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Our first guest today is
Andrew Kreig, journalist, attorney, and crusader for justice. We will
be hearing an update on the case of Don Seigelman.
Karl Rove went after Don Seigelman,
Governor of Alabama, pulling out all of the stops to destroy his
career. The Seigelman case serves as an illustration of how Rovian
dirty tricks are carried out. The story began in the early days of
the W. Bush Administration while the heady effects of power created
from the attack of 9/11 still held our country largely immobilized,
growing ever more fearful. With host Melinda
Pillsbury-Foster explore the roots of the issues which made it
possible for the corporations to install their own operating system
in our courts, in the economy, in government, and in all other parts
of our lives.
Our second guest
is Donna Amdersen, who will be telling us about her new book and
digging into the tragic impact of psychopathy on our lives.
Our third guest
is Robin Westmiller whose story serves as another chilling reminder
on how our lives are being stolen in plain sight, by use of the
government which we trusted to protect us.
Giving you the truth and the
tools to resist is our Mission and we pursue it
relentlessly.
This Week's
Guests: Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Hour One
As president and CEO of the Wireless Communications Association International (WCAI) from 1996 until 2008, Kreig led its worldwide advocacy that helped create the broadband wireless industry. Previously, he was WCAI vice president and general counsel, an associate at Latham & Watkins, law clerk to a federal judge, author of the book Spiked about the newspaper business and a longtime reporter for the Hartford Courant. A description of Spiked is here. Listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World from the mid-1990s and currently, he holds law degrees from the University of Chicago School of Law and from Yale Law School. His undergraduate degree is from Cornell University.
Site: Justice Integrity Project
Hour Two
Donna
Andersen, author of the newly published, “Red Flags of Love Fraud,”
will be joining us. Andersen coined the term Love Fraud, and defines it
as “the intentional exploitation of an individual through
manipulating emotions in a personal relationship.” The people who
engage in love fraud, she says, are sociopaths.
Experts
estimate that 1 percent to 4 percent of the population are
sociopaths. That means there are 3 million to 12 million of them in
the United States. Most are not in jail.
Andersen
learned about sociopaths the hard way - by marrying one. In two
years, this man defrauded Andersen of $227,000, cheated with at least
six women, fathered a child with one of them, and then, 10 days after
Andersen left him, married the mother of the child. It was the second
time he committed bigamy. Andersen's first book, Love Fraud, tells
the whole outrageous story.
Because
of her experience, Andersen launched Lovefraud.com to teach people
how to recognize and recover from sociopaths.
RED
FLAGS OF LOVE FRAUD explains:
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The top 10 signs of sociopathic suitors (Number One: charisma and
charm)
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Why anyone is vulnerable - especially powerful women
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How sociopaths use love bombing to seduce their targets
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Why there's no such thing as 'just sex.'
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Three steps everyone can take to protect themselves from love fraud
Andersen
bases her information on what happened to her and thousands of
Lovefraud readers. Her website draws 50,000 unique visitors a month,
and she has collected 3,000 cases. Andersen also conducted two
Internet surveys, each with more than 1,300 respondents, to gather
data about sociopathic relationships.
This
book provides a clear explanation of social predators, how they
seduce their targets, why it's so difficult to escape the
relationships, and how people can avoid them in the first place. It
is a must-read for anyone looking for a partner and anyone who is
mystified by the partner they have.
Site:
Love Fraud
Hour
Three
Robin
West will be with us today to discuss a frightening problem
confronting Americans.
As
the population ages the issues of the elderly become more widespread
and crucial. Robin Cohen Westmiller has written a factual, detailed
story of her family's struggle with guardianship abuse. She has
courageously told the story of what she, her children and, most
importantly, her parents suffered from a system not prepared to face
the realities of this theft and mistreatment.
Ruby
and Regina Cohen worked hard all their lives taking care of
their business, their daughter and their extended family of nieces
and nephews. Retirement should have been a time of relaxing together
to enjoy the security of family and financial stability. A small
stroke changes all that. Ruby suffers a stroke that mildly seems to
alter his thought process. For many years he had spent a few
weeks in Florida on vacation while Regina stayed home. His health
seems to preclude another visit but calls from his niece convince him
to go. Nothing his wife or daughter say can convince him that he is
not in shape for the journey, not mentally or physically . In March
2004 he got a friend to drive him to the airport and flew to Florida.
That was the last his wife would see him for close to 2 years.What follows is an eye opening tale of the difficulties of fighting a system that is not set up to protect the well being of the elderly. Ms Westmiller's cousins were able to convince Ruby to file for divorce from his wife, refuse to see or speak with his daughter and granddaughters, attempt to empty his bank account and not return home. . As his health becomes worse and worse, Ruby is confined to nursing homes and hospitals. Even the court appointed guardian, the hope to change the situation, continues to drain his bank account, continues the divorce proceedings and let the cousins have a say in his life. Ms Westmiller must battle for her parents future in New York while her father is trapped in Florida from her home in California.
The inclusion of copies of all of the documents that support Ms Westmiller's experiences are a well chosen addition. While she is able to tell her story with minimal emotional slants, it is the inclusion of the actual court records, comparisons of signatures attributed to her father and financial records that make this book so powerful.
It would be wonderful to be able to announce that the book has a perfect, happy ending. While Ms Westmiller is able to to rescue her father from the Florida relatives, guardians and court system, the toll, financially, emotionally and physically on her parents is monumental. In less than 2 years they lose everything they has worked for their entire lives- their house, their back accounts and, sadly, their chance to live together. This book is a personal attempt by the author to educate others to this danger and raise the awareness of this potential tragedy.
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