends me into a rage which would accomplish nothing, except God invented Twitter! I generally view my Twitter account as my personal news broadcast, but once in awhile I succumb to the other definition: A conversation with yourself. I was so angry I made half a dozen personal Twitter mutterings about sadistic doctors in Oregon, assuming nobody would pay attention anyway.
~I was completely surprised and emotionally touched when two Twitter friends with experience in the medical profession wanted details and proof of what I had said, and they called my friend's treatment MALPRACTICE.
~There is a basic framework from the UN/WHO to the CDC, then echoed in Oregon State official documents; that labels tobacco use as a "health burden", and that it is a "disparity" attacking the poor. Organizations like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation further expand on these ideas and they feed back into the government plans. Though I have been searching for more than two years for a protocol that instructs doctors to terrorize smokers, I as yet have nothing definitive.
~In many of my articles I have tried to shine light on who or what "creepified" Oregon doctors. What made receiving care in that state an unpleasant ordeal in my opinion? To me it is so creepified that I moved to the state next door where seeing a doctor feels like it used to. I do not have better words for the Oregon experience so I made up "creepified" and "creepification". (Wonder when the "Oxford English Dictionary" will be adding those new words?)
~Oregon utterly wallows in the idea of "transforming health care" in my opinion, with apparently no idea too outrageous to become policy. It seems to me patients become public health lab rats for the newest made up ideas. Obama Care melds "behavioral health" with physical health for a massive experiment in social engineering. The CDC site's pages on tobacco use advocates a "winnable war against tobacco" with an approach that combines educational, clinical, regulatory, economic and social strategies. (www.cc.gov/chronicdisease/.../ohs.htm)* I follow tobacco because it is the simplest of the areas targeted by the CDC. The target list also includes obesity, lack of exercise, healthy nutrition and drug and alcohol "misuse". If the NRA had not been involved with the ACA, guns would probably be on this list. Tobacco is the first target but when government has complete control, what is next. For now I track anti-tobacco activity but everyone needs to keep their eyes wide open for the next "public health" witch hunts.
~WHO and CDC push, "tobacco control programs" which are actually quite complex and hard to follow. WHO pushes MPOWER which is actually quite innocuous in wording: Monitor tobacco use & prevention practices; Protect people from smoke; Offer to help people quit; Warn of tobacco's dangers; Enforce bans on advertizing, etc.; Raise tobacco taxes. Healthy People 2020 is a federal effort of which it is claimed all fifty states have adopted.** Tobacco use is frequently referred to as "unsustainable" for society. These are some of the bare bones upon which creepification is based.
~It appears these "tobacco control programs" started out as public health efforts. Now, and especially with the ACA/Obama Care in action, tobacco control is lucrative. Multiple federal and private grants are readily available. Jobs are created in the new industry of "smoking cessation". Primary Care doctors may be paid for every smoker they can identify, report to the state and log in the permanent electronic records. Doctors may be rewarded for every referral to the state "Quit Line". It is also possible doctors will be penalized for "adverse outcomes" under Obama Care. Theoretically any smoker who does not recover from whatever, smoking related or not, is likely to be blamed for damaging the doctor's, or increasingly the hospital's over all record.*** When a doctor's income is affected, we are likely one step closer to explaining institutionalized abuse of patients who smoke..
~None of this fully explains the creepification of doctors who terrorize smokers . The only proof for the sadistic malpractice is anecdotal. In 1994 a friend who smoked was denied care from an Oregon doctor at the point where a case of flu had caused paralysis. "You smokers have everything, just go home," she was told. In 2002 another smoking friend, post surgical in a big city Oregon hospital, was harassed and neglected by staff until her life was endangered. She did mention MALPRACTICE when the bill was received and the hospital wrote off the charges. In 2005 an 85 year old Oregon lady, surrounded by family, on the gurney going into the operating room for a mastectomy, was rudely shamed by the anesthesiologist for being a lifelong smoker. The family was outraged but did not make a formal complaint. In 2012 a podiatrist in Oregon told a young smoker she couldn't have a corrective surgery on her foot because "smokers' feet will rot off eventually anyway".
~I surmise from these examples, that a strong message is perpetrated from some government department and the message is so compelling that doctors feel great about sadistic shaming of suffering patients. My friend who threatened the hospital with malpractice later learned that the abuse would have stopped if she had admitted smoking was wrong and agreed to "cessation" classes! She nearly died because she failed this bit of social engineering. There must be a fine line between out and out extortion and sneaky and brutal coercion. "The care will improve when you sign up for smoking cessation classes", is probably actionable. Continuous, cruel comments interspersed with offers of cessation classes are very hard to define for a coherent complaint.
~So sneaky are these cases of abuse that it seems the only proof is personal experience. The difficulty of proof is aided by the fact that most adults are alone in their doctors' offices and thus there are usually no witnesses to back up complaints. My life as a patient became very rough indeed after a doctor I had seen for years went to a government sponsored conference one weekend. I have had excruciating pain in my head and face for years and meekly accepted that I would be almost complete disabled because of it. When various tests and imagings showed that I have at least two of the most painful conditions known to humans, my long term doctor had suggested I take oxycodone,one of the strongest narcotics. I do not tolerate oxycodone so we settled on vicodin~60/month. Several years later I saw this doctor soon after he returned from the conference. Out of the blue he announced that I must be an addict because I wasn't well yet! He cut the vicodin prescription down to 30/month. I had continued to see specialists over those years and excepting a miracle it was and is unlikely I will "get well". Eventually after other discomforting remarks like that I got another doctor.
~My doctor had many times complimented me on being a responsible, cooperative patient. One government sponsored conference completely changed him. How was my doctor creepified? I cannot find any documents or protocols on how this is done. In my opinion his actions toward me were just as sadistic as the way smokers are routinely treated in that state. I think the cause is public health policy indoctrination that plays on baser human natures.
~When the Nazis ran out of money to give every German health care, they rationalized that it was beneficial for society to "euthanize" "imbeciles" and the extremely disabled. Otherwise rational health care providers and the general citizenry accepted these ideas for the public good. In my understanding, the government takeover of medical care now in progress has started with the premise, fostered by WHO that there isn't enough "health care" to go around. "Rationing" is still a dirty word in this country so in a non-transparent way doctors and other providers are being indoctrinated to perceive that some people are less deserving of care. Smokers were a good place to start, especially when "second hand smoke" was tied into environmental "clean air" issues. "Passive smoking"~originally invented by Nazis as 'passivrauchen'~was declared a killer of unknown thousands and an issue of child abuse when children are exposed. In the workplace, employees have a "right" to clean air so the rights of employers to allow smoking, in such places as bars and restaurants, have been usurped by big government orders.****
~That is the groundwork but how did the doctors and others get creepified? Perhaps it is an area of human nature that was understood by Nazis and is understood and used by today's Cultural Marxist types who call themselves progressives.
~When I worked with terminally ill patients in the '70s, every once in awhile we got a patient who had been a lifelong alcoholic, was dying from age and alcohol abuse and had been abandoned by family.
~On a floor with thirty bed ridden patients, a dozen or so requiring spoon feeding, and only three aides or nurses to do the job; it was not unusual for an otherwise compassionate charge nurse to suggest answering the dying alcoholic's call light last because he or she, "caused his/her own illness". It was a suggestion only but it was potentially "creepifying". Many staff members as well as me, treated all patients as good as we could at all times. There were however a few workers with personal negative, or self righteous emotions about alcoholism. They did ignore the alcoholic patients' calls, felt no guilt and had no problems saying this was deserved.
~Obviously we were all overworked in these conditions. There were other aides and nurses who used the excuse that since the patient was dying from self inflicted alcohol abuse, it was permission to slack off in an already exhausting shift. On an extremely busy night, the charge nurse might bark a question from the alcoholic's doorway, "Your light is on! We're really busy out here~whadd' ya' need?" The patients request, if less than life threatening would then be stalled for a less busy time.
~I have heard nurses and aides remind these pitiful, dying patients that they caused their own illnesses and that they should have thought about that a long time ago. Of course such sentiments serve no purpose when the patient will never leave the bed in which they are dying. At some point during the nurses' report the abandoned patients' family statuses would have been mentioned. That went something like: They had abused their families for years and now no one wanted anything to do with them so they were all alone and it was deserved. The facts of abandonment coupled with helplessness also put them at our mercy.
~That is how some people died in nursing homes in the 1970s. It seemed to be an ingrained belief system and it offended my conscience. We essentially had permission to be "creepified". I did not participate and indeed I did extra, small kindnesses for the vilified patients. Whether or not we were abusive depended on who we were as human beings but it was also influenced to some extent by fatigue and working conditions. I noticed the same pattern when my friend had surgery in 2002 and was abused and neglected because she smoked. It was not the WHOLE staff that participated in the abuse. Some were kind but enough were altogether sadistic until my friend became afraid to use her call button no matter what, and that very nearly led to her death.
~The weakest in society will always be at risk for abuse; children, pre-born babies, the elderly, the disabled. Nazis were able to expand this despicable fact to the treatment of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, other non-Aryans and homosexuals to name a few. The Obama administration, aided by congress members like Pelosi who advocates passing bills without reading them, plans to take over all of our medical care through the massive and monstrous ACA. At the same time there is a general Cultural Marxist slant to divide the US population into groups based on race, ethnicity, income, sexual orientation, and other criteria. In medical care government documents like Oregon's OHIP 2020 (Oregon Health Improvement Plan 2020) blatantly state the same divisions in their drive to correct "health disparities". Tobacco use becomes an "unsustainable health burden on society".
~Dr. Ben Carson states that who controls medical care controls the people. When confronted with serious illness or injury it seems to me we are all weak and vulnerable to some extent. In my opinion it is unacceptable that official government documents target any legal activities as unsustainable risks to public health, therefore encouraging the targeting of vulnerable, suffering people.
~My friend mentioned at the first of this article had the abdominal surgery and feels better than she has felt for years. She had been disabled by her condition for a long time. Medicare provided the surgery and she is understandably grateful and also understandably, will not be filing any complaints. Until a patient dies or is maimed as a direct result of medical bullying then I assume there will be no good proof available. As medical care becomes government-centered public health care, it is wise to have someone with us who can be a witness, when we must deal with the "fundamentally transformed" system.
~To my dear, medically knowledgeable Twitter friends who offered to expose this malpractice and asked for proof, I am still looking for the instructions that allow doctors and nurses to act like schoolyard bullies. Perhaps the best I can do right now is to point to unfortunate aspects of human nature in hopes of jogging the memories of those with experience working in the medical profession. How prevalent are such things? Are they getting worse? What is the ultimate goal of such abusive treatment?
~Not every German in Nazi Germany destroyed Jews. Some followed the extreme opposite path and sacrificed their lives and the lives of their families to save Jews. Many others did nothing. A certain percentage "just followed orders". A few like Dr. Mengele were complete, unapologetic sadists.
~That said, who or what is now and has been, creepifying our doctors? In Oregon this trend goes way back to before Barack Obama was even a state senator. As I read so-called Obama Care, plans within the government takeover of medicine intensify and legitimize the idea that some classes of people deserve care more than other people because of "health disparities". Perhaps the question is not who is creepifying our doctors? A better question is how far will this creepification go once the federal government has COMPLETE control? THAT'S A CREEPY QUESTION!
___________________________
~COMMENTS AND OTHER SOURCES:
~ * On one of the multiple pages dedicated to
tobacco on the CDC site there is a graphic with
a graphic warning: 50% of smokers will die!
In my opinion, we should be encouraged to
light up if that is the case. Last I knew, 100%
of everyone else will die someday! :-D (Apologies
that I never learned to cut & paste.)
~ ** www.healthypeople.gov
~ *** http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2012...
'How Three Federal Initiatives Are Set to
Transform US Health Care'; "Forbes"; Bob Kocher
11/01/12
~ ****http://archive.ad/.org/braun/dim-14-1-nazi...
'Nazi Medicine and Public Health Policy';
Robert N. Proctor
~It appears these "tobacco control programs" started out as public health efforts. Now, and especially with the ACA/Obama Care in action, tobacco control is lucrative. Multiple federal and private grants are readily available. Jobs are created in the new industry of "smoking cessation". Primary Care doctors may be paid for every smoker they can identify, report to the state and log in the permanent electronic records. Doctors may be rewarded for every referral to the state "Quit Line". It is also possible doctors will be penalized for "adverse outcomes" under Obama Care. Theoretically any smoker who does not recover from whatever, smoking related or not, is likely to be blamed for damaging the doctor's, or increasingly the hospital's over all record.*** When a doctor's income is affected, we are likely one step closer to explaining institutionalized abuse of patients who smoke..
~None of this fully explains the creepification of doctors who terrorize smokers . The only proof for the sadistic malpractice is anecdotal. In 1994 a friend who smoked was denied care from an Oregon doctor at the point where a case of flu had caused paralysis. "You smokers have everything, just go home," she was told. In 2002 another smoking friend, post surgical in a big city Oregon hospital, was harassed and neglected by staff until her life was endangered. She did mention MALPRACTICE when the bill was received and the hospital wrote off the charges. In 2005 an 85 year old Oregon lady, surrounded by family, on the gurney going into the operating room for a mastectomy, was rudely shamed by the anesthesiologist for being a lifelong smoker. The family was outraged but did not make a formal complaint. In 2012 a podiatrist in Oregon told a young smoker she couldn't have a corrective surgery on her foot because "smokers' feet will rot off eventually anyway".
