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Diane Booth: URGENT - WE NEED YOUR HELP

 

 

URGENT - WE NEED YOUR HELP

 

Dear Friends,

 

I am writing to you, seeking your assistance. As you know, I have long been

engaged in raising public awareness about the dangers of psychiatric

medications. Furthermore, it is critical that the public be informed that

there are no valid medical tests that can prove any abnormality in a person

who has been labeled with any number of psychiatric disorders, including

" ADHD " .

 

Through the very unfortunate circumstances of one mother and her child, a

door has opened which will allow us to bring our message to the

consciousness of the public in a way we had not imagined.

 

This message is lengthy, but it is of utmost importance. I encourage you to

read it in it's entirety, and then take action.

 

Diane Booth is the mother of whom I speak. She waited a long time to have

her first child. She was forty years old when her beautiful son, Vincent,

arrived. Her marriage did not last, and she was left a single mother.

 

Vincent was experiencing some difficulty in school, and Diane was told that

he might have ADHD. He was " tested " , and the " diagnosis " was confirmed.

Diane was told that he would need medication for his " problem " . She felt

that his inattentiveness could be handled without the use of such a strong

drug, and refused. Shortly thereafter, a medical negligence claim was filed

against her, and the local department of child and family services removed

Vincent from her care and custody.

 

Think upon this for a moment, my friends... Can this really happen? You

bet it can, and it is happening with increasing frequency.

 

Diane was able to locate Vincent and she " stole him back " and fled to

Canada.

 

It did not take long for the authorities to catch up with her, and they took

her beloved child from her again, leaving her as a refuge in a foreign land.

She lived as a fugitive for some time; I had correspondence with her

during part of this time, but I never knew her whereabouts. She was

recently arrested on charges of " parental abduction " and is now in a

California jail, awaiting trial... and her fate.

 

I have agreed to set up her legal defense fund through our new non-profit-

ASPIRE. I will be securing a depository account to receive funds hopefully

tomorrow, but by Monday at the latest.

 

Please open your hearts and your pocketbooks to help Diane gain her freedom,

and be reunited with her son.

 

I am providing you with the address where you can send your contributions.

Please be sure and include your full name, return address and email address

for our records. I do not know whether your contribution will be tax

deductible or not, but I will let you know as soon as possible. I will also

send periodic updates to all who contribute. I am also including for you a

statement by Dr Fred A. Baughman, MD who has agreed to testify for and on

her behalf. He is offering his expert witness and services to her free of

charge.

 

We are also looking for a criminal defense attorney, preferably residing in

or near where Diane is being held, in Milpitas, CA. If any of you are

attorneys, or if you know of an attorney who might be willing to come to her

defense, please forward this to them, and CC back to me at my other email

address:

 

aspireadvisor

 

I am also including a copy of the letter I am sending to her tomorrow. I

encourage each of you to write to her; it matters not if you know her

personally or not. I know her, and she is a good mother, a beautiful

person. It will do wonders for her to receive your letters of encouragement

and support.

 

I also encourage you to forward this message, in it's entirety to everyone

you know.

 

With love to all,

Dawn (The Avenging Angel)

A.S.P.I.R.E.

 

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Declaration of Fred A. Baughman, Jr. M.D.

http://www.adhdfraud.org

 

DECLARATION OF FRED A. BAUGHMAN JR., MD

IN THE CASE OF DIANE ( & VINCENT) BOOTH

Prepared February 25, 2003

at 1303 Hidden Mountain Dr., El Cajon, CA, 92019

 

 

 

I declare that all of my statements herein, including in all of the

documents I have appended, are true and correct, under penalty of perjury.

Further, I am prepared to testify to the truth and correctness thereof, at

trial.

 

Whether or not Diane Booth acted contrary to the best interests of her son,

Vincent (BD 6/19/93), so as to justify, the court’s having removed him from

her custody and whether or not she was justified in fleeing from Santa Clara

County, California to Canada with him, resulting in her being criminally

charged, depends entirely upon whether or not the claims made by state and

county agents and agencies, that he had a disease—attention deficit

hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were valid and correct or were not. Vincent’s

mother, Diane Booth, believed then and now that ADHD was not a valid disease

and that her son was normal, needed no medical treatment, and that he only

stood to be injured in the event such a “diagnosis” were to be applied with

the resulting treatments that were being urged by personnel of his school,

board of education, and agents and agencies (physicians included) of the

county and state.

