OCTOBER 29, 2003
Atty. Kevin O'Connor, USDOJ, 157 Church Street, New Haven, Box 1824,
Connecticut, 06510, USA
CC: 1) Scott Sawyer, Esq, 251 Williams St, 06320, --2) Priscilla
Hammond, Esq, 431 Hamburg Road, 06371, --3) -Sam T Donta, MD, 10
Bramblebush Park, Falmouth, 02540 –4) Brian A Fallon, MD, New York
State Psychiatric Institute at 1051 Riverside Drive (Room 3200), New
York City, New York, 10032.—5) Congressman Simmons, 2 Courthouse
Square, Norwich, 06360, 6) Senator Chris Dodd, SR-448 Russell
Building, United States Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510---7) Senator
Lieberman, 706 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510,
---8) Thomas Forschner, One Financial Plaza, Hartford, 06103---9)
Blumenthal and Ryan, CT AGs 55 Elm Street, Hartford, 06106, 10) The
Child Health and Development Institute, 270 Farmington Avenue, Suite
325, Farmington, CT, 06320, ---11) Pekah Wallace, Regional Manager,
Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, 55 West Main Street,
Suite 210, Waterbury, CT 06702, 12) UN Commission of Human Rights,
Palais des Nations, CH-1211, Geneve, Switerland, 13) Stonington
Schools, ---14) Office of the Child Advocate, 18-20 Trinity Street
Hartford, CT, 06106, ---15) Jim Gottstein, PsychRights.org, Law
Project For Psychiatric Rights, 406 G Street, Suite 206, Anchorage, AK
99501, ---16) International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and
Psychology, ICSPP.org, 1036 Park Ave. Suite 1B, New York, NY 10028,
212-585-3758 17) David Oaks, Director, Mindfreedom.org, Support
Coalition International, PO Box 11284, Eugene, OR 97440-3484, USA
---18) Benjamin Bunney, Chairman, Yale Department of Psychiatry, 25
Park Street, New Haven , CT, ---19) Thomas Kemper, MD, Autism
Research, Boston University, FGH Building, Rm 103, Boston Medical
Center, 715 Albany, St., Boston, MA, 02118-2526 20) Steven Phillips,
Vice-President, International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society
(ILADS.org), ---21) Infectious Diseases Society of America, --- 22)
Milford Chief of Police, Thomas Flaherty, Boston Post Road, Milford,
CT, 06460, ---23) Stonington Chief of Police, David Erskine, South
Broad Street, Stonington, CT 06379, ---24) New Haven Advocate, ---25)
Stamford Advocate, 26) American Psychiatric Association, President/
Marcia Goin, M.D. 1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825m, Arlington,
VA,22209-3901,---27) Connecticut Mental Health, Hartford, Thomas Kirk,
410 Capital Ave, PO Box 341431, Hartford, CT., 06314 ---28) Governor
Rowland -Office of the Governor, State Capitol, 210 Capitol Avenue,
Hartford, Connecticut, 06106 --29) Charles Esposito, Gales Ferry
Pediatrics, 1524 Rte 12, Gales Ferry, CT 30) Lori K. Hellum, Esq., 261
Williams Ave, New London, CT 06320, 31) Senator John Kerry, 304
Russell Bldg, Third Floor, Washington D.C. 20510, (202) 224-2742 –
Phone, (202) 224-8525 – Fax, 32) Peter J Bartinik, Jr, Esq. 100 Fort
Hill Rd, Groton, CT 06340 33), Pallan Manraj, Shah Solicitors, 168
Greenford Road, Sudbury Hill, Middlesex, UK, HAI-3-QZ, 44-208-423-4007
X 120 34) Christopher Bass, John Radcliffe Hospital Address:
Department of Psychological Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford,
Oxon, OX3 9DU 35) Social Services Department, Children and Families
Service, 429 - 433 Pinner Road, North Harrow, HA1 4HN, United Kingdom
36) Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. National Institutes of Health (NIH), 9000
Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, 37) John Ashcroft, .S.
Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
20530-0001 38) Commissioner, CT DCF 505 Hudson Street, Hartford, CT
06107 39) George W. Bush, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20500 40) Terry McAuliffe, Chairman, Democratic
National Committee, 430 S. Capitol St. SE, Washington, DC 20003, 41)
CNN Paul Begala and James Carville, 820 First St, NE, Washington, DC,
20002 , Gray, O'Connell, 50) Chiefs of Police, CT, 51) Dept 54)
Hartford Courant., 55) D. Ray Sirry, 56) Martha Stone, UCONN,
Children's Rights, 57) Christopher Morano, Justice Commission, Mark
Benjamin, United Press International
From: Kathleen M. Dickson, 23 Garden Street, Pawcatuck, CT 06379,
860-599-3852, former Analytical Methods Development, Pfizer, Inc,
Groton CT, STAD Group, PPG.
Founder, ActionLyme International Patient Advocacy Group, Founder,
Southeastern CT Lyme Disease Support Group, The Lyme Disease
Foundation, Volunteer Community Education Leader.
Dear Atty O'Connor,
I would like to include Kaiser Permanente officially to this Lyme
Disease/Antitrust complaint, as well as John G. Rowland, Governor of
CT. Mr. Rowland owns an insurance company, as you can see.
For this report, due to limited time, I will simply outline the
documents I have included, and give you this overview.
As you know, John Connolly was the President of New York Medical
College in 1990, and following the publication of the Infectious
Disease Reviews Supplement, 1989, which you have, and certain other
specific publications, by Alan Barbour, of the NIH Rocky Mountain
Labs, Andrew Pachner of Georgetown and Yale University, Lyme disease
suddenly became "Controversial".
