Protecting Defendants Charged for Political Reasons

SUPREME COURT JUSTICE DOUGLAS IN 1970 - "Does the answer to the problem of political trials involve defining the procedure for conducting political trials or does it involve the designing of constitutional methods for putting an end to them? . . . . It will be time enough to resolve those weighty problems when a political trial reaches this Court for review."

THE TIME MAY BE NOW!

The State of Illinois through first Attorney General Jim Ryan and now Attorney General Lisa Madigan along with incompetent, ignorant, and/or corrupt officials in Illinois Medicaid including Bill Bradley, Investigator Reibel in the State Police, and Patrick Keenan in the State Police Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, with tacit approval by many other corrupt officials in the State of Illinois, have perpetrated a scheme for ten years to deny mental health services for persons on Medicaid in violation of the Federal Medicaid Code. See my other posts on Medicaid on this blog.

In order to falsely advertise that she is "tough on fraud" so that she can advance her personal political ambitions, Lisa Madigan continues to fraudulently and without legal authorization indict outstanding providers of mental health services to Medicaid patients. Judges Schultz, Fox, Pantle, Alonso, and Egan have participated in these void and illegal prosecutions and done great harm to the citizens of Illinois in their illegal acts of violation the United States Constitution, in aiding and abetting this violation of federal law and civil rights.

I have been one of the persons illegally indicted and defamed, presently awaiting trial over a period of four long years. The harm to me, my patients, and my family is immeasurable and painful. I have persistly legally and appropriately through the legal process of at first representing myself and filing scholarly motions proving that higher court precedence (stare decisis) does NOT PERMIT this kind of persecution for political gain, and that my case is null and void ab initio (from the start).

I have been punished for vigorously advocating for my constitutional rights to redress of grievances and due process (including the right not to be tried for something that is not a crime) for four years with four incarcerations for contempt (two thrown out by the Illinois Appellate Court - pepetrated by Dishonorable Judge Pantle), one presently before Hon. Judge Coar in federal district court on a habeas corpus petition (asking the court to vacate and expunge the conviction on the basis of violation of constitutional rights and voidness - pepetrated by Dishonorable Judge Pantle), and one in limbo - dismissed for want of prosecution, but potentially can reinvigorate the appeal later (perpetrated by Dishonorable Judge Alonso).

I have been beaten, tortured, and medically neglected during these incarcerations and when I protested, a correctional officer, Sgt. Anthony Salemi, came into my cell and committed assault and battery against me. He falsified his records and I was charged and convicted of aggravated battery to an officer for allegedly "ramming him with my wheelchair" causing a skinned shin, and "kicking him in the chest with my RIGHT leg" causing soreness. This was impossible for me to do do to a partial RIGHT hemiparesis and extreme weakness secondary to dehydration caused by mendical neglect. I was sentenced to two years despite no criminal record and was released from Dwight penitentiary after being tortured on March 31, 2008. I was punished and placed in solitary confinement for 6 months because I refused to walk (I was unable to due to my disability) and forced to swim in my diarrhea on a 2 inch mattress with no sheets or clothes for days, except for a roughly quilted velcro smock and blanket, without toilet paper, without water (I was too week to get myself up to the water fountain at the sink or the toilet). The United States Attorney has been informed and so far has done NOTHING! My weight dropped from 171 lbs to 127 lbs and by the time I was released I couldn't even sit up because of severe dehydration, and electrolyte imbalance. I was immediately taken to an emergency room and treated. The incompetent and barbaric sadists and psychopaths in Dwight's medical department had insisted I was faking my medical problems.

Due to my protests, all reasonable and responsible and polite, I have been illegally and immoraly denied self-representation by Judges Pantle and now Alonso without legal authority in violation of my constitutional rights. I am being prosecuted for political reasons as a whistle blower. I testified against now convict and ex-Governor George Ryan in a class action suit for illegally denying 73 million dollars in funds for the care of handicapped children. I have won suits against Sheriff Sheahan in C[r]ook County for violating the American with Disabilities Act. I have won suits against the State of Illinois for failing to investigate barbaric and illegal abuse of mental health patients/inmates at Cook County Jail, and I have numerous pro se civil rights, mandamus, and injuctive suits pending in federal and state court against these corrupt officials. I am a target of the corrupt cabal in Illinois and C[r]ook County.

Justice Douglas in Illinois v. Allen, 397 U.S.337 wrote the following in a concurring opinion, which is very much on point. My case is ripe for Hon. Juge Coar to address in this manner in the federal district court. It is a political case! This quote, by Justice Douglas in his opinion, about Penn is fascinating and you everyone should enjoy it!.

HOWEVER IT IS SAD THAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY IN ILLINOIS, CITIZENS WHO ARE DOING NOTHING BUT PROVIDING MUCH NEEDED MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES TO THE NEEDY, WHO HAVE DEVOTED THEIR LIVES TO SERVICE, AND WHO VALUE OUR CONSTITUTION, ARE STILL THE TARGET OF POLITICAL ATTACKS IN A MOST VICIOUS AND BRUTAL MANNER!

THIS IS WHY I ASK FOR THE HELP OF THE PUBLIC TO FUND MY DEFENSE AND TO HELP ME CONTINUE TO HELP OTHERS DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION. See link at the right on this blog if you wish to help.
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QUOTED FROM CONCURRING OPINTION BY JUSTICE DOUGLAS IN ILLINOIS V. ALLEN, 397 U.S. 337 (1970):

Our real problems of this type lie not with this case, but with other kinds of trials. First are the political trials. They frequently recur in our history, [Footnote 2/2] and, insofar
as they take place in federal courts, we have broad supervisory powers over them. That is one setting where the question arises whether the accused has rights of confrontation that the law invades at its peril.

In Anglo-American law, great injustices have at times been done to unpopular minorities by judges, as well as by prosecutors. I refer to London in 1670, when William Penn, the gentle Quaker, was tried for causing a riot when all that he did was to preach a sermon on Grace Church Street, his church having been closed under the Conventicle Act:

"Penn. I affirm I have broken no law, nor am I Guilty of the indictment that is laid to my charge, and to the end the bench, the jury, and myself, with these that hear us, may have a more direct understanding of this procedure, I desire you would let me know by what law it is you prosecute me, and upon what law you ground my indictment."

"Rec. Upon the common law."

"Penn. Where is that common law?"

