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"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." - H. L. Mencken. "One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them." - Thomas Sowell. - Join search for truth learn to recognize it when you encounter it. See also enoughroom.blogspot.com youtube.com/user/roybercaw [Editor: Roy Bercaw]

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US Federal Debt July 2, 2016 $19,385,011,022,974.42. The estimated population of the United States is 323,268,727 so each citizen's share of this debt is $59,965.62. The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $2.42 billion per day since September 30, 2012!

"Sarchasm: the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn't get it. (Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)" Washington Post August 2, 1998, Style.

George Washington (1732-1799) "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent -- it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

John Adams (1735-1826) Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Thomas Sowell (1930 -) "One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."

Noam Chomsky (1928 -) “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all” Guardian (UK), Nov. 23, 1992)

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) "Chance favors the prepared mind."

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." "Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) "To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting."

Jodie Foster (1962 - ) "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."

Bertrand Russell(1872-1970 ) "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

Frank Leahy (1907-1973) "Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

James Michael Curley (1874-1958) “Never complain, never explain.”

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939 ) "The reason for so much bad science is not that talent is rare, not at all; what is rare is character."

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.” "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Andre Gide: (1869-1951) "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) "And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

A woman responding to a threat from Cuban-backed terrorists in El Salvador, 1982 “You can kill me, you can kill my family, kill my neighbors, but you can’t kill us all.”

Aung San Suu Kyi (1945- ) "The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."

Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961) "Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."

Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) "Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable."

Lady Marguerite Gardiner (1789-1849) "There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world."

Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”

Will Rogers: (1879-1938) "When people start taking the comedian seriously and the politician as a joke, everything changes." "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900-1965) "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." [Under this definition, Cambridge Massacchusetts, and the state of Massachusetts are not free societies. ed.]

Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

Maria Bartiromo (1967 - ) "My [commencement 2011] speech at St. John's [University, New York] three themes: work hard, no shortcuts, love what you do, and always do the right thing."

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) "Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists ... it is real ... it is possible ... it's yours."

Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) "Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well."

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) "The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone."

Dr. Seuss (1904-1991 Theodor Seuss Geisel) "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda) "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

Howie Carr (1952 - Boston Herald Columnist, WRKO Radio Talk Show Host) "The [MA] courts are more corrupt than the legislature." (November 18, 2010, 6:15 PM on his radio show.)

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) "In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) "Common sense is not so common." Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one." "Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

Martha Coakley (1953 - Democrat, MA Attorney General, 2010) "In Massachusetts, technically, it is not illegal to be illegal."

Deval Patrick (1956 - Democrat, MA Governor, 2010) "I am not a politician."

Michael Bloomberg (1942 - Democrat, Republican, Independent 3-Term Mayor of New York City and Billionaire) "Last time I checked, the pharmaceutical industry doesn't make a lot of money."

George W. Bush (1946 - ) "Intentions get overwhelmed by perceptions."

John Tudor "Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology."

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) "There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character." "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." "No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not." "For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." "It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull." "Democracy is the theory that people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

Michel de Montaigne: (1533-1592) "The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness."

Aldous Huxley: (1894-1963) "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."

T. S. Eliot: (1888-1965) "Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important They don’t mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle To think well of themselves."

Burt Prelutsky (1940- Columnist) "Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with a Jew building a house in Israel than with a Muslim building a nuclear bomb in Iran."

Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947, President Columbia University) "An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."

Henry Kissinger: (1923 - ) "In this world it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, but to be a friend is fatal."

Socrates: (469 BC-399BC) "He is richest who is content with the least."

Leo Tolstoy: (1828-1910) "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." "Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly." "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." "Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

P.J. O'Rourke (A Parliament of Whores) "Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population- we'd all be married to Mel Gibson."

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

Orson Welles (as Harry Lime in The Third Man, 1949) "In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace -- and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Tacitus: (c. 56 AD-c. 117) "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."

Ralph Waldo Emerson: (1803-1882) "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."

Doug Hoffman: (2009 Conservative Party Candidate for US Rep. NY 23rd District) "Congress fiddles while our economy burns. They lack common sense."

