Former Senior Citizen Student,

Seeks $50 Million In Punitive Damages

Against Los Angeles Community College District

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Minority College Officials Charged

 With Human Rights Violations By

Hon. Dr. Thomas Shepherd

White, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon American Student

 

Los Angeles City College Deans, Faculty & Students Persecuted

55-year-old White Male Student With Sexist, Racist Remarks

 

The same student was afterwards victimized by a stake-out

and false imprisonment by student peace officers,

initiated after Dr. Shirley Krauthamer made a false

complaint to the college chief of police in order

to harass the student for filing his formal

complaint against her.

 

Native Savadorian Jose Robledo was president

of the college at the time of the incidents.

Mary Spangler was vice president.

David Agosto was dean of men

  - Spring Semester 1994 -

 

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False Arrest:

Fascism in America

 

 an exposé of corruption at

Los Angeles City College,

an anti-American, anti-Gentile, anti-white-male racist institution

&

The Los Angeles County

 Department of Mental Health

 

By Hon. Tom Shepherd, Analyst & Author

 

Founder: Shepherd-Montessori Institute

 

author of

 

The Crime of Psychiatry

 

And

 

The Artificial Man

 

And

 

Weaving the Web

of Schizophrenia

 

- United States Coast Guard Veteran -

 Urban Planner – Journalist – Human Rights Leader

and former LACC student, former mental health agency counselor,

 case manager, and mental health agency advisory board member

 philosopher  ~  social critic  ~ author-publisher

 

 

 

a democratic society listens        a fascist society imprisons

 

a democratic society builds affordable housing        a fascist society builds prisons

 

“Dr. Shirley Krauthamer should be behind prison bars.

She should get a taste of her own medicine! So

should the peace officers involved.”

 

“Schizophrenia would not exist were it not for the inhumane acts

committed by people like Dr. Shirley Krauthamer,

Deans David Agosto and Gloria Bohanan

and President Josė Robledo and

corrupt and violent peace

officers like Clay.”

 

 

 

   How many responsible, well-educated white Celtic or Anglo-Saxon Gentile American males are victims of false arrest and false imprisonment, and are either homeless or behind prison bars today, merely because they rocked the boat, because they rebelled and complained about the intolerable abuse they suffered at the hands of those “minority” educators or “caretakers” in control of our Neo-Fascist Anti-Gentile American Society?

 

   Ask yourself this question again after you have read the following exposé.

 

   This exposé is about Dr. Shirley Krauthamer, professor of psychology and department chair at Los Angeles City College. Dr. Krauthamer, a self-professed Jew, was responsible for filing a malicious and false police report resulting in the stakeout and false arrest and false imprisonment of Mr. Shepherd, one of her students, a 55-year-old gentile gentleman, merely because the gentleman student complained to the dean of students that Dr. Krauthamer had mercilessly harassed him because he refused to comply with her demand that he pretend a male classmate by the name of Jay was his own father and to call the classmate a “son-of-a-bitch” in the classroom. She also encouraged other students to mercilessly harass him in the classroom.

 

   When a female student expressed her opinion that Krauthamer was being “too hard” on Mr. Shepherd, Dr. Krauthamer replied, “I don’t think you students are being hard enough on Shepherd!,” a response that encouraged a barrage of verbally abusive attacks on Mr. Shepherd, including by the student that Mr. Shepherd refused to call a “son of a bitch.” Interestingly, prior to Dr. Krauthamer’s request that Mr. Shepherd pretend Jay was his father and call Jay a “son of a bitch, Mr. Shepherd had been very supportive of Jay’s own remarks, which included Jay’s opinion that Dr. Krauthamer appeared to have a strong bias against men and especially against Mr. Shepherd, then 55 years old.

 

   Mr. Shepherd happened to be the oldest member of the class. He also happened to be one of only two class members of the class that already at a B. A. degree prior to registering for classes at Los Angeles City College – a two-year junior college. The other classmate, a Canadian American student, although much younger than Mr. Shepherd, was at the time a Ph. D. candidate at CSU and withdrew from Los Angeles City College after filing a similar complaint against Dr. Krauthamer only several days prior to Mr. Shepherd filed his own complaint.

 

   Mr. Shepherd had not only been victimized by Dr. Krauthamer’s own verbal attacks, but he had also been victimized by the racist verbal outbursts of an outspoken openly-gay black male student, who continuously made inflammatory, vulgar racist comments – throughout the semester – regarding white males in general, referring to them as “faggots.” The same black male had also openly expressed in the classroom his support of Black Muslim leader Dr. Louis Farrakan’s statements that Dr. Krauthamer considered to be anti-Semitic and offensive.

 

   The psychology class that Dr. Krauthamer, who was also a licensed clinical psychologist, taught was called Group Dynamics, a required class for students pursuing a certificate in counseling at Los Angeles City College. Although a damage claim was filed in behalf of Mr. Shepherd by his attorney, Adam Axelrad, he has never been awarded compensatory damages by either Dr. Krauthamer or the Los Angeles Community College District for his public humiliation and injuries. The false arrest and false imprisonment took place in May 1994.

 

   This exposé is also about Andrew Posner, executive director of a mental health agency known as BACUP (Benefits Assistance Council, Urban Project) specifically designed to serve the needs of the chronically mentally disturbed homeless population of Los Angeles County.  Posner, a self-professed Jew, known by his associates for his Anti-Gentile discriminatory polices, is responsible for filing a false police report and for the subsequent false arrest and false imprisonment of the same 55-year-old gentile gentleman several months later.

 

   Mr. Shepherd had been hired by Posner as a mental health counselor and case manager after successfully completing an internship with the agency. Miss Nevarez, the social worker who trained Thomas Shepherd as an intern, and who highly praised Mr. Shepherd on her evaluation of him, later mercilessly harassed him on a daily basis merely because he refused to assist her in filing a false SSI disability application for her Pakistani boyfriend. Read Miss Nevarez’s evaluation of Mr. Shepherd. 

 

   Andrew Posner himself is, by his own admission, a chronically ill mental patient. He has been locked up and treated in mental hospitals and psychiatric board and care facilities for years, having been diagnosed with a condition known as manic-depressive psychosis or bipolar disorder, defined as “one who suffers from mood swings, from delusions, and is at times so out of contact with reality that he is hospitalized or jailed because he is considered a danger to himself or others.”

 

   Posner claims that he did not begin to attend college until he was about 30 years of age, when he enrolled as a special student – a mentally ill student – at Valley College, a two-year community college in the Los Angeles area. Read LA Times article.

 

   It was later learned that Miss Nevarez was unlicensed and lacked the required educational credentials (a minimum Master’s degree in social work), and therefore unqualified to be supervising case management work. In fact, Miss Nevarez reportedly did not even have bachelor’s degree. She had attended several classroom sessions as a part of a seminar conducted by Herb Hatanaka on the subject of social work.

 

   When Tom Shepherd complained about Miss Nevarez’s misconduct to Posner, Posner reportedly told Shepherd that he had had “many complaints about Miss Nevarez.” Posner furthermore suggested to to Shepherd that he tell her to “fuck off.” Although Shepherd did NOT heed Posner’s highly inappropriate suggestion, he was wrongly terminated a few days later by the agency’s fiduciary agent Herbert Hatanaka in the presence of Posner. Shepherd maintains that he was fired by Hatanaka in order to cover up not only the criminal behavior of Miss Nevarez, but to also to cover up the multiple illegal irregularities of Posner himself and Hatanaka, who were in charge of the corruption.

 

   According to Mr. S, Andrew Posner could be heard regularly screaming at and intimidating his female employees, using expletives such as Goddamnit! in an apparent effort to encourage them to more aggressively process Social Security disability applications so that the agency could qualify for government funding to do case management work, which provided the salaries of Posner, Nevarez and Hatanaka.

 

   According to Mr. Shepherd, Posner’s administrative assistant Susan Paster would pressure BACUP benefits representatives to pressure clients into claiming they were experiencing “auditory hallucinations” even after they adamantly denied ever having experienced auditory hallucinations – hearing imaginary voices speaking to them.  

 

   According to Mr. Shepherd’s observations, Susan Paster also had a very noticeable habit of mocking Anglo-Saxon Gentile (non-Jewish) white male employees and clients. In fact, Andrew Posner himself insisted she apologize to case manager and benefits representative Tom Shepherd for having cruelly mocked him – as a result of the fact that he wore a poorly fitted stay-plate, to which two adult missing incisor teeth were attached.

 

   According to Mr. Shepherd, one of the clients applying for benefits at BACUP was an extraordinarily articulate and well-groomed recent female graduate of UCLA law school who claimed she was addicted to cocaine. Another applicant was a currently enrolled A student in sociology at UCLA, who was living at home with her parents, who were providing for her. Another was the strapping son of a Los Angeles city councilman, who soon after receiving SSI benefits reportedly married the administrator of Compass House, the psychiatric interim care center where he was residing at the time he made application for benefits.

 

   Following the completion of his internship, Mr. Shepherd continued to be paid an intern’s stipend of $74 monthly although he was working as many hours as were Posner and Nevarez, who were receiving a regular five digit annual government funded salary.

 

   In addition, Posner enforced an Anti-Gentile office policy. While he gave all of his Jewish employees the day off for Yom Kippur, he insisted his Gentile employees (who included Miss Nevarez and Mr. Shepherd) work on that day. The fact is that Yom Kippur was Miss Nevarez’s normal day off and she had expressed to Mr. Shepherd the fact that she was angry with Posner for making her work.

 

   Miss Nevarez and Mr. Shepherd were also required to work on the Jewish Sabbath, Saturday. On Saturday there was no air conditioning or air circulation in the enclosed office. The air was stifling and unhealthy.

 

   According to Miss Susan Paster, another coordinator, Posner brought a bottle of wine into the office with him one morning. According to Mr. Shepherd, Posner appeared to be either hungover or drunk most of the time.

 

   Another employee, William Legere, an Afro-American office secretary, repeatedly made inflammatory and offensive innuendoes or remarks to Mr. Shepherd, to include asking Mr. Shepherd why it is that he is older than O. J. Simpson, yet Simpson allegedly graduated from college before Shepherd. Legere also asked Mr. Shepherd, then a 55 year old gentleman, if his middle initial – M – stood for Mary.  Posner excused Legere’s inexcusable behavior on the grounds that William Legere has a handicap – a speech impediment – a lisp.

 

   This esposé is also about the highly unscrupulous Herbert Hatanaka, an Asian-American gentleman who holds a doctorate in social work from UCS, where he is an adjunct professor, and who is an executive for the United Way Fund. Dr. Haktanaka is the coordinator and fiduciary agent for numerous Los Angeles County mental health organizations. Hatanaka wrongly fired Mr. S merely for complaining about the misconduct of Miss Nevarez. Hatanaka also misrepresented the agency’s qualifications to be licensed as a case management agency, as there was no licensed social worker or clinical psychologist or M.D. present in the office on a daily basis to supervise the interns and other employees doing case management work.

 

   Although California Gov. Pete Wilson, other California State officials, an agent of the FBI and Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health Director Areta Crowell were thoroughly apprised by Mr. S of the criminal activities of Posner, Nevarez and Hatanaka, no legal action was ever taken against them.

 

   Instead, Mr. S. later became a victim of a false arrest and false imprisonment as retaliatory action initiated by Andrew Posner, who filed a false police report with the Los Angeles Police Department merely because Mr. S continued to remind Posner and Nevarez, via their voice mail, that he was wrongly terminated from his employment as a case manager, merely for complaining about the unethical behavior of Nevarez. Although the charges were dropped against Mr. S and he was not prosecuted, no action has ever been taken against Posner, Nevarez and Hatanaka by those government officials who were thoroughly apprised of their misconduct. Neither has Mr. S (Shepherd) been financially compensated by the State of California for what happened to him.

 

   Prior to Mr. Shepherd’s termination, he was a member of the advisory board of BACUP. Posner, Nevarez and Hatanaka were also members of the BACUP advisory board. Mr. Shepherd claims he still has copies of the minutes of the BACUP advisory board meetings that confirm his allegations of the “boiler-room” atmosphere that existed at BACUP in their efforts to aggressively process Social Security disability claims for alleged mental illness so that the agency could qualify for continued government funding. “The entire operation was a scam of sorts,” claims Mr. Shepherd.

