On this traditional day when
we celebrate our independence, NASGA brings to public attention
the plight of many of our nation’s most vulnerable
citizens - the elderly and disabled (including disabled or
elderly Veterans) - who have lost their independence through a
legal process known as guardianship or conservatorship.
"Wards of the State" are stripped of all their
civil rights and liberties in the name of
“protection.” Many are forced into nursing
homes, drugged, and isolated from family and friends.
Everything they have worked a lifetime to attain is taken from
them to pay administrative and legal fees for their court-ordered
“protectors.” Some die premature deaths. Others
spend what should be their golden years in misery and
suffering. Families struggling in vain to save their loved
ones from this nightmare are broken, emotionally and financially.
If America is truly the land of the free, it must protect its
vulnerable citizens from incarceration against their will for the
monetary benefit of those who prey on the weak and defenseless, as
well as those who enable this type of plunder.
NASGA is a civil rights
organization comprised of victims of guardianship/conservatorship
and their families working to expose and end unlawful and abusive
life-ending incarceration.
For more information on unlawful and abusive guardianships/conservatorships, visit NASGA’s website at http://www.StopGuardianAbuse.org and the NASGA blog at http://NASGA-StopGuardianAbuse.blogspot.com .