~I surmise from these examples, that a strong message is perpetrated from some government department and the message is so compelling that doctors feel great about sadistic shaming of suffering patients. My friend who threatened the hospital with malpractice later learned that the abuse would have stopped if she had admitted smoking was wrong and agreed to "cessation" classes! She nearly died because she failed this bit of social engineering. There must be a fine line between out and out extortion and sneaky and brutal coercion. "The care will improve when you sign up for smoking cessation classes", is probably actionable. Continuous, cruel comments interspersed with offers of cessation classes are very hard to define for a coherent complaint.
~So sneaky are these cases of abuse that it seems the only proof is personal experience. The difficulty of proof is aided by the fact that most adults are alone in their doctors' offices and thus there are usually no witnesses to back up complaints. My life as a patient became very rough indeed after a doctor I had seen for years went to a government sponsored conference one weekend. I have had excruciating pain in my head and face for years and meekly accepted that I would be almost complete disabled because of it. When various tests and imagings showed that I have at least two of the most painful conditions known to humans, my long term doctor had suggested I take oxycodone,one of the strongest narcotics. I do not tolerate oxycodone so we settled on vicodin~60/month. Several years later I saw this doctor soon after he returned from the conference. Out of the blue he announced that I must be an addict because I wasn't well yet! He cut the vicodin prescription down to 30/month. I had continued to see specialists over those years and excepting a miracle it was and is unlikely I will "get well". Eventually after other discomforting remarks like that I got another doctor.
~My doctor had many times complimented me on being a responsible, cooperative patient. One government sponsored conference completely changed him. How was my doctor creepified? I cannot find any documents or protocols on how this is done. In my opinion his actions toward me were just as sadistic as the way smokers are routinely treated in that state. I think the cause is public health policy indoctrination that plays on baser human natures.
~When the Nazis ran out of money to give every German health care, they rationalized that it was beneficial for society to "euthanize" "imbeciles" and the extremely disabled. Otherwise rational health care providers and the general citizenry accepted these ideas for the public good. In my understanding, the government takeover of medical care now in progress has started with the premise, fostered by WHO that there isn't enough "health care" to go around. "Rationing" is still a dirty word in this country so in a non-transparent way doctors and other providers are being indoctrinated to perceive that some people are less deserving of care. Smokers were a good place to start, especially when "second hand smoke" was tied into environmental "clean air" issues. "Passive smoking"~originally invented by Nazis as 'passivrauchen'~was declared a killer of unknown thousands and an issue of child abuse when children are exposed. In the workplace, employees have a "right" to clean air so the rights of employers to allow smoking, in such places as bars and restaurants, have been usurped by big government orders.****
~That is the groundwork but how did the doctors and others get creepified? Perhaps it is an area of human nature that was understood by Nazis and is understood and used by today's Cultural Marxist types who call themselves progressives.
~When I worked with terminally ill patients in the '70s, every once in awhile we got a patient who had been a lifelong alcoholic, was dying from age and alcohol abuse and had been abandoned by family.
~On a floor with thirty bed ridden patients, a dozen or so requiring spoon feeding, and only three aides or nurses to do the job; it was not unusual for an otherwise compassionate charge nurse to suggest answering the dying alcoholic's call light last because he or she, "caused his/her own illness". It was a suggestion only but it was potentially "creepifying". Many staff members as well as me, treated all patients as good as we could at all times. There were however a few workers with personal negative, or self righteous emotions about alcoholism. They did ignore the alcoholic patients' calls, felt no guilt and had no problems saying this was deserved.
~Obviously we were all overworked in these conditions. There were other aides and nurses who used the excuse that since the patient was dying from self inflicted alcohol abuse, it was permission to slack off in an already exhausting shift. On an extremely busy night, the charge nurse might bark a question from the alcoholic's doorway, "Your light is on! We're really busy out here~whadd' ya' need?" The patients request, if less than life threatening would then be stalled for a less busy time.
~I have heard nurses and aides remind these pitiful, dying patients that they caused their own illnesses and that they should have thought about that a long time ago. Of course such sentiments serve no purpose when the patient will never leave the bed in which they are dying. At some point during the nurses' report the abandoned patients' family statuses would have been mentioned. That went something like: They had abused their families for years and now no one wanted anything to do with them so they were all alone and it was deserved. The facts of abandonment coupled with helplessness also put them at our mercy.
~That is how some people died in nursing homes in the 1970s. It seemed to be an ingrained belief system and it offended my conscience. We essentially had permission to be "creepified". I did not participate and indeed I did extra, small kindnesses for the vilified patients. Whether or not we were abusive depended on who we were as human beings but it was also influenced to some extent by fatigue and working conditions. I noticed the same pattern when my friend had surgery in 2002 and was abused and neglected because she smoked. It was not the WHOLE staff that participated in the abuse. Some were kind but enough were altogether sadistic until my friend became afraid to use her call button no matter what, and that very nearly led to her death.
~The weakest in society will always be at risk for abuse; children, pre-born babies, the elderly, the disabled. Nazis were able to expand this despicable fact to the treatment of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, other non-Aryans and homosexuals to name a few. The Obama administration, aided by congress members like Pelosi who advocates passing bills without reading them, plans to take over all of our medical care through the massive and monstrous ACA. At the same time there is a general Cultural Marxist slant to divide the US population into groups based on race, ethnicity, income, sexual orientation, and other criteria. In medical care government documents like Oregon's OHIP 2020 (Oregon Health Improvement Plan 2020) blatantly state the same divisions in their drive to correct "health disparities". Tobacco use becomes an "unsustainable health burden on society".
~Dr. Ben Carson states that who controls medical care controls the people. When confronted with serious illness or injury it seems to me we are all weak and vulnerable to some extent. In my opinion it is unacceptable that official government documents target any legal activities as unsustainable risks to public health, therefore encouraging the targeting of vulnerable, suffering people.
~My friend mentioned at the first of this article had the abdominal surgery and feels better than she has felt for years. She had been disabled by her condition for a long time. Medicare provided the surgery and she is understandably grateful and also understandably, will not be filing any complaints. Until a patient dies or is maimed as a direct result of medical bullying then I assume there will be no good proof available. As medical care becomes government-centered public health care, it is wise to have someone with us who can be a witness, when we must deal with the "fundamentally transformed" system.
~To my dear, medically knowledgeable Twitter friends who offered to expose this malpractice and asked for proof, I am still looking for the instructions that allow doctors and nurses to act like schoolyard bullies. Perhaps the best I can do right now is to point to unfortunate aspects of human nature in hopes of jogging the memories of those with experience working in the medical profession. How prevalent are such things? Are they getting worse? What is the ultimate goal of such abusive treatment?
~Not every German in Nazi Germany destroyed Jews. Some followed the extreme opposite path and sacrificed their lives and the lives of their families to save Jews. Many others did nothing. A certain percentage "just followed orders". A few like Dr. Mengele were complete, unapologetic sadists.
~That said, who or what is now and has been, creepifying our doctors? In Oregon this trend goes way back to before Barack Obama was even a state senator. As I read so-called Obama Care, plans within the government takeover of medicine intensify and legitimize the idea that some classes of people deserve care more than other people because of "health disparities". Perhaps the question is not who is creepifying our doctors? A better question is how far will this creepification go once the federal government has COMPLETE control? THAT'S A CREEPY QUESTION!
___________________________
~COMMENTS AND OTHER SOURCES:
~ * On one of the multiple pages dedicated to
tobacco on the CDC site there is a graphic with
a graphic warning: 50% of smokers will die!
In my opinion, we should be encouraged to
light up if that is the case. Last I knew, 100%
of everyone else will die someday! :-D (Apologies
that I never learned to cut & paste.)
~ ** www.healthypeople.gov
~ *** http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2012...
'How Three Federal Initiatives Are Set to
Transform US Health Care'; "Forbes"; Bob Kocher
11/01/12
~ ****http://archive.ad/.org/braun/dim-14-1-nazi...
'Nazi Medicine and Public Health Policy';
Robert N. Proctor
~ Also on this subject, to the point on 'passive
smoking' and Nazi health care is:
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/smoki...
Article by Paul Joseph Watson, 4/25/07
~ Also, WHO international tobacco control policies
as os 10/07/13 are at http://www.who.int/tobacco/
smoking' and Nazi health care is:
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/smoki...
Article by Paul Joseph Watson, 4/25/07
~ Also, WHO international tobacco control policies
as os 10/07/13 are at http://www.who.int/tobacco/
en/
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In Spite of ObamaCare
October 4, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Lack of power breeds abuse. Years of medical insurance, government programs and insane restrictions created the swamp that spawned Obama Care/ Democrat Care. With or without Obama Care I believe that swamp is draining and medical consumers will have a much healthier environment in which to access their medical needs.
October 4, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Lack of power breeds abuse. Years of medical insurance, government programs and insane restrictions created the swamp that spawned Obama Care/ Democrat Care. With or without Obama Care I believe that swamp is draining and medical consumers will have a much healthier environment in which to access their medical needs.
~Indeed, this might be the last point in history when such a draconian, people-controlling, wealth redistributing plan can be forced on a people in the name of "transformation" and "health equity"! Rapid improvements in medicine, in my opinion, will make plans like the ACA obsolete and the Marxists will have to go back to other scare tactics, like "climate change", to control the people.
~Around the time the US enacted the progressive income tax, government also began controlling doctors and pharmaceutical drugs. Of course it is a good thing to have basic standards for doctors and a high level of drug safety but little by little government controls, government programs and the medical establishment itself turned medical consumers into helpless pawns.
~Start with the medical establishment. In the '70s I was a pre-med student for a little while before deciding I preferred biochemistry. Pre-med in those days was a weeding out process. Students were expected to maintain a 4.0 gpa as well as participate in sports, student government and other extracurricular activities. If the wannabe doctors survived that it was known that medical schools had quotas and it was very hard to get accepted even with excellent records. It was said that the offspring of doctors had an advantage. Also in the '70s, Affirmative Action had begun. White, male pre-med students knew they had severe disadvantages. As a female, I would have had a slight advantage even though I am white.
~From the medical consumers' perspective, doctors kept the graduating pool of new doctors small to ensure continuation of the "rich doctor" stereotype. Americans also took note that in countries like the Soviet Union, doctors were not put on a pedestal and they were just an educated version of working stiffs. Indeed, so low on the ladder of job esteem were doctors in such countries, that many doctors were women!
~Meanwhile in the US, in the past twenty years, nurse practitioners have increasingly taken market share from the formerly primarily male, elite medical establishment. Before there was Obama Care there was a quiet medical revolution brewing. Nurse practitioners staff private clinics, are midwives and increasingly work beside doctors in major clinics.
~With the emergence of nurse practitioners have come "emergent care" clinics. Some are open 24 hours a day, servicing a walk-in clientele with frequently low cost options for basic diagnoses and treatments. The ACA targets patients who overuse hospital emergency rooms. In another article I wrote I cited a study that showed the existence of clinics open on weekends and after regular working hours decreased ER usage. Even in the rural west where I live we all know that a visit to the ER is likely to be a seven hour ordeal at least. I hear it is much worse in big cities. I believe many patients will choose walk-in clinics over lengthy waits for appointments in other clinics and over the general discomfort of the ER. CVS Pharmacies are betting on this trend with in-store "Minute-Clinics" staffed by nurse practitioners.
~As regulations loosen and responsibilities are shared with practitioners having less than an MD, things like vaccinations are easier to get. I remember when getting a flu shot meant waiting over an hour in a crowded waiting room full of people coughing and choking from the flu they already had! After paying the price of the office call plus vaccine, you went home and got the flu because you had been infected in the waiting room! No wonder everyone says the flu shot causes flu! Now various vaccines, especially the flu shot, are available at the local grocery store pharmacy. Easy free market access breeds freedom and naturally lowers cost.
~Over the last thirty or so years a number of drugs that were previously prescription only are sold over the counter. Especially in this category are antihistamines and stomach anti-acid drugs. I remember when benadryl was prescription only. A number of other countries are more liberal yet with over the counter pharmaceuticals. I am old enough to remember that until about 1964 codeine containing cough medicine was sold over the counter. Around that time government decided American citizens could not be trusted with any narcotics for any reason. Prior to that our parents taught us that being a "dope fiend" was a nasty thing and medicine was not a toy. That worked for the majority of Americans till the government turned all drugs into forbidden fruit highly sought by the hippies who invented, "Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N Roll"! Even so, the few drugs sold over the counter here reduce the need for actual doctor visits. Perhaps in future our government could trust us with a few more options.
