Guest guest Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 Here is the content of several messages posted recently to other groups about C. Rodney Yoder, the person who has been civilly committed to a state mental hospital longer than any other person in America. Yoder became nationally known in a six page spread in Time Magazine, in the summer of 2002. Yoder refused in all those years to take any psychiatric medications. Below are five selected messages: One: (posted 1-11-05 at 4:54 pm) Waterloo, Illinois January 11, 2005 Judge Doyle set bail for C. Rodney Yoder at $10,000.00. Which means $1,000.00 cash is required to release him. His attorney, Randy Kretchmar indicated he expected the bail to be paid and Mr. Yoder released something this afternoon or evening. Its possible Mr. Yoder has already been released. I spoke to Mr. Kretchmar, via telephone at about 4:40 pm this afternoon. I'm sure that within about 24 hours, Mr. Kretchmar will be back online giving us more details. Two: (posted 1-11-05 at 8:16 pm) I just talked to the people at the Randolph County Jail and learned that Mr. Yoder was released about two hours ago. Three: (posted Date: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:42 am) FYI Judge allows Yoder to post bond By Goodrich Of the Post-Dispatch Below is the link to the story. http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/F3 F10BB95E0D182E86256F87001893AD?OpenDocument <http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/F 3F10BB95E0D182E86256F87001893AD?OpenDocument & Headline=Judge+allows+Yoder+to+ post+bond> & Headline=Judge+allows+Yoder+to+post+bond+ Here is the story. Rodney Yoder, who has gained international attention for contesting his confinement on mental health grounds, was released from custody Tuesday. After posting bond, Yoder was freed from the Randolph County Jail in Chester, where he had been held for 20 months on criminal charges after spending 12 years in the Chester Mental Health Center. Circuit Judge Dennis Doyle of Waterloo set Yoder's bail on Tuesday afternoon at $10,000. Yoder quickly came up with the $1,000 required for his release. Recently elected Randolph County State's Attorney Randy Rodewald told Doyle he doubted whether he could successfully try Yoder. Rodewald said that even if Yoder were convicted, he would spend little time in prison, given credit for time already served in jail. Yoder is charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery and use of a weapon - a sock full of flashlight batteries - by a felon. He is accused of attacking a fellow mental patient at Chester. Antwon , the purported victim, has given conflicting versions, Rodewald says. " He's trying to tell me the sock full of batteries was not used. " Earlier, gave Yoder's lawyer, S. Randolph Kretchmar, a sworn statement saying his encounter with Yoder was a minor tussle. " I just got a bump on the head and fat lip, " he wrote. Rodewald said two workers told him that by the time they got there, was on top of Yoder with the sock and batteries lying nearby. , 32, of Chicago, is serving a five-year sentence for aggravated battery for an attack on a prison employee at the Vienna Correctional Center. Rodewald said he had suggested to Kretchmar bail as low as $5,000. Kretchmar said Yoder should be released on a promise to appear when notified. Kretchmar said Yoder would stay temporarily in Glen Carbon but planned eventually to move to Winter Haven, Fla., and write his life story. For now, Yoder's release conditions limit him to Illinois and Missouri. Kretchmar said he would move on to other cases. In a written statement, he said he always had believed in Yoder's cause. Kretchmar has represented Yoder for free. " I will continue to work for the total abolition of psychiatric slavery, including all involuntary commitments for 'mental illness,' " he wrote. Yoder has claimed for years that mental illness is a fiction and that the criminal charges were a ruse by Burke, Randolph County assistant state's attorney, to keep him locked up. Burke denied it. Yoder has filed a $100 million civil suit against Burke and others he says have persecuted and imprisoned him. Rodewald defeated Burke for state's attorney in November. Four: (Posted 1-12-05 5:43 am) Former mental patient released from jail on bail http://www.KWQC.com/Global/story.asp?s=2798167 Find more items like