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    <h3 class="title">Update &#8211; December 7, 2005 www.justiceatwhatprice.com</h3>
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    <p>On October 5, 2005 and again on October 12, 2005 (<em>correspondence that 
      was published on this web site in the Update on October 14, 2005</em>), 
      I wrote to Ms. Anne Colleton, Administrative Hearings Counsel, Division 
      of Professional Licensure reiterating the unusual and unjust hardship being 
      imposed on those in poor health and elderly, who will be compelled to come 
      to Boston (now in mid January 2006 / in the middle of the winter) to testify 
      to the accusations and allegations of three (3) Central Massachusetts funeral 
      directors at the hearing I requested in July 2004. Not only has 17+ months 
      passed since we requested a hearing, but to schedule the hearing in the 
      middle of the winter to discourage attendance by those who are in a position 
      to refute the findings of the State Board and its investigator is just another 
      travesty of justice that is typical of the corruption that permeates the 
      State Board of Registration of Funeral Directors and Embalmers and the Division 
      of Professional Licensure.</p>
    <p>The State Board and Division of Professional Licensure demand answers to 
      their inquiries in ten (10) days, but take months (two months and counting 
      in this case) and years in other instances to reply if they reply at all. 
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    <p>Another instance of colossal proportions was the request made of me to 
      complete an application for another license &#8211; forms and directions 
      sent to me by the State Board. The application and my personal check for 
      the license fee were forwarded to the State Board on August 6, 2004 and 
      &#8220;you guessed it&#8221; no response, correspondence, or contact by 
      the State Board for 16 months and counting. It is clear these civil servants 
      are serving ONLY their personal agendas at the expense of honor, integrity, 
      and credibility &#8211; and the public&#8217;s perception of the corrupt 
      civil servant continues to be reinforced by the actions and lack thereof 
      by those referenced above.</p>
    <p>On September 29, 2005 I requested an<strong> &#8220;Advisory Opinion&#8221;</strong> 
      of the State Board concerning penalties for funeral directors and funeral 
      homes that make or have made transfers of deceased human beings using individuals 
      that were not licensed by the State Board and &#8220;you guessed it&#8221;, 
      no response 10 weeks later and counting.</p>
    <p>We have listed and continue to make note of the State Agencies and individuals 
      therein within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that have been contacted 
      and presented with the facts and documentation to substantiate our findings 
      &#8211; and all have been reluctant to get involved and have referred us 
      to others within the Commonwealth. The list reads like the &#8220;who&#8217;s 
      who in Massachusetts&#8221;, and is comprised of individuals who are being 
      paid to assure the honor and integrity of the system is upheld &#8211; individuals 
      that are <strong>&#8220;dismal failures&#8221;</strong> to say the least!</p>
    <p>A clergyman with whom I have shared each and every aspect of the issues, 
      allegations, and accusations along with responses thereto over the past 
      two (2) years to include the transcript of the December 9, 2003 meeting 
      of the State Board, and who continues to shake his head in dismay at what 
      he sees, has made two (2) very astute observations.</p>
    <p>The first observation by &#8216;the man of the cloth&#8217; is that of 
      the investigator, Mr. Bresnahan. During his unannounced visit in November 
      2003 at the funeral home, he thought he heard a &#8220;quack.&#8221; &#8220;It 
      must be a duck,&#8221; he surmised. Mr. Bresnahan couldn&#8217;t see a duck, 
      but it must be here. Then in a distance he saw something walking and said 
      to himself &#8211; &#8220;it&#8217;s got to be a duck!&#8221; Not being 
      able to see that far away, he thought what he saw was a waddle of some sort. 
      &#8220;Aha! It is a duck&#8221; he concluded. Mr. Bresnahan then set out 
      to make assumptions based upon non truths to support his supposition that 
      it looked like a duck, walked like a duck, and the quack making the noise 
      sounded like a duck &#8211; so it had to be a duck &#8211; <strong>wrong!</strong> 
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    <p>The second and most profound observation and which the Clergyman so eloquently 
      stated to me is:</p>
    <p> <strong>&#8220;As you find yourself the victim of other people&#8217;s 
      bitterness, ignorance, smallness, and insecurities; Remember, things could 
      be worse &#8211; &#8220;You could be one of them!&#8221; </strong></p>
    <p><strong> GOD FORBID !!</strong></p>
    <p>Next Update &#8211; December 16, 2005<br>
      <br>
      Philip G. Haddad, Jr.<br>
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