"Rec. You must not think that I am able to run up so many years, and over so many adjudged cases, which we call common law, to answer your curiosity."

"Penn. This answer I am sure is very short of my question, for if it be common, it should not be so hard to produce."

"Rec. Sir, will you plead to your indictment?"

"Penn. Shall I plead to an Indictment that hath no foundation in law? If it contain that law you say I have broken, why should you decline to produce that law, since it will be impossible for the jury to determine, or agree to bring in their verdict, who have not the law produced by which they should measure the truth of this indictment, and the guilt, or contrary of my fact? "

"Rec. You are a saucy fellow; speak to the Indictment."

"Penn. I say, it is my place to speak to matter of law; I am arraigned a prisoner; my liberty, which is next to life itself, is now concerned: you are many mouths and ears against me, and if I must not be allowed to make the best of my case, it is hard, I say again, unless you shew me, and the people, the law you ground your indictment upon, I shall take it for granted your proceedings are merely arbitrary."

"Rec. The question is whether you are Guilty of this Indictment?"

"Penn. The question is not whether I am Guilty of this Indictment, but whether this Indictment be legal. It is too general and imperfect an answer, to say it is the common law unless we knew both where and what it is. For where there is no law, there is no transgression, and that law which is not in being is so far from being common that it is no law at all."

"Rec. You are an impertinent fellow, will you teach the court what law is? It is 'Lex non scripta,' that which many have studied 30 or 40 years to know, and would you have me to tell you in a moment?"

"Penn. Certainly, if the common law be so hard to be understood, it is far from being very common; but if the lord Coke in his Institutes be of any consideration, he tells us, That Common Law is common right, and that Common Right is the Great Charter-Privileges"

"Rec. Sir, you are a troublesome fellow, and it is not for the honour of the court to suffer you to go on. "

"Penn. I have asked but one question, and you have not answered me; though the rights and privileges of every Englishman be concerned in it."

"Rec. If I should suffer you to ask questions till tomorrow morning, you would be never the wiser."

"Penn. That is according as the answers are."

"Rec. Sir, we must not stand to hear you talk all night."

"Penn. I design no affront to the court, but to be heard in my just plea: and I must plainly tell you that, if you will deny me Oyer of that law, which you suggest I have broken, you do at once deny me an acknowledged right, and evidence to the whole world your resolution to sacrifice the privileges of Englishmen to your sinister and arbitrary designs."

"Rec. Take him away. My lord, if you take not some course with this pestilent fellow to stop his mouth, we shall not be able to do anything tonight."

"Mayor. Take him away, take him away, turn him into the bale-dock. [Footnote 2/3]"

The Trial of William Penn, 3 How.St.Tr. 951, 958-959.

The panel of judges who tried William Penn were sincere, law-and-order men of their day. Though Penn was acquitted by the jury, he was jailed by the court for his contemptuous conduct. Would we tolerate removal of a defendant from the courtroom during a trial because he was insisting on his constitutional rights, albeit vociferously, no matter how obnoxious his philosophy might have been to the bench that tried him? Would we uphold contempt in that situation?

Problems of political indictments and of political judges raise profound questions going to the heart of the social compact. For that compact is two-sided: majorities undertake to press their grievances within limits of the Constitution and in accord with its procedures; minorities agree to abide by constitutional procedures in resisting those claims.

Does the answer to that problem involve defining the procedure for conducting political trials or does it involve the designing of constitutional methods for putting an end to them? This record is singularly inadequate to answer those questions. It will be time enough to resolve those weighty problems when a political trial reaches this Court for review.
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[Footnote 2/2]
From Spies v. People, 122 Ill. 1, 12 N.E. 865, involving the Haymarket riot; In re Debs, 158 U. S. 564, involving the Pullman strike; Mooney v. Holohan, 294 U. S. 103, involving the copper strikes of 1917; Commonwealth v. Sacco, 255 Mass. 369, 151 N.E. 839, 259 Mass. 128, 156 N.E. 57, 261 Mass. 12, 158 N.E. 167, involving the Red scare of the 20's; to Dennis v. United States, 341 U. S. 494, involving an agreement to teach Marxism.

As to the Haymarket riot resulting in the Spies case, see 2 J. Commons and Associates, History of Labour in the United States 386 et seq. (1918); W. Swindler, Court and Constitution in the Twentieth Century, cc. 3 and 4 (1969).

As to the Pullman strike and the Debs case, see L. Pfeffer, This Honorable Court 215-216 (1965); A. Lindsey, The Pullman Strike, cc. XII and XIII (1942); Commons, supra, at 502-508.
As to the Mooney case, see the January 18, 1922, issue of The New Republic; R. Frost, The Mooney Case (1968).

As to the Sacco-Vanzetti case, see Fraenkel, The Sacco-Vanzetti Case; F. Frankfurter, The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti (1927).

As to the repression of teaching involved in the Dennis case, see O. Kirchheimer, Political Justice 132-158 (1961).

[Footnote 2/3]
At Old Bailey, where the William Penn trial was held, the baledock (or baildock) was
"a small room taken from one of the corners of the court, and left open at the top, in which, during the trials, are put some of the malefactors."

Oxford Eng. Dict.

Donate to Shelton Legal Fund so she can Continue her Civil Rights Litigation

Due to the siege of wrongful attacks against me, grotesque and painful defamation of my character, and the illegal and unethical destruction of my career, I am now indigent with no funds, no income, no savings, no property and no means of support except charity.

I never made a lot of money as a physician because I DID NOT run a "store front" phoney clinic or limit office visits with Medicaid patients to five minutes. I provided quality care to all equally. I was the ONLY physician in Cook County providing home visits to children who were on ventilators or dying and severely ill. This cost me because the unethically low payments from Medicaid didn't even cover overhead expenses. I lived pretty much paycheck to paycheck. I owe a huge amount of money because of the destruction of my career and the resulting inability to pay loans for education and starting and maintaining my practice.

My catastrophic health problems have added to my personal misery. I am now disabled. I have applied for food stamps, Medicaid, and supplemental social security and so far have been granted food stamps. I should qualify for the rest.

Family members have been assisting me and allowing me to live with them. There have been some other small donations from as far away as New Zealand. I can not be sure I can continue with my litigation without more assistance.