Rich Lowry: (On ObamaCare) "A shimmering mirage of wishful thinking and willful dishonesty."

President Obama (as he loses public support.) "We cannot wait any longer [. . .] There comes a time to remember the fierce urgency of right now."

Rush Limbaugh: (On first hour of his show broadcast October 23, 2009) Obama "is delusional." He's "seriously dangerous." He's "insane." Reacting to Obama's comments that the US Constitution is an obstacle to "redistribution of wealth." Obama also referred to "the so called founders."

Marek Edelman, (1919?-2009 leader of Warsaw Ghetto uprising.) "Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred."

Adis Medunjanin (24, in January 2010, Queens, NY man accused of training with al Qaeda): "We love death more than you love life."

Edward Moore Kennedy (1932-2009): "Do we operate under a system of equal justice or one for the average citizen and one for the high and mighty?"

Robert Novak: (1931-2009) “Always love your country — but never trust your government!

Calvin Coolidge: (1872-1933) “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Dead Pool: "Opinions are like a**holes. Everybody's got one."

Lyndon Johnson: (1908-1973) “The difference between liberals and cannibals is that cannibals don’t eat their friends and family members.”

Margaret Thatcher: (1925 -) "The problem with socialism is that eventually, you run out of others people's money."

John Adams: (1735-1826) "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Abraham Lincoln: (1809-1865) "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

Thomas Jefferson: (1743-1826) "Merchants have no country." “In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

James Madison: (1751-1836) “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

Mark Twain: (1835-1910) "Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing often and for the same reason." "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you think you know for sure that just ain't so." "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." "Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Maggie Gallagher: (1960-) "Politicians can pass a bill saying a chicken is a duck and that doesn't make it true. Truth matters."

Humpty Dumpty (In Alice in Wonderland) "When I use a word, it means exactly what I want it to. No more no less."

Groucho Marx: (Julius Henry, 1890-1977) "Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read."

United States Constitution http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html FACTS ARE STUBBORN:

John Adams: Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Aldous Huxley: Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Thomas Fuller: Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Obama Lost the Debate on Health Care: Unable to counter widespread concerns of citizens about his health care plans, Obama supporters conduct intense vitriolic attacks on critics. Obama has no rational arguments, and hopes to discredit his critics by character assassination. They are not just racists now they are greedy racists and hate mongers. Maybe that will work. Ya think? Obama-Biden: Stupid is as stupid does. Biden: "We misread how bad the economy was." Obama: [Correcting Biden]"We had incomplete information." So the US Congress voted for and the President signed a $787 billion stimulus bill without having read it, and with incomplete information? And they say others are stupid? Hello? Then Congress voted for a 1,000+ page "cap and trade" bill that none of them read. Bloomberg: Daschle says, "Health care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them," while former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm says seniors have "a duty to die." If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that the President, Senators and Congressmen have their own special gold plated health care plan which is guaranteed the remainder of their lives and they are not subject to this new law if they pass it. Reverse the dangerous direction of the Obama administration and its allies. Obama, The Un-Truman: David McCullough, in his biography of Harry Truman, "Truman" says on page 217, "Harry cared little more for other [than Huey Long] celebrated 'speechifiers' in the Senate. Admittedly fearful of making a speech himself, he seemed to resent particularly those who could and who made their reputations that way. They were the 'egotistical boys' whose specialty was talk." Obama admitted that he can make a speech but that he was incapable of doing anything in the Senate. Where did he gets his special powers during the campaign? Obama's Mantra: He keeps repeating, "I won the election." He expects all Americans to support what HE wants. "I won," is how Obama implements the post-partisan unification of America. What a guy! See also Rich Lowry's "Sorry, O: 'I won' Won't Cover this," New York Post, February 6, 2009, page 27. http://www.nypost.com/seven/02062009/postopinion/opedcolumnists sorry__o__i_won_wont_cover_this_153839.htm MIDDLESEX DA: We're too busy to address crimes less than murder. On Thursday June 25, 2009 Marian Ryan, who works for the Middlesex District Attorney in MA, returned my call from the previous day. She heads the unit for abuse of elders and abuse of persons with disabilities. She told me, "We've had four murders this month." That was to explain why she was unable to address 35 years of police abuses of a citizen with a disability now an elder. She said that a police officer making a threat did not rise to the level of a crime. She did not have time or resources to address abuses by the City Manager and the Police Commissioner of Cambridge, and the Harvard University campus police. It was no concern that using police to harass a person with a disability may be the reason for the four murders. MA Civil Rights statute and possession of illegal firearms are felonies, but not murder. Misallocation of resources is easily apparent. If the police focused on criminals instead of harassing elders with disabilities there might be less violent crime. But who was I to argue. Cambridge Censorship: In October 2009 City Council Candidate Kathy Podgers complained to Attorney Bill August, long term president of the Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association, that her posts to the neighborhood discussion lists were not appearing. Then Bob LaTremouille added his similar complaints. When I chimed in that my posts did n0t appear for many months Bill August accused me of libel. I said he ignored my complaints about censorship. For a lawyer he does not read very well. On one occasion in 2007 I sent a letter via Fedex from one part of Cambridge to another. I used Fedex because of frequent tampering with my mail by USPS employees. Mail was withheld by USPS employees, and some mail was intercepted and never got to where I sent it. The letter sent by Fedex never arrived either. Their tracking system ended before it was delivered. I wrote to the President of Fedex. He sent me a check for $25 to compensate me. What good is money if you can't send a letter from one part of a city to another? In June 2009 I sent a letter to a US Government agency complaining about a mobbed up police officer who was protecting criminals who harass me each day. Two days after I sent the letter the police detective appeared at a market as I shopped. He used a young woman as bait to try to have me arrested. In June 2009 someone opened a YouTube account solely to publish a comment attacking me personally. This is a frequent experience of an ongoing character assassination campaign by criminals and their police associates. A Harvard University attorney told me not to make complaints to their real estate offices but to the office of the General Counsel. The lawyer assigned was trying to deceive me. On June 6, 2009 I noticed a threat from a police officer as a comment under one of my videos posted on YouTube July 7, 2008. The video shows a Cambridge police patrol car parked in a bus stop. The officer was having dinner nearby not on an emergency call. Every day since I complained to the Attorney General about the threat Cambridge police or Harvard campus police follow me and try to provoke me. The Attorney General is married to a supervising Cambridge police officer. I learned on June 15, 2009 that the FBI was investigating me again. In May 2009, my comments on the Boston Herald web pages (a public accommodation) were removed allegedly due to violations of guidelines. When I complained one was restored. Interns referred me to a staff writer when three of my comments about the shooting death at a Harvard dorm were removed. Someone unknown to me posted a picture of a man from the city in my YouTube profile. That means that someone is tampering with my YouTube account. That is a felony under US law. On or about December 12, 2008 my name was removed from two neighborhood discussion lists--Riverside and Cambridgeport. My attempts to be put back on were ignored by the former President of the Riverside neighborhood, Larry Adkins. Cambridgeport moderators opened my new access in February 2009. In May 2009 I received messages from the list but was unable to post messages. Last year I was unable to receive or post messages to the Porter Square neighborhood discussion list. No notice there either. They began a new list this year and I now get messages. But I was the target of personal attacks on the Porter Square list, the Cambridgeport discussions and on the Cambridge Chronicle web pages. An FBI informant who maintains a web site about the City of Cambridge ridicules me and others who he believes have disabilities. My account with YouTube (more than 250 videos posted) was shut in August 2008 and my appeals of Fair Use Doctrine were ignored. On April 15, 2009 my YouTube account was re-opened. Emily Rooney, host of the PBS news show, Greater Boston threatened to have me banned from Boston. Cambridge City Councilor and Harvard lawyer, Brian Murphy, who resigned in February 2009 to take a six-figure job with the state used council rules to silence my expression. These are rules that the Council created but ignore at every meeting. An email account I used specially for discussion lists was shut down with no notice and no reason or warning given. My several emails inquiring why have been ignored. That account was re-opened on February 10, 2009. Google Video flagged and blocked four uploaded episodes of a cable access TV show I produced and hosted on CCTV. When I appealed their decision, they agreed to put it back up. But as of this date one remains blocked. In February 2009 a long term producer of documentaries at CCTV told me "There is no such thing as Free Speech." That was the second time someone in Cambridge said that to me.

