Chapter
12
The Scales of Justice
I have been a
friend of this woman for the best part of 20 years. Over these 20 years we have
remained firm friends and she worked for my company in the USA (San Jose) on
many occasions and subsequently as a representative in Hong Kong and Singapore.
I have read this
doctor’s report (or should that be
doctored) and although I am no psychiatrist I find many of the comments
regarding this woman’s supposed personality disorder very difficult to take in.
The assessment is based mainly on medical records which on reading them I can
see that they are highly inaccurate. I note one incident was supposed to have
happened in the UK when in
fact she was in America
as her passport confirms. If she was in the UK at that time I was never aware
she had the ability to travel independently at the speed of light.
I am well aware
that she had had childhood problems she had never denied them, more importantly
I know this woman as a caring intelligent
adult. We all do things in your teens and early twenties that in hindsight were
not the best decisions we ever made. Those who have sailed through life and
never did anything wrong or made a bad decision are to me people who frankly
have never experienced much of a life.
I know her as a
strong and determined woman with a mind of her own. This doctor appears to use
history to determine how she is now. I feel that his conclusions are entirely
wrong and without firm base. This woman had faced her previous problems face
on; she did not hide the pain this caused her. It was a struggle for her and
her determination to put her past behind her was obvious to all who know her.
It was a fight she won.
In recent years
she has been a great help to me. I have suffered many medical and personal problems.
She looked after me when I had a heart attack. She gave me support when my
sister suffered and eventually died with cancer.
When I read this
assessment I feel he is taking small parts of her life and blowing them out of
all proportion. There is constant reference to negative little incidents.
It is as if he could find nothing substantial and concentrated on the small
insignificant stuff with a view to making them appear important.
He cherry picked
items from medical records that really never show how a person lives. When one
visits a GP it is because there is something wrong. What of the intervening
periods when one does not visit the doctor? Are we to assume that the problems
exist ad infinitum between visits?
What I see in
the assessment is nothing more that a list of items without substance. Even the
conclusion lacks substance. If this assessment is indicative of a ‘personality
disorder’ then I would say there is an extremely high probability that the
general public could be diagnosed with the same complaint. We do not all live
in a sterile bubble as this doctor appears to imagine, as if in a world devoid
of problems and emotion. We do not all consider our fellow man/woman to live
perfect lives. We do not consider that a person’s past will automatically predict
their future. Change happens for many reasons.
Am I the same
person I was when I was twenty or thirty years old, no I am not and I am very
glad about that. If I followed the criteria laid out in this report that my
past controlled my present and future then I would have learned nothing over
the intervening years. What I did then changed me in many ways. Ways in which I
suspect this doctor will never be able to imagine.
I actually find
his methods not only suspect as to why he holds them but also to be dangerous.
His view of this woman’s condition appears to be based on nothing more than
book learning. He has taken incidents that occur naturally in the life of
anyone and attaches to these some kind of Psycho Babble condition. I ask what
exactly a Personality Disorder is?. Who decides the criteria, is there a
recognised scientific series of tests, does one have a blood test that shows
one has this disorder. No, it is merely an opinion preached by someone who
subscribes to a particular set of values that they decide is the way we should
all live. There is great suspicion in the questions he was asked by the local
authority. They were asked in a way that directly pointed to the conclusion the
local authority required. It was very much of “this is the diagnosis we want if you want to be paid and get more work of the same from us” It appears very much of a mercenary
transaction. Remember “I go where the
money is”. Does one have to look further than this to reach a conclusion.
The next
question has to be, who gave this doctors profession the right to be the keeper
and director of ones moral values? The answer is simple, they did. They took it
upon themselves to club together as a profession and set out on a mission to
prove their view of life is all there is. I am not one given much to expletives
but here I must succumb, Bullshit.
One criticism
laid at this woman’s feet, is that she complains to and about authority, he
looks at this as part of a disorder. Now since when did that attribute become a
disorder? It may have been considered to be such if one complained in Nazi
Germany or under Stalin’s reign of terror. They had their own way of
eliminating the dissenter much similar to how this local authority acts. If one
is not allowed to question and complain about authority when they make mistakes
we venture into the realms of Mr Orwell’s 1984. I was aware that in many ways
it was a warning but never thought that it would become to be used as an
instruction manual.
The report
itself has a very worrying aspect to it. Not only does it pigeon hole this
individual but because of its eventual use by social services it condemns this
perfectly good mother to virtually a lifetime of damnation and eternal
purgatory. They use it against her in a way to deny her the opportunity to be a
mother to her own child. Remember this child was born with an incurable genetic
condition and is being denied a mothers love.
Despite the fact
that two other reports gave a contradictory view of the mother and frankly both
contained an element of human understanding and compassion, these were totally
ignored by the social services and the local authority. If one goes back to a
previous chapter one finds the comment to the maternal grandmother “we have plenty of people who will adopt her”
(the child). Now we see this case travelling full circle.
If this damning
report is pushed forward as the truth and the other two are buried one has to
start asking why? To me the answer is very simple. The social workers and the
local authority made mistakes at the beginning by blaming the mother for the
child’s problems. They did not wait or take time to investigate to find the
real reason for the baby’s problems. The crux lies firmly there, had they tried
to find cause rather than attribute blame without evidence the outcome could
have been entirely different. However, rather than admit they made a mistake
they would much rather destroy a mother and her child.
During this
whole tragedy not one person from the social services or the local authority
has had the courage to stand forward and admit mistakes had been made. In this
I include elected officials who were informed of the lies and insidious deceit
perpetrated by employees of the local authority. What does this tell us about
those with responsibility of overseeing the local authority’s conduct. That
they basically don’t care what happens as long as they can keep their position
in the hierarchy of power. Let no one rock the political boat. They have denied
any liability by not taking the evidence they were given, investigating it and
laying it before those accused. They have been party to the abuse of power
given to them by the people and to the ultimate and unforgivable abuse of a
small defenceless baby with an incurable condition. They have denied this child
the opportunity of experiencing a life bathed in the light of her mothers love.
For that they must stand accused before the Figure of Justice, be it in this
world, which I doubt or in the next. Only their conscience will decide if the
scales of Justice will keep their balance.
Looking at this
from another angle one cannot escape the dominance of the effect money has on
this type of case. In a recent viewing of a local authority’s web presence there
was a comment made that the expected number of children to be taken into care
over the coming year was 8750 and they would require foster care. There is no
point in anyone looking for this, as soon as they realised people could read
the comment it was removed. So let’s look at this figure as an estimate. On
average a foster carer receives approximately £400 per week per child,
therefore £400 x 8750 = £3,500,000 per week or £182,000,000 per year all paid
for from public taxes. Now one begins to see why this system exists. It is a
gravy train for all involved. This figure above does not include solicitor,
barrister, expert witness and court fees, nor does it include the wages paid to
the social workers. When one takes all this into consideration it becomes not
as many try to tell us, a social service, but a thriving commercial enterprise
based on the destruction of families and their children in the United Kingdom.