Whether the subject is the veteran’s administration which works to prevent vets from receiving PTSD assistance or we’re talking about residential schools for the mentally ill or people with severe developmental disabilities the fact is that management is utterly broken. One cannot employ the word “corruption” since corruption depends by extension on the presence of an otherwise honorable system. In effect we’re seeing a vast network of sub-corruption which has been made possible by heartless underfunding and eager bureaucratic neglect. Dave Reynolds over at Inclusion Daily Express has posted the following editorial which we in turn share below. We think outrage should be in order. We think that in human and moral terms the AIG story is nothing compared to this.
S.K.
Casey: State School Fights Are Symptom Of Sick System
(Houston Chronicle)
March 11, 2009
HOUSTON, TEXAS– [Excerpt] Football star Michael Vick got 23 months for arranging dogfights.
What should the punishment be for staffers at the Corpus Christi State School if they are found guilty of entertaining themselves by arranging unwilling fights between severely mentally disabled residents?
Police say they have a cell phone videotape clearly showing an “organized” event in which as many as 11 staffers are seen cajoling, taunting and pushing residents into fights.
It is a barbaric impulse that goes back at least to the Romans, who amused themselves by forcing slaves to fight each other to the death as gladiators, or Christians to fight lions.
Entire article:
Casey: State school fights are symptom of sick system
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6304217.html
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