7/7 WOUNDED HEARTS: SBU "Questions" Part 1 (Section C)

Southwest Baptist University "Questions of the Heart"
Part 1: The Role of the Law at a Christian University
~The Government, the Church, and the Law~
         Questions 1-33 (Section A, B, and C)
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Section C:
~Ethics, The Church and the Law~ (Questions 25-33)
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Question 25
25. Did you participate in or are you aware of
any occurrence in which false, deceptive, fraudulent,
or misleading verbal information or documentation
was given to any AGENT of any CHURCH-RELATED
ORGANIZATION including, but not limited to:
the Bolivar Ministerial Alliance, the Polk County
Community Center, Springfield Council of Churches
(Missouri), the Mid-Lakes Baptist Association
(Bolivar, Missouri), the First Baptist Churches
of Bolivar and Springfield (Missouri) and Newport
News (Virginia), Second Baptist Church of Springfield
(Missouri), First Assembly of God Church of Bolivar
(Missouri), United Methodist Church of Bolivar
(Missouri), the Missouri Baptist Convention, and
the Southern Baptist Convention (Nashville, TN).
Yes/No

Question 26
26. Do you have knowledge of any effort by the
Missouri or Southern Baptist leadership or by
individual PASTORS associated with SBU to
exert RELIGIOUS or POLITICAL influence and
INTERVENTION in an attempt to thwart, deter,
confuse, or interfere with a civil or criminal
investigation of employees or supporters of SBU,
the Missouri Baptist Convention, or Campbell
Pest Control?
Yes/No

Question 27 (a - m, 13 parts)
27. Did you participate in or do you have any
knowledge of any INCIDENTS in which pastors,
church officials, leaders or employees, deacons, or
other church agents associated with Southwest Baptist
University, the Southern Baptist Convention, or the
Missouri Baptist Convention engaged in, supported,
or encouraged the following unethical or criminal
conduct AGAINST any individual who had made
CRIMINAL or CIVIL COMPLAINT against the officials,
employees, associates, or agents of Southwest Baptist
University, the Missouri or Southern Baptist officials,
or employees:

a) The DENIAL of CHURCH MEMBERSHIP or Christian
FELLOWSHIP to an SBU student or other individuals.
Yes/No

b) The DENIAL of CHURCH MEMBERSHIP or Christian
FELLOWSHIP to the FRIENDS or FAMILY members
of an SBU student.
Yes/No

c) The DENIAL or OBSTRUCTION of COMMUNITY
and CHURCH ASSISTANCE to a student.
Yes/No

d) The DENIAL or OBSTRUCTION of COMMUNITY
and CHURCH ASSISTANCE to FRIENDS or FAMILY
MEMBERS of a student.
Yes/No

e) The use of PASTORAL AUTHORITY and
prestige to INCITE and FOSTER pernicious
ILL-WILL and hostility against a student, the
students' family or friends, or other individuals
with the purpose of conspiring to DEFRAUD
a student or other individual.
Yes/No

f) The use of PASTORAL AUTHORITY and
prestige to INCITE and FOSTER pernicious
ILL-WILL among other NON-BAPTIST PASTORS
to DENY CHURCH FELLOWSHIP or ASSISTANCE
to a student or to the family or friends of a student
with the purpose of conspiring to DEFRAUD
a student or other individual.
Yes/No

g) The VIOLATION of PASTORAL ETHICS
by the distribution to unauthorized persons of
personal, medical, or other CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMATION about a student or other
individual (or the family or friends of
such individuals).
Yes/No

h) The VIOLATION of PASTORAL ETHICS
by the distribution of false, misleading, fraudulent,
incomplete, or DEFAMATORY INFORMATION
against a student or other individual (or the family
or friends of such individuals) with the intention
of conspiring to DEFAME, DEFRAUD or INJURE
the individual or attempt to conceal the unethical
or criminal conduct of SBU employees, agents,
and associates.
Yes/No