 

In medicine it is rare indeed that judges/courts must be called upon by

medical professionals to enforce medical treatment, over the wishes of

parents or guardians, thought to be necessary to save a life or prevent

great medical/physical harm because the existing parents/guardians are

refusing to do so. In 33 years as a neurologist/child neurologist, I never

had occasion to ask a judge/court to intervene taking parental rights from

natural or adoptive parents to prevent medical harm from occurring to a

minor, as in this case. Further, I dealt primarily with real, organic

diseases of the brain and nervous system. I would also point out that

substantial numbers of patients in my practice turned out to have no organic

disease, but psychological/mental/psychiatric problems and I provided care

for substantial numbers of them both independently and in collaboration with

psychiatrists and other mental health professionals and I never had occasion

to ask a court to remove parental or other decision-making from existing

parents, family members or executors because I thought their health was,

otherwise, in jeopardy.

 

We have all heard of cases where members of certain religions will not allow

needed blood transfusions for necessary, life-saving surgery. Most have

also heard of persons of such beliefs not allowing life-saving antibiotics

in the face of potentially lethal infections, or of disallowing insulin for

religious reasons for their son or daughter with “brittle” life-threatening

diabetes mellitus. These are real medical and judicial dilemmas dealing

with real life-and-death medical situations and diseases, that justly call

for judicial deliberation, moderation or intervention.

 

In this case, however, Vincent was said to have ADHD which was and is

represented by public school personnel and agents and agencies of the county

to be a disease, needing treatment, when, in fact, it is not a

disease/abnormality at all. Vincent, prior to “treatment” with multiple

psychiatric drugs was, instead, medically/biologically normal.

Once such brain-, body-altering drugs are begun, he was, for the first time,

no longer medically/biologically, normal.

 

On 2/5/03 I submitted a “Suspected Child Abuse Report” to the Child

Protective Service, 373 W. Julian St. San Jose, CA 95110 with which my two

letters to Judge L.P. Edwards, comprise the substance of my written

complaint. Those letters were dated 12/10/02 and 2/5/03. Just as I got no

answer to the first of these letters, I have gotten no answer to the second

letter or to the child abuse report. Further, this morning (2/5/03) I

called and spoke with Social Worker, Angela Sanchez, who denied any

knowledge of the report I filed; a report which was addressed to her. I now

make this report and these two letters, part of my declaration. These

letters and other attachments, also part of this declaration, make clear

that ADHD is not only not a medical emergency, but that it is not an

abnormality/disease at all, within Vincent or within any individual.

 

As the main invited speaker at the November 16-18, 1998, NIH, Consensus

Conference on ADHD, on the subject: " Is ADHD a Valid Disorder? " Professor

William B. Carey concluded:

 

" ...common assumptions about ADHD include that it is clearly

distinguishable from normal behavior, constitutes a neurodevelopmental

disability, is relatively uninfluenced by the environment... All of these

assumptions...must be challenged because of the weakness of empirical

(research) support and the strength of contrary evidence...What is now

most often described as ADHD in the United States appears to be a set of

normal behavioral variations... This discrepancy leaves the validity of

the construct in doubt... "

 

Appropriately, the final statement of the Consensus Conference Panel,

11/18/98 read (p.3, lines

10-13):

 

" ...we do not have an independent, valid test for ADHD, and there

are no data to indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction. "

 

Here we were, in the Fall of 1998 with the " epidemic " at 4-5 million, and

" ADHD " appears to be a set of normal variations, " and “there are no data to

indicate that ADHD is due to a brain malfunction. Nor has the state of the

science changed to this day despite claims from the psycho-pharm, ADHD

marketplace.

 

Not an abnormality/disease within the individual, there can be no indicated,

necessary, logical, appropriate, or scientifically-based, medical treatment,

much less medical treatment, which if not allowed by a parent or legal

guardian, can be deemed negligence of a parent or guardian to be over-ridden

by a court. To do this in the case of ADHD or any psychiatric condition,

fraudulently called an actual/disease abnormality, is to require junk

science and an assault upon the child/subject, who, having no other

diagnoses, is NORMAL!.

