Moss David Posner M.D.
Moss David Posner, M.D. is a physician previously in practice in the California Department of Corrections. He is prolific as well as versatile, and writes on a number of subjects, including philosophy, religion, and the state of medical care in the California Department of Corrections. Dr. Posner has published articles in a variety of publications, including a Journal of Transcription and the Department of the Navy. He lives in Fresno with his son Aaron, a budding Mechanical Engineer.
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Articles by Moss David Posner M.D.
November 23, 2008
With the election of this president, the world's religions are again in the forefront of our attention. Now more than ever we need to understand what religious give us and what they do not provide, that which is our responsibility to know. In the second of two articles the author has tackled this thorny subject. Both articles were written as critical events were taking place in our country.
Read on!
November 13, 2008
Trouble in the making? An ominous portent of things to come.
February 02, 2008
I saw a well-written article" which is similar to others, describing the sins of the Neocons. What is particularly interesting is the limitation that writers impose on their final conclusions: (My thoughts follow.)
...This cockamamie plan proves that the people who run our government, have no cl...
November 28, 2007
There can be no way of winning a war in Iraq for the simple reason that this "war" had no national self-interest as its purpose. As a consequence, the notion of "winning" has absolutely no meaning in this context. This war--as with most others with which we have involved ourselves--was a ruse by t...
October 29, 2007
Have you noticed? It's getting quieter---and it's terrifying.
Day by day, I roll through the outstanding journalists, well-represented at Truthout.com, among other sites. I read Tom Englehard's interview with James Carroll, a former Catholic priest who made his bones by speaking out against the...
September 12, 2007
Speech of Moss David Posner, M.D. (2174 words.) This speech was given on the steps of the state Capitol in Sacramento California this past Friday at a rally for prisoner's rights to medical care.
Good Morning.
My name is Moss David Posner. I have been a physician with the California Department...
September 03, 2007
What does it take to have someone state the obvious, namely that America is lost. On this august occasion I hereby propose and nominate my recently departed kitty, "Commodore Fluffy" to the position of Head of State, inasmuch as in death she could do at least as well as the Smirking Chimp does, all...
July 24, 2007
Times that Try Men’s Souls
On December 23rd 1776, Thomas Paine said the following:
“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks o...
May 06, 2007
Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century."
BY BARBRA WALTERS
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during Vietnam
T...
March 28, 2007
(Originally written in Janury 2007:) Not twenty-four hours ago Hran Dink, the editor of the only Armenian newspaper in Turkey was assassinated on the street as he existed his office. Immediately thereafter large crowds of enraged citizens--presumably including numbers of Armenians--crowded downtown ...
March 12, 2007
This was my response to Carolyn Glick's article: Three Cheers for Israeli Democracy (link)
"Indeed, within hours of the Ha'aretz report, MK Yuval Steinitz, the former chairman of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, did just that when he told Israel Radio how strange Olmert's st...
February 14, 2007
I saw a heartbreaking letter by the mother of a boy who is in prison. The story was typical. Here is the last paragraph of her letter followed by my thoughts:
"To close, we believe that our son has been railroaded by an inherently corrupt Justice system in the state of California in an overly z...
February 07, 2007
In my previous article I gave an overview of the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD. There remain some ideas I want to stress, and some excerpts that need to be clarified:
An astute reader who is a researcher in ADHD pointed out that SPECT (which I also spelled incorrectly on one or two occasions...
February 03, 2007
It seems that every day we open the newspaper or go online we see another article about Attention Deficit Disorder[i]. The subjects and titles of the articles vary from condemnation of the very notion of the existence of such an entity, to “natural” treatments for the problem, to warnings of dire c...
How to Control Americans—thought control mind control, disinformation and other naughty things-concl
January 08, 2007
"The science of mind control has achieved the scale of a criminal subculture, and left a wide path of chaos and confusion that crosses all international boundaries. The carnage takes place under the noses of the public, obscured by cover stories and dead witnesses and the incredible naïveté of most...
January 06, 2007
Most recently, California has placed a moratorium on the death penalty. A recent execution in California by legal injection took almost thirty minutes to be completed. Claims that this method causes excruciating pain and the inability to cry out have been quite well refuted from a medical point of v...
November 14, 2006
A Plague on Both Your Houses!
