Bad Dad Show to Target Leaders in Fathers Rights

My article, below,was a broadcast post on the issue of FOX Networks proposed reality show beating up on men and fathers.  Glenn Sacks recently announced in his newsletter that FOX has shelved this project, at least for now as a result of the public pressure.  This pressure was created in large part by the hard work, diligence, and very effective organizational infrastructure built and maintained by Glenn Sacks. 

Thank you, Glenn, from tens of thousands of us if not hundreds of thousands.

Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:24 am (PDT)

Dear Friends and Fellow Activists,

David Usher has done an excellent article on Fox networks proposed Bad Dad program . It can be found in its entirety at http://newsbyus. com/index. php/article/ 339 . It appears that Fox has taken up a political agenda and has decided to chunk any pretense of impartiality in its network.

As Mr. Usher writes, Private Child Collection Corporations are beginning to run into trouble. The very women they claim to be helping are complaining that these corporations are taking way more of their extorted money than they should. The political heat is turning up on these corporations from not just the fathers, but now also the mothers. David explains the importance of this show to those sick and twisted profiteering companies. I am sure the airing of this show will bring these multitudes of defrauded mothers public and line many of these women up for the first time since their divorces with the plights of their ex-husbands. This will be really fun to watch. I think the stupidity of Mr. Grogin’s ideas will in the long run help to reverse this terrible system of stealing children from men and then taking money from both parents and the children to support some private individual’s building a massive personal wealth. Even if aired, we can turn this into a public
relations disaster for Fox and a victory for Civil Rights in our country.

David Usher spoke to Scott Grogin at Fox. According to Mr. David Usher, the show is going to be used to target leaders in the Fathers Rights movement. They want to silence the opposition to horrendous family laws from which these sociopaths profit.

Mr. Usher presents a solid historical background on this issue and on the development of this program idea. My hat is off to Mr. Usher. Here is just a portion of a ‘must read’ article Mr.Usher has posted at the above web page:

” I called Scott Grogin, Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications for Fox Television to let him know that Fox was headed for a public relations nightmare if they pursue torture as a form of entertainment. Grogin was quite aware of the show, chortling cavalier excitement about it. He was entirely unreceptive to any criticism of the concept, and went so far as to accuse me of using foul language and threatening him (which I did not do), as an excuse to hang up on me.

Grogin is begging for his walking papers. Senior Vice Presidents of Corporate Communications are supposed to handle issues and prevent public relations disasters for the business, not create them and the light fires under them.

Phone calls to Fox President of Alternative Entertainment Mike Darnell were poorly fenced by his assistant, who first said he was on a local shoot, and later said he was out of town all week.

Email messages to Grogin’s superiors at Fox Television and NewsCorp went unanswered.

I am informed by a knowledgeable source who wishes to remain anonymous that “there will be no stopping this show and they want to target leaders of the fathers movement”. “It is starting with the child support issue and migrate to other issues.” This does appear likely given their attitude. “

I agree with Mr. Usher, this will not only be a political disaster for Fox, it appears it will be a legal nightmare as well. I for one would like to have it aired on Fox about me having to pay health insurance premiums for my ex and her new husband as back child support and then having to pay her attorney $6,000 for committing the fraud. The judge was eventually sanctioned (from what we were told) and removed from the case by the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court without any pending motion (I do have that letter from the Honorable Jefferson B. Wallace). The judge was sanctioned for other abuses of office but not on the child support abuses. I guess child support has no rules except on fathers.

The rogue judge also, kept me in the courthouse until I lost a lucrative business. I was told day to day to wait outside the courtroom for 21 days until I was out of business, destitute, homeless, without transportation, etc… then he hit me with the increases in child support. My ex did not have to show up for any of this. The judge said she did not need to have her business harmed. But, obviously, the father’s much larger and more profitable business could be very purposefully destroyed as could the father.

The judge did this because I was raising to much stink about my child being kept from me by my ex and my child being put around her convicted molester (a nephew of my ex) and other people my ex testified to be child abusers and molesters. I have transcripts, police reports, conviction reports, and certified court documents to support all this and more. How do you threaten a man financially when he doesn’t even own his own furniture, it is loaned by his landlady.

Further, I have been recently jailed for being paid ahead because I did not pay ‘exactly’ as the AG wanted, I was paying much more. I was even starving myself to try to pay off this clearly fraudulent debt because I know what the AG’s meat grinder does to men. I guess the AG needed my payments budgeted to get their money from the Feds. If I pay off the debt too soon, it lowers the amounts received from the Feds by the AG. How does paying off too quickly hurt the “Best Interests of the Child”? It doesn’t, in a perverse twist, it hurts the State.

Yes, I would make an excellent target. I think the public would love to begin to hear just how these arrearages are created, even when it means the courts and AG intentionally destroying the mans businesses, jobs, and careers to get him behind on child support. It is also a great tool to help alienate the child from a father. It is a great tool for shutting up too vocal a father.

