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I see on the news and on this board, countless times how custody is given to a mother based on charges on domestic violence.  Further, I read lunatics like Cindy Ross stating her phony baloney DV stats and facts.

Yet, the majority of cases I read and see are of mothers killing their children.  What are the stats on this phenomenon?  Why is this not brought up during custody battles.

Say a prayer for Devon tonight.  I can't imagine what this child must have gone through.

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050525134809990007

Mother Charged With Killing 8-Year-Old Son
Police Say She Locked Him in the Trunk of Her Car

AP

Police say second grader Devon Gibson died from hyperthermia after his mother left him in her car's trunk while she went to work.   

SYLVA, N.C. (May 25) - A woman was charged with killing her 8-year-old son by keeping him locked in the trunk of a car while she was at work. Her lawyer says the boy was not restrained.

Devin Gibson was found dead Sunday. His mother, Michelle Joyce Gibson, 36, was charged Monday with second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and two counts of felony child abuse, authorities said. She was jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail.

A preliminary autopsy showed Devin died of hyperthermia. High temperatures during the weekend in nearby Asheville were in the 70s.

Gibson left her son in the car's passenger compartment, not the trunk, while she worked, said her appointed lawyer, Rangy Seago. He said the back seat in Gibson's car folds down to allow access to the trunk from inside.

Gibson worked as a certified nursing assistant at Mountain Trace Nursing Center in Jackson County. Seago said she left her post occasionally to check on her son.

"He was never restrained in the trunk away from the passenger area," Seago said. "I don't think he died being locked in the trunk. He could get out. All this trunk stuff is sensationalism. It's a sufficiently horrible tragedy as it is."

However, Jackson County Sheriff Jimmy Ashe said there is evidence that the boy was locked in the trunk. The last time anyone other than Gibson saw the boy alive was Friday night, the sheriff said.

After putting in a 17-hour day Saturday, Gibson returned to work at 7 a.m. Sunday, and about 4 p.m. told a co-worker she believed her son was dead, Ashe said. She returned to her apartment in Asheville, about 40 miles away, he said.

Asheville police found Gibson in the back seat of the car at the apartment complex, holding her dead son.

Gibson faces up to about 17 years in prison if convicted.

"She cries almost all the time," Seago said. "She's very grieved over the loss of her son. Here's a poor lady who's lost her child, and on top of that they come back and charge her with murder."

Police Gibson and Devin had been in and out of homeless shelters until a couple of months ago, when they moved in with friends.

ABC News is doing a national story on incompetent adjudication, specifically, lazy judges who don't do their jobs.  Now is the time to be heard.

NEP -  //www.nevadansforequalparenting.org is soliciting the personal stories of harm brought about by sloppy judges.  If you have such a report, we need to know this weekend at the latest.

What we do not want and cannot use are lengthy stories about bad decisions, unfair decisions, decisions you didn't agree with and the like.  What we need, and need now, are short, concise stories of lazy  adjudication, or harm brought by incomplete cases, willful ignorance of facts, and the like.

Were you harmed by a judge who acted like he had something better to do?  Please name names and include 100-200 words about what  happened.  This national story airs very soon, so we cannot accept replies later than this weekend.

Please act now and help expose shoddy judges.

It'll be interesting to hear how this woman justified killing her 'cheating' husband...and...the show's rated PG!

OPRAH
     
04/28/05 Exclusive: Clara Harris, The Woman Who Ran Over Her Cheating Husband (PG)

On location from prison with the Texas dentist who ran over (3 TIMES) and killed her cheating husband (WHILE THE HUSBAND'S CHILD IN THE CAR WITH HER). Clara Harris tells her side of the story.

Here's a great group if your jurisdiction is in Michigan

http://www.dadsofmichigan.org/phpbb2/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MMAAM

group email address [email protected]

Two or three months ago we were all talking about anti-father marketing. Here is the site to report such misandristic behavior.  Observations, participation and moderators are needed. Shoulder to shoulder lets us tend the fires as truth marches on.

We have a trial tomorrow for a 35% reduction in child support/child care.  My DH's work industry has been hard hit and income has dwindled over the years.  Needless to say, the financial relief would be HUGE with this reduction.  

I saw this post on another board.  Take the time to go through this web site.  So often many of us are face with the viciousness and maliciousness of divorce and custody battles.  Your life can become overwhelmed with the negativity of everything.

It's refreshing to see a site that focuses on the positive things we have in our life.  This site illustrates moving forward after a divorce.  I hope you'll take the time to visit it.

POST FROM SECOND FAMILIES BOARD
http://www.deltabravo.net/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=1877&mesg_id=1945&page=

Hello,

My name is Jann Blackstone-Ford and I am the one they mention in the article. Honestly, I do not know how I happened on this message board, but I would like to invite you all to the Bonus Families website. First, there is the ability to invite people to the site anonymously, as one poster alluded to, and second, there is an article in our Bonus and Bio Department explaining the origin of step. More importantly, however, there is also an article on the origin of the term "bonus."

If anyone has any questions, you can talk to me via the site.

Jann Blackstone-Ford, M.A.
Director
Bonus Families
//www.bonusfamilies.com

TheChamplainChannel.com
Bill Would Prevent Anonymous Child Abuse Reports

POSTED: 9:16 am EST January 27, 2005
UPDATED: 9:21 am EST January 27, 2005

CONCORD, N.H. -- A bill being debated by the New Hampshire House would keep people from reporting child abuse anonymously.

Hudson Republican Rep. Lars Christiansen said it's unconstitutional for someone not to be able to face his or her accuser.

Christiansen said the government's investigation of child abuse is too invasive, and he wants to change the law to require accusers to step forward.

