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Tacitus' Realm / WHO CARES
« on: September 05, 2010, 01:10:18 PM »
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Open Free for All / PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT ME FOR THE LAST TIME
« on: June 09, 2010, 06:11:46 PM »Quote
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:37:52 -0500
Palling around with sharon again ?
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:40:44 -0500
Yes, do you have a peace making problem disorder?
Perhaps you are suffering from "Dark Lord" syndrome?
It's o.k. I understand. I am Vaderish too especially before smoke a pound of weed
http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010 ... s/?hpt=Mid
C'mon Art tell me I am crazy now....
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 07:53:15 -0500
I have no disorders that I am aware of
Fuck me once,shame on you
Fuck me twice,shame on me
Thats how I live my life. I have no time,patience,or desire for the bullshit that comes out of her mouth. I will have to block you from my fb page if you have friended her. We have both seen her turn on everyone,and anyone that disagrees with her.
She is like pigpen.. from the peanuts cartoon. Chaos and mayhem follows her wherever she goes
Your July 4th invitation went in the mail today
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 07:54:35 -0500
DUUUUUUUUDE she can not harm us....relax.
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 07:59:52 -0500
She has done plenty of harm. She also continues to lie,day in,and day out. If she were a man, I would have driven to Freeport and beat the fuck out a her. Jail or not.
You play the game. I 'll wait here. But you are now blocked
Don't harras me or I will bill you! (8:06 a.m.)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 15:26:05 -0500
I promise this will be my last email to you
Please disregard the invite for the 4th as you will be unwelcome,and I will have you removed if needed.
This unfortunately will be the end of our relationship. I will not bore you with any of my feelings as I really dont think you care. I think you are fucked in the head. Same as the rest of your virtual playmates.
My life is far too full, with GOOD, to waste any more time on what was obviously a one way deal.
I am disapointed,but I will get over it. I will fill that spot in my heart with someone else. I am a good man,but apparently only if I can DO something for you. In all the years Ive known you, I always thought highly of you,but again you have decided that I am on some level playing field with the rest of the sicko's. I am not,nor will I ever be. I dont know if it makes me better or not
But it sure makes me want nothing to do with Elan,you,or any of the others still in pain over the past
Thats all I got
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Feed Your Head / What is Darth Vader's diagnosis?
« on: June 08, 2010, 05:06:16 PM »
What is Darth Vader's diagnosis?
http://http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/07/what-is-darth-vaders-diagnosis/?hpt=Mid
By Elizabeth Landau
CNN.com Health Writer/Producer
The manipulations of Anakin Skywalker, also known as Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" saga, have long been ascribed to the Dark Side of the Force. Now, psychiatrists suggests that the actions of the Jedi Knight could be used in teaching about a real-life mental illness.
A letter to the editor in the journal Psychiatry Research explores just what is wrong with Vader. French researchers posit that Vader exhibits six out of the nine criteria for borderline personality disorder. Unstable moods, interpersonal relationships, and behaviors are all characteristics of this condition, according to the National Institutes of Mental Health. It affects 2 percent of adults, mostly young women.
The young Anakin Skywalker was separated from his mother at an early age, and his father was absent, factors that could have contributed to borderline personality disorder. His "infantile illusions of omnipotence" and "dysfunctional experiences of self and others" are also indicative of this condition from an early age.
The researchers argue that Vader experienced two "dissociative episodes," one when he exterminated the Tusken people after his mother's death, and the other when he killed all of the Jedi younglings. He often showed impulsive behavior and had difficulty controlling his anger. He also may have showcased a disturbance in identity by turning to the dark side and changing his name.
Darth Vader may thus be used to educate the public about borderline personality disorder and help combat stigma associated with mental illness.
But Emory psychiatrist Dr. Charles Raison, CNNhealth.com's mental health expert, has a different take. In the original three movies - which are the last three chronologically - Vader appears to be under the control of an evil emperor, making his character difficult to ascribe to a psychiatric disorder.
UPDATE: Dr. Raison would like to clarify that his comment was specific to Darth Vader and not to Anakin Skywalker. "Anakin is a much better exemplar of personality disturbance," he says. "On the other hand Darth Vader laid down his life to save his son and kill the evil emperor when all was said and done. Perhaps there is a lesson here, too, on type casting people who struggle with personality disturbances?"
Editor's Note: Medical news is a popular but sensitive subject rooted in science. We receive many comments on this blog each day; not all are posted. Our hope is that much will be learned from the sharing of useful information and personal experiences based on the medical and health topics of the blog. We encourage you to focus your comments on those medical and health topics and we appreciate your input. Thank you for your participation.
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http://http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/07/what-is-darth-vaders-diagnosis/?hpt=Mid
By Elizabeth Landau
CNN.com Health Writer/Producer
The manipulations of Anakin Skywalker, also known as Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" saga, have long been ascribed to the Dark Side of the Force. Now, psychiatrists suggests that the actions of the Jedi Knight could be used in teaching about a real-life mental illness.
A letter to the editor in the journal Psychiatry Research explores just what is wrong with Vader. French researchers posit that Vader exhibits six out of the nine criteria for borderline personality disorder. Unstable moods, interpersonal relationships, and behaviors are all characteristics of this condition, according to the National Institutes of Mental Health. It affects 2 percent of adults, mostly young women.
The young Anakin Skywalker was separated from his mother at an early age, and his father was absent, factors that could have contributed to borderline personality disorder. His "infantile illusions of omnipotence" and "dysfunctional experiences of self and others" are also indicative of this condition from an early age.
