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“When I see a bill come out that actually addresses the root causes of this epidemic, that holds accountable the people, institutions, associations and agencies responsible; when the federal government stops funding the exploitation of the American public through cash incentive programs hidden in regulations that keep state treasury’s flush with cash, I’ll support those bills. Until then, do not expect me to cheer for these do nothing bills that are nothing more than fluff and buff bills meant to make you think they really do care. They don’t. “
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I have watched in dismay as bills have been introduced and/or passed supposedly addressing the trafficking of human beings including the elderly, the disabled and children through the cash incentive systems that fund the buying, selling and trading of the American public. We have been commodified. This system is so rampant and so blatant that we are literally just a step away from auctioning off human beings for profit in the public square. And it wouldn’t be the first time this has happened. The US has a sordid history of selling human beings for profit, only this time around we are all potential property that can be auctioned off.
Having successfully stolen an estimated 3-5 billion annually from the elderly (low estimate) some think the real amount is closer to 10 billion. And, while there are cases of family members, friends, or others in the community who have exploited the elderly and abused them, the vast majority of cases, especially where a large estate is attached, are committed by parasitic individuals who work as predators within and with the cooperation of the probate system, for no other purpose than self-enrichment. These parasites could not care less about the lives they destroy or the misery they cause other human beings.
“Go ahead and see what you can do, because you have been deemed incapacitated, so everything you say or do is meaningless,” said Brenda Uekert, principal court research consultant with the National Center for State Courts. “You can’t even get an attorney, because a judge has already determined that you don’t have the ability to make decisions for yourself.
Two recent bills supposedly intended to address the growing threat of predation of senior citizens who committed the new age crime of aging with assets, address none of the real causes of abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation that occurs under the protection and direction of the so-called “stakeholders” who assembled this system of trafficking, legalizing the conversion of assets from the targeted individuals into the accounts of total strangers whose only interest is self enrichment, is even acknowledged.
Thefts from the dead fall into two basic categories:
1) Theft from the body of a dead person; and
2) Theft of property and/or money from their home and estate.
It just so happens that thefts from vulnerable adults and elders also fall into two basic categories:
1.) Theft of property, including homes deeded over, cars retitled, medication (especially narcotic pain medications that can be sold for cash), art work or jewelry taken without the knowledge or the consent of the elder, or taken from an elder through coercion or intimidation or undue influence; and
2) Theft of financial assets such as: taking cash or draining bank accounts; running up credit card balances or getting new cards in the elder’s name; stealing IRS refunds; stealing Social Security retirement or disability checks; stealing pension payments; defrauding elders into investing in businesses that don’t exist; coercing an elder into co-signing a loan at a bank; getting elders to buy expensive cars and jewelry and making “gifts” to the abuser. Frankly, the list is endless in this category.
The administrative tribunals called “probate” were constructed specifically to avoid your natural rights and liberties as protected in the Constitution for the United States. What are referred to as “collateral consequences” are civil and regulatory and therefore not subject to Constitutional limits. In “probate” as with all administrative tribunals, you have no rights. And there are far too many examples of probate administrators who sit in place of an actual Judge of the law, who will vehemently threaten those who are forced into these tribunals, with being sent to jail if they mention the Constitution or who may try to claim their natural rights and liberties contained in it. More than one administrator has screamed at those captured in these tribunals that “the law is what I say it is”. This most likely is one of the few honest statements you will hear. These tribunals are not bound by the rules of evidence as would be adhered to in an actual court of law.
The predator who is about to steal your identity from you can and will make serious charges of neglect, abuse, exploitation and other egregious claims for which they have no evidence, and are never required to produce any evidence that these claims have any truth to them. And the victim, nor his/her advocates are allowed to present any evidence that may contradict the exaggerated and baseless claims made by the predators. The administrator won’t allow it….don’t even try to put it on their desk.
This is really a handy system. This way, transcripts read that no one objected and no one presented any evidence to contradict the claims of the predators.
