Laws now shunt responsible parents aside and allow women to be ill-informed and pressured for abortions.
Posted: April 29
Updated: Today at 8:58 PM
Portland Press Herald, Maine
Conservative humorist P.J. O'Rourke, in reviewing Hillary Clinton's book, "It Takes a Village (To Raise a Child)," said that only by reading it could you really see what she meant by those terms.
In Clinton's mind, he said, "Government is the village. And you're the child."
We see that philosophy at work in many levels of government in these "nanny-state" days, but some lawmakers in Augusta have drawn up three abortion-related bills that are trying to claw back some rights that belong to real people, not the artificial surrogates that left-leaning legislators and jurists have made of themselves, the medical profession and social service agencies. FULL STORY
Friday, April 29, 2011
D.C.'s child welfare system leaves kids at risk
By: Freeman Klopott 04/28/11 8:05 PM
Examiner Staff Writer
The District's child welfare system is failing the city's abused and neglected children in critical ways, a D.C. inspector general's report has found.
More than three years after four girls were found murdered by their mother in their Southeast Washington home, problems continue at the city's Child and Family Services Agency, the report found. The Banita Jacks case and its fallout led to the firing by then-Mayor Adrian Fenty of several city officials and promises of major reforms.
But the inspector general found morale remained low at CFSA, case loads for social workers are still too high, and there is too much pressure to close cases quickly, all of which erodes care for the city's vulnerable youths.
"The children are endangered if these issues go unresolved," D.C. inspector general spokesman Roger Burke told The Washington Examiner on Thursday. "Social workers will not be able to protect the children."
A Child and Family Services spokeswoman declined to comment beyond the agency's responses included in the report.
Ward 1 D.C. Councilman Jim Graham, whose committee oversees that agency, said he'll give a "serious" look at the inspector general's report, which was released Thursday.
"I am deeply concerned about any kind of repeat of the gross neglect that lead to the death of Banita Jacks' children," Graham said.
The inspector general made 23 recommendations to improve the system. Key among them was improving the city's child abuse hot line so investigators spend less time on frivolous cases. FULL STORY
See my old Editorial "85% of all child abuse reports are unfounded"
Examiner Staff Writer
The District's child welfare system is failing the city's abused and neglected children in critical ways, a D.C. inspector general's report has found.
More than three years after four girls were found murdered by their mother in their Southeast Washington home, problems continue at the city's Child and Family Services Agency, the report found. The Banita Jacks case and its fallout led to the firing by then-Mayor Adrian Fenty of several city officials and promises of major reforms.
But the inspector general found morale remained low at CFSA, case loads for social workers are still too high, and there is too much pressure to close cases quickly, all of which erodes care for the city's vulnerable youths.
"The children are endangered if these issues go unresolved," D.C. inspector general spokesman Roger Burke told The Washington Examiner on Thursday. "Social workers will not be able to protect the children."
A Child and Family Services spokeswoman declined to comment beyond the agency's responses included in the report.
Ward 1 D.C. Councilman Jim Graham, whose committee oversees that agency, said he'll give a "serious" look at the inspector general's report, which was released Thursday.
"I am deeply concerned about any kind of repeat of the gross neglect that lead to the death of Banita Jacks' children," Graham said.
The inspector general made 23 recommendations to improve the system. Key among them was improving the city's child abuse hot line so investigators spend less time on frivolous cases. FULL STORY
See my old Editorial "85% of all child abuse reports are unfounded"
Accused in Texas Face Long Wait to Fight Abuse Label
by Emily Ramshaw
April 29, 2011
Texas Tribune
It’s been more than a decade since Child Protective Services entered Gary and Melissa Gates’ Houston-area home and removed their two biological kids and 11 adopted ones, following an allegation the pair had emotionally abused one of their children. Within three days, a judge had returned all the children to their parents; within eight months, the child welfare agency had dropped its case.
But the Gateses, along with half a million other people, remain listed in a statewide database of people who mistreat children — a registry that often precludes child care jobs, foster care and their life’s work, adoption.
“From my side of the socioeconomic scale, this is nothing you’d ever think would happen,” said Gary Gates, who has spent “well north of $500,000” trying to get off the registry, and to hold CPS accountable for the trauma he says his family has endured. “The reality is, very few people have the emotional and financial fortitude to fight this.” FULL STORY
April 29, 2011
Texas Tribune
It’s been more than a decade since Child Protective Services entered Gary and Melissa Gates’ Houston-area home and removed their two biological kids and 11 adopted ones, following an allegation the pair had emotionally abused one of their children. Within three days, a judge had returned all the children to their parents; within eight months, the child welfare agency had dropped its case.
But the Gateses, along with half a million other people, remain listed in a statewide database of people who mistreat children — a registry that often precludes child care jobs, foster care and their life’s work, adoption.
“From my side of the socioeconomic scale, this is nothing you’d ever think would happen,” said Gary Gates, who has spent “well north of $500,000” trying to get off the registry, and to hold CPS accountable for the trauma he says his family has endured. “The reality is, very few people have the emotional and financial fortitude to fight this.” FULL STORY
Mass. has highest child abuse ranking
By Elaine Thompson TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
Friday, April 29, 2011
Massachusetts ranks No. 1 nationally for the highest rate of child abuse — mostly involving neglect — a ranking that officials say derives from the state's strict reporting laws.
Massachusetts had the highest rate of child abuse of any state in federal fiscal 2009, the latest year for which statistics are available, as well as in 2007 and 2008. Also, Massachusetts ranked second among the 50 states in 2004 through 2006, according to a report from the U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
Massachusetts' rate for 2009 was 24.2 per 1,000 residents, compared with the national average of 9.3. The Washington, D.C., rate of 28.8 was the highest. While maltreatment covers all forms of child abuse, including sexual, physical and psychological, about 78.3 percent of cases involved neglect.
Jennifer Kritz, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, said it is difficult to make reliable comparisons between states because of different levels of mandatory reporting. Each state also has its own definitions of child abuse and neglect that are based on federal standards. She said that Massachusetts has some of the strictest laws, thus the state has a higher rate. FULL STORY
Friday, April 29, 2011
Massachusetts ranks No. 1 nationally for the highest rate of child abuse — mostly involving neglect — a ranking that officials say derives from the state's strict reporting laws.
Massachusetts had the highest rate of child abuse of any state in federal fiscal 2009, the latest year for which statistics are available, as well as in 2007 and 2008. Also, Massachusetts ranked second among the 50 states in 2004 through 2006, according to a report from the U.S. Administration for Children and Families.
Massachusetts' rate for 2009 was 24.2 per 1,000 residents, compared with the national average of 9.3. The Washington, D.C., rate of 28.8 was the highest. While maltreatment covers all forms of child abuse, including sexual, physical and psychological, about 78.3 percent of cases involved neglect.
Jennifer Kritz, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, said it is difficult to make reliable comparisons between states because of different levels of mandatory reporting. Each state also has its own definitions of child abuse and neglect that are based on federal standards. She said that Massachusetts has some of the strictest laws, thus the state has a higher rate. FULL STORY
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Superman Renounces U.S. Citizenship in 'Action Comics' #900
Apr 27th 2011 By: Laura Hudson
Comics Alliance
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/04/27/superman-renounces-us-citizenship
We haven't had much Truth, Justice or The American Way for at least 50 years. It's been slowly replaced over the past 100 years with Communism.
Comics Alliance
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/04/27/superman-renounces-us-citizenship
We haven't had much Truth, Justice or The American Way for at least 50 years. It's been slowly replaced over the past 100 years with Communism.
EDITORIAL: Bill To Open Dependency Court Hearings Killed: That’s a Shame
By EGP Editorial
Los Angeles- A bill in the state legislature, AB 73, which would have opened dependency court hearings to the public, was put on hold Tuesday, and that’s a shame in our view.
The bill, authored by Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) was one of the few solutions under consideration to improve the outcomes for children in the child welfare system that would have allowed greater transparency in how we treat children who find themselves in the system through no fault of their own.
Too often, children are returned to parents whose actions were the cause for them being placed in the system in the first place, only to be returned to foster care when those same parents prove once again to be incapable of providing a safe and healthy home. FULL STORY
I left a comment there
Los Angeles- A bill in the state legislature, AB 73, which would have opened dependency court hearings to the public, was put on hold Tuesday, and that’s a shame in our view.
The bill, authored by Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) was one of the few solutions under consideration to improve the outcomes for children in the child welfare system that would have allowed greater transparency in how we treat children who find themselves in the system through no fault of their own.
Too often, children are returned to parents whose actions were the cause for them being placed in the system in the first place, only to be returned to foster care when those same parents prove once again to be incapable of providing a safe and healthy home. FULL STORY
I left a comment there
Florida Joins States Calling for Parental Rights Amendment
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| Florida Joins States Calling for Parental Rights Amendment Florida becomes the third state this year to call for the Amendment; Idaho and Montana both passed similar measures in early March. Both South Dakota and Louisiana passed similar resolutions in 2010. Louisiana’s resolution was accepted unanimously in both houses, with a Democrat plurality in the House (then made up of 52 Democrats, 50 Republicans, and 3 Independents) and a Democrat majority in the Senate. Florida’s resolution enjoyed a Republican majority in both houses, but was also bipartisan with 10 of 12 Senate Democrats voting in favor (1 was absent, and 1 did not vote). In all, Florida Democrats on record voted 17-3, or 85%, in favor of this memorial (resolution). Republican support was 98%. Visit us at ParentalRights.org/resolution or scroll over the interactive map at ParentalRights.org/states to find out if your state might be home to the next Parental Rights resolution. Visit us on Facebook to comment on this news. Take the quick 1-question poll on our new Squidoo lens to help us launch that new awareness-raising project. And click "Like" while you are there! Gratefully, Michael Ramey Director of Communications and Research |
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Raising Righteous & Rowdy Girls
Brand New Book
What will this book teach you?
Raising Righteous & Rowdy Girls is here to help fathers with daughters. In this book, Giles tables scores of road-tested, historically proven, can’t-miss principles for raising girls with a fighting spirit, discernment, a winning attitude, and a holy vision to overcome this feces-filled culture. You will learn in this quick read how to teach your daughters to fight, shoot guns, sense BS, be classy, despise anti-intellectualism, be visionaries, party without going Snookie, value hunting and the outdoors, esteem traditional convictions, and avoid the date from hell.
Who the heck is Doug Giles? Doug Giles, TownHall.com columnist, host of ClashRadio.com and pastor of Clash Church in Miami, Florida, is the father of Hannah Giles (who conceived the 2009 ACORN sting and played the prostitute in the nation-shaking videos which caused the 2010 collapse of ACORN) and Regis Giles (NRA Columnist, 2nd Amendment activist and host of her own hunting show, Primal Urge).