But children's advocates said the measure could push a concerned teacher, neighbor or family member into the shadows.

"It might be someone in your family and you're sad about it or you don't want to get involved. But you really need to tell someone so you can stop the abuse and help the child who is suffering," said family advocate Sarah Copps.

A vote on the bill is scheduled for next month.

From:   "Florida Dads"
To:   [email protected]
Subject:   paternity fraud victims
Date:   Sat, 5 Feb 2005 00:32:37 -0500



I am looking for any person who was named a father of a child that they
were unaware of as part of the title IV act (welfare) and any person who
knows they are not the father of children that the state of Florida is forcing you to pay support for.

It seems that Gov. Bush has a plan to deal with paternity, and I have a
reporter for the Sarasota news paper who would like to conduct an
interview with any paternity fraud victims!

Please respond back to me soon.  You may call me also at 954 493 9763 and leave a message with contact info.

Thanks
Tony Spalding

This will make you sick.....

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/01/24/stiSLURPizing_fathers/

StiSLURPizing fathers

By Cathy Young | January 24, 2005

EVERY SO often, yet another wrenching story of a contested adoption is in the news. Television cameras capture a heartbreaking scene: a frightened, sobbing child being taken away from the adoptive parents, to be handed over to biological parents whom the child has never met. The latest such drama unfolded recently in Jacksonville, Fla., where 3-year-old Evan Parker Scott has been returned to his birth mother after the adoption was annulled because it took place without the birth father's consent.
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In these cases, public sympathy is typically on the side of the adoptive parents -- while the unwed father is often assigned the role of villain. He's seen as a feckless good-for-nothing who wants the rights of a father just because he took the trouble to impregnate a woman.

Sometimes, the popular perception may be justified. (Evan Scott's biological father apparently has a history of drug abuse and violence, including toward the mother when she was pregnant.) But then there are the other cases.

Take the story of a New York City police officer identified in legal papers only as Robert O. When his ex-girlfriend found out she was pregnant shortly after their breakup, she decided not to tell Robert and arranged an adoption. Eventually, the couple got back together and married -- and one day, Robert learned that he had a 17-month-old son. His quest for paternal rights ended in defeat in 1992; the courts held that Robert had only himself to blame for not keeping in touch with his former girlfriend and not knowing about her pregnancy.

In 2000, a 19-year-old Iowa man, David Heidbreder, got quite a shock when he found out that his former girlfriend Katie Carton, who had gone to stay with her grandparents in Minnesota after their breakup, had given birth to a girl and put her up for adoption. (Carton had refused to tell Heidbreder where she was but had stayed in touch by e-mail and assured him that she would not give up the baby.)

He filed papers with the Minnesota registry which allows men to claim parental rights and block an adoption. However, he missed the registration deadline -- 30 days from the child's birth -- by one day. He sued and lost.

In recent years, some unwed fathers have been more successful in court, though not in the court of public opinion. Ottakar Kirchner, the father of "Baby Richard," was vilified in the press after he managed to regain custody of his son. The boy was born when Kirchner was away on business in his native Czech Republic; the mother, Daniela Janikova, had decided to break up with Kirchner after hearing rumors of his infidelity. She lied to him that the child had died at birth and repeatedly frustrated his attempts to track down the boy.

Biological paternity isn't everything; but it isn't nothing, either. Where is the sympathy for fathers who lose their children through no fault of theirs? Would we be more sympathetic if a woman's baby were taken away at the hospital and placed for adoption without her knowledge because the birth father signed the adoption papers?

The father in such a case faces a strong presumption of guilt. It is readily assumed that if the mother doesn't want him involved, he's either abusive or terminally irresponsible. In society's eyes, when a man doesn't want to marry his child's mother, he must be a cad; when a woman doesn't want to marry the father, he must be a creep.

People can believe that a man would wage a lengthy legal battle out of spite at his ex-girlfriend; yet many won't allow that a woman could want to deny her ex-boyfriend his child for equally base reasons. We stiSLURPize and prosecute men who refuse to support their children, but not women who willfully conspire to keep a father away from his child.

It's particularly bizarre to place the burden on the man to find out if the woman is pregnant, considering that she's the one with direct knowledge of her condition. Indeed, if a man took such steps after the woman had told him she wanted no further contact, he could be considered a stalker.

In the end, our society sends men quite a mixed message. If your partner gets pregnant and decides to keep the baby, you're liable for 18 years of child support, whether or not you want to be a father. If she doesn't want to be a mother, she can give your child to strangers and there isn't much you can do. Then we complain that men don't take parenthood seriously enough.

Cathy Young is a contributing editor at Reason magazine. Her column appears regularly in the Globe.

Is it just me or is this story, and the governor, missing the real problem here?  That so many women are having children and they have no clue as to who the father is?  Isn't that a HUGE problem in itself?
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Gov. Bush Wants To Use Genetic Testing To ID Newborn's Fathers

POSTED: 5:43 pm EST January 24, 2005
UPDATED: 5:56 pm EST January 24, 2005

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Bush administration in Tallahassee wants to launch a new crackdown on "deadbeat dads."

Gov. Jeb Bush said there are too many kids born to single mothers, WESH NewsChannel 2 reported.

Many of the fathers are never identified, so they can never be forced to pay child support.

"Four out of 10 babies born in our state are born out of wedlock. That's a fairly remarkable statistic that becomes the statistic that then drives our efforts as it relates to child support. There are 800,000 children in our state today who have no legally identified father," Bush said.

Bush wants the state to pay for genetic testing of newborns so the father can be identified.

The governor also wants to simplify the legal process so mothers can get an order requiring child support without having to go to court.

 Are Child Support Levels Too High?

