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Mar 15, 2010

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Delayed or prevented tweets about this article:

@MostMostTweet Wonder if you see what I do when U visit my post. Often different when I'm not signed in as myself. ~ @MostMostTweet Article has: 1) Watch out Troy Davis - Jim Crow Proms in GA; 2) Does America Need Advice on Human/Civil Rights?

IT IS ALMOST SPRING!  Spring is a time for flowers, Easter bunnies, and proms.  I wonder if Montgomery County is having separate but equal proms this year.  It is almost time to shop for that perfect dress or have fittings for the right tux.  That made me think about my prom article from last spring.  I hope you remember it, but if not, you can see my full line-up of articles at NowPublic.com at this link - http://NowPublic.com/duo - at least you will see the ones that were not removed, but that is another story.  Last spring, many of us were shocked to learn there were still separate proms happening, and it made us really nervous for Troy Davis because Davis is depending on having a "fair day in a just court" in Georgia.  Remember?  Now it is a year later, and Davis is still waiting to know if that is ever going to happen for him.  Nothing changed for Troy Davis yet.  He remains on death row waiting to see if he will ever get to present his new evidence before a jury.  I wonder if anything has changed regarding proms in Georgia? 

NOTHING CHANGED regarding my family's justice quest either.  We're still asking for open disclosure and justice for Larry Neal, and we are still getting censored and stalked for asking.  I thought I'd write to some foreign consulates and ask them to speak to the USA on the Neal family's behalf, and also on behalf of the 1.25 million sick people imprisoned here.  See a rough draft of my letter below and give me your suggestions, please.


"Jim Crow Crowned Prom King in Georgia ~ Watch Out, Troy Davis!"

by duo | May 27, 2009 at 07:04 am
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  • Troy Davis Execution Protest
  • White Prom, Montgomery Co. High School, GA (2009) | Photo 552
  • Solidarity!| Photo 551
  • Black Students' Prom, Montgomery HS, Monroe Co., GA (2009) | Photo 550

SEPARATE BUT EQUAL SENIOR PROMS IN GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOLS

~ Montgomery County High School in Georgia has two separate proms for its graduating seniors - one for the white students and one for the black ones.

See the video at the New York Times link below.

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New York Times
May 21, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/24/magazine/dividedproms-audioss/index.html

A PROM DIVIDED

There are 54 students in the class of 2009 at Montgomery County High School. On May 1 — a balmy Friday evening — the white students held their senior prom. And the following night — a balmy Saturday — the black students had theirs.

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Secondly, I want to share with you a rough draft of a letter I'm taking to the foreign consulate offices this week.  I remember how years ago America used to advise other countries on human rights and tolerance, especially to countries where there was such division among the population that they were on the verge of ethnic clensing, etc.  Now it appears that it is our turn.  Someone really needs to talk with our leaders about human rights, I believe.  This is the first part of a draft letter I'm preparing for foreign consulates with offices here in Atlanta.  Maybe they could advise our officials on racism, and discrimination against citizens with disabilities.  I really think it is time for someone to have a long talk with our leaders and make suggestions for change.

                                       Mary Neal
                                     P.O. Box 153
                                   Redan, GA 30074

Dear Sir/Madam:

Greetings. I am writing you for a favor. If you ever meet with American dignitaries or government officials, would you please ask them to consider upgrading the caste for African American disabled people? Right now, citizens in that category are in a lower caste than canines. Reports of dogs being murdered or abused are always investigated and frequently prosecuted. Thousands of Americans also petition other countries to stop animal abuse. Domestic animals have rights in the United States that are far superior to those afforded to human beings who are disabled, especially if a citizen suffers from a mental disability. Mentally ill Americans of whatever race are considered expendable, but this is especially true if they are black people. In fact, their murders are not investigated like American dogs' abuses and murders. Furthermore, Americans are permitted to petition for animal rights, but I am gang stalked, censored, and terrorized because I advocate for human rights for mentally ill Americans.

As you probably already know, America stopped taking care of the nation's acute mental patients in the 1970's. They were turned out of hospitals to live homeless on the street during that decade, and many of them starved and some froze to death. For the most part, America's chronically homeless population is still comprised of mentally ill people – the expendable citizens.  My brother, Larry Neal, was secretly arrested and murdered in Memphis/ Shelby County Jail in 2003.  While I watched investigators combing a famous athlete's ranch to gather evidence of dog abuse, authorities colluded to prevent any news of my brother's murder being publicized and agreed never to investigate his death or release records about it to his family .......

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HOW IS THAT FOR A BEGINNING?  America definitely needs some advice regarding human/civil rights.  The 800 people who signed Larry's petitions were not enough.  Thousands of other people who signed petitions by AIMI and other organizations and individuals for mentally ill Americans to be transferred from prisons back to hospitals or community care programs have fallen on dry ground.  Many of our officials are such elitists, maybe they will care if more elite people than you and I ask them to please be fair and humane.  We will see.


Happy almost spring week to you!

Blessings,

Mary

 

Mar 14, 2010

Please note at Care2 News Network at this link. http://www.care2.com/news/member/513396753/1422188 PRISON PROFITS SKYROCKET FROM THESE AMERICAN WOES, yet we expect prison investors to fix them:

~WAR

~EXECUTIONS

~SCHOOL CLOSINGS AND TEACHER LAY-OFFS

~RECESSION

~HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT

~RISING PRISON COSTS

~WORLD'S LARGEST INCARCERATION RATE

~CRIMINALIZING MENTAL ILLNESS, INCLUDING PTSD AMONG VETS

Prison Profits vs. Freedom of Press for Mary Neal, Human Rights Advocate
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/prison-profits-vs-freedom-of-press-for.html
This blog should have 26 paragraphs not counting subtitles and 17 links. I list contents because cybercensorship is used to block out parts of your blogs and mine that authorities find objectionable. Try viewing yours from a different computer often if you write about human rights, and you will see. I positioned a photo at my blog post that the censorship force of America will not allow to show. It is a photograph of Troy Davis gagged. You can see it in my Care2 album - Google "AIMI album Care2."  Troy is not the only American gagged to prevent justice.

Censoring Mary Neal is allowed or actually done by authorities in order to prevent my exposing my disabled brother's murder cover-up and expressing the viewpoint that the nation suffers a stiffling prison budget that erodes funds for education, our jobs are disappearing behind prison walls, the death penalty continues despite its loss of public support, and the war is proliferating to benefit prison profiteers, including many decision makers. Just as Troy Davis is under a gag order to prevent his protests that he is innocent, I am illegally censored and terrorized for advocating for justice. See the information below under the headings, National Health Care, The Prison Budget, The Economy and Unemployment, The War, and Cyberterror to Prevent Human Rights Activism. Specific examples of the cyberterror that is intended to intimidate me so that I relinquish the right to freedom of press are included below. As I wrote this blog, "citizens police" made innumerable trips past my home, reving their motors, and helicoptors circled over my home. God said, "Fear not." At church today, I will give video CDs to the prison missionary members that captured real-time cyberterror and cybercensorship that is used against me. I will be happy to send you a CD, also. See "PRISON LABOR PROFITS" at YouTube for a two-minute film as an example. Write to MaryLovesJustice, P.O. Box 153, Redan, Georgia 30074, and please include a donation for production and shipping along with whatever you can include to continue work to decriminalize mental illness through our organization, Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (gifts are not tax deductible).

When I try to open this Google Docs question online, the question is replaced with my Google profile on my view.

HOW TO SHARE MY CYBERTERRORISM VIA GOOGLE DOCS?
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=56924cd29a47031f&hl=en

Additionally, I discovered that when I tried to follow my Care2 Sharebook, the letter "h" would not register; therefore, people cannot actually follow my Sharebook posts. I complained on Twitter, and the "h" letters suddenly appeared at my Blogger blog settings at one link I had written in an attempt to follow my Sharebook: http://www.Care2.com/c2c/Share/Sharebook/html?pid=513396753 - Furthermore, for the blogs that I do follow in my Blogger, the data from those blogs is from six to nine months old, not current data. Cyberstalkers have been instructed to prevent me from getting current data in the fear that I will attend rallies and meetings and reveal information about my disabled brother's secret jailhouse murder and the cruel conditions under which many other Americans are imprisoned - some of whom have no criminal charges but are imprisoned long-term after lunacy arrests.

NATIONAL HEALTH CARE

Is Psychiatric Care Is Omitted to Benefit the Prison Industry?