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Give a Flip Factor
Chapter 1. Strong Words for Weak Dads
Chapter 2. Teach Your Daughter How to Fight
Chapter 3. Teach Your Daughter How to Shoot Guns
Chapter 4 . Teach Your Daughter How to Sense Bullshit
Chapter 5 . Teach Your Daughter How to Rebel
Chapter 6 . Teach Your Daughter How to be Classy
Chapter 7. Teach Your Daughter to be a Visionary
Chapter 8. Teach Your Daughter to Despise Anti-Intellectualism
Chapter 9. Teach Your Daughter How to Party
Chapter 10. Teach Your Daughter How to Hunt
Chapter 11. Teach Your Daughter How to Avoid the Date from Hell
Chapter 12. The Ten Commandments for My Daughter’s Potential Boyfriend
Chapter 13. An Application to Date My Daughter
Chapter 14. About My Dad: From the Author's Daughters
http://righteousrowdygirls.com
What will this book teach you?
Raising Righteous & Rowdy Girls is here to help fathers with daughters. In this book, Giles tables scores of road-tested, historically proven, can’t-miss principles for raising girls with a fighting spirit, discernment, a winning attitude, and a holy vision to overcome this feces-filled culture. You will learn in this quick read how to teach your daughters to fight, shoot guns, sense BS, be classy, despise anti-intellectualism, be visionaries, party without going Snookie, value hunting and the outdoors, esteem traditional convictions, and avoid the date from hell.
Who the heck is Doug Giles? Doug Giles, TownHall.com columnist, host of ClashRadio.com and pastor of Clash Church in Miami, Florida, is the father of Hannah Giles (who conceived the 2009 ACORN sting and played the prostitute in the nation-shaking videos which caused the 2010 collapse of ACORN) and Regis Giles (NRA Columnist, 2nd Amendment activist and host of her own hunting show, Primal Urge).
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Give a Flip Factor
Chapter 1. Strong Words for Weak Dads
Chapter 2. Teach Your Daughter How to Fight
Chapter 3. Teach Your Daughter How to Shoot Guns
Chapter 4 . Teach Your Daughter How to Sense Bullshit
Chapter 5 . Teach Your Daughter How to Rebel
Chapter 6 . Teach Your Daughter How to be Classy
Chapter 7. Teach Your Daughter to be a Visionary
Chapter 8. Teach Your Daughter to Despise Anti-Intellectualism
Chapter 9. Teach Your Daughter How to Party
Chapter 10. Teach Your Daughter How to Hunt
Chapter 11. Teach Your Daughter How to Avoid the Date from Hell
Chapter 12. The Ten Commandments for My Daughter’s Potential Boyfriend
Chapter 13. An Application to Date My Daughter
Chapter 14. About My Dad: From the Author's Daughters
http://righteousrowdygirls.com
Advanced System-Suckology: Do Woman Go Crazy If They Can't Breed?
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Legally Kidnapped
Advanced System-Suckology: Do Woman Go Crazy If They Can't Breed?
I LOVE this article!
Legally Kidnapped
Advanced System-Suckology: Do Woman Go Crazy If They Can't Breed?
I LOVE this article!
Shipped Right to Your Child's Door
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Why Do Moms Kill their Kids?
Posted By Dr. Mercola | April 28 2011
One night not all that long ago, a mother in Newburgh, NY, drove herself and her four children into the Hudson River. Her eldest son escaped and ran to get help, but the woman and her three younger children drowned. The tragedy brings to mind similar cases -- Susan Smith in 1994, Andrea Yates in 2001.
What leads a parent to kill their own child? Dr. Phillip Resnick, a leading expert on the subject, says there are several circumstances under which a parent might feel driven to it. FULL STORY
One night not all that long ago, a mother in Newburgh, NY, drove herself and her four children into the Hudson River. Her eldest son escaped and ran to get help, but the woman and her three younger children drowned. The tragedy brings to mind similar cases -- Susan Smith in 1994, Andrea Yates in 2001.
What leads a parent to kill their own child? Dr. Phillip Resnick, a leading expert on the subject, says there are several circumstances under which a parent might feel driven to it. FULL STORY
Liberty Quotes
"We used to be a free people. Now we are hedged in by millions of laws. Harassed by a plague of opportunistic lawyers. Harmed by regulations meant for our protection. Unnecessarily taxed to pay for a suffocating bureaucracy. Drowning in petty paperwork. Stifled by “rights” that rarely benefit anyone." -Joan Beck Columnist Source: Houston Chronicle, February 6, 1995
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Joan.Beck.Quote.B720
"It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich." -Paul Harvey [Paul Harvey Aurandt] (1918-2009) American radio broadcaster Source: The Biggest Tax You Pay, Conservative Chronicle, November 8, 1995
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Paul.Harvey.Quote.408F
"Today, of course, the redistributive powers of Congress are everywhere -- except in the Constitution. The result is the feeding frenzy that is modern Washington, the Hobbesian war of all against all as each tries to get his share and more of the common pot the tax system fills. ... It is unseemly and wrong. More than that, it is unconstitutional, whatever the slim and cowed majority on the New Deal Court may have said." -Roger Pilon Vice President for Legal Affairs for the Cato Institute Source: Restoring Constitutional Government, Cato’s Letter #9, P. 10, Published By The Cato Institute (1995)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Roger.Pilon.Quote.10A1
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
3-Year-Old Girl In Foster Care Killed
Gag Order Frustrates Child's Mother
POSTED: 3:57 pm CDT April 27, 2011
UPDATED: 4:43 pm CDT April 27, 2011
WDSU.com
HAMMOND, La. -- Tangipahoa Parish detectives are investigating the death of a 3-year-old girl who died while in the care of her foster parents, according to family members.
Faith Saucier died about a week ago, and was buried Friday. Authorities now say her death is a homicide.
"She didn't deserve none of this. The sweetest little thing. She didn't deserve none of this," said Ashley Saucier, Faith's biological mother.
Ashley Saucier battled drug problems for years, so she put her daughter into the state's foster care system. Last Friday, she laid her to rest in the remote family grave in Varnado.
"I want whoever hurt my baby, and killed my baby, to be in jail," she said.
Saucier's attorney, William Arata, showed WDSU the Tangipahoa Parish coroner's report he obtained on Faith, showing the manner of death was homicide.
"Blunt force trauma, sub-scalpular hemorraging about the head along with two perforations of the small intestines," said Arata, reading from the report.
The report also included pictures of apparent bruises on Faith's arms and neck.
"Soon thereafter, I was informed there was a gag order. Nobody's presented me with a copy of this alleged gag order," Arata said.
And that's apparently why few people are talking about Faith's death. The sheriff's office said the gag order was issued by 21st Judicial District Juvenile Judge Blair Edwards.
The sheriff's office will only confirm it has launched in investigation into the child's death. FULL STORY
Gee. A gag order. To protect the dead child.
POSTED: 3:57 pm CDT April 27, 2011
UPDATED: 4:43 pm CDT April 27, 2011
WDSU.com
HAMMOND, La. -- Tangipahoa Parish detectives are investigating the death of a 3-year-old girl who died while in the care of her foster parents, according to family members.
Faith Saucier died about a week ago, and was buried Friday. Authorities now say her death is a homicide.
"She didn't deserve none of this. The sweetest little thing. She didn't deserve none of this," said Ashley Saucier, Faith's biological mother.
Ashley Saucier battled drug problems for years, so she put her daughter into the state's foster care system. Last Friday, she laid her to rest in the remote family grave in Varnado.
"I want whoever hurt my baby, and killed my baby, to be in jail," she said.
Saucier's attorney, William Arata, showed WDSU the Tangipahoa Parish coroner's report he obtained on Faith, showing the manner of death was homicide.
"Blunt force trauma, sub-scalpular hemorraging about the head along with two perforations of the small intestines," said Arata, reading from the report.
The report also included pictures of apparent bruises on Faith's arms and neck.
"Soon thereafter, I was informed there was a gag order. Nobody's presented me with a copy of this alleged gag order," Arata said.
And that's apparently why few people are talking about Faith's death. The sheriff's office said the gag order was issued by 21st Judicial District Juvenile Judge Blair Edwards.
The sheriff's office will only confirm it has launched in investigation into the child's death. FULL STORY
Gee. A gag order. To protect the dead child.
Foster Parents; Did you know? How to Document
Foster Families Examiner
Marilyn Harrison
Foster Parents; Did you know? How to Document
(10 part series completed over the past 12 days)
http://afrafrontpagenews.blogspot.com/2011/04/foster-parents-did-you-know-how-to.html
Marilyn Harrison
Foster Parents; Did you know? How to Document
(10 part series completed over the past 12 days)
http://afrafrontpagenews.blogspot.com/2011/04/foster-parents-did-you-know-how-to.html
Foster care in California: the tyranny of personal experience takes a heavy toll
Richard Wexler
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Foster care in California: the tyranny of personal experience takes a heavy toll
Liberty Quotes
"Welfarism and excessive spending and deficits and socialism divide us, because everybody has to go to Washington. Those who have the biggest clout, those who are the best lobbyists, those who go and they grab. And whether it's the medical industrial complex, or the banking industry, or the military industrial complex, that's who ends up controlling our government... For so long, conservatives and constitutionalists have lost the argument, they lost the moral high ground. Because those who want to give things away, not talking about where they steal it from, but they want to give things and take care of people, they get the moral high ground and they come by as being compassionate. And we who believe in liberty, we lack compassion. But the truth is, there's only one compassionate system known to man, and that is freedom and personal responsibility, then there's enough wealth, and then we will all have personal responsibility to use this compassion that we have, first to take care of our families and friends and neighbors, and there would be so much wealth that we could spread this wealth around the world." -Dr. Ron Paul (1935-) American physician, US Congressman (R-TX), US Presidential candidate Source: New Hampshire Homeschool Meet and Greet, September 30, 2007
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ron.Paul.Quote.70F3
"The Great Depression was not caused by laissez faire but by the actions of well-intended politicians and bureaucrats. The Federal Reserve System, after all, was not created in response to the Great Depression, but in 1913. Soon thereafter it began experimenting with its awesome powers, expanding the money supply during the roaring ‘20s, propping up the pound sterling in London, extending credit so Europeans could buy American agricultural products. All the while, Congress was becoming more and more protectionist. When the Fed reversed policies in 1929 and actually shrunk the money supply by a third over the next three years and Congress culminated its protectionist tendencies with the Smoot-Hawley tariff, the collapse was underway. The fact that Hoover then raised taxes and Roosevelt kept wages artificially high guaranteed the massive unemployment that marked the 1930s. Government caused and exacerbated the Great Depression." -Edward H. Crane Founder and president of the Cato Institute Source: April 6, 1995, at a meeting of the Philanthropy Roundtable
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Edward.Crane.Quote.66EE
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Americans depend more on federal aid than ever
By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY
Updated 11h 24m ago
Americans depended more on government assistance in 2010 than at any other time in the nation's history, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds. The trend shows few signs of easing, even though the economic recovery is nearly 2 years old.
