Hello Friends! INVITATIONS FOR YOU! (10 links)
Visit the Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill Photo Album at this lik: http://www.care2.com/c2c/photos/view/217/513396753/AIMI_Photo_Album/
JAIL IS THE LAST THING THAT MENTAL PATIENTS NEED, AND TOO OFTEN, IT IS THE VERY LAST THING THEY EXPERIENCE. Please join our effort to decriminalize mental illness. Support Congressional bill H.R.619 to resume Medicaid for psychiatric inpatient care. No one deserves to be punished for having a disability. Equal justice!
Many people do not know that insurance for mental hospitals was not included in the national health plan bill that Congress passed in March 2010. YOUR help is needed to decriminalize mental illness in America. Sick people deserve treatment in hospitals or community care depending on their ability to live outside a controlled environment, not imprisonment. We have another chance! Federal bill H.R.619 was introduced in Congress in January 2009 by Rep. Eddie Johnson (D-TX) to resume Medicaid for psychiatric inpatients. Elimination of Medicaid for mental hospital insurance several decades ago led to today's crisis: 1.25 million mentally ill inmates in America, including 60% of the people enduring solitary confinement torture. Consider this quote:
"In a world with so much to be done, I thought there must be something for me to do." ~ Dorothea L. Dix, human rights advocate of the 1800's, responsible for the first generation of mental hospitals in America.
Please VOTE for H.R.619 to replace prisons w/ hospitals for acute mental patients. The link below will take you to OpenCongress.org where you can say to our elected officials, “We care about the least of these, His brethren: naked, sick prisoners.” (Matt.25:36) http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h619/show
AGREE WITH ASSISTANCE TO THE INCARCERATED MENTALLY ILL MEMBERS: JAIL IS THE LAST THING THAT MENTAL PATIENTS NEED. MONEY THAT IS WASTED ON PUNISHING PEOPLE FOR BEING SICK BY EXPENSIVE PRISON TERMS SHOULD BE USED INSTEAD TO RESTORE THEM TO WHOLESOME LIVES IN DECENT, SECURE MENTAL HOSPITALS OR COMMUNITY CARE PROGRAMS, DEPENDING ON THEIR OFFENSES AND FUNCTIONALITY.
You are invited to assist this justice quest. It is time for Americans to denounce and abandon the Dark Age practice of locking mentally ill people away in dungeons. That is discriminatory and mean. Mental illness is a chronic health condition that requires continual care like diabetes and heart failure. Treatment restores lives, increases community safety, and reduces the nation's prison budget, which is currently over $50 billion per year.
Visit and join Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill at Care2 Network at this link: http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI and invite your friends to visit my blog at http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/ for justice news regarding mentally ill victims and other poor and working class exploited people. We must care for the sick and elderly; repeal capital punishment; stop excessive sentencing and wrongful convictions; respect human and civil rights. I look forward to reading your viewpoints in the comments.
Blessings!
Mary Neal
Mary Neal's Google Profile - http://www.google.com/profiles/MaryLovesJustice - Get the RSS feed for my Care2 Sharebook at: http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/rss.html/513396753/0 / - Get the RSS feed for my Twitter KOFFIETIME at http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/59790083.rss - Current, urgent justice issues from a laywoman's viewpoint at my primary blog http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/ (the name is a joke, believe me) Recommended articles - http://topsy.com/site/freespeakblog.blogspot.com - Address: MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
True Voice Magazine Features Larry Neal's Lynching
Good news! The spring 2010 quarterly edition of True Voice Magazine features The Wrongful Death of Larry Neal. My family and friends are grateful for True Voice's interest in justice for Larry Neal and his family and the other news the magazine publishes. True Voice is one of the few venues that has shown a willingness to tell about my mentally and physically ill brother's lynching. Larry's police murder is sanctioned by the United States Government. He was killed under secret arrest in 2003 like Guantanamo detainees, although Larry was an American citizen. I recently wrote to the Complaints Board about the USDOJ, which illegally withholds any records or investigation about Larry's secret arrest and murder in Memphis Shelby County Jail. The USDOJ's refusal to answer our Freedom of Information Act request and investigate Larry's death means he and my family are considered less important than Michael Vick's dogs. It also means that YOUR Constitutional "right to life" can easily be nullified without explanation like Larry's was. See the complaint at this link: www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/us-department-of-justice-c333886.html - I know the Complaints Board can do nothing about our illegal NWO Department of Justice, but I try to make people aware about America's refusal to enforce human and civil rights for citizens - particularly if they are minorities or handicapped persons.
