Adam Ward, a Bipolar American, Executed in Texas: Bernie Sanders Objects

Make an immediate #humanrights demand that no persons with diagnosed mental illnesses should be executed in the USA. Make Adam Ward America's last disabled victim. https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials >> Ward was a 33-year-old severely bipolar man. He was killed by the State of Texas on March 22, 2016, during Passion Week. Like most execution victims, Ward was killed in the Bible Belt. The fact that his murder happened during the week when we commemorate the torture and wrongful execution of Jesus Christ underscores the hypocrisy of capital punishment and the urgency to end State murders, especially of mentally ill people.

The Huffington Post recently ran a story entitled "Bernie Sanders Speaks Out Against The Death Penalty After Hillary Clinton Stands By It." Senator Sanders said, "I believe it is time for the United States of America to join almost every other Western, industrialized country on Earth in saying NO to the death penalty." We at Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI") concur, and that is another reason why we endorse Sanders for president in 2016. Unfortunately, some people disagree that sick people should be spared from executions. Below is part of a conversation regarding capital punishment of mentally ill people from my Facebook wall:

Terry Harris I feel horrible about mental illness, however if they kill then they should be executed like everyone else!

Like · Reply · 1 · 21 hrs

Walt Stawicki i don't know where to start ripping that one apart.

Unlike · Reply · 2 · 20 hrs

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill Define "everyone else," please, Terry Harris. Then please cite a case where a murderous #police officer or wealthy person was #executed in the USA. Thanks.

Supporting Sanders for president is one way to express your disapproval of capital punishment. We congratulate Bernie Sanders and everyone who can #FeelTheBern for our victories in the Alaska, Washington, and Hawaii primaries. We urge officials everywhere to say DEATH to the death penalty.

Condolences to the family and friends of Adam Ward and Ward's victim. It is likely that if Ward had received timely, adequate treatment for his mental illness, both he and his victim might still be alive. Our most vulnerable citizens are continually killed by untrained and/or sadistic police and corrections officers or by State executions. AIMI finds this completely unacceptable. Articles throughout "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog prove that avoidable tragedies are caused by the denial of treatment and the fact that mentally ill people in crisis are allowed to refuse treatment unless and until they PROVE themselves to be an immediate danger to self and others. Then they are jailed if they live through their lunacy arrests. AIMI believes that such rules were not made to protect civil rights but to increase prison profits, resulting in 1.25 million mentally ill prisoners in America today.

Mainstream media can no longer ignore the correlation between mental illness being denied treatment and prison profiteering. Mary Sanchez wrote an op ed that was published in the Kansas City Star:
"A scary truth: When businesses see profit in prisoners with mental illnesses"
http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/mary-sanchez/article66940237.html

"And there’s growing public awareness that we’ve let our jails and prisons become warehouses for people who need treatment — and needed it long before they took a criminal turn. Incarceration rates are dropping. To most, this is good news. But it’s not if your business model revolves around keeping people locked up."

It is good news that Sanders has also taken a stance against private prison profiteering by joining other officials to introduce a solution. H.R. 3543, "Justice Is Not for Sale Act," pending before Congress now. would eliminate government contracts with private prison companies. Period.

Read more about Sanders' stance against the death penalty by Mollie Reilly in the Huffington Post 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-death-penalty_us_56326622e4b00aa54a4d48ff

Note that media companies publish op eds by Mary Sanchez and not Mary Neal because Sanchez is white and the government did not kill her brother during a secret arrest (kidnapping). Nevertheless, the truth is going mainstream. Mass arrest and murders of mentally ill people continue under the color of law, whether their deaths are reported like Ward's or covered-up like Larry Neal's. See my Facebook page for Easter Week 2016 for information about other deaths (some of them secret) among people who were mentally ill or suspected of being under the influence. 

https://www.facebook.com/marylovesjustice

We hope you had a pleasant Easter, if you celebrate that holiday, and that you will take action to prevent more executions, especially of mentally ill citizens, in the USA. 

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Thank you for giving Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill.

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog in deadly restraint for control. That happens to mentally ill people routinely in the nation's correctional facilities. What happened to Larry Neal? Why are we still asking that question after nearly 13 years? Cover-ups regarding the wrongful deaths of mentally challenged inmates and free people in the USA are common and vile.