The researchers argue that Vader experienced two "dissociative episodes," one when he exterminated the Tusken people after his mother's death, and the other when he killed all of the Jedi younglings. He often showed impulsive behavior and had difficulty controlling his anger. He also may have showcased a disturbance in identity by turning to the dark side and changing his name.
Darth Vader may thus be used to educate the public about borderline personality disorder and help combat stigma associated with mental illness.
But Emory psychiatrist Dr. Charles Raison, CNNhealth.com's mental health expert, has a different take. In the original three movies - which are the last three chronologically - Vader appears to be under the control of an evil emperor, making his character difficult to ascribe to a psychiatric disorder.
UPDATE: Dr. Raison would like to clarify that his comment was specific to Darth Vader and not to Anakin Skywalker. "Anakin is a much better exemplar of personality disturbance," he says. "On the other hand Darth Vader laid down his life to save his son and kill the evil emperor when all was said and done. Perhaps there is a lesson here, too, on type casting people who struggle with personality disturbances?"
Editor's Note: Medical news is a popular but sensitive subject rooted in science. We receive many comments on this blog each day; not all are posted. Our hope is that much will be learned from the sharing of useful information and personal experiences based on the medical and health topics of the blog. We encourage you to focus your comments on those medical and health topics and we appreciate your input. Thank you for your participation.
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Elan School / Michael Skeakel
« on: June 05, 2010, 05:58:26 PM »Quote
See Felice I was already threatened to be exposed as a abuser at Elan during that time, a news organization wanted to, Frank Garr wanted to and the prosecutor wanted to, all because I would not say what they wanted me to say.
http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=30624&start=45&p=365649&view=show#p365649
Thank you Danny!
I just know others were threatened too.
Micheal is sitting in a cell rotting.
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Elan School / ELAN SUICIDE PICTURES
« on: June 04, 2010, 05:58:44 PM »
WES TIEDT~CORPUS CHRISTI, TX
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TOM HOLK
[attachment=1:6evlvoin]DEAD TOM HOLZ.JPG[/attachment:6evlvoin]
GREG LARSON
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Friend's from Elan who :suicide:
[attachment=2:6evlvoin]WESICIDE.jpg[/attachment:6evlvoin]
TOM HOLK
[attachment=1:6evlvoin]DEAD TOM HOLZ.JPG[/attachment:6evlvoin]
GREG LARSON
[attachment=0:6evlvoin]Greg_larson.jpg[/attachment:6evlvoin]
Friend's from Elan who :suicide:
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Open Free for All / Irish Retire The Shamrock over CARTOON CROCH
« on: June 03, 2010, 11:38:46 PM »
BREAKING HEADLINES........THIS JUST IN .....THE I.R.A. ARE DEMANDING THAT THE SHAMROCK SYMBOL BE DIS-ASSOCIATED WITH ANYTHING IRISH....DETAILS ARE SKETCHY BUT OUR REPORTER ON THE SCENE OVERHEARD SOMETHING ABOUT A
CARTOON CROTCH.....STAY TUNED AS WE BRING YOU THE LATEST BREKING NEWS LIVE FROM THE FIRST STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL TO GO WIRELESS....THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY TMG.
CARTOON CROTCH.....STAY TUNED AS WE BRING YOU THE LATEST BREKING NEWS LIVE FROM THE FIRST STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL TO GO WIRELESS....THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY TMG.
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News Items / Justices Limit Life Sentences for Juveniles
« on: May 18, 2010, 08:47:08 AM »
Justices Limit Life Sentences for Juveniles
http://http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/us/politics/18court.html
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: May 17, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that juveniles who commit crimes in which no one is killed may not be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Five justices, in an opinion by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, agreed that the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment forbids such sentences as a categorical matter.
“A state need not guarantee the offender eventual release,” Justice Kennedy wrote, “but if it imposes the sentence of life, it must provide him or her with some realistic opportunity to obtain release before the end of that term.”
The ruling marked the first time that the court excluded an entire class of offenders from a given form of punishment outside the context of the death penalty. “ ‘Death is different’ no longer,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in dissent.
The overall vote was 6-to-3, though that is a little misleading. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. voted with the majority in saying that the inmate who brought the appeal had received a sentence so harsh that it violated the Constitution. But the chief justice endorsed only a case-by-case approach, saying that an offender’s age could be considered in deciding whether a life sentence was so disproportionate to the crime as to violate the Eighth Amendment.
The case involved Terrance Graham, who in 2003, at age 16, helped rob a Jacksonville restaurant, during which an accomplice beat the manager with a steel bar. Mr. Graham was sentenced to a year in jail and three years’ probation for that crime.
The next year, at 17, Mr. Graham and two 20-year-old accomplices committed a home invasion robbery. In 2005, a judge sentenced Mr. Graham to life for violating his probation.
The Supreme Court has carved out categories of offenders and crimes that are not subject to the death penalty, including juvenile offenders and those who do not take a life. Monday’s decision applied those two decisions to life-without-parole sentences.
Justice Kennedy, who was joined by Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, said both national and international practices supported the court’s ruling.
Justice Thomas said the majority was wrong about the facts in the United States and abroad and wrong as a matter of principle to take account of international opinion. Justice Antonin Scalia joined all of Justice Thomas’s dissent and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. most of it.
Thirty-seven states, the District of Columbia and the federal government have laws allowing life-without-parole sentences for juveniles convicted of non-homicide offenses. That represents, Justice Thomas said, a super-majority of states in favor of the punishment.