A record 18.3% of the nation's total personal income was a payment from the government for Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, unemployment benefits and other programs in 2010. Wages accounted for the lowest share of income — 51.0% — since the government began keeping track in 1929. FULL STORY
Looks to me like the "economic recovery" 2 years ago might have merely been Unicorn farts.
Updated 11h 24m ago
Americans depended more on government assistance in 2010 than at any other time in the nation's history, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds. The trend shows few signs of easing, even though the economic recovery is nearly 2 years old.
A record 18.3% of the nation's total personal income was a payment from the government for Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, unemployment benefits and other programs in 2010. Wages accounted for the lowest share of income — 51.0% — since the government began keeping track in 1929. FULL STORY
Looks to me like the "economic recovery" 2 years ago might have merely been Unicorn farts.
New child protective services program on way
By Lauren Pack, Staff Writer
11:47 PM Monday, April 25, 2011
Middleton Journal
HAMILTON, Ohio — Butler County is one of eight counties in the state that will participate beginning this summer in the Differential Response program developed by the Ohio Supreme Court and the state Department of Job and Family Services.
The pilot program is under way in several counties and with the addition of eight more, 33 counties will have options when responding to and addressing children services reports.
Differential Response gives caseworkers freedom to use an alternative approach when investigating some reports of child abuse and neglect, according to the Supreme Court. That freedom helps keep families together and reduces the number of children placed in out-of-home care, all without compromising child safety. FULL STORY
"Differential Response" means they don't necessarily have to do the usual lying and character assassination.
11:47 PM Monday, April 25, 2011
Middleton Journal
HAMILTON, Ohio — Butler County is one of eight counties in the state that will participate beginning this summer in the Differential Response program developed by the Ohio Supreme Court and the state Department of Job and Family Services.
The pilot program is under way in several counties and with the addition of eight more, 33 counties will have options when responding to and addressing children services reports.
Differential Response gives caseworkers freedom to use an alternative approach when investigating some reports of child abuse and neglect, according to the Supreme Court. That freedom helps keep families together and reduces the number of children placed in out-of-home care, all without compromising child safety. FULL STORY
"Differential Response" means they don't necessarily have to do the usual lying and character assassination.
Governor Extols State Partnership with IU School of Social Work
Published: April 26, 2011
Contact Information: Rob Schneider
IU School of Social Work
The Indiana University School of Social Work and the Indiana Department of Child Services have created an extraordinary partnership with incalculable benefits in the life and death mission of protecting the state’s most vulnerable children, Gov. Mitch Daniels said at the IUPUI Spirit of Philanthropy ceremony on Tuesday.
“It is the single best example I know of, of close collaboration between people in public service and the great university assets we have in this state,” Daniels said. The governor attended the ceremony to help honor Judge James Payne, the director of the Department of Child Services and the partnership between DCS and the School of Social Work.
“The people that you have trained here at IUPUI are saving the lives of little ones on a daily basis in ways we can’t count and probably they can’t even know absent the preparation they got here.” FULL STORY
I feel like throwing up.
Contact Information: Rob Schneider
IU School of Social Work
The Indiana University School of Social Work and the Indiana Department of Child Services have created an extraordinary partnership with incalculable benefits in the life and death mission of protecting the state’s most vulnerable children, Gov. Mitch Daniels said at the IUPUI Spirit of Philanthropy ceremony on Tuesday.
“It is the single best example I know of, of close collaboration between people in public service and the great university assets we have in this state,” Daniels said. The governor attended the ceremony to help honor Judge James Payne, the director of the Department of Child Services and the partnership between DCS and the School of Social Work.
“The people that you have trained here at IUPUI are saving the lives of little ones on a daily basis in ways we can’t count and probably they can’t even know absent the preparation they got here.” FULL STORY
I feel like throwing up.
Drug exposure poses risks for children
Movement seeks to increase awareness
By Journal-Advocate staff
Posted: 04/26/2011 04:37:05 PM MDT
Colorado- Early Childhood Council Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick Counties (ECCLPS) joins the Colorado Alliance for Drug Endangered Children today in seeking to increase awareness of the Colorado Drug Endangered Children (DEC) Movement.
Gov. John Hickenlooper has proclaimed today, April 26, as Colorado`s first Drug Endangered Children Awareness Day -- a day to recognize the risks children face growing up exposed to substance use, distribution, cultivation and manufacturing in their homes.
Parental substance use or involvement in the illegal drug trade is a leading factor in child abuse and neglect cases in Colorado. Children whose parents abuse alcohol or drugs are three times more likely to be verbally, physically or sexually abused and four times more likely than other children to be neglected. Additionally, children in families affected by substance use are at an increased risk for substance use and mental health issues in adolescence. FULL STORY
HEY! If you have kids and you use illegal drugs, someday the axe will fall on YOU.
Don't come bawling back here begging for help because we have no sympathy for you.
You have been warned.
By Journal-Advocate staff
Posted: 04/26/2011 04:37:05 PM MDT
Colorado- Early Childhood Council Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick Counties (ECCLPS) joins the Colorado Alliance for Drug Endangered Children today in seeking to increase awareness of the Colorado Drug Endangered Children (DEC) Movement.
Gov. John Hickenlooper has proclaimed today, April 26, as Colorado`s first Drug Endangered Children Awareness Day -- a day to recognize the risks children face growing up exposed to substance use, distribution, cultivation and manufacturing in their homes.
Parental substance use or involvement in the illegal drug trade is a leading factor in child abuse and neglect cases in Colorado. Children whose parents abuse alcohol or drugs are three times more likely to be verbally, physically or sexually abused and four times more likely than other children to be neglected. Additionally, children in families affected by substance use are at an increased risk for substance use and mental health issues in adolescence. FULL STORY
HEY! If you have kids and you use illegal drugs, someday the axe will fall on YOU.
Don't come bawling back here begging for help because we have no sympathy for you.
You have been warned.
New industry serves parents of disabled children
by By CAROLYN DOUGLAS / KING 5 News
NWCN.com
Posted on August 15, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Updated Friday, Sep 25 at 11:00 AM
See FULL STORY
http://www.nwcn.com/news/health/61471767.html
CPS really LOVES kidnapping these kids and harvesting their Title IV and Medicare funds.
NWCN.com
Posted on August 15, 2009 at 1:34 PM
Updated Friday, Sep 25 at 11:00 AM
See FULL STORY
http://www.nwcn.com/news/health/61471767.html
CPS really LOVES kidnapping these kids and harvesting their Title IV and Medicare funds.
Don't re-traumatize foster youths in court
Maureen Pacheco: Don't re-traumatize foster youths in court
By Maureen Pacheco
Posted: 04/25/2011 06:07:15 PM PDT
Updated: 04/25/2011 06:08:27 PM PDT
Dail News, Los Angeles
FULL STORY
I left a comment there
UPDATE 2-
As it turns out, this is a HUGE story in California, covered by numerous newspapers
By Maureen Pacheco
Posted: 04/25/2011 06:07:15 PM PDT
Updated: 04/25/2011 06:08:27 PM PDT
Dail News, Los Angeles
FULL STORY
I left a comment there
UPDATE 2-
As it turns out, this is a HUGE story in California, covered by numerous newspapers
Founders Quote
"The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head." -Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788
That has certainly been turned upside down.
That has certainly been turned upside down.
Court files prove Maryanne Godboldo had full legal authority to stop administering dangerous drugs to daughter; CPS raid nothing but illegal kidnapping
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
(NaturalNews) New developments in the case of Maryanne Godboldo -- the Detroit, Mich., woman whose house was recently raided by a SWAT team with a tank, and whose daughter was subsequently kidnapped by these armed terrorists -- are set to hopefully clear the mother of any wrongdoing in the matter http://www.naturalnews.com/032090_Maryanne_Godboldo_health_freedom.html
Recently-released court documents prove that the consent form Maryanne signed agreeing to give her daughter the highly-dangerous anti-psychotic drug Risperdal was optional, and that she was always free to cease using them at any time.
In other words, the raid conducted by state-sanctioned thugs on behalf of Child Protective Services (CPS) was nothing more than an illegal kidnapping by armed terrorists who violated Maryanne and her family's legal, civil, and God-given rights. At this point, Maryanne truly has a fully-validated case against CPS and its criminal cabal, should she decide to pursue aggressive legal action against them. After all, they illegally broke into Maryanne's home and proceeded to kidnap her child without just cause.
The consent document Maryanne signed clearly states that she would "not be forced" to administer the medication, and that her daughter was free to "stop taking it at any time." Maryanne had also consulted with another doctor, who recommended that she stop using the deadly drug and instead pursue alternative options -- which clearly proves that the child was not being neglected as some have accused.
"I think that document proves our case," said Wanda Evans, Maryanne's lawyer in the case. "She understood she had a right to stop giving the medication. If you sign an informed consent that says you can stop, and you stop, you did the right thing, and CPS is just being nasty."
According to reports, Maryanne's daughter, Ariana, is still being held in captivity at a CPS facility in Northville, Mich. Supporters from around the country continue to raise money to help Maryanne's legal battle to free her daughter, and you can help support these efforts by visiting: http://justice4maryanne.com/
Sources for this story include:
http://www.cchrint.org/2011/04/22/court-files-vindicate-detroit-mom-in-stand-off-with-police-she-had-legal-authority-to-stop-daughters-drugging/
(NaturalNews) New developments in the case of Maryanne Godboldo -- the Detroit, Mich., woman whose house was recently raided by a SWAT team with a tank, and whose daughter was subsequently kidnapped by these armed terrorists -- are set to hopefully clear the mother of any wrongdoing in the matter http://www.naturalnews.com/032090_Maryanne_Godboldo_health_freedom.html
Recently-released court documents prove that the consent form Maryanne signed agreeing to give her daughter the highly-dangerous anti-psychotic drug Risperdal was optional, and that she was always free to cease using them at any time.
In other words, the raid conducted by state-sanctioned thugs on behalf of Child Protective Services (CPS) was nothing more than an illegal kidnapping by armed terrorists who violated Maryanne and her family's legal, civil, and God-given rights. At this point, Maryanne truly has a fully-validated case against CPS and its criminal cabal, should she decide to pursue aggressive legal action against them. After all, they illegally broke into Maryanne's home and proceeded to kidnap her child without just cause.
