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The Wounded
By JOHNNY DWYER

Published: March 27, 2005, The New York Times

The Wounded
Treating combat trauma on the ground in Iraq. Photographs by Lynsey Addario.

If the rates of survival are encouraging, for many injured soldiers the conditions of survival are not. ''You live,'' says Lt. Col. Craig Silverton, an orthopedic surgeon who has treated soldiers in Iraq, ''but you have these devastating injuries.'' Modern body armor helps spare the head, heart, lungs and other internal organs, but the areas that remain unprotected -- limbs, neck and face -- are exposed to explosive forces that were often fatal in previous wars. Amputation rates among soldiers, according to recent Congressional estimates, have doubled to 6 percent from the historic norm. Brain injuries are also common.

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The last sentence tells it all! Can't congress work out somekind of legislation that will protect these men, better than the "Disability Act" and the legislation that is supposed to keep in abayance (sp)the debts that they cannot pay on military pay.
When I first wrote to you I told you that Terry Schiavo was leading the way, now, more than just what I say will tell you that our veterans who have given so much and our elders are very much so at risk.
So please help to keep them from being starved and dehydrated to death. So far, Terri has hung on to life for 11 days with the bad heart her husband claims, these young men are in good physical shape, they will suffer more and longer.

Thank you,

The Wounded
By JOHNNY DWYER

Published: March 27, 2005, The New York Times

The Wounded
Treating combat trauma on the ground in Iraq. Photographs by Lynsey Addario.

If the rates of survival are encouraging, for many injured soldiers the conditions of survival are not. ''You live,'' says Lt. Col. Craig Silverton, an orthopedic surgeon who has treated soldiers in Iraq, ''but you have these devastating injuries.'' Modern body armor helps spare the head, heart, lungs and other internal organs, but the areas that remain unprotected -- limbs, neck and face -- are exposed to explosive forces that were often fatal in previous wars. Amputation rates among soldiers, according to recent Congressional estimates, have doubled to 6 percent from the historic norm. Brain injuries are also common.

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The last sentence tells it all! Can't congress work out somekind of legislation that will protect these men, better than the "Disability Act" and the legislation that is supposed to keep in abeyance (sp)the debts that they cannot pay on military pay.
When I first wrote to you I told you that Terry Schiavo was leading the way, now, more than just what I say will tell you that our veterans who have given so much and our elders are very much so at risk.
So please help to keep them from being starved and dehydrated to death. So far, Terri has hung on to life for 11 days with the bad heart her husband claims, these young men are in good physical shape, they will suffer more and longer.

Thank you,

The Wounded
By JOHNNY DWYER

Published: March 27, 2005, The New York Times

The Wounded
Treating combat trauma on the ground in Iraq. Photographs by Lynsey Addario.

If the rates of survival are encouraging, for many injured soldiers the conditions of survival are not. ''You live,'' says Lt. Col. Craig Silverton, an orthopedic surgeon who has treated soldiers in Iraq, ''but you have these devastating injuries.'' Modern body armor helps spare the head, heart, lungs and other internal organs, but the areas that remain unprotected -- limbs, neck and face -- are exposed to explosive forces that were often fatal in previous wars. Amputation rates among soldiers, according to recent Congressional estimates, have doubled to 6 percent from the historic norm. Brain injuries are also common.

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The last sentence tells it all! Can't congress work out somekind of legislation that will protect these men, better than the "Disability Act" and the legislation that is supposed to keep in abayance (sp)the debts that they cannot pay on military pay.
When I first wrote to you I told you that Terry Schiavo was leading the way, now, more than just what I say will tell you that our veterans who have given so much and our elders are very much so at risk.
So please help to keep them from being starved and dehydrated to death. So far, Terri has hung on to life for 11 days with the bad heart her husband claims, none of us can help her, these young men are in good physical shape, they will suffer more and longer.

Thank you,

Congratulations! I agree entirely, it is Terri's legacy that we continue her fight to save others who end up in this quagmire.

True, but we can certainly see those of Lisa McPherson, whose murder they are not prosecuting.
I, personally don't want to see Terri, I love her to much, and I've never met her!

It maybe part of the law, but is not routinely practiced. Go to "Justice for Florida's Seniors."

Was pulling the plug via starvation and dehydration?

