U.S.Constitution-Amendment 14

Amendment 14 - Citizenship Rights -

1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Rate of Uninsured U.S. Residents Younger Than Age 65 Has Increased to 17.9%, Report Finds

The number of uninsured U.S. residents younger than 65 rose to 46.4 million people, or 17.9% of that population, according to a report released Thursday by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, the Kansas City Star reports. The report also included the following findings:

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Letters to Editor

To: Senator xxxxx xxxxx
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007
Subject: Elder Abuse Case - Injustice Must be Stopped

Dear Senator,

I have written before on the horrendous case of Clara Fernandez. It seems that her estate has just been "swallowed" up by legal fees in sorting out her guardianship!

This case has generated unusually high interest around the world. It is unjust for this poor woman's affairs to be so poorly handled.

Are there no other way to treat this case other than to drain this poor woman's life-savings away in legal fees?

I thank you for your prompt support in the past; but it seems more must be done to stop the "legal circus" turning this elder abuse case into an international joke.

I trust you will give this case your continued attention and support.

Yours truly
xxxxxx xxxxxxx

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To all of those that have expressed your support , I can't thank you enough
just to know there are sensible people out there that feel for what Dr. Fernandez went through and now the uncertainty now facing Clara.

Lets hope all of our efforts will strike a chord with our officials and will finally put an end to this suffering and to be more sensible for the predicaments that seniors all over the globe and in many cities find themselves in, people who only crime is getting old.

Lets hope that our officials realize that to allow mass marketing of Lottery and sweepstakes scams that are on the rise and there seems to be little help for the victims, who fall for them. There also seems to be not very many consequences for the criminals, who are stealing people blind.

When you have InfoUSA advertising lists of “Elderly Opportunity Seekers,” 3.3 million older people “looking for ways to make money,” and “Suffering Seniors,” 4.7 million people with cancer or Alzheimer’s disease. “Oldies but Goodies” contained 500,000 gamblers over 55 years old, for 8.5 cents apiece. One list said: “These people are gullible. They want to believe that their luck can change.”

My God , Have we lost our Moral Compass?

POSSIBLE INDICATORS OF FINANCIAL ABUSE:

•Unusual or inappropriate activity in bank accounts.

• Power of attorney given or recent changes of will when the person is incapable of making such decisions.

• Numerous unpaid bills, overdue rent, when someone is suppose to be paying the bills for a dependent elder.

• Placement in numerous nursing homes or residential care facilities which does not commensurate with alleged size of the estate.

• Lack of amenities, such as TV, personal grooming items, appropriate clothing, that the elders estate can well afford.

• Checks signed in handwriting not resembling older person's or signed when older person cannot write.

• The Elders missing personal belongings such as art, silverware or jewelry.

• Deliberate isolation of an older adult which results in the caregiver having total control.

Click to enlarge Documents ....

"ward to be on a string being pulled from one county to another" - Judge Von Hoff August 30, 2005

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Now this is on record folks, just how Clara was treated when removed from her house by The Social Worker and Mr. William Hart, under NO known mandate/authorization/reason/POA other than to take over her CD's, Bonds Accounts, Stock Accounts, Savings, and transfer her real estate over to them by way of Quit Claim Deeds.

Now that Clara has been returned to her home she continues to be terrorized by the so-called Justice System.

Hasn't she being through enough?

Why are so many people interested in carving up her estate?

Can't she let live out the rest of her natural life in peace?

Should she be taken away from her close family members to an uncertain future and returned to the very same people who took her from nursing home to nursing home?

Can Elder Justice really be that blind ?

Man Beats Gramdmother to a Pulp

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - It's a disturbing case of elder abuse. A Salt Lake grandmother was physically abused, her own grandson accused of the attack. How could this happen? And how can anyone prevent it from happening again?

As of Thursday afternoon, 25-year-old David Aaron Wilson was in jail charged with assault and elder abuse. His 68-year-old grandmother is in the hospital after police say she was punched, kicked and bitten.