The consent document Maryanne signed clearly states that she would "not be forced" to administer the medication, and that her daughter was free to "stop taking it at any time." Maryanne had also consulted with another doctor, who recommended that she stop using the deadly drug and instead pursue alternative options -- which clearly proves that the child was not being neglected as some have accused.
"I think that document proves our case," said Wanda Evans, Maryanne's lawyer in the case. "She understood she had a right to stop giving the medication. If you sign an informed consent that says you can stop, and you stop, you did the right thing, and CPS is just being nasty."
According to reports, Maryanne's daughter, Ariana, is still being held in captivity at a CPS facility in Northville, Mich. Supporters from around the country continue to raise money to help Maryanne's legal battle to free her daughter, and you can help support these efforts by visiting: http://justice4maryanne.com/
Sources for this story include:
http://www.cchrint.org/2011/04/22/court-files-vindicate-detroit-mom-in-stand-off-with-police-she-had-legal-authority-to-stop-daughters-drugging/
Liberty Quotes
"A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment ... is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule." -Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Author Source: The Nature Of Government, The Virtues Of Selfishness, 126 (Signet Book 1964)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ayn.Rand.Quote.691A
"Americans will spend more this year per capita on taxes than on food ($2,693), clothing ($1,404) and shelter ($5,833) combined. The single highest spending item is federal taxes, at $7,026 ... Arizonans’ per-capita bite is $9,041, a combination of federal and state taxes." -Sara Hammond Source: Work Life, The Arizona Daily Star, P. D1, Sept. 19, 1999.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Sara.Hammond.Quote.C96E
"No government has ever commanded the resources at the disposal of our ungodly Leviathan, which consumes about 25 percent of the product of the world’s richest country. It is driven by a voracious alliance of government’s own employees, and those who receive benefits from the state. At least 90 million Americans either depend directly on government handouts or jobs, and each private worker must support not only himself and his family, but also carry a government worker on his shoulders."* -Tom Bethel Source: Freedom and Its Enemies, American Spectator, June, 1999 P. 19
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Tom.Bethel.Quote.F5FF
* An epiphany- Here's that mysterious 25% that shows up in the polls who support every socialist proposal.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Teen patient at psych ward was brutally sodomized
Teen patient at psych ward was brutally sodomized, kept in same unit with attacker for weeks
BY Rich Schapiro
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, April 25th 2011, 4:00 AM
A Bronx teen sought refuge at a facility designed to help patients like her - vulnerable teens battling emotional issues.
But once inside Metropolitan Hospital's child psychiatric ward, the 15-year-old girl was forcibly sodomized by another patient - an 11-year-old boy, authorities said.
"When my daughter told me what happened, I felt like a knife had pierced me in my heart," the victim's mother, Patricia Watson, told the Daily News.
"The hospital failed to protect her. They failed to protect my daughter."
The teen's torment has only compounded in recent weeks because she is still in the same unit where she was attacked last month, awaiting a transfer to a state facility.
"She has panic attacks when she's in her room, when she's in the shower," Watson said. "I feel heartbroken my daughter is still there. She should have been moved within hours." FULL STORY
Seriously, I do not imagine any state run facility NOT being careless, sloppy and incompetent.
BY Rich Schapiro
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, April 25th 2011, 4:00 AM
A Bronx teen sought refuge at a facility designed to help patients like her - vulnerable teens battling emotional issues.
But once inside Metropolitan Hospital's child psychiatric ward, the 15-year-old girl was forcibly sodomized by another patient - an 11-year-old boy, authorities said.
"When my daughter told me what happened, I felt like a knife had pierced me in my heart," the victim's mother, Patricia Watson, told the Daily News.
"The hospital failed to protect her. They failed to protect my daughter."
The teen's torment has only compounded in recent weeks because she is still in the same unit where she was attacked last month, awaiting a transfer to a state facility.
"She has panic attacks when she's in her room, when she's in the shower," Watson said. "I feel heartbroken my daughter is still there. She should have been moved within hours." FULL STORY
Seriously, I do not imagine any state run facility NOT being careless, sloppy and incompetent.
New Term: "Vulnerable Adults"
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's mug-shot contest riles mental-health advocates
by JJ Hensley - Apr. 23, 2011 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
More than 25 percent of inmates in Maricopa County Jail admit to being diagnosed with mental illness, so Sheriff Joe Arpaio stood a good chance of offending mental-health advocates when the Sheriff's Office recently launched a new online contest asking website visitors to vote for their favorite inmate-booking photos.
It took less than 24 hours for Arpaio to hit a nerve.
When the site debuted this week, 48-year-old Barbara Cyran - listless, unkempt and with a bit of spittle below her lip - was among the fan favorites.
Cyran is also mentally incompetent to stand trial, according to court-appointed experts whose opinions have led to the dismissal of trespassing and prostitution charges against her in the past two years.
Considering the residents of Arpaio's jails, many of whom deal with some combination of substance abuse, mental illness and physical ailments, the outcome of the online mug-shot game was predictable, said Charles "Chick" Arnold, a Phoenix attorney and longtime advocate for the mentally ill.
"While we might risk advancing (Arpaio's) publicity component, I think it's critical that we try to get in the way of this and stop this kind of exploitative behavior - because that's exactly what it is," Arnold said. "What he's doing seems to be to be exploiting people who have been defined in our state as vulnerable adults. That's offensive."
Offensive or not, the contest accomplished the sheriff's stated goal of bringing users to his website: Arpaio's new Web page attracted more than 135,000 visitors in its first four days of existence. The same page drew 191,000 visitors over the 30 days before that, according to the Sheriff's Office. FULL STORY
When CPS was putting me through their ungodly meat grinder and insane pack of lies and character assassination, I certainly was exploited as a "vulnerable adult". The only people who WOULDN'T BE are lawyers.
by JJ Hensley - Apr. 23, 2011 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
More than 25 percent of inmates in Maricopa County Jail admit to being diagnosed with mental illness, so Sheriff Joe Arpaio stood a good chance of offending mental-health advocates when the Sheriff's Office recently launched a new online contest asking website visitors to vote for their favorite inmate-booking photos.
It took less than 24 hours for Arpaio to hit a nerve.
When the site debuted this week, 48-year-old Barbara Cyran - listless, unkempt and with a bit of spittle below her lip - was among the fan favorites.
Cyran is also mentally incompetent to stand trial, according to court-appointed experts whose opinions have led to the dismissal of trespassing and prostitution charges against her in the past two years.
Considering the residents of Arpaio's jails, many of whom deal with some combination of substance abuse, mental illness and physical ailments, the outcome of the online mug-shot game was predictable, said Charles "Chick" Arnold, a Phoenix attorney and longtime advocate for the mentally ill.
"While we might risk advancing (Arpaio's) publicity component, I think it's critical that we try to get in the way of this and stop this kind of exploitative behavior - because that's exactly what it is," Arnold said. "What he's doing seems to be to be exploiting people who have been defined in our state as vulnerable adults. That's offensive."
Offensive or not, the contest accomplished the sheriff's stated goal of bringing users to his website: Arpaio's new Web page attracted more than 135,000 visitors in its first four days of existence. The same page drew 191,000 visitors over the 30 days before that, according to the Sheriff's Office. FULL STORY
When CPS was putting me through their ungodly meat grinder and insane pack of lies and character assassination, I certainly was exploited as a "vulnerable adult". The only people who WOULDN'T BE are lawyers.
Prosecutor says evidence in murder case withheld
Reveals doctor's report 'had not been made available' to defense
Posted: April 25, 2011 8:53 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh © 2011 WorldNetDaily
Texas mom Hannah Overton, who began serving a life-without-parole sentence in 2007 after jurors convicted her of killing her 4-year-old foster son by giving him large amounts of salt, may be innocent, according to a prosecutor in the case.
Overton's case gained publicity because of prosecutors' conclusions that Andrew Burd, who was being adopted from a background of drug use and abuse by his birth mother, died because he had ingested too much Zatarain's Cajun Seasoning.
But one of the prosecutors, Anna Maria Jimenez, now has submitted a letter to an appellate court as part of a defense request for a new hearing. Jimenez says defense lawyers did not receive a doctor's report in the case documentation showing Burd did not have high salt levels in his system.
The report was found in the prosecution file by defense attorney Cynthia Orr as part of her appeal preparations. It stated that studies by Dr. Fernandez, a medical examiner, to assess the level of sodium chloride showed "there was an indication that the gastric contents of Andrew Burd did not have a high sodium chloride level."
According to Jimenez, however, the report was missing from the file that the prosecution team had provided to a physician for evaluation before testifying in the case. It also was not given to the defense, which would have been a standard procedure for such exculpatory evidence in criminal cases. FULL STORY
Such as it is for people who think they are CPS's friends. They eat their own.
Posted: April 25, 2011 8:53 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh © 2011 WorldNetDaily
Texas mom Hannah Overton, who began serving a life-without-parole sentence in 2007 after jurors convicted her of killing her 4-year-old foster son by giving him large amounts of salt, may be innocent, according to a prosecutor in the case.
Overton's case gained publicity because of prosecutors' conclusions that Andrew Burd, who was being adopted from a background of drug use and abuse by his birth mother, died because he had ingested too much Zatarain's Cajun Seasoning.
But one of the prosecutors, Anna Maria Jimenez, now has submitted a letter to an appellate court as part of a defense request for a new hearing. Jimenez says defense lawyers did not receive a doctor's report in the case documentation showing Burd did not have high salt levels in his system.
The report was found in the prosecution file by defense attorney Cynthia Orr as part of her appeal preparations. It stated that studies by Dr. Fernandez, a medical examiner, to assess the level of sodium chloride showed "there was an indication that the gastric contents of Andrew Burd did not have a high sodium chloride level."
According to Jimenez, however, the report was missing from the file that the prosecution team had provided to a physician for evaluation before testifying in the case. It also was not given to the defense, which would have been a standard procedure for such exculpatory evidence in criminal cases. FULL STORY
Such as it is for people who think they are CPS's friends. They eat their own.
A new commercial
Watch the graphics. Isn't this pretty much what happens when CPS invades a family?
See, the parent is steering the Family along with little problems. Another hand grabs the wheel and steers somewhere else. Then another hand grabs the wheel, and another, and another.
Yes, this is exactly what happens to the Family when CPS, mental illness clinicians, and other contractor hands all grab the wheel at the same time.
After cutting "S's" all over both lanes and both directions on the highway of life, the Family is left spun backwards in the ditch. And the highway is torn up too.
And all the wheel grabbers congratulate themselves on what a great job they did "helping".
CFP Board's "Let's Make a Plan" TV Public Awareness Campaign
See, the parent is steering the Family along with little problems. Another hand grabs the wheel and steers somewhere else. Then another hand grabs the wheel, and another, and another.
