De Facto USA's Siberia Bill

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Siberia Bill... fait accompli:

Man’s medical condition leads to indefinite detention, forced medication

Doctors turn a young man into a ward of the state, isolating him from his family, indefinitely.

Posted on February 23, 2014 by PSUSA in News

Bret Bohn was a Alaskan field guide. (Source: family photo)

ANCHORAGE, AK — (EXCLUSIVE) — A young man’s deteriorating health led the state of Alaska to assume full control of his medical care — against his own written will and the against the wishes of his family. Since last October he has been trapped in a hospital, isolated without visitors, on an extensive series of psychotropic drugs, in a condition that continues to diminish.


Medical Misfortune

Bret Bohn. (Source: Facebook)

Bret Byron Bohn is a native Alaskan who loves hunting, fishing, snowmobiling, and most outdoor activities. He lived an exemplary life receiving many awards as a youth, became a member of the National Honor Society, and achieved the distinguished rank of Eagle Scout. He had recently graduated from a program in Aviation Technology.

At 26-years-old, Bohn worked as a field guide for hunters and outdoorsmen on expeditions in the Alaskan wilderness. While otherwise healthy and athletic, his only medical issue was the development of some nasal polyps which impeded his ability to smell. He had them surgically removed, but they grew back. He was prescribed Prednisone — a powerful steroid and immune suppressant — to attempt to regain his sense of smell.

While on Predisone, he began suffering with the inability to sleep for a prolonged period. After a week of insomnia, his family took him to Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. They hadn’t realized it at the time, but one of the listed side effects of Prednisone is sleep disturbances (insomnia).


Bret in a better time. (Source: family photo)

Rather than take him off of the drug that was likely causing the sleep problem, doctors prescribed two more powerful drugs to supposedly calm him down and help him sleep. He was given Zolpidem (brand name Ambien) which treats insomnia, as well as Lorazepam (brand name Ativan) which treats anxiety, depression and insomnia.

After taking the prescribed combination of drugs at at home, Bohn had seizures — potentially because the drugs he took are known to cause seizures. His family took him back to the hospital, looking for answers, and he was given more drugs, and had more seizures. He was put into intensive care.


Hospitalization
His hospitalization would be marked by periods of prolonged periods of sleep deprivation, apparently related to his medications.

Physical tests to this point had turned up no signs of what could be wrong with Bohn. Over 35 lab tests failed to produce abnormal results.


A friend visits Bret, before visitation was prohibited. (Source: family photo)

Bohn remained unable to sleep for a total of 24 days. His condition was severely diminished. He was in a state of “delirium,” according to court records. His family assumed power of attorney over Bret through a written agreement he had previously drawn up in 2007.

At one point the exhausted patient decided he had enough and removed himself from his IV, unplugged himself from his machines, and removed his catheter. He wanted to leave.

Bohn was convinced to calm down with the help of his family, whom at first trusted the doctors’ course of action. They began to object to when it was evident to them that the drug therapy was hurting Bret, not helping. Soon they were pleading with doctors to take him off of the drugs in order to let him sleep. At one point doctors briefly relented, and Bohn was finally able to sleep — for a time.

A notice with the court was filed regarding the “escape attempt.” The hospital and social workers alleged that Mr. Bohn was delirious and a danger to himself, and that his parents were not suitable guardians. On November 5th, 2013, Adult Protective Services filed for emergency guardianship over Bohn, and the court soon granted it. His parents’ power of attorney was considered null and void. His written will was overridden.

Doctors characterized his disgruntled, combative state — after weeks of insomnia — as a sign of mental illness, and that he was irrational and a threat to himself. Hospital staff put him into a psychiatric ward, physically forcing his compliance. They began administering psychiatric drugs, beginning with Haldol, which is used to treat schizophrenia.


No Diagnosis, No Rights
After the disputes between doctors and parents over his medication, Providence portrayed Bohn’s family as interfering with his treatment and a threat to his well-being. They alleged that they were going to help him leave without being medically discharged, and that they did not have his best interests in mind in light of his supposedly life-threatening illness — which as of then remained undiagnosed. They alleged that his mother, Lorraine Phillips, wanted to physically harm her son, Bret.

His ability to have visitors was reduced to once per week. Phone calls were not allowed. He was effectively a prisoner on the 5th floor of Providence, and doctors were free to medicate him with impunity.


A protest in front of the Providence hospital in December 2013. (Source: Facebook)

His family was looked at with increased scrutiny during the sparse visitation sessions. Whispering was not allowed between Bohn and his mother during their one weekly interaction. The hospital monitored their visits and did not allow her to give him things like organic carrot juice, as if she might be trying to poison him.

The family’s pleas for a change in his medical plan, for a second opinion, for his release, or for his transfer to another hospital were all ignored. With Bret Bohn now a ward of the state, they had no reason to listen or comply.

“Bret wants to go home,” his mother explained. “Bret tells Providence he wants to go home, but Bret’s rights have been stripped from him and the doctors’ orders are Bret stays there at the hospital. They tell Bret everyday he is in a safe place and they tell Bret the doctors know whats best for him.”

Parents were now left to fight for their son in court. But that would be a disappointing, financially exhausting process for the family. Based on the family’s opposition to doctors’ drug regimen, the fact that the parents attended a protest in front of the hospital claiming their son was a “prisoner,” and hearsay evidence that Lorraine Philips wanted to harm or kill her son, the court ruled that Bret Bohn would be put into permanent state care.

His mother insisted that the allegations that she would harm her son were false and concocted to make the state’s case. She told Police State USA that a public guardian was the only allowable option in the eyes of the court because they wanted the guardian to be free from the influence of the parents. Family members and friends were said to be unable to “exercise independent judgement.” Bret’s boss was considered ineligible because it supposedly would have violated HIPAA law regarding disclosure of Bret’s medical records.

“Nobody was found capable of making ‘good decisions’ because they could be swayed by his parents,” she said in an interview. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”


Protesters demand Bret Bohn’s release outside Providence Alaska Medical Center. (Source: Facebook)


Isolation
With Bohn in the full custody of the Office of Public Advocacy, psychiatric doctors ordered that Bohn have no further visitation by anyone, claiming that isolation was in his best interest. His parents were cut off from their son, and were told that he may never be allowed to come home again. They were threatened with arrest for trespassing if they came to the hospital.

The drugs that the hospital has forced on Bohn were too numerous for his mother to list in an interview — over 22 that she was aware of — and included Resperidone and Haloperiodol, among other powerful anti-psychotic drugs.


Bret in 2008. (Source: family photo)

Bohn has been isolated from his family since December. The last time he saw his father, Bret told him that he just wanted a breath of fresh air and a good night’s sleep.

It was not until January when Bohn was finally diagnosed with something: autoimmune encephalitis. Supposedly, his immune system was attacking his brain.

Despite being told by doctors that their son could “die at any time,” the isolation was strictly enforced and family has been kept away from Bret.

“We don’t even know if they will tell us if he dies,” his mother tearfully explained, illustrating how far the hospital has removed the family from their son.

On January 12th, Bret Bohn turned 27 years old. He spent it in isolation, as he does every day, drugged into a stupor, without friends or family allowed to visit.

Bohn’s friend Koreen Lamoreux said to The Northern Light, “Today (Jan. 12) is Bret’s birthday, and no one gets to see him. He missed Thanksgiving, and no one got to see him. He missed Christmas, and no one got to see him. And now it’s his birthday, and no one gets to see him. I don’t see how anyone who has his best interest at heart can deny him visitation and leave him solitary.”


(Source: Facebook)

Bret’s father, Glenn Bohn, is afforded a 15-minute toll-levied phone call with the hospital legal department. He has been told that “Bret does not want any visitors, phone calls, or a breath of fresh air.” A complaint filed by the family states that the brief, weekly phone calls end with the department’s assurances that they “are only doing what Bret wants and for the best interest of Bret.”

The notion that Bret Bohn doesn’t want visitors has been received by his family with incredulity.