this at http://www.KWQC.com <http://www.kwqc.com/> Copyright 2005 KWQC Five ( Posted: Date: Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:39 am Subject: Statement from Yoder's Lawyer ) S. Randolph Kretchmar Attorney at Law January 11, 2005 STATEMENT I have always believed in the cause of C. Rodney Yoder's freedom. I am very pleased that this has been achieved at long last. All the credit for the result should go to Mr. Yoder himself. He has survived with his intelligence and even a sense of humor, in the face of horrendous and interminable dehumanization. I may not be a very good lawyer on one hand, and on the other I certainly know that I can be a real mean " S.O.B. " So Rodney and I have had a few arguments during the time I've tried to represent his interests. I don't think either one of us has minded that too much. However, Rodney will shortly take over direct responsibility, himself, for all of his personal legal matters. I wish him the best, and I will help him or other counsel that he may hire, if I can. As the Christian minister Lynn Harold Hough noted on the eve of World War II, when a clear and intolerable evil presents itself, an individual who understands that evil may confront it with deathless hostility and actually take a step toward the triumph of justice in his own life. I'd like to think of the time spent on the Yoder case in such context. I will continue to work for the total abolition of psychiatric slavery, including all involuntary commitments for " mental illness " and the insanity defense, and for the absolute right of every person to challenge and refuse psychiatric philosophy and psychiatric practices, which constitute a deadly attack upon the sources of belief in life and upon man's heritage. 117-0 Michigan Avenue, Wilmette, IL 60091 (847) 853-8106 voice, 853-0114 fax s_randolph@... <mailto:pastorarthur@...> Pastor Art <talk2apastor/> Talk 2 a PastorTM Post Office Box 481 Arlington Heights, Illinois 60006-0481 Telephone: 847-754-3519 Send E-Mail to Pastor <mailto:pastorarthur@...> Art Talk <talk2apastor/> 2 a Pastor Home Page Member: Internet <http://bgc.gospelcom.net/iec/> Evangelism Coalition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 Here is the content of several messages posted recently to other groups about C. Rodney Yoder, the person who has been civilly committed to a state mental hospital longer than any other person in America. Yoder became nationally known in a six page spread in Time Magazine, in the summer of 2002. Yoder refused in all those years to take any psychiatric medications. Below are five selected messages: One: (posted 1-11-05 at 4:54 pm) Waterloo, Illinois January 11, 2005 Judge Doyle set bail for C. Rodney Yoder at $10,000.00. Which means $1,000.00 cash is required to release him. His attorney, Randy Kretchmar indicated he expected the bail to be paid and Mr. Yoder released something this afternoon or evening. Its possible Mr. Yoder has already been released. I spoke to Mr. Kretchmar, via telephone at about 4:40 pm this afternoon. I'm sure that within about 24 hours, Mr. Kretchmar will be back online giving us more details. Two: (posted 1-11-05 at 8:16 pm) I just talked to the people at the Randolph County Jail and learned that Mr. Yoder was released about two hours ago. Three: (posted Date: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:42 am) FYI Judge allows Yoder to post bond By Goodrich Of the Post-Dispatch Below is the link to the story. http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/F3 F10BB95E0D182E86256F87001893AD?OpenDocument <http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/F 3F10BB95E0D182E86256F87001893AD?OpenDocument & Headline=Judge+allows+Yoder+to+ post+bond> & Headline=Judge+allows+Yoder+to+post+bond+ Here is the story. Rodney Yoder, who has gained international attention for contesting his confinement on mental health grounds, was released from custody Tuesday. After posting bond, Yoder was freed from the Randolph County Jail in Chester, where he had been held for 20 months on criminal charges after spending 12 years in the Chester Mental Health Center. Circuit Judge Dennis Doyle of Waterloo set Yoder's bail on Tuesday afternoon at $10,000. Yoder quickly came up with the $1,000 required for his release. Recently elected Randolph County State's Attorney Randy Rodewald told Doyle he doubted whether