Showing posts with label Persons with Disabilities. Show all posts

Sunday, September 14, 2014

Disabled WV Man Beaten By Police Who Thought He Was Enebriated

[From article]
The family says Bane suffers from Huntington's disease, a genetic and terminal illness that causes sufferers to increasingly lose their motor functions, at times appearing to be under the influence.[. . .]
'Assuming because of his appearance he was high on narcotics with out reason they began to subdue him, macing and beating him in the head as he fell to his face were he was — then held with a great amount of force by two officers double his size as a third one landed on his torso,' nephew Josh Bane told The Free Thought Project.
Granville PD says officers responded to a report of child abuse when they approached Bane, who appeared intoxicated and was handling his kids roughly, according to the Morgantown Dominion Post.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2754781/Familys-outrage-cops-violently-arrested-father-two-appearing-intoxicated-taking-care-kids-actually-TERMINAL-ILLNESS-makes-look-way.html

Family's outrage at cops who violently arrested a father of two for 'appearing intoxicated while taking care of his kids'... but actually has a TERMINAL ILLNESS that makes him look that way
Jeffrey Banes, 39, was arrested in West Virginia by four cops who left him choking on his own blood while subduing him
His family says Banes' illness, Huntington's disease, can make it seem as if he's intoxicated because it affects his motor functions
The violent arrest was captured on camera
By MAILONLINE REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 13:09 EST, 13 September 2014 | UPDATED: 13:09 EST, 13 September 2014

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Michigan Policeman Humiliates Disabled Man

[From article]
The police have since apologized.
Mr Bowens said: 'We all feel deeply, deeply sorry for the video we saw on the website. This is not a true reflection of the people of the city of Grosse Pointe Park.'

Is this unusual? Police in many jurisdictions take great pleasure harassing, ridiculing, and humiliating vulnerable persons. Police like to abuse their power when there is little chance of being held accountable.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2513726/Racist-Michigan-cop-mentally-ill-man-singing-make-animal-noises-film-suspended.html

'Racist' Michigan cop who made mentally ill man singing and make animal noises on film is suspended
Grosse Pointe Park officer taken off patrol after admitting making videos
Clips show man with disabilities being told to sing and make animal noises
Officers now ordered to undergo sensitivity training
By BECKY EVANS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 06:28 EST, 26 November 2013 | UPDATED: 10:20 EST, 26 November 2013

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Police War On Disabled Persons Continues

[From article]
Bandler was described by a local resident as a 'fairly crazy guy', KTLA reported.
Michael Dempsey, who lives by the scene, told the news station: 'From time to time he'll get fairly nuts and the police will come up and calm everything down.
[. . .]
'It's shocking, it's shocking like this could happen on this street. People up here aren't known to have guns. People up here aren't known to be fairly crazed. People up here don't lose their tempers. People up here don't get carried away,' Michael Dempsey told KTLA.
'They just mind their own business and go about life.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2508892/Police-shoot-dead-fairly-crazy-elderly-man-wealthy-Bel-Air.html

Police shoot dead 'a fairly crazy' elderly man in wealthy Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles
The neighborhood is home to millionaire celebrity residents such as Jennifer Aniston
The armed man was described by residents as 'fairly crazy'
He was shot by an officer after refusing to put down his weapon
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 13:21 EST, 17 November 2013 | UPDATED: 15:34 EST, 18 November 2013

