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Golden Dawner expelled for following doctor’s advice

A Golden Dawn member was expelled because his fellow chiefs believed he should not have been following his chiefs and not his doctor’s advice. In a blog post, which was cross posted on Facebook, Níall MacSiúrtáin recounted his expulsion from the Ancient and Honourable Order of the Golden Dawn. MacSiúrtáin has epilepsy and he had taken medication which gave him weight gain, concentration problems, and extreme reaction to Sun.  The Irish sun would leave him with bad sunburn. Since he had not had a major seizure since 2007 MacSiúrtáin’s doctor decided to take him off his meds. That did not sit well with his chiefs, Dean Wilson and Gerald Dempsey, who mentioned it as a reason for his expulsion to members. A letter written by Dempsey, which was leaked to MacSiúrtáin by people within the Ancient and Honourable Order of the Golden Dawn, effectively claimed that MacSiúrtáin had a psychological disorder which made him risk his health by going off his meds. “I belief it is wiser for him to aband