Commentary & Consensus on duh DCF: "They're evil morons." (Scott Peck, Attorney Lustbader)
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Subject: Commentary & Consensus on duh DCF: "They're evil
morons." (Scott Peck, Attorney Lustbader)
Date: Apr 14, 2010 11:14 AM
***"I guess this administration is saying if you fail long enough, you
should be excused,"*** Lustbader said in a phone interview from New
York City. "They have repeatedly failed to make good on their
commitments. ... We're in this for just as long as it takes for them
to comply."
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More Comments on DCF trying to get out of federal oversight:
http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-dcf-federal-oversight-0414.artapr14,0,410720.story
"I once thought that Federal Court oversight of DCF would "fix"it. It
has not and it can not.The agency needs to be dismantled. It is too
big, has an impossible mission and just plan does not work. M. Scott
Peck said it best--"When any institution becomes large and
compartmentalized with departments and sub-departments, then the
conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented and
diluted as to be virtually non existent, and the organization becomes
inherently evil."
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Adminstratium:
http://www.actionlyme.org/duhDCF.htm
http://rs2.ch.liv.ac.uk/~dlc/Administratium.html
"The element, tentatively named Administratium, has no protons or
electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0. However, it does have 1
neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons and 111 assistant
vice neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles
are held together in the nucleus by a force that involves ***the
continuous exchange of meson like particles called morons."***
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We could put them on a treadmill
like hamsters and generate energy if
we really wanted to get our money's worth (2005):
http://www.actionlyme.org/dictionary_of_connecticutisms.htm
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You will remember that Scott Peck
was the psychiatrist who believed
in evil and exorcisms, having witnessed
this TRUTH about evil in America and
an exorcism and subsequent possessed
people.
The other psychiatrist "gave up
psychiatry once he" became possessed
at an exorcism:
http://www.actionlyme.org/SATANS_SICKOS.htm
"He does our work," said the demons.
So, I recommend staying the hell (literally)
away from these perverted psych types; not-
thinking attracts morons, and DCF, well,
we're wondering which came first, the
stupidity or the sluttiness?
http://www.actionlyme.org/RAGAGLIA_GRANDJURY_DETAILS.htm
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org/index.htm
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http://www.courant.com/news/politics/hc-dcf-federal-oversight-0414.artapr14,0,410720.story
The Rell administration is trying to end 20 years of federal rule over
the way the state cares for thousands of troubled and neglected
children in state custody.
The state Tuesday filed a motion in federal court that, if approved,
would end the oversight of the state's long-troubled child welfare
system, saving the state millions of dollars in future lawyers' fees
and court monitoring costs.
So far, the state has spent more than $10 million on such fees in the
case — plus hundreds of millions of dollars in increased spending each
year for a huge department that has grown to 3,400 employees.
The oversight stretches to about 6,000 children in state custody and
foster care, plus thousands more cases that are investigated each year
for possible child abuse.
The federal lawsuit case, which led to the highly publicized Juan F.
consent decree, has lasted through four governors and two decades that
led to major changes in the department. The suit rivals the long-
running Sheff v. O'Neill school desegregation case, which seeks to
improve public education in the state.
Even after 20 years of clashes, the battle continued Tuesday over the
state's motion to end the case.
The federal court monitoring was established following a class-action
lawsuit filed against the state in December 1989 that said the child
welfare system was in a state of "systemic, ongoing crisis."
The state now says it has made enough progress to warrant lifting the
monitoring.
"The system that existed 20 years ago has been dramatically,
substantially changed, and federal court oversight is no longer
needed," DCF Commissioner Susan Hamilton said. "We've been operating
this system effectively for years. ... In our case, there's clearly no
longer a need for this to continue. There's no risk of it reverting
back to the way it was 20 years ago."
Hamilton added, "It is time to stop spending millions of taxpayer
dollars on lawyers and monitoring in a case that is no longer
necessary."
The Juan F. consent decree covers abused and neglected children who
are in such dire circumstances that they need the state's
intervention.
The state's motion to end the oversight was filed before U.S. District
Judge Christopher Droney in Hartford, who has taken over the case
after years of oversight by longtime senior federal Judge Alan H.
Nevas.
DCF's motion was filed one day after the group that filed the original
lawsuit, Children's Rights Inc. of New York City, said the state has
failed to make court-ordered improvements to better care for abused
and neglected children. In a letter to the state, the group said it
would be forced to go back to the federal court if changes are not
made in the coming months.
Ira Lustbader, an attorney with Children's Rights, strongly opposes
the motion and says the battle will continue in court until the state
complies with the goals that the two sides have agreed upon.
"I guess this administration is saying if you fail long enough, you
should be excused," Lustbader said in a phone interview from New York
City. "They have repeatedly failed to make good on their
commitments. ... We're in this for just as long as it takes for them
to comply."
Child Advocate Jeanne Milstein, who had been unaware of the state's
motion, was flabbergasted when a reporter informed her about the Rell
administration's action.
"I am stunned," Milstein said. "It makes no sense at all, given the
performance of DCF. We're still failing to meet the needs of the most
vulnerable children who are in state care."
On the other end of the dispute, Rell, who was a state legislator from
Brookfield when the original case was filed, strongly supports the
state's motion.
"Working together, we have utterly transformed the way the state cares
for children and families in crisis," Rell said in a written
statement. "These are no cosmetic fixes — they are changes that run
through the very bedrock of the agency. We have amply demonstrated
Connecticut's lasting commitment to improved training, care and
services. It is now time to end the costly oversight process and
return management of DCF to the state."
Since the lawsuit was filed in 1989, the department's overall budget
has more than tripled, from about $250 million per year to the more
than $820 million in the current fiscal year.
DCF has been in the headlines through the years following the tragic
deaths of children, and the much-criticized department has had
multiple commissioners since the federal case began during the
administration of Gov. William A. O'Neill.
In addition to a much-larger budget, the state says, the department
has shown improvements with better training, improved record-keeping
and more staff. The state also says that the number of children in
state care has been reduced by 31 percent, and that caseloads for
social workers have dropped by two-thirds since the original case
started.
The state and lawyers for Children's Rights Inc. have been trying to
resolve the case for years. In an attempt to resolve the issue, the
two sides agreed to an exit plan in 2003. As part of the exit plan,
they agreed to an outline of 22 specific goals that needed to be met
in order to end the case. DCF says that it is "meeting or nearly
meeting" 20 of those 22 goals and has thus shown substantial progress.
The plaintiffs have countered that the state has failed on two key
goals in the plan that cover treatment plans and whether children's
needs are met. Each goal can be highly complicated, generating reams
of legal briefs through the years.
The case's court file is among the largest in state history, covering
numerous motions and countermotions over a 20-year period. The court's
docket sheet has more than 480 entries since 1992 alone.
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