It's shocking, but even more shocking is the fact that this type of elder abuse and other types happen all the time, people just don't talk about it or report it, and that's the real problem.

“We have 2500 referrals in a year and we estimate there are 25 thousand cases out there," says Diviniey. "It is one of the most under reported crimes in America.”

If you or anyone you know is in trouble, a victim of elder abuse, there are help and services available by calling (801) 264-7669 or 1-800-371-7897, or logging onto http://www.slcoagingservices.org/ or http://www.hsdaas.state.ut.us/.

Canada's New Government Announces Investment to Help Seniors Enjoy a Better Quality of Life

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Oct. 1, 2007) - The Honourable Marjory LeBreton, Leader of the Government in the Senate and Secretary of State (Seniors), today on the International Day of Older Persons, made an announcement that builds on the work of Canada's New Government to improve the lives of seniors.

As announced in Budget 2007, $10 milllion in funding is going to be made available soon to Canadian seniors groups who want to develop public awareness and education projects that combat elder abuse and fraud, and upgrade community buildings and equipment used by seniors.

A call for proposals will be announced in November to let seniors and seniors groups know how they can apply for funding, which is available under the New Horizons for Seniors Program. Information will become available at http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/en/audiences/seniors/ or by contacting a local member of Parliament.

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New Hope for Sexual Predator Bill

TALLAHASSEE - It was one of the most seemingly reasonable ideas of the 2007 Legislature, yet it died one of the most mysterious deaths: a bill to lock up for life sexual predators twice convicted of molesting any child younger than 12 years old.

The "two strikes and out" bill by Rep. Dick Kravitz, R-Jacksonville, got sidetracked by an arcane rules dispute and never got a Senate vote despite passing the House, 115-0. Kravitz recently filed the legislation again, hoping that momentum from his new chairmanship over the House Safety & Security Council will deliver it into law in the 2008 spring legislative session.

The core idea of the bill is the same: mandatory life in prison for any Floridian 18 years of age or older who is convicted of a second or subsequent offense of lewd or lascivious conduct against any child younger than 12 years of age. In a state home to such recent horrors as the deaths of Jessica Lunsford, Carlie Bruscia and Sarah Lunde, Kravitz said there is no reason why sex predators should be free to commit a crime a third time.
"Everything I have read and everyone I've talked to in the field of sex crimes tells me that predators have this natural urge that doesn't go away," Kravitz said. "There's no cure yet. They're going to do it again and again, so the only way to stop them is to get them out of the population."

Florida law was already toughened in 2005, after Lunsford's abduction and murder, to upgrade molestation from a first-degree felony to a life felony in cases where the offenders are 18 or older and the victims are younger than 12 years old. First offenses would still carry that current penalty, punishable by at least 25 years in prison. Kravitz's bill would apply to anyone convicted of a first offense on or after Sept. 1, 2005 and a second or subsequent offense on or after July 1, 2008.

Kravitz's first attempt to pass the law died after a tense, emotional debate on the last day of the spring session. Last-minute disagreements erupted over the bill's path to the Senate floor, and negotiations broke down between Sen. Ronda Storms, R-Brandon, who was sponsoring the Senate version of the bill and other senators who were trying to amend it.

"The reason the bill was blocked had nothing to do with substance. It had to do with protocol and presentation," said Sen. Victor Crist, R-Tampa, chairman of the Senate's Criminal Justice Appropriations Committee, who was involved in the talks.

There is no need to convince Ted Hires Sr. of the need for the bill. Hires, president of the Jacksonville-based Justice Coalition and a Northeast Florida resident since 1970, says he was repeatedly molested as a youth by a family friend while growing up in Jessup, Ga. The man has long since died, but Hires said he founded the coalition to help crime victims because he knows how long the scars can remain. Now 61, Hires said he struggled for years with guilt, insecurity, fear of close relationships and depression before finally telling his wife and coming to terms with the experience.