“There is NO WAY Bret would refuse to see his parents,” Bret’s cousin Jason Phillips told Police State USA. “They are great parents. This is absolutely disturbing.” He added, “His parents being accused of not being suitable to work in Bret’s best interest literally rips my gut out.”

Bret Bohn’s captivity may continue indefinitely, and soon he may be transferred to Johns Hopkins Medicine Research and Clinical Trial Tertiary Facility, in Baltimore, Maryland — far from native Alaska, far from his family, and against the wishes of everyone who loves him. The doctors intend on performing a biopsy of his brain and forcing him to take trial drugs, which they now have the unlimited capacity to do since he is effectively property of the state.

“Prisoners have more rights,” said his mother. She said that her last impressions of Bret were him living in fear of his doctors, feeling abused, and wanting his family.

With permanent guardianship established over Bret Bohn, it is unclear if he will ever be freed or if he will be a permanent prisoner and test subject for the government-sponsored medical industry. He may very well be serving a death sentence, perhaps wondering why no one is coming to see him.

And while the courts can order the indefinite detention of a grown man in a hospital, they cannot order the hospital to allow visitors for a patient.

Bohn’s case number in the Alaskan Superior Court in Anchorage is 3AN-13-2737PR.
Police State USA reached out to the attorney representing the parents. On February 18, the following press release was provided:

On February 7, 2014, Judge Erin Marston of the Anchorage Superior Court ordered Bret Bohn to be assigned a permanent public guardian. In doing so, Judge Marston ruled that Bret’s father, mother, sister, aunt, uncle, cousin, and closest friends were all unsuitable to be Bret’s guardian. Worse, Judge Marston actually found that Bret’s mother intended to harm him — despite clear evidence to the contrary.

The family is devastated by Judge Marston’s decision. Bret has now been inside Providence Hostpital since October 19 — four months. No family member has seen Bret since December 25, and his mother has not seen him since December 3. It took nearly three months for Bret to be diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder, and — now that a proper diagnosis has been made by his doctors — Bret’s family is eager to follow the prescribed course of treatment so that Bret can get well. But apparently, this is not enough.
Bret’s friends know him to be a thoughtful young man of foresight. To that end, Bret executed an Advanced Healthcare Directive, naming his mother and father as his healthcare agents. Like many other Alaskans, it was Bret’s preference to have close family members make health decisions in the event that he became incapacitated. But, apparently, the court has ignored Bret’s written request.

The Bohn family appreciates the love and support they have received from many in the Anchorage community, and the State of Alaska at large. They are perplexed, and we are very disappointed with Judge Marston’s order. We ask for your continued prayers as we help the Bohn family consider their next step in seeking to help Bret.

Signed, Wayne Anthony Ross, ROSS & MINER, PC
Attorneys for Glenn Bohn and Lorraine Phillips

A Plea For Help
The family is in sore need of support, prayers, and financial help. Having no real options left, they are asking for their story to be shared and are supporting an Alaskan bill, H.B. 214, which would reform the standards under which a person may be held for psychiatric evaluation in the state.

The detention of Bret Bohn is an eye-opening look at how doctors and courts are capable of nullifying a person’s rights and freedom in the name of “doing what is best” for the patient.

The problem of forced institutionalization is not restricted to displaced minors like Justina Pelletier, as this case makes it clear to adults that they could easily be one hospital visit away from being involuntarily detained themselves.

This combination of ego and unchecked power is exacerbated by the fact that the federal government finances the indefinite hospitalization of patients like Mr. Bohn and has effectively created financial incentives that will produce more cases just like this one.

Bret’s only hope for release is loud and boisterous outrage from the public. Contact information is listed below for those who are willing to speak out.

If this can happen to Bret Bohn, it can happen to anyone.


Demand Bret Bohn be released to his parents at once.
Providence Alaska Medical Center
3200 Providence Dr, Anchorage, AK 99508
Phone: (907) 562-2211
Governor Sean Parnell of Alaska
Phone: (907) 465-3500
Fax: (907) 465-3532
Send an email

Show support for Alaskan H.B. 214

Join supporters at the following page: Free Bret Bohn | Facebook

[sheme]

Outrageous -kidnap is a crime don't they know? We may be sure he has something 'they' wish to sell.

[chancy]

Hello Everyone:
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(Get alkaline as soon as possible)

If the state of alaska and their hospital care is this BAD anyone should be very worried about setting foot on the soil of this state. Shame on the establishment! This is a travisty of justice.

Here's a great video about curing any autoimmune disease etc with doctors upset at the establishment.
If you see three green lines across the screen just enlarge the picture or click in the top right hand corner of each green line to cancel them.

Link:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_dhlp8jSiiU

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I'm surprised that these doctors haven't been kicked out if the medical association for being honest!

chancy

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Boston Psychiatric Unit's imprisonment of teenager Justina Pelletier needs State investigation into reckless endangerment of psychiatric diagnosing


Kelly Patricia O'Meara
CCHR
Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:41 CDT

“Medical care that causes severe suffering for no justifiable reason can be considered cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and if there is State involvement and specific intent, it is torture.” - United Nation’s 2013 Report by the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.

For thirteen months, Lou and Linda Pelletier's youngest daughter, Justina, has been a prisoner at the hands of Boston Children's Hospital psychiatric unit accused of suffering from an obscure "mental disorder," Somatoform, which a leading psychologist describes as being "nothing more than a destructive and unreliably applied label." In deteriorating health, and confined to a wheelchair, the 15-year-old learned this week that there will be no pardon from the Massachusetts Psychiatric Puritans.

Because a child's well-being hangs in the balance, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) calls on the Massachusetts State Attorney General to investigate Boston Children's Hospital Psychiatric Unit, "Bader 5," specifically requiring that the treating psychiatrists provide medical/scientific proof of the alleged diagnosis, Somatoform.

CCHR also supports legislative action instigated by Mass State Representative Marc Lombardo to start the process of releasing Justina Pelletier to her parents but said this should be expanded to investigate the harmful influence of psychiatrists' opinions resulting in state removal of children from their families.

After months of fighting for the teenager's freedom, on March 25, the Pelletiers were summarily dismissed by the state's inquisitors - the Juvenile Court - and denied custody of their ailing daughter. Juvenile Court Judge, Joseph Johnson's reason for denying the Pelletier's right to decide their daughter's medical treatment was his belief that the Pelletiers will not "comply" with the state's directives.

The Judge further wrote in his decision that he believed Justina suffered from "a persistent and severe Somatic Symptom Disorder," the very subjective psychiatric diagnosis the Pelletiers have been fighting since first admitting Justina to Boston Children's Hospital, suffering severe flu-like symptoms. Based on no medical proof, Judge Johnson bought the psychiatric opinion...Justina is mentally ill.

Like Maryanne Godboldo's long struggle in Detroit, Michigan to regain custody of her 12-year-old daughter, Ariana, the Pelletiers' nightmare began when they dared to question the psychiatric diagnosis. They committed the ultimate sin of failing to follow the psychiatric directives and, therefore, are deemed non-compliant and unfit. As is the case with so many of these state child abductions, the assault on the Pelletier family begins and ends with a subjective psychiatric diagnosis.

The family's visit to Boston Children's Hospital in February 2013 was at the recommendation of her treating physician at Tufts Medical Center, Dr. Mark Korson. The Pelletiers entrusted to Boston Children's Hospital their daughter's care. In the ensuing firestorm that would result from this trust, it appears this was the Pelletiers' first and only mistake.

The subsequent forced psychiatric imprisonment of Justina, and the loss of the child's civil and human rights, centers on the growing divide between medical science and subjective psychiatric diagnosing. In 2011, Justina had been diagnosed by, and receiving treatment from Dr. Korson for Mitochondrial Disease - a rare genetic condition, where specialized compartments of cells (except red blood cells), fail, resulting in less energy generated within the cell. When repeated throughout the body, the health of the person is severely compromised.