Justice Kennedy responded that a study relied on by Mr. Graham and supplemented by the court’s own research had located only 129 juvenile offenders convicted under such laws. Seventy-seven were in Florida, the rest in 10 other states. Those numbers, Justice Kennedy said, make the sentence “exceedingly rare” and demonstrate that “a national consensus has developed against it.”
Justice Thomas drew a different conclusion from the same numbers. “That a punishment is rarely imposed demonstrates nothing more than a general consensus that it should be just that — rarely imposed,” he wrote. “It is not proof that the punishment is one the nation abhors.”
Justice Kennedy added that the sentences at issue had been “rejected the world over.” Indeed, only the United States and perhaps Israel, he said, impose the punishment even for homicides committed by juveniles.
“The judgment of the world’s nations that a particular sentencing practice is inconsistent with basic principles of decency,” Justice Kennedy wrote, “demonstrates that the court’s rationale has respected reasoning to support it.”
Justice Thomas disputed Justice Kennedy’s math, saying 11 nations seem to allow the punishment in theory. More important, he said, “foreign laws and sentencing practices” are “irrelevant to the meaning of our Constitution.”
He added that most democracies around the world remain free to adopt the punishment should they wish to. “Starting today,” Justice Thomas wrote, “ours can count itself among the few in which judicial decree prevents voters from making that choice.”
Although the majority limited its decision to non-homicide offenses, advocates may try to apply its logic more broadly to the some 2,000 inmates serving life-without-parole sentences in the United States for participating in killings at 17 or younger.
Justice Thomas questioned the distinction drawn by the majority between killings and other sorts of violent crimes. “The court is quite willing to accept that a 17-year-old who pulls the trigger on a firearm can demonstrate sufficient depravity and irredeemability to be denied re-entry into society,” he wrote, “but insists that a 17-year-old who rapes an 8-year-old and leaves her for dead does not.”
Justice Alito, in a separate dissent that seemed directed to sentencing judges, said the majority’s opinion did nothing to affect even quite long fixed sentences.
Justice Thomas predicted that Monday’s ruling would give rise to years of litigation about just what sort of parole or other processes states must provide to provide the required “meaningful opportunity to obtain release.”
The case decided Monday, Graham v. Florida, No. 08-7412, was argued in November along with a companion case, Sullivan v. Florida, No. 08-7621. The court declined to decide the second case, which involved Joe Sullivan, who raped a woman when he was 13.
Instead, the court dismissed the case as improvidently granted, probably because it was beset with procedural difficulties. Mr. Sullivan’s lawyer, Bryan Stevenson, said his client and everyone else in his situation would be entitled to challenge their sentences under the Graham decision.
As usual in cases involving the Eighth Amendment, the justices debated whether the Constitution should consider, in a one common formulation, “the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.”
Justice Thomas said the court should look to the practices at the time the Bill of Rights was adopted. Given that capital punishment could be imposed on people as young as 7 in the 18th century, he said, Mr. Graham’s punishment would almost certainly have been deemed acceptable back then.
Justice John Paul Stevens, in a concurrence joined by Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor, said Justice Thomas’s “static approach to the law” did not allow for societal progress and would entail unacceptable human consequences.
“Justice Thomas would apparently not rule out a death sentence for a $50 theft by a 7-year-old,” Justice Stevens wrote. “Knowledge accumulates,” he wrote. “We learn, sometimes, from our mistakes.”
http://http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/us/politics/18court.html
By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: May 17, 2010
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that juveniles who commit crimes in which no one is killed may not be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Five justices, in an opinion by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, agreed that the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment forbids such sentences as a categorical matter.
“A state need not guarantee the offender eventual release,” Justice Kennedy wrote, “but if it imposes the sentence of life, it must provide him or her with some realistic opportunity to obtain release before the end of that term.”
The ruling marked the first time that the court excluded an entire class of offenders from a given form of punishment outside the context of the death penalty. “ ‘Death is different’ no longer,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in dissent.
The overall vote was 6-to-3, though that is a little misleading. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. voted with the majority in saying that the inmate who brought the appeal had received a sentence so harsh that it violated the Constitution. But the chief justice endorsed only a case-by-case approach, saying that an offender’s age could be considered in deciding whether a life sentence was so disproportionate to the crime as to violate the Eighth Amendment.
The case involved Terrance Graham, who in 2003, at age 16, helped rob a Jacksonville restaurant, during which an accomplice beat the manager with a steel bar. Mr. Graham was sentenced to a year in jail and three years’ probation for that crime.
The next year, at 17, Mr. Graham and two 20-year-old accomplices committed a home invasion robbery. In 2005, a judge sentenced Mr. Graham to life for violating his probation.
The Supreme Court has carved out categories of offenders and crimes that are not subject to the death penalty, including juvenile offenders and those who do not take a life. Monday’s decision applied those two decisions to life-without-parole sentences.
Justice Kennedy, who was joined by Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor, said both national and international practices supported the court’s ruling.
Justice Thomas said the majority was wrong about the facts in the United States and abroad and wrong as a matter of principle to take account of international opinion. Justice Antonin Scalia joined all of Justice Thomas’s dissent and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. most of it.
Thirty-seven states, the District of Columbia and the federal government have laws allowing life-without-parole sentences for juveniles convicted of non-homicide offenses. That represents, Justice Thomas said, a super-majority of states in favor of the punishment.
Justice Kennedy responded that a study relied on by Mr. Graham and supplemented by the court’s own research had located only 129 juvenile offenders convicted under such laws. Seventy-seven were in Florida, the rest in 10 other states. Those numbers, Justice Kennedy said, make the sentence “exceedingly rare” and demonstrate that “a national consensus has developed against it.”
