©Eighth City Sentinel Online & Roger Brown
05/14/01
* * SPECIAL EDITORIAL * *
EXCLUSIVE TO MR. BROWN’S NEIGHBORHOOD
THE EIGHTH
CITY SENTINEL
I told you so.
by
I told you so.
The SB 860 fiasco1 and
the e-mailed correspondence of Russell Rigsby made public validate what I have
been documenting and reporting to the Arkansas media for eight years. DHS operations
are riddled with organized crime management tools.
Russell Rigsby’s exposed attempt to
deceive and manipulate the Arkansas Legislature did not fail because it was the
exceptional act of an arrogant individual.
It failed because an arrogant and over-confident State agency thought
its past successes with lies and manipulations meant it could get away with
anything. Employees and administrators
at the Department of Human Services have been deceiving and manipulating
legislators, judges and juries for decades.
Russell Rigsby was detected because he is less competent than those who
remain behind, secure in their respective positions and undetected by the
Arkansas media. The arrogance and child
exploitation continue without any pretense of shame.
The DHS Administration has learned
nothing from this or any of its previous embarrassments. From 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM on May 3 and 4 I picketed
DHS to say, “I told you so.” One side
of my sign read “I TOLD YOU SO! DHS IS A CRIMINAL EMPIRE! ASK
ME HOW THEY DO IT!”. ( I handed out
directions for accessing the The Eighth City website where articles I wrote
on organized crime in government are posted.)
The other side read “”UNCLE JOE” QUINN--NO LIE TOO BIG FOR DHS! DEMAND FBI INVESTIGATION!”.
The second day of my picketing, DHS
Spokesman Joe Quinn, grinning ear-to-ear as he entered the DHS building,
stated:
“Okay!
Another day in the criminal empire.
Here I go. . . .I want your sign when you’re done. I’d love it as a souvenir for my Office if
you want to drop it off.”
He
wanted the sign as a souvenir, presumably as tangible proof of his
effectiveness at protecting DHS from accountability for the ongoing criminal
activities in the Agency.
In her May 6 column, Meredith Oakley
asks “What really happened at DYS?”2
I can answer that question.
Meredith Oakley can look in the Democrat-Gazette dumpster for the documentation,
apparently ignored, that I have given them since 1993; or she can assign a
staff member to visit Mr. Brown's Neighborhood on The Eighth City website
at http://www.eighthcity.com/Articles/Rogerbrown/rogerbrown.htm,
which describe how and why organized criminal exploitation of children is
accomplished. These thoroughly documented
articles incorporate the materials I sent to the Democrat-Gazette,
and to other Arkansas media, all of which failed to publish any articles or
broadcast reports based upon the information.
Now, with her question answered,
perhaps Meredith Oakley, or someone
at the Democrat-Gazette, can turn
their attention to answering another question.
Did “Uncle Joe” Quinn, as
spokesman/propaganda minister for DHS, play any role in the Democrat-Gazette’s failure to
investigate the information I provided them and other Arkansas media? The public is entitled to know how effective
Mr. Quinn has been at influencing the Democrat-Gazette,
and other media, since the citizens of Arkansas pay his salary. The Democrat-Gazette
staff are among those who should know.
In her May 7 column3, Meredith
Oakley misleadingly claims “Twice during that time period [four years], this
newspaper produced well-researched and heart-rending exposés....”
The articles were certainly heart-rending, but they were selectively
“researched” as part of and for the purpose of the Democrat-Gazette’s
annual effort to win a specific publishing award. They ignored evidence and documentation I provided that the horrors
were much worse.
When they and other local media ignored
it, I wrote articles for an Internet newspaper The Eighth City Sentinel
documenting that the annual number of DHS founded child abuse allegations
can be predicted, with reasonable accuracy, from
the number of federal salary fund dollars needed to balance the DCFS payroll. The Democrat-Gazette
did not.
I documented that the contractors
filing DHS federal fund claims are paid a commission on the increase in filed claims over the
previous contract period. The Democrat-Gazette did not.
I documented how psychological
testing is rigged to produce false positives.
The Democrat-Gazette did not.
I documented how brainwashing
techniques are used in child abuse investigation interviews to manipulate and
coerce children to lie, saying that abuse or molestation occurred when it did
not. The Democrat-Gazette did not.