Less than 24 hours after having been admitted to Boston Children's Hospital, Justina's medical diagnosis was ignored in favor of a psychiatric one, Somatoform; that is, your physical complaints are "all in your head" and you are mentally ill. It has about as much science to support it as Dr. William Griggs' "witch" diagnosis in the late 1600s that claimed the afflictions of the girls in Salem village were caused by "an evil hand," not by natural causes.

Upon learning of the psychiatric diagnosis and the suggested "treatment," the Pelletiers attempted to discharge Justina from the hospital for legitimate medical care elsewhere. Based on what can only be described as a "cozy" relationship between the Hospital's "child protection team," its psychiatric staff and the Department of Social Services, the Hospital filed a child abuse or neglect form against Justina's parents.

The social worker with the Department of Social Services apparently chose to use the eenie meenie method of describing the "facts" of the case to the Juvenile Court. For example, the affidavit accused the Pelletiers of "obstructing her care," and also reported that Boston Children's Hospital does "not know where the parents picked up the current diagnosis and they are hard to disprove."

The social worker failed to include in the affidavit that she had spoken directly to Tufts' Dr. Korson, who had explained Justina's mitochondrial diagnosis in great detail. The Juvenile Court judge ruled in favor of Boston Children's Hospital and Justina became a ward of the state, severely restricting the Pelletiers' access to their daughter.

In fact, the February 2013 "guidelines" drafted by Boston Children's Hospital in regard to Justina's case included: "set strict limitations on medical discussions with the family and eliminate interaction with providers outside our hospital" such as Dr. Korson. Unbelievably, the family and the treating physician were to be excluded from any conversation about the health and well-being of the 15-year-old captive.

The "guidelines" are a direct contradiction to what the psychiatric "team" muttered in published psychiatric papers. For instance, Dr. Simona Bujoreanu, Assistant in Psychology, and Dr. David DeMaso, psychiatrist-in-chief, both of Boston Children's Hospital, co-authored an article entitled "Enhancing Working Relationship between Parents and Surgeons."

In describing the treatment modality, DeMaso and Bujoreanu explain:

"The working relationship between parents and surgeons is fundamental in providing excellent health care to children and adolescents. The breakdown of this working relationship has a significant potential for detrimental effects on individual well-being and adverse systemic outcomes...."

Apparently this parent/surgeon relationship only works when it fits DeMaso and Bujoreanu's needs.

For months the Pelletiers tried to regain custody of their daughter through the courts. But this human rights fiasco was a bubble desperately looking for a pin and, in November of 2013, reporter Beau Berman of WTIC-TV went public with the story. Not surprisingly, no sooner had Berman's report surfaced when the Pelletiers were shackled with a gag order.

When asked in an interview to explain how parents could be told that they had to accept the hospital's completely subjective psychiatric Somatoform diagnosis as a condition for regaining custody, psychiatrist DeMaso stressed it wasn't up to Children's to determine custody. DeMaso said, "That's DCF." The hospital spokesman added, "We can't be responsible for what DCF says or does."

Both DeMaso's and the Hospital's reply is disingenuous at best. After all, it was psychiatrists at Children's who initiated legal action by bringing in social services and accusing the Pelletiers of neglect and abuse and failing to accept their opinion over the medical facts of Justina's treating physician.



Yet, under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), it appears that the Pelletiers did what is required of them under the law - done everything they could to prevent the physical harm of their daughter. Under CAPTA, child abuse and neglect means:

• Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker that results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse, or exploitation;
• An act or failure that presents an imminent risk of serious harm.

On the other hand, after a year of psychiatric "care," Justina's older sister, Jennifer, who also has been diagnosed by Tufts with mitochondrial disease, reports that Justina's condition is "scary" and she had never seen Justina in worse condition. Clearly, in the hands of the Massachusetts DCF and Children's psychiatric unit, the teenager's condition is deteriorating, not improving. And it is her treating psychiatrists that are putting Justina at "imminent risk of serious harm." Justina is now in a wheelchair.

While "reckless endangerment" charges are usually directed at parents neglecting or putting their child at risk, Massachusetts legislators should be looking at revising the law to ensure State "guardianship" of a child and psychiatrists treating under that guardianship are not immune to such charges, where the child is put at "substantial risk of serious bodily injury" or "impairment of a function of a body member, limb or organ."

Additionally, under the United Nation's 2013 Report by the Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Pelletiers certainly could claim Justina's human rights have been violated: "Medical care that causes severe suffering for no justifiable reason can be considered cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and if there is State involvement and specific intent, it is torture."

Surely, when a child's life is at stake, even the governing bodies overseeing those institutions that claim to represent the best interests of children, would demand proof of the medical diagnosis. Or is it possible that Massachusetts has so easily forgotten the dreadful prosecutions of Salem, born from rumor, speculation and belief?

SOTT Comment: Read the chronology of this horrifying story:

Parents lose custody of teen after seeking 2nd medical opinion; girl indefinitely detained in psych ward

More food for thought: Mother jailed for refusing to drug daughter with a highly controversial antipsychotic - Child ends up in a mental institution

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The forefathers in the USA saw this coming. I forget which gentleman stated, "medical freedom must be written into the Constitution". Of course it did not occur, but it should have! Who are these vile monsters who hold him captive?! By what authority do they?!

Were this my son, heads would explode. I would sacrifice my freedom or life to place bullets into the brains of those responsible. A message would be sent! We the people will not be trampled by The Medical Mafia and government goons. I am sick from this and my heart aches for the family and for the boy.

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Creativity and Non-Conformity Now listed as a Mental Illness by Psychiatrists

by Code Breaker, March 27, 2014

What happens to a society when thinking outside of the box or being righteously enraged about your government going in the wrong direction becomes an excuse to be sedated and re-educated? It seems we don’t have to go too far back in history to find out.

The Soviet Union used new mental illness for political repression. People who didn’t accept the beliefs of the Communist Party developed a new type of schizophrenia. They suffered from the delusion of believing communism was wrong. They were isolated, forcefully medicated, and put through repressive “therapy” to bring them back to sanity.

© Wikimedia Commons DSM-IV-TR, the predecessor to the most current DSM edition, the DSM-5.

Now thanks to thought policing by the American Psychiatric Association the latest addition of the DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) is setting up the dominoes for arbitrary diagnosis of any dissenting individuals.

Listed as new mental illnesses are above-average creativity and cynicism. The manual goes on to identify a mental illness called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. Defined as an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, argumentativeness, and being easily annoyed.

A Washington Post article observed that, if Mozart were born today, he would be diagnosed with ADD and “medicated into barren normality.” What used to be known as personality traits are now diseases, and of course there are treatments available.

When the last edition of the DSM-IV was published, identifying the symptoms of various illness in children, there was a jump in the medication for children. Some states even have laws that allow protectives agencies to forcibly medicate, and even make it a punishable crime to withhold a prescribed medication.

Beware people with a strong sense of individuality! Though the authors of the manual claim no ulterior motives, labeling freethinking and nonconformity as a mental illness has a lot of potential for abuse. As a weapon in the arsenal for a repressive state, it seems societal reality is morphing into a playbook for autocrats borrowed from a Phillip K. Dick novel.

Inspired by and excerpts taken from: “Is Free Thinking A Mental Illness?” & “Nonconformity and Freethinking Now Considered Mental Illnesses”
@ offthegridnews.com & themindunleashed.org

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Parents told to vaccinate newborn or have him seized by the state

Threats of state violence were enough to blackmail two brand new parents.

Posted on April 1, 2014 by PSUSA in News

Aliea and Ben. (Source: The INQUISITR)

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Parents of a healthy newborn infant were told to consent to injecting him with drugs or lose him to the state. This successful blackmail scheme was made possible by the state’s horrifying ability to seize children without due process.

Aliea Bidwell and Ben Gray became new parents on March 14th, 2014. Their experience turned from joy to dismay when their parenthood was already being threatened on their son’s first day outside of the womb. Ben and Aliea gave a detailed account of their experience to The INQUISITR.