Please support H.R.619, the congressional bill that proposes to resume Medicaid for mental hospitalization. See info about the bill at this link, and vote if you agree that mentally ill people deserve hospital insurance like the rest of the nation: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h619/show As you may know, when Medicaid was withdrawn in the 1970's, hundreds of thousands of people like Larry with acute mental illness were released from mental hospitals. Many of those released patients and mentally challenged people whose illness manifested itself in the ensuing decades were arrested, and America has1.25 million mentally ill inmates today. The Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil. Mentally challenged Americans are imprisoned because it is profitable to prison investors. Imprisoning 2.3 million Americans costs taxpayers $50 billion annually, and billions more are earned through prisoner work projects.
Our family tried to get Larry recommitted to a mental hospital many times, but he was not deemed to be a danger to himself or others; therefore, he was denied hospitalization. Sometimes, acute mental patients are in danger from others although they pose no danger themselves. Unfortunately, police officers and jail guards who are supposed to ensure public safety pose the greatest danger to acute mental patients. That was the case with Larry Neal as well as Tim Souders, a young man whose restraint table death in a Michigan correctional facility was the subject of a 60-Minutes documentary film, which you can access at this link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/08/60minutes/main2448074.shtml - Compare the open disclosure regarding Tim Souders' murder to how Larry Neal's family is treated, which is particularly disappointing with so many African Americans in positions of power: Black Relatives Killed by Police? So? Just Eat Yo Chicken and Shut Up http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/blacks-relatives-killed-by-police-just.html
In any case, both Tim and Larry are dead because mentally ill Americans are considered disposable. When mental patients are killed behind bars, authorities have a greater opportunity to cover up their deaths than when citizens are killed on the street. I do not know if Tim's mother was treated fairly in court and his death was revealed in mainstream media because he was white and Larry was black, but perhaps racial prejudice is the cause. Tim's mother won a $3.5 million settlement whereas Larry's family was tricked by our lawyers - The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm - who worked behind our backs for the jail. The Cochran Firm merely pretended to act as our wrongful death attorneys but withheld any work on the case for nearly a year while the Tennessee statute of limitations passed to file suit for Larry's murder. The Neal family has been denied legal recourse for The Cochran Firm's fraud so far. I believe the law firm was working for the Department of Justice and Shelby County Jail when my family was defrauded to help cover up Larry's murder. Therefore, the Cointelpro lawyers are protected against our lawsuits in kangaroo court proceedings.
I thank God for True Voice, a magazine that agrees that Larry's race should not exempt his death from being revealed and treated like other wrongful deaths are. Certainly, families should not be persecuted and intimidated for asking for records and accountability after their loved ones are murdered, as happens to the Neal family. Neither should they be defrauded by their attorneys and made to believe a wrongful death lawsuit is going forward when it is not, as The Cochran Firm did to us. I disagree with all the Cointelpro cyberstalking that happens to my online efforts to publish information about my brother's tragedy and to help other people who suffer in this NWO justice system. See examples at my YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jkempp703
After Larry's death and cover-up, I founded an online advocacy group to help other acute mental patients and their families avoid tragedies, Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI), a/k/a The Dorothea Dix Group. Visit us online at http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI - We seek to heighthen awareness about the plight of millions of mentally ill Americans and their families, reduce the stigma attached to that common, treatable health condition, and petition elected officials to increase the availability of inpatient and outpatient treatment alternatives to avoid imprisoning mentally challenged people. Thanks in advance for supporting True Voice and ordering copies of the Spring 2010 edition, which carries The Wrongful Death of Larry Neal. Share with your friends, and order at this link: http://truevoice.weebly.com/bulk-order-pricing.html
True Voice Magazine's announcement is below:
True Voice Magazine, a quarterly print magazine, covering Human and Civil Rights issues that affect every citizen of the United State, TODAY!
True Voice will not shy away from unpopular subjects, we will expose the facts!
For all those who want to order True Voice Magazine in bulk and save over the single copy pricing, a page has now been created on the True Voice website where the public can take advantage of huge discounts.
These magazine are a great way to raise funds for state and local organizers.
You can offer these at events for a $10.00 donation and you get to keep the overage!
Or buy 50 at a time and sell them at the $6.99 cover price and you make $2.00 each!
At the same time you will be educating the public in a new, not in your face approach.
By ordering 5 copies at a time there is a 15% discount
For 10 copies at a time there is a 22% discount
For 25 copies at a time there is a 30% discount
For 50 copies at a time there is a 40% discount
All bulk orders receive FREE SHIPPING within the continental U.S.
http://truevoice.weebly.com/bulk-order-pricing.html
Articles in the Spring 2010 issue of True Voice
Constitutional Questions
Nation of Hate
Ex post facto law
Equal Justice
Prison Nation
The Elderly Behind Bars
Free Speech Zones
America the Land of the Free?
Religious Freedom in America
Dietary Supplement
National DUI Registry
Gun Control
Steven Seagul, Sex Offender?
