Hospitals & Asylums
March 2010
The long March is over, it is
April Fool’s day now. Google is a famed
prankster, renaming my homepage Topeka, whereas the mayor of that town offered
to rename his town Google. In the past
the most famous April Fool’s day prank is a television news segment from 1950s
when they reported that Swiss farmers grew spaghetti in trees. Although it might be cruel I am recommending,
if you haven’t done so already or aren’t American, that you fill out your
Census form. Nancy Gibbs in her article
The U.S. Census: Why Our Numbers Count of March 15, 2010 that appeared in Time
reported that the word Census comes from the Latin censere, which, tellingly,
does not mean count so much as estimate, and 2,500 years ago in Rome, people
were already squirrelly about being estimated. The penalties for refusing to
reveal how many people were in your household, how many slaves, how much
livestock, was forfeiting it all and becoming a slave yourself. The Bible tells
the story of God getting so mad at King David, according to his seer Gad, for
ordering a census, because Satan had talked him into it, that He sent a plague
that killed 70,000 people in three days (1
Chronicles: 21). David's plague may
have deterred census takers for many years, but when the Founding Fathers
invented American democracy, they realized that if you are going to have
government by the people, you need to know who and where they are. The founders
stuck a Census requirement in the Constitution so that every 10 years, the
young, stretchy country would recalculate which states got how many lawmakers.
They worried that a state might try to inflate its population to increase its
representation, so they cleverly arranged that the first Census would also be
used to spread around the costs of the Revolution. In 1790, 650 federal
marshals on horseback began going house to house. It cost $45,000 and took a
year and a half to count 3.9 million people.
The 2010 census costs around $6
billion and employs hundreds of thousands of temporary census takers. The 2010 form is the simplest to date. All they are asking for are the names and
dates of birth of the occupants of every household. I suppose with health reform taking the lives
of so many Congress people the Census decided to make soldier hiring more
difficult than David’s census that counted 1.1 million Israelites able to wield
a sword and 470,000 in Judah. They are
certainly swift. Within 24 hours of
turning my Census form in there was a dead man on my living room floor. He had apparently come to town to go to court
and fill his DEA prescription. My roommate
invited the man, who had been drinking heavily, in to use the phone. At that time I was coming to the conclusion
that it was the DEA who perpetrated 9-11 and an IP infringement warning came up
on my computer. I went to ask my roommate
what was wrong and listened to the intoxicated guest mumble something. When I finished the paragraph I heard a man
saying, “He’s not breathing”. I rushed
to the living room to find a paramedic hovering over the man who was taking
about one rasping breath a minute.
Respiratory depression and death is a common symptom of opiate overdose. While a police officer counted that he had
possibly taken 14 Valium, from a pill bottle that had been filled that day, the
paramedics injected him with Narcon, to neutralize the opiate, and he recovered
instantly and was assisted to walk out of the house. I told him, “Stay off the DEA drugs” and when
that sounded rude added, “thank God you’re alive, and that Jesus Christ lies in
Utah”. He did not want to be visited at
the hospital but was reported by the receptionist to be fine and asking to be
released after one hour.
I worked for the
2000 Census for a few months before I was fired to accommodate the ambitions of
another. With a one week exception it
was the last real job I held. I did not contest
the firing, as the result of prohibitive sugar tax on gas that destroyed three
cars in so many months, since getting stiffed trying to contest a driving
without a bumper ticket. Whereas a car
was apparently needed to work for the Census, and the automobile has
subsequently become obsolete, I didn't apply again this year. Instead, I wrote the U.S. Census Bureau to
complain about the confidentiality promised in the pamphlet that came with the form. I found that 13USC(1)§9
needs to be amended in three parts 1. Exception be repealed from the caption. 2.
In paragraph (a) all that follows "may", and before (a)(1) be
repealed. 3. Paragraph (b) be repealed in its entirety. Not even government employees should have their
privacy violated by misinterpretations of privacy protection in Title 13 nor
under the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 1998 or section
2(f) of the Census of Agriculture Act of 1997.
As the mysterious hanging of a Census worker in 2009, whose family was
denied life insurance because the death was ruled a suicide, suggests, there should
be no loopholes in confidentiality. Confidentiality
of the Census needs to be absolute.
Confidentiality that is not confusing saves lives. To reinforce the confidentiality of the 2010
Census I suggested that the Census Bureau amend the law as directed above and write
a letter to the National Archive and Records Administration to extend the 72
year wait for census information to 100 years to allow more millenarians to be centenarians,
although in retrospect the length of the wait should be more like 130 years,
longer than anyone known by the federal government can be expected to live.
