Our Government Continues to Let us Down.

A few weeks ago, my Dad posted a response to a New Times Times article about how New York State was failing it's developmentally disabled by letting abusive people who work in the groups homes and residential care centers assault, neglect, and now murder helpless children.

"Yet on a February afternoon in 2007, Jonathan, a skinny, autistic 13-year-old, was asphyxiated, slowly crushed to death in the back seat of a van by a state employee who had worked nearly 200 hours without a day off over 15 days. The employee, a ninth-grade dropout with a criminal conviction for selling marijuana, had been on duty during at least one previous episode of alleged abuse involving Jonathan."

A follow up article by Danny Hakim continues to illustrate how little New York State cares for the people that are entrusted with their care.  While the media provides a deluge of updates on Hollywood stars, and political pundits talk about human rights violations in far off lands such as Libya, Syria, and Egypt, we have children and adults who are trusting our elected officials with their lives.  Our tax dollars are being sent to help other countries while children, like Jonathan, are being crushed by in the back seat of a van because he was showing behavior that is consistent with his Autism.  This is happening right here in our very own country.  America, the greatest county in the world, is not preventing the most helpless section of our population stay stafe.

We need to take a stand and let the people that are supposed to protect us that it is not OK for even one more incident to occur.  Please write your Congress person and Senators and let them know that you won't stand for this.