I wrote a bit ago about the story of Jess and Leanne. It is amazing what people believe that they can get away with when someone is either very young, like target children, or quite old, like Leanne, which is what we will be talking about today.
This post deals with the subject matter of a documentary called, “The Guardians”, and I highly recommend you watch it, as I won’t be able to do it justice. You will be shocked that what is happening is not only legal, but how pervasive it is. The Guardians, which occurred in Nevada, came out in 2018, and it is entirely possible that the laws have changed to stop this sort of thing from happening, but I don’t know. If anyone has updated information, leave it in the comments section, and I will add it to this post.
Whether the laws have changed or not, that really doesn’t matter. What matters is, the laws were there to begin with, and the vast majority of people did nothing about it. Those that tried, found themselves fighting in a legal system that was firmly rigged against them.
Let’s begin.
Imagine being an adult, calling your mom and your dad, and they don’t answer. If they are in their later years, this would bring about alarm bells. Now imagine calling again and again, while rushing to their home to make sure that they are okay? When you arrive, they aren’t there. Not only are they not there, the house looks vacant. It doesn’t appear that anyone has been there is a good while. You have no idea where to begin, so you call the hospitals, the morgue, the police, anyone you can think of. No one has any information to give you. Then, you come back to their house the next day, in order to further investigate, but you find a note that reads:
In case of emergency, contact “Jane Doe”, “certified guardian”.
You have never heard of a “certified guardian”, so of course, you use the contact information to try and find your parent. You have no idea who this person is, you have no idea what she has to do with your parent, and all you get when you call the number is Jane Doe informing you, that what is happening, is “legal”. At this point, you have no idea what is happening, and the contention that it is “legal” isn’t really settling in for you yet. What’s legal? What is she talking about? Where are your parents?! They have been taken, by a “private guardian”.
At some point, barring some unforeseen event, illness, injury, violence, etc., all of us will grow old. That comes with many challenges, many of which are health related, and for some it will be cognitive in nature. For those individuals, we, as a society, want there to be some sort of help available to them, especially if there is no family around, right? Most people would agree with this, so passing laws in order to make sure that safeguard is there, tends to be rather simple. This is legislation by emotions, without the insertion of logical negative outcomes that can be easily seen, if someone just tries to understand what nefarious people might do.
What if you are older, and alone. You have a small accident at home that requires you to call 911? That should be a completely safe thing to do, but for some people, this is the beginning of a nightmare. One woman in the documentary had a fall, and her 911 call landed her in a psyche ward at the hospital, heavily drugged, with no explanation. You might wonder what caused her to be placed in a psyche ward, but the sad reality it, nothing. Instead, this is the result of a very corrupt system that targets elderly people in order to literally steal everything that they own, and place them in state run facilities under the care of “certified guardians”. Legal kidnappers and robber barons.
The method is simple. Identify elderly people that have assets. Or. wait until they present themselves due to a medical emergency, then intervene and take control of their autonomy and agency. Make them wards of the state under the Guardianship program. Ensure that the family is not contacted and frozen out completely, so there is no way they can help their loved one, and then take everything that person ever worked for their whole lives. Leave them committed to a mental health hospital, or locked away in a nursing home, unreachable by anyone but their “Guardian”.
From the film:
Rudy: “Two of the owners of the hospice showed up, and they said they wanted to check Rennie and my vitals. And that was fine, because they had done that before. And then, I would say, a half hour later, (knocking), on the door. There was a woman in a beige dress, with black boot on. And there was a gentleman with her.”
Billy Mintz: “What did April say when she showed up at your door?”
Rudy: “The first thing she said is that she was a Guardian. I had no idea what that meant. And she said, “I’m going to take you and your wife on a vacation and you’ll be there for two weeks.”
"and I said, do you have a court order?”“And she said, “Yes.”
“And I said, “May I see it?”
“And she said, “I don’t have it with me, but you’ll have it in two hours.”