As Terri’s legacy to us, we have to work, no we must work to change the laws that allow something like this to happen in this country, Florida is more perverse than most, but there are many more. When Florida has a legislator who writes publicly that she was going to change her vote until someone called her a name I became most worried. We have children going out and making pipe bombs or stealing weapons and going back to their schools and killing other students and teachers because they have been called names. But for a legislator to admit that being called a name was the reason she chose death over life is downright scary. Just as Michael’s choice of a terribly agonizing death over a lifetime of unconditional love is scary and indicative of the person he is. We cannot blame the Bush's, they did everything they could within the statutes we allowed our legislators to enact, and then some.

We must work to hold judges responsible for their actions or lack of actions when they fail to act when a crime is committed. Judge Greer failed to protect a young woman who asked for his protection and the protection of the court. He can never be held responsible for that action even though he is as responsible for her death as if he had placed the knife in her killer’s hand, because he allowed it to happen. While I don’t think he was a judge at the time, as a judge today, as every judge should, he should be actively pursuing or causing the pursuit of those who starved and dehydrated Lisa McPherson to death. There should be an investigation documented in the records of the court and there should be warrants for the arrest of the men whether they are within or beyond the boundaries of the United States. We do have international agreements providing for the extradition of such persons, but someone must pursue it, or it doesn’t happen. It should be mandatory, not something the judge or states attorney decides they want or don’t want to pursue. A murder was committed. A life was prematurely and perversely taken as documented by the autopsy report clearly indicates.

Incompetency/guardianship laws need to be changed. Lawyers who haunt rehab and phased life care centers should be disbarred period. No one should have a judgment of incompetency placed on them without a full conversation with the judge (face to face), no sooner than 3 months after any surgery or process requiring anesthesia or pain relief medication other than aspirin or similar OTC medication, and no attorney should be allowed to oversee the guardianship. When the incompetent person is so adjudged, the guardianship should include one medical representative, one family member, and one member of the clergy or advocate. When there is not a surviving family member, then another advocate, perhaps DCF, should be appointed. These guardians should not be in charge of their funds nor should they be allowed to dissipate any funds or assets, nor should the judge be allowed to dissipate those assets to provide for ANYTHING other than medical care or educational use. Where you have a parent whose spouse has died, then a petition to the court should be allowed to use funds to provide for educational and medical care of a minor, and they should be allowed physical guardianship of the minor until they reach their majority. Persons should be allowed to petition the court to re-instate their identities.
In the case of Terri, the spirit of the law was ignored. She is/was the victim of a judge who followed the letter of the law forgetting the balance of justice, the spirit of the law, as has been consistently upheld by other courts. The law was written for the terminally ill (i.e. dying of cancer or other diseases). Terri was never dying, but Judge Greer, ruled contrary (sp.) to the spirit of the law. Terri was also the victim of a man who has twice previously killed, who admitted on nationwide TV that he had no idea what her wishes were, and as such, who is a threat to every patient in any hospital, jail or clinic he may work in. She was the victim of an attorney who is certifiable and with a deep abiding interest in the “cleansing” of our society of the disabled and infirm, according to his own book.
We must change the law with the help of our legislators to eliminate the use of starvation and dehydration as a method of terminating any person’s life under any circumstances. The terminally ill who do not have a legally written living will, signed by their own hand, and sworn to in front of a legitimate notary, and who has made an informed decision, should not be forced to die at the hand of anyone under any circumstances, regardless of who makes the request. This case proved that women, in particular, are still chattel and that whatever their husband wants is what the court will approve. This is one reason why so many young women are remaining single, by choice, and raising their children as single parents. In fairness to 99.9% of men and women spouses in this world, most would not want to end a life to unburden themselves, but then we have Michael, who chooses death in agony over a lifetime of unconditional love. Witness Prince Ranier, who could have courted many women, he chose to honor of his marriage vows and I doubt very seriously that he would have chosen to kill Princess Grace regardless of her circumstances.
A right to die law should involve an informed decision regarding a persons own condition. Their request for assistance in dying should be signed by them, sworn to in front of a reputable notary, and witnessed by no fewer than 3 people. The assistance should not include the withholding of food and water. The terminally ill self-regulate regarding the ingestion of food and water. Death should be painless, and it should be administered by professionals who are able to judge the level of acuteness of the disease at the time, but at no time by the request of a spouse, child, or parent. PVS should not be a reason to kill. It has no clear and concise definition and therefore should not be included as a reason to terminate a person’s life. Withholding food and water to terminate a life allows us to terminate anyone’s life, without the clear definition above, and since all of us eat and drink, in fact we have to eat and drink to survive, should not be included in the definition of “artificial” life support.
So: eliminate starvation/dehydration as a means to terminate any life; change guardianship/incompetency laws to eliminate dissipation of funds; living will encouragement; depending on your point of view, a right to die law that clearly puts you in command, and holding judges responsible for errors in judgment and failure to act.
We should also try to help eliminate Medicare/Medicaid fraud by not allowing judges to place persons on it after allowing the dissipation of their funds for other than medical or educational uses. This is a major reason for the withholding of food and water to our disabled and seniors in the US. A person, anywhere in the United States, cannot afford to live on the allowance of Medicare/Medicaid, so hospices, phased care retirement facilities, etc., cannot keep these people and make the profit their stockholders demand. Florida is owed $14 million in medicare fraud by Terri’s hospice chain, but no one is collecting it, why not?