~On the high tech side improvements in treatments develop almost exponentially. For example severe bone fractures have been treated surgically for years, thus ending lengthy hospital stays with patients in traction. Nancy Reagan writes in her book "My Turn" that Ronald Reagan spent eight weeks in the hospital after breaking his leg playing in a baseball game. While this was in the '40s, such treatment continued well into the '70s. Laparoscopic surgeries drastically cut hospital stays. Imaging pinpoints pathologies to be treated or alternately discovers no pathology and prevents costly and risky "exploratory surgeries". Understanding the human genome is beginning to lead to treatments tailored to a specific patients genetic makeup. I firmly believe that very soon "cutting, burning and poisoning" cancers will be a thing of the past. Obama Care seems to have plans to ration "costly care". If high tech solutions are allowed to proliferate, there will be far less discussion about rationing, for example cancer treatments that cost over a million dollars per year!
~Examples such as these could fill a large book or more. In spite of everything, medical consumers are on the verge of better, more effective treatments than have ever been dreamed throughout history. Medical freedom is actually mushrooming even as President Obama and the Democratic senate are paralyzing the country over insistence that the people must be forced to give up medical freedom and choice for a financially ruinous, socially engineering, people-control system designed in hell.
~There is so much that is good now that IF government support is needed for anything it should be used to enhance what is working at this time. Do we need more nurse practitioners? Government could provide tuition. Do we need more walk-in clinics? Government could provide space and buildings? Do we need newer and better devices and treatments? Government can stop taxing "medical devices" for a start! Do we need to keep mental patients from using the ER on a daily basis? Let places like Oregon proceed with a social worker for every homeless/ severely mentally ill patient who once would have been in a state institution. DON'T force the rest of us who are responsible consumers into that bureaucracy in order to enhance social control over the general population!
~As always, my interest is in the actual medical side of Obama Care. As I predicted, the tax, fine and confiscate financial issues would eventually cause the people to erupt in fury. At the same time, the quality of care is another aspect to fight for. Obama Care is about "disparities" and "inequities" which are defined in official documents as "unfair". What will REALLY be unfair is if bureaucracy so weighs down a vastly improving system that regulations and paper pushing creates new, artificial barriers keeping cutting edge treatments from the medical consumers~we the people.
~In spite of politicians and bureaucrats, if we fight for our freedoms as medical consumers, the future of medical care in our country is very bright indeed! Worth fighting for!
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Transforming Obama Care~ GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE
September 27, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
September 27, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~This is a bit of live reporting. I am in a doctor's office in Idaho, beautiful non-Obamatized Idaho. Problem is the receptionist asked me to sign a blank computer screen, one of those little ones like you sign when your credit card is used in small shops.
~"We need you to sign here for the HIPPA agreement", the receptionist said. She pointed to the small, silver screen and stylus connected by black, umbilical cord wiring, probably all the way to the navel in Washington DC.
~"I have already signed HIPPA on paper when I started coming here and I am uncomfortable signing a blank screen", I said. "Why do I need to sign this?"
~"It's for the federal government. It's just HIPPA," said the receptionist, getting a bit flustered.
~Since this had never come up before I asked what had changed. The receptionist said it is a new rule from the federal government as of September 18, 2013. I reiterated I did not want to sign a blank screen for the federal government and especially since I am "self pay", did I have to?
~Another receptionist shoved a couple pages of HIPPA in my hands. I said I had read it before, understand it and write about these things. Further if I must sign something to see the doctor, I want to sign a paper copy whereon I can write, "Signed under duress--Do not agree."
~At this moment apparently I do not HAVE to sign anything for the federal government and I am waiting to see the doctor. I plan to refuse and obstruct as much as I can, any requirement to sign stuff for the federal government; especially blank screens, because someone says I should. What could a patient sign away? No explanation was given other than is was "just HIPPA". My suspicious mind thinks it might be something about signing over rights to HHS or agreeing that the federal government is the rightful purveyor of all medical care.
~The original receptionist seemed to like my courage in refusing and she seemed uncomfortable having the discussion. I don't know what I would have done if I was forced to sign. This doctor~the only doctor I see~does muscular injections that decrease neurological pain enough that I can get up almost every day. This is why Obama Care/ Democrat Care is such a fiendish plan. Sick and injured people, being treated by doctors who answer to the federal and state governments and NOT to the patient, may be asked, coerced or threatened into doing all kinds of things against their wills and against self-interest.
~I have had two major surgeries following trauma, when I was so drugged on morphine and ativan I literally did not know who I was and I asked permission to sign hospital paperwork with an "X", which I did. I felt reasonably sure when I did this that the paperwork had to do with my physical needs and so far as I know they did. With the federal government running health care I would certainly have concerns that future paperwork might be releases allowing Obama Care Health Workers to inspect my home for guns, alcohol, tobacco, working smoke detectors, unhealthy foods and large sodas! In short I do not trust government being involved with my doctors.
~How much worse it will be on parents perhaps needing to have a seriously injured child treated on an emergency basis. They will be over the proverbial barrel especially since Obama Care has its tentacles into child care and education. Sign or get turned over to Child Protective Services? Agree to give your dangerous, child killing guns to the local police department? The way Obama Care works anything is possible.
~I believe we all must resist every step of the way. Don't sign up. Don't sign blank screens when you have no idea what you are signing. Question everything. In fact I think "question everything" is an Alinsky tactic. It was certainly tossed around during the Viet Nam and college protests when I was a teen. Don't fill out forms for "the man" and "question everything".
~Obama/Democrat Care is more about social engineering than medical care. Maybe the blank screen I didn't sign was an exercise in getting patients to sign blank screens without questioning. Maybe it was innocent this time and I may look like a jerk for resisting in some peoples' eyes. I am "self pay". There are no middlemen in my treatment needs. I do not acknowledge the federal government in my care, in my doctor's office in Idaho.
~Obama/Democrat Care makes my skin crawl!
~GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE!
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Transforming Obama Care ~ GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE! part VI
September 26, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
September 26, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Imagine being a working adult and needing a doctor's excuse to get out of mandated "wellness" activities! You will be happy to know Democrat Care/ Obama Care has a provision for that.
~Further, "wellness" activities may be "Activity Only", such as the victim...uh...employee must attempt the wellness activity. An example is trying to quit smoking. The employer must also offer a reasonable alternative activity if the employee cannot perform the original one. I wonder if, in the case of smoking, mastering the use of an e-cigarette would qualify? The whole thing sounds like one of those liberal activities where everyone gets a prize for showing up. Except if you don't "show up", that is participate, the potential fines and costs are very real.
~There is also "Outcome Based" wellness which means the employee has to accomplish something such as quitting smoking. A doctor can excuse you from this. I would guess the doctor could excuse you from a forced exercize/ weight loss program. I can't imagine a doctor excusing anyone from being forced to quit smoking.
~Various articles are beginning to discuss forced wellness exams at your doctor's office where you will be filling out those questionnaires about your sex life and whether or not you always use seat belts and if you've changed the batteries in your smoke alarms.
~So far it looks like the NRA provision in Democrat Care is holding and they can't ask about guns, exactly. I did read a sneaky provision on the bottom of an official state document about asking parents of small children about safe gun storage. The important thing to remember is that all this information is passed on to various governmnt agencies to be used, "accidentally" leaked or shared as the "public good" demands. Missouri gave its CCW list to the Social Security Administration which collated the information against individuals receiving disability payments for mental reasons. The purpose of course was to make sure the "mentally ill", however they define it, don't own guns. (http://www.examiner.com/article/mandate . Article by Kenneth Schortgen Jr.)
~So far it looks like the NRA provision in Democrat Care is holding and they can't ask about guns, exactly. I did read a sneaky provision on the bottom of an official state document about asking parents of small children about safe gun storage. The important thing to remember is that all this information is passed on to various governmnt agencies to be used, "accidentally" leaked or shared as the "public good" demands. Missouri gave its CCW list to the Social Security Administration which collated the information against individuals receiving disability payments for mental reasons. The purpose of course was to make sure the "mentally ill", however they define it, don't own guns. (http://www.examiner.com/article/mandate . Article by Kenneth Schortgen Jr.)
~We probably don't need to worry about "mental health" because this seems to be transforming into "behavioral health". It makes sense that resisting your mandated wellness activities might be a sign of poor "behavioral health"; in other words not being a "team player" when the political Wellness Party demands something for the public good! I am sure my behavioral health is very poor. All this "wellness" stuff maks me want to puke! Purely psychosomatic. I get that way when I perceive the government is going to intrude in my private life.
~GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE!
~Another article quotes healthcare.gov , "Preventive care helps you stay healthy. A doctor isn't someone to see only when you are sick. Doctors also provide services that help keep you healthy..."
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September 25, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Who wrote so-called "Obama Care" anyway? I would bet President Barack Obama didn't write a word of it and I would also guess he may never have READ a word of it. Putting Obama's name on the ACA is like putting Jackson Pollock's name on the monumental Sistine Chapel! The problem with this analogy is that the Sistine Chapel is universally recognized as a work of art and very few claim the same for the ACA, but some do and they deserve all the credit if we can figure out who they are!
~It is unfair to let President Obama claim all the fame so until someone claims authorship, this time around we may as well call it Democrat Care since NOT ONE REPUBLICAN voted for it in 2010. Even so it is fun to ask the browser, "Who wrote the ACA", and then do a quick read through Wikipedia which may or may not be accurate. It does give a quick overview that the US government has been wrestling with the peoples' medical care for a long time. Indeed I have read that some of FDR's wage/price controls during the Great Depression led to the widespread use of "health insurance". Employers were not allowed to raise wages so in order to reward and retain good employees "health insurance" was provided. Less than half a century later other Democrat leaders started the War on Poverty and further disturbed medical care with Medicare and Medicaid.
~The federal government is into medical issues up to its collective eyeballs, but where did Obama Care, aka Democrat Care come from? According to Wiki, in 1986 bi-partisan effort produced the Emergency Medical Treatment & Active Labor Act (EMTALA) which President Reagan signed. Roughly this means hospitals receiving federal monies can't refuse anyone emergency treatment based on inability to pay, nor can they refuse a pregnant woman in labor. Back in those days it seems bills were more straight forward and "Labor" really does have to do with child birth and not with some pork barrel stimulus plan to create shovel ready jobs! (On the other hand, the ACA has "Education" tacked onto its name and I don't think it has to do with medical school!)
~Wiki goes on, emphasizing bi-partisanship and mentioning the conservative Heritage Foundation. In 1989 there were ideas about avoiding a single payer system through insurance and I think this is why there are comments about the Foundation approving of the ACA. In 1993 President Clinton settled for HIPPA which is the source of those "privacy" documents every provider forces us to sign. His administration also gave us SCHIP, a program for poor children which is largely funded by a tobacco tax which went into effect about as soon as Democrat Care was passed. Then there was Romney Care in Massachusetts.
~Early in the Clinton administration, Hillary Clinton worked on some behemoth health law that was soundly ridiculed in TV ads back when the Mainstream Media actually tried to report news. I have a sneaking suspicion this Hillary law was laying around somewhere and got regurgitated into Democrat Care. It's something to remember when Mrs. Clinton runs for president about 2016.
~In 2007-2009, Wiki reports that Oregon's Democrat Senator Ron Weyden and Utah's Republican Senator Robert Bennett were introducing the Healthy Americans Act. It appears this largely dealt with insurance issues. The title gets my attention because these "Healthy" acts, whether the "Healthy" subjects are Americans, children, Oregonians, or simply people, are the spring boards for a lot of things I find reprehensible, intrusive and intolerable in Democrat Care. Try it yourself~enter "Healthy People USA", etc. into the browser. Chances are you will find numerous offerings that may go all the way up to the UN/WHO.
~In general Senator Weyden is an OK guy but I suspect the "Healthy Americans Act" was at some point planned to emphasize "health" and not taking care of the sick. From my perspective, that's certainly how Senator Weyden's state was beginning to do things way back in the 90s.
~I am still unclear about who wrote the ACA or how it was ready for passage without reading so soon after President Obama took office. One thing for sure is that the federal government started messing around with medical care as far back as the 1930s and now we have a real mess between insurance, Medicare and Medicaid. It looks to me like the ACA is a new conglomeration of decades worth of rejected plans, with some ideas and language from UN/WHO thrown in. It is not and never was Obama's plan, in my opinion. At this point all I can see is it is firmly Democrat Care~because Democrats Care!
~GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE!
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September 23, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~Democrats say Republicans want to deny medical care to the poor, or worse yet, to poor children. Democrats say we need a huge bureaucracy with lots of new rules and "mandates" so the poor can have ANY life saving care. THIS is supposed to be what Democrat Care is all about because Democrats Care. Presumably the free market place is too vicious and greedy to provide for the poor.
~Because my former state rushed into Democrat Care and because I have odd genetic issues, I have a heck of a nasty, prejudicial write-up in my permanent e-record and the only way I can hope to get even decent care is to manage my own records, pay cash and stay away from medical providers in the system. The only way I know to protect myself is to use walk-in clinics and nurse practitioners who keep paper records, if they do that much.
~I use one nurse practitioner in particular and he prescribes the heart drug that is essential to keeping me alive. Once a year this NP requires a "check-up" which doesn't amount to much. I tell him I'm fine and I get twelve months' worth of refills. In June of this year he charged me $50.00 for the check-up! A three month supply of the drug costs me $10.00 at Wal-Mart. Not bad for care that literally prevents my death!