How it works
Using exaggerated and/or fabricated claims of imminent danger, the professional predator files an emergency petition for guardianship. In almost every instance of these claims, the predator has never even seen the targeted victim, and could not identify them if they were in a one person lineup. But what they have seen is a list of assets including property owned, liquid assets, personal items of value, possible stock portfolios or other real property. Where did they find these assets? Ask that estate planner who sold you that plan how this information can become available to interested party’s.
Collateral Damages
The result of being declared a “ward” is the loss of legal status which is an inherent element of criminal punishment. Being declared a “ward of the state” is a statutory civil death. It is equivalent to natural death in its legal consequences and has historically been treated as criminal punishment.
Why would you construct a system that treats aging with assets as a crime? And it must be viewed by the BAR Associations and their cohorts as such as it is they who assembled and wrote the statutes in every state that deprive you not only of your assets and your freedom, but also your very identity.
The ultimate in Identity Theft
Once guardianized, now having suffered a statutory civil death., you cannot speak for yourself. Dead people can’t talk.
As stated by Chitty, “he is disqualified from being a witness, can bring no action, nor perform any legal function; he is in short regarded as dead in law.”
Your identity is stolen from you and given to your new owner; the professional predatory guardian. Now under the legalized theft of your identity, they speak, act and present themselves legally as YOU. With this theft of identity, comes access to all of your assets, personal possessions and anything else you may own or possess. Your home will be violated, your possessions inventoried (unless of course they find something really valuable and somehow these items never appear on the inventory) while mementos, family albums, and personal items of sentimental value are added to a pile of trash.
Those estate plans you paid an attorney to put together for you? Any probate administrator in the country can and routinely does discard all pre-standing legal instruments if the new guardian hasn’t disposed of them already and denied that these documents ever existed. Once discarded and cast aside, all benefits, powers of attorney, medical directives, estate administration and distribution is held by your new owner: that person who now presents themselves as you.
Neither bill addresses the redistribution of wealth, the interference with inheritance, the conversion of property under the guise of protection, that operates inside administrative tribunals constructed specifically to facilitate the now legalized theft of estates by professional predators who make their living converting the assets of targeted victims, into their own private accounts. All to benefit the “ward” of course.
What these bills do, is to expand and further empower the very agencies and associations that are used to facilitate the destruction of lives, the theft of the estate, and the rendering of basic human rights as void.
When I see a bill come out that actually addresses the root causes of this epidemic, that holds accountable the people, institutions, associations and agencies responsible; when the federal government stops funding the exploitation of the American public through cash incentive programs hidden in regulations that keep state treasury’s flush with cash, I’ll support those bills. Until then, do not expect me to cheer for these do nothing bills that are nothing more than fluff and buff bills meant to make you think they really do care. They don’t.
And for those of you who are enamored by, brought to your knees in supplication by the mere presence of politicians who graciously gave you a few minutes of their time and then immediately forgot you…..get over it. Remember who you are, and that it is YOU who employs them. It is YOU who pays for the grand building they sit in along with that elegant office and the staff that tends to his or her Royal Highness. And it is YOU who not only pays their salary but most likely helped put them in position. Treat them as you would any other employee….respect them but demand that they do the job they were hired to do.
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http://www.nextavenue.org/guardianship-u-s-protection-exploitation/
http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=penn_law_review
http://onthewaytodying.com/stealing-from-the-dead-a-cautionary-tale/
Aug 14, 2017 @ 14:02:52
Gracious, classy, ethics and morals…..you are the exception! Thank you for holding to your standards and not lowering yourself to the level others seem to thrive on.
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Aug 14, 2017 @ 13:39:18
Please! Everyone! Just stay focused on the issues and don’t be distracted by these attacks on me and other people. No apologies needed! Bad behavior speaks for itself……don’t add your voice to it. Still….I thank you all for your support and I still won’t be asking for any money!! (-: Marti
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Aug 14, 2017 @ 13:35:47
I am sick of the behavior of some of these supposed activists. Miss Oakley I am so sorry! I withdrew from the Florida group also after I saw that they were participating in this. I would advise everyone to get away from these people, they are up to no good! This apparently is not about exposing this elder genocide and theft of assets…..for them…its about THEM.
