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Jul 15, 2010

There is speculation about Mel Gibson's mental health after a tape recording of Gibson 's rant against his child's mother, Oksana Grigorieva. Gibson used racial slurs in a heated conversation that was recorded and recently made public at Radar Online (a link is provided below).  Last week, Clarence Thomas' nephew, Derek Thomas, was beaten and tazed in a Louisiana hospital where he was admitted after exhibiting suicidal tendencies. A few months ago when Michael Douglas' son was sentenced to a five-year prison term on drug charges, Douglas explained that Cameron has suffered from emotional problems since his early childhood. Elvis Presley, the King of Rock, was pronounced bipolar post mortem. Many famous, gifted, wealthy people have mental illness to varying degrees, and so do millions of poor and middle class people. In fact, mental illness is one of America's most common health issues. Unfortunately, it is often treated legally rather than medically.

Mental illness is such a common health condition that it affects approximately one in five Americans. Some people have phobias that present no problem for them as long as they do not have to confront the thing that strikes terror in their hearts. Other people have acute mental illness, like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Many children are stricken with Autism, and thousands of elders suffer from age-onset dementia. Some people who appear to be merely alcoholics and/or drug users actually have underlying mental health issues that drove them to those addictions. A study of military personnel and veterans indicates that around 54% of combat soldiers suffer from some level of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). But PTSD is not limited to war. Plenty of people who live in neighborhoods where violence is common and adults who were victimized by sexual abuse or brutal beatings during childhood also have PTSD. 

Justice Thomas is reportedly incensed over his nephew's rough treatment when Derek was allegedly beaten and tazed by hospital security staff for not cooperating with an exam. Unfortunately, people who have emotional crisis like Derek Thomas did are often abused. Many people who exhibit signs of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, dementia, and other mind diseases find little understanding and sympathy - even from their close friends or family members. Should mentally challenged people be subjected to abuse or imprisoned for being sick?

Prisons are "correctional institutions" meant for (a) public safety, (b) punishment, and (c) rehabilitation. No one can be punished or rehabilitated into a state of mental soundness, and secure mental hospitals offer the same protection to the public from mentally ill offenders in crisis that prisons do. Therefore, it is time for America to end the stigma surrounding mental illness and eliminate the Dark Ages practice of locking sick people away in dungeons. Sadly, 60% of inmates in solitary confinement are mentally ill.  Like diabetes, another chronic health condition, mental illness is a common ailment that most victims can recover from sufficiently to resume wholesome lives with proper treatment.

Mel Gibson has not been diagnosed with bipolar disorder by any psychiatrist to my knowledge; however, Gibson is currently receiving extreme criticism for his actions that might prove to the result of a common health condition - bipolar disorder. Below is an article about Gibson, published by ScumDoctor.com.

Mel Gibson Mental Illness

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, popularly known as Mel Gibson, is a famous American-Australian actor, director, producer and screenwriter better known around the world for his Academy Award-winning movies such as Gladiator, Patriot, Apocalypto, Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ.

Keeping aside his professional accomplishments, Mel Gibson is believed by many to be suffering from bipolar mental disorder, a mental illness that is characterized by abnormally elevated moods clinically referred to as mania.

Also known as manic-depressive illness, bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness where affected individuals suffer from mood disorders. Usually, a highly aggressive behavior is believed to be the most striking symptom of bipolar disorder. On the contrary, people having this disease suffer from intermittent episodes of depression and mania that are separated by periods of normal mood. People suffering from bipolar disorder are prone to excessive consumption of alcohol and substance abuse. In fact, unable to control their emotions or moods, these individuals practice outlandish words and deeds. In case of Mel Gibson, there have been numerous instances where he was arrested form driving car after consuming excessive amounts of alcohol and was reprimanded by the courts for his despicable behavior with the officials at the time of arrest.

Occurrence of bipolar disorder usually begins in childhood. In fact, Mel Gibson had himself acknowledged that he had behavioral anomalies from childhood including alcohol abuse from the age of 13. In spite of making repeated attempts to quit the habit, he has been really unsuccessful. Persons suffering from bipolar disorder experience a regular tendency to commit suicide. Gibson, in an interview in 2003, had said that his despair during his mid-thirties had led him to contemplate suicide.