How could they keep out of their program the reason for my indebtedness, my intense legal and lobbying efforts with governors and legislators with both the State and Federal governments concerning the lack of protection for my child and the admitted and convicted pedophiles she is placed around. At one time Governor Bush received “thousands” of petition signatures to act on my child’s molester, a convicted serial pedophile, who was never jailed and continued to stalk my child and make death threats ot my elderly mother and me spray painted on sides of buildigs, my mother’s car, and screamed at us in front of disinterest third party witnesses. Within the past 6 months, Mike Ratcliff, the Sheriff of Victoria, Texas at the time this teenage male serial pedophile was most active has been indicted for using his badge, gun, and office to force young men into having sex with him, even in the jail, in exchange for special protections, private hospital rooms in jail and even
money for sex in jail with Mike. The young man who molested my 2 year old daughter was coated with Teflon and committed other crimes of violence, burglary, theft, id theft, car theft, etc… and never spent any real hard time for any of this. The D.A. from that period, who should be a material witness is now former sheriff Mike’s defense attorney. Yes, I would love for Scott to target me so I could begin to get some real publicity on the issues surrounding why I am and continue to be destitute and behind on child support. It also speaks to why I am so very active. My child was molested, stolen from me, continued to be put around her molester (and as admitted in court left alone with him in spite of court orders), kept from me, groomed by the mother to be sexually available to the mother’s family (the last two court appointed and approved psychologists say my child has continued to be molested into her current memory which means since the age of 7 to 9, she is now
16) and then have had child support used to shut me up.

Come and DO ME SCOTT, DO ME. I BEG YOU TO DO ME ON YOUR PROGRAM. PUT ME IN FRONT OF A CAMERA ON NATIONAL TV. WATCH ME BLOW A FEW THINGS WIDE OPEN. I WILL GUARANTEE TOP RATINGS.

The courts have assessed me fraudulent debts to shut me up and your program would allow me a major forum to address the misuse of Child Support for judges with other agendas. I have had my life threatened so many times I have lost count. The most memorable, however, was from a judge sitting on the bench when the court was not in session, but several others were present. Jail and death threats haven’t shut me up, my child is more important than my own life. And your show will actually help me reach a larger audience.

And, Fox wants to shut us up. Yeah Right, that was really well thought out. What else do I have to lose, my life. My greatest protection has been the publicity in my case. You will actually help me if you pick me for a program target.

The funny thing is that Scott Grogin, no matter what his sexual orientation, is probably going to end up in a similar or exact same spot as most of us. Don’t you just love the irony and all inclusiveness of family law for men. He will be tying his own financial and career noose around his own neck. Such is Karma

I would love to win the litigation lottery that targeting me for their show would open up for me.

He does not know that a side affect of poverty is that those of us who have survived have developed at least a few skills at representing themselves in court. In the past 13 years of trying to protect my child, When I had to be pro se because of poverty, I shut an abusive local visitation center down with a Federal action, pro se, had a judge sanctioned, attorney sanctioned, court reporter sanctioned, social workers sanctioned, and the list goes on.

And I am only a rank amateur when it comes to the pro se skills of some of our leadership. I would like to see one of the really good pro se fathers get hold of them and watch the budget for the corporate attorneys begin to match the national debt. The publicity would really be fun on that one. Better yet, I would like to see one of the still affluent fathers get hold of them with his assets and pepper their ‘hind ends’ with litigation rock salt.

Now that would make a truly entertaining reality show, Fox in a thousand lawsuits brought by angry, courtroom freedom fighting, competent pro se dads targeted by Fox’s poorly conceived program with a clear anti-family and anti-child political agenda. This will be a Father’s and Children’s Right Publicity Bonanza should Fox proceed. Others in our activism are already calling for a boycott of Fox’s advertisers products.

If you agree to my letter, please attach comments and forward it to the executives at Fox. Their email addresses are listed here:

scott.grogin@ fox.com, teverett@newscorp. com, jhorner@newscorp. com, brian.lewis@ foxnews.com, irena.briganti@ foxnews.com, erica.keane@ foxtv.com, brian.peterson@ fox.com, Comments@foxnews. com

Just copy and paste, then forward it to them with any comments you may wish to add. A few more serious volunteer targets for their program may really help them decide what to do with this program.

I will offer my full support to anyone targeted, including amicus briefs and/or any small dollars I may have to help with a legal offensive against Fox.

God Bless and Keep up the good fight.

FOX’s “Bad Dad” Proposed Program

 (This article has been in the ‘works’ for so long that Fox has since dropped their plans for the pilot of “Bad Dad”.  This article was sent in a letter form to Fox at the beginning of the campaign to have this program dropped.  Belatedly, I, now present it in a public forum)

Fox may need to rethink their ‘deadbeat dad’ programming direction.  At one time I too felt a loathing for those labeled ‘deadbeat’ as being irresponsible, cold-hearted, vile, blah, blah, blah………..   Now I see things differently.  

 

After being hit with health insurance for my ex and her new affluent husband as back child support for an instant arrearage and a $6,000 attorney bill for her attorney to perpetrate this fraud, I have a different view.  In one single hearing, I was assessed over $10,000 in fraudulent bills as back child support and was an instant “DEADBEAT” and have even been jailed when paid ahead on that fraudulent bill.  

