The Sunday Shows decried the fact that our government was collecting data concerning our cell phone calls, surveillance cameras on the corner, etc.

What Hypocrisy!    In open and notorious fashion the media has refused to raise a hue and cry to the Elder cleansing that is going on right here right now in our Probate courts     Hundreds of letters to the media, law enforcement, and our elected officials are written daily to protest, and except for few ‘blogs’ our version of ‘North Korea’ and the Soviet Gulags remains at best a secret.     Worse yet, any lawyer who protests this outrageous deprivation of the liberty of American Citizens who are elderly, disabled, or chosen  as suitable targets for the current style of guardianship are subjected to disciplinary proceedings and loss of their license.

I hate to beat a dead horse, but, the court records in the Mary Sykes case  provide a clear, unequivocal, and convincing example.    Ms. Gloria Sykes has made available videos of her mother taken in 2009, 2010 and at other times.    Attorney JoAnne Denison  has posted them on her blog.     Mary Sykes  was chosen!     Without service of process on her and without the statutory notice required by Illinois law,  Mary was hustled into a guardianship literally kicking and screaming.    Her doctor refused to sign a certificate of incompetency, but no matter, there are at least two doctors in Chicago who have a reputation of being so loose with their pens, that if such as certificate were need to place YOU in a Guardianship they are ready, willing and able to do so.  The neutral judge recommended ignoring the doctor who refused to sign, and a regular recommended one of these doctors.

Mary Sykes, who family, friends and relatives protested was very competent, though she had a ‘hearing problem’ but was elderly HAD A GUARDIAN.

What this meant was Mary no longer could live where she wanted, could no longer access her money, could no longer go to her guardian club, her church, visit her family (including to elderly siblings)  – MARY ‘S FREE WILL was taken from her – willy nilly!!!

Statute (11a -3) says that guardianship should not do anything other than provide help to a senior citizen – ABSOLUTELY WRONG.    Mary’s younger daughter and younger sister (age 80) were both barred from having any unsupervised contact with Mary.   Prior to this Mary virtually lived with both!

The Statute makes service of process 14 days prior to a hearing on incompetency mandatory and jurisdictional  –  INCONVENIENT TECHNICALITY and ignored by Court.   (Read the re-direct in Judge Connor’s evidence deposition!).     Jurisdiction criterion not only was ignored, but, when brought up the courts, law enforcement, elected officials, and the legal profession rationalize – they had knowledge!    Thus, just like every tyrant’s MO – the ‘ends justify the means!’   When Attorney JoAnne Denison and I complained and blogs reiterated our complaints and called for an investigation, the Illinois ARDC commenced Discipline proceedings!    They are still pending in the face of the United States Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United, Alvarez, Brown etc.

Why Mary?    She had a safety deposit box filled with Gold Coins!   The box was drilled and no a single coin was inventoried!

This is happening right now, right here – why worry about the government learning that you called your mistress or lover – so what!    Unless you have a pecuniary benefit that can enrich a select group of ‘special people’ and you can be subjected to a guardianship no one cares!     Yes, most of the victims are elderly, ergo “ethnic cleansing,” but the program – as illustrated by the IRS concentration on conservative groups, GOP donors, and Jewish groups – can be expanded just as it was North Korea and the Soviet Union to place any one of us in a similar situation.

Atty. Denison and I are being prosecuted by the Illinois Attorney Registration and Discipline Commission because we and others are calling for an HONEST complete and comprehensive investigation.   (see Cynthia Farenga letter to the IARDC).    The Sunday talk shows are drawing the focus on hypocritically what could be when the focus should be on what is actually happening right now.    I wrote Senator Durbin concerning this situation and got a letter back thanking me for writing!    Rome is burning and we are worried about whether Lincolnwood, Illinois might have a elm tree that is sick!