tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50649048501378930612024-03-19T14:18:09.757-07:00Raped by the StateMy goal in creating this blog is to enlighten and warn others about 'Child Protective Services' as it operates today. People should not have to fear government agencies, however, so many of us do, with good reason. CPS abuse must be stopped. This agency is systematically destroying the family unit. CPS is a gestapo in the land. To read my nightmare with CPS, simply look to the right side of this page and scroll down to the 'blog archive'. THEN CLICK ON THE MAY 31st ENTRY.Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-9159016238452158352011-09-26T15:56:00.000-07:002011-09-26T15:56:50.304-07:00Mom wins substantial award against CPS abuse of power<span style="color: white;">The following link details a case where a mother was awarded a substantial award against CPS for abuse of power in her case. If this mother won a case against a social services agency, there are many thousands more mothers out there who can do the same thing because the circumstances in all of the cases are similar if not identical. The only difference in most cases is the names of the people involved and the location of the cases.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/Fogarty-Hardwick/social_services/prweb4157254.htm">http://www.prweb.com/releases/Fogarty-Hardwick/social_services/prweb4157254.htm</a>Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-40760721197641532592011-09-26T15:24:00.000-07:002011-09-26T15:24:43.651-07:00Article describing the coercive nature of CPS<span style="color: white;">The following link will lead you to an article that explains the coercive nature of CPS. They use coercion and intimidation tactics to get parents to relinquish their parental rights so the child can be adopted out to strangers<strong><u> for profit.</u></strong> The article is authored by Jan Smith on Facebook.</span><br />
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<a href="http://washingtonstateextendedfamilies.com/COERSION.htm">http://washingtonstateextendedfamilies.com/COERSION.htm</a>Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-35380340105312298802011-03-23T22:49:00.000-07:002011-03-23T22:49:13.797-07:00CPS Live Buzz Interviews Doctor About Psych Evaluations<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ePt1P8-d0HM?fs=1" width="425"></iframe>Is this an accurate depiction of CPS or what?! So very many parents are railroaded by CPS social workers by way of their contracted parrots-- I mean 'treatment providers'.Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-3324363549300183882011-03-15T20:36:00.000-07:002011-03-15T21:01:13.402-07:00HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY MICAH! Your Mama Denise will always love you.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim-g-7VLMpH-LadGScsF108aPf1x5jaqOGp1kLCXFSl8D-WKXMWBp2b1qj5vjhyphenhyphen_8-WTJzOAq-OHAAB8RCKydGxlAKPqDFw0BneXj7yb0pAqFFv4cKVMrJaLszaSsPbKArGR3QFtQxur_n/s1600/129438305004838720.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" r6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim-g-7VLMpH-LadGScsF108aPf1x5jaqOGp1kLCXFSl8D-WKXMWBp2b1qj5vjhyphenhyphen_8-WTJzOAq-OHAAB8RCKydGxlAKPqDFw0BneXj7yb0pAqFFv4cKVMrJaLszaSsPbKArGR3QFtQxur_n/s320/129438305004838720.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><br />
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I must graciously thank <a href="http://www.khq.com/Global/category.asp?C=96642"><span style="color: #b45f06;">KHQ </span></a><span style="color: #b45f06;">news</span> for airing my son's photo during their morning birthday announcements. I also thank <a href="http://www.kxly.com/slideshow/slideshows/21333015/detail.html"><span style="color: #b45f06;">KXLY</span></a><span style="color: #b45f06;"> news</span> for doing the same. It is one of the very few crumbs of joy that the State of Washington and foster-adopt industry can not snatch back from me. Making birthdays a part of their newscasts and websites has brought joy to my heart and I am very grateful for it.<br />
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I submitted my photo and request to KHQ on time, however, somehow mine was missed on March 14th (Micah's birthdate.) KHQ was kind enough to air my birthday greeting the next day... following my notifying them of the mistake.Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-12769043290133219812011-03-15T19:59:00.000-07:002011-03-26T20:34:44.926-07:00Railroad: The road traveled most by parents involved with CPSNothing can be more heart-wrenching than the loss of a child. For that reason, kidnappings mobilize entire communities to search for the missing and comfort the victimized families. In high-profile cases, such as that of Elizabeth Smart, <span style="background-color: #cc0000;">the entire nation watches.</span> Amber Alert systems notify police and private citizens to watch for the perpetrators. Yet, when CPS is the culprit/criminal, nothing is done to rescue the child from its kidnappers. It is merely assumed that the parent has committed some kind of abuse or neglect toward their children. If that can't be proven or even asserted, CPS and its cohorts just assert what they refer to as "risk of harm" by the parent/caregiver of the child. Then, its Department contracted 'treatment providers' <span style="background-color: #cc0000;">parrot what CPS wants to accomplish. </span>The parent is generally 'diagnosed' with a fake mental or personality disorder. Given the fact that they are allowed to drag the innocent parents into a fake court that provides nearly zero Due Process, the parents are afforded no justice. <br />
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The fact of the matter is that child abuse or purposeful neglect is a crime, however, parents are often times not charged with a crime because they are truly innocent of wrongdoing and there is no evidence of such a charge. CPS and family courts get away with bringing a civil case against the parent and drumming up the hanky defense: that the child is at risk of harm due to allegations that he/she has mental health problems severe enough to warrant the permanent termination of parental rights. They bring the civil case because it requires considerably less evidence or reason to separate parents from their children. That is all it takes in order for CPS to accomplish the permanent traumatizing of an entire family... all for the sake of the almighty dollar. (and generally with the assistance of <strong><em>Court Appointed</em></strong> lawyers that do NOT aggressively defend their clients against the abuses committed by CPS and judges.) Most of the 'professionals' within the CPS and family court system make their living by processing children like cattle. Doctors, therapists, social workers, supervisors, lawyers, AAG's, Gaurdian ad litems, visitation note takers, visitation transporters, judges, court commissioners, <strong><em><u>even foster parents </u></em></strong>seeking to adopt the children they are paid to care for while the parents desperately try to rescue their children from foster-incarceration. It is the foster-adopt industry. Yes, I said industry, because that is exactly what it is. The list seems never ending. The bureaucratic bully CPS will never cease this horrific and criminal behavior if they are never held accountable for their deeds. Listen people... kidnapping and fraudulent testimony are criminal. Why are state agents and fake court commissioners and judges allowed to commit such crimes and escape punishment? They are criminals. This needs to be remedied. Parents everywhere need to wake up and yell until we are heard. CPS is an unconstitutional financial empire built on separating loving, non abusive families in order to receive government financial bonuses and to sell the children like merchandise to foster-adopt couples desiring to adopt. CPS even has its own state contracted lawyers specifically to represent and facilitate these adoptions directly out of the foster care pool. Thus, it is much less expensive if not free to the perspective adoptive parents to file for the adoptions. Certainly less expensive than applying to a private adoption agency.<br />
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Please view the following videos of former Senator Nancy Schaefer regarding the corrupt business of Child Protective Services.<br />
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Below are the links to the videos on YouTube...<br />
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Part 1 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOx5Q5ekPxk&feature=player_embedded<br />
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Part 2 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfWEQEm9GJk&feature=player_embedded<br />
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Part 3 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1HnWqy_0yM&feature=player_embedded<br />
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Part 4 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg-N9tT6OtY&feature=player_embedded<br />
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Feel free to pass along - we need to get the word out!!!!Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-49317463504016890182011-02-07T17:24:00.000-08:002011-02-07T17:24:46.441-08:00CPS: A FINANCIAL EMPIRE<strong>Sunday Reading: The Money Behind State Adoptions </strong><br />
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Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness...DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families <br />
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Child "protection" is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We spend $12 billion a year on it. <br />
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The money goes to tens of thousands of a) state employees, b) collateral professionals, such as lawyers, court personnel, court investigators, evaluators and guardians, judges, and c) DSS contracted vendors such as counselors, therapists, more "evaluators" , junk psychologists, residential facilities, foster parents, adoptive parents, MSPCC, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, YMCA, etc. This newspaper is not big enough to list all of the people in this state who have a job, draw a paycheck, or make their profits off the kids in DSS custody. <br />
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In this article I explain the financial infrastructure that provides the motivation for DSS to take people’s children – and not give them back. <br />
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In 1974 Walter Mondale promoted the Child Abuse and Prevention Act which began feeding massive amounts of federal funding to states to set up programs to combat child abuse and neglect. From that came Child "Protective" Services, as we know it today. After the bill passed, Mondale himself expressed concerns that it could be misused. He worried that it could lead states to create a "business" in dealing with children. <br />
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Then in 1997 President Clinton passed the "Adoption and Safe Families Act." The public relations campaign promoted it as a way to help abused and neglected children who languished in foster care for years, often being shuffled among dozens of foster homes, never having a real home and family. In a press release from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services dated November 24, 1999, it refers to "President Clinton’s initiative to double by 2002 the number of children in foster care who are adopted or otherwise permanently placed." <br />
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It all sounded so heartwarming. We, the American public, are so easily led. We love to buy stereotypes; we just eat them up, no questions asked. But, my mother, bless her heart, taught me from the time I was young to "consider the source." In the stereotype that we’ve been sold about kids in foster care, we picture a forlorn, hollow-eyed child, thin and pale, looking up at us beseechingly through a dirt streaked face. Unconsciously, we pull up old pictures from Life magazine of children in Appalachia in the 1930s. We think of orphans and children abandoned by parents who look like Manson family members. We play a nostalgic movie in our heads of the little fellow shyly walking across an emerald green, manicured lawn to meet Ward and June Cleaver, his new adoptive parents, who lead him into their lovely suburban home. We imagine the little tyke’s eyes growing as big as saucers as the Cleavers show him his very own room, full of toys and sports gear. And we just feel so gosh darn good about ourselves. <br />
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Now it’s time to wake up to the reality of the <strong><em><u>adoption business.</u></em></strong> <br />
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Very few children who are being used to supply the adoption market are hollow-eyed tykes from Appalachia. Very few are crack babies from the projects. [Oh… you thought those were the children they were saving? Think again]. When you are marketing a product you have to provide a desirable product that sells. In the adoption business that would be nice kids with reasonably good genetics who clean up good. An interesting point is that the Cape Cod & Islands office leads the state in terms of processing kids into the system and having them adopted out. More than the inner city areas, the projects, Mission Hill, Brockton, Lynn, etc. Interesting… <br />
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With the implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, President Clinton tried to make himself look like a humanitarian who is responsible for saving the abused and neglected children. The drive of this initiative is to offer cash "bonuses" to states for every child they have adopted out of foster care, with the goal of doubling their adoptions by 2002, and sustaining that for each subsequent year. They actually call them "adoption incentive bonuses," to promote the adoption of children. <br />
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<strong><u>Where to Find the Children</u></strong> <br />
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A whole new industry was put into motion. A sweet marketing scheme that even Bill Gates could envy. Now, if you have a basket of apples, and people start giving you $100 per apple, what are you going to do? Make sure that you have an unlimited supply of apples, right? <br />
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The United States Department of Health & Human Services administers Child Protective Services. To accompany the ASF Act, the President requested, by executive memorandum, an initiative entitled Adoption 2002, to be implemented and managed by Health & Human Services. The initiative not only gives the cash adoption bonuses to the states, it also provides cash adoption subsidies to adoptive parents until the children turn eighteen. <br />
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Everybody makes money. If anyone really believes that these people are doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, then I’ve got some bad news for you. The fact that this program is run by HHS, ordered from the very top, explains why the citizens who are victims of DSS get no response from their legislators. It explains why no one in the Administration cares about the abuse and fatalities of children in the "care" of DSS, and no one wants to hear about the broken arms, verbal abuse, or rapes. They are just business casualties. It explains why the legislators I’ve talked to for the past three years look at me with pity. Because I’m preaching to the already damned. <br />
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The legislators have forgotten who funds their paychecks and who they need to account to, as has the Governor. Because it isn’t the President. It’s us.<br />
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<u><strong>How DSS Is Helped</strong></u> <br />
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The way that the adoption bonuses work is that each state is given a baseline number of expected adoptions based on population. <br />
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For every child that DSS can get adopted, there is a bonus of $4,000 to $6,000. <br />
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But that is just the starting figure in a complex mathematical formula in which each bonus is multiplied by the percentage that the state has managed to exceed its baseline adoption number. The states must maintain this increase in each successive year. [Like compound interest.] The bill reads: "$4,000 to $6,000 will be multiplied by the amount (if any) by which the number of foster child adoptions in the State exceeds the base number of foster child adoptions for the State for the fiscal year." In the "technical assistance" section of the bill it states that, "the Secretary [of HHS] may, directly or through grants or contracts, provide technical assistance to assist states and local communities to reach their targets for increased numbers of adoptions for children in foster care." The technical assistance is to support "the goal of encouraging more adoptions out of the foster care system; the development of best practice guidelines for expediting the termination of parental rights; the development of special units and expertise in moving children toward adoption as a permanent goal; models to encourage the fast tracking of children who have not attained 1 year of age into pre-adoptive placements; and the development of programs that place children into pre-adoptive placements without waiting for termination of parental rights." <br />
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In the November press release from HHS it continues, " HHS awarded the first ever adoption bonuses to States for increases in the adoption of children from the public foster care system." Some of the other incentives offered are "innovative grants" to reduce barriers to adoption [i.e., parents], more State support for adoptive families, making adoption affordable for families by providing cash subsides and tax credits. <br />
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A report from a private think tank, the National Center for Policy Analysis, reads: "The way the federal government reimburses States rewards a growth in the size of the program instead of the effective care of children." Another incentive being promoted is the use of the Internet to make adoption easier. Clinton directed HHS to develop an Internet site to "link children in foster care with adoptive families." So we will be able to window shop for children on a government web site. If you don’t find anything you like there, you can surf on over to the "Adopt Shoppe." <br />
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If you prefer to actually be able to kick tires instead of just looking at pictures you could attend one of DSS’s quaint "Adoption Fairs," where live children are put on display and you can walk around and browse. Like a flea market to sell kids. If one of them begs you to take him home you can always say, "Sorry. Just looking." The incentives for government child snatching are so good that I’m surprised we don’t have government agents breaking down people’s doors and just shooting the parents in the heads and grabbing the kids. But then, if you need more apples you don’t chop down your apple trees.<br />
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<strong><u>Benefits for Foster Parents</u> </strong><br />
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That covers the goodies the State gets. Now let’s have a look at how the Cleavers make out financially after the adoption is finalized. <br />
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After the adoption is finalized, the State and federal subsidies continue. The adoptive parents may collect cash subsidies until the child is 18. If the child stays in school, subsidies continue to the age of 22. There are State funded subsidies as well as federal funds through the Title IV-E section of the Social Security Act. The daily rate for State funds is the same as the foster care payments, which range from $410-$486 per month per child. Unless the child can be designated "special needs," which of course, they all can. <br />
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According to the NAATRIN State Subsidy profile from DSS, "special needs" may be defined as: "Physical disability, mental disability, emotional disturbance; a significant emotional tie with the foster parents where the child has resided with the foster parents for one or more years and separation would adversely affect the child’s development if not adopted by them." [But their significant emotional ties with their parents, since birth, never enter the equation.] <br />
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Additional "special needs" designations are: a child twelve years of age or older; racial or ethnic factors; child having siblings or half-siblings. In their report on the State of the Children, Boston’s Institute for Children says: "In part because the States can garner extra federal funds for special needs children the designation has been broadened so far as to become meaningless. " "Special needs" children may also get an additional Social Security check. <br />
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The adoptive parents also receive Medicaid for the child, a clothing allowance and reimbursement for adoption costs such as adoption fees, court and attorney fees, cost of adoption home study, and "reasonable costs of food and lodging for the child and adoptive parents when necessary to complete the adoption process." Under Title XX of the Social Security Act adoptive parents are also entitled to post adoption services "that may be helpful in keeping the family intact," including "daycare, specialized daycare, respite care, in-house support services such as housekeeping, and personal care, counseling, and other child welfare services". [Wow! Everything short of being knighted by the Queen!] <br />
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The subsidy profile actually states that it does not include money to remodel the home to accommodate the child. But, as subsidies can be negotiated, remodeling could possibly be accomplished under the "innovative incentives to remove barriers to adoption" section. The subsidy regulations read that "adoption assistance is based solely on the needs of the child without regard to the income of the family." What an interesting government policy when compared to the welfare program that the same child’s mother may have been on before losing her children, and in which she may not own anything, must prove that she has no money in the bank; no boats, real estate, stocks or bonds; and cannot even own a car that is safe to drive worth over $1000. This is all so she can collect $539 per month for herself and two children. The foster parent who gets her children gets $820 plus. We spit on the mother on welfare as a parasite who is bleeding the taxpayers, yet we hold the foster and adoptive parents [who are bleeding ten times as much from the taxpayers] up as saints. The adoptive and foster parents aren’t subjected to psychological evaluations, ink blot tests, MMPI’s, drug & alcohol evaluations, or urine screens as the parents are. <br />
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Adoption subsidies may be negotiated on a case by case basis. [Anyone ever tried to "negotiate" with the Welfare Department?] There are many e-mail lists and books published to teach adoptive parents how to negotiate to maximize their subsidies. As one pro writes on an e-mail list: "We receive a subsidy for our kids of $1,900 per month plus another $500 from the State of Florida. We are trying to adopt three more teens and we will get subsidies for them, too. It sure helps out with the bills." <br />
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I can’t help but wonder why we don’t give this same level of support to the children’s parents in the first place? According to Cornell University, about 68% of all child protective cases "do not involve child maltreatment. " The largest percentage of CPS/DSS cases are for "deprivation of necessities" due to poverty. So, if the natural parents were given the incredible incentives and services listed above that are provided to the adoptive parents, wouldn’t it stand to reason that the causes for removing children in the first place would be eliminated? How many less children would enter foster care in the first place? The child protective budget would be reduced from $12 billion to around $4 billion. Granted, tens of thousands of social workers, administrators, lawyers, juvenile court personnel, therapists, and foster parents would be out of business, but we would have safe, healthy, intact families, which are the foundation of any society. <br />
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That’s just a fantasy, of course. The reality is that maybe we will see Kathleen Crowley’s children on the government home-shopping- for-children web site and some one out there can buy them. <br />
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Posted by State Senator Pam Roach <br />
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<span style="background-color: #38761d;"><em>This blogs author Denise Dopkins says "Thank you Mrs. Roach for providing the above article. How abundantly truthful it really is! The Foster Adopt<strong><u> industry</u></strong> continues to thrive due to the fact that DCFS/CPS continues to be allowed to destroy innocent loving families simply in order to receive funding. The funding that pays foster parents and adoptive parents alike. The funding also continues to go to CPS contracted providers (therapists, doctors, visitation monitors, lawyers, commissioners, judges, social workers and the list goes on and on."</em></span>Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-15563258167213536252011-01-07T18:45:00.000-08:002011-01-07T18:48:23.521-08:00Just another child protection racket (scheme)The following article was authored by <a href="http://pamroachreport.blogspot.com/">Pam Roach</a> and can be located on her own blog as well. Just click on her name above and it will take you to her blog. Lots of wonderful and eye opening information there too.<br />
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011<br />
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CPS: Escapes Budget Cuts <br />
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Citing the need to protect children, Gov. Gregoire recently told the press that CPS would not take budget cuts. I am the first to agree that not enough is being done to protect children. Just read the headlines to see how many cases are gone <strong><u><em>neglected by the department</em>.</u></strong> (CPS) But, on the other end of the spectrum, children are <strong><u><em>being taken without cause.</em></u></strong> No budget cuts means the system of taking children <strong><em><u>for adoption</u></em></strong> will continue, unabated, during the budget shortage. Here is a grandma comment just posted. This story is one repeated often.<br />
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Loving Grandma Writes: <br />
"The job of the CPS worker is to build the most damning report she can to justify the removal of the children. I have read the report on my son and his wife, who were not allowed to bring their newborn home from the hospital because of the alleged possibility of neglect. The descriptions in the CPS report bear only a vague resemblance to my real-life son and daughter-in-law. The report paints such a misleading picture of the situation that it would be no help to Senator Roach or to anyone who wanted to know the true story."<br />
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Senator Pam Roach states the following:<br />
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"Today in Olympia I received two calls from CPS involved families. All were pleading for help from a <strong><em><u>government that has lied to take children.</u></em></strong> I am sure there are some cases where the department is correct in their actions....I wonder if Secretary Denise Revels Robinson has gotten the "taking rate" down like she said she would."<br />
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"Session starts Janurary 10th. I will be ready."Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-82892648724351390492010-12-23T16:22:00.000-08:002010-12-23T16:32:32.317-08:00The Financial Empire CPSThis blog's author Denise Dopkins posts the following video in which a heartbroken mother describes the agenda and motives of CPS and family courts. I personally have experienced the same heartache and sorrow in my life due to this bureaucratic bullies. I suffered the severe absence of Due Process found in the family and appellate courts. Please click on the following link to hear the absolute truth about the financial empire CPS and family courts... not to forget the foster-adopt industry. Yes-- I said <span style="color: black;"><strong><em><u>industry</u></em></strong>.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/child-abduction-by-the-state"><span style="color: #274e13;">http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/child-abduction-by-the-state</span></a><br />
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State of Missouri Leaves out the Timeline to the case that shows how they <strong><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">set the child up for adoption</span></u></strong> by using their own first hand knowledge. <br />
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State officials on the case, left out information in order to obtain an unlawful termination. <br />
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Time line shows their knowledge of their own actions and predated intentions to procure an unlawful adoption. Timeline was never allowed or used during court procedures that would show the judges deliberate ignorance and intentions to hide their own acts of child endangerment and fraud to obtain an unlawful adoption. <br />
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Courts Rule on Parental Bonding To Separate Mother& Daughter while collecting federal funds, bonuses and rewards. Missouri state officials have taken the right to claim that a parent or child has no bond between them in order to establish a termination of parental rights act of law. See petition, Child Abduction By The State more <br />
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901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-21177448623873763052010-12-01T06:55:00.000-08:002010-12-28T06:16:25.221-08:00CPS criminal activityIndependent Media Source<br />
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THE CHILD PROTECTION RACKET<br />
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Critics compare CPS to Frankenstein's monster, out of control, destroying children and parents alike. Child handed pills A PROTECTIVE SYSTEM GONE AWRY. The Child Abuse Protection and Treatment Act of 1974 was aimed at protecting children; <span style="background-color: #274e13;">instead, it enabled psychiatry to pervert the system for its own enrichment.</span> As psychiatrist Bertram Brown (above), then director of the National Institute of Mental Health, proclaimed in 1977, "the tough role — that of change agentry vis a vis the family — has devolved upon the mental health system." In the decades since, psychiatry's role in the "child abuse" arena has mushroomed — <span style="background-color: #274e13;">with catastrophic effects for families and children.</span> <br />
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In the cases of Rusty and Jessica, however, no one activated an Amber Alert. There was no news media blitz. <br />
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Because these children were but two of the thousands forcibly separated from their families each year by the Child Protective Services (CPS) system. <br />
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<span style="background-color: #274e13;">Help Becomes Betrayal</span> <br />
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Child Protective Services, in the eyes of many parents and advocacy groups, is a cruel misnomer. <br />