According to studies, some of the risk factors that can cause this disorder include genetics and environment that severely influence the neurological and psychological state of mind in an individual. Treatment of bipolar disorder is possible. Psychologists primarily rely on medication and psychotherapy for treating such individuals. Medications include usage of ‘mood stabilizers’ such as lithium and sodium valproate. Apart from these, antidepressants and antipsychotic medications are also used. Psychotherapy involves counseling sessions with the psychologist.

The article above is available at the below link, along with other useful information about mental health care: http://www.scumdoctor.com/disease-prevention/mental-illness/Mel-Gibson-Mental-Illness.html  

***A link to listen to Gibson's heated conversation that led to speculation about bipolar disorder is available after the information below.

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MARY'S COMMENTS

Fortunately, if Gibson is mentally ill, he can afford psychiatric treatment. When doctors' visits or hospitalization is needed for wealthy Americans who face short-term psychiatric crisis or need long-term care, they are not denied treatment for the lack of mental health care insurance coverage. Congress recently passed excellent legislation requiring that employers provide mental health care insurance coverage on a par with insurance coverage employees receive for physical ailments (some exclusions apply). However, hundreds of thousands, if not more, acute mentally ill people are unemployed and ineligible for employment due to the magnitude of their disabilities. It may take extensive treatment for them to be able to rejoin the workforce, if at all.  Where is the hospital insurance coverage for them? There is none. And neither was any provision for mental hospital insurance coverage made in the national health care plan that Congress recently passed. Unless some alternative arises, severe mentally ill Americans will continue to join the 1.25 million sick people who are currently imprisoned for inappropriate conduct that arose from untreated mental illness.

The GOOD NEWS is that Americans already has an alternative to imprisoning sick people! In January 2009, Rep. Eddie Johnson (D-TX) introduced a federal bill called H.R.619 to amend Title XIX of the Social Security Act to resume Medicaid insurance for middle class and indigent people who need hospital care. Timely, humane treatment for mental illness would mean less crimes done by and to mentally unstable people. If Congress passes H.R.619, it will reduce prison costs, increase public safety, and end decades of discrimination against mentally challenged Americans. Hundreds of thousands of people who lack the financial resources to be treated in private psychiatric hospitals have been steadily and continuously imprisoned ever since Medicaid was removed for inpatient psychiatric care during the 1970's. They are frequently re-arrested as repeat offenders for crimes ranging from simple vagrancy to assults. Occasionally, avoidable murders happen.

The federal bill that NAMI, Treatment Advocacy Center, and numerous other mental health care organizations and activists support, H.R.619, would help end discrimination against mentally ill Americans. EVERYONE needs a health care plan, including the mentally ill. They need and deserve access to timely preventive and crisis intervention as much as a heart patient does. Furthermore, society needs for mentally challenged people to have insurance coverage. We all shop at the same malls and attend the same schools. The overwhelming majority of mentally challenged people are not dangerous, but no psychiatric patient should die during a lunacy arrest because of denial of health care, and no more children should be murdered by a psychotic neighbor or family member who was denied hospital admission.

HOMELESSNESS, PRISON, AND DEATH MUST CEASE BEING AMERICA'S ANSWER TO MENTAL ILLNESS.

YOU can support H.R.619 to resume Medicaid for inpatient psychiatric care for those who need it by calling or writing your representatives and voicing your support for the congressional bill.  Please visit ASSISTANCE TO THE INCARCERATED MENTALLY ILL (AIMI) at the link below to find out more about the need to decriminalize mental illness. AIMI members believe mental illness should be treated medically, not legally. Thank you for your interest in compassion and equal justice for Americans with mental disabilities.

May God bless Mel Gibson, if he is having mental health problems, as well as Derek Thomas, Cameron Douglas, and millions more people with competent, compassionate care.