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[From article]
Police in Long Beach, California, say they had no choice but to open fire when Adeline Arroyo, 31, pointed BB gun at them Sunday afternoon. The weapon looked like nearly an exact replica of a Beretta semi-automatic pistol.
Despite police firing numerous shots at her and hitting her twice, Miss Arroyo is expected to survive. She is currently recovering at a local hospital in serious condition.
Her family says she has a long history of mental illness and suffers from schizophrenia. They say police never should have shot her and instead found a less violent way to subdue her.
[. . .]
A video provided to KABC-TV from a witness shows a dozen officers barricaded behind their squad cars, pointing guns at her from all sides.
Some have handguns, others are armed with rifles and shotguns.
[. . .]
'I feel the Long Beach Police Department should be more trained when they're dealing with somebody with a mental illness.'
But, the Long Beach police chief said his officers had no choice but to open fire when Miss Arroyo repeatedly refused to drop the pistol.
'If a person has a handgun and they point that in your direction, then at that point less lethal is not appropriate. You're facing a lethal threat,' Chief Jim McDonnell said.
This is the 19th person shot by officers in the city of 460,000 so far this year.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509499/The-shocking-moment-police-gun-schizophrenic-woman-broad-daylight-points-BB-gun-them.html

The shocking moment police gun down schizophrenic woman in broad daylight after she points BB gun at them
Adeline Arroyo, 31, had BB that looked like Beretta semi-automatic pistol
She was shot twice, but survived and is expected to recover
At least 10 gunshots can be heard
A camera crew from KCAL-TV captured the entire scene on video
By MICHAEL ZENNIE
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 14:26 EST, 18 November 2013 | UPDATED: 16:53 EST, 18 November 2013

Thursday, November 7, 2013

NY US Sen. Chuck "You" Schumer, Wants GPS Devices For Autistic Children

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/06/Schumer-Asks-DOJ-for-GPS-Devices-for-Autistic-Children

by Mary Chastain
6 Nov 2013
Breitbart.com

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Video Shows Texas Cop Lied About Cause of Shooting Disabled Man

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2467073/Texas-cop-leave-video-footage-contradicts-claim-shot-mentally-ill-man-stomach-lunged-him.html

Texas cop put on leave after video footage contradicts claim that he shot mentally ill man in stomach after he lunged at him
Recording appears to go against Cardan Spencer's claim that he fired because of threatening behavior
Bobby Bennett, who has schizophrenia, is in intensive care after being wounded
Charges against victim have been dropped pending investigation
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 01:03 EST, 19 October 2013 | UPDATED: 11:14 EST, 19 October 2013

Friday, August 9, 2013

Abusing Disabled Persons, FL Police Beat Mental Patient; Staff Ties Them and Drugs Them

Here's evidence that it is not just Massachusetts local police, FBI informants and Harvard University campus cops who target persons with disabilities.

http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/08/08/video-shows-pembroke-pines-cop-punching-mentally-ill-girl/

Video Shows Pembroke Pines Cop Punching Mentally Ill Girl
August 8, 2013 6:25 PM
CBS News Miami FL

Friday, June 14, 2013

MA Man With Disability Shot Dead By State Police Officer

[From article]
According to the sister of the victim, Damaris Justiniano, says her brother was disabled and suffered from what she described as mental health issues.

http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/route-28-closed-after-police-shooting-in-milton/-/11971628/20568868/-/item/1/-/puk1abz/-/index.html

Man dead after Route 28 police shooting in Quincy
Shots fired after call about erratic driver on Route 28
UPDATED 3:50 PM EDT Jun 14, 2013
WCVB-TV Boston (ABC Affiliate)

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http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/06/state_police_trooper_killed_man_after_violent_confrontation_in

State police: Trooper killed man after violent confrontation in Quincy
Friday, June 14, 2013
By: O’Ryan Johnson
Boston Herald

Friday, December 9, 2011

Allegations Of Fraud Emerge In WI Recall Effort

Wisconsin Democratic Party Spokesman attacks disabled persons as criminals. A local news agency found a man who claimed to have signed at least 80 petitions in an effort to recall Scott Walker. The Democrat party spokesman said that any of those who have signed multiple petitions are probably "mentally ill." In Wisconsin, the burden to discover fraud is on Scott Walker, not the state.