//www.hisside.com

According to economist R. Mark Rogers, "Child support guidelines currently in use by the U.S. states typically generate awards that are three to four times what they should be if based on economically sound cost tables and on a true equal duty of support standard for both parents" (emphasis added).

Rogers also believes that support levels have become so skewed in favor of custodial parents that even custodial parents with a substantially lesser income will still end up with a "significantly higher standard of living than the non-custodial parent." The situation is even more inequitable in cases where the custodial parent has a significantly higher income than the noncustodial.

Rogers of Guideline Economics believes that child support levels are too high in practically every U.S. state and has proposed a Cost Shares guideline which he says will remedy the problem. Debbie Kline is the Executive Director of the Association for Children for the Enforcement of Support, a nationwide organization which advocates higher child support levels and tougher child support enforcement. Mark and Debbie will join Glenn on His Side with Glenn Sacks on Sunday, December 12 at 5 PM PST/8 PM EST.

You can call the show at 1-800-439-4805.

This video was made of the Fathers 4 Justice march on the prime minister's home in London this past summer.  It's a beautiful tribute.  If watching it doesn't inspire you, I don't know what will.

http://www.ukscreen.com/screen/95

It's my understanding the the Fathers 4 Justice is in the process of setting up a formal office here in the States.  

As you'll see in the film, their signature color is purple.  It started me thinking that we should have some symbol as our solidarity.

I found a web site, //www.theribbonlady.com.  She has nice enamel pins in various colors.  For $9 and shipping, you could have a dozen of these pins for yourself and give to friends and family members to wear to symbolize Equal Parenting Rights.

I thought purple because it's the color that Fathers 4 Justice is already using.  The problem is, purple ribbons are associated with Domestic Violence in Canada.   Considering most members on this board are falsely accused on domestic violence......maybe it's appropriate just for that reason....maybe not.

Please share your thoughts about this and see if you think, as a community, we should try to do something like this to get our message out.  It would be nice to have the color purple to work consistently with the Fathers 4 Justice.

http://www.kobtv.com/index.cfm?viewer=storyviewer&id=15531&cat=SEARCH

Judge: 'There is no child'
Viola Trevino carries a child into a court clinic, claiming it to be her own.
Last Update: 12/07/2004 1:05:21 PM
By: Todd Dukart


An Albuquerque woman claimed she had a 5-year-old daughter by her ex-husband, but an Albuquerque judge says that child has never existed.

Viola Trevino was ordered to bring her child, Stephanie Renee Trevino, to court by Monday.

Several hours after her deadline, Trevino walked into court with a little girl in her arms. But the girl, a 2-year-old, was somebody else's child.

The child's grandmother, Georgia Chavez, said she went out to get the mail Monday morning when Trevino pulled up in a car. Chavez said Trevino asked if the child would like to see Santa Claus, and receive free gifts and candy.

Chavez said she agreed and got into Trevino's car with her granddaughter. Trevino drove, parked near the courthouse, and walked off with the girl.

Chavez couldn't keep up and lost them both.

"I thought I was never going to see my baby girl again," she said. "It's the scariest thing. Anything could happen."

Trevino had taken the child into the court clinic and insisted the 2-year-old was her 5-year-old daughter.

The judge and the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department referred the case to the district attorney for possible criminal charges, including perjury and fraud. Officials say kidnapping does not apply to this case.

Trevino's ex-husband is poised to sue her and others, hoping to recover $20,000 in child support he has paid.  Distant relative says Trevino tried to borrow daughter

Rachel Luna, a distant relative of Trevino, said Trevino had tried to borrow her 5-year-old daughter as well.

Luna said Trevino had claimed she needed to collect a $20,000 prize the girl won in a beauty pageant five years ago.

But Luna, who had seen Eyewitness News 4's reports of Trevino's story, says she didn't buy it.

"She was desperate, crying on the phone, telling me, 'Please, Rachel, if I don't take the winner in the morning I'm going to be in a lot of trouble,' " Luna said. "I knew what she wanted her for."

Featured speakers are to be an economist, who believes that the child support calculations are economically wrong and in some for instances 2 or 3 times higher than they should be.  The opponent will be a woman's advocate who believes that child support calculations are not enough to support children and further, the child payments should not have to be substantiated to the NCP.  Will post specifics later....

//www.hisside.com

Federal Class Action Law Suit in Michigan Dismissed.....for now

The motion hearing drew approximately 33 members of the public to the courtroom galley and it was abundantly clear that these private citizens represented a true tapestry of the American family. Three attorneys were in attendance to support our cause and the State was represented by an assistant attorney general. For tactical reasons the plaintiff withdrew the complaint without prejudice to refile and plans are in motion to re-urge the complaint curing some known defects in the pleadings. While this may appear to be a setback, it is actually viewed as a shrewd move to reposition the complaint on firmer legal grounds.

PROTEST OUTSIDE THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE


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T'was the night before Christmas....FOC (Friend of the Court in Michigan...affectionately referred to as Friend of The C*#@)

T'was the night before Christmas - Old Santa was pissed.
  He cussed out the elves and threw down his list.
  Miserable damn bastards, ungrateful ass jerks.
  I have a good mind to scrap the whole damn works.

  I've busted my ass for damn near a year.
  Instead of "Thanks Santa" - what do I hear?
  The old lady bitches cause I work late at night...
  FOC wants more money – and the ex wants to fight.

  The ex gets drunk and calls to bitch.
  My daughter is alienated and my son thinks I'm rich.
  And just when I thought that things would get better,
  Those assholes from FOC send me a letter.

  They say I owe support - if that ain't damn funny.
  Who the hell ever said Santa Claus had any money?
  And the courts these days - they all are the pits.
  They want the impossible ...Those mean little sh!ts.