~Both the NP and Wal-Mart are free enterprise efforts. Interestingly it was the nurse practitioner who initially started me on the heart drug. (A very good hospital monopoly doctor believed I was mentally ill with "panic disorder" though I had additional cardiac symptoms.) At that point it was strongly suggested I see a cardiologist so I self-referred to one a few hundred miles away. $650.00 for 45 minutes. Horrible, right? Not necessarily. If I was poor, indeed if I earned only the median income in my former town, I could have seen that cardiologist for free or for a greatly reduced amount. Further, the cardiologist would have come to the town where I lived and I would not have driven several hundred miles.
~As critical as I am of the system where I used to live, all of these things were and are available there NOW, before the state receives dump truck loads of federal dollars and long before every American is mandated to have health insurance.
~Democrat Care is reaching critical mass right now just as its many tentacles are beginning to sting small businesses and average Americans. What if we stopped the rolling train wreck right now and did nothing more than strengthen what is working? Do we need more nurse practitioners? How does the hospital monopoly provide free or reduced cost specialist care now? What if tax dollars simply supported a hospital system that enabled free or low cost care when it is needed?
~My perspective is poor, rural areas in the western US. I do not pretend to know the different kinds of poverty in overcrowded cities, but people are people and all people have similar physical needs. Why can't we simply concentrate on providing medical care to the poor without the bureaucracy, mandates and other intrusive aspects written into Democrat Care?
~GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE!
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Transforming Obama Care ~ GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE PART III
September 22, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff, Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~NOT ONE REPUBLICAN VOTED FOR OBAMA CARE IN 2010. Tweets are short and we spend a lot of time bashing RINOs and others we consider to be liberal minded Republicans. In all fairness, in 2010 before chants of "racism" for disagreeing with President Obama became the norm, Republicans stood up for what the people wanted.
~If no Republicans voted for it, where did "Obama Care" come from? It is, of course, officially called the Affordable Care Act for short. The whole title is much longer, like Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. It was humorous to ask hospital officials about it and hear them scramble for the correct term prior to Barack Obama claiming the title in the first presidential debate of 2012. "Call it 'Obama Care' because Obama Cares", he quipped. I had a strange feeling when he said that, that it meant more than a snappy campaign slogan. I strongly felt even then, that when the man Barack Obama claimed the law, it took a lot of Democrats off the hook at reelection time.
~Theoretically and probably, Obama will never run for high office again. Other Democrats will. All politicians live and die for power and reelection. If enough informed voters figure out "Obama Care" is a disaster by the time the 2014 elections come around, it could be tough on Democrats who voted in the Act WITHOUT ONE REPUBLICAN VOTE supporting it.
~Rush Limbaugh has said the thing Democrats most fear is another TEA Party win like happened in 2010. A big step in this direction is to rename the ACA as "Democrat Care". It's "Democrat Care" because "Democrats Care". Step back for just a minute and see President Barack Obama for the figurehead and lightning rod he is. It took a whole lot of Democrats to bring us "Democrat Care" and NOT ONE REPUBLICAN. I am discouraged that the RNC is not using this fact to garner support. Oh well, the TEA Party knows!
~GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE!
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Transforming Obama Care - GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE! PART II
September 21, 2013
By Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~The Fifth Amendment protects people in the US from being force to give evidence against themselves. This applies specifically to criminal accusations, but I am sure the founders never anticipated the massive amount of government intrusion into private lives we have some 200 years later.
~Which brings us to Obama Care. Under this nefarious plan every citizen is forced to obtain health insurance or pay a fine. Admitted smokers can be charged significantly more. I have heard lawyers use terms like "testimony against self interest" while citing Fifth Amendment protections. It's sure not in "self interest" to volunteer that you smoke, only to be charged up to thousands of extra dollars per year. The smoker is penalized by government mandate for legal, personal behavior!
~If I was a smoker that wanted to prove a point I would refuse to answer the question and claim the Fifth. Beyond criminal law the Fifth goes into limits on government's ability to seize private property which is in the civil realm. Being "mandated" to buy something government tells you to buy and being expected to "incriminate" yourself so you can pay a ruinous penalty sounds rather un-American to me. (The fact that insurance companies plan to ask our doctors about our smoking status is also un-American in my book. However the patient not smart enough to lie to his Obamatized doctor deserves whatever abuse he gets, in my opinion.)
~On the humorous side, Obama Care has not yet defined what a smoker is for the purpose of the law and penalties. Also on the humorous side it would be funny if smokers refused to give the information and eventually got their case to the Supreme Court. It would be interesting if the justices got this one right, thus helping to amend their horrific decision that enslaved Americans to various health and wellness schemes, when SCOTUS declared Obama Care the law of the land!
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~Which brings us to Obama Care. Under this nefarious plan every citizen is forced to obtain health insurance or pay a fine. Admitted smokers can be charged significantly more. I have heard lawyers use terms like "testimony against self interest" while citing Fifth Amendment protections. It's sure not in "self interest" to volunteer that you smoke, only to be charged up to thousands of extra dollars per year. The smoker is penalized by government mandate for legal, personal behavior!
~If I was a smoker that wanted to prove a point I would refuse to answer the question and claim the Fifth. Beyond criminal law the Fifth goes into limits on government's ability to seize private property which is in the civil realm. Being "mandated" to buy something government tells you to buy and being expected to "incriminate" yourself so you can pay a ruinous penalty sounds rather un-American to me. (The fact that insurance companies plan to ask our doctors about our smoking status is also un-American in my book. However the patient not smart enough to lie to his Obamatized doctor deserves whatever abuse he gets, in my opinion.)
~On the humorous side, Obama Care has not yet defined what a smoker is for the purpose of the law and penalties. Also on the humorous side it would be funny if smokers refused to give the information and eventually got their case to the Supreme Court. It would be interesting if the justices got this one right, thus helping to amend their horrific decision that enslaved Americans to various health and wellness schemes, when SCOTUS declared Obama Care the law of the land!
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Transforming Obama Care~GIVE FREEDOM A CHANCE PART I
September 21, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer, Freedom Fighters of America
~I was happily encouraged when I heard on radio this morning that the House had voted to defund Obama Care. Then I felt the fear that has gripped me since SCOTUS declared the ACA a law, came creeping back when I heard the angry and determined replies from politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Once again I knew without doubt that it is overwhelmingly in some peoples' interests to force~or as progressives prefer, "mandate"~this "health care transformation" on every American citizen. Instead of mandating massive changes on all Americans, how about a general moratorium while a few states barge ahead?
~The United States consists of fifty states which should be, theoretically at least, like fifty individual countries with a federal government to do only what the states themselves cannot do~like supply a standing army for defense. Some states are rushing headlong into Obama Care, and as I frequently write, Oregon has been working on a system like this for about twenty years. In fact that state and it's Governor Kitzhaber are supposed to have contributed ideas to the bigger federal scheme. In fact, Oregon's medical care has "transformed" so much that I doubt it will ever be "normal" again.
~So why not let Oregon lead the way like they are so proudly trying to do? Even I will not say that EVERY aspect of the Oregon Health Plan form of Medicaid is bad. This spring a study was completed on the OHP which has been around since 1994. Study results did not find improved overall health but it found that people in Oregon were not being bankrupted and impoverished by catastrophic medical bills and thus they were happier and had fewer worries. I have seen this effect personally.
~In the 1980s a child in a poor Oregon family I knew, needed an emergency appendectomy. The hospital bill was about $3600. With four children and living paycheck to paycheck, they paid $10.00 per month for years. The hospital got tired of that and turned the balance over to collections which raised the minimum payment to $15.00 per month. Finally the family received a small monetary windfall and the balance was paid off. When this family had a huge medical catastrophe after 1994, Oregon Health Plan covered the whole amount.
~I would say it IS a success, paying catastrophic medical bills for people who cannot. I have no problem with paying taxes for this purpose. In fact, if this was what Obama Care proposed to do I would likely not object.
~Oregon's plan never intended to be that simple and the initial passage of Obama Care gave Oregon the red light to create layers of new bureaucracy in order to supposedly save money. Though the Oregon Health Plan is initially for Medicaid patients, language is state documents seems to hope ALL Oregonians will be under this bureaucracy someday soon.
~OK. Fine. Let Oregon do it all. If some of it works, let other states consider doing those things that actually make improvements. If negative unintended consequences occur, let Oregonians deal with them or move out. In this defunded moment there are still forty-nine other options for disgruntled Oregonians. If the federal government forces its way, there will be NO choices.
~If the Oregon system saves money perhaps it would make sense for other states to have CACs (County Advisory Councils) determine what kind of medical care each community should have, then report to CCOs (Coordinated Care Organizations) who report to the OHA (Oregon Health Authority) who makes health policy! If the bureaucracy develops a life of its own and costs millions of dollars more than it saves, then other states be warned!
~The quickest way I can define the bureaucratic level of CCOs is that each OHP patient can have his or her very own social worker. I can even see the value in this when dealing with homeless people, and mentally ill people who would once have been in the state mental hospitals. Some articles claim great improvements and cost savings for patients like these. OK, but tax paying citizens need to see the bottom line at some point. There have been social workers and mental health workers available in communities for years. How is the new bureaucracy going to pay off or will it? How is the new bureaucracy better?
~The Oregon plan wants to tackle "chronic disease", like that is something more complex bureaucracy can "prevent" through proper "wellness". It seems to me that as people live longer in general, there are more people with chronic diseases in the last decades of life. If the state is honestly looking at saving money they may eventually find out that a smoker who drops dead at age 65 saves a whole lot of money for the system compared to a health nut who gets dementia and spends twenty years in a nursing home before dying at age 80. I dare them to publish those findings if such is the case twenty or so years down the line!
~If you are a pregnant woman near Eugene, Oregon and need extra money, take up smoking. Trillium Health Care will pay you to stop smoking! In fact, the CCOs have wide latitude in inventing schemes like that in hopes of saving money for the system. The sky is the limit for creativity apparently.
~If all these schemes work out and people are happier and healthier in Oregon, people will move there for the great care. Oregon will become a domestic destination for medical tourism!
~In fact, for the benefit of the homeless in America, Portland, OR is called San Francisco North. The winters aren't too bad on the western side of the state and folks have been known to legally ride their bikes while naked in Portland. It appears there are a number of CCOs ready and willing to help people, especially homeless folks with multiple problems. In coming years "health care" may be a "human right" in the state. Medical marijuana has been legal in Oregon for years without problem except hospital monopoly doctors refuse to discuss it and pretend it doesn't exist. Doctor assisted suicide was voted in in 1997. Until now it has seldom been used. It will be interesting if statistics change should the system be overwhelmed with undesirable patients like chronically ill smokers.
~If some of Oregon's ideas are not cost effective, if indeed they are rank failures, let Oregonians be the nation's lab rats. Before dumping a huge medical mandate on hundreds of millions of Americans, let a few million on the west coast succeed or fail, live or die. It seems to me this is the American way, for individual states to work with their own citizens if changes are needed. The state of Oregon has been transforming for twenty years or more. While I can make all kinds of arguments about what I consider negative, even unsurvivable in the changes, I still have the right to move to another state where the care has not transformed...yet. If Obama Care takes over all fifty states no one will have choices. No choices and government mandates are not the American way.
~Give freedom a chance!
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Our Sex Lives and Obama Care~~ #shutitdown !
September 19. 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer Freedom Fighters of America
~Every once in awhile a sensational Obama Care headline gets everyone's attention and after a couple sizzling weeks, it slips to the back of the collective mind. A month ago a constitutional attorney said Obama Care enforcers could make forced home inspections. This week it is "Obama Wants to Know About Your Sex Life"~your doctors are forced to ask.
~Barely known to us patients, the Affordable Care Act has various ways to encourage, bribe or coerce doctors to record lots of politically valuable information in our electronic records, then report it to other government agencies. The doctor is now the patients worst enemy. One loose statement put into an electronic record is available to ALL of the doctors a person may see over a LIFETIME. It can affect care far down the line. God help us if there is any serious rationing based on lifestyles, "Death Panels" start deciding if we are worthy of care or if doctor assisted suicide replaces more expensive forms of end of life care.
~Our doctors are our enemies and I am not going to temper that statement with any "ifs". As health care "transforms", whatever the government tells doctors to do, they do. They may be paid or penalized for following or not following the government guidelines. Depending on the latest pronouncement from some alphabet-soup-named group such as Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), personal behavior that was OK yesterday becomes crime against health and wellness today.
~In my previous article about the "Readiness Ruler", which is a psychological tool doctors use to label patients consuming more than one alcoholic drink per day, as "alcohol misuser's", I noted my own admitted health crimes. YEARS AGO I told a doctor who had known me for years that I had had, "a couple hot toddies" for a persistent cough. Another time I told the same doctor I had consumed a beer when I was tired because it gave me energy to complete a job. I had no idea either comment would end up in my medical chart which was, fortunately written on paper. Both of my admitted health crimes later affected my ability to get effective treatment for severe neuro-muscular pain. At the time I made the remarks, two drinks in a day was not a crime for a woman. I had no idea that somewhere powers that be had stated it was akin to addiction, and that alcohol, even one beer, should never be used for a little extra energy at the end of a day to finish the last bit of grueling yard work. I was made to pay dearly and since I could at that time, I got a new doctor.
