"Newton couple indicted on 35 charges" (enslavement of the mentally ill!)

[NorthernSpy]

http://www.themercury.com/view/article.asp?sectionid=News/Default/NewsArticles&id=678-2004-12-30-52150-73

12/30/2004 2:57:39 PM

TOPEKA — A Newton couple already charged with forcing mentally ill residents of a group home to work on their farm in the nude were indicted Wednesday on 35 charges.

The indictment, issued by a federal grand jury, includes allegations that Arlan D. Kaufman, 68, and Linda J. Kaufman, 61, physically, psychologically and sexually abused group home residents, kept two people in involuntary servitude for 14 years, and defrauded the federal Medicare program.

(...)

If convicted, the Kaufmans could face up to 20 years in prison for each of the conspiracy, forced labor and involuntary servitude charges; up to 10 years for each of the health care fraud charges; and up to five years for each of the other charges.

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The new indictment also alleges that the Kaufmans forced group home residents to perform sexually explicit acts and that they videotaped some of the residents' sexual contacts.

Apparently, that woman in Connecticut who forced her son to do yardwork while naked isn't alone in her sadism. The Kaufmans also practiced something they called "nude therapy".


From an older, more detailed article: http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/4034569/detail.html

The other involuntary servitude counts allege two other residents were kept in involuntary servitude for 14 years. The indictment also alleges the Kaufmans threatened the two residents with serious harm to force them to perform labor.

The new indictment also alleges that the Kaufmans forced group home residents to perform sexually explicit acts and that they videotaped some of the residents' sexual contacts during purported therapy sessions.

The indictment also alleges the residents were forced to masturbate, fondle each other and shave each other's genitals. It also accuses Arlan Kaufman of fondling residents.

The indictment alleges residents faced abuse including isolation, dehydration, forced nudity and threats of being institutionalized.

Words fail...

[rfranklin]

1. Betcha they voted for Bush...and the "cheap Labor" Republican Party

It's the credo of the Republicans.

[shadowknows69]

2. OK, I don't believe in satan but....

where the hell is all this evil coming from lately?

[two gun sid]

3. What's the matter with Kansas?

n/t

[NYC]

4. Does that book explain any of this?

Does it? I have heard it is highly recommended.

This is so sad that anyone would take advantage of people this way. I cannot beleive some of the people who inhabit the same planet I do. I really think I am on the wrong planet.

[Scout1071]

7. It should be

what the fuck is wrong with those people? Some of us in Kansas are quite sane and as blue as they come.

[Prodemsouth]

9. Yeah, What happened to Kansas?

Shows you what happens when go from Dem to Repug. Love those middle America values.

[idiosyncratic]

5. I bet they are good church-goers who voted Republican!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. Oh, if there is a god...

He will allow me to be locked in a small room with these people for a half hour. That's all I ask: 30 short minutes.

It will seem like 30 years to them.

But, I will leave no marks. ;-)

[mitchum]

8. They are monsters

[OneBlueSky]

10. I'm against capital punishment, but if these charges are true . . .

my visceral reaction is that I'd have no problem if someone just dropped these neanderthals off a very high bridge somewhere . . . absolutely disgusting . . .

[Senior citizen]

11. But this is merely part of the new federal program

Every citizen will be subjected to mandatory tests, and those deemed mentally ill will be forcibly drugged. It is the administration's new gift to the pharmaceutical industry. Those who refuse will probably be imprisoned. More growth for pharmaceuticals, more growth for the prison industry, and lots more people to physically and sexually abuse and torture. As they said in the Gulag, "Me today, you tomorrow." Many people are unjustly imprisoned and tortured today. It will be us tomorrow because we permitted it to happen.

Of course there are some people who do not yet realize how arbitrary our laws are, and how variable the standards of so-called mental illness can be. One psychiatrist has defined mental illness as being under another person's domination, so that they can keep changing the rules and you can never manage to fully comply with their rules, so they can label you insane. Or rebellious. Or not properly deferential towards authority. Obviously terrorists are crazy, since they do not wish to submit to our government's domination. So everybody has to be screened to see if they are crazy, because crazy people might become terrorists.

Don't think for a minute that our government, which has knowingly exposed thousands of U.S. citizens to plutonium, wouldn't poison us all with any drug they thought might be profitable. And it would be very profitable indeed if it was mandatory.

Ron Paul has tried to oppose this new program in Congress and needs support. Contact your Congresscritters and say that you oppose mandatory mental testing and drugging. Of course they are all dependent upon pharmaceutical company campaign contributions, so don't expect them to represent your interests against their own interests. But contact them anyway, just so that when you become subject to mandatory testing, you can at least know that you tried to oppose it.

Many of the mentally ill, of course, will be returning veterans from the Iraqi war with post-traumatic stress syndrome. Others will be people who went crazy after their jobs were outsourced and they lost their homes and found themselves homeless and subjected to constant ridicule and abuse. How much torture do you think you personally can withstand before you start "acting crazy?" Which came first, the torture or the insanity--the chicken or the egg?

Slavery was the legal fiction that a person was property. Corporations are the legal fiction that property is a person. And in order to be deemed sane under fascism, you must believe both fictions simultaneously.

[NorthernSpy]

12. your last paragraph is especially quote-worthy

Slavery was the legal fiction that a person was property. Corporations are the legal fiction that property is a person. And in order to be deemed sane under fascism, you must believe both fictions simultaneously.

-- Senior Citizen


Now, that's what I call well said!

:)

[sherilocks]

14. Excellent, well thought out post

Thanks, Senior citizen.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. WTF is the matter with effing kansas?

[blockhead]

15. I think every state has its share of weirdos

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