Justice Thomas drew a different conclusion from the same numbers. “That a punishment is rarely imposed demonstrates nothing more than a general consensus that it should be just that — rarely imposed,” he wrote. “It is not proof that the punishment is one the nation abhors.”
Justice Kennedy added that the sentences at issue had been “rejected the world over.” Indeed, only the United States and perhaps Israel, he said, impose the punishment even for homicides committed by juveniles.
“The judgment of the world’s nations that a particular sentencing practice is inconsistent with basic principles of decency,” Justice Kennedy wrote, “demonstrates that the court’s rationale has respected reasoning to support it.”
Justice Thomas disputed Justice Kennedy’s math, saying 11 nations seem to allow the punishment in theory. More important, he said, “foreign laws and sentencing practices” are “irrelevant to the meaning of our Constitution.”
He added that most democracies around the world remain free to adopt the punishment should they wish to. “Starting today,” Justice Thomas wrote, “ours can count itself among the few in which judicial decree prevents voters from making that choice.”
Although the majority limited its decision to non-homicide offenses, advocates may try to apply its logic more broadly to the some 2,000 inmates serving life-without-parole sentences in the United States for participating in killings at 17 or younger.
Justice Thomas questioned the distinction drawn by the majority between killings and other sorts of violent crimes. “The court is quite willing to accept that a 17-year-old who pulls the trigger on a firearm can demonstrate sufficient depravity and irredeemability to be denied re-entry into society,” he wrote, “but insists that a 17-year-old who rapes an 8-year-old and leaves her for dead does not.”
Justice Alito, in a separate dissent that seemed directed to sentencing judges, said the majority’s opinion did nothing to affect even quite long fixed sentences.
Justice Thomas predicted that Monday’s ruling would give rise to years of litigation about just what sort of parole or other processes states must provide to provide the required “meaningful opportunity to obtain release.”
The case decided Monday, Graham v. Florida, No. 08-7412, was argued in November along with a companion case, Sullivan v. Florida, No. 08-7621. The court declined to decide the second case, which involved Joe Sullivan, who raped a woman when he was 13.
Instead, the court dismissed the case as improvidently granted, probably because it was beset with procedural difficulties. Mr. Sullivan’s lawyer, Bryan Stevenson, said his client and everyone else in his situation would be entitled to challenge their sentences under the Graham decision.
As usual in cases involving the Eighth Amendment, the justices debated whether the Constitution should consider, in a one common formulation, “the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.”
Justice Thomas said the court should look to the practices at the time the Bill of Rights was adopted. Given that capital punishment could be imposed on people as young as 7 in the 18th century, he said, Mr. Graham’s punishment would almost certainly have been deemed acceptable back then.
Justice John Paul Stevens, in a concurrence joined by Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor, said Justice Thomas’s “static approach to the law” did not allow for societal progress and would entail unacceptable human consequences.
“Justice Thomas would apparently not rule out a death sentence for a $50 theft by a 7-year-old,” Justice Stevens wrote. “Knowledge accumulates,” he wrote. “We learn, sometimes, from our mistakes.”
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The Troubled Teen Industry / How to Deprogram Bullies: Teaching Kindness 101
« on: May 18, 2010, 01:56:50 AM »
How to Deprogram Bullies: Teaching Kindness 101
By Maia Szalavitz Monday, May. 24, 2010
how timely...thanks Maia
http://http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1989122,00.html
By Maia Szalavitz Monday, May. 24, 2010
how timely...thanks Maia
http://http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1989122,00.html
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News Items / Family grieves death of girl, 7, in police raid
« on: May 17, 2010, 07:04:18 PM »
Family grieves death of girl, 7, in police raid
http://http://www.detnews.com/article/20100517/METRO01/5170340/Family-grieves-death-of-girl--7--in-police-raid
Girl, 7, shot as officer's gun fires during raid; Police were searching house for suspect in prior slaying
Doug Guthrie and Valerie Olander / The Detroit News
Detroit --Charles Jones had just turned in after covering his sleeping 7-year-old daughter on the living room sofa with her favorite Disney Princess blanket when police burst into his east side apartment early Sunday.
"I heard the flash bang and then the gunshot," Jones said about rushing from his bedroom into the hands of Detroit Police officers, who handcuffed him and pushed him to the floor.
An officer hunting for a murder suspect had shot Aiyana Jones through the neck.
The victim's family said police told them the gun discharged because the girl's grandmother, Mertilla Jones, 46, grappled for the officer's weapon. Later Sunday, police spokesman John Roach said the officer and grandmother may have simply collided.
Mertilla Jones was released from custody Sunday afternoon, and it remained unclear if she will face charges. Police held her for more than 12 hours, during which time she also spent several hours hospitalized with what police said were medical issues.
At a press conference in front of the home Sunday evening, Mertilla Jones said there was no struggle: "I hit the floor when I heard them hit the window.
"They blew my granddaughter's brains out. They killed her right before my eyes. I watched the light go out of her eyes. I seen it."
It's been a particularly bloody month in the city. "In my 23 years, I can't remember a two-week period like this," said Detroit Police Assistant Chief Ralph Godbee.
The shooting happened at 12:40 a.m., when officers from the Special Response Team executed a no-knock search warrant on a two-unit flat in the 4000 block of Lillibridge. An officer threw a stun grenade, an incendiary device designed to disorient and distract suspects, through the double panes of a front window, and at least one officer rushed into the downstairs unit.
