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The Need for Sua Sponte Judicial Review Laws For Pro Se Litigants’ Lawsuits

Judicial reform is needed to require that judges instantly dismiss abusive, frivolous lawsuits, especially those filed by self-represented / pro se litigants, before financial harm is done to innocent defendants needing to hire attorneys to get these abusive, frivolous lawsuits dismissed.


Cults and religious frauds use a variety of harmful tactics against their victims – including filing abusive, frivolous lawsuits.  This is one of the tactics used by Ken Parks (aka, Pastor Ken, Pastor Ken Parks, Pastor Ken Max Parks, Pastor Max, Ken Max Parks, Max Parks).  Ken Parks advertises on social media his unregistered, financially unaccountable ETC Ministries, Simplicity of Christ / SOC Ministries, and his unregistered “professional photographer” businesses.  He runs these activities from his apartment.  Despite calling himself “pastor”, Ken Parks is not an ordained minister.


The matters discussed in this website involve subjects which merit constitutionally protected public scrutiny, and this website provides documentation, commentary, and opinion on matters of public concern.

Paulette Buchanan, M.A.

Sane Mental Health Laws Needed Now!

Sane Mental Health Laws Needed Now!

In the last few weeks I have submitted and had published in newspapers around the country variations of what I’ve written below (usually a shortened version, depending on publishing requirements): 

Without exception, after yet more horrific massacres committed by the mentally unstable we hear that family members and others witnessed the mentally ill person making overt threats of violence.  Yet reports to authorities resulted in no actions to stop the mentally ill person.  If the mass murderer used a gun, then the anti-Second Amendment folks demand to stop the manufacture and sale of guns.  First, due to HIPAA laws, mental health records cannot be accessed by gun sellers, so background checks won’t reveal that the person buying a gun has severe mental illness.  Second, here in the U.S. and in gun-restricted countries the severely mentally ill have used cars, knives, or their bare hands to kill people.  Nobody screams about taking away cars, knives, or cutting off everyone’s hands after a mentally disturbed person murders people.

The problem isn’t guns, cars, knives, or bare hands.  The problem is that from the 1970s-1990s state-by-state our legislators fell for the lies of the ACLU and other left-leaning activists who pretended to be mental health experts and insisted that the mentally ill be given the “right” and “freedom” to be released from mental health facilities.  Mental health commitment laws were obliterated based on these lies.  Legislators believed the lie that it would be economically beneficial to shut down mental health facilities.  The severely mentally ill were quite literally shoved out onto the streets.  We’re all paying the costs.

I speak from personal experience.  I have severely mentally ill family members who have victimized me and others.  One of them has guns and has made threats of violence against me and others.  But no mental health laws exist to involuntarily commit these family members into permanent mental health treatment and monitoring despite their terminal and worsening mental health condition.  Psychiatrists and psychologists I’ve spoken to also express their frustration.  Their hands are tied because our current insane laws prevent any meaningful treatment for the severely mentally ill.  I’ve written about my experience in my book, Fighting for Justice:  Religious Fraud, Mental Illness, and the Collapse of Law & Order.

Our legislators need to follow the science on severe mental health issues, establish medically ethical privately-run, state-monitored mental health facilities (like nursing homes and hospitals), and enact sane involuntary long-term and permanent mental health commitment laws.  Until our legislators come to their senses, this bloodshed will continue.

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