Campaign to change prejudicial law in Alabama

I have begun a letter writing campaign to change the law in Alabama with respect to guardianship/conservatorship. Currently candy bar probate court judges who have had their good senses melted by being too long in the hot sun of public criticism and media scorn, have the power of God in this respect, that every citizen cannot appoint their own guardian/conservator. This law is wrong as it breeds corruption in an under funded elderly care system. This campaign was begun by sending the following letter to various media:

For many years in Alabama black people had to drink out of separate water fountains. They had to ride at the back of buses and could not vote. The were second class citizens and their rights were abused. They were exploited by whites who had power and control of the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government in Alabama.

This all began to change when Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks and others involved themselves courageously in the struggle to gain civil rights and liberty for black people in Alabama. Yet today there remains a class of people who are neglected and denied their rights and liberty, who are often scorned and treated prejudicially. These are the elderly, those senior citizens who have sacrificed so much for their families, only to have their rights taken away by probate court judges and an often corrupt elderly care and legal system.

In Alabama you cannot state who will be your guardian/conservator. Thus if you become incapacitated due to a disease or illness associated with old age, it falls upon the shoulders of a probate court judge to say who will administer your affairs and estate. Quite frankly I believe this is wrong, that this represents an injustice! Who is more qualified to say who should administer their affairs, a candy bar judge who has been out in the sun of public criticism so long it has melted his good senses, or you and I? Do not you know who you would want to be your guardian/conservator? Should not every parent or grandparent, indeed, every citizen, have a right to specify and designate their own guardian/conservator?

Clearly the law in Alabama needs to be changed. Our elderly are being exploited and abused by an elderly care system which is under funded and a legal system which employs lawyers to raid their estates, liquidate their property and pay for itself. This is corruption, pure and simple. Every elderly person in Alabama needs to be made aware of how the system works, how it is funded and the corruption which enables its operation.

I urge everyone who is concerned about the civil and property rights of the elderly to work to change the law in Alabama. Make the law so that everyone may specify and declare who will be their guardian/conservator. Do not continue to give this power to probate judges. No one knows better what they want for themselves than you and I, than our parents or grandparents. I can tell you one thing for sure, my mother did not want any candy bar judge determining her fate. Nor do I!

Write your representative and tell them you want this aspect of the law in Alabama changed immediately and for it to be retroactive, so that this change in the law will include all of our elderly who are now in nursing homes and have had their estates raided by a corrupt elderly care system, greedy, self serving lawyers and judges who have been given the power of God when it should have been left to the people.

You may read additional letters at Elderly Care System Broken in Alabama