It's apparent that Dr.Patricia Casey cannot handle bad press in the media and considers a mother's blog to be a stomping grounds for sending lawyers to dig up any words that do not please her, calling words and particular sentences on a blog defamatory and sending in her sharks (lawyers) that go by the name of Brophy Solicitors to do her house cleaning.
Leonie Fennell is an Irish blogger who writes about mental health issues based on her experience of losing her son to suicide when taking the antidepressant CELEXA.
Patricia Casey's law firm has sent Fennell another letter of intimidation declaring a discussion on the definition of bullying and as a matter of fact the lawfirm Brophy Solicitors want a discussion based on these 3 questions they have:
1.What part of this constitutes bullying?
2.What part of this constitutes an attempt to silence you?
3. Are you saying that the simple fact that you received a solicitor’s letter asking you to remove certain defamatory comments which you subsequently removed, constitutes intimidation?
Leave comments at Leonie's blog with your answers in solidarity supporting Leonie if you choose to do so, and let the lawyers know what the answers are, and I'm sure Dr. Patricia Casey will be reading also.
Another blog supporting Leonie is U.K. blogger and book author Bob Fiddaman's blog. Leave comments there too, and send the message clearly to the lawyers who want to pick apart Leonie's blog that freedom of expression and a personal blog are like a diary and Leonie has every right to express herself in any way possible.
Here's the sentence (yes now a sentence) the lawyers want removed from the Leonie Fennell blog:
"I will never be bullied, intimidated or silenced by Lundbeck or Professor Casey"
Stand tall, Leonie!
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My comment I have left at Bob Fiddaman's blog and Leonie's blog
"IF Patricia Casey wasn't attempting to silence Leonie Fennell via monitoring her blog and picking apart each word she writes looking for defamatory commentary on purpose, then having lawyers keep tabs on the blog and find other words and sentences they feel (they feel) are offending to Patricia Casey, then I ask why did she hire a lawfirm in the first place? it sure wasn't to send sympathy cards!
What is bullying? using power to intimidate someone the person or group feels is an easy or weak target, often preying on the most vulnerable people.
What is intimidation? appearing larger than one actually is, tossing weight around or legal stature about in attempt to silence another person or get them to stop something the intimidator does not like.
You see, Brophy Solicitors and Patricia Casey Leonie is a mother, as am I and we have suffered the loss in 2 different ways of our children. Our children, who we carried for 9 months and nurtured and loved and sent off to school became victims of pharmaceutical company greed and profit in the name of "care" by psychiatrists. Leonie's son is dead, and my daughter is trapped in a disabled limbo unable to be the person she once was and is not even close to being a shadow of the person I once knew. Her brain is keeping a diligent candle of hope for all of us that it can repair itself from the damage of the psychiatric medications that damaged it, one day I hope to stand next to her and listen to her tell the world what that feels like, to have life stop as a teen and be stuck in a drugged state and crippled to the point of lack of communication and function in daily life. I hold the candle of hope every day she will be able to have a life one day and the years keep passing as I hang onto that small thread of hope.
Leonie has no chance of her son returning to her at all. She lost her son to death which is something a mother never gets over.
Leonie has the right to express herself on her blog, which is a personal diary, an outlet for her grief.
If Brophy Solicitors continue to cause undue grief and stress over reading her blog and picking apart the wording on behalf of a psychiatrist who claims to have 'sympathy' then Leonie in my opinion should take on a suit of her own. Harrassment of an individual on a continual basis with letters that are threatening to her, is unnecessary grief she must endure after having one of the most horrific experiences a mother can ever have, the loss of a child and outliving her son.
Patricia Casey also must not be thinking about how there are other victims of psychiatry around the world who will be outraged on Leonie's behalf. We will not tolerate this treatment of Leonie.
Also, each time Brophy writes a letter it draws more attention to the discussion and the result is causing Patricia Casey to appear as a bully and if they cannot see that, they need to sit back and understand this world of blogging reaches thousands of people on a 24 hour a day basis and the loss of respect will be served in a heaping dose to Dr. Casey as a result of not leaving Fennell alone in her grief.
Casey has much bigger fish to fry, I would hope. There are countless articles and radio podcasts and interviews that can lend a bad name and opinion of Casey long before Fennell came along and blogged about her. The Internet is a mirror and once words are cast there they are permanent, even if Leonie deleted her blog, the words are cached onto the Internet, Google is a wonderful thing that way! "
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Who are Brophy Solicitors?
Defenders of Human Rights, and Public Body "Abuse of Power":
"We are fundamentally a human rights firm. The bulk of our work arises from actions taken by public bodies which have a negative effect on members of the public. We will protect our clients and fight for their rights no matter who the wrongdoer is.
The defendants in very many cases are local authorities and branches of government and we have developed considerable expertise over the years following substantial successes in most of the cases we bring. We have acted in cases where members of our immigrant community are being denied their rights and we also act in cases where members of the Traveller community are being denied their rights. This can cover everything from deportation to obtaining facilities for the disabled children of minority groups.
We have acted for all groups from residents’ associations who have been affected by road closures to individuals who have been wrongly convicted of criminal offenses. We have acted for language schools who have been adversely affected by new rules governing the admission of students into Ireland to study. We have acted for a Marina whose development has been substantially hampered as a result of difficulties with a government department.
Fundamentally, this part of our practice is aimed at any person who feels aggrieved by the actions of a public body whether a State body or a semi-State body."
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