 

 

 

By Tom Shepherd

 

Note: Thomas Shepherd was an alumnus of the National University of Mexico and of the University of Oklahoma, including the Graduate College of the University of Oklahoma, prior to ever enrolling at Los Angeles City College. He is the son of Hon. Clara Olive Shepherd, Joplin, Missouri civic leader. Senator Richard M. Webster of Missouri highly praised Mr. Tom Shepherd. Thomas ‘Tom’ Shepherd is the founder of the Shepherd Montessori Institute. He is the author of numerous articles on psychology and human behavior. He is a third cousin of former Los Angeles Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. He is an urban planner and the grandson of Greek Canterbury, early day Los Angeles real estate developer.

 

     I was 55 years old when I enrolled in adult classes in human services at Los Angeles City College in 1994. I am today 70+ years old, yet I have become impoverished as a result of inexcusable circumstances.

 

    I began my college education in 1956 at the youthful age of 17, when I enrolled at the School of Philosophy and Letters at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City, where my family had been engaged in business for many years.  They were the owners of El Cedro Silver Mining Company in Guanajuato during the early part of the Twentieth Century. One of my classes was The History of Foreign Investments in Mexico.  Celebrated author Erich Fromm was then conducting classes in psychoanalysis at UNAM. On my first day of classes at UNAM, I met and later became engaged to Miss Blanca Lydia Arreola y Casillas, an attractive and brilliant student intellectual, two years older than I, who over the years taught me much about the political history of Mexico. Blanca ultimately received a law degree from UNAM, where she was voted La Reina by her classmates.

 

   Following three years of service with the United States Coast Guard, from which I received an honorable discharge for a documented mental disability, after having spent several months of my enlistment in three different government operated psychiatric hospitals for evaluation, I enrolled at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. I was later hired as an actor in a police academy training film titled Police Procedures.

 

   In 1966, I enrolled at the University of Oklahoma, where I majored in sociology, political science and regional and city planning. After receiving a bachelor’s degree, I completed additional studies in the Graduate College at University of Oklahoma.

 

   While a student at University of Oklahoma, I completed classes in police administration taught by former Portland Chief-of-Police Sam Chapman. One of the term papers I wrote was titled The Role of the Police in Our Changing American Society. I afterwards was appointed as a consultant for the Ozark Gateway Regional Planning Commission & Law Enforcement Council.

 

    My wife Sue Ann, a native of Oklahoma, whom I met at the O.U. Episcopal Church Canterbury Club, was a consultant for the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. She was also appointed head librarian of the UCSD Medical Center Library and as consultant for Psychology Today magazine at Del Mar.

 

False Arrest

 

    While a student at Los Angeles City College in 1994, I was a victim of a false arrest and false imprisonment on a false charge of “disorderly conduct” as a result of a false complaint made with malicious intent by Dr. Shirley Krauthamer, a self-proclaimed Jewish female psychology department chair. I conducted myself as a gentleman both before and after the arrest. In fact, it was the arresting peace officers that were guilty of “disorderly conduct.”

 

   On the morning of May 4, 1994, I went to my assigned classroom in Holmes Hall at Los Angeles City College to attend a regular classroom session for a class taught by Dr. Krauthamer called Group Dynamics. I arrived a few minutes early for my 8 a.m. class and quietly seated myself at a desk. At the time there was only a handful of students in the classroom, myself and two or three others. We did not converse. Dr. Shirley Krauthamer came into the room and walked over to me, quietly asking me to accompany her to the hallway. I followed her. Just outside the doorway of her classroom, she turned and said, “Shepherd, because you filed a complaint against me with the Dean of Students (Gloria Bohanan), I have decided to exclude you from my class for the remainder of the semester. However, please come to my office down the hall following this class session to discuss the problems.”

 

   I immediately went to Dean Bohanan’s office in a nearby building. She was not in her office. Thus, I returned to Holmes Hall and went to the office of Dr. Ann Fogel, the faculty member who had listened to my complaints about Dr. Krauthamer and who had encouraged me to file a formal complaint against Dr. Krauthamer with the Dean of Students. However, Dr. Fogel was not in her office. I knocked on the office door of Professor Blythe Leiderman, another faculty member, from whom I was taking a class in Abnormal Psychology and who also encouraged me to file the complaint against Krauthamer. However, Leiderman was not in her office.

 

   Realizing I was being stalked by a uniformed student peace officer, I thus headed for Leiderman’s classroom, where my Abnormal Psychology class was scheduled to meet at 9 a.m. However, immediately prior to entering Ms Leiderman’s classroom, another uniformed student peace officer yelled, “Halt.” As my behavior was appropriate and lawful, I went on into Ms. Leiderman’s classroom, followed by two male and one female student officers, who grabbed ahold of me as I was explaining to Blythe Leiderman, Ph.D., that Shirely Krauthamer had told me she was excluding me from her class for the remaining of the semester merely because I filed the formal complaint against her.

 

   Ms. Leiderman followed me out into the hallway, urging the peace officers to take their hands off me, explaining that I was a one of her students. One of the officers, Officer Clay, a Negro student, then screamed at me, “You were told never to come back into this building.” Clay’s words were a blatant lie and I was and still am certain that Clay knew very well that I had not been told to never return to Holmes Hall, that Krauthamer had merely told me she was excluding me from her class for the remaining of the semester, but to come to her office to discuss the matter.” The three student peace officers thus marched me across the Los Angeles City College campus to the LACC jail, where I was incarcerated for approximately 45 minutes while Clay ran a warrants check on me, a check that proved to be negative. I was thus released, when I went back to Professor Leiderman’s classroom, late for my Abnormal Psychology class.

 

   I was afterwards informed that Clay and the other two officers, Stringfellow (a while male) and Domain (an Hispanic female), were standing directly behind me while Dr. Krauthamer uttered the following word: “I am excluding you from my class for thee remainder of the semester because you filed a complaint against me with the dean. However, come to my office (in Holmes Hall) to discuss the matter further.”

 

   Officer Stringfellow also informed me (while I was incarcerated) that Professor Krauthamer had told the campus police chief that I was a “psycho” and that I was “dangerous,”  in her very apparent devious effort to warrant the stakeout.

 

Dr. Krauthamer’s Malicious Lie

 

   Krauthamer afterwards FALSELY claimed, in the presence of myself and Dean Bohanan and LACC Counselor Elaine Geismar, that I had told her that I “had a violent nature.” Krauthamer said, “Don’t you remember? You told me you had a violent nature.” My immediate response was,  “I never told you I had a violent nature. . . You are a malicious liar!”

 

   The fact is that I never told Krauthamer or anyone else that I had a “violent nature.”  The only member of Shirley Krauthamer’s Group Dynamics Class who indicated he perhaps had a violent nature was the Negro male student who admitted he was expelled from high school for raping a girl and who repeatedly made anti-white racist comments in the classroom. Interestingly, the same Negro student was also employed in a work-study program as a Los Angeles City College counselor-aid.

 

   Shirley Krauthamer, PhD, indeed was the malicious liar.

 

 

   Several days prior to my filing a complaint with the Dean, another Anglo-Saxon male student, a Canadian in fact, who was concurrently a PhD candidate at Cal State LA, came to class and read off a list of complaints about Dr. Shirley Krauthamer and the disturbingly inappropriate manner in which she was conducting her class. He simultaneously announced that he was voluntarily withdrawing from the class and from Los Angeles City College.

 

The Truth Comes to Light

 

    It seems that Professor Krauthamer had persuaded the campus police chief to have me stalked by campus student peace officers as retaliation, merely because I had several days before filed a complaint against Professor Krauthamer with the Dean of Students, a complaint that was encouraged by another faculty member, Dr. Ann Fogel, who had even supplied me with a copy of the Los Angeles City College prescribed format for conducting a class in Group Dynamics.

 

    In my formally written complaint, I charged (1) that Professor Shirley Krauthamer was failing to follow the prescribed format for conducting a class in Group Dynamics, that she repeatedly discriminated against me and harassed me in a variety of ways. I also charged (2) that Krauthamer very openly prompted my classmates to “be hard” on me and that in so doing she incited traumatizing racial, ethnic and sexist verbal abuse against me by my classmates in her classroom as retaliation for my refusing to comply with her highly inappropriate demand that I pretend another male classmate was my father and to call him a “son-of-a-bitch.”

 

   In my complaint, (3) I also charged Krauthamer with harassing her students by prodding us to reveal intimate details about our sexual habits, our sexual history, and our confidential medical history in the classroom. Krauthamer insisted on a show of hands by her students to determine whether we were “heterosexual” or “homosexual,” whether we had ever “cheated” on our spouses, if any of the males in the class had ever “raped” anyone, and if any of us were HIV positive.

 

   When only a few students raised their hands, claiming they had had homosexual experience, she said, “I know there are more of you and I’m going to out the rest of you before this semester is over.

 

   When no student raised his or her hand in response to her question of how many were HIV positive, she said, “Statistics say that 25 percent of all people will lie. I can’t believe there are no HIV positive students in this class. On the average, 5 percent of the students in all my other classes are HIV positive.” A couple weeks later, a Negro male student raised his hand and admitted he was HIV positive. He had previously admitted that he was expelled from high school for raping a girl and that he was also “gay” and that his domestic partner was a “white male.” The same Negro student repeatedly made offensive, anti-white comments in the classroom, contemptuously referring to “West Hollywood blond-haired, blue eyed males as faggots.” His insensitivity and offensive remarks were even pointed out to him during a class session by another Negro male enrolled in the class.

 

   In all fairness, because of the fact that Krauthamer had repeatedly demanded that her students reveal confidential information about our own sexual history, I later asked Krauthamer in front of the class if she herself had any “homosexual tendencies.” She blushed and hesitated, then replied, “Well, I once had a crush on a female teacher.” Although she also claimed she subscribed to Playboy magazine for her own two sons so that they “would turn out straight,” she then promptly contradicted herself, remarking, “A homosexual can’t go straight.” She then very dogmatically added that homosexuality is “caused” by a hormonal imbalance.

 

 

   Prior to filing the formal complaint against Dr. Shirley Krauthamer, when I privately complained about the unfair way I was being treated, Krauthamer surly responded to me, “If you can’t take the heat, get out of the class!” Those were the words that prompted me to file the formal complaint!

 

   Krauthamer, a native of Brooklyn, New York and a graduate of Cal State LA, claimed she had been licensed by the State of California as a clinical psychologist. She had begun teaching another class titled Human Sexuality during that same 1994 spring semester at Los Angeles City College, a class in which I was not enrolled, although I reviewed the assigned textbook, which I thought to be a joke, a politically correct fountain of misinformation about human sexuality.

 

   Dr. Shirley Krauthamer retired from teaching a year or so later, at the age of 65, so I was informed, and apparently benefited from a State of California generous retirement pension as a tenured professor. Prior to the spring 1994 semester, she reportedly had been awarded an out-of-court settlement in a sexual harassment claim she made against a Los Angeles City College colleague, a male professor.

 

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   I was later unjustly fired by BACUP, a Los Angeles Department of Mental Health agency, merely for complaining about an attempt by my supervisor to help her file a fraudulent disability claim for a client and for afterwards harassing me because I refused to aid her in filing the fraudulent claim. In fact, I contacted an agent of the FBI, urging them to investigate the matter, only a few days prior to my being terminated.

 

   I was afterwards victimized by a false arrest perpetrated by a lying, mean-spirited Jewish mental health agency director as retaliation for my complaints about agency fraud, his anti-Gentile policy, and sexual-racial harassment of me by my supervisors and other “minority” workers while working in his agency, first as an intern, then as a case manager.

 

   The most severe harassment of me began soon AFTER I was promoted by the agency executive director Andrew Posner to the same level of my Hispanic American female supervisor, Pamela Nevarez, as a benefits representative and mental health case manager and after I refused to assist her in her attempt to file a fraudulent Social Security disability claim for her Pakistani boyfriend.