he could successfully try Yoder. Rodewald said that even if Yoder were convicted, he would spend little time in prison, given credit for time already served in jail. Yoder is charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery and use of a weapon - a sock full of flashlight batteries - by a felon. He is accused of attacking a fellow mental patient at Chester. Antwon , the purported victim, has given conflicting versions, Rodewald says. " He's trying to tell me the sock full of batteries was not used. " Earlier, gave Yoder's lawyer, S. Randolph Kretchmar, a sworn statement saying his encounter with Yoder was a minor tussle. " I just got a bump on the head and fat lip, " he wrote. Rodewald said two workers told him that by the time they got there, was on top of Yoder with the sock and batteries lying nearby. , 32, of Chicago, is serving a five-year sentence for aggravated battery for an attack on a prison employee at the Vienna Correctional Center. Rodewald said he had suggested to Kretchmar bail as low as $5,000. Kretchmar said Yoder should be released on a promise to appear when notified. Kretchmar said Yoder would stay temporarily in Glen Carbon but planned eventually to move to Winter Haven, Fla., and write his life story. For now, Yoder's release conditions limit him to Illinois and Missouri. Kretchmar said he would move on to other cases. In a written statement, he said he always had believed in Yoder's cause. Kretchmar has represented Yoder for free. " I will continue to work for the total abolition of psychiatric slavery, including all involuntary commitments for 'mental illness,' " he wrote. Yoder has claimed for years that mental illness is a fiction and that the criminal charges were a ruse by Burke, Randolph County assistant state's attorney, to keep him locked up. Burke denied it. Yoder has filed a $100 million civil suit against Burke and others he says have persecuted and imprisoned him. Rodewald defeated Burke for state's attorney in November. Four: (Posted 1-12-05 5:43 am) Former mental patient released from jail on bail http://www.KWQC.com/Global/story.asp?s=2798167 Find more items like this at http://www.KWQC.com <http://www.kwqc.com/> Copyright 2005 KWQC Five ( Posted: Date: Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:39 am Subject: Statement from Yoder's Lawyer ) S. Randolph Kretchmar Attorney at Law January 11, 2005 STATEMENT I have always believed in the cause of C. Rodney Yoder's freedom. I am very pleased that this has been achieved at long last. All the credit for the result should go to Mr. Yoder himself. He has survived with his intelligence and even a sense of humor, in the face of horrendous and interminable dehumanization. I may not be a very good lawyer on one hand, and on the other I certainly know that I can be a real mean " S.O.B. " So Rodney and I have had a few arguments during the time I've tried to represent his interests. I don't think either one of us has minded that too much. However, Rodney will shortly take over direct responsibility, himself, for all of his personal legal matters. I wish him the best, and I will help him or other counsel that he may hire, if I can. As the Christian minister Lynn Harold Hough noted on the eve of World War II, when a clear and intolerable evil presents itself, an individual who understands that evil may confront it with deathless hostility and actually take a step toward the triumph of justice in his own life. I'd like to think of the time spent on the Yoder case in such context. I will continue to work for the total abolition of psychiatric slavery, including all involuntary commitments for " mental illness " and the insanity defense, and for the absolute right of every person to challenge and refuse psychiatric philosophy and psychiatric practices, which constitute a deadly attack upon the sources of belief in life and upon man's heritage. 117-0 Michigan Avenue, Wilmette, IL 60091 (847) 853-8106 voice, 853-0114 fax s_randolph@... <mailto:pastorarthur@...> Pastor Art <talk2apastor/> Talk 2 a PastorTM Post Office Box 481 Arlington Heights, Illinois 60006-0481 Telephone: 847-754-3519 Send E-Mail to Pastor <mailto:pastorarthur@...