~People think they can get away with telling the doctor it is none of his or her business when the personal questions are asked. That can cause the worst kind of trouble! My last mistake, the one that is going to kill me, was on electronic records. Following an awful and prolonged adverse reaction to a prescription drug a vicious minded incompetent demanded certain information from me. I agreed as long as my answers went to a specialist I was seeing. The incompetent snarled, "You have no right to privacy! You have ABSOLUTELY no right to privacy in this matter! HIPPA DOES NOT PROTECT YOU!"
~"Huh, what?" I thought. "Where did that come from? I never said anything about my rights!" I knew my mental competence was questioned and this hag was shrieking that I had "no right to privacy!" Therefore I politely declined to give certain information as I will NEVER sign away any rights and I stated so at the time.
~Fatal mistake! The incompetent, who I later learned always made up information about patients to suit her preconceived notions, simply wrote, "I take the refusal to be positive!" "Positive" for something awful because I refused to give information! My explanation to my doctors counted for nothing. Threatening my rights did not grant me permission to refuse anything. I theoretically cannot change my records until I die. Catch 22 in the electronic age! Like the witch said, I had no "rights" and she made sure of it! Think again if you plan to not answer your doctor's questions.
~Now, back to sex. Multiple reprints of an article say Obama Care wants to know if patients are sexually active and with how many partners? Patient sexual orientation is sought for the permanent record; gay straight, don't know, or something like that. It could be because of the HIV and STD epidemics but Obama Care also plans to achieve "health equity" along lines of race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. As I read it the LGBT group has special health needs. I assume the Obama Care sex questions will help allocate federal health care grants much like the census works for congressional redistricting. More LGBT folks in a health district can very likely equal more money for special interests in my opinion.
~Questions about sex don't worry me as much as other lifestyle questions which can be twisted at a later date when some board somewhere changes the "rules". Like a friend of mine says, "Gone are the days when you could have a cigarette with your doctor while you discussed your medical condition." Back in the '70s most of our doctors smoked, there were ash trays in the waiting room and it wasn't unusual for doctor and patient to smoke together in the office while going over test results.
~Times change rapidly. In the early 90s I knew of two friends who were suddenly denied medical care because they smoked. Both nearly died as a result. Now the protocols on smoking are to brow-beat the patient into "cessation" classes because there is money to be made in providing cessation services. Smokers in classes are worth more than marginalized smokers receiving abuse and substandard care. If we are dependent on government to make medical decisions and if there was a dire national medical crisis like a sudden outbreak of Asian bird/swine/monkey flu, it is a short leap to figure that a shortage of hospital beds would be allocated to never-smokers or reformed smokers, regardless of other factors.
~Oregon has been death on smokers, so to speak, for at least twenty years. Various programs to identify, track and surveille smokers have been pioneered in that state. People from other states, unfortunate enough to need emergency medical care in Oregon think it's weird how every health care professional there, from nurses to doctors and in between, asks the patient if he smokes. Multiple times per visit. Smoking is, in my opinion, an experimental area to see how people can be controlled through medical care. Today smoking, and alcohol. Tomorrow they'll be ready when a new executive order allows questions about guns. The ultimate government WIN/WIN would happen if a mentally marginal patient got frustrated with Obama Care and shot up a hospital. You bet doctors would start asking about guns!
~Is sexual behavior the new smoking? I doubt it. While I see danger in giving ANY extra information to government-centered medical care, at least sexual activity is something almost all humans have experienced. For those who brag about their sexual activities it should be sufficient to direct the doctor to their Face Book pages. LGBT people are worth government money for programs so I assume doctors will treat them real nice whether or not they smoke cigarettes or drink more than one glass of wine a day.
~Folks who have traditional marriages could be the ones in danger. Sexual relations with one person; the person to whom one is married, could statistically imply the number of conservative "bitter clingers" in need of political reeducation.
~During the pro-abortion mayhem in Texas last summer one woman had her little kids packing a sign saying (cleaned up version): If I want government in my womb, I'll commit adultery with my senator! She represents the left and demands the right to have a surgical procedure inside her body. A lot of the rest of us want to keep doctors out of our private lives that extend past whatever ails us. Government-centered medical care is determined to take our privacy for the public good. No matter what we say or do not say, it can and will be twisted to support the needs of government.
~Since "Obama Care wants to know about your sex life", has the peoples' attention, it's time to look at the bigger picture. If you have a cigarette after sex will you be medically rationed until you agree to cessation reeducation? If you have a couple glasses of wine to get in the mood, are you an alcoholic "alcohol misuser" who will in future be denied pain medication after surgery? Don't forget, ANYTHING you tell your enemy the doctor, is in your permanent file for life. Wonder how is would be recorded if in response to sexual questioning, the patient told the doctor to "Buzz off"?
~Obama Care ~ #shutitdown !!!
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"Good and Evil in the Garden of Wellness"
September 15, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer Freedom Fighters of America
~Despite the fact that patriotic Americans insist there are only 50 United States, there are actually more. I have a cousin currently living in Obamastan, the 57th state, so I know for a fact there are more than fifty. It was created on the day President Barack H. Obama received his Nobel Peace Prize for bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia, or whatever reason he got the prize. Having nullified the US constitution and believing Mr. Obama is THE world leader, citizens of Obamastan begin each morning chanting "Obama Akhbar" (Obama is Great!) as they run laps around their towns prior to eating bowls of tofu and broccoli flakes from boxes labelled "Weakies" and washing it down with three large glasses of pure water as prescribed by Mrs. Obama.
~It is no surprise then that Obamastan has had Obama Care since before the official passage of the "law" in 2010. You may have seen their hashtags on Twitter at that time. #PassItDontReadIt ! #WeWantItNow! And #HailPelosiFullofGrace ! What folks in the 50 states refuse to see is that what is now called "Obama Care" is actually one of those globalist plots from the UN, that has been creeping into every corner of American government for years. Medical care has been "fundamentally transforming" under our noses long before Obama even ran for president. The actual plot may even date back to when little Barry Soetoro was trying to color inside the lines in his Karl Marx Activity Book! If voters had been just a little more "dumbed down" back in the 90s we'd be calling it Hillary Care and folks in Clintonistan would be chanting "Billary Akhbar"!
~My Obamastanian cousin re-named herself Michelle~her name used to be Sarah but in honor of the dear leader and his wife, citizens of Obamastan respectfully adopt new names. There are multitudes of Baracks, Husseins, Barrys and Michelle's. Actually my relative adopted the full name Michelle Antoinette, saying Mrs. Obama is named for the French queen who was known for lavish living, big spending and the quote: DON'T LET THEM EAT CAKE~IT WILL MAKE THEM FAT! So many people with the same names would be a problem in the other 50 states but Obamastan has a $50 billion federal grant for the De-Racification of American Territories (DRAT). This allows, by executive order, Obamastanians of all colors to greet each other in the mellow tones of the President's home town, "Yo Nigga'" or "Yo Ho'", depending on apparent sexual orientation, if definable.
~Speaking of grants, Cousin Michelle Antoinette is a talented grant writer and that's why she continues to live in Obamastan. She always wanted to write fiction but grant writing can be the same thing and it pays the bills. Any crisis or created crisis can be the source of a few million~or billion~dollars worth federal tax dollars. Obama Care is a great magnet for redistributed tax dollars as everything from sexual orientation to personal happiness is now part of Obama Care as a "health right" to unlimited wellness. Why, Cousin Michelle created a whole grant proposal the day she heard a toddler in the park shriek that he was afraid of all the great big trees! A pittance of a $25 million grant was sent from Washington for Obamastan's Friendly Environmental Directions in Urban Park-spaces Program (FED-UPP). Now scary looking trees have been wired to play the Barney the Dinosaur song so that each tree greets every child, over and over again with, "I love you..."
~Imagine the agravation when amid all the joy, Cousin Michelle experienced a personal issue with the public health system. She readily admits that she smoked one cigarette on a dare in college and that she is therefore responsible for any lack of "wellness" in middle age. Sadly she is now a public health statistic, periodically requiring treatment for a genetic condition that runs in the family. She has cheerfully paid her 85% taxes for free wellness care and had never considered anything could touch her negatively in a personal way~but it did.
~Her Government-Centered Primary Personal Wellness Coach (GCPPWC)* tried an experimental drug cocktail injection for the genetic condition. An "adverse outcome" soon ensued and Obama Care fines doctors for that so adverse outcomes just can't happen and the blame MUST be shifted for the public good and ultimately the good of the children, or something equally noble. Unfortunately, just like various sites on the internet say, this particular drug combination can cause temporary psychosis in otherwise sane people. For several weeks Cousin Michelle wandered the streets late at night and once stripped naked to swim in her town's Wellness Fountain. Nakedness is not a crime in Obamastan because it is an accepted sexual preference but people DRINK from that fountain and swimming is a major legal issue.
~An armoured Obama Youth Squad had to take her to the Well Persons' Emergent Care and Meditation Center (WPECMC) for evaluation. Another squad, headed by a short, toad-like, presumed female Wellness Enforcer prepared to search Michelle's home that she shares with her deaf great-grandmother. Unfortunately for the family, grandma had let an out of state visitor smoke cigarettes on the back steps. The Wellness Enforcer shrieked when she saw the half full water bottle clogged with disgusting butts. She demanded a full house search in order to look for guns, alcohol, tobacco, bibles, Jehovah's Witness tracts, antique "Reagan for President" campaign buttons, or anything else that could be blamed for Michelle's breakdown.
~Great-Grandma was understandably terrified and being too old to understand the "new normal" that is Obamastan, and too deaf to hear barked orders from the Wellness Enforcer, she held onto her snarling pet wolf hound while silently crossing her fingers into the middle finger salute behind her back. The Wellness Enforcer, fearing a sudden heart attack was imminent in the old woman, which would further damage public wellness statistics, left in disgust.
~Cousin Michelle slowly and eventually recovered only to learn her GCPPWC (used to be called doctor) and the WPECMC (used to be called hospital) which owns the local Obama Care monopoly; put in her permanent electronic record that she had to have been abusing illicit drugs to have had such a severe reaction to the experimental injection. Michelle had already admitted that she and her husband had sipped 2 glasses of wine with dinner every night for many years. Obama Care labels this amount as "alcohol misuse" and thus alcoholism **, so that diagnosis was added to the permanent e-record also. Thus there was no "adverse outcome" and everything was the patient's fault, statistics remain pure and my cousin's GCPPWC will receive a double bonus from the govenrment for every one of his patients having a "positive outcome" as defined by law!
~Understandably Michelle objects to these things in her permanent record. She can file a complaint with the medical monopoly in her town and a citizens' board can help decide if she deserves an explanatory note in her e-record. Of course the doctors' findings about drug and alcohol abuse and misuse will need to stay, just in case she ever relapses, or if the "behavioral health" practitioners need more patients in their Addicts In Recovery For Like & Wellness Programs (AIRFLWP).
~Tears spill from her large, violet eyes as she speaks her frustration. "That citizen's board has fifteen people that a long time ago we would have called perverts and criminals", she quietly sobs with a quick glance over her shaking shoulder. "I know I shouldn't go on like this," she chokes,"Obamastan recognizes diversity...and I want to...but it's...well, it's humiliating!" She refers specifically to committee members like the former mayor who pioneered the town's Civil Drones for Safe Sexual Practices Initiative (CD-SSPI) that had drones peeping through windows checking for things like proper condom fit and usage. Though the program had to be toned down, some people still have bad memories. There is also the retired abortionist who sold drugs to school children until he got a federal grant to teach smoking cessation. Other members include a union boss and a former minister who was in trouble for molesting children prior to Obamastan acknowledging pedophilia as a sexually diverse choice. Solid Obamastanians all, but Cousin says they "make my skin crawl".
~"I'd consider leaving Obamastan", she whimpers, "except I get paid for writing anything I like so long as it gets a federal grant over a million dollars. And the wellness care is free. I guess I should just take the Wellness Investing More Power (WIMP) classes my GCPPWC has ordered".
~Obamastan is an extreme but the inhabitants don't know (and don't want to know) anything different. In the other 50 states, some are just developing County Advisory Councils (CACs)*** and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)**** under Obama Care. They will or do consist of local people, supposedly professionals and patients~~"stakeholders" in the public health jargon. My background is in the rural west in medium sized towns small enough where most everybody knows everybody, so to speak. It makes MY skin crawl to think of the local "important people" such as some of these boards are shaping up to contain, having ANYTHING to do with my PERSONAL medical issues.
~Keep your eyes on your state, counties and communities. Be involved. No matter where you are politically, support conservative grassroots groups like your local TEA Party. I have no idea if Obama Care can be defunded. It has tentacles in Social Security, education, public safety and human rights. If you do not want to live in and raise your families in Obamastan, find ways to make your sane voices heard over the constant progressive rumble from Washington. Work tirelessly. We are in the fight of our lives!
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~Obamastan, to those who insist the United States consists on only 50 states, is a purely fictional place. Any imagined similarities to any other known, recognized or existing state(s) are purely coincidental and this article, though real to me, remains a work of fiction. That the sources of further reading below primarily deal with health "transformation" in Oregon, is due to the fact that Oregon is proudly leading the way with the ACA. Lesser writers than me are publishing articles titled, 'Can Oregon Save the Nation's Health Care?', etc.