Millions of people have a common, treatable health condition that may be omitted under current proposals for national health care. Censorship and cyberterror are intended to prevent my advocacy for passing H.R.619, a congressional bill that would make inpatient psychiatric treatment possible for middle-class and indigent mentally ill people by resuming Medicaid funding for eligible persons who cannot afford private hospital fees or $150/hour visits with a psychiatrist. Presently, people who lack the funds for inpatient treatment or private doctor's visits are left untreated in hopes that they will commit a crime and join the 1.25 million mentally ill citizens in the prison system - even if the crime is attempted suicide or mass murder. Rep. Eddie Johnson (D-TX, 30) proposed H.R.619 on January 22, 2009. I write about the bill prolifically; however, my tag lines are frequently illegally edited, and "H.R. 619" is removed to prevent the general public from knowing about the bill, and to prevent the 111th Congress from seeing the support for the bill from the community.

Prison owners and investors recognize that resuming Medicaid funding for psychiatric hospitals would prevent sick Americans in crisis from being incarcerated rather than treated for mental illness. When that funding source was deleted in the 1970's, hospitals closed across the nation, and prisons filled with sick people. They also realize that mentally ill persons who are released from hospitals and prisons should only be released under Assisted Outpatient Treatment programs (AOTs) that provide subsistence assistance and ongoing psychiatric care in their communities. The combination of Medicaid funding for inpatients and AOT programs for community care would eliminate over one-half of the nation's prison cost and give most sick people their lives back. The nation's current prison budget is $50 billion annually, and $185 billion when one adds the costs of police services, attorney fees for indigent clients, and court costs. Over half of that expense results from criminalizing mental illness. That is precisely why I am subjected to heavy censorship and have "citizens police" positioned around my home, stalkers when I leave home to use computers that were not illegally placed on an Intranet to control and impede my input, my phone is tapped - 678.531.0262 (calls go to voicemail, and I do not get the messages).

These and more crimes are done to prevent Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill, and they are permitted to continue by the government despite my asking for help, because many officials, past and present, are prison owners and investors. Because prison industry wants to keep mental patients imprisoned rather than treated in hospitals and their communities under H.R.619 and AOT programs, they attempt to block my attempts to network with people online and terrorize me when I leave home to use computers elsewhere. On one occasion, I was followed by a USDOT truck that was leading four other vehicles that waylaid me at my neighborhood Chevron station. I called 911 and waited on police response for an hour that did not come, and no police investigation of the crime ever happened, just as the DOJ refuses to investigate my mentally and physically ill brother's murder in memphis/Shelby County Jail. Mentally ill people are discriminated against on purpose by the very agencies and individuals that are in place to protect institutionalized persons and prevent discrimination in America. Their victimization extends to people like myself who say, "I Respectfully Object."

THE PRISON BUDGET
Why Prisons are Deemed More Important than Education; Why Teachers are Being Laid Off and Schools Closed?

FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR IS A SUBSTANTIAL SUM. ONE-HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE BILLION A YEAR IS EVEN MORE IMPRESSIVE. THAT IS WHAT OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE BUDGET COSTS. PRISON LABOR PROJECTS GENERATES BILLIONS MORE IN REVENUE. Representative Johnson was courageous to put forth a bill proposing resumption of Medicaid funding for inpatient care. Let us all support H.R. 619, the bill that would help decriminalize mental illness, relieve our prison budget, promote community safety, and save and enrich lives of mentally ill Americans (1 in 5 people) and their families. Ask your candidates whre they stand on continuing to wrongly imprison sick people as opposed to treating them, which would save money and lives. While national health care is the leading topic of debate in Washington, demand that our officials stop discriminating against mental illness and include treatment for psychitric conditions in any health care plan they pass. See the portfolios of your candidates and elected officials to determine which of them has a vested interest in prison labor profits increasing and the prison population having sustained growth. Decriminalizing mental illness would eliminate the need for private prisons, because 1.25 million sick people would be treated in hospitals and their communities rather than relagated to prison in solitary confinemnt cells, tasered, gassed, and put in often-deadly restraint chars to die like musician Sean LeVert and Tim Souders, the subect of a 60-Minutes documentary.

Acute mental patients are imprisoned rather than hospitalized in order that prison profiteers can charge taxpayers significantly more money for "special" arrangements those inmates must have, although most of them actually get no care - only a solitary prison cell where they are kept naked and many are abused and/or killed like Larry Neal was.

Unfortunately, the DOJ was headed during the time Larry was secretly arrested and died in 2003 by former Attorney General Antonio Gonzales, who was indicted in 2008 as a prison profiteer for withholding federal investigations regarding prison abuse for kickbacks. He never went to trial. Larry's family hoped that his secret arrest and wrongful death investigation that was denied when Gonzales was the nation's attorney general would happen under the present administration. Instead, the DOJ refuses to honor the president's executive order to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act by responding to FOIA requests promptly. In fact, Eric Holder's DOJ told Larry Neal's family the DOJ will not answer how and why Larry Neal was killed. Prison profiteering is a vast enterprise with many officials being paid your tax money to keep sick people and non-violent offenders behind bars, unprotected by minimum wage laws, normal worker protections, mental and physical health care, and even protection from murder. Americans behind bars have the same DOJ making decisions that issued torture orders for the offshore prison camps and that now prohibits full disclosure on those human rights abuses. Larry Neal's denial of open disclosure indicates that American citizens can be secretly arrested and murdered, and their deaths are also covered up just like people who are labeled "suspected terrorists" from other countries.

Pray for Rep. Johnson's safety and help to promote H.R.619. I do not know whether the former psychiatric nurse fully understands the powerful foes her bill has and how far they will go to keep sick Americans behind bars. I am surprised every day at the criminal lenghts to which they go to intimidate me, prevent my family from learning how they murdered my disabled brother, Larry Neal, whose death was covered up by The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm, the DOJ, Shelby County Jail, and deprived of due process of law by judges. I am not permitted to have Net Freedom to bring injustices against mentally ill Americans before the public, especially to Christian organizations, African American online groups and prisoner activists groups. http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/

THE ECONOMY AND UNEMPLOYMENT
Where Did the Jobs Go? Who Profits by a Bad Economy?

CYBERTERRORISM AND IN-PERSON STALKING are employed against Mary Neal to prevent my publishing the fact that many of the jobs Americans believe went to third world contries actually disappeared behind prison walls along with 2.3 million Americans, two-thirds of whom are non-violent offenders who were enslaved for that purpose. Recognize that a bad economy improves prison growth as desperate people do desperate things. It is a conflict of interest for some officials to improve the economy, as it would interfere with the proliferation of the prison industrial complex. It would be a conflict of interest to return jobs to the private sector by decriminalizing mental illness and eliminating excessive sentencing, three-strikes laws, mandatory sentencing, wrongful convictions, and the death penalty, which costs taxpayers around $90,000 more per year for each condemned man.

SLAVERY is so lucrative that while support for H.R. 619 is stifled, another bill, H.R.645 to build six concntration camps in America, is picking up co-sponsors in the House of Representatives. Under H.R. 645, millions more Americans will be given full employment in FEMA centers with uniforms provided. The Massachusetts Martial Law bill provides that Americans may be interned in the FEMA camps for such "offenses" as refusing to accept an H1N1 vaccine should an "emergency" be called. According to the Left Business Observer, the federal prison industry produces 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet-proof vests, ID tags, shirts, pants, tents, bags, and canteens. Along with war supplies, prison workers supply 98% of the entire market for equipment assembly services; 93% of paints and paintbrushes; 92% of stove assembly; 46% of body armor; 36% of home appliances; 30% of headphones, microphones, and speakers; and 21% of office furniture. Airplane parts, medical supplies, and much more: prisoners are even raising seeing-eye dogs for blind people. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8289

THE WAR
Ending the War Would Negatively Impact the Prison Industry

Prison laborers make 100% of uniforms soldiers wear and the products they carry, including canteens. It would be a conflict of interest for prison investors to end the war. High unemployment is good for the war industry and the prison industry. The nation's recssion helps to induces thousands of young job-seekers to enter the military, which in turn creates a growing need for military uniforms and products. Read this again: According to the Left Business Observer, the federal prison industry produces 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet-proof vests, ID tags, shirts, pants, tents, bags, and canteens. Along with war supplies, prison workers supply 98% of the entire market for equipment assembly services; 93% of paints and paintbrushes; 92% of stove assembly; 46% of body armor; 36% of home appliances; 30% of headphones/microphones/speakers; and 21% of office furniture. Airplane parts, medical supplies, and much more: prisoners are even raising seeing-eye dogs for blind people. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8289

CYBERTERROR TO PREVENT HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM
Examples of Crimes Officials Allow/Facilitate Against Mary Neal and Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill Organization

I made a request at Google Forums for help sharing my cyberterror, which the government allows to continue in order to keep people ignorant of terrorism against my family for asking WHAT HAPPENED TO LARRY NEAL and discrimination against...10 million mentally ill people and their family members ... by criminalizing mental illness in America. A modified version of my help request is below.

