The above story found its ways to a group of citizen who were preparing a proposal for the 2008 DNC with respect to reformation of the elder care system in America. They wanted to reprint the account of my dear mother's exploitation in their review of elder exploitation cases in America. Those who are interested in reformation of the elder care system and are not yet convienced how greatly this is needed, may wish to read the rest of the story which was related as follows:

In my own dear mother's case this is like an on-going, recurrent nightmare and it is just horrible to not be able to stop her financial rape, robbery and exploitation. I did not mention earlier in the tale of my grief stricken dear mother certain specifics and facts, as I have been victimized by these people myself and am afraid they will continue efforts to persecute me. I was actually arrested in the middle of the night by a gang of sheriffs sent to my home by order of Reese McKinney, Jr., a Montgomery County Probate judge, the same judge who declared my dear mother a ward of the state of Alabama and who in my opinion has benefited from her systematic financial rape, robbery and exploitation.

The Montgomery County Probate Judge tried to declare me insane to keep me from being able to stop the exploitation of my dear mother and to have her transferred to a different location. This may have also protected Jackson Hospital from a malpractice claim, as the same judge was on the Board of Directors of that hospital when my dear mother was treated; said hospital had no psychiatric department to do a proper evaluation of my dear mother and approved her for admission to the same nursing home where she remains a virtual prisoner until this very day. The hospital may have also been involved in malpractice in other respects, but as the court acted to remove me from the picture, and financially rape, rob and exploit me and my dear mother, I was not able to bring a claim against said hospital.

After I was taken from my home in the middle of the night, hand cuffed by this gang of sheriff thugs, who took me to the emergency room of Baptist Hospital, I was subjected to the invasion of my personal privacy. I was humiliated by having my entire body examined, subjected to X-rayes, forced to sign a stack of documents, forced to give blood, and kept in a lock-down facility for three days, being forced to submit to examination by psychiatrists. Then I was shackled and chained and paraded in front of the court like a common criminal. I was treated like a slave, brought before the public court in chains and shackles, forced to defend myself while appearing as a criminal. Yet I had done nothing but to love my dear mother, honor her wishes, try to protect her dependent son (my dear brother Larry, who has mental retardation) and be an advocate for her wishes and desires.

Their was a hearing and testimony was given against me; I was not able to call anyone in my defense as this would have taken time to arrange and prior to this kangaroo type court mokery of justice I had been locked away for three days! Yet I was found to be perfectly sane, because I am perfectly sane, reasonable and responsible -- the psychiatrist could not find anything wrong with me because there is NOT anything wrong with me! I just love my dear mother and have tried to be her advocate and prevent others from exploiting her. But that is NOT insane; that is LOVE! Loving and respecting one's parents and honoring their wishes in NOT insanity!

This was a horrible thing that the corrupt courts and others tried to do which was a form of defamation done to prejudice the court against me and justify their action in appointing a non-relative guardian/conservator against my dear mother's expressed wishes. You see, it gave the court appointed attorney an excuse for recommending that non-relative court appointed guardian/conservator be appointed. Why how could a court appointed lawyer make any other recommendation as I had just been arrested by the same court and had a hearing which questioned my sanity! Even if I was not found to be insane, certainly I was not fit to be guardian/conservator for my mother, as how could anyone be so appointed by a court when their sanity had been questioned! You see, I was unjustly accused, humiliated, treated like a common criminal, like a slave in shackles and chains, all so that the court could take power and control of my dear mother and financially rape, rob and exploite me and her for every last cent they could get! And it worked! They eventually got a small fortune and continue to reap the rewards from this awful, criminal act, because in Alabama this is how the elderly are treated, not like human being, but like property, like slaves!

After I was freed from this false imprisonment, I was still frightened by what they might do next, so I made arrangement to leave the state of Alabama. But within 30 days I was slammed with a law suit in my mother's own name -- filed by the very same lawyers the court had appointed to be my dear mother's guardian/conservator! So I was correct in acting to leave the state of Alabama as I was being targeted by these people for destruction. They could not silence me by a fraudulent insanity claim; so now they sued me in my mother's own name! This was simply incredible and despicable, as I have always loved and honored my dear mother and her wishes!