Separation of the LDS Church and the Utah
Constitution HA-25-3-10
In the United States of America, a Christian nation, largely
populated by people fleeing religious persecution in the Old World, there has
been written a separation of church and state. The separation of church and
state both gives rise to allegations of immorality on the part of the state and
protects the populace from the abuse of power by religious patriarchs. There is no religion so close to state
religion in all the Americas as the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day
Saints, the LDS, in Utah. The Book of Mormon was written by Joseph Smith who
founded a religion around the myth that he transcribed the book from golden
tablets given to him by an angel and therein is a story of a tribe of Judea
that populated the Americas in biblical times. Joseph Smith was martyred in a
jail in 1844 while running for President of the United States, the grandiose
method of begging one's pardon. Brigham Young, who led the Mormons to Utah,
famously said, "people are healthier and live longer in communities
without doctors". But the Democratic and Republican (DR) parties
inexorably moved in to tax the success of the Mormons. After being rebuffed
entry to the Union by Congress, on seven occasions, beginning in 1849, Utah, or
Deseret, as the territory originally wanted to be called, until the Mormons
settlers renounced polygamy Utah was not allowed to enter the Union until after
the 66 day Constitutional Convention of 1895 was ratified by the public in
1896. It is proposed to amend the Utah Constitution to respect the LDS Church’s
renunciation of polygamy in the article on marriage so that historical accuracy
would allow gay people happily marry and the separation of Church and State would
be delineated by religion’s only legitimate institution - marriage. Furthermore, probate causes already liberated
to the District Court in 1895, before being corrupted by DEA theology in 1973
that stole from the Church their health theology, taking the lives of a slew of
Church Presidents before they mandated the one true genocide of genealogy for
their members, is perfected by the free will of social workers and the poor are
exempt from income tax. In 1990 73% of the population in Utah was reported to
be Mormon and in 2006, 55% attended church weekly, the fifth most faithful in
the nation.
American Political Economy HA-20-3-10
The History of the American Political Economy presents a
number of lessons. The colonial
economies were forbidden to establish banks and used tobacco, wampum and other
things as money. Independent under Adam
Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776) the Founding Fathers established a currency,
the dollar, and the First Bank of the United States (1789-1811) and a Second
Bank of the United States (1816-1834) and financed the government mostly with
customs duties. President Andrew Jackson
(1828-1836) paid off the national debt in 1835.
The Panic of 1837 was the first major depression. The foundation of the Republican Party in
1854 triggered a recession in 1857 they took majority of the House in 1858 and
the Presidency in 1860, the South seceded from the Union triggering the
bloodiest conflict in national history, the Civil War (1860-1864) during which
time an income tax was introduced in 1863 to finance the war effort. The Progressive era was a time of robber
barons and railroads, third parties and high voter participation. There was a depression in 1893. There was a recession in 1907 from gold
shortage. The Federal Reserve was
established in 1913, when the income tax became law, and the central bank went
into operation shortly after the Great War began in 1914. Prohibition undermined the peacetime economy
and in 1929 the stock market crashed and recovered until the 1932 Snoot-Hawley
Tariff Act plunged the world into a global depression known as the Great
Depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt set
forth the New Deal, the economy recovered and the modern welfare state was
born, increasing federal revenues from 3% of the GDP to 20%. Stabilized by the dual mandate of price
stability and maximum employment the baby boomer economy after WWII boomed
until the 1970s when the economy was undermined by the DEA and retaliatory oil
inflation. The creation of the Court of
International Trade assured increasing inequality and after a recession in
1980-82, the U.S. prospered with trade and budget deficits and a soaring prison
population and lame duck saboteur. After
bank failures under Bush Sr. and torturous failing health negotiation Clinton
managed to balance the budget and the economy prospered until the American
century came to a screeching halt on 9-11.
CHAPTER
4 State Mental Institution Library Education (SMILE)
To amend Chapter 4 St. Elizabeth’s Hospital §161-230, transfer §321-329 from Chapter 9 Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill National Returned from Foreign Countries to §189-194 of this Chapter and change the name of the Substance Abuse Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) to the Social Work Administration (SWA) to administrate a review tribunal of hospitalizations by licensed social workers. Globally mental illness and psychological disorders stemming from substance abuse are estimated to affect a combined total of 450 million people, 7.3% of the population. 55% of Americans suffered from mental illness at some time in their life and 1 in 5 Americans experience a diagnosable mental disorder in any given year. In 1997 30,535 people died from suicide in the U.S, it was the 11th leading cause of death in 2000. Mental illness is the second leading cause of disability, costing disability insurance an estimated $24 billion and medical insurance $65 billion annually, with mental health organizations accounting for around $38 billion in expenditures. The de-institutionalization movement has been successful in reducing the psychiatric inpatient population by half from 515,572 in 1970 to 198,195 in 1998. During this time the District of Columbia Mental Health System was successful in reducing the inpatient population of St. Elizabeth’s hospital from 7,000 to 600. The buildings have been sold to the Department of Homeland Security. During 1999 there were 1.7 million admissions to inpatient psychiatric treatment, 424,450 of those were involuntary commitments. Civil commitments and judge enforced medication must be prohibited. The national directive is to close all state mental institutions and private psychiatric hospitals. An insane asylum is not an asylum it is a persecution. MIRROR form…545
Anthony Sanders