I am hurt.A plague o' both your houses! I am sped. Is he gone, and hath nothing?
--Mercutio (Romeo and Juliette)
A change of dominant party will change absolutely nothing with respect to the underlying problem confronting our nation. If the underlying problem is ...
November 05, 2006
This evening it was announced that Saddam Hussein has been sentenced to death "for Crimes against Humanity." The conviction was predicated upon demonstrable proof of his role in the killing of some 148 people in a small town of Dujail some thirty-five miles north of Baghdad.
One hundred and fort...
November 02, 2006
(October 27, 2006 Army recruits express their motivation during a platoon competition at an obstacle course at Fort Benning, Ga. This photo appeared on www.army.mil.)
"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you ca...
October 23, 2006
We have all heard these endless debates as to whether and when enough is enough, whether the "course" has to be stayed or ended, etc.
It occurred to me that the only real factor here is the extent to which a military operation can generate enough positive cash flow in the Military-related indust...
October 21, 2006
This is the body of a letter I sent to a political group in Israel. I want to share it with you:
Your future is real serious dialogue with leaders who, regardless of their shortcomings, have their people at heart. That is why one of your potential allies is Hugo Chavez, all of his faults notwit...
October 10, 2006
(picture of Alfred Korsybski)
“…They took over the Pavlovian experiments on animals and extended them to people. They did so with the objective of changing human nature and creating a “new Soviet man.” People, they anticipated, would react voluntarily under Pavlovian pressures, in the way the...
September 20, 2006
One week ago, Pope Benedict quoted a medieval scholar as stating that only negative, destructive things have issued forth from Islam. Subsequently, numerous Moslem sources expressed outrage, dire threats, atrocious commentaries on Christianity and proposals for its ultimate fate at the hands of Isl...
September 13, 2006
This article appeared first in "California Progress Reports" within the past week. It is reproduced herein verbatum.
My name is Moss David Posner. I am a staff physician for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation—at least for the time being. Let me explain:
While working i...
August 27, 2006
This article is dedicated to Rabbi Levi Zirkind, who awoke within me that which I could not find by myself.
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I saw a marvelous article by Cythia Tucker, who writes for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She was shocked at the anti-Semitism...
August 07, 2006
Yesterday, the wire services reported the comments of James Tilton, the current transient Director of the Department of Health Care Services for the California Department of Corrections. Echoing—apparently—the opinion of the Federal Receiver, Robert Sillen, he said,
“Clearly, I have seen cases ...
August 02, 2006
In an excellent op-ed piece in "The Toronto Star", the author points out that a cease-fire in the Middle East would accomplish less than nothing. Fact is--it's already too late:
Israel has absolutely no choice. Hizbullah has evolved into a highly sophistocated force to be reckoned with. It is ...
July 24, 2006
Within the span of the past week, several events of importance have occurred--well, actually they are almost evanescent in their occurrence, fleeting frames, blending in a movie strip:
The dynamic varies with the population, but heretofore always with Arab nations being the beneficiary in the def...
July 14, 2006
Not quite one week ago, after a young Israeli IDF member was kidnapped by Hamas forces operating out of Gaza, Israel moved into Northern Gaza. This incursion—as with the Lebanese one—has evoked the traditional and expected accusations of “over-reacting,” and/or using the Gaza kidnapping as a “prete...
July 03, 2006
It’s starting all over again. But this time it is much much more subtle, coordinated and oh-so effective.
There are many obvious anti-Semitic sites, and many many very subtle ones. Wingtv.net is a masterful example of the latter—taken right from George Orwell’s novel, “1984.” (My, how benign t...
May 28, 2006
Currently, there are two kinds of people in America today: those who are deeply disturbed and feel threatened by our government, and those who are understandably concerned but who believe the President and the country are fundamentally on the right track.
Those who are satisfied with the governme...
April 26, 2006
Someone forwarded the following letter to me. (Read my own take on this, which I wrote months ago in: The Sound of Silence) I cannot begin to tell you how much I appreciated seeing these words in print:
I think it is the prisoners and the doctors who are suffering the brunt of the corruption ins...
April 21, 2006
When you are piecing events together trying to make sense out of them, did you ever get the feeling that there's a piece missing--a piece with which, if you had it, you could make sense of the whole?
For some time now it has been apparent to me that the Bushites wanted to corner the market on oil...
