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Below is an email from a woman who needs your help.  Please endorse and share her petition.  These are the facts of the matter as Cynthia relayed them to me:

Cynthia Davis reported a woman for child neglect last year.  The woman retaliated by falsely accusing Cynthia Davis of a crime.  The white police officer who went to Cynthia Davis' home to question or arrest her on the woman's allegations attacked and beat Cynthia, who is an African America.  He caused her to fall, and Cynthia incurred a head injury.  Since that abuse, Cynthia suffers from seizures and PTSD.  She was unable to work, lost her home, and had many other problems - all since her police brutality occurred.  She was so stressed as the day of trial approached that Cynthia had a stroke recently, and now she has impaired speech.  Cynthia is an educated woman and was making an excellent income prior to her brutality which caused her head injury and led to her financial, mental, and physical crisis.

CYNTHIA DAVIS IS IN COURT TODAY.

The police officer who beat Cynthia and caused her disabilities was in the news for beating another citizen.  Cynthia said the Newark D.A. offered her a deal:  If she agreed not to pursue damages for police brutality, and she would not have to stand charges on the negligent mom's false allegations.  This was clearly blackmail, and Cynthia would not accept the deal. 

Unfortunately, court is not going well for Cynthia.  She said that the day a hearing was held, the judge walked in court and asked something to this effect: "Is there someone in here who needs a mental health break," and the D.A. and police officers all laughed with the judge.  Next, the court refuses to allow Cynthia's evidence that her prosecution is the result of blackmail.  They disallow her admitting police phone records from 9/8/08 and police videotape from 9/1/08, 9/2/08, and 9/8/08.  She asks your support on her petition for justice and for your prayers.  Petition for Cynthia Davis to have a fair trial:  http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/please-promote-and-support-advocacy-for-cynthia-johnson

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

My Care2 friends and family,
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I know that I've sent this message to you quite a few times but it's getting down to crunch time and the local government still has not released the police phone records and/or videotape that would prove without a doubt that I have actually been abused and harrassed by one of our finest blues.
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This cover-up has caused so much harm to my life and I am still to this day trying to recover and rebuild and they are still trying to blackmail me into doing things their way in order not to prosecute me and not release their records.  Yesterday was a nightmare trying to prepare for tomorrow's court date.  Local government officials are shameless and disgusting with their "CODE OF SILENCE" rules and they back each other whether they know each other or not.
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I thank you all for signing and forwarding this petition but I still need your help.  If there are any that have not signed, please do so and then forward to friends, family, colleagues, and any organizations that might post this petition to their websites.  If any of you have already signed, please forward to friends, family, colleagues, and any organizations that might post it to their websites.  I have a little over 24 hours to get some major interest into this situation or I just might get seriously harmed in court tomorrow.  I don't even feel safe walking into that courthouse full of Newark police officers.  I asked for an escort the last time I was there and was refused.
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Please help!  The countdown has begun to either my freedom or my incarceration for a crime that I did not commit.  I stood up for myself and this is what I am being prosecuted for.  Nothing more!  All I have left is the TRUTH!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/please-promote-and-support-advocacy-for-cynthia-johnson
CA

I read that at Am Liberals that the Virginia Tech families want the case re-opened about the man who shot their loved ones.  Many other families have been impacted by violence against their members by persons with a long history of mental illness.  The mentally ill themselves are most often victims of their own dysfunctions and the way the system responds to their conditions - tasering, shooting them, imprisonment at great expense to taxpayers - rather than treatment.  See http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com

Why is this allowed to continue?  Simply so that the mentally ill can be preserved UNTREATED and land in prisons and jails.  Private prison facilities use mentally ill persons as commodities.  Currently, American taxpayers pay around $50 BILLION per year for prison fees, and over 1/2 of those imprisoned are mentally ill people who should be under MANDATORY TREATMENT in their communities or if they did violent crimes, they should be hospitalized without their agreement being needed. 

I am CENSORED and ENDANGERED because I advocate for enforced care for mental patients, something that would cost prison profiteers dearly because Kendra's Law already proved that program participants experienced around 90% reduction in incarceration, hospitalization, and homelessness once they were enrolled in the Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program (AOT).  

The Virginia Tech families are right to demand answers.  As more soldiers transition home with PTSD, we should all demand changes in the way mental illness is treated in America.  Sgt. Russel is NOT the only soldier who did numerous consecutive tours of duty and lost his sense of reason.  Before there are more VA Tech incidents - maybe while YOUR teens are at the mall - demand an end to the existing laws that mentally ill persons must "prove to be a danger to self and others."  Why must we wait until there are smoking guns and dripping knives and bodies here and there before a mental patient gets Enforced Treatment -- but not in his hospital or in his community where he should have, but in PRISON, so that rich prison owners and investors can profit?

Already, there is a marked increase in the criminal acts being done by veterans - particularly veterans from the present overseas conflict.  Our military personnel will soon transition home and many will become prisoners of war like Sgt. Russel.  Someone has to die before mental patients are treated IN PRISONS, when they should have gotten care before the tragedies.  But who must die before the next vet gets care?  Been to the mall lately?