“She gave us three choices.”
The first choice was she’ll call the police and have us taken to jail. My wife, by the way, has CLL, Chronic Leukemia Lymphoma. I wasn’t going to see her go to jail.
Number two: we can go to a psychiatric ward.
And three, We could go to an assisted living facility.
“I chose that because it seemed like that was the least bothersome for my wife.”
Rennie: “I said, I’m not leaving my house. And she said, “You have to, or we’re going to call the police. I was terrified, and I fought with her. I started crying. I said, “I’m not going anywhere. Who are you?” She kept telling me, it’s going to be fine. You’re going to like it. It’s going to be wonderful.”
Rudy: “My wife was beside herself, she was crying, she was upset as could be, and rightly so. I was thinking at the time, just one thing, make sure she doesn’t go to jail. Make sure she doesn’t go to a psychiatric ward. That’s what was overcoming all of this. And if you say intellectually, it doesn’t make sense, well, it made sense at the time, because she was crying, and it was very difficult.”
Rennie: “They grabbed me, and they kept telling me, “You’ll like it, you’ll love it there. They told me I was going to go back home, and… never did.”
Rudy: “My wife and I, had not done anything wrong. I didn’t have any idea what was going on. In the back of my mind, I was so worried that they would try to separate us.
Rennie: “I got in the car. I had to go with her, otherwise I felt like I was going to be arrested, for what, I don’t know. It’s hard for me to talk about, ‘cause it’s the hurt that’s not going away so fast. I think he (Rudy) should have fought back like I did, and say, “I’m not going. Get out of my house”
Rudy: “I was the one who was compliant.”
Rennie: “These are things that actually happened, and here I am screaming, I’m not going. I’m not going. This is my home. He didn’t stick up for me. He just went with them.”
Rudy: “I had no idea where we were going, what we were going to do, and I didn’t know how to stop it.”
Rennie: “When I was at the place, I laid in bed, they gave me so much medicine. They said I had to take the medicine. I said, I don’t want it, and they forced me to take the medicine, and I would just lay there. I just lay there like, uh… like I was not alive.”
This is the power of the Guardian program. They can show up at people’s houses, and take them. These people almost never get to go back home. Instead, they are incarcerated in homes, and heavily drugged to create the appearance of incompetence. Their health declines rapidly, and they die, unable to escape from their legal kidnapping. Not only that, all of the assets that they owned are claimed by the Guardian for their “care”. The family is helpless to intervene, even when they go to court, the family court judges will rule in favor of the Guardian, not because the family is unfit, but because these judges are in the corner of the Guardian program.
This entire program is used to destroy lives. It dismantles human dignity, it allows for some of the worst crimes imaginable to be committed against people who aren’t able to defend themselves, and this is all done through lawfare. Meaning, that there is little chance that the victims will be able to free themselves from its clutches. Their finances are decimated, so they have no money to fight back against these actions.
Dan Roberts is a publisher of a local seniors’ newspaper. He became involved in the story after hearing from Rudy and Rennie.
Billy Mintz: “How can something like this happen?”
Dan Roberts: “It can happen because the Nevada court system and the private guardianship industry allowed it, and they did it in such a quiet, easy going way, that nobody would ever believe it. Is it true? Absolutely.
Billy Minz: “But you know how this sounds. I mean, you sound like you’re crazy.”
Dan Roberts: “I sound like I am crazy. And I want you to know, when I met Julie’s parents (Rudy and Rennie), and I sat down with them, I thought they were crazy. And all you have to do, is see how this system works, and you realize that crazy is the norm. Where else can you go, in which a perfect stranger can take over your life, without you even knowing about it? Where else can you do that? That’s the way it is, in the state of Nevada.”
”Wait, the guy that has it all, and the guy who’s- it’s really Rich Black, seriously, Rick Black is the guy from North Carolina, whose father-in-law was taken. And his wife is Terri. And Rick and Terri have spent thousands of dollars in legal fees to try and right the wrong.”