"I saw them (police) running with my daughter out of the house. They had my mother on the floor, and they just kept me there for like two hours," said Charles Jones, 25. "I knew it was bad, and they probably had my baby at the hospital, because someone asked me if she had any allergies.
"Her blood was everywhere and I was trying to stay calm, but nobody would talk to me. None of them even tried to console me."
Police had been seeking a 34-year-old suspect in Friday's slaying of 17-year-old Southeastern High School student Jerean Blake, gunned down outside a liquor store near the corner of Mack Avenue and St. Jean. Police say they got their man but have not said if he was arrested in the raid on the downstairs or upstairs apartment.
Speaking on behalf of Police Chief Warren Evans, who is on vacation, Godbee said, "This is every parent's worst nightmare. It's also every police officer's nightmare."
Cops: Suspect's car on site
Neighbors said there were rumors all weekend that the person responsible for shooting Blake lived in the house. Godbee said the suspect's car, which matched the description by witnesses to Friday's shooting, was at the location.
"Based on our intelligence, we got a search warrant for the location," Godbee said. "Because of the violent nature of the crime, we thought we were entering a potentially dangerous situation."
But Charles Jones said the downstairs apartment where he lives with his mother was occupied at the time of the raid by four children and six adults.
"If they were watching this place to see if their suspect was here, why didn't they notice all the toys in the yard and all the kids coming and going downstairs?" Jones asked. "They came into my house with a flash grenade and a bullet. They say my mother resisted them, that she tried to take an officer's gun. My mother had never been in handcuffs in her life. They killed my baby and I want someone to tell the truth.
"They came here to kill and they did. They just killed the wrong person. I'd rather it was me. Why didn't they just kill me?"
The girl's mother, Dominika Stanley, wasn't in the apartment at the time of the shooting.
Charles Jones said police confiscated Aiyana's blanket, which had been burned by the stun grenade. He said his daughter also was burned. Family members also moved the blood-soaked sofa to the front porch.
Godbee would not comment on reports that neighbors told officers children were in the house and pointed out toys in the front yard.
He said the search warrant allowed police to search both the downstairs and upstairs units.
"According to our officers and at least one independent witness, the officers announced themselves as police officers before going in," Godbee said.
Godbee stressed that information he released Sunday was preliminary, and that the Police Department planned to launch a full investigation. He also said police are not categorizing the shooting as accidental yet, "although we don't believe the gun was discharged intentionally."
Police offer condolences
Godbee extended an offer of help to Aiyana's family -- and expressed fear that anger might boil over in the community.
"We might be the target of anger," Godbee said. "All we can do is stand ready to offer our condolences to the family, and any help we can give them."
But Charles Jones said he was trying to not be angry. He sat on the porch of his home Sunday, looking stunned and answering the questions of relatives, neighbors and news reporters.
Aiyana Jones actually was growing out of her Disney Princess phase, beginning to prefer the likes of Hannah Montana, said her father. He had programmed a cell phone to play her new favorite song, Justin Bieber's "Baby." Her father said Aiyana loved to sing.
"She was just figuring out what she liked, what she wanted to do with her life," Charles Jones said. "I want this story to be heard. This was a wrongful death."
Godbee called Sunday probably the worst day of his career, and the event a "tragedy of unspeakable magnitude."
"This hurts us all," Godbee said. "We're not robots; we have children of our own."
Deputy Chief James Tolbert said investigators will submit a warrant for the 34-year-old man "as soon as possible." The unidentified officer involved in the shooting was placed on administrative leave.
The Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality called Sunday's incident unique in the city's history because of the use of a stun grenade tossed into the crowded apartment. The group will call for investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy of police procedures used in the raid. The organization that has been critical of Detroit Police and the department's tactics hosted a Sunday night candlelight vigil at the home.
"We join with the people of the city of Detroit in wrapping our arms around this family, who have experienced such an unthinkable loss," said Ron Scott, founder of the organization. "In the 14 years I've been doing this, I've seen deaths and blood, but I've never seen anything like this. It's beyond words."
At the vigil, emotions were still raw as family and friends gathered outside the home. Tears rolled down the checks of Breyan Rogers, 13, Aiyana's cousin. "She was just the sweetest little girl," he said.
Erik Saunders, 43, a family friend, said the shooting was reminiscent of civil rights era.
"This is like 1960s all over," he said. "Police have no respect for the citizens of this city."
Saunders derided Evans' zero-tolerance policy.
"It predisposes this kind of behavior," he said.
Sherell Lewis asked where Evans was.
"He should be here," she said.
[email protected] (313) 222-2548 Staff writer George Hunter contributed.
Photos:http://http://multimedia.detnews.com/pix/photogalleries/newsgallery/05162010ChildKilled/index.html
http://http://www.detnews.com/article/20100517/METRO01/5170340/Family-grieves-death-of-girl--7--in-police-raid
Girl, 7, shot as officer's gun fires during raid; Police were searching house for suspect in prior slaying
Doug Guthrie and Valerie Olander / The Detroit News
Detroit --Charles Jones had just turned in after covering his sleeping 7-year-old daughter on the living room sofa with her favorite Disney Princess blanket when police burst into his east side apartment early Sunday.
"I heard the flash bang and then the gunshot," Jones said about rushing from his bedroom into the hands of Detroit Police officers, who handcuffed him and pushed him to the floor.
An officer hunting for a murder suspect had shot Aiyana Jones through the neck.
The victim's family said police told them the gun discharged because the girl's grandmother, Mertilla Jones, 46, grappled for the officer's weapon. Later Sunday, police spokesman John Roach said the officer and grandmother may have simply collided.