 

   Although Miss Nevarez’s boyfriend had stated very clearly in the presence of Miss Nevarez and me that he was NOT born in the United States of America and thus indicated that he had no desire to misrepresent himself, Miss Nevarez nevertheless insisted he lie and state INCORRECTLY on the claim that he WAS born in the USA. In fact, I insisted, in the presence of both Miss Nevarez and her Pakistani boyfriend, that she instruct her boyfriend to correct his answer to the question Were you born in the United States? from Yes to No. Had Miss Nevarez succeeded in actually filing the fraudulent Social Security application, she would have implicated her Pakistani boyfriend, as well as me, in her scheme.

 

   Several months prior to her harassment of me, she had given me excellent ratings as an intern on a questionnaire required by Dr. Ann Fogel, director of the Los Angeles City College human services intern counseling program, which she signed Pamela Nevarez and dated May 5, 1994. Miss Nevarez furthermore offered the following comments prior to signing the questionnaire: Mr. Shepherd is “well mannered, well groomed, soft spoken, relates well with staff and clients and is attentive and learns quickly.”  I had also been appointed to sit on the advisory board of  BACUP, as well as on the board of another Los Angeles mental health association agency.

 

   I was terminated as a staff member on October 4, 1994, soon after being provided BACUP professional business cards by executive director Andrew Posner, which cards  identified me as a “case manager” and as a “benefits representative.” At the same time, Posner highly praised me for my “outstanding performance” as a BACUP representative. A week prior to my termination, I had contacted an FBI agent in the Los Angeles area, explaining the situation at BACUP, that I was being harassed by my supervisor for refusing to aid her in her attempt to file a fraudulent claim on behalf of a BACUP client. I also pointed out to the agent that a “boiler room” atmosphere existed at BACUP, by which I observed that employees were being pressured by the executive director to push through Social Security disability claims in order to justify government funding for the agency as a case management agency for the “homeless mentally ill.”

 

   I later discovered that Herbert Hatanaka, executive director of Special Services for Groups, the fiduciary agent for BACUP, and who was also executive director of the Los Angeles United Way Fund and is an adjunct professor of social work at USC, had misrepresented the agency’s qualifications for being authorized to do case management work at the time the agency applied for State of California authorization to do case management work, as there was NO licensed social worker, psychologist or physician in the office, available to supervise the other employees doing case management work.

 

   It was my impression that I was the only employee at BACUP who was not on psychiatric medication and who did not use alcohol during the time that I worked there. It was also my opinion that emotional problems and psychiatric medications and alcohol were interfering with the ability of some BACUP employees to work competently as professional counselors. To my knowledge, I was the only BACUP counselor at the time that actually had a bachelor’s degree, a requirement for being certified to do case management work.

 

   I was also a victim of repeated demeaning and demoralizing racial and sexual verbal inuendoest by William Legere, an African-American male secretary employed by the agency.

 

 

 

Part One:  Los Angeles City College

 

 

   Los Angeles City College, where I was enrolled a senior citizen student between 1986 and 1994, is an example of anti-American fascism in action. It is a disappointment.

 

   The fact is that the LACC administration and faculty are so blatantly sexist and racist in their hostile treatment of white American-born male students that they should be cited and fined for civil rights violations.

 

   While attending LACC during the spring of 1994, I was a victim of a faculty lynching, a false arrest on a trumped up charge merely because I filed a complaint against the female chairperson of the psychology department, charging that she encouraged sexism and anti-white racist remarks in a class I was taking from her called Group Dynamics.  I also charged her with repeatedly discriminating against me and harassing me, with sexually harassing her students, and with failing to follow the prescribed format for conducting a human services class in group dynamics, thus violating my rights.

 

   I was at the time a 55-year-old Armed Services veteran, having served honorably in the Marine Corps Reserve and the United States Coast Guard. However, during my three years of active duty with the Coast Guard, I was hospitalized several times during my military service following two life-threatening assaults about the head, one by a heavy-set, drunken Negro shipmate, who attacked me while I was sleeping and threw me out of my hammock onto the ship’s deck, and one by a drunk and disorderly female civilian, a total stranger to me, after I repeatedly told her to stay away from me.

 

   I was also a victim of continuous sexual harassment by my Coast Guard shipmates, including by my supervisor, both prior to and after my first hospitalization. I was given an honorable discharge for a resulting nervous condition in 1960.

 

   I was born in the State of Missouri in the USA some 66 years ago. By virtue of my fair skin tone, my blue eyes, and my hair color, I am categorized as a “white” American citizen. All of my ancestors have been in North America for well over 150 years, some of my ancestors have been on the North American continent for perhaps 900 + years, having come to America from Europe via the Northeast routes, as did some of our Asian Americans and Chicano Americans come here from Asia via the Northwest routes, some also hundreds of years ago.

 

   As a Nordic American, I am also a Native America. To my knowledge, none of my American ancestors were slaveholders!

 

   My great great grandfather Ignace Hainer, a professor of modern languages at the University of Missouri, who came to America from Hungary in 1854, after he was released from an Austrian prison, where he was held as a political prisoner for five months for fighting for freedom of the press and the freedom of the Hungarian serfs, became an American abolitionist, an outspoken opponent of slavery prior to and during the Civil War. Because of his firm and outspoken opposition to slavery, he was removed from his professorship during the Civil War by the Confederate Governor of Missouri. He thus removed his family from Missouri to Decatur County, Iowa, where he farmed, served as a local schoolteacher, as treasurer of  Decatur County and as a member of the Grand Jury.

 

   I was born and reared in Missouri. As president of the Joplin Missouri Council of the United Christian Youth Movement, a protestant organization under the auspices of the Council of Churches, I myself at the age of 16 had a leadership role in facilitating the integration of Missouri’s churches and schools in 1955. I was also selected by my high school teachers to be a delegate to Missouri Boys State during my junior year.

 

 

   My maternal grandfather, John Snyder, a native of Ashtabula, Ohio and Muncie, Indiana, founded The Galena Harrow Plow Factory in Galena, Kansas in 1909, and the Snyder Bus Company, a Missouri-Arkansas interurban bus line in 1914.

 

   My paternal grandfather, Eugene Frank Blaise (the grandson of Ignace Hainer), was a founder of the Inland Refining Company at Fort Worth, Texas and of Drumright, Oklahoma. He also served as president-owner of the Admiralty Zinc Company of northeastern Oklahoma, of the Cushing Refining and Gasoline Company of Tulsa and of the Farmers National Bank of Tulsa, the largest bank in Oklahoma at the time, which was reorganized as the Exchange National Bank. Today it is the Bank of Oklahoma. My paternal grandmother was a Los Angeles real estate developer during the first half of the 20^th Century.

 

   My mother, Clara Olive, was a graduate of a woman’s college, National Park Seminary in Forest Glen, Maryland. She earned a living as a producer and director of musical revues for charity and civic organizations. At the time of her death in 1976 she was a volunteer executive secretary and a member of the board of directors of the Jasper County Missouri Heart Association.

 

   My father, Dudley E . Blaise attended Colorado School of Mines. My stepfather, Charles M. Shepherd, a native of England who was reared in New York City, was an accountant for Cities Service Oil Company, vice president of the Ohio River Power Company and treasurer and a member of the board of directors of the Empire District Electric Company, the primary electric services provider for Southwest Missouri, Southeast Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma, prior to his death in May 1955.

 

  

   While at the University of Oklahoma I met and married Sue Ann Johnson Moritz, who received a bachelor’s degree in nursing, in English and in anthropology. After she received a Master’s degree in library science, she was employed by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries as an institutional library consultant, whereby she established patient-staff libraries in state mental hospitals and schools for the blind and the deaf. She later was retained as a consultant for Psychology Today magazine while serving as head librarian of the UCSD Medical Center Library at San Diego after serving as head catalog librarian for the Bio-Medical Library of UCSD at La Jolla.

 

 

   I later was hired as a planning consultant for the Ozark Gateway Regional Planning Commission & Law Enforcement Assistance Council in Missouri.

 

   When I years later (1986) began enrolling part-time in adult continuing education classes at LACC, I was a 46 year-old male. I must admit, I was highly disappointed with the low quality of education available at LACC from the onset. When I withdrew from classes at LACC for the last time (1994), I was a 55-year-old student majoring in human services with the goal of becoming a certified mental health rehabilitation counselor. I had been victimized by a false arrest and a false imprisonment merely because I lodged a very appropriate complaint against a faculty member and department chair with the dean of students.

 

   By the way, I received all As in the psychology classes I took at LACC during the spring semester of 1994, during which time I became a victim of a false arrest and false imprisonment as retaliation for filing an appropriate and justified complaint against Dr. Shirley Krauthamer with the dean of students.

 

   While attending classes at LACC during the spring of 1994, I participated in an internship at a mental health agency affiliated with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. During that time, I was also appointed to membership on two Department of Mental Health advisory boards, prior to being wrongly terminated, without a fair hearing, merely for complaining about repeated harassment of me by my supervisor, Miss Nevarez, as retaliation for thwarting her efforts to file a fraudulent Social Security disability claim for her Pakistani boyfriend. I was later victimized by a false arrest, merely because I repeatedly reminded my former supervisor and the executive director of the agency, via telephone voice mail, of the fact that I was indeed unjustly fired and because I repeated, via my voice mail messages, the variety of vulgar remarks that were used by the executive director, by my female supervisor, by another female supervisor, and by a male secretary during my employment with the agency.

 

   When I first complained to Andrew Posner, the executive director of our agency, about Miss Nevarez’s harassment of me, Mr. Posner advised me, via telephone, that he had had many complaints about her from other employees of our agency, BACUP, and to “tell her to fuck off, “ his exact words!

 

   I repeat, when I first complained to Executive Director Andrew Posner about Miss Nevarez, Posner said to me: ‘I have had many complaints about Pam from other employees. Tell her to FUCK OFF!”

 

   The point is that I did NOT follow Posner’s advice, yet I was fired merely for explaining to her, using very professional, non-vulgar language on her voice mail that I considered her behavior to be inappropriate and that I believed she herself should be fired for her misconduct. Ironically, I was the victim of Nevarez’s abuse, yet I was the one who was fired, merely for complaining  about her abuse of me in a very appropriate and civil manner.

 

   Following my justified and very appropriate complaints, Herbert Hatanaka was summoned by Miss Nevarez to do the dirty work of getting rid of me. When I reported to work the following week, I was terminated me by Hatanaka in Posner’s office without a fair hearing. Miss Nevarez was not even present to answer to the charges that she had attempted to commit  Social Security fraud and that she had afterwards repeatedly harassed me. Prior to that, Miss Nevarez had given me excellent ratings on an intern evaluation questionnaire, which she signed, and which I still have.

 

   As justification for firing me, Herb Hatanaka said that “Miss Nevarez was only joking” and that I couldn’t “fit in” because I allegedly couldn’t “take a joke,” an old story! Nevarez was not joking! She was repeatedly harassing me on a daily basis. Yet misconduct of Nevarez was very neatly covered up by Hatanaka and Posner. I was, so to speak, swept out the door by Hatanaka and Posner!

 

   In the process of investigating BACUP, I also discovered that Hatanaka and Posner had misrepresented BACUP’s qualifications for being authorized for doing case management work of mentally ill clients in the State of California at the time the agency made application to be certified as a case management agency.

 

   When I afterwards apprised Gov. Pete Wilson and others, including Dr. Areta Crowell, the director of the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health, of the irregularities at BACUP, the entire matter was covered up, shoved under the carpet. They resultantly destroyed my life.

 

   To this day, I hold the State of California liable for $50 million in damages for what was in the process done to me by the unscrupulous behavior of Herb Hatanaka, Andrew Posner, Pamela Nevarez and Dr. Areta Crowell!

 

   In the police reports that Posner later filed against me for leaving messages on his voice mail following my unjustified termination, at a time when I was understandably highly distraught as a result of the manner in which I was demoralized by Nevarez, Posner, Hatanaka and others, he sought to discredit me by misrepresenting the facts regarding my termination.