As Terri’s legacy to us, we have to work, no we must work to change the laws that allow something like this to happen in this country, Florida is more perverse than most, but there are many more. When Florida has a legislator who writes publicly that she was going to change her vote until someone called her a name I became most worried. We have children going out and making pipe bombs or stealing weapons and going back to their schools and killing other students and teachers because they have been called names. But for a legislator to admit that being called a name was the reason she chose death over life is downright scary. Just as Michael’s choice of a terribly agonizing death over a lifetime of unconditional love is scary and indicative of the person he is. We cannot blame the Bush's, they did everything they could within the statutes we allowed our legislators to enact, and then some.

We must work hold judges responsible for their actions or lack of actions when they fail to act when a crime is committed. Judge Greer failed to protect a young woman who asked for his protection and the protection of the court. He can never be held responsible for that action even though he is as responsible for her death as if he had placed the knife in her killer’s hand, because he allowed it to happen. While I don’t think he was a judge at the time, as a judge today, as every judge should, he should be actively pursuing or causing the pursuit of those who starved and dehydrated Lisa McPherson to death. There should be an investigation documented in the records of the court and there should be warrants for the arrest of the men whether they are within or beyond the boundaries of the United States. We do have international agreements providing for the extradition of such persons, but someone must pursue it, or it doesn’t happen. It should be mandatory, not something the judge or states attorney decides they want or don’t want to pursue. A murder was committed. A life was prematurely and perversely taken as documented by the autopsy report clearly indicates.

