"On January 24, 2003, Richard James Burick was found lying part way under his truck, dead from a bullet to the head. A .44 caliber revolver lay a few feet away, which according to some experts, was further than it should have been if Burick himself had pulled the trigger. That afternoon, before an autopsy or full forensic investigation was even started, the Los Alamos Police Department declared Burick’s death a suicide.
In a new book, Los Alamos: A Whistleblower’s Diary: Secret Colony, Hidden Truths, Chuck Montaño, a former auditor at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL), raises a number of questions about Burick’s death. Drawing on 30 years of experience as an employee at the Lab, interviews with friends and colleagues, and the Lab’s record of waste, fraud, and abuse, Montaño makes the case that Los Alamos was more troubled than most dared to think. Why, asks Montaño, was there never a full investigation into Burick’s alleged suicide?"
Something not quite right is going on at Los Alamos. In fact there is something not quite right at many of research facility's. However, not much actually reaches the public.
So click on that excerpt above and RTWT
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Sunday, January 24, 2016
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Why treat the symptom?
"Officials approve Golden Gate Bridge suicide barrier funding
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge moved a big step closer to getting an oft-debated suicide barrier after bridge officials on Friday approved a $76 million funding package for a net system that would prevent people from jumping to their deaths.
The bridge district's board of directors voted unanimously in favor of the funding for a steel suicide net, which includes $20 million in bridge toll revenue. Federal money will provide the bulk of the remaining funding, though the state is also pledging $7 million."
Which is all they are doing, instead of the underlying issue? Mental Health. All that money for suicide barriers for a bridge which has less than 50 jumpers a year. That money could be used to PREVENT more suicides than 50 if it was used to fund treatment centers for people who need help.
"Report finds US deficit of nearly 100,000 inpatient beds; result is increased homelessness, emergency room overcrowding, and use of jails and prisons as de-facto psychiatric hospitals"
If someone who KNOWS they have a mental health issue thinks the only way to get treatment is to go to jail or prison don't you think they'd look to suicide as a preferred answer?
All the barrier is, is just one more way for the meddlers to say "See we care", when it was through their caring that State Mental Hospitals were closed, Private Mental Treatment Centers were choked out of the market through more and more burdensome and intrusive regulations, that had no proven nor documented need.
But the same people who are bringing you the "Suicide Barrier" are the one who brought those regulations.
SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge moved a big step closer to getting an oft-debated suicide barrier after bridge officials on Friday approved a $76 million funding package for a net system that would prevent people from jumping to their deaths.
The bridge district's board of directors voted unanimously in favor of the funding for a steel suicide net, which includes $20 million in bridge toll revenue. Federal money will provide the bulk of the remaining funding, though the state is also pledging $7 million."
Which is all they are doing, instead of the underlying issue? Mental Health. All that money for suicide barriers for a bridge which has less than 50 jumpers a year. That money could be used to PREVENT more suicides than 50 if it was used to fund treatment centers for people who need help.
"Report finds US deficit of nearly 100,000 inpatient beds; result is increased homelessness, emergency room overcrowding, and use of jails and prisons as de-facto psychiatric hospitals"
If someone who KNOWS they have a mental health issue thinks the only way to get treatment is to go to jail or prison don't you think they'd look to suicide as a preferred answer?
All the barrier is, is just one more way for the meddlers to say "See we care", when it was through their caring that State Mental Hospitals were closed, Private Mental Treatment Centers were choked out of the market through more and more burdensome and intrusive regulations, that had no proven nor documented need.
But the same people who are bringing you the "Suicide Barrier" are the one who brought those regulations.
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