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One prominent children's rights advocate whose efforts were instrumental in bringing about the legislation that created the CPS system in the 1970s is Walter Mondale, former vice president and senator. Subsequently, Mondale reportedly feared that the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act he introduced in the Senate in 1974 <span style="background-color: #274e13;">"could lead to<strong><em><u> systemic abuse</u></em></strong> in that the state agencies might overprocess children into the system unnecessarily to keep, and increase, the flow of federal dollars."1</span> <br />
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That, the record shows, is exactly what has happened, with critics today comparing the system to Dr. Frankenstein's monster — out of control, destroying children and parents alike. <br />
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But how did this transformation of a system originally intended to help children come about? Freedom's investigation <span style="background-color: #274e13;">found the psychiatric industry to be at the core of this perversion, as documented in this report.</span> <br />
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As early as 1977, a formative year for the CPS system, psychiatrist Bertram S. Brown, then director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), revealed the self-appointed mission of his profession to gain control of this territory. "The tough role — that of change agentry vis a vis the family — has devolved upon the mental health system," he wrote in the foreword to a 200-page NIMH publication, Child Abuse and Neglect Programs: Practice and Theory. <br />
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Subsequently, over the decades, psychiatry's role in bringing about such change has burgeoned — including the vesting of more and more public funds in wasteful and destructive psychiatric drugs and other "solutions." At the same time, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">psychiatric control of the child-protection system has been detrimental to the system's <strong><em><u>stated goal</u></em></strong> of keeping families together</span>, with Rusty and Jessica being but two of an untold number of tragedies. <br />
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In interviews with Freedom, mothers described the <span style="background-color: #274e13;">serious abuse of their children under Child Protective Services programs. </span><br />
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A Mind-Altering Potpourri <br />
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In 1995, after her daughter Jessica, then 5, was molested, Audrey Serrano turned to the Massachusetts Department of Social Services for help. <br />
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Referred to psychiatrists, including Elliott Pittel at the Herbert Lipton Community Mental Health Center in Leominster, young Jessica was, by age 6, placed on a potpourri of mind-altering pharmaceuticals while still living at home. These included an amphetamine-type drug and three different antidepressants. All three antidepressants prescribed to Jessica are among the drugs that have recently been the subject of multiple warnings from health authorities in numerous nations, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Their labels bear the FDA's most serious "black box" admonition — that they will "increase the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior." The FDA indicated that the manufacturer of the amphetamine-type drug Jessica had been prescribed would be forced to alter the drug's label to reflect problems "such as visual hallucinations, suicidal ideation, psychotic behavior, as well as aggression or violent behavior." <br />
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By 1998, when Jessica was 8, other powerful drugs had been added to her daily regimen, including two powerful amphetamines. <br />
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While on these potent drugs, Jessica began to hear voices, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">a side effect of amphetamine usage.</span> The voices told Jessica, in her mother's words, "to do bad things, to kill people." They also warned that someone was coming to kill her, so Jessica began to sleep with knives under her pillow and under the bed for protection. She talked openly about wanting to kill herself, a side effect of her antidepressants. <br />
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She banged her head against walls, dug at her skin with her fingernails, and began to be cruel to animals — tying one cat up in a bag and stuffing another into a toilet. <br />
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This array of bizarre behavior bewildered her mother. <span style="background-color: #274e13;">"This never happened before the drugs,"</span> Serrano said. "They Would Slam Her to the Floor" <br />
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Serrano became so concerned about escalating medication and worsening problems that she gradually weaned Jessica, then nearly 9, off the drugs. Jessica stopped hearing voices. Her behavior improved. She no longer thought about killing herself. "I feel much better," Jessica told Pittel during an office visit. "My head doesn't hurt anymore." <br />
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Pittel berated Serrano, however, insisting that Jessica go back on psychiatric drugs. "I'm a doctor and I know what's best," he reportedly said. "You don't have a degree." <br />
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When Serrano informed Pittel of the many adverse effects Jessica had suffered on the drugs, the psychiatrist, in Serrano's words, got "beet-red" and "highly upset." "He told me that I had to put her back on them or he would file a 51A* for medical neglect," Serrano said, an action that would bring about loss of her daughter to the CPS system. "So I put her back on." <br />
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Not long after the meeting with Pittel, Jessica was abducted anyway — taken directly from school by CPS personnel, who claimed Serrano was unfit to be a mother because she had tested positive for HIV — a test later shown to be false. <br />
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Almost unbelievably, with Jessica <span style="background-color: #274e13;">held in the CPS system</span> at Hillcrest Education Center in Lennox, Massachusetts, psychiatrist Theodore Lindauer recommended still additional drugs, including up to 500 milligrams daily of Thorazine, described by the man who pioneered its use as a "pharmacological substitute for lobotomy." (See "The Littlest Guinea Pigs".) <br />
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Separated from her mother for a span of 23 months between the ages of 9 and 11, Jessica ultimately endured six foster homes and a residential care center. At two homes, she allegedly was molested. Powerful, mind-ravaging drugs were injected against her will. According to information presented to Freedom by Serrano, Thorazine was given without court order or parental permission, as required by law. <span style="background-color: #274e13;">COERCIVE DRUGGING</span> <br />
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Audrey Serrano with Jessica and attorney Gregory A. Hession. TAKING IT TO THE COURTS: After daughter Jessica was given such dangerous drugs as Thorazine and brutalized within the system, Audrey Serrano (center, with Jessica and attorney Gregory A. Hession) filed suit. <br />
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In Massachusetts, before anyone can be administered a neuroleptic ("nerve-seizing") drug against their will, a hearing to authorize it must be held before a judge. According to Audrey Serrano, and her attorney, Gregory A. Hession, no such hearing took place before the neuroleptic drug Zyprexa was administered to Serrano's daughter, Jessica (inset, at age 6), while in Massachusetts Department of Social Services' custody. Psychiatrist Theodore Lindauer authorized giving Jessica up to 500 milligrams daily of one neuroleptic, Thorazine, and doses of two others as well. In an interview with Freedom, Lindauer described the Thorazine dosage as "ridiculous." After Freedom obtained documentation of Jessica's "treatment plan" in which Lindauer prescribed the life-threatening regimen for the young girl (right), he refused to answer additional questions. As early as age 6, while under "treatment" at the Herbert Lipton Community Mental Health Center in Leominster by psychiatrist Elliott Pittel and others, Jessica was subjected to drugs that, according to recent government warnings, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">can trigger violent and suicidal behavior,</span> or sudden death. <br />
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"All she had to do was say 'no' to them and they would slam her to the floor; someone would place a knee in her back and tie her hands," Serrano said. "There was so much emotional damage I can't even begin to tell you." Jessica's little body bore bruises <span style="background-color: #274e13;">from forcible injections</span>, she said. <br />
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Far from "helping," these drugs created her daughter's severe problems, according to Serrano. She finally got Jessica back, but scars from the ordeal remain. To help inform others of her experiences, Serrano formed an organization, Families Against Abuse, which today has a nationwide membership (www.FamiliesAgainstAbuse.org). <br />
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Death of a Patient <br />
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When telephoned by Freedom, psychiatrist Pittel refused to answer questions. His colleague, Theodore Lindauer, denied that he had recommended 500 milligrams daily of Thorazine, calling that high a dosage "ridiculous." But after Freedom obtained documentation of Jessica's "Treatment Plan" in which Lindauer authorized up to 500 milligrams daily of Thorazine, he declined to answer additional questions. <br />
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In the course of its probe, Freedom learned that Lindauer was disciplined in January 2004 by the New Hampshire State Board of Medicine, following the 1998 death of a patient at a New Hampshire facility at which Lindauer then served as medical director. <br />
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According to information received from the board, the man had been admitted to Beech Hill Hospital in Dublin, New Hampshire, with a substance abuse problem. Due to the seriousness of his condition, he was to be monitored every 30 minutes. During a periodic check, the man was found to be "unresponsive." Rushed to another hospital, he was pronounced dead. <br />
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Dori Todd Hill of the Board of Medicine told Freedom that Lindauer "was responsible for making sure that the hospital was equipped to handle these emergencies and that patients were properly monitored." In its published findings, the Board of Medicine stated, "Dr. Lindauer is reprimanded and his license to practice in the area of substance abuse is restricted until he has completed 80 hours of continuing medical education in the assessment and treatment of substance abuse." <br />
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More trouble looms for Lindauer, as Audrey Serrano told Freedom she intends to add him as a party in the lawsuit she has pending against the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, Hillcrest and others. <br />
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EXPERTS DECRY Mental Health Profiteering Ben Raimer, M.D. "The more the medications or diagnoses that a child is on, <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><u><em>the more the reimbursement per child is for a foster parent,"</em></u></span> —Ben Raimer, M.D. Eddie Farnsworth, Arizona State Rep. "The heavy reliance on psychiatric drugs has had a very negative effect on the children in our society across the board." —Eddie Farnsworth Arizona State Rep. <br />
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The Child Protective Services system has become an object of psychiatric industry greed, say experts who track, expose and seek to eliminate this brand of child abuse. <span style="background-color: #274e13;">A "gangster racket": that's how New York author and psychologist Seth Farber, Ph.D., describes Child Protective Services.</span> "It's a corrupt system," he says, "with psychiatrists and their behavioral classifications at the heart of it." Outraged by the high doses and multiple prescriptions of psychiatric drugs rampant throughout the CPS system, physicians like Ben Raimer and legislators like Arizona House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Eddie Farnsworth are speaking out to help curb the abuses. Chris Garrison, director, Citizens Commission on Human Rights, Massachusetts "Mental health vendors are using children ... as a commodity by billing for lethal drugs and needless, harmful psychiatric procedures." — Chris Garrison, director, Citizens Commission on Human Rights, Massachusetts <br />
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<span style="background-color: #274e13;">More Foster Children, More Profit</span> <br />
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As established by federal law, every state has an agency to combat child abuse. Usually located within the state's Social Services department and commonly called Child Protective Services, the network comprises an expanding, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">multibillion-dollar <u>empire</u></span>, with offices in every county — and with each child representing tens of thousands of taxpayer-funded dollars per year <span style="background-color: #274e13;">funneled to the psychiatric machine</span> controlling the child's fate. <br />
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A major source of CPS revenue, nearly $5 billion a year, comes from the federal government through Social Security, under a provision allowing open-ended* funding. <span style="background-color: #274e13;">By the nature of such a system,</span> the more children placed in foster care, the more money a state gets, producing a psychiatrically centered system that, instead of working to keep families together,<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> strives to capture more</span> and more kids, and to put more and more of them on drugs. <br />
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As the California Child Welfare Services (CWS) Stakeholders Group, an organization under the state Department of Social Services, explained: "The federal system of funding child welfare services at the state and county levels creates a 'perverse incentive factor' by providing open-ended funding for children and youth who are in the CWS system vs. providing capped funds for prevention and early intervention efforts. <br />
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"This 'perverse incentive factor' results in the state and counties earning the most revenue by having more children in the system as opposed to their receiving the funding necessary to reduce the need for Child Protective Services in the first place."2 <br />
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Audrey Serrano noted <span style="background-color: #274e13;">the incentives include <strong><em><u>bonuses for CPS employees</u></em></strong> who bring children into the system — with quotas issued to make sure they do so.</span> New York author and psychologist Seth Farber, Ph.D., told Freedom that such abuses make him consider the CPS system a "gangster racket," with psychiatrists and psychologists at its core. <br />
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"They take children away from their mothers and bounce them around in the system," Farber explained. "It's a corrupt system, with psychiatrists and their behavioral classifications at the heart of it." <br />
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Falsely Labeling Innocent, Normal Kids <br />
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In New York, Farber said, psychiatrists and psychologists appointed by the courts to evaluate children or parents are paid at least $500 an hour. These "evaluations" <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><em><u>all too often</u></em></strong> result in the separation of parents and children </span>— particularly, Farber said, when there is a single mother and she happens to be African-American. <br />
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Nearly all of the victims of the CPS system in New York, he said, are poor black women. <br />
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Once a child has been removed from the family, frequently on the nebulous charge of "neglect," the <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><em><u>systematic </u></em></strong></span><span style="background-color: #274e13;">milking of funding streams begins.</span> Sources include Medicaid, the Crime Victims Compensation Fund, Social Security Disability Insurance and others. <br />
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Some states automatically issue Medicaid cards to children removed from their homes, making it easier to tap into federal funds. <br />
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One social worker informed Freedom that once a child receives a psychiatric label, his or her foster home immediately becomes eligible for roughly double the amount of money for that child. <br />
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Speaking on condition of anonymity, this source noted that the system has become geared toward giving children psychiatric labels and drugs because such "treatment" brings far greater income to foster parents and those administering group homes. "It's a dishonest system that falsely labels innocent, normal kids<strong><em><u> </u></em></strong><span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><em><u>on a wholesale basis</u></em></strong>, condemning them to a life with a phony psychiatric diagnosis,"</span> she said. The WAR on Families Rafe ABUSE WITHIN THE SYSTEM Taken from his mother for "abuse" she bitterly denies, young Rafe reportedly suffered three head injuries and cuts on his leg during one week in CPS custody. <br />
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A review of state child welfare hand-books reveals that, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">empowered by psychiatrists</span>, Child Protective Services (CPS) agents wield the power to label any parent "unfit" and to take away his or her children. <br />
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Based on these guides, genuine objectivity becomes difficult to impossible, leading to injustice even in the hands of well-intentioned employees. New York's manual, for example, contains a chart regarding physical and behavioral signs of abuse or neglect. It includes any type of physical injury, even though contact sports, bicycle or skateboard accidents, and so forth, could be actual causes of injury. This chart contains such catch-all terms as aggressiveness, withdrawal, low self-esteem, failure to thrive, speech disorders and fatigue. <br />
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Colorado's points for determining "abuse" and "neglect" include eating disorders, bed-wetting, early arrival or late departure from school, poor communication and PR skills, inappropriate height or weight, and <span style="background-color: #274e13;">parents unsupportive of school personnel or disdainful of public schools/teachers.</span> According to this, a child who happens to be shorter and skinnier or, perhaps, taller and heavier than average and who shows up to school early may well be in need of state intervention. <br />
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According to author and foster mother Mary Callahan, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">birth parents are up against a <strong><em><u>stacked deck</u></em></strong> when they deal with the CPS system.</span> "They tell the parents if they go and get a parent capacity evaluation, this will help them get their children back," she told Freedom. However, she said, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">"95 percent of the parents that they see end up with a psychiatric diagnosis." </span><br />
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Callahan said that when she challenged a doctor who enjoyed a lucrative contract with the Maine Department of Human Services to give such evaluations, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">he winked at her and said, "They send them to me for a reason." </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: red;">Money and Dangerous Drugs Drive the System </span><br />
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Documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests filed by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR*) in Massachusetts revealed that an incredible 64 percent of the children in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) had been labeled with at least one "mental illness." Virtually all those so diagnosed are typically placed on one or more drugs with serious and even deadly side effects. <br />
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Chris Garrison, director of CCHR Massachusetts, said, "These documents and reports from whistleblowers and parents of children taken away by Social Services make it evident that DSS and its <span style="background-color: #274e13;">mental health vendors are using children like Jessica as a commodity by billing</span> for lethal drugs and needless, harmful psychiatric procedures." <br />
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Not the least of psychiatric evils is the sanctioning of forced abduction and the drugging of children. Experts note that such labels as "Separation Anxiety Disorder," "Adjustment Disorder" or "Mood Disorder" could well describe normal responses to an abrupt, enforced removal from the child's home and family and into the clutches of a cold and abusive system. These tags are then employed to force children to take powerful drugs. <br />
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At a hearing of the Human Services Committee of the Texas House of Representatives in October 2004, Ben Raimer, M.D., a pediatrician, testified that he had seen children in foster homes on "as many as 11 psychotropic meds." <br />
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Raimer described visiting one foster home where four children, aged 2, 3, 5 and 6, were all on large numbers of drugs, with heavy doses of each.<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> "The more the medications or diagnoses that a child is on, <strong><em><u>the more the reimbursement per child is for a foster parent,"</u></em></strong> Raimer explained.</span> <br />
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The drugs pouring into the nation's foster children come at a high price. As Arizona State Representative Eddie Farnsworth told Freedom, "The heavy reliance on psychiatric drugs has had a very negative effect on the children in our society across the board." The omnipresent ADHD label, he said, has created an epidemic of child drugging across all facets of society. <br />
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Psychologists and many people who are not medical doctors have labeled countless children with so-called mental disorders <span style="background-color: #274e13;">to promote the psychiatry-controlled CPS money machine.</span> Neurologist Fred Baughman, M.D., told Freedom, "There have been amazing stories of diagnoses made in schools of ADHD, 'conduct disorder' and 'oppositional defiant disorder.' Then the schools turn to CPS to coerce the parents or take them to court to enforce the treatment of these things <span style="background-color: #274e13;">as though they were actual diseases,</span> which they are not." The "treatment," he said, comes in the form of dangerous and sometimes fatal drugs. Money is the Driving Force Money is the Driving Force <br />
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<span style="background-color: #274e13;">Children from the foster care system — <strong><em><u>dominated by psychiatry and its drugs</u></em></strong> — tend to do worse in life than those raised by their own parents or families, with study after study confirming that Child Protective Services (CPS) failed those it claimed to help. </span><br />
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Statistics on educational performance, drug abuse, crime and homelessness reveal how the system <span style="background-color: #274e13;">has been crippled by psychiatric influences. </span><br />
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A research team, for example, conducted an evaluation of 749 17-year-olds leaving the foster care system in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Their report, issued in 2004 by the University of Chicago's Chapin Hall Center for Children, showed "nearly two-thirds of the male and half the female foster children had been arrested, convicted of a crime, or sent to a correctional facility." Over half of these 17-year-olds were not yet reading at seventh-grade level.1 <br />
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The Urban Institute found that children aged 12 to 17 in the child welfare system had been suspended or expelled from school in 32 percent of the cases, compared to 13 percent in parental care.2 <br />
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A U.S. Senate measure from 2003, the Improving Education for Homeless and Foster Children with Disabilities Act, included alarming statistics: "In a number of states, more than 60 percent of children and youth in foster care drop out of school before graduation; a rate that is twice as high as the dropout rate for all students." <br />
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A 2002 study by Child Trends, a research center in Washington, D.C., found that 48 percent of all former foster youths had graduated from high school,3 compared to 71 percent that year for all public school students.4 A 1996 University of Wisconsin study found that one-third of those exiting foster care became homeless,5 compared to less than one percent in the general population. <br />
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"Money is a driving force" in the CPS system, author Mary Callahan told Freedom. More money is given by the state <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><em><u>for ever more psychiatric diagnoses</u></em></strong></span> and ever-increasing amounts of psychiatric drugs. <br />
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"If money only flows if kids get worse, somehow, they just keep getting worse," Callahan said. The heart of the matter, she noted, is to change the system so success, not further failure, is rewarded. FAILING GRADES FOR FOSTER CARE <br />
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Percentage of children obtaining their high school diploma or general equivalency diploma: <br />
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A 2005 study* by the University of Chicago's Chapin Hall Center for Children found that 37.1 percent of those from foster care failed to get a high school diploma or general equivalency diploma, compared with only 9.4 percent of other Americans their age. This study, the most extensive of its kind in decades, also documented how those caught in the foster care system encounter higher rates of unemployment, homelessness, violence and crime. <br />
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* Mark E. Courtney et al., "Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth: Outcomes at Age 19," May 2005. <br />
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1 Mark E. Courtney, Sherri Terao and Noel Bost, "Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth: Conditions of Youth Preparing to Leave State Care," Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, February 22, 2004. <br />
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2 Katherine Kortenkamp and Jennifer Ehrle, "Well-Being of Children Involved with the Child Welfare System: A National Overview," The Urban Institute, January 15, 2002. <br />
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Falsely Labeling Parents <br />
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Rusty Roska and his mother, Connie HARD-WON VICTORY Rusty Roska was forcibly removed from his family's home in 1999 after his mother, Connie, was assigned a psychiatric label that has since been widely discredited. The family fought back and won a landmark legal victory against Utah's Division of Child and Family Services. Regarding the violent separation, Connie (shown with Rusty in 2006) said, "To this day, my daughter cries when she remembers it." <br />
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Psychiatric labels are also slapped on parents by psychiatrists and psychologists. Seth Farber explained that one means by which the New York child welfare system obtains more children <span style="background-color: #274e13;">is "to have their psychologists say the parent has a 'psychosis' or 'personality disorder.'</span> If that parent doesn't want to give up his or her child, or doesn't trust the psychologist on the agency's payroll, that data is used to 'prove' that a 'mental disorder' exists. <br />
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"Once that parent has been labeled 'mentally disordered' by a psychologist, child welfare doesn't have to prove the parent actually did anything wrong. In the complete absence of any evidence of parental wrongdoing, that psychiatric label is sufficient justification to seize the child." (See "The War on Families," page 11.) <br />
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Farber noted, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">"You're not going to find a psychologist or psychiatrist say anybody is mentally healthy — except for themselves and their friends and buddies."</span> <br />
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Rusty Roska was plagued by serious physical problems, but those problems went undiagnosed and untreated, while Salt Lake City psychologist Eric Yelsa reportedly badgered him with such comments as "We know you're psychotic" and such questions as "You want to kill your family, don't you?" <br />
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When Utah's Division of Child and Family Services seized Rusty, it invoked the psychiatric label of Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP), which asserts a parent intentionally made his or her own child sick in order to gain attention. <br />
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In affixing the MSBP label, psychiatrists have targeted mothers in particular. Sometimes, as in Rusty's case, doctors encounter medical problems difficult to diagnose or treat; in many cases, psychiatrists have frequently and inaccurately blamed a parent, using the MSBP diagnosis. <br />
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Condemnation of this particular trumped-up "disorder" is not limited to the United States. In Australia, Dr. Helen Hayward-Brown, a sociologist, said, "Ordinary mothers and fathers are being accused of child abuse because their children have an illness that some pediatricians cannot diagnose, or the parents strongly question the doctor over the child's treatment. <br />
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"The parents are refused the opportunity to obtain a second medical opinion as this is labeled 'doctor shopping,' part of the MSBP child abuse profile — even though doctors are ethically obliged to allow it and it is a patient's right to obtain a second medical opinion."3 <br />
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In the United Kingdom, Lord Geoffrey Howe, shadow spokesman for health in the House of Lords, blasted MSBP as "one of the most pernicious and ill-founded theories to have gained currency in childcare services over the past 10 to 15 years. It is a theory without science.... It rests instead on the assertions of its inventor (Dr. Roy Meadow).... When challenged to produce his research papers to justify his original findings, the inventor of MSBP stated, if you please, that he had destroyed them."4 (For news on a similar case of destruction of psychiatric research, see "Swedish Drugging Advocate Slapped Down by Courts," page 17.) <br />