When the parents expressed their desire to forgo vaccines for their hours-old baby, they drew the ire of a particularly nasty staff member at St. Vincent’s Hospital. A pediatrician named Dr. Terry M. Bierd allegedly told the parents that they would either submit their son, Aaron, to a Hepatitis B vaccine or else she would call Alabama’s Child Protective Services (CPS) to report them as negligent parents. The threat was very real, in a system which allows families to be split apart without a trial, without evidence, without a defense, without a jury — without a law even being broken.

As the parents balked, the threat was repeated throughout the day and made in front of a dozen family members, The INQUISITR reports. A time was set for the ultimatum to expire.

Dr. Bierd allegedly said that once Aaron was in the hands of social workers, he would be injected immediately and it would be difficult for them to get him back.

It should be noted that there is absolutely no law requiring vaccines of any kind for any newborn. Declining vaccines at birth is common and completely within the rights of the parents. Even when children become of age for public school, there are exemptions to the vaccine suggestions in all 50 states.

The absence of any legal footing has not stopped the social workers from seizing children over medical disagreements before. Pennsylvania parents Scott and Jodi Ferris found themselves in a nearly identical situation recently. When they refused an injection for their baby girl, Mr. and Mrs. Ferris were thrown out of the hospital and the girl was taken into state custody — based only on the whims of a social worker.
In light of the intimidating circumstances, Ben and Aliea complied with the doctor’s demands, doing so under duress.

Although the Gray family didn’t have to deal directly with the state, Dr. Bierd’s threats coupled with the existence of the unaccountable child-snatching agency was enough to coerce their parental decision making. Its not even clear if Dr. Bierd will face any consequences. Parents need to beware of the profound implications that exist for their families when they come into disagreements with professional control-freaks.

[Hervé]

Finally: someone woke up to the $$ reality:

'State-snatched' girl prompts move in Congress

Proposal targets policy that took teen from parents

Published: 3 days ago
Alana Cook

A proposal in Congress that would block federal tax dollars from states with policies that “conflict with personal liberty” is one strategy in an effort to assist Massachusetts parents who lost custody of their teen daughter to the state because of a psychiatrist’s disputed opinion.

Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, who is considering introducing a bill, is joining with the nonprofit legal advocacy group Liberty Council, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights and Republican state Rep. Marc Lombardo to call for the release of 15-year-old Justina Pelletier from Massachusetts state custody to the care of her parents.

They are also calling for further investigation into the influence of psychiatrists’ opinions that result in state removal of children from their families.

“I find certain state policies involving individual and personal medical decisions to be disconcerting,” Stockman said. “It is my firm belief that we should not provide federal dollars, through NIH grants, to states that maintain policies that conflict with personal liberty.”

Stockman said Thursday that taxpayer dollars also “should not be spent on research performed upon people without their consent.”

A Liberty Council investigation revealed that Boston Children’s Hospital psychologist Dr. Simona Bujoreanu diagnosed Justina Pelletier with a mental illness called Somatoform Disorder after only 25 minutes with the teen, without contacting other physicians.

Bujoreanu is researching Somatoform under a grant from the federal National Institutes of Health. Any ward of the state is subject to research being performed on them without their consent, even if the research is not primarily for the ward’s benefit.

Stockman’s legislative staff worked all day Thursday to meet Friday’s deadline to submit a written request for the proposed legislation to the House Appropriations Committee.

‘Kidnapped’ by state
As WND reported, Judge Joseph Johnston in Boston ruled March 25 that custody of Pelletier will remain with the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families “until a future hearing” which, according to Liberty Council, will not occur before May 20.
A judge in Massachusetts sided with a state agency that just a day earlier was accused of contempt of court for not following a judicially approved plan for treatment for the 15-year-old.

A little more than a year ago, as Liberty Counsel recounted, Justina “was essentially kidnapped by Massachusetts DCF after her parents took her to Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) to see Dr. Flores, a physician who had treated Justina before at Tufts Medical Center for gastrointestinal problems.”

Even though she had been diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, which causes muscle pain and weakness, doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital said she had a mental condition and removed custody from her parents.

Liberty Counsel is currently preparing an emergency appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court that will be filed in the next few days.

The group also is working with Stockman’s legislative staff to explore numerous other state remedies.

The strategies include medical malpractice actions and other tort claims that Liberty Counsel said “could hold those responsible for this atrocity accountable for their extreme conduct.”

“Once again, the court is kicking the can down the road. This is unacceptable,” said Mat Staver, chairman and founder of Liberty Counsel. “DCF has no right to hold Justina like a prisoner. We will pursue every legal means to end this tragedy.”

WND reported Liberty Counsel asked for the contempt citation against the DCF.

The request was based on the fact that on March 3 Johnston approved a written agreement transferring care for the teenager to Tufts Medical Center. The parents had been taking her to the hospital for treatment before the state agency intervened.

“Despite this enforceable order, DCF still has not made appointments with Tufts,” said Liberty Counsel in its explanation of the request to the court.

“The Pelletiers have spoken several times to Dr. Korson, who was treating Justina before this debacle began, and they obtained an appointment date. Dr. Korson said that he wants to see Justina and resume her treatment immediately.”

According to Liberty Counsel, for 14 months DCF has refused to provide adequate medical care, refused to allow Justina access to clergy or communion and “even refused to provide any meaningful education for her.”

Before she was taken by Children’s, Liberty Counsel reported, Justina was involved in ice-skating competitions and was in a private school under an Individualized Education Plan for a learning disability.

“Now she is weak and in a wheelchair,” the organization said. “Without any education, she has fallen at least two years behind her classmates. DCF has allowed the parents only one hour per week to visit their daughter, but always with a DCF worker or workers present. DCF has prevented the parents from taking a cell phone in to photograph their daughter. Last month, DCF even filed a motion to hold Lou Pelletier in contempt of court for speaking to the national media.”

‘Never seen a more barbaric overreach’
Staver said Liberty Counsel will file an appeal or a habeas corpus petition challenging the legality of the state’s custody.

“In all my years in practice, I have never seen a more barbaric overreach by a state agency,” he said. “The family has asked us to pursue every legal means necessary to get their daughter home.”

According to WTIC-TV in Hartford, Conn., Justina’s sister, Jennifer, has said Justina is in poor condition.

“Her physical appearance, just from seeing her, it’s scary. Her legs are more swollen. They’re cold to the touch. She has no feeling in her feet,” Jennifer told WTIC.

Justina, from West Hartford, has been at Wayside Youth and Family Support Network in Framingham, Mass., recently.

The Boston Globe reports the girl has spent most of the past year “in a locked psychiatric ward” at Children’s Hospital.

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Mom Sues Psychiatric Prison, Alleges Son Isolated for 6,300 Hours, Shackled to Bed

April 1, 2014
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When Joanne Minich recently visited son Peter, 31, at Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts, prison guards brought her to a locked cell that inmates call the "bird cage," where he was shackled at the hands, waist and bare feet, she says.

For the past 14 months, Peter Minich has been legally committed to a legendary facility once called the state hospital "for the criminally insane" but, according to his Brookline, Mass., mother, he has never been convicted of a crime – only diagnosed with a mental illness.

Minich says her son has suffered from paranoid schizophrenia since his late teens and a court sent him to Bridgewater in January 2013, after staff members at another psychiatric hospital filed assault misdemeanor criminal charges against him. Her son had no previous criminal record or history of violent behavior, she says.


Courtesy of Joanne Minich

Peter Minich’s condition has deteriorated since spending 6,300 hours in solitary confinement, according to his mother, Joanne Minich.

"People say it's a hospital, but it's not a hospital. It's a prison," Minich, 66, said of the facility, which is administered by the state Department of Correction. "I don't think they are helping him at all. It's torture. It looks like a cage you put an animal in." WATCH: Mom Says Son Deprived of Human Contact

Minich has now filed a lawsuit in Norfolk County Superior Court against the state Department of Correction, the superintendent of Bridgewater State Hospital, the state of Massachusetts and MHM Services Inc., a national health care provider, for alleged abuses against her son.