HOW TO SHARE MY CYBERTERRORISM VIA GOOGLE DOCS?http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=56924cd29a47031f&hl=en?

Hello. I tried to share some of my cyberterrorism via Google Docs. My Google Docs all are labeled "not shared." Everything I put online is published to share with the entire universe, especially since mainstream media will not publish anything about the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal and The Cochran Firm fraud that followed to cover-up his murder in Memphis/Shelby County Jail in 2003. I tried to send the Google Doc page named "DOG JUSTICE" to my blog at http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/ , but it keeps saying "timed out."

The "Dog Justice" Google Doc is a screen shot of the sick, possibly abused dog I was forced look at whenever I sent emails from Yahoo to thousands of people about Larry's murder and the need to decriminalize mental illness in America. Later, when I was prevented from communicating with African American groups and prisoner activists using my Yahoo Mail account, it was almost a relief not to have to look at that sick dog any longer. The sick dog ad mocked my family's justice quest. We call our justice quest "Dog Justice" because Larry's murder is deprived of the investigative and prosecutorial justice that dog abuse cases get in America.

I also want to share the screen shot of the big, black gorilla that Internet links to some of my Care2 shares led. The "www" in those links was exchanged for the word "primate." When people selected the links, they led to a photo of a large, black ape instead of to my posts. Most of my Care2 shares, NowPublic.com articles, and FreeSpeakBlog blogs expose victimization of helpless people like Larry was, i.e., videos of an elderly woman being tasered at a traffic stop in Texas, a mentally challenged student being assaulted by his school police officer because his shirt tail was out, and a legless elderly African American man who police tasered in his wheelchair. My Internet posts are objectionable to some people. I do not share news to embarrass people in authority, but to enlist support improving human and civil rights.

People retaliate [my using my "freedom" of press by sending me cyberterror for asking about my murdered brother and advocating for justice for other victims. In fact, I saved screen shots (using print-screen function on my computer) of most of the cyberterror I receive. I put the coffin ad cyberterror on my Google profile at http://google.com/profiles/MaryLovesJustice - The cyberterrorism is done to make Larry Neal's family join mainstream news in censoring the fact that Larry was a lifelong mental patient who was kept under secret arrest in Memphis Shelby County Jail for 18 days until he died under yet undisclosed circumstances. Authorities refuse to say whether he was Tasered, died in a restraint chair, or expired from deprivation of his heart drugs while my family and Larry's social worker were continually told that neither Larry nor a John Doe meeting his description was incarcerated in the jail. http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/

We keep trying to get authorities to tell Larry's survivors how they killed him and why, but the jail refuses to answer federal subpoenas and the USDOJ refuses to respond to our Freedom of Information Act Request, which is also online.Now I use Larry as my "poster child" to help promote a bill by Rep. Johnson (D-TX 30) to make inpatient psychiatric care more accessible by resuming Medicaid funding under H.R. 619. Rep. Johnson is a former psychiatric nurse who knows that acute mental patients belong in the hospitals, not behind bars like 1.25 million of America's mentally ill citizens are right now. Mentally challenged offenders who are nonviolent like Larry should be released from jails and hospitals only under Assisted Outpatient Treatment programs, providing subsistence assistance and treatment that is mandated by the court.

I have numerous screen shots of my cyberterror that should be uploaded to Google Docs, including the one showing a large dried-up ant that I was forced to view for many weeks at YahooMail and the coffin ad that is at my Google profile as well as the six men holding rifles that greeted me for weeks whenever I tried to communicate with members of my group at Care2 - Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill - http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI

At one point, whenever I tried to update my Care2 profile page, a lethal injection bed with my name underneath it would pop out of nowhere. A family friend saw it one night and gave me an affidavit that I filed in our USDC case against The Johnnie Cochran Firm (suit for defrauding my family - working for the jail behind our backs to prevent our wrongful death lawsuit regarding Larry's murder). Unfortunately, the young woman, my witness, was stopped by police and beaten soundly last fall on the day I had rented DeKalb Community Center to give youths an opportunity to showcase their talent. Apparently, authorities believed I would use the opportunity to tell the community about Larry's secret arrest and murder, The Cochran Firm's fraud (having a judge issue a court order that there is no Cochran Firm office in Georgia as an excuse to dismiss our lawsuit for the firm's fraud as Larry's wrongful death attorneys), and the terrorism we endure, being followed by gangstalkers and a USDOT truck.

I also want to publish on Google Docs the "NO RESULTS FOR TROY DAVIS" print screen I captured when I searched for Troy Davis' name at Twitter's "real time tweets" field. I noticed this week that NONE of my tweets about Troy Davis and Hank Skinner, two death row inmates, came up when I viewed the tweets that posted under searches for real-time tweets about those men at Twitter. Today, I was astounded to get the "NO RESULTS FOR TROY DAVIS" response at Twitter. There is much cybercensorship surrounding prison issues like the death penalty, criminalizing mental illness, and America's high prison rate.

One example of online censorship is my video "PRISON LABOR PROFITS" at YouTube. Unfortunately, the video is captured by those who can get around Google's security and control the hits counter as they also did regarding my COCHRAN FIRM FRAUD videos 1 and 2. As was the case with those Cochran Firm Fraud videos, people have trouble commenting at my "PRISON LABOR PROFITS" cybercensorship video. See a conversation about that at this link (not actually a conversation, since my first response to AIMI member, Danielle, about her DoS at YouTube was not allowed to post): Comment 6 at this link by Danielle S. http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=17280&pst=903647

Try to comment at PRISON LABOR PROFITS at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icRD77mugaI or at the Cochran Firm Fraud videos at YouTube and you might be able to see for yourself that most comments are disallowed. Also, notice the hits counter - get with a group of people using laptops and each of you access the videos. The hits counter may not add a single view. I welcome suggestions on how to get around the powerful cybercensorship force despite the wealth and resoucefulness of their employers. They are assigned to prevent my advocacy for H.R.619 and work against me when I try to use Google Docs to post examples of cyberterror via web pages and on my blog at http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/ -

I hope that any national health care reform bill that passes incorporates provisions for psychiatric care instead of prisons for Americans who have mental illness. It is time for our country to come out of the Dark Ages when mentally ill people were kept in dungeons, abused, and killed, like they continue to be while behind bars and during lunacy arrests in 21st Century America. AIMI is not alone in promoting H.R. 619. NAMI, which has 250,000 members across the nation, announced its support of H.R. 619 in January 2010, Treatment Advocacy Center promotes the bill, and most other mental health orgs also support resuming Medicaid funding for middle-class and indigent mental patients instead of remanding sick people to prison. Sick inmates like Larry Neal was and their family members are citizens, too, and they number around 10 million. Your help getting Net Freedom regarding decriminalizing mental illness will be appreciated. I really need my Google Docs sharing feature to work. Thanks in advance.

Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI
P.O. Box 153, Redan, GA  30074

-- Mary Neal's Google Profile - http://www.google.com/profiles/MaryLovesJustice - Get the RSS feed for my Care2 Sharebook at: http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/rss.html/513396753/0/ - Get the RSS feed for my Twitter KOFFIETIME at http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/59790083.rss - Current, urgent justice issues from a laywoman's viewpoint at my primary blog http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/ (the name is a joke, believe me) Recommended articles - http://topsy.com/site/freespeakblog.blogspot.com - Address: MaryLovesJustice, P.O. Box 153, Redan, GA 30074-0153
Mar 11, 2010
Please help us to identify candidates in each state who care about decriminalizing mental illness and support H.R. 619 - the bill that can help replace prisons with treatment for Americans with mental disabilities.  Simply copy/paste the two paragraphs below into your emails when you respond to your candidates for election or re-election.  Then let us know who responds that they support human/civil rights for the least of these, His brethren so that we can also support them.  Thanks in advance!
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PLEASE SUPPORT H.R.619 - A BILL BY REP. JOHNSON (D-TX-30) TO RESUME MEDICAID FUNDING FOR INPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC CARE, WHICH ENDED DECADES AGO AND EVENTUALLY DELIVERED 1.25 MILLION SICK PEOPLE INTO THE PRISON SYSTEM.  THAT MEANS AT LEAST 10,000,000 SICK PEOPLE AND FAMILY MEMBERS NEED YOUR HELP.  NAMI's 250,000 members support the bill and AIMI supports the bill.  In fact, most human and civil rights orgs that deal with mental health care issues do.  See what it is like for sick people and their family members at this link: 
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/help-danielle-save-her-schizophrenic.html 

THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR HELP IN REDUCING AMERICA'S CRUSHING PRISON BUDGET WHILE JOINING US IN PROMOTING HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS FOR AMERICANS WITH MENTAL DISABILITIES.  PLEASE LET US KNOW WHERE YOU STAND REGARDING TREATMENT VS. PRISON FOR MENTALLY ILL AMERICANS SO THAT WE CAN DECLARE OUR SUPPORT FOR YOU.
Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
Mar 11, 2010

PREVENTED TWEETS AND EMAILS AND COMMENTS --

3/11/10 -

@CoryBooker Petition Against Stalking and Terrorizing Mary Neal
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/petition-against-stalking-and.html

The tweet above sat in the input field and would not "drop" on my home page.  As often happens, when I gave up after hitting "submit" over and over, I checked my "profile" page, and it shows there.  I don't know what the cyberstalkers are doing in these cases, but I suspect the tweets that bypass my home page may also bypass my followers' pages; then they are put in place at my followers' pages according to the time they were submitted hours later.  At one point my tweets were all back-dated to three hours before I wrote them (i.e., if I posted a tweet at 1:00 p.m., the time stamped as 10:00 a.m.)  That means the tweets probably did go to my followers, but they were posted among the tweets followers received three hours before I actually posted them.  How many people look at tweets that posted three hours ago to find new ones?  That may have happened with the two below, also.  I never saw them post on my home page.

3/9/10

@ACLU I called a relative & knew immediately call was redirected bcuz the imitation VM I reached used relative's last name & she doesn't

 

@FoxNews I disagree w/ ppl who slander all who disagree w/ direction of the country calling 'em prejudice tea baggers-Some legitimate issues

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Response to NAACP Legal Defense Fund email - 3/09/10

Google for Mary Neal's Response to Dr. Boyce Watkins re BCC at http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/mary-neal-responds-to-dr-watkins-re-bcc.html.  Cyberstalkers prevent my sending the link.  In fact, most of my attempts to communicate with African Americans about the perilous circumstances regarding freedom are curtailed.  But God is going to remove these shackles off my feet so I can DANCE.  If black orgs are prevented from reporting the truth about African American mental patients being waterboarded, murdered without recourse, and a black family living under seize for asking WHAT HAPPENED TO LARRY NEAL, we'll take the message to Jews, the Libertarians, and everyone else who writes about justice issues.

Thanks for all you do for justice, NAACP. 

Mary Neal
http://WrongfuldeathoflarryNeal.com 

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI


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There is an attempt to lable everyone who is concerned about 9/11 as being conspiracy theory maniacs. There is an attempt to lable everyone who is concerned about the direction of this country as being prejudice tea baggers. I respectfully disagree.

WILL SOME PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT ALLOW MURDERS AND REFUSE TO INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE THOSE WHO KILL U.S. CITIZENS? Of course they will. Look online for news about my mentally and physically disabled brother, Larry Neal, and how the USDOJ helps the jail hide Larry Neal's murder rather than exacting justice. http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/

See our Freedom of Information Act request the DOJ REFUSES to answer with responsive records and an investigation regarding Larry's murder which happened because the acute mental patient annoyed Memphis police.

Yes, murders of Americans are hidden at will. That is why I have no problem believing that 9/11 needs a thorough investigation, and that is also why I doubt if that will ever happen.

 

Mary Neal
http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com

After numerous tries, below comment finally posted at http://prisonmovement.wordpress.com

BLOGGER - BREAKING THE CHAINS

Thank you, BreaktheChains, for re-publishing. We must never regard human suffering with apathy. My articles are heavily censored, and I appreciate your help protesting injustices.

MR. DUDLEY SHARP, you report that Officer MacPhail's family is fully convinced that Troy Davis is guilty as though that has bearing on the matter. We sympathize with the family, but they were not there. The witnesses who were at the scene recanted or corrupted their testimony except for one man and his friend. The man who implicated Troy Davis seems to be more suspect than Davis. He got an attorney before MacPhail's body cooled. He lied about having a .38, then admitted his lie and said he lost the gun. Read my Troy Davis articles, please:

 

UPDATE ON THE TROY DAVIS MATTER
www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1407047  

 

BACKGROUND ON THE TROY DAVIS CASE
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/background-on-troy-davis-case-by-mary.html  

 

MORE "TROY DAVIS" ARTICLES BY MARY NEAL
http://www.nowpublic.com/search?fulltext=1&type=story&keys=mary+neal+troy+davis

 

Especially see the article entitled: "Troy Davis Appeal Denied by Georgia Court - NO SURPRISE TO THE NEAL FAMILY"

 

I've followed the Davis case for a while. I object to people being executed, especially without irrefutable proof of guilt. Regarding Troy Davis' death sentence,

 

I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/1415095  

THE OTHER COMMENT IS STILL CENSORED -  IT WAS BETWEEN AN AIMI MEMBER AND MYSELF AT CARE2'S GROUP ASSISTANCE TO THE INCARCERATED MENTALLY ILL. HOWEVER, I WILL HAVE TO TRY AND POST IT AT RUSSIAN NEWS LIKE ALEX JONES DOES TO HAVE FREEDOM OF PRESS.

Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/

 

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Mar 8, 2010

I disagree that Americans are the worst people the world has ever known.  That is what our prison rate indicates.  America incarcerates more people than any nation in the history of the world - 2.3 million.  Furthermore, it appears that our public servants think we are so bad that our tax money must be used to erect six (6) FEMA centers under H.R. 645 to hold millions more.  The new criminals will be interned for such crimes as refusing to accept H1N1 vaccines should an "emergency" be called, according to the Massachusetts Martial Law bill that passed in that state's legislature on October 13, 2009. 

I disagree with cyberstalkers being allowed to control my browsing and Internet input.  They prevented me from being able to open any web pages regarding Texas' last execution victim a couple of weeks ago, and it is already time to object to another one in the same state.

I disagree with Hank Skinner's execution, scheduled for March 24.  It is particularly objectionable that Skinner has not been allowed to take a DNA test to prove his innocence. I disagree that innocence does not matter.

HOW MUCH DOES INNOCENCE MATTER IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE? by Mary Neal
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-important-is-innocence-in-criminal.html

I disagree with Georgia's new law that passed in 2006 and allows judges to dismiss murder cases without jury trials if the defendant pleads self-defense.  Most police officers claim self-defense when they kill citizens.  If they are indicted, they should face a jury of their peers or have to bargain with the prosecutor like everyone else who is indicted by a grand jury for capital crimes.

I disagree with Troy Davis being kept on death row under a gag order. Every prisoner should have the right to say, "I didn't do it."  Some of them are telling the truth.  In any case, lies are rampant regarding justice in America.  Even inmates who are lying cannot top the justice system's officials. Browse for COCHRAN FIRM FRAUD, for example.

I disagree with criminalizing mental illness and relegating 1.25 million sick Americans to prisons instead of hospitals.  I further disagree with cybercensorship preventing "H.R.619" from appearing among the taglines for articles I wrote to promote that congressional bill.  H.R.619 proposes resuming Medicaid funding for inpatient psychiatric care, which might cost rich prison investors some profits.

I disagree that it should go without investigation or accountability that my mentally and physically disabled brother was secretly arrested and exterminated like a roach in Memphis/Shelby County Jail in 2003 because his loud singing and occasional panhandling irritated police.

I disagree with Care2 member Danielle's brother Nick being imprisoned since June 2009 and deprived of psychiatric treatment in order that he might break some prison rule and have time added to his sentence.  In fact, I disagree that mental illness is a punishable offense.

Don't be like people in Nazi Germany who failed to speak up about atrocities happening there.  Please call or write your representatives and say, "I respectfully disagree."

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 Sharebook to read about specific cases involving victims who need your voice.

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

Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI

Mar 8, 2010
You are cordially invited to a Royal Celebration

 

When:          Every day

 

Where:         Wherever in the world you are

 

Who:            Whosoever will

 

Hosted by:        Lord of lords, King of kings, First and Last, Alpha and Omega, Provider, Comforter, Prince of peace, Creator, Messiah, Y'shua, Holy Father, Almighty God, the great I Am, Wonderful Counselor, Redeemer, Everlasting Father, Emanuel, Son of Man, Son of God, Rock of ages, Lilly of the valley, Savior

 

Cost:               Pre-paid admission. Jesus paid for all people equally throughout all nations and all time.