 

   In my voice mail messages, sent AFTER I was unjustly terminated merely for making justified complaints about the misconduct of my supervisor and others, I repeatedly reminded Posner of what was done to me while I was employed as a case manager and benefits representative by BACUP. I reminded him of the vulgar words that were uttered in the office by Posner himself and by other staff members. Yet in his police reports he characterized me as a “terrorist” and as a “paranoid schizophrenic” who was “out to get” him and Hatanaka and Miss Nevarez. In other words, he made me, the victim, the heavy.

 

   Posner also minimized my actual responsibilities as a case manager and benefits representative for the agency, characterizing me as a “volunteer.” The fact is that I was paid a monthly stipend of $74, although I worked as many, if not more, hours per week than Posner himself and Miss Nevarez, who were receiving regular full-time professional salaries. I worked between 20 and 30 hours per week as a case manager and benefits representative to Los Angeles “homeless” clients who were seeking State and Federal benefits for claimed mental disabilities.

 

   One of our clients, incidentally, was the strapping 25-year-old son of a prominent and well-to-do City of Los Angeles Councilman. Immediately after he began receiving SSI, so I was informed, the client married a female administrator of the facility where he was residing at the time he made application for SSI benefits.

 

   Posner himself, whose annual salary as executive director of BACUP is facilitated by Herb Hatanaka, has made public announcements at conferences for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill that he himself has been diagnosed as suffering from manic depressive psychosis. Pamela Nevarez is also is diagnosed with a major psychiatric disorder, as is every individual employed by BACUP, an agency under the auspices of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health.

 

 

         MeCha

               California’s Anti-American Anti-White Male Hate Group

 

 

   In 1978, the California Legislature extended its affirmative action hiring program to community colleges. They are now required by law to develop and implement affirmative action programs for the hiring of racial and ethnic minorities and women for both faculty and administrative positions. The disappointing result of the policy is that some people of color and ethnic minorities who are hired are blatantly deficient in English language and communication skills. American women faculty members, both Jewish and Gentile, as well as women faculty members of color have resorted to the use of shockingly vulgar language in the classroom. LACC classes headed by female faculty members, regardless of color or ethnicity have a decided anti-male slant, and classes headed by males of color or by male ethnic minorities have a decided anti-White American male slant.

  

   Mecha, by the way, which is an anti-Anglo-American fascist Chicano organization, also known as Aztlan or La Raza, has an alarmingly powerful influence in community colleges in California. In fact, it is so influential that there are over 300 recognized chapters on college campuses throughout the Southwest. California’s Lt. Governor Bustamante was a member during his college days and in spirit still supports the organization, which has been described, even by its own members as a Chicano Ku Klux Klan. The motto of Mecha is: For the bronze race everything. For all other races, nothing!

 

   Although Mecha members hate blacks, Jews and Asians, as well as Anglo-Americans, they nevertheless have a great deal of influence in mustering up hate, even among blacks, Jews and Asians for Gentile Anglo-Saxon males in particular, especially on California college campuses. Alarmingly, they indeed have been very successful in driving white Anglo-Saxon males out of the colleges, and in effect, out of the job market! 

 

   To learn more about the anti-American racist underpinnings of Aztlan, La Raza and MEChA, go here:

 

http://www.mayorno.com/AztlanPropaganda.html

 

   To read the Raoul Lowery Contreras news commentary on Aztlan and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, go here:

 

http://www.calnews.com/archives/contreras164.htm

 

 

   In every class in which I was enrolled at Los Angeles City College, [between 1986 and 1994] white male American-born students were decidedly in the minority. In most of my classes, I was one of only three white American-born students. The majority of the Los Angeles City College students were either Negro or Latino (of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry). There were a few Armenians and Asians.

 

   Because of the incompetence of Los Angeles City College faculty members, most of whom were severely deficient in communication skills, and because of the failure of the administration to address the issue, I withdrew from most of the classes in which I had enrolled prior to the end of the semester, even though in most of my classes I maintained an A or B average. A verbally abusive racist Negress real estate appraisal class teacher, who reeked of marijuana, assigned me a D on my transcript, after I officially withdrew, even though I had maintained a B in her class. I should have received a W [withdrawal] on my transcript.

 

   A tenured Asian [Chinese] architecture professor, David Ming-Li Lowe, who claims to hold a Bachelor of Architecture degree from University of Southern California, and to be a licensed/registered architect, flaunted his criminal efforts to facilitate illegal immigration. Lowe pointed out to me and my classmates that the blueprint of a house plan, to be copied by us as a class exercise, was designed BY HIM with a special room for hiding illegal immigrants. He pointed out to us which room that was. The same Asian professor, who appeared to be extremely fluent in the English language, and whose stepfather arranged for him to come to America, contemptuously referred to his own stepfather as a “nasty Christian Englishman.” I was one of what appeared to be only two American-born Anglo-Saxon Christian males in the class, both of us middle-aged men. It was my opinion, based on his general demeanor, that his remark was intended to offend his two Anglo-American students and to incite hate for Anglo-Americans among the rest of the architecture student body, which was predominantly Chicano.

 

   The Los Angeles Jewish Community has also been remarkably successful in generating hate for Christians and Gentiles in general, primarily by making light of Christianity [via the media] and by exaggerating claims of so-called “anti-Semitism.”

 

   An American-born Jewish-American faculty member, claiming to hold a Master’s degree and teaching a class in developmental psychology, consistently marked my correct grammar on three essay assignments as “incorrect.” When I pointed out her errors to her, she evasively remarked: “Well, Einstein couldn’t spell either!” It appeared to me that the overwhelming majority of the students in that particular class were foreign students, who would be inclined to assume that she herself knew the most fundamental rules of grammar, which she did not!

 

   A Negress history professor used the expletive “mother-fucker” in her classroom lectures.

 

   Another Negress teaching a class in real estate appraisal repeatedly used the expletive “shit” during her lectures.

 

   An Asian male teaching a class in algebra was virtually unintelligible in his use of the English language.

 

   An Asian female teaching an introductory class in computer science spoke English with such a pronounced Asian accent that she was not only difficult to understand, but obviously had great difficulty in understanding her English speaking students.

 

   Four American-born white female psychology department female faculty members, two of them Jewish, repeatedly used vulgar expletives in the classroom.

 

   Dr. Ann Fogel, who taught a class in counseling and who was also a coordinator for the counseling intern programs at LACC, at least once remarked during her lecture that she was “pissed off” about something. She also made the following remark while I was enrolled in her class during the spring 1994 semester: “There is no excuse for being late to one of my classes. If anyone comes in late today, I want every student who is already present to stare at him [or her], from the moment he [or she] walks through the doorway.”

 

   Blythe Leiderman, a/k/a Blythe Daniel, who claimed that her father had been a psychologist, and who claimed she herself held a master’s degree from UCLA, and who has since acquired a PhD, announced to members of her spring 1994 abnormal psychology class, of which I was a member, that she was a member of  “Club Fuck.”  After she said, “I am a member of Club Fuck,” a student responded by saying that Club Fuck, a licensed cabaret on Santa Monica Blvd. had recently been closed down by the police. I myself, who lived within two blocks from the establishment, had never been inside, nor did I have any desire to patronize the establishment. In fact, I had repeatedly complained about the loud noise to the authorities. At about 2 a.m., nightly closing time, I would frequently be awakened from my sleep by the sound of loud drunken patrons laughing or quarreling amongst themselves and screaming vulgarities as they walked or staggered to their cars parked up the street near where I lived. Club Fuck, according to newspaper accounts, was notorious for contraband drug use, live sex and break dancing.

 

    Ms. Leiderman, who claimed she was the divorced mother of twin infant children, requested we, her students, write our sexual fantasies on a piece of paper, without our names attached, only whether we were male or female. She then read the papers back to the class of approximately 30 students of various racial and ethnic groups. White male students were decidedly in the minority.

 

   The sexual fantasies were graphically detailed and shockingly and vulgarly pornographic in every way.  In order to express my own opposition to the assignment, I myself wrote on my own paper, “My sexual fantasy is to get a good night’s sleep.”  Interestingly, a Negro male member of the class commented aloud, “Weird!” when Ms. Leiderman read my paper aloud.

 

   In all fairness, although Blythe Leiderman’s attitude towards her students was one of protective, condescending benevolence, she indeed was not a positive role model for functional, appropriate adult behavior. However, she indeed represents a feminist bravado that was very apparent at the time, the propensity for using and encouraging the use of language typically considered vulgar and unacceptable in a classroom or in a professional situation. She now has her doctorate and reportedly is involved in counseling elderly, bereaved people.

 

   Dr. Shirley Krauthamer, then chairperson of the psychology department, was teaching a class in Group Dynamics, in which I was enrolled during the spring of 1994. She herself not only used vulgar language in the classroom, but she encouraged anti-white-male racist language in the classroom, but she also encouraged and permitted continuous racist-sexist attacks on me. 

 

   Interestingly, Dr. Krauthamer, whom I myself know to be a dangerously malicious liar, and whom I believe to be ill-suited for work as either a teacher or as a licensed clinical psychologist, which she was, had begun teaching a class in human sexuality that same semester, a class in which I myself was not enrolled.

 

   During the spring 1964 semester at Los Angeles City College, Psychology Professor Shirley Krauthamer, PhD, who was also chair of the Psychology Department, made the following statements in Group Dynamics class:

 

1.    “ I subscribed to Playboy magazine so my two sons would turn out straight.”

 

2.    “Homosexuality is caused by a hormonal imbalance.”

 

3.    “A homosexual can’t go straight.”

 

4.    “Ten percent of all people, in every society, in every nation, worldwide, are homosexual.”

 

5.    “Twenty-five percent of all people will lie.”

 

6.    “On the average, five percent of the students enrolled in my classes are HIV positive.”

 

7.    “How many of you students are homosexual? Get those hands up. (about three hands go up). I know there are more of you and I’m going to out ALL of you before this semester is over.”

 

8.    “How many of you [students] are HIV positive? [pause] Get those hands up! [pause] How many of you [students] are homosexuals? [pause] Get those hands up! [pause] I know there are MORE of you and I’m going to out the rest of you before this semester is over.”

 

9.    “How many of you married students have cheated on your spouses”

 

10.        “How many of you males [in this classroom] have raped a girl?”

 

11.        “I would advise minority people to not serve in the Armed Forces of the United States.”

 

   Dr. Shirley Krauthamer harassed and humiliated her students, me included, by coercing her students to answer questions about their personal lives, information that indeed was a violation of the students’ privacy, and was no business of hers. When I myself, in all fairness, being  the oldest student in the class, responded to her violation of our rights by asking her, “How about you Shirley? Since you have asked us about our sexuality, it seems only fair that you respond to the question yourself. Have you ever experience homosexual feelings?  Dr. Shirley Krauthamer thus responded: “Well, I once had a crush on a female teacher.”

 

   Dr Krauthamer also announced that she was Jewish. She claimed she had helped to register Negro voters in Brooklyn, New York, where she grew up, and wanted to know what the Negro members of our class thought about Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, claiming she had been offended by remarks he made about Judaism. In response to her query, a Negro male student, who later claimed he was expelled from high school for raping a girl said, said, “I think Mr. Farrakhan is a very fine man.”  Dr. Krauthamer asked if there were any other comments. There were no other comments, although it appeared that the majority of the students enrolled in the class were of Negro ancestry.

 

   Louis Farrakhan was quoted by the media (ABC-TV, NBC and CBS) as having expressed his opinion that “Judaism is a gutter religion.”

 

   The fact is that Judaism is indeed a racist ideology that has been used to justify and reinforce the institution of slavery for thousands of years, as stipulated in The Torah, the Book of Leviticus, third book of the Old Testament: Leviticus 25:40-45.

 

   Israelite-Jews are authorized to own men, women and children from the other nations as their slaves. They are also authorized to pass on their slaves, described in The Torah as their “property,” to their children as an “inheritance.”

 

   Jewish bankers are also authorized to wave interest charges for Jews, a policy that is even today (according to Jewish Scholar Dennis Prager) honored by the International Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Nation through the Tzedaka Laws: Exodus 20:25 “If you lend money to any of My People (Israelite Jews) who are poor, you shall not be like a money lender to them.]