Allen Steere published an article called the "Overdiagnosis (sic) of
Lyme Disease", in 1993, which was the same year he went to Germany to
create this imaginary Standard, the Dressler/Steere, Standard, which
was adopted by the CDC (this served the false-positive outcomes of
Yale's and Alan Barbour's recombinant OspA "vaccines"). Steere and
Barbour were former CDC Epidemiology Intelligence Officers.
John Connolly, CastleConnolly.com, the American Lyme Disease
Foundation, Yale University (Steere, Sigal Shapiro, Schoen Fikrig,
Flavell and L2 Diagnostics), , Kaiser-Permanente, Imugen, Corixa and
the Mayo Clinic (Persing), Robert Wood Johnson (Sigal), Tufts' and
now Boston University's Mark Klempner, Glaxo SmithKline, and Aventis
(Pasteur-Connaught), are the Principal Defendants.
I am adding John Rowland because of his clear knowledge of our
enormous problems with the disability of Lyme disease, and especially,
the disabilities in children, such as cognitive and neurologic.
The statistic is that CT has the highest Attention Deficit Disorder
rate in the country.
As you can see from the Department of Children and Families' Karen
Andersson: http://www.actionlyme.com/duhDCF.htm
Epidemiology Awareness in Connecticut ?
"Unfortunately it's becoming more and more of a problem," said Karen
M. Andersson, PhD, director of mental health for the Department of
Children and Families. "More and more younger children are
experiencing behavior difficulties that are so extreme they're not
able to function in the preschool environment and home."
New London, CT, USA, not ten miles from Lyme, CT, where Lyme disease
was discovered and so-named, 28 years ago Daily Newspaper....
duhDCF HeRoEs, to the rescue. This child and his mother were both
sick, the mother had "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", lived in East LYME.
The boy had severe headaches and "gets a glazed look...", and has
Intermittent Explosive Disorder, (see Fallon) but this is what
happened, the DCF's abuse and trauma, to this poor family...
The Day newspaper, Highlights, Wed, April 21, 2001 Front Page
story
Few options are available for mentally ill kids
by Karen Florin, Day Staff Writer
East Lyme-- Carolyn Duraski is terrifed when her six-year old son
Zachary goes into what she calls "one of his rages." …
…….. Duraski is relieved, but she now must contend with DCF's charge
of neglect for refusing to take her son home from the hospital and
will have to fight a legal battle in order for him to return home.
"Theyre acting like I'm an unfit parent because I was trying to
help my son," she said.
I am including my correspondence with John G. Rowland in 1997, as
well as newspaper articles of our protests outside Yale University,
the Ticked Off Rallies. As you can see from the picture, my friend
Judi Karol and I attended the Rally in May, 1997. My correspondence
with Rowland followed that protest.
Rowland is well-aware of the problems we have with Lyme disease,
Instead Rowland Supported Yale's vaccine, which we got off the market,
because of it's clear and abundant harmà 4/13 miscarriages, 8.7% new
cases of breast cancer in females and a Lyme like illness.
LymeRIX was never a vaccine, and this induction of immune incompetence
via the type of vaccine it is, was repeated in two other vaccine
attempts, recombinant lipoproteins, for tuberculosis.
http://www.actionlyme.com/rOspA_LYMErix_Whats_bad_about_it.htm
Also, I reported Robert Schoen, Yale Rheumatology for Medical
Negligence for failing to treat me when I was pregnant, and had
congenitally infected my first two children, and the State Medical
Licensing Board had no problem with that. It was OKAY with Rowland's
administration, that Schoen allow my fetus to possibly die, as had two
others, and it was OKAY, with Rowland's Administration, that Schoen
send my records to a physician I had never even heard of, Terrance
Doherty, and who Schoen clearly did not have my authorization to
correspond with, and it was OKAY with Rowland's Administration, that
Schoen lose my blood test results, and especially, it was OKAY with
Rowland's Administration, that Schoen give me my blood test results
before they were even performed, which was, that they would be
negative, when myself and my daughters were positive. My oldest
child was 25 months, and she had 7 CDC bands, and these were different
bands from mine, taken one month earlier. (We lost a weekend due to my
Violent and in other wasys severely abusive husband, Don Dickson,
being arrested by the Montville Police for Domestic Violence). My 25
month old daughter's 7 positive bands were different from my own,
meaning that was her own, congenital infection (The concept behind
needing yearly booster shots of LymeRIXà Antibody concentrations
fade.)
Rowland owns an insurance company. Kaiser certainly knows all about
Lyme and Neuroborreliosis, (the former there is a test for, and the
latter is misdiagnosed as Munchausen's, hypochondria, etc) John
Connolly and CastleConnolly.com publish an internal, inter-industry
newsletter. And as you can see from Weinstein's interview, he spells
out the RICO structure
Please investigate also John G. Rowland's extensive corrupt
administration. He knows Lyme disease is the epidemic that it is.
Clearly he would allow this abuse to go unchecked for the following
reasons:
1) KAREN ANDERSSON, DCF:
"The DCF has committed to opening more psychiatric beds for children
and is seeking about $24 million over the next two years to improve
both in-patient and community-based services."
2) JOHN G. ROWLAND:
Hartford Courant 3/11/03
"Ex-Rowland Aide Guilty
Admits Conspiring To Accept Payoffs, Agrees To Cooperate In Corruption
Probe
March 11, 2003
By EDMUND H. MAHONY, And ERIC RICH Courant Staff Writers
A former top Rowland administration official
admitted Monday that he took gold and cash in return for steering
multimillion-dollar state contracts, and has agreed to cooperate with
federal prosecutors in a widening investigation of corruption at the
top levels of state government.
Lawrence E. Alibozek, Gov. John G. Rowland's former deputy chief of
staff, pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to conspiring to accept
corrupt payments and hiding them from the IRS.