Please consider contributing to my legal fund to help pay for criminal defense expenses and for litigation defenses as I sue corrupt officials in civil rights actions that will benefit society. You can send a check to:

Shelton Legal Fund, C/O Albukerk and Associates, 3025 W. 26th Street 2nd Flr, Chicago, IL 60623.

NONE of the donations are tax deductible at the moment. I hope to form a foundation where the donations can be deemed tax deductible.

I am trying to raise $250,000 and I am trying to attract a celebrity or philanthropist to donate a million dollars or more to start a fund to pay for civil rights litigation for people who can't afford it.

Anyone willing to donate will be greatly appreciated and if you have computer skills to manage a web site, or are an attorney willing to donate your services pro bono, I would be greatful either for one of my cases where I am litigating on my own (pro se) or for one of many people I have and continually run into who are unable to litigate to obtain redress of grievances or unable to defend themselves as whistle blowers due to lack of funds, against criminal charges.

Federal Court Throws Out Murder Conviction Evan Griffith over Extreme Nifong-like Prosecutorial Misconduct and Blatant Judicial Errors

I ask the United States Attorney, now do you not see the continued denial of civil rights in the Circuit Court of Cook County that amounts to a RICO violation as the Circuit Court of Cook County sure appears to act as a criminal enterprise, not only stealing money with constitutionally excessive bails where the Clerk keeps 10%, setting bail without due process, but also with judges that are encouraged to continue to ignore the Constitution and violate the Bill of Rights in a blatant and intentional manner as a matter of policy and procedure!

Judge John Moran exhibited Gross Judicial Error/Misconduct bordering on felony violation of civil rights under color of law .

Prosecutorial Misconduct of Asst. State’s Attorney Laura Morask clearly amounts to her now legendary and continued disdain for the Constitution and Due Process and intentional felony violation of civil rights under color of law. She has a pattern of prosecutorial misconduct noted by higher courts and Cook County State's Attorney Richard Divine seems to have made this a policy and practice of his office in blatant and intential disregard of the Bill of Rights!

Evan Griffith was 16 years old in 1985 when he had run away from home because of constant extreme physical, emotional, and sexual abuse since age eight. He was subject to intense symptoms of post-traumatic-stress disorder where he would essentially relieve these horrible instances of abuse in an altered state of consciousness. He was also subject, as a result, to extreme symptoms of acute stress disorder where he would even have memory lapses (amnesia) as to what he was doing, along with “dissociative reaction” in which behavior can become automatic and repetitive, which was triggered by similar circumstances to the threatening situations he suffered at home (including men who looked like his father and were sexually abusing him or who threatened his life.)

In 1985 after being sexually abused and threatened with death by his abuser, who was allowing this homeless, abused, and hopeless youth to sleep in his home, Evan decided to get back at the abuse by stealing money from his safe. He used a hammer to try and break in while the abuse was gone. The abuser suddenly interrupted Evan and because the abuser looked like Evan’s father and threatened his life, Evan hit him with a hammer to try to subdue this abuser who was 220 lbs compared to Evan’s 120 lb frame. Evan went into a dissociative amnesic state and doesn’t remember much of the event except hitting him with a hammer and “waking up” with blood on his hand and a knife in his hand and then stealing $124 out of the unconscious abuser’s pocket.

Evan was tried twice, first after pleading guilty he was sentenced to 35 years, but the conviction overturned because the guilty plea was not voluntary. Then he was convicted at a new trial after pleading not guilty and sentenced to life without parole by Dishonorable Judge John Moran. The Honorable Federal District Court Judge Elaine E. Bucklo, in an act of proper judicial conduct that upholds the constitution, granted Evan’s Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus on November 12, 2008, thus vacating the conviction.

The reason she vacated the conviction which means that Evan cannot be retried is because the extreme prosecutorial misconduct where the prosecutor (and she specifically stated that these following examples were illustrative not exhaustive and therefore only represent a portion of the unethical venom that permeated the trial):

· lied to the court,
· consistently and repeatedly disobeyed court orders,
· misused evidence,
· denigrated the defense witnesses without basis by saying the psychiatrist who described the above was “ridiculous” and that he “couldn’t answer a straight yes or no in 50 words . . ; He couldn’t answer a straight yes or no in 50 words . . . . Because he is getting paid by the word,”
· denigrated other witnesses as “ridiculous,” “a joke,” “a slime ball,” and “pathetic,” and
· emotionally inflamed the jury with false statements such as that Evan was a “walking barbecue tong”, a “grenade in a baby carriage,” a “deranged Energizer bunny,” and “oh my God, look at the cute little baby. Goochi, goochi, goochi, goochi.” And he goes “boom” and explodes in your face, as well as claiming –
· repeatedly during closing that acquittal would give Evan a “license to kill.”

Hon. Judge Bucklo rightfully stated that the prosecutor’s unprofessional conduct “called into question the State’s commitment to fair and just enforcement of the law.” She said that:

[T]he prosecutor’s dehumanizing litany during rebuttal, which compared Evan to “a deranged energizer bunny,” a “walking barbecue tongs,” and finally, a “grenade in a baby carriage,” was leveraged by the misuse of the 1990 crime evidence, the admission of which she had obtained on false premises, and her use of which far exceeded even those premises. Moreover, her repeated closing references to a “license to kill,” coupled with her exaggerated speculation about the violent acts Mr. Griffith would commit in the future (such as killing car mechanics), smack of the suggestion that the jury would be to blame for future crimes if it credited Mr. Griffith’s defense and decline to convict him of first degree murder.

She also said:

[T]he prosecutor’s toxic rebuttal argument fed off of the misuse of improper propensity evidence. The effect was inherently prejudicial, since it posed ‘an unacceptable risk . . . of impermissible factors coming into play.’ U.S. v. Mannie 509 F.3d 851, 857 (7th Cir. 2007) (indirectly quoting Estelle v. Williams, 425 U.S. 501, 505 (1976), and citing, inter alia, Sheppard v. Maxwell, U.S. 333 (1966)).

Then she said: “The trial court’s general cautionary instruction reminding the jurors that attorney argument is not evidence was insufficient to defuse this prejudice.”

Finally, Hon. Judge Bucklo said that:

The prosecution’s dogged focus on the improper theme of Mr. Griffith’s “propensity to kill with a knife,” . . . shaped the course of the proceedings and permeated the entire atmosphere of the trial. Such a climate is inherently and fundamentally unfair. “It is axiomatic in our system of justice that an individual is entitled to a fair trial-not a perfect one. Nevertheless, the distance between the concepts of fair and perfect cannot be so great as to render the former meaningless.” Mannie, 509 F.3d at 85.