I am also CENSORED and ENDANGERED because of this and because I write about my mentally ill brother who was held under SECRET ARREST and murdered, and authorities REFUSE his family any records or accountability - Freedom of Information Act Request re: Shelby County Jail and The Cochran Firm Fraud -

FOIA REQUEST TO USDOJ RE: LARRY NEAL AND THE COCHRAN FIRM FRAUD   http://my.nowpublic.com/health/foi-request-usdoj-re-larry-neal-and-cochran-firm-fraud

President Obama's executive order to strengthen the FOIA does not matter when it comes to hiding the truth about Larry Neal's murder in Shelby County Jail in Memphis, TN in 2003.

I am CENSORED and suffer from CYBERSTALKERS and in-person STALKING to prevent my telling the world about the PLAN to preserve mental patients untreated for future arrest and to prevent your knowing about my brother's murder.  Tonight I found that my RSS feed from Care2 has been deactivated so you would not be able to read the truth about either of these things.  See this that shows my feed was deactivated three weeks ago, although the setting is still set to feed.  There are huge GAPS in the data that went to RSS, also.
NOW THEY STOPPED MY RSS FEED FROM MY SHAREBOOK 
 
SEE THIS - the feed ends three weeks ago.  They also were choosing what to feed.  Censorship is intolerable.  What is the problem?  All we discuss is decriminalizing mental illness, anti-death penalty advocacy, and ending police brutality.  ARE THOSE TABOO SUBJECTS ON CARE2 - the network for people who CARE?: 

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PHYSICAL INJURIES, deformities, and limitations such as blindness can be perceived easily and addressed medically, although those who are thus afflicted frequently have lifetime impairments that require ongoing treatment.  Mental scars after wars and other traumatic events can also last a lifetime, and people who suffer enormous mental agony after harrowing experiences also need professional attention and special allowances for their conditions.

NO MAN LEFT BEHIND


Homeless Veterans with PTSD
(Click on picture to see gallary)

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Gratitude:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSfFYxSdKdo&feature=player_embedded 

Mental dysfunctions are not perceived with the naked eye, as physical handicaps are.  After wars and traumatic events, victims of PTSD may find immediate help and sympathy among family and friends.  Counselors are made available to people who live through plane crashes and other catastrophic events because everyone understands that profound tragedies can cause those affected to be mentally and emotionally scarred.  People who need help adjusting after losing loved ones are encouraged to go through grief counseling.  However, the outpouring of sympathy and understanding has a short timeline.

Society seemingly lacks the willingness to make long-term allowances for mentally afflicted persons' inclusion in regular society that it makes for people who are physically handicapped. Instead, people who suffer extended psychological damage are expected to "snap out of it," and "pull themselves together."  Individuals who "go crazy" after falling victim to permanent psychological damage are likely to eventually be treated like most other mentally ill people in society and are eventually given the same three options:  homelessness, prison, and death. That is why America's inmates and homeless population includes many veterans from the Viet Nam War, the Gulf War, and other conflicts.
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Many soldiers who saw
their comrades die suffer PTSD
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Below is an excerpt on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder from Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_traumatic_stress_disorder 

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more traumatic events that threatened or caused grave physical harm. 

It is a severe and ongoing emotional reaction to an extreme psychological trauma.  This stressor may involve someone's actual death, a threat to the patient's or someone else's life, serious physical injury, an unwanted sexual act, or a threat to physical or psychological integrity, overwhelming psychological defenses. 

In some cases it can also be from profound psychological and emotional trauma, apart from any actual physical harm. Often, however, incidents involving both things are found to be the cause.

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A STUDY SHOWS that 54.1% of soldiers who were involved in the Balkans conflict have mental health issues.  An article about that study is at the link below:
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Balkans: A Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Study
http://my.nowpublic.com/world/balkans-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd-study  

The Obama administration announced that American troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by 2011.  Our soldiers will transition back home, and many of them will be no different from the Balkan soldiers, among whom 54% were mentally damaged by their war experiences.  Our soldiers who exited recent conflicts in the Middle East already have a heightened suicide rate.  Additionally, many ex-military personnel, like other civilians with mental health issues, have a propensity to use drugs and alcohol in efforts to "get their heads on straight." 

Two American Soldiers

By 2011, American soldiers in Iraq
are coming home; 54% may suffer PTSD

 

Think of the rate of soldiers who are likely to be affected by PTSD according to the Balkan study:  54.1%.  Hopefully, a good many soldiers who transition back to the United States from Iraq by 2011 and are suffering from PTSD will avail themselves of the mental health services offered to them.  The U.S. military has taken steps to increase and improve services offered. 