Informed sources said Alibozek already has provided
information to federal investigators that caused the FBI to begin
investigating former Rowland chief of staff Peter N. Ellef and a
senior official of the Tomasso Group, a politically connected
construction company based in New Britain.
The sources said Monday that federal officials are
particularly interested in the circumstances under which Tomasso was
hired as construction manager for the $53 million Connecticut Juvenile
Training School in Middletown.
The school opened in July 2001 as the centerpiece of the
state's juvenile justice system. The state Department of Children and
Families developed the school to replace the outdated Long Lane School
for juveniles in Middletown.
Alibozek pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Robert
N. Chatigny in Hartford. He was Rowland's deputy chief of staff from
October 1997 to July 1999. Before that, from August 1996 to October
1997, he was deputy commissioner of the Connecticut Department of
Economic and Community Development.
"He considers himself to be a moral person and this is a
lapse he can't forgive himself for," William Gerace, Alibozek's
lawyer, said Monday night. "He's devastated and wants the community to
know that, the majority of the time, he was a dedicated public
servant. He's hoping that the judge will be lenient and he's glad that
probation is a theoretical possibility. He's doing everything he can
to minimize his sentence."
Ellef, described by various sources as a subject of the
investigation, was co-chief of Rowland's staff from 1997 until last
spring, when he left amid a furor over the state trash authority's
loss of $220 million in a deal with Enron Corp. Ellef was chairman of
the CRRA, the state trash authority, while serving as Rowland's top
aide. Federal officials are also investigating the Enron deal.
The Tomasso officer described by informed sources as
another subject in the investigation is William Tomasso. The sources
said Tomasso and Ellef are friends who have traveled together in the
past.
Hugh Keefe, Ellef's lawyer, said Monday night that he
is not aware of any evidence implicating his client in wrongdoing.
"I have heard absolutely nothing, after having spoken
with Mr. Gerace and with the federal authorities," Keefe said.
Tomasso and his Washington, D.C.-based lawyer could
not be reached to discuss the case.
The sources said they are not aware of any information linking
Rowland to misconduct.
Two senior Rowland aides said late Monday that the governor's office
received two federal grand jury subpoenas, in November and December,
seeking information related to Alibozek and Ellef.
In addition, the aides, who spoke on the condition they not be
identified, said the governor's office gave federal investigators
information related to the Tomasso Group, and affiliated business
entities, including Tomasso Brothers Inc., TBI Construction Co.,
Tunxis Management Co., Tunxis Plantation Country Club in Farmington
and Tenergy Water LLC.
The aides said that federal investigators were particularly
interested in three major state projects. In addition to the juvenile
training school in Middletown, those projects are a new parking garage
at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks and the Superior
Court and Center for Juvenile Matters in Bridgeport. Bridgeport Mayor
Joseph P. Ganim is currently on trial, accused of splitting $100,000
in kickbacks in connection with the Bridgeport project.
The initial $27.5 million in bonding for the school for boys in
Middletown was approved in 1999 and awarded on what was described as
an emergency, no-bid basis.
The Rowland administration rushed to build the new facility after
15-year-old Tabatha Ann Brendle of New Britain committed suicide at
Long Lane in September 1998. Hers was the first suicide at Long Lane
in the school's 125-year history, and her death became a rallying
point for finally shutting Long Lane down after years of criticism
that it was too old and unsafe.
A source involved in the case said that the payments - which Alibozek
has described and which are under investigation - involved "hundreds
of thousands of dollars" in checks, cash and American Eagle gold
bullion coins.
Federal prosecutors filed a document in court Monday that
described their investigation in only the most general terms. The
document, which formed the basis of Alibozek's guilty plea, does not
name any other conspirators.
Rather, it accuses Alibozek of conspiring with unnamed
others to accept illegal payments from a contractor in return for
steering contracts that fell under the jurisdiction of the state
Department of Public Works and the state Department of Children and
Families.
The document describes that contractor as "Entity A."
Federal prosecutors allege in the document that Alibozek
and unnamed others collected kickbacks through a state-registered,
Limited Liability corporation called TREA, LLC.
According to a person familiar with the allegations,
Ellef is a silent partner in TREA, a landscaping company investigators
suspect was set up to take payments - checks - in exchange for
steering contracts to Tomasso.
TREA was incorporated in July 1999 and dissolved five
months later.
But, as the investigation continues, the source said,
payments in exchange for granting Tomasso contracts allegedly predated
the TREA arrangement, and continued afterward with payments to another
landscaping company, this one set up by Ellef's son and wife, LF
Design LLC, of New Britain.
Sources said the initials in TREA stand for the last names
of Tomasso, Ellef and Alibozek. They said the R doesn't represent
anyone's name. Courant Staff Writer Colin
Poitras contributed to this story.
I can guarantee John G. Rowland knows about how serious Lyme disease,
and that he knows it is a permanent infection of the brain. He owns
an insurance company. Please note the highlighted reports. You
already know about the BOGUS testing for Lyme. It looks to me like
the State is very aware of an epidemic of SOMETHING, such as we have
all these problems, especially Mental Health Problems, in children,
and I don't need to say, that Lyme is in CT.
It is my experience, that the Department of Children and Families
can't be reasoned with, as I have given them an enormous amount of
information about the specific, reported scientific journal articles
and abstracts regarding the pathophysiologies of Central and
Peripheral Nervous System Lyme disease, and the published Clinical
Manifestations. The DCF perceived those articles, and publications as
"harassment" and "bizarre talking", speaking to their worthiness of
the "care" of CT's Children and Families.
http://www.actionlyme.com/Fallon.htm
http://www.columbia-lyme.org
http://www.mentalhealthandillness.com
http://www.actionlyme.com/RHODE_ISLAND.htm
Steve Schutzer's "Lyme Disease, Molecular and Immunologic Approaches"
1992, Cold Spring Harbor Press
You have already seen that Lyme is just another borrelia, a permanent
infection of the brain. Here is more data; data which led to
Insurance Companies involvement, Specifically, Kaiser in New York
Medical College (former Pres of NYMCà John Connolly, founder of the
American Lyme Disease Foundationà Founder, CastleConnolly.com, Best
Doctors, Top Doctors, etc… who are always the people I previously
named in this RICO, such as Robert Schoen (Yale) , Eugene Shapiro,
(Yale) and Lenny Sigal (formerly of Yale) I think it is clear,
that this new epidemic of behavioral disorders in young children, new
building contracts, Federal Monies for each child taken from their
parents going into DCF's paychecks, creates a horrendous abuse system,
and Rowland profits directly.