06-16-2022 Rick Black Speaks Out On Guardianship Abuse And The Exploitation Of The Vulnerable
As I said, I am not going to summarize this whole documentary. I think that it is too important to try and give you the Reader’s Digest version. You should watch it. It is free on Amazon. Instead, I want to speak about the mentality that allowed this to happen. It isn’t pleasant to think about, but what this is, is entitlement. These Guardians believed that they were entitled to someone else’s everything, their savings, their property, and their lives at the end of it. They also decided that these elderly people were not human. They were banks that needed to be regulated, and once they were regulated out of existence, the vault was free to be raided.
It interests me to see how easily humans can place those that aren’t “like them” into groups of subhuman. This includes people that are just different by not being in the same age range. It is a part of what feeds this kind of abuse. The person being abused, stolen from, and ultimately left to die somehow crossed a line into being a thing in the abusers mind. In the documentary, there is one guardian that they concentrate on, April Price, but she is just one of many. This was not the crime of an individual, but rather a crime of the masses, either through overt action, or obliviousness. Silence and collusion were a large part of why this has been able to go on so long.
None of the people who were taken in the documentary had ever heard of this program. They had no idea who the people were that suddenly were issuing them instructions about where they will live, what they will be medicated with, and whether or not they will be able to ever leave. They were total strangers.
I have thought about this, and tried to imagine the mentality of someone that is driving up to an elderly person’s home with these intentions in mind. How do they justify this to themselves. One could argue, I suppose, that they really buy into the idea that the elderly person is unable to care for themselves and that they are doing them a favor. However, that seems like BS to me. They know that they are taking their assets. They know that they are stripping them of all they have. They also know that if you have to medicate a person into oblivion in order to make them appear incompetent, that you are full of it.
I think the secrecy was quite intentional. Rudy had no idea what to do in that situation. Had he been aware that this was something that could happen, steps could have been taken to protect themselves. Even if law enforcement is willing to assist in this travesty, then they could have locked up in ways that they were unable to be stolen. Perhaps being arrested was the right play for them. In that case, they could have demanded a lawyer, and their daughter would have been notified. I understand that many of you think that you would have fought like Rennie did. I would have too, but there are many many people that will be compliant because they don’t know what else they can do.
Very few people are this man:
As you can easily see by the number of people in the photo that aren’t strong, they aren’t brave. Maybe they believed all of Hitler’s BS, but most likely a good number of them didn’t. However, he’s the only one willing to show that to the world. Going against the grain is not in many people’s DNA. Humans are tribal and they want social acceptance. Those that refuse such things often are the target of the crowd.
This post has a few intentions. One is to bring attention to the fact that this evil of stripping the elderly of life liberty and happiness was legal, and may very well still be. This was a system that wasn’t just taken advantage of by a few unscrupulous individuals. It was created to be utilized in this fashion. If you don’t know the motivations of others, you cannot counter them.
I could sell this system to the masses easily and make them feel good about what it was supposed to do. Protect the vulnerable when they cannot protect themselves. Help them be placed in a facility where their needs are met. After all, you don’t want the elderly dying on their own when it’s preventable, right? Those would be cruel and heinous actions that should be rebuked.
Their families have abandoned them. They don’t care that their mother or father was in need of help. They left them all on their own. We only take their assets to offset the cost of the program. Memory care, mental health facilities, these are very expensive, and relegating these poor people to state care, when their own assets could be used to unsure their wellbeing, that is the best outcome. Their children certainly shouldn’t inherit any of it. They don’t care about them while they’re alive, so why should they benefit from their death? After all, it’s their money. It should go toward making their lives as best as they can be. Someone has to do it.
In reality, their children were involved in their lives, they did fight for them, but these people who were taken, they weren’t in any danger. The children had no reason to worry about them. They were able to live and thrive on their own. They would never have conceived that they could be legally kidnapped, which should probably be termed eldernapped for this purpose, and they could do nothing to help them or get them back.