I believe those men who have killed themselves and not yet killed themselves as a result of the ’scorched earth’ emotional and financial family policies exercised against them, to be ‘SACRIFICIAL FATHERS“.   They are being sacrificed on the alters of Feministic Matriarchy and the Divorce Industry Profiteers (such as the one Fox is attempting to promote in “BAD DADS”).  

 

An unbelievably small number of middle class, affluent or wealthy men, (microscopic percentage wise) intentionally leave their families and children and refuse to support them. 

 

It is the women who are unilaterally bailing out on their responsibilities as spouses and mothers using “No Fault” divorce to push their children into poverty, crime, and long-term emotional disorders (see the statistics on the U.S. Dept of H&HS website for prognosis of children in single mother homes).  It is the women who want someone else to pay for their faithlessness, lack of parental responsibility, and capricious foolishness.

 

Many men are beat down, emotionally, spiritually, financially, physically, and have had careers destroyed and sizable assets wasted by short-sighted vindictive ex-wives and their sociopathic attorneys and judges.  We are in a major financial crises precipitated by the collapse of the housing credit markets.  The ‘millionaire deadbeat dad’ is more myth than reality.  The “BAD MOMMY” is more of a reality than the willingly ‘deadbeat dad’.   The “BAD MOMMY” is much more reality than myth.

 

One of the two top reasons for foreclosures is divorce (the other is medical expenses).   A 10% reduction in foreclosures would have prevented this bubble prick that has burst this proverbial economic bubble for America.  

 

If we were not destroying families and homes on a wholesale scale we would not be currently imploding as an economy or as a country.   And, 75 -90% of all those financially destroyed families being foreclosed were destroyed by women on narcissistic and short sighted temper tantrums.  In the past society would work to control until those phases and tantrums passed.  That was part of one of the negatives women brought to the table of human relationships. It is a side affect of the wide hormonal changes women in their child bearing years experience in relatively short cycles and in larger cycles in varying degrees.  It is a side affect of one of the positives both genders bring to the table, our sexuality.  Only those with extreme political agendas would tell us otherwise.  It was that factor of wide ranging harmonally enduced emotions that men had traditionally been trained to stoicly endure while protecting the woman and other family members (especially the children) and even outsiders from those extremes.  Women murder their own children two to three times as often as men.

 

As to the sociopathic statements of legal professionals using the word “deadbeat”, in psychology there are tables of what are called “Normative Data” and these tables list professions and then the personality traits most common to those professions.  These tables track in very strong generalities career trends for personality traits, including pathologies.   District Attorneys, judges, and attorneys have more commonalities with many types of career criminals than they do with the common population.  Sociopathy is a common trait of attorneys, even more with judges and D.A.s, and with the more dangerous career criminals such as John Wayne Gacy.  

 

The term ‘DEADBEAT“ was created by these sociopathic legal professionals for propaganda to vilify the most stable and financially productive  (generally) of the two parents in a household, the male.   It is done to raid families assets, including that of women and children.  Other distinctly male traits have been twisted to vilify men while even the negatives of women have been twisted to be somehow of saintly quality.  The man Fox wants to elevate in their proposed program, “Bad Dads” is just such a sociopath who falsely presents himself as a child support activist who makes millions putting innocent men in debtor’s prisons as a business enterprise while the children lose a father and protector.

 

Both genders bring something to the table in human relationships.  Both bring about equal positive and negative, that is why two parents are essential.  Not ”parent-figures”, but true bio-parents.

 

Women in our society are gate-keepers of both sex and child-birth.  It is not the men.  Yet society will weigh heavily upon the man being “responsible” and decry a man for being “irresponsible” even in the face of paternity fraud.  Yet no one speaks of women ’sucking it up’ and ‘being responsible’ with criminal penalties for birthing children they can not afford to support on their own earnings.  No one talks of the massive number of truly ‘deadbeat’ women who expect men and taxpayers to pay the bills they knowingly create with no intention of paying.  No one talks of the reality of ‘MEAL TICKET MOMMIES” That is the true meaning of being a DEADBEAT.  This is a supreme irony and illustration of another term used in psychology, “twisting”.  “Twisting” is where a guilty party accuses the victim or other innocent party of the deeds of the guilty party.

 

The very use of the term “deadbeat dads” in anything but an attack on that phrase by fathers is to  give aid and support to the enemies of humanity, the beliefs and legal systems now being used to destroy families by destroying men and fathers.

 

Remember, (1) if the woman birthed children and did not have a willingness to make every effort to support them on her own, especially (2) if she instigated a “No Fault” divorce, and then tries to emotionally remove daddy from his children,  then the “MEAL TICKET MOMMY” is the one morally and financially responsible.  She is responsible  for the extra debts of both parties and the costs of raising the children and should be criminally responsible for the acting out common to children whose fathers are removed by that irresponsible woman. 

 

When this fickle and faithless ‘no fault’ divorced woman’s daughter becomes a PROSTITUTE (over 95% from single mother homes) , mommy should go to jail.  When the son becomes a RAPIST OR PEDOPHILE (80% from single mothers), mommy should go to jail.  If this fickle, faithless, and child abusing mommy needs food stamps or other support for her foolishness then mommy should be forced to repay or go to jail.  If we do this to single fathers, then we should do it to married fathers and if we do it to anyone we should do it to all mothers, the true ‘gatekeepers of responsibility’

 

It is a simple concept Equality Under the Law.

