Dark Rainbow: Gotta' Love The Sound Of That For An FBI Investigation.

     I have been providing all data and information relevant to my concerns about the extensive corruption in Arizona's public administration to each, every, any and all federal agency in the book for over six full months now, with a focus on  material relating to those agencies or offices specifically assigned to overseeing the affairs of The Arizona State Hospital, such as The Department of Health Services Office of Grievances and Appeals, and the Office of the Arizona Attorney General. As the people across the nation are increasingly learning
more and more about Arizona's most scandalous decade in years via the popular press and even through the presence of relatively uncommon informational resources such as my blog, (and Arizona has a markedly dirty history in general, as all Americans know, so that's some mighty serious scandal to have to live up to), it is only a matter of time before the proverbial shit hits the fan, and I intend to be right there when it flies in the faces of the various individuals whom I have thus far identified in terms of my central concerns about ASH. 
     The only long term public mental health facility in the entire state of Arizona (ASH) has been operating a level of graphically substandard mental and medical health care for a very, very long time, which is nothing unique in terms of other like state managed (American) mental health facilities. From one state hospital to the next, across the board for the most part, federal authorities have always had to directly intervene- from time to time, throughout modern history- with any given state's authority over facilities such as ASH, and order the administrators of these facilities to get up to speed with established federal codes of patient care as these standards have evolved over the years. (To my knowledge, the last time that ASH was subject to federal intervention in this context was in the mid to late 1990s.) 
     And consistent with how state's oh-so typically react to such intervention, hospital administrators in mental facilities generally do nothing more than they absolutely have to, inching no more than they determine they absolutely must in order get out from under the applied federal oversight at that point in time (determinations established behind close doors and with the advice and consult of attorneys, e.g. state attorney generals, etc.). This pattern is no more brightly evident than in the case of state mental hospitals. 

     Why? I will tell you why: It is due to the simple fact that seriously mentally ill and disabled persons have little to no voice, particularly when they are hidden behind the fences and walls of a place like ASH- and the staff at ASH know it. They know this- that their actual clients are next to helpless in terms of meaningfully expressing themselves- and they feed on it. And in the case of the majority of ASH staff at this time, these basic features of character and professional immorality does- in fact- illustrate the exact sort of doctors and administrators who choose to work in places like ASH. I attest to this, as per my observations and experiences during thirteen full months of hospitalization at ASH.     

     Meanwhile, via the input of the goddamned attorneys, (men like Joel "the mortician" Rudd), and directly related exploitations of the bureaucratic entanglements by which the federal government involves itself in state affairs of this sort, hospital administrators far too typically fall immediately back into preserving the status quo and related substandard conditions that led to the federal governments intervention in the first place.  This, again, is not unique in terms of the drawn out history of state mental hospitals, but in Arizona, it is standard practice. Absolute dereliction of duty and clear breaches of the public trust. All at the expense of Arizona's collective taxpaying citizens.  
     That said, in terms of the care needs and fundamental rights of the seriously mentally ill and disabled patients at ASH, I strongly feel that it is high time to stir up the pot again in the state of Arizona, and nothing short of federal intervention initiated and applied to the direct and immediate benefit of ASH' patients and their families will suffice at this time. 
  
Dark Rainbow, by the way, was the file name created by and utilized in the FBI's recent investigation of Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, who has by now fallen into a pattern of patently denying increasingly obvious wrongdoing on his part, which is just one more confirmation of how distorted the management of Arizona is today. Only in Arizona.      

     I am in the midst of balancing act of sorts right now, for there are several new developments in relation to my activities specific to this journal that need to be kept under wraps for a moment or two, but I will have new updates specific to the work that I and my associates have been engaged in of late. I can, however, confirm that I have established a reasonably firm working relationship with an editor, publishing house, and writing agent, and as of late last week, I am directly collaborating with a nationally syndicated reporting agency/staff (press). A manuscript, herein, is in formation. 

IN CLOSING: The wheels are spinning, as such, but the patients at The Arizona State Hospital are still being subjected to the graphically illustrated ineptitude of every high ranking state employee directly involved with their care, which effectively means that the abuse is ongoing and that my work is far from done. I am no less compelled at this time to carry whatever momentum I have thus far generated to the virtual ends of the earth in this context than I was from that point in my experiences at ASH that I came realize- like a seven ton elephant squatting on my foot- that the clinicians and administrators at ASH are operating that facility at a level of grossly substandard mental-medical health care and practices- and they are getting away with it, day in and day out. With this fact in mind, and as one of my best friends put it the other day (an attorney whom I have been close to for over 30 years): Take no prisoners.    

     The Arizona State Hospital is the only long term public mental health facility in the entire state, and the administrators and senior clinicians there are engaged in ongoing violations of their obligations to the citizens of Arizona as a matter of standard practice. And as with any situation where you have an organization or agency directly responsible for the care of vulnerable persons, the worst consequences of this reality lands square on the heads of the seriously mentally disabled patients at ASH. Patient abuse is sickening to the conscience, highly illegal, and patently unacceptable to any moral person in America today. Please see my April 30,  2012 "Resource Ideas" article and do whatever you can today to support the rights and protect the care needs of ASH's patients today.

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