Hon. Judge Bucklo’s final conclusion, in addition to the fact that there was deliberate and repeated prosecutorial misconduct was:

For these reasons, I find that the prosecutor’s misconduct, including at least her improper closing arguments, her deliberate deception to win the admission of highly prejudicial evidence, and her subsequent misuse of that evidence during the trial “so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.” Darden, 477 U.S. at 181. [Darden v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 168 (1986)]

I applaud the ruling of Hon. Judge Bucklo for upholding the principles of the Bill of Rights and calling the kettle black. Now I only wish that Dishonorable Judge Moran would be disciplined by the dysfunctional land useless black hole covering up judicial misconduct known as the Illinois Judicial Inquiry Board, and removed from the bench for his now pattern of gross abuse of judicial discretion and misconduct in violating his oath of office and blatantly and openly failing to uphold the constitution and citizen’s rights to due process. I also hope that the rabid, dishonorable, and unethical Assistant State’s Attorney Laura Morask suffers the same fate as Mr. Nifong in North Carolina in losing her law license for extreme and unethical behavior that jeopardizes the justice system.

It is particularly sad and outrageous to note that in June 2001 State’s Attorney Richard Divine personally argued before the Illinois Appellate Court First District that there is not a pattern of prosecutorial misconduct in his office. This is despite the fact that the Appellate Court ruled that there was an extreme pattern of prosecutorial misconduct by ASA Morask in the case, despite the fact they unethically and illegally upheld the conviction because they ruled this misconduct to be harmless. ASA Morask has been repeatedly cited by higher courts as committing prosecutorial misconduct.

One has to conclude that the Attorney Regulatory Commission in Illinois (ARDC) is such an ineffective black hole that circular files complaints about prosecutors that they can be regarded as a joke, a bad one as they actively engage in cover-up and failure to prosecute blatant and repeated prosecutorial misconduct.

Of NOTE: the appeal pending in my conviction for battery of an officer (despite the fact that my physicians testified that my physical disabilities prevented me from committing this alleged crime of which I am innocent) illustrates abundantly another example of a dishonest judge who refuses to follow the Bill of Rights due process requirements (Dishonorable Judge Joseph Kazmierski) and other Nifong-like prosecutor (ASAs Anthony Dalkin and John Maher) who feel they are above the law and can denigrate witnesses without basis, misstate the law to the jury, misuse evidence, withhold exculpatory evidence, and improperly inflame the passions of the jury with false statements, innuendo, and defamation of the defendant without basis based on the lies that they make by illegally testifying in closing arguments.

Corrupt Blagojevic Considers Corrupt Lisa Madigan to Replace Obama in Senate

News media are reporting that Gov. Rod Blagojevic is considering appointing Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan as a United States Senator from Illinois to replace President-Elect Obama who must now resign his Senate seat.

This makes perfect sense for Blagojevic. Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan has been constantly challenging and impeding the Governor's agenda so that Blagojevic looks bad to the voters. His agenda is to replace Blagojevic with his daughter, the least qualified and most imcompetent Attorney General in the history of Illinois.

Ask yourself who controls the political fund "Friends of Madigan" which rumor has it is used to launder the 10% kickback (bribe) needed to obtain contracts in C[r]ook County and Illinois. Perhaps US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has traced the money trail from contractors to this fund, but I doubt it as the US Attorney's office and FBI work SOOOOO slow!

AG Madigan hasn't even been able to handle a simple matter that is her responsibility - providing parking spaces for the handicapped. Look at downtown Chicago as well as the Daley Center courthouse. It is impossible to find handicapped parking. Look at the new Domestic Violence courthouse at 555 W. Harrison - 4 handicapped spaces that are always filled by 7:30 by employees. A handicapped person has to pay for parking next door at a high fee and the lot is probably owned or invested in by some friend of the cabal of corruption in Illinois, C[r]ook County, and Chicago politicians. Everything in Illinois is handled by nepotism or patronage. We generally don't go with the most qualified person - that would not permit bloating the payroll with unnecessary patronage jobs so that the politicians have an army of supporters at their beck and call. The only other option is parking 3-4 blocks away.

I wrote her office a letter asking her to deal with this issue and despite the fact that is one of her responsibilities as AG her staff concluded they could not get involved. I have referred this issue to the disabilities rights section of the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. I don't expect action however, as the U.S. Attorney's office is pretty dysfunctional and slow.

Look at AG Madigan's handling of sex offenders. All hot air! She has done nothing to improve safety in the community by helping them find places to live where they are not concentrated in poor inner city communities, or ways to decrease recitivism by helping ex-cons find jobs. It doesn't prevent sex crimes to harass 95 % of sex offenders who really are low risk to the community (Johns who were serviced by unknowing to them underage prostitutes, 19 year olds having sex with 17 year olds, etc.). We need to focus on the 5 % or so sex offenders who are truly dangerous and find ways to monitor them and supervise them better. All we are doing is teaching 95 % of sex offenders to be thieves or commit other crimes as they now have no place to live and no means of support.

With our failed 40 year experient on being "tough on crime" where we have incarcerated 40 times the number of people as any other civilized country, where we have eliminated rehabilitation in prison (no education available other than high school equivilency, cooking, training dogs, a little furniture assembly, and beautician school), have made parole and re-integration into society a joke with a parole call-in number that is busy even after calling it 30 times, with parole agents that are the poorest trained in the nation, with almost no programs for job -training in prison or after prison, no health care when a person is released, no place to live and no help getting a place to live, and no job opportunities or drug treatment (except for a new but have you effective pilot program at Sheridan) we now are reaping the benefits of this failed program. There is a huge increase in new releases from prison (> 600,000 per year in U.S.). All these ex-cons who have been denied rehabilitative training in prison and given long prison sentences are now being released, without drug addiction treatment or mental health care. I expect a rapid increase in the crime rate over the next decade. Has AG Madigan shown ANY leadership in this area? We have only punished and destroyed potentially useful lives (and their families), as well as added to our economic crisis (10 % of population is employed in prison-industrial complex, all those prisoners are not contributing to the tax base, and their families end up on welfare and are a burden to taxpayers), including many who are innocent with our runaway [in]justice system. This only leads to anger which will spill over on the streets.

