Jeannemarie Blames Virginia Tech Tragedy on Trial Lawyers
By: Lowell Published On: 9/20/2007 3:07:10 PM
Essentially, what we've got here is Jeannemarie Devolites Davis using the Virginia Tech tragedy to score cheap partisan political points, blaming trial lawyers -- of which Chap Petersen, not coincidentally, is one. It's so typical of the Davises, Tom and Jeannemarie, and yet another sign that JMDD knows she's in deep trouble in 47 days.
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First they came (Sui Juris - 9/20/2007 3:36:05 PM)
for the gays. Then the scary brown immigrants. And now . . . the trial lawyers.
Must be getting desperate.
In Germany and Virginia, First They Came for People With Mental Illness (personwho - 9/20/2007 10:52:35 PM)
The first victims of the gas chamber, the people on whom it was "tried out" before being used in the concentration camps, were psychiatric patients who were gassed by their own doctors. The Nazi eugenics was directly linked to Virginia's eugenics law, and until the extent of the Nazi atrocities were known after the war, U.S. foundations gave money to the German eugenics movement.
And I am really afraid that history is going to repeat itself here in Virginia and no one is paying attention. If you think that if you don't have a psychiatric label you are safe from the extremely lowered commitment standards and the virtual elimination of confidentiality being proposed by the Republicans and as yet not opposed by the Democrats nor the Governor, you are mistaken. It is going to be so easy to get someone committed my beagle could do it if the proposed laws go through.
Alison Hymes
Member, Commitment Taskforce, Commission on Mental Health Law Reform http://hymes.wordpre...
She just specifically said that doctor-patient confidentiality is a bad thing for minors! So if a kid is afraid he/she has an STD and is too nervous to go to their parents, they should just keep it to themselves?
Or what if they have a drug problem and need treatment? Of course good parents should help their kids through hardships, but not all parents are perfect, and youth should have the right and inherent understanding that the professional medical world will not turn against them for what they've done.
Devolites Has No Clue (Not Harry F. Byrd, Sr. - 9/20/2007 5:39:57 PM)
It would be nice first if:
A - Trial lawyers had anything to do with HIPPA; or
B - If HIPPA had a civil lawsuit remedy for violations.
Neither is true.
As Chap pointed out in his post, there have been 20,000 alleged violations of HIPPA and the Bush Administration hasn't levied a single fine:
1 - Doesn't know the law,
2 - Doesn't understand the law, or
3 - Enjoys lying about it to demagogue a straw man.
Take your pick.
Not HIPPA,, not even FERPA (Bubby - 9/20/2007 11:09:36 PM)
The VT Review Panel found that campus counseling and administrative personnel were misinterpreting the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and not disclosing the mental condition and related academic progress of the killer to his family - for possible intervention and assumption of responsibility for their kid. JMDD is full of...misinformation. What education folks need is adequate training on the laws that govern their responsibilities. It has nothing to do with trial lawyers...until they screw up.
Huh? (Matusleo - 9/21/2007 5:32:50 AM)
There are legitimate reasons to chastise trial lawyers. And the idea that parents, who were once expected to responsibly inform their children once they were of age about sex, are now not supposed to be involved at all with their children's sexual discovery is also troubling.
Neither of these have anything to do with anything she's talking about. And they certainly don't have anything to do with Virginia Tech. Talk about a random spew of ideas. I guess she was hoping that nobody would notice that none of them had anything to do with each other.