Letter to the editor
Polygraphs for Offenders
Tilikum
Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
BANISHED FOR LIFE the Ana Santiago story
Youthful Mistake or Monster?
David Durr - Working Knife or show kinfe
Features of T.V.M.
Ask Piper
Nut-Sack Warrior
And much more
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THANKS, TRUE VOICE!
Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI
Please support H.R.619, the congressional bill that proposes to resume Medicaid for mental hospitalization. See info about the bill at this link, and vote if you agree that mentally ill people deserve hospital insurance like the rest of the nation: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h619/show As you may know, when Medicaid was withdrawn in the 1970's, hundreds of thousands of people like Larry with acute mental illness were released from mental hospitals. Many of those released patients and mentally challenged people whose illness manifested itself in the ensuing decades were arrested, and America has1.25 million mentally ill inmates today. The Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil. Mentally challenged Americans are imprisoned because it is profitable to prison investors. Imprisoning 2.3 million Americans costs taxpayers $50 billion annually, and billions more are earned through prisoner work projects.
Our family tried to get Larry recommitted to a mental hospital many times, but he was not deemed to be a danger to himself or others; therefore, he was denied hospitalization. Sometimes, acute mental patients are in danger from others although they pose no danger themselves. Unfortunately, police officers and jail guards who are supposed to ensure public safety pose the greatest danger to acute mental patients. That was the case with Larry Neal as well as Tim Souders, a young man whose restraint table death in a Michigan correctional facility was the subject of a 60-Minutes documentary film, which you can access at this link: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/08/60minutes/main2448074.shtml - Compare the open disclosure regarding Tim Souders' murder to how Larry Neal's family is treated, which is particularly disappointing with so many African Americans in positions of power: Black Relatives Killed by Police? So? Just Eat Yo Chicken and Shut Up http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/blacks-relatives-killed-by-police-just.html
In any case, both Tim and Larry are dead because mentally ill Americans are considered disposable. When mental patients are killed behind bars, authorities have a greater opportunity to cover up their deaths than when citizens are killed on the street. I do not know if Tim's mother was treated fairly in court and his death was revealed in mainstream media because he was white and Larry was black, but perhaps racial prejudice is the cause. Tim's mother won a $3.5 million settlement whereas Larry's family was tricked by our lawyers - The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm - who worked behind our backs for the jail. The Cochran Firm merely pretended to act as our wrongful death attorneys but withheld any work on the case for nearly a year while the Tennessee statute of limitations passed to file suit for Larry's murder. The Neal family has been denied legal recourse for The Cochran Firm's fraud so far. I believe the law firm was working for the Department of Justice and Shelby County Jail when my family was defrauded to help cover up Larry's murder. Therefore, the Cointelpro lawyers are protected against our lawsuits in kangaroo court proceedings.
I thank God for True Voice, a magazine that agrees that Larry's race should not exempt his death from being revealed and treated like other wrongful deaths are. Certainly, families should not be persecuted and intimidated for asking for records and accountability after their loved ones are murdered, as happens to the Neal family. Neither should they be defrauded by their attorneys and made to believe a wrongful death lawsuit is going forward when it is not, as The Cochran Firm did to us. I disagree with all the Cointelpro cyberstalking that happens to my online efforts to publish information about my brother's tragedy and to help other people who suffer in this NWO justice system. See examples at my YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jkempp703
After Larry's death and cover-up, I founded an online advocacy group to help other acute mental patients and their families avoid tragedies, Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI), a/k/a The Dorothea Dix Group. Visit us online at http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI - We seek to heighthen awareness about the plight of millions of mentally ill Americans and their families, reduce the stigma attached to that common, treatable health condition, and petition elected officials to increase the availability of inpatient and outpatient treatment alternatives to avoid imprisoning mentally challenged people. Thanks in advance for supporting True Voice and ordering copies of the Spring 2010 edition, which carries The Wrongful Death of Larry Neal. Share with your friends, and order at this link: http://truevoice.weebly.com/bulk-order-pricing.html
True Voice Magazine's announcement is below:
True Voice Magazine, a quarterly print magazine, covering Human and Civil Rights issues that affect every citizen of the United State, TODAY!
True Voice will not shy away from unpopular subjects, we will expose the facts!
For all those who want to order True Voice Magazine in bulk and save over the single copy pricing, a page has now been created on the True Voice website where the public can take advantage of huge discounts.
These magazine are a great way to raise funds for state and local organizers.
You can offer these at events for a $10.00 donation and you get to keep the overage!
Or buy 50 at a time and sell them at the $6.99 cover price and you make $2.00 each!
At the same time you will be educating the public in a new, not in your face approach.