i) The ABUSE of CHURCH LEADERSHIP
positions within the local church by SBU faculty,
administration and legal staff to INCITE and
NURTURE pernicious ILL-WILL and hostility
against a student (or student's family or friends)
with the purpose of conspiring to DEFAME,
DEFRAUD, or INJURE a student or other
individual or attempt to conceal the unethical
or criminal conduct of SBU employees, agents,
and associates.
Yes/No

k) The ABUSE of CHURCH LEADERSHIP
positions within local churches by SBU
administration, faculty, associates, and legal
staff to distribute false, misleading, fraudulent,
incomplete, or DEFAMATORY INFORMATION
with the purpose of DEFRAUDING a student
or other individual and attempting to conceal
the unethical or criminal conduct of SBU
employees, agents, and associates.
Yes/No

l) The USE of INTIMIDATION and THREAT
by Southern Baptist PASTORS associated with
SBU of a student or the friends and family of a
student (either verbal or written).
Yes/No

m) The COLLABORATION with local GOVERNMENT
officials in an effort to deny a qualified individual
CHURCH or COMMUNITY assistance in an effort
to DEFRAUD, DEFAME, or INJURE that individual.
Yes/No

Question 28
28. If a pastor, church official, leader, employee,
deacon or other agent associated with Southwest
Baptist University, the Southern Baptist Convention,
or the Missouri Baptist Convention had acted in
the manner described in Question 27 (a - m), in
your opinion, would this be GROUNDS for the
DISMISSAL or DISASSOCIATION from Southwest
Baptist University or other substantial censure by the
appropriate local church, Missouri Baptist Convention,
or the Southern Baptist Convention?

Please answer Yes/No to each item a - m in Question 27.

Question 29
29. If a pastor, church official, leader or
employee, deacon, or other church agent associated
with Southwest Baptist University, the Southern
Baptist Convention, or the Missouri Baptist
Convention engaged in any of the above illegal
or unethical activities, in your opinion, should
that individual qualify for SPECIAL TREATMENT
from Southwest Baptist University, the Missouri
or Southern Baptist Conventions, any governmental
agencies, institution or individuals (supporters,
Trustees, Regents, or contributors) associated
with Southwest Baptist University in the form of:
promotions, tenure, pay raises, special bonuses
("housing allowances," etc.), ceremonial awards
or recognition (Life Beautiful Award, career
achievement award, etc.), political or church-
related positions, financial remuneration and
gratuities, or any other considerations?

Please answer Yes/No to each item a - m in Question 27.

Question 30
30. Did you participate in or are you aware of any
effort by PASTORS and CHURCH-RELATED
ORGANIZATIONS associated with SBU to DEFRAUD
a pesticide-injured student by obstructing the student
from obtaining medical, nutritional, or energy
ASSISTANCE through local churches or charitable
organizations by the distribution of slanderous and
intentionally deceitful or misleading information and
the COLLABORATION with PUBLIC OFFICIALS
to menace, injure, and/or harass the student or the
student's friends and family?
Yes/No

Question 31 (6 parts, a - f)
31.  Did you participate in or are you aware of any
specific instance(s) in which:

a) A Bolivar pastor (an SBU Trustee and prominent
leader of the Bolivar Ministerial Alliance) wrote
a menacing letter to the friend of pesticide-injured
student stating that he would "not tolerate" the friend
praying for or discussing the pesticide-injured student
in any church gathering, or "publicly broadcasting"
information about the (possibly illegal) exposure of
SBU students to dangerous pesticides and solvents
or criticising SBU, or "the city, the state government,
or any other institution?"