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Aug 13, 2017 @ 08:25:14
for god’s sake. What is wrong with those people? I see that aaapg bunch was right in there again. They have lost all credibility with me and many others. They are supposed to be helping people and all they can think to do is to attack you and that other woman? Obsession doesn’t begin to describe this. You need to file a defamation suit. They have no right to do this to you. You were out there sounding the alarm before they even got involved. Jealousy and greed are terrible personality traits. In this instance…..I think the “I wannabe the star” enters this more than anything else. Please hang in there. You have so many supporters and have helped so many people get their stories out.
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Aug 11, 2017 @ 21:55:38
I cant believe how crass and obsessed some of these people are. They are supposed to be helping others and instead do internet attacks on you and others? They haven’t helped anyone that I know of. Except themselves to other peoples money. I notice you have never asked anyone for money. They lost me a long time back with their self centered crap. I thank you Marti for all you have done.
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Aug 11, 2017 @ 18:05:24
I too would like to add my apologies. I hope you know how respected you are for all you have done to get this out there. For several years you were the only voice out there. Don’t think we forgot that. These newcomers are angry because they do not have the respect that you do…nor the class.
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Aug 11, 2017 @ 17:22:47
On behalf of all of us out here whom you have helped and spoken out for, please let me apologize for the continued attacks by these self centered egotists who spend so much of their time and effort trying to tear you up. Somewhere in these comments someone referred to your sense of ethics. I concur. Those who participate in these so-called productions are the very people who do us the most harm to the cause, and do not possess any sense of ethics, morality or professionalism. Looking at the participants, one can easily see it is a collection of the cast outs from other organizations who typically trade in negativity.
Thank you for your consistent efforts and for your composure. You are quite the lady!
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Aug 09, 2017 @ 09:32:45
Lets work on that bill! Marti you coudl put this together and I would be happy to assist. Let me know what you need me to do. Great idea Greg. It would sure slow down the “fastest growing cottage industry” in the US. Human vultures they are!
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Aug 09, 2017 @ 09:29:50
Greg…That is an excellent suggestion. now lets put it into action!
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Aug 09, 2017 @ 09:28:38
Damn girl! You are fierce! Watch your back. These people will stop at nothing to shut you up.
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Aug 08, 2017 @ 03:37:39
The first Bill to introduce that will make a dent in this ongoing crime is a simple one: No officer of the court, or any other administrative personnel of any kind, public or private, may pay themselves, in performing their duties, from the assets of the estate of the one so guardianized/conserved.
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Aug 07, 2017 @ 15:21:24
I must admit that the threats made to those who organize the summit must have been a real shocker. I had people bragging about messages they had sent that I would have been ashamed to have taken part in. thankfully the panel went forward in any event. To those who participated in these horrible attacks…..shame on you. And please stay where you are, we dont want you out here with the rest of us who know how to be civil and how to act appropriately. Of all the childish petty things I have seen happen this had to have been the worst. Thank you to Marty, Danny, Mike and Brian for representing those of us who appreciated this opportunity. For the rest of you who tried to cause so much trouble…..please go away. You have lost any and all credibility.
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Aug 07, 2017 @ 11:47:10
Marti, Brian, Danny and Mike…..So much thanks to you all. We should all be thanking the WB people for this wonderful opportunity. I hope they do not lump us in with the idiots that hammered them so bad with all their ugliness. We need to make sure they know we are no part of that.
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Aug 07, 2017 @ 08:24:01
Yes! We need to thank the Summit people for having this panel. I know thye got beat to death with crap from these so-called stars and their evil supporters. What a sad bunch of losers they are. But please send a thank you to the Summit people….they deserve our thanks. and thank you to Danny, Brian and Mike for making that trip and exposing what is happening. If it wasn;t for Mike Volpe most people wouldn’t know a thing about this. Thanks for your continual reporting Mike.