By ordering 5 copies at a time there is a 15% discount
For 10 copies at a time there is a 22% discount
For 25 copies at a time there is a 30% discount
For 50 copies at a time there is a 40% discount
All bulk orders receive FREE SHIPPING within the continental U.S.
http://truevoice.weebly.com/bulk-order-pricing.html
Articles in the Spring 2010 issue of True Voice
Constitutional Questions
Nation of Hate
Ex post facto law
Equal Justice
Prison Nation
The Elderly Behind Bars
Free Speech Zones
America the Land of the Free?
Religious Freedom in America
Dietary Supplement
National DUI Registry
Gun Control
Steven Seagul, Sex Offender?
Letter to the editor
Polygraphs for Offenders
Tilikum
Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
BANISHED FOR LIFE the Ana Santiago story
Youthful Mistake or Monster?
David Durr - Working Knife or show kinfe
Features of T.V.M.
Ask Piper
Nut-Sack Warrior
And much more
***************
THANKS, TRUE VOICE!
Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI
Friday, September 18, 2009
Photo Album for Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI)
Pictured is a naked, chained and shackled mentally ill prisoner, a photograph from the album of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI), a/k/a The Dorothea Dix Group. AIMI uses 400 pictures in the album at the link below in advocacy against incarcerating the mentally ill, excessive sentencing, wrongful convictions, and the death penalty. The man pictured above is chained to a prison wall, naked and neglected. His hair is matted and unkept, and his skin is diseased from lack of baths. Unfortunately, such cruel methods of dealing with psychiatric patients are still employed in 21st century America's prisons and jails.
Two recent abuse cases gained widespread attention. Mr. Gay is currently suing his Illinois prison pyschiatrist for abuse he endured in 2004. Gay alleges that the doctor had him repeatedly restrained naked on a cold metal bed frame for up to 32 hours in isolation while deprived of food. Frank Horton, a former inmate at Nashville's CCA correctional facility, was kept naked in dark solitary confinement for nine months, living in feces without baths, exercise, or doctor's visits. A guard rescued Horton by blowing the whistle on his employer to save the inmate's life. The mentally ill are often arrested for minor offenses like vagrancy and disturbing the peace. Once imprisoned, they are frequently abused by other inmates and guards. Some die like Sean LeVert, a famous singer who was secured in a dangerous restraint chair, and like my brother, Larry Neal. His jail death is covered-up, and the exact circumstances of his demise were not revealed despite open disclosure laws. (Browse online for his name and story, or see other articles in this blog.)
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Approximately half of the nation's 2.3 million inmates are mental patients, including 60% of those in solitary confinement. Pictures in AIMI's album are used to say:
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JAIL IS THE LAST THING THAT MENTAL PATIENTS NEED, AND TOO OFTEN, IT IS THE VERY LAST THING THEY EXPERIENCE. Please join our effort to decriminalize mental illness. No one deserves to be punished for having a disability. Repeal capital punishment; stop excessive sentencing and wrongful convictions. Respect human and civil rights. Equal justice!
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When visitors open the album at Care2, they are give the option to view the 400 photos using a slideshow. However, some of the pictures are censored and will not present on the slideshow. The slideshow starts to race rather than present each photo on the five-second delay that is set, and certain pictures repeat rather than show the next photo due. Therefore, the pictures are best viewed six at a time by using the page view and the arrows at the bottom of each page to access the next six photos. Enjoy, and please share the link. You can use the convenient ADD THIS button at the upper left-hand side of this page to send the album to friends, groups, Facebook, etc. Return to this blog and give your opinion, if you wish, in the comments section.
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Elected officials are urged to remember that whereas acute mental patients usually are not voters, their family members are. Each of the 1.25 million mentally ill incarcerees in America probably has at least four people who care about them and recognize that their loved ones should not be punished for having a common, treatable health condition. This also happens to veterans suffering PTSD. With the lack of available treatment for mental illness in American communities, especially for the uninsured, it is common for the mentally ill to try to self-medicate with alcohol and street drugs, and that causes numerous arrests. Support H.R. 619 for Medicaid insurance to again become available for inpatient psychiatric treatment. It costs taxpayers significantly less to help provide treatment for their mentally ill neighbors than it does to imprison them. In addition to being just and humane, treatment reduces crimes.
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Once patients have been stabilized by inpatient care, they should only be released from hospitals (or prisons) under assisted outpatient treatment programs that combine mandatory treatment and subsistence assistance. Kendra's Law program participants in New York experienced around 90% decrease in hospitalization, incarceration, and homelessness compared to their circumstances prior to program participation.
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*Link to AIMI album: http://www.care2.com/c2c/photos/view/217/513396753/AIMI_Photo_Album/
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. ~ Frederick Douglas.
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More links to advocacy for the incarcerated mentally ill and other human rights/justice issues are at Mary Neal's Google profile link: www.google.com/profiles/MaryLovesJustice
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Thanks for your interest, and please support H.R. 619.
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