White People, Sign My ATL "Pass"

Hello, online friends of freedom. I request your assistance. Below is a "pass" for Whites to sign for me to go into Atlanta and speak in conversational tones with people about giving "Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill" and the "Human Rights for Prisoners March." In 2010, I was threatened by two Black police officers who said they were responding to a 911 call to make me leave from the sidewalk in front of the court-declared "nonexistent" office of The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm at 127 Peachtree Street. Since I plan to go back to that location, I thought that as a Black woman, my free speech rights might be protected if I have a "pass" from White Americans. In addition, people of all races are invited to sign my Petition for Free Speech online at iPetitions. Petitioners request the U.S. government to stop hackers from destroying my computers, taking over my telephones, and stop whomever sends stalkers to follow me in order to interrupt my advocacy for America's mentally ill prisoners of all races. I advocate for the government to respect the human rights of all prisoners institutionalized within this country. The petition to FREE MARY NEAL is at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/FreeMaryNeal (sometimes the petition disappears from my blogs' margins, but it should be there). Thank you in advance for signing my "pass" White friends of freedom. All others can sign, too, although your input will not count. Select the appropriate response below, and share my pass with your friends.


It is very important for me to get signatures from many White People on my pass, because your own human rights are also compromised. Your signatures do not have the weight that they once had. Innocent White elders are being killed by police in their homes, and unarmed White youths are being gunned down by police like they are Blacks - even young White women. I publish such wrongful deaths at my blogs and at Google+ and Facebook. I used to use Care2 more often than I do now, because my account there was completely taken over by NSA or other hackers. I believe that it is important for all races of people to unite and resist oppression. (Genesis 11:6). Please unite with me to enforce my human rights to free speech. If you do not, nobody else will. Elitist white supremacists mean nothing good for any of us, no matter what race we working class people are.

White skin privilege is receding fast, and it may soon disappear altogether after officials finish their job of "flattening the U.S. economy." Corporations desire to pay no more for labor inside America than they do in China, Africa, India, and other developing countries. Over 2.3 million Americans are now prison slaves, omitted from laws enforcing minimum wage, unemployment benefits, safe work environments, and denied pay for sick days, holidays, and vacations. Many former union jobs have already disappeared behind prison walls and to other countries. White people need to act fast before they are as oppressed as Blacks have always been in the USA.

Oppression in America began with the mentally ill, like it did in Nazi Germany. Later, it spread in Germany to include the isolation and murders of minorities: Jews, Blacks, and dissidents. Eventually, the entire country was surrounded by an iron curtain, and nobody was free. While we still have the First Amendment as a law, please use it to denounce my oppression for exercising my rights as listed in the Bill of Rights: Free Speech, Freedom of Press, the right to Peaceful Assembly (online and in person with right-minded people), Religious Freedom (God said I must speak up for the poor and oppressed and all who are appointed to destruction in Pv.31:8-9), and the Right to Relay Grievances to Public Officials, such as the 2003 secret arrest and murder of my mentally, physically disabled brother, Larry Neal, and the refusal of Memphis Shelby County Jail and the U.S. Department of Justice to respond to my FIOA requests with records and information about his secret, fatal arrest.

I do not consider honoring the Bill of Rights to be unreasonable and burdensome on public officials, but they apparently do. If you believe the rights under the U.S. Constitution and the International Declaration of Human Rights should be honored and protected for all people -- even Black women -- please sign my Petition to Free Mary Neal and sign my "pass" to speak to people in Atlanta, a very oppressive city where officials feign pride in being the birthplace of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

MaryLovesJustice
MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com
(678)531-0262
Director of
~ Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
~ Human Rights for Prisoners March
~ Davis-MacPhail Truth Committee (an anti-DP org)
~ Dog Justice for Mentally Ill
~ Human Rights Demand, a Blogtalkradio channel (moving soon due to continuous censorship)
Website: Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
http://WrongfulDeathofLarryNeal.com/main.html
Black lips will be pictured here when hackers allow the photo to post. I have been warned to shut my big, black lips about prisoners' murders and the loss of human and civil rights in the USA.

Congressional Hearings on the USDOJ?