I have been informed that DHS Spokesman
Joe Quinn, acting as representative of DHS, has used the dismissive label
“nutbag” when referring to me in discussions with the local news media.
If we assume his labeling is correct, then a “nutbag” has discovered
and documented why DHS produces the fruit it bears while the management and
staff at the Democrat-Gazette has remained baffled. That implies one of two things: either the collective intellectual
capacity of the Democrat-Gazette
management and staff is somewhere below that of a “nutbag,” or an intellectual
con artist and hired character assassin has successfully diverted them from
reporting the truth. They should investigate
and report to the public which of the two possibilities is correct.
Perhaps former Governor Tucker’s assessment that Arkansas reporters
are too dumb to figure out how nefarious schemes are accomplished through
government agencies was correct.
A piece of Biblical problem solving
advice may be applied. If one is confused
about the identity of a particular tree, the fruit lying around it may provide
an important clue. For over 20 years,
the annual fruit crop produced by DHS has been a consistent annual increase
in federal funds brought into the Arkansas economy. DHS, especially with regard to children, is
an exploitation machine to produce money.
It never was intended to be and has never been an implement to actually
improve anyone’s life. The failure
of DHS to reduce the annual number of founded child abuse allegations through
DCFS and its failure to solve the “troubled youth” problem through DYS is
not the result of incompetence. Achieving
the same results for over twenty years is the consequence of competent management
meeting the Agency’s true operational goals.
Actually solving these problems would harm the Arkansas economy by
reducing the influx of conditional federal funds.
Perhaps Meredith Oakley was absent
or her attention diverted at legislative hearings to reform DHS several years
ago when a legislator instructed then-Director Tom Dalton to ensure that
reforms did not reduce federal funds produced by DHS. If she had not missed that, she might not be experiencing her
current frustration and confusion.
Despite the grandiose claims for
their professional abilities, no number of frustrated social workers will be
sufficient to accomplish the miracle of having children in DHS custody fill
their bowls with cherries from the fruit of a money tree. It is no wonder DHS employees report
experiencing frustration.
I would suggest that Meredith
Oakley, and other staff, might acquire a better grasp of reality, as I did, by
interviewing children aging out of the foster care program; former DHS
employees (some of whom left because they could not stomach what they were
asked to do obtain federal funds); parents, children, and others destroyed
during false child abuse investigations; and former members of Governor
Huckabee’s staff. As a historical
parallel, at the Nuremberg trials, survivors of the Nazi death camps and
medical experiments proved to be more reliable sources of information and
evidence about daily Nazi “policy outcomes” than camp administrators and
guards.
Perhaps my pointing out the
competency failures of the Democrat-Gazette
and other Arkansas media will be criticized as too harsh. After all, people are limited in their
thinking by the intellectual boxes of their times. The current generation is further disadvantaged by the dumbing
down of our education system.
Still, there are examples which demonstrate
that research and objective reasoning can perceive the truth. From 1921 to 1926, Billy Mitchell traveled
the world collecting information on military development. Based upon the knowledge he accumulated, he
predicted that the Japanese would attack American military assets in the Philippines
and Hawaii by air and most probably on a weekend. He was court-martialed for his foresight.
There were even German college students who opposed Hitler.
They were made posthumous heroes.
Occasionally, “I told you so” is justified.
Footnotes
1.
(a) Misplaced youth bill OKs lying,
Michael Rowett, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday, April 20, 2001,
http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/ark/A1ydys20.asp
(b)
Legal lies Thou shalt bear false witness,
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Editorial, Saturday, April 21, 2001,
http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/edi/wedit121.asp
(c)
E-mails come back on him; youth services
chief quits, Mary Hargrove, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Thursday, May 3,
2001 http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/ark/A1xrigsby3.asp
(d)
Thanks anyway An exit via e-mail,
Editorial, Saturday, May 5, 2001
http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/edi/wnwedit25.asp
2. What really happened at DYS?, Editorial,
Meredith Oakley, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Page J5, 5/6/2001
3. DYS: Positive change elusive, Editorial,
Meredith Oakley, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Monday, May 7, 2001
http://www.ardemgaz.com/today/edi/wopOakley7.asp
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Brown, May 10, 2001. All rights
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