Aspies For Freedom

Here are links to cases showing the murder of autistics and aspies, very grim reading  :cry:
http://www.northeasttimes.com/2002/0320/starvation.html
http://www.normemma.com/lcorneli.htm
http://www.phen.ab.ca/materials/het/het12-01c.html
http://www.healthwatcher.net/Quackerywat...t-therapy/
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Midwest/08/24...boy.death/
http://www.nurseweek.com/news/00-03/032000i.html
http://www.abc.net.au/nsw/news/200406/s1143117.htm
http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/10040...uest.shtml
http://www.pcs.mb.ca/~ccd/lw131196.html
http://aikenonline.com/stories/060704/ne...08-7.shtml
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1121667.htm
http://www.ont-autism.uoguelph.ca/Coroner_probe.html
http://www.copaa.net/newstand/death_data.html
http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/crime/parchment.htm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_507531.html?menu=
http://www.myoc.com/community/lagunanigu...0801.shtml
http://www.ualberta.ca/htbin/lwgate/ICAD...le-29.html
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/new...010746.htm
http://www.archlegalclinic.ca/publicatio...pWrist.asp

A quote from the last link-
Society devalues people with disabilities and their murders are viewed differently than the murders of nondisabled people. Society has an easier time accepting the justifications proffered by the killer when the victim has a disability.

Amy, I got as far as link number two (http://www.normemma.com/lcorneli.htm) and couldn't take any more! Here's a couple of googles (Candace Newmaker, ACE) on the story I was thinking of:

http://www.nautis.com/modules/news/artic...storyid=58

http://www.srmhp.org/0102-attachment-therapy.html

In Australia we recently had a woman who went to court because she killed her young autistic son. Before the proceedings were completed, a commercial current affairs program bought her story, who made out the mother to be a poor hardworking woman whose actions had been quite understandable, given the trouble she faced with her afflicted son. Then later she got off, without any sentence. Made me sick.

the problem is the word autistic still means "retarded" to most people, so they devalue autistics thinking "oh well, they're just retards who are of no use to society" and when an autistic is murdered rather then react in total horror sometimes people will be more likely to think "it's a shame, oh well"

Greetings,

I've seen many of these stories and cant bear to even look at the above links.

It has got me thinking though.  What we are seeing is a currpuption of the legal system.  Murder is murder - we should be taking action against teh judges !!

What's worse is she's got custody of another child! I find that unbelievable!!!

Wouldn't dare send a mother with clinical depression to prison, but they send Autistics with all kinds of co-morbids all the time.

Thomas Hamilton
Barry George

Not sure what your post means there.
I know Barry George has AS and was convicted of killing Jill Dando, I also know there was no witness evidence and it is one of the most suspect convictions, and proposed miscarriages of justice in British legal history.

This is an extract from an article about the case-
"George suffers from learning difficulties which means it is hard for him to understand his legal papers. Nevertheless, he shows amazing dedication and now has a detailed understanding of the prosecution case against him. As I listen to him I find myself thinking: "This man is innocent. He didn't kill Jill."

I am more convinced than ever that the evidence against him is circumstantial and he, like Stephen Downing, was the wrong person in the wrong place.

There are three key areas of doubt in the prosecution case that George highlighted.

The prosecution says eyewitnesses put him in Gowan Avenue; an alibi that he was at a disabled charity at the time of Jill's murder is false; and a speck of gunpowder found in his coat ties him to a possible murder weapon.

Despite the eyewitness evidence George insists they got the wrong man. "The only witness said she saw me at 7am," he says. "I was still in bed. I don't get up until about 9am. It wasn't me. People know me in that area, but it wasn't me."

George is angry that the judge allowed 12 other people who were not 100 per cent sure they had identified him to give evidence putting him at the scene.

He also believes that police ID parades were unreliable because they took place a year after the murder.

"I was clean shaven at the time Jill was killed," he says. "By the time I went on parade I had longer hair and a goatee beard. I looked completely different and I was told to wear a coat. That was ridiculous.

