Postby thumpsgray » Thu Jul 27, 2006 12:30 pm
Marlena - please allow me a moment to tell you a true story - Yes, Marlena, I have quoted several items you may or may not have read - they ALL apply to CPS and Family Court - Sherry
I was there the day the sheriff's (3) and the CPS case workers (2)appeared to take Johnny from his mother (Becky) -
I was horrified at the insolent attitudes displayed by the social workers – in my opinion the disrespect and contempt they directed at Becky was, at the very least, unprofessional. It was not necessary for the women from CPS to so clearly interject their snotty negative personal opinions. If they’d been anyone other than who they are, I can’t think of even one person who would have tolerated their behavior – you expect children with no manners to act as they did; never an adult, especially one who is so empowered by the State of Washington as to separate children from their parents...
There have been no charges filed against Becky concerning why Johnny was taken from her – it’s probably safe to say there have been no laws broke. Yet they have Johnny and refuse to return him to his mother...
There have been no abuse charges, no neglect charges, no molestation charges!!
No charges of any kind - filed or served concerning why Johnny was taken from her. (or for anything else for that matter - her record is totally 100% clean!!)
The "reasons" given by CPS for taking Johnny are
nonsense and blatant lies!
They (CPS) claim there was no running water – YES THERE WAS! Both in the cabin and in the bath house (just as a point of information; this includes indoor and functional bathing, toilet & kitchen facilities) – not to mention several outdoor spigots; all fed from an underground spring on the same property. They (CPS) know full well there is running water, yet choose to create legal paperwork stating the opposite. I was in the bath-house when they entered it and checked the water issue, I know they found there to be running water; I heard them turn the water off and on,(several times) - in short –
They’re LYING & they know they’re LYING!
They go on to claim taking Johnny was because Becky and Johnny were living in a tent – there are no laws saying you can’t live in a tent; (only laws concerning where this tent can be erected – again no laws were being broke). Only as a point of information; the tent was bigger than a lot of studio apartments. It was complete with a built in floor and walled off rooms providing both sleeping and living areas. No one was sleeping on the ground; everyone had their own beds in their own rooms! Am I now to understand a CPS worker is also the self appointed “Queen” of the “Home Beautiful Police”? If so, part of their bylaws apparently must state: “If your living arrangements don’t meet our (invented) standards: YOU LOOSE
Keeping in mind it's CPS's standards; not the counties, not the states, and not our Countries – it’s only CPS's standards they act upon. It's beginning to appear CPS operates above and outside of the laws, or at best “twists” the laws to fit their sick l plans of targeting which ever family they decide doesn’t fit their private clubs invented criteria.
How sad…
Beyond all everything I’ve stated above (concerning the tent); this "legal" abduction happened in late August of 2005; the average temp at that time was between 75 and 80 degrees in the day and mid 60’s at night – seems to me a tent would be far more comfortable than a stuffy apartment.
Given the preceding, I respectfully ask the following questions,
“HOW WAS IT LEGAL TO TAKE JOHNNY IN THE FIRST PLACE?”
And
“HOW IS IT LEGAL NOW TO NOT RETURN HIM TO HIS MOTHER?”
Only now am I beginning to fully comprehend what all this really means to any parent, to any grand-parent, to anyone who has care or/and custody of a child: CPS can for no legal reasons what-so-ever separate you and your child then secret the child away. Then, beyond the actual act of separating children from their parents, they (CPS) make it impossible for the parent to ever get their children back. CPS depends on a parents love for their children to create the circumstances necessary to ultimately terminate their parental duties. Their tactics at the very best are underhanded and dirty. Most any parent would do about anything for their child, including but not limited to; parenting classes, substance abuse treatments, and so on – any parents who are in this position are more than willing to enter into these “classes” without a court order and CPS knows if they can get the parent to enter into these classes, the long range effect ((on these parents who are trying their best to do “the right thing”)): It backfires every time. Since there is no court order, by entering into and finishing these programs in effect what the parent has done is admit guilt to a) being a bad parent (parenting classes), b) admitting to a substance abuse problem (drug usage), and so on. Those unfortunate families who CPS targets are victims of an organization which is clearly out of control; the children abducted by CPS, until legal age, remain lost in a system that clearly does not work… CPS’s ability to legally kidnap children, in any other civilized culture, would never be allowed, let alone condoned. Aren’t we (The USA) still fighting a war in the Middle East, in part, because of similar inhumane treatments of Iraq’s public by its self-appointed “leaders”? In fact, wasn’t kidnapping a specialty of the SS in Germany during World War 2? Taking who ever they or Hitler wished at any time. During WW2 this single action destroyed hundreds of thousands of families. Although it has taken a lot longer than the length of WW2, CPS has also has destroyed hundreds of thousands of families by kidnapping then hiding the children. And, just like the Nazi regime, CPS has no care or conscious about the pain they bring on to the children or the families. I find these similarities extremely frightening…
Please do not misunderstand my opinions; in no way am I defending those who do mistreat, neglect, or abuse children: It’s these people CPS needs to concentrate on; it’s these people who need to have their children removed; it’s these people who need to be brought to justice; it’s these people who need to be jailed for their behaviors. Unfortunately, like every other “school yard bully” CPS targets the people easiest to overwhelm and in doing so these people (who’ve been denied their rights and probably have not broken any laws) loose their children and the children loose their parents – Anyone who thinks being kidnapped by CPS, then placed in a home with people who very well may be abusive does not affect the child for the rest of his life is sadly mistaken - BECAUSE IT DOES AFFECT THE CHILD FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE! Check the statistics on this subject; I DID!
