Posts by Diane Dimond
Public Enemy #1 – The iPhone?
In this corner – the FBI – which says that all high tech company Apple cares about is protecting its mega-profits brand and not the nation’s security. And in that corner – Apple – which says the feds will put everyone’s privacy in jeopardy if a court forces them to disable password protection on the…
Read MoreFirst Identify What You’re Fighting, Right?
Law enforcement needs to know what it doesn’t know. Tracking trends in crime is a way to keep communities safe. Any decision made is only as good as the information used to make it, right? I submit the same holds true when figuring out how to fight crime. Since the 1930’s the FBI has urged…
Read MoreThe Nationwide Problem of Court-Sponsored Elder Abuse
I had no idea the enormity of the nation’s elder guardianship problem…This is the second of three columns on this topic. I recently wrote about the plight of 94-year-old Betty Winstanley, who resides at the Masonic Village retirement home in Elizabethtown, PA. She doesn’t want to live there anymore. Now that her husband of 72…
Read MoreElder Guardianships – A Shameful American “Racket”
Note: This is the first of three columns on this topic which were originally published in Feb-April 2016 She is a well-spoken, elegant and wealthy 94-year-old widow. And as Betty Winstanley told me from her room at the Masonic Village Retirement facility in Elizabethtown, PA, “I feel like I am in prison. My life is a…
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