The March 31 lawsuit, which was obtained by ABCNews.com, alleges that staff have isolated her son in a locked seclusion room at the intensive-treatment unit for at least 6,300 hours from January 14, 2013 to March 12, 2014, and restrained him to objects like his bed for 815 hours from January 14, 2013 to January 22, 2014.

She says her son's caregivers have violated American Psychiatric Association guidelines, as well as the state's Seclusion and Restraint law, which allows such techniques "in cases of emergency, such as the occurrence of, or serious threat of, extreme violence, personal injury or attempted suicide."

Seclusion and restraints were ordered for incidents such as hearing voices, licking another inmate's feet, having a seizure and being assaulted by another inmate, according to 5,000 pages of prison records cited in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit alleges that her son was offered no exercise program or outdoor activity, and his food was delivered through a "slot in the door." His only contact with other human beings was when placed in restraints, medicated or given electro-shock treatment, according to the lawsuit.

Peter Minich's parents have only been allowed to visit their son once a week, with a 10-minute phone call every two days. They say his condition has worsened, with more hallucinations and anxiety, and he has become more aggressive as a result of incarceration. They say their son has also lost 40 pounds.

"It's horrible," Minich, who works in a special care nursery with premature babies, told ABCNews.com. "He's living with this mental illness and you can't let the system destroy him. It's not humanitarian what they are doing to him. He is a difficult case. I am not denying that, but it doesn't mean he should be in a prison."

Minich is demanding that her son be moved from Bridgewater. "All I want is him out of there and in a therapeutic environment," she said. "I am afraid one day I will get the phone call saying he is dead. It's a horrible way to live."

The lawsuit is not seeking damages, but compliance with the seclusion and restraint statute; a treatment plan that includes individual and group therapy, and socialization and "activities of daily living" training; and a transfer to a place that is not a prison.

This is not the first time Bridgewater has come under fire for alleged abuse. In 2009, inmate Joshua K. Messier, 23, died while guards were placing him in restraints. A Boston Globe expose resulted in the discipline of six correction officials, and the state has agreed to pay the family $3 million as part of a settlement.

In 1967, Bridgewater State Hospital was the subject of a documentary, "Titicut Follies," which showed graphic examples of physical abuse by staff and doctors. A Superior Court judge banned its public showing and ordered all copies of the film seized because of “crudities, nudities, and obscenities … eighty minutes of brutal sordidness and human degradation."

"This is worse than anything I saw in 'Titicut Follies,'" Minich's lawyer, Roderick MacLeish Jr., told ABCNews.com. "At least they let them out in the yard and they had Christmas parties."

The lawsuit states that for 60 days at the end of 2013, Minich was held in seclusion for 24 hours a day, all but for eight and a half hours, including Thanksgiving and Christmas. In October of that year, he was allegedly held in mechanical restraint for more than 50 consecutive hours.

MacLeish alleges that Peter Minich, an intelligent man, has been given no reading materials when asked, nor stimulating activities while in solitary confinement, and, as a result, has deteriorated mentally.

"This is a slow death for Peter," he said. "It has evolved as part of our punitive culture." MacLeish said that Bridgewater was "cleaned up" in the 1980s. "But now we find out they are back to their old practices. … It's a disgrace, particularly since our governor [Deval Patrick] used to be head of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department and has widely said that isolation should not be used."

Patrick has been outspoken on the issue, saying these measures should be used as a "last resort."

The governor's press secretary, Heather Nichols, responded to a request by ABCNews.com for comment by referring by citing part of a speech Patrick made last month:

"The evidence tells us that methods traditionally used to handle difficult prisoners may actually exacerbate the difficulties of those with mental illness. Solitary confinement can cause extreme disorientation that only worsens asocial behavior within a correctional institute -- let alone after release. If it remains a feature of our correctional system, it should be reserved for the most exceptional situations, and only as a last resort.

"Fully restraining a mentally ill inmate carries similar risks. Unless it can be said with certainty that the inmate poses a serious and immediate physical danger to himself or his fellow inmates, he should not be tied down, limb-by-limb, in a 21st Century correctional institution. Most of our inmates -- even the most difficult ones -- will return to the streets of our Commonwealth. Our treatment of them must always keep that fact in mind, and preserve to the extent possible their own grip on their humanity."

The Massachusetts Department of Correction provided ABCNews.com with this statement:

"We are reviewing the complaint and the facts of this case closely. While we cannot comment on specific individuals or cases, the use of seclusion and restraint at Bridgewater State Hospital (BSH) is a clinical decision and one we view as a measure of last resort to protect patients from each other, from themselves and to keep staff safe. These clinical decisions are based on an individual's specific needs, behaviors and medical conditions. The Department of Correction (DOC) has taken a number of steps in recent years to better train staff in de-escalation techniques to limit instances where seclusion and restraint are necessary. Additionally, DOC and BSH work closely with the Department of Mental Health to transition BSH patients, when appropriate, to Department of Mental Health hospitals for care."

MHM Services Inc., the national health care provider named in the suit, has not responded to a request for comment. The superintendent of Bridgewater State Hospital could not be reached for comment.

Dr. Igor Galynker, director of The Family Center for Bipolar Disorder at Mount Sinai Beth Israel and professor of psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, said most patients with schizophrenia are treated effectively with medications.

"In most people, they are very good at controlling the positive symptoms, which are hallucinations and delusions and disorganization, all leading at times to violent behavior," he said.

"Seclusion is less restrictive than restraints," said Galynker, who has never treated Peter Minich. "It's really a big deal to put someone in restraints and it's very tightly regulated. You need a doctor's order, time limit, and constant monitoring."

Patients must be assessed every 15 minutes, he said, and the maximum time typically allowed in seclusion at any one time is four hours for an adult an two hours for an adolescent.

"First of all, it's damaging physically," he said of seclusion. "They can injure themselves by throwing themselves against a wall when in seclusion or by cutting the circulation in an arm by thrashing about so much when they are in restraints.

"Psychologically, it can be incredibly damaging to have lack of stimulation and sensory deprivation," Galynker added. "It causes hallucinations, even in people who are healthy."

As a child, Peter Minich was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, but he was "really artistic and athletic," his mother said. "He played soccer and hockey and was OK for a good part of his life."

But he began to show signs of mental illness around 14 or 15, his mother. said "I thought maybe, like other teenage boys, he was having a hard time because of the ADD and he was frustrated," she said.

For a time, he attended a special school. But by high school, "Things got worse and he started hearing voices," his mother said.

He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and hospitalized at in 2003 Harvard University-affiliated McLean Hospital. For several years, he was in and out of treatment there, until private insurance "ran out," Minich said.

In 2011, he was transferred to Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain, a facility run by the Massachusetts Department of Correction and Department of Mental Health, providing residential psychiatric care. He began to engage in more aggressive behavior but was "generally lethargic," according to the lawsuit.

"Things started to go down quickly from there," she said. "He tried to kill himself. But he never really hit anybody or anything."

But between Nov. 6 and 26, 2012, Minich was accused of punching a staff member, throwing a chair at another, pushing a third person and then masturbating in front of a fourth, according to the lawsuit.

Sometimes around Dec. 7, 2012, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital staff members contacted law enforcement, requesting charges be brought against Peter Minich, even though they were "aware that Mr. Minich could not be held criminally responsible," the lawsuit alleges.

The lawsuit says that on or about Jan. 13, 2013, he was arrested and jailed, then placed at Bridgewater for evaluation.

Once transferred to Bridgewater, it argues, Minich's alleged crimes "could not possibly lead to incarceration even if he was convicted," his lawyer said..

Since entering Bridgewater, Minich said, her son has "regressed."

"He's on a litany of medications and supposedly had a second evaluation, but I am not sure about that," she said. "Even though I am his guardian, I don't get a lot of information."

"They have criminalized his illness. That's what they are doing," she said. "And it's unconscionable and he's not in a therapeutic environment. I know he is ill. I can live with that. But no one should be treated like an animal, locked in an isolation cage."