Note my specific plea to Rowland, that I was afraid we would be
homeless. When I asked the DCF what would happen if we were homeless?
New Haven DCF's Lisa McArthur replied, "Well, we can't help you with
that."
Of course not. This is Connecticut.
Thanks, Kathleen M. Dickson
There is, however, a private right of action for individuals to pursue
who have been injured by the penetration of these corrupt influences
in American life and enterprise.
But we are talking mail fraud, wire fraud...CRIMINAL FRAUD. I feel
safe in saying that most lawyers who are familiar with the civil
action provisions of RICO would tell you to forget it. There have only
been a handful of prosecutions under this provision. A lawyer who has
gotten down to threatening a civil RICO action has got next to nothing
and is likely to provoke laughter from his adversary. If not the
Court.
A "complaint" is a term of legal art. It is what gets filed in
COURT--NOT with the Department of Justice--laying out the specifics of
a claim, requiring the defendant to appear in Court and answer.
The Department of Justice is headed by the Attorney General, John
Ashcroft.(So, good luck, there). So, apparently, what you have done
with this "RICO" "Complaint" is send a lengthy letter, citing
"actionlyme" numerous times, to some poor schmuck attorney over at
DOJ, who has to now figure out what to do with it.
Could you do me a favor? Please? Tell me EXACTLY where this "fraud"
is. Fraud is also a term of legal signifigance. The elements of a
fraud claim have to be satisfied--either in common law or statutory.
It is NOT simply as your dictionary terms it "deceit". (Please do not
refer me to "actionlyme"--been there, done that, don't get it--don't
see it).
In addition, to be able to maintain ANY legal claim--you have to be
able to tell someone--anyone-- how you have been damaged by the
wrongful act you are complaining of. Speculative damages don't cut it.
At one time, I thought the idea was that by removing OspA and B from
the CDC diagnostic critieria, that multiple Lymies had been
misdiagnosed and were suffering as a consequence.
The rather obvious problem with that theory, however, as you well
know, is that the diagnosis of Lyme disease is a CLINICAL diagnosis.
The CDC critieria were developed for the purposes of surveillance
(reporting)and for qualifying study participants, as there was an
obvious need to have some standard for agreement concerning who
actually has Lyme disease.
There are a lot of problems concerning pressing legal actions for
misdiagnosis of Lyme.
The most important consideration, however, is that the responsibility
for correct diagnosis and treatment lies with the examining physician.
Lyme serology is an indirect test--not indicative of actual infection.
If physicians relied solely on CDC diagnostic critieria, exclusive of
symptomalogy--then it is their error, and theirs solely.
The removal of the OspA and B bands are IRRELEVANT to this issue.
I know that you are aware of the GAO report which investigated the
conflict of interest issues concerning the development of the Lymerix
vaccine. I agree that it "smells"--there is a lot that should be
explained--gist for further Congressional investigation.
The report, however, did clear the participants of wrongdoing, as
their conflicts had been waived by officers of NIH or CDC(who,
astonishingly enough) have, apparently the authority and ability to do
so. (Nice work if you can get it).
WHERE'S THE FRAUD?
Can you, please, for once--be specific? I am trying to understand
here.
And what if someone not only relied on that misleading criteria, but used it to
ban patients from receiving treatment in an entire area, an entire state, an
entire country?
An entire continent?
Then who's responsibility is it, Derd-brain?
Laurie
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Don't be an idiot. That
was only a small part of
the complaint. 5%.
You don't know the history
and I have never seen your name
around here before.
So do your homework.
Kathleen
Where has that happened?The diagnosis of Lyme is a clinical diagnosis.
Blood tests are only supposed to confirm, or support the diagnosis.
What's a "derdbrain"?
Are you incapable of disagreeing without being disagreeable?
Don't you live in Britain--the epitome of politeness and civility,
courtesy. hasn't any of that rubbed off on you?
You don't seriously believe the Department of Justice is going to file
an action against the Center for Disease Control on the basis that it
is a corrupt organization--run by mobsters--do you?
Isn't that absurd suggestion--a type of "fraud"--a deceit?
Go on the website of Eucalb, derd-brain, and you will see that this has
happened for the entire CONTINENT of Europe.
But I think you knew that already, didn't you?
Not to mention most of the land-mass of the US, where, in contravention of the
law (congressional bill passed in 2002 stating that all currently available
blood tests are insufficiently reliable to rule out Lyme), nevertheless, local
medical authorities continue to use faulty serological methods to exclude the
diagnosis of Lyme and condemn huge numbers of people to permanent sufffering,
while persecuting all doctors who speak out.
>Don't you live in Britain--the epitome of politeness and civility,
>courtesy. hasn't any of that rubbed off on you?
Lymies don't need phony politesse, British or otherwise. They need some goddam
truth.
I believe you are an attorney. But an attorney working for **whom**? And why
is your client so worried, that you have had to come onto this newsgroup openly
tyrying to discredit Kathleen, whle out the same time, in a very clumsy way,
trying to tease out information from her in order to help prepare your client's
defense, in advance of a racketeering trial?