This was a terrible, terrible thing for them to do because my dear mother and I have always had a loving, caring, mutual relationship and she made specific plans for everything she wanted which I was following. But these people wanted my house and property -- everything! So they sued me in my mother's own name, something she would NEVER in her right mind have done. Talk about insanity, this was insane for the court to sue me in my mother's name! This was legalized insanity! The courts were acting insane to do such a vial act! Although I fought the claim, this cost thousands of dollars and even though they did not get my home, this literally bankrupted me and my home was lost through foreclosure -- which I believe was illegal under the extenuating circumstances.

I exhausted all funds I had trying to fight these corrupt people and left the state of Alabama, fearing they would try to throw me in jail if I continued to fight for my dear mother's rights. When I made it clear that I refused to cooperate with the court by sending a bill to the court appointed lawyer who was exploiting my dear mother, I received a letter from the court threatening to hold me in contempt of court and to arrest me. In other words, they were going to try to stop me from advocating my dear mother's rights by arresting me and throwing me in jail! So I was smart to leave the state of Alabama. I then started the Elder Rights Association, an on-line educational and informational resource. I also started an on-line effort to campaign calling for the resignation of Montgomery County Probate Judge Reese McKinney, Jr., who was involved in my dear mother's case. I made WANTED posters calling for the resignation of this judge. Remember, this is the judge who order my arrest and false imprisonment based upon fraudulent claims that I was insane! This was without a doubt a slap in the face of this judge and the court corruption which has acted to financially rape, rob and destroy my dear mother's family. And in Alabama if you speak your mind and defy the corrupt courts, it gets you arrested! There is no freedom of speech in Alabama, not when it comes to the corruption of the courts and how they feed like sharkes upon the elderly, the incapacitated and those who cannot speak for themselves and stand up against greedy judges, lawyers and nursing home administrator who seek only money, money, and more money!

Wanted: Resignation of Reese McKinney, Jr.

Plus I made Ditch Reese T-shirts and bumper stickers, all which I'm sure would have gotten me arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, because such advocacy would be regarded as "contempt of court."

Ditch Reese McKinney on Nov. 7th!
It's the sensible thing to do!

Also, I told the story about my dear mother and posted it for everyone to read upon the Internet and made videos to retell the story which are posted on YouTube. So in this particular judge's eyes I am certainly in contempt of him, even thought I have NOT done anything illegal. I have simply tried to be an advocate for my dear mother, who appointed me to be her attorney-in-fact and advocate for the duration of her life! That is my mother's wish and I will continue to honor my dear mother until the day she departs this good Earth, regardless of what the courts of Alabama and corrupt judges may order!

Yes, I may seem a bit rebellious in this regard, but I am NOT crazy. Since when is it crazy to honor the wishes of one's parents when those wishes were made voluntarily and with a clear mind? Of course in honoring and advocating my dear mother's wishes above those of the court which I view as corrupt and exploitive, I am now afraid to step foot in Montgomery County. The particular judge who so dishonored and disrespected my dear mother's wishes could try to have me arrested to shut me up. After all, I have published WANTED posters calling for him to resign and I've made bumper stickers which say "Ditch Reese McKinney!" Why in Alabama that is enough to get you thrown in jail for contempt of court. So it was quite sensible and sane that I leave Alabama or I'd probably have been shackled and chained and forced to work upon the chain gangs, had the corrupted judges of Alabama the beautiful had their way.

This is an extreme example of how the corrupt systems acts to destroy families in Alabama. It takes away all financial resources and then tries to get all property. I lost my home and everything that my dear parents worked so hard for that their children might have a better life. What is particularly terrible about this is that I am the one person in all the world who my mother trusted to make decisions for her should she ever become incapacitated. I was the one who she made her attorney-in-fact in 1995. We had a bond of love and trust and I continue to fight for her and to advocate for her and will do so even after she is gone. That love is something these corrupt courts and greedy people can never take away.