 

By the way, if Fox goes ahead with this program, I believe Fox will see just how out of touch with “reality” theikr reality program happens to be.  Fox may also want to take into consideration the vast numbers of sisters, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, second wives, girlfriends, and close women friends that most of these ‘BEAT-DEAD DADS’ have in their cor nor.  These women know the true story.  I do not think Fox’s advertisers will like the resulting boycotts and backlash. 

 

On the other hand, maybe Fox should put on this program so we can thoroughly trounce the foolish and shortsighted leadership at Fox’s network that is pushing for such a blatantly abusive program. 

 

This foolish programming decision can open up a national debate that has heard only one side, that of a self-aggrandizing extreme feminist minority.  

 

The Bad Dad program will open a firestorm of opposition and will force the other views to center stage.  Again, Fox’s advertisers will not like the boycotts and bad press. 

 

Fox may wish to research the efforts of Mike Cox the Michigan Attorney General and his “Pizza Party” plans to have children draw pictures of their terrible ‘deadbeat dads’ and win a pizza party.  90% of these ‘BEAT-DEAD” Dad earn less than $10,000/year and earned no better before the children came along. Child support awards were onerous and not based on reality.   

 

Mike Cox’s fiasco ended with Pizza Hut being very upset with Mike Cox.   Mike received some very bad press on this.

 

The good ship “Beat Up On Dads” has sailed.  Too many families in America have experienced the truth.

WOAI TV BRIAN COLLISTER versus JOE PAGS

San Antonio’s WOAI TV channel 4 has redeemed itself with Brian Collister’s recent video and news article on Paternity Fraud in Texas.  Brian has addressed the culpability of the Texas Attorney General in perpetrating a known fraud on the citizens of our State.  Brian’s solid journalism exposing one area of fraud in the child support scam used to destroy families and extend welfare to the middle class is first rate.  His video and a link to the print article on this can be found at http://www.woai.com/content/troubleshooters/story.aspx?content_id=91689b8a-52dc-4a52-a348-81a246107285&p=Comments&articleID=542542

For the millions of non-custodial fathers in Texas, we are more than aware of the abuses and crimes against our children and non-custodial fathers as committed by the A.G. and his staff.  It is a ‘for profit’ business that brings in unbelievable volumes of money to the State from the Federal Government (using our Social Security funds up at an alarming rate, but that is another article in the making)

Brian Collister and WOAI very couragously produced this news video article and went head on with the A.G.  The A.G. backed down with a rather bland public statement mumbling something about ‘following the law’.  “Yeah, right”, as my teenage daughter would sarcastically state when faced with a big pile of baloney.

By contrast, Joe Pags public statements on this same issue of child support sounded like something straight out of the mouth of N.O.W., the openly man-hating organization that sponsored the laws abusing children and men.   Joe Pags supported the publicity stunts of the Texas A.G. who for political reasons stages ‘dead-beat dad round-ups ’ throughout the state.  These men’s names, faces, and arrests are posted and reported on nightly news for the children of these impoverished men to see.   These men who are ruthlessly demeaned are being criminalized for being fathers and poor.  It seems that is such a serious crime in America that men who have been injured, crippled, ill, or who are not even the father of a child can be put in jail for their health induced poverty. 

The A.G. claims they are working in the ‘best interest of the children’.  If that is so why have mental health and children’s activists across the nation come forward to denounce the public embarassment of these children and to denounce the official stamp of approval on the alienation of one parent over the other.  Yet, the A.G. loses money, the A.G. works to overcharge men on child supporot, the A.G. does not equally enforce payments by non-custodial mothers, the A.G. encourages paternity fraud, the A.G. criminally involves itself in lobbying for or against legislation (check Federal Statutes on this topic, a quick Google search will suffice). 

And throughout all this Joe Pags can not question how a 30+ year old roofing laborer ($8.00/hour?) can run up a child support bill of over $230,000, as was the case of one man upon whom Joe claimed on public TV, needed to go to jail.  The man has probably not made that much money in his whole life.  The poor laborer’s child may never see her father because of the A.G.s fraud and efforts to criminalize the poor laborer. 

Great Job Joe.  When you see your daughters tonight, think of the pain this poor laborer must feel never able to see his precious children again because of child support fraud.  Think about the 100’s of thousands of children, no, the millions of children who lost their fathers and whose fathers are in jail because of one of the greatest civil rights abuses in all of our country’s checkered civil rights history.

Joe Pags is one of three things on this issue:  (1) He is completely ignorant and proud of his own ignorance; (2) He knows the truth but has sold out to what he considers will continue to make him a popular media personality; or (3) He has a cold and inhumane interior over the facade of a warm and likeable party guy.   In any of these probabilities, Joe does not come off looking too terribly brilliant.  

The first probability for Joe is just plain old planned stupidity.

The second is that Joe will do whatever it takes and whoever it hurts in whatever volumes of people, just to look good on TV and make a buck for the moment.  Sounds like the national policy that has brought America to the brink of financial and moral disaster.  Or;

We have the third option of the cold and inhumane streak.  This one would take a very calculating and deeply manipulative person.  It would take a level of intelligence that I do not believe Joe has, or at least if he does he is still lost in the teenage, junior-high, popularity contest of his life.