Lisa
Well, can't see too well--especially out of my right eye.(This stuff
is very difficult for me--wears me out). Have a lot of trouble
walking--tend to fall down--especially when attempting to rise from a
seated position--tough when they say "all rise"--and you fall
down--doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in you from your clients. I
tend to shake very badly--especially when stressed. 4 abnormal
echocardiograms out of 4--bad news for stressful occupations.
Until very recently--had a lot of trouble speaking--slurred,
chronically hoarse voice. Got so bad I took to writing things on a pad
so I could then show it to someone--
Had a neuro-psych exam done--you'll never guess--concentration
problems--attention deficits--probable slip(dramatic, in IQ).
Any ideas why?
I confess that I really don't know what EUCLAB really is or has to do
with anything. Sorry, I've been very focused on the what goes on
around here, I guess.
Sorry if you feel my asking questions is intended as an attempt to
discredit, or antagonize. I would suggest to you, however, that your
inability to respond in a civil manner--speaks volumes about you. Have
you considered that others may be reading this stuff--trying to form
an opinion--do you care at all about how you are posturing yourself?
I would suggest to you that we are all, somewhat victims, at times, of
allowing ourselves to believe what we would like to believe. I agree
with you that Lymies need truth. Truth, however, is in the eye of the
beholder--an elusive concept.
I think we all feel that we have been victimized, treated very badly
by the medical and scientific community. It is very hard, however, to
really put a finger on "it", as Ms.Dickson keeps referring to it--to
put a name on "it".(First, "it" was deemed "fraud", then it was
"antitrust", now "it" is "RICO"--which is utterly ridiculous).
I would suggest to you, however, that you need to be careful with
this. There is a great deal of difference between horribly bad and
inhumane public policy decisions, incomprehensibly inane
"science"--and actual, intentional wrongdoing.
Accusations of "fraud" and criminality--if not true--are LIBEL. Don't
you have any conception whatever of how just slinging these
unsubstantiated charges around--throwing them at anything that
moves--impacts negatively on the credibility of the Lyme community?
You can't even answer basic questions without resort to namecalling
the type that one would expect from gradeschoolers.
Let me try it this way--see--generally speaking--we have "good
people"(we call them: "plaintiffs"), and "bad people"(we call
them:"defendants")--and the "bad people" do something bad to the "good
people" and they hurt the "good people" and the good people go to a
man we call a"judge" and the "good people" say: "Your honor, the "bad
people have hurt us. We have been wronged. We are damaged". and the
man we call the "judge" says, "yes. I agree. "Bad people" pay the
"good people" money to make them feel better".
So--you need to focus on being able to tell someone how it is that you
have been injured and why you are entitled to damages as a result.
And I have been trying to elicit this information from you--with no
result. It is not enough just to say "this is wrong"--not every wrong
is actionable.
Consider this, however. Take your misdiagnosis issue. Why focus on the
CDC? The CDC expressly states that Lyme is a clinical diagnosis.
If you go to an ID, as I did (I know, foolishly)at one time--the ID is
most likely going to consult the IDSA guidelines. These things were
drawn as an aid to assist physicians in diagnosing Lyme. In my opnion,
they are an absolute travesty and disgrace. There may even be the
possibility of a class action there. On the theory of
negligence--ignoring a considerable body of contrary and scientific
knowledge of other spirochetal diseases. In that case--the
guidelines--drawn up by the same cast of characters--the usual
suspects--have been suggested to be used that way and exclude people
on the basis on negative serology. The damages are provable. The nexus
between the act and the damages can be easily established. Anyone can
understand why someone whose immune system is otherwise
compromised--could not mount a sufficient antibody reponse--and that
you cannot reasonably rule out a diagnosis on the basis of an indirect
test.
We are talking about medical practices that do not conform with the
accepted "state of the art". This the type of thought process you need
to attempt, at least.
I have an idea? Why don't you try to focus your energies in a
direction that might actually accomplish something positive.
Nah.
I am certainly not the first attorney who has told you that you are
barking up the wrong tree here--and you damn well know it. I remember
the post pretty well--you said they told you that "it was a matter of
their data against yours"--and it wasn't worth it. To which you
responded by saying that you have always considered the law to be
"irrational" and that you were going to proceed anyway.
I actually have a great deal of repect for your intelligence--and it
is because of that respect that I believe that you actually are aware
of what a crock this stuff about a "filing" and a "case" is.
There ain't no RICO case and there ain't gonna be.
Don't you think it is slightly disengenuous to be misleading people
like this?
I also, by the way, have enough humility to admit that I might be
wrong--often am--when I am asking you these questions--it is sincere.
I really am trying to see if I am missing something here.
By the way,--I also, at one point, was a party to litigation in which
I was forced,very much against my will--to undergo a Court-ordered
physical exam at the hands of a rheumatologist who I believed to have
been engaged for the sole purpose of offering an opinion that I was
not suffering from Lyme. I kicked and screamed to my attorney and said
I wouldn't do it. My lawyer calmed me down and told me "just do it--if
he's that bad as you say, and doesn't know anything about Lyme--we'll
tear him a new one on cross. Don't antagonize the judge by being
obstinate and uncooperative".
It was horrible--like being raped. But you know what? My lawyer--she
was absolutely right. The pinhead wrote a report that noted the
positive bloodwork and reported that the non-confirmatory blot(41
only--Mayo did it)--EXCLUDED Lyme.
Settled the case--but the point is--I absolutely empathize and
sympathize with what you're going through.
Unsolicited advice--listen to your lawyer.Remember what power the
judge has over you--be careful.
Sincrely wish you the best of luck.
Oh--i am just now getting what you are doing with the "dert" and "derdbrain" stuff--
--that is sooooooo cute! I mean, here we are--just started talking and all--
--and already you have pet names for me. I am just blushing.
Lyme huggies, Lees-umms!