 

Door Prizes:      Love, acceptance, forgiveness, peace, justice, compassion, comfort, purpose, joy, fellowship, guidance, refuge, abundant blessings, change

 

Requirements:   Confess and repent from sin; Have faith in God; Love others as I love you; Forgive; Study and obey the Word; Pray; Do unto others as you would have them do unto you; Profess Me before men; Judge not; Feed My sheep; Fear not; Cast all your cares on Me, knowing that I care for you

 

Directions:      Jesus is the way, the truth, and the light. “None shall come to the Father except by Me.”

 

RSVP:           1) Accept by prayer: Holy God, I confess that I am a sinner and have come short of the glory of God. I repent from sin and ask for Your forgiveness. Please come into my heart and become Lord of my life and my personal savior. I believe in God the Father and Jesus Christ, only begotten Son of God. I accept Jesus' blood sacrifice on my behalf. Please send Your Holy Spirit to guide me into understanding and righteousness. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.

 

                   2) Unite with a local body of believers to worship, learn, and grow in Christ. Forsake not the assembly of saints. Support and participate in evangelism.

 

                   3) As soon as practicable, be baptized.

 

Renewal:       Daily. His mercy is new every morning, forgiving 70 times 7 in one day in the face of sincere repentance.

 

Party Favors:   Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. (1 Corin. 2:9) He who made everything men love, crave and lust after has topped Himself! Come to the celebration and see.

 

Attire:           Come as you are.

 

Invitation delivered by Mary Neal, daughter of the Host. MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com

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I love it that my cyberstalkers had to profess Jesus Christ as Lord and pray in order to read this post.  Awesome!

Mar 7, 2010

Dog Justice

JAIL, HOMELESSNESS, AND EUTHANASIA — UNACCEPTABLE SOLUTIONS

From the website, Wrongful Death of Larry Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/story/story08.html

A young mother became alarmed in her local grocery store when she realized that her active three-year-old son was no longer trotting along behind her as she shopped. She and the store personnel hurriedly searched up and down the aisles looking for him and calling his name. They found the little tot sitting on the floor near the checkout on aisle 7, surrounded by colorful candy wrappers. He had opened dozens of different candies and sampled each one! His mouth and chin were covered with chocolate, and melted candy was smeared across his shirt and on the floor around him.

In a similar incident, my brother, Larry, walked into a supermarket one summer day, taking the opportunity to enjoy the air conditioning, for it was oppressively hot outside. As he walked down the fresh food aisle, his eyes fell on the rows of plump, sweet grapes. He stopped at that display, and with no effort to conceal his actions, Larry began to eat the grapes. They were cool and good, and he laughed aloud, delighted at how pleasant they tasted. Larry was interrupted in his consumption by an angry clerk who was yelling and pointing at him, directing the store guard to restrain that thief while the police were called. In fact, Larry was no more a thief than the three-year-old, because neither of them was acting out of malice, and in both scenarios an essential element of crime was missing: intent. Indeed, neither the three-year-old boy nor my mentally ill brother, in his diminished capacity, was capable of planning and executing a real crime.

The child rebelled when his mother lifted him away from the sweet feast. The youngster began to cry loudly and struggle against his mother to get back to “his” candy. But the boy’s mother was bigger and stronger than he was, and she effortlessly carried him away from the scene of his “crime.” Contrarily, no one in Larry’s family was big or strong enough to extricate him from the many situations his mental illness caused as he wandered at will the streets of Memphis. Indeed, Larry’s family was not allowed to either restrict his movements or enforce psychiatric treatment and drugs to help him. After all, mentally unstable people like Larry have their rights!

There are those organizations that denounce enforced hospitalization and treatment of the mentally ill, calling such intervention a violation of civil rights. The sincere efforts of such organizations may benefit those mentally ill persons who manage to stay clear of our nation’s jails; however, for thousands of others like Larry, it is just as unreasonable to expect them to run their own lives without psychiatric drugs and restraint as it would have been for the young mother to allow her little boy to finish the candy at his leisure and then find his own way home. Let those organizations fight not only for the rights of the moderately mentally ill, but let them also fight for inpatient care for mentally ill men and women who are today serving time for committing crimes they cannot even understand as well as for scores of mentally ill persons who are homeless, living under wretched conditions and deprived of treatment that might restore them to wholesome lives. (Visit the website for more information on Larry - how he lived, how he died.)  ____________________

Please join the 230 members at Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally ill and the 230,000 members of NAMI in supporting H.R. 619 to resume Medicaid funding for inpatient psychiatric care.  That will help people in crisis to have short-term hospitalization to stabilize them, and it would provide long-term care for patients whose conditions require containment and constant monitoring.  Long-term hospitalization is requried for violent patients as well as harmless people like Larry who cannot function at an acceptable level because of acute mental illness.

I know criminalizing mental illness cannot last much longer.  America has too many decent people in decision-making capacities.  All voters are in decision-making capacities, so that means YOU.  Please contact your representatives today and ask where they stand on H.R.619 to fund inpatient care for psychiatric patients, and tell them where you stand.  I hope you and your representatives will stand with NAMI and AIMI members as we seek to give ASSISTANCE TO THE INCARCERATED MENTALLY ILL.

Blessings,

Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/C2c/group/AIMI

Mar 6, 2010

Featured below is an article that sets forth the reasons why Ohio mentally ill inmates are suing the Ohio prison system.  Mentally ill people and their families are coming to recognize that they are being set up to continue revolving in and out of prisons in order to benefit prison investors.  We already have the solution to homelessness, prison and death for America's middle-class and indigent mentally ill citizens.  The article underscores the need to pass H.R.619, a bill by Rep. Eddie Johnson (D-TX) to resume Medicaid funding for inpatient psychiatric hospitalization.  Prisons should be replaced with hospitals for acute mental patients in crisis, and mandated participation in Assisted Outpatient Treatment programs is needed after hospital or prison release.  To ilustrate how discriminated against mentally ill Americans are, below is a tweet I was prevented from posting to Twitter last night regarding my schizophrenic brother's Secret arrest and Murder in Memphis Shelby County Jail and the refusal by the United States Department of Justice to answer our Freedom of Information Act request which is published on the web at http://bit.ly/9K459N  to release documents related to his arrest and death and investigate the crime:

If AfAm sick ppl don't have the rights of pit bulls around here, don't hide it. Just come right out and say so. I am. http://bit.ly/9K459N  


What happens to ex-inmates with mental illness?
Saturday, March 6, 2010
By Tracey Read
TRead@News-Herald.com


State prisoners with mental illness return to Ohio communities with just two weeks’ worth of medications, $65 and a bus ticket.

Without links to proper follow-up care, they often end up in homeless shelters or other unstable situations.

Now, a federal lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court seeks to require the state prison system to pre-enroll prisoners with serious mental illness to mental health treatment, housing and other resources to keep them from returning to the criminal justice system.

Lake County Sheriff Daniel A. Dunlap agreed the state needs to do more to help ex-prisoners re-enter society.

“Fifteen out of every 100 people who come in our jail have some mental health issue,” Dunlap said. “Of that 15 percent, 4 or 5 percent in my estimation have extreme mental health issues.

“The state is in financial trouble. So what do they do? They close two mental health hospitals, and there wasn’t

enough to begin with. It just puts us

with more homeless and more people in jail.”

The lawsuit was filed last month by the Cincinnati-based Ohio Justice and Policy Center on behalf of nine plaintiffs who suffer from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression.

According to the suit, none of the ex-prisoners received effective assistance filling out applications for Social Security benefits, Medicaid or food stamps.

They also got no help obtaining housing, weren’t linked up with mental health service providers or caseworkers and were only given short supplies of medication.

All have lengthy criminal records.

One person named in the suit was homeless and not medicated when he was re-arrested for threatening people at a Cincinnati agency just three weeks after leaving prison.

Of people from Lake or Geauga counties who were released from prison in 2005, more than a third of them (35 percent) returned to state prisons by 2008, said Eli Braun, mental health advocate for the Justice and Policy Center.

“That doesn’t count people who were re-arrested but only served time in jail,” Braun added. “This lawsuit hopes to make a dent in that recidivism rate by helping former prisoners continue their needed mental health care in the community. People with mental illness often return to prison for mostly nonviolent crimes that are really just symptoms of untreated mental illness.”

It costs $7,400 a year to treat someone with mental illness in the community, vs. $25,000 a year to send the same person back to prison, according to the Ohio Association of Behavioral Health Authorities.

Dunlap said Lake County is fortunate because a Mental Health Court run by Mentor Municipal Court Judge John Trebets helps 28 people at a time break the cycle of offending.

“Those in the program have an 80 percent chance of success,” the sheriff said.

Trebets said the goal of his Mental Health Court is to keep people from being institutionalized.