  I spent a whole year making wagons and sleds,
  just to keep a roof over my damn head,
  I made a ton of yo-yos – sold them to pay rent.
  The FOC said give or to jail you'll be sent

  Flying through the air...dodging the trees,
  Falling down chimneys and skinning my knees.
  I'm quitting this job...there's just no enjoyment.
  I'll sit on my fat ass and draw unemployment.

  There's no Christmas this year...now you know the reason...
  FOC put me in jail so I sit out this season

you may be arrested!  Seriously....this is incredibly sad, the UK is prohibiting fathers from dressing as Santa.  You have to have a government issued Santa ID to get a costume.

Reading is believing....

//www.the-flipside.co.uk/f4jliverpool/2004/11/home-office-only-one-santa-can.php


Maybe we can set up a fund where we ship Santa outfits to the UK on the black market [small](kidding)[/small]???   Although, the backlash may indeed be a positive sign, a sign that the noncustodial dads in the UK are being taken seriously and a threat for the message they're sending in order for the government to take such a radical pre-emptive strike against them.

Sounds like these dads are being heard loud and clear.

[Darnall, however, believes the theory may soon get APA recognition. New research, he said, indicates Gardner's findings may be more correct than many critics believe and could get it into the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.]

http://www.dailyherald.com/news_story.asp?intid=3830581

Psychobabble or a legitimate, legal basis for child custody
By Charles Keeshan Daily Herald Staff Writer
Posted Sunday, November 14, 2004


The first time Norma Perez learned she was being accused of "parental alienation syndrome," she shrugged it off.

The idea that one parent could turn a child against the other might be true, the Elgin resident figured, but it certainly did not apply to her.

A year later, a DuPage County judge ruled otherwise.

Declaring that the mental, emotional and physical health of her 10-year-old daughter was endangered by her mother's behavior, Judge James J. Konetski stripped Perez of custody and handed the girl over to her father without giving her a chance to say goodbye to mom.

"I'm not a perfect person, but I know I didn't do the things they said I did," Perez said.

"I fought for my daughter," she said. "If we don't, we risk losing our children, and if we do, we're called alienators."

Robert G. Black, the attorney for Perez's former husband, R. Edward Bates, said the label fits in this case.

"The evidence showed she did not foster a close loving relationship between the child and father," Black said. "In fact, she totally alienated the child from her father."

Perez is just one of many mothers across the suburbs, and hundreds nationwide, to lose custody of their children based on parental alienation syndrome, a theory that stirs passionate debate in the mental health and legal communities almost two decades after its advent.

The concept, proffered by New Jersey psychiatrist Richard Gardner in 1985, holds that in some cases a custodial parent can poison a child's mind against the other parent, causing that child to have a disrespectful and antagonistic relationship with the other parent.

Gardner's work has launched intense arguments both pro and con in psychological publications, legal journals and courtrooms across the country.

Some dismiss the theory as junk science or pop psychology that lacks research to support it. Others say Gardner's work is not only valid but a long-overdue examination of an insidious form of child abuse.

That debate took place most recently within the Illinois Supreme Court, where justices hearing Perez's case were asked to decide whether testimony about the syndrome belongs in state courtrooms.

The court provided no clear answer to that question in an Oct. 28 decision. But in denying Perez's request to regain custody of her daughter, justices encouraged more challenges of the syndrome's legitimacy.

"We note that PAS is now the subject of legal and professional criticism, and our holding in this case does not foreclose further challenges to the validity or general acceptance of that concept," Justice Thomas L. Kilbride stated.

Discovery and debate

Gardner was working as a professor of child psychiatry at his alma mater, Columbia University in New York, when he began documenting cases in which children in the midst of a custody dispute began showing hostile behavior toward a parent with no clear reason, according to his biography.

He declared the behavior "parental alienation syndrome" and established a set of eight symptoms, including denigration of the alienated parent, lack of guilt over cruelty to that parent and unflinching support for the other parent.

Before his suicide last year, Gardner wrote at length on the subject and testified about it in hundreds of divorce cases across the country. One of those cases was Perez's, in which he issued a finding of parental alienation syndrome despite never interviewing Perez or her daughter.

His self-published 1992 book, "The Parental Alienation Syndrome: A Guide for Legal and Mental Health Professionals," is considered the definitive guide to the theory.

His ideas launched a legion of followers in the legal and mental health professions.

Among them is Douglas Darnall, a Youngstown, Ohio, psychiatrist who wrote a book on the issue called "Divorce Casualties." He also operates a Web site, found at //www.parentalalienation.com.

Darnall said cases of parental alienation syndrome are rare but real.

"It should be used in court because it does describe a legitimate pattern of behavior that does have an impact on a child and a parent/child relationship," he said. "Most judges want to listen to the evidence, and most judges accept it."

But for all the followers Gardner's ideas have spawned, they have created at least as many critics.

One of them, Dr. Paul Fink of Temple University's School of Medicine, called the theory dangerous.

"It was made up by one guy who spread it around," said Fink, who is past president of the American Psychiatric Association. "No investigation was done, there was no research, and it's hurt a lot of women and children."

Detractors note Gardner's work is not recognized by the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the Bible of the psychiatric profession.

"It has generally been denounced," said David Finn, a counselor from Rolling Meadows who performs court-ordered child custody evaluations. "It's never been accepted as a valid syndrome, and the research has not been there to support it.

"The presumption is that the alienation is because of the parent," Finn said. "While that may be part of the reason in some instances, it is not an evaluation of all the reasons why it might exist."

Critics of the theory say one parent can cause resentment in a child toward the other parent. But those feelings are usually temporary and never rise to the level of a syndrome or mental disorder, as Gardner claims.