> Art Talk <talk2apastor/> 2 a Pastor Home Page Member: Internet <http://bgc.gospelcom.net/iec/> Evangelism Coalition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 Here is the content of several messages posted recently to other groups about C. Rodney Yoder, the person who has been civilly committed to a state mental hospital longer than any other person in America. Yoder became nationally known in a six page spread in Time Magazine, in the summer of 2002. Yoder refused in all those years to take any psychiatric medications. Below are five selected messages: One: (posted 1-11-05 at 4:54 pm) Waterloo, Illinois January 11, 2005 Judge Doyle set bail for C. Rodney Yoder at $10,000.00. Which means $1,000.00 cash is required to release him. His attorney, Randy Kretchmar indicated he expected the bail to be paid and Mr. Yoder released something this afternoon or evening. Its possible Mr. Yoder has already been released. I spoke to Mr. Kretchmar, via telephone at about 4:40 pm this afternoon. I'm sure that within about 24 hours, Mr. Kretchmar will be back online giving us more details. Two: (posted 1-11-05 at 8:16 pm) I just talked to the people at the Randolph County Jail and learned that Mr. Yoder was released about two hours ago. Three: (posted Date: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:42 am) FYI Judge allows Yoder to post bond By Goodrich Of the Post-Dispatch Below is the link to the story. http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/F3 F10BB95E0D182E86256F87001893AD?OpenDocument <http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/F 3F10BB95E0D182E86256F87001893AD?OpenDocument & Headline=Judge+allows+Yoder+to+ post+bond> & Headline=Judge+allows+Yoder+to+post+bond+ Here is the story. Rodney Yoder, who has gained international attention for contesting his confinement on mental health grounds, was released from custody Tuesday. After posting bond, Yoder was freed from the Randolph County Jail in Chester, where he had been held for 20 months on criminal charges after spending 12 years in the Chester Mental Health Center. Circuit Judge Dennis Doyle of Waterloo set Yoder's bail on Tuesday afternoon at $10,000. Yoder quickly came up with the $1,000 required for his release. Recently elected Randolph County State's Attorney Randy Rodewald told Doyle he doubted whether he could successfully try Yoder. Rodewald said that even if Yoder were convicted, he would spend little time in prison, given credit for time already served in jail. Yoder is charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery and use of a weapon - a sock full of flashlight batteries - by a felon. He is accused of attacking a fellow mental patient at Chester. Antwon , the purported victim, has given conflicting versions, Rodewald says. " He's trying to tell me the sock full of batteries was not used. " Earlier, gave Yoder's lawyer, S. Randolph Kretchmar, a sworn statement saying his encounter with Yoder was a minor tussle. " I just got a bump on the head and fat lip, " he wrote. Rodewald said two workers told him that by the time they got there, was on top of Yoder with the sock and batteries lying nearby. , 32, of Chicago, is serving a five-year sentence for aggravated battery for an attack on a prison employee at the Vienna Correctional Center. Rodewald said he had suggested to Kretchmar bail as low as $5,000. Kretchmar said Yoder should be released on a promise to appear when notified. Kretchmar said Yoder would stay temporarily in Glen Carbon but planned eventually to move to Winter Haven, Fla., and write his life story. For now, Yoder's release conditions limit him to Illinois and Missouri. Kretchmar said he would move on to other cases. In a written statement, he said he always had believed in Yoder's cause. Kretchmar has represented Yoder for free. " I will continue to work for the total abolition of psychiatric slavery, including all involuntary commitments for 'mental illness,' " he wrote. Yoder has claimed for years that mental illness is a fiction and that the criminal charges were a ruse by Burke, Randolph County assistant state's attorney, to keep him locked up. Burke denied it. Yoder has filed a $100 million civil suit against Burke and others he says have persecuted and imprisoned him. Rodewald defeated Burke for state's attorney in November. Four: (Posted 1-12-05 5:43 am) Former mental patient released from jail on bail http://www.KWQC.com/Global/story.asp?s=2798167 Find more items like this at http://www.KWQC.com <http://www.kwqc.com/> Copyright 2005 KWQC Five ( Posted: Date: Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:39 am Subject: Statement from Yoder's Lawyer ) S. Randolph Kretchmar Attorney at Law January 11, 2005 STATEMENT I have always believed in the cause of C. Rodney Yoder's freedom. I am very pleased that this has been achieved at long last. All the credit for the result should go to Mr. Yoder himself. He has survived with his intelligence and even a sense of humor, in the face of horrendous and interminable dehumanization. I may not be a very good lawyer on one hand, and on the other I certainly know that I can be a real mean " S.O.B. " So Rodney and I have had a few arguments during the time I've tried to represent his interests. I don't think either one of us has minded that too much. However, Rodney will shortly take over direct responsibility, himself, for all of his personal legal matters. I wish him the best, and I will help him or other counsel that he may hire, if I can. As the Christian minister Lynn Harold Hough noted on the eve of World War II, when a clear and intolerable evil presents itself, an individual who understands that evil may confront it with deathless hostility and actually take a step toward the triumph of justice in his own life. I'd like to think of the time spent on the Yoder case in such context. I will continue to work for the total abolition of psychiatric slavery, including all involuntary commitments for " mental illness " and the insanity defense, and for the absolute right of every person to challenge and refuse psychiatric philosophy and psychiatric practices, which constitute a deadly attack upon the sources of belief in life and upon man's heritage. 117-0 Michigan Avenue, Wilmette, IL 60091 (847) 853-8106 voice, 853-0114 fax s_randolph@... <mailto:pastorarthur@...> Pastor Art <talk2apastor/> Talk 2 a PastorTM Post Office Box 481 Arlington Heights, Illinois 60006-0481 Telephone: 847-754-3519 Send E-Mail to Pastor <mailto:pastorarthur@...> Art Talk <talk2apastor/> 2 a Pastor Home Page Member: Internet <http://bgc.gospelcom.net/iec/> Evangelism Coalition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2005 Report Share Posted January 12, 2005 Here is the content of several messages posted recently to other groups about C. Rodney Yoder, the person who has been civilly committed to a state mental hospital longer than any other person in America. Yoder became nationally known in a six page spread in Time Magazine, in the summer of 2002. Yoder refused in all those years to take any psychiatric medications. Below are five selected messages: One: (posted 1-11-05 at 4:54 pm) Waterloo, Illinois January 11, 2005 Judge Doyle set bail for C. Rodney Yoder at $10,000.00. Which means $1,000.00 cash is required to release him. His attorney, Randy Kretchmar indicated he expected the bail to be paid and Mr. Yoder released something this afternoon or evening. Its possible Mr. Yoder has already been released. I spoke to Mr. Kretchmar, via telephone at about 4:40 pm this afternoon. I'm sure that within about 24 hours, Mr. Kretchmar will be back online giving us more details. Two: (posted 1-11-05 at 8:16 pm) I just talked to the people at the Randolph County Jail and learned that Mr. Yoder was released about two hours ago. Three: (posted Date: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:42 am) FYI Judge allows Yoder to post bond By Goodrich Of the Post-Dispatch Below is the link to the story. http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/F3 F10BB95E0D182E86256F87001893AD?OpenDocument <http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/F 3F10BB95E0D182E86256F87001893AD?OpenDocument & Headline=Judge+allows+Yoder+to+ post+bond> & Headline=Judge+allows+Yoder+to+post+bond+ Here is the story. Rodney Yoder, who has gained international attention for contesting his confinement on mental health grounds, was released from custody Tuesday. After posting bond, Yoder was freed from the Randolph County Jail in Chester, where he had been held for 20 months on criminal charges after spending 12 years in the Chester Mental Health Center. Circuit Judge Dennis Doyle of Waterloo set Yoder's bail on Tuesday afternoon at $10,000. Yoder quickly came up with the $1,000 required for his release. Recently elected Randolph County State's Attorney Randy Rodewald told Doyle he doubted whether he could successfully try Yoder. Rodewald