“My job is to make sure they’re following through and doing the things they should be doing,” he said.

Julie Hammond, treatment manager for the county’s Mental Health Court, said most — if not all — state mental health boards already have some type of program linking each mentally ill inmate with an agency for help before the person even leaves a city jail.

“The problem sometimes is that people don’t follow through when they get out,” she said.

Judy Burr, executive director with Project Hope for the Homeless shelter, said her organization also has aftercare services for mentally ill offenders who wind up at the Painesville Township facility. But it’s not always enough.

“When they come out, they really are given just what they came in with,” Burr said. “That’s not a black eye on our jails. There needs to be something else like us to get them back in (to society). But the whole system is just so overwhelmed right now. We’re overwhelmed right now. We have many people we have to turn away because of space.”

Geauga County Sheriff Dan McClelland said his employees always work closely with mental health organizations the entire time inmates with psychological disabilities are in jail to prepare them for life on the outside.

“We see varying degrees of mental health issues that can be camouflaged by drug dependency,” McClelland said. “You can probably make the argument that anyone who commits a crime is mentally ill. We work with the inmates so the chances of them being successful enough to re-enter society is much higher. We don’t just open the door and turn them out.”
URL: http://www.news-herald.com/articles/2010/03/06/news/doc4b91608c6f145250715745.prt

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America's decision to "de-institutionalize" mental illness in the 1960's and 70's without instituting Assisted Outpatient Treatment programs to mandate continuous psychiatric care and provide subsistence assistance to acute patients was a mistake that society continues to pay for having made.  Just as no adequate provisions were made for hundreds of thousands of sick people who were released from mental hospitals decades ago, little or no provisions are made for mentally ill ex-offenders.  This is true despite the fact that successful re-entry into society is a success for the entire social structure.  Avoiding recidivism means avoiding crimes that lead to re-arrest and releif from America's stiffling prison budget.  People who do not care to replace prison terms with hospitalization in psychiatric treatment facilities for acute mental patients in crisis and institute Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) programs for mentally ill inmates upon prison release for humanitarian reasons may reconsider when they contemplate the fact that released offenders shop at the same malls as our children.  AOT programs provide mental patients released from hospitals and prisons monitoring, psychiatric care, and subsistence assistance at a cost that is significantly less than future imprisonment, which oftentimes follows avoidable tragedies. 

Be aware that over 90% of inmates have a release date in their files.  People who do not care to improve rehabilitation programs in prisons and eliminate torture for humanitarian reasons may want to do so when they acknowledge that released inmates live in the same communities that we all do.  Many inmates who walk into prisons perfectly sane are subjected to such cruelty and solitary confinement torture, that they, too, are mentally ill when they emerge from "correctional" facilities.

Numerous organizations advocate the need for change in how mental illness is treated in America, including Treatment Advocacy Center, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, The Carter Center, Mental Health America, and others.  NAMI formally declared its support for passage of H.R.619 in January.  See the letter from the national headquarters of NAMI in this Sharebook.  Please come aboard the movement to decriminalize mental illness in America.  Pledge your support for passage of H.R. 619 and help the least of these, His brethren: naked, sick, imprisoned mental patients (Matt. 25:40) like my brother Larry Neal was before he was murdered for being "unacceptably different."

Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI

 

Mar 5, 2010

Photo above represents 2.3 million American inmates.

Prisoner activists like Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill and many others work very hard and I face perilous circumstances to get America's attention focused on abuses against inmates within the United States as the world contemplates abuses to War on Terror camp detainees.  We are now blessed with numerous opportunities to tell our stories.  Please see four invitations below, and share them with inmates past and present as well as police violence victims and their family members who can shed light on problems within the justice system, particularly abuses in correctional facilities.  I would like organizers to be mindful that from the moment an officer says, "HALT," citizens become prisoners - even at traffic stops.  If you don't believe me, try to leave.  Therefore, prisoners who never made it to the booking room without abuse or death should also be represented in any conversations on prisoners in America.  Thanks in advance for sharing your reports with those who need your input to help reveal problems and make improvements. 

Media, concerned humanitarians, religious people, elected officials, and all who comprise "WE the People," YOU are invited to join in our HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS MARCH across the Internet as we implore legislators to improve human and civil rights for all Americans, including the 2.3 million human beings who are incarcerated.  Join us by sharing information with as many people possible. Please also send AIMI news about other opportunities to share that should be broadcast. Dialogue regarding improvements in justice is encouraged in the online assembly to petition our representatives for a redress of grievances regarding prisoner abuses.  Watching out for the least among us and safeguarding all of our civil liberties are righteous, Godly, patriotic pursuits.  Peacefully, respectfully, prayerfully pursue positive changes in the justice system with us.  TOGETHER, YES WE CAN!  

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OPPORTUNITY #1 - Request from Hakeem Shaheed, Prisoner Advocate
 

Colleagues, Please send any/all information any of you have pertaining to the severe abuses of prisoners in American Prisons. We NEED to get this out to the WORLD!!! We have someone (See Below), who CAN make a difference if we all help him in collecting such information. SEND any/all info to Hakeem by joining and emailing  Thebeautifulstruggle@yahoogroups.com  You can also email him directly at hakeemshaheed@yahoo.com and send hard copies to Hakeem Shaheed PO Box 8044, Atlantic City, New Jersey 08401

In Solidarity

----- Original Message -----
From: hakeem shaheed
To: Thebeautifulstruggle@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 7:58 AM
Subject: RE: [Thebeautifulstruggle] Fw: Urgent Request from a Prisoner Advocate
 
I AM ASKING FOR EVERYONE'S SUPPORT WITH MY EFFORTS TO EXPOSE PRISONERS ABUSE IN AMERICAN PRISONS BY WRITING AND EMAIL RORY KENNEDY. SHE IS CONSIDERING MY REQUEST TO PRODUCE A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT ABUSE IN AMERICAN PRISONS. IF YOU GUYS CAN SAY SOMETHING IN LETTERS AND EMAILS, IT COULD HELP WITH HER ACCEPT THE PROPPSAL.

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OPPORTUNITY #2 - Stolen Lives Project

Greetings, Families of Stolen Lives -

This is Kathie with October 22 Coalition to Stop Police Brutality in New York. I hope this email finds you well.

I am reaching out to you mainly for two reasons, one of which is a proposal for a national conference call for families of those killed by law enforcement, and the other is a request for audio recordings to include in the Voices Against Police Brutality mixtape cd that we started working on in New York this past October 22nd.

We have not held a national meeting for a few years now, and so this rare and powerful connection among people from around the country who share a grief and a rage that most will never truly understand has been lost.

If you would like to take part in such a call, please contact Allene Person, whose son Timur was killed by NYPD in December 2006 646-363-3112 or loverainbows881@yahoo.com

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OPPORTUNITY #3 - Re-entry Program
http://prisonmovement.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/seeking-formerly-incarcerated-individuals/

Dave Koch
Self Reinvention Corp.
22 Westerville Square
Suite 111
Westerville, Ohio 43081
dave@self-reinvention.org

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OPPORTUNITY #4 - San Francisco Bay/North Calif. Area Deaths


Family Members Needed for Study on Law Enforcement Related Deaths

The Investigative Sociology project at Sonoma State University (SSU) and Media Freedom Foundation are conducting a study on the commonalities of law enforcement related deaths in the San Francisco Bay/Northern California Area. We are seeking to interview individuals in families of people who have died in a law enforcement related incident within the past twenty years. Students from the spring 2010 SSU Investigative Sociology class will be conducting confidential one-hour interviews with family members in April. The purpose of the study is to evaluate support programs for families who have experienced such a tragedy, and the lowering of the overall number of law enforcement related deaths.

SSU professors supervising the study include: Peter Phillips, Sociology Department, Tryon Woods and Diana Grant in the Criminal Justice Department.

