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In a world determined to take families apart
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NEW!! GRANDPARENT TRAINING VIDEOS REGARDING CPS: Watch all four regardless of where you are at in the process
Part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC7FxvYUKzw
Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_QdgdtmJes
Part three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDZbLSrCUHY
Part four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7_ca4SRbQg
Child Protective Services and Legal Help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbPhfVhb6C4
Child Protective Services and Psychological Evaluations: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaA2ohqTNsQ
Family Court Crisis - Our children at Risk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD2TowPuYVg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiA16b5WjU4
How to do an affidavit: http://familyrights.us/bin/FORMS/sworn_affidavit.html
Pharmaceutical companies are causing a few too many problems. To make money, they are pushing for legislation to screen all new mothers for mental health, then they are also aggressively selling the idea to have all children screened as well, while at the same time pouring tons of toxic waste into drinking water. If they aren't doing all that, then they are possibly creating virus and spreading them, then selling vaccines. They are paying off Congress left and right to both support their agenda and look the other way on legal issues.
TELL YOUR CONGRESSMAN NO ON THE MOTHER'S ACT (S 1375) AND SCREENING OF CHILDREN http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s110-1375
The screening questionaire is so general that anyone taking it could be labeled "mentally ill." Many activists have written me and stated that the parents would be forced to take this screening but that is not true. The bill states "offering" but you and I know that it will not be presented that way and people thinking that it is harmless will take it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI9E71FaJ5M Watch the whole video. It starts off slow, but provides important information that ties it all in together and gives some background information.
IF A SENATOR OR REPRESENTATIVE VOTES YES ON THIS FILE A COMPLAINT REGARDING CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND REQUEST AN INVESTIGATION. CHECK THEM TO SEE HOW MUCH THEY GET FROM PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES
Dr. Goodwin, director of the National Institute on Public Health is a primary supporter of this bill and is involved in social control through drugging people. Read the article regarding him. http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html
Are CPS caseworker opinions reliable? Should their opinions follow the rules of evidence? Here is an argument regarding the use of guardian ad litems that parallels the family rights concerns and complaints regarding case worker recommendations. The author discusses the problems with the perception of these individuals in Washington State:
http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/get-informed/custody-abuse/gals-and-custody-evaluators/court-appointed-parenting-evaluators-and-guardians-ad-litem-practical-realities-and-an-argument-for-abolition
CLASS FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC SCHEDULED IN NISQUALLY.
This three hour seminar is a must attend for anyone looking at CPS action for parents and extended family. Know what the state public policy is while exploring your rights. What are their priorities and how do families protect themselves against a family hostile system? How can one argue public policy and win?
Anyone who is DSHS eligible should attend this class even if CPS is not involved with your family yet.
The cost of the seminar is $10 for family and extended family and $20 for professionals. Paypal payments are available as well as paying at the door.
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ATTORNEY GENERALS ARE VIOLATING EXTENDED FAMILY CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN PARENTAL TRIALS AS INDIVIDUALS SEEKING RELIEF. GO HERE FOR FULL STORY
Extended family have implied and assumed rights through state laws. Those laws may imply several things, such as placement with family first in a dependency action. While in court, AGs may minimize the importance of family, the state laws suggest recognition. Many argue that extended family have no Constitutional rights and I disagree. As an individual stakeholder in a child's life, there is often a tremendous amount of time, money and belongings provided by extended family making them heavy investors. In some cultures in our country, including and not limited to Caucasian, lineage such as grandchildren are just as heavily invested in as immediate lineage. If one reads the fifth amendment: nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation this would include lineage and the rights to lineage where heavy investments have been made to the benefit of the whole family. Parents often depend on extended family for their children's well being and secondary parenting.
In some cases, grandparents may be more heavily invested in grandchildren than the parents themselves providing food, clothing, shelter, college tuition, school supplies, child care, etc. and to suggest that the fifth amendment does not apply in these cases in ludicrous.
I think that grandparents who display proudly a bumper sticker with the words, "I am off spending my grandchildren's inheritance" perhaps shouldn't be provided the same fifth amendment rights as those who feel that investment in lineage is an obligation to current and future generations. But for those of us who have proveable investments, then careful consideration by legislative bodies, AGs and court judges should be mandated.