I can personally guarantee you, during the time I was around Becky and Johnny, he was happy, healthy, busy, intelligent little boy. I saw many interactions between Johnny and Becky; I can honestly tell you, Becky is a good and patient mom! She and Johnny truly love each other – it showed every time she talked to him (or about him). If you love your child and your child loves you, on a very basic intangible level, what more could a parent or child ultimately want? Today in the world we live in, this kind of parent/child relationship is so special and rare it should be protected and nurtured. But now, because of the Gestapo like actions of CPS, this loving relationship is quite possibly ruined.
I’ve always believed CPS’s main goal was to keep the family unit as one – not tear them apart. I’ve read CPS’s mission statement – it says their main goal is to keep the family together. Unfortunately, that’s not what they’re doing. Like so many other things in life, what they are doing really comes down to money - it appears to me they are far more interested in the money their office will gain via children they place in foster care and ultimately for permanent adoption than preserving the family unit. Hence, the more children they "legally" kidnap into the system the more available monies are granted by the federal government to state welfare agencies. Sounds something like a bounty, doesn’t it?
Before I decided to write this, I did some research concerning CPS – what I discovered, frankly turned my blood cold – who do these people (CPS) think they are, or more correctly, who have we (the public; out of fear of them) allowed them to become?
The following paints a picture of horrors – all created by allowing CPS to become an out of control monster:
There are 580,000 children in foster care in the US: Statistically speaking; only about 44% of them will ever be returned home (despite the fact that 97% of their parents will never be criminally proven guilty of abuse or neglect). That means over a quarter of a million children in foster care today will "age out" and be released at the age of 18 into a world they have not been equipped to handle. They will have no family, few independent survival skills, and many of them will find themselves incarcerated or addicted to drugs.
They are truly the "lost" children of America. ACLU
"A parent's right to care for her children is the among the most important we have, which is why the government cannot take a child unless it has clear and convincing evidence that the child is in imminent danger," said -ACLU cooperating attorney James E. Mahood of the law firm Wilder & Mahood.
"There is no system ever devised by mankind that is guaranteed to rip husband and wife or father, mother and child apart so bitterly than out present "Family Court System"
- Judge Brian Lindsay, Retired Supreme Court Judge, NY, NY
"There is something bad happening to our children in family courts today that is causing them more harm that drugs, more harm than crime, even more harm than child molestation."
- Judge Watson L White, Superior Court Judge, Cobb County GA
In closing -
Termination of Parental Rights is unconstitutional without due process!
CPS and the government should not be able to terminate parental rights without criminal charges being brought and only then with regards to the full due process guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
Children are God ordained, not property of the State!
Removal of children without due process of the law is governmental child abuse.
Becky was not allowed her constitutional rights; she was not charged with even one crime and none-the-less Johnny was taken from her. Beyond this, “the powers that be” refuse to return him. No one can convince me these “powers” don’t know they have violated the guaranteed rights we all have as an American Citizens.
On July 4, 1776, Americans chose freedom from a king who 'refused his Assent to Laws.' These days, our own government is choosing unprecedented abuses of power over individual liberty and the rule of law.
There were several reasons I felt I needed to write this, first and foremost for Becky and Johnny, next in hopes of drawing some attention to the “low life” tactics and motives of CPS. For me personally, only because I have no reason to fear CPS did I feel I could make the analogies and accusations found here; my children are grown adults and fully on their own – CPS cannot use them to threaten me…
Marlena, think about what I've written here and how you do your job - s
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty. Mark Twain - 1890