http://www.breitbart.tv/allegations-of-fraud-emerge-in-wi-recall-effort/

Monday, July 25, 2011

Officer Not Guilty of Assault on Disabled Man

This was an unprovoked attack by the police officer on a law abiding man with a disability. It shows negligent training, no regard for persons with disabilities. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 applies to police officers, who get US taxayer funds, plus the ADA of 1990. What evidence is there that Passaic Police are trained to respect persons with disabilities? Few officers, few lawyers, and few judges treat people with disabilities as law abiding individuals. The courts are being used to promote psychiatric treatment defeating constitutional rights of persons with disabilities. It is not revealed if the officer had prior knowledge of this man.

http://www.northjersey.com/news/crime_courts/070811_Passaic_officer_not_guilty_of_assault_misconduct.html

Passaic officer not guilty of assault, misconduct
Friday, July 8, 2011 Last updated: Friday July 8, 2011, 9:38 PM
BY RICHARD COWEN
STAFF WRITER
The Record

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Liberal Propaganda Scares People Who Use Wheelchairs

Liberal Group Depicts GOP Pushing Wheelchair-Bound Senior Off Cliff

Friday, April 22, 2011

Developmentally Disabled Man Beaten on City Bus

A passenger with autism was attacked on a San Bernardino bus and the assault was caught on tape. It happened near 15th Street and Medical Center Drive on April 10 [2011]. Police are asking for the public's help finding the suspect.
Surveillance video from onboard an Omnitrans bus on Sunday, April 10, [2011] just after 5 p.m. The suspect can be seen walking up and boarding the bus.
After a short conversation with the bus driver, the suspect deposits his money, and walks toward the back of the bus to find a seat.
That's when for some reason he becomes agitated with one passenger. Police say that man has autism.
The suspect continued to threaten the victim, telling him to be quiet. Then, without warning, the suspect punched the victim.
The suspect pushes the victim toward the front of the bus, and then out the front door. Later, the suspect gets off the bus and continues to threaten the victim.
The victim pleaded with the suspect to stop.
Detectives in the San Bernardino Police Department say they're sickened.
"It was clearly an assault that has really kind of affected our detectives. They very much would like to find this guy," said San Bernardino Police Lt. Jarrod Burguan. "The victim does not have any life-threatening injuries. He was treated and released. He has several stitches in his face and his lips. He has since been interviewed by our detectives. Clearly, because of his disabilities and such, he has no idea why this occurred to him. He doesn't understand, necessarily, why this occurred or what provoked it."
But as for the suspect, so far police haven't had any luck in catching up with him. He's described as a black man, about 35 to 40 years old, standing 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing about 190 pounds, wearing a black baseball cap with the letters "IE."
It's been a week and a half and police still have no idea who the assault suspect is.
If you recognize the suspect, you're asked to call San Bernardino Police at (909) 384-5637.
UPDATE -- 5:30 p.m., April 21, 2011: Someone saw the story and recognized the suspect, called a law enforcement friend, who then called San Bernardino Police.
Ronald Jackson, 44, of San Bernardino was already in San Bernardino Police custody on a charge of carjacking. Jackson was positively identified. Charges were expected to be filed Friday against him.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

SEIU Thugs Arrested After Shoving State Troopers

Here is one more example of how unions, human services corporations and professionals exploit person with disabilities. Whenever there are budget cuts they are outraged at the effects on persons with disabilities, they say. But the rest of the time they remain unconcerned about criminal abuses and unlawful denial of basic rights of persons with disabilities. These are the worst exploiters of vulnerable persons -- their only interests are earning money from the poor and disabled.

KOMO-TV: The arrests came as labor groups converged on the Washington state Capitol for a third day of demonstrations to call attention to budget cuts they called "immoral." The 17 protesters were arrested following a pushing and shoving match between protesters and Washington State Patrol troopers.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

UK Pundit Would Kill Suffering Disabled Child

Virginia Ironside the columnist and celebrated agony aunt of The Independent newspaper has caused outrage this morning by saying that she, like all "good mothers", would put a pillow over the head of her baby if it was suffering from a disability and would have a poor quality of life.