"It's the worst crime that can ever be perpetrated. Nothing else that you could do to a child even comes close," Hires said. "These people who do these things shouldn't even be given a second chance, because there's no such thing as getting over it. Period. I don't have the command of the English language to really communicate how much it made my life a living hell. The psychological damage just affects everything about you."

jt.rushing@jacksonville.com

Vigil Marks 'Terrible Year' for Domestic Abuse

By Juanita WestabyThe Grand Rapids Press

GRAND RAPIDS -- One was shot to death in front of her 12-year-old daughter. Another died helplessly in her crib of smoke inhalation. Yet another was a local police officer killed in the line of duty.

They all are among the victims of domestic violence in Michigan in the past year.

Grand Rapids Police Officer Robert Kozminski's name was read, along with dozens of others, at a candlelight vigil at the YWCA Monday in memory of victims of domestic violence.

Kozminski, 29, died July 8 after he was shot while responding to a domestic violence call on the city's Northeast Side. A suspect remains in custody. Another local victim whose name was read was Grand Rapids attorney Tina Partee-Elder, who was stabbed to death in August, allegedly by her estranged husband. Corey Brown, a friend who knew her for nearly a decade, choked up with emotion as she recounted how Partee-Elder's children, ages 9 and 11, were home at the time of the slaying.

"It was a terrible year," City Commissioner Rosalyn Bliss said. "Every year is terrible, but this year especially."

In addition to Kozminski and Partee-Elder, the death of Byron Center teacher Cristi Curtis, in an apparent murder-suicide by her estranged boyfriend, made for three high-profile cases, Bliss pointed out.
That a teacher, an attorney and a police officer could be claimed by domestic violence shows, "there's really no bounds," Bliss said.

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Another Day, Another Hearing in the Life of an Abused Elder.

- Hearing to Determine Residency. - Petition For appointment of Emergency Guardian. - Emergency Petition to Remove Ward From West Palm Beach. - County Hearing To Determine Capacity. - Hearing To Determine Venue. - Hearing for Motion to withdraw. - Petition to withdraw. - Hearing for Respondent. - Motion to Dismiss. - Hearing for Judicial Review of Continued Need for a Guardian.-Hearing for Petition for Court Order Permitting Clara to Travel.- ad infinite........

Welcome to the "Endless World of Hearings"!

For the benefit of people who have been "allegedly" abused, I say "allegedly", because in spite of all the facts documented, certified copies of documents published here, admitting to neglect, and conversion of an elders assets to personal use, this isn't enough for the authorities. (Who insist on calling Elder Abuse and Elder Financial Abuse, a "Civil" matter.)

Clara and her family attended another hearing today, the court gave me two weeks to reconsider stepping down as caregiver for Clara G. Fernandez.

Folks, I hope something changes soon, I already endured one embargo when they were trying to get my dad out of the family house before he died, because of the stress involved and I don't think that myself or my family are ready to face another embargo, and quite frankly, if we were barely getting by before the guardianship was established, with the benefit of her full Social Security income, it will now be next to impossible with guardian costs and the guardian's attorney billing Clara every month!

Well, I hope that her guardian and guardian's attorneys can move quickly to recover Clara's "disappeared" assets a lot faster than previous guardian's or their attorneys have because Clara doesn't have a whole lot of time, she has already out-lived one judge Richard Payne (retired) was subject to a 2nd(VonHof) and is working now on her third (Audlin) and a fourth in West Palm Beach.

But Wil she make it to a 5th One?

Please stay tuned to E.A. where abuse is de-glossed, exposed, discussed and reported in all it ugliest forms.

Many unaware of cholesterol's role in heart disease

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH of the Jerusalem Post

The faster people reduce their risk factors for heart disease and the faster people with symptoms go to the hospital, the greater their chances for survival. This is the message of World Heart Day, organized by the Israel Heart Society as part of the International Heart Federation's global events in over 100 countries.