April 03, 2006
In his Meditation # 17 found in his “Devotions upon emergent Occasions,” written in 1624, John Donne (“1573-1631) says:
Nuc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris.
Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die.
“ ...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of...
April 02, 2006
I recently read an article, which was typical of so many others: In it the author denigrated private monetary interests as a primary motivator in the Iraq conflict. As I started to formulate a response, it occurred to me that it would be an excellent basis to discuss our current situation. I woul...
February 09, 2006
Israeli and international news is replete with reports of the forced evacuation in the Sinai of families living in the Orthodox settlement of Armona. Israeli storm troopers are seen on television, beating teenagers, old men and women indiscriminately. Broken bodies carried out on litters. I froze...
February 01, 2006
In a recent article that appeared on the advent of Alan Greenspan's departure from the Federal Reserve, the author waxed nostalgic, depicting all of the accomplishments and awards that pertained to the outgoing chairman.
I felt a wave of nostalgia too--the nostalgia of betrayal. Here is the body ...
January 23, 2006
For almost a century there has been a war between Creationism and Science, as those two ideas clash for control in the public educational system. There is a clear lack of true understanding, each side respectively, of the other. The recent introduction of “Intelligent Design” has served to bring thi...
January 19, 2006
You have to wonder....
Yesterday, there was a report of a strike on a village in Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border. Some 18 family members were killed. All of the neighbors denied knowing anything about insurgents in their midst, and our government countered feebly that they thought there mig...
January 03, 2006
As I sit by my sister’s bedside this New Year’s Eve, I look at her, life ebbing out of her once-athletic body, and the sadness is so overwhelming that I have no words. I think I am writing now because I know how wonderful you all are and how you would care; and that makes me feel better. She is sle...
December 14, 2005
Within the past day, here in California, as well as other states, we have witnessed the call for the demise of a man who has been the cause of the death of a number of innocent people. Under this person’s direct orders, these few deaths were followed by the rapid proliferation of other gang members...
December 11, 2005
By the time you all read this, the fate of Stanley "Tookie" Williams will have been determined, to the extent to which the Governor?s decision could alter what had been decided years ago. There is, of course, an intense barrage of emotion in the press. Almost all of this is in favor of of the co...
November 22, 2005
The War Against the People.
“I feel a prickling in my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes”
(Medieval adage)
“It was the best of times, and the worst of times.”
(Victor Hugo “Tale of Two Cities.”)
Each generation historically has been preoccupied with its own affairs and issues a...
October 16, 2005
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there wa...
October 02, 2005
When I was in training to be a doctor, and during my clinical years, I could not help but be impressed with the cruelty that is native to the process of life itself. I saw things that most of you should never have to see---from the death of good and kind people, to the ravages of inexorable cancer,...
September 15, 2005
I received a letter from a Psychologist friend who wondered about Bush's behavior.
Bush has no power. He is totally controlled. It is his handlers that are calling the shots. Bush has the IQ of a kosher dill pickle. Bush covered the duplicity of our government in the 9/11 tragedies.
Nothin...
September 12, 2005
For four decades now, I have watched my profession slowly bleed to death. I saw it coming in 1965 when "Medicare" was legislated into being.This creation was to provide all seniors healthcare. Tragically, it has done no such thing; but it has done worse.
No sooner than the ink was dry on the l...
September 04, 2005
In his seminal work, "The Rise and fall of the Third Reich,” William Shirer makes obvious the banal nature of evil and shows us how it festers in a warm mire of indifference and resignation. Nazi German just didn't occur overnight, he explains; the roots were growing for ten years prior to the beer ...
August 29, 2005
Not a day goes by that we can open the paper without seeing an article concerning the state of affairs in our prison system and some scathing rebuke concerning the state of the medical care in particular. I say, “rebuke” because I am one of those physicians whose medical care is being summarily ind...
September 13, 2004
My name is Moss David Posner. I am a staff physician for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation—at least for the time being. Let me explain:
While working in the prison, two years ago, I found on my desk in my office a very ominous drawing. It consisted of a sketch of two dag...
September 11, 2004
This article appeared first in "California Progress Reports" within the past week. It is reproduced herein verbatum.
My name is Moss David Posner. I am a staff physician for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation—at least for the time being. Let me explain:
While working i...