Darnall, however, believes the theory may soon get APA recognition. New research, he said, indicates Gardner's findings may be more correct than many critics believe and could get it into the next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.

Fink scoffed at the suggestion.

"It won't be in there, I guarantee you," he said. "Since there has been no verification, no research, it's not getting in there."

From an idea to court

Gardner's theories have yet to receive official recognition in the industry, but family law attorneys have been using them for years, most often on behalf of fathers hoping to gain custody.

Annette Zender, a Woodstock resident who lost custody of her daughter three years after a Lake County judge sided with alienation claims against her, likens it to legal kidnapping.

"When they can't find any other excuse, they come up with parental alienation and it works," she said.

Since losing her daughter, Zender has built a network of suburban women who share similar stories. So far, she said, the group numbers more than 70 from Lake, Cook, Kane, McHenry and Will counties.

While groups like Zender's want to see the syndrome, known as PAS, barred from the courtroom, fathers' rights organizations support Gardner's work, saying it can provide balance in a family court system that assumes mothers should always get custody.

"Parental alienation occurs, unfortunately," said Michael McCormick, executive director of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children. "We have seen parental alienation be adopted in numerous courtrooms across the country as a valid science."

Whether that should be the case is something people on both sides thought the Illinois Supreme Court would answer in the Perez case.

While that did not happen, Perez attorney Paul Feinstein said the court's offer to hear more cases on the issue is a promising sign for PAS opponents.

"They weren't impressed with it and that's why they invited more challenges to it," Feinstein said. "I think this is pretty much the end of it."

Theory: Syndrome critics say it has no scientific foundation

Reading through the posts below gave me a new angle to grab some attention at Verizon...thank you Hawkeye.  Verizon is going to need to hear from alot more than 1900 people to do something.

Last week, CBS 2 in Chicago, had a 2 part series called The Great Cellular Test where they compared the quality of service on 8 carriers.

I just emailed CBS 2, I told them there's a lot more to the integrity of a cellular phone company rather than the quality of their wireless service.

I sent them the links to Glenn's campaign, //www.hisside.com/verizon_campaign.htm and for the Verizon exploding phone recall, //www.recall-warnings.com/cpsc-content-04-04559.html.

Maybe this will grab some more momentum.

http://www.hisside.com/

Facts Regarding John Kerry's Wife-Scary

I checked and my bottle of Heinz catsup says "Product of Canada"! Guess I'll be checking out all the Heinz products at the store! Shortly after reading the following e-mail content, I happened to look at the label of a jar of Heinz sandwich slice pickles.

Yep...."Made in Mexico." Check some of your Heinz products.

Sen. John Kerry keeps talking about U.S. corporations leaving this country and setting up shop in foreign countries, taking thousands of jobs with them. He is right, because that has happened. However, he is trying to blame it on George W. Bush. As far as I know, Bush has not moved one factory out of this country because he is not the owner of a single factory.

That cannot be said about Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz-Kerry, who, by the way, refers to herself as African American because she was born in South Africa and now lives in the US.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Kerry's own 32 factories in Europe and 18 in Asia and the Pacific. In addition, their company, the Heinz Company, leases four factories in Europe and four in Asia.

Also, they own 27 factories in North America, some of which are in Mexico and the Caribbean. I wonder how many hundreds of American workers lost their jobs when these plants relocated in foreign countries. I also wonder if the workers in Mexico and Asia are paid the same wages and benefits as workers in the United States. Of course they're not.

However, Kerry demands that other companies that relocate should pay the same benefits they did in the U.S. Why does he not demand this of the Heinz Company, since he is married to the owner?

If Kerry is elected, will he and his wife close all those foreign factories and bring all those jobs back to America? Of course they won't. They're making millions off that cheap foreign labor.

This message was NOT approved by John Kerry.

Every American needs to see this list of companies that the Democratic Presidential nominee's wife owns and controls. Do you find it bothersome that she would have control over him (bucks talk) and he could sell out our entire country???

And lest us not forget how John Edwards became a millionaire.  He's an ambulance chasing lawyer who sued doctors.  Many doctors in this country are in crisis because of the staggering amount of medical malpractice insurance premiums.  Many doctors are quitting practice, many other doctors are leaving rural areas.  In Illinois, there are no neurosurgeons one hour west of Chicago.  There are no neurosurgeons 2 hours south of Chicago until you hit St. Louis.  If you suffer a brain injury in Southern Illinois, you have to be airlifted to St. Louis or Memphis!

You think the Kerry/Edwards administration is really going to save health care in our country?

Please read the following:

John Kerry's Wife

Do you find it strange that Kerry's wife is never with him?

Do you find it strange that you never hear any thing about her?

This may be why!

As time goes on, we're just getting to know the possible future First Lady of the United States of America, and it is quite interesting.

You'll be hearing even more about Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic front-runner.

She has quite a track record, especially when it comes to the causes she donates to.

One of her favorite charities is the Tides Foundation.

What is that, you ask?

This foundation sends hundreds of millions of dollars to groups that protested the invasion of Iraq; that demands open U.S. borders; and provides legal defense for suspected terrorists.

Among other groups supported by Kerry's wife:

Ramsey Clark's International Action Center.
This is the same Ramsey Clark that offered to defend Saddam Hussein.

Another group seeks to ease restrictions on immigration from terrorist nations.

Another group has links to the terrorist group Hamas.

And on and on.

American jobs are OUTSOURCED by John F. Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz-Kerry!

We need to ask:

Why not manufacture in America and ship finished products overseas?

How many American workers are in these Heinz overseas factories?