*** LINK TO GIBSON'S 'RANT" at RADAR ONLINE:  http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5572180/mel_gibson_rant_on_radar_online_web.html


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

MEL GIBSON PHOTO

Jan 2, 2009

Here is song by Elvis Presley, a great entertainer, who was pronounced bipolar post partum. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeeZr6uIHj4

Elvis was very talented, just as many people with mental health challenges are.  It is almost as though they have so much talent and some of our greatest scientists have been so gifted in academia, that there is occasionally a corresponding lack in other areas.  There is no telling what greatness America has locked away behind our prison walls today, this 2nd day of 2009.  Let us hope that with CHANGE, we will stop criminalizing people for being sick.

As you read the article below, please keep in mind that my censorship force wants you not to see the links or listen to the song and speech.  There is no virus.  They sometimes put that message on my attachments to my outgoing emails, also, to contain my message of hope for the day when mentally ill people like my brother will not be locked in jail and emerge a corpse.  Don't let them cheat you of the full benefit of this article, please.  Let me know by commenting below if you have any problems.

Like many people who face mental health challenges, Elvis Presley sought to self-medicate with drugs, and he died.  It is too late to help Elvis Presley, but please help the many men and women who are imprisoned today because of mental illness.  Insist that your elected officials decriminalize mental illness.  If you do that, then my brother will not have died in vain.  Thank you in advance.  Enjoy the article, and help with this effort by copying the entire article and posting it here and there.  If you only post a link, they will redirect the link - this is how they contain the message to benefit prison profiteers who earn large amounts of revenue imprisoning 1.25 million of America's sick citizens.  Blessings!

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New World Order, Here So Soon?

by duo | January 2, 2009 at 02:03 pm

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Now we have it on the authority of a former congressman – the concentration camps for Americans are real.  Unlike many world citizens, I do not await some distant future day when the New World Order takes over.  For my family, it arrived several years ago and I battle its complete takeover every day.  The Neals ran afoul of the powers that be when we did not accept the right of government to secretly arrest my mentally ill brother, Larry Neal, and deliver him back to us as a corpse after 18 days “missing,” while he was actually incarcerated in Shelby County Jail in Memphis, Tennessee (August 1, 2003).  See http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com.

It did not endear me to the New World Order to start Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill, an organization established to decriminalize mental illness in America, where 1.25 million of the prisoners have mental dysfunctions and should be in treatment instead of jail.  It would likely make no difference if I tell the New World Order folks I had no idea initially who was doing this and why.  We members of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill really believed that we could impart some information about acute mental patients to our elected officials, thinking they did not understand how dysfunctional most acutely mentally ill people are – especially when deprived of psychiatric treatment.  We felt we could explain this to decision makers and they would stop holding sick people responsible for crimes, but treat them as patients instead.  Who knew that so many folks in high places were prison profiteers who gain dividends off the imprisonment of sick people?

Since the day Larry died, my family has found that many forces work together against the rights of individual citizens who threaten the status quo with talk of citizens’ rights and government accountability:  major law firms, the courts, major news media, and even civil rights groups and civil liberties organizations are willing to look the other way when such atrocities happen.  The wrongful death of Larry Neal and the censorship of this story, including my personal harassment and endangerment without police protection, remind me of WWII Germany, when neighbors sat by mutely and watched their neighbors taken away to be burned in Nazi ovens.


Cochran Firm Fraud Video 1 & 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1ltCpy1uu0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ5d_wju2M8

Want to see the 911 report? 

http://my.nowpublic.com/health/happy-holidays-finally-heard-police-re-911-emergency-call

My family has been dealing with the loss of so-called inalienable rights for a number of years now.  From recent news reports, such as the one below wherein a former congressman warns of the prison camps being readied across the country, it looks like it will soon be YOUR TURN.

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FORMER CONGRESSMAN WARNS OF MARTIAL LAW CAMPS IN AMERICA

San Francisco Chronicle article outlines Homeland Security ENDGAME


Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, Feb 21, 2008

An article co-written by a former Congressman and carried by the
San Francisco Chronicle has gained much attention recently as it shines light on a coordinated federal government program to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States.

"Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs." write Lewis Seiler and former Congressman Dan Hamburg of the watchdog group
Voice of the Environment, Inc.

Voice of the Environment's mission is to educate the public regarding the transfer of public trust assets into private, mostly corporate, hands.

The article continues:

Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees.

According to diplomat and author Peter Dale Scott, the KBR contract is part of a Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists."