Yes, this is exactly what happens to the Family when CPS, mental illness clinicians, and other contractor hands all grab the wheel at the same time.
After cutting "S's" all over both lanes and both directions on the highway of life, the Family is left spun backwards in the ditch. And the highway is torn up too.
And all the wheel grabbers congratulate themselves on what a great job they did "helping".
CFP Board's "Let's Make a Plan" TV Public Awareness Campaign
N.J. spent approximately $51.7 million on 317 child neglect and abuse lawsuits
Monday, 25 April 2011 16:25
BY ALICIA CRUZ
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
The horrific discovery of little Faheem Williams' mummified remains in the Newark basement of a relative's home prompted a $1 Billion overhaul of New Jersey's Department of Youth and Family Services in 2003, but eight years later, the state is paying for mistakes of its past.
Susan K. Livio of the Statehouse Bureau reported that New Jersey spent approximately $51.7 million in 317 lawsuits brought on behalf of foster children who were abused while in state foster homes from as far back as 1996.
Attorney Joel Garber of Voorhees said while he hoped the system changed, he was not very optimistic since it's too hard to police what really goes on in foster homes. FULL STORY
Of course, I left a comment there
BY ALICIA CRUZ
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
The horrific discovery of little Faheem Williams' mummified remains in the Newark basement of a relative's home prompted a $1 Billion overhaul of New Jersey's Department of Youth and Family Services in 2003, but eight years later, the state is paying for mistakes of its past.
Susan K. Livio of the Statehouse Bureau reported that New Jersey spent approximately $51.7 million in 317 lawsuits brought on behalf of foster children who were abused while in state foster homes from as far back as 1996.
Attorney Joel Garber of Voorhees said while he hoped the system changed, he was not very optimistic since it's too hard to police what really goes on in foster homes. FULL STORY
Of course, I left a comment there
Child abuse may change brain
Published: April 25, 2011 at 2:00 AM
KINGSTON, Ontario, April 25 (UPI)
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2011/04/25/Child-abuse-may-change-brain/UPI-46941303711240/
I commented there-
RE: "Harkness and colleagues say youths with a history of maltreatment had a total blunting of the endocrine response to stress..."
In a previous century, this was known as "Growing Up".
It seems to me like the pile of phony "psychiatric disorders" just gets deeper all the time.
May I refer you to an older study-
Some Unarticulated Premises in the Rhetorical Construction of DSM Categories
Theodore R. Sarbin University of California, Santa Cruz
and James C. Mancuso University at Albany
~and~
Resignation of the famous psychiatrist, Loren R. Mosher
I really do not know why societies tolerate this hubris of fraud in the psychiatric industry.
KINGSTON, Ontario, April 25 (UPI)
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2011/04/25/Child-abuse-may-change-brain/UPI-46941303711240/
I commented there-
RE: "Harkness and colleagues say youths with a history of maltreatment had a total blunting of the endocrine response to stress..."
In a previous century, this was known as "Growing Up".
It seems to me like the pile of phony "psychiatric disorders" just gets deeper all the time.
May I refer you to an older study-
Some Unarticulated Premises in the Rhetorical Construction of DSM Categories
Theodore R. Sarbin University of California, Santa Cruz
and James C. Mancuso University at Albany
~and~
Resignation of the famous psychiatrist, Loren R. Mosher
I really do not know why societies tolerate this hubris of fraud in the psychiatric industry.
AAP Destroying Public Trust by Bullying Parents Instead of Being Partners in Preventing Vaccine Reactions
April 25, 2011 08:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time
NVIC Says AAP Destroying Public Trust by Bullying Parents Instead of Being Partners in Preventing Vaccine Reactions
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The nonprofit educational organization, the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), is calling on the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) leadership to stop bullying parents and do more to urge pediatricians to become compassionate partners with parents in preventing vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths. NVIC is responding to an April 13, 2011 letter that AAP President O, Marion Burton, M.D. wrote to CBS pressuring the network to remove a 15-second message on the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square encouraging informed vaccine decision-making.
The AAP letter to CBS was also provided to bloggers, who orchestrated an online smear campaign to discredit NVIC, which is the oldest and largest vaccine safety consumer advocacy organization in the U.S. The 15-second vaccine education message, sponsored by NVIC with a donation from Mercola.com, began on March 22 and will run hourly through April 28.
“It is inappropriate for a wealthy trade organization representing pediatricians, that gets a lot of money from vaccine manufacturers, to be attacking a small charity representing families with vaccine injured children” said NVIC Co-founder & President Barbara Loe Fisher. “NVIC has a 30 year record of working responsibly inside and outside of government to improve the safety of vaccines and vaccine policies. The AAP, which encourages pediatricians to follow the advice of vaccine patent holder Dr. Paul Offit, should be spending less time denying vaccine risks and more time encouraging pediatricians to educate parents about how to identify and prevent vaccine reactions so fewer children become vaccine damaged.”
In the early 1980’s, the AAP successfully lobbied Congress to shield vaccine manufacturers and doctors from civil liability for vaccine injuries and deaths in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. At the same time, NVIC co-founders worked to secure vaccine safety informing, recording and reporting provisions in the 1986 law, which has paid out more than $2 billion to the vaccine injured since 1988.
In recent years, the AAP has been criticized for failing to divulge to the public the amount of money it receives from vaccine manufacturers. On April 18, 2011, The Orange County Register published a retraction for printing Paul Offit’s defamatory accusation that veteran CBS journalist Sharyl Attkisson lied when she accurately reported in 2008 that Offit failed to inform CBS about exactly how much money he and his employer, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, are paid by vaccine manufacturer Merck.
“The AAP leadership is destroying the trust that should exist between parents and pediatricians. Instead of leading by example and encouraging pediatricians to first, do no harm, they are acting like bullies. It is a shame,” said Fisher.
Click here to read the April 18, 2011 letter NVIC sent to the AAP.
Click here to watch a video and read a commentary with references.
Click here to download a vaccine education brochure.
Contacts
National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)
Barbara Loe Fisher, 703-938-0342
President – Co-Founder
www.NVIC.org
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110425005613/en/NVIC-AAP-Destroying-Public-Trust-Bullying-Parents
N.J. paid $7M to settle lawsuits from three abused foster children
Published: Monday, April 25, 2011, 6:30 AM
Updated: Monday, April 25, 2011, 8:47 AM
By Susan K. Livio/Statehouse Bureau
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/new_jersey_paid_7m_to_settle_l.html
I left a comment there-
When a nation is morally and ethically disordered, it doesn't matter how many billions of dollars you throw at this,
CPS is 100% corrupt and evil, and it has been ever since it started with CAPTA '74. They destroy every life they touch. CPS is the very definition of goose-stepping, fascist TYRANNY.
When it finally gets to be time to shut down "non essential services" and get rid of "non essential government employees", CPS should be #1.
Updated: Monday, April 25, 2011, 8:47 AM
By Susan K. Livio/Statehouse Bureau
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/04/new_jersey_paid_7m_to_settle_l.html
I left a comment there-
When a nation is morally and ethically disordered, it doesn't matter how many billions of dollars you throw at this,
CPS is 100% corrupt and evil, and it has been ever since it started with CAPTA '74. They destroy every life they touch. CPS is the very definition of goose-stepping, fascist TYRANNY.
When it finally gets to be time to shut down "non essential services" and get rid of "non essential government employees", CPS should be #1.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Liberty Quotes
"I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either." -Edward Zehr (1936-2001) Columnist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Edward.Zehr.Quote.7281
"Consider also the willy-nilly growth of the Social Security number. When the numbers were created in 1935, they were supposed to be used for one thing only, to record individual workers’ payments into the Social Security system. Eight years later, Franklin Roosevelt decided all new federal record-keeping would be based on the numbers. In 1962, the IRS adopted them as taxpayer identification numbers. And after Congress permitted states to use the numbers for welfare payments and driver’s licenses in 1976, they mushroomed: food stamps, school lunches, federal loans, even blood donations required Social Security numbers. These days it’s almost impossible to open a bank account or hook up your telephone without one." -Glenn Garvin Source: Bringing The Border War Home, What Will Americans Pay To Keep Out Immigrants?, Reason, October 1995
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Glenn.Garvin.Quote.AC2B
"The cult of the omnipotent state has millions of followers in the united States. Americans of today view their government in the same way as Christians view their God; they worship and adore the state and they render their lives and fortunes to it. Statists believe that their lives -- their very being -- are a privilege that the state has given to them. They believe that everything they do is -- and should be -- to them. They believe that everything they do is -- and should be -- dependent on the consent of the government. Thus, statists support such devices as income taxation, licensing laws, regulations, passports, trade restrictions, and the like." -Jacob G. Hornberger American author, journalist, politician, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation Source: Waco And The Cult Of The Omnipotent State, The Tyranny Of Gun Control, 69 (Future Of Freedom Foundation 1997).
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Jacob.Hornberger.Quote.D536
Mother says state erred in taking her children
By Chris Paschenko
The Galveston Daily News
Published April 24, 2011
SANTA FE, Texas — A state Child Protective Services worker took a Santa Fe woman’s two children only to have a judge reunite the family the next day, a family attorney said.
A spokeswoman for Child Protective Services said the state generally doesn’t comment on issues involving juveniles, but it hasn’t received a complaint on the matter.
The decision, which left Gala Teel without her two boys, isn’t under review, the spokeswoman said. The state still has a temporary conservatorship of the children while they live at home. FULL STORY
I left a hefty comment there-
Any time a story appears that casts CPS in a bad light, people jump to defend CPS because they "believe" in CPS.
Why?
People who haven't experienced them DO NOT know what CPS is.
1- CPS is NOT the police.
2- CPS agents take NO Oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the USA"
3- CPS "investigations" are NOT actual investigations.
4- CPS agents operate by NO moral or Ethical standards whatsoever
5- CPS agents obey no law whatsoever, they are totally unaccountable to anyone, everything is "secret", and they have immunity or impunity if they do get caught doing their standard malfeasance, lying, fabricating evidence, hiding exculpatory evidence, and character assassinations.
6- There is not a dime's bit of difference between CPS and the Nazi SS. CPS is Tyranny.
On the other hand, families (and the children too) have Constitutional Rights, which CPS agents routinely and daily violate.
These continual violations of the Constitutional Rights are a WAR against families and are Federal Crimes.
CPS destroys every life they touch.
"Destroy the family, you destroy the country." -Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The Galveston Daily News
Published April 24, 2011
SANTA FE, Texas — A state Child Protective Services worker took a Santa Fe woman’s two children only to have a judge reunite the family the next day, a family attorney said.
A spokeswoman for Child Protective Services said the state generally doesn’t comment on issues involving juveniles, but it hasn’t received a complaint on the matter.
