Volunteers are needed to help promote the ER (Elder Rights) Amendment in all states and as an amendment to the US Constitution. The ER (Elder Rights) Amendment was authored by Terry Lynch in 2006 and reads as follows:
"The right of each person to designate, specify and appoint their own guardian and conservator and make this assignment for their dependent children, shall not be abridged."
Lynch's mother, La Faye S. Lynch, has been made a ward of the State of Alabama and is in a nursing home in Montgomery, Alabama, a city notorious for its hatred, prejudice and exploitation of African Americans and a state where warehousing of the elderly is a big business enabled by corrupt judges, lawyers and so called care providers motivated by how much profit they can make throught the exploitation of the elderly and their families.
The ER (Elder Rights) Amendment will establish and protect the right of everyone to designate, specify, and appoint their own guardian and conservator and make this assignment for dependents. This will protect family propert, assets and income which often are raided by the state through a corrupt elder care system which involves corrupt judges, lawyers and so called care providers who essentially are committing what is akin to highway robber of the elderly who are helpless against the powers that be.
Help is needed to organize state and national movements to promote the ER (Elder Rights) Amendment and gain passage on the state level and then the national level. This is a long-term effort and will require the same courage and determination as have other historic movements such as the right for women to vote and the voting rights act for Aferican Americans.
Volunteers may help organize state effort to draft and pass ER (Elder Rights) Amendment legislation, to promote awareness of the ER (Elder Rights) Amendment issue, to raise fund, to organize and plan events, to organize and conduct letter wrighting campaigns targeting representatives in the state legislature and US Congress, to organize college student support groups, to organize ralleys and generally participate in all forms of peaceful, non-violent action that is necessary to draw attention to the ER (Elder Rights) Amendment and effect change.
Volunteers must be self starter who embrace this issues and concerns which face the elderly who are often abused and exploited and cannot speak for themselves or stand up and fight for themselves as they have been declared by the state as incapacitated, made wards of the state, their dignity and respect robbed along with their assets and estates to support what is often a corrupt elder care system.
The ER (Elder Rights) Amendment is designed to rectify the injustice that is being done to the elderly and to empower every person to determine their own fate and that of their children by enabling each person to designate, specify and appoint their own guardian and conservator and to make this assignment for their dependents. Currently this power rest with judges who often are corrupt or motivated by false, contrived, even fraudulent testimoney of hostile relative or corrupt, self serving care providers who seek to gain financially from their actions. By enabling each person to appoint their own guardian/conservator and making this a constitutional amendment, the rights and property of all individuals will be protected from exploitation by hostile relatives, con artists, corrupt officials and greedy care providers who have as their primary goal supporting institutions which warehouse the elderly making them akin to prisoners and virtual slaves.
Volunteers are needed to promote the ER (Elder Rights) Amendment as until this is made the law of the land throughout America, no person will be free from the abuse and exploitation often suffered by the elderly. These are our parents and grandparents who have done no crimes, yet are often confined to small, noisy rooms with another stranger, having no privacy, separted from their families and home environment, secured behind electric doors and by security guards on duty 24/7 to prevent escape. These elderly Americans have committed no crime; their only crime is growing old. Yet because they did not have the power to determine their own fate by laws protecting them from such warehousing, they have become as prisoners, incarcerated by a broken and corrupt elder care system.
The ER (Elder Rights) Amendment is a first small step, yet it represents a great leap for mankind in rectifying the wrong and correcting a broken elder care system. It is a first small step yet a giant leap in changing how the elderly are treated, that they may no longer be treated as property, as non-humans, as sources of income for profit motivated elder warehousing institutions.
Everyone who is in sympathy with the ER (Elder Rights) Amendment is urged to volunteer. You can help by starting your own local/state chapter of the Elder Rights Association. You can help by organizing and sponsoring events. You can help by getting petitions signed and presenting these to state representatives or members of the US Congress. You can help by starting a letter writing campaign and or any other activities or events to help raise awareness and funds.
If you wish to volunteer contact Terry Lynch at terrylynch@aol.com, author of the ER (Elder Rights) Amendment and founder of ERA (Elder Rights Assoication) a grassroots effort to promote rights for elderly Americans. If you do not have any time to devote toward championing this great cause, you may perfer to make a donation. You may also help foster support and raise awareness and funds via the purchase of stylish ER (Elder Rights) Amendment promotional materials which feature the Statue of Liberty. See also the ER (Elder Rights) Statue of Liberty design, First Edition.
Thank you for your help and support!
Terry Lynch
Author of ER (Elder Rights) Amendment
Founder of ERA (Elder Rights Association)