HEINZ WATTIE'S AUSTRALASIA - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

HEINZ SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. - Republic of Singapore

HEINZ WATTIE'S LIMITED - Auckland, New Zealand

HEINZ JAPAN LTD - Tokyo, Japan

HEINZ-UFE LTD. - Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

HEINZ COSCO - Qingdao, People's Republic of China

HEINZ KOREA LTD. - Inchon, South Korea

HEINZ WIN CHANCE LTD. - Bangkok, Thailand

HEINZ INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED - Mumbai, India

PT HEINZ ABC INDONESIA - Jakarta, Indonesia

PT HEINZ SUPRAMA - Surabaya, Indonesia

HEINZ UFC PHILIPPINES - Manila, the Philippines

HEINZ HONG KONG LIMITED - Wanchai, Hong Kong

H. J. HEINZ (Botswana) (Proprietary) LTD. - Gaborone, Botswana

KGALAGADI SOAP INDUSTRIES (Pty) LTD. - Gaborone, Botswana

REFINED OIL PRODUCTS (Pty) LTD. - Gaborone, Botswana

OLIVINE INDUSTRIES (Private) LIMITED - Harare, Zimbabwe

CHEGUTU CANNERS (Pvt) LTD. - Chegutu, Zimbabwe

HEINZ SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD. - Johannesburg, South Africa

HEINZ WELLINGTON'S (PTY) LTD. - Wellington, South frica

HEINZ EUROPE - Hayes, Middlesex, England

H. J. HEINZ COMPANY LIMITED - Hayes Park, Hayes, Middlesex, England

H. J. HEINZ COMPANY LIMITED - Rovereto, Italy

H. J. HEINZ COMPANY LIMITED - Telford, England

JOHN WEST FOODS LIMITED - Liverpool, England

H. J. HEINZ FROZEN & CHILLED FOODS LIMITED - Hayes, Middlesex, England

H. J. HEINZ COMPANY (IRELAND) LIMITED - Dublin, Ireland

H.J. HEINZ COMPANY OF CANADA LTD - North York, Ontario, Canada

OMSTEAD FOODS LIMITED - Wheatley, Ontario, Canada

ALIMENTOS HEINZ C.A. - Caracas, Venezuela

DISTRIBUIDORA BANQUETE, S.A. - San Jose, Costa Rica

HEINZ ITALIA S.r.l. - Milan, Italy

FATTORIA SCALDASOLE, S.p.a. - Monguzzo, Italy

COPAIS FOOD AND BEVERAGE COMPANY, S.A. - Athens, Greece

HEINZ POLSKA! Sp. ZO.O. - Warsaw, Poland

PUDLISZKI S.A. - Pudliszki, Poland

WODZISLAW, S.A. - Wodzislaw, Poland

ETS. PAULET S.A. - Douarnenez, France

H. J. HEINZ FROZEN S.A.R.L. - Paris, France

HEINZ IBERICA S.A. - Madrid, Spain

IDAL (Industrias de Alimentaca, Lda.) - Lisbon, Portugal

MIEDZYCHOD S.A. - Miedzychod, Poland

HEINZ C.I.S. - Moscow, Russia

HEINZ GEORGIEVSK - Georgievsk, Russia

CAIRO FOOD INDUSTRIES SAE - Cairo, Egypt

HEINZ REMEDIA LIMITED - Tel Aviv, Israel

STAR-KIST FOOD DA'OR LIMITED - Haifa, Israel

H. J. HEINZ GMBH - Di2 i3Yldorf, Germany

SONNEN BASSERMANN - Seesen, Germany

KONINKLIJKE DE RUIJTER BV - The Netherlands

HAK BV - The Netherlands

FOODMARK - The Netherlands

HONIG MERKARTIKELEN BV - The Netherlands

DRUKKERIJ DE GROENBOER - The Netherlands

H. J. HEINZ B.V - Elst, The Netherlands

H. J. HEINZ BELGIUM S.A. - Brussels, Belgium

SERV-A-PORTION - Turnhout, Belgium

Arimpex Industrie Alimentari S.R.L. - Rov! ereto, Italy

Comexo S.A. - Chateaurenard, France

HEINZ EUROPE - UK and IRELAND - Factories: Chorley, Fakenham, Grimsby, Kendal, Kitt Green, Leaminton, Luton, Okehampton, Telford, Westwick

Think of the conflict of interest a President would have who's wife owns business interests in all of these countries....

I don't think John Kerry's Vietnam service is going to make people look the other way on this stuff.

Bear with me, I'm not sure that I'm recollecting this accurately.   What is the name of the law that is broken when one parent removes a child from the marital home without the permission of the other parent and leaves the state?  The parent remaining in the marital home can bring a court motion based on this to have the children returned to the state unless DV is proven.

Thanks

On Saturday, September 11, 2004 everyone in the USA who will be driving a motor vehicle is asked to drive with their headlights on during daylight hours.

Though no explanation is needed as to why we are commemorating September 11........................we hope more importantly to pay respect to the victims of that day, show our nation's solidarity and show support for our men and women of the Armed Forces.

On that day, please wear red, white and blue to show your support for those who lost their lives on 9~11~01 and to honor the heroes who worked to save them and the families left behind.

Please keep this going to your friends and family.

God Bless the U.S.A!

.....our lawyer just sent a letter to BM asking (bribing) her to let the child alternate school years with us.  Please send us good thoughts that this works out for SD.  Child is miserable with BM and desperate to live in our home.  Much emotional abuse at her mom's.  

Thanks in advance!

Joni

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-gran13.html

Let's hope Illinois is able to do the same for JLC.

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New law enables grandparents to file for visitation rights

August 13, 2004

BY ANDREW HERRMANN Staff Reporter
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Orbitz

Grandparents in Illinois have an explicit legal right to file for visitation rights to their grandchildren under a new law signed Thursday.

