Update:
Former Senior
Citizen Student,
Seeks $50
Million In Punitive Damages
Against Los
Angeles Community College District
* * * *
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
And
And
- 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.
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.
Dr.
Krauthamer refused to address the real issue, that the basis of my own
complaint was that I was being harassed, not only by Dr. Shirley Krauthamer,
but that she encouraged other students to harass met. I was subjected to daily
racist remarks against white people by an overbearingly hostile and
intimidating Negro classmate, who admittedly had raped a female and who
repeatedly expressed his contempt for all white people, as well as for Jews,
Krauthamer ( a self-professed Jew). For one thing, I was only one of three
white males enrolled in her class. One of the other three white males, a
graduate student from CSU, withdrew from the class, citing Dr. Krauthamer with
incompetence, prior to my own filing of a formal complaint against Krauthamer
with the Dean of Students. The majority of students in her Group Dynamics class
were Black or of non-Anglo-Saxon American ethnicity. Krauthamer was playing the
race card! I was the one who was a victim, not only of her own racism and
sexism (hostility for men), but also of the racism and sexism of other
students. I became a scapegoat!
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.
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.
In
response to my complaint and as a way of resolving the situation, I was told by
Dr. Fogel that Dean Bohanan had recommended to Dr. Krauthamer that she sit down
in a private conference with me and two other faculty members, Dr. Fogel and
Blythe Leiderman (both of whom were teaching classes in which I was currently
enrolled). However, according to Dr. Fogel and Ms. Leiderman, Krauthamer had arrogantly
refused to comply with Dean Bohanan’s order. It was after that that Dr.
Krauthamer summoned the campus police chief as malicious retaliation against me
for having ever filed the complaint! I repeat, Dr. Shirely Krauthamer had only
days before been exposed by another male student, a PHD candidate no less, for
her failure to follow the prescribed format for conducting a class in Group
Dynamics.
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.
****
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.
NOTE:
As a result of
my independent studies and observations, I believe that psychiatry, as it is
currently practiced, should be outlawed. However, if any citizen is going to be
incarcerated it should be Dr. Shirley Krauthamer. In fact, Krauthamer is the
one who should have been arrested and jailed in 1994. If anyone is going to be
behind prison bars, Dr. Shirley Krauthamer should today be behind prison bars
in the State of California for what she did to me, as should those other Los
Angeles City College administrators that later covered up for her in various
ways, thereby hindering me in my quest for justice. As for Hatanaka, he should
not be permitted to work in the field of mental health. As for Posner, neither
should he! The damage they to my reputation and to my health is irreparable!
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.
I began my college
education at the School of Philosophy and Letters of the Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México in Mexico City in 1956, following my graduation from high
school. My grandparents and parents, prior to my birth had established El Cedro
Silver Mining Company at Guanajuato, Mexico, where they established a
home. My mother was evacuated during a heated Anti-American revolution when
President Lázaro Cárdenas sought to nationalize the petroleum and mining
industries.
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 20th 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.
Following my active
duty with the Coast Guard, I obtained a B.A. degree from the University of
Oklahoma in political science, with a minor in sociology, and completed
additional graduate work in regional & city planning. I withdrew from the
Graduate College of University of Oklahoma in good standing, with a B average,
after completing two semesters, because I was victimized by an officially
sanctioned biased grading policy that favored foreign students over American
students. If a foreign student earned a B, he received an A on his transcript.
I was also highly disturbed and by a hostile, unscrupulous, racist Black
Militant sociology professor, Dr. George Henderson, and other professors and
administrators, who created an unsafe and unhealthy learning
environment.
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.
My wife and I relocated
to Del Mar, California in 1969, where we resided at 820 Klish Way. I operated Thomas of La Jolla, a
handcrafted furniture business, for which I ran advertisements in House &
Garden and other publications. I also operated a publishing business. I
authored and published The Investor’s Handbook on Mexico and
other publications. While residing in Del Mar, I volunteered as a big brother
for the Del Mar Kiwanis Club “Operation Amigo” program. I also taught a Sunday
School class at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.
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.
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.
The bottom line is that Los Angeles City
College peace officers had no business being in Holmes Hall in the first place.
The Los Angeles City College peace officers would
not have been stalking me had Krauthamer not, with malicious intent, misrepresented
facts to the Los Angeles City College chief of police in order to undermine my
credibility merely because I filed a very appropriate complaint about her own
misconduct with the dean of students. Prior to excluding me from her class,
Krauthamer had been asked by Dean Gloria Bohanan to sit down with me and Dr.
Ann Fogel and Blythe Leiderman and discuss the issues I had raised in my
complaint. Krauthamer arrogantly refused to comply.
I had done nothing to justify a stakeout.
I myself had not engaged in any disruptive or threatening behavior. In fact, I
had conducted myself as a gentleman during the entire semester. The mere
existence of the arrest record, in which I was allegedly arrested for
“disorderly conduct,” is in itself a form of defamation of my own character,
even though no further action was taken on the matter by the LACC police who
were at fault to begin with.
I had done nothing to warrant Peace Officer
Clay’s order that I “halt” while I was attempting to enter Miss Leiderman’s
classroom across the hall. Clay, himself a student, who appeared to me to be
violently and psychotically disturbed, loudly screamed at me, “You were
told never to come back in Holmes Hall!” Clay’s
words were a blatant lie, as I was NOT told to never return to Holmes Hall, and
Clay well knew that, as he apparently was standing behind me when Krauthamer
told me only minutes before that she was merely excluding me from her class
because I filed a complaint against her with the dean of students. She also
told me to come to her office down the hall to discuss the matter further
with her, if I so desired. Once again, I was never told to NOT return to
Holmes Hall.
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.
NOTE:
Dr. Shirley Krauthamer is the one who should
have been arrested and jailed in 1994. In fact, Dr. Shirley Krauthamer should
today be behind prison bars in the State of California for what she did to me,
as should those other Los Angeles City College administrators that later
covered up for her in various ways, thereby hindering me in my quest for
justice. So should Herbert Hatanaka, who misrepresented the qualifications of a
Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health agency for conducting mental
health disability case management and for terminating my employment without a
just hearing.
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:
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:
To view a copy of LACC Human Services
Curriculum fieldwork evaluation of Thomas Shepherd, Esq., May 5, 1994, go to:
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:
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.
Although I reported to the same FBI agent
the fact that I was improperly fired, as well as to Social Security Fraud
Investigators, Governor Pete Wilson, the County Supervisors and the California
Department of Fair Employment, as well as to Dr. Areta Crowell, then Director
of the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health, an investigation of my
complaints resulted in a whitewash back in 1995, approximately six months after
I was improperly terminated. As a result, I lost all faith in the American
mental health system and in the American system of justice. We have no justice
in America as long as people like Herbert Hatanaka and Mr. A P remain in
positions of control. They are not
helping mentally ill people. They are exploiting mentally ill, homeless people
and exacerbating mental illness!
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!
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:
A democratic
society listens!
A fascist
society imprisons!
A democratic
society builds houses!
A fascist society
builds jails and prisons!
There is NO
excuse for jails!
READ a 20th Century classic
tHE bASKETBALL dIARIES
by prodigy Jim Carroll
and
total eclipse
starring Leonardo Di Caprio