 

   The same Negro male student who, following Krauthamer’s prodding, admitted to the class that he had been expelled from high school for raping a girl, that he was gay, that he was HIV positive, and that he was “married” to a white male, nevertheless continuously made disparaging remarks regarding other white males, and referred to white gay males as “faggots” in the classroom.  Yet he demanded I apologize to him for merely quoting from a story about two Coast Guardsmen who had not only sexually harassed me, but were calling each other “queer.”

 

   It was later pointed out to me by LACC Counselor Elaine Geismar, that the official LACC gay student organization, of which the same outspoken black student reportedly was an active member, had a large banner tacked across the outside of Holmes Hall, the psychology department building, saying “Welcome Queers! Join our association.” 

 

   When Krauthamer told the black male student to “shut up,” he quickly responded by saying, “Don’t you ever tell me to shut up, Shirley Krauthamer!” She listened and obeyed.

 

   During an all-day class marathon, which included a buffet, for which students were asked to bring a covered dish, I volunteered to bring a tossed salad. Dr. Krauthamer had told us that any student bringing perishables could leave them in a refrigerator in her office until the beginning of the marathon, at noon. When I arrived at her office early in the morning, prior to 8 a.m., with a tossed salad I had prepared for the noon buffet, she said, as I was attempting to place the salad in the refrigerator: “I think you should carry the salad around with you.”  She was obviously in a snit, so I just placed the plastic bag containing the salad on a nearby chair and left the office.

 

   She later saw me in the hallway and said, “Have you thought about your inappropriate behavior?”  I responded by saying that I believed it was her behavior, not mine, that was inappropriate. However, later that day, Krauthamer brought up the issue during the class marathon, and it seemed apparent that the class agreed with me, that Dr. Shirley Krauthamer was the one behaving inappropriately. Another white Anglo-Saxon male classmate, Jay, expressed his opinion that Krauthamer had an issue with men in general and obviously harbored a lot of hostility towards men.

 

   Later on, during one of her classes she told me to pretend that Jay was my father, and to call him a “son-of-a-bitch.” When I failed to comply, she got nasty. One of the female students spoke up, saying to Dr. Krauthamer, “I think you are being too hard on Tom,” to which Dr. Krauthamer responded. “I don’t think you people are being HARD ENOUGH on him.”

 

   The following day, I reported Krauthamer’s conduct to Dr. Ann Fogel, another faculty member in the psychology department, carefully going over all the issues. Dr. Fogel then provided me with the LACC official format for conducting a class in Group Dynamics and it became very apparent that Dr. Krauthamer was NOT following the prescribed format. When I explained that I wanted to file an official complain, Dr. Fogel gave me the name of the Dean of Students, Gloria Bohanan and suggested I contact her.

 

    I thus made a formal [written] complaint to Dean Bohanan, who was a Negress art teacher. Several days later, after I met Dean Bohanan, Bohanan startled me when she asked, “What kind of drugs are you taking? I want to talk to you doctor.” It turned out that Professor Krauthamer had attempted to discredit me by claiming I was on drugs and thus “out of contact with reality.”

 

   A female classmate attempted to intervene on my behalf and stop Krauthamer from mercilessly harassing me on the day she insisted I call Jay a “son-of-a-bitch.” The classmates said she felt Krauthamer was being too hard on me, that I appeared to be on the verge of tears.

 

   Interestingly, it was reported to me that Krauthamer herself had been awarded in a sexual harassment claim she had filed against a fellow male professor, prior to my ever having enrolled in her class.

 

 

Dr. Krauthamer Makes False Complaint to Campus Police Chief

 

   I was further victimized by a false arrest as a result of a false complaint Dr. Krauthamer afterwards made to the campus police chief, Shirley Smith, apparently advising her to employ “stand by” reinforcements while she excluded me from her class on the morning of May 4, 1994, falsely claiming that I told her I had “a violent nature” and that I should therefore be considered “dangerous,” so I was afterwards told by Officer Stringfellow, one of the arresting officers. However, the underlying reason she summoned the police was to punish met for filing the complaint against her with the dean. Interestingly, Chief Shirley Smith resigned shortly thereafter and a Mr. Martinez assumed the duties of chief of the LACC campus police department. I never actually met either one of the two chiefs.

 

   I complied with Dr. Krauthamer’s request and peacefully departed Krauthamer’s classroom and Holmes Hall, home to the psychology department. By the way, I had quietly arrived at the classroom prior to the beginning of the class session, seating myself alone at a classroom desk, talking to no one. During the entire semester I had conducted myself in a very appropriate gentlemanly manner, and in accordance with the rules established by Krauthamer at the onset. There were only two or three other students in the classroom at the time. Krauthamer came into the classroom and asked me to step out into the hallway with her. She then said, facing me, that she was going to exclude me from her class because I had filed a complaint against her with the dean. However, she asked me to come to her office following the classroom session, to further discuss the matter.

 

   I was not aware of the time that student police officer were already staked out and were standing behind me. However, I immediately and quietly left Holmes Hall and headed for Dean Bohanan’s office. She was not in her office, so I returned to Holmes Hall to confer with Dr. Fogel, who was also not in her office.

 

   I then headed for Blythe Leiderman’s classroom. As I was on my way, a black officer ordered me to halt, however I went on into Leiderman’s classroom, explaining to her that Krauthamer had excluded me from her class and that I was being trailed by peace officers.  The three peace officers nevertheless entered Leiderman’s classroom behind me and grabbed me, leading me back out into the hallway, when Officer Clay screamed at me, falsely claiming I had been told “never to come back into this building.”  When both Professor Leiderman and I attempted to reason with him, he and the two other officers grabbed me and marched me out of Holmes Hall to the campus police headquarters. At the campus jail, I was imprisoned in a cell for approximately 45 minutes, while they ran a warrants check on me, which proved to be negative. They then released me. Consequently, I was late for my next class, abnormal psychology, with Professor Leiderman.

 

 

 

   Although Dr. Shirley Krauthamer admitted on the police report that she summoned the Los Angeles peace officers to stand by while she excluded me from her class, merely because I had filed a formal complaint against her, there was no mention on the report that Krauthamer had characterized me as having a “violent nature.” However a female student member of the class later told me that when several students asked where I was that Dr. Krauthamer told them that I “did not want to be in the class,” that I in effect had voluntarily withdrawn from the class. The student, in fact, begged me to return to the class. She said she and the other students missed me.

 

 

   Although I participated in the Group Dynamics class appropriately and had an excellent attendance records, Dr. Krauthamer was going to deny me credit for the class until Mrs. Elaine Geismar, a guidance counselor who was also hired as a referee in the matter, insisted that Dr. Krauthamer give me credit. In order to receive full credit, I therefore indeed complied with a request, recommended by Mrs. Geismar, that I prepare a book report for Dr. Krauthamer.

 

   One of the arresting student peace officers, Officer Clay, a Negro student in police administration, justified apprehending me by screaming at me: “You were told never again to enter Holmes Hall.” Clay’s words were a blatant lie. He apparently was standing behind me when Professor Krauthamer told me she was excluding me from her class merely because I had filed a complaint with the dean, and to come to her office [in Holmes Hall] to further discuss the issue, at the end of the class session.

 

   After I compliantly left Dr. Krauthamer’s classroom, I went to another building in hopes of consulting with the Dean of Students, a Negress, who was not available, so I returned to Holmes Hall and attempted to consult, first with Dr. Ann Fogel, who encouraged me to file the complaint. However, Fogel was not in her office, so I went to consult with Professor Leiderman, who was in the classroom across the hallway from Krauthamer’s classroom, since both Leiderman and Fogel had previously been asked by the Dean of Students to sit down with Krauthamer and me and discuss my complaint, which Professor Krauthamer had REFUSED TO DO.

 

   Professor Leiderman, who was supportive of me, was one of the faculty members to whom I had given a copy of my formal written complaint about Dr. Krauthamer. It was after I had entered Professor Leiderman’s classroom that I was apprehended by the peace officers and falsely arrested and falsely imprisoned. Although Professor Leiderman protested the action of the officers, they nevertheless took me away, publicly humiliating me by marching me across the campus to the campus jail.

 

   While I was detained at the LACC police station, and after having been released from a locked cell, in which I was unjustifiably incarcerated for approximately 45 minutes while Officer Clay ran a warrants check on me, I showed Officer Stringfellow, a white student peace officer, a copy of the formal complaint I had filed with LACC Dean Gloria Bohanan approximately two weeks before. In the complaint, I listed numerous violations of my rights and the rights of other students.

 

   Officer Stringfellow then confided in me that Professor Krauthamer had attempted to persuade Smith that I was a “psycho,” whom Krauthamer considered to be potentially “dangerous,” in order to justify staking out Holmes Hall with student peace officers while she announced to me that she was going to exclude me from her class.

 

   It was apparent to me, as it should have been to Officer Stringfellow and others, that Krauthamer summoned the LACC Campus Police as a ploy, as a method of harassing and discrediting me in retaliation for having filed the formal complaint with Dean Bohanan. However, the mere existence of the arrest record itself is a form of defamation, even though no further action was taken by the LACC police.

 

   When I afterwards confronted Professor Krauthamer in Dean Bohanan’s office, in the presence of Administrative Counselor Elaine Geismar, she said I had told her I had a “violent nature.” I immediately replied, “That is a malicious lie, and you [Shirley Krauthamer] are a malicious liar.”  Following that, Dean Bohanan recommended that the case be handled by Dean David Agosto, and that the matter be tabled so the case could be settled at a campus hearing, comprised of both faculty and student representatives.

 

   When I shortly after contacted the Dean of Men David Agosto, he told me that he had already discussed the case with Professor Krauthamer for about an hour and that he was on my side, as he put it, Agosto nevertheless deprived me of my rights by denying me the opportunity to obtain a copy of the police report. Dean Agosto told me had had scheduled a hearing or trial for the following morning. I told him I needed a copy of the police report, time to examine the report prior to any hearing or trail. He said, “You are not entitled to a copy of the police report.” I told him that by law any individual who has been arrested is entitled to review a copy of his police report.

 

   Dean Agosto then said, “Look I am on your side so far! Don’t push me!” In other words, he was not going to get me a copy of the police report to examine before the scheduled hearing, while at the same time he was intimidating and threatening me. Meanwhile, LACC Counselor Elaine Geismar told me she had persuaded Dr. Krauthamer to give me credit for the class in exchange for writing a book report. I thus agreed to write a book report for credit, and phoned Dean Agosto, telling him to postpone the hearing indefinitely. I soon after contacted a lawyer, Adam Axelrad, through the Legal Aid Society and Axelrad finally obtained a copy of the police report for me approximately two months later, in July!

 

   Axelrad also explained to me that Dean Agosto himself had violated my rights by denying me an opportunity to examine the police report that was filed at the time I was FALSELY arrested and FALSELY imprisoned.

 

   I received a letter from my attorney Adam J. Axelrad, dated June 8, 1994, near a month after the arrest. Mr. Axelrad said: Dar Mr. Shepard [sic]: As promised, enclosed is a copy of the police report regarding your May 4, 1994 arrest as well as a note from Mr. Martinez sent with it. It looks clear that the officers’ detention and arrest was improper. Give me a call if you want to discuss this further. Very truly yours, Adam J. Axelrad.

 

   I indeed gave Axelrad a call, and Axelrad apprised me to the procedure for filing a damage claim for false arrest and false imprisonment. I authorized him to prepare the claim for me.

 

   I received another letter from Attorney Axelrad, dated July 11, 1994, in which he said: Dear Mr. Shepherd: As we discussed, enclosed is a copy of the claim I sent to the Community College district on your behalf as well as their letter rejecting that claim. I will try to contact the adjuster to determine why the claim was rejected and if there is any possibility at settlement. Please give me a call in the next few days. Thank you. Very truly yours,  Adam J. Axelrad.

 

   I thus afterwards filed a second damage claim for false arrest and false imprisonment against the Los Angeles Community College District, requesting $1 million in damages.  However, that claim was also denied, primarily, I believe, because I did not have the financial resources to pay an attorney to do follow-up investigative work and subpoena classmates and faculty members as witnesses to appear before a  Los Angeles court.