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Although the MSBP diagnosis has no more scientific validity than the accusation of witchcraft did in its day, mothers such as Connie Roska have lost their children when a psychiatrist or psychologist assigned the label. <br />
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According to Roska, after the family sought medical help from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Brenda Bursch, a psychologist at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute, went so far as to accuse her of slaughtering a small animal and putting the blood into Rusty's urine sample. <br />
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But after Rusty's abduction, the Roskas utilized the legal system, sued the state, and won — a triumph of justice over <span style="background-color: #274e13;">phony labeling.</span> (See "Fighting Back," next page.) Fighting Back Parents are taking action to protect their children Abbey Chaplin with her fiance<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> ESCAPE FROM AN ABUSIVE SYSTEM</span> After being freed from unwanted psychiatric "assistance" through the action of her parents, Abbey Chaplin (with her fiancé above) is doing well in college, supporting herself and regularly making the dean's list. <br />
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I have helped many families get their children back — probably 13 in the last few years, and have made sure their constitutional rights were met," said Connie Roska, whose son, Rusty, was abducted from their home <span style="background-color: #274e13;">after she was assigned a false psychiatric label.</span> <br />
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Roska sued the state of Utah after getting Rusty back. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">except when immediate danger exists</span>, children could not be removed from their parents without a warrant from the court. <br />
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Following the verdict, the Utah legislature incorporated this principle into state law. "If you look at the standards in the law now," said the Roskas' attorney, Steve Russell, "the language is right out of the Roska decision." <br />
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Asked why he took on the case in 1999 and pursued it for years with no promise of payment, Russell said, "I have had clients who had been abused by the system and I was looking for a case that is so rock solid that I could really make a difference. I have eight children. I did this for my own family and for everybody else, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">so they could be free."</span> <br />
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The trial judge ruled the case would go to a jury to decide, not whether the Roskas' rights had been violated since that was not in dispute, <span style="color: #38761d;">but how much they should be awarded in damages.</span> On February 9, 2006, the 10th Circuit upheld this ruling. As Freedom went to press, the case was slated for a federal jury trial to determine the amount of damages. <br />
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Many besides the Roskas and Steve Russell have fought the system and made a difference. As reported in an earlier issue of Freedom, Butch and Kitral Chaplin faced charges of "medical neglect" for refusing to put their then 14-year-old daughter, Abbey, on a mix of dangerous drugs. Although Abbey was taken from them and locked in a mental institution, the Chaplins fought successfully to get her back and have had all charges against them dropped. <br />
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Five years later and free from psychiatric "assistance," Abbey is supporting herself through college and making the dean's list, her father told Freedom. <br />
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Butch Chaplin has spoken to other parents threatened with loss of their children. He tells them the only way to win is to stand up for their rights and not to back down. "People say, 'Why is it like that? Why doesn't it change?'" Chaplin said. "Well, this is the absolute truth: it is because good people say and do nothing." <br />
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Saving the Family <br />
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Big Brother does not make a good parent. The psychiatrist-dominated CPS system,<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> which places <strong><em><u>labeling</u></em></strong> and drugs<em><u> above responsibility and accountability</u></em>, proves this. </span><br />
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Many decision-makers now realize that government will not love and nurture a child the way a parent will. Hence, some states are changing their programs to emphasize keeping families together. Although these changes may not "maximize federal reimbursements" in the short run, viewed from a larger perspective, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">such reforms are best for children and families and for society as well. </span><br />
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In Utah, for example, following the Roska family's victory in the courts, the legislature considered nearly 20 bills intended <span style="background-color: #274e13;">to reform the treatment children received at the hands of CPS and mental health professionals</span> in that state. By the end of the 2004 legislative session, 10 of the measures had been signed into law. <br />
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In California, the state with the largest number of foster children, Governor Schwarzenegger made it part of a budgetary plan to change how private foster care contractors get paid. <span style="background-color: #274e13;">Rather than funding solely on the number of children in the system,</span> payment would be based on positive outcomes. <br />
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Shirley Washington of California's Department of Social Services told Freedom the state implemented a measure that "will provide additional foster care funds to help keep children out of high-level care through family-centered, home-based services." <br />
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"We need to raise the threshold for taking children from their families to begin with so fewer children get into the system," Gregory Hession said. "Then they won't be drugged and ruined and crushed and killed and raped and murdered and everything else that happens to them. That is the starting point: <span style="background-color: #274e13;">take fewer kids." </span><br />
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Walter Mondale told Freedom that the <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><u>original intent</u></strong></span> of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) was to accomplish several objectives to stem child abuse. <br />
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"It enacted for the first time federal legislation that recognized the horrors and the persistence of child abuse," he said. "It tried to look at child abuse not just as a law enforcement problem — although sometimes it is — but in the context of troubled families, of the phenomenon of inter-generational repetition of abuse, which was reported to be quite common, and it tried to engage the local governments in reaching out and trying to spot these problems before they worsened." <br />
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But today, while many well-intentioned people work in the system CAPTA created, the problem is that the system has been subverted by <span style="background-color: #274e13;">the psychiatric industry into<strong><em><u> a revenue-generating entity</u></em></strong> </span>more important than the children and the families it was formed to serve. <br />
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"The abuse my daughter suffered at the hands of psychiatrists tells me that the system would be far better off without them," Audrey Serrano said. <br />
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To revamp the system, the first step is to once again <span style="background-color: #274e13;">prioritize the family</span> and to work to keep families together. <br />
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As the former vice president said, "If a family isn't so important, if a husband and wife taking care of kids isn't so important, why is it that every society, all over the world, for nearly a million years has ended up with essentially that system for raising children? <span style="background-color: #274e13;">Family life is indispensable."</span> <br />
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Mark Stout contributed to this article. RESEARCH EVIDENCE DESTROYED Swedish Drugging Advocate Slapped Down by Courts CHRISTOPHER GILLBERG CHRISTOPHER GILLBERG and two other psychiatrists were fined for destroying some 100,000 pages of records that may have shown a childhood "disorder" spawned by Gillberg to be based upon <span style="background-color: #274e13;">questionable or even fraudulent</span> research. <br />
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<span style="background-color: #274e13;">The lack of science to support psychiatry's mental disorders</span> has become the focus of a storm of controversy — particularly so after a series of warnings from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about the hazards posed by drugs that psychiatrists use to "treat" those alleged disorders. <br />
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Diagnosis is the crux of the matter, and child advocate and author John Breeding, Ph.D., is one of many authorities passionate on the subject. <br />
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"It is not just that people are misdiagnosed, but that <span style="background-color: #274e13;">the psychiatric diagnoses themselves are<u> <strong><em>fraudulent</em></strong></u>,"</span> he told Freedom. "There is no real disease, no physical or chemical abnormality; there is only a subjective observation of behavior they call a disease." <br />
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Psychiatrist Christopher Gillberg's recent legal troubles in Europe has only added fuel to the fire. <br />
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An international pundit on childhood "disorders," Gillberg has been widely promoted by psychiatric front groups in the United States, such as Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD). <br />
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<span style="background-color: #274e13;">Shredding Vital Evidence</span> <br />
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When a sociologist and a pediatrician challenged Gillberg to produce his research into "Deficits in Attention, Motor control and Perception (DAMP), which is similar to ADHD,<span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><u> he refused to do so voluntarily.</u></strong></span> After a Swedish court ordered him to turn over the records, Gillberg appealed and lost. <br />
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Rather than surrender the papers, two colleagues and a staff assistant shredded two decades of state-funded research — some 100,000 pages — <span style="background-color: #274e13;">that formed the basis for Gillberg's plans to put tens of thousands of children on drugs.</span> The perpetrators included Gillberg's wife, psychiatrist Carina Gillberg. On June 27, 2005, Christopher Gillberg was found guilty of official misconduct and fined 37,500 kronor (roughly $4,800), ordered to pay court costs of 75,000 kronor ($9,600) and given a suspended jail sentence. His colleagues were also fined. <br />
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Today, scientists and other authorities continue to point out the <span style="background-color: #274e13;">highly questionable, if not fraudulent,</span> nature of Gillberg's papers, books, doctoral theses and journal articles. <br />
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British attorney and physicist Clifford G. Miller, for example, asked, "Where does this place any scientific papers published on the basis of this now non-existent evidence? Papers which were being, it seems, challenged for inconsistencies in litigation? Will these papers now have to be withdrawn by the journals which published them? Will the journals do so voluntarily? How many papers are concerned? In which journals are they published? Will the journals publish any caveat about reliance on the papers concerned?" <br />
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"The most rational, albeit very cumbersome, course of action would be to withdraw all research relying on the data," said Sociology Professor Thomas Brante of Lund University in Sweden. "Just like Volvo revokes its cars when a construction fault is discovered, a faulty (or non-existent) scientific diagnosis and its implications<span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><em><u> must be possible to revoke</u></em></strong>."</span> <br />
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"Virtually All His Research Reports Were Bogus" <br />
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Gillberg's American counterpart in "popularizing" speed-type drugs for children, psychologist Stephen Breuning of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School, was convicted in federal court on charges of research fraud. <br />
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"Virtually all his research reports were bogus — nearly all the experiments they purported to report<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> had not been conducted</span>; there was no basis for believing that what they 'reported' was true. These specific research reports, moreover, had provoked frightening consequences," wrote author Robert Bell in the book, Impure Science. Bell noted that "the reports had been relied on nationwide in determining drug therapy" for many children and that Breuning had contributed "24 out of the 70 papers published on the subject between 1979 and 1983."1 <br />
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Breuning was sentenced to five years on probation, ordered to 60 days in a halfway house and 250 hours of community service, and had to repay $77,352 to the federal government. The University of Pittsburgh reimbursed the federal government more than $163,000 it had received for Breuning's research. But, tragically, the use of dangerous drug "solutions" for our children — based to a degree on that same bogus research — only increased. <br />
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Breuning's and Gillberg's light sentences send a disturbing message: when it comes to doping our vulnerable children, manipulated and even fraudulent research presents low risks to the perpetrators. <br />
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<span style="background-color: #274e13;">This decades-long charade thus begs the question: Whose interests are forwarded <strong><em><u>by slanted, pseudo-scientific studies of unproven "behavior disorders,"</u></em></strong> with side effects ignored or minimized? </span><br />
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The pattern is clear: with researchers like Gillberg and Breuning tied to the marketers of dangerous psychiatric drugs, the consumer is getting <span style="background-color: #274e13;">more fiction than fact.</span> <br />
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1. Robert Bell, Impure Science, (New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1992), pages 105 — 106 The APA: An Ignoble Tradition Former American Psychiatric Association Presidents Past APA leading lights caused their patients great suffering and anguish with their 'desperate cures.' Some things never change. A LEGACY OF ABUSE: Past APA Presidents Jules Masserman (left) and Ewen Cameron (center), and today's APA head Steven Sharfstein (right) exemplify <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><u>the brutal nature of psychiatry</u></span>, victimizing the most vulnerable at great profit. Masserman surrendered his medical license in disgrace after patients accused him of sexual abuse. Cameron destroyed people's minds with combinations of drugs, including LSD, and electric shocks. Sharfstein's coercive arsenal also includes electric shocks; human rights violations at facilities he controls are under investigation by Freedom. <br />
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The American Psychiatric Association<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> <em><strong>changes presidents every year;</strong></em></span> with characters like these comprising the APA's "elite," it's not hard to see why. <br />
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Steven Sharfstein, president of the American Psychiatric Association, puffed with pride on the subject of his appearance on "The Today Show," calling it his "15 minutes of fame." <br />
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Unfortunately for him, that exposure produced far more than 15 minutes of acute embarrassment for psychiatry, as questions raised during the show forced him to admit that <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><u>no test exists for a "chemical imbalance" as the cause of mental disorders.</u></strong></span> Indeed, in less than 15 seconds, he repudiated the mainstay of modern psychiatric "treatment" with his statement, "We do not have a clean-cut lab test" for such disorders. <br />
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The heavily promoted but thoroughly discredited "chemical imbalance" theory underlies psychiatry's high-volume administration of drugs to children and adults — even those given against their will. <br />
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As Freedom has learned, Sharfstein has no qualms about administering drugs, electro-convulsive shock "therapy" and other treatments that people do not want (<span style="background-color: #274e13;">or need</span>), calling such "compassionate coercion." <br />
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Such an arrogant, uncaring attitude<span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><em><u> is traditional at the APA.</u></em></strong></span> Ewen Cameron (APA president from 1952 to 1953) had men and women alike chased down by burly attendants and dragged back to their beds, kicking and screaming, for more of what he called "depatterning" — drug-induced "deep sleep" for weeks on end, combined with brain-damaging electric shocks. Many of Cameron's victims and surviving relatives have since collected damages for the great suffering caused by his intelligence agency-funded experiments. But, as revealed in this edition, some of his victims may have been children with no parents, no relatives and no one to report them missing, abused or dead. (See "The Dark Mystery of the Duplessis Orphans," page 22.) <br />
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Jules Masserman, APA president from 1979 to 1980, sexually abused female patients drugged with sodium amytal he administered under the pretext of helping them to delve into their "subconscious," billing in the thousands for his "services." In her book, You Must Be Dreaming, singer and actress Barbara Noel described being drugged unconscious by Masserman and awakening to find him, naked, on top of her. After she sued, Masserman settled with her in October 1986 for $200,000, with $50,000 more paid to three other female patients who came forward. Yet, in November 1986, at the 11th World Congress for Social Psychiatry in Rio de Janeiro, the organization's president praised Masserman as "the most prominent psychiatrist in the world." In 1987, evidently fearing a probe by an Illinois agency of his misconduct, Masserman surrendered his medical license. <br />
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Today, a Sharfstein contemporary, APA distinguished fellow Harold Koplewicz, promotes himself as "being recognized as one of the nation's premier child and adolescent psychiatrists." Koplewicz, of Bellevue Hospital and New York Uni-versity's School of Medicine, has appeared on national TV, expounding upon what he viewed as the necessity for <span style="background-color: #274e13;">intervention by Child Protective Services (CPS)<strong><em><u> if a family declines to drug a child</u></em></strong> after a psychiatric diagnosis. </span><br />
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In the context of abuses as described in this edition of Freedom, advocacy of coercive acts against children and families is chilling, and one more example of the APA's arrogance and perverse view of individual rights. <br />
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One parent with experience in this regard is Patty Weathers. Appearing at the October 2004 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hearing that directly preceded issuance of an agency order regarding black-box warning labels — the FDA's most severe cautionary note — Weathers testified that her son hallucinated, heard voices, and became violent and psychotic <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><em><u>while on an "antidepressant." </u></em></strong></span><br />
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Now the head of AbleChild: Parents for Label and Drug Free Education, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of children's and parents' rights, Weathers told Freedom that Koplewicz's endorsement of that same drug as "safe and effective" was "beyond irresponsible." <br />
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"I would tell all parents never to contact him," she said. If you have kids, she added, don't walk away from him, "Run as fast as you can!" <br />
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Unfortunately, all too many of psychiatry's victims — young and old alike — <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><u>never had that chance.</u></span>Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-28249781160720461712010-11-29T12:53:00.000-08:002010-12-01T07:00:59.217-08:00Methodology of CPS social workers<iframe frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RrS2qzk8S10?fs=1" width="425"></iframe>Though done in a rather sarcastic tone...this video very accurately portrays the way CPS operates when 'investigating' alleged reports of abuse or neglect of children. It happened in precisely the same manner to this blog's author Denise Dopkins. Spokane social worker Melly Keith jumped me in the hospital room only 12 hours after I gave cesarean birth to my son and while I was still very affected by the medicines the doctor administered during and following the birth. (The doctor and nurses will claim that I was not still affected by the medication from the cesarean birth, however, I know better. After all-- <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><em>I was the one taking the medicines and <u>I know how I felt</u>.</em></strong></span>) There was also the issue of the post birth pain medicines that made me dileriously sleepy. I was in no condition to be so suddenly confronted with this emotional and psychological attack, and still-- the social worker could not stand to wait another day for me to better recover in the hospital. I was in the hospital for<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> another two days</span> after Ms. Keith left the room on March 15, 2005.Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-42736235627612895492010-11-21T19:18:00.000-08:002010-11-24T07:30:13.183-08:00Just another cover up effort by DSHS/DCFS/CPSA Must Read: Click on the following highlighted link<br />
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<a href="http://pamroachreport.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html">Posted by State Senator Pam Roach at 10:46 AM 0 comments</a>Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-40594704727537592912010-11-17T09:34:00.000-08:002010-11-17T09:48:56.774-08:00How to deal with CPS invasion of your familyNovember 8, 2010<br />
<span style="background-color: #274e13;"><a href="http://www.fightcps.com/">Authored by Linda Martin</a></span><br />
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CPS Problems? Here Are 7 Ways to Fight CPS…<br />
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If you’re appalled by the actions of CPS, here are some ideas for correcting the injustices:<br />
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1. Write a letter to each and every member of your county board of supervisors detailing actions that show illegal activities or injustice on the part of local caseworkers. Suggest that they cut the CPS budget if caseworkers are taking children who shouldn’t be separated from their parents. Suggest that these illegal and unjust activities could cause the county to have to deal with expensive lawsuits. Follow this up by regularly attending meetings of the county board of supervisors and by getting up to share during community participation time; use your three minutes to tell people what’s going on.<br />
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2. Write a letter to your state legislators (don’t bother with the federal legislators – they’re usually worthless and corrupt unless they’re Ron Paul or someone exactly like him.) Go for the state level legislators. Tell them that child welfare is mismanaged in your county. Then follow up by going to the capitol to try to have a face to face encounter with these legislators. Take with you a gift-offering of a folder you’ve prepared with lots of information about how corrupt and evil CPS is. Tell them you support the <a href="http://fightcps.com/2009/03/06/state-sovereignty-this-is-the-answer/"><span style="background-color: #274e13;">State Sovereignty Movement</span></a> and that federal child welfare laws are a violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Tenth Amendment.<br />
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3. Study your state’s social services regulations. You should be able to find a copy at your local county law library. Ask the librarian there for help finding them. If you have an open CPS case take notes on every regulation that’s being violated by your caseworker. Get photocopies of the regulations that are violated. Next, review your court order to see what orders may be violated by the caseworker. If you find discrepancies you can file for a state administrative hearing.<br />
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4. Does your county have a Grand Jury? If so, write them a letter, not about your personal case so much as about the problems of CPS injustice in general. Ask them to investigate CPS in your county.<br />
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5. If you haven’t already, write a Legal Declaration to clarify each point of malfeasance by caseworkers and others involved in your case. As when writing any letter or legal document, NEVER include any self-incriminating type of statement. Give this to your attorney. If he won’t see you in person, mail it to him and request (1) a response, and (2) that it be presented to the judge for the next hearing.<br />
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6. If your caseworker’s report to the court contains inaccurate statements, misrepresentations, or lies, create a legal document called “Objections and Corrections to the Report of the Social Worker” and as with the Legal Declaration, send it to your lawyer to be presented to the court.<br />
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Links to legal documents samples are here: <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><a href="http://fightcps.com/2010/04/15/fight-cps-legal-document-information-library/">Legal Document and Information Library</a></span>.<br />
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7. If your caseworker is violating your court order or state social service regulations, treating you disrespectfully, or in any other way doing something you believe is wrong, write a letter to the county personnel department with a detailed complaint about the person. This will probably keep the caseworker from ever getting a promotion in that county. He or she might also get demoted, or fired.<br />
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I hope you find some solutions that will work for you.<br />
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Filed under:<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> </span><a href="http://www.fightcps.com/"><span style="background-color: #274e13;">http://www.fightcps.com/</span></a>Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-57090356913326593832010-11-11T12:16:00.000-08:002010-11-12T12:45:32.692-08:00CPS corruptionThe Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services<br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><strong>By Nancy Schaefer</strong></span><br />
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Georgia State Senate, 50th District<br />
revised September 25, 2008<br />
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My introduction into Child Protective Service cases was due to a grandmother in an adjoining state who called me with her tragic story. Her two granddaughters had been taken from her daughter who lived in my district. Her daughter was told wrongly that if she wanted to see her children again she should sign a paper and give up her children. Frightened and young, the daughter did. I have since discovered that parents are often <span style="background-color: #274e13;">threatened into cooperation of <u><em><strong>permanent separation of their children.</strong></em></u></span><br />
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The children were taken to another county and placed in foster care. The foster parents were told wrongly that they could adopt the children. The grandmother then jumped through every hoop known to man in order to get her granddaughters. When the case finally came to court it was made evident by one of the foster parent’s children that the foster parents had, at any given time, 18 foster children and that the foster mother had an inappropriate relationship with a caseworker. In the courtroom, the juvenile judge acted as though she was shocked and said the two girls would be removed quickly. They were not removed. Finally, after much pressure being applied to the Department of Family and Children Services of Georgia (DFCS), the children were driven to South Georgia to meet their grandmother who gladly drove to meet them.<br />
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After being with their grandmother two or three days, the judge, quite out of the blue, wrote up a new order to send the girls to their father, who previously had no interest in the case and who lived on the West Coast. The father was in “adult entertainment”. His girlfriend worked as an “escort” and his brother, who also worked in the business, had a sexual charge brought against him.<br />
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Within a couple of days the father was knocking on the grandmother’s door and took the girls kicking and screaming to California.<br />
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The father developed an unusual relationship with the former foster parents and soon moved to the southeast. The foster parents began driving to the father’s residence and picking up the little girls for visits. The oldest child had told her mother and grandmother on two different occasions that <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><em><u>the foster father</u></em> molested her.</span><br />
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To this day after five years, this loving, caring blood relative grandmother does not even have visitation privileges with the children. The little girls are, in my opinion, permanently traumatized and the young <span style="background-color: #274e13;">mother of the girls <strong><em><u>was so traumatized</u></em></strong> with shock when the girls were first removed from her that <strong><em><u>she has never completely recovered.</u></em></strong></span> The mother has rights but the father still has custody of the children.<br />