It is a surprise to me that Glenn Beck, a ‘let it all hang-out’ type of guy, would put up with the emptiness of Joe Pags for very long.  But, go figure.  That is Glenn’s decision.  Maybe he likes Joe filling in on Glenn’s show because Glenn knows Joe Pags could never be as ‘in your face’ with even half the insight of Glenn.  Not that I agree with Glenn on every point, but he at least does a little homework on his issues before he opens his mouth.   That is 100% more than Joe Pags has done on his public statements on Child Support and the Texas A.G.’s collection methods.

Brian Collister, without even breaking a sweat, has shamed Joe Pags.  Brian Collister was probably completely unaware that he was exposing Joe Pags when Brian exposed this one aspect of child support fraud.  Joe Pags could not even look at or attempt to comprehend Paternity Fraud.  Joe Pags needs to be shamed.  If Joe is going to publicly make a stand on any issue, Joe needs to be sure Joe is not doing damage to innocent people and helping frauds, thiefs, and criminals.  

Of the three options for Joe’s uninformed statements on child support, planned stupidity makes the most sense. 

My hat is off to Brian Collister.   I turn my back in disgust to Joe Pags.  I believe that Joe Pags works at being just plain old stupid in his quest to have his empty personality ‘liked’ by everyone. 

Newflash, Joe, you will not be liked by everyone, but it is best to be approved by those who work towards honest and informed opinions.  That is the secret of Glenn Beck.  Glenn Stumbles on issues, but Glenn picks himself up, corrects his errors, admits to them and comes off like a real and solid person.  Real people can respect Glenn’s effort to maintain a personal honesty even when they do not agree with Glenn’s opinions.  

Joe Pags should learn from Glenn Beck.  Joe should grow up a little bit more.  Joe should be more like Brian Collister.  Brian won and did not even know there was a fight.

 

Missing Texas Children: Murder, Mayhem, Sex Abuse, and ‘Disappearing’ Children

The below quote from a page on the Texas Comptrollers website is too shocking to have been made up.  “Some have died, some are missing” refers to children in the foster care system.  Where are the Amber Alerts?  The report continues “DPRS should intensify its efforts to find missing Texas foster children.” 

If you follow the statistical trail left at the U.S. Dept of H&HS websites you will realize that well over 85% of all these children, come from single mother households.  The Texas DPRS in other publications have admitted to a massive failure of any effort to locate the fathers of abused children in the sole custody of abusive mothers and the even more miniscule number of children whose fathers are even notified that there children are in the foster system.

Don Mathis told me about The Texas Comptrollers web site and the surprising information that can be found on funding.  While mining that site for information on the amounts of Federal funding for different programs intruding into our private lives I found the below tragic admission of the abuses our children receive in the State’s hands.  Nowhere have I seen any dollar figure associated with the location, screening and placement of children with biological fathers or the father’s family.  There was mention of ‘mentor’ volunteer grandparent program. 

The most dangerous place for a child is with a single sole custody mother, the next most dangerous place is with the State. 

The statistically safest place for children and where they are most likely to become constructive adults is with the father.  Yet there is no mention of any effort to find or notify the fathers of these abused or abandoned children. 

The State will Kill or Lose our children before they will allow fathers to do what they do best, RAISE HEALTHY CHILDREN INTO HEALTHY ADULTS.

The Texas Comptrollers web site where these quotes are found is http://www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren/progress/summ.html

The below is taken verbatem from that website (emphasis added):

Ensure the Health and Safety of All Foster Children

Many Texas foster children are reportedly being neglected or abused—some by their caregivers, some by other children. Some have died and others are missing. Still others who are medically fragile or mentally retarded may not be receiving proper care.

DPRS should take decisive steps to stop the abuse and neglect of Texas foster children.

The agency currently places sexual predators and children with violent criminal histories alongside other foster children. This practice must stop.

All child-on-child abuse must be reported and tracked, and all complaints and allegations should be thoroughly investigated.

DPRS should obtain FBI criminal history checks for all adults who work with foster children, and all such checks should be complete before these persons begin work. Foster caregivers should test their employees for drug use, and DPRS should consider requiring psychological testing of caregivers.

Many foster children receive psychotropic medications, sometimes in disturbing amounts and combinations. The Health and Human Services Commission should create a review team to examine the diagnostic services, medication, treatment and therapy delivered to Texas foster children. This team also should develop a best-practices manual for the appropriate use of medications.

Medical “passports” documenting medical and therapeutic treatment as well as all medications being administered should accompany each foster child to all foster homes and medical appointments.

More than a thousand Texas foster children are considered medically fragile and nearly 3,000 have mental retardation. DPRS should improve the assessments and services provided to medically fragile foster children and create a Medicaid catastrophic case management program to guide their care in an efficient and effective way. Children with mental retardation should be identified properly and their services coordinated with the appropriate health and human service agencies.

DPRS should require foster caregivers to use appropriate behavior management systems that incorporate safe personal restraints. All foster child deaths should be investigated thoroughly.