This program was specifically meant to target the wealthy retirees in Nevada. There were guardians, doctors, lawyers, judges, pain management specialists, physician assistants, all working together to deem people incompetent. This was a calculated plan, by many people who benefitted from it, to utilize the elderly as things to be wrung out until they are dead. This is another form of darkness in the world of humans. It is not due to anything abnormal in their psyche. This is greed that walks among all of us, and it is something that has to be actively decided against.
Darkness is attractive because it is taboo, but it is also self-enriching in many negative ways. It feeds into the things that are not meant to be inflicted on others, and that is what perpetuates it continuously. It takes very little for people to feel entitled to other people’s things. Jealousy is a big factor here, and also the belief that it doesn’t matter. They’ll be dead soon anyway, so why should anyone care if their last years are miserable.
Guardians are immediately placed in charge of:
The individual’s or individuals’ mail and be able to change where it is going
Their bank account
Their checking account
Their savings account
Their annuities
Their safe deposit box
What doctors they see
What medications they take
Copies of their will and their trust
Full and legal access to their entire lives.
“More than 8,000 people in Clark County are designated wards of court-appointed guardians, who oversee the care and finances of those who aren’t mentally or physically fit to care for themselves.”
County Commission probing ‘frightening’ abuses in guardianship system
Guardianship of this sort dismantles human lives, and I cannot recommend the documentary enough. Being informed is the first step to not being a victim of something like this. If you live in a place where this is happening, and you are near retirement… Move. Immediately. It is the only way to be sure that this isn’t done to you. Also, when you decide on public policy, don’t decide with your feelings. You have to consider what negative things can come from proposals that are made, especially if they are appeals to emotion. If they are, they are definitely manipulating you to feel instead of think.
One of the people in the film says, “This is sociopathy, from my perspective.”
No, it isn’t. This is normative human behavior, and it would do you and everyone you know well to know that this is one of many evil things that neurotypicals will do to one another because of greed, jealousy, and entitlement.
Watch the movie.
Read the comment section under the YouTube video and see how many reports there are from multiple states where this is still happening.
Every time I read one of your articles, I make connections with other things that I know about and I notice patterns.
For this post it’s discrimination done “for their own good”. History is riddled with people justifying heinous acts of abuse as something good for the victim’s benefit. This is especially pronounced in people who are physically or mentally disabled, or those who are extremely old or extremely young.
I see similarities with the Judge Rotenberg Centre. This school primarily serves students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It is infamous for its use electroshocks as aversives for behavioural therapy. Though lesser known punishments like seclusion and withholding food have also been used.
I’m reminded of this school because often the students will be stripped of their rights and placed under state guardianship before being admitted to this school. Parents who send their kids there often don’t know about the abuse, or they have their parental rights terminated before their child is placed under guardianship.
This school is still running despite multiple attempts to shut it down. What it’s doing is still technically legal, despite the fact that people have literally died there.
Judge Rotenberg Centre home page:
https://judgerc.org/
Extensive archive of the centre’s abuses:
https://autistichoya.net/judge-rotenberg-center/
Article about the centre by Neuroclassic:
https://neuroclastic.com/900-aba-professionals-have-weighed-in-on-the-use-of-electroshock-at-judge-rotenberg-cennter/?fbclid=IwAR2fQHvHU2bycmwDWIwDAA7aK1bqPx-G5EMfHpKBl4ZcnT4LwUCvbjOgERc
I’ll have to check out the Guardians and make sure it’s not something that happens in my own location. I don’t think it is but it’s good to make sure.
Awful. In the Canadian province of Québec , we kind of had a similar scandal with kids in the 50's that were called Duplessis's orphans. Duplessis was the prime minister of Québec at that time. Basically put, those orphans were put in mental wards, beaten, molested, tortured, etc.