The decision, which left Gala Teel without her two boys, isn’t under review, the spokeswoman said. The state still has a temporary conservatorship of the children while they live at home. FULL STORY
I left a hefty comment there-
Any time a story appears that casts CPS in a bad light, people jump to defend CPS because they "believe" in CPS.
Why?
People who haven't experienced them DO NOT know what CPS is.
1- CPS is NOT the police.
2- CPS agents take NO Oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the USA"
3- CPS "investigations" are NOT actual investigations.
4- CPS agents operate by NO moral or Ethical standards whatsoever
5- CPS agents obey no law whatsoever, they are totally unaccountable to anyone, everything is "secret", and they have immunity or impunity if they do get caught doing their standard malfeasance, lying, fabricating evidence, hiding exculpatory evidence, and character assassinations.
6- There is not a dime's bit of difference between CPS and the Nazi SS. CPS is Tyranny.
On the other hand, families (and the children too) have Constitutional Rights, which CPS agents routinely and daily violate.
These continual violations of the Constitutional Rights are a WAR against families and are Federal Crimes.
CPS destroys every life they touch.
"Destroy the family, you destroy the country." -Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Oklahoma City police sergeant charged in sexual abuse case
Oklahoma City police Sgt. Maurice Martinez was accused in a 37-count charge of sexually abusing four teenage boys.
BY NOLAN CLAY nclay@opubco.com
Published: April 23, 2011
The Oklahoma City police sergeant who was honored last year for selfless dedication to children sexually abused four teenage boys in his care, prosecutors alleged Friday in a 37-count criminal charge.
Maurice A. Martinez, 44, also violently struck one of those boys in the head, prosecutors alleged in the charge. Police reported finding a video of that blow on the officer's computer.
The veteran patrol officer is being held without bail in the Oklahoma County jail. Martinez has been under investigation since January when one teenager — an adopted son — told elders at his church he had been molested. FULL STORY
There are quite a few comments there from people who would like to give this foster-cop the benefit of the doubt. Odd, I think. In other stories around the country involving REAL PARENTS alleged of doing far less than this, the commenters are just plain out for blood.
BY NOLAN CLAY nclay@opubco.com
Published: April 23, 2011
The Oklahoma City police sergeant who was honored last year for selfless dedication to children sexually abused four teenage boys in his care, prosecutors alleged Friday in a 37-count criminal charge.
Maurice A. Martinez, 44, also violently struck one of those boys in the head, prosecutors alleged in the charge. Police reported finding a video of that blow on the officer's computer.
The veteran patrol officer is being held without bail in the Oklahoma County jail. Martinez has been under investigation since January when one teenager — an adopted son — told elders at his church he had been molested. FULL STORY
There are quite a few comments there from people who would like to give this foster-cop the benefit of the doubt. Odd, I think. In other stories around the country involving REAL PARENTS alleged of doing far less than this, the commenters are just plain out for blood.
DHS: Working for family reunification
by Sally Maxwell, Managing Editor
Sequoyah County Times, Oklahoma
April 22, 2011
FULL STORY
This is a really beautiful story. Points out what the LAW actually sez and everything. Fast reunions of families after CPS fixes the problems. Why am I suspicious that this is just propaganda?
Sequoyah County Times, Oklahoma
April 22, 2011
FULL STORY
This is a really beautiful story. Points out what the LAW actually sez and everything. Fast reunions of families after CPS fixes the problems. Why am I suspicious that this is just propaganda?
Ex-child welfare worker charged with neglect
April 22, 2011
By Donna Hales
Phoenix Staff Writer
Oklahoma— A July 11 trial date has been set for a former child welfare specialist on charges of neglect of duty and making false entries.
Julie Ann Vinson, 36, of Braggs is charged with:
• Public official neglecting duty. The charge states on or between June 21 and Oct. 31, she willfully neglected to perform her duties as a public officer in failing to investigate alleged abuse of children.
The crime is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or by a fine not to exceed $500, or both fine and imprisonment.
• False statement during a state investigation between June 21 and Oct. 31.
The charge states she made false statements after being warned in writing it would subject her to criminal prosecution.
The misdemeanor is punishable by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than $500, or both. FULL STORY
By Donna Hales
Phoenix Staff Writer
Oklahoma— A July 11 trial date has been set for a former child welfare specialist on charges of neglect of duty and making false entries.
Julie Ann Vinson, 36, of Braggs is charged with:
• Public official neglecting duty. The charge states on or between June 21 and Oct. 31, she willfully neglected to perform her duties as a public officer in failing to investigate alleged abuse of children.
The crime is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or by a fine not to exceed $500, or both fine and imprisonment.
• False statement during a state investigation between June 21 and Oct. 31.
The charge states she made false statements after being warned in writing it would subject her to criminal prosecution.
The misdemeanor is punishable by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than $500, or both. FULL STORY
Friday, April 22, 2011
Tell Congress to leave 5,000-year-old definition of marriage alone
Letters warn of dangers of 'frivolous experimentation' of foundation of society
Posted: April 22, 2011 12:35 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh © 2011 WorldNetDaily
A new campaign is calling on members of Congress to defend marriage between one man and one woman as the foundation of civilization, because the alternative is a redefinition of the institution – "for the first time in more than 5,000 years" – simply to satisfy the demands of a "miniscule segment of our population."
The effort is being championed by Kenneth L. Hutcherson, senior pastor and co-founder of Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Wash., who recently wrote in a column on WND saying the defense of marriage "is a movement I would be willing to lead."
The "TIME TO DEFEND MARRIAGE: The Genesis 2:24 Campaign" is named after the earliest scriptural teaching on marriage. It enables constituents to send letters to all 535 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, encouraging them to prevent the societal consequences of caving in to the demands of homosexuals who insist the rest of society affirm their same-sex "marriages."
Take part in this innovative, high-tech, grass-roots lobbying campaign to urge Congress to protect marriage. FULL STORY
Posted: April 22, 2011 12:35 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh © 2011 WorldNetDaily
A new campaign is calling on members of Congress to defend marriage between one man and one woman as the foundation of civilization, because the alternative is a redefinition of the institution – "for the first time in more than 5,000 years" – simply to satisfy the demands of a "miniscule segment of our population."
The effort is being championed by Kenneth L. Hutcherson, senior pastor and co-founder of Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Wash., who recently wrote in a column on WND saying the defense of marriage "is a movement I would be willing to lead."
The "TIME TO DEFEND MARRIAGE: The Genesis 2:24 Campaign" is named after the earliest scriptural teaching on marriage. It enables constituents to send letters to all 535 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, encouraging them to prevent the societal consequences of caving in to the demands of homosexuals who insist the rest of society affirm their same-sex "marriages."
Take part in this innovative, high-tech, grass-roots lobbying campaign to urge Congress to protect marriage. FULL STORY
Students win honors in abuse-prevention poster contest
1:27 PM, Apr. 20, 2011
The Tennesseean
FULL STORY
I left a comment there-
Regarding the statement- "More than 3.5 million children are reported as victims of abuse or neglect in the United States every year, Gilland said."
-may I point out that 85% (Eighty-Five Percent) of all REPORTS end up being "unfounded" A.K.A FALSE reports?
Please see my old Editorial on that subject- "85% of all child abuse reports are unfounded" - http://bit.ly/fwGrqd
A recent new quote on that subject- "Since most referrals come from professionals, the fact that three-quarters were eventually judged unsubstantiated or otherwise disposed of is troubling. The public is very distrustful of anything that appears to be a witch-hunt when it come to child abuse; therefore, over reporting damages the system's credibility and also wastes resources; at the same time under reporting leaves the victims at risk. This figure appears to indicate the need for better means of identification and some additional professional training." - Marty Richman 4-5-2011
A couple of older quotes-
"As many as 75 percent of all children in foster care, upon leaving the system, will have experienced sexual abuse. One study by Johns Hopkins University found that the rate of sexual abuse within the foster-care system is more than four times as high as in the general population; in group homes, the rate of sexual abuse is more than 28 times that of the general population." --Sexual Abuse: An Epidemic in Foster Care Settings? -By Orlow, Orlow & Orlow July 17, 2009
"There are more than half a million children and youth in the U.S. foster care system today. Studies reveal that children are 11 times more likely to be abused in state care than they are in their own homes, and 7 times more likely to die as a result of abuse in the foster care system." -John Walsh Show April 16, 2003
So the question begs- WHO are the abusers?
The Tennesseean
FULL STORY
I left a comment there-
Regarding the statement- "More than 3.5 million children are reported as victims of abuse or neglect in the United States every year, Gilland said."
-may I point out that 85% (Eighty-Five Percent) of all REPORTS end up being "unfounded" A.K.A FALSE reports?
Please see my old Editorial on that subject- "85% of all child abuse reports are unfounded" - http://bit.ly/fwGrqd
A recent new quote on that subject- "Since most referrals come from professionals, the fact that three-quarters were eventually judged unsubstantiated or otherwise disposed of is troubling. The public is very distrustful of anything that appears to be a witch-hunt when it come to child abuse; therefore, over reporting damages the system's credibility and also wastes resources; at the same time under reporting leaves the victims at risk. This figure appears to indicate the need for better means of identification and some additional professional training." - Marty Richman 4-5-2011
A couple of older quotes-
"As many as 75 percent of all children in foster care, upon leaving the system, will have experienced sexual abuse. One study by Johns Hopkins University found that the rate of sexual abuse within the foster-care system is more than four times as high as in the general population; in group homes, the rate of sexual abuse is more than 28 times that of the general population." --Sexual Abuse: An Epidemic in Foster Care Settings? -By Orlow, Orlow & Orlow July 17, 2009
"There are more than half a million children and youth in the U.S. foster care system today. Studies reveal that children are 11 times more likely to be abused in state care than they are in their own homes, and 7 times more likely to die as a result of abuse in the foster care system." -John Walsh Show April 16, 2003
So the question begs- WHO are the abusers?
Flagging Abuse: Your Role in Protecting Children
Christine James-Brown
CEO, Child Welfare League of America
Posted: 04/22/11 12:04 PM ET
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-jamesbrown/flagging-abuse_b_851588.html
I left a comment there (subject to moderator approval)-
Christine- Upon reading your article, my first response was "Oh Please".
This fascist system was nuclear powered from day one (CAPTA 1974). It operates totally without Constitutional Due Process, and the system actors are utterly malfeasant and unaccountable.
It finally comes down to an occasional WIN for parents (and the children) who have been egregiously wronged by this Organized Crime Ring.
Please see today's story in the Orange County Register- County loses $4.9 million lawsuit challenge over lying social workers - http://bit.ly/hs2cQk
As I commented there- "I hope someday that people start winning these suits by the thousands. Sue them back to the Stone Age. Sue them out of business. What these 2 CPS agents did was STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE in every state of the US, and in every westernized country in the world."