Sen. John Cullerton (D-Chicago), a co-sponsor of the bill, said Illinois was the only state without a grandparent visitation law.

"This law puts the best interest of children first and helps clear a path for grandparents to see their grandchildren,'' said Gov. Blagojevich in signing the measure.

According to Blagojevich's office, grandparents can now ask judges for visitation if the parent has made "an unreasonable denial of visitation'' and one of the following conditions exist:

* A parent is incompetent, deceased or has been sentenced to jail for more than one year.

* The parents are divorced or separated for three months and one parent does not object to visitation.

* The child is illegitimate, the parents are not living together and the grandparent is related to the mother.

* The grandparent is related to the father and paternity has been established.

Cullerton, who sponsored the bill with Rep. Patricia Reid Linder (R-Aurora), said the grandparent often is "the most stable influence in the child's life.''

According to the American Association of Retired Persons, traditionally American courts ruled that a child's mother and father could prevent either or both sets of grandparents from visiting the grandchildren.

In the 1970s, state legislatures began to pass grandparent visitation statutes, partly due to lobbying efforts of senior citizen groups.

Those laws came under greater scrutiny after a 2000 U.S. Supreme Court decision on a Washington state case that overturned broad child visitation rights for grandparents. That decision was based on lack of standards in the Washington state law.

Under the new Illinois law, standards are spelled out that will survive court tests, Blagojevich's office said.

http://news.lycos.co.uk/querkies/040809174213.fuurunpu.xml.html


Ex Wife's Dog Bites Man in Wallet

A Canadian man got off the leash by divorcing from his wife, but was ordered by a judge to pay 200 dollars a month in doggie-alimony.

Four-year-old St Bernard, Crunchy, is munching his way through a monthly bill of 200 dollars (150 US) in food, health bills and general care giving, the National Post newspaper reported.

Pampering the pooch is truck driver Kenneth Duncan, of western Alberta province, in what is thought to be the first court order of its kind in Canada.

The 200 dollar assessment is about a third of what Duncan would be required to pay his ex-wife Barbara Boschee had there been a child involved -- but the ruling doesn't involve any visitation rights.

FRIENDSHIP PRAYER

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the
crotch of the person who screws up your day
and may their arms be too short to scratch...
AMEN

Keep the faith, your children are blessed to have you in their life.

My husband and I keep this posted on our refrigerator, it's a daily inspiration.

CHILDREN LEARN WHAT THEY LIVE
Written By Dorothy Law Nolte

If a child lives with criticism, they learn to condemn ...

If a child lives with hostility, they learn to fight ...

If a child lives with pity, they learn how to feel sorry for themselves ...

If a child lives with ridicule, they learn to be shy ...

If a child lives with jealousy, they learn what envy is ...

If a child lives with shame, they learn to feel guilty ...

If a child lives with encouragement, they learn to be confident...

If a child lives with tolerance, they learn to be patient ...

If a child lives with praise, they learn to be appreciative ...

If a child lives with acceptance, they learn to love ...

If a child lives with approval, they learn to like themselves ...

If a child lives with recognition, they learn it is good to have goals ...

If a child lives with sharing, they learn about generosity ...

If a child lives with honesty and fairness, they learn what truth and justice are ...

If a child lives with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them ...

If a child lives with friendliness, they learn that the world is a nice place to live ...

If you live with serenity, your child will live with peace of mind ...

I hope what Glenn has to say below motivates you to mail a snail mail letter to the judge.  Apparently, the judge's office was so inudated with HATE mail about ruling FOR a father, the judge's staff email was shut off.  In 3 weeks people, this mom is going before the judge again.  Let's hope the judge doesn't cave and refuse her ruling because of all of the bad press.

The Honorable Judge Goldberg
60 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10013

http://www.hisside.com/6_13_04_rc.htm

Many of you have written to me about the Bridget Marks custody case, probably the most famous custody case that we've had in several years. It's taking place in New York but it's made the national media and the O'Reilly Factor and it's been all over the place. And a lot of you have written to me, listeners, readers, asking me what I thought of it.

First, let's get some background information. Here's a story from the New York Daily News about this case called "Tug of Love Ends in Agony."

"The Ex-playboy model who lost custody of her twin girls for coaching them to say that their father was a molester, bid a heart wrenching and very public goodbye yesterday handing off the four year olds to a man they call daddy, but hardly know. Sobbing Mom Bridget Marks hollered "EVIL" at casino owner and former beau John Aylsworth, as he and his wife Karen picked up the girls in front of Marks' East 72nd Street home. Marks, 38 years old, lost custody of the kids last month after family court judge Arlene Goldberg ruled that she had coaxed the twin girls to lie and say that their father sexually abused them, a violation of state child custody law which punishes parents who make false accusations.  Aylsworth, age 54, hurried with them off to the car as Marks' mother, Molly Bennett screamed, 'He's running like a rat!' When the vehicle pulled away, Marks chased after it briefly wailing, 'I love you! I love you!' And her little girls waved back."

And as you can imagine, this has been a cause celebre for many feminists who deal with the family law system etc., and also for many chivalrous males who want to protect women and protect children.  And I will say that I am not terribly impressed with this father. He had these girls out of wedlock out of an affair he had while he was married, I am not very impressed with that. I do feel the pain, I suppose, of the mother who's being separated from her daughters, and I certainly feel very bad for the daughters. But you know, with all the hoopla about this and all the crying and hand wringing of how terrible this is and how the mother is suffering and how terrible it is for the mother, three separate social workers and a lawyer appointed to represent the children said that this mother coaxed her daughters into believing that they had been sexually molested by their father, and coaxed them into making these sexual molestation accusations. And a lot of people, including O'Reilly and others, have let this go, "Oh she's an emotional woman, let it go."