DPRS should intensify its efforts to find missing Texas foster children. As part of this effort, the agency should develop a Web site providing the public with information about these children.

Provide a Brighter Future for Foster Children

The problems of foster children do not end when they reach adulthood. Studies have repeatedly shown that foster children are prone to poor educational attainment, homelessness, criminal behavior, drug addiction, mental illness and health problems.

Texas should do everything it can to help these children make a successful transition to adult living. “

Fold-up Men and Quisling Fathers

A fellow activist sent me an article I found particularly poignant on the issue of children loosing loving, protective fathers to out of control pc courts.   I couldn’t stop myself from responding (obviously I have issues with OCD but that is for another blog at a later date) 

Subject: Re: [MichDads] Mandatory joint custody | A Family Court judge’s view
Darrick,

Thank you for the post.  Another thought on this same article to which you link; the statistics of men folding easily, points to the reason for the increased power of the feminist family law courts.  For each one of those men who listened to the feminist oriented attorneys with their threats of what the judge will do if the man actually fights for his children; for each one who abdicated his children for the sake of temporary peace and security, those men have made it ten times, no a hundred times harder and more expensive for those of who will fight for our children’s safety and well being. 

These men who fight know that their children are in harms way and are willing to do what matters.  The Quislings just set up the good men for a hard fall.

The children of the ‘fold-up’ men will become just some more of the children of single-mom statistics.  Just a few of those statistics:

 95% of all men in prison and one year 100% of all women in prison in Texas 

 80 – 95% of all rapists and child sex offenders (including the one who molested my 2 year old daughter),

 the vast majority of prostitutes, drug addicts, etc…..

We have all seen women and children who need protection from evil men.  But we have seen even greater numbers of fathers and their children who receive no protection from evil women and self-serving attorneys, judges, and other officials.  The women who really need it have assistance.  The men and children just get more abuse from the system.  We see the general incapacity of single mothers to raise good citizens.

It is not just the feminists who are destroying our children and country, it is those men who will give up liberty and rights for themselves and their children for the appearance of a little peace and security.  Those men more often than not end up with nothing, no children, no liberty, and no security.  And, many men innocent of everything except fighting for the rights of their children and themselves end up in jail as a result of the myriad of entraping laws men allow to stand against other men.

Harpy Feminists and Pathetic Papas, like the Nazis and their sympathizers, would justify supporting a system that destroys us all.

If those ‘fold-up’ men did not even stand up for their own children, why do we expect them to stand up for anything.   More innocent children and men will have to be destroyed and even murdered  (several researchers claim up to 30,000 men a year commit suicide as a result of the family law abuse and loss of their children) by this evil agenda of man hate before men realize they do not have to be led to slaughter like cattle.  They can dig in and fight.

If even 10 percent of the men who go to divorce court fought with all their resources and commitment with a willingness to be impoverished (temporary), jailed (temporary), and ridiculed (by those living in glass houses), the whole system would collapse.  As it is, we have a nearly 100% ‘fold-up rate’ within the first year, even with those who start out trying to protect their children in bad situations. 

I know of a single man who has in his case had sanctioned an attorney, a court reporter, a judge removed from the case and the bench, a social worker sanctioned, and more.  He has fought 9 judges to a standstill in his case. He has accomplished even more. I have seen the documentation and sat in the court in that case.  He has done some of this pro se when he has been impoverished.  He was just a quiet little man with no big bank account and no big connections, but he loved his child with all his heart.  His ex-wife had even testified to her own severe abuse and endangerment of their child and was allowed to get and keep custody.  He never stopped.

I know of a man who dedicated his life, even though his children are essentially lost to him, to educating the public of this evil. and working to affect legislative  and judicial changes.  He has set up and maintained his own tv programming out of his own middle class income and now reaches up to 40 million homes a month.

I know of another man who has repeatedly put together national class action law suits filed in every state, simultaneously.

There are many who have become journalists, authors, and attorneys just to fight this evil. But they are so few in number.  The numbers are growing.  The shame is that so many fold-up, sit on their asses, and cry in their beer.

These committed men are not men with money, major degrees, or family power connections, these were just a few good men, they could have been your neighbor or the guy who used to be little quiet kid who never talked in class.   They were simply men who will not abandon their children to the people who will destroy their children.  They are men who will commit.

How could a system stand in the face of those men, if only 10%, or even 5% would say,

“Here I stand and I will take on all comers, large or small, for the sake of my children, at all costs to myself.  I will stand and support others in their stand.”

Our evil and corrupt system could not stand up even in the face of 1% of the fathers who are ground up in the system in only one month.  In my county there are hundreds of divorces each month.  If ten fathers committed their lives to fighting this evil and working with others to help other fathers and their children, we would have no corrupt official in office in under two years.

How many men would rather have a beer and watch a ball game than fill out a complaint form on a judge, attorney, ad litem, case worker, etc…. and then actually put a stamp on it and mail it?   How many will even write a letter or email opposing new draconion legislation that is anti-father and child destructive?   Too damned few.  Most are too damn  scared.  I say to them, you deserve more abuse than you get and your children deserve a real father not you.