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Throughout this case and through the process of dealing with multiple other mismanaged cases of the Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS), I have worked with other desperate parents across the state of Georgia and in many other States because their children were taken for no cause and they have no one with whom to turn. I have witnessed <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><em><u>ruthless behavior</u></em></strong></span> from many caseworkers, social workers, investigators, lawyers, judges, therapists, and others such as those who “pick up” the children. I have been stunned by what I have seen and heard from victims all across this land.<br />
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In this report, I have focused mainly on the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS). However, I believe Child Protective Services nationwide has become corrupt and that the entire system is broken beyond repair. <span style="background-color: #274e13;">I am convinced parents and families<strong><em><u> should be warned</u></em></strong> of the dangers.</span><br />
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The Department of Child Protective Services, known as the Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS) in Georgia and other titles in other states, has become a <span style="background-color: #274e13;">“<strong><em>protected empire</em></strong>”</span> built on taking children and separating families. This is not to say that there are not those children who do need to be removed from wretched situations and need protection.<br />
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However, this report is concerned with the children and parents caught up in <span style="background-color: #274e13;">“<strong><em>legal kidnapping</em></strong>,”</span> ineffective policies, and an agency that on certain occasions would not remove a child (or children) when the child was enduring torment and abuse.<br />
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In one county in my District, I arranged a meeting for thirty-seven families to speak <span style="background-color: #274e13;">freely and<strong><em><u> without fear.</u></em></strong></span> These poor parents and grandparents spoke of their painful, heart wrenching encounters with DFCS. Their suffering was overwhelming. They wept and cried. Some did not know where their children were and had not seen them in years. I had witnessed the <span style="background-color: #274e13;">“Gestapo”</span> at work and I witnessed the deceitful conditions under which children were taken in the middle of the night, out of hospitals, off of school buses, and out of homes. In one county a private drug testing business was operating within the agency’s department that required many, many drug tests from parents and individuals for profit. It has already made over $100,000.<br />
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<strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">Due to being exposed</span></u></em></strong>, several employees in this particular office were fired. However, they have now been rehired either in neighboring counties or in the same county again. According to the calls I am now receiving, the conditions in that county are returning to the same practices that they had before the light was shown on their evil deeds.<br />
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Having worked with probably 300 cases statewide, and now hundreds and hundreds across this nation and in nearly every state, I am convinced <span style="background-color: #274e13;">there is no responsibility and<strong> <em><u>no accountability</u></em></strong> in Child Protective Services system.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><strong>I have come to the conclusion:</strong></span><br />
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· <span style="background-color: #274e13;">that poor parents very often are <em><u><strong>targeted</strong></u></em></span> to lose their children because they do not have the where-with-all to hire lawyers and fight the system. Being poor does not mean you are not a good parent or that you do not love your child, or that your child should be removed and placed with strangers;<br />
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· that all parents are capable of making mistakes and that <span style="background-color: #274e13;">making a mistake does not mean your children are to be removed from the home.</span> Even if the home is not perfect, it is home; and that’s where a child is the safest and where he or she wants to be, with family;<br />
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· that parenting classes, anger management classes, counseling referrals, therapy classes and on and on are demanded of parents <span style="background-color: #274e13;">with<strong><em><u> no compassion</u></em></strong> by the system</span> even while the parents are at work and while their children are separated from them. (some times parents are required to pay for the programs) This can take months or even years and it emotionally devastates both children and parents.<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> Parents are<strong><em><u> victimized</u></em></strong> by “the system”</span> that makes a profit for holding children longer and “bonuses” for not returning children to their parents;<br />
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· that caseworkers and social workers are very often<strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;"> guilty of fraud.</span></u></em></strong> They withhold <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">and destroy</span></u></em></strong> evidence. They fabricate evidence and they seek to terminate parental rights unnecessarily. However, when charges are made against Child Protective Services, <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">the charges are ignored;</span></u></em></strong><br />
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· that the separation of families and the <strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;"><u>“snatching of children”</u></span><span style="background-color: #274e13;"> is growing as a business</span></em></strong> because local governments have grown accustomed to having these taxpayer dollars to balance their ever-expanding budgets;<br />
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· that Child Protective Services and Juvenile Court can always <strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;">hide behind a confidentiality clause<u> in order to protect their decisions</u></span></em></strong> and keep the funds flowing. There should be open records and “court watches”! Look who is being paid! There are state employees, lawyers, court investigators, guardian ad litems, court personnel, and judges. There are psychologists, and psychiatrists, counselors, caseworkers, therapists, <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">foster parents, adoptive parents,</span></u></em></strong> and on and on. All are looking to the children in state custody to provide job security. Parents do not realize that the social workers are the glue that hold “the system” together that funds the court, funds the court appointed attorneys, and the multiple other jobs including <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">the “system’s” psychiatrists, therapists, their own attorneys and others.</span></u></em></strong><br />
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· that The Adoption and the Safe Families Act, set in motion first in 1974 by Walter Mondale and later in 1997 by President Bill Clinton, offered <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">cash “bonuses”</span></u></em></strong> to the states for every child they adopted out of foster care. In order to receive the “adoption incentive bonuses” local child protective services <strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;">need <u>more children</u>. They must have merchandise (children) that sells and you must have plenty <u>so the buyer can choose.</u></span></em></strong> Some counties are known to give a $4,000 to $6,000 bonus for each child adopted out to strangers and an additional $2,000 for a “special needs” child. Employees work to keep the federal dollars flowing;<br />
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· State Departments of Human Resources (DHR) and affiliates are given a baseline number of expected adoptions based on population. For every child DHR and CPS can get adopted, there is the bonus of $4,000 or maybe $6,000. <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">But that is only the beginning figure in the formula</span></u></em></strong> in which each bonus is multiplied by the percentage that the State has managed to exceed its baseline adoption number. Therefore States and local communities work hard to reach their goals for increased numbers of adoptions for children in foster care.<br />
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· that there is double dipping. <strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;">The funding continues <u>as long as the child is out of the home.</u></span></em></strong> There is funding for foster care then when a child is placed with a new family, then <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">“adoption bonus funds”</span></u></em></strong> are available. When a child is placed in a mental health facility and is on 16 drugs per day, like two children of a constituent of mine, more funds are involved and so is Medicaid;<br />
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· As you can see this program is ordered from the very top and run by Health and Human Resources. <strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;">This is why victims of CPS get no help from their legislators</span><span style="background-color: #274e13;">.</span></em></strong><span style="background-color: #274e13;"> </span><strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">It explains why my bill, SB 415 suffered such defeat in the Judicial Committee, why I was cut off at every juncture.</span></u></em></strong> Legislators and Governors must remember who funds their paychecks.<br />
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<strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">· that there are no financial resources and no real drive to unite a family and help keep them together or provide effective care;</span></u></em></strong><br />
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· that the incentive for social workers to return children to their parents quickly after taking them has disappeared and who in protective services will step up to the plate and say, “This must end! <strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;">No one, because <u>they are all in the system together</u></span></em></strong> and a system with no leader and no clear policies will always fail the children. Just look at the waste in government that is forced upon the tax payer;<br />
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· that the “Policy Manual” is considered “the last word” for CPS/DFCS. However, it is too long, too confusing, poorly written <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13; color: blue;">and does not take the law into consideration;</span></u></em></strong><br />
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· that if the lives of children were improved by removing them from their homes, there might be a greater need for protective services, <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">but today children are not safer.</span></u></em></strong> Children, of whom I am aware, have been raped and impregnated in foster care;<br />
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<strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;"><u>· It is a known fact that children are in much more danger in foster care</u> than they are in their own home even though home may not be perfect;</span></em></strong><br />
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· that some parents are even told if they want to see their children or grandchildren, they must divorce their spouse. Many, who are under privileged, feeling they have no option, will divorce and then just continue to live together. This is an anti-family policy, but parents will do anything to get their children home with them.<strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;"><u> </u>However, when the parents cooperate with Child Protective Services, <u>their behavior is interpreted as guilt when nothing could be further from the truth;</u></span></em></strong><br />
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· Fathers, (non-custodial parents) I must add, are oftentimes treated as criminals without access to visit or even see their own children and have child support payments strangling the very life out of them;<br />
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· that the Foster Parents Bill of Rights does not stress that a foster parent is there temporarily to care for a child until the child can be returned home. <strong><span style="background-color: #274e13;"><em>Many foster parents today use the Foster Parent Bill of Rights</em> <em><u>as a means to</u> hire a lawyer and seek to adopt the child placed in their care from the real parents, <u>who are desperately trying to get their child home and out of the system.</u></em></span></strong> Recently in Atlanta, a young couple learning to be new parents and loving it, were told that because of an anonymous complaint, their daughter would be taken into custody by the State DFCS. The couple was devastated and then was required by DFCS to take parenting classes, alcohol counseling and psychological evaluations if they wanted to get their child back. All of the courses cost money for which most parents are required to pay. While in their anxiety and turmoil to get their child home, the baby was left for hours in a car to die in the heat in her car seat <strong><em><u><span style="color: #274e13;">by a foster parent who forgot about the child.</span></u></em></strong> This should never have happened. <strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;">It is tragic. In many cases after the parents have jumped through all the hoops, they still do not get their child. <u>As long as the child is not returned,</u> there is money for the agency, <u>for foster parents, for adoptive parents, and for the State;</u></span></em></strong><br />
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· that tax dollars are being used to keep this gigantic system afloat, yet the <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">victims,</span></u></em></strong> parents, grandparents, guardians and especially the children, are charged for the system’s services;<br />
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· that grandparents have called from all over the State of Georgia and from other states trying to get custody of their grandchildren. <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">CPS claims</span></u></em></strong> relatives are contacted, but there are <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">many many</span></u></em></strong> cases that prove differently. Grandparents who lose their grandchildren to strangers have lost their own flesh and blood. The children lose their family heritage and grandparents, and parents too, lose all connections to their heirs;<br />
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· that The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in 1998 reported that <strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;"><u>six times as many</u> children died in foster care than in the general public and that once removed to <u>official “safety</u>”, these children are far more likely to suffer abuse</span></em></strong>, including sexual molestation than in the general population. Think what that number is today ten years later!<br />
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· That according to the California Little Hoover Commission Report in 2003, 30% to 70% of the children in California group homes do not belong there and <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">should not have been removed from their homes.</span></u></em></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><strong>RECOMMENDATIONS:</strong></span><br />
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1. Call for an independent audit of all State Child Protective Services (CPS) and for a Federal Congressional hearing on Child Protective Services nationwide.<br />
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2. Activate <strong><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">immediate</span></u></strong> change. Every day that passes means more families and children are subject to being <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">held hostage and their lives destroyed.</span></u></em></strong><br />
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3. Abolish the Federal and State financial incentives that have turned Child Protective Services into a <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">business that separate families for money.</span></u></em></strong><br />
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4. Grant to parents their rights verbally and in writing. <br />
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5. Mandate a search for family members to be given the opportunity to adopt their own relatives if children need to be removed permanently.<br />
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6. <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">Mandate a jury trial</span></u></em></strong> where every piece of evidence is presented before permanently removing a child from his or her parents. Open family court. <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">Remove the secrecy.</span></u></em></strong> Allow the press and family members access. Give parents the opportunity in court to speak and be a part of their children’s future.<br />
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7. Require a<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> <strong><em><u>warrant or a positive emergency circumstance</u></em></strong></span> before removing children from their parents. (Judge Arthur G. Christean, Utah Bar Journal, January, 1997 reported that “except in emergency circumstances, including the need for immediate medical care, require warrants upon affidavits of probable cause before entry upon private property is permitted for the forcible removal of children from their parents.”)<br />
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8. Uphold the laws when someone fabricates or presents false evidence. <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">If a parent alleges fraud, hold a hearing with the right to discovery of all evidence made available to parents.</span></u></em></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><strong>FINAL REMARKS</strong></span><br />
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On my desk are scores of cases of exhausted families and terrified children. It has been beyond me to turn my back on these suffering, crying, and <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">beaten down </span></u></em></strong>individuals. We are mistreating the most innocent. Child Protective Services have become an <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">adult centered business</span></u></em></strong> to the detriment of children. No longer is judgment based on what the child needs or who the child wants to be or with whom, or what is really best for the whole family; it is some adult or bureaucrat who makes the decisions, based often on just <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">hearsay,</span></u></em></strong> without ever consulting a family member, or just what is convenient, profitable, or <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">less troublesome for the social workers.</span></u></em></strong><br />
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I have witnessed such injustice and harm brought to so many families that I am not sure if I even believe reform of the system is possible! <strong><em><u>The system cannot be trusted.</u></em></strong> It does not serve the people. It obliterates families and children <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">simply because it has the power to do so.</span></u></em></strong><br />
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Children deserve better. Families deserve better. It’s time to pull back the curtain and <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">set our children and families free.</span></u></em></strong><br />
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“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">for the rights of all who are destitute.</span></u></em></strong><br />
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Speak up and <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">judge fairly</span></u></em></strong>; <strong><em><u>defend the rights of the poor and the needy”</u></em></strong> Proverbs 31:8-9Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-71038221292541365602010-11-07T16:00:00.000-08:002010-11-07T17:27:55.000-08:00Prosecute CPS and CASA agents for perjury!Lies Should Be Prosecuted <br />
<a href="http://pamroachreport.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Posted by State Senator Pam Roach</span></a><br />
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This whole thing reminds me of an Ibsen novel.<br />
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Here is a letter from a family that I have been following. PRR Readers are like all true Americans...we want our government telling the truth in court and we think people in agencies (CPS or CASAs) who lie in court should lose their jobs and be punished through perjury laws. Right now, in CPS, agents are not being held accountable and, therefore, they continue the lying. I have been told by the highest levels at DSHS that people who lie will not be tolerated. I took that to mean that they would be held accountable. I have yet to see that that has been the case. The lies continue.<br />
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Dear Senator, <br />
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I get so frustrated reading on your blog because more <br />
horrible things are being brought to the forefront about cps. It makes my <br />
husband and I want so much more for things to change with cps. I am hoping for some help to try for a bill to stop the perjury, which I am seeing mentioned more and more. With us and others that was our main problem. No matter what the state said in court, it was believed without any facts having been <br />
presented. If they had to present any evidence of anything said in our case, Ariel <br />
would never have been taken in the first place. I am so grateful she is coming <br />
home but other families will suffer if it continues to be allowed. We had a <br />
lot of people backing us on our case and because of that, no matter how <br />
many times we felt like giving up someone was always there to remind us what we were fighting for. Please let me know if you can help us to become a part <br />
of stopping the evil system tearing the families apart. I can still picture <br />
the day Ariel was taken and that caseworker walking away with her and smiling <br />
an evil smile at us. I think rather than going after the state in general, <br />
it would be a good thing to be able to hold individuals accountable for the <br />
emotional abuse they themselves are causing for these tiny children.<br />
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<a href="http://pamroachreport.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Posted by State Senator Pam Roach at 3:25 AM</span></a>Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-90485746580945290102010-11-03T19:04:00.000-07:002010-11-03T19:10:37.669-07:00Senator Nancy Schaefer's deathThursday, May 20, 2010<br />
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Child Exploitation (Nancy Shaefer) Found Killed in Home<br />
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Child Exploitation Investigator Found Killed in Home <br />
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By Victor Thorn <br />
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Child trafficking, pedophile rings, sexual exploitation, teenage pornography and even organ harvesting: These types of crimes make Washington politicians recoil in horror. But when these terrible acts involve some of their own, it also drives the elites to silence those who attempt to expose their dirty deeds. <br />
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Nancy Schaefer served two terms as a Georgia state senator, in addition to being a highly respected family rights advocate, founder of the Eagle Forum and Sunday school teacher. Mrs. Schaefer spoke out against abortion and sought legislation to display the Ten Commandments in public buildings. <br />
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On March 26, a sleeping Mrs. Schaefer was found shot to death from behind in her bed, along with her husband, who also perished after receiving a gunshot wound to the chest. <br />
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Local authorities immediately ruled it a “murder-suicide” instigated by her husband of 52 years, but <span style="background-color: #274e13;">there is much more to the story than law enforcement is telling.</span> Initially, Georgia’s Bureau of Investigation claimed the couple formed a death pact due to poor health and financial woes. <br />
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However, family members fervently disagreed with these attempts to create a motive by floating fabricated stories. <span style="background-color: #274e13;">Neither of the deceased had a terminal illness, their bank accounts were sound, and, as committed Christians, they opposed suicide. </span><br />
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During an April 22 interview with this writer, Ohio radio talk show host Paul Drockton presented a shocking alternative to the official version. <br />
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“I heard from a couple of different sources that Mrs. Schaefer was working on a documentary, and intended to go public by exposing a high-level pedophilia ring,” said Drockton. <br />
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When asked if people would be familiar with the politicians named, Drockton replied in the affirmative, although he wouldn’t divulge their identities. This writer assumed they were nationally known figures. <br />
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Drockton added, “Mrs. Schaefer was extremely nervous about being assassinated. On a recent trip to Washington, she booked three rooms at her hotel—one on each side of her own, for security purposes. Mrs. Schaefer also started using disposable cell phones because she felt her lines were being tapped.” <br />
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In hindsight, these concerns most certainly appear justified. Over the past few years, Mrs. Schaefer engaged in a high-profile campaign against Georgia’s Child Protective Services (CPS). During an April 14, 2009, presentation, Mrs. Schaefer called CPS <span style="background-color: #274e13;">“a protected empire built on taking children and separating families. It is one of the most evil and corrupt branches of government in America.” </span><br />
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She also accused them of<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> “legally kidnapping”</span> the children of poor families who couldn’t afford attorneys in order to fill bureaucratic quotas under Bill Clinton’s Adoption and Safe Families Act. <br />
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Mrs. Schaefer provided the grisly details. “Cash bonuses are paid to the state for every child that is adopted out of foster care. Oftentimes, the amount is $4,000 to $6,000, with an extra $2,000 for special-needs children.” <br />
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Mrs. Schaefer continued: “To make more money, they need more merchandise; and children equal merchandise. They also need a large selection of children for potential adoptions so that buyers have more to choose from.” <br />
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<span style="background-color: #274e13;">CPS therefore acts as a facilitator,</span> using the court system to snatch children from their parents, then feeding them into foster care for eventual adoption. Mrs. Schaefer cited numerous dangers to this corrupt arrangement. A 1998 study by the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect stated that <span style="background-color: #274e13;">six times more youths die in foster care than in the general public.</span> They are also more prone to sexual molestation by pedophiles in the foster care system. Many children simply disappear. <br />
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Considering the monetary incentives surrounding a business of trafficking in children by converting them into cash, did CPS open the floodgates to even more widespread wrong doing—one that resembled the notorious “Franklin Affair”? <br />
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Did powerful politicians operating a high-level child pedophilia ring clean house to prevent Mrs. Schaefer’s film from seeing the light of day? <br />
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Online commentator Steven Erickson offered this response on April 2, noting that Mrs. Schaefer attended a special hearing in the Netherlands. <br />
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“Nancy was recently the victim of murder,” wrote Erickson. “Her husband is said to have been the killer in a murder-suicide. Some may think it is a murder-for-hire, paid for by police or insiders in Georgia government allegedly involved in official kidnapping for federal tax dollars. Are children being trafficked for white slavery, sex exploitation, for bogus adoption, and to give political insiders six-figure salaries paid for with taxes? Are the police in some states involved in drug dealing, prostitution, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">racketeering,</span> obstruction of justice, murder, rape,<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> extortion</span> and other crimes? Are American courts a scam? Nancy was pretty high profile, making serious allegations, and she ends up dead. Do the math.” <br />
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The broader question remains: Did corruption end at the Georgia state level, or were Mrs. Schaefer’s sights set even higher? <br />
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During her Netherlands World Congress of Families speech last year, Mrs. Schaefer specifically described<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> U.S. government involvement in human trafficking. </span><br />
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Considering the huge amounts of bloodstained dollars at stake, not to mention the lengthy prison sentences awaiting each guilty party, it’s clear she may have been a prime target for retaliation. <br />
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Washington politicians have long concealed a cesspool of child “call boys.” A few names that come to mind include Paul Bonacci, who was kidnapped and sold as a sex slave; Barney Frank’s homosexual lover, who operated a prostitution service, Larry King of the Franklin Cover-Up; and Jeff Gannon, a planted White House “reporter” who operated a homosexual escort service. Then, of course, The Washington Times ran the following headline on June 29, 1989: “Homosexual Prostitution Inquiry Ensnares VIPs with Reagan, Bush.” <br />
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Former Nebraska state patrolman Gary Caradori, during an investigation of the Franklin Cover-Up case, was murdered on June 11, 1990, after having his airplane sabotaged. Mrs. Schaefer seems to have suffered the same fate, except her cowardly killers used a bullet in her back to ensure her silence. <br />
