Hospitals & Asylums
Winter Solstice Vol.
11 No. 4
By Anthony J.
Sanders
There
are some new monthly and quarterly subscribers from Occupy Ashland, philanthropists
who will not be burdened with a subscription unless they respond after the
December grant is finally done, and correspondents with martial and medical
cases, Season's Greetings. I need to
make it clear that because the Occupy Ashland webmaster did not publish my most
excellent $1.2 trillion anti-trust settlement below, censorship occurred, and
out of loyalty to my country and self-respect I must respectfully boycott all
Occupy Ashland meetings until my work has been published, so as not lend any
credence to the sedition of my government.
It seems that only one out of four meritorious petitioners who frequent Occupy Ashland meetings has had her grievances regarding
Bradley’s Manning’s incarceration broadcast.
The other petitions, pertaining to the Ashland homeless shelter, implementing
the Vermont Workers’ Center Healthcare is a Human Rights Campaign in Oregon, and
the Report below, for which fliers were passed out to the public, were all censored. In the absence of any accountability for the greater
public good the net worth of Occupy Ashland is therefore estimated at $200
since the Peace Church donated $100.
The damages caused by this misdemeanor censorship are that by betraying
the people Occupy Ashland was compelled to expose the organization to the
unpopularity of Congress and contracted a full-fledged case of sedition regarding
the $666 Defense Bill. No person in
their right mind would ever think that the 112th Congress had a
thought. We are all tired of
plagiarizing the Democratic-Republican (DR) two party system
and since the second session of the 110th Congress it has been
necessary to dissolve the 111th and 112th Congresses in
their entirety. Congress has not legislated a single law since the agenda of the 110th
Congress raised the minimum wage in the first session. Do not lend credence to the adversarial
system by allowing yourself to be drawn in.
I am sorry I did not enact my Occupy Report as a public law so that the
public would be aware of the healthy enactment clause – Be the Democratic and
Republican (DR) two party system dissolved. I hope to finish my December Grant, for three
edifices, in time for the Peace Church Homeless meeting on the 29th
but housing is as boring as it is challenging, and the Streptoccocus pyogenes from the Health and Wellness
pod and S. pneumoniae
from the Vermont Workers’ Center Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign meetings
didn’t help. I may need to rent the
homeless shelter myself as a New Year’s resolution and need the help of someone
with a Visa card to purchase antibiotics online without prescription.
The Vermont Workers’ Center
presented Human Rights and Organizing the Grassroots Struggle for Universal
Healthcare at the Unitarian Church in Ashland from 7-9pm on Wednesday Dec. 14,
2011. The speakers were inspired by
Oregon energy. They came because they
want victory, not just in Vermont, but nationwide. Vermont in the first state in the nation to
pass a universal health care law and they wanted to share that the effective
way for change is through collective action.
In the slide show Bernie Sanders (Vt),
one of only two independents in Congress, was quoted as said, “we have got to
stop spending money on administration and billing and pay doctors and health
care professionals”. Health is not a
commodity but a public good. Everyone
must be covered, no one can be left out. The function of a private health insurance
company is not to provide health care but to make money. There must be a means of holding government
responsible for human rights. To seek
healthcare is a human right. Therefore
in 2008 the Vermont Workers’ Center began a statewide campaign Healthcare is a
Human Right and Act 128 was introduced to the state legislature. After a demonstration of more than 1,000
people at the statehouse on May 1, 2011 the state legislature passed Act 48 on
May 25, 2011 and Vermont became the first state to pass universal, publicly
financed health care coverage for all Vermont residents. Oregon state Senator
Lee Beyer stated that Oregon passed HB 3650 that was close to universal health
insurance but the state government needed more access to hospital budget
certificates, whereas hospital bills drive up the cost, and executives are
taking million dollar salaries. Oregon
must learn from the Vermont Workers’ Center Healthcare is a Human Right
campaign. Phase I of the Healthcare is a Human Right campaign involved mass
organizing, letters to the editor, reframing the government and telling
personal stories to the legislature wearing Health is a Human Right t-shirts
and taking notes on the proceedings. Phase II which they are now in implements
the legislation. The human rights
principles which were most useful were universality, equity, accountability,
participation and public good. Lesson 1
People’s movements can redefine political priorities. Lesson 2 A human rights framework can be
extremely effective for both organizing work and policy fights. Lesson 3 Be prepared
to counter divide and rule tactics.
Lesson 4 It’s not about having convincing
arguments, it’s about getting our communities organized statewide to demand
justice. Lesson 5 We
need to tell our stories.