World Heart Day was marked on Sunday, but the public campaign to increase awareness of heart disease will continue, says Prof. Basil Lewis, head of the society who works at the Lady David Carmel Medical Center and the Technion's Rappaport Medical Faculty in Haifa.

One of the most important numbers that people should know is their cholesterol level - specifically that of their low-density lipoprotein (LDL,) which should be as low as possible (70 if someone is at high risk for heart disease.)

The high-density lipoprotein (HDL,) which helps protect against heart disease, should be as high as possible, says Lewis. "Many people haven't realized that cholesterol is greatest single factor that accounts for heart attacks and vascular disease, even more than obesity. If you smoke and/or have hypertension, your risk is even greater."

High LDL levels are very treatable, he continues. "Go to your doctor periodically to be tested and to be prescribed a statin, which lowers LDL. "In England, you can even get a small dose of statins over the counter, without a prescription, but we do not recommend this in Israel," he said, as accessibility to doctors here is very high.

"If I had my way, I'd even put a statin into the National Water Carrier," he said with a bit of exaggeration. "We have no vested interest in promoting one drug or another, but we want people to lower their cholesterol levels."

So far, he said, there is no drug proven to raise HDL levels, but "we are researching it. Exercise certainly helps," Lewis adds.

There is also not enough awareness in Israel of the need to rush to a hospital if you have symptoms of a heart attack, including chest pains, shooting pain up the arm, pressure on the chest, shortness of breath and the like.

If you do suffer a heart attack, he says, "don't wait to go to your health fund clinic the next day. Go immediately to the hospital!" Israelis typically wait to see if the symptoms go away by themselves, and women take even longer to seek help, he says.

A recent Teleseker survey of men and women aged 45 to 65 found that many were unaware of the importance of high LDL cholesterol in the risk of heart disease.

Why is wealth by any means necessary always justified?

by Historelli's Social Club

If you leave $12 million to your dog, it doesn’t mean that you cared deeply for your pet, or that you wanted to make sure your loyal friend will continue a comfortable life. It means that you were a disgusting, vile, mucous-laden person that no human loved. I know that America revolves around the dollar and we value profit as a mark of success, but we should not gauge our heroes by this.

Put simply, if you really like the Sopranos and want to fast track your mafia membership, then kill somebody. Likewise, if you really like money, get into business and then exploit all your partners, friends and family. Make money off of every handshake, hug or sentiment, but resign yourself to emotional bestiality because now only dogs will love you.

Helmsley was a fraud. Ashamed of her immigrant roots she changed her name to Roberts and then fled from her Brooklyn neighborhood. She claimed to have gone to college and also to have done some modeling, but there is no proof of either thing happening. Rumors abound that during her younger days, Lena (her real, albeit pedestrian sounding name) made money in the “World’s Oldest Profession.” While working as a lowly secretary in a real estate office, she eventually swindled her boss Harry Helmsley into leaving his wife of 33 years in order to marry her. After pushing him into senility (although many say that he was just playing Vinnie the Chin), Helmsley alienated all her husband’s business partners and then stole untold millions in company assets. Eventually she would utter her famous phrase that “only the little people pay taxes.”

The Chronicle of a Stolen Life : Clara G. Fernandez

May 2004

Please click to enlarge for detail.- Clara was taken from her home August 21 2004

June 2004

July 2004

August 2004

Notice how after she was kidnapped on august 21, 2004 her diary draws a total blank, even thou she had activities planned even months in advance, she was taken so suddenly that her diary,medications,phonebook, and wallet were left behind, it was as if her life suddenly came to a stop.

September 2004

October 2004

November 2004

December 2004

For every entry on this diary there is a corresponding paper trail record to document and back up this injustice done to Clara and Dr. Fernandez that will live forever in infamy.

The folder are as follows, just click to follow the link to the document in PDF format that are available in PDF form.

Real Estate Deeds
Financial Documents
Medical and Medicare Record
Medicare Records August 21 2004 to December 31 2004
Medicare Records December 31 2004 to August 5, 2005
Other Documentation
Psychiatric Evaluations