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The real story of PEI Easter Seals

PEI Easter Seals is a long-running charity drive that needs to change.

Children with disabilities don’t need Easter Seals. They need respect and a chance to be full members of society.

Easter Seals has been running on PEI for more than 50 years. It’s like old idea who’s time has come. It could be a decent way to raise money but as it sits the campaign is seriously flawed.

The Easter Seals Ambassador job is emotionally abusive for the child with a disability. After three months of attention from CBC and Rotarians, the child is dropped like a stone. For a child with a learning disability, or most children, it leaves them hurt and confused. Other Provinces have acknowledged this. Ontario no longer uses under-age children for the role.

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Jehovahs Witnesses whisk children away from the law

Donna Ryder was part of official Jehovah’s Witness conspiracy to evade the law in child protection and custody cases

Donna Ryder helped spirit sick child from doctors and whisked the child to Mexico

From National Post

The boy was just five years old and desperately ill, but as he crouched in the back seat of Donna Ryder’s car, he became more fugitive than cancer patient.

“If what [Ms. Ryder] says is true, then the Watchtower Society is deliberately attempting to evade the legitimate authority of the state to protect children,” said Ms. Guichon. Continue reading →

Sex offender Garrido used Jehovah’s Witness to get early parole

Lenient parole system and Jehovah’s Witnesses helped Garrido get back on the streets after 10 years of 50 year sentence

Philip Garrido as photographed by El Dorado County, Calif. Sheriff's office, and taken Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 after his arrest for the abduction and 18 year sexual abuse of an 11 year old girl

Story from San Francisco Chronicle, updated with James A. Beckford reference

Philip Garrido and his wife Nancy are under arrest for the abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard, then 11 years old, on June 11, 1991. Garrido was a convicted sex offender for past three decades who had been in an out of jail. Nancy was a devout Jehovah’s Witness who converted Garrido to the religious sect prior to 1978.

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Why was Michael Jackson so weird?

Fundamentalist religion, abusive childhood and fame make a strange cocktail

Michael Jackson, other wordly image by Daniel Nieves

With story from BBC – updated October 10, 2011

“Any of us have less than perfect personalities and upbringing. The pressure cooker of fame and stardom along with virtually unlimited wealth can and do let those demons out.”

Michael Jackson was a super talent, in the same league as Elvis and the Beatles. Like great artists he had a peak in his career and then a long decline of lesser work. During the decline he was rich beyond the means of most people and indulged in a weird and rumored deviant life for the past two decades.
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CBC freak show about to begin, get a ring-side seat

Easter Seals is PEI’s best televised freak show, get your cheque books ready folks

CBC and Rotary sponsor disability freak show with added attraction of child abuse

This is the third in a series of articles on child abuse in the annual Easter Seals Telethon sponsored by CBC and the Charlottetown Rotary.

People with disabilities are not freaks.

As we wrote last summer, putting the people with disabilities on public display to generate amusement and donations is passe, finito, gone.

We are not freaks. We are people.

Maybe CBC’s weather man Boomer Gallant likes to get dressed up like a clown – he is a hoot – but most people with disabilities struggle everyday to look normal.

Sure you can convince a 9 to 11 year old child to do it, but what does that mean? They are just children. They like the attention but it’s demeaning. The child soon becomes media cannon fodder as CBC moves on to another story. Continue reading →

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