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<a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/what-really-took-2-430563.html">http://www.ajc.com/news/what-really-took-2-430563.html</a> <br />
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What really took 2 lives in Schaefer case? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution <br />
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8:32 a.m. Sunday, April 4, 2010 <br />
By Mark Davis
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TOCCOA — It is a mystery that may never get a satisfactory answer. <br />
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It will be discussed a while longer at kitchen tables, in chat rooms and other places where people ask questions. The names of the dead will resurface when cops discuss cases that stick with them. The funeral programs will be tucked away for someone else to find. <br />
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And when they turn up, so will the old questions. What happened? Why did he kill his wife of 52 years? What did the notes say? <br />
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Here’s what police say: <br />
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On March 26, Bruce Schaefer, 74, a longtime Atlanta stockbroker who’d retired to his boyhood mountain haunts, shot his sleeping wife, Nancy Schaefer, 73, a former state senator and a conservative political activist. Then he turned the .38-caliber handgun on himself. <br />
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The Schaefers were dead when their daughter found them in the bedroom of their Habersham County home. Investigators discovered a suicide note, as well as notes to each of the couple’s five children. <br />
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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is investigating the case, is emphatic. <br />
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“This is as clear-cut a case of murder-suicide as you’ll see,” said spokesman John Bankhead. The state agency will close out its investigation after doing a few more interviews and running some toxicology tests — standard procedure in death cases, said Bankhead. <br />
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So case closed — or nearly. <br />
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And yet, people talk. They talk about a twosome that was rarely apart, about a woman who achieved renown for her unapologetic stands against abortion and overzealous child protective services. They talk about her husband, who tried, but never managed, to ignore his wife’s critics as effectively as she. <br />
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People talk, and they wonder. <br />
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A conservative voice <br />
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Nancy Schaefer was a multitasker before the term was coined. Married and living in Buckhead, she was busy with five children. But activism tugged. <br />
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In 1985, she organized an Atlanta rally for constitutional liberties. A year later, she created the nonprofit Family Concerns Inc., a foundation that champions display of the Ten Commandments, fights abortion and opposes what it considers overly aggressive child-custody agencies. <br />
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In 1988, she worked for Jack Kemp’s failed bid for the GOP presidential nomination. In subsequent years, she ran, unsuccessfully, for mayor of Atlanta and lieutenant governor and governor of Georgia. <br />
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Those campaigns raised her profile as a conservative capable of an elegant reply. In 2002, she was a regular in “Woman to Woman,” a weekly feature representing views from the left and right in the Sunday Atlanta Journal-Constitution. <br />
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Bruce retired in 1996. Like so many other well-heeled Atlantans, he and his wife left Georgia’s capital for the mountains. There, her political tenacity paid off. <br />
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In 2004, Nancy Schaefer won the first of two elections to the state Senate. In 2008, she lost to Jim Butterworth, who holds that seat now. In between, she remained active in other causes. She represented the Southern Baptist Convention at United Nations conferences. She started more nonprofit organizations and became a trustee at Toccoa Falls College. She sang in the choir at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Toccoa. She made devoted friends, and some bitter enemies. <br />
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Bruce? He was her amiable shadow. Photos depict a tall man with an athlete’s build — he played football at Clemson, then served in the Army — with a smile nearly as big as he. <br />
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“You hardly ever saw one without the other,” said Robert “Buster” Smith, whom Bruce often visited when Nancy came to town from their Clarkesville home to get her hair done. <br />
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A Toccoa native, Smith saw Bruce Schaefer on the last Tuesday of his life when he stopped by Smith’s furniture store. “He seemed like his old self,” said Smith. “I have a hard time believing it happened like it happened.” <br />
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‘Life happened’ <br />
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The Schaefers lived in The Orchard, a gated country club community about 15 miles northwest of Toccoa in Habersham County. It’s located off a twisty road where ancient wooden barns silver in the sun. <br />
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Their home served as headquarters for some of Nancy’s activities. There she wrote frequent online articles on topics as diverse as the Obama administration’s health care program to the possible biblical significance of solar eclipses. Her last, decrying implanting microchips in humans, appeared Feb. 17. <br />
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Cleaning out the house won’t be easy for the Schaefers’ children, said Habersham Sheriff Joey Terrell, whose officers were first on the scene after the shootings. “There’s a house that’s full of stuff to take care of,” he said. <br />
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Full of memories, too. <br />
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“They were a part of life,” said Terrell, “and life happened to them.” <br />
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Mourners, memories <br />
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Ushers counted more than 800 people at the couple’s funeral service Wednesday afternoon. Mourners filled Ebenezer Baptist’s sanctuary, two choir rooms and an adjacent building. Thirty state senators came on a chartered bus from Atlanta. <br />
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They watched a slide show of family photos that highlighted happy times: Bruce in his Army uniform; Bruce and Nancy swirling across a dance floor; children; grandchildren. The images bestowed on her a calm dignity that comes from decades of living; he got a little wider, his hair a little whiter, but the smile remained the same. <br />
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The Rev. Andy Childs urged people to focus on how the Schaefers lived, not how they died. <br />
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“The tragedy of the last several days ... does not erase the testimony of their lives,” he said. <br />
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Charlie Wysong, a family friend, drove three hours from Chattanooga to attend the 70-minute service. “When I heard about it, I couldn’t believe it at first,” he said. “I said, ‘How out of character.’” <br />
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The news also brought the business of state lawmaking to a temporary stop. <br />
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“It’s just a terrible tragedy,” said Rep. Rick Austin, a Republican from Demorest. “I don’t think anybody will ever really understand what happened.” <br />
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Not what it seems? <br />
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That doesn’t stop people from trying. Rev. Childs, speaking during the funeral service, mentioned Bruce taking medication. Others talk about possible financial misfortune. <br />
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Conspiracy-mongers have been busy, too. The Schaefers, they suggest, paid the price for their conservative convictions and were silenced by shadowy forces. Whoever shot Nancy, they maintain, also shot Bruce. <br />
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Web sites buzz with comments about a reputed cover-up. A Facebook page, “We Demand An Extensive Investigation On The Death of Senator Nancy Schaefer,” had 988 fans Thursday afternoon. Friday morning, it had 1,116. <br />
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The people who may have the best idea of what happened, the couple’s children, are remaining quiet. Police won’t say much, either. <br />
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So people wonder, and talk. Mysteries with no satisfactory answers, like empty rooms, attract odd things.Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-54485231056575757202010-10-27T09:16:00.000-07:002010-11-18T07:56:09.741-08:00CPS defined (From<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/"> Dictionary.com</a>)<br />
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<strong>OPPRESSIVE</strong><br />
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1. <span style="background-color: #274e13;">burdensome,</span> unjustly harsh, or <span style="background-color: #274e13;">tyrannical</span>: an oppressive king; oppressive laws. <br />
2. causing discomfort by being <span style="background-color: #274e13;">excessive, intense,</span> elaborate, etc.: oppressive heat. <br />
3.<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> distressing</span> or grievous: oppressive sorrows.<br />
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<strong>COERCE </strong>(coercive)<br />
co·erce vt \kō-ˈərs\<br />
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1: to restrain or <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><em><u>dominate by force</u></em></span> <religion coerce="" has="" in="" inge="" irreligious="" past="" r.="" the="" to="" tried="" w.="" —=""><br />
2: to compel to an act or choice <was agreeing="" coerced="" into=""><br />
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<strong>TERRORIZE</strong><br />
ter·ror·ize (ter′ər īz′)<br />
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transitive verb terrorized -·ized′, terrorizing -·iz′·ing<br />
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1.to fill with terror; terrify<br />
2.to<span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><em> coerce,</em></strong> make submit,</span> etc. by filling with terror, as by the use or threat of violence<br />
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Opposites of Terrorize: assuage, calm, help, please, <a class="theColor" href="http://thesaurus.com/browse/encourage" rel="nofollow">encourage</a><span id="hotword">, <span id="hotword" name="hotword" onclick="this.style.backgroundColor='#b5d5ff';return hotWord(this);" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='transparent'" onmouseover="this.style.cursor='default'" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">hearten,</span> <span id="hotword" name="hotword" onclick="this.style.backgroundColor='#b5d5ff';return hotWord(this);" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='transparent'" onmouseover="this.style.cursor='default'" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default;">inspirit</span> </span><br />
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<strong>TYRANNICAL</strong><br />
ty·ran·ni·cal (tə ran′i kəl, ti-, tī-)<br />
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1.of or suited to a tyrant; arbitrary; despotic<br />
2.harsh, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">cruel,</span> <span style="background-color: #274e13;">unjust,</span> oppressive, etc.<br />
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Origin: L tyrannicus < Gr tyrannikos<br />
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<strong>ABUSE</strong> (abusive)<br />
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transitive verb abused abused′, abusing abus′·ing<br />
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1.to use wrongly; misuse: to abuse a privilege<br />
2.a.to hurt by treating badly; <span style="background-color: #274e13;">mistreat</span><br />
b.to inflict physical, sexual, or <span style="background-color: #274e13;">psychological harm</span> upon<br />
3.to use insulting, coarse, or bad language about or to; revile<br />
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Origin: ME abusen < OFr abuser < L abusus, pp. of abuti, misuse < ab-, away, from + uti, to use<br />
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noun<br />
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1.wrong, bad, or <span style="background-color: #274e13;">excessive</span> use<br />
2.<span style="background-color: #274e13;">mistreatment,</span> esp. by the infliction of physical, sexual, or <span style="background-color: #274e13;">psychological</span> harm; injury<br />
3.a bad, unjust, or <span style="background-color: #274e13;">corrupt custom or practice</span><br />
4.<span style="background-color: #274e13;">insulting</span> or coarse language<br />
5.Obsolete deception<br />
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<strong>FRAUD</strong> (fraudulent)<br />
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1. deliberate deception, trickery, or cheating intended to gain an advantage <br />
2. an act or instance of such deception <br />
3. something false or spurious: his explanation was a fraud <br />
4. informal a person who acts in a false or deceitful way <br />
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[C14: from Old French fraude , from Latin fraus deception] <br />
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fraud <br />
"criminal deception," mid-14c., from O.Fr. fraude , from L. fraudem (nom. fraus ) "deceit, injury." The noun meaning "impostor, humbug" is attested from 1850. Pious fraud "deception practiced for the sake of what is deemed a good purpose" is from 1560s. <br />
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Main Entry: fraud <br />
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Function: noun <br />
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Etymology: Latin fraud - fraus <br />
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1 a : any act, expression, omission, or concealment calculated to deceive another <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><em>to his or her disadvantage</em></strong></span>; specifically : a <strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;">misrepresentation</span></em></strong> or concealment with reference to some fact material to a transaction that is made with knowledge of its falsity or in reckless disregard of its truth or falsity and with the intent to deceive another and that is reasonably relied on by the other who is injured thereby b : the affirmative defense of having acted in response to a fraud <br />
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1. Disposed to lie, cheat, defraud, or <span style="background-color: #274e13;">deceive.</span><br />
2. Resulting from or marked by a lack of honesty.<br />
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[Middle English dishoneste, dishonorable, from Old French deshoneste, probably from Medieval Latin *dishonestus : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin honestus, honorable; see honest.]<br />
dis·honest·ly adv.<br />
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Synonyms: dishonest, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">lying,</span> untruthful, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">deceitful,</span> mendacious<br />
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These adjectives mean lacking honesty or truthfulness. Dishonest is the least specific: a dishonest business executive.<br />
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Deceitful implies <span style="background-color: #274e13;">misleading</span> by falsehood or by<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> concealment of the truth</span>: deceitful advertising.<br />
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Mendacious is more formal than lying, and suggests<span style="background-color: #274e13;"><u> a chronic inclination toward untruth</u></span>: a mendacious and troublesome employee. <br />
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<strong>CRUEL</strong> <br />
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1. willfully or knowingly causing pain or <span style="background-color: #274e13;">distress</span> to others. <br />
2. enjoying the pain or distress of others: the cruel spectators of the gladiatorial contests. <br />
3. causing or marked by great pain or distress: a cruel remark; <span style="background-color: #274e13;">a cruel affliction.</span> <br />
4. rigid; stern; strict;<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> unrelentingly severe.</span> <br />
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1175–1225; ME < AF, OF < L crūdēlis, equiv. to crūd ( us ) ( see crude) + -ēlis adj. suffix <br />
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cru·el·ly, adverb <br />
cru·el·ness, noun <br />
un·cru·el, adjective <br />
un·cru·el·ly, adverb <br />
un·cru·el·ness, noun <br />
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1. bloodthirsty, ferocious, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">merciless, relentless.</span> Cruel, pitiless, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">ruthless,</span> brutal, savage imply readiness to cause pain to others. Cruel implies willingness to cause pain, and <span style="background-color: #274e13;">indifference to suffering</span>: a cruel stepfather. Pitiless adds the idea of refusal to show compassion: pitiless to captives. Ruthless implies cruelty and unscrupulousness, letting nothing stand in one's way: <span style="background-color: #274e13;">ruthless greed.</span> Brutal implies cruelty that takes the form of physical violence: a brutal master. Savage suggests fierceness and brutality: savage battles.<br />
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<strong>DESTROY</strong> (destructive)<br />
de·stroy (di stro̵i′)<br />
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transitive verb<br />
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1<span style="background-color: #274e13;">.to tear down</span>; demolish<br />
2.to break up or spoil completely; ruin<br />
3.to bring to total defeat; <span style="background-color: #274e13;">crush</span><br />
4.<span style="background-color: #274e13;">to put an end to</span>; do away with<br />
5.to kill<br />
6.to neutralize the effect of<br />
7.to make useless<br />
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Origin: ME destroien < OFr destruire < L destruere < de-, down + struere, to build: see structure<br />
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Antonyms: Build, conserve, sustainDenise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-54305866907043417712010-10-26T14:13:00.000-07:002010-11-17T09:24:55.193-08:00Denise Dopkins' legal battle with her son's adoptive parentsLEGALITIES RE MY SON’S ADOPTIVE PARENTS DEMANDS<br />
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by Denise Dopkins on Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 2:15pm<br />
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I received a letter from my son's adoptive parents via their attorney. Meegan and James Ware are threatening me with legal action if I do not comply with their demands. My son's natural father receives letters and photos from the adoptive parents as per an Open Adoption Agreement they entered into. I refused to write my son off to the state, so I am not offered any visits, photos or letters. However, I receive copies of photos and letters from Micah's natural father. The adoptive parents are demanding that I remove said photos from any website I am connected with. They are also demanding that I stop using my son's legal name in any of my Internet writings. They inform me that if I do not comply with their demands, they will seek a court's order to force me to comply. They also say they will seek a restraining order against me for 'invasion of privacy'. The fact of the matter is-- I have not invaded anyone's privacy. I learned the last name of the adoptive family because it was not deleted from the DSHS social file when it was given to me. I have merely granted my son the common decency of referring to him by his legal name. I also claim him as my own flesh and blood because I am his natural mother and nobody can change that fact. Even the law states that it is the right of all children to know who their natural parents are. It occurs to me that the adoptive parents wish to hide my identity from my son. (Birth name Micah Barrett-- adopted name Austin Ware.) Oddly enough, though... the adoptive parents clearly informed the natural father that they would not hide from Micah the fact that he is adopted. Hmmm.<br />
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I have never approached, called or emailed the adoptive family. I have not attempted any form of contact with them or my son. Furthermore, Micah is only 5 years of age, so likely does not see any of the Internet sites that I am connected with.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #274e13;">I must point out the fact that the adoptive parents, Meegan and James Ware <strong><em><u>began coaching Micah</u></em></strong> to refer to himself as Austin prior to the initiation of the adoption procedure. I know this to be a fact because during my last visit with Micah, he informed me in no uncertain terms that "No, I not Micah... I Austin!" There was about two weeks that passed between the end of the termination trial and my last visit with my son. Therefore, the coaching may have started directly after my rights were terminated, however, I believe it began the very day my trial started. It occurs to me that CPS authorized the changing of my son's name prior to the initiation of the adoption... and likely at least 6 weeks prior to my last visit with him. (At the start of my "trial" and <strong><em><u>prior to the termination of my parental rights</u></em></strong>.) The very fact that the adoptive parents would not wait until after my last visit with Micah shows (a) unbelievable cruelty and (b) they participated in illegal activity. How hurtful it was to see my son for the last time and have him inform me that his name was not the name I gave him at birth. It caught me completely off gaurd-- which I suspect was part of the adoptive parents agenda. It was very alarming to me, however, I let it slide for the remainder of the visit, <strong><em><u>so as not to upset Micah.</u></em></strong></span><br />
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Following is the email correspondene between the adoptive parent's attorney and me. Note the fact that Mr. Iverson changed his mind about speaking or corresponding with me only when he received my list of questions. I have to wonder if the adoptive mother's threats are even legally enforceable.<br />
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Tue, June 8, 2010 3:02:09 PM Letter from Wares From: Denise Dopkins <dd4066@yahoo.com>View Contact To: mriverson@earthlink.net <br />
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Dear Mr. Iverson,<br />
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I am contacting you to make a request regarding the letter I received from Meegan Ware. Is there any chance you could send me a copy of that letter via email attachment? I'd sure appreciate it if you could do that for me. Please let me know one way or the other whether or not you can fulfill this request.<br />
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Thank you in advance,Denise Dopkins <br />
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dd4066@yahoo.com<br />
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Thu, June 10, 2010 1:16:28 PM Letter From: Mark R. Iverson <mriverson@earthlink.net>View Contact To: dd4066@yahoo.com <br />
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Ms. Dopkins:<br />
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You sent an email to Mr. Iverson regarding a letter you received from Meegan Ware. That letter was not sent through this office and therefore we do not have a copy of it.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
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LeAnn F. BlairLegal Assistant to:<br />
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Mark R. Iverson, P.S.921 West Broadway, Suite 301Spokane, WA 99201<br />
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1-509-462-3678 1-509-462-3700 (Fax)<br />
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http://www.adoptionwa.com/<br />
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Fri, June 11, 2010 2:55:09 PM Re: Letter From: Denise Dopkins <dd4066@yahoo.com>View Contact To: Mark R. Iverson mriverson@earthlink.net <br />
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Dear Ms. Blair, Thank you for your response to my email. I am though confused at your answer-- given that Mr. Iverson is the adoption attorney for the Wares and that Mrs. Ware instructed me to contact Mr. Iverson with any questions regarding the letter in question. Also, the letter was sent from Mr. Iverson's law office address, so I assumed he was aware of its content. Should I assume that Mr. Iverson is not open to communications with me regarding Mrs. Ware's letter? Please respond at your soonest convenience and I thank you in advance. Sincerely,Denise Dopkins dd4066@yahoo.com<br />
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Sat, June 12, 2010 6:13:42 AM Re: Letter From: Mark R. Iverson <mriverson@earthlink.net>View Contact To: Denise Dopkins dd4066@yahoo.com <br />
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I am out of the office until early July. I will speak with you then. You do not have an open adoption agreement with the adoptive parents. They will not be sending you any communication or pictures.<br />
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Mark Iverson<br />
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Sat, June 12, 2010 5:13:47 PM Re: Letter From: Denise Dopkins <dd4066@yahoo.com>View Contact To: Mark R. Iverson mriverson@earthlink.net <br />
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Dear Mr. Iverson, Thank you for your email. Just to clarify-- regarding your comment, I have always been with the understanding that the adoptive parents do not communicate with me or send me photos. This has never been a misunderstanding on my part... so I am confused as to why you make the comment regarding it. I have further never attempted contact with the adoptive family or my son in any way, form or matter, so the comment is really misplaced on your part. My intent in contacting you was in regards to the letter I received from Mrs. Ware. She contacted me. Interestingly enough, she has personal contact information. I wonder how she located it. Your assistant, LeAnn F. Blair informed me that the letter Mrs. Ware sent me did not come from your office, even though the return address indicates that it did. I look forward to speaking with you. Please contact me upon your return to your office. I actually just need to clarify a few points regarding Mrs. Ware's letter. I will not respond directly to her. Sincerely,Denise Dopkins dd4066@yahoo.com 509-216-8885<br />
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Sun, June 13, 2010 6:52:33 AM Fw: Letter From: Denise Dopkins <dd4066@yahoo.com>View Contact To: mriverson@earthlink.net <br />
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Dear Mr. Iverson, Regarding my most recent email to you, I must correct a statement I made. I stated that "I have always been with the understanding that the adoptive parents do not communicate with me or send me photos." What I meant to say was "I have always been with the understanding that the adoptive parents do not have to communicate with me or send me photos." It is a fact that I have asked them to reconsider sending me photos. That, however, was quite some time ago. I believe the last time I requested photos from the adoptive parents was November 2008. I now receive copies of photos and letters from my son's natural father, so it is no longer a desperate request. Just as I stated in the email I have forwarded to you today... I have never attempted direct contact with the adoptive family in the sense of visiting, calling or emailing them. I asked the social workers to communicate with the adoptive family for me by passing along the request for photos. I felt I had the right to ask-- even though I refused to write my son off to the state prior to receiving what I was led to believe was a fair trial. I received my answer and have not since asked the adoptive parents for anything. Sincerely,Denise Dopkins dd4066@yahoo.com 509-216-8885<br />
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Tue, June 29, 2010 1:06:49 PM Legal questions re the Ware's letter From: Denise Dopkins <dd4066@yahoo.com>View Contact To: mriverson@earthlink.net <br />
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Dear Mr. Iverson, Given the fact that July is fast approaching, I opted to compose this letter to you. I thought it might be simpler to compile my questions and send them to you for your consideration. Please reply to this email with the answers to my questions. I can then simply keep the email in my personal file and refer to it-- should I again need to refresh my memory regarding the correspondence about the adoptive parent's demands. <br />
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1. Regarding the accusation of Meegan Ware, how have I 'invaded the privacy' of the adoptive family? <br />
2. Is it illegal for me to have the common decency to acknowledge my son by his legal name?<br />
3. Is it illegal for me to post photographs of my son and me on my blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc.? <br />
4. How exactly do the adoptive parents intend to punish Mr. Barrett for something he is not responsible for? <br />
5. Isn't it true that there has to be a valid reason to persuade a judge to amend a court order?<br />
6. Do I not have any rights to the freedom of speech, expression and press?<br />
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7. As my son's natural mother, do I not have the right to claim his as my own flesh and blood? Please reply to this email with answers to my very legitimate questions and concerns within 10 working days of the date of this email if at all possible. Thank you in advance.Denise Dopkins dd4066@yahoo.com<br />
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Tue, August 17, 2010 8:45:43 AM Re: Legal questions re the Ware's letter From: Mark R Iverson <mriverson@earthlink.net>View Contact To: Denise Dopkins dd4066@yahoo.com <br />
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You may want to seek the advice of an attorney. I do not believe that any answers I give will be sufficient for you. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry<br />
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Tue, August 17, 2010 4:57:07 PM Re: Legal questions re the Ware's letter From: Denise Dopkins <dd4066@yahoo.com>View Contact To: mriverson@earthlink.net Cc: cc@tillett.com; Melinda Bocook <whitefeather992003@yahoo.com>; Jane Boyer <jane@abusefreedom.com>; Barbara Mowrey <helovsu@hotmail.com><br />