Incompetency/guardianship laws need to be changed. Lawyers who haunt rehab and phased life care centers should be disbarred period. No one should have a judgment of incompetency placed on them without a full conversation with the judge (face to face), no sooner than 3 months after any surgery or process requiring anesthesia or pain relief medication other than aspirin or similar OTC medication, and no attorney should be allowed to oversee the guardianship. When the incompetent person is so adjudged, the guardianship should include one medical representative, one family member, and one member of the clergy or advocate. When there is not a surviving family member, then another advocate, perhaps DCF, should be appointed. These guardians should not be in charge of their funds nor should they be allowed to dissipate any funds or assets, nor should the judge be allowed to dissipate those assets to provide for ANYTHING other than medical care or educational use. Where you have a parent whose spouse has died, then a petition to the court should be allowed to use funds to provide for educational and medical care of a minor, and they should be allowed physical guardianship of the minor until they reach their majority. Persons should be allowed to petition the court to re-instate their identities.
In the case of Terri, the spirit of the law was ignored. She is/was the victim of a judge who followed the letter of the law forgetting the balance of justice, the spirit of the law, as has been consistently upheld by other courts. The law was written for the terminally ill (i.e. dying of cancer or other diseases). Terri was never dying, but Judge Greer, ruled contrary (sp.) to the spirit of the law. Terri was also the victim of a man who has twice previously killed, who admitted on nationwide TV that he had no idea what her wishes were, and as such, who is a threat to every patient in any hospital, jail or clinic he may work in. She was the victim of an attorney who is certifiable and with a deep abiding interest in the “cleansing” of our society of the disabled and infirm, according to his own book.
We must change the law with the help of our legislators to eliminate the use of starvation and dehydration as a method of terminating any person’s life under any circumstances. The terminally ill who do not have a legally written living will, signed by their own hand, and sworn to in front of a legitimate notary, and who has made an informed decision, should not be forced to die at the hand of anyone under any circumstances, regardless of who makes the request. This case proved that women, in particular, are still chattel and that whatever their husband wants is what the court will approve. This is one reason why so many young women are remaining single, by choice, and raising their children as single parents. In fairness to 99.9% of men and women spouses in this world, most would not want to end a life to unburden themselves, but then we have Michael, who chooses death in agony over a lifetime of unconditional love. Witness Prince Ranier, who could have courted many women, he chose to honor of his marriage vows and I doubt very seriously that he would have chosen to kill Princess Grace regardless of her circumstances.
A right to die law should involve an informed decision regarding a persons own condition. Their request for assistance in dying should be signed by them, sworn to in front of a reputable notary, and witnessed by no fewer than 3 people. The assistance should not include the withholding of food and water. The terminally ill self-regulate regarding the ingestion of food and water. Death should be painless, and it should be administered by professionals who are able to judge the level of acuteness of the disease at the time, but at no time by the request of a spouse, child, or parent. PVS should not be a reason to kill. It has no clear and concise definition and therefore should not be included as a reason to terminate a person’s life. Withholding food and water to terminate a life allows us to terminate anyone’s life, without the clear definition above, and since all of us eat and drink, in fact we have to eat and drink to survive, should not be included in the definition of “artificial” life support.
So: eliminate starvation/dehydration as a means to terminate any life; change guardianship/incompetency laws to eliminate dissipation of funds; living will encouragement; depending on your point of view, a right to die law that clearly puts you in command, and holding judges responsible for errors in judgment and failure to act.
We should also try to help eliminate Medicare/Medicaid fraud by not allowing judges to place persons on it after allowing the dissipation of their funds for other than medical or educational uses. This is a major reason for the withholding of food and water to our disabled and seniors in the US. A person, anywhere in the United States, cannot afford to live on the allowance of Medicare/Medicaid, so hospices, phased care retirement facilities, etc., cannot keep these people and make the profit their stockholders demand. Florida is owed $14 million in medicare fraud by Terri’s hospice chain, but no one is collecting it, why not?

As Terri’s legacy to us, we have to work, no we must work to change the laws that allow something like this to happen in this country, Florida is more perverse than most, but there are many more. When Florida has a legislator who writes publicly that she was going to change her vote until someone called her a name I became most worried. We have children going out and making pipe bombs or stealing weapons and going back to their schools and killing other students and teachers because they have been called names. But for a legislator to admit that being called a name was the reason she chose death over life is downright scary. Just as Michael’s choice of a terribly agonizing death over a lifetime of unconditional love is scary and indicative of the person he is. We cannot blame the Bush's, they did everything they could within the statutes we allowed our legislators to enact, and then some.

We must work to hold judges responsible for their actions or lack of actions when they fail to act when a crime is committed. Judge Greer failed to protect a young woman who asked for his protection and the protection of the court. He can never be held responsible for that action even though he is as responsible for her death as if he had placed the knife in her killer’s hand, because he allowed it to happen. While I don’t think he was a judge at the time, as a judge today, as every judge should, he should be actively pursuing or causing the pursuit of those who starved and dehydrated Lisa McPherson to death. There should be an investigation documented in the records of the court and there should be warrants for the arrest of the men whether they are within or beyond the boundaries of the United States. We do have international agreements providing for the extradition of such persons, but someone must pursue it, or it doesn’t happen. It should be mandatory, not something the judge or states attorney decides they want or don’t want to pursue. A murder was committed. A life was prematurely and perversely taken as documented by the autopsy report.