Also what is so terrible about my dear mother's situation is that she was targeted for exploitation because she is the widow of a US Army officer and has tremendous benefits. She could be at the best nursing home facility in the country. She does not have to be imprisoned in a small, noisy concrete block prison-like cell room behind electric doors and iron gates in Montgomery, Alabama. She probably does not have to be in a nursing home at all, as she probably qualifies for free care in a facility operated by the Veterans Administration; or perhaps in-home care may have been arranged. Yet these corrupt and greedy people have acted so as to exploit my dear mother, to financially rape and rob her and to endeavor to defame and impoverish the single person who has stood up to advocate her rights, health and welfare as per her expressed wishes and instructions.

It is just horrible how this was done so systematically and with malice, given the extreme methods used to intimidate me and force me to leave the state of Alabama. Yet that was the only way I could continue to fight for my dear mother's rights, to tell her story to the world and be sure that I would not hear a gang of Montgomery County sheriffs banging upon my door at night to arrest me, take my computer, throw me in jail and destroy all the work I have done to support my dear mother and try to tell her story to the world. After what they already did and the threats that were made, I am sure that may have been their next move, so I left the state of Alabama and have not returned, for I fear now, more than ever, as soon as these corrupt officials got wind I was in Alabama, they would send their thugs to get me!

It is a horrible that this type of persecution is going on in America! I always thought we had freedom of speech in America. Yet these people have tried to silence me. They do not want anyone to know how my dear mother has been financially raped, robbed and exploited. They do not want anyone to see the truth. They want only to keep taking and taking all the money they can get, to bleed my dear mother dry, to milk her for every last cent of benefits they can get! But what is even more horrible is that this is not just happening to me and to my dear mother, it is happening to many, many others who have no one to witness the abuse, no one to see the exploitation, no one to stand up and fight for them, as everyone in their lives who loved them has already gone to meet their maker.

My dear mother's case is unique because although her husband, my dear father, is dead, I am alive and am an honorable persons, just as was my dear father. He was a most decorated and valiant officer who fought in WWII, the Korean conflict, the Cold War and did duty during Vietnam. One thing I learned from my dear father is to fight corruptions, to stand up against those who would threaten one's country, one/s home, one's life. Yet the threats which my father sacrificed so much for came from our enemies abroad. He would never have imagined that an enemy exist within our own nation, in our own backyard -- and that enemy is the corrupt and broken elder care system ruled and administered by greedy lawyers, judges and nursing home administrators. It is a monster, an evil dragon, that hordes its lair of gold exploited from the elderly and incapacitated!

Everything my parents sacrificed so much for has been lost to these greedy bastards! That is how my father would have said it, as he spoke the truth and called a kettle black when a kettle was black! There is a rotten filth festering, destroying homes, families, and lives. It is perhaps a greater and more real threat to America than any terrorists, for it effects and threatens the majority of people, all who have parents or grandparents who one day will grow too old to care for themselves -- and that includes everyone should we survive long enough to become senior citizens.

It is probably too late to help my dear mother who is a virtual prisoner in a nursing home in Montgomery, Alabama. She will probably die alone, separated from her family, from me, the one person who should be by her side when she departs this good earth. I was with my dear father when he died of heart failure. I tried to blow life back into his body as he lay in my arms. But God works in mysterious ways and called him to His side. One day He will call my dear mother and I will not be there because the corrupt and broken elder care system in Alabama has separated a mother from her child ... and we are always our parent's children no matter how old we grow.

Perhaps if there is anything good to come from how my dear mother has been financially raped, robbed and exploited by greedy and corrupt individuals, is that others may now see what is going on, and thus through enlightenment, take action to reform the elder care system such that we act not in our own selfish interest, but respect the wishes of our parents and grandparents, and do as they wish be done, not what we as judges, lawyers or nursing home administrators wish be done. For it is all too evident that power and money corrupts, and the elderly and incapacitated are helpless to defend themselves against the onslaught, against the dark forces which will leave them penniless and naked to die alone in concrete block nursing home cells.

Terry Lynch
Founder, Elder Rights Association

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