 

Sitting next to David Fassler, MD of the American Psychiatric Association,

9/29/00, I testified to the US Congress that any physician calling ADHD or

any psychiatric condition a " disease " is committing a fraud. Neither Dr.

Fassler or anyone else testifying, disputed my statement. However,

organized psychiatry continues, nonetheless, fraudulently, lying to the

people of the United States, having them believe psychiatric

conditions/diagnoses are diseases/abnormalities/ " chemical imbalances "

needing pills/ " chemical balancers " , and it is they, the leadership of US

psychiatry and mental health who would have courts, such as that of Judge

Edwards, hold that not only are they " diseases " but that they are diseases

that it is parental negligence/malfeasance not to " treat " . ADHD and

" biological " psychiatry (psychiatric " diseases " ) numerically, is the

greatest health care fraud in the history of the US, a fact the

government--in bed with psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry chooses

not to acknowledge.

 

Just as the Consensus Conference could find no disease, much less a

diagnosable one, November 18, 1998, F. Xavier Castellanos, the most recent

ADHD expert to weigh in, confessed, 10/9/02 [JAMA.2002;288:740-748]:

" Finally, despite the importance of these finding, anatomic MRI studies

remain appropriate only for research, as they cannot yet contribute to the

diagnostic assessment of ADHD. "

 

While weaving illusions of brain diseases with which they nurture the

incredible " epidemic, " (ADHD now at 6-7 million US-wide) what Castellanos,

gingerly confesses here, is that there is no physical evidence; no objective

means, by which to diagnose ADHD. This means that no child labeled ADHD,

Vincent Booth, included, has been shown to be other than NORMAL.

 

These being the facts of the matter, Vincent Booth, did not, at the time of

" diagnosis " have any actual disease/abnormality needing treatment to make it

normal or more nearly normal.

 

These being the facts, Diane Booth did only what was appropriate and in the

best interests of her child to protect him from unnecessary, invalid,

diagnosis and treatment--diagnosis and treatment that could only harm him,

and that did only cause him untold, inestimable, psychological and

physical/medical harm.

 

ATTACHMENTS

 

1. Baughman FA. Should Neurology and Psychiatry be Integrated? (letter)

Neurology Today, August, 2002.

2. Baughman FA. Psychiatric drugs for infants and toddlers: Treatment or

Crime? (editorial) International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine 13

(2000) 87-90.

3. Baughman FA. Questioning the Treatment for ADHD (letter). Science.

2001:

291:595.

4. Baughman FA. Diagnosis and Evaluation of the Child With

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (letter). PEDIATRICS. 2001;

107:1239

5. Baughman FA. Treatment of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

(letter). JAMA. 1999; 281:1490.

6. Baughman FA. “THE MILLIONS OF CHILDREN LABELED ADD/ADHD WERE NORMAL

ALL

ALONG.” Testimony to Committee on Education and the Workforce, hearing

entitled “Behavioral Drugs in Schools: Questions and Concerns,” held

September 29, 2000, 9:00 a.m., Room 2175, Rayburn House Office Building,

Washington, DC, 20515-6100

7. CV of Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD

 

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Address where contributions can be sent. Please write clearly on your

check:

 

Diane Booth Legal Defense Fund

 

Mail to:

 

Diane Booth Legal Defense Fund

C/O: A.S.P.I.R.E

222 West Center Street

P.O. Box 1932

Orem, UT 84059-1932

 

CLARIFICATION TO DIANE BOOTH CASE

 

Friends,

 

I received this note from someone with legal experience who is familiar with

Diane Booth's case.

 

Please note that the suspected child abuse case which Dr. Baughman filed

with Child and Family services was against the county for drugging a NORMAL

child. The abuse report is NOT against Diane.

 

Please see the note that was sent to me, along with my reply below. If any

of you would like the attachments referred to in Dr. Baughman's statement,

let me know and I will forward them as attachments.

 

~Dawn

A.S.P.I.R.E.

 

 

 

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