Wish you all the luck in your new endeavors! > On Jun 15, 2015, at 8:23 PM, Michael David Crawford <mdcrawf...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I've been out of work for most of the last five years. Many > well-meaning yet sadly misinformed people give me what doubtlessly > would be good advice for others, for example that I should go on > disability, get into subsidized housing or to stop linking my essays > about my mental illness from every page on my website, but those > well-meaning people do not understand my values. > > For reasons having largely to do with the way I was raised, it is far, > far more important to me to solve the problems of others than it is to > solve my own problems. > > I sent this just now to an administrator at the Northwestern School of > Law at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. I have many > reasons to study law but primary among them are that while the legal > rights of the mentally ill are well-established in legislation as well > as court precedent, those rights are not only not enforced, they are > largely unknown. > > That led for example, to my being very nearly beaten to death by two > Oregon Health & Sciences University campus police officers. When I > regained consciousness three days later, while I could correctly > visualize the spelling of my name when I thought out it, I could not > spell it correctly when I tried to write it by hand with a pencil. > > I asked the American Civil Liberties Union to represent me in a Civil > Rights complaint against OHSU but recieved a form letter that pointed > out that they focus only on Constitutional concerns. That doesn't > make a whole lot of sense but that is what the ACLU actually said. > > To Wit: > > Ms. Sullivan, > > After a great deal of consideration, I have decided to change careers > from Software Engineering to Public Interest as well as Civil Rights > Law. > > However I'm not real sure how to get started. I am of very modest > means; were I to go back to Physics grad school, I know my way would > be paid by my advisor's research grant. I don't have a clue how I can > pay for law school but given my lifelong dedication towards the > service of others I expect some way can be found to pay my expenses. > > I wish to request an appointment for an Informational Interview, > either with yourself or some other Law School staff that you > recommend. My schedule is wide open. My number is (503) 688-8345 or > my email is mdcrawf...@gmail.com. > > Among the reasons I want to read the law that I was taught from a very > early age that the reason America exists was so that we would not live > in the kind of country that in my actual experience, America has > become. > > A great-great (not sure how many greats) uncle of mine, Roger Sherman, > signed the Declaration of Independence - on the back of the $2.00 bill > Uncle Roger is fourth from the right of the five founding fathers > standing before the signing table, the tall guy with the tall > forehead. I'm also related to the two Union Army General-in-Chiefs > during the American Civil War, George B. McClellan and William > Tecumseh Sherman. > > As a physicist and a computer programmer I know many ways to employ > technical measures to protect our privacy and our rights however my > experiences with those who don't take interest in technology is that > engineering falls far short of the mark. My mother for example knows > to shred her paper documents but there's no way I could ever convince > her to use The Onion Router to protect her privacy. > (http://torproject.org/) > > Mom attended Lewis and Clark her first year in college but transferred > to the U of Idaho after she met my father. > > I attended Solano Community College and UC Davis for just a few > classes after passing the California High School Proficiency > Examination. I majored in Astronomy at the California Institute of > Technology, then transferred to UC Santa Cruz where I obtained my BA > in 1993. I enrolled in graduate school with a focus on Elementary > Particle Physics, but dropped out as I was not prepared financially. > > While I would love to go back into Physics I don't see it as solving > the kinds of problems I see. > > My experience is that while I do not get the best grades I am very > well-known for asking the most-insightful questions. > > There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that my difficulty finding > work in my present profession is due to my being so notoriously > outspoken; a while back I wrote an online book called "Solving the > Software Problem: a Taxonomy of Error". While I wrote it > pseudonymously as "Jonathan Swift", on my "Contact" page I wrote: > > ================= > > I suppose this is a good place to clue you all in to the fact that my > real name is Michael David Crawford. > > I use Jonathan Swift as a pseudonym not because he wrote the > well-known book Gulliver's Travels but because he wrote the more > historically important pamphlet A Modest Proposal. > > A Modest Proposal suggested that the problem of Irish poverty could be > solved by slaughtering Irish infants that their meat may be served on > the dinner tables of wealthy Britons. For his contribution to the > social discourse of the day, Swift got a price put on his head by the > British Crown. > > Perhaps if I work very, very hard to perfect my craft as a writer, I > too might get a price put on my own head. > > One Can Only Hope. > > ================== > > Ever Faithful, > > Mike Crawford > Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer > mdcrawf...@gmail.com > http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ > > Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan > Area. > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/danchik%40rebelbase.com > > This email sent to danc...@rebelbase.com
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