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September 20, 2011 Extended One Week Constitutional Literacy T-shirts Return! PRO T-shirst are back! Though we no longer host a webstore, you can support PRO - and show that support - by purchasing your official PRO t-shirts (just $12)through the HSLDA webstore. Share This Online Preserve Parental Rights

Taking Action in California You no doubt know by now about our efforts at the national level to introduce and promote the Parental Rights Amendment in Congress (more on that below). But you may not be aware of our state-level efforts to preserve parental rights. Recognizing that it is much harder to regain rights that have been lost than to preserve rights we still retain, however tenuously, we have joined forces with others in California to fight threats to parental rights this past week. California (Senate bill) SB48 was signed into law in July and would require all public schools to teach on “the role and contributions of…lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans” in California and American history, and there is no opt-out provision for parents who might find this teaching inappropriate for young children. We believe that parents should have the ultimate decision-making authority over what their children learn, and that parents of public school children have a right to opt their children out of materials which the parents find objectionable. As a result, we contacted those of you in California and urged you to take action. (If you are a resident of California and missed that alert, see it here.) California (Assembly bill) AB499 passed the Senate on August 29 and still awaits the signature of Gov. Jerry Brown. This bill would allow children as young as 12 years to consent to certain medical care without parental involvement, paving the way for doctors to administer the controversial HPV vaccine to young girls through their schools or elsewhere. As this also infringes the fundamental right of parents to protect their children and to help them make important medical decisions, we wrote and urged our supporters in California to oppose this measure by urging Gov. Brown to veto the bill. Federal Level Update While this state-level activity is happening on the west coast, things on the east coast are deceptively quiet. We are once again rescheduling our call blitz, and not for what isn’t happening, but for what is. The new 30 minute docudrama, Overruled, is scheduled for release in October. At around the same time, it looks like we can coordinate efforts to introduce the Amendment not only in the House, but in the Senate as well. So, with the GOP debates drawing increasing attention to the parental rights issue and with these two big opportunities also coming up, we have determined that pulling everything together in October gives us the best opportunity to draw media attention and Congressional support. In the meantime, we need to continue to grow our support network so that when the call blitz comes, the voice for parental rights will be as loud as possible! Sincerely, Michael Ramey Director of Communications & Research

P.O. Box 1090 Purcellville, VA 20134 * (540)-751-1200 * info@parentalrights.org

Info Request- I want your CPS Complaint

AFRA EDITORIALS By Leonard Henderson

September 8, 2011
Info Request- I want your CPS Complaint
Today, I had a nice phone conversation with Dr. Graves of JurisDictionary.  I had emailed him asking about working up a special version specifically for helping people defend themselves against CPS.  He expressed that he was just too busy to do that and suggested perhaps I could adapt his information specifically to CPS defense.
So now I am looking into doing that.  And immediately ran into a brick wall.
The first thing we know about a CPS case is- it is more or less a LAWSUIT.  

• What starts a lawsuit is the COMPLAINT by the Plaintiff.  
• As the Defendant, you need to respond to that Complaint.

Right there is my PROBLEM.  My own case never made it that far.  My involvement with CPS was VOLUNTARY, until they decided to BLAME ME as the CAUSE of things I had nothing whatsoever to do with.  After that, it took very little time and trouble to fix their little red wagons over that.  I just ended up madder than hell forever and at 100% total, complete WAR with them.
Over the years of teaching others how to fight CPS, their cases were always so advanced that whatever the original Complaint might have said- made no difference at the level the case had developed into by the time the "consumer" found me.  All this time, we have been working on Defense a lot further down the road.
So, in order to begin developing a system of DEFENSE, I need to see some original COMPLAINTS the agencies have filed against YOU, their "consumer" or "client".
These Complaints ARE Public Record, so there is no legal reason (I am aware of) why you cannot share your original Complaints with me.
I need them for the purpose of showing people HOW to develop a DEFENSE against the Complaint from line 1.  And I need to see enough of them to work up a "generic" defense.  Defense BEGINS with HOW you respond to the original Complaint.
If you have your original court Complaint from CPS already scanned in, or you can easily scan it in, I would very much like to see it.  If it would make you more comfortable, you can black out your names and addresses on a COPY of that Complaint.  I do care about what state you are in and the actual verbiage in the Complaint itself.
Please feel free to email them to me- leonard@familyrights.us
I will NOT identify you personally in any materials I might develop for educational materials for Pro Se CPS defense.

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"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." --Aesop (c. 550 B.C.) legendary Greek fabulist

If CPS hasn't attacked YOUR FAMILY yet, see If you are ever approached by anyone from social services.... and WHEN THEY COME AFTER YOU

Learn as much as you can, as fast as you can at How To Fight CPS

Get YOUR VERSION OF HISTORY ON THE RECORD with your Sworn Declaration

Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights Association
http://familyrights.us
"Until Every Child Comes Home" ©
"The Voice of America's Families" ©

I am not a lawyer and I do not pretend to give legal advice. If you need legal advice, see AFRA's Lawyer Friends who certainly are not pretenders (http://familyrights.us/info/law) I merely relate the things I learned in the past that seemed to work in my own case or things that others have related to me that worked in their cases. I provide information for free and do not expect to receive any form of payment or reward on this side of heaven. Therefore, DO NOT rely on this information as legal advice. Real Legal advice would come from a real lawyer who hates CPS and prepares a VIGOROUS DEFENSE against a negative (proving nothing happened) instead of talking you into a plea bargain (http://familyrights.us/bin/The_Problem_with_Plea_Bargaining.htm) 

AFRA Editorials are NOT copyrighted.  Please feel free to forward widely.  We are at 100% total complete WAR with CPS, not trying to be famous or important.