To arrange a confidential interview or refer a family contact—
e-mail, Dr. Peter Phillips:
peter.phillips@sonoma.edu  or Call  707-664-2588

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"(2010) HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS MARCH" article shows that numerous improvements are already underway.  Two of the main concerns in the justice system that AIMI members address are capital punishment and mental illness being criminalized.  We have reason to be pleased with changes and proposed changes to address both those issues.  There are now more drug courts and mental health courts than before.  The Second Chance Act is well funded for 2010 to help prevent recidivism.  The 111th Congress currently has 177 bills pending to address the needs of mentally ill Americans.  Mentally ill inmates presently comprise 1.25 million of Americans in prisons and jails, and many pending bills propose actions that may help to reduce their representation in the prison population.  Chief among those proposed mental health bills is H.R.619, by Rep.Eddie Johnson (D-TX, 30).  She is a former psychiatric nurse whose bill proposes the resumption of Medicaid funding for inpatient psychiatric care under Title XIX of the Social Security Act.  For the most part, it was the loss of that funding source decades ago that delivered mental illness from the Department of Health to the Department of Corrections. Americans with mental disabilities went from being hospital inpatients to prison inmates, a cruel injustice that brought no savings for taxpayers. Regarding work to repeal the death penalty, judges across the country are helping.  In fact, the number of death penalty sentences in America has rolled back to the 1976 level. Judge Kevin Fine, of United States District Court, District 177, Houston, Texas, declared that capital punishment is unconstitutional.  See PrisonMovement's Weblog for his photograph and an article about his bold stance at this link:  http://prisonmovement.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/houston-judge-declares-death-penalty-unconstitutional/ 

Police officers and prison guards deserve a less volatile work environment that can only be achieved in an atmosphere of mutual respect.  No justice, no peace (MLK).  Congratulations and many thanks to Amnesty International, Innocence Project, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Death Penalty Information Center, ACLU, NAMI, Treatment Advocacy Center, Mental Health America, SPAAMI, many in mainstream media, citizens media, elected officials, AIMI members and other mental health advocacy organizations, prisoner activists, human and civil rights groups, real peace officers, and all people who support the movement to improve justice, remembering that we are all human beings.  Each of the 2.3 million inmates in America is likely to have at least 4 people who care about their humane treatment, meaning that human rights for prisoners directly impacts at least 10 million Americans.  Their quest for humane treatment is supported by people everywhere who care about human and civil rights.  Incarceration is often deserved, but torture never is.

Blessings!

Mary Neal
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI

Mar 5, 2010

     The Atlanta Journal Constitution carried a story of justice denied in Georgia Superior Court on March 3, 2010. The murder case State of Georgia vs. Ramond S. Bunn was dismissed without jury trial because a new Georgia law gives judges the right to dismiss criminal cases when defendants plead self-defense.  The case involved the police shooting of Corey Ward, an African American teen.  I do not say "justice denied" because I am certain former officer Bunn is guilty, but because I agree with the Ward family that Bunn's case should have been decided by a jury.  The AJC article is entitled is "Family protests dismissal of police murder charge," at this link:  http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/family-protests-dismissal-of-344348.html


MARY'S COMMENTARY:    One dark Georgia night, two men used their vehicle to block a moving van driven by an African American teenager.  Corey Ward, age 18, and his friends thought they were targeted for a carjacking.  The men who did the maneuver to stop Corey's van were not in a police car, and neither were they dressed in police uniforms.  Corey tried to get away from people he believed were criminals.  Officer Raymond S. Bunn shot and killed Corey.  The Atlanta policemen said they thought the van the young man drove was a stolen vehicle.  The Tahoe belonged to Corey's mom.

Ward's murder is reminiscent of a similar incident when famous baseball players' son almost became the first unarmed black man police killed in 2009.  However, 22-year-old Oscar Grant claimed that dishonor around 1:00 a.m. on New Years Day when San Francisco B.A.R.T. officers stretched Grant out on a cold train platform and shot him in the back before hundreds of commuters.  Meanwhile, a thousand miles away, police officers followed Robbie Tolan and his cousin to Tolan's suburban home in Bellaire, Texas early on New Years' morning and harassed them. They pushed Tolan's mother to the ground when she came outside to see why policemen were on her front lawn.  Police then shot Robie Tolan, but he lived. The peace officers in that incident also said they thought the van Tolan drove was stolen, and police may have said they shot unarmed Tolan in self-defense when he protested them abusing his mother.  CNN's report about Tolan's shooting is at this link: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/08/baseballer.shot/index.html    DO POLICE OFFICERS IN ATLANTA AND TEXAS HAVE COMPUTERS TO CHECK LICENSE TAGS AND SEE IF A VEHICLE IS STOLEN, OR DO THEY JUST DECIDE THAT CERTAIN VEHICLES ARE TOO NICE FOR YOUNG BLACK MEN TO BE DRIVING LEGALLY?  Even the trains are not safe for African American youths.  Oscar Grant's murder story, videos of his actual murder and the riot after his funeral, and comments from commuters and the communty are at this link:  Oscar Grant - First Unarmed Black Man Killed by Police in 2009 - Next?  http://www.nowpublic.com/world/oscar-grant-1st-unarmed-black-man-police-killed-2009-next

Like many officers who kill citizens, Bunn already had numerous charges of police brutality in his personnel file before Corey Ward's death.  Prosecutors charged Bunn with felony murder, murder, and other charges.  Bunn enjoyed good support from police organizations and media after his conviction.  There are numerous articles online about the case, and some expressed fury that Bunn was convicted for Ward's murder.  One differing viewpoint comes from a 2002 article by CounterPunch, called "Confronting Police Brutality in Atlanta," written by Jonathan S. Wright.  His article carries details on this case and has information about 11 similar shootings in the Atlanta area in 2002.  Wright's article is featured after my signature block and is available at this link:  http://www.counterpunch.org/wright0823.html  His article affords the opportunity to see the mood in the African American community at the time of Ward's shooting death.

Municipalities apparently cannot get their police officers to stop shooting young unarmed black men.  The answer Georgia's legislature apparently came up with in 2006 was to enact a law providing that if a defendant claims self-defense, the presiding judge can dismiss the case and avoid jury trial, which is especially convenient when white officers kill black citizens in an area where the jury pool is comprised of mostly African Americans.  This likely puts judges in a bad position, having the sole voice over very controversial cases that used to and still should be decided by juries.  That is exactly what happened in former officer Bunn's case - the judge dismissed all charges against Bunn and prevented Corey's family from ever having their day in court.  Nearly EVERY police officer claims self-defense when he kills a citizen.  When Atlanta police staged a home invasion in the middle of the night on 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston and shot her in a hail of 39 bullets (a no-knock warrant case), they also claimed self-defense.  The elder thought she was being robbed (and I still think so), so she shot at the police officers - one little shot from her shaking, wrinkled hands.  And boy!  Did they let her have it!  They even handcuffed poor Ms. Johnston as she lay on her floor bleeding from six bullet wounds.  While the pitiful old black woman died, Atlanta police planted drugs in her home to fabricate an excuse for being there.  Whenever police kill black people, they usually label it a drug case and/or claim self-defense.  (When police have NO excuse whatsoever for killing a black citizen, as in the secret arrest and wrongful death of Larry Neal, my mentally and physically handicapped brother, the United States Department of Justice can block any investigation and illegally withhold records, even under a black Attorney General.  Dog abuse cases are always prosecuted, thanks to stronger animal protection laws.  See my poem online, "Dog Justice.") 

Georgia's 2006 law allowing judges to dismiss cases when defendants claim self-defense without proceeding to jury means it is possible that NONE of Georgia's murder-by-police cases may go before a jury ever again, even when a prosecutor convinces a grand jury to indict a policeman - which is hard enough.  The 2006 Georgia law is wrong.  Georgia Superior Court, where Bunn's murder conviction was dismissed, is the same court that denied the my family a right to  proceed to trial by jury regarding THE COCHRAN FIRM FRAUD.  See http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/ - The Cochran Firm did Memphis Shelby County Jail a favor by pretending (under contract) to represent the Neal family in a wrongful death civil action against the jail after Larry's murder while the law firm secretly held my brother's case inactive for 10.5 months of Tennessee's 12-month statute of limitaitons.  The court seemingly reciprocated on behalf of criminals in the justice system. Georgia Superior Court actually issued an order claiming the law firm did not exist in Georgia, claiming our lawsuit against those frauds was therefore served wrongly (by a Georgia Marshal). Georgia courts also denied Troy Davis a new trial repeatedly, which prevented his new evidence that he claims would prove his innocence from being heard by a jury of his peers. Georgia courts also put Davis under a gag order to silence the death row inmate's claims of innocence. 

The Constitutional right to trial by jury is all but gone in Georgia.  That "right" is now completely discretionary when defendants claim self-defense - it is up to Georgia judges.  Please REPEAL the unjust 2006 law that allows police officers to escape jury trials by claiming self defense when citizens are killed.  Some police officers who claim self-defense may be telling the truth.  Former officer Bunn may be telling the truth about his perception of circumstances that led to Corey Ward's shooting death.  Everyone has the right to defend himself.  But everyone should also have the right to trial by jury, including dead victims and their survivors.  Let the jury decide.  A Georgia Superior Court judge claimed in 2006 that The Cochran Firm does not exist in Georgia although the law firm is the most famous plaintiffs' firm in Georgia and is prolifically advertised on television, billboards, The Cochran Firm's website, in phone books and by legal referral services.  In 2006, the law firm was also advertised on MARTA commuter train TV every seven minutes.  Having to watch those commercials for The Cochran Firm's Atlanta office after Georgia Superior Court had declared it nonexistent and dismissed our lawsuit against the firm for defrauding my family made me physically ill as I commuted to and from work. Georgia Superior Court issued that ruling although The Cochran Firm is within spitting distance of the judge's chambers. Jury trials give power to the people, as the framers of the Constitution intended.  Some judges misuse their positions of trust to give power back to the elite and the justice system itself in rulings that defy justice, decency, and reason.