And I was sitting in front of the computer the other day reading about this when my six year old daughter came in and she climbed on to my lap and started telling me about her new Barbies. I looked at her and I thought to myself, "What kind of monster, what kind of MONSTER would, simply in order to get back at someone they're mad at, would try to make a little girl believe that she had been sexually molested? What kind of monster would do that? How damaging is that to the little girl?! How horrible is that to the little girl?!"

I just looked at my daughter and I just couldn't imagine, and yes I agree the separation of the girls from their mother now is painful, I agree. But you know what? It's better that they go through the pain of being separated now than spend the next fourteen years being raised by a lunatic. A lunatic! You know when my son went to Kindergarten, I had to take him in to get his vaccines, and they had to stick needles in him, and he was crying and he was very upset and he hated it, but you know that it is what he needed. And I think that's the same thing that's happening here with this case, the judge has done what these little girls need. I know it's painful, and I feel sorry for them, but this is what is best for them.

It's amazing all the people who are painting Bridget Marks as being some kind of victim. A victim! What the hell is she a victim of? Everything she did was completely unnecessary. Let's back track here--she has an affair with a married man, she gets pregnant, she has twins. There ain't no way in hell that the father is going to get custody of those kids! She was never in danger of losing custody or of losing anything!  She'd get those girls, she'd get a ton of child support, she's have control over the girls. But this woman, Bridget Marks, the victim, the victim! She is so petty, and she is so vindictive, and she is so vengeful, and she is so angry, and she is so WRONGED, that she goes way out of her, way out of her way to make these accusations against the girls' father. And now she has paid, quite appropriately I believe, she has paid for what she did.

Feminist attorney Wendy Murphy was on O'Reilly defending Bridget Marks, and Murphy told O'Reilly, "This woman has a constitutional right to raise her child." I heard this, and I almost fell off my chair. "Constitutional right to raise her child?" Do you have any idea how many dads there are out there who can't even see their own children? Who maybe haven't seen their children in years? They are perfectly loving, decent fathers who have had their kids ripped away from them! And now this feminist wants us to believe that we're all supposed to sit up and take notice and change everything because this woman Bridget Marks has a constitutional right to raise her child? Yeah, I agree, she does have a constitutional right to raise her child--and the millions of fathers who have had their children taken away from them, they have the same right. And unlike most of these fathers, Bridget Marks deserved to lose her children. Most fathers don't, but Bridget Marks deserved to lose her children.

Let's take a look at a letter that this psycho wrote in the New York Daily News. The Daily News invited Marks to write an open letter to her four year old twin girls.

"Thank you. Thank you so much," Marks said as she began to cry. "Thank God for the first amendment." Well you know, it's nice that the New York Daily News went out of their way to let her write this letter to her daughters, but you know my mailbox is filled, my mailbox is filled with fathers who would love to write a letter like this to their children, and would love to get some media attention, and would love to see somebody who gave a damn, but in most cases nobody does. Certainly the major newspapers do not. Anyway here's the letter from Bridget Marks to her girls:

"Mommy loves you so much and misses you. You are my heartbeats you know. I am like half a pair of scissors since THEY cut me out of your lives."

(Marks is trying to poison the environment that they're in now with their father and stepmother, playing the victim card, trying to make her four year old girls feel sad and miserable over "poor" mommy).

"You are my warrior princesses and you must be strong and know that God is watching over you while we are apart. Remember to say your prayers and don't be afraid because when I can't be with you, God is there to protect you."

(Yes! To protect you from the MOLESTER. To protect you from your EVIL father who's done such terrible things to you!)

"Grandma says you'll be back in time to pick the tomatoes you planted last weekend in her garden."

(Yes it's only temporary! We'll get you out of there. We'll save you! We'll save you! We'll save you from that evil man!)

Anyway, the judge who did this, as you can probably guess, is a woman. I don't think any male judge would have the guts to do something like this. The woman's name is Arlene Goldberg. I commend her, she made a tough decision, but she made the right decision. I think this judge is a hero.

It's unbelievable the destruction that these false accusations cause, and you know, no one seems to care all that much. Let's look at this from the perspective of helping children who really are sexually molested. Because I know it does happen, and it's a despicable crime. Isn't the number one thing we need to be concerned with in trying to protect kids from sexual abuse getting rid of or fighting these false accusations? These false accusations, which are thrown out all the time in divorces, are used as custody maneuvers, usually against fathers. These are a huge, huge hindrance towards protecting legitimate victims of sexual abuse. Yet so many of the same people who claim that they want to protect children, they want to protect children. They are the same ones who are willing to pass these over. "Oh it's not a big deal. Look how mean dad is." I think it's pretty ridiculous.

REPOST from earlier post.  See below for Judge's snail and Email address.

Credits to SallyandJack for this idea. I just mailed my letter. Regarding that custody battle for the twins in New York, apparently, the birth mom has a follow up hearing with the judge in 5 weeks.

I think we should all write letters of accomodation to the judge in this case for their strength and foresight. I'd hate to see the courts fold to the pressures of public opinions in five weeks. The judge needs to hear from our silent majority. Tell the judge your story.

It's your chance to be heard! WE FELLED DAVID AND GOLIATH for their tacky shirts. We can make a difference!

Hereis SallyandJack's post from the custody board

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June 3, 2004
The Honorable Judge Goldberg
60 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10013

Email: David Bookstaver    [email protected]


SALLYANDJACK got an email response from the judge's office:

>here you go.  he replied to me and said that my email was one of the more thoughtful ones and he was looking foward to passing it on to Goldberg.  i am sure they are getting blasted by people who don't get it.
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