Lisa do you really believe that anyone who asks questions about this
is automatically working for an insurance company or has an anti Lyme
agenda? This guy said that he is a Lyme patient himself. His questions
seem pretty reasonable to me.
You sound paranoid when you declare that anyone who disagres with you
or bothers to ask a question is the enemy. Your insults and name
calling don't prove anything other than the fact that you cannot
behave in a civilized manner or conduct a reasonable discussion.
Derdrittemann has asked some good questions and made some very good
points.
But I guess you and kathleen know better from all of your legal
training than this attorney? If the two of you were so smart, then why
would you be in the legal situation that you're in? Lisa you already
lost your kids. Kathleen is about to because of her self destructive
insane legal strategy and maybe because her kids are at risk living
with someone so sick who is so out of control.
In light of your track record of losing your own kids, isn't it really
nuts for kathleen to adopt the same approach? Or for anyone to listen
to your legal advice?
Kathleen discredits herself and all Lyme activists with her rants and
diatribes. You do too. You are both an embarrasment to us all.
Kathleen is obviously a very very troubled person with serious mental
illness. And you are running a close second.
Anyone who thinks kathleen is a hero just can't see that this emperor
is wearing no clothes.
Hitching your wagon to her star means you're going to run right off
the cliff with her.
It is so obvious that she needs help but not the kind you're offering.
Can't you see that? Can't anyone else here see that?
This is all very sad, really pathetic. Both of you need to get some
help. Take your psych meds you both need them. Maybe you should try
doubling up on your doses. Or tripling up.
It is a rare breath of fresh air.
Rita
I am dismayed to see you making diagnoses over the internet. How did you
become so clairvoyant?
BTW Derdrittemann does make some very good points and asks some good questions.
However, he provides no solutions or answers which is what is really needed.
Martha A.
Rita, I believe you have missed Dert Ritteman's earlier posts, and have come in
at the point where he is pretending to be a reasonable human being.Let's
backtrack a bit.
Dirt Ritteman claims he has been reading this board for years. Yet, in all
those years, he has not felt moved to comment on a single topic, to ask a
single question, or otherwise make any squeak on this board until hearing that
Kathleen Dickson, a scientist and Lyme activist whose accomplishments include
helping to take down the dangerous LymeRix vaccine before it could cause harm
to countless other people, is threatened with jail. At that point, Dirt
Ritteman feels compelled to break his years of silence, not to defend Kathleen
, but to attack her.
Without ever having met Kahtleen, he jumps in to accuse her of mental illness
and too imply that her children should be taken away from her. His justifiation
- Kathleren has had a bad report from a psychiatrist at Yale.
Yale is the EPICENTER of the Lyme fraud that Kathleen has exposed, intimately
bound up to LymeRix, Glaxo, and Aventis (formerly Pasteur-Merieux-Connaught).
Lis Masterson
--a reference to the Graham Greene novel and 1949 film (one of my
favorites)--the villian's name is Harry ----.(?!) They thought he was
dead--but was really only hiding!!!!
Kinda cool also to have your own theme music--everyone should have
theme music, I think.
No, I have read all of Mr. Drittemann's posts. I see that he is trying to
shed some light, ask some realistic questions, and share his own
experiences. I see that he is not telling you what you want to hear, and
that seems to be the problem. He leaves it open to be wrong or corrected or
at least to discuss rationally without name calling.
He is responding to what information is available to him and to all of us.
His suggestion of listening to one's own attorney seems like a realistic
response to me that, in no way, is offensive but helpful and on track.
If I were in such a situation, I would welcome what appears to be rational
help or even questions I might not have thought of. It is horrifying to be
in a situation where one might lose one's children; I can understand how
emotion can override reason.
>
> Dirt Ritteman claims he has been reading this board for years. Yet, in all
> those years, he has not felt moved to comment on a single topic, to ask a
> single question, or otherwise make any squeak on this board until hearing
that
> Kathleen Dickson, a scientist and Lyme activist whose accomplishments
include
> helping to take down the dangerous LymeRix vaccine before it could cause
harm
> to countless other people, is threatened with jail. At that point, Dirt
> Ritteman feels compelled to break his years of silence, not to defend
Kathleen
> , but to attack her.
No, I see him trying to interject reasoning, and he certainly is open to
discussion and argument - afterall, that is what attorneys do. It is a very
sad situation, and it is made the worse for attacking him. Respond
rationally w/o name calling.
Rita
Did so!!!
> Kinda cool also to have your own theme music--everyone should have
> theme music, I think.
Tatala tala... tala... bling,
Tatala tala... tala... bling, Tatala tala tala, tala tala tala .......
Nelly
Ha-ha! Sehr gut! Sehr gut meine liebchen! A fellow traveller! Can't
tell you how that has cheered me up tonight!
Given our recent discussion here, though--have to say I am getting a
little confused.
Harry, you know was a racketeer, selling watered-down antibiotics--and
here we are talking about RICO and all--and Harry, like all good
little spirochetes when faced with stressful environments--disappears
underground--and you remember, no doubt where the story ends--which is
where, I think, this discussion is headed also--
--but--since you got the joke--here's something I hope you will
enjoy--just for fun--hope it works(you should hear the
you-know-what)!(Thing sticks to your brain like chewing- gum to your
shoe).
> Thanks for understanding! And thanks also for getting the "Third Man"
> reference--I actually was somewhat disappointed as no one seemed to
> pick up on it--thought it was kind of clever in my own conceit--
>
> --a reference to the Graham Greene novel and 1949 film (one of my
> favorites)--the villian's name is Harry ----.(?!) They thought he was
> dead--but was really only hiding!!!!
His name was Harry Lime.
Rita
PS: Meine mutter ist von Deutschland. Aber meine Deutsch ist nicht so gut!