Mentally Ill People Deserve Dog Justice!

http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com

Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally. 
(1) Support the H.R. 2646 "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." The U.S. congressional bill provides for crisis intervention team (CIT) training for police and corrections officers, assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) programs (subsistence assistance plus mandated treatment) to stop recidivism, resumption of Medicaid insurance for certain facilities, and other needed changes. 
(2) Support "AIMI vs. USA" to compensate mentally ill people and their families for health discrimination. 

(3) Support Bernie Sanders' bill H.R.3543 to end contracts with private prison companies. 

Attempted Murder of AIMI vs. USA Parent, Holly Alston

Terrell Scott is pictured at the top, left corner. The other mental patients in this collage were killed under the color of law, including Larry Neal, bottom right.

An attempt was made to kill a claimant to "AIMI vs. USA" a planned International Court civil action (this article will be repeated in comments plus read aloud on radio). "Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI") vs. USA" is a lawsuit to protect the civil and human rights of mentally ill Americans, which will be filed in 2015. More than 100 claimants are expected to use "AIMI vs. USA" to allege neglect, wrongful deaths, and prisoner torture, including long-term solitary confinement while denied visits for years or even decades. 

AIMI will also sue for damages regarding chronic homelessness, denial of mental health care, rapes, exposure to HIV AIDS, brutality by police and corrections officers, housing discrimination, lengthy incarceration with trials denied in violation of Sixth Amendment rights, and America's refusal to prosecute police officers and prison guards who abuse and kill mentally ill Americans. Unfortunately, people in the United States with mental disabilities are usually denied protection under any of the domestic and international laws listed below:

Blaring failures exist regarding the U.S. Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA), the Civil Rights Act, the Convention Against Torture, and Executive Order 13107, implementing human rights treaties.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND A LIKELY MOTIVE

Holly Alston, an "AIMI vs. USA" claimant, told the radio audience about the recent attempt on her life at "Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI") vs. USA" Blogtalkradio show dated March 26.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2015/03/26/assistance-to-the-incarcerated-mentally-ill-aimi-vs-usa

Alston revealed that an advocate from the prisoners' rights group "New Vision Organization" contacted the Pennsylvania Bar about improprieties by Terrell Scott's attorney, Phil Lauer, Esq. Lauer induced his mentally ill client to waive his right to a speedy trial, then he refused court dates for Scott by claiming on court records that Scott was not ready for trial. The prosecutor also lied on court records and reported that Scott was not available for trial because he was in a mental hospital when that was not true. I have written numerous articles about Scott's wrongful incarceration. Please search online for "Mary Neal Terrell Scott." Scott's defense lawyer appeared to be working together with Scott's prosecutor to keep the "Pennsylvania vs. Terrell Scott" out of trial, apparently because the prosecutor had no chance of winning his case in a just court. See proof at this article: 
"Terrell Scott, Too Crazy for Trial but Competent for a Plea Deal"
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/terrell-scott-too-crazy-for-trial-but.html

Phil Lauer, Esq.

The Bar complaint against Lauer was probably received by the Bar on Monday during the first week of March. On the following Wednesday, a murder attempt was made on Holly Alston, Scott's mother, who vowed to continue to fight for her innocent mentally ill son's prison release until the day she DIES, if necessary. Alston drove her car home from work Wednesday afternoon without problems, but she heard strange noises as she drove and had trouble steering during a quick drive later that night. She canceled her trip to visit Scott because of this. 

When she reached her auto service company Thursday, the attendants notified Alston about the attempt on her life. The lugs had been loosened and were missing from her rear tire on the driver's side while the car had been parked in front of Alston's house. If Alston had tried to travel to visit Scott Wednesday night as she had planned, she certainly would have lost control of her car on the mountainous roads. 

"Somebody must really hate you," Alston's auto mechanic said. 

"AIMI vs. USA" claimants must recognize that a mentally ill inmate is worth an average of $4million to prison investors over the course of a life sentence (generally, persons with mental illness are excessively sentenced or re-sentenced while incarcerated to prevent prison release. See an article in "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog about Damion Hayes, for examples). Trying to extract such persons from the prison industrial complex is froth with danger, but neglected and abused Americans must get up and stand up for your rights. Please don't give up the fight. It is useless to beg for human and civil rights from elitist slave masters like those who enslaved Africans and Native Americans for centuries, interned the Japanese in concentration camps, and made early European immigrants slaves and indentured servants. "Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has, and it never will" ~Frederick Douglass.

FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS

I tried to post the "AIMI vs. USA" Blogtalkradio show's link about the murder attempt at Google+ and share it with my many followers there and especially some people and agencies who I hoped could help ensure Holly Alston's safety (see the link above in this article). Either Google+ or cyber stalkers prevented the post from publishing. See proof on two screenshots below (click to enlarge photos):

The following screenshot shows my message to the government agencies, organizations and activists with whom I tried to share the news about Alston's endangerment: 

Censorship is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the listener as well as the speaker, according to Frederick Douglass, a slavery abolitionist of the 1800's. Americans, especially Black people, continue to experience compromised communication because elite white supremacists are offended by our attempts to free ourselves and our victimized family members even in the 21st century. For example, Holly Alston endures Legal Abuse Syndrome while trying to protect her innocent, mentally challenged son as well as her 11-year-old from the State of Pennsylvania. Her circumstances caused her to have a heart attack while in her 40's. (Pennsylvania threatened Alston, saying that if she somehow gets Scott out of prison, the state will take her youngest son away from her. Apparently, the state demands one of this Black woman's sons.)

As director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill, and an advocate and survivor of murdered mentally ill heart patient Larry Neal, I became the most censored person in America years ago. I do not ordinarily share much information about my censorship and intimidation at this "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog out of concern for my readers, some of whom have nervous conditions, and understandably so. However, I feel that all "AIMI vs. USA" claimants must know about the attempt on Holly Alston's life and that their concerns about being "targeted" are valid. 

News about "AIMI vs. USA" is apparently attacked by Internet companies or some government agency that has control over the Internet companies. Stalkers will not allow me to freely use my First Amendment rights to try to move mental illness away from the criminal justice system back to the health care arena, where mental illness should be addressed. My telephones and computers have been attacked and taken over. I have been refused assistance by federal authorities, which ignore my requests, and by the DeKalb County Police Department (one of my main suspects). In fact, a DeKalb County detective claimed that it is NOT illegal to censor Mary Neal. I also suspect the National Security Agency (NSA), which was given the right to wage cyber wars under NDAA, although my censorship precedes that law by years.

On March 24, I uploaded a petition at Care2 Petitionsite to announce "AIMI vs. USA," our International Court lawsuit on behalf of mentally ill Americans who endure negligence, brutality, and wrongful deaths. Today when I was not logged in at my computer, I browsed as a guest and discovered that Care2 or its stalkers had redirected the "AIMI vs. USA" petition link a "page-not-found" web page. The link worked and signatures were coming in fast after publication on March 24, but on March 26, I was not allowed to see the petition which should have had many more signatures and comments. The petition stopped working when I added a film showing a mentally ill man being killed by Dallas police within seconds of their arrival at his home. The YouTube video https://youtu.be/-aALArJP4rw which Care2 censors is embedded below.

The video above shows the June 14, 2014, fatal shooting of mental patient Jason Harrison, 38, who was killed while holding a screwdriver after his mother called 911 for help getting him to Parkland Hospital. Dallas police gave Harrison two seconds to respond to a command to "Drop that for me, guy." How was Harrison to know WHAT he was ordered to drop? It could have been his pants for all he knew. The police did not have time for giving clear instructions. They claimed they "feared for their lives."

AIMI believes that it is inappropriate to hide the many murders of mentally ill and homeless people in the United States. We must expose and oppose corruption that allows police officers and prison guards to kill thousands of people every year who experience psychiatric crises or live homeless. Yet, Care2 took our petition offline when the video of Jason Harrison was added. Proof is below:

Please see the PETITION that should have been reached  http://www.thepetitionsite.com/713/784/918/aimi-v-usa/

I plan to sue Care2 and other Internet companies about censorship that is used to prevent AIMI's advocacy for human rights. I hope that this time, a lawyer will come forward to represent me. That is my dream although I am perceived as being an "immaterial" black woman who challenges elite white supremacists' right to allow the abuse and murders of "useless eaters" in America. People have a right to know that federal court ruled that The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm's fraud against the Neal family was "immaterial" after Larry Neal's secret arrest and murder in Memphis Shelby County Jail in 2003. Americans cannot change negative circumstances they do not know about, and unfortunately, media companies refuse to report that The Cochran Firm claimed innocence by nonexistence (a new defense that probably only works for CoIntelPro).