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Aug 07, 2017 @ 07:29:45
I think a big thanks to the Whistleblower’s Summit and those who worked so hard to get this panel in spite of allthe back lash from the haters is in order. We need to let these people know we appreciate this opportunity and not all of us are crazy idiots who think we are more important than anyone else. This is what a true advocate looks and acts like. No fake drama documentarys and no fake tears. Just a devotion to the cause come hell or high water. So embarrassed by the actions of some of these celebrity wannabe’s….please go away you make us all look like fools. Thank you marti for having the good sense to conduct yourself like a lady. and thank your panel for making that trip to speak for all of us.
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Aug 06, 2017 @ 22:30:41
Count me in Marty~ i am so sorry about the email I sent you behind that online attack. Please accept my apology. Lets work together. Leave the drama queens to do what they do best…..make fools of themselves. Again….my deepest apologies.
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Aug 06, 2017 @ 17:08:49
I sent this to all my legislators. Not that they will ever admit knowing about it.
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Aug 06, 2017 @ 14:03:54
Marti…I was at the summit and was so prepared to dislike you after all the attacks on you. You were nothing at all like what I had been told. Reading the comments below it seems many others came to the same conclusion I did. You are a true champion for this cause. Even drenched from the rain, you were eloquent, outspoken, and passionate. At least we have one true voice in this not concerned about self promotion but concerned for all of us. Please let me know what I can do to help you. and please think about coming to South Carolina to visit with the families here who have been caught in this terrible trap. I have sent to you my contact info and that pf several others who wish to speak with you here. Please respond! Ch.B. Atty.
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Aug 06, 2017 @ 10:46:11
I appreciate the way you conduct yourself. Your panel was excellent, focused and centered. Much appreciation goes to the summit organizers for recognizing what a tragic issue this is and allowing this panel. I do hope people take the time to let them know how much we all appreciated getting this access.
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Aug 06, 2017 @ 10:18:11
That Tate guy was something else~ what a tragic story. Brian K brought us to tears. We have to stop this!
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Aug 06, 2017 @ 10:14:51
You were awesome. Keep writing and we will continue to promote your work. Will check out the whistleblowers site and see if we can fit in there.
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Aug 06, 2017 @ 10:11:00
Thank you for all you do! I am so sorry about the bad behavior of others but there are always people who are petty and mean spirited. You keep on being you. Always gracious and always a lady. thank you for getting to this to DC. Maybe now they know we are serious about stopping the trafficking.
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Aug 06, 2017 @ 09:04:17
I sent this to all my contacts. I see you have numerous invitations to go to various places to speak and to help organize. Please add us to your list of supporters and consider coming to Maryland in your travels. We could use your help. I was at the summit too. thank you so much for getting this on a national venue. We are also signing onto the summit to support them and to thank them for allowing this issue to be presented.
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Aug 06, 2017 @ 08:39:54
Marti I sent you an e about coming to Michigan to work with us. I hope you will consider it. We can work out the details. thank you for always staying focused on our plight instead of blowing your horn about how important you think you are. I get so tired of people who seem to be more interested in promoting themselves using this issue as an excuse.
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Aug 06, 2017 @ 08:34:23
thanks for all you do and have done to expose this racket.
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Aug 06, 2017 @ 07:53:03
Hey Miss Oakley! I was at the summit and heard your panel. I think you did an excellant joband sounded the alarm that our old people are under attack. I felt bad for all the people who spoke up. to think this could happen in Amerika. We need to get rid of these kinds of courts. return to the common law and prosecute the people who keep this racket running, lawyers wonder why people hate them so much but they deserve it. they are the biggest crooks in the country.
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 23:01:47
Thanks everyone for your comments. I will send all those who wrote and asked for contact an email tomorrow. Will check back in in the morning!