Not only does Georgia's 2006 self-defense law apply to police killings, but any rich, well-connected Georgian can now murder someone and claim self-defense to dodge a jury trial; it is up to the presiding judge. The U.S. Constitution is the law of the land, but its power is eroded daily in state legislators and in Washington, D.C. by unrighteous lawmakers who do not care about the Constitution or respect their constituents' human and civil rights.  Many judges are righteous, but some are definitely not.  There are ways to ensure that one's case gets to a particular judge.  Plenty of judges do not abuse the power of their positions.  After carefully weighing the evidence, Bunn's judge may have dismissed his murder charges in good conscience.  However, I hold that the case should have had a jury verdict just like Neals v. Cochran Firm should have.  Jesus wept, and so did Corey Ward's family today.  All Americans who value justice should weep with the Ward family for the loss of trial by jury.


Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/

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CounterPunch
August 24, 2002
http://www.counterpunch.org/wright0823.html

A Line Drawn in the Street
Confronting Police Brutality in Atlanta
by Jonathon S. Wright


Shattered glass lies in piles in a vacant parking lot in Atlanta's trendy Buckhead district. Much of this glass can be traced to automobile break-ins, as late-night revelers sacrifice security for a free parking space. On July 14, however, the life of 18-year-old Corey Ward was ended prematurely in a different shower of glass, after an undercover Atlanta police officer shot and killed him.


Officer R. S. Bunn says that he shot Ward in self-defense, alleging that Ward attempted to ram him with an SUV after being ordered to stop. According to Bunn and his partner, Ward and five friends were attempting to steal a car when he identified himself as a police officer and attempted to make an arrest.


Ward's family and at least some of the people in the car with him tell a different story, claiming that Ward was wrongly profiled as a thief simply because he was a young black man driving a new SUV. They maintain that Bunn and his partner never identified themselves as police officers, and then shot him for no good reason.


A five year veteran, this is not the first time that Officer Bunn has been accused of using unnecessary force. There are four other cases in his file in which claims have been brought. The only one of those four which resulted in any disciplinary action was the beating of Michael Jascomb during a drug arrest, and that centered on Bunn's failure to report the use of force. Although Jascomb was suffering from a retinal hemorrhage after the incident, his claim of excessive force was dismissed.


About a week after Jascomb's claim was dismissed, Bunn was accused of hitting Mark Norfleet in the head with his baton during an arrest. Norfleet's claims were dismissed entirely, as were those of Joe Summers, who accused Bunn and a group of other officers of taking him into an alley and beating him.


On September 3, 2000, Bunn was involved in an altercation with Ylia Lavender, who claimed that he punched her in the face without provocation, breaking her eye socket. Lavender's claim was dismissed due to lack of evidence, but she has since joined with the family of Corey Ward in bringing a suit against the Atlanta police. Her vision remains impaired due to the incident.


Rev. Markel Hutchins, national president and CEO of the National Youth Connection, opined at an August 3 rally that these incidents are representative of a justice system that would "rather lock young black America up than lift them up," contending that "if the Atlanta Police Department had done their job and taken R. S. Bunn off the street in 2000, Corey Ward would be here today." Unfortunately, the case of Corey Ward appears symptomatic of a police department too willing to use deadly force.

Twelve people have been shot by Atlanta police this year, the most since 1995, and five of the shootings have been fatal. At the time of the killing of Corey Ward there had been three incidents involving police shooting at cars within eight days, and, in the last month, two alleged prostitutes have been shot by undercover vice officers, prompting Police Chief Richard Pennington to suspend vice patrols temporarily.

On July 10, 18-year-old Aneika James was wounded after she allegedly stabbed a vice officer during an arrest at 5pm in Perkerson Park, an area heavily occupied by local children, despite the request of a park employee that the police cease patrolling the area at that time of day. Less than a month later, on August 5, 35-year-old Tessa Hardeman was fatally shot by another undercover vice officer after she allegedly pepper-sprayed him and stabbed him during an arrest.


On August 8, only three days after Tessa Hardeman's death, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran a story outlining several complaints of police abuse by prostitutes, who claim that they are often taken advantage of by policemen who use their badge as a form of extortion. Maj. Leander Robinson, who is in charge of the criminal investigation unit that oversees the vice squad, suggests that these men could be posing as police using fake badges; however, in the face of these allegations, it remains difficult to discount the possibility of either of these women feeling forced to wield a knife in self-defense against an ill-intentioned assailant who was later revealed to be an officer.

Chief Pennington maintains that "This department has a great reputation in terms of not being involved in excessive force," and has promised to look into department policies and procedures with regards to both shooting at vehicles and vice squad patrols. However, the efficacy of disciplinary procedures for Atlanta-area police has been called into question recently, most notably in the November 28, 2001 issue of Creative Loafing, which exposed issues of gross miscommunication and lax discipline in the cases of ten Fulton County Sheriff's Deputies who had been charged with excessive force or reckless behavior either on or off duty but had faced little or no disciplinary action. The Creative Loafing report also documented a near-complete lack of communication between the Sheriff's Department and the Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, the only agency with the authority to revoke the license of a peace officer in Georgia, meaning that a deputy whose license had been revoked could continue to hold onto his or her job and badge. As a result, community confidence in police disciplinary procedures has been sorely shaken.


To exacerbate matters, the city was recently split by the trial of Imam Jamil al-Amin, a trial regarded by many to have been biased and unfair. This spate of shootings has only served to charge the atmosphere further. When 300 protestors rallied peacefully on August 3 in support of the families of Corey Ward and Ylia Lavender, the hundreds of police lined up to "control" them seemed to signify a growing rift between Atlanta's police and its populace, a battle line already drawn, increasingly distinct. Sgt. V. Sellers, a supervisor in the zone where R. S. Bunn shot Corey Ward, states, "You can't even go to the restaurants anymore. Where are you going to park? What's the crowd like? Is my car going to get broken into? It's not even worth it. This is the battle we're trying to fight for the people of Atlanta." All of this martial symbolism begs one question: if there is in fact a war in progress, what can be done to bring peace to the streets of Atlanta?


The basic root of the conflict is our society's method of policing, a method that pervades our entire justice system, and that has led to the misguided and rhetorical declaration of a "war on crime". Our police department must evolve from a paramilitary organization into an organization that is integrated with the fabric of the community, an organization that provides for the public safety in a manner that doesn't make ordinary citizens feel uncomfortable every time they pass a uniformed officer. This transition could be effected by moving most officers from the crime fighting and investigation sectors of the department to a sector designated "Public Safety".


A small number of police should continue to perform "traditional" police jobs like responding to crime scenes, investigating crimes, and pursuing criminals. Officers in the Public Safety sector, on the other hand, would dramatically alter the community's view of police. They wouldn't be the faceless people who always show up too late; they would be the familiar faces from the everyday beat. The resulting trust would enable public safety officers to take the pulse of the community, to be a conduit of information from the community, and to solve minor problems before they escalate into violence. These officers would not carry guns.. The use of guns to "keep the peace" is counterproductive because guns inspire fear, which in turn inspires irrational and violent behavior, as well as distrust.


Shifting our policing focus to community-based Public Safety patrols would likely decrease the occurrence of violence in those communities, as is evidenced by lower crime rates in countries that have traditionally followed that approach. It would also allow police departments to provide much more intensive training for those officers who are permitted to carry guns, thus helping to minimize the abuse of firearms. The plan would take time and patience to implement, but would be a tremendous step forward in community-police relations.


The suffering of the families of Corey Ward, Ylia Lavender, Aneika James, Tessa Hardeman, and countless others demands justice. While a portion of this justice is manifested in holding police accountable for their actions, true justice cannot be achieved until we address the larger issue. It is time that the people of Atlanta not fear the police as much as they fear the crime that police are intended to fight. It is time that our police move away from their reliance on intimidation and guns as a method of controlling the populace, and instead invest in the communities they are hired to protect and serve.  (Jonathon S. Wright can be reached at: jonwri@bellsouth.net )

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