The Cochran Firm accepted contract as our wrongful death attorneys in a blatant conflict of interest immediately after Larry's death, then the lawyers did fraud and withheld legal services while the statute of limitations ran. The Federal Court order dismissing our case against the treacherous attorneys apparently means the Neal family's right to due process and Larry Neal's right to life are considered irrelevant in America. That fact has been reaffirmed in numerous deaths by police that have turned the USA itself into something of a concentration camp for Black men, homeless people, and mentally challenged Americans of every race. We are very thankful that there is an alternative for people who endure discrimination and violence: the International Court of Human Rights.

If Care2 only values animal rights and human rights advocacy is unwelcome, it should have made that clear before I poured thousands of hours into building my advocacy group there from 2007 until 2010, when I basically conceded to CoIntelPro. I gave up when stalkers started aggravating some of my mentally ill members ferociously. I feared for their health and safety. Continuously provoking people who have diagnosed mental conditions is unwise, and the government or whomever hires stalkers should not do that to people who have lower tolerance levels. It was as though they wanted AIMI members to have breakdowns. If Care2 invests in prisons like Microsoft does, maybe that was its intention.

The video embedded below captured stalkers preventing my ability to alert the public about U.S. congressional bill H.R.619. The mental health care bill was introduced by Rep. Eddie Johnson in January 2009 to resume Medicaid for mental hospital insurance but was denied news coverage from mainstream media companies. Resuming Medicaid insurance for psychiatric inpatients would threaten prison profits; therefore, my post about H.R.619 was not allowed to publish. No interference would have happened at Care2 if I had been advocating for pet insurance. Advocacy for lions, tigers, and bears is welcome at Care2, but advocacy for human rights for mentally ill and homeless people is treated like terrorism.

The video at YouTube https://youtu.be/mTnBUYoJtk4 (embedded above) proves that prison investors moonlighting as public officials seem to act in direct conflicts of interest to do or allow censorship against Mary Neal's advocacy to replace incarceration with hospitalization for mentally ill Americans. Stalkers virtually took over my AIMI group at Care2. At Twitter, my tweets about H.R.619 were published among tweets that had posted hours earlier in order to limit the number of people who saw my tweets. My censorship spans the entire Internet; wherever I go, I am censored, especially when I write about mental illness and executions.

AIMI members and friends, now you know the ugly truth. Censorship is used to prevent your knowledge about crimes against humanity that are happening every day in America to our most vulnerable fellow citizens: people with acute mental illness -- not only to Blacks like Terrell Scott but also to whites like Kelly Thomas. We should demand prosecution of criminals who terrorize or attempt to murder parents who join "AIMI vs. USA" to win damages for pain and suffering. Potential claimants must find the courage to get up and stand up for their rights. Families of acute mentally ill Americans have a right to go to the United Nations' International Court to gain relief from torture in jails, hospitals, and prisons and to get restitution for wrongful deaths. We must be like slavery abolitionists of America's previous slavery era who demanded justice despite risks from angry slave masters.

I sent an email to the United Nations last week to ask that the "AIMI vs. USA" director and claimants be given whatever help communicating that people in repressive regimes need in order to organize human rights lawsuits against their governments. AIMI needs protection from stalkers who control Mary Neal's phones and Internet access. Since stalkers attacked my email account at Gmail, one cannot swear the United Nations actually received the request. Judging by the amount of cyber stalking that is applied to this paragraph, it is unlikely that stalkers allowed the email to reach the U.N.

We will TRY to reach the U.N. by phone, but I have no way of knowing if whomever answers the call will actually BE a United Nations employee. Stalkers have frequently answered my calls and pretended to be the parties I called, and stalkers sometimes redirect calls I should receive to their residences or companies instead. Stalkers have already demonstrated their ability to redirect calls away from my Google Voice computer phone, my cellphone, my radio programs at Blogtalkradio, and my home phone (AT&T uses prison laborers and may be adversarial to decriminalizing mental illness). It disheartening that U.N. ambassadors also experienced privacy violations last year, possibly by NSA.

Secretary of State John Kerry reportedly said, "Americans have a right to be stupid." AIMI believes Americans should have a corresponding protected right under domestic and international law to be informed.