Normally I would agree concerning your feeling about internet
diagnoses and clairavoyance.
Actually though, you have to wonder if it isn't appropriate here--if
it hasn't been placed "in issue" by Kathleen herself because of some
of her postings--which, I would suggest, you should read very
carefully.
I, for one, could have wished to be spared hearing about how her "ex"
exposed himself to their children--or what it has to do with Lyme
disease. Way, way too much information for my taste.
If you came into this sadness late--you should know it got kicked off
by Lisa asking everyone to send letters to the ACLU saying that
Kathleen is about to have her children taken away because of her views
on Lyme.
I asked her why she would say something like that when it
appears--from Kathleen's own postings--that her sister and her
"sister's mother" were responsible for whatever allegations triggered
the proceedings.
You are, of course, correct--I did not offer solutions. Truthfully--I
think as we all recognize--until we get our own house in order--it's
kind of pointless to even talk about solutions(meaning LDA v. LDF,
etc, etc). Until then--we're kind of like the "nowhere man"--"making
all our nowhere plans for nobody".
Actually do have some thoughts--but since I've been accused of
literally being the "devil's advocate"--I'm not dumb enough to post
them here.
BULLSEYE!(oops).
Yes, needless to say, the film has taken on an entirely new
signifigance for me.
In the opening sequences, Holly Martins(Joseph Cotten) comes up to
Maj. Calloway(Trevor Howard), and asks "whose funeral"?
Callawy says: "fellow called Lime".
Oh....wouldn't it be nice? Wouldn't it?
You might be interested in this site on mental health law:
http://www.mentalhealthlawyers.com/main.htm
Rita
I am new to this group and my knowledge of Lyme is limited to when I was
working in Medical Microbiology some years ago.I do not know kathleen or
Lisa and they do not know me but I can assure you that what they are
experiencing is classic. Over the past four years I have seen enough
corruption emanating from 'professionals' and I use that word loosely, to
fill a lifetime. There is a symbiotic relationship between the accusing
doctors, whose names crop up time and time again and Social Services. Any
parent who positively advocates for their children is at risk of having
their children taken into care. Children with cerebral palsy, autism ,
epilepsy,diabetes and any condition that is difficult to diagnose are
particularly at risk. The fact that relatives were responsible for the
allegations is again classic.Social Services operate in the US and the UK
under a policy of 'Divide and Rule' which makes the parent more vulnerable.
and ex-husbands and ex-wives who have a current relationship with someone in
Social Services figure prominently in these allegations.
--
Heather
UK
Mike&hea...@acornwellmount.freeserve.co.uk
There are 25 000 children in the UK diagnosed as CFS, and it is the most common
reason for long-term absence from school here.
Lisa Masterson
And me! I had a quick look and listen to your "toon". Like that version
very much.
I am a cinéphile so my ref is the film with Orson,the music and the chase in
and around the Big Wheel
Mein Mutter ist von Zürich, lebe aber ich im Frankreich meine ganze leben,
apart from half a lifetime in Sydney Australa
, of course, now live in Paris (France), and I have also tried to get K and
L to understand that regardless of how rotten and UNJUST the situation is
for most of us, they are using the kind if lang and tactics that will lead
them into the worst possible scenarios for them.
But K and L NEVER LISTEN,, they start insulting, K ranted and raved AT me
for a while and there is no other way but OUT
I do not get involved on that topic (except to be silly
Nelly
)"derdrittemann" <derdritt...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f2af2263.03110...@posting.google.com...
Stop being a pinhead.
The rules of RICO are that you
can name *individuals* associated
with a government organization,
which is what I did.
Barbara Johnson.
Dave Dennis quit the CDC.
McSweegan is clearly looking for
another job.
Sigal found one, in private industry, after
I reported him to his Medical Licensing
Board.
The World Health Organization hammered Lenny's
friend who posted in the Philly Inquirer.
Every time you open your mouth, reveal your
cranial CAVITY.
Kathleen
Yes, and I should point out here quickly--that I absolutely have
nothing whatever to do with that website--just ran across it
surfing--before Lisa tries to send a virus to the poor guy or
something--because I am getting the distinct impression she really
doesn't care for me all that much.
Yeah, me neither--you just watch and sort of gasp for air. But this
last one--tying it to the custody stuff and trying to get the ACLU in
there--I just felt someone had to say something.
Tough job--heavy lifting--somebody's gotta do it.
I would just like to be able to bear this with something approaching a
little dignity, if you know what I mean--between them on the one
hand--guys like Shapiro on the other--
(Yes--it's recently been digitally remastered and re-released on DVD).
(
I wouldn't have to be an ear nose and throat specialist to diagnose
the nose on my face.
Anyone can see that these two are totally psychotic.
> BTW Derdrittemann does make some very good points and asks some good questions.
No one has given any answers to his questions either. Insults and name
calling don't respond to the substance of the points he made.
> However, he provides no solutions or answers which is what is really needed.
>
> Martha A.
Maybe there are no easy answers?
One things for sure. Lisa and Kathleen don't have any answers either,
at least none that make any sense unless you happen to have the same
form of insanity that they do. Imaginary lawsuits don't count as
answers.
I think it is pretty funny that Lisa who already lost her kids is
giving legal advice to kathleen who is about to lose hers. Why would
anyone listen to either one of them and their answers which are
recipees for disaster?
Go figure.
> The World Health Organization hammered Lenny's
> friend who posted in the Philly Inquirer.
They did? I had not heard anything about repercussions from that letter. Is there some place I can learn more about this?
Thanks...
Of course. to complain about the fact that a gigantic frauid is being
perpetrated against Lyme sufferers by Allen Steere and his corporate pals, now
that's clearly psychosis.
Or like the other clown said, it's about time we stopped blaming other people
for Lyme disease, when we should be blaming ourselves. That's about as much
sense as these assholes have to offer.