Why would we want a Senator who hasn't even shown leadership in her present job?

Perhaps the Press will look into several Federal Habeas Petitions pending before Hon. Judge Coar that reveal that Lisa Madigan has violated her oath of office and is without legal authority maliciously prosecuting providers of mental health care to persons on Medicaid in a scheme to deny payment for mental health care for persons on Medicaid. This will save the State plenty of money, increase the crime rate because those with mental illness may not obtain treatment and end up on the streets or committing crimes [I do NOT want to imply that mental illness necessarily means a person will commit a crime, but it is true that those that are seriously mentally ill with psychosis and drug addiction are disproportionately represented in the prison population in Illinois]. I believe that if our society did provide adequate mental health treatment for all that thousands would benefit by being able to be productive members of society and the many crimes resulting from their psychosis or drug addiction would vastly decrease.

She should be helping providers service Medicaid patients instead of decimating mental health care in Illinois!

The federal case numbers and name of both cases, where the pleadings can be obtained on line through PACER are: Shelton v. Cook County Circuit Court; 08 C 4627 and 08 C 6216. I also have a federal civil rights suit against Lisa Madigan for violation of civil rights under color of law, malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, etc. See: Shelton v. Madigan 06 C 4259.

Look also at my other posts on this blog concerning Cook County Jail and the civil rights violations, abuse of prisoners, illegal drugging of prisoners, and murder of prisoners by guards, as well as the post about the scheme of Illinois Medicaid to deny mental health care to those on Medicaid. Has AG Madigan done anything about these crimes? No! - she just covers it up and is part of it. Read my federal suits!

If Blagojevic appoints Lisa Madigan Senator to replace Obama, then he will do what all good politicians do to get rid of an unwanted rival - promote her to a position where she is out of the picture. Typical Illinois politics! I await the day when both Blagojevic and Lisa Madigan are indicted and put away. Illinois doesn't deserve these criminals. I just wish that US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald wasn't so slow about indictments. Justice delayed is justice denied and it costs lives!

Letter to U.S. Attorney Fitzgerald Detailing Corruption in Illinois and Fraudulent Indictment of Dr. Linda Shelton for Medicaid Vendor Fraud

Linda Lorincz Shelton, Ph.D., M.D.

June 6, 2008
AUSA Kozlowski and
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald
United States Attorney’s Office
Dirksen Federal Building
219 South Dearborn Street, Fifth Floor
Chicago IL 60604

Dear US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald:

I am writing to inform you of extensive Medicaid/Medicare fraud, criminal violations of the ADA, fabrication of evidence by a member of the IL MFCU [Medicaid Fraud Control Unit], illegal conduct of the IL AG [Attorney General] in acts of retaliation against witnesses and possible money laundering, as well as kickbacks, even involving a chief judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County. I have, over more than five years, with the help of numerous other whistle blowers, uncovered much of this information and wish to share it with you at this time. I will help find the other whistle blowers and witnesses, if you request my assistance. Some are in hiding, as they have been viciously attacked or retaliated against by corrupt officials. They however, would need assurances concerning their safety.

1. I have recently been given Power of Attorney to have custody of and store records from a psychiatry/psychology group practice where I was one of a number of medical directors for a couple of years. The sole proprietor of this business is dying of liver failure and to ensure other's access to these records he gave me POA [power of attorney].

2. I have reviewed a lot of the records and I have found that two women who were previous employees, Itadel Shalabi and Nareman Taha, sent in fraudulent patient encounter forms to the outside billing agent for hundreds of bills. I knew nothing about this as that year I had only agreed with the business owner verbally to start this group practice and review charts, make medical policy, and see patients - after I recovered from extensive neurosurgical spinal surgery to correct a progressive paralysis, etc.

3. I also have discovered that the outside billing agent naively thought that since she had a contract with the owner to send in bills electronically to IL Medicaid through the 3rd party adjudicator, BC/BS that she thought she could sign my name as a physician on ANYTHING. She therefore forged my name on a POA form, a BC/BS electronic partner trading agreement, and on an alternate payee agreement so that invoices through BC/BS to IL Medicaid could be sent in under my name and the checks would come to the business instead of under my name. This occurred in summer 2000. I did not sign a POA form to allow the company to bill under my name until summer 2001!

4. At the time I thought that IL Medicaid allowed qualified psychiatric counselors and psychologist to bill under their own names. I was not involved in billing during this time when the contract biller handled the bills. I have found out that although most states allow this and IL licenses non-physicians (social workers, MS degreed psychologists, specially trained nurses, drug addiction counselors), that IL Medicaid did not allow non-physicians to be Medicaid providers of medical or psychiatric/psychological services. Instead invoices must be sent in for services under a physician’s name. Also, IL has a (hidden patronage) system where statutes allow groups to be licensed as community mental health centers and bill under the center name, for services of non-physicians. This is in a separate statute, not in the IL Medicaid Code and not described in the Medicaid Physician Handbook. I and the sole proprietor were only aware of fee-for-service billing (in my pediatric office, I billed under my name for all services such as blood draws and immunizations). Most physicians, most psychiatrists, and most psychologists do not have a clue about these billing issues. As >80% of psychiatric/psychological care is provided by non-physicians it is fraudulent for IL Medicaid to hide information about CMHCs [community mental health centers] from physicians, etc. Most physicians are only aware of fee-for-service billing and the fact that they can bill for services of their employees.

5. I have since discovered that most of these CMHCs were licensed through “connections” (patronage). I have also discovered that nearly ALL contracts in IL and Cook County require the groups to pay a 10% kickback to political funds such as “Friends of Madigan.” When are you going to obtain bank records for these “political funds” [funds to launder money from kickbacks], cross reference them with the owners and employees of firms contracting with the State, County and City of Chicago, compare the “donations” with the amount paid to these companies and persons under government contracts and then arrest IL AG Lisa Madigan and her partners in crime such as Chief Cook County Circuit Court Judge Evans, and other judges who have manipulated cases against whistle blowers such as me and Dr. Hamilton? Then you MIGHT start to breakdown corruption in IL. I believe this will never be done however, until there is a “truth commission” like in S. Africa, that ended apartheid and the strife between the blacks and the white Afrikaners. There are SOOO many people in bloated IL, C[r]ook County, and Chicago government that depend on patronage for their jobs that they keep their mouths shut about corruption. I know many of them, including a large family, many of whom are employed by the IL Secr of State, where corruption, same as under George Ryan, continues! You still can’t get promoted unless you “campaign” in certain ways. If you gave immunity to those that confess, bring transparency to the system, then corruption will stop. You can arrest all you want, but until the corrupt are enticed en masse to confess their crimes of patronage fraud and kickbacks, nothing will change, and others will simply replace the corrupt with more corruption and incompetence which endangers and harms the citizens of this State!