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 22:45:39
Marti…I am the attorney you met in DC who gave you his card with the private number on it. It includes a smiley face! I know you got a pile of cards but I would really like to work with you so I hope you can find mine in that stack. If not, I will wait a few days and if I have not heard from you I will call you. You have an impeccable reputation and a sincerity about you that I have seldom encountered. I would truly be honored to work with you on this issue. Bill
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 22:28:15
I met her too! She was soaking wet from the storm and didnt let that stop her! Did you see her eyes? I have never seen eyes like that! We loved you Marty and you have our support always. thank you for traveling all that way to expose this. We came there in the hopes of meeting you in person and you were so gracious to everyone. your panel was riveting. you did a good job of representing this mess. Your friends from New Mexico!
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 22:21:50
hi Marty! Met you in DC but you probably dont remember because you were surrounded with so many wanting to talk to you. what a huge voice for such a small woman! Was so happy to meet you in person! thank you for all you have done to try and expose this horrid system.
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 22:18:08
Boston is in the house!! Can we get you out here? Please advise! Sent an email with contact info. Saw your piece in Boston Broadside. Please keep on writing and speaking out!
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 22:14:16
Illinois checking in here!! We want you to come here too. Thank you for exposing this. Ken D calls this elder cleansing and I think he is right on. They want rid of all the old people but want to rob them first.
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 22:11:41
I told my representative what had happened to us in this and he said it had to be an isolated incident that we misunderstood. I see now that he lied. We are here in Minnesota Marti and want to meet with you if you are open to that. I sent you a private email about us and others who want to talk with you. I look forward to hearing back from you.
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 22:08:27
Just had to reread this to make sure I understood. Checked resources and also talked with a friend who is an attorney. he says you nailed it but attorneys are afraid to talk out loud about it cause it will get them thrown out. Is that true? Do you know of any who have been?
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 22:04:10
Thank you Marty. I dont know what keeps you going. But thanks for staying with it.
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 21:45:46
“When I see a bill come out that actually addresses the root causes of this epidemic, that holds accountable the people, institutions, associations and agencies responsible; when the federal government stops funding the exploitation of the American public through cash incentive programs hidden in regulations that keep state treasury’s flush with cash, I’ll support those bills.
Preach it girlfriend!!! We are with you!!!
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 21:43:01
If you can go to NY you can come here too! Will contact you privately. What a powerful voice you are for all of us. Sending the link on to others.
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 21:41:15
I heard of this and thought it was one of those net conspiracy theories until it struck us at our house. Its a nightmare. God help the people trapped in this system and may God forgive those who caused so many others so much pain and misery. I believe God has reserved a special place in hell just for you folks who do this.
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 21:32:48
Marti I just got the link to this piece sent to me. You are dead on!!! we would like to have you come to New York to speak to our organization. We will pay your expenses. Please contact me for information and please please please keep writing and speaking out. you have my contact info. Looking forward to hearing from you very soon! Celia
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 21:18:21
Miss M, I sometimes worry that we have lost you. Then you pop back up with some revelation that blows everyone away. This piece on the trafficking of the elderly is frightening. I know that it happens everyday because I know people it has happened to. I also know that there are people out there who are out to destroy you. They can’t. Your reputation is solid and there are more of us who support you than there are of them who don’t. Hang in there lady! We need you!
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 21:09:20
Miss Oakley, you have put this into perspective the way no one else can. Thank you for your consistent efforts in exposing this human trafficking scheme. I and many others from the K. Ditkowsky group are avid followers. Thank you for your trip to DC for all of us caught in this system. And thank you most of all for your ethics in spite of the continuing attacks. Your character speaks for itself and ethics defines you. I write with much gratitude.
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 13:39:41
Repeating the last paragraph here for emphasis:
“And for those of you who are enamored by, brought to your knees in supplication by the mere presence of politicians who graciously gave you a few minutes of their time and then immediately forgot you…..get over it. Remember who you are, and that it is YOU who employs them. It is YOU who pays for the grand building they sit in along with that elegant office and the staff that tends to his or her Royal Highness. And it is YOU who not only pays their salary but most likely helped put them in position. Treat them as you would any other employee….respect them but demand that they do the job they were hired to do.”
No VOTER should ever forget this. It is what sets us apart from most of the rest of the world.
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Aug 05, 2017 @ 12:15:17