Arlington Heights, IL man, police in dispute over confiscating his guns

Daily Herald.com ^ | Jun 9, 2013 | Melissa Silverberg

[KeyLargo]

6/9/2013

Arlington Heights man, police in dispute over confiscating his guns

By Melissa Silverberg

Arthur Lovi sat down with a therapist one day last August to talk about some things that were bothering him. He had high blood pressure, and his physician suggested he talk to someone.

He already spoke to a VA psychiatrist once a month — he has persistent memories from his days as an Air Force crash rescue helicopter pilot in the 1960s — but he agreed. He'd been through a lot lately and figured it couldn't hurt to get some of it out.

"I felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders," he said.

Lovi told her about the loss that had been all around him the past few years: his mother, a 3-year-old granddaughter who drowned, a son-in-law lost to a drug overdose, and worst of all, his wife of 33 years.

Cindy had died nine years ago, but to Lovi it was still raw. She was always tired and bruised easily. When he finally persuaded her to get checked out, she was told she had a cold, probably caught from one of her students at Forest View Alternative Center.

Unsatisfied, the next day Lovi made her see another doctor who gave her the correct, but heartbreaking, diagnosis: leukemia. Cindy died a few weeks later. She was 53.

Lovi told the therapist about Cindy's death and his bitterness over the incorrect diagnosis.

"I'll have hard feelings about it until the day I die," Lovi says now. "Not that a day would make a difference, but maybe it would have. I'll never know."

After the session, Lovi's therapist was concerned. She called the Arlington Heights police to report he had made a threat against the first doctor who saw his wife.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Then lets begin with abolition of the Departments of Education, Labor and Agriculture.

Please add Dept. of Energy to the list. DOE was chartered with one task, to reduce/eliminate our dependence on "foreign" oil. After thirty-six years and at an annual cost of 20 to 30 billion dollars our imported oil consumption has increased by more than 300%. At the same time we have virtually stopped commercialization of nuclear power.

Regards,
GtG

PS DOE was another of Jimmy Carter's great ideas, that alone should justify scuttling the money pit that is DOE.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I’m also beginning to think that “threatening” someone with a search warrant is a denial of civil rights under color of authority.

[KeyLargo]

“I did get a gentle reminder from medicare the other day telling me that according to their records I haven’t been taking advantage of the services available to me. “

If anyone you know is on Medicare advise them not to participate in the Medicare “Wellness Exam”. It is not a physical exam, but instead an observation of your behavior and questioning, such as “how do your feel”?, are you depressed”?, “Are you happy”?, “Are you sad”?, including a written test of your mental state conducted by an authorized Medicare clinic nurse. All information about you is documented in the Medicare database.

http://libertyssong.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/obamacares-free-yearly-exam-by-your-doctor-is-a-fraud/

[rktman]

I do believe that the “wellness exam” was included in the list of services I hadn’t “taken advantage” of. Non-compliant insuree I guess.

[supercat]

I’m also beginning to think that “threatening” someone with a search warrant is a denial of civil rights under color of authority.

If I were Lord High Grand Poo-Bah In Charge Of Everything, I would explicitly state in law that if action by a government employee which would require a person's consent, the employee should be required to show that any "consent" which was received was freely given, and could not plausibly have been motivated by a belief that failure to offer such consent would result retaliation.