Mertilla Jones was released from custody Sunday afternoon, and it remained unclear if she will face charges. Police held her for more than 12 hours, during which time she also spent several hours hospitalized with what police said were medical issues.
At a press conference in front of the home Sunday evening, Mertilla Jones said there was no struggle: "I hit the floor when I heard them hit the window.
"They blew my granddaughter's brains out. They killed her right before my eyes. I watched the light go out of her eyes. I seen it."
It's been a particularly bloody month in the city. "In my 23 years, I can't remember a two-week period like this," said Detroit Police Assistant Chief Ralph Godbee.
The shooting happened at 12:40 a.m., when officers from the Special Response Team executed a no-knock search warrant on a two-unit flat in the 4000 block of Lillibridge. An officer threw a stun grenade, an incendiary device designed to disorient and distract suspects, through the double panes of a front window, and at least one officer rushed into the downstairs unit.
"I saw them (police) running with my daughter out of the house. They had my mother on the floor, and they just kept me there for like two hours," said Charles Jones, 25. "I knew it was bad, and they probably had my baby at the hospital, because someone asked me if she had any allergies.
"Her blood was everywhere and I was trying to stay calm, but nobody would talk to me. None of them even tried to console me."
Police had been seeking a 34-year-old suspect in Friday's slaying of 17-year-old Southeastern High School student Jerean Blake, gunned down outside a liquor store near the corner of Mack Avenue and St. Jean. Police say they got their man but have not said if he was arrested in the raid on the downstairs or upstairs apartment.
Speaking on behalf of Police Chief Warren Evans, who is on vacation, Godbee said, "This is every parent's worst nightmare. It's also every police officer's nightmare."
Cops: Suspect's car on site
Neighbors said there were rumors all weekend that the person responsible for shooting Blake lived in the house. Godbee said the suspect's car, which matched the description by witnesses to Friday's shooting, was at the location.
"Based on our intelligence, we got a search warrant for the location," Godbee said. "Because of the violent nature of the crime, we thought we were entering a potentially dangerous situation."
But Charles Jones said the downstairs apartment where he lives with his mother was occupied at the time of the raid by four children and six adults.
"If they were watching this place to see if their suspect was here, why didn't they notice all the toys in the yard and all the kids coming and going downstairs?" Jones asked. "They came into my house with a flash grenade and a bullet. They say my mother resisted them, that she tried to take an officer's gun. My mother had never been in handcuffs in her life. They killed my baby and I want someone to tell the truth.
"They came here to kill and they did. They just killed the wrong person. I'd rather it was me. Why didn't they just kill me?"
The girl's mother, Dominika Stanley, wasn't in the apartment at the time of the shooting.
Charles Jones said police confiscated Aiyana's blanket, which had been burned by the stun grenade. He said his daughter also was burned. Family members also moved the blood-soaked sofa to the front porch.
Godbee would not comment on reports that neighbors told officers children were in the house and pointed out toys in the front yard.
He said the search warrant allowed police to search both the downstairs and upstairs units.
"According to our officers and at least one independent witness, the officers announced themselves as police officers before going in," Godbee said.
Godbee stressed that information he released Sunday was preliminary, and that the Police Department planned to launch a full investigation. He also said police are not categorizing the shooting as accidental yet, "although we don't believe the gun was discharged intentionally."
Police offer condolences
Godbee extended an offer of help to Aiyana's family -- and expressed fear that anger might boil over in the community.
"We might be the target of anger," Godbee said. "All we can do is stand ready to offer our condolences to the family, and any help we can give them."
But Charles Jones said he was trying to not be angry. He sat on the porch of his home Sunday, looking stunned and answering the questions of relatives, neighbors and news reporters.
Aiyana Jones actually was growing out of her Disney Princess phase, beginning to prefer the likes of Hannah Montana, said her father. He had programmed a cell phone to play her new favorite song, Justin Bieber's "Baby." Her father said Aiyana loved to sing.
"She was just figuring out what she liked, what she wanted to do with her life," Charles Jones said. "I want this story to be heard. This was a wrongful death."
Godbee called Sunday probably the worst day of his career, and the event a "tragedy of unspeakable magnitude."
"This hurts us all," Godbee said. "We're not robots; we have children of our own."
Deputy Chief James Tolbert said investigators will submit a warrant for the 34-year-old man "as soon as possible." The unidentified officer involved in the shooting was placed on administrative leave.
The Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality called Sunday's incident unique in the city's history because of the use of a stun grenade tossed into the crowded apartment. The group will call for investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice and Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy of police procedures used in the raid. The organization that has been critical of Detroit Police and the department's tactics hosted a Sunday night candlelight vigil at the home.
"We join with the people of the city of Detroit in wrapping our arms around this family, who have experienced such an unthinkable loss," said Ron Scott, founder of the organization. "In the 14 years I've been doing this, I've seen deaths and blood, but I've never seen anything like this. It's beyond words."
At the vigil, emotions were still raw as family and friends gathered outside the home. Tears rolled down the checks of Breyan Rogers, 13, Aiyana's cousin. "She was just the sweetest little girl," he said.
Erik Saunders, 43, a family friend, said the shooting was reminiscent of civil rights era.
"This is like 1960s all over," he said. "Police have no respect for the citizens of this city."
Saunders derided Evans' zero-tolerance policy.
"It predisposes this kind of behavior," he said.
Sherell Lewis asked where Evans was.
"He should be here," she said.
[email protected] (313) 222-2548 Staff writer George Hunter contributed.
