https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2005/12/26/it-could-happen-to-many-of-us/ Tue, 29 May 2007 10:41:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2005/12/26/it-could-happen-to-many-of-us/#comment-10366 Tue, 29 May 2007 10:41:20 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=21#comment-10366 This does happen frquently in Florida with over 117,00 being involuntarily seized by police every year and around 70 unarmed being killed. I was set up by wife’s divorce lawyer who told wife to get a therapist to call police so I could be involuntarily commited and wife would get everything. This therapist told wfe to violently attack me to coerce me to see her withwife. Iresponded non violently to a three hour attack using fetal protective position and finally ended it by agreeing to see therapist with wife. I told therapist she was incompetent for provoking th violence and assured her Iwwas no a thret to anyone or self amd did nt ned treatmrnt but needed her to stop theviolence against me. She got angry at me and said sh was caling the police. I asked her not to involve them when I was unarmed not vilent not threatening anyone or self not involved in any crimestarnge or dangrous activity. The therapist left the office wife arose and walked out I folloewd. At the door was an ofduty deputy sheriff who attacked me pushed me bak in the office and forbs from going homelied that he was a therapist. I did not resisit but believed he was therapist so asked for his help to counsel with wife’s therapist to end the violence. Arme deputies arrived and I remained seated unarmed hands in plain view on the armchair asking for respect of basic human and constitutional rights refusing to roll face down on floor to be handcuffed. To calm them down I told a joke ” IN reaity the worst thing I might ever do to myself in the future is skip lunch but when I get hungry I always eat chicken wings. I was then Taser shot several times dragged fom the chair unconscious tightly handcuffed behind back lcked in ho sunny cruiser for several hours deied water toilet use heat and pain relief ten tied to floor of tiny dark locked windowless rom for hors again denied watr and toilet use. Incarceted for eight days with no right to a judge jury or lawyer because ths was a civil arrest with no criminal charges. I lost one million bucks $450,000 house car sailboat and self mployed business ending up homeless and penniless.

]]> https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2005/12/26/it-could-happen-to-many-of-us/#comment-10365 Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:17:22 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=21#comment-10365 […] Many “experts” claim that people with social disabilities often misread other people’s behavior. But in my experience, other people often misread the behavior of those of us with disabilities. As the author of the Ballastexistenz blog writes: “In my many encounters with the police, I have sometimes been viewed as a potential threat, who needed to be locked up for the protection of other people (even though I was not hurting anyone). Other times, I have been viewed as a threat to my own safety (because I dared to leave the house looking like I look — should have known better, apparently), who needed to be locked up for my own protection.” […]

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