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~* In the 50 states this is the Patient-Centered
Primary Care Medical Home (PCPCMH). You
can read general information about this at
~**As crazy as this sounds, the state of Oregon
actually defines "alcohol misuse" in these terms.
Read more about is at this link:
OR: Read my recent article on this site about the
"Readiness Ruler" on this subject.
~***County Advisory Coincils (CACs). Read general
information about these here:
~****Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) under
Obama Care. Oregon already has them up and
running under the name CCOs~
Coordinated Care Organizations. Read more here:
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If the First Amendment doesn't do the Job, Try the Thirteenth?
September 8, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer Freedom Fighters of America
~*****Editorial comment to: Todd's American Dispatch~Christian Bakery Closes After LGBT Threats, Protests*****~
~An Oregon bakery is shutting down while being investigated by the state Bureau of Labor & Industries (BOLI). The bakery refused to decorate a cake for a lesbian wedding. A baker in Denver could face jail time for a similar act. The New Mexico Supreme Court found that two photographers who refused to photograph a same sex wedding violated the state's Human Rights Act. Florists, cookie bakers and T-shirt makers have experienced similar treatment. In addition to being in business, each of these people are also artists.
~I am an artist. I was born that way. Colors are vivid, they have emotions and they move. I see everything as beautiful or not beautiful according to how my brain is arranged. It is an intensely emotional experience to make beautiful things. It is ultimate freedom to earn a living as an artist. It is the freedom to triumph, survive or starve, but it is also the complete freedom to stand alone and create from the soul.
~Cake decorators, florists and photographers are artists. Artistic work can never be compared with selling a cake or a bouquet of flowers off a Wal-Mart shelf. Photography is intensely personal. I would venture that if a photographer's heart isn't in the subject, the results would suffer. If a photographer was repelled by the subject the end product could be disastrous.
~The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution prevents slavery and involuntary servitude. The Online Legal Dictionary defines slavery as:
"...condition of an individual who works for
another individual against his or her will
as a result of force (or) coercion...regardless of
of whether the individual is paid for the labor.
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.co...
another individual against his or her will
as a result of force (or) coercion...regardless of
of whether the individual is paid for the labor.
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.co...
Involuntary servitude requires two "essential elements", according to this source. The first is, "involuntariness, which is compulsion to act against one's will". Second there is, "servitude, which is some form of labor for another". Further commentary states it is "unlawful whether the compulsion is by a government or by a private person".
~An individual has a right to refuse or stop a job. No state can make it illegal to quit work or force a person to work at any particular job, the same legal opinion continues.
~It has been suggested Obama might force doctors to work under whatever conditions he sets for the Democrat-Care to which he attached his name. Not so fast, learned people say! We have the Thirteenth Amendment! Would President Obama, the first African-American president, re institute slavery? Whether or not President Obama personally will, it looks like his party's platform of LGBT rights and equality already is well on the way to nullify the Thirteenth Amendment, using state laws that address discrimination and human rights!
~Forget the gay/Christian issue for a moment. I take this forcing-artists-to-work thing personally. I like to see the world the way Jesus taught~walking a couple miles in the other guy's shoes. Immediately I see myself as a cake decorator forced to make one of those ridiculous third birthday cakes for the equally ridiculous Obama Care third birthday parties! Changes in medical "care" caused by Obama Care have ruined my life and I hate it, quite honestly. If someone came into my bake shop to order an Obama Care birthday cake, I would firmly decline.Knowing me I'd give them an ear-full also.
~Suppose I was forced to make an Obama Care birthday cake? I am human first and foremost. I am sure I would have a horrible migraine when I would bake the cake. The salt box would accidentally spill it's whole contents in the bowl. The weather would be bad and the cake would be lopsided. I would be too ill to take it out of the oven on time. What the heck? A little charcoal is good "preventive medicine" and Obama Care ought to love that! As an artist I may feel triple chocolate fudge icing is appropriate to go with the charcoal edges. That the finished product would be inedible and look like a cow patty would be purely coincidental. Inside I would be laughing about the pile of excrement cake for the pile of excrement "health care" law! Years ago hippie Viet Nam War protesters called this sort of thing "monkey wrenching". It's the same as Hitler's or Stalin's slave laborers not assembling bombs correctly.
~Why in the world would people, be they gay or any other definition we could choose, want conscripted laborers to provide something special for their special day? Without any personal prejudices, if I was a wedding photographer I could be much more emotionally involved and thus do a far better job, on a wedding like the one in "Prizzi's Honor" with 'Ave Maria' playing in the background. At a surfer-themed wedding on the beach I would have no idea when to take the pictures nor would I be able to be emotionally involved enough to capture the special emotions of the day. My best effort would likely be, bride shoves cake in groom's face; universal humor, THE END. Art comes from emotion and the soul and it cannot be forced against the artist's will.
~ If an artist can be forced to participate in same sex marriages through commerce, what else can an artist~or writer~be forced to do? Anybody who doesn't depend on the public schools for instruction can read and write, but there is artistic talent once again involved in inspired writing. When will talented writers be forced by anti-discrimination laws to write articles supporting various groups or thoughts, of which the writers may not approve?
~I am first and foremost a technical writer. In my first paid writing job I turned dry, scientific statistics into easily readable formats. Granted, if I worked for a company that assigned certain subjects, I could be compelled to write for the boss or get fired, but there is still a level of choice in the getting fired part. By freelancing, nobody tells me what to write nor the attitudes or emotions to put into an article~yet. The written word is not that different from other forms of art. I can hear a liberal/progressive telling me my stand on Obama Care is interfering with the "human rights" of the uninsured who are entitled to "free" medical care in order to survive!
~Same sex marriage might not have been a civil rights issue if government tax codes and other laws did not ascribe certain "rights" to heterosexual married couples. The same government is toying with UN/WHO language that says "health care" is a "human right". They do not mean a person has the right not to be thrown out of a hospital ER to die in the parking lot due to lack of funds. They include "wellness", mental health, housing, safe neighborhoods, etc. They also address "health and wellness" along the lines of race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. How long before doctors~and writers~are forced to work right along with bakers, florists and photographers in government forced efforts, so as not to deny someones "civil rights"? The more of these progressive "human rights" that can be manufactured, the more anyone who objects can be penalized for opposition.
~Coercing a baker to decorate a cake against her will is indeed "involuntary servitude"; involuntary labor for another person even if the vendor is paid. It is a reprehensible form of slavery for government to compel any citizen to use God given talents in a way that the individual finds unacceptable. Indeed, many of us blessed with artistic talents thank God everyday for our gifts. We feel special talents must be used in ways to honor the God who has been so generous. No government can or will replace our individual consciences. No government will ever be our God!
~I am Libertarian as well as Christian. The only laws we need are don't kill and don't steal. I am extremely tolerant but I do not tolerate intolerance. A big part of tolerance is "do unto others" or alternately, "do not do to others that what you yourself hate". Any group seeking tolerance through militance will reap what they sow~a backlash of intolerance from even the most tolerant among us.
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Evidence-Based Gold Mining~A Federal Grant For Every Theory?
September 3, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer Freedom Fighters of America
~What the heck is Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), or Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC)? For sure it is part of the language barrier between "Affordable Care" and the lab rats...uh, human patients.
~Researching a state's grant proposal online, once again the term "Evidence-Based" kept cropping up. I thought I knew what it meant but that's not good journalism. "Evidence Based, definition", in the browser yielded a lot of reading which leaves me with the general thought that EBM is anything anyone wants it to be, especially for the sake of getting grants of federal tax dollars or pushing a political agenda.
~Wikipedia which may or may not be accurate, is a good place to get a rough idea about a subject. Wiki says EBM developed out of epidemiology. "Taber's Medical Dictionary", 1968 , defines epidemiology as: Science concerned with defining and explaining the interrelationships of factors that determine disease frequency and distribution. (Though "Taber's" is likely online, my copy is a book~something we used to use before there was an internet.)
~A quote in Wiki shows up in a lot of other articles about "Affordable Care" and it reads kind of like a mission statement. EBM is described as, "...the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients." Personally, "current best evidence" sounds a bit creepy when we know the government and tax dollars are ultimately involved. Current and best could mean which way the political wind is blowing today, if globalists are involved and how much money can be taken from the people to line special interest pockets. Current and best might also mean what the UN/WHO/CDC are pushing at the moment
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~It might surprise you, my faithful readers, that I look at all these Obama Care issues from two perspectives. First, is there anything good or likely to be good in the proposal? Second, failing to find anything useful, how bad is it? (Third, if it's bad, how much ridicule can we heap on it?)
~David Sackett, an award winning epidemiologist seems to have created or helped create EBM. That he did so from Canada is not necessarily comforting, otherwise he seems to be a good guy. He is quoted a lot to explain EBM. Duke University (http://guides.mclibrary.duke.edu/content.p...) states EBM, "requires new skills of the clinician." Breaking it down, these steps are given for Evidence-Based Practice:
~ASSESS~The patient
~ASK QUESTION~Construct well built question
~derived from case
~ACQUIRE EVIDENCE~Select appropriate
~resources
~APPLY~ Talk with patient
~SELF EVALUATE~
~After reading multiple articles I can see this framework as a way for doctors to continually educate themselves and thus improve care. It reminds me of the "Five Point Service" California restaurants introduced in the 70s~greet customer, bring menu and water, offer coffee, etc. Beyond this there are many complex articles about what else EBM means. What caused me to look at the definition is that pretty much anything to do with Obama Care has some "evidence-based program", whether it is early childhood education or forcing smokers to quit. "Evidence-Based sounds like "proven", "certified", "accepted", "peer reviewed", etc. Who the heck supplies the "evidence"? Is it the same as the common terms just mentioned?
~No, Evidence-Based does not appear to be equal to "proven", for example. A part of EBM has to do with the information era. There is a huge amount of information available and in need of application. This Information contributes to Evidence. Thus the notorious electronic medical records come into the picture as a method of gathering and sharing information which becomes new evidence based on the whole population which may help epidemiology and public health but ignores the individual. Oh well, if government provides the "free" care it is about the population and never the individual since the doctors end up responsible to the government and not the person. My take on EBM in practice is that every case and patient will become part of the total, worldwide medical information picture. I thought years ago this would be a tremendous way to find cures for incurable diseases so a part of my mind says this is a valuable technique but NOT when used to justify one size fits all medical care. Personally I have signed a lot of forms to allow my personal medical information to be shared for research purposes. I have weird genes and terrible problems. I always assumed scientists might look at my information and get an idea to help someone else. I never considered government would make policy from personal medical information or that such information from the population as a whole, would be used to justify programs that suck so many tax dollars that it appears Obama Care is the fulfillment of Obama's belief in redistribution!
~Considering redistribution, I researched "evidence-based" because every grant application or award I have read has been about evidence-based something or other. It might be "evidence-based smoking cessation" or "evidence-based pain management". It comes to mind there are no known cures for either pain or tobacco addiction, so evidence-based obviously does not have to mean successful. I have been a chronic pain patient in Oregon which stresses evidence-based medicine and the "care" was, in my opinion, ineffective, demeaning, judgemental, and discouraging. Now in Idaho, whatever they call their system, I feel like a human being again and lidocaine injections have helped a lot. Whatever "evidence" Oregon doctors based their treatment on in my case, must have been faulty, or perhaps they were right that I should be treated in an institution. The funny thing is I'm doing a lot better outside of any institution because I have a doctor who treats me as an individual. But what do I know?
~Also, in the redistribution of money subject, when mental health people~now rapidly becoming "behavioral health" practitioners~start tossing around "evidence-based" program ideas, it all looks very sinister to me. In many of these areas I believe "Idea-Based" is more accurate. Whatever the terminology, their evidence-based programs look like grant money gold mines to me.
~Who controls the "Evidence" controls the people, it appears to me. Increasingly "Evidence" involves UN/WHO and socialist politics. If EBM is primarily about the five points listed above, accessing, applying and evaluating in the doctor's practice it sounds useful and even helpful. When medical ethicists start tacking on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and medical "equality", there are problems from my perspective. Perhaps EBM has been hijacked by the left or the globalists or by just plain greedy folks who see "Affordable Care" for the golden plundering of public money opportunity it is.
~I have a sneaking suspicion that medical "care" I received in Oregon that led to my leaving that state, that I frequently call creepy and dangerous, was politicized Evidence-Based Medicine. New programs are touted as evidence-based but no one ever bothered to explain to the patients why the doctor/patient relationship changed so radically in Oregon so I will generously say "sneaking suspicion" rather than commit libel. It seemed doctors suddenly espoused the same ideas out of the blue, so to speak. Of course where I lived the doctors all monopolized under the local hospital, but even the token independent clinic seemed to be a chip off the political block. This is why I fight Obama Care so hard. It is not about "giving" medical care to the poor. It is about controlling what kind of care is given. At the rate the evidence-based ideas are created, it reminds me of how the school system radicalized in the 1960s with modern math and look-say reading. Now kids graduate illiterate. Perhaps the patients of the future will all know enough to die and get it over with.