Is Euthanasia coming?

Putting a price on prolonging a doomed life
Doctors, not health insurers, should decide how much can and should be done to extend the lives of the terminally ill.
By David Lazarus
September 1, 2011, 9:30 p.m.
Los Angles Times

This is a subject I certainly have mixed opinions about-

Caveat #1- I am sitting here ALIVE on my hospital bed, hooked to my oxygen machines and taking my meds. Without that, I did DIE in the winter of 2005. I made it all the way there- DEAD.

Without my oxygen machines and the one single medicine NOW, I will be DEAD within 2 weeks.

Yes indeed, my DEATH was EXPENSIVE for the medical profession to fix. I think I saw hospital bills totaling a quarter million dollars for saving my miserable ass. Never mind that a different hospital KILLED ME to begin with and THEN put me on the ambulance (who got paid $8500 to make the trip).

My story is detailed at http://familyrights.us/vpap/

Anybody who knows me, knows how badly I have HATED the medical profession all my life. And anybody who knows me, knows how badly I hate the government spending money foolishly.

SO WHAT ABOUT ME? Was my life worth saving? There are plenty of nasty lefties who definitely have me on their "DeathWish list".

Well, here's how I feel about that-

It was NOT my choice to be alive today. I was already dead. My RN mother made the choice that I should be resuscitated. So blame my mother. OK?  I am guessing that during the time my brain was not being oxygenated, the entire "liberal lefty" part of my brain died- whatever little there was.

BUT as a result of my resuscitation, and the oxygen machines that don't actually cost much, AND the cheap ass LASIX water pills, I have a GOOD quality of life here on my hospital bed in front of my computer.

A life I spend dedicated to HELPING OTHERS.

For which I receive some gratitude from those I help, and LOTS of HATE from the Organized Crime Ring.

Every day I wake up alive is yet another opportunity to HELP someone. And yet another opportunity to EDUCATE the masses who have no clue how dangerous it is to be a parent in this culture NOW.

I have helped build an organization that will continue indefinitely upon my demise.

Upon my passing, I will not be eulogized. There will be no statues of me on the National Mall. My quotes will probably never become "quotable".  I will never be hailed as a "Great American Patriot".

But I can go into the night confident that I have fulfilled the Mission God gave me to do.

At the end of the road, THAT'S WHAT MATTERS.

Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights
http://familyrights.us
"Until Every Child Comes Home"©
"The Voice of America's Families"©

Whatever Schools Teach, Parents Have No Rights

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Whatever Schools Teach, Parents Have No Rights Since California Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 48 into law on July 14, the curriculum for California public schools must include “the role and contributions of…lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans” in California and American history. Already, those on the left are preparing to defend the law in courts, while those on the right are driving petitions to overturn the law by a ballot initiative. Why go to all that trouble? Because the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over California and a handful of other states, has already made clear that there can be no opt-outs of anything in the curriculum, even if parents might find it offensive or contrary to their own educational ideals for their children. Some parents will like this form of education. Other parents will object to it. At ParentalRights.Org our view is simply this: Parents, not government, should be able to make these decisions. As it is, whatever curriculum California ultimately decides to keep, there will be public school parents who dislike it and who still have no rights under the Ninth Circuit to even opt their children out. In 2005, the Ninth Circuit declared in Fields v. Palmdale that “[p]arents…have no constitutional right…to prevent public schools from providing its students with whatever information it wishes to provide, sexual or otherwise, when and as the school determines that it is appropriate to do so.” “In sum,” they wrote, “we affirm that the Meyer-Pierce [fundamental parental] right does not extend beyond the threshold of the school door.” And it’s not just California and neighboring states, either. In 2007, the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts decided the same thing in Parker v. Hurley: parents have no right to opt their children out of a public school course. Nor are we aware of any decision to the contrary in any Circuit or District in the country since 2000. So get ready for more legislation and more petitions as parents go back and forth over what all public school children must learn. When parents lack the basic right to simply pull their child out of a single class they dislike, there is no lesser recourse available than to change the entire curriculum for all. The proposed Parental Rights Amendment to the Constitution can correct this by reversing Palmdale and Parker and re-establishing parental rights for fit parents regardless of their child’s location. Until then, parents will just have to duke it out in the legislature – because what their children learn in public school is entirely a matter of state law, and not of parental discretion. Sincerely, Michael Ramey Director of Communications & Research

P.O. Box 1090 Purcellville, VA 20134 * (540)-751-1200 * info@parentalrights.org