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Dear Mr. Iverson, Thank you for your response to my email. In response to your comment, I am under the impression that you are an attorney. Furthermore, as I previously informed you, Mrs. Ware directed me to contact you with any questions I have concerning her letter. I further do not understand what you mean when you say that any answers you give wouldn't be sufficient for me. I am merely contacting you because you are an attorney and would of course have the legal answers to the questions I presented to you. Whether or not the answers please me is not the issue here. I am merely seeking the accurate answers... period. I will assume Mrs. Ware was mistaken when she informed me that you would be the appropriate person to contact concerning her letter, unless of course, you proceed to assist her as your client. I will also proceed to contact several other attorneys who offer consultations-- in order to present the same questions to them. I would then compare notes and decide how to proceed. I am not necessarily convinced that it is mandatory that I abide by the adoptive parents demands. Mr. Iverson, I still encourage you to come forth with the answers to my very legitimate questions. (Regardless of whether or not those answers would make me happy.) After all, there are often things in life that do not make people particularly happy. Sincerely, Denise Dopkins dd4066@yahoo.comDenise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-66003633516927857682010-10-19T13:32:00.000-07:002010-11-28T16:43:56.601-08:00Governmental tyrannyGOD GUNS AND GUTS<br />
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Protecting your family under tyranny<br />
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By Jan Smith<br />
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I can’t think of a more violent government act against residents, then to send in government agents to take one’s children and place them in stranger’s homes and for all kinds of erroneous reasons determined by the psychiatric and legislative professions. Once removed those in power have devised a system so overwhelmingly corrupt and expansive, the average person is crippled under its auspices. From start to finish, the child protection system under a concept called Parens Patriae ensures that all involved parents and relatives are void of any rights. <strong><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">Most rights presented are nothing more than an illusion and the targets are usually very vulnerable.</span></u></strong><br />
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The concept of Parens Patriae (government control of vulnerable children) came from English/British legal schools of thought and was implemented by the judicial system here in the US. However, this concept has gone way past the judiciary and encompasses the federal government and agencies, state government and agencies, contracted agencies and mandated reporters. Then there are all the “volunteer” agents (neighbors, friends, relatives, etc.) whose perception of a person’s parenting leads to government intervention. These too, are a part of the Parens Patriae system by choice. What they don’t realize is what they are subjecting the whole family to (including extended) when they pick up that phone and begin the process of removal.<br />
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So, what are they being subjected to? <strong><span style="background-color: #274e13;">Poorly trained attorneys who are part of a “team” and may or may not represent their clients but the state.</span></strong> Then there is a massive Attorney General’s office and assigned assistant AGs who represent each government stakeholder at significant tax payer expense. <strong><span style="background-color: #274e13;">The courts aren’t really courts at all</span></strong>, but a devised method of child removal and adoption with supportive rules, regulations and laws designed to give Parens the ability to make any type of decision – right or wrong – without consequence. Then there are the case workers and their big ideas of how to save the world through removal and adoption, leaving the entire lineage devastated with their mouths hanging open at the experience.<br />
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The targets are anyone whose income is at the poverty level. This includes those families who do not accept any type of government assistance but could if they applied. Most are having babies like crazy and completely unaware they are under government radar and gun scopes of medical, educational, and social worker opinion. Those who fall under ADA categories are disproportionately attacked to include the blind and disabled in wheel chairs. <strong><span style="background-color: #274e13;">People with diagnosed mental health problems are a “shoe in” for removal and adoption for government agents.</span></strong> Depression is the government’s weapon of choice. They will use this diagnose to divide families and seek out any information that would suggest a parent or extended family has depression issues. Quietly, the government is taking children away from family after family under these categories and only recently, is there becoming an awareness of the plot.<br />
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There are several things families need to start doing. The first and most important is practicing the 2nd Amendment rights of gun ownership. All families at or below poverty levels need to own a gun and know how to use it safely by taking the required courses. If this means buying a gun on time payments then do it. Many hand guns are below $200 used. Nine millimeters have the cheapest ammo for practice. Talk to local gun firing ranges about developing a system of affordable shooting. They need to start supporting ALL Americans so they can practice their gun owner rights, not just those of higher incomes. The NRA should start allowing membership based on income because their membership fee is too high. Attend gun shows. Most are only about $5 to get in. You need to get a gun before international law goes into place with the Obama administration who would like to take the guns away from every American.<br />
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The second is educating yourself if you are going to have a child. Know who are mandatory reporters <strong><span style="background-color: #274e13;">and under what circumstances your state allows removal.</span></strong> Know what the evidence standards are and how to dispute accusations. Families need to educate themselves on family law if they are going to have children. Know that marriage, holding down a job, and maintaining a stable environment are important factors in a court room setting. So are fighting in front of children, domestic violence, failing to show up for medical appointments, drug/alcohol abuse and a messy house will get agents involved with court support. Spanking with objects (belt, switch, etc.) is never allowed. Know what your rights are when agents show up at the door investigating your family and how to state those rights.<br />
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For activist/system victims who want to know what to do, consider developing groups in your area to do the following: <br />
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Develop fliers to hand out at maternity wards in hospitals to vulnerable parents and clinics who take government medical <br />
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Find out about all HUD housing apartment complexes and give community lectures on family law and child protection on site. If they won’t let you do that, hand out fliers and set up community meetings. Find a free place to have community meetings. Libraries are one source. <br />
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Go to your local ADA and express your concern about their lack of support regarding families. Picket if necessary to get your point across. <br />
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Develop a solid volunteer base. Memberships in family rights organizations fail if there is a fee. Most people won’t pay to have advocacy. <br />
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Educate those with money like foundations. This is important because they are funding foster care systems<strong><span style="background-color: #274e13;"> but don’t realize what is happening to families in the legal system.</span></strong> We need backers to help. <br />
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Work at night if you can, so that your schedule is free during the day to attend court hearings and public legislation. Get to know all the legislators in your state. <br />
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Pool resources with others to get training. Pick out members in your groups to attend important functions and meetings then collect the funds to get them that training. Once trained the trainees can come back and train the group. <br />
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<strong><span style="background-color: #274e13;">Hand out fliers at DSHS offices where families are signing up for money/food/medical.</span></strong> <br />
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Organize parent groups in school systems that may be a little too excited about government involvement with families. There is safety in numbers. <br />
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Make lists of doctors and forensic experts where families are losing their rights <strong><span style="background-color: #274e13;">because of their testimonies</span></strong> and examine the validity of their arguments. Some of these quacks go for years with false testimony before getting discovered. <br />
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Own a gun and practice good safety. <br />
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I could continue listing, but if these items get accomplished, great gains will be made. People lack power because of isolation and an absence of critical thinking. It will take some time and effort in the beginning, but once you become an established entity, the ripple effect will take over and have some impact.Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-50312982776366603732010-10-10T18:17:00.001-07:002010-10-26T19:47:10.526-07:00A Woman with 20 different personalities<h1>Kim Noble: A woman divided</h1><em><span style="color: #38761d;">This blog's author Denise Dopkins first comments on the following article post. I post the article because it demonstrates how cruel and unjust the system really is. CPS succeeded at convincing a judge to permanently terminate the relationship between my precious baby boy and me. Their reason: They assert that I am so emotionally disturbed that it precludes me from the right to raise my son and live the joy that comes from the mother-child bonding experience. (Read more of my story "My Nightmare with CPS" located on this blog site. It is the May 31st entry under the blog archives.)</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #38761d;">I wish for everyone to know that I was<u> not diagnosed with any serious mental health problems</u>... and certainly not as profoundly disturbing as the woman in the following article. Yet, social services allowed her to have custody and care of her daughter despite her serious mental health condition. Social services refused to allow my son to continue on in his relationship and bonding experience with his natural mother for no legitiamate reason and absent the provision of in home services. The woman in the following article was granted the in home services and ongoing therapy while her daughter remained in her custody and care-- where she remains to this day. I on the other hand was deprived of any in home services or ongoing therapy with my son in my care and custody. I <u>wasn't so much as given the chance</u> to fail or succeed with my son.</span></em><br />
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<span style="color: black;">KIM NOBLE: A woman devided</span><br />
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<div class="tagline">There are<strong> 20 people</strong> living inside Kim Noble, including an alpha female called Patricia; an anorexic teenager called Judy; and a bloke called Ken. She has the most extreme form of dissociative identity disorder that psychiatrists have seen - and a unique artistic talent, too, as Katy Weitz reports.</div><div class="author"></div><div class="info" sizcache="22" sizset="307"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Sunday, 27 August 2006</span></div><div class="share" sizcache="22" sizset="307"><br />
</div><div class="share" sizcache="22" sizset="307">A lot of people are very frightened <strong><u>of us</u></strong> until they meet <strong><u>us</u></strong>," says Kim Noble in a flat south-London accent. "But we've been in treatment now for 10 years and actually we don't behave as if we've got 50 heads!" </div><div class="body" sizcache="22" sizset="335"><div class="font-null"></div><div class="font-null">This is my first interview with Kim Noble, and I confess that I am a little apprehensive myself - what does a woman with 20 personalities look like? What if she "switches" midway through the interview? Kim's appearance gives nothing away; she is a tiny, almost frail-looking woman with a thick mane of copper hair framing the most startlingly clear blue eyes. The rest of her face is almost incidental, but high cheekbones and delicate features under clear bronze skin all make the picture quite lovely.</div><div class="font-null"><br />
There is no trace of disturbance in her voice either - she is breezy and animated. She could even pass for normal if you met her on the street but Kim, 45, has spent the last 10 years coming to terms with the condition dissociative identity disorder (DID) and in the last two, she and <strong>12</strong> of her "alters" have started <br />
painting in acrylics after a short time with an art therapist.</div><div class="font-null"><br />
Despite no formal training, <strong>all the artists</strong> have developed <strong>their own</strong> distinctive styles, colours and themes and she has had seven successful solo and seven group exhibitions. She is now artist in residence at Springfield University Hospital in Tooting, south London, and wants to show the positive side of her condition to explain her art. This is the reason for our meeting.</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">"<strong>We're</strong> doing something really worthwhile and <strong>we've</strong> also brought up a <a class="kLink" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/kim-noble-a-woman-divided-413223.html#" id="KonaLink0" target="undefined"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">healthy</span></span></a>, well-loved daughter," she says. The use of the plural personal pronoun is strange but Kim talks so quickly, I don't have time to reflect.</div><div class="font-null">"Being diagnosed with DID was the best thing that ever happened<strong> to us</strong>," she says. "From the age of 14 I'd had <strong>spells in psychiatric hospitals</strong> and had been diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to depression, hysterical amnesia, anorexia and bulimia. It's a lot to take in when you're first told - I used to think I just had a bad memory because of all the blank periods. Or I put it down to drinking. I was sectioned many times and told I'd have to take medication for the rest of my life.</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">"Now I don't take any <a class="kLink" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/kim-noble-a-woman-divided-413223.html#" id="KonaLink1" target="undefined"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">medication</span></span></a> and haven't been in hospital for a decade. I just have therapy twice a week and a support team who come over occasionally to help out. One was an art therapist. That's how I got into painting. We just started out doing it on the back of wallpaper two years ago and we loved it."</div><div class="font-null">In just two years, Kim has painted over 200 canvasses, getting up at 3am to start work so that she has time alone in her art room before daughter Aimee wakes up at 6.30am. <strong>Of course, it's not always Kim doing the painting.</strong></div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">"I have no memory at all between the personalities <strong>so when I come back, I don't always know who's been around.</strong> The best way to tell is to look at what painting is out at the time.<strong> Or Aimee will tell me.</strong> Since we started the artwork, there's actually been a lot more control in my life. If <strong>they're</strong> painting, they're achieving something and when they don't, they get very restless."</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">To all intents and purposes, each of Kim's personalities is an artist in their own right: Patricia paints the solitary desert landscapes, Bonny's pictures often feature robotic dancing figures or "frieze people", Suzy repeatedly paints a kneeling mother, Judy's canvasses are large, conceptual pieces while Ria's work reveals deeply traumatic events involving children.</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">These <strong>disturbing images</strong> are at the root of Kim's extraordinary condition; DID is a creative mental survival strategy whereby the personality splits at a young age due to severe and chronic trauma. The number of <a class="kLink" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/kim-noble-a-woman-divided-413223.html#" id="KonaLink2" target="undefined"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">personalities</span></span></a> that exist often depends on how long the trauma lasts. But Kim herself has no memory of being abused as a child; she has been protected over the years by her alters.</div><div class="font-null">"I've been told I was abused and to me at this moment in time, it's too much. <strong>It goes in one ear and out the other.</strong> <strong>It's no good retraumatising me and telling me something I don't want to know</strong> - in any case, there </div><div class="font-null">would be a switch."</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">Kim has good reason to fear learning about her past as it's possible that <strong>if she acquires too much information, she won't be able to cope and will "disappear". It's happened twice before. (omega)</strong></div><div class="font-null">This is where it gets really weird - for Kim isn't Kim at all. The personality I am interviewing is Patricia and it is she who manages her and Aimee's lives, but Patricia wasn't always the dominant personality. Before Patricia took over, Bonny held the fort and two years previous to Bonny, it was Hayley.</div><div class="font-null">Kim watches me closely as she explains: "You see Kim is just the 'house', the body. <strong>There isn't a 'Kim' at all</strong> - she has completely split. So we answer to the name Kim but really I am Patricia. When people call <strong>us</strong> 'Kim' I suppose many of <strong>us</strong> just assume it's a nickname, but once people know you they don't use your name very often in conversation."</div><div class="font-null"> </div><div class="font-null"><span style="color: #274e13;"><strong>Of the<u> 20 or so</u></strong> <strong>personalities who share "Kim", some are easily identifiable: there is 15-year-old Judy</strong> <strong>who is and bulimic, maternal Bonny, religious Salome, depressed Ken, sensible Hayley, Dawn, Patricia and elective mute MJ. There are also a handful of children "frozen" in time. A few of the alters know about the DID but many are unaware -</strong> <strong><u>or refuse to accept it. </u></strong></span></div><div class="font-null"><span style="color: #333333;"></span> </div><br />
<div class="font-null">"Judy doesn't believe in the DID," explains Kim. "She's only a <a class="kLink" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/kim-noble-a-woman-divided-413223.html#" id="KonaLink4" target="undefined"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">teenager</span></span></a> and she calls our therapist a nutter when she tries to explain it to her. She's so young, <strong><u>she doesn't even think Aimee is her daughter.</u></strong> She knows about me and she thinks that I'm a terrible mother because I'm always leaving Aimee. To her, it's totally normal to keep coming and going. She probably thinks that you come and go too."</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">There are certain "triggers" that can force a change and gradually Kim has learnt what they are in order to avoid them - but it doesn't stop her <strong>switching up to three or four times a day.</strong></div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">"I don't really get any idea when I'm about to go except occasionally a feeling of drifting. Mostly it's instantaneous. I can lose six or seven hours but if you were asking another personality now, of course they'd say they lose days. So we haven't got much of a sense of time - I'm always in a panic to get things done.</div><div class="font-null">"It means that Aimee's time gets interrupted. If a younger one comes out they can be playing for hours and nothing will get done. <strong>Aimee can get me back again but if she's on to a good thing she won't.</strong> I came to in the hallway once and there was paint spattered everywhere. Aimee just looked at me and said: 'Well, it wasn't my fault, was it?'</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">"To Aimee, all of this is normal. She's grown up with it and she knows all the personalities better than anyone. She misses Bonny quite a lot because Bonny used to be her main carer and now she's not around so much. Sometimes she asks if she can speak to her <strong>and I let her.</strong> Now that she's older she's getting a bit cheeky. She asked me for a kitten yesterday and I said no, <strong>then she asked Judy and she said yes.</strong> But it's me that has the final say, so she's not getting one."</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">This playing-off between the personalities mimics the actions of a child trying to manipulate two parents to their advantage. "Oh, I think Aimee's very lucky in some ways," says Kim. "There's always plenty of people for her to talk to and have fun with and <strong>we</strong> never get angry at her. If <strong>we're </strong>beginning to get frustrated then someone else will take over. I'm not saying (omega) it's always easy for Aimee - she gets stressed about getting to school on time because if I'm not around, <strong>maybe one of the other personalities won't know they have to get her ready.</strong> But the school are aware of the DID and are very supportive."</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">It is a testament to Kim's strength that she is a mother at all as Aimee was taken away by social services at birth to be put up for adoption. Kim took her fight all the way to the High Court and was assessed by two independent psychiatrists in the process - <strong>they both confirmed she was no danger to her child.</strong></div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">"DID is all about protection so I know that Aimee will always be safe - <strong>we all</strong> love her and take care of her together," says Kim. "At first, social services were worried I wouldn't remember to feed Aimee, or overfeed her. But <strong>luckily </strong>the trend was to feed on demand so we just fed her when she was hungry. It's the same for me - I tend to just snack <strong>as I don't know who's been out recently or whether they've eaten.</strong> I have to listen to my body. I let Judy do the eating."</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">Kim lets out a loud, throaty laugh - despite the day-to-day difficulties, she is the first to point out the ludicrous nature of her situation. "All the personalities have different taste in clothes so sometimes I can end up in five different outfits in one morning. <strong>And I lose things all the time because another personality might move my mobile and I'll have no idea where it's gone.</strong> I lost the computer once! It was broken and I was taking it in to be fixed but then I lost time and when I came back there was no computer. I went to the repair shop and just sort of hung around, waiting for them to say, 'We've got your computer.'<strong> I didn't want to just ask them - it would have seemed crazy."</strong></div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">Can she not communicate with the other personalities? "I leave notes for them sometimes<strong> but usually get rude replies back </strong>like: 'Mind your own business.'"</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">According to leading psychology professor at UCL, Professor John Morton, Kim has the misfortune to represent the British "gold standard" over genuine dissociation. In the last four years he has conducted extensive tests on Kim and found there is no memory at all between the different personalities.</div><div class="font-null">"Even when DID <a class="kLink" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/kim-noble-a-woman-divided-413223.html#" id="KonaLink5" target="undefined"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">patients</span></span></a> reported no memory between the different personalities, our tests usually showed massive leakage between them," he says. "Kim shows no leakage at all. She is proving existing memory theories wrong. She's doing things which we would say are impossible."</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">On our second meeting, I discover more about Aimee's origins. "<strong>One of us</strong> was seeing a guy and got pregnant but he wasn't everybody's choice so he left. It was Dawn who had Aimee. But because she was taken away at birth and we only got her back when she was six months old, <strong>Dawn didn't recognise her, so she's always looking for her baby."</strong></div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">For all the personalities, this appears to have been a major trauma in their lives. Now single, Kim says she doesn't want a relationship as it would be too complicated and <strong>she couldn't imagine all of them</strong> marrying one man.</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">I ask where the treatment is leading - could the personalities one day integrate, allowing Kim to <strong>lead a more "normal" life?</strong> "That always used to be the aim with DID sufferers, but not anymore," she says. "And I wouldn't want it. It's a bit like killing someone else, isn't it? <strong>Perhaps it will be me who's never around and Bonny will take over again.</strong> Apparently that doesn't happen but I can't even imagine what it's like. Also, if I integrated I'd lose the artists too. <strong>We'd all</strong> mould into one style and which style would that be? No, I don't want integration at all - my goal is managing it."</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">For our third interview, Kim's therapist is present at her request - <strong>it means I can meet the other personalities under controlled and safe conditions.</strong> Judy comes out at lunch so that she can eat. The change occurs almost immediately - Patricia closes her eyes for a second and then when she opens them again she looks bewildered and a little embarrassed. The therapist explains who I am and Judy grunts in greeting then starts picking at the white trousers she is wearing. "What's these?" she says to no one in particular. Her therapist replies: "You don't like them?" Judy snaps back: "I don't like white. It makes me look fat." She pulls a cushion over her legs then we carry on a halting conversation while she pokes at her chicken in lentil sauce.</div><div class="font-null">Judy is sullen and defensive - she's never seen lentils before and announces they look like "rabbit poop".</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">Eventually, we get onto the subject of DID. "Did? I did what? I did it! What Katy did," Judy plays with the words. I ask her if she believes in DID. "No!" she scoffs. "What? When I'm not there, somebody else is there talking to me? Eh?" So how is it she's wearing trousers she doesn't like? "I've always got bizarre clothes on that belongs to some other idiot," she says. When her therapist tries to point out that this isn't usual for most people, Judy shoots back: "I've just got a bad memory. I probably put these on."</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">I ask: "How old are you, Judy?" "Old enough to know better! I'm 15." The therapist gently says that she was 15 when they met 10 years ago. "But you've never been good at maths. You told me that."</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">Judy seems to have a brilliant arsenal of weapons<strong> to protect her from the truth:</strong> she has a bad memory, or her therapist is a terrible mathematician. As the meal ends, Judy leaves the sofa and in the middle of crossing the room, she stops, there's a jerk in her spine and she slowly turns around. It is Patricia again - she smiles warily. <strong>She has no idea what has just happened and looks at the empty plate:</strong> "So she ate all her food then? Was she all right?"</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">Later on, Bonny comes out - Patricia's head bows for a second then she looks up slowly and shyly. Bonny is altogether different from Patricia and this is reflected in the tension in her face - she is a softer, more serene character and even begins to cry <strong>when she talks about missing Aimee.</strong> "I just don't get to see her," she says sadly.</div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">When Patricia is back again, we tell her what Bonny has said. She is resentful: "Yeah, but I don't get enough time with Aimee." </div><div class="font-null"><br />
</div><div class="font-null">I leave the interview tired and amazed; there was no trace of Kim/Patricia in either of the two alters. Though I cannot even begin to imagine horrors Kim faced as a child, I am struck that neither the abuse nor its devastating consequences have destroyed this woman's spirit, humour or capacity to love. She may not have 50 heads but there is nothing normal about Kim Noble; she is one terrible, exquisite and beautiful work of art.</div><div class="font-null" sizcache="22" sizset="335"><br />
</div><div class="font-null" sizcache="22" sizset="335"><i sizcache="22" sizset="335">Kim Noble will be exhibiting at the Raw Arts Festival in Valencia in October and at the London Art House, Islington, in January. To find out more about her work visit <a href="http://www.kimnoble.com/" target="NEW"><span style="color: #125581;">www.kimnoble.com</span></a></i> </div></div>Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-11862292005804001922010-09-25T13:29:00.000-07:002010-11-16T14:16:45.309-08:00Washington Families United organization<span style="background-color: #274e13;">The person speaking in the following post is this blog's author Denise Dopkins. It speaks of my personal experience with Washington Families United and Elaine Wolcott.</span><br />
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There was a time when I took a very negative view of Washington Families United. I was upset with the organization and its Presidents/leaders because they seemingly would not help me to resolve my issues with CPS and family court. I was attacked by CPS, as are so many thousands of others nationwide. I also lost my parental rights and relationship with my little boy due to false and flimsy allegations, which the courts rubber stamped. Sadly, this is an epidemic issue all over the United States of America.<br />
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I have since learned and have been willing to understand that NOBODY can stop the horrific doings of the so called child protective system by themselves. Even with people in political positions and the many organizations that work tirelessly to curtail the illegalities of CPS and 'family courts'... change is extremely slow in happening. Thankfully, with the assistance of Washington Families United, as well as many other people, some cases have been victorious and the families reunited. However, this is a rare happening, I believe due to the fact that there are so many thousands of families attacked and because State agents are seemingly accountable to no other authority or department. They do not fear punishment for their perjury and fraudulent ways, so they continue on in the illegal actions they commit. Laws that are already in place are violated every day by State agent, CPS contracted service providers, lawyers, doctors, Guardian ad litems etc. Even foster care providers participate in the illegal, cruel and unjust actions involved in the CPS and family court arena. I am speaking of the foster-adopt industry, where foster care providers look to the State as a less expensive or free ticket to adopting children, especially babies. That is where the majority of children in state care go.<br />