6. I have also discovered that IL statutes, federal Medicaid Code, and IL adm rules allow physicians to bill fee for service under their name for services by qualified counselors and psychologists. IL recently passed a law that social workers can bill for provision of psychological services. I have also discovered that IL Medicaid until 1998 did allow psychologists to register as providers and only one person did, Dr. Maisha Hamilton.

7. However, I have researched case law over the past four years and discovered that a fed court in IL, erroneously ruled that physicians cannot bill for psychological services provided by their employees. The 7th Circuit even sustained this false ruling through negligence in that its decision just mentioned it in passing and did not really look at the IL Adm Code.

8. The ruling was blatantly FALSE! I intend to challenge it as an intervenor because it is technically null and void, because it is based on misquoting of the code and ignoring Federal EPSTD guidelines. It is a tragedy that Dr. Mitrione was indicted and convicted in federal court. The AUSA and the Court ignored the illegal conduct of the IL Medicaid and IL AG in denying mental health services to people on Medicaid. From what I read, Dr. Mitrione was the ONLY doctor providing mental health services to persons on Medicaid in Springfield. He is apparently very talented. His conviction was a grotesque wrong! The USA and the IL AG are and have gone after the wrong people. Hamilton, Mitrione, XXXX, XXXXXX and I (in 4 separate cases 1 by USA and 3 by IL AG as prosecutor) are some of the most talented and dedicated provider of health and mental health services to the Medicaid population. We didn’t make big profits! Even Federal Judge Lefkow ruled that “Illinois Medicaid policies and procedures are in violation of the Federal Medicaid Code in denying access to care”. Please review Memisovski v. Maram. We were not storefront mills! It is a gross disservice to the community to have shut us down. Crime increases (look at Virg Tech, NIU, the number of murders in Chicago, the amount of drug crimes in Chicago) when mental health is ignored. To destroy mental health services in IL because of patronage, kickbacks, etc. with the cabal of corruption and to defame, destroy and put out of business some of the most dedicated and talented providers in IL, by the criminal and impeachable, as well as retaliatory actions of the IL AG, who has NO LEGAL AUTHORITY to prosecute criminal Medicaid Fraud without the invitation, consent, and participation, at least to a minimal degree of the county State’s Attorney, is beyond the twilight zone. The IL AG is violating the law, committing fraud upon the court, and acting unethically in these three prosecutions. Isn’t this felony obstruction of justice? Aren’t these void prosecutions?

9. If you read the IL Adm Code, it is flawed because there is no “definitions” section. A section defines physician services to include services of non-physicians under supervision. A few sections later it uses the term “physician services” without redefining that they include services of non-physicians. Later the code continues to use the general term “physician services” and clearly includes non-physician services. Yet, the court ruled that “statutory construction” rules must conclude that physician services do NOT include non-physician services for ONLY psychological/psychiatric services including psychological testing! You can’t say “physician services” excludes non-physician services in one section without saying so and before and after this section define physician services as INCLUDING non-physicians! How can IL be allowed under the ADA to discriminate against those ill persons ONLY with mental illness and deny a mandate of the Federal Medicaid Code to provide services equivalent to services provided to the community by other private insurers?

10. This is ludicrous as I don’t believe quality services can be provided without psychological testing, without a team approach, without psychologists, and ONLY by CMHCs! More than 80% of psychological and psychiatric services are provided by non-physicians. We need more than 30,000 child psychiatrists in this country and only have <5,000. If services of non-physicians are denied Medicaid patients then they would essentially be denied access to care – this would clearly violate Federal Medicaid code – especially under EPSTD guidelines and under the ruling in Memivoski v. Maram by Judge Lefkow, in around 2004. I am an EPSTD (early periodic screening, treatment, and diagnostic services) provider. As you know, federal code requires that states pay for these services (even psychological services) even if their rules forbid payment for it.

11. I have evidence, a trial transcript from another case in IL where this biller testified that the IL Medicaid Service provider unit told her to change the names on the bills to doctor's names even though the patient encounter forms stated that psychiatric/psychologic therapist provided the services. That trial was a wrongful conviction of Dr. Maisha Hamilton, the first female black psychologist in IL, who was running an INPATIENT alcohol and drug treatment program. I have discovered she was a registered provider, but IL Medicaid gave the IL AG altered registration forms. I personally saw her form where she was licensed and had a provider number and the adulterated form given to AG had the number whited out! Isn’t this felony obstruction of justice?

12. The IL AG state police inv., Reibel, fabricated false invoices for the case of Dr. Hamilton by cutting out handwriting exemplars made by Dr. Hamilton and putting them on invoices that he sent to the crime lab. The chain of custody documents prove that Reibel had a continuous custody of these documents, so this proves only he could have fabricated them! The crime lab would not analyze them because Reibel would not provide originals, just faxes – guess why! I personally saw these documents several years ago and a high school student would say my conclusion is obvious. Isn’t this felony obstruction of justice, perjury, official misconduct, and retaliation against a federal witness? Dr. Hamilton has proof of kickbacks, bribery, fraud, and corruption by judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County, and other Chicago and Cook County officials. Why have you not interviewed her and indicted these people?

13. Hamilton’s billing agent was the same as ours. XXXXX, the biller, forged signatures on necessary forms to bill for Hamilton, the same way she did with us. She charged fraudulently by percentage, just like she did with us. She failed to register the group as a CMHC or Alcohol and Drug Addiction treatment center, despite Hamilton’s group being licensed as such. Hamilton thought when the checks came in under the group name that the bills had been sent in as a center and not fee-for-service. The biller sent the bills in under a medical director’s name, fee-for-service. Why haven’t you gone after XXXXX and her company XXXXXXXXXX for fraud in billing providers by percentage? How many other contracts does she have like this? How many other providers has she committed fraud against in claiming she knows what she is doing? Why did the Cook Co SA along with the IL AG not indict her long ago for fraud, and prevent her from misleading so many people?