Some returning soldiers will be able to meet society's expectations of people who have endured trauma and "pull themselves together."  Some will adjust in a short amount of time to civilian life.  They will have the support of family, friends, perhaps their churches and other community support.  Many of the soldiers were actually in the Army Reserve, and they should be able to resume their regular employment.  As time goes on, most sufferers of PTSD will experience reduced symptoms of the disorder over time, especially if they also get professional help.  But what about those who don't adjust after a short time?  What about our veterans who will never "bounce back"?  Many will be permanently afflicted mentally. 

Soldiers who are amputees or otherwise permanently handicapped during wars get lifetime benefits and are afforded all of the allowances society willingly makes to ensure the inclusion of physically handicapped persons in society:  wheelchair ramps, reserved parking, special services for the hear impaired, and more. 

QUESTION:  What is America willing to do for veterans who are permanently scarred mentally after serving in military conflicts?   Will we offer them the same pitiful outcome that is available to other chronic mental patients in America:  homelessness, prison, and death? 

Approximately 1.25 million mentally dysfunctional citizens (including many veterans) are currently in prison because of offenses arising out of their mental illness.  Is this to be the eventual outcome for our soldiers returning from Iraq between now and 2011, also?  We need a program like Kendra’s Law in place across America.  Not only would Kendra's Law help our mentally challenged citizens who are in the civilian population avoid becoming prison inmates, but Kendra's Law would also help many of our veterans avoid becoming "prisoners of war" after returning home.  Kendra's Law is outpatient commitment for mentally ill participants that combines subsistence assistance and mandatory treatment for mental illness.

Here is bill that has been introduced to improve mental health services to veterans of particular conflicts. One can track its progress through Congress online at http://congress.org/.

(H.R.1544) : 'To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for unlimited eligibility for health care for mental illnesses for veterans of combat service during certain periods of hostilities and war. '

This bill is commendable and necessary to removing financial barriers to treatment for certain vets - a very important bill that needs to pass.  Keep in mind, however, that such legislation will not keep veterans out of prisons or restore those who are already in prison back to freedom and wholesome living like Kendra's Law can.


Veterans suffering PTSD who break
laws are subject to incarceration.  Many
vets are already behind bars along with
1 in every 99.1 other Americans

 

 

HIGH SUCCESS RATE:  Kendra's Law program participants in New York experienced over 80% decrease in incidents of homelessness, incarcerations, and re-arrests.  Over 80% proved success rate!  Kendra's Law works.

Non-violent mentally ill offenders who are currently imprisoned should be immediately released under an outpatient sentencing law, such as Kendra's Law, thereby eliminating overcrowded prison conditions in one day.

We already have the remedy to the high rates of homelessness among the mentally ill, high incarceration rates, and many senseless deaths that involve psychiatric patients who are not undergoing treatment.  Please call your representatives and let them know that you support Kendra's Law across America.  Homelessness, prison and death must cease being America's answer to chronic mental illness. 

Psychiatric patients who were sentenced to prison for violent crimes should be transferred from prisons where they are inmates to secure mental hospitals, where they would become inpatients, as they should be.  They should be kept hospitalized for the length of their prison sentences, even if they were serving life without the possibility of parole.  Doctors should NOT have the authority to release mental patients who committed violent crimes.  That privilege should remain with the sentencing courts after the patients have been hospitalized for the minimum sentencing period according to their crimes.  This would prevent many relapses among psychiatric patients that endanger patients and the community. 

All psychiatric patients who commit violent crimes or nonviolent offenses and are released from prisons and mental hospitals should be mandated to participate in an outpatient commitment program like Kendra's Law - at least for the length of their parole or probationary periods.  If this is done, our rates of incarceration for the mentally ill behind bars will quickly become practically nil. 

Psychiatric patients and society as a whole would be safer and costs to taxpayers lower with Kendra's Law applied across the country.  Give our veterans who are returning home psychologically scarred for life the help they need to avoid spending their lives homeless or as POWs in America's prisons.  Insist that Kendra's Law replace homelessness, prison, and death as America's answers to chronic mental illness.

PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO BENEFIT OUR RETURNING TROOPS AND OUR NEIGHBORS WHO WRESTLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS TODAY.  OUR SOLDIERS DID MUCH MORE FOR US THAN SEND A SIMPLE E-MAIL.  Here is a link to contact your representatives and insist on Kendra's Law today:
 http://www.house.gov/writerep

Link: Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
 

HOMELESSNESS, PRISON, AND DEATH MUST CEASE BEING AMERICA'S ANSWERS TO MENTAL ILLNESS.  COME OUT OF THE DARK AGES!  WE NEED KENDRA'S LAW TODAY.

Support mentally ill Americans, including veterans suffering PTSD today.  Don't sit back and watch our veterans who voluntarily answered America's call for recruits return HOME to become POW's.  Call and write your representatives today and support Kendra's Law.  Replace prisons with inpatient and outpatient treatment programs for mentally ill Americans. Please send an e-mail for our vets with PTSD.  They did so much more for you:  http://www.house.gov/writerep.

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REMEMBER:  NO MAN LEFT BEHIND