Occupy
Ashland Report on Occupy Wall St.: The American Fall HA-11-11-11
I hope you find time to read the
full report on Occupy. After bearing ridicule, $420 for three weeks
rent and witness to the fifth homicide in nine years; I completed a report on
the Declaration of the Occupation of New
York, with photos, just in time for Thanksgiving. In Ashland the 24 hour occupation ended on
October 29 when the police cleared the Plaza although the General Assembly
continues to meet in the Plaza, Wednesday at 6pm and Saturday at 2pm, weather
permitting. There is much for the
survivors to be thankful for. For
instance, I saved $1,000 in two months camping and Occupy is eligible for philanthropic non-profit contributions for
social justice. A nonviolent world
revolution in political camping has been a dream of mine since before I
sponsored two camping on campus nights in 1999.
Camping all month is certainly the only way to save any money on
disability. There is no campsite more
dearly beloved to the denizens of Ashland woods than the century old tradition
of free camping in Lithia Park, discontinued in the 1960s when the capitalist
Mt. Ashland ski resort was developed.
The current U.S. Forest Service approved Mt. Ashland ski expansion, has
been criticized by environmentalists as damaging to the Ashland watershed and
the Rogue Group Sierra Club won an appeal for federal injunction, but Community
Alternative (Alternative 5) is expected to go forward. To do the Ashland watershed justice it is
proposed to fuse the homeless issue, which Occupy
Ashland strongly supports, although there is no longer a 24 hour occupation
to entertain the homeless, nor a regular homeless shelter for that matter, with
the legal representation of the Ashland watershed, to create a safe winter camp
close to town and summer camp at the swimming hole, residents could be proud to
invite tourists to. To correct the
economic distortion caused by market subsidies Occupy has encouraged some 650,000 people nationwide to move their
money from bailed out big banks to local banks and credit unions to stop the
flight of capital into multinational corporations with a colonial agenda. Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
repayments must be accounted for as General Fund revenues. To recover the estimated $1.2 trillion in
damages caused by the $475 billion TARP to small corporations and homeowners
States should likewise reinvest their funds in local financial institutions and
people. Recovery Act funds have
distorted the budgets of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
that must return to within 3 percent annual growth from FY 2008, when U.S. medical
spending was the highest in the world, from $911 billion to $780 billion;
Transportation Department (TD) from $120 billion to $75 billion; and the
Education Department (ED) whose college tuition distorting subsidies began with
the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 from $75 billion to $50 billion, to
balance the federal budget. The 16th
draft Bicentennial Revolution of the Constitution of Hospitals & Asylums
Non-Governmental Economy (CHANGE) is renumbered with an athletic
scholarship for the sedentary - sets of 10 pull-ups and/or 100 push-ups and
sit-ups between Chapters, 10km run daily and marathon on the Sabbath to qualify
for office.
Book
5 Customs (ID)
To amend Chapter 5 Columbia
Institution for the Deaf §231-250. The Millennium Development, MDGs for
1990-2015, cuts in half the number of hungry people to 622 million people and
percent of people in poverty to 22.75% by 2015 from 45.5% in 1990. In 2005 843 million people, 12.5% of the
population, were hungry and over a billion lived on less than $1.25 a day, in
2009 after the economic crisis the number of hungry people rose to 18%, 1.2
billion people, and the number of people living on less than $1.25 a day rose
from 21.5% in 2007 to 22.9% in 2009. The
other goals, education, gender equality, and water and sanitation are on track
and the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has been reversed. Official Development Assistance (ODA) growth
must be sustained to achieve the intermediate target of 0.7% of GDP on the way
to a 1% social security style payroll tax for international development. Voting at the Bretton Woods institutions must
be reformed from contribution based to population based, a one person one vote
democratic system. To end dependency
upon the U.S. dollar as reserve currency IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDR) shall
be the international reserve currency.