Nearly every single man who has been in family law court within the past two years has at least one legitimate grievance against a corrupt official, attorney, judge, or other professional, they can document and file in their own case.  Every one reading this can go sit in on someone else’s case and document abuses with affidavits to help that other person file complaints.  Your silence is evidence against your love for your children.  The corrupt individuals have become so secure and arrogant in their criminality they no longer even bother to attempt to hide their crimes and abuses.  They are easy to document and knock down, lawfully.

To those of you who do act in their own cases and to the even fewer who will stand up for others in their cases,  you are truly heros of national proportions and I thank you for what you have done to keep things from being even worse on my child and me.

Very sincerely,

Stan Rains

Darrick Scott-Farnsworth <darricksf@achildsright.net> wrote:

From Traverse City , MI Attorney Jeanne Hannah:I had the distinct pleasure to meet Judge Jon Van Allsburg of Grand Haven, Michigan at the recent 6th Annual Family Law Institute in Plymouth , Michigan . Judge Van Allsburg had emailed an extremely informative post to the State Bar of Michigan’s Family Law Listserv on October 12th about the proposed HB 4564 dealing with a “presumption” of joint custody. I asked Judge Van Allsburg if I could share his message with the folks who read Updates in Michigan Family Law and he graciously agreed. I appreciate Judge Van Allsburg’s contribution and his wisdom. The following is Judge Van Allsburg’s message:

http://jeannehannah .typepad. com/blog_ jeanne_hannah_ traver/2007/ 11/mandatory- joint.html

Once you read the Judge¢s logic think about how it is that every FOC and Family Court judge has the ability to determine what¢s in the Best Interest of Our Children but they all seem to do it a little different? If the BIC evaluation system of assigning custody is so important then why is it not required in all cases even when parents agree to their own arraignment? Why is it that almost all cases have a custody evaluation initiated and most have one completed prior to their being a settlement on custody if most parents readily agree to have sole mother custody?

Visitation Center Dracula

(First published in Fathermag.com, August 2000) 

by Stan Rains

Federal funding for supervised visitation programs is supposed to be based on substantiated child abuse, not some crap about “best interests of the child.” Federal law 42 U.S.C. 2000 h-7 and 2000(d)(2) holds that if a state receives federal funding for any program, it waives sovereign immunity to be sued if it discriminates and violates the Equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. –Bruce Eden, Divorce Reform Coalition of NJ.

If false sex abuse allegations are the “atomic bomb” of custody battles, then supervised visitation is the Dracula. For a father to visit his children at a supervised visitation center in my part of the world, it can cost upward of $300. or more a month. The money is a major drain, but the worst blood letting is the formalized Parental Alienation efforts of the visitation centers.

Falling under the maxim that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” visitation centers subject their “client children” and “visiting” parents to a gamut of demeaning and disruptive bites to the jugular vein. Children are acutely aware of the ever present, note taking case workers and of the cameras located every 10 feet along the walls.

I have seen a parent and child cling to one another and stare back at the narrow eyed, stern visages of several caseworkers studying this parent and child clinging to one another in terror and desperation. They reminded me of two neurotic and traumatized research monkeys reacting to the observations of white frocked researchers, conditioned to the fact that these white coated observers had the power to inflict pain, anguish and even death. With this parent child pair, their desperate, mutual clinging to one another seemed to be viewed negatively by the case workers. The parent and child have not been back to the center since. Was that the death of a parent/child relationship? What crime did that child commit to be subjected to such cruel torture?

Visitation Centers often contract out with State Child Welfare Agencies. These agencies are concerned with creating cases for the Fed’s bounty money on child abuse cases ‘created’ in each state. Child Welfare Supervisors receive pay proportionate to the number of case workers beneath them. The number of case workers for an area are determined by the number of cases ‘created.’ Child Welfare agencies are known to work with the contractors who assist in validating ‘created’ cases and who can create new cases. That is a major cause of the intrusive scrutiny at the visitation centers. Are these contract centers concerned with the children or the funding? Money and power have an odd affect on many people.

The demeaning of the “visiting” parent is readily visible from the minute that a person enters the “secured facility” with armed guards, officious case workers with their clipboards and arrogant, domineering managers with business backgrounds–not child development, psychology, or even social work training. The child’s impression is that all of these authority figures see Daddy as a serious and dangerous threat. The only time a child sees this type of security is on TV showing prisons filled with bad people. It leaves a child with an impression that their love for Daddy is dangerous and bad, and so is Daddy. And to take it a step further into reality, the natural progression of a child’s self worth is that if “Daddy is bad and I love Daddy, then I am Bad”. And they wonder why children of “throw away” dads are prone to so many destructive behaviors.

The center’s management sets rules to ‘train’ parents in proper parenting time at the visitation center. This forced, but very unofficial parent training, is based on a business manager’s personal experience and idealism, not on the recommendations of any professional knowledgeable in parent/child needs or interactions. The intrusion cuts into the spontaneity and naturalness of a parent/child interaction.

An even greater stressor on the parent/child interaction is the knowledge that a poor review by a case worker, who has no formal training, essentially puts the case worker in the position of complainant, witness, prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner of the ability of a parent and child to see each other. Caseworkers, often young, childless, and generally with little or no formal education, correct parents and children alike, openly, for all to hear with their corrections based on personal bias, unresolved issues and idealism. Caseworkers who dislike a parent will let everyone in the facility know by broadcasting through glares, tone, stance, and attitude. Children are very attuned to these things especially from authority figures. Many times the case workers disapproval is rooted in other than professional reasons–appearance and social skills seems to be a major factor.