 

   I received a letter, dated October 14, 1994, from Mr. Glenn Visconti, a representative for Carl Warren & Co., an insurance claims management company, located at 500 N. Central, Glendale, CA 91203. Visconti said: Dear Mr. Shepherd: The claim for damages filed by Mr. Axelrad on your behalf was rejected by the District on July 8, 1994. Since the claim for damages you have filed is substantially the same as the original claim for damages, and contains no new causes of action, your claim stands rejected as of July 8, 1994. We are enclosing a copy of that rejection letter with this letter. This letter does not alter nor affect the meaning of the rejection nor any warning or time limit it may contain. Very truly yours, Glenn Visconti, for Carl Warren & Company. Cc Adam J. Axelrad.

 

 

   Two weeks later I  was fired  from the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health agency, where I had done my intern work as a counselor, the same agency that kept me on as a benefits representative and case manager, which paid me a modest stipend of $74.00 monthly for working approximately approximately 30 hours per week, approximately the same amount of time that the full-time salaried employees, including my supervisors worked. The $74.00 stipend I received thus enabled the mental health agency, known as Special Services for Groups and BACUP, to continue exploiting me as a “disabled client,” thus preventing me from  making the transition from SSI to a regular living wage for my work as a mental health counselor. My experiences with the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Special Services for Groups , and BACUP will be covered below at length in Part II of this document. 

               

 

   The president of LACC at the time was Jose Robledo, a native of Salvador, who was also uncooperative and dragged his feet on the matter, in denying me a right to have a copy of the police report regarding my arrest. He refused to answer my phone calls, or to even see me when I went to his office and spoke to his secretary, seeking a conference with him. In fact, he did not even answer my letters to him until June 20, 1994, approximately six weeks after the false arrest, when he wrote:

 

   “Dear Mr. Shepherd: Just a short note to let you know that I am still working on your request to have a copy of the police report that you requested released to you…… I have asked the District Office to review existing procedures to see if they can be relaxed thereby allowing colleges to release copies of the reports. I expect to report back to you within a few days with the results of my request. I thank you for your patience. Sincerely, Jose L. Robledo, President.

  

   The vice president of academic affairs at the time was Dr. Mary Spangler, a former Los Angeles Valley College English professor. Dr. Spangler was also uncooperative. Neither she nor Robledo answered any of my letters regarding my complaints about faculty members at LACC.  She was later appointed president of LACC, following Robledo’s departure in 1997. On September 1, 2003, Dr. Spangler accepted a new assignment as chancellor of Oakland Community College in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit).

 

   I repeat. Although I wrote letters to Dr. Spangler at the time, complaining about Dr. Shirley Krauthamer and other faculty members, Dr. Spangler failed to answer my letters or to agree to meet with me and discuss the issues.

 

   By the way, I received all As on my LACC transcript as a final grade for ALL of the classes in psychology: abnormal psychology, group dynamics, counseling procedures and internship compliance, and alcohol and drug studies.

 

   In the claim for damages that Attorney Adam Axelrad filed in my behalf with the Los Angeles Community College District, I was charging that I had been a victim of false arrest and false imprisonment and had resultantly suffered emotional distress, humiliation and embarrassment, and that I had missed additional class instruction because of the incident.

 

   To view a copy of Attorney Adam Axelrad’s claim for damages, filed on behalf of Mr. Thomas Shepherd, Esq., dated June 15, 1994, go to:

 

Claim for Damages

 

   To view a copy of the LACC College and Safety Police Services incident report regarding the false arrest and false imprisonment of Thomas Shepherd, dated May 4, 1994, go to:

 

Incident Report

 

   To view a copy of LACC Human Services Curriculum fieldwork evaluation of Thomas Shepherd, Esq., May 5, 1994, go to:

 

Evaluation

 

 

   By the way, I was one of three Anglo-Saxon white males in Krauthamer’s class of approximately 30 students, and it was I, not the abrasive, verbally abusive, black male-rapist student, whom Krauthamer later excluded from her class and maligned to the campus police as being a “psycho” and “dangerous.” I, the one who refused to comply with her outrageous demand that I call my classmate Jay a “son-of-a-bitch.”

 

 

Part Two: L. A. County Department of Mental Health

 

 

   During the spring of 1994 I also completed an internship as a mental health rehabilitation counselor at a mental health agency affiliated with the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health. Following the completion of my internship, I was invited to continue working there. On Yom Kippur, a Jewish holiday, which happened to fall on a Thursday in 1994, the executive director, who claimed to be Jewish, gave all the Jewish employees in our office the day off, requiring Gentile [or Christian] employees to work, even if it was their normal day off. My supervisor, Miss Pam Nevarez, a Gentile Hispanic woman, complained that she was required to work even though Thursday indeed was her normal day off.

 

   The same woman, Miss Nevarez, asked me to help her make Xerox copies of a Social Security disability claim for a male client whom I clearly heard identify himself as a foreign-born Pakistani. However, when he asked Miss Nevarez which box to check after the question: “Were you born in the United States of America?” she told him to check YES. Thus, as I was making Xerox copies of the Social Security forms, I observed that he had indeed checked YES in the box that asked: Were you born in the United States of America? I thus remarked that the question had been incorrectly marked YES, and requested to Miss Nevarez and her client that he [the client] answer the question correctly with a NO, which he did, in compliance with my own request.  After the gentleman left, Miss Nevarez reprimanded me by saying, “He is my boyfriend!”  Thereafter, she harassed me mercilessly on a daily basis, repeatedly interrupting me while I myself was interviewing clients and trying to make me look like a ninny. She also began making demeaning sexist remarks to me.

 

   However, because I was already being subjected to repeated vulgar, sexist and racist remarks by a black male secretary, I made a complaint to the executive director of the agency, a self-proclaimed Jew, about Miss N, to which the director replied, “I have had a lot of complaints about Pam from other BACUP employees. Tell her to fuck off!”

 

   However, I indeed did NOT follow Mr. A. P’s advice, which I deemed highly inappropriate office protocol. Mr. A. P, the executive director, and Miss N repeatedly used profanity in the office in the presence of interns and clients. Instead, I merely told Miss N that I found her behavior offensive and inappropriate and that she should resultantly be fired for her misconduct. I myself used no profanity, nor did I threaten her in any way.

 

   On May 5, 1994, approximately five months before I was discharged by the mental health agency, Miss Nevarez completed a required Los Angeles City College intern evaluation form, on which she gave me excellent ratings in 10 categories for job performance. On the form, to which she signed her name, she specifically described me as being “well mannered, well groomed, soft spoken, relates well with staff and clients, attentive, learns quickly.” View evaluation below:

 

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   However, I was improperly fired after my supervisor went over the director’s head to a politically well-connected Asian, Herbert K. Hatanaka, secretary and executive director of Special Services for Groups, a “non-profit organization dedicated to providing community-based solutions to the social and economic issues facing those in greatest need.”  Hatanaka, as executive director of SSA, was thus the fiduciary agent for the agency where I had served as an advisory board member since about 1988, and later in 1994, as an intern and then counselor and benefits assistance counselor for individuals applying for disability benefits for mental illnesses.

 

   The day Hatanaka fired me, he told me that the reason I was being fired was that Miss Pam N was “only joking” and that I couldn’t take a joke and therefore couldn’t “fit in.” I was not only fired, but also immediately removed from both Los Angeles Department of Mental Health advisory boards. Prior to Hatanka’s firing of me, I had met with the executive director of the agency itself for about an hour and gone over in explicit detail the manner in which my female Hispanic supervisor had attempted to file a fraudulent SSI application for her Pakistani boyfriend.

 

   Mr. Andy P., Miss Pam N and others I had complained about were all, in my opinion, overmedicated on neuroleptic and psychotropic prescription drugs. Mr. A. P. himself also appeared to be heavily addicted to alcohol. Miss N regularly used expletives such as SHIT in her dialogue in front of me and in the presence of other employees and clients. Mr. A P also regularly used vulgarities and expletives such as GODDAMNIT in the office. His assistant, Miss Susan P, remarked aloud one day, as Mr. A P entered the office, “Is that a wine bottle in your back pocket, Andy?”

 

   I explained in detail to Mr. Andy P how Pam, my supervisor, had resultantly begun harassing me on a daily basis for intervening and thus preventing the fraudulent application from being processed. I explained to him that I had consequently reported the matter to an FBI agent, with whom I was still in contact. I explained in detail to the FBI agent how the agency encouraged the filing of exaggerated claims and the fact that all the advisory board members of the agency, of which both Hatanaka and I were members, were well aware of that fact. Nevertheless, Hatanaka would not listen to reason. I had rocked the boat, no doubt, by thwarting Miss N’s effort to file a fraudulent Social Security Disability claim for her boyfriend and by going to the FBI and I was consequently locked out.

 

   Hatanaka’s firing of me was highly improper. For one thing, Miss N, my supervisor, was not even present at the time Mr. Andy P and Mr. Hatanaka grilled me and fired me, thus I was given no opportunity to confront Miss N in the presence of Mr. Andy P and Mr. Hatanaka, and to also be given the opportunity to explain to Miss N that Mr. Andy P had told me he had had other complaints about her and that he had told me to tell her to FUCK OFF!

 

   I was thus fired on October 4, 1994, after 7 months of working, first as an intern, then as a case manager, merely for complaining about my supervisor, Miss Pam N. On October 14, 1994, I thus sent a four-page letter to Dr. Areta Crowell, Director, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, explaining that I was improperly fired for complaining about irregularities at BACUP, the mental health agency where I was employed:

 

Page One of Letter from Shepherd to Dr. Crowell, 10/14/94

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Page Two of Letter from Shepherd to Dr. Crowell, 10/14/94

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   Interestingly, Mr. Andy P, the executive director, several years later filed a false police report against me with the Rampart Division, in which he falsely claimed that I had resigned and simultaneously threatened him and Hatanaka and Miss N on the way out the office, rather than the TRUTH, that I was wrongfully TERMINATED without a fair hearing for merely complaining about the wrongdoings of not only Miss N, but of a black male office secretary, who had repeatedly harassed me in a vulgar manner, AND because I had admitted to Mr. A P that I had contacted the FBI several days before I was terminated.

 

   Hatanaka has since (according to the SSA March-April 2004 Newsletter) appointed Donna Lee Wong, Esq., as a new Board member. Ms. Wong is a Deputy City Attorney for the City of Los Angeles. She reportedly manages a prosecution caseload of approximately 400 cases. She also reportedly is the niece of Dr. Andrew Wong, who has been an SSG Board member of 28 years and still is.

 

   As I said, Hatanaka is indeed a well-connected politician! I was and remain an unfortunate victim of Hatanka’s and Mr. Andy P’s mental health fraud, which is EXACTLY what it is.

 

   Interestingly, I myself was educationally and experientially qualified under the California guidelines to work as a mental health rehabilitation counselor and to work as a case manager, which is what I was doing. However, I later realized, shortly before I went to the FBI, that the agency for which I was working as a case manager was technically not qualified to be receiving government funds for conducting any form of case management work, as there was no licensed mental health worker in the office to act as a supervisor, which was a requirement. In fact, with the exception of the male secretary, who was also harassing me, I was the only individual in that agency who had the minimum educational requirement of at least a bachelor’s degree in a behavioral science or in a related field. In effect, I technically was the only individual truly qualified to do case management work, providing the agency had a licensed social worker or psychologist on duty as a supervisor, which they did NOT.

 

   Miss Pam N was NOT licensed, nor was there any other individual in our office who was licensed, either as a social worker, a psychologist or a psychiatrist. A large sheepskin over Miss Pam N’s desk, revealed she had attended X number of sessions or hours at a student seminar for mental health workers at USC. Either Mr. Hatanaka himself or others working with him, including BACUP’s legal advisor, who was also a member of the BACUP advisory board, thus apparently misrepresented facts to Sacramento officials when they applied to the State of California for certification of that agency, known as BACUP, as a case management agency.