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The Troubled Teen Industry / Joyce's bills would curb shock treatments at Canton school
« on: May 03, 2010, 09:39:49 PM »
Joyce's bills would curb shock treatments at Canton school
http://http://www.wickedlocal.com/stoughton/news/x43863018/Joyces-bills-would-curb-shock-treatments-at-Canton-school
By Candace Hall
Canton Journal
Posted Apr 20, 2010 @ 02:40 PM
Canton — State Sen. Brian Joyce hopes that two ongoing investigations will bring more scrutiny to the practice of aversive therapy at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Canton, spurring legislators to pass his bills that will more strictly regulate the practice.
The JRC is a private, public-funded school for special education children with severe challenges, including those who are developmentally delayed, autistic and emotionally disturbed.
Both the state’s attorney general and the U. S. Department of Justice have been investigating the center after complaints about a 2007 incident at the center, as well as complaints from more than 30 disability groups.
“We’ve seen horrible abuses, and family members have been interviewed, and I’m hopeful,” Joyce said.
The senator has been trying to ban the practice, which gives electric shocks and other pain-inducing treatments to students who have severe behavior problems, for about 10 years. He said the JRC is the only school in the country that uses this type of therapy.
The practice that Joyce most strongly objects to is shock therapy using a remotely controlled shock devise that is attached to the student through a fanny or backpack. According to a report of the New York State Educational Department, the students wear the devises for the majority of their sleeping and walking hours, and some are required to wear them during shower/bath time.
hough JRC lawyers argue that aversive shock therapy is already heavily regulated, Joyce said it’s not enough. He said he has heard of children being shocked “hundreds, sometimes thousands for times,” with some children being burned through the shock treatment.
One of the most alarming cases, he said, was in 2007, when a person made a prank call to the school pretending to be a JRC staff member. Joyce said the caller ordered the staff to awaken two students who were shocked repeatedly while their arms and legs were bound. One of the students was burned 77 times over a period of three hours.
The incident led the state attorney’s office to investigative the incident, which is still ongoing. Since then, the JRC has cooperated with law and state officials in every way, and a number of changes have been made to prevent a similar occurrence, said Michael Flammia, a lawyer for the JRC.
Flammia also said students who undergo the process have to have parent permission, and approvals by a judge in a probate court, as well as a peer review committee and doctor before getting the treatment.
“It’s the most regulated form of therapy that exists,” he said.
But Joyce is not satisfied with current regulations, and he is pressing for more. His two bills aim to better control the aversive therapy, rather than ban it, which he thinks is a compromise that could sway house members to vote yes.
One bill would set up unified standards that specify the scope of techniques permissible under laws. The other bill would establish a commission to investigate electric shock therapy, as well as a peer review group, which would work with the states’ Department of Developmental Services to set up new standards. Joyce said even though a peer group is currently involved with the approval process, it consists mostly of people who are affiliated with the JRC and he does not feel they provide adequate oversight.
“I want a true objective look at this - not a review by interested parties,” Joyce said.
Even though he is still in favor of banning shock therapy, Joyce said that he moderated his stance because he’s faced strong opposition in previous bills, including Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez, D-Boston, who has a nephew who is a JRC student and receives shock therapy. He said that Sanchez has been an effective spokesperson for the aversive therapy, saying it’s the only method that can keep his nephew from harming, and even killing himself.
Joyce feels that legislators have voted repeatedly against the ban, through the urging of Sanchez, and JRC supporters. Now, he thinks these two bills could be the compromise that spurs both the house and senate to pass his bills.
“It’s a harder thing to argue against than the outright ban,” he said.
The new legislation has the support of many educators, including Alan Dewey, who oversees special education for the Canton School Department. He thinks there’s a need for the treatment because of severe cases that he’s seen, including a child who tried to take his own eyeball out with his thumb. But he also feels that there has to be stricter regulations enforced.
“It needs stronger oversight, so I think it’s a good bill,” he said.
The school has about 220 students from seven states, including Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Ohio, New Hampshire and Florida. About half those students receive aversive therapy.
Sen. Brian Joyce said that his legislation aims to limit aversive therapy to “just a few of the most extreme cases” performed with licensed clinicians, used only on self-abusive or dangerous kids.
But Flammia argued that there are some students who may not be dangerous to themselves or others, but are capable of disrupting classrooms, and are in need of the treatment.
“If students were smashing computer on the ground, or disrobing, or screaming at the top of their lungs, they could not be treated,” he said.
Adding that the JRC treats the most serious behavior problems imaginable, Flammia said students on aversive therapy have been exposed to every other treatment possible. He said the only other alternatives have been to place the children on powerful psychotropic drugs, which had led to them being barely conscious during the day and in some cases becoming obese. JRC parents prefer aversive therapy to their children being heavily drugged, he said.
Whether or not the legislation is passed, the JRC is bound to be under intensive scrutiny as long as it continues aversive shock therapy. The U. S. Department of Justice’s investigation, launched this February, was spurred by letters from 31 different disability groups. The September 30 letter states that “almost every national disability organization agrees that the use of painful procedures to change a person’s behavior is unnecessary, inhumane, and should be banned.”
The center has also been the target of complaints and investigations by a number of state and out-of state agencies. Since the school was founded in 1971, the states of California and Rhode Island have withdrawn their students and passed forms of legislation banning aversive therapy in their own states. New Jersey has suspended any new referrals to the school.
“My hope is that these investigations will shed light on what is happening behind the walls of the JRC,” Joyce said.