Incompetency/guardianship laws need to be changed. Lawyers who haunt rehab and phased life care centers should be disbarred period. No one should have a judgment of incompetency placed on them without a full conversation with the judge (face to face), no sooner than 3 months after any surgery or process requiring anesthesia or pain relief medication other than aspirin or similar OTC medication, and no attorney should be allowed to oversee the guardianship. When the incompetent person is so adjudged, the guardianship should include one medical representative, one family member, and one member of the clergy or advocate. When there is not a surviving family member, then another advocate, perhaps DCF, should be appointed. These guardians should not be in charge of their funds nor should they be allowed to dissipate any funds or assets, nor should the judge be allowed to dissipate those assets to provide for ANYTHING other than medical care or educational use. Where you have a parent whose spouse has died, then a petition to the court should be allowed to use funds to provide for educational and medical care of a minor, and they should be allowed physical guardianship of the minor until they reach their majority. Persons should be allowed to petition the court to re-instate their identities.
In the case of Terri, the spirit of the law was ignored. She is/was the victim of a judge who followed the letter of the law forgetting the balance of justice, the spirit of the law, as has been consistently upheld by other courts. The law was written for the terminally ill (i.e. dying of cancer or other diseases). Terri was never dying, but Judge Greer, ruled contrary (sp.) to the spirit of the law. Terri was also the victim of a man who has twice previously killed, who admitted on nationwide TV that he had no idea what her wishes were, and as such, who is a threat to every patient in any hospital, jail or clinic he may work in. She was the victim of an attorney who is certifiable and with a deep abiding interest in the “cleansing” of our society of the disabled and infirm, according to his own book.

We must change the law with the help of our legislators to eliminate the use of starvation and dehydration as a method of terminating any person’s life under any circumstances. The terminally ill who do not have a legally written living will, signed by their own hand, and sworn to in front of a legitimate notary, and who has made an informed decision, should not be forced to die at the hand of anyone under any circumstances, regardless of who makes the request. This case proved that women, in particular, are still chattel and that whatever their husband wants is what the court will approve. This is one reason why so many young women are remaining single, by choice, and raising their children as single parents. In fairness to 99.9% of men and women spouses in this world, most would not want to end a life to unburden themselves, but then we have Michael, who chooses death in agony over a lifetime of unconditional love. Witness Prince Ranier, who could have courted many women, he chose to honor of his marriage vows and I doubt very seriously that he would have chosen to kill Princess Grace regardless of her circumstances.
A right to die law should involve an informed decision regarding a persons own condition. Their request for assistance in dying should be signed by them, sworn to in front of a reputable notary, and witnessed by no fewer than 3 people. The assistance should not include the withholding of food and water. The terminally ill self-regulate regarding the ingestion of food and water. Death should be painless, and it should be administered by professionals who are able to judge the level of acuteness of the disease at the time, but at no time by the request of a spouse, child, or parent. PVS should not be a reason to kill. It has no clear and concise definition and therefore should not be included as a reason to terminate a person’s life. Withholding food and water to terminate a life allows us to terminate anyone’s life, without the clear definition above, and since all of us eat and drink, in fact we have to eat and drink to survive, should not be included in the definition of “artificial” life support.
So: eliminate starvation/dehydration as a means to terminate any life; change guardianship/incompetency laws to eliminate dissipation of funds; living will encouragement; depending on your point of view, a right to die law that clearly puts you in command, and enact laws holding judges responsible for errors in judgment and failure to act. (Note: capital cases are judged by a jury and therefore a judge would not be held responsible in such a case, not should they.)
We should also try to help eliminate Medicare/Medicaid fraud by not allowing judges to place persons on it after allowing the dissipation of their funds for other than medical or educational uses. This is a major reason for the withholding of food and water to our disabled and seniors in the US. A person, anywhere in the United States, cannot afford to live on the allowance of Medicare/Medicaid, so hospices, phased care retirement facilities, etc., cannot keep these people and make the profit their stockholders demand. Florida is owed $14 million in medicare fraud by Terri’s hospice chain, but no one is collecting it, why not?

I thought your post was for real. Sorry, I still can't laugh.

My gracious, she is scared to death. I hope DCF reads that and interviews her without anyone present except her attorney and is totally prepared to put her under protective custody. I can't imagine anyone being more scared than when they are afraid that their spouse might litigate them PVS because they are asleep. Of course, the only narcoleptics I've known could be awakened easily and would just pop off back to sleep a little later. I think this Hoe is petrified.

I don't know how to laugh on this thing, but too right!

Your tagline is wonderful too!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, and she is very very pro euthanasia, at least so she says.