[NOTE: The corporate attorney for Southwest
Baptist University, also and attorney for
the City of Bolivar and the County of Polk,
is a deacon of this church and is a close
associate of the pastor.
        Several years ago, this pastor was
appointed to serve (and is currently serving)
on the Executive Board of the Missouri
Baptist Convention.]

b) An SBU Trustee (a Southern Baptist pastor
from Bolivar) organized a secret Deacons'
Meeting, primarily attended by SBU employees
and legal staff, to discuss an SBU student's
civil and criminal complaint against various
SBU employees and afterwards sent written
notice to the student of the decision by the
pastor and his deacons (without the benefit
of a church vote) to deny the student church
membership and fellowship?
Yes/No

[NOTE:  The corporate attorney for Southwest
Baptist University is a deacon at this church
and apparently attended this meeting.]

c) A local Bolivar pastor (an SBU Trustee and
prominent leader of the Bolivar Ministerial
Alliance) and other colleges and associates with
the director of the POLK COUNTY COMMUNITY
CENTER, disparaged and denigrated a pesticide-
injured SBU student, and actively encouraged
the Director to resist and DENY any efforts
to obtain food, energy, medical, or fundraising
ASSISTANCE for the student because, though
financially qualified and verified as totally
disabled by a panel of Social Security physicians,
the student had "provoked" SBU by making civil
and criminal complaints against SBU and "did
not deserve" assistance?
Yes/No

[NOTE:  The attorneys for Southwest Baptist
University are also the attorneys for the
Polk County Community Center and the County
of Polk.]

d) A local Bolivar pastor (an SBU Trustee and
prominent leader of the Bolivar Ministerial
Alliance) and other colleges and associates
discussed the electrical bill of a student injured
by pesticides at SBU with the manager of Empire
District ELECTRIC COMPANY, disparaged
and denigrated the student and COLLABORATED
with him to resist and DENY any effort by the
student (or the student's friends or family) to
obtain ASSISTANCE paying the electrical bill
because the student, though financially qualified
and verified as totally disabled by a panel of Social
Security physicians, had "provoked" SBU by making
civil and criminal complaints against them and;
therefore, "did not deserve" assistance?


[NOTE: Yes, the attorneys for Southwest Baptist
University are also the attorneys for the Empire
District Electric Company.

        Over the course of several years, the
student's electricity (and respiratory equipment)
was disconnected seven times in spite of faxed
warnings from the student's physicians that doing
so could cause irreparable or fatal consequences
for the student's health.

        One disconnection was followed a
"Well-Being" Check by the Polk County
Sheriff's Department which included forced
entry, guarantees of retaliation if the student
continued to ask for assistance, and the denial
of physician-prescribed oxygen when the
student experienced a visible and audible
anaphylactic asthmatic reaction to cigarette
smoke.

More complete detailed documentation (written
and taped) of these events will be featured in an
upcoming website.]

e) A Bolivar pastor (an SBU Trustee and prominent
leader of the Bolivar Ministerial Alliance) and other
colleagues and associates urged the pastor and his
Methodist congregation to DENY the student (who
was disabled by pesticides at SBU) the $40 in
financial ASSISTANCE which the Methodist pastor
had promised the student on the grounds that the
student was "undeserving" of Christian fellowship
or financial assistance because the student had
"provoked" and affronted SBU by making civil
and criminal complaints against them?
Yes/No

[NOTE:  In spite of the persistent appeals of friends
and family to help the disabled student, to this hour,
neither the Bolivar Ministerial Alliance nor any of
the other [now over 200] CHRISTIAN CHURCHES
or organizations have provided a SINGLE PENNY
of financial assistance for Marie.]

f) The out-of-state "home" Southern Baptist pastor
of a pesticide-disabled student (after conferring with
a Bolivar pastor and SBU associates) indicated that
if the student's widowed and disabled mother discussed
the civil or criminal complaints against SBU or the
exposure of SBU students to dangerous pesticides and
solvents and continued to support the student's efforts
to return home or relocate, he, as the mother's pastor,
would see to it that the members of his church refused
fellowship, assistance, and support to the student's
mother, family, and friends?
Yes/No

[NOTE:  The student's mother died several years
later.  The student was too ill to attend the funeral.