EXPOSING WRONGDOING SAVES LIVES

While the Care2 "AIMI vs. USA" petition was offline, I wondered if the reason AIMI's director could not access the petition was because potential claimants for "AIMI vs. USA" had written comments requesting help for starving prisoners or inmates who were otherwise at risk. Nikko Albanese was starving to death in a Florida prison before I published an article about his dire condition. The young bipolar man, who is nearly six feet tall and normally weighs 160 pounds, had dropped to a dangerous 120 pounds. Since AIMI exposed his dire circumstances, Nikko has reportedly been put on a high-calorie diet, and his mother was allowed to visit the SHU inmate for the first time in two years.

A reported 346 inmates died in Florida's prison system in 2014 alone (that total may not include jail deaths). If that death rate was true for all 50 states, America's prison death total for 2014 would be 17,300 prison inmates. A total of 4,491 U.S. service members were killed in Iraq between 2003 and 2014. Therefore, America's 1.25 million mentally ill inmates are significantly more endangered than our battlefield soldiers. Risk to soldiers actually increases substantially after transitioning home.

Thousands of U.S. veterans return home unscratched and become prisoners of war in America due to post traumatic stress disorder they contracted in battle. Many such veterans die because of neglect and abuse like Jerome Murdough, who was baked to death in Riker's Island Jail, and Anthony Hill, who was shot to death in DeKalb County, Georgia by police officer Robert Olsen as Hill jogged naked, unarmed, and harmless. Police have only to say, "I feared for my life," no matter how doubtful the assertion is.

Thank you, Google and AIMI members, for caring about Nikko Albanese. I believe your interest helped to saved his life. Numerous mentally ill persons have already starved to death in America's correctional institutions in various states. If you need assistance, please contact me by phone at (678)531-0262 or by emailing me at MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com. Title the message "AIMI vs. USA," if you email me. Almost NO messages reach my inbox except from Facebook and other social media companies. Unless I know what to search for, I may never see your correspondence.

Please see AIMI's article about Nikko in "Dog Justice for Mentally Ill" blog, which Google carried as a Google Alert (the blog's index listing all articles should appear on the left margin). See more abuses and wrongful deaths of mentally challenged people, and please elect to "follow" this blog.

Holly Alston, Terrell Scott, and Kai

It is extremely sad that an attempt was made on Holly Alston's life, likely by a prison investor who wants Terrell Scott to remain incarcerated indefinitely without trial as an opportunity to extract Americans' tax money. We must not be deterred by Nazis. AIMI claimants have to take a stand against oppression, especially because 1.25 million mentally ill Americans are imprisoned, and tens of thousands more wander our streets, chronically homeless and vulnerable. 

The homeless endure attacks from community members as well as police officers, and many are killed every year. The exact number is unknown, because police only report these tragedies to the Justice Department if it suits them. There are usually several mentally challenged people killed by police every day in America. Consider the deaths at the website "Killed By Police.net" to be a partial list. It only includes cases that got news coverage, and it omits all of the people dying in jails and prisons. Today, a 77-year-old man died who Birmingham police shot in February. The old guy had dementia like 107-year-old Monroe Isadore did when Arkansas S.W.A.T. killed him in 2013.
http://www.myfoxal.com/story/28633139/man-77-shot-by-birmingham-officer-in-february-dies-of-his-injuries

Neither corrections nor law enforcement officers are likely to be prosecuted for mentally ill people's brutality and deaths, even if the deaths are ruled 'homicide' like Darren Rainey's and Daniel Linsinbigler's were. (Please Google Mary Neal with the name of each murdered inmate for more information).

Every mentally ill person on death row and all families of executed mental patients should join "AIMI vs. USA" claimants. Executing mentally ill and seriously retarded people violates international and domestic laws, yet it is done in the United States regularly. Georgia executed three mentally ill people recently, and Texas makes killing mentally challenged Americans a hobby. This writer is especially concerned about Texas death row inmates Andre Thomas, who ate both his own eyes while in custody, and Jeff Wood, who Texas admits never killed anyone, but the retarded youth was sentenced under the law of parties. AIMI is also concerned about Scott Panetti, a man with severe mental illness who was convicted of murder while representing himself in court wearing a cowboy costume. It was a travesty of justice that officers of the court probably still find funny.