CEO, Child Welfare League of America
Posted: 04/22/11 12:04 PM ET
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-jamesbrown/flagging-abuse_b_851588.html
I left a comment there (subject to moderator approval)-
Christine- Upon reading your article, my first response was "Oh Please".
This fascist system was nuclear powered from day one (CAPTA 1974). It operates totally without Constitutional Due Process, and the system actors are utterly malfeasant and unaccountable.
It finally comes down to an occasional WIN for parents (and the children) who have been egregiously wronged by this Organized Crime Ring.
Please see today's story in the Orange County Register- County loses $4.9 million lawsuit challenge over lying social workers - http://bit.ly/hs2cQk
As I commented there- "I hope someday that people start winning these suits by the thousands. Sue them back to the Stone Age. Sue them out of business. What these 2 CPS agents did was STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE in every state of the US, and in every westernized country in the world."
Founder Quote
"It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people." -Richard Henry Lee, letter to Colonel Martin Pickett, 1786
County loses $4.9 million lawsuit challenge over lying social workers
April 21st, 2011, 1:45 pm
posted by Kimberly Edds, Staff Writer
Orange County Register
The County of Orange lost its battle in the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to overturn a record-setting $4.9 million judgment awarded to a Seal Beach woman, after two county social workers lied to a juvenile court commissioner in order to take away the woman’s two daughters.
It took Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick 6 ½ years to regain custody of her children.
The jury award given to Fogarty-Hardwick included damages against the two social workers. The Supreme Court also upheld $1.6 million in attorneys fees for Fogarty-Hardwick’s attorneys, but that could end being as much as $3 million, Fogarty-Hardwick’s attorney Shawn McMillan said.
The county and the two social workers will also be responsible for paying interest which has accrued on the $4.9 million jury award over the last four years, bringing the grand total close to $9.3 million, McMillan said.
Fogarty-Hardwick’s attorneys had offered to settle with the county for $500,000.
Orange County Social Services social workers Marcie Vreeken and Helen Dwojak filed false reports and held back evidence which would have cleared Fogarty-Hardwick, an Orange County jury found. Vreeken would later be promoted, according to county records.
A third social worker was found not liable.
According to court papers, Vreeken threatened that if Fogarty-Hardwick did not “submit” to her will, she would never see her children again. The social workers also tried in 2000 to coerce Fogarty-Hardwick to sign a document saying she was a bad parent by threatening to take her daughters away, Fogarty-Hardwick alleged.
She refused. A county commissioner ordered Fogarty-Hardwick’s daughters, 6 and 9, taken from their mother and put in Orangewood Children’s Home.
The girls were later put in foster care.
Fogarty-Hardwick gave her ex-husband full custody in 2002, hoping to protect her daughters. She was then allowed two supervised visits a month for two years. She eventually won 50-50 custody in 2006.
Fogarty-Hardwick sued the county in 2002, arguing the Social Services Agency and its two social workers violated her civil rights. A jury ruled against her.
She sued again, arguing this time county’s policies violated her constitutional rights, including her Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
Fogarty-Hardwick’s accused the county of violating her constitutional rights by removing her children without making a finding of imminent danger or serious physical injury; interviewing her daughters without a parent present; holding her children without cause; fabricating evidence; and failing to properly train employees about parents’ constitutional rights.
An Orange County jury voted 10-2 in 2007 in favor of Fogarty-Hardwick and awarded her $4.9 million.
The county appealed the judgment.
In the Fourth District Court of Appeal opinion, Justice William Bedsworth wrote, “the evidence adduced at trial obviously caused both the jury and the judge to conclude not only that something seriously wrong was done to Fogarty-Hardwick in this case, but also that the wrongful conduct was not an isolated incident.”
“Despite Fogarty-Hardwick’s complaints, and the concerns expressed by others about the handling of this dependency case, SSA did not investigate the situation or consider assigning different social workers to the matter. Neither of the social workers involved was disciplined. Instead, Vreeken was promoted to supervisor in 2001,” Bedsworth wrote.
The Watchdog is looking into whether Vreeken and Dwojak still work for the county.
“What the county and these social workers did to her was horrendous and she deserves to be compensated in full measure,” McMillan said.
“It’s a big deal for a private citizen to take on the government all the way to the United States Supreme Court,” McMillan said. “(Fogarty-Hardwick) poured her whole life into this case. She provided a valuable service to Orange County and to other parents for having the tenacity to stick with it.”
We have calls in to Social Services and the county’s lawyer. We’ll let you know what they have to say when we hear back. FULL STORY
I left a nice comment there-
I hope someday that people start winning these suits by the thousands.
Sue them back to the Stone Age. Sue them out of business.
What these 2 CPS agents did was STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE in every state of the US, and in every westernized country in the world.
CPS is nothing but an Organized Crime Ring and it’s employees need to be in prison for their FEDERAL CRIMES against America’s families.
posted by Kimberly Edds, Staff Writer
Orange County Register
The County of Orange lost its battle in the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to overturn a record-setting $4.9 million judgment awarded to a Seal Beach woman, after two county social workers lied to a juvenile court commissioner in order to take away the woman’s two daughters.
It took Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick 6 ½ years to regain custody of her children.
The jury award given to Fogarty-Hardwick included damages against the two social workers. The Supreme Court also upheld $1.6 million in attorneys fees for Fogarty-Hardwick’s attorneys, but that could end being as much as $3 million, Fogarty-Hardwick’s attorney Shawn McMillan said.
The county and the two social workers will also be responsible for paying interest which has accrued on the $4.9 million jury award over the last four years, bringing the grand total close to $9.3 million, McMillan said.
Fogarty-Hardwick’s attorneys had offered to settle with the county for $500,000.
Orange County Social Services social workers Marcie Vreeken and Helen Dwojak filed false reports and held back evidence which would have cleared Fogarty-Hardwick, an Orange County jury found. Vreeken would later be promoted, according to county records.
A third social worker was found not liable.
According to court papers, Vreeken threatened that if Fogarty-Hardwick did not “submit” to her will, she would never see her children again. The social workers also tried in 2000 to coerce Fogarty-Hardwick to sign a document saying she was a bad parent by threatening to take her daughters away, Fogarty-Hardwick alleged.
She refused. A county commissioner ordered Fogarty-Hardwick’s daughters, 6 and 9, taken from their mother and put in Orangewood Children’s Home.
The girls were later put in foster care.
Fogarty-Hardwick gave her ex-husband full custody in 2002, hoping to protect her daughters. She was then allowed two supervised visits a month for two years. She eventually won 50-50 custody in 2006.
Fogarty-Hardwick sued the county in 2002, arguing the Social Services Agency and its two social workers violated her civil rights. A jury ruled against her.
She sued again, arguing this time county’s policies violated her constitutional rights, including her Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.
Fogarty-Hardwick’s accused the county of violating her constitutional rights by removing her children without making a finding of imminent danger or serious physical injury; interviewing her daughters without a parent present; holding her children without cause; fabricating evidence; and failing to properly train employees about parents’ constitutional rights.
An Orange County jury voted 10-2 in 2007 in favor of Fogarty-Hardwick and awarded her $4.9 million.
The county appealed the judgment.
In the Fourth District Court of Appeal opinion, Justice William Bedsworth wrote, “the evidence adduced at trial obviously caused both the jury and the judge to conclude not only that something seriously wrong was done to Fogarty-Hardwick in this case, but also that the wrongful conduct was not an isolated incident.”
“Despite Fogarty-Hardwick’s complaints, and the concerns expressed by others about the handling of this dependency case, SSA did not investigate the situation or consider assigning different social workers to the matter. Neither of the social workers involved was disciplined. Instead, Vreeken was promoted to supervisor in 2001,” Bedsworth wrote.
The Watchdog is looking into whether Vreeken and Dwojak still work for the county.
“What the county and these social workers did to her was horrendous and she deserves to be compensated in full measure,” McMillan said.
“It’s a big deal for a private citizen to take on the government all the way to the United States Supreme Court,” McMillan said. “(Fogarty-Hardwick) poured her whole life into this case. She provided a valuable service to Orange County and to other parents for having the tenacity to stick with it.”
We have calls in to Social Services and the county’s lawyer. We’ll let you know what they have to say when we hear back. FULL STORY
I left a nice comment there-
I hope someday that people start winning these suits by the thousands.
Sue them back to the Stone Age. Sue them out of business.
What these 2 CPS agents did was STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE in every state of the US, and in every westernized country in the world.
CPS is nothing but an Organized Crime Ring and it’s employees need to be in prison for their FEDERAL CRIMES against America’s families.
Liberty Quotes
"I am here because I want to redefine the meaning of citizenship in America... If you’re asked in school ‘What does it mean to be a good citizen?’ I want the answer to be, ‘Well, to be a good citizen, you have to obey the law, you’ve got to go to work or be in school, you’ve got to pay your taxes and, oh, yes, you have to serve in your community to help make it a better place.’" -Bill Clinton [William Jefferson Blythe III] (1946- ), 42nd US President Source: Presidents' Summit for America's Future, Philadelphia, April 27-29, 1997
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Bill.Clinton.Quote.2991
"The politicians don’t just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless." -James Dale Davidson National Taxpayers Union
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Davidson.Quote.E40E
"A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the Federal inspector will be in every man’s counting house. The law will of necessity have inquisitorial features, it will provide penalties. It will create a complicated machinery. Under it businessmen will be hauled into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the taxpayer. An army of Federal inspectors, spies and detectives will descend upon the state. They will compel men of business to show their books and disclose the secrets of their affairs. They will dictate forms of bookkeeping. They will require statements and affidavits. On the one hand the inspector can blackmail the taxpayer and on the other, he can profit by selling his secret to his competitor." -Richard E. Byrd (1888-1947) Polar explorer, Virginia House Speaker Source: Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1910
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Richard.Byrd.Quote.7BB1
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Acting DCFS head resigns in defiance of supervisors
By Christina Villacorte Staff Writer, Contra Costa Times
Posted: 04/21/2011 07:42:39 PM PDT
Updated: 04/21/2011 07:59:24 PM PDT
The acting head of Los Angeles County's often-maligned Department of Children and Family Services has resigned to defy the Board of Supervisors, and the lone candidate to fill the job on a permanent basis has withdrawn, officials said Thursday.
Antonia Jimenez stepped down Tuesday, returning to her old job as a deputy to county Chief Executive Officer William Fujioka. The move was intended to let her avoid entering into a contract that the board had directed her to sign, according to county Supervisor Michael Antonovich.
Antonovich bluntly stated the department was better off without Jimenez because she defied the board's direct order to sign a contract with a relatively new unit created to investigate deaths, abuse and neglect involving children in the care of the DCFS.