Consider the intent of the Constitution/Amendment/Bill of Rights writers. What were things like then? Well, the industrial revolution hadn't happened yet so family owned and passed down business was the norm. It was expected that children and their children would work the family business. Kids didn't usually grow up and move away. Many stayed right on the same land as their parents and it continued on down the line until WWII and the industrial revolution. While lineage may have lost its meaning for some, others understand what I am saying perfectly.
WISE ADVICE TO EXTENDED FAMILY FROM AN EXPERT
You do have some state remedies, depending on what state you live in. You can file a motion to intervene, then set it for hearing. If the Judge refuses to hear your motion, you can file a Writ of Mandamus to force him to hear it. If he hears it and rules against you, you then have standing to appeal. In Florida you can petition to adopt your grandchildren with the consent of their parents at any time prior to a Termination of Parental rights. You would file a Petition for Adoption, with an approved homestudy from a private professional. If he refused to set it or hear it, you would file the Mandamus and force him to. If he rules against you, then you can appeal that decision. The department will of course object and say that they don't approve, but as long as your private professional is more qualified than those objecting the court will be forced to take the experts opinion on the homestudy. This is a last resort method to prevent them from being adopted by foster providers. Remember the court has the ultimate authority to decide the best interests of the child and could deny your petition based on information that has been previously provided to him by the department, so you will want your petition and expert to rebut all that has been said so far or have an answer for it. I would actually be up front with the person doing the homestudy and give him or her the same background that the department has supplied the court, so that they would be ready for any questions on the stand.
AMERICA'S YEAR OF CHANGE. Wow. When I look at what has gone on in the USA in the last few months my head just spins. Twenty months ago, my own grandchild was removed by the State and I went on a journey that I never in my wildest dreams could have predicted. At that time, I began to discover all the different family rights organizations. They all operated separately and everyone seemed to be spinning their wheels. The late Reverend Smith from Michigan started a furor that continues to build. Others picked up where he left off and are organizing amazing things. The July DC rally promises to be a major event with people all over the country attending. Talk shows, media events, and people gathering together are causing an awakening. God, as I understand him, seems to be at the center of the family rights movement as he should be. We have all discovered or rediscovered each other and are in regular contact. Information exchange is taking place so fast I can't hardly keep up with it. Some exhuberant activists fill my email box daily and I have to largely ignore a couple of them.
Here in Washington State things are building, moving and shaking. The numbers joining our fight for change is steadily increasing. Senator Pam Roach seemed to take us all by storm and what a pleasant surprise that was. Her influence has given us all hope - something just a few months ago we had to fight to keep. There are now many extremely dedicated people and to all of you I tip my hat with reverence.
We need to take this to a new level. Parentalrights.org is doing some profound national activism and we need to support that. They are instrumental in keeping us abreast of international concerns and high level change. One of those changes involves a Constitutional amendment that they now have 70 Congressman supporting a bill for a parental rights amendment. Washington, as usual, is slow to respond to family rights and needs some encouragement. We need to urge our Congressman in Washington to support the bill brought forth by Hoekstra. Here is an article and podcast with US Congressman Pete Hoekstra interviewed by Lary Holland.
http://spotlight.getyourjusticelive.com/2009/03/18/us-congressman-pete-hoekstra-and-phyllis-schlafly-of-eagle-forum-discuss-parental-rights/
ATTORNEY WOES AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS
One of the biggest complaints and concerns is the cost of attorneys especially for grandparents trying to gain custody. Many have no choice but to go pro se and are overwhelmed by the process. For $17 a month you can get unlimited legal advice, help with all of your paperwork for court, all questions answered, and step by step advice on how to proceed. Write me for more information at: washingtonstateextendedfamilies@live.com or the website www.prepaidlegal.com/hub/jandsmith to sign up. This is great for grandparents or parents who need a legal advice or may need to step up to the plate if the attorney is not doing their job.
Legislation for 2009 has been........well, I am still deciding. Things have changed here and there.
Welcome to Washington State Extended Families. Chances are you landed here because your family is in crisis and are now seeking immediate answers. Child protection has morphed into a complex arena where only the stealthiest survive. The issues start with an expressed legitimate concern and/or false allegations that can lead from casual government involvement to a comprehensive web of services and court action that often becomes post traumatic stress syndrome material. It is the most brutal game of win/lose that has ever been invented and at the onset of CPS investigation, it is anyone's guess who will