From Janet Phelan–a call to the UN to aide and rescue the elders and can abusive guardianships equate to Torture under international treaties?

From: Janet Phelan <writejanet@live.com>
To: kenneth ditkowsky <kenditkowsky@yahoo.com>;
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 1:22 PM
Subject: RE: Request for Administrative Records

The human rights record of the US is at question here. If there is no redress within the US, it will be necessary to take it “outside the house.”

 
I spoke with the UN human rights office recently. When I said that I was calling on behalf of literally hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals who had experienced profound deprivation of rights in the US courts and I was therefore requesting information about filing under the applicable treaty org, the woman at the human rights office (NY UN) had a minor meltdown.
 
Well, good for her! There are now too many of us, and some, as you know, have incurred more of a personal “interest” and pursuant vendetta by our own government. And for what? For standing up for our parents and loved ones?  
 
The US will go down in history as an experiment which morphed to a brutal and oppressive regime. We will make the record, make the filing under the applicable treaty, send out the press releases and we shall see what transpires. The truth has a way of asserting itself, even under these oppressive circumstances.
 
As Bush said, “Let’s Roll!!” []
 
Thank you, 
 
Janet Phelan

in Exile 

Janet also asked that I post this information about torture.  As many of you are well aware, the elderly are often subject to forced psychotropic drugging, unnecessary and unwanted medical procedure to make money for miscreant hospitals and nursing homes–and this may fall under the guise of torture, as well as isolation from dozens of friends and family (mental torture) and forcing the person to live in a locked down nursing home while the family residence, vacation home and other properties are sold.  I am currently in a case where father is crying out to go home, he has the money and ability to go home, and Rehab assist sits there and listens to all of this and ignores it making $5,000 per month to be his “medical guardian.”  see below.

More from Janet

A movement is at foot to file with the United Nations concerning our guardianship cases. It is becoming painfully obvious that the United States government, whether it be the individual states departments of justice, the police, APS–whatever–have no intention of honoring our reports or affirming our lawsuits. We therefore need to move this forward on an international level.
 
The UN has jurisdiction when the United States has signed an international treaty. As the US rarely signs human rights treaties, we have determined that the best possible treaty for us to file under would be the Convention Against Torture. Here is a link to the Treaty:

 
 
Article 1 is of special interest:
 

PART I

Article 1

1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term “torture” means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.

As you can see, the wording in Article 1 actually applies to many of our cases!  We are therefore requesting that the recipients of this email send us a brief and concise (1-2 pages max) statement of your case, with emphasis on the issues that align with Article 1 of the Convention Against Torture. That means that your reports need to focus not so much on the financial issues, but rather on the pain and suffering. This particularly may reflect when the alleged incapacitated person is isolated from family and friends.
 
Please send your reports to writejanet@live.com and also to bstone12@hotmail.com
 
Together, we can beat this monster…..
 
Janet Phelan
 

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