Archive for May, 2012
OPWDD or DASNY Smoking Gun?
Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 August 2012 11:10 Written by harris Sunday, 20 May 2012 08:19
According to the Free On-line Dictionary: “smoking gun” is a noun: “Chiefly US and Canadian: a piece of irrefutable incriminating evidence.”
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OPWDD Farce and Abuse
Last Updated on Friday, 11 May 2012 01:35 Written by harris Friday, 11 May 2012 01:34
A Message from Commissioner Burke:
“It takes just one person speaking out against abuse and neglect to ensure that individuals with developmental disabilities live their lives with the dignity and safety every person deserves. I am asking you to please join OPWDD’s statewide “I Spoke Out” campaign, and speak up for someone who may be unable — or afraid — to speak up for themselves. Just one person can make all the difference. OPWDD has zero tolerance for abuse. Each of us has an obligation to speak out when we witness or suspect abuse or neglect.” [Commissioner Burke]
Burke set forth the logo “I spoke out” to seemingly incentivize people to speak out against abuse. She even had the gall to assert that one person can make a difference. But an entire community can not make a difference? Apparently so. For the folks of Middlesex and the victims of the IRA debacle, the additional text is more appropriate: “And Cumo and Burke didn’t listen.” So print it out, cut it out, and wear it proudly to our meetings, and to media events.
Then write to Cuomo and to Burke with the “I spoke out” logo above at the top of your letter. And pointout that you are merely reporting an abuse: by Commissioner Burke of the people displaced from their long term home so that sex offenders and worse can be inserted into a community that is also being abused by such governmental arrogance and insensitivity!
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