 

   To learn more about the operation of Special Services for Groups and its administrators, go to the following site:

 

http://www.ssgmain.org/

 

   It was my observation that clients applying for Social Security Disability benefits who claimed they were not experiencing auditory hallucinations were being encouraged by my supervisors to claim they were experiencing auditory hallucinations (hearing voices) in order to expedite the approval of their disability claims.

 

   To view the copy of a BACUP document given to me by my supervisor Miss Pam N, and reportedly prepared by her supervisor Miss Susan Paster, and approved by Mr. Andy P, executive director, go here:

 

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   To view a copy of the official BACUP business card issued to Tom Shepherd, listing Shepherd as a case manager and benefit representative and a copy of a $74.00 monthly stipend check (pay for approximately 120 hours of work per month as a counselor) issued to Mr. Shepherd by Mr. Herbert Hatanaka, Fiduciary Agent and Executive Director for Special Services for Groups, go here:

 

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   Note: The $74 monthly “trainee” stipend check enables Special Services for Groups and BACUP to receive additional grant money, allegedly for “training” me. While legally enabling me to continue receiving a subsistence SSI Disability check, which then amounted to approximately $650 monthly, the system also enabled SSG and BACUP to avoid paying me a legitimate salary as a bona fide case manager. At the time I was fired by Hatanaka, I was not really a “trainee.” I was a very competent, hard working, ethical mental health rehabilitation counselor doing a heavy caseload of case management work for numerous disabled clients!  I was repeatedly complimented on my work by Mr. Andy P, Miss Susan Paster and Miss Pam N., my immediate supervisor, who was very upset, according to Mr. Andy P, when I was promoted by Mr. Andy P to the rating of “case manager” and “benefits representative,” the same titles she held, for which she was receiving a full-time salary as a “social worker.” I was clearly ripped off!

 

   Since my “passing,” representatives for BACUP and Special Services for Groups have tried to minimize the amount of work I actually did and the nature of my work, that of a case manager, and the fact that I was repeatedly complimented by the executive director as BACUP’s perhaps most valued and appreciated employee. I was also, incidentally, the only individual employed there who was NOT on psychotropic medication, nor did I drink, which was one of the reasons I was so competent and ALERT to what was going on.

 

 

 

   County Supervisor Mike Antonovich in a letter dated February 15, 1995 to Dr. Areta Crowell, said, “Attached is a letter from Mr. Tom Shepherd regarding XXXXX, a mental health agency. Please look into Mr. Shepherd’s concerns and respond directly to him, with a copy to my office for my review.

 

   Dr. Crowell said in her reply, dated March 2, 1995:

 

 “Supervisor Antonovich has referred your letter to me for response. We have been aware of and regret, very much, your negative perception of XXXXX. Our Patients’ Rights Advocate has talked with you about your concerns. I have also talked with Mr. Pxxxx about the issues you raised. Our ongoing program auditing and supervisory processes have provided nothing which would confirm your allegations. We certainly believe it is very important to accurately establish eligibility for Social Security and we would not, in any way, condone encouraging false claims. We have no evidence that this happens. I trust that you will find some more satisfying area in which to work. The Department has tried to develop as much opportunity for rehabilitation and support and employment for o7ur clients as possible. …. Sincerely, Areta Crowell, Ph.D., Director of Mental Health. The full text of Crowell’s letter can be viewed below:

 

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   The fact is that I was NOT interviewed by the Patients’ Rights Advocate, who was Lynn Goldinger. In fact, Goldinger, with whom I had served on the advisory board along with Hatanaka, Miss Pam N and others I was complaining about, surely was already aware of the “boiler-room” atmosphere that existed within the agency. However, Miss Goldinger refused to even return the phone calls I made to her voice mail, requesting an appointment to discuss the matter with her after I was terminated by BACUP. Dr. Crowell also never returned my phone calls, after I contacted her administrative assistant and requested she do so, which was my reason for contacting County Supervisor Mike Antonovich.

 

   In addition, I was never compensated for my injuries, for my losses, which were extensive. My career as a mental health rehabilitation counselor thus abruptly ended before it got off the ground. That was nearly ten years ago.

 

   I blame the very suave, sophisticated, yet unscrupulous Herbert Hatanaka for the cover-up of the corruption that existed and for the fact that I was inappropriately terminated without being given a fair hearing!

 

   I want to repeat that Miss N gave me excellent ratings as an employee intern, prior to my inappropriate termination by Mr. Andy P and Mr. Hatanaka.

 

   I shall also repeat that when I FIRST complained to Mr. A P, the executive director of BACUP, about the fact that I was being harassed by Miss N, his response was, “I’ve had a lot of complaints about Pam from other employees of BACUP. Tell her to FUCK OFF.”

 

   Those last two items bear repeating!

 

   It is an interesting observation that:

 

(1)   Dr. Shirley Krauthamer, a self-professed Jew, made a false complaint to the police merely because I filed a justified complaint with the Dean of Students that she was trying to get me to call another student “a son-of-a-bitch” in the classroom.

 

(2)   BACUP’s executive director, Mr. Andy P, also a self-professed Jew, also made a false complaint to the police, merely because I filed numerous justified complaints to public officials, including the FBI and Governor Pete Wilson, about him after he fired me, and because I left messages on his voice mail, reminding him of what he and others at BACUP did to me to offend me with racially motivated comments and sexist remarks, prior to my being improperly terminated. I also reminded him, on his voice mail, that I felt betrayed for his failure to admit to Pam and Hatanaka the fact that he said to me in response to my complaint about Pam, “I have had many complaints about Pam from other employees at BACUP. Tell her to fuck off!” Furthermore, I reminded Andy of his anti-Gentile policy of giving the Jews off on Yom Kippur, a Thursday, while making the Gentiles work.

 

(3)   So what does Mr. Andy P do, being the malicious hypocrite that he is? He files a complaint with the L.A. police, charging me with leaving messages on his answering machine that he considered threatening, with referring to him as a Jew, and with using vulgar language in my voice mail messages. The vulgar language, by the way, consisted of quotes of the repeated vulgarities I myself was subjected to while I worked as a case manager at BACUP by my supervisor and others. I also reminded him that he repeatedly screamed the epitaph Goddamnit so loudly in his own office when the door was closed that I could hear him at my desk while I was interviewing clients.  He also claimed in his police report that the messages I allegedly left on his voice mail, reminding him of his unscrupulous behavior towards me, were left on Rosh Hashana, a Jewish holy day, and that he was of the opinion that I was therefore engaging in terrorist tactics. He also said that he believed me to be on medication for paranoid schizophrenia.

 

(4)   The charges filed against me as a result of Mr. Andy P’s false and malicious complaint were ultimately dismissed by the City Prosecutor, due to the fact that I was suffering from a “condition” that was obviously triggered by the stress that Mr. Andy P himself, advocate for the rights of the mentally ill, had caused.

  

 

Epilog

 

   Had I not been falsely arrested at the age of 55, while attending Los Angeles City College, and wrongly terminated from my employment by a Los Angeles Department of Mental Health agency several months later, and had I not resultantly become even more stressed out and discouraged with life than I was when I was first awarded Social Security Disability, I would have been able to resume full-time employment as a mental health counselor at a living wage, and perhaps today I would once again own my own home. As it is, although I do have subsidized government housing, I have nothing to look forward to except the future possibility of only further deprivation.

 

   I want to STRESS to my readers the fact that virtually all low-income recipients of Social Security are also recipients of Supplemental Security Income. Disabled and elderly low-income people, including the overwhelming majority of mentally ill people, are also eligible for subsidized (Section 8) housing. However, an arrest and conviction can result in the recipient losing both his or her SSI income, as well as his or her Section 8 entitlement. Both Professor Shirley Krauthamer and BACUP’s executive director well aware of that when they made or filed a false police complaint in order to discredit and further disenfranchise me for complaining about their own abuses of my rights. They no doubt knew that their own actions could further jeopardize my welfare, in which case I would indeed be once again truly homeless, living on the streets. That is what is so alarming about the behavior of both of those individuals.

 

   BACUP’s executive director, Mr. Andy P., is also conveniently diagnosed with a mental illness, bipolar disorder, a diagnosis he uses to excuse his own belligerent, often intimidating behavior towards his employees and clients. All of his supervisors and interns also have diagnosed psychiatric illnesses, as do I. The difference is that because Mr. A. P. has a generous salary as executive director of BACUP, he no longer requires either SSI or subsidized housing, which he most probably did receive prior to acquiring his position as executive director of BACUP, a position he has had since he helped to found the agency. While he himself enjoys the financial rewards and status of being a member of the so-called upper class, he exploits his clients, for the funding his agency receives depends altogether on how many people he can qualify for SSI, a subsistence living that currently amounts to under $10,000 a year.

 

   In Los Angeles, a one-bedroom apartment in a low-income neighborhood now rents for $950 upward, with no frills, a rent that most low-income people could not possibly afford without subsidized (Section 8)rents, rents often paid to landlords who themselves are immigrants, and often ruthless immigrants, and who financially benefit by exploiting America’s natural born citizens, including disabled veterans and college graduates, like myself. They indeed are living the American dream at the expense of those of us who were born as Americans and who served in the Armed Forces, more or less involuntarily! The situation is not likely to improve. The gap between the rich immigrants and the poor Americans is increasing every day.

 

   I live in daily fear of being once again arrested an incarcerated merely for speaking out about the fascist atrocities inflicted on the already disenfranchised by the people who are running our governmental institutions, the so-called human caretakers.

 

   The Los Angeles Department of Mental Health is as biased against American-born white non-Jewish male employees as is the Los Angeles Community College District biased against white non-Jewish male students.

 

   My advice to the people of Los Angeles is do not enroll in classes at Los Angeles City College. It is a decidedly fascist community college, as is the Los Angeles Community College District, with a decided anti-white male Anglo-American bias.  As for the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health, it is corrupt, and the administrators are primarily interested in exploiting the mentally ill for their own economic self-aggrandizement. Furthermore, I think it is a crime that psychotropic drugs are prescribed to anyone! They do not cure mental illness, and usually render an individual more dysfunctional than he or she would be without the drugs. They are of no value except to the executives, owners and stockholders of the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture them.

 

    I was 55 years old during the spring of 1994, when I was victimized by extreme anti-white anti-male prejudice in the LACC classroom. I was also a veteran of the Armed Forces and had received a B.A. degree in political science, with a minor in sociology, from a university in 1969. I had also completed a year of graduate study in regional and city planning, which included classes in law and police administration, prior to enrolling in classes at Los Angeles City College in 1986.

 

   During high school, I was appointed citizenship chairman and then president of a Missouri Council of Churches protestant interdenominational youth organization, known as the United Christian Youth Movement, between 1954 and 1956. I was an acknowledged leader in civil rights during my tenure with the UCYM, and worked with other white and black leaders of my community. I organized the first inter-racial interdenominational protestant youth rally at the First Presbyterian Church in my hometown of Joplin, Missouri, during “Youth Week” in February 1955. While I served as president, Ronnie Powell, a member of the Negro community, served as vice president of the same organization.

 

   I also served as president of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church Youth Peoples’ Service League for several terms. In 1956, St. Philip’s hosted the West Missouri Diocese Youth Convocation at the Connor Hotel in Joplin. We unanimously elected Carol Young, a Negress from Kansas City, to be our first president.

 

   During high school, I dated Miss Carol Bormaster, Miss Judy Newman and Miss Elsa Newman, all daughters and granddaughters of prominent Missouri Jewish families, who thought highly of me, which is the reason they approved of their daughters courting me. My mother’s second cousin, Margaret (Peggy) Johnson, Muncie, Indiana, married Barry M. Goldwater in 1934.

 

   I entered college, following my graduation from high school, during the summer of 1956 at the National University of Mexico in Mexico City, where I was an honor student. I later, while serving in the Coast Guard, became engaged to Miss Blanca Lydia Arreola Casillas, who graduated from the Law School of the University of Mexico in 1960.