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In short, my point in composing this document is to explain my reasoning for removing the post containing some correspondence between a Washington Families United member and myself. The email correspondence I posted was unnecessary and inappropriate for this forum. It was derived from a misunderstanding I had regarding the motive of WFU. I publicly apologize to Elaine Wolcott for accusing her of not intending to help CPS victims. Truth be known-- she is not able to assist every person that comes to her for help because she is only one person. I simply misunderstood her intentions due to my own refusal to hear what she really stated to me.Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-60867526874147938722010-09-19T16:21:00.000-07:002010-09-19T16:31:37.606-07:00Mom wins lawsuit against CPSCalifornia Court of Appeal Affirms Mom's $4.9 Million Award Against Social Services Agency<br />
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RE: Fogarty-Hardwick v. County of Orange, et al.<br />
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In 2007 an Orange County jury returned a $4.9 million verdict in favor of Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick finding that county social workers had lied to the juvenile court<strong><span style="background-color: #274e13;"> in order to cause the removal of</span></strong> Fogarty-Hardwick's young children - 6 and 9 years old at the time. In a unanimous scathing opinion issued Monday, June 14, 2010, Division Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal noted that the evidence presented at trial led both the judge and jury to conclude that "something seriously wrong had been done to Fogarty-Hardwick" and that the conduct of the social workers was not "an isolated incident." The Court of Appeal went on to chastise the County saying "This conclusion is something that should be taken very seriously. <br />
In this case, the jury specifically concluded that Vreeken and Dwojak lied, falsified evidence, and suppressed exculpatory evidence...There was no error in rejecting qualified immunity in this case.<br />
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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) June 18, 2010<br />
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A California Appellate Court found this week against Orange County and its Social Services Agency, and Affirmed what is called a “Substantial” damages award arising from a <span style="background-color: #274e13;">Civil Rights Verdict</span> obtained in May 2007.<br />
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After in depth review of extensive briefs and a complex record, Division Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal for the State of California issues its opinion today affirming an Orange County jury’s verdict awarding Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick approximately $4.9 million against the County of Orange, and two of its social workers.<br />
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In its opinion, the Court of Appeal voiced its concerns over what happened to Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick: “Stated plainly, the outcome of this case cannot be dismissed as merely the unfortunate product of a runaway jury. The evidence adduced at trial obviously caused both the jury and the judge to conclude not only that <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong>something seriously wrong was done to Fogarty-Hardwick</strong></span> in this case, but also that the wrongful conduct was not an isolated incident. That conclusion is something the County should be taking very seriously.”<br />
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The underlying case was filed by Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick against the County of Orange in February 2001. The suit alleged that Orange County, social worker Marcia Vreeken and her supervisor Helen Dwojak violated Ms. Fogarty-Hardwick’s constitutional rights to raise <strong>and associate with</strong> her children free from governmental interference.<br />
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On March 23,2007 an Orange County Jury found against Orange County, social worker Marcia Vreeken, and social worker supervisor Helen Dwojak and awarded monetary damages of $4.9 million. A third social worker, Elaine Wilkins was found not liable.<br />
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Lead attorney Shawn A. McMillan states: “Ms. Fogarty is very pleased with the Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold the verdict. This case encompasses extremely important issues for the people of Orange County, and the People of the State of California. Allegations of social worker misconduct of the type proven in this case is <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong>"ubiquitous"</strong></span> as admitted in an Amicus Brief filed by the California Association of Counties. Hopefully, the 52 counties that belong to the association will take note of the outcome of this case and promulgate policies to prevent their social workers from engaging in this type of conduct in the future.”<br />
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San Diego Lawyer Shawn A. McMillan, of the Law Offices of Shawn A. McMillan, was lead trial counsel in the case and the lead appellate attorney. Attorney Sondra Sutherland was co-counsel at trial and assisted on the appeal.<br />
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This needs to be applied nation-wide, because CPS agents operate in the same identical manner <strong><span style="background-color: #274e13;">EVERYWHERE.</span></strong> This agency needs to be sued out of existence and the agents tried for their <strong><u>Capital Crimes</u></strong> against American families.Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-78201466531495363992010-09-05T21:55:00.000-07:002010-11-06T16:45:19.279-07:00Corrupt GovernmentBELIEFS V FACTS ON CHILD PROTECTION<br />
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Words. It is all about words that create images and emotions <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">to provoke</span></u></em></strong> some type of response leading to action. Advertisers use underhanded and enticing strategies continuously in the marketplace manipulating the consumer into believing that the presented offerings are a “must have.” Once purchased, the consumer may very quickly realize that what they bought and what was advertised are two different things. In sales, the enticement is often referred to as a carrot and the same principle is applied with convincing the general public that the current child protection system is in the “best interest” of the children. The carrot is supposed child safety <strong><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">using images</span></u> of suffering children</strong> eliciting fear and the natural need to protect them from harm. Is the system set up protecting or exploiting children and now that 30 years have gone by since CAPTA, what are the results? In order to understand what we are experiencing now, it is critical to know what was happening that created this trend. Many factors enter into the picture including and not limited to government research into mind control and social construction theories. Psychiatrists, psychologists, philosophers, historians, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies all participated in discussions and experiments regarding individual and community control during the time that child protection federal public policy was being requested.<br />
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As early as the 50s, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company began handing out LSD like it was candy to unsuspecting victims to determine its ability to get information out of resistant people and whether it was reliable in mind control. Many doctors were guilty of putting implants in their client’s brains attempting to manipulate emotions then tracking them unbeknownst to them. Nobody was immune to that era’s determination to commit human rights violations to include military personnel, children, and mentally handicapped people. <br />
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Yale and Harvard doctors participated and set up top secret mind control experimental stations of all types and varieties at the request of government paid for with tax dollars. It was in this spirit and social climate at Yale that the child protection federal public policy was developed then implemented across the nation without public input. Three scholars from Yale, Goldstein, Solnit and Freud, wrote a book, “Beyond the Best Interest of the Child” that is the bible of family dependency court to this day. <strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;">The book <u>encourages fast, reckless and uninformed</u> removal and adoption out of children.</span></em></strong> The authors further suggest that judges should have no human sensitivities to the victims they may create and to plow forth ignoring any and all objections. Horrified, parents and extended families finding their children removed and adopted out needlessly, discover deaf ears in every direction. Let the philosophy taught in the pages of that book be the reason. <strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;">All court related persons are taught to kick family to the curb and treat them accordingly.</span></em></strong><br />
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The book, which was bought into wholesale by the legal and legislative communities, then formed the basis for court room and agency development. Legal minds <em><span style="background-color: #274e13; color: #351c75;"><u>worked overtime</u></span><span style="background-color: #274e13;"><u> </u>constructing specialized courts that violate every Constitutional principle.</span></em> Again, using the emotional imaging of children, the educated public along with legislators ignored the dangerous ideas brought forth believing that the only way to protect children was by committing rights violations of parents and families.<br />
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Social constructionists including the authors of Beyond the Best Interest of the Child, began to introduce the idea that children aren’t really bonded with family through genetics and can be bonded to anyone. They taught that the younger the child, the greater the success with stranger placement. <strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;">The authors encouraged the removal of babies then adopting them out quickly without due process to facilitate bonding with strangers <u>instead of</u> prolonged litigation.</span></em></strong><br />
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During the time all this was going on, the United States was also working with the United Nations to develop international policy on children’s rights. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child treaty was written with the US being primarily responsible for the contents. <strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;">The treaty gives children all kinds of rights <u>over and above parents</u> and attempts to ensure their protection through government control.</span></em></strong> This is interesting, because at the same time the US was writing the treaty, indigenous Native American children were being removed from tribes, put in boarding homes, raped, sodomized, tortured and killed at the hands of our government. Fifty percent died from starvation and disease because of neglect. This went on to 1984.<br />
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Just recently, Florida had to enact a law that makes experimental drug use on foster children illegal. This is now 2010. Why, one might ask, is it necessary to have a law like this? Don’t fundamental human rights suggest that those ethics should already be in place? As child after child has died at the hands of pharmaceutical companies without consequence, our nation continues its propaganda that children are best protected by government control and intervention. A popular quote is that “nothing changes if nothing changes.” Simple, yet seems to apply here. <em><u>The same issues of human rights violations from the 50s are still alive today.</u></em><br />
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<strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;"><u>Children are not faring better in foster</u> care and it is unclear how most are doing in adoptive homes.</span></em></strong> The vast majority are dropping out of school and winding up in prisons. Thirty percent plus were abused in foster care. Many ended up bounced from foster home to foster home and developed serious attachment problems. Drug and alcohol issues abound with this group along with severe mental health issues. And the idea that they are no longer connected to their bio families? Try telling that to the thousands who seek each other out after the inflicted state holocaust once an adult and fall into each other's arms in tears.<br />
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Nobody really knows how children are doing in adoptive homes because the states are keeping it a secret. If an adoptive parent abuses, kills or rapes a child,<span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><em><span style="background-color: magenta;"> </span><span style="background-color: #274e13;">it goes under “parent” in the statistics column.</span></em></strong></span> Adoptive parents are also backed up in courts trying to give the kids back to the states. This is not common knowledge either. I bet the violated parents or grandparents would take them.<br />
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People believe that if they call the CPS phone number on a family, then the child will be safe. Is this true or not? Most who pick up that phone believe something they have not researched. So, where does this information about child safety come from? The same people who write public policy <span style="background-color: #274e13;"><strong><em>while funding human rights violations.</em></strong></span><br />
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The propaganda is on the radio and TV. It is distributed at the doctor’s offices and on billboards. It is offered as the only solution. Mandated reporting is everywhere and in everything the general public is required to participate in by government decree. Child care centers, dental offices, sporting events and local business, all sport sad faces of children needing help and assistance because of their atrocious poverty ridden parents who are half killing them.<br />
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Is that the truth?<strong><em><span style="background-color: #274e13;"> Only a small percentage of removed children are removed because of actual abuse.</span></em></strong> The rest are removed due to neglect with most of the evidence unsubstantiated. What does that mean? That the vast majority of children removed have no proof of abuse or neglect. Let that sink in.<br />
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Why are they focusing on parents in poverty? Are they really worse parents than those of higher incomes? The social constructionists focus on the poor who blame the poor for societal decay. The poor families pay few taxes, often use the welfare system, and tend to have educational differences that manifest itself through lineage. In public hearings before the legislators, child and family savers abound declaring Utopian ideals and ways to provide handouts or interfere in parenting rights. While people in poverty spend little time worrying about the upper classes, the upper classes avoid their own issues and problems by finger pointing to low income while targeting ways to “fix” them.<br />
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Keep in mind that the sociopaths creating wars, <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">violating human rights,</span></u></em></strong> drugging people, going to countries for underage sex, and <strong><u>using the vulnerable</u></strong> for any manner of experiments all come from higher education and financial strata. There is a reason why we have the food and drug administration and it is not to protect the country from the toxic poor, but from those who would kill us all without conscience.<br />
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The Department of Defense is in the news after being exposed for 250 of their employees downloading and purchasing child porn. Only a few were investigated and convicted. The rest were ignored. How many of these people have children and was CPS called? Not likely any, because those in government positions only want to fix the poor. Looking at themselves is not part of social constructionist agenda.<br />
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Countless children are now being removed because of a husband or boyfriend who hits or abuses the mom. This is getting translated as somehow being the mom’s fault. The children get removed and adopted out. If a husband or boyfriend abuses a child when the mom is not home, the blame is also getting placed on the mother. Where are the women’s rights groups on this?<br />
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What is the government reasoning? Experts (oh boy!) are saying that children who witness domestic violence are more likely to grow up abusers and that the experience rewires their brain. And they know this how? From all the chips they are implanting without permission? Is this brain rewiring theory or fact? If fact, what means of testing this theory are they using?<br />
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Any experience that creates a paradigm shift in a person’s thinking may very well cause some brain chemistry changes to go with it. Graduating from high school, changing careers, joining the military, moving from one school to another might all qualify as brain changing activities. DV would certainly qualify as an incident or series of incidents that would affect a child’s perception. What does brain rewiring mean exactly? They don’t explain that part because they don’t know, yet they are using this as a primary weapon against the family. This is one of hundreds of obscure,<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> <u>unfounded</u></span> reasoning excuses used to remove and adopt out children.<br />
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I had a discussion with a family therapist sent out to work with a family member. I asked her about whether they believe a child can be put down and allowed to cry for any length of time. She responded by saying that she believes that it does not harm a child to let them cry if they have been well attended to. She said that a child is taught that they are not the center of the universe and will seek more independence. She also reported that it is healthy lung development. The therapist then reported that there is division on this theory and that at least half of all other family therapists believe that a child should never be put down if they are crying but held continually. <em><strong>The problem is, whatever the therapist believes who is assigned to the family,</strong> <strong><u>that family better take on those values or get crucified in court.</u></strong></em><br />
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<span style="background-color: #134f5c;">Then there is the problem of observed visitations. One therapist may insist that you get down on the floor and play games with the children. Another may say if you do that you are immature. Some might say it is Ok to speak baby talk, others may say it impedes child verbal development. If a parent puts a child in time out, that may be abusive to that therapist. If a parent doesn’t put a child in timeout this may mean the parent can’t set boundaries to another. The question is this….<u><em>if they don’t know how to raise children</em></u> then how are they supposed to teach someone else?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #274e13;">If a judge orders a psychological evaluation and it is paid by the department, is the evaluator unbiased? Not from the evaluations I have seen. Mistakes abound and things get <em><u>twisted in favor of the prosecution.</u></em> A person can go to four different evaluators and end up with <u>four different diagnosis <em>even with the same information.</em></u></span><br />
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While the US is leaning towards the use of pseudo science psychology to base their decisions on, Israel gives the evaluators absolute power and authority and won’t do anything without an evaluation as it pertains to families. The UK has similar strategies. This is how powerful globally these associations have become, <em><u>yet they can’t agree on even the simplest and most important of tasks.</u></em><br />
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What do social engineers and constructionists hope to accomplish? They want to increase the education of the children and the employability in more areas. They want to decrease religious ideology with more government dependency and values. They want fewer problems in the courts and more control on the streets. Because they have put our country in debt, they need the next generation’s taxes. Corporations want to pay lower wages while squeezing out small and medium business. Higher ups are embarrassed at low education scores and want those increased so the US looks better. More liberal special interest groups want to adopt children and take them from families and the legal system just wants <em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">federal dollars with little resistance from families when they adopt out their children to strangers.</span></u></em> They want us all drugged, used for their purposes, controlled in every respect and don’t want our opinion about any of their behaviors. But most importantly, they want to make all the decisions regarding poor people’s children and will destroy any parent that objects while the wealthy continue to be pedophiles, rapists, murderers, embezzlers, sociopaths, drug addicts and alcoholics, perpetrators, predators of all types, and war mongers.<br />
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They accomplish all of this through constantly maintaining propaganda and reaffirming those ideals at every turn, while those who are not researching the truth become their parrots and supporters. The United States, who once was more non-authoritarian, has sustained successful social engineering in child protection advertising with the vast majority believing all the lies told, as the children and families suffer under tyranny and loss of rights. As philosophers and historians argue amongst themselves regarding control and management of the populace, one thing is clear and has been since time began. <strong><em><u><span style="background-color: #274e13;">It is the poor who pays at the hands of the arrogant learned time and again.</span></u></em></strong><br />
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Sorry, Martin Luther King. Your dream will not be realized any time soon.Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-78360904308053193642010-08-19T19:33:00.000-07:002010-11-28T16:45:09.772-08:00'Family' courts ignore child dependency lawsTHE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BE A PARENT <br />
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<a href="http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Preamble">For the complete U.S. Constitution Click Here</a><br />
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On this page you will find the real law, which family courts ignore every day for their own convenience and personal agenda. Know your rights and fight for them!! If you do not you have no one to blame but yourself. This requires much work and study and attorney's will generally not help you here for fear of upsetting judges but your children are worth this effort as it is scientifically proven that children do ENORMOUSLY better in virtually all ways when they have equal access to both parents in a shared parenting relationship.<br />
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The rights of parents to the care, custody and nurture of their children is of such character that it cannot be denied without violating those fundamental principles of liberty and justice which lie at the base of all our civil and political institutions, and such right is a fundamental right protected by this amendment (First) and Amendments 5, 9, and 14. Doe v. Irwin, 441 F Supp 1247; U.S. D.C. of Michigan, (1985). <br />
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The several states has no greater power to restrain individual freedoms protected by the First Amendment than does the Congress of the United States. Wallace v. Jaffree, 105 S Ct 2479; 472 US 38, (1985). <br />
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Loss of First Amendment Freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury. Though First Amendment rights are not absolute, they may be curtailed only by interests of vital importance, the burden of proving which rests on their government. Elrod v. Burns, 96 S Ct 2673; 427 US 347, (1976). <br />
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Law and court procedures that are "fair on their faces" but administered "with an evil eye or a heavy hand" was discriminatory and violates the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 US 356, (1886).<br />
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Even when blood relationships are strained, parents retain vital interest in preventing irretrievable destruction of their family life; if anything, persons faced with forced dissolution of their parental rights have more critical need for procedural protections than do those resisting state intervention into ongoing family affairs. Santosky v. Kramer, 102 S Ct 1388; 455 US 745, (1982). <br />
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Parents have a fundamental constitutionally protected interest in continuity of legal bond with their children. Matter of Delaney, 617 P 2d 886, Oklahoma (1980). <verify citation="">. <br />
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The liberty interest of the family encompasses an interest in retaining custody of one's children and, thus, a state may not interfere with a parent's custodial rights absent due process protections. Langton v. Maloney, 527 F Supp 538, D.C. Conn. (1981).<br />
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Parent's right to custody of child is a right encompassed within protection of this amendment which may not be interfered with under guise of protecting public interest by legislative action which is arbitrary or without reasonable relation to some purpose within competency of state to effect. Reynold v. Baby Fold, Inc., 369 NE 2d 858; 68 Ill 2d 419, appeal dismissed 98 S Ct 1598, 435 US 963, IL, (1977). <br />
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Parent's interest in custody of her children is a liberty interest which has received considerable constitutional protection; a parent who is deprived of custody of his or her child, even though temporarily, suffers thereby grievous loss and such loss deserves extensive due process protection. In the Interest of Cooper, 621 P 2d 437; 5 Kansas App Div 2d 584, (1980). <br />
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The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that severance in the parent-child relationship caused by the state occur only with rigorous protections for individual liberty interests at stake. Bell v.City of Milwaukee, 746 F 2d 1205; US Ct App 7th Cir WI, (1984).<br />
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Father enjoys the right to associate with his children which is guaranteed by this amendment (First) as incorporated in Amendment 14, or which is embodied in`the concept of "liberty" as that word is used in the Due Process`Clause of`the 14th Amendment and Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Mabra v. Schmidt, 356 F Supp 620; DC, WI (1973). <br />
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The United States Supreme Court noted that a parent's right to "the companionship, care, custody and management of his or her children" is an interest "far more precious" than any property right. May v. Anderson, 345 US 528, 533; 73 S Ct 840,843,(1952). <br />
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A parent's right to care and companionship of his or her children are so fundamental, as to be guaranteed protection under the First, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. In re: J.S.and C.,324 A 2d 90; supra 129 NJ Super, at 489. <br />
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The Court stressed, "the parent-child relationship is an important interest that undeniably<br />
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Warrants deference and, absent a powerful countervailing interest, protection." A parent's interest in the companionship, care, custody and management of his or her children rises to a constitutionally secured right, given the centrality of family life as the focus for personal meaning and responsibility. Stanley v. Illinois, 405 US 645, 651; 92 S Ct 1208,(1972).<br />
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Parent's rights have been recognized as being "essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free man." Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 or 426 US 390 <check cite="">; 43 S Ct 625, (1923). <br />
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The U.S. Supreme Court implied that "a(once) married father who is separated or divorced from a mother and is no longer living with his child" could not constitutionally be treated differently from a currently married father living with his child. Quilloin v. Walcott, 98 S Ct 549; 434 US 246, 255-56, (1978). <br />
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit (California) held that the parent-child relationship is a constitutionally protected liberty interest. (See; Declaration of Independence --life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution -- No state can deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law nor deny any person the equal protection of the laws.) Kelson v. Springfield, 767 F 2d 651; US Ct App 9th Cir, (1985). <br />
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The parent-child relationship is a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. Bell v. City of Milwaukee, 746 f 2d 1205, 1242-45; US Ct App 7th Cir WI, (1985). <br />
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No bond is more precious and none should be more zealously protected by the law as the bond between parent and child." Carson v. Elrod, 411 F Supp 645, 649; DC E.D. VA (1976). <br />
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A parent's right to the preservation of his relationship with his child derives from the fact that the parent's achievement of a rich and rewarding life is likely to depend significantly on his ability<br />
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To participate in the rearing of his children. A child's corresponding right to protection from interference in the relationship derives from the psychic importance to him of being raised by a loving, responsible, reliable adult. Franz v. U.S., 707 F 2d 582, 595-599; US Ct App (1983).<br />
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A parent's right to the custody of his or her children is an element of "liberty" guaranteed by the 5th Amendment and the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. Matter of Gentry, 369 NW 2d 889, MI App Div (1983). <br />
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Reality of private biases and possible injury they might inflict were impermissible considerations<br />