~Researching EBM is very difficult precisely because so many are interpreting the term from their perspective. For example, Oregon explicitly states in many official documents that consuming more than one alcoholic drink per day is "risky". (See my article on the "Readiness Ruler" previously published on this site.) Oregon adopts this perspective because evidence-based prevention medicine apparently shows that people who drink less than one alcoholic drink per day seldom if ever become alcoholics or have negative medical impact from alcohol consumption. (Plus WHO pushes this idea.) So, mixing politics with medicine, why not evaluate and "intervene" with any patient who does not follow these guidelines? Instead of waiting for problems to happen, why not be pro-active and create new problems to treat? The newly identified problems can best be addressed with programs of some "expert's" devising, that employ specialists paid for by tax dollars. All that seems to be needed is experts with grant writing skills to interpret the "evidence".
~If I was an "expert", from my perspective of life in the rural west, I could also suggest that practicing Mormons who never use alcohol or tobacco may be the healthiest folks in America. Maybe conversion to Mormonism is the answer? Except there is that pesky study showing that a certain amount of coffee prevents a certain type of cancer. Maybe Mormons should be forced to drink a couple cups of coffee a day to keep the cancer away? How best to twist that evidence, create public health policy and get a grant? After all, properly skewed, EBM is ultimately "population medicine"~all the people and damn the individual. Wikipedia states that EBM leads to "governmentality"!
~Continuing with Mormons; beyond health, they have a proven~excuse me~evidence-based record of good family life, morality, responsibility and work ethic. If the liberals and leftists dump the part about God and religion, Mormonism is probably a better evidence-based program than anything they've dreamed up, and at this point there is nearly 200 years of "evidence" that the system works. If the whole world MUST be forced to live healthy, why not a forced conversion?
~Next time you read the new catch phrase "evidence-based", ask yourself: Whose evidence? What's their angle? Who profits? What are they selling? Is it political? Is it from UN/WHO/CDC? How will it control peoples' lives? How does it affect me personally? Especially ask how it affects you and your family personally.
~Why not use evidence-based history to create an evidence-based state quasi-religion resembling the Mormon system? God can be replaced by Obama. The missionaries will be our doctors. Failure to convert will result in a trip to the Inquisition...uh, Death Panel...and those found guilty will be summarily burned at the stake. For the children and to save the planet, of course!
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OTHER SOURCES:
1) EBM Triad; http://med.fsu.edu/index.cfm?page=medic...
2) Evidence Based Medicine:Fraud, Double Standards
and Ignorance; Rob Wolf, 3/15/2013.
3) Denigrating Medicine: Obama Care Turns
Physicians Into Assembly Line Workers;
Jeffry R. Singer.
4) Promises and Pitfalls of EBM;
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August 29, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer Freedom Fighters of America
~Generally we have no idea who wrote "Obama Care" though it's a good guess the ACA is Hillary Care from the nineties regurgitated and passed by Democrats in 2010. On the other hand Oregon's Oregon Health Plan (OHP) of 1994 was heavily crafted by current Governor John Kitzhaber, a former emergency room doctor.
~A human face behind OHP which seems to have contributed to the behemoth ACA, Governor Kitzhaber is an honest Liberal/Progressive/Democrat. I am generous because he did something I thought was extremely courageous when he suspended Oregon's death penalty by executive order stating that it is, "...a perversion of justice."
~I am personally anti-death penalty because I don't believe the state has the right to take life in cold blood, among other reasons. I know my opinion will not go over very good with many readers so I thought I had better check Governor Kitzhaber's record on abortion. If he was Pro-Life a strong point could indeed be made.
~I did not find any quotes from Kitzhaber supporting abortion in his own words. "On the Issues" says Kitzhaber is endorsed by NARAL and Planned Parenthood political PACs. It further states, "Kitzhaber indicates he supports the following principles on the abortion issue: Abortion should always be legally available and Oregon government should fund clinics and facilities providing abortion services." A Right to Life article by Ed Randazzo compares the Governor's stance on capital punishment and abortion, ending with the statement, "they carry out the executions of innocent human persons."
~Like I said to begin with, Governor Kitzhaber is an liberal Democrat, more honest and open than most, but true to the general form. Liberal progressives don't tend to make sense anyway which is how Oregon's citizens are being forced to jump head first into the empty swimming pool that is the Oregon's version of the ACA.
~Governor Kitzhaber loves folksy stories like the one about an elderly woman with heart failure and the need for an air conditioner. It isn't a story actually but an excuse to transform health care. So, there is a 90 year old lady sweltering in an apartment. The heat aggravates her heart condition and she goes to the emergency room and hospital which costs the system a hundred thousand dollars. If she had a $200 air conditioner she could have stayed out of the ER and saved all those health care resources.
~Presto! Oregon has Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) and a whole new bureaucracy! By state legislative action these CCOs can buy air conditioners, shoes, blankets, sleeping bags and what not out of some slush fund reserve or federal government grant so patient/clients will stay well enough to keep out of the ERs and hospitals!
~As I see it OHP recipients, that is Medicaid patients in the state, will each have their very own social worker to guide and care for them, more or less. But like those annoying TV ads, THERE IS MORE! Recently designated by the legislature there are now three new kinds of health professionals:
~Community Health Workers
~Peer Wellness Specialists
~Personal Health Navigators
Qualifications to be one of these workers are,"2-3 years doing community outreach with vulnerable populations," according to an article in the 'Lund Report'. Applicants with this background will receive specialized training to learn, among other things, "how life trauma affects a patients interaction with the health system" and "signs of chronic pain". The latter is particularly humorous to me as from varied personal experiences I would say Oregon doctors are unwilling or not allowed to treat chronic pain. I have no idea what a neo social worker with a glorified title is going to do to improve the situation.
~As the reader undoubtedly sees, each new angle can be the base of a whole article. No, I will not explain job descriptions for any of the wellness navigators listed above. It is more important to understand what the bureaucracy in total is supposed to be achieving and the cost.
~How much these new professionals cost is somewhat elusive at the moment as the legislature is still figuring out some of it. Various federal grants seem to be patching together some of these efforts at the moment. Specifically there is a $17.3 million "innovation grant" or "Health Commons grant" from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. No joke~there really is a center with that name. Another $1.73 million federal grant was made to, "deal with the needs of high cost, high use people on OHP".
~"High cost, high use people" refers to folks who use the emergency room for routine medical care or who are chronically ill and repeatedly become so ill they need the ER or hospitalization. Some of the CCOs have been up and running for a year and to some extent have cut costs to the system as a whole. To quote Rebecca Ramsay, director of community care at Care Oregon, "...we spend a bunch of time with a client, really understanding the root cause of their inability to stay well." Based especially on work in the Bend, Oregon hospital system it looks like CCOs have reduced unnecessary emergency visits and hospital stays. Is new bureaucracy necessary and how much will it grow? Some sources state that Oregon plans for all patients to get this attention in the future!
~Is Oregon going after a fly with an elephant gun instead of a fly swatter? It crosses my mind that reasonable people many times use the emergency room because they suddenly feel very sick or they feel very sick at a time when no clinic or doctor's office is open. Would it reduce costs to have a 24 hour walk in clinic for example? Could such a clinic be attached to a hospital, the patients first stop being at the clinic? Truly life threatening emergencies could be quickly transferred to the emergency department if needed.
~Amazingly, while researching the success of Oregon CCOs on the "Fierce Health Care" site (www.firecehealthcare.com/.../frequent-fl...) I clicked on another article, 'Study: Longer Office Hours Keep Children Out of the ED'. The study was originally published in the "Journal of Pediatrics". This article states,"...expanded physician hours lower patients' overall health costs." While this study is specific to children I would argue that the findings would likely pertain to a wide range of patients. There are biochemical reasons why illnesses get worse at night when clinics are closed and only emergency rooms are open. Or perhaps a worker has struggled through a week of working while sick only to collapse on the weekend when most if not all clinics are closed.
~While these ideas could provide a non-bureaucratic partial solution to ER misuse, Oregon is throwing the bureaucracy at "frequent fliers"~the mentally ill or chronically ill who may use the ER over forty times in one year. Various patient stories are available. One fellow for example, had had his first heart attack at age 35, lived in his car and went to the ER every time he felt a twinge, which is very understandable. A CCO worker befriended him, bought him a pair of shoes and got him into some form of housing. Rebecca Ramsey of Care Oregon in referring to this man states, "...there are significant savings even taking into account the $3500.00 it costs to have an outreach worker...work with (this patient)."
~Bureaucracies are like mould growing on forgotten leftovers in the fridge~layers upon layers of different colored moulds turning everything underneath into slime. As "transformed" health care reins in insurance companies, huge bureaucracies overgrow and fill in any voids. Bureaucracy costs money. In failing to find specific funding at this time for Oregon's "transformation" but finding various federal grants running new Oregon programs temporarily, President Obama's comments about redistribution come to mind. It looks to me that the ACA is the biggest redistribution scheme this country has ever seen.
~A million dollars here and there, not counting the $300 million federal tax dollars Oregon got in July to advertise their system, is far from Governor Kitzhaber's $200 air conditioner saving $100,000.00! President Bush championed "faith based" programs. Could not groups, "faith based" or not, sign up through their local hospitals and clinics to provide needs on a wish list? Elderly woman needs air conditioner. Easy! In my experience churches and other groups would love to do more but it is frequently difficult to know exact needs. A bit of coordination could be done through a few social workers; forget the bureaucracy!
~Instead of "Personal Wellness Navigators" 24 hour clinics could be staffed with real doctors, nurse practitioners and nurses. Imagine the savings in that bit of simplicity! This could have been tried first, before the bureaucracy, but we all know how progressive Democrats think~government is NEVER too big!
~Former emergency room doctor, now Governor John Kitzhaber is a real person behind a chunk of Obama Care. He loves simple stories about air conditioners but prescribes complex solutions to "transform" his state's medical mess. He is not content to control the "frequent fliers" that impact hospitals, but foresees the near future when every Oregonian will have his or her personal CCO worker. At this rate it looks like it takes millions of dollars worth of bureaucracy to provide a $200 air conditioner! (Hey, Hillary! There is a book title there when you decide to write about Hillary Care!)
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SOURCES:
1) Portland Business Journal, article on CCOs by Ben
Jacklet, 5/3/13. http://m.bizjournals.com/portland/
print-ed...
2) Lund Report: Unlocking Oregon's Health Care
by Kyna Rubin, 10/16/2012. Successes of CCOs.
3) On The Issues; John Kitzhaber on Abortion, 7/1/13.
4) Governor John Kitzhaber and Capital
Punishment by Steve Duin, 6/22/13.
5) Oregonian; Justice in the Eye of the Repriever by
Ed Randazzo, 11/29/11.
6) Fierce Health Care; 'Frequent Flyer' ER Visits
Drop With Coordinated Care by Ilene MacDonald,
7/11/13.
ALSO: Study: Longer Office Hours Keep Children
Out of ED by Debra Beaulieu, 6/5/13
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Repairing the Circle of Compassion
August 25, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer Freedom Fighters of America
~Dr. King dreamed of a time when people would be judged by character and not color of skin. It is the same with crimes. Before there are motives like "hate" and "race" there is crime, a rejection of the sanctity of life. Until life is revered and protected by all, those of us who acknowledge life as God's gift will continue to be sickened by crimes that shock normal minds into instant grief, anger, depression, hopelessness and nausea which is the best way I can describe shocked outrage.
~Albert Schweitzer said, "Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
~At this moment in the history of humanity I see humans not extending that circle of compassion even to other humans. "Pro-Choice" is about the "right" to kill babies and abortionists like Kermit Gosnell barely get mention on mainstream news in order to preserve the "right" to kill the unwanted. The circle of compassion does not extended to inconvenient babies. Since some life can be unwanted it can be legally destroyed.
~In lesser ways the circle of compassion is warped and distorted. Power politics depends on division to conquer. Deliberate divisions are created based on race, sexual orientation, economic status and increasingly on personal habits, as US medical care moves to control personal lives. In playing the groups against one another the hate-baiters and race-baiters dehumanize people within these classifications~ blacks against whites, gay against straight, rich against poor. The one percent is blamed for the problems of the 99%. Nazis first invented the 1% v. 99%. Their one percenters were Jews. Dividing in order to dehumanize leads to death.
~Smokers and the obese use more than their "fair share" of "scarce medical" care, so the argument goes. Government cannot be accused of having a circle of compassion so it is not necessarily inhumane to point fingers, deride and then ration care to those who will not change their ways. Redistribution, reparation, righting disparity and inequity by giving more to some and less to others through the almighty hand of government has everything to do with power as some groups are favored at the expense of others. Compassion be damned as human feelings are negated in a "new normal". While the national mind plays chess with these pieces of division children grow up wild on the streets; unguided by parents, schools, organizations or churches. Apparently never taught the sanctity of life nor the value of empathy, they exist outside the circle of compassion which is missing from the political agenda. The government sets itself up as mother, father, teacher and God, but fails miserably in these respects.
~No one should be surprised therefore when, in one week five young men are alleged to have committed crimes only Satan could comprehend. In the first murder, Australian ballplayer Chris Lane was shot in the back and killed while he jogged. Supposedly the kids arrested in the case were bored so they killed a human being for fun. In the second case Delbert Belton, an 89 year old WWII veteran who survived a combat wound as a young soldier, was beaten to death with flashlights in what is beginning to sound like a robbery. Police have arrested one 16 year old and seek another.