Did I read that her brother was upset because people called her a wXXXe? I don't know another descriptive pronoun, though Jodi does come to mind.
A friend once told me when we were discussing some of our students. "A boy can fool around and he is just sowing some wild oats, but a girl that does is a Hoe all of her life.

scientologist's business is two fold, must produce money or you must be snuffed, that sounds like a business to me, especially since their tithe runs about 55% of your gross, even worse than Uncle.

You sure do! Feinstein is all for euthanasia and so is Boxer. You can start by getting them voted out! Both are also two-faced, Feinstein hates guns and yet she carries two because her life is more important to protect than any one elses.
California is also the "Super" home of scientology, if you take them one you'll find yourself in the same position as McPherson's parents.

Did you notice, her brother has to stay with her because she is afraid. Yeah, of Michael.
Who would want her, your right she would be alone. MEN don't usually look for women who have participated actively in killing a human being off the battlefield, nor are they usually anxious to raise the offspring of a killer. Her kids are marked and branded for life just as she is and as Michael is. They will never escape it. Kids, friends, friends of friends, the whole thing will simmer.
Michael has already admitted that he didn't know what Terri would want, but this is what WE want. This was on national TV seen by millions. So Michael has not only purgered himself, but is a killer.
Michael is also in charge of other people's lives when he works at a jail or a hospital or in a doctors office. He has admitted to killing 3 people with purpose, would you want to be in the hospital where he works and has access to whatever he wants so as to satisfy his insatiable desire to kill. I'm so sorry for the people in the jail because they have no choice, I feel sorry for the people in the hospital because they too are brain dead.

Does anyone have the name of the 3 men who took Lisa McPherson out of the hospital and then fled the country? Do you know if they are back? Is there a warrant for their arrest? Was there ever a warrent for their arrest?
I can't remember the McKibben ladies first name and I'm not sure I have her last name spelled correctly, will someone out there supply infor if you have it.

The truth is that we live under a judiciary that is as dishonest, deceitful and disgusting as they come.
1. Accepted hearsay of one man.
2. Allowed the word of one man to take the life of another.
3. Allowed a judge who was asked to recuse himself for fear to remain seated on any court anywhere at anytime.
4. This nation is now at least as divided as it was in 1861.
5. One judge who is opinionated with hate has torn us asunder and rent the seams and fabric of this nation.
6. Will I as a person re-elect any judicial figure in this nation. No, if they are incumbent I would rather vote for a cocker spaniel, at least he is cute and wags his tail.
7. Would I allow Michael Schiavo to be a licensed nurse, no I would not.
8. Would I allow Michael Schiavo to work in the same hospital where I was going to take a loved one. No I would travel a thousand miles first.
9. The terminally ill self-regulate, you don't have to starve them or dehydrate them, they do it themselves.
10. Should we have a right-to-die law, probably, but it needs wise men to write it, and our judiciary should not be a part of its writing. The right to die is personal, but your requests need to be well documented in writing, not based on the word of any three people that it is your wish.
11. Food and water are a privilege that this nation has, other nations don't, but we withhold it from the innocent.
12. I don't want to hear any one talking about the other nations who regularly trade in genocide such as the tribal wars in the Sudan. We are hipocritical to interfere, for this nation has joined the ranks of nations practicing genocide, no different that Saddam gasing the Kurds.
13. I fear for our veterans coming home wounded, this precedent just makes Greer and his cronies richer. I fear for our seniors who they adjudicate to be incompetent so that their buddies can become professional guardians and sell the assets for 50% or less of market value, probably to their friends, lawyers and judges, and the dissipate the remainder with phony and grossly inflated legal fees which probate judges in Florida and more than likely every where else seem to allow. We used to hang thieves, now we turn them into judges.
14. The State of Florida even has a Senator who believes that a human life has the value of her being called names. Excuse me? Isn't that why we have students shooting students?
15. Florida seems to have $14 million in medicare fraud and there doesn't seem to be anyone collecting it. In California they take the cost of your license plates right out of your bank account, without your permission, why doesn't the State of Florida refuse these people additional services.
More later, have to go to work so that I can contribute to judicial homicide, theft of senior funds, medicare fraud, and loss of the values this nation was built on.