HUMAN RIGHTS DEMAND

I hereby ask the U.S. Government to stop all RICO Act racketeering and attempted murders against claimants in "AIMI vs. USA," our International Court civil action, under 18 U.S. Code § 242, which regards deprivation of rights under the color of law, and all other applicable laws. However, from my experiences, which I do not usually discuss here out of respect for nervous AIMI members, the federal government itself is a likely suspect. You can write to the Department of Justice and insist that telephone and computer interference as well as Internet censorship, terrorism, and murder attempts on "AIMI vs. USA" parents be investigated and stopped: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov

Justice has failed the mentally ill and their families in the USA; therefore, we must seek help from the international community. "Why sit we here until we die?" ~Holy Bible.

HELP WANTED

AIMI needs your energy and talent. Please consider working with AIMI as we continue advocacy for eliminating discrimination against people with serious mental illness. Call me at (678)531-0262 or (571)335-1741 daily between 11:00 am EST and 2pm EST to discuss becoming an AIMI volunteer. Emails should be sent to MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com. Please title your email "AIMI volunteer." We expect to have funding eventually, and all volunteer positions may eventually be salaried. Meanwhile, working as a volunteer gives excellent work experience in areas that one may not initially qualify for as a paid employee, and volunteering helps young people build their resumes, especially students. 

Retired professionals and unemployed people also find volunteer work meaningful and satisfying. Mental illness affects families from all socioeconomic backgrounds and all races, and there is work for everyone to do no matter who you are or what your educational level is. Consider working to improve life for millions of Americans through AIMI. 

We thank Zora Jay, a retired psychiatric nurse, for volunteering as AIMI's coordinator for persons with drug/alcohol dependencies. Email her if your relative needs helping getting into a drug/alcohol treatment program at ZoraJayPhoenix@gmail.com

If you need a letter from AIMI to officials on your behalf, please contact AIMI's director, Mary Neal. Diana Sprouse has volunteered to make phone calls and write letters on your behalf. You may have trouble accessing psychiatric treatment for yourself or a relative or letters to court or prison officials, etc. AIMI is here for you.

AIMI will publish a fundraiser to invite your gifts to help AIMI have better computer technical assistance and part-time clerical help. AIMI hopes you will participate. We declare that Nazi Germany, which isolated and killed roughly 300,000 people labeled as mentally ill, was wrong in asserting that persons with mental health disabilities were "useless life." Instead, AIMI declares that ALL LIVES MATTER. We hope you will show that you agree by helping "AIMI vs. USA." Please begin by signing and sharing "AIMI vs. USA" petition, and please share a link to this article.

This article has eleven(11) active links (including four email addresses), eight(8) photographs, and two(2) embedded videos. See if your right to receive the information is respected.

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Thank you for giving Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill.

How can you help? Follow this blog, and listen to the George Mallinckrodt Blogtalkradio presentations we taped January 11 and January 15, and again in March 2015. Mallinckrodt exposed brutality and a murder against mentally ill inmates in his book, "Getting Away with Murder," and was fired from his position as a psychotherapist in Florida prisons as a consequence of his objections to torture. Human and civil rights of persons with mental disabilities in the United States are treated as nonexistent. Your purchase of his book will help him regarding the loss of his salary for upholding human rights.

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog in deadly restraint for control. That happens to mentally ill people routinely in the nation's correctional facilities. What happened to Larry Neal? Why are we still asking that question after eleven years? Cover-ups regarding the wrongful deaths of mentally ill inmates and free people in the USA are common but vile, nonetheless.

Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally. Support the H.R. 3717 "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." The U.S. congressional bill provides for crisis intervention team (CIT) training for police and corrections officers, assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) programs to stop recidivism, and other needed changes.

Cop Kills Naked, Unarmed, Sick U.S. Veteran

NAKED, UNARMED, SICK U.S. VETERAN KILLED BY POLICE ~ DeKalb County police officer Robert Olsen fatally shot Anthony Hill, 27, on Monday, March 9, while responding to reports of a suspicious person knocking on doors and crawling on the ground naked at an apartment complex just outside Atlanta. Hill began running toward Olsen and didn't stop when ordered to, DeKalb County Chief of Police Cedric Alexander told reporters Monday. 

