It is time to “Spread the Word to End the Word” and on 31 March 2009 Special Olympics is calling for a national day of awareness for America to stop and think about their use of the R-word. That R-word is not “recession,” but something more hurtful and painful – “retard.”
Being prosecuted by Lane County Deputy District Attorney JoAnn Miller, defended by Lane County Assistant Public Defender David Saydack and convicted and sentenced by Lane County Circuit Court Judge Douglas Mitchell was like turning over my fate to a team at the Special Olympics.
Please don't misunderstand. I am not implying that Mumbling Miller, Say anything Saydack and Dopamine Mitchell are less competent than LCDA Alex Gardner, LCPD Director Greg Hazarabedian and LCCC Chief Judge Mary Ann Bearden.
Au contraire.
ANYONE defended by someone at LCPD, prosecuted by someone at LCDA and judged by someone at LCCC turns her/his fate over to a team of R-words.
Take Judge Mitchell. Please.
He referred to me She was standing with her attorney facing the judge by then. The judge began a well-deserved lecture in her direction.
He [Judge Mitchell] said that he wanted to help her (meaning the defendant), but that the victim had been harmed. He chastised her for, as a psychologist, not acting on her knowledge of the damage caused by alcohol use when it is chronic or binge drinking.
He explained how dopamine receptors in the brain become atrophied from such drinking, and waxed poetic about the joys of an unexpected sunny day, a smiling baby in the
supermarket, or being licked by a puppy. With chronic drinking, such joy is diminished, he said.
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