14. The biller, XXXXXXXX, held herself out to be an expert at setting up groups to bill electronically and in providing billing services. This was fraud, as she failed to tell us about the CMHC statutes and help us register as such. She failed to sign Dr. Hamilton’s group up an ADATC [alcohol, drug addiction, and treatment center] and instead signed her up as a fee-for-service provider, forged names for POA, etc., and changed the service provider, without her knowledge from the actual providers, to the medical director. I can blame her for fraudulently holding herself out to be an expert at setting up groups for billing purposes. She apparently didn’t know about CMHCs or ADATCs at that time too. I cannot really blame her for changing the names on the bills to doctors because the Medicaid Service Provider Unit told her to do so, according to her testimony in Hamilton’s trial. Isn’t this the affirmative defense of following the orders of a government agent? However, if she had sent in bills for Hamilton and for us under the counselor’s names, then they would have been rejected and we would have known that something was wrong. Then we could have learned about CMHCs and registered as such. Then Hamilton would have corrected the registration as a center provider instead of as a physician provider. Then there would be no phony excuse to indict anyone. This is grotesque government incompetence.

14. This is a wrongful conviction and was done because Dr. Hamilton is a whistle blower and target of the corrupt cabal in Illinois. She was appointed Asst Dir of the Chicago Board of Health under the Washington Adm 20 years ago. A Daley operative came in on her first day and told her she was a “figure head” and he was running things. She kicked him out of her office and this began 20 years of attacks against her. She asked Chief Cook County Court Judge Evans for a contract to provide mental health services at the jail and he said yes, but only if she paid a 10% kickback to the fund “friends of Madigan” so she refused the contract! She was wrongfully convicted in 2003 of billing fee-for-service under the medical director’s name for services not provided. This is false. The services were provided appropriately as a center. She is VERY talented and at the time was also chief mediator for the postal service. The community has lost one of its best providers of services because of this bogus conviction, and Reibel remains free!

15. The biller apparently forged my name on multiple documents and sent in fraudulent bills with my name on them generated from patient encounter forms listing the counselor (Shalabi and Taha) as provider. She received these forms by mail after they were faxed to XXXXX, the business owner and a master degreed psychologist, as well as one of the most talented at psychological testing and providing services to the poor, and mailed to her. She apparently did this during the time I was in surgery and recuperating.

16. The owner of the business, XXXXXX, had added these women onto his business as owners in a partnership agreement, because they were supposed to run the business and interview and counsel patients out of a branch office in SANAD, an Arab American Community Organization. I believe XXXXXX DID NOT know that the invoices were fraudulent. He supervised the main office in Harvey IL and only mailed the invoices to the biller after they were faxed to him from SANAD. I do believe he was negligent and ignorant in not checking what the biller was doing more clearly and in not supervising the services at SANAD. I also believe this was a case of the blind leading the blind with Shalabi and Taha taking advantage of this.

17. After about a year, the business moved billing in house. These two women were pushed out of the company because the sole proprietor found their records too meager and their verbal statements offensive. He had witnesses to their bad behavior, including the Dir of SANAD and the Sheik at the Bridgeview mosque.

18. I am unable to clearly determine, yet - although I'm trying to figure out whose handwriting is involved, but after billing came in house, despite legitimate psychiatric and psychological services, I have found numerous instances of ghost billing for children of patients.

19. I have discovered that the wife of the sole proprietor was throwing away about $40,000+ dollars per year on gambling at boats and the sole proprietor did not know this as she handled their income tax - I think, or they were somehow keeping this stuff separate. He became furious a year ago or so when he found out and was going to divorce her, but didn't because of his liver disease and need for health insurance. I have discovered that this wife was heavily involved in the in house billing.

20. There is much more to talk about - I am very upset. My attorneys have interviewed several witnesses and the results are disturbing. My Medicaid number was used for much of this fraudulent billing, although I never saw the money. More than $900,000 was billed, more than $300,000 was received by the business, and I was paid about $1800.

21. We are trying to obtain the business bank records to find out where the money went. I believe much of it went for salaries for employees (all quite small), but I had no idea so much was billed under my name. Each doctor was supposed to have a panel of no more than 200 patients (a policy stated by me to XXXXXX) to supervise counseling and see the patients periodically and screen for medical disorders, treat with medication as necessary, and approve and determine treatment plans from the team (psychologist, physician, therapist, psychiatric consultants).

22. I told the owner I had no trouble treating patients for psychiatric conditions as a board certified pediatrician IF they were properly diagnosed and a treatment plan made in conjunction with a psychologist and psychiatrist (for complex patients). I made it very clear that I believed a psychologist with proper psychological testing (if necessary) and myself were qualified to determine diagnosis and treatment plans (of non-complex patients) and a board certified psychiatrist must consult on ALL complex patients or any patient I was uncomfortable in making initial diagnosis. Pediatricians are certified to treat most basic psychiatric/psychological conditions and routinely treat such disorders as ADHD. When I started reviewing charts (a few in Oct 2000 and then many in Feb 2001) I told XXXXXX that the quality of the notes was poor and he needed to find better qualified counselors. He had begun to replace some with more qualified persons. I personally discussed cases with several of the Arabic counselors and found them to be quite talented, but poor in the written English abilities, so I trained them to write proper notes. A psychiatrist in the group also developed forms to use for notes that assisted them in writing proper notes.

23. I was under the impression everyone was legally qualified with at least a bachelors degree in social work, nursing, psychology, but find this was not the case. I was not involved in hiring of counselors and I had thought that XXXXXX, who had worked for Dr. Hamilton and the PhD psychologist XXXXX, were running this business owned by XXXXXX appropriately. I now, after studying the law and case law for over four years, understand that XXXXX and XXXXX were clueless. I am trying to obtain the employment records to clarify training received by counselors and reasons for hiring them and what they were supposed to be doing. I am trying to discuss this with XXXXX, but he is very ill, has gone from denial to anger psychologically due to his impending death, and it is very hard to investigate this myself. He has yet to produce the employee records, bank records, and patient sign in books/scheduling books.