"On the day Jill was murdered I was wearing a yellow fluorescent T-shirt. It was very bright. How could they miss me if I was there? And there were so many different descriptions. There was one of a man of Mediterranean appearance (shown in a police e-fit). He has never been traced. They got it wrong."

George claims it was impossible for him to have killed Jill because he had an alibi. The Crimewatch presenter was shot at about 11.32am. And if George's version is true, he couldn't have been at the scene.

George says that at the time he was at a charity office, the Hammersmith and Fulham Action For Disability, which is a mile from Jill's home.

"The place was still locked at 10am and I had to knock on the door so they could let me in," he says. "I had to see someone, and they only see people by appointment. They let me in and I spoke with about four people there. I remember one of the staff eating a sandwich, and being passed from person to person.

"They considered me a nuisance, but finally I saw someone. I told them my problem. I had to talk to someone. I was there for about two hours."

George says on the day of the murder he also crossed a busy road in front of a speed camera.

"It went off six or seven times taking pictures of speeding cars. Surely it photographed me?

However, the Old Bailey jury was told that staff at the disability centre could not agree on what time George had been there. And it was decided that George had the "window of opportunity" to shoot Jill and escape. The forensic evidence - a tiny speck of gunpowder found in George's coat pocket - played a damning part in his conviction. But he is adamant it was contaminated at a police lab or came from an armed officer he says raided his flat in Crookham Road, Fulham."

http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/barrygeorge/index.html

I have thought about this case a lot, it is very troubling. Anyone have any opinions on it?

As for Thomas Hamilton if you mean that he had AS, I havent found that anywhere.

This link claims that Hitler had an ASD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_per..._disorder.

Can you please tell me what your post with Barry George and Thomas Hamilton on meant please, I still dont know.

Do you have a specific purpose saying that Hitler might have ASD, as I'm sure there are many other people on the list? Why only mention him?

NTs can be evil... some can be alot nicer though. Of course, some of them are brainwashed from mainstream/bullcrap religions such as Christianity(Someone sent me a .doc file full of infidelish quotes... most of them pointing out contradictions within religion. And she also gave me a link to a page showing not one, not two, not 200, but 300+ contradictions of religion) and believe that they're doing these people a favor by killing them and "ridding them of demons."




While they find no pitty in Autistic deaths, I find no pity in their deaths. They got what was coming to them.

Mother of 10 on trial for murder in autistic stepson's starvation death

PHILADELPHIA - An impoverished mother of 10 accused of starving her autistic stepson to death may testify in her own defense in her murder trial, her attorney said Thursday.

Prosecutor Yvonne Ruiz is seeking a first-degree murder conviction, saying Audrey McDaniels intentionally starved 18-year-old Brahim Dukes because she was overwhelmed by having to care for the severely disabled teenager along with all of her other children.

The defense maintains that Brahim, perhaps upset because his father was gone - he was in jail for thousands of dollars worth of unpaid traffic tickets - stopped eating, and McDaniels didn't realize he was sick. A defense witness said Wednesday that an abnormal brain condition may have reduced the teenager's food and fluid intake.

Defense attorney Samuel Stretton said Wednesday that his client may take the stand, although no final decision had been made.

Paramedics said the 5-foot-9 teen weighed only 94 pounds and was covered in sores when they found him dead four days after Christmas in 2001.

Homicide investigator David Baker testified in Common Pleas Court that McDaniels said she made food for the youth only three or four times during his father's 16-day incarceration.

"I didn't really have no time for him," McDaniels said, according to a police transcript. "When I come in this house I'm so tired I had no time for none of them."

Family members, however, have described McDaniels as a loving mother who was overwhelmed caring for so many children.


http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredai...110832.htm

Actually TaliDaRadical some people do think that autism could be a race, have you heard of the Neanderthal Theory- http://www.rdos.net/eng/asperger.html
As autism is genetic we could be a race, a sub species, or an ethnical minority.
Either way its not right to try and cure or eradicate us through the prevention that some charities want.
We're glad to have your support here.

[edit] corrected link (gareth)

Why are secret societies like the KKK and Black Panthers still around?




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