"It was a blatant act of insubordination," Antonovich said. "She had until 5 (Tuesday afternoon) to sign, and she stepped down in lieu of signing, in defiance of a court order."
Jimenez did not return multiple calls seeking comment Thursday. But during Tuesday's board meeting, she explained that she had no objections to working with the Children's Special Investigation Unit that replaced the Children's Services inspector general and answered directly to the board.
Jimenez said she merely opposed a provision in the contract that barred her from sharing the investigative unit's reports with staff at the DCFS. FULL STORY
Frankly, I think they are all a bunch of kidnapping, murderous communists.
Posted: 04/21/2011 07:42:39 PM PDT
Updated: 04/21/2011 07:59:24 PM PDT
The acting head of Los Angeles County's often-maligned Department of Children and Family Services has resigned to defy the Board of Supervisors, and the lone candidate to fill the job on a permanent basis has withdrawn, officials said Thursday.
Antonia Jimenez stepped down Tuesday, returning to her old job as a deputy to county Chief Executive Officer William Fujioka. The move was intended to let her avoid entering into a contract that the board had directed her to sign, according to county Supervisor Michael Antonovich.
Antonovich bluntly stated the department was better off without Jimenez because she defied the board's direct order to sign a contract with a relatively new unit created to investigate deaths, abuse and neglect involving children in the care of the DCFS.
"It was a blatant act of insubordination," Antonovich said. "She had until 5 (Tuesday afternoon) to sign, and she stepped down in lieu of signing, in defiance of a court order."
Jimenez did not return multiple calls seeking comment Thursday. But during Tuesday's board meeting, she explained that she had no objections to working with the Children's Special Investigation Unit that replaced the Children's Services inspector general and answered directly to the board.
Jimenez said she merely opposed a provision in the contract that barred her from sharing the investigative unit's reports with staff at the DCFS. FULL STORY
Frankly, I think they are all a bunch of kidnapping, murderous communists.
Disturbing Local Child Abuse Survey Indicative of Nationwide Problem?
Saul Relative – Thu Apr 21, 10:26 am ET
Yahoo Contributor Network
A disturbing survey out of Pittsburgh could be a warning marker for other states when dealing with mandatory reporters in child abuse cases. According to the survey, at least 20 percent of the people charged by law with reporting suspected cases of child abuse (mandatory reporters consist of law enforcement, medical professionals, teachers, and others in positions of authority with regard to children) do not really understand their legal duty or what is required of them when making a report. Some even made the surprising comment that they didn't know what to do when their calls to ChildLine, the child abuse hotline, went unanswered.
The Protect Our Children Committee, which commissioned the survey, reported that the data showed that as many as 6 percent of respondents did not know their legal obligations. Another 14 percent said they were not trained in the proper procedure to follow when they suspected abuse.
"Even when people said, 'Yes, I'm a mandatory reporter,' their comments suggested, 'I don't really know what that means,'" Cathleen Palm, executive director of the Protect Our Children Committee, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "They're the hugely critical front line of child protection efforts in Pennsylvania." FULL STORY
I left a big comment there-
False Allegations and Malicious Prosecutions by malfeasant CPS agents are PANDEMIC and completely out of control. This unconstitutional system of NO DUE PROCESS is absolutely insane and 100% unaccountable.
"Eighty-one percent of all abuse last year was neglect, a percentage that has changed little in recent years. Neglect refers to a denial of critical care, defined as the failure of a caretaker to provide adequate food, shelter, clothing or other care necessary for the child's health and welfare when the caretaker is financially able to do so or is offered financial or other reasonable means to do so".* --LEE ROOD 4-2-2011 (*A.K.A "Reasonable Efforts", which IS NOT HAPPENING)
"There are more than half a million children and youth in the U.S. foster care system today. Studies reveal that children are 11 times more likely to be abused in state care than they are in their own homes, and 7 times more likely to die as a result of abuse in the foster care system." -John Walsh Show April 16, 2003
"Since most referrals come from professionals, the fact that three-quarters were eventually judged unsubstantiated or otherwise disposed of is troubling. The public is very distrustful of anything that appears to be a witch-hunt when it come to child abuse; therefore, over reporting damages the system's credibility and also wastes resources; at the same time under reporting leaves the victims at risk. This figure appears to indicate the need for better means of identification and some additional professional training." - Marty Richman 4-5-2011
"As many as 75 percent of all children in foster care, upon leaving the system, will have experienced sexual abuse. One study by Johns Hopkins University found that the rate of sexual abuse within the foster-care system is more than four times as high as in the general population; in group homes, the rate of sexual abuse is more than 28 times that of the general population." --Sexual Abuse: An Epidemic in Foster Care Settings? -By Orlow, Orlow & Orlow July 17, 2009
"If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked." -Gerald Gilder
"Destroy the family, you destroy the country." -Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Yahoo Contributor Network
A disturbing survey out of Pittsburgh could be a warning marker for other states when dealing with mandatory reporters in child abuse cases. According to the survey, at least 20 percent of the people charged by law with reporting suspected cases of child abuse (mandatory reporters consist of law enforcement, medical professionals, teachers, and others in positions of authority with regard to children) do not really understand their legal duty or what is required of them when making a report. Some even made the surprising comment that they didn't know what to do when their calls to ChildLine, the child abuse hotline, went unanswered.
The Protect Our Children Committee, which commissioned the survey, reported that the data showed that as many as 6 percent of respondents did not know their legal obligations. Another 14 percent said they were not trained in the proper procedure to follow when they suspected abuse.
"Even when people said, 'Yes, I'm a mandatory reporter,' their comments suggested, 'I don't really know what that means,'" Cathleen Palm, executive director of the Protect Our Children Committee, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "They're the hugely critical front line of child protection efforts in Pennsylvania." FULL STORY
I left a big comment there-
False Allegations and Malicious Prosecutions by malfeasant CPS agents are PANDEMIC and completely out of control. This unconstitutional system of NO DUE PROCESS is absolutely insane and 100% unaccountable.
"Eighty-one percent of all abuse last year was neglect, a percentage that has changed little in recent years. Neglect refers to a denial of critical care, defined as the failure of a caretaker to provide adequate food, shelter, clothing or other care necessary for the child's health and welfare when the caretaker is financially able to do so or is offered financial or other reasonable means to do so".* --LEE ROOD 4-2-2011 (*A.K.A "Reasonable Efforts", which IS NOT HAPPENING)
"There are more than half a million children and youth in the U.S. foster care system today. Studies reveal that children are 11 times more likely to be abused in state care than they are in their own homes, and 7 times more likely to die as a result of abuse in the foster care system." -John Walsh Show April 16, 2003
"Since most referrals come from professionals, the fact that three-quarters were eventually judged unsubstantiated or otherwise disposed of is troubling. The public is very distrustful of anything that appears to be a witch-hunt when it come to child abuse; therefore, over reporting damages the system's credibility and also wastes resources; at the same time under reporting leaves the victims at risk. This figure appears to indicate the need for better means of identification and some additional professional training." - Marty Richman 4-5-2011
"As many as 75 percent of all children in foster care, upon leaving the system, will have experienced sexual abuse. One study by Johns Hopkins University found that the rate of sexual abuse within the foster-care system is more than four times as high as in the general population; in group homes, the rate of sexual abuse is more than 28 times that of the general population." --Sexual Abuse: An Epidemic in Foster Care Settings? -By Orlow, Orlow & Orlow July 17, 2009
"If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked." -Gerald Gilder
"Destroy the family, you destroy the country." -Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Napolitano backs 6-year old’s pat-down
Napolitano backs 6-year old’s pat-down: ‘Done professionally according to the protocols’
Posted on April 20, 2011 by Conservative Byte
....On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, Napolitano described the rationale behind such screening – saying everyone must be screened, because otherwise an exempted group could be exploited for a potential terrorist attack. FULL STORY
The only terrorists exploiting 6 year old American girls is CPS
Posted on April 20, 2011 by Conservative Byte
....On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, Napolitano described the rationale behind such screening – saying everyone must be screened, because otherwise an exempted group could be exploited for a potential terrorist attack. FULL STORY
The only terrorists exploiting 6 year old American girls is CPS
Former Texas Correctional Officer Sentenced on Conviction Arising from Inmate Beating and Subsequent Cover-Up
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Former Texas Correctional Officer Sentenced on Conviction Arising from Inmate Beating and Subsequent Cover-Up
WASHINGTON – A former Bexar County Sherriff’s Office Deputy was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia to 27 months in prison for depriving a man of his constitutional right to be free from excessive force and for obstructing justice, the Department of Justice announced today. Daniel Melgoza was also sentenced to two years supervised release and a $200 special assessment.
Melgoza, 54, of San Antonio, Texas, was convicted by a jury in San Antonio on Dec. 16, 2010. Evidence at trial showed that on Dec. 8, 2004, Melgoza kicked a compliant inmate in the head several times with pointed cowboy boots. The evidence also showed that Melgoza wrote false reports to conceal his misconduct.
“Correctional officers are entrusted with a great deal of power in order to carry out their critical public safety duties. But they must not be permitted to abuse that power by violating the rights of inmates under their supervision,” said Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez. “ We will not hesitate to prosecute officers who cross the line and injure those they are sworn to protect."
The investigation was conducted by FBI Special Agent Mirella Rodriguez. Civil Rights Division Trial Attorneys Roy Conn and Christopher Lomax prosecuted this case for the United States.
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Likewise, some day what CPS does to people will come back to bite them on the butt hard.
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Former Texas Correctional Officer Sentenced on Conviction Arising from Inmate Beating and Subsequent Cover-Up
WASHINGTON – A former Bexar County Sherriff’s Office Deputy was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia to 27 months in prison for depriving a man of his constitutional right to be free from excessive force and for obstructing justice, the Department of Justice announced today. Daniel Melgoza was also sentenced to two years supervised release and a $200 special assessment.
Melgoza, 54, of San Antonio, Texas, was convicted by a jury in San Antonio on Dec. 16, 2010. Evidence at trial showed that on Dec. 8, 2004, Melgoza kicked a compliant inmate in the head several times with pointed cowboy boots. The evidence also showed that Melgoza wrote false reports to conceal his misconduct.
“Correctional officers are entrusted with a great deal of power in order to carry out their critical public safety duties. But they must not be permitted to abuse that power by violating the rights of inmates under their supervision,” said Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez. “ We will not hesitate to prosecute officers who cross the line and injure those they are sworn to protect."
The investigation was conducted by FBI Special Agent Mirella Rodriguez. Civil Rights Division Trial Attorneys Roy Conn and Christopher Lomax prosecuted this case for the United States.
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Civil Rights Division
Likewise, some day what CPS does to people will come back to bite them on the butt hard.
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