~Following years of agitation by race baiters and hate baiters, reasonable people attempt to explain both murders as race or hate crimes. A 15 year old in the Lane case is said to have posted on Twitter,"90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATETHEM." Yet one of his partners in crime is white. I have no doubt the youth who wrote that 90% of white people are nasty would class me in the nasty ninety percent because I am, thank God, not part of his hate filled, conscienceless world. If his white buddy who allegedly aides and abetted shooting a random fellow human in the back is a member of the non-nasty whites, a strong point is made. When the youthful statement of hate so obviously ends up meaning that a white buddy in crime is OK, we leave race behind and confront the chaos of evil.
~"If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other," said Blessed Mother Teresa. Her simple, direct words reach through the hopeless gloom of evil. "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." "What can you do to promote...peace? Go home and love your family." "Peace begins with a smile."
~She mentions no stumbling blocks to "peace" which must surely be the opposite of evil. Evil triumphed last week in the loss of two innocent lives for no reason at all. Victims are just as dead no matter the stated or implied motives. Hate baiters cackle with glee as they push agendas but these acts had no agendas. Total ignorance of compassion, I would suppose began before the perpetrators could grasp race or hate. Categories may give cruelty a direction, but first there is cruelty. Satan has had a good week and he looks forward to many more from the cauldron of social chaos our leaders have devised.
~The circle of compassion Dr. Schweitzer spoke of knows no color, creed or orientation. Compassion is character, regardless of religion, ethnicity or personal habits. Compassion is the love Jesus demonstrated and asked us to share with one another. Never forget that we belong to one another.
~It is not enough that we memorialize the victims and punish the guilty. If the "new normal" has its way there will be more Chris Lanes and Delbert Beltons. Most of us are individuals lacking power beyond our own families, ideas and prayers, but we can work daily to reject ideas and policies the dividers use to break the human circle of compassion. Mother Teresa also said, "Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action."
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_______________THE PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS___________
~Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much
seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal
life. Amen
seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal
life. Amen
~If
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August 22, 2013
by Anna Morris, Staff Writer Freedom Fighters of America
~The Affordable Care Act is the devil's playground! Obama Care truth is elusive as new ACA bureaucracies, complete with their own acronyms, tack onto established programs. Heck, it looks like there are acronyms for acronyms. I suppose this is that famous "transformation" liberals talk about. Nothing is exactly new but whatever it is or was, it's growing and multiplying! This week articles popped up online indicating Obama Care enforcers would soon be kicking in our doors for "forced inspections". At last, I thought, the truth is coming out! I have frequently Tweeted similar thoughts about "health workers" at the door because I have seen them in action on adult patients' homes.
~Looking at these recent, sensational articles I see they are an interpretation of a part of Obama Care, like the Death Panels that even Democrats now admit could exist. The possible terror of health workers breaking down our doors is equally realistic. In fact I believe, in some places they have been practicing for this for years. Unfortunately hours of research produce the usual muddled mess of Obama Care information. The truly sensational part I find is Obama Care is so firmly entrenched in existing programs that I believe it cannot be stopped by repeal, defunding or impeachment of the president. In my opinion Obama Care is ready to strangle all of us and we need to pay attention to the here and now at the community level.
~Obama Care enforcers on the doorstep articles seem to be based on a video and statements made by constitutional attorney and author Kent Masterson Brown. Quoting a section in the lengthy documents on home visits under ACA, he says health care enforcers can indeed force their ways into our homes on the basis of some very slippery criteria. I believe he is sickeningly correct but we are not at this point yet. We need to pay attention to what is happening NOW if we don't want this in the FUTURE when it will be beyond too late.
~Constitutional attorney Brown tackles a paragraph from MIECHV; Maternal, Infant & Early Childhood Home Visiting which is overseen by MIHOPE which stands for Mother and Infant Home Visit Program Evaluation. These entities sprouted out of the Social Security Act, Title V, Section 2951. I think of Social Security mainly as a program for the elderly and disabled except there are all these sections tacked on. The ACA amended, as I understand it, Title V to provide:
~"...collaboration & partnership at the federal,
state, & community levels to improve health &
development outcomes for at-risk children
through evidence-based home visiting
programs." (mchb.hrsa.gov>Programs.
Maternal...etc.----)
~Like the "begats" in the Bible, Social Security begat Title V which begat MIECHV which begat MIHOPE which married into existing public welfare groups at the community level, such as Healthy Families America and Early Head Start. Don't we all love the "begats"? Government sure does!
~Did you see the part about Obama Care enforcers backed by SWAT teams at your door in that last paragraph? The ground work is there, operating and already tied into and getting cash grants from Obama Care! MIECHV which is federal and part of Obama Care, joins up with established and already running groups at the state and community level, two of which are mentioned, though there are many more. Since at least the early '80s child welfare divisions such as Child Protective Services, (CPS), have been a terror to families. What parent does not fear sending his or her child to school with a black eye obtained while playing sports? Darn right a CPS worker will be at the door in most if not all states! The ability to invade the family home is already established. Now this ability connected to federalized "community" and public health. Scary!
~It is clearly stated in Title V, under (e) Application Requirements---Eligible Entity:
~(7) Assurances that the entity will establish
procedures to ensure that---
(A) the participation of each eligible family in
the program is VOLUNTARY;...", emphasis
mine. (www.ssa.gov/...Home/ssact/
title05/0511.h... )
~On the other hand the targeted "at-risk" children and families fit some criteria that usually have to do with involuntary or even court ordered participation in various programs. Families with histories of abuse and neglect or substance abuse are listed. Chances are such families are already "in the system". Also named are families who are low income, whose kids are low achievers in school, or who have developmental delays, and pregnant women under the age of 21. The latter families may or may not be at risk of coercion to "voluntarily" accept home visits.
~There are also two seemingly odd categories on this list of eight criteria. They look to me like proverbial cans of worms. For example families in which there is tobacco use is a target for visitation. No expanded definitions. Could be a grandparent living in the home or one of those Obama Care defined adult children, up to age 26, living in the basement, who smokes. Tobacco is specific so presumably marijuana is a non-issue for attracting these "voluntary" home visits. "Law" that is this open ended allows the sky to be the limit for those in power who define "public good" or "for the children" or simply want more government pork channeled to their state or increasingly, for their "community".
~More troubling and extremely detailed however is the eighth classification which causes a reasonable person to ponder where these "voluntary home visits" intend to go. Current and past members of the Armed Forces are seemingly profiled at the bottom of a list of otherwise possibly or likely dysfunctional circumstances:
~"8) Eligible families who, or that include
individuals who, are serving or formerly
served in the Armed Forces, including such
families that have members of the Armed
Forces who have multiple deployments out-
side of the US." (http://www.
families who qualify)
~These eight classifications are one part of page after page of "eligibility" requirements~how families can qualify and how states, tribes and territories can qualify to receive grant money from the federal government to interact with existing home visitation groups, "assess" at-risk populations, collect data, report back to the federal government, show improvement in the at-risk populations, ad nauseum. Rendered down, I would say Obama Care and the federal government are offering bushels of tax dollars to states, referred to as "opportunities", in return for more federal control on the people. It is a a new health and welfare spy system that reports to back yo various federal agencies.
~Constitutional attorney Kent Masterson Brown quoted in ---- cites this paragraph as allowing forced visitations: "The eligible entity receiving the grant for performing the home visits is to identify the individuals to be visited and intervene so as to meet the improvement benchmarks." I respectfully defer to him as an attorney. My legal experience is mostly Law of the Jungle which says: If they can, they will. Whether it is the NSA doing whatever with our emails and phone calls or forced home inspections
~if they can, they will!
~"Competitive grants also require states to enhance THEIR ALREADY EXISTING efforts to incorporate their STATE HOME VISITING SYSTEM inside a LARGER EARLY CHILDHOOD SYSTEM," emphasis mine, as stated in the "Northwest Bulletin", NWBv27n1-2.pdf depts.washington.edu. This publication deals with Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska being Region X for home visitation programs due to the amount of Native American Tribes and poverty in the whole population. I was surprised and disappointed to read that my state, Idaho, is gobbling at the government trough of MIECHV. Idaho has resisted Obama Care at certain points but heck, this doesn't look like Obama Care and the complex paperwork keeps using the words "opportunity" and "grants". Oregon and Washington seem to be absolutely wallowing in Region X money which is to be expected in my opinion. If they can, they will. Law of the Jungle.
~The Obama Care MIECHV program is already here, already operating and growing exponentially. "Whose doors are getting broken down", a liberal might ask? My Libertarian reply would be, "When your power is complete, how many doors do you plan to break down for your idea of the public good? And, by the way, why do your health workers now, go through homes of adults looking for tobacco and alcohol? Surely you plan much worse for homes of children where there is tobacco use or there is a family member who served or currently serves our country in the Armed Forces?"
~Obama Care is not sensational...yet. It is like the metastatic cancer that invades every part of a body that appears healthy. In cases like that when sensational signs and symptoms appear the doctor gives the patient only three weeks to live. Obama Care is metastasizing in a fairly healthy appearing body~our country! Health care enforcers are practicing now and have been for years. Over ten years ago I had a visiting nurse after a major surgery. She freaked out about an ash tray on the front porch. I told her to mind her own business and leave.
~Several years ago a medical emergency caused by a severe adverse reaction to a prescription drug, brought a health worker to the home of an intelligent, deaf, elderly friend of mine. The worker terrified my friend who believed she was a police officer. He said she did not identify herself and she certainly did not provide any identification, not even a business card. Because of the woman's onslaught my friend believed he had to let her into his house to search for cigarettes and alcohol. She had given him the third degree for an ashtray near the front steps and he felt terrorized by her questions. My friend told her she could enter his home but he purposely failed to control several large house dogs who were undoubtedly unfriendly. According to my friend she, "decided not to enter". Thwarted, the health worker made up a horrendous report for the patients permanent, Obama Care e-record.
~Coercion first, jack boots later. Practice makes perfect. They won't start with health enforcers kicking in doors any more than Hitler started with concentration camps and gas chambers. First the Health Police will get all the machinery in place and pay off states and "communities" with tax dollar "opportunities" they will be reluctant to turn town or not renew. "Communities" include our counties and small towns.
~Medical care is politicized now. I follow tobacco because tobacco issues are fairly simple; and for years in Oregon, admitted use can and frequently has led to medical neglect and abuse which I have witnessed. Judging by the detailed qualifier number eight, people in the Armed Forces or closely associated need to be alert. Including both of those categories on a list of qualifiers for childhood home visitation tells me Obama Care has cast a wide net intended to catch a large segment of the population. Depending on how they do the math, the eight qualifiers may equal almost 100% of the population. To me it is just plain creepy that tobacco users and members of the military are on that list. Why not families with a member on medical marijuana and families who have family members in prison? That would at least make some sense.
~I apologize to the reader that this article is not sensational enough but Obama Care will sneak a long time before it pounces. Between the sloppy writing and thousands of pages of Obama Care ANYTHING is possible. If not this year, then next year. Those who would stop "government expansion" need to start at the "community" level where government is already expanded beyond our wildest nightmares and where Obama Care's jack booted health enforcer troops have been practicing for years with few if any victims complaining. If Obama Care is "defunded" now, the parts that are buried in Social Security, Head Start and other entities, will in my opinion, not be able to be defunded.
~Can Obama Care be stopped? I assume not completely. A small, poor area I am familiar with got an almost $2 million dollar grant with a paid position to train kids to eat healthy snacks. Not directly Obama Care, the grant came through a big hospital and one of those begats from the Department of Agriculture. This area's food bank sometimes begs for donations in a full page ad in the local paper. Would this "community" ever say no to millions of dollars? Don't think so. Neither will other "communities" or states say no to the taz dollar shuffle that is part of Obama Care.
~When "Affordable Care" becomes sensational in practice we will be slaves. The devil's playground now includes our smallest towns and I believe, will soon include the inside of our private homes. Is escape possible? Maybe. I have a political advisor who is adamant about everyone being physically involved at the local and precinct levels through the TEA Party. The Taxed Enough Already, TEA Party is many times local gatherings of citizens pressing for less government and candidates who will protect the constitution.
~Beyond the political arena, Obama Care calls for Accountable Care Organizations which Oregon already has up and running, called Coordinated Care Organizations in that state. These are more or less boards of somewhat local citizens deciding health policy, cutting costs in perhaps horrible ways and reporting back to the state health bureaucracy in return for government money to spend in their areas. Get involved in one of these ACOs or CCOs. Protest. Hold these local wanna be bureaucrats accountable. If you or someone you know is exploited or coerced through MIECHV, complain loudly, especially online so everyone can see. Like my advisor says about politics, "If you don't get involved someone else will do your voting for you." Block Obama Care NOW in your "communities". Get involved before the health enforcers are kicking down your door because that is surely coming. If you don't, who will?
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OTHER SOURCES:
1) The Forced Home Inspections in Obama Care
the-for... ~ Attorney Kent Masterson
Brown's opinion.
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