Progress In the World Radio Show blogtalkradio/progressintheworld/2015/01/21/do-not-miss-this-one-betrayal-of-veterans Do not miss Dr. Charles E. Corry on my show 20 January 2015 at 7 PM Pacific. Here is a little about him. See his full fascinating story at corry.ws Civil liberties Vote fraud and election issues While serving as a charter member of the board of the Colorado Springs chapter of the ACLU in 2000 I was asked to look into reports of problems with electronic voting machines. That investigation led to joining the IEEE voting equipment standards committee in late 2001. Although I am no longer with the ACLU, I remain actively involved with election issues and IEEE standards to this day. In particular I have documented the multitude of problems associated with electronic voting machines, both mechanically and with the security of these machines. Even more disturbing is the widespread adoption of mail ballots and even all mail-ballot elections. With a tip of the hat to Mark Twain, I have dubbed my research into these problems as Lies, Damn Lies, and Mail Ballot Elections. Other issues of concern involve statewide voter registration databases, particularly where the voter can register online. And most cases of election fraud involve insiders so the hijinks of election officials have not been overlooked. Intimate partner violence I first encountered the problems with abusive women during the early 1990s working at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod. A fellow oceanographer was being stalked and hounded by a former wife more than a decade after a divorce she initiated. Although she was a researcher at the neighboring Marine Biological Laboratory, her behavior was so extreme the Oceanographic was forced to take out a restraining order to keep her off the property. And my colleague was eventually forced to take a position in England to escape her. My next exposure to a violent woman was more personal. My then wife went violently insane in 1996-1997. Her abuse eventually left me legally blind in my right eye. In the interim I was the one charged, and eventually acquitted of domestic violence. After my acquittal, within six hours deputies were on the doorstep serving me with another restraining order. When that was dismissed the now ex-wife moved to Boulder, Colorado, and sought another restraining order against me there claiming she was in fear of me because of a lecture Id given at MIT as well as discussions with Prof. Ted Madden, who had sponsored my talk. That order, in turn, was dismissed. Undeterred, she then stalked me for five years, subjecting me to multiple flat and slashed tires, broken car windows, hang-up phone calls every half hour all night long, theft of mail and paychecks, property destruction, death threats, and etc. Numerous complaints to police failed to deter her, as is usually the case with violent and abusive women. In the face of this injustice and indifference I then began documenting such stories and associated research on the web site Domestic Violence Against Men in Colorado in 1999. Interest in that project spread and in early 2001 I was encouraged to formally incorporate the Equal Justice Foundation, which has served men and women equally since. In 2001 I teamed up with Prof. Martin Fiebert from Cal State-Long Beach and Erin Pizzey, who first brought the problem of domestic violence to the worlds attention, to address the problem of controlling domestic violence against men, with the hope of restoring some balance to this human problem. Prof. Fiebert has compiled an annotated bibliography of 286 scholarly investigations that demonstrate women are as, or more physically aggressive than men in intimate partner relationships. However, the meme that only men are violent in intimate relationships and women are always and exclusively victims is deeply entrenched in the public consciousness and the uphill battle to restore justice and sanity in these cases continues. Veteran trauma court In 2008 I helped pioneer the first veteran trauma court in Colorado and in 2010 worked to get enabling legislation for such courts passed. Since July 2010 I have been collecting and analyzing veteran arrest data from El Paso County, Colorado, home of five military bases. To date I and my colleagues have produced two reports and several articles on veteran court operations and collected arrest data for nearly 10,000 veteran arrests in the county. I am also integrating the veteran arrests with data from the coroner and tracking court outcomes of selected arrests. The objective is to find more effective ways of reintegrating veterans while preserving public safety. This is the largest study of veteran arrests I am aware of.
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