        The mother left explicit instructions
that the small insurance fund (which had lost
principle under the management of the pastor
and the church) was to be divided between her
three children and requested that the student's
portion be used to relocate and immediately
obtain the specialized medical care which
had been recommended by the student's
physicians.

        The out-of-state pastor and the executor
of the will, angered that the mother had removed
the church as the beneficiary, claimed that the
student did not "deserve" the funds and should
not be "stealing" from the mother or the church
and withheld the funds from the student for
over a year.

        When SBU learned of the death of
the student's mother, they sent the student's
NDSL loan (for the semester the student
had been disabled) to a collection agency,
threatening to have the student's "earnings"
(the student's Social Security Disability
Insurance payment--about $400 a month)
garnished by the government and demanding
funds from the student's small inheritance.

        When this proved unsuccessful, SBU's
lawyers, who were also the attorneys for Empire
District Electric Company, filed suit against
the student (the first time Empire had ever
sued an individual) demanding full payment
(with the proceeds of the inheritance) of
the past-due electrical bill, and endeavoring
to have the electricity to the student's residence
permanently disconnected by court order.

        This confrontation was precipitated
by prior correspondences from Empire which
required that (in order to qualify for Energy
Assistance) the student must: leave the
residence and be removed to a medical facility;
release all medical records to the electric
company, and release Empire (and any of its
agents, including the City of Bolivar and
the County of Polk) from any liability due
to injuries or harm which Empire's actions,
including the seven electrical disconnections
of the student's respiratory equipment, might
have caused the student.  
        [See note on Question 31, d].

        Brutalized and depleted by constant
disconnections, intimidation, and financial
and legal battles, the student's health
deteriorated considerably in the interim.

        Now totally disabled, without the
normal use of hands, arms, and legs due to
neurological damage, and subject to severe
neurological and respiratory seizures and
anaphylactic reactions, the student's living
expenses and medical care were even more
expensive and burdensome.

        The funds, when they finally did
arrive, were not used to help the student
to relocate and obtain the specialized medical
care as the student's mother had hope, but
were, instead, already obligated to pay for
several years of past debt.

        Upon attempting to refile for Social Security
Disability, the student was threatened with yet
another forced "Well-Being" Check and, not
willing to jeopardize whatever normal function
of limbs and mind was left, the student did not
complete the renewal.

        [The seizures from the last "Well-Being" Check
had cost the student the ability to walk normally
(see Question 31, d.)]

        Still disabled and unable to work, the student
now survives without government, community, or
church financial aid -- relying on the grace of God
and on donations from friends, family, and health
food stores throughout the country.

        In February, SBU's attorneys once again
sent the student's NDSL loan to a collection agency,
intending to exact full payment, plus several thousand
dollars interest from the student -- total about $8,000.

        The NDSL loan was for the semester that the
student, unable to complete the semester due to severe
injuries, including chemical burns, chemical pneumonia,
seizures, and other symptoms of solvent and organo-
phosphate poisoning, was forced out of school
and given failing grades in all classes.

        SBU's attorneys want assurance that if,
perhaps when, the student dies, SBU can still
collect the student's loan from the government.

        The student's diagnosis is that the pesticide
damage is potentially terminal.

        Is this student not dying quickly enough
for Southwest Baptist University?

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        This student's house has been assaulted
some fifteen (15) times in the last few years with
pesticides -- each time at between 1:00 and 3:00
in the morning, each time either the day after or
before an electrical disconnection, within a day
or so after she asked for nutritional, electrical,
or church assistance, or before a major move in
the student's attempts to bring civil or criminal
complaint against SBU.

        Trying to believe that all these happen
to be "coincidences" (especially when two times
were in the middle of winter) is just NOT rational.

        The first time was immediately after a
conversation with a SBU faculty member who
warned the student that the university had heard
of her plans to pursue a legal course in order to
learn the identity of the pesticides which injured her.