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by chancy (here)
Just a side note: I have a live blood microscope and I can tell you that this documentary is Very, Very Correct! When you clean up your body to more alkaline you can see your blood improve at an astounding pace.

Yesterday, I noticed a positive result from my recent efforts to clean up my blood.

I don't have a microscope, so am just going by subjective body sensations.

In my youth, long ago, I had been a long distance runner. My legs (almost) never tired. I can remember running with my remaining oxygen levels so low that I was getting tunnel vision and I was having to focus to remain conscious ... my heart, lungs and legs were still strong, ready for that race winning sprint at the end of a long run.

After a decade of high exercise, I went the other way - I've not done any serious exercise in some 40 years now. Marvellously, my cardiovascular system stayed in decent shape (no more races, but did all I asked of them, without tiring.)

Then in the last year or two, I began to notice that my leg muscles would tire rapidly when doing the tiny bit of lawn work needed on my trailer park lot. The last time I had felt that was when the coach asked me to fill in for someone else in the one mile race, after I had already won the two mile. I finally ran out of gas in the last hundred yards of that second race.

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This year was better, back to easily doing my (quite modest) lawn care tasks.

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But I don't think that acid vs alkaline is the best way to describe what I did, and what I think matters here.

What I think matters is sufficient water, that is structured, and that has sufficient quantity and variety of mineral ions (the various minerals that the body needs, in solution.)

As a matter of basic facts, what I did was to focus on my water:

1. removing everything but the water, with a series of filters, including both reverse osmosis and distillation,
2. remineralizing it with sulfates (Willards), sodium bicarbonate, potassium bicarbonate, magnesium bicarbonate, and trace minerals (Real Salt sole),
3. restructuring it with magnets, vortices and Precious Prills, and
4. drinking some water each day with added fulvic and humic concentrate.

The key concepts are that (1) the body's electro-magnetic structure is vital, (2) this requires the various water soluble mineral ions in sufficient quantity, (3) water is structured, and (4) mineral rich, well structured water is essential to life.

The waters of certain springs and health spas around the world have been known for centuries for their healing powers.

See further, for example, the "Healing is Voltage" books of Jerry Tennant, and "The Fourth Phase of Water" by Gerald Pollack. Jerry Tennant can be heard on the video you posted above at the 1 hr 54 sec mark. Another good book on this is "The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life", by Robert Becker and Gary Selden .

I'd wager that my blood would look better now than it did last year, under your microscope.

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There is a correlation between properly mineralized water, and alkalinity, for it is the conductive mineral ions in solution (conductive due to having just 1 or 2 electrons in the outer shell) that will make water test as more alkaline.

Similarly, there is also a correlation between "anti-oxidants" and alkalinity. Oxidants are "anti-conductive", due to having an outer electron shell that is almost complete, just one or two electrons short of the complete shells seen in the inert noble gases. They steal electrons (bind to conductive ions, as oxygen forms rust with iron).

But it is not the alkalinity or the anti-oxidation that one seeks exclusively. The body very much needs oxygen and acid! What matters here are the electro-magnetic structures of the body, both "in the large" (the whole body) and "in the small" (at the cellular and molecular levels).

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I have also been using a SOTA Silver Pulser (derives from Bob Beck's work), so the above experiment was certainly not done in a scientific manner, double blind, isolating factors. But life is not a scientific experiment.

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• “All disease starts with the absence of enough essential ionic minerals within the body.”
• "You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency."

~ Dr Linus Pauling, MD.

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Congressman's bill stops federal funds for medical centers targeting kids like Justina Pelletier


CCHR
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 04:09 CDT

"Recently, there have been several high profile cases involving the rights of parents and various state agencies. State agencies are tearing children away from parents if they seek a second medical opinion or decide against giving their child a dangerous psychotropic drug." — Congressman Steve Stockman

Congressman Stockman will introduce legislation cutting off funds to medical institutions that conduct greater than minimal risk research on wards of the state, deny First Amendment rights to parents and wards of the state, and take children away from their parents over disagreements on subjective diagnoses.

Such medical institutions include the National Institute of Health, state agencies, medical facilities, and hospitals. This bill would direct the Inspector General of Health and Human Services to withhold funds from these institutions for the aforementioned reasons.

The story of Justina Pelletier, who has mitochondrial disease and was declared a ward of the state over a custody battle regarding a subjective psychotropic drug diagnosis, motivated Congressman Stockman to introduce the legislation.

Lou and Linda Pelletier brought their daughter, Justina, to Boston Children's Hospital for flu-like symptoms in February 2013. Justina had been diagnosed with and receiving treatment for Mitochondrial Disease, a genetic medical condition, since 2011. Less than 24 hours after being admitted to Boston Children's Hospital, mental health workers disagreed with the Mitochondrial Disease diagnosis and insisted she had a psychiatric disorder called Somatoform (though there are no fool-proof medical or genetic tests to validate this as a legitimate medical condition).

Upon learning of the psychiatric diagnosis, the Pelletiers attempted to discharge Justina from the hospital. In response, the Hospital filed an allegation of medical child abuse against them. Justina has now been removed from her parents' care, and has been under psychiatric treatment for over a year.

"Boston Children's Hospital will not disclose if they are performing experiments on Justina. What is known is that several institutions are engaging in this ethically questionable behavior and getting federal funds for it. It is wrong for hospitals and research centers to use your tax money to perform risky, unbeneficial research on wards of the state," said Congressman Stockman.

Stockman sent the following letter to members of Congress:

Dear Colleague,

Recently, there have been several high profile cases involving the rights of parents and various state agencies. State agencies are tearing children away from parents if they seek a second medical opinion or decide against giving their child a dangerous psychotropic drug.

Lou and Linda Pelletier brought their daughter, Justina, to Boston Children's Hospital for flu-like symptoms in February 2013. Justina had been diagnosed with and receiving treatment for Mitochondrial Disease, a genetic medical condition, since 2011. Less than 24 hours after being admitted to Boston Children's Hospital, mental health workers disagreed with the Mitochondrial Disease diagnosis and insisted she had a psychiatric disorder called Somatoform (though there are no fool-proof medical or genetic tests to validate this as a legitimate medical condition).

Upon learning of the psychiatric diagnosis, the Pelletiers attempted to discharge Justina from the hospital. In response, the Hospital filed an allegation of medical child abuse against them. Justina has now been removed from her parents' care, and has been under psychiatric treatment for over a year. Justina has not been allowed to attend mass, take communion, or observe any of her other religious First Amendment rights under the constitution.

The Justina Pelletier case in Massachusetts is not the first case; it has only magnified the problem. How bad is the problem? 8 million children are on some type of psychotropic drug. Included in that figure are 120,000 babies under one year of age.

It is far too easy for a physician to threaten families with the charge of medical neglect should they want to seek a second opinion. If a family questions a doctor regarding the safety of the drug, the doctor can then call a relevant state institution to have a child removed. This is what happened with Maryanne Godboldo in Detroit.

Maryanne Godboldo

Maryanne refused to give her daughter Arianna a harmful, potentially lethal antipsychotic drug documented by international drug regulatory agencies to increase the chances of an onset of diabetes, stroke, and death. Maryanne did this under the careful guidance of another physician. As soon as the doctor that prescribed the original psychotropic drug was made aware of the parent's lawful decision, Child Protective Services was notified, and a SWAT team was sent to retrieve the little girl from her mother: a mother who refused to put her child's life in danger.

The police and CPS negotiated with Maryanne and assured her that they would not take her daughter to a psychiatric ward, or administer drugs to her. They lied. Arianna was taken to a psychiatric ward where she was drugged against her mother's will. It would take nearly two months to get Maryanne's daughter out of the psychiatric hospital. This case garnered international press coverage.

Once a child becomes a "ward of the state," he or she becomes a second class citizen. These children do not have the protections afforded them while they were with their parents. Many hospitals and institutions around the nation currently have policies allowing them to conduct research on a ward of the state presenting greater than minimal risk with no prospect of direct benefit for the research subject. In many cases, federal funds are allocated to these hospitals and other state institutions to facilitate this 'research,' on children who are wards of the state. In short, taxpayers are funding the systematic drugging of our nation's most vulnerable children.