24. You will see that I and XXXXX were indicted illegally by the IL AG without the consent, participation, or approval of the Cook County State's Attorney, for Medicaid fraud in 2004. The incompetent and corrupt IL AG has illegally withheld all of the electronic invoices for the first time period from my defense attorney. The billing agent stated she does not retain them after three years. We have still not been tried on the charges. I am very upset because I am innocent and the AG is prosecuting me (as I have discovered by reading law – statutes, codes, handbooks, case law, etc) without jurisdiction. The AG in IL has fraudulently received certification to have a Medicaid Fraud Control Unit because she informed DHHS that the IL AG can investigate and prosecute without the invitation, consent, participation, or agreement of the County State’s Atty. This is FALSE. Therefore, ALL Medicaid fraud prosecution in IL by the IL AG has been and is fraudulent without jurisdiction of the sham prosecutor or the courts.

25. I have asked for the IL AG application for a MFCU from both DHHS and the IL State Police and have not received it, so I can prove the IL AG committed fraud upon the DHHS. Both agencies, in violation of law have not provided this to me.

26. I should think the FBI and US Atty would want to prosecute Medicaid fraud. Instead, you are letting the IL AG muck up the prosecutions, which all will eventually have to be overturned as void. I would like you to carefully look at this situation and prosecute those that are truly committing Medicaid fraud, as well as prosecute corrupt state officials who have developed this scheme to deny mental health care to those on Medicaid by writing Codes and Statutes that are so confusing and then implementing them with wrongful interpretation of them ONLY through patronage.

27. I have found the handwritten invoices and computer generated invoices from in house billing and I am reviewing them slowly, and comparing them to the patient charts.

28. Bills were also sent in under other medical director's names until 2004, but none of them were indicted! It appears the IL AG is only prosecuting those who are whistle blowers against corruption in IL or who fight wrongful accusations of child abuse (in their pt population) or challenge the IL government in other ways. This includes Hamilton, myself, XXXXX, and XXXX who ran a group and she was also indicted. She had vigorously spoken out against corruption at the child protection agency – DCFS. Isn’t this felony retaliation against a Federal Witness (or potential witness)?

29. I told my attorney, I was going to get to the bottom of this, but it is too convoluted for me to do this without assistance and I don't have the resources to pay my attorneys to do it. They are doing the best they can.

30. I have discovered that the contract the business owner signed with the billing agent is for an 8.5% percentage of billings. I believe that billing the business by % is fraudulent under Medicaid and Medicare. XXXXXX apparently has been and still is billing many many providers this way for years. Isn’t this is a federal crime called Medicaid/Medicare fraud?

31. I have given the US Atty and your agents evidence of many federal crimes, including patronage hiring, etc., by Orlando Jones, who they indicted, but he shot himself in the head - I had opened the Cook County Provident Hospital pediatric dept with a contract group and witnessed corruption by Jones, the Godson of the President of the Cook County Board [John Stroger Sr.]. I have also witnessed corruption in the child protection department - false allegations of child abuse, etc. I have also witnessed abuse and fraud in the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation. Finally I have been retaliated against in CCDOC and IDOC for my vigorous and outspoken attacks on corruption in these agencies. Please note that I am physically challenged and this torture included gross violations of the ADA.

32. I have sent your federal agencies a lot of information. AUSA Laser has indicated to my attorney that what I sent about CCDOC civil rights violations and corruption is helpful. Former State legislator XXXXX also has reams of evidence of corruption in IL. Why don’t you interview him too? Why won’t you more vigorously use what I sent you, use Hamilton as a witness, and protect Hamilton, XXXX, myself, and XXXXX against this corruption? I am stunned, astonished, heartbroken, and despondent. The abuse and torture I have endured is as great as in any third world country. Gross systemic violations of the ADA, medical abuse, torture, and routine retaliation against witnesses to corruption occurs at CCDOC and IDOC. It is a disgrace – especially as I am innocent. My life’s work that means so much to me of helping the poor and providing quality medical services has been destroyed. I am destitute and dismayed.

33. I am requesting a long meeting with the AUSA in Chicago, in charge of Medicaid fraud, and with USA Patrick Fitzgerald to discuss all of the above and show him evidence. I have nothing to hide. AG Lisa Madigan, Reibel, and many corrupt officials in Illinois and Cook County have a lot to hide. I also strongly believe it would be appropriate for the USA to take over all Medicaid and Medicare fraud prosecutions in Illinois and move them into the Federal Court, as well as investigate the applications to DHHS of the IL MFCU for fraud upon DHHS.


Thank you for your attention to these matters. I await justice.

Sincerely,


Linda Lorincz Shelton, Ph.D.,M.D.

YES WE CAN - STOP CORRUPTION - FIGHT CITY HALL

Yes we can succeed in the civil rights movement!

Yes we can go to the moon!

Yes we can stop the war in Vietnam!

Yes we can end Soviet rule, free the captive nations, and bring down that wall!

Yes we can elect B. Obama President!

YES WE CAN BREAK THE DEMOCRATIC MACHINE IN COOK COUNTY AND END CORRUPTION! I WILL LIVE TO SEE THE DAY! DON"T TELL ME NO WE CAN'T!

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PATRIOTISM MEANS STANDING UP - FIGHT CORRUPTION

With the 2008 election imminent I want to pause and discuss Patriotism. Patriotism to me is helping not just secure our country and protecting the Constitution, but ACTIVELY working on a daily and regular basis to make our country better. This means walking the walk and not just talking the talk. Patriotism is a constant war where we serve and protect our values embodied in our Constitution. Never fight a war unless you are willing to die. Yes there are sacrifices, but that is the price of justice and freedom.

In the United States ask who in the population is thought to be putting themselves on the line every day and not shirking their responsibility to their country? I don't just mean upholding the law as an officer! I mean standing next to your neighbor, your colleague, your co-worker, your enemy - whenever and whereever the Bill of Rights is threatened. Stand up for compassion. Stand up for opportunity. Stand up for education. Stand up for justice. Stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

We have failed as Americans in the last few decades by looking the other way, being only self-centered and self-interested, putting profit before compassion and justice, ignoring our neighbors, wearing blinders next to the needy, and justifying our mistakes with pat phrases. Silence and lack of action are the biggest dangers to our democracy. Transparency, action, and open debate will save us.

Please be patriotic - VOTE. Please DON"T cover up corruption. BREAK the thin blue line and stand with what's right. SPEAK OUT for those who are attacked for defending the Bill of Rights.

UNITED WE STAND - DIVIDED WE FALL!

That is the purpose of this Blog.