Article continues at this link: 
http://www.infowars.net/articles/february2008/210208Camps.htm

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The
San Francisco Chronicle article at this link is entitled, “Rule by Fear or Rule by Law.”  It looks like the wrong choice was made regarding my family, considering my ordeal at the Chevron station and the fact that no law enforcement are investigating the terrorist acts against my family, including computer stalking, actual stalking, waylaying this writer at neighborhood businesses, denial of freedom of speech and freedom of the press, constant monitoring of my home through open microphones on my computer which I neither opened nor am allowed to close.

Did you notice that the article states "potential terrorists" will be "removed"?  It has been my experience with the New World Order that the truth terrorizes them.  So, do not get the idea it means you have to have bombs in your basement to qualify for removal.  Have you ever read about my handicapped brother's secret arrest and wrongful death in any mainstream media?  What about the fact that The Cochran Firm's advertised Atlanta office declared in court that all such advertising is false?  See what I mean?  Truth is not allowed - highly censored, and from my ordeal at the Chevron station (see video 2 above), TRUTH may be punishable by "removal."

January is the month we celebrate Martin Luther King Day.  With the former congressman's warning of an imminent loss of citizens' rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, this seems a good time to listen to Dr. King's last speech, wherein he admonished America to "be true to what you said on paper."  Either we have a democracy wherein people of all races and even handicapped citizens have civil rights that are protected and their families are free to ask what happened when some die in government custody under secret detainment, or we are already in the New World Order.  Simple as that. 

Here is a link to Dr. King's final speech: 

http://www.scholarspot.com/video/1318/1968-Martin-Luther-King-s-Prophetic-Last-speech-Remember


See more about the justice quest for the mentally ill and my family’s battle against the New World Order at this link and the articles below my signature.
http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/990176 

WE WILL USHER IN A NEW PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION this month.  Citizens across America and the world are watching and waiting for much needed CHANGE.  We hope for a significant, positive change in American government - a day when citizens’ rights are respected and protected, a day when America repairs the breach between our country and other nations, and the dawning of a day when the Constitution will actually become the law governing this land. 

This writer would like to see those prison trains that FEMA reportedly bought reserved to quickly evacuate citizens caught in dangerous weather, like Katrina.  I would like for President-elect Obama to turn some of those concentration camps into mental hospitals and others into permanent housing for vulnerable citizens who have been abandoned to suffer and die in prisons and die on our streets.  A nation that respects its citizens does not arrest them for having a handicap.  Nazi Germany both arrested the mentally ill and killed them.  Hopefully, America has not and will not come to that.  Those thousands of plastic coffins that are reportedly stacked around the country should be melted down and made into something useful to a country that is not planning on mass death, but abundant life and prosperity!

A democracy does not revoke citizens’ rights in favor of a few werewolves who want to usher in a New World Order with two classes of people:  rulers and slaves.  Americans look forward to an administration that rules by law and not by fear, one with equal justice at its core.

Like Dr. King said in his final address, “I don’t know what will happen now; we’ve got some difficult days ahead.”  But united, we are empowered by God to overcome our difficulties, restore our economy, and to live in peace with our neighbors.  All that is needed is unity.  God said there is nothing that a united people cannot accomplish.  Read:

And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.  Genesis 11:6

As for my family’s justice quest regarding the wrongful death of Larry Neal, we continue to stand on the promises this nation made to render equal justice to all its citizens, but mostly, we stand on the promises of God our Father.  Our justice quest for records and accountability regarding Larry’s death is now five years long, but in God we trust.  Here is a song that says it all: 

We’ve Come This Far by Faith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqP0_wtfKmQ&feature=related

And in case I do not have the opportunity to tell you on January 19th
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HAPPY MARTIN LUTHER KING'S DAY! 


Mary Neal
Website:  http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com

Author's Page:  http://www.care2.com/c2c/people/profile.html?pid=513396753

Articles:  http://www.care2.com/news/member/513396753?sort=submitted

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
Care2:  http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI


    
a werewolf   Warewolves are half human dog beasts that await the opportunity to destroy human beings for their own survival and prosperity, such as prison profiteers.

 


 

 
 
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