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Legislative classifications which distributes benefits and burdens on the basis of gender carry the inherent risk of reinforcing stereotypes about the proper place of women and their need for special protection; thus, even statutes purportedly designed to compensate for and ameliorate the effects of past discrimination against women must be carefully tailored. the state cannot be permitted to classify on the basis of sex. Orr v. Orr, 99 S Ct 1102; 4340 US 268 <check cite="">, (1979). <br />
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The United States Supreme Court held that the "old notion" that "generally it is the man's primary responsibility to provide a home and its essentials" can no longer justify a statute that discriminates on the basis of gender. No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family, and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas. Stanton v. Stanton, 421 US 7, 10; 95 S Ct 1373, 1376, (1975).<br />
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Judges must maintain a high standard of judicial performance with particular emphasis upon Conducting litigation with scrupulous fairness and impartiality. 28 USCA § 2411;<br />
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State Judges, as well as federal, have the responsibility to respect and protect persons from violations of federal constitutional rights. Gross v.State of Illinois, 312 F 2d 257; (1963). <br />
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The Constitution also protects "the individual interest in avoiding disclosure of personal matters." Federal Courts (and State Courts), under Griswold can protect, under the "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" phrase of the Declaration of Independence, the right of a man to enjoy the mutual care, company, love and affection of his children, and this cannot be taken away from him without due process of law. There is a family right to privacy which the state cannot invade or it becomes actionable for civil rights damages. Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 US 479, (1965). <br />
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The right of a parent not to be deprived of parental rights without a showing of fitness, abandonment or substantial neglect is so fundamental and basic as to rank among the rights contained in this Amendment (Ninth) and Utah's Constitution, Article 1 § 1. In re U.P., 648 P 2d 1364;Utah, (1982). <br />
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The rights of parents to parent-child relationships are recognized and upheld. Fantony v. Fantony, 122 A 2d 593, (1956); Brennan v.Brennan, 454 A 2d 901, (1982).<br />
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State's power to legislate, adjudicate and administer all aspects of family law, including determinations of custodial; and visitation rights, is subject to scrutiny by federal judiciary within reach of due process and/or equal protection clauses of 14th Amendment...Fourteenth Amendment applied to states through specific rights contained in the first eight amendments of the Constitution which declares fundamental personal rights...Fourteenth Amendment encompasses and applied to states those preexisting fundamental rights recognized by the Ninth<br />
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Amendment. The Ninth Amendment acknowledged the prior existence of fundamental rights with it: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." The United States Supreme Court in a long line of decisions, has recognized that matters involving marriage, procreation, and the parent-child relationship are among those fundamental "liberty" interests protected by the Constitution. Thus, the decision in Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113; 93 S Ct 705; 35 L Ed 2d 147, (1973), was recently described by the Supreme Court as founded on the "Constitutional underpinning of ... a recognition that the "liberty" protected by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment includes not only the freedoms explicitly mentioned in the Bill of Rights, but also a<br />
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freedom of personal choice in certain matters of marriage and family life." The non-custodial divorced parent has no way to implement the constitutionally protected right to maintain a parental relationship with his child except through visitation. To acknowledge the protected status of the relationship as the majority does, and yet deny protection under Title 42 USC § 1983, to visitation, which is the exclusive means of effecting that right, is to negate the right completely. Wise v. Bravo, 666 F 2d 1328, (1981).<br />
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THE CONSTITUTIONALLY SECURED RIGHT TO BE A PARENT <br />
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The liberty interest of the family encompasses an interest in retaining custody of one's children and, thus, a state may not interfere with a parent's custodial rights absent due process protections. Langton v. Maloney, 527 F Supp 538, D.C. Conn. (1981). <br />
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The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires that severance in the parent-child relationship caused by the state occur only with rigorous protections for individual liberty interests at stake. Bell v. City of Milwaukee, 746 F 2d 1205; US Ct App 7th Cir WI, (1984). <br />
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Parent's rights have been recognized as being "essential to the orderly! pursuit of happiness by free man." Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390; 43 S Ct 625 (1923). The U.S. Supreme Court implied that "a (once) married father who is separated or divorced from a mother and is no longer living with his child" could not constitutionally be treated differently from a currently married father living with his child. Quilloin v. Walcott, 98 S Ct 549; 434 US 246, 255-56, (1978). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit (California) held that the parent-child relationship is a constitutionally protected liberty interest. (See; Declaration of Independence --life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution -- No state can deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law nor deny any person the equal protection of the laws.) Kelson v. Springfield, 767 F 2d 651; US Ct App 9th ! Cir, (1985). <br />
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The parent-child relationship is a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. Bell v. City of Milwaukee, 746 f 2d 1205, 1242-45; US Ct App 7th Cir WI, (1985). No bond is more precious and none should be more zealously protected by the law as the bond between parent and child." Carson v. Elrod, 411 F Supp 645, 649; DC E.D. VA (1976). A parent's right to the preservation of his relationship with his child derives from the fact that the parent's achievement of a rich and rewarding life is likely to depend significantly on his ability to participate in the rearing of his children. A child's corresponding right to protection from interference in the relationship derives from the psychic importance to him of being raised by a loving, responsible, reliable adult. Franz v. U.S., 707 F 2d 582, 595-599; US Ct App (1983). A parent's right to the custody of his or her children is an element of "liberty" guaranteed by the 5th Amendment and t! he 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. Matter of Gentry, 369 NW 2d 889, MI App Div (1983). Reality of private biases and possible injury they might inflict were impermissible considerations under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Palmore v. Sidoti, ; 466 US 429, 104 S Ct 1879 (1984). Legislative classifications which distributes benefits and burdens on the basis of gender carry the inherent risk of reinforcing stereotypes about the proper place of women and their need for special protection; thus, even statutes purportedly designed to compensate for and ameliorate the effects of past discrimination against women must be carefully tailored. the state cannot be permitted to classify on the basis of sex. Orr v. Orr, 440 US 268, 99 S Ct 1102 (1979). The United States Supreme Court held that the "old notion" that "generally it ! is the man's primary responsibility to provide a home and its essentials" can no longer justify a statute that discriminates on the basis of gender. <br />
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No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family, and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas. Stanton v. Stanton, 421 US 7, 10; 95 S Ct 1373, 1376, (1975). Judges must maintain a high standard of judicial performance with particular emphasis upon conducting litigation with scrupulous fairness and impartiality. 28 USCA § 2411; Pfizer v. Lord, 456 F 2d 532; cert denied 92 S Ct 2411; US Ct App MN, (1972). State Judges, as well as federal, have the responsibility to respect and protect persons from violations of federal constitutional rights. Gross v. State of Illinois, 312 F 2d 257; (1963). The Constitution also protects "the individual interest in avoiding disclosure of personal matters." Federal Courts (and State Courts), under Griswold can protect, under the "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" phrase of the Declaration of Independence, the right of a man to enjoy the mutual care, company, love and affection of his children, and this cannot be taken away from him without due process of law. There is a family right to privacy which the state cannot invade or it becomes actionable for civil rights damages. Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 US 479, (1965). The right of a parent not to be deprived of parental rights without a showing of fitness, abandonment or substantial neglect is so fundamental and basic as to rank among the rights contained in this Amendment (Ninth) and Utah's Constitution, Article 1 § 1. In re U.P., 648 P 2d 1364; Utah, (1982). The rights of parents to parent-child relationships are recognized and upheld. Fantony v. Fantony, 122 A 2d 593, (1956); Brennan v. Brennan, 454 A 2d 901, (1982). State's power to legislate, adjudicate and administer all aspects of family law, including determinations of custodial; and visitation rights, is subject to scrutiny by federal judiciary within reach of due process and/or equal protection clauses of 14th Amendment...Fourteenth Amendment applied to states through specific rights contained in the first eight amendments of the Constitution which declares fundamental personal rights...Fourteenth Amendment encompasses and applied to states those preexisting fundamental rights recognized by the Ninth Amendment. The Ninth Amendment acknowledged the prior existence of fundamental rights with it: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." The United States Supreme Court in a long line of decisions, has recognized that matters involving marriage, procreation, and the parent-child relationship are among those fundamental "liberty" interests protected by the Constitution. Thus, the decision in Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113; 93 S Ct 705; 35 L Ed 2d 147, (1973), was recently described by the Supreme Court as founded on the "Constitutional underpinning of ... a recognition that the "liberty" protected by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment includes not only the freedoms explicitly mentioned in the Bill of Rights, but also a freedom of personal choice in certain matters of marriage and family life."<br />
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The non-custodial divorced parent has no way to implement the constitutionally protected right to maintain a parental relationship with his child except through visitation. To acknowledge the protected status of the relationship as the majority does, and yet deny protection under Title 42 USC § 1983, to visitation, which is the exclusive means of effecting that right, is to negate the right completely. Wise v. Bravo, 666 F 2d 1328, (1981).<br />
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I learned a lot a little too late-Do not learn as I did, take care & beware-FTG The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-55941391969853882912010-08-19T19:09:00.000-07:002010-08-19T19:23:48.207-07:00Due Process Case LawCONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BE A PARENT CASE LAWS<br />
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Doe et al, v. Heck et al (7th Cir. Ct. App. 2003)<br />
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The practice of "no prior consent" interview of a child, will ordinarily constitute a "clear violation" of the constitutional rights of parents under the 4th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The investigative interview of a child constitutes a "search and seizure" and, when conducted on private property without "consent, a warrant, probable cause, or exigent circumstances (imminent danger)," such an interview is an unreasonable search and seizure in violation of the rights of the parent, child, and, possibly of the private property.<br />
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Griswold v. Connecticut<br />
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The Constitution also protects <span style="background-color: #274e13;">"the individual interest in avoiding disclosure of personal matters"</span> Federal Courts (and State Courts), under Griswold can protect, under the "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" phrase of the Declaration of Independence, the right of a man to enjoy the mutual care, company, love and affection of his children, and this cannot be taken away from him without due process of law. There is a family right to privacy, which the state cannot invade <span style="background-color: #274e13;">or it becomes actionable for civil rights damages. 381 US 479, (1965) </span><br />
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Parent's interest in custody of their children is a liberty interest which has received considerable constitutional protection; a parent who is deprived of custody of his or her child, even though temporarily, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">suffers thereby grievous loss </span>and such loss deserves extensive due process protection. <br />
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Even when blood relationships are strained, parents retain vital interest in preventing irretrievable destruction of their family life; if anything, persons faced with forced dissolution of their parental rights have more critical need for procedural protections than do those resisting state intervention into ongoing family affairs. <span style="background-color: #274e13;">The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that clear and convincing evidence <strong><em><u>rather than a mere preponderance</u></em></strong> were needed to terminate parental rights. 455 US 745 (1982) </span><br />
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DUE PROCESS CASE LAWS<br />
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Brokaw v. Mercer County (7th Cir. 2000)<br />
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Children have a Constitutional right to live with their parents without government interference. Child's four month separation from his parents could be challenged under substantive due process. <span style="background-color: #274e13;">Sham procedures don't constitute true procedural due process.</span> -- Just the highlights<br />
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A due-process violation occurs when a state-required breakup of a natural family is founded <span style="background-color: #274e13;">solely on a "best interests" analysis that is not supported by</span> the requisite proof of parental unfitness. 434 U.S. 246, 255 (1978)<br />
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GENERAL FAMILY RIGHTS CASE LAWS<br />
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Coercive or intimidating behavior <span style="background-color: #274e13;">supports a reasonable belief that</span> compliance is compelled. <br />
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"Consent" that is the product of official intimidation or harassment<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> is not consent at all.</span> Citizens do not forfeit their constitutional rights when they are coerced to comply with a request that they would prefer to refuse. <br />
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State employee who withhold a child from their family may infringe on the family's liberty of familial association. Social workers could not deliberately remove children from their parents and place them with foster caregivers when the officials reasonably should have known such an action would cause harm to the child's mental or physical health.<br />
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The court explained <span style="background-color: #274e13;">"absent some tangible evidence of abuse or neglect,</span> the Courts do not authorize fishing expeditions into citizens' houses. Mere parroting of the phrase "best interest of the child" without supporting facts and a legal basis is insufficient to support a Court order based on reasonableness or any other ground."<br />
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JUDGES & PROSECUTORS - ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY CASE LAWS<br />
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Holding that judges do not have absolute immunity when acting in an administrative capacity. -- Just the highlights<br />
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Prosecutor was not entitled to absolute immunity where it is alleged that he supervised and participated in an unconstitutional police interrogation.<br />
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A prosecutor is not entitled to absolute immunity for allegedly false statements of fact made in an affidavit supporting an application for a warrant.<br />
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Defendants were not entitled to qualified immunity for conducting a warrantless search of home during a child abuse investigation where exigent circumstances were not present. Court held that a search warrant or exigent circumstances, such as a need to protect a child against imminent danger of serious bodily injury, was necessary for an entry without consent, and an anonymous tip was insufficient to establish special exigency. 891 F.2d 1087<br />
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Individuals aren't immune for the results of their official conduct simply because they were enforcing policies or orders. Where a statute authorizes official conduct which is patently violative of fundamental constitutional principles, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">an officer who enforces that statute is not entitled to qualified immunity.</span><br />
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Hafer v. Melo (S. Ct. 1991)<br />
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Social workers (and other government employees) <span style="background-color: #274e13;">may be sued for deprivation of civil rights under 42 USC 1983</span> if they are named in their 'official and individual capacity. -- Just the highlights <br />
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Walsh v. Erie County Department of Job and Family Services<br />
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Child protection social workers claimed they were immune from liability in a civil violation (4th Amendment) suit, claiming qualified immunity because "they had not had training in Fourth Amendment law." They felt they couldn't be sued for their mistake, because they thought they were not binded by the Fourth Amendment. The court disagreed ruling "That subjective basis for their ignorance about and actions in violation of the Fourth Amendment does not relieve them of the consequences of that ignorance and those actions." and denied their immunity. 3:01-cv-7588.<br />
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Aponte Matos v. Toledo Davilla (1st Cir. 1998)<br />
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An officer who obtains a warrant <span style="background-color: #274e13;">through material false statements</span> which result in an unconstitutional seizure may be held liable personally for his actions under section 1983.<br />
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False statements made to obtain a warrant, when the false statements were necessary to the finding of probable cause on which the warrant was based, violates the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement. The warrant clause contemplates the warrant applicant to be truthful: "no warrant shall issue, but on probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation." <span style="background-color: #274e13;">Deliberate falsehood or reckless disregard for the truth violates the warrant clause.</span> When a warrant application is materially false or made in reckless disregard for the truth, the warrant becomes invalid and will have been obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment's warrant clause. A search must not exceed the scope of the search authorized in a warrant. By limiting the authorization to search to the specific areas and things for which there is probable cause to search, the Fourth Amendment particularity requirement ensures that the search will be carefully tailored to its justifications, and will not take on the character of the wide-ranging exploratory searches the Framers of the Constitution intended to prohibit. There is a requirement that the police identify themselves to the subject of a search, absent exigent circumstances. Failure to knock and announce forms part of the reasonableness or not inquiry under the Fourth Amendment.<br />
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Child removals are "seizures" under the Fourth Amendment. Seizure is unconstitutional without court order<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> or exigent circumstances.</span> Court order obtained based on knowingly false information violates fourth amendment. -- Just the highlights.<br />
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Calabretta v. Floyd (9th Cir. 1999) Warrant-less Search<br />
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There is no exception to the warrant requirement for social workers in the context of a child abuse investigation. A social worker may not force their way into a home without a search warrant in absence of an emergency. Police officers and social workers are not immune for coercing or forcing entry into a person's home to investigate suspected child abuse, interrogation of a child, and strip search of a child, without a search warrant or special exigency.. -- Just the highlights. 189 F. 3d 808.<br />
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For purposes of the Fourth Amendment, a "seizure" of a person is a situation in which a reasonable person would feel that he is not free to leave, and also either actually yields to a show of authority from police or social workers or is physically touched by police. Persons may not be "seized" without a court order or being placed under arrest. 499 U.S. 621<br />
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The United States Supreme Court has held that courts may not use a different standard other than probable cause for the issuance of such orders. If a court issues a warrant based on an uncorroborated anonymous tip, the warrant will not survive a judicial challenge in the higher courts. Anonymous tips are never probable cause.<br />
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Walsh v. Erie County Department of Job and Family Services<br />
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Child protection workers are subject to the 4th and 14th Amendment in the context of an investigation of alleged abuse or neglect as are all "government officials".<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> The court ruled "despite the defendant's (child protection worker) exaggerated view of their powers,</span> the Fourth Amendment applies to them, as it does to all other officers and agents of the state whose request to enter, however benign or well-intentioned, are met by a closed door." "The Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies whenever an investigator, be it a police officer, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">a DCFS employee</span>, or any other agent of the state, responds to an alleged instance of child abuse, neglect, or dependency". 3:01-cv-7588.<br />
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Where the standard for a seizure or search is probable cause, then there must be particularized information with respect to a specific person. This requirement cannot be undercut or avoided simply by pointing to the fact that coincidentally there exists probable cause to arrest or to search or to seizure another person or to search a place where the person may happen to be. 44 U.S. 85Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064904850137893061.post-75806026788225556472010-08-13T10:49:00.000-07:002010-10-27T18:40:12.998-07:00CPS Abuse of PowerThe new racism in family court <br />
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There is a new frontier and I say new, because most Caucasians aren't used to <br />
civil rights violations as it pertains to their families. They certainly have <br />
dished it out....consider the tribes and what they went through. In the name of <br />
social reform and religious ideation, the white bureaucrats demolished the <br />
native tribes taking their children, putting them in boarding homes then <br />
"re-educated" their victims. Many never saw or heard from their families again. <br />
As a result of legal litigation long overdue, the tribes have federal protection <br />
<span style="background-color: #274e13;">- something that drives the power hungry Children's Administration who want no </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #274e13;">barriers to child removal crazy.</span><br />
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The Africans faced untold terror as they were removed from their homeland, sold <br />
into slavery, and forced to jump over brooms to get married. Often their <br />
children were sold on the market like cattle and disappeared as frightened small <br />
ghosts. Horrified parents would put the word out trying to find out what <br />
happened on the information chain. Sometimes they found out, sometimes they <br />
didn't. Many children ended up tortured and dead. Currently, they have the <br />
"dis-proportionalit y card" and organized groups of highly educated prominent <br />
individuals who regularly voice descent at the civil rights atrocities occurring <br />
in their defense. Relative placement seems to be a higher priority in the black <br />
community and bio family isn't nit picked and dissected for character defects as <br />
much as some.<br />
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Now, it is the Caucasians turn. Not just any Caucasians though, only the poor <br />
ones. The middle and upper classes enjoy the advantage of child removal laws <br />
that somehow remove the risk of most government intervention. <span style="background-color: #274e13;">Orders are taken </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #274e13;">from potential parents wanting to adopt.</span> They want the blond haired blue eyed <br />
little girls and boys and they are getting them. Relatives are regularly kicked <br />
to the curb in favor of stranger placement and told they have no rights.<br />
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From the moment an impoverished mother steps into the Doctors office and gets a <br />
positive pregnancy test, the games begin. Drug tests and background history <br />
start the process of collecting evidence for the prosecution. <span style="background-color: #274e13;">A test for </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #274e13;">depression is offered</span> (please don't take it) and the subjectivity of the test <br />
and broad ranging questions hands government intervention opportunities to them <br />
on a silver platter. This is important to states who find themselves struggling <br />
financially because the federal financial entitlements produce a thriving <br />
economy using public funds and dwindling social security dollars<span style="background-color: #274e13;"> for child </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #274e13;">removal and adoption.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #274e13;">Doctors have set themselves up as an absolute legal authority.</span> For a parent to <br />
disagree with an offered treatment or service is failure to follow medical <br />
advice and CPS will get called in. Hospitals can place a hold on a child for <br />
pretty much any reason. If one misses an appointment with either a doctor or the <br />
Women's Infants and Children program it may mean being accused of medical <br />
neglect and child removal. The reasons for removal do not have to be imminent <br />
danger - <span style="background-color: #274e13;">just a power struggle and subjective reasoning.</span><br />
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This puts the poorer Caucasian community in a real dilemma. Faced with <span style="background-color: #274e13;">more </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #274e13;">civil rights violations both in CPS and family courts then one can count,</span> they <br />
find there are no laws that protect white people from subjective and erroneous <br />
government intervention. Caucasians are in unfamiliar territory without a voice <br />
or advocate. Perhaps it was assumed it would never be necessary but things have <br />
evolved.<br />
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How do they justify their actions? Its all about obscure arguable reasoning that <br />
in practice doesn't happen most of the time. One argument is children fare <br />
better in a two parent household so they remove from single parents using that <br />
as one of the reasons only to place with a single foster/adopt. Another is <br />
bonding. Once a child is removed, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">heaven help the parent if the child even </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #274e13;">smiles at the foster because that is deemed "bonded" and will get used against </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #274e13;">family in a court of law.</span><br />
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The bonding argument is used <span style="background-color: #274e13;">in virtually every dependency case.</span> They mistake <br />
adaptation for bonding regularly never asking children their preference. As a <br />
matter of fact, it is in writing not to. So, while the children are screaming <br />
for their families, <span style="background-color: #274e13;">acting out</span> and getting drugged to death, the caseworkers are <br />
in the court room talking about "loving foster families" and <span style="background-color: #274e13;">"forever homes"</span> <br />
where they state the child is bonded more to the foster than the parents or <br />
extended family. Using flowery words that look nothing like the real picture, <br />
they destroy family after family. <span style="background-color: #274e13;">Perjury is the number one most protected crime </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #274e13;">by the government in family dependency cases and is how the case goes to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #274e13;">termination most of the time.</span><br />
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The white impoverished race is in trouble with nowhere to turn except to the <br />
very people that have been raped by the government for 200 years and know the <br />
ropes. Because the need to change and challenge this status quo requires rapid <br />
intervention to gain back parental and bio family rights, the races should be <br />
working together and are not. Will they help us? They don't have to. I am hoping <br />
that the spiritual will recognize that it is the poor of all races that are <br />
under attack and bind together as a unified force. We can change this horrible <br />
travesty in motion, but we need each other to do it.Denise Dopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02289951984819910165noreply@blogger.com0