said that even if Yoder were convicted, he would spend little time in prison, given credit for time already served in jail. Yoder is charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery and use of a weapon - a sock full of flashlight batteries - by a felon. He is accused of attacking a fellow mental patient at Chester. Antwon , the purported victim, has given conflicting versions, Rodewald says. " He's trying to tell me the sock full of batteries was not used. " Earlier, gave Yoder's lawyer, S. Randolph Kretchmar, a sworn statement saying his encounter with Yoder was a minor tussle. " I just got a bump on the head and fat lip, " he wrote. Rodewald said two workers told him that by the time they got there, was on top of Yoder with the sock and batteries lying nearby. , 32, of Chicago, is serving a five-year sentence for aggravated battery for an attack on a prison employee at the Vienna Correctional Center. Rodewald said he had suggested to Kretchmar bail as low as $5,000. Kretchmar said Yoder should be released on a promise to appear when notified. Kretchmar said Yoder would stay temporarily in Glen Carbon but planned eventually to move to Winter Haven, Fla., and write his life story. For now, Yoder's release conditions limit him to Illinois and Missouri. Kretchmar said he would move on to other cases. In a written statement, he said he always had believed in Yoder's cause. Kretchmar has represented Yoder for free. " I will continue to work for the total abolition of psychiatric slavery, including all involuntary commitments for 'mental illness,' " he wrote. Yoder has claimed for years that mental illness is a fiction and that the criminal charges were a ruse by Burke, Randolph County assistant state's attorney, to keep him locked up. Burke denied it. Yoder has filed a $100 million civil suit against Burke and others he says have persecuted and imprisoned him. Rodewald defeated Burke for state's attorney in November. Four: (Posted 1-12-05 5:43 am) Former mental patient released from jail on bail http://www.KWQC.com/Global/story.asp?s=2798167 Find more items like this at http://www.KWQC.com <http://www.kwqc.com/> Copyright 2005 KWQC Five ( Posted: Date: Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:39 am Subject: Statement from Yoder's Lawyer ) S. Randolph Kretchmar Attorney at Law January 11, 2005 STATEMENT I have always believed in the cause of C. Rodney Yoder's freedom. I am very pleased that this has been achieved at long last. All the credit for the result should go to Mr. Yoder himself. He has survived with his intelligence and even a sense of humor, in the face of horrendous and interminable dehumanization. I may not be a very good lawyer on one hand, and on the other I certainly know that I can be a real mean " S.O.B. " So Rodney and I have had a few arguments during the time I've tried to represent his interests. I don't think either one of us has minded that too much. However, Rodney will shortly take over direct responsibility, himself, for all of his personal legal matters. I wish him the best, and I will help him or other counsel that he may hire, if I can. As the Christian minister Lynn Harold Hough noted on the eve of World War II, when a clear and intolerable evil presents itself, an individual who understands that evil may confront it with deathless hostility and actually take a step toward the triumph of justice in his own life. I'd like to think of the time spent on the Yoder case in such context. I will continue to work for the total abolition of psychiatric slavery, including all involuntary commitments for " mental illness " and the insanity defense, and for the absolute right of every person to challenge and refuse psychiatric philosophy and psychiatric practices, which constitute a deadly attack upon the sources of belief in life and upon man's heritage. 117-0 Michigan Avenue, Wilmette, IL 60091 (847) 853-8106 voice, 853-0114 fax s_randolph@... <mailto:pastorarthur@...> Pastor Art <talk2apastor/> Talk 2 a PastorTM Post Office Box 481 Arlington Heights, Illinois 60006-0481 Telephone: 847-754-3519 Send E-Mail to Pastor <mailto:pastorarthur@...> Art Talk <talk2apastor/> 2 a Pastor Home Page Member: Internet <http://bgc.gospelcom.net/iec/> Evangelism Coalition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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