Live~NRGY

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/canada/Editorial+Justice+Ashley/7491139/story.html

We owe it to all other persons incarcerated in correctional systems to make sure this isn’t repeated in Canada. That the system fails in situations like this is a testament to our wanting to punish people and put them in their places while we have the legal bullying arguments on their side.

It’s true there are people that are a danger not only to themselves, but others whose jobs are to make sure that their work is carried out in a manner that protects them from harm.

Yet, if we turn a blind eye to a ‘SPIRITED’ young girl who’s only crime was to throw crabapples at a mailman down the road of dehumanizing treatment all the way to her strangling herself because she was feisty and not willing to give in that resulted in her death, it is indeed a very sad and tragic statement about Canada and it’s penal system.

How dare us lecture other countries for human rights abuses while we permit this to happen ! I’m truly pissed that it had to come to this, to bring awareness surrounding the treatment of a patient labelled ‘Mental’. How are we ever possibly going to deal with the huge influx of future incoming ‘mental health’ patients down the road? In the same way ???

We continually advertise that doing illegal drugs is the wrong thing to do. Yet we have doctors, who are maybe continents away and via the internet prescribing and giving permission to inject drugs even if they are legal ones against a person’s wishes and consent. A doctor should be present and accountable when situations like this arises. It makes them fully aware and accountable instead of passing the buck to a practicing nurse who’s only training is to inject without being in the best position to know what the best course of action should be to help a inmate patient, especially a ‘mental health’ one.

Otherwise with absent doctors, we are no better than in concentration camps looking for final solutions. This is my biggest issue with the way we conduct ourselves on a moral and ethical level with our correctional and penal systems. We’ve got a long way to go and I’m afraid that baby steps might just not be enough with the impending tidal wave from the future bearing down on us.

So let’s ask ourselves this question – are drugs of all kinds going to have to be the replacement vehicle for our broken down current system in Canada and around the world. It’s easy to throw someone in a small space and call it a cell, then throw the key away. Forgotten, lost and of no importance.

Yet what would have happened if the mailman had handled the situation differently with Ashley? With such a feisty ‘SPIRIT’ maybe the world could have gained something ! Now we’ll never know having lost that chance of change by harnessing her NRGY constructively. We’re definitely poorer not having learned anything in the process other than a black public eye of the way our system really isn’t any better than overseas.

Do I hear glee and loud shouts from politicians in China and elsewhere saying to change our ways ???????? No they are muted, because they too know better !

Change this system and help the other invisible persons in similar situations in the care of Correctional facilities. Last but not least, change the training and give the people responsible for their own safety as well as those in their charge to turn things around.

I want this to become a Spiral of Change and not a Cycle of Repetition over and over again ! Learn, change, do !