Candace Hall can be reached at [email protected]
Copyright 2010 Stoughton Journal. Some rights reserved
http://http://www.wickedlocal.com/stoughton/news/x43863018/Joyces-bills-would-curb-shock-treatments-at-Canton-school
By Candace Hall
Canton Journal
Posted Apr 20, 2010 @ 02:40 PM
Canton — State Sen. Brian Joyce hopes that two ongoing investigations will bring more scrutiny to the practice of aversive therapy at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Canton, spurring legislators to pass his bills that will more strictly regulate the practice.
The JRC is a private, public-funded school for special education children with severe challenges, including those who are developmentally delayed, autistic and emotionally disturbed.
Both the state’s attorney general and the U. S. Department of Justice have been investigating the center after complaints about a 2007 incident at the center, as well as complaints from more than 30 disability groups.
“We’ve seen horrible abuses, and family members have been interviewed, and I’m hopeful,” Joyce said.
The senator has been trying to ban the practice, which gives electric shocks and other pain-inducing treatments to students who have severe behavior problems, for about 10 years. He said the JRC is the only school in the country that uses this type of therapy.
The practice that Joyce most strongly objects to is shock therapy using a remotely controlled shock devise that is attached to the student through a fanny or backpack. According to a report of the New York State Educational Department, the students wear the devises for the majority of their sleeping and walking hours, and some are required to wear them during shower/bath time.
hough JRC lawyers argue that aversive shock therapy is already heavily regulated, Joyce said it’s not enough. He said he has heard of children being shocked “hundreds, sometimes thousands for times,” with some children being burned through the shock treatment.
One of the most alarming cases, he said, was in 2007, when a person made a prank call to the school pretending to be a JRC staff member. Joyce said the caller ordered the staff to awaken two students who were shocked repeatedly while their arms and legs were bound. One of the students was burned 77 times over a period of three hours.
The incident led the state attorney’s office to investigative the incident, which is still ongoing. Since then, the JRC has cooperated with law and state officials in every way, and a number of changes have been made to prevent a similar occurrence, said Michael Flammia, a lawyer for the JRC.
Flammia also said students who undergo the process have to have parent permission, and approvals by a judge in a probate court, as well as a peer review committee and doctor before getting the treatment.
“It’s the most regulated form of therapy that exists,” he said.
But Joyce is not satisfied with current regulations, and he is pressing for more. His two bills aim to better control the aversive therapy, rather than ban it, which he thinks is a compromise that could sway house members to vote yes.
One bill would set up unified standards that specify the scope of techniques permissible under laws. The other bill would establish a commission to investigate electric shock therapy, as well as a peer review group, which would work with the states’ Department of Developmental Services to set up new standards. Joyce said even though a peer group is currently involved with the approval process, it consists mostly of people who are affiliated with the JRC and he does not feel they provide adequate oversight.
“I want a true objective look at this - not a review by interested parties,” Joyce said.
Even though he is still in favor of banning shock therapy, Joyce said that he moderated his stance because he’s faced strong opposition in previous bills, including Rep. Jeffrey Sanchez, D-Boston, who has a nephew who is a JRC student and receives shock therapy. He said that Sanchez has been an effective spokesperson for the aversive therapy, saying it’s the only method that can keep his nephew from harming, and even killing himself.
Joyce feels that legislators have voted repeatedly against the ban, through the urging of Sanchez, and JRC supporters. Now, he thinks these two bills could be the compromise that spurs both the house and senate to pass his bills.
“It’s a harder thing to argue against than the outright ban,” he said.
The new legislation has the support of many educators, including Alan Dewey, who oversees special education for the Canton School Department. He thinks there’s a need for the treatment because of severe cases that he’s seen, including a child who tried to take his own eyeball out with his thumb. But he also feels that there has to be stricter regulations enforced.
“It needs stronger oversight, so I think it’s a good bill,” he said.
The school has about 220 students from seven states, including Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Ohio, New Hampshire and Florida. About half those students receive aversive therapy.
Sen. Brian Joyce said that his legislation aims to limit aversive therapy to “just a few of the most extreme cases” performed with licensed clinicians, used only on self-abusive or dangerous kids.
But Flammia argued that there are some students who may not be dangerous to themselves or others, but are capable of disrupting classrooms, and are in need of the treatment.
“If students were smashing computer on the ground, or disrobing, or screaming at the top of their lungs, they could not be treated,” he said.
Adding that the JRC treats the most serious behavior problems imaginable, Flammia said students on aversive therapy have been exposed to every other treatment possible. He said the only other alternatives have been to place the children on powerful psychotropic drugs, which had led to them being barely conscious during the day and in some cases becoming obese. JRC parents prefer aversive therapy to their children being heavily drugged, he said.
Whether or not the legislation is passed, the JRC is bound to be under intensive scrutiny as long as it continues aversive shock therapy. The U. S. Department of Justice’s investigation, launched this February, was spurred by letters from 31 different disability groups. The September 30 letter states that “almost every national disability organization agrees that the use of painful procedures to change a person’s behavior is unnecessary, inhumane, and should be banned.”
The center has also been the target of complaints and investigations by a number of state and out-of state agencies. Since the school was founded in 1971, the states of California and Rhode Island have withdrawn their students and passed forms of legislation banning aversive therapy in their own states. New Jersey has suspended any new referrals to the school.
“My hope is that these investigations will shed light on what is happening behind the walls of the JRC,” Joyce said.
Candace Hall can be reached at [email protected]
Copyright 2010 Stoughton Journal. Some rights reserved
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Elan School / Elan School Information
« on: May 03, 2010, 08:44:44 AM »
Website for info everyone can contribute.
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No Message board.
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Elan Video's:
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