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Editorials

Feminists In Greenfield Prove Our Point

March 2001

We were startled when the feminist who started the poverty lawyer group known as NELCWIT in Greenfield spilled her gut to her local newspaper on her 25th anniversary last month.

This caused two big stories that we’ve been covering for a long time to finally “come together.”

The feminist had good reason to be happy. She’s been hugely successful in her goal to “help” women by working to eliminate marriage. She’s so successful that she is brazen and did not realize what she was revealing in the laudatory article.

She validated everything we’ve said about the feminists who control the poverty lawyers in Massachusetts. She made it clear that they wish to help only women and they wish to destroy marriages, not help them through the rough spots.

Up until now, it has been other people talking, but she admitted it very plainly.

Because of the free help they have given in breaking up any woman’s marriage, the women “came in droves,” she said. She told her local paper that she now has 50 workers and a budget of $1.6 million for one county. And she is only one of many such feminist groups that are funded by state and federal money. There isn’t one cent for help to any man. And there’s no money for helping marriage.

This agenda was clearly demonstrated last month when an unfortunate mother was put in shackles in the Lowell District Court after all her children were seized because she wouldn’t divorce her husband as demanded by the feminist DSS workers and the feminist poverty lawyers. We’ve heard that story many times from the numerous families we’ve written about, but it never was so clear as in this tragic story.

They even put this woman in a mental hospital because she wouldn’t leave her husband!

We investigate each case we report as thoroughly as possible. This one has all the hallmarks of sincerity and honesty. We only hope that the Howards carry through with their intent to sue these feminist social workers who have battered and torn their unfortunate family. (As we reported on our front page, a U.S. Appeals Court has held that a social worker can be sued for conduct that was much less serious than this case.) We wish the family well and hope that they are soon reunited, although their lives will never be the same. We will report what happens on March 2 and March 14 as they continue their lonely struggles in the Lowell court.

We hope that the people of Massachusetts finally begin to understand that the feminists in Greenfield are not on the side of helping women. They are a political organization that is intent on destroying marriage. They believe that women will be happier if they can impose a socialist system on us such as exists in Sweden where all women work and the children are the wards of the state.

Women such as Mrs. Howard, who wish only to take care of their children and who do not go along with the feminist political agenda, are the enemy. And men such as Ken Newell who fight to nurture their children are also the enemy. That explains the intransigent hostility that we have seen towards him from the poverty lawyers.

We must thank the feminists in Greenfield for making it all so clear.

‘Surprising’ Reason for Mistakes and Deaths in Mass. Hospitals

March 2001

Although very few people appear to realize it, a major factor in the medical errors that injure and kill many people in Massachusetts hospitals (as we reported last month) is the Civil Rights Act.

That law has made it impossible for any business to discipline and energize its employees.

Many readers will quickly say that is a bigoted remark against black people. But you must realize that blacks have not been the major factor in that law for many, many years. It is mostly women who have taken control of the law and dominate its use.

But it’s not only feminists who are causing the problems. There is almost no one today who is not “protected” by some law.

It has gotten so bad that the only people who are not covered by one law or another are those white males up to 40-years-of-age who do not have a physical or mental disability. (And in Massachusetts, even those people are covered if they are homosexual.)

After you realize that everyone is covered except a healthy white male under forty, you begin to realize the enormous restraints upon businesses.

You must add to that this simple fact. If any employee brings a case under our state law, it goes to our Anti-Discrimination Commission, whose very name tells you that it very seldom, if ever, holds against any employee. Sure, you can appeal their decision to a court, but our courts are in such a shambles that no lawyer has any faith in them. Almost all lawyers today are recommending arbitration to their clients.

So, if any business is sued, it is immediately told by its lawyers, “Settle.” When a company is sued (or if an employee only threatens suit), the question is not whether the employee was treated fairly by the business, but how much will it take to settle this case?

Therefore, no business can discipline its employees to any extent whatsoever. If a nurse or an orderly in a hospital is making mistakes when they dispense drugs, the hospital has to be very careful how it approaches the situation. Perhaps it is the supervisor of the shift who is at fault. But no matter what the hospital does, someone is going to be very angry.

And the chances are that the person who was negligent will sue – even if they gave a wrong medicine to someone. They will blame it on someone else. And no business can spend its employees’ valuable time going to court and defending themselves plus paying all of the lawyer fees that are involved.

Maybe it was a doctor who is at fault. But no matter who it was, the hospital must tread very lightly in correcting the problem and removing the incompetent person.

In addition, the Boston Globe will be trumpeting the fact that the Jones Hospital has been sued for discrimination again. Nothing will be reported when the case is thrown out three years later because the claim was false. You will hear only that Jones Hospital has been sued for discrimination again.

So any hospital just pays the extortion and moves on. Not only are the patients given wrong medication but they must also pay the increased costs that the hospital is incurring of paying the extortion.

If a hospital could move to another country like Mexico, it would undoubtedly follow the practice of our manufacturers who have taken much of their operations overseas. But they can’t, so we all suffer.

The Civil Rights Act was passed with great enthusiasm from the entire country in 1964 and went into effect in 1965. But it didn’t become vicious until 1974 when the EEOC, the agency that runs it, was given the power to bring its own lawsuits against companies instead of going through the Attorney General’s office. After that, the EEOC didn’t care whether they were fair or not. They were going to humble all of American business and they did exactly that. That’s when American businesses started to move overseas, taking away many of the jobs that would have helped the people who were supposed to be helped under the Civil Rights Act.

When Ronald Reagan came into power in 1980, he thought he would be able to bring some balance to the system, but all the big companies had given up by then. They had built the costs into their pricing structure and/or moved overseas. They saw any change as a threat to them because they feared that the small companies would not be targeted by the government like the big ones were and this would give the small companies an edge. So they strenuously fought any changes by Reagan.

When the publisher of Massachusetts News had his business, he gave financial help to a longtime employee who was having emotional problems. His lawyers later told him that he had violated the law unless he gave the same help to every employee, even if they had only been working for one day. This meant that he had to help a woman who was not a good employee, had been with the company only for a short time and had physical problems at childbirth. The lawyers advised that he stop helping anyone in the future – all because of the Civil Rights Act.

After the Americans With Disabilities Act was passed by Senator Bob Dole, lawyers soon had to advise all employers that they could no longer try to help anyone who was having emotional problems. If they gave them time off to rest or to get professional help, that was sending a signal that they thought the person was having mental problems and was thus discriminating against the employee. Therefore, the only thing to do was to immediately fire the person as quickly as possible without mentioning anything that would indicate that they thought the employee had emotional problems.

In order to accomplish terminating the employee, the business had to build a dossier against him. Therefore, instead of working with employees and trying to help them, the workplace became an adversarial place where employers were trying to build a case against their employees. This obviously is not a good way to build morale or a good team spirit. But it’s necessary in America today.

So when you read that hospitals are having problems with errors being made by employees, don’t be too harsh on the hospitals. Just be thankful that they still do as well as they do when they have little control over their employees. Every organization needs someone in charge, but we have decided to change that basic rule. We will continue to suffer mistakes – and deaths – in hospitals until we put someone back in charge.