There is also a disturbing link between the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and drug companies. A study from Tufts University found that of the 170 DSM panel members 95 (56%) had one or more financial associations with companies in the pharmaceutical industry. One hundred percent of the members of the panels on "Mood Disorders" and "Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders" had financial ties to drug companies. The same doctors alleging medical neglect have a financial incentive to give these dangerous drugs to children, by any means necessary.

I would like to invite you to join me in sponsoring legislation that would withhold all funding from the National Institute of Health from going to institutions, agencies, or medical facilities that do not respect the rights of parents and children. Many state agencies and institutions have been incentivized to treat children who are wards of the state as second class citizens, violating their natural civil rights. In many instances, these agencies have also violated constitutional due process in taking children from their parents. This bill will remove that financial incentive.

- Congressman Steve Stockman

The Parental Protection Act

U.S. Representative Steve Stockman
36th District of Texas
Press Release - April 29, 2014

SOTT Comment: Just how deep does the rabbit hole goes? See Head of Mass. Social Services agency at center of Pelletier case resigns. Children dead and tortured. For more information, watch:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cz7CJ1bYioM

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Justina Pelletier faces continual abuse after more than a year of being locked away by DCF


Police State USA
Sun, 04 May 2014 15:54 CDT

Justina Pelletier asks parents to “Hurry” to help her.

The anguish of a sick teenager continues well over a year after her abduction from her family. Justina Pelletier has been locked away in the care of Massachusetts DCF since February 2013, and a court has put her into the permanent custody of the state. In that time, her family has made allegations of her repeated abuse and "torture." Justina has been barred from making public statements and has begged for help in secret notes smuggled to her family. The young girl is not even allowed to sleep properly or take a shower in privacy, shocking new details reveal.

A struggle to survive

15-year-old Justina Pelletier's saga has been filled with setbacks and heartbreaks for the entire family. The Pelletiers have had to watch in prolonged agony as Justina's health diminished after being deprived of treatments for her mitochondrial disorder. She has since been heavily medicated with anti-psychotropic drugs, for a supposed mental illness that her family doesn't believe that she actually has.

Her father, Lou Pelletier, has been speaking out for some time about her mistreatment in the hands of DCF. He has decried the "behavioral modification" techniques employed on his daughter, the isolation, and abuse that he said rivals something out of North Korea.

"She's being allowed to be tortured in this country, I'll leave it at that," said Lou.

Justina has obviously suffered. She went from being an athletic teenager prior to her detainment to a crippled, dying patient. After her "treatments," she has lost control over her legs, and now requires a wheelchair. She has very weak motor functions in her upper body. Her hairline has receded and her family unanimously feels that she may not have long to live.

During a recent supervised visit - which included 2-5 DCF workers and police presence - Lou said Justina's shirt lifted slightly to reveal "severe dark red lines coming out from where her port was, from her cecostomy tube. And that's either a sign of poisoning, sepsis getting to the system, or some other critical thing. If we hadn't seen it and raised a red flag, she could be dead today."

The Pelletiers discovered a serious septic wound that was left untreated on her stomach.

No freedom of speech

Dangerous medicine: Justina Pelletier now has a receding hairline.

Justina - a 15-year-old teenager - has been kept isolated from the world for over a year. Besides the brief, police-supervised visits with her family, she has been barred from seeing her friends. She has been barred from making any unauthorized communications with the outside world. She has been barred from giving a public interview with the media, or with state legislators interested in helping her.

Her freedoms have been reduced to that of a prisoner; in some respects she has less freedom than inmates have.

Prohibited from writing letters to her family, she has been forced to write them notes in secret. She has to hide them from social workers and smuggle them to her family. Her family released one note as evidence of Justina's mistreatment.

"She's very intelligent and figures out ways to sneak us stuff," said her father. "She's been risking life and limb to get any bit of information to us."

Justina's note left the public even more outraged and disturbed at what may be going on behind closed doors.

"[They] do not let me sleep very much," Justina wrote.

"Hurry," she continued. "They hurt me all the time, push me all the time, and more."

© Personhood USA,A secret note that Justina Pelletier’s smuggled to her parents.

The Pelletiers were officially told not to speak about their daughter's case via a gag order. However, after about a year they could not contain their frustration and turned to the media for help. Risking jail time, Lou Pelletier came out and made many private details of the case known and the story became a national outrage. The judge declined to punish him, after the case gained such a high profile.

Continued abuse

The family recently discovered one of the incidents of "psychological abuse" that Justina has been put through. It seems that even her shower time is being invaded by state workers.

The family called 9-1-1 to report an incident of Justina being abused while showering, WCVB reported.

"My sister expressed that she was in the shower and she was harassed while she was naked taking a shower by a staff member that didn't even have privileges to be in the area of Justina's bathroom," said Justina's sister, Jennifer.

"Justina told the staff member that this is a private area," Jennifer continued. "The staff member ripped open the curtain and started yelling at my sister."

"I'm numb right now. I'm trying to stay strong, but it's not easy. It's absolutely disgusting," said her mother, Linda.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=L79Yo7j1J8s

The agency, of course, denied the allegations. Although reviewing DCF's records shows a history of poor decisions and child abuse. After several children recently ended up dead in the DCF care, prominent voices have been calling for DCF Commissioner Olga Roche to resign. There seems to be a disturbing pattern of stealing children from loving parents, and giving children away to child-abusers.

The public must continue to create pressure for the release of Justina Pelletier, but also press for changes that will protect innocent families from the unchecked harassment and oppression at the hands of the state.

SOTT.net Comment: Children tortured and dead... More information:

-Head of Mass. Social Services agency at center of Pelletier case resigns
-Parents lose custody of teen after seeking 2nd medical opinion; girl indefinitely detained in psych ward
-Boston Psychiatric Unit's imprisonment of teenager Justina Pelletier needs State investigation into reckless endangerment of psychiatric diagnosing

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Social Services and Psychiatry

by Phil on May 9, 2014

The controversy surrounding Justina Pelletier and her family has expanded its scope in recent months, and has now become a general public scrutiny of Massachusetts’s Department of Children and Families.

On April 29, State Governor Deval Patrick gave a press conference in which he announced the resignation of DCF Commissioner Olga Roche.

I think there’s a very real risk of confusing some issues here. The sad fact is that, despite the enormous strides we have made as a society, there are still a great many children who are abused and neglected. Every state in the US has a social services department, one of whose statutory responsibilities is to investigate reports of abuse and/or neglect. The case workers who conduct the investigations are required to follow set procedures. Often they find that the allegation is unfounded, and the investigation is terminated. When they do find probable cause, they are required by law to present their findings to a judge, who scrutinizes the evidence in accordance with the normal judicial procedures. The social services department, the parents, and the child are usually represented by attorneys.

A wide range of options is available to the court, from outright termination of parental rights to outright dismissal of the case. Both of these extremes are rare. The usual outcome is some kind of remediation program, whereby the parents are encouraged and coached in childcare matters. Sometimes the children are placed in foster homes pending resolution of issues in the home. If the home issues aren’t resolved, the foster care placement can be lengthy.

The system isn’t perfect. Mistakes get made, and sometimes the mistakes are serious. I have no way of knowing if the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families was more error-prone than social service departments in other states. Obviously the commissioner Olga Roche has to take responsibility. But whether she was personally derelict in her duties or was just the designated fall-gal, I don’t know.

But this I do know: the spotlight has been taken off psychiatry.

The central issue in Justina’s case was, and is, the “diagnosis” of somatic symptom disorder and the allegation of medical child abuse. And there’s a danger of losing sight of that when a departmental commissioner gets tossed to the wolves and the state governor says

“DCF has one of the toughest assignments imaginable. Every single day they’re called upon to intervene and make difficult decisions…And most of the time, DCF gets it right.” (Quoted from a Metro article by Morgan Rousseau).