(10 paragraphs, 1 quote, 3 links, and signature block) -- A woman whose brother is wrongly incarcerated rather hospitalized for mental illness wrote a blog decribing horrible living conditions that inmates endure in county jails in Texas and stated there is no improvement even after facilities fail inspections. A modified version of my response is below. I am censored and subjected to cyberterrorism for writing about justice issues. See this link for example and the tweet that was not permitted to go to eonline:

@eonline HOW TO SHARE MY CYBERTERRORISM VIA GOOGLE DOCS http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=56924cd29a47031f&hl=en
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Regarding Texas county jails, they have quite a reputation for ignoring the humanity of inmates, just as Memphis/Shelby County Jail has and others. Inhumane conditions in jails are especially egregious because many innocent-until-proven-guilty people there are awaiting trials, some for the lack of bond money. Numerous jail inmates will be found not guilty once they have their day in court, which could take over a year to happen. Indigent citizens frequently sign false confessions of guilt and accept probation to avoid living for months in abusive conditions while awaiting trial for offenses they never did.

I don't think we can blame abusive living conditions in jails and prisons completely on the individuals over specific facilities or even on the nation's economic downturn. Keeping prisoners in sub-human conditions and inmate abuse preceded the economic crisis. The U.S. Department of Justice has a duty to protect the rights of institutionalized persons, including inmates and hospital patients. In large part, the failure is there. The most important part of any structure is its foundation. The USDOJ was and is corrupt and cares nothing about HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS. That not only applies to people who are held in offshore War on Terror camps, but it is just as true of American citizens under arrest in domestic facilities. Individual jails have no one to hold them accountable for inhumane inmate living conditions, substandard health care, abuses, and murders behind bars. There are protective laws on paper, but there is little or no enforcement.

The DOJ's lack of enforcement also applies to "free" Americans' constitutional rights. We rely on the DOJ to enforce our civil rights. Unfortunately, many citizens find that our "inalienable rights" are really quite alienable. Discrimination against minority persons and disabled citizens is not only allowed by the USDOJ, but the agency actually participates in it. Consider the Wrongful Death of Larry Neal (Google it), which the USDOJ helps to cover-up instead of helping his family resolve the murder of the mentally and physically handicapped man and arrive at justice. The DOJ is an outlaw agency that refuses to answer the Neal family's FOIA request about Larry's secret arrest and murder in Memphis/Shelby County Jail with responsive documents, and the DOJ withholds investigation of Larry's death. Sick people, especially African Americans, are in a lower caste than pit bulls in America because we have a corrupt DOJ. That is precisely why Texas' county jails and other "correctional" facilities do not do more to improve living conditions for prisoners.

Memphis/Shelby County Jail, where my brother Larry Neal was murdered in 2003, was already under direct supervision following a lawsuit against it by the USA for inhumane incarceration. Yet the DOJ deliberately ignores its responsibility to uphold Larry's survivors' right to basic information about his arrest and murder in a facility under its oversight and exact justice for the crime. Therefore, federal inspections like you described mean nothing, even if the inspectors are honest and report abuse and jails are sued by the USA for their failures. There will not necessarily be enforcement of the terms of agreements that follow federal lawsuits against facilities that have been found to violate civil rights of hospital patients or inmates. On the contrary, the DOJ may do as it does regarding the wrongful death of Larry Neal and actually help hide the crime to protect criminals and even accept known perjury in federal proceedings for agencies to win release from federal overview.

Life is cheap and liberty irrelevant in the eyes of too many American officials. It is time for We the People to use the power of the voting booth to elect officials who will demand human and civil rights for all their constituents and not ignore the humanity of 2.3 million prisoners who are also citizens. Most prison inmates have been stripped of their voting privileges, but candidates should recognize that each inmate is likely to have at least five people who care about them - voters. Human rights for prisoners directly impacts over 10,000,000 Americans. Their quest for human dignity for prisoners is joined by millions more Americans who understand that a nation cannot be judged by how it treats its dignitaries, but how it treats its most powerless people. America sucks on that point, but we can improve. Let's start now and continue throughout the next election. Make human rights for prisoners a campaign issue. Don't pass a national health care plan that ignores prisoners' health. Find out where your candidates stand on supporting H.R. 619, a bill by Rep. Johnson (D-TX 30) to resume Medicaid funds for inpatient psychiatric care for people from middle-class and poor families rather than continuing to have prisons be America's cruel, discriminatory answer to mental illness. Demand that inmates get decent medical care, also.

Recently, Jamie Scott almost died in a Mississippi prison when both her kidneys failed. Weeks passed before she was transferred from the prison infirmary to a hospital, only after petitions and phone calls by thousands of her supporters. What happens to inmates who do not have thousands of supporters? All it would take for most middle-class and indigent Americans to die behind bars is a wrongful conviction or excessive sentence like Jamie Scott has (a double-life sentence over an $11 theft she disputes having done). Hundreds of wrongful convictions have been overturned in recent years by DNA testing and many more prisoners were released after careful review of evidence during new trials and hearings. This proves that wearing an orange jumpsuit does not prove a person is a criminal. Many innocent Americans had their liberty taken because they lacked the financial resources to launch a successful defense. However, most inmates are guilty of the offenses that led to their convictions and were justly sentenced to serve time for those offenses – not die from medical neglect or abuse.

In 2007, it was reported that eight California prisoners died of tooth decay when infection from their rotten teeth entered their bloodstreams and killed them. All they needed was to have their decayed teeth pulled, but they died instead. To separate men and women from any means to provide for their own health care by incarceration and then allow them to die from rotten teeth is equivalent to murdering them. Such criminal negligence is evidence that while America wages wars, supposedly over human rights for people in foreign lands, many of our own citizens are deprived of human rights at home. Americans' health care needs, including prisoners, are ignored in part because of the huge war budget to continue a war that many citizens find objectionable.

The Bible says charity begins at home. Why is America spending billions to secure human rights abroad while inmates from families that pay taxes, fight in wars, and vote in elections are permitted to suffer in the conditions you described? Answer: Inmates' families and others who care about human and civil rights must unite and demand CHANGE, beginning with the foundation of the problem - the USDOJ. Since presidents seem incapable of appointing attorney generals who will uphold justice and enforce the Constitution of the United States impartially for all citizens, America needs congressional hearings regarding the agency's dereliction of duty that has continued for many years and shows no propensity toward change. Thousands of people would welcome the opportunity to testify about their civil rights being violated and justice quests ignored or impeded by the DOJ, and not all of them pertain to prison issues.

Senator Webb is doing a top to bottom review of the justice system. He should include congressional hearings and learn from We the People what that system is like and the negative impact the DOJ's criminality has on our lives. If the Constitution still has power, then let us demand that it is upheld and the rights guaranteed to citizens be honored. If the Constitution has been nullified, then that should be acknowledged and admitted to We the People. The power of the Constitution should not be eroded by legislation like the Patriot Act that flies in the face of its civil protections or a DOJ that refuses to uphold its provisions. Neither should the rights afforded under the Constitution and other laws be ignored for select citizens. While Americans' resources are abundantly spent on wars waged in concern for others' human and civil rights, let us not forfeit our own.

A man who will not take care of his own, especially those within his own household, is less than an infidel.~Holy Bible


Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI
P.O. Box 153, Redan, GA 30074
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Prison Torture Within the U.S.A., by Mary Neal

HORROR STORY NO. 1:  Torture of Mentally Ill Inmate in Illinois

An Illinois prison psychiatrist's answer to mental illness in an inmate:  Repeatedly strap him naked to a bare metal bedframe for up to 32 hours, in isolation and without food.  Anthony Gay, age 35, is the plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against Dr. Rakesh Chandra.  Gay alleges cruel and unusual treatment while incarcerated in Tamms Correctional Center in southern Illinois in 2004.

Whereas Gay's treatment was most certainly cruel, it was nothing unusual.  Mentally ill inmates are frequently subjected to torture behind bars, and some die. 
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Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as you have done it to ONE of the least of these my brethren, you have done it also unto me. ~ Matthew 25:40
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YOUR RESPONSE?

HORROR STORY NO. 2:  Week-long Execution Torture in Ohio

Romell Broom's execution in Ohio was postponed after executioners poked him for over two hours but failed to find a suitable vein for the lethal injection IV.  Broom's lawyer,Tim Sweeney, protested, calling the execution cruel and unusual punishment.  Gov. Ted Strickland ordered a one-week break before resuming execution.

The team began working on Broom in a holding cell 17 steps from the execution chamber at about 2 p.m.  They stopped at about 4:30 p.m.  Broom attempted to help the team access his veins, and after one failed attempt, he covered his face . . .  sobbing.  (AP report, Sept. 15, 2009)

*UPDATE 10/06/09:  Ohio May Have a Solution to KILLING Broom and other inmates more efficiently.

(AP) – Columbus, Ohio - Ohio is considering injecting lethal drugs into inmates' bone marrow or muscles as an alternative to — or a backup for — the traditional intravenous execution procedure, a prisons department spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power, preserve those that are appointed to die. ~ Psalm 79:11
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YOUR RESPONSE?



I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. . .  Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.  Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
~ Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize for Peace, 1986


SOLUTIONS:  Decriminalize Mental Illness and Repeal Capital Punishment
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Roughly 1.25 million inmates are mentally ill, comprising more than half of our nation's prisoners. This happened in large part because monies that once went to their hospitalization and treatment within their communities now goes to imprison them, at no savings to taxpayers. Rep. Eddie Johnson of Texas proposed H.R. 619 to remedy the need for more inpatient space in mental hospitals by reinstating Medicaid insurance for inpatient psychiatric care.  It was largely the removal of this insurance that led to hospital closings and the criminalizing of mental illness.
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About 2/3 of inmates were incarcerated on non-violent offenses.  Many psychiatric patients now warehoused in prisons would fare very well in their communities as outpatients with subsistence provisions.  Kendra's Law participants in New York had around 90% reduction in their rates of hospitalization, arrests, homelessness, and imprisonment compared to their experiences three years prior to becoming program participants under court-ordered treatment.  H.R. 619 for hospitalizing acute mental patients who did violent crimes (usually resulting from a lack of psychiatric treatment), and Kendra's Law for nonviolent patients would improve community safety, promote healing, and end prison abuses to our most vulnerable citizens.
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Regarding the death penalty, what part of "thy shalt not kill" do we not understand?  End capital punishment.
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*It does not deter crime   *It targets the poor   *It is racist   *It kills the innocent   *It is barbaric  
* It is expensive, costing around $90,000 more per death row inmate per year than inmates serving life without parole in maximum security prisons.
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YOUR RESPONSE?  Would you write a quick email to your elected officials in favor of H.R. 619 for inpatient care and assisted outpatient treatment for mentally ill offenders?  Would you also like to see the death penalty repealed in your state and/or give inmates every opportunity to prove their innocence with post-conviction DNA testing or new trials for inmates with substantial new evidence of innocence?  Here are handy links for your convenience:
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111th Congress:  www.house.gov/writerep/
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Your Governor: www.usa.gov/Contact/Governors.shtml
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Please use your back arrow to return to this blog if you read the articles and view the film at the links below, as I hope you will.  Please return daily for more news and views on our justice system.  Use the convenient "ADD THIS" feature on this blog to share with others, please.  Your feedback is invited.  Please comment on this or any topics in this blog, or ask questions if you so desire.  Thanks for your interest!
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Anthony Gay story:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-trappedintamms-la,0,242835.story
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A video Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons
http://www.jennackerman.com/trapped/
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Romell Broom story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/15/national/main5313855.shtml
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Update: Ohio Considers Lethal Injections into Inmates' Bone Marrow and Muscle
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ju0_UPvEVxUhVLghH9flkDra4lEAD9B5Q3804
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Information on capital punishment from the Death Penalty Information Center
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/taxonomy/term/55?page=8
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Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/
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Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI)
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI
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Your donations to AIMI are appreciated.  For more advocacy articles, browse through this blog - http://www.freespeakblog.blogspot.com/  and access the links in Mary Neal's Google profile:  http://www.google.com/profiles/MaryLovesJustice
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