Slander

Slander by Al Wiggins Jr

Slander: When someone lies upon your name
and tries say you live of a live of blame.
In this day of racial profiling,
a few code words can have cops mobilizing
on any student in the campus community.
You think it can't happen? Well look at me!
In the land of the brave and the home of the free,
I got handcuffed at a library
behind slander

Slander: When someone tells a bunch of lies
on a person that they despise.
You're not judged by your records, words or deeds
because the words used against you are a poisonous seed,
planted in the mind of an ignorant square
who should have done due diligence but didn't care.
So you're stereotyped without a gander
and the reason for this travesty
is slander.

Slander can destroy your life
if you can't handle that kind of strife.
When a campus employee does you wrong
and all her co-workers just play along,
a person with a weak constitution
can get waylaid by an institution
when the leadership is also to blame.
And it's just a damned shame that its all
about slander.

A doctor made a mistake when she sent the law
to handcuff an individual she never saw.
Here's the part that never fails to astound me
The law says a doctor must assess you directly
before an involuntary committment
Now let me share a little secret:
The doctor said a professor's report sealed the deal
but let me tell you pilgrim: That crap wasn't real.
It was slander.

The Gulag (Revisited)

The Gulag (Will Not Wait) by Al Wiggins Jr

One day a school doctor lied on my name.
She didn't know me, but lied all the same.
First she profiled me by race,
with all the details neatly in place.

Then she chose the break the law
when she refused to examine me.
But she had to cover her tracks,
so she created an emergency.

The doctor fooled the campus police
by portraying me as a threat
to the rest of the campus community
because I'm an Army vet.

She wanted to insure
the police put me in handcuffs.
So with slander and stereotypes
the doctor set me up.

Photo by Al Wiggins 

If you're going back to school
pay attention to this rhyme.
Your civil rights can be subverted
at any given time.
The location of this outrage
was Bridgewater State
and when the doctor made the call
the gulag would not wait.

Dr. Grace Siebert-Larke
wouldn't look me in the eyes.
She didn't want to face
the victim of her lies.

With an imaginary psychosis
I'll never understand,
and a fraudulent diagnosis,
she committed and innocent man.

The doctor said I would take money
from my student loans
to buy items to hurt people
I didn't even know.

Vilification and slander
came out of the doctor's mouth
when she reported me to the campus police
but didn't know what she was talking about.

Photo by Al Wiggins Jr

So if you're going back to school
pay attention to this rhyme.
Your civil rights can be subverted
at any given time.
The location of this outrage
was Bridgewater State
and when the doctor made the call
the gulag would not wait.

When I tried to follow up
her co-workers abused my trust.
When I remember how I was treated
I'm still filled with disgust.

Withholding information
must be one of the perks
for unethical individuals
engaged in social work.

Because I got no accomodations
and I got no advocacy
from Counseling Center personnel
after the ambush at the library.

I only needed two classes
in order to graduate
but the ordeal left me disabled for life
so I'm setting the record straight.

Photo by Al Wiggins Jr

If you plan to go back to school
pay attention to this rhyme.
Your civil rights can be subverted
at any given time.
The location of this outrage
was Bridgewater State
and when the doctor made the call
the gulag would not wait.

No Advocacy (Bridgewater State 2006)

I originally composed and recorded this song under the pseudonym,  O.G. Fred Mack.

No Advocacy by Al Wiggins Jr.

I'd like to dedicate this song
to the matriculated students
at Bridgewater State College
in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

I've got a story I'd like to share with ya'll.
It goes like this:

On a Thursday afternoon I came to class,
coffee in my hand, and draggin' my ass.
My classmates said, "Go upstairs.
the professor's waiting for you there."

I saw the professor on the stairs.
He looked pale, and kind of scared.
When he spotted me, he said, "How do you do?
The police are upstairs. They're waiting for you."

I saw the chief flanked by two men.
One was a sergeant, the other a captain.
The chief smiled and shook hands with me,
and then he said, very quietly:

"Your wife is worried about you,
and this is what we're going to do.
We're going to the hospital, quietly."
And I said "yes," immediately.

Six days locked in a psyche ward,
and I still don't know what I was there for.
Is there anyone around here that can see?
Matriculated students have no advocacy.

Traditional students don't stand a chance,
but I'm a non-trad, so prepare to dance.
There'll be no waiver of liability.
The deeds been done, now you deal with me.

I didn't know what happened at first.
I thought of 9/11.
That day, when people found themselves in danger
they worried for their loved ones.

I braced myself for drama,
a man down for his baby's mama.
I went back downstairs with an escort
but I had no idea what was in store.

When I got to the cruiser, the cuffs came out.
No one outside, and no way out.
I took a drink of water
and worried for my daughter.

I put my hands behind my back.
When I felt the cuffs, I let myself relax.
The cops patted me down, and counted my cash.
They put me in the car, and we made that dash.

Six days locked in a psyche ward,
and I still don't know what I was there for.
Is there anyone around here that can see?
Matriculated students have no advocacy.

Traditional students don't stand a chance,
but I'm a non-trad, so prepare to dance.
There'll be no waiver of liability.
The deeds been done, now you deal with me.

A Counseling Center doctor,
Grace Siebert-Larke.
on April 15, 2004
went just a little too far.

She broke the law of Massachusetts
by committing me that day.
I was supposed to see a judge
before she put me away.

According to the state of Massachusetts
she was supposed to examine me,
and I was supposed to have a choice
of the care I was supposed to receive.

But Dr. Grace Siebert-Larke
did not care about this.
She only cared about the profile she made up
with Nurse Christine Malmquist.

Six days locked in a psyche ward,
and I still don't know what I was there for.
Is there anyone around here that can see?
Matriculated students have no advocacy.

Traditional students don't stand a chance,
but I'm a non-trad, so prepare to dance.
No waiver of liability
The deeds been done, now you deal with me.

The nurse and the doctor consulted each other
before profiling me.
It seems they had a lot to say
about a patient they refused to see.

Those profiles were extensive,
they covered everything.
and they even won the approval
of social worker Wayne Assing.

The counselors that day,
created an emergency.
They lied about my entire life,
and did absolutely nothing for me.

You've broken Buddhist law,
Christine, Wayne and Grace.
You hurt people you were supposed to help.
Each one of you is a disgrace.

Six days locked in a psyche ward,
and I still don't know what I was there for.
Is there anyone around here that can see?
Matriculated students have no advocacy.

Traditional students don't stand a chance,
but I'm a non-trad, so prepare to dance.
No waiver of liability.
The deeds been done, now you deal with me.

Operation Bridgewater Engaged (#OpBridgewater)

"If good does not accumulate, it is not enough to make a name for a man. If evil does not accumulate, it is not enough to destroy a man. Therefore, the inferior man thinks to himself, "Goodness in small things has no value," and so neglects it. He thinks, "Small sins do no harm," and so he does not give them up. Thus his sins accumulate until they can no longer be covered up, and his guilt becomes so great, that it can no longer be wiped out." - Confucius

The legacy of Bridgewater State University President Dana Mohler-Faria

The Founder's Manifesto "In keeping with the concept of service-based learning, I fully intend to use the information at my disposal to help other college students defend themselves in ways I did not know existed before my struggle. Using all available electronic media, I will tell students about my vain attempts to seek justice from campus authorities at Bridgewater State. Using my medical records and other documents as teaching tools, I shall teach them how to stand up to unprincipled doctors, unethical social workers, dishonest campus bureaucrats, and--finally--unscrupulous, college presidents such as you, Mr. Mohler-Faria." - From Alfred Wiggins Jr. v. Bridgewater State College.