To improve global public health, diplomacy and reputation the U.S. shall
change the name of Title 6 of the US Code and CFR from Domestic Security and
Homeland Security to Customs, amend Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse
(a-FRaI-d) to Foreign Relations (FR-ee), change the name of the Court
of International of the United States (COITUS) to Customs Court (CC). To
terminate financing the Israeli/Egyptian US military finance race, to cease
obstructing Palestinian statehood, to purchase a quota from an Afghan Opium
Agency, to terminate all international offices of the DEA, to hold NATO and UN
peacekeeping mission war profiteers accountable for their crimes, to terminate
the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti, to expel the prosecutors from the Hague,
to pass the European Constitution or repeal the European prosecutor to protect
the global economy against further military coup under Monroe doctrine
non-entanglement in European colonial affairs. Furthermore, it is resolved to
set down the General of the United Nations (GUN), elect a Secretary of the UN
(SUN), abolish the Permanent Membership to the Security Council, change ECOSOC
to Socio-Economic Administration, General Assembly to Assembly, Trusteeship to Human Rights Council and establish an
International Tax Administration by ratifying the United Nations Charter
Legitimate Edition (UNCLE)…674
Book
8 Drug Regulation (DR)
To amend Chapter 6 Gorgas Hospital §300-320. to reduce demand
for the 10 billion prescriptions and oppression that fuel the $1 trillion global
drug market with $600 billion in pharmaceutical sales and $400 billion in
illicit drug sales, $160 billion pharmaceutical and $65 billion illicit drug
sales in the U.S. in 2001, to
market antibiotics and highly safe and effective prescription medicines Over-the-counter
(OTC), to require all heart medicine labels to state “antibiotics, hygiene, vegan diet and daily exercise, are
known to cure endocarditis”, to fast track the clinical and animal
trials of the antiviral DRACO that might cure HIV and the common cold, to
promote the manufacture of metronidazole in the USA, to refocus Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) staffing from 1,500 new drugs and 54 market regulation in
1998 to do the more than 3,200 pharmaceutical preparations in circulation
social justice, to criminally prosecute the psychiatric enforcers of dangerous
neuroleptic drugs, to dissolve the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
(ATF) and transfer responsibility to an FDA Center for Alcohol and Tobacco (and
possibly Marijuana (ATM) and Department of Justice (DoJ)
Bureau of Firearms and Explosives (BFE), to transfer the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), prohibit DEA
international offices and police finance and change its name to Drug Evaluation
Agency (DEA), to hire exclusively doctors to be DEA Administrative Law Judges
(ALJ) in preparation for the transition, to commission a study of Schedule of
Psychotropic Substances to identify and prohibit from circulation the pathogens
that cause serious mental illness, to terminate automatically refilled
contracts under DEA Form 222, to repeal the loophole in the statute that has
hypothetically caused PTSD and Gulf War Illness since Vietnam, to change the
name of the Substance Abuse Mental Health System Administration (SAMHSA) to
Social Work Administration (SWA), to transfer the Secretariat of the
International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) to the World Health Organization
(WHO), to remove Drugs from the name of the Office of Crime (OC), to give
Afghanistan 80% of the national and 75% of international opium quota, to stop
doctors from receiving kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies, to divert
pharmaceutical political contributions to independent candidates, to eliminate
mandatory minimum sentencing and reduce sentences for illicit drug possession
and trafficking, to make drug addiction treatment safe, accessible and judged
by social worker licensed in addiction studies, to reschedule marijuana to
Schedule III, establish an entirely new Type of classification for the
Customary control of drugs and prohibition of pathogens and refund the mostly
poor smokers of Roll-your-own tobacco and small cigars the unfair >2,000%
excise tax increase of 2009 by guaranteeing a reduced tax rate of $1.828 for 17 years a year for small cigars and $1.0969 for
13.5 years a year for roll-your own MIRROR
form….1085
Book 10 Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH)
To transfer Chapter 1 Navy
Hospitals, Army and Navy Hospitals, and Hospital Relief for Seamen and Other §1-40
to Chapter 10 Armed Forces Retirement Home §400-435. The Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) houses
approximately 1,600 veterans at the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home (USSAH in
Washington D.C. and the U.S. Naval Home (USNH) in Gulfport, Mississippi.
At an average age of 76, the largest percentage of residents, 80% are WWII
veterans, 30% in Korea and 10% in Vietnam. The average length of stay is
10.6 years. The Naval Home was established in the Naval Hospitals Act of
Feb. 26, 1811 by Paul Hamilton of South Carolina, secretary of the Navy, under
President James Madison. The charter was to provide a permanent asylum
for old and disabled naval officers, seamen and Marines. The Naval Home
was however not officially opened until 1834 after James Fillebrown,
Secretary of Commissioners of Navy Hospitals appealed his embezzlement
conviction to the Supreme Court in 1833, it was known as the Naval Asylum until
the name was changed to the Naval Home in 1880. The Soldier’s Home was established
in 1851, as an asylum for old and disabled veterans. It was at the
Soldier’s Home that President Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation
Proclamation. The Soldiers’ Home began admitting airmen in 1917 and
officially changed its name to Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home in 1972. The
Naval Home was initially funded by contributions from the active force. This
contribution was augmented by all fines imposed upon persons of the Navy and
was the principal source of monies for the Naval Hospital Fund/Pension Fund.
The Pension Fund also received all money accruing from the sale of prizes of
war. For nearly 100 years these monies funded the Naval Home. In 1934,
the Pension Fund was abolished by Congress and the proceeds were deposited into
the U.S. Treasury. From 1935 until 1991, the Naval Home was funded by Navy
appropriations. Today, it is funded by monthly withholding from active duty
troops, fines and forfeitures, interest off the Trust Fund and resident
fees…1623