Hill had served more than four years in the U.S. Air Force when he was medically discharged a few years ago, his girlfriend, Bridget Anderson, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday. He was being treated by a VA doctor for bipolar disorder but stopped taking the medication a week or two ago because he didn't like the side effects, including stiffening in his jaw, she said. (by KATHLEEN FOODY and KATE BRUMBACK, of Associated Press)

As a black mentally ill man, Hill was considered extremely expendable in the United States. Either of those distinctions is potentially deadly, but it is extremely dangerous to be both. It should have been obvious to Officer Olsen that the naked man had no concealed weapons and lethal force was unwarranted. The article reports that Christopher Chestnut, Esq. said his law firm will conduct its own investigation, but argued that a naked and unarmed man posed no imminent threat to the officer or anyone else. Read the entire AP article and see more photographs at http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/story/28402319/calls-for-police-accountability-in-death-of-naked-man  

Anthony Hill walks naked and harmless in the picture below, which was taken only minutes before his fatal shooting by police. (The Root)

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Thank you for giving Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill.

How can you help? Follow this blog, and share the link to it with your friends. Human and civil rights of persons with mental disabilities in the United States are sometimes treated as being nonexistent. Mentally challenged people are regularly killed by police officers whether they present a threat or not. In addition, many mentally challenged people are tortured and killed behind bars. Volunteer to work part-time for AIMI. The contact information is MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com, phone (678)531.0262 and (571)335-1747. Volunteer conferences are on the first Saturday of each month at 10am PST, except April, when we will meet on April 11.

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog in deadly restraint for control. That happens to mentally ill people routinely in the nation's correctional facilities. What happened to Larry Neal? Why are we still asking that question after eleven years? Cover-ups regarding the wrongful deaths of mentally ill inmates are common and vile.

Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally. Support the H.R. 3717 "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." The U.S. congressional bill by Rep. Tim Murphy provides for crisis intervention team (CIT) training for police and corrections officers, assisted outpatient treatment (AOT), and other needed changes.

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Bipolar Disorder? Schizophrenia? Manic Depression? Alzheimer's? Dementia? PTSD? Post Partum Depression? Autism? See who else has/had mental disorders:

Buzz Aldrin (astronaut) • Adam Ant (musician) • Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) • Napoleon Bonaparte (political leader) • Tim Burton (artist, director) • Lord Byron (poet) • Dick Cavett (television journalist) • Winston Churchill (politician) • Charles Dickens (author) • DMX, Dark Man X (Earl Simmons) (musician, actor) • Robert Downey Jr. (actor) • Richardy Dreyfuss (actor) • Patty Duke (actress) • Ralph Waldo Emerson (author) • Carrie Fisher (Actress, writer) • Larry Flynt (publisher, activist) • Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (Writer) • Connie Francis (singer) • Stephen Fry (actor, comedian writer) • Peter Gabriel (musician) • Alan Garner (novelist) • Matthew Good (musician) • Philip Graham (publisher, businessman) • Macy Gray (musician, actor) • Graham Greene (English Novelist) • Ivor Gurney (English composer, poet)• Sean LeVert (singer) • Patrick Kennedy (Congressman) • Elvis Presley (singer, actor) • Britney Speers (singer) • Somebody you love!

DogJustice Blog is a place for the mentally challenged and their family members and professional service providers in the psychiatric, drug rehabilitation, and legal fields to meet and share information with the public. Please use the blue "follow this blog" icon to be notified about posts by people in your community who need assistance and to learn about goods and services that are available. Help decriminalize mental illness by inviting your friends. Remove barriers to adequate care and legal services to eliminate incarceration and homelessness and greatly reduce the necessity for hospitalization. Contact me at MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com , phone 678.531.0262, and/or comment in the comments field below. If you are interested in becoming a co-host for DogJustice site, a contributing member, or an advertiser, please state your interest. Advertisers pay a nominal quarterly fee, and your ads stay online indefinitely. Non-advertising members join free and are asked to regularly post the DogJustice links for your stories and those of other members in social media. Working together, we will reduce the stigma associated with mental illness, relieve suffering families, and replace imprisonment with adequate care.

JAIL IS THE LAST THING THAT MENTAL PATIENTS NEED, AND TOO OFTEN, IT IS THE VERY LAST THING THEY EXPERIENCE. Please join our effort to decriminalize mental illness. No one deserves to be punished for having a disability.