I believe that -- even though there are a lot of good people working in these so-called protection services -- there is also a lot of corruption there. It isn't just limited to protective services for children. As you know in my mom's case, protective services for adults is also involved. Usually, money or some kind of slavery is involved in most of these cases. It began (on one level, anyway) when certain people who had something to gain from it called APS and told lies about us. They came out to do investigations and found nothing amiss, but the same people kept calling. My mom was finally taken to a nursing home in another county. Something similar happened to another friend and her mom who lived a few miles south of us. Another friend who lives in a different state had APS called on him to try to separate him from his wife due to some stupid regulations. AND they want to keep people troubled using any means they can. I can tell you stories that will peel paint off of the walls!!!

Let's start with how my mom and I ended up with similar health issues at one time. I believe now that we both might have been given some food that made us sick. At the same time, we had things going wrong with our vehicles and water pumps. We had two different wells. My gas line was tampered with three times as you know. People who tried to help us got harassed. One couple ended up losing their business and have since left the state. One person who was, in my opinion, responsible for how things have turned out is in prison now on unrelated charges because he ended up trying to cheat some people who had more money and resources to go after him. But I'm going to cut to how both my mom and I were getting better thanks to some really good people helping us out (and these people were later harassed for it). One day, this one visiting nurse came out and said that my mom needed to be taken to the hospital to be observed overnight because of the findings of her examination. She didn't go to the hospital in an ambulance. She walked -- using only her cane -- out to her caretaker's pick-up truck and got up into it with only some assistance. She walked into the hospital. She ended up being put into a bed where she stayed for three days without even being allowed to get up and go to the bathroom (using a combo of a bedpan and bed chucks). The next time she was stood up, her legs were weak. It was decided at that point that she couldn't return home. Anyway, she was placed in a local nursing home. When she got out, a lot of attempts were made to sabotage her recovery. And her caretakers were being harassed. She ended up with a court-appointed guardian and was taken from the hospital where she had been taken once again straight into a nursing home in another county. She didn't come out of there alive. I'm leaving out parts of the story, but I know you remember this.

But -- long story short -- once you get into the system in some way, it's difficult (though not impossible) to get out of again. When I was living in Muncie, I got to get to know several people who had become part of that system with at least some of them having some success at it, but it was still not easy to do.

I have reason to believe that some tampering went on with my van. There were signs such as the way that the works could be gotten to due to the fact that the hook didn't completely lock; one door didn't lock, and the driver's side window would often roll down by itself. I also believe that something was probably added to my gas tank that caused my van to just stall from time to time. Eventually, I began having this mysterious problem with my radiator overheating to where I would have to stop ever so often to let it cool down and, then, add some water to it.

Larry and I will never forget how it took us about three hours to get from his apartment in North Anderson to Fazoli's out on Scatterfield Road that's one of the businesses close to WalMart -- a trip where driving time should have been 30 minutes at the most.

In short, CPS, APS, Big Pharma, and other parts of the government /big business seem to have a goal to do away with the middle class to where, if this isn't stopped, will have two classes: several degrees of rich-and-powerful and everybody else living in poverty and controlled by the first group.

First, we need to be getting divided up into groups that believe that people who are too "different" from us are our enemies. We need to retain and celebrate our uniqueness while, also, uniting with people who are different from us in order to fight this thing together.

Enough of rant for now -- but one more thing: people shouldn't have to lose their homes to pay medical bills and lawyer fees.