        The student was warned that SBU might try
to injure the student physically to keep her quiet.

        Very early the next morning, the student
woke with a terrible life-threatening reaction --
someone had come in the night and sprayed the
entire front windows and porch with pesticides.

        The student had just that week moved her
bed from that same front room. That week, one
of SBU boosters had specifically asked where the
student was sleeping.

        The student was uneasy with this odd
question and the way she persisted in asking and,
as a precaution, had moved her bed away from that
room. If she had still been sleeping there, she
would have been dead.

        During one of the early attacks, her caregiver's
outdoor cat, Fluffy, was killed.

        After inhaling the pesticides which were
sprayed around the side yard and back fence in
the middle of the night, Fluffy died in the driveway
in horrible convulsions.

        Shortly before this, the unrecognizable
corpse of another outdoor cat, Junior (one of Fluffy's
kittens), was thrown over the back fence after Junior
had been run over repeatedly and mutilated.

        Shortly after that, the student's outdoor
dog, Phoenix, a beautiful golden retriever/collie mix,
was murdered during another pesticide attack.

        Phoenix died of terrible convulsions with
blood gurgling out of her nose and mouth and
into her lungs. Just like when the student was
poisoned, you could hear the labored breathing
and the blood gurgling in her chest.

        A "beautiful, warrior lap puppy," Phoenix,
on more than one occasion, defended the student
against actual intruders or harassers. Phoenix had
been learning to play catch and Frisbee when the
student was injured, and she waited for long, long
years, but the student never came back out to play
with her.

        Because she was strong and large enough
to jump the back fence, Phoenix was on a long chain
and could not escape the fumes.

        Ree, Phoenix's "little sister," a small blue
healer/shepard mix, was also sickened by the pesticide
on several occasions, but she was off her leash and
was able to run away from the fumes.

        Though Ree survived those attacks, she was
almost killed several months ago by what looks like
an assault with a BB pellet to her head. This is the
third time that Ree has been assaulted.]

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Question 32
32. Do you have knowledge of any unethical or
illegal actions by any of the legal staff employed
by or associated with Southwest Baptist University,
the Southern Baptist Convention or the Missouri
Baptist Convention which, if pursued and reported
to the Missouri Bar Association or any other
government or regulating agency, would likely
result in the loss of his or her license and the
DISBARMENT of that individual from the
practice of law?
Yes/No

Question 33
33. If an attorney employed by or associated with
Southwest Baptist University, the Southern Baptist
Convention or the Missouri Baptist Convention were
found to have engaged in any illegal or unethical
activities which defamed, defrauded, or resulted
in substantial harm or injury to a student or employee
of Southwest Baptist University, in your opinion,
would this be GROUNDS for DISASSOCIATION
or DISMISSAL from Southwest Baptist University?
Yes/No

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        WOUNDED HEARTS: SBU "Questions"
                            Parts 2, 3, 4, and 5

Southwest Baptist University "Questions of the Heart"

Part 2: Confidentiality and Privacy Rights
of the Students and Staff

This section deals with the unethical and, in some instances, possibly
illegal breeches of student confidentiality by SBU employees and
associates and the violation of student privacy rights.

Part 3:  The Health and Safety of Students and Faculty

This portion questions the ethics and legality of the health and
safety measures and standards on the SBU campus and contains
extensive medical information and research references.

Part 4: The Emotional, Psychological, Academic
and Spiritual  Well-Being of Students and Faculty

These questions focus on aspects of the total
welfare of the students and faculty and contain
details of a variety of harmful, unethical, possibly
illegal, incidents involving SBU personnel and
supporters which the Trustees have thus far not
addressed in a reasonable manner.

Part 5:  Accountability: The Administration, Faculty,
Staff, Regents, and Board of Trustees of SBU

Part 5 lists the names and positions of those individuals and
officials who are responsible for the decisions which govern,
guide, and shape the moral, ethical, and legal standards at SBU.

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