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THE ONE CLICK GROUP Email mail@theoneclickgroup.co.uk |
http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk
4 November 2007
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The Amazing Legal Journey For ME/CFS Patients
One Click Group Director Jane Bryant writes:
Dear All
We have all been on an extraordinary and momentous journey together since the One Click health advocacy pressure group launched the Fighting Fund Appeal to challenge the appalling CFS/ME NICE Guidelines by Judicial Review three short weeks ago. In that unbelievably short space of time, we have all together raised £11,449 in pledges total this Sunday to coalesce and fight thisinjustice.
It has been truly awesome, what has been going on over the last few days; the extraordinary world wide chord touched. This is particularly amazing because so many people labelled with ME/CFS find it so terribly hard to absorb and retain information because of neurocognitive catastrophe of this dreadful illness. Yet they themselves have been on to us in their droves, as have their friends, parents, grannies, support organisations, doctors - the list goes on and on.
Many are finding this very empowering. At last, something concrete is actually trying to be done. We are all so touched that you are all helping to make this happen. This Judicial Review has become the quintessential action by the people and for the people.
On One Click we would like to thank every individual and many organisations from <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 />Australia, America, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, South America, Switzerland and many others for their overwhelming support.
One Click Group Director Jane Bryant says: "What has transpired over the last three weeks has been the most moving and arguably most important experience of my entire life. From a small Judicial Review stone carefully targeted into the internet pool, the ripples have flowed around the entire world to become a veritable tsunami. I have never seen anything like this. It is legal history in the making. Thank you all."
This legal attempt to bring the psychiatric lobby to task has inevitably been met with some truly worthless attempts to destabilise the Judicial Review campaign by circulating entirely false, vicious, libellous and defamatory allegations against this initiative.
This abuse, together with One Click communications being cut and interfered with from time to time is par for the course. The psychiatric lobby and their known hangers on, some of whom come in the most surprising vested interest charity guises, are simply terrified that at last, the psychiatric abuse of ME/CFS labelled patients has the possibility of being aired in a court of law and stopped, with all their vested interests draining away like the damaging scum that it is.
This malfeasance has been passed on to the One Click lawyers where it will form part of the record of this case. We would not be doing our jobs properly if the UK psychiatric lobby and its hangers on did not attempt to stop this case, their fear is now so great. One must expect nothing less. Ironically and amusingly, this psychiatric lobby activity represents a glowing tribute to the success of this campaign.
What has been so extraordinary for me personally is what people have written to One Click, as they make their pledges to legally challenge the CFS/ME NICE Guidelines.
Obviously, having a son labelled with ME/CFS for the last six years since the age of ten, I knew only too well what was being done to you all and to my family. But never have I witnessed in all the many years of running One Click, the simply devastating, factual and concise accounts that have globally poured out on what is being done to you all around the world as you struggle to survive with ME/CFS, against every possible medical and financial block put in your path. I salute you my friends and I am humbled by your pain. All together, we have now been given the opportunity to do something about this that will form part of court record.
I would urge all those who have not yet pledged to the Fighting Fund to please do so now as our deadline is moving swiftly upon us.
For all those who have already pledged, we would request your consideration of pledging further, but only if you can afford it and have enough left over for your food and your needs.
So many of us know what it's like to eke out the most miserable existence in death's waiting room; attempting to survive on often denied government 'benefits' with career wrecked and home lost; scrabbling for food and a place to live whilst being denied proper medical care and investigations even though the World Health Organisation classifies ME/CFS as a neurological illness (WHO ICD.10 G93.3). Just think what this is doing to our children.
Together from around the world, we have the opportunity to make a concrete, tangible, taste in the mouth difference. I predict that we will not find another so perfectly crafted legal opportunity in my lifetime to challenge the psychiatric lobby abuse of patients, as we have put before us today.
Because of this, I will leave no stone unturned and will continue to work myself into the ground, as will others, to help make this legal challenge happen.
I would ask you all to please join me and my family in your thoughts and your prayers around the world this Sunday for all ME/CFS patients and the many others labelled as such. The positives over the last three weeks have profoundly affected my spirit. We have been given the legal opportunity to change the fate of these patients. As is written, God helps those who help themselves. With your help - and only with your help - we can do this.
Thank you so much for listening.
Very best wishes
Jane Bryant
Director
The One Click Group
www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk
For further information:
How To Donate - Legal Appeal Instructions
(http://tinyurl.com/39cgjm)
Jane Bryant - Legal Appeal Personal Statement
(http://tinyurl.com/35bqgk)
The Mental Health Movement - The Persecution of Patients
(http://tinyurl.com/55e3f)
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