 

   On October 28, 1975, Senator Richard M. Webster of Missouri said the following about me:

 

   It is my pleasure to introduce Mr. Shepherd. I have known Mr. Shepherd and his family for three generations. His reputation and that of his family has been excellent down through the years. After graduating from the University of Oklahoma, Mr. Shepherd completed a year of graduate study in the Department of Regional & City Planning at that University. I had an opportunity to observe his work while he was employed as an urban planner for the Ozark Gateway Regional Planning Commission. I found his work product was excellent and he had a particularly satisfactory way of meeting with the public and dealing with difficult problems.

 

   Since leaving Los Angeles City College, I enrolled in an advanced word processing class at East Los Angeles Trade School and in a computer-editing filmmaking class at Pasadena City College. I withdrew from both colleges because of a very disturbing anti-white male, anti-Anglo learning environment. In both instances, I blame disturbed, anti-white, anti-Anglo Saxon, anti-male sociopathic teachers for intentionally creating the environment and permitting it to exist.

 

   I have also voluntarily left numerous jobs following disturbing racist, sexist and sexual harassment of me by my co-workers or supervisors, both male and female, and because I became aware that my employers, in government and in the private sector, were intentionally engaged in unethical and criminal activity.

 

   Prior to applying for Social Security Disability in 1986, I worked for Gordon & Schwenkmeyer for about five months in 1985, as a political fundraiser and polltaker. The agency was owned by Mike Gordon, former executive director of the California Democratic Party, and Kristen Schwenkmeyer, political director of the California Democratic Party. The agency raised funds for Senator Cranston and other California politicians, as well as for gubernatorial candidates throughout the nation. It also conducted political polls. Mike Gordon himself repeatedly complimented me for my honesty, skill and productivity as a fundraiser.

 

   I was one of the top three of approximately forty fundraisers working for Gordon & Schwenkmeyer at that time in their Culver City office. However, I was harassed for making complaints about fellow workers at Gordon & Schwenkmeyer, where I was employed as a political fundraiser and polltaker. I complained to Alex X, a former California Assemblyman, who was one of my supervisors and who was also a part-owner, because Steve Gordon, Mike Gordon’s younger brother, and Joey X, a body-builder, both also employed as fundraisers, who were sitting at desks in front of me, were disturbing me by talking loudly to each other and laughing during my workday (7 days a week), while I was working, trying to solicit campaign contributions on the telephone.

  

   Merely because I repeatedly complained to Alex, I was later called a “cocksucker” while I was eating my lunch in a nearby park, as Joey and another employee walked past me. When I afterwards complained about Joey’s remark to Alex, he did NOTHING!

 

   I was also later reprimanded by Steve Gordon for failing to falsify my own polling results of a survey Gordon & Schwenkmeyer conducted to undertake for Southern California Edison (power company) to determine if the residents of Big Bear wanted Southern Cal to provide their electrical service. The results of my own poll indicated that the overwhelming majority of Big Bear residents did NOT want Southern Cal to provide Big Bear electricity. They desired their own independent company.

 

    Steve Gordon himself later reprimanded me, or should I say intimidated me, in the presence of my two supervisors, Alex and Becky, (a UCLA medical school grad) for NOT falsifying the results of my survey of Big Bear, California residents, most of whom did NOT want an outside power company to service their community. At the time, Steve Gordon reprimanded me, the four of us were in a car being driven by Alex, who was giving all of us a ride home after work. Steve said, “Tom, you know you really should have altered your polling results to make it look like the people you interviewed really wanted So Cal, because So Cal is paying us to conduct the survey.” I WAS IN SHOCK, THAT STEVE GORDON WOULD SAY SUCH A THING TO ME.

 

   I was even more shocked that neither Alex X, who told me he was a part owner of the agency and a former State Assemblyman and Becky, both of whom were my supervisors, did not speak up, that they did not attempt to censure Steve Gordon for what he said. As a result, I quickly realized how truly corrupt and criminal-minded all three of them were. I thus had good reason to believe that Kris Schwenkmeyer and Mike Gordon themselves were in the habit of falsifying their polls, otherwise Steve Gordon would not have been so outspoken in what he said and Alex and Becky would not have remained silent.

 

   I finally resigned, severely distraught, and applied for Social Security Disability. Although I was repeatedly complimented by Mike Gordon for my productivity, I was only paid $4.50 per hour, working seven days a week, which did not provide me with a living wage. I estimate, according to my own records, that I raised approximately $250,000 for the agency while I was employed there. It took me nearly two hours to commute by bus each way from my home in Hollywood to Culver City each day.

 

   By the say, my psychiatric records from the VA hospital, which I have since obtained, reveal that I indeed was suicidally depressed because I had been repeatedly asked to do wrong things by my telemarketing employers, one a democratic party fund raiser. Thus, it is substantiated in VA records that the owners and supervisors Gordon & Schwenkmeyer were the direct cause of my emotional collapse and my ultimately being awarded a very inadequate SSI subsistence living, which I am still receiving. I rather imagine that the Gordons and Schwenkmeyers themselves are today worth millions. Looking back, I feel I should have been awarded workman’s compensation, as well as personal damages by Gordon & Schwenkmeyer, out of pocket, for the stress they caused me through verbal abuse and through attempting to corrupt me, the one employee that Mike Gordon himself knew to be the most honest.

 

   Interestingly, I was the ONLY American white male employed by Gordon & Schwenkmeyer, Inc. at the time. Mike Gordon himself is a Chicano American. Alex X, one of my supervisors is a Lebanese Arab American. There were approximately 40 fundraisers working with me at the time.

 

   The following is a copy of a letter I addressed to Mike Gordon and Kris Schwenkmeyer, June 11, 1985, in response to their request for employee evaluations of GSI:

 

Page One of Letter to Gordon & Schwenkmeyer from Tom Shepherd

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Page Two of Letter to Gordon & Schwenkmeyer fm Tom Shepherd

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   I note Kris Schwenkmeyer was appointed to the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation for the State of California in 1990. Her term expired at the end of 1994.

 

http://www.dir.ca.gov/calosha/CHSWC/Schwenkmeyer.html

 

 

   Since my employment with Gordon & Schwenkmeyer, I note that the firm itself independently contributed $8,000 to Sen. Jane Harmon’s campaign in 2004.

 

   Gordon & Schwenkmeyer, of pubic record, raised gross receipts of $167,584.85 for the National Coalition for the Homeless, of which 47.74% or $80,000 went to the actual charity. G & S, also of public record, raised gross receipts of $155,702.83 for New York Cares, Inc., of which 0.00% actually went to the charity.

 

http://www.oag.state.my.us/charities/pennies98-2/table2ghi.html

 

 

   In November 2004, Mike Gordon was elected to the California State Assembly from District 53 in Orange County.

 

http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a53/bio.htm

 

    More about Gordon & Schwenkmeyer, Inc. 300 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 2050, El Segundo, CA 90245:

 

http://www.gsitel.com/about.htm

 

 

 

 

   Following my resignation from Gordon & Schwenkmeyer, I entered the VA Hospital at West Los Angeles, emotionally exhausted. A copy of my VA medical record is hereby posted as evidence:

 

VA Medical Record for Shepherd 1985

 

 

   While a psychiatric patient at the VA, I was placed by the VA employment counselors in two additional telemarketing jobs, both of which turned out to have fraudulent underpinnings. The last one was for the Santa Monica Outlook. When, after two weeks I was promoted to supervisor for circulation telemarketing. When I was told by my own supervisor to not to hire any Hispanics or Blacks, I was severely reprimanded by my own supervisor for revealing the discriminatory policy to my salespeople and thus fired. The irony was that my four top salespeople were two Negroes and two Hispanics (who were also fluent in English). The circulation for Even Outlook was contracted by an independent contractor, U.S. Sales of Long Beach. However, the assistant personnel director for the Evening Outlook was a young Negress. When I complained to her why I was fired, she did nothing.

 

   What I have always found is that minority people will never stand up for me when I myself have been discriminated against merely for standing up for the rights of minority people on the job!  That is a blatant reality of the hypocrisy of People of Color in the work place!

 

   Soon after, I applied for State Disability, then for Social Security Disability. I never returned to work. Practically every private and governmental organization I had worked for in the past had attempted to corrupt me, and as a result, I resigned, or I was fired for complaining about the corruption or abuse. Prior to going to California, I had worked a director of media research for Tulsa City-County Public Television Channel 24. When Doug McAllester (administrative assistant to Mayor LaFortune) and his brother, Gordon McAllester, a Tulsa attorney, came into my office one morning and asked me point blank to perjure myself in their behalf by appearing in court and giving false testimony, I resigned. I was disgusted that the McAllester brothers would try to get me to compromise myself for them. After I resigned, I later phoned Mayor LaFortune and told him the reason I resigned.

 

   While working as director of media research, I was asked, one day, if I would pinch-hit as a cameraman for the City Commission meeting. At that particular meeting, a Tulsa nightclub-bar was seeking to have its license reinstated. The request was apparently denied by the Mayor and Council. While Doug McAllester was the Mayor’s assistant, Gordon McAllester was general counsel for the nightclub-bar. Thus, when the McAllester brothers later came to my office, they told me the Channel 24 film/tape of the Commission meeting at which the license was denied had been subpoenaed, and since I ran the camera on that day, would I please testify in court for them, and tell the judge that I had at least ten years experience as a cameraman. The fact is I had NO experience as a cameraman. I was obviously outraged that they would even ask me to lie. I had already put up with enough crap from other employees and officials, who had harassed and insulted me on a regular basis. Why?  Because I was a gentleman!

 

   America is indeed a fascist nation and the existence of a large homeless population, largely of American born white, Anglo-Saxon adult males, substantiates my claim! Rather than alleviating homelessness, the government bureaucracy only exploits the homeless, while the administrators of the various mental health and housing programs, pocket most of the Federal grant money into their own bank accounts.

 

   I myself am a victim of the American holocaust, as was my brother, a year older, also an American veteran, who underwent three brain surgeries following his discharge from the Army, and who died homeless in America in 2002!

 

   The fascists in America are not German-American Nazis. They are Asian-American Nazis, Chicano-Hispanic-Aztlan-Nazis, Jewish-American Nazis and Female-Feminist-Nazis. Ironically, they are people who falsely claim they themselves are trying to end fascism and homelessness!

 

   The tragedy of what happened to me at Los Angeles City College and at the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health is that I was traumatically abused by the very people who claim to be experts in the field of mental health care. What I learned the hard way is that mental health professionals all too often will exercise their unbridled “police power” in order to retaliate against an individual who lodges a formal complaint against them by having the individual incarcerated by the police. It is a flagrant misuse of the police power and of the professional “license” of the mental health “caretaker.”

 

   I am hereby presenting a claim to the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles a claim in the amount of $50 million as compensation for the fact that my rights were abused and my welfare was jeopardized by administrators working for Los Angeles City College and various agencies of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. It will never be paid. I know that. If my skin were black or bronze I would have been royally compensated ten years ago! If I had been Jewish, I never would have even been a victim of false arrests and false imprisonments. That is a fact. Yes, fascism is alive and thriving in America!

 

Thomas M. Shepherd

American Intellectual

 

   NOTE: Tom Shepherd’s maternal grandfather was John Abbott Snyder, Missouri-Arkansas bus line owner. Tom Shepherd’s father, D. E. Blaise, president of El Cedro Silver Mining Company, Guanajuato, Mexico, abandoned his mother, brother and him the years he was born. He was reared by his maternal grandmother, Mabel Mitchell Snyder, and his mother, Clara Olive, who later remarried to Charles M. Shepherd, director and treasurer of the Empire District Electric Company in Southwest Missouri, who died six years later.

 

   Dr. Tom Shepherd is a mental health consultant, a law enforcement planner and the creator and publisher of  Tulsa Law Journal. He is also the founder of the Shepherd-Montessori Institute, a free online educational aid to home schooling.

 

  

To learn more about the tragic life and death of Tom Shepherd’s brother, John Snyder Shepherd, child prodigy, Episcopal Church altar boy, Scout leader, and U.S. Army veteran, who died homeless in Springfield, Missouri on April 2, 2002, at the age of 64, some 30 years after undergoing three brain surgeries, view The John Snyder Shepherd Memorial:

 

The John Shepherd Memorial

 

 

 

 

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