They call us psychotic and then complain that we are not being civil.
Look "A Weisman", (if that's not another stupid pun, and I think it probably
is) please provide us your full name and address for lawsuit purposes.
Or if you're too coward, then shut up.
Lisa
There aren't any.
They want you to go along with what they say; they don't want anything else.
That's obvious. Jump on the bandwagon or get insulted off.
Any guidance to the contrary of what these people want to hear has been
damned, and the people have been called names.Why would anyone want to even
attempt help if they know they will be trashed at some point. Trying to
insult people into one's way of thinking is a low-level demeaning bully
tactic. It arises from a lack of true substance and true charcter. One can
understand how emotion can override reason, but this is carried to the nth
degree and is bitterly ugly.
And that actionlyme site is somehow the reference to all of this. One thing
for sure, THAT is quite fitting.
Go ahead and insult me. Or is it easier to insult anonymous people?
This sad situation has turned horrid.
Rita
Look. I'm autistic. My father was, my nephew is,
the Psychiatrist diagnosed it, it is diagnosed in
my Psych Evals, my Osychiatrist diagnosed it,
my family diagnosed it, and it is related to Neurofibromatosis
http://www.genes.uchicago.edu/fri/dhllab/FantesJMG.pdf
which runs heavily also in my family, and I can't get SSD
through the highest level of appeal even though I meet the
criteria for MS, because my IQ is too high.
Call Autism a mental illness or call it not a mental
illness. I don't care. It's all meaningless, the DSM,
and the Psychiatrists all admit it, even my own.
There are no scientifically verifiable axes besides
genetic, traumatic and organic, and no newsgroup troll
can prove otherwise. No one else brought the RICO case
because no one else quite understands it, because no
one else here is a chemist, who worked for a pharmaceutical
company.
There's no point arguing whether or not I have a mental
illness, I have those three axes. What does that mean?
It has NO predictive value.
What do I *DO*, and what do other people *DO* about
Lyme? THAT is the value of behaviors. I simply can't
be assessed, and most certainly not by newsgroup trolls.
What's the evidence? The vaccine is gone, Lenny is gone
and McSweegan is looking for another job.
I'm autistic. So what? It just means I was destined
to be an analytical chemist, a machine head like my
father.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4431050.WKU.&OS=PN/4431050&RS=PN/4431050
That was only one of his patents. The rest are not
electronically accessable. He designed those great big
tool machines that cut jet engine parts and was a fine
artist. It doesn't get any smarter than that. Artist
and Inventor.
My Psychiatrist? What do I know. He kept telling me
I had to come back, even though I had no clue what he
was talking about. It musta been interesting for him
that's all I can say, since I can't explain abusing
someone for fun, since I am autistic.
He's a stupid Yale Psychiatrist. He wrote his own
malpractice case.
Kathleen
No. I only allow DECENT people on ActionLyme.
That's a part of the psychosis talking about non existent lawsuits and
saying that anyone who disagrees with your views is engaged in fraud.
For all of your talk of lawsuits against everyone on the planet, the
reality is that the only real lawsuits that have been filed in court
are the ones against you lisa where your kids were taken away, and the
one against kathleen where her kids are probably going to be taken
away.
There is no rico suit unless you mean clothes that rico suave is
wearing. There is no legal fraud. There are no lawsuits against yale
or anyone else. Those are all fig newtons of your delusional
overactive hallucinations and imaginations. There's no class action.
There is no civil rights complaint. No one from the DCF is being taken
to court or going to the bar discipline board. There is nothing going
on at the UN or anywhere else in respone to yours and kathleens
ravings.
The bottom line is that the only lawsuits have been filed against you
two and no one else. Kathleen was almost taken to jail and will be
when she refuses to comply with the judges order for a much needed and
long overdue psychiatric examination.
Neither of you has ever explained why if this is an organic brain
disease why a psychiatrist isn't the right one to be examining you.
Do you even know a neurologist in the us who would be better to deal
with Lyme. If so name her or him.
> Or like the other clown said, it's about time we stopped blaming other people
> for Lyme disease, when we should be blaming ourselves. That's about as much
> sense as these assholes have to offer.
> They call us psychotic and then complain that we are not being civil.
>
> Look "A Weisman", (if that's not another stupid pun, and I think it probably
> is) please provide us your full name and address for lawsuit purposes.
>
> Or if you're too coward, then shut up.
> Lisa
A Weisman. That's my last name and the first initial. What stupid pun
do you think that is?
What imaginary lawsuit are you going to file now? Go ahead and sue me.
Name me in your fantasy rico complaints.
Sue me or shut the hell up already lisa you demented kook. Please shut
the hell up already. Go give some more legal advice on how to make
sure that your kids will be taken away since you're an expert about
that. Maybe there's someone stupid enough to listen.
Yes, give full details of who you are and I will.
LOL.
Lisa, let this pinhead get sucked up
into his own vortex of hatred. Very
important work, he does. What will be
his epitaph? His contribution to society?
Nothing, until he is fertilizer.
(And no I am not making any death threats.
I would be Thankful if I discover I have
never come within 2000 miles of this person.
I rather enjoy watching pinheads spin themselves
into oblivion, demonstrating to the world,
all the new and exciting ways, one Homo
sapiens can execute the Stupidity of Hatred,
not ever giving consideration to the concept
that others might see, that THIS is what people do,
when they are too stupid to make a contribution
to society. A vortex, clearly. *AND* a choice,
as we all know. Choose stupidness and hatred?
or choose to be a member of a community.
I used to watch this sort of behavior in college.
The STUPID students would ALWAYS be talking
about how intelligent they were, revealing
how little they knew, to the rest of us. And
they never knew, that everyone else knew, what they
really looked like. I pitied the Professors.)
Kathleen