Sunday Morning Live - 12-18_ Susanna Reid presents the topical debate show that viewers can be a part of, covering the big religious, moral and ethical issues of the day with a panel of studio guests

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Liberals Show Indifference to First Amendment Rights

Chris Matthews runs an all liberal all the time TV talk show. He's a former political operative for a Democratic congressman which explains his limited version of reality. In this clip he and his four liberal guests attack the Tea Party and Sarah Palin as instigators of violence from right-wing extremists. This shows a lack of respect for First Amendment Rights of American citizens. But it is one more example of demonizing people they do not like. One group of persons who are mostly harmless eccentrics are demonized by journalists every day. Their own lawyers and the courts openly accuse them of being violent and dangerous. Human services corporations which earn their billions of taxpayer dollars providing goods and services also demonize persons with disabilities. Persons accused of mental illness are some of the most feared people by lawyers, doctors, journalists and even by college professors. How does this bias differ from what the liberal media elitists say on network TV about the Tea Party? US Rep Conyers declared Tea Party people to be irrational. He called the Tea Party Tea Baggers, a sex act of homosexuals. Is what he said rational?

Holder Protects Terrorists' Lawyers, Ignores Abuses of Disabled Americans

Obama's Attorney General refuses to identify attorneys employed at the Justice Department who represented enemy combatants detained at Guantanamo prison. His hypocrisy is at a high level on this issue. Why did he and previous Attorneys General refuse to address severe abuses of persons accused of mental illness in this country but protect lawyers who advocate for enemy combatants? Persons with disabilities have not committed any crime. They are allegedly ill and abused by lawyers, courts, police, human services corporations and just about all humans in the country. But enemy combatants get attorneys to protect their rights to kill Americans while persons with disabilities are openly abused while journalists remain silent. What's up with that Mr. Holder? You protect the reputations of lawyers who protect the rights of enemy combatants but ignore serious institutionalized abuses of victims with disabilities? What are your priorities?

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Powerful Groups Stop Some Hate Speech

Insulting vulnerable people is protected speech. Psychiatrists determined that it hurts people's feelings. First the wealthy and powerful Black American lobby banned the N-word. Then women joined in followed by homosexuals. It was not until a national political figure, Sarah Palin objected that one word used against persons with disabilities was recognized as hate speech. What about "a history of mental illness" in newspapers, TV and radio? Why is it acceptable to insult and to abuse elders while taxpayer funded agencies refuse to stop the abuse?

http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1236530

Offensive label says it all - and then some

By Lauren Beckham Falcone
Boston Herald
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Saturday, February 20, 2010

TV Cartoon Show Ridicules Disabled Character

Cartoon show ridicules disabled character. Imagine the reaction of they did this to a black woman. This shows that the women's movement and politicians care nothing about women with disabilities. One line is in the first 15 seconds of the clip.
Entire transcript of the song is at
http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2010/02/in-my-family-we-like-to-laugh-too-but.html
Friday, February 19, 2010
In my family we like to laugh too, but not about stuff like this (warning: definitely NSFW!)
By Joshua Livestro

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Disabled Woman Tortured, Murdered

Disabled Woman Tortured, Murdered. With all the concern about teenaged bullying why no focus on bullying of persons with disabilities?

Friday, February 12, 2010

Is George Lopez a Bigot?

Comedian George Lopez indicating he is a bigot ridicules Sarah Palin using disability to denigrate her.

George Lopez Sarah Palin
by hotairpundit

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Barney Frank Insults Persons with Disabilities

In this 8 minute clip from MSNBC US Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) expresses his hate speech toward persons with disabilities. He says, (at 5:20) "if anybody needs a health care plan in America it's those people who are in severe need of mental health services. This lunacy about [death panels] . . . " Here Rep. Frank who called US Supreme Court Justice Scalia a "homophobe" indicates his belief that persons accused of mental illness should be ignored because what they say is nonsense because of their alleged disability. This is what permits institutional abuses of persons with disabilities. Caregivers, police, politicians and lawyers ignore their complaints about abuse because? Because they think they are mentally ill. Later (at 7:00) he says, "arguments against the Obama plan are being dominated by the crazies." One more example of Franks's bigotry toward persons with disabilities. Barney Frank's doctrine: If they are crazy they should be ignored.