Intense note taking by the case workers is done to develop negative issues, no matter whether the issues are grounded in reality. These notes are cumulative. So is the effect.

Judges use visitation centers to avoid responsibility. Judges and attorneys use visitation centers to ameliorate their guilt at taking a child’s daddy away from the child. Judges, attorneys and Child Welfare use visitation centers to validate their personal agendas more often than the centers are used for the best interest of a child. The child is the last factor of the equation.

How long can a parent or child withstand this steady, relational bloodletting to maintain any kind of healthy relationship? Brad Ingram wrote of his concern that children may loose interest under such pressure and end up with memories of rubber stamp visits instead of a childhood of meaningful memories and experiences with Dad. How long do we have to wait for our children to be allowed to feel they have two parents, not just one parent and a “visitor” with no anchoring relationship? Is it any wonder that America has more police per capita than any other country in the world? Is it any wonder that America has a per capita prison population comparable to the former Soviet Union and its infamous Gulag Archipelago? Stephen Baskerville regularly puts forth the concept that indirectly, and sometimes directly, Fatherhood is a crime in America. If you are a father, you are already a criminal. You just may not have begun your punishment, yet.

The parent/child pair mentioned above in this letter were a mother and her daughter. Did parent/child gender change your view or feelings of that picture? Why? Did gender make it more or less shameful or justifiable? Should any child or parent, male or female, be subject to this kind of cruel and unusual punishment without any conviction of wrong doing? Is motherhood next to be criminalized?

Letter to Joe Pags: Stand Up Guy OR Empty Talking Head

Dear Joe, 

Earlier this year I happened to be watching early morning TV news and you appeared on a regular spot. The Texas AG, Gregg Abbot had just had one of his big child support enforcement drives in San Antonio.  You commented to the affect that these  targeted men were irresponsible deadbeats and deserved everything they received.  I dismissed those statements as just another un-informed talking head spouting PC myth on topics which he has not researched and was not qualified to speak.

However, I now see your picture all over the MensNewsDaily (MND) website.  Have you actually looked into the child support scam facts and developed an informed position or are you just advertising where you think you can drag a few more fans or viewers out of the brush. 

I would hope you did your research and developed an opinion based on fact, not on myths and lies and this new opinion is why you advertise on MND.  I continue to hope that you have began to agree at least in part to the values and activisms supported by MensNewsDaily’ s readers and contributors.

If you have not began to change your views, don’t you think it is hypocritical and mercenary to advertise on a web site dedicated to helping overcome the civil rights abuses committed on children and men by extreme feminist political agendas?  MND presents values that your statements indicate you oppose.

I am very interested in hearing from you on this as I am sure any number of my children’s and father’s rights friends will be wanting to hear your stance on child support and the wrongful jailing and removal of innocent men from the lives of their children by sending them to un-Constitutional debtors prisons or forcing them into hiding to maintain even a small bit of freedom and liberty.

I hope to hear from you soon, and I sincerely hope my first impressions of you  were completely wrong.  

I sincerely hope I will need to apologize for continuing to think you are as cruel towards children and beat down fathers as your statements on child support you made public on early morning television in San Antonio earlier this calendar year.  Have you ever stopped to consider how a roofing laborer with no high school education can run up a quarter of million dollars in ten years.  He doesn’t gross that much in 10 years. 

When you made that statement one of the men on Greg Abbot’s top ten most wanted list was that very roofing laborer.  He owed just under $250,000.  I volunteer as a court watcher and have seen the fraud on the court that creates these paper debts not based on any real income or ability.  The reasons are generally based on the political and monetary agendas of politicians like Gregg Abbot.  Gregg Abbot gets bounty money from the Federal Government for every dollar that gets assesed by courts (they get a cut too) and he gets more money for every dollar collected.  The jails get extra money for every day a father is jailed on child support and the list of payola continues.  These different payola devices are nothing more than bounty on the scalps of innocent men and the children will pay the debts.  Gregg Abbot funds the salaries for the Child Support courts.  How do you think they will always rule? 

I would hope your statements were based on the misinformation so many well-intentioned journalists have passed on as fact without review or question, not on any maliscious intent. 

The journalists who actually research and begin to tell the truth on these issue see their careers skyrocket.  Ask Glenn Sacks, Cathy Young, Kathleen Parker and others.   I would hope to see you get on board and have your career move forward even faster.  You look better when you are informed and when you speak out of turn, well, it does not help you at all.

Looking forward to hearing from you and having to apologize for the really bad impression I still have of you for those very callous and cruel remarks about those poor downtrodden men and their children who heard you demean them. 

Roger Gay and Stephen Baskerville, regular contributors to MND , knowing how helpful these two fine gentlemen are, would gladly provide you resources to help you begin researching and separating out the myth from fact on your own.

Glenn Sacks would, I am sure, be another very positive resource on this and related topics.

Sincerely,

ThePatriotDad