Most of the time, DCF does get it right. Most of the time they’re dealing with allegations of blatant abuse and neglect; children being raised in unsanitary and unsafe conditions; children being sexually abused and even prostituted; etc… Social services case workers investigate these complaints on behalf of society. They are bound by strict procedures, and when they go to court they are subject to cross-examination, and their findings are subject to official and legal scrutiny.

The issues are never simple, but the critical questions are usually clear and understandable. If a child has a broken bone, X-ray reports are introduced into evidence, and the radiologist is subject to cross-examination. If there are allegations of an unsafe home environment, photographs are produced. If there are live electric wires protruding from wall sockets, everybody in the courtroom can see the pictures, and everybody knows the potential danger if there are toddlers in the home. And so on.

But all of this changes in a case of “somatic symptom disorder” and alleged medical child abuse. In these cases the issues, the “realities,” consist entirely of psychiatric opinion. When a psychiatrist states on the witness stand that the child “has somatic symptom disorder,” the impression is conveyed that this is a real illness with the same kind of verifiable reality as asthma or diabetes or kidney failure. So there’s a very strong tendency for the lawyers, and even the judge, to afford the same kind of respect to a psychiatrist’s statement as they would to a report from a radiologist or other genuine medical specialist.

What’s not routinely recognized is that the psychiatric “diagnosis” is nothing more than the psychiatrist’s opinion. In the case of Justina, the “diagnosis” was somatic symptom disorder, which simply means that Justina in the opinion of a psychiatrist, was inordinately preoccupied with her medical condition.

I have worked with a great many sick people over the years, and have struggled with chronic medical problems myself, and frankly, I can’t even imagine how one could assess whether a person’s concerns in these areas were excessive or inordinate. And this is especially the case in that, since DMS-5, the “diagnosis” of somatic symptom disorder can be assigned even in cases where the person actually has a real illness!

And the allegation of medical child abuse simply means that, again in the opinion of a psychiatrist, Justina’s parents had been foisting on her the notion that she was sick, and had pressured various surgeons and other specialists to subject their child to extreme and invasive medical procedures.

Here we have no photographs of exposed electric wires; no reports of young children being left home alone; no evidence of malnutrition or emaciation; no medical evidence of young children having been sexually abused; no X-ray reports of broken bones; etc… Only the opinions and the invented “diagnoses” of psychiatrists!
When Governor Patrick stated that DCF usually get things right, he made no distinction between the kinds of abuse/neglect that social services departments traditionally investigate and the inherently vague psychiatric “abuse” of which Justina’s parents stand accused.

It was perhaps inevitable that media coverage of Justina’s case would expand into a general criticism of DCF and the commissioner. Criticism of that sort is healthy, and is one of the cornerstones of democracy. But what’s noteworthy at present is that we’re seeing very little coverage of psychiatry or of the role that the psychiatric “diagnosis” played in this matter. This is critical, because without the “diagnosis” of somatic symptom disorder and the subsequent allegation of medical child abuse, none of what’s happened to Justina and her parents could even have gotten off the ground.

Psychiatry captured Justina with one of their spurious labels, confident, presumably, that the parents would cave and play along. But the parents rebelled, and the psychiatric sham was exposed for what it is. Psychiatry, as usual, had no rational defense, so instead they side-stepped the issues, and the spotlight has moved elsewhere.

And let’s not forget that psychiatry’s leaders are being schooled by Porter Novelli, a major PR firm, in how to interact with the media.

Last updated by Phil at May 8, 2014.
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[avid]

A reminder - http://themindunleashed.org/2013/11/...nking-now.html this whole thing is a sickening insight......

[Hervé]

Yep, and that was DSM IV... now they have it new and "improved" with DSM V (see post # 6) or that kid "diagnosed" as suffering from "oppositional defiant disorder" in the ninth grade... (see this post <--- click)

[Hervé]

American Psychiatric Association is a pawn used against political dissent

Lisa Cerda
American Outrage
Tue, 27 May 2014 01:30 CDT

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) recently released their 5th edition, 'Diagnostic and Statistical Manual" (DSM 5). Any sane mental health provider would reject its misguided attempt to make normal healthy behaviors into pathology.

The combination of a declining educational system, a fatally flawed mental health manual, and a political environment ripe with dissension does not bode well for Americans who have a legitimate gripe with their government.

Political dissent is a symptom of good mental health. It's a demand for truth, evidence, and appropriate action. Peaceful Dissent is not a threat, yet it is often met with violence. Instead of addressing the psychotic disorders of the authoritarian figures the DSM5 takes aim at those exercising their constitutional rights.

The government seeks to make dissent criminal and the DSM5 seeks to make it pathological. This two pronged approach, aimed at silencing dissent, only ups the ante for dissenters. The greater the personal risk, the greater the need to restore and protect our rights and freedoms.

It seems like politicians only like our political rights in terms of moving speeches and vote getting tactics. Not in practical application. Foolishly they vote to suspend our rights, based on certain criteria's, that have existed since the beginning of our constitutional republic. The government has always created enemies, foreign and domestic, yet gun rights was sacred. Am I paranoid to object to this.

Our forefathers built a new nation, by killing off an existing one, to establish this constitution. One hundred million dead American Indians, is what the Constitution cost us. Would we really let ANYONE come and destroy its gifts when the cost was so high?

The DSM5 is an attack on normal human behavior. It takes natural behavior like grief over the death of a loved one, or childhood temper tantrums, or senior forgetfulness, or dissent and turn these behaviors into a diagnosis of mental illness. The DSM5 targets internet users and conspiracy theorists which bolsters Obama's and Biden's grounds for gun confiscation or rejection of gun licenses. The administration sees all mental illness as equal, so your phobia can prevent you from owning a weapon.

According to the Daily News:

The new manual "will drastically expand psychiatric diagnosis, mislabel millions of people as mentally ill, and cause unnecessary treatment with medication," says the website for the Committee to Boycott the DSM-5, organized by New York social worker Jack Carney.

The DSM4 had equally poor judgment within it. Its new diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), which was mocked among professionals, took hold regardless. In DSM5 they expanded the diagnosis to include adults who exemplify "paranoid ideation" about the government and who frequently express these delusional ideations on the internet.

What is even more frightening, is the new ODD diagnosis will not just seize guns. It will commandeer a person's mind through incarceration, for their own good of course, and forced drugging which will chemically castrate the brains of all arrested political dissidents.

In the opinion of the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.

"Psychiatric incarceration of mentally healthy people is uniformly understood to be a particularly pernicious form of repression, because it uses the powerful modalities of medicine as tools of punishment, and it compounds a deep affront to human rights with deception and fraud..."

Obamacare doctors are required to ask about your gun ownership status. It is yet one more professional weighing in your right to own a weapon. Let's be honest, none of us spend enough time with our doctor to even get a thorough exam let alone a mental evaluation. His own political beliefs on gun ownership will shade his viewpoint regardless, just like the issue of abortion.

A real patriot would not submit to this power grab, not the doctors, the therapists, or the citizenry. Too much power is granted to a group of people who have a huge history of violating patient/doctor relationships.

Check out the Psychiatric Crime Database.The website states:

Many psychiatrists have an intimate knowledge of criminality -- one which has nothing to do with the professions involvement in the expert witness field.

• Between $20 billion and $40 billion is defrauded by the American psychiatric industry in any given year.
• At least 10% of psychiatrists admit to sexually abusing their patients: In America, that's at least 4,500 rapes and, internationally, more than 15,000 rapes.
• Psychiatrists, psychologists and psychotherapists have the dubious distinction of having laws specifically designed to curtail their tendency to commit sex crimes against those in their charge.
• A 1992 study of Medicaid and Medicare insurance fraud in the U.S. showed psychiatry to have the worst track record of all medical disciplines.

The database overflows with abuse stories. Into these hands our future rights go? I don't think so!


SOTT-Comment: For more information see Psychopaths in power: The Parasite on the Human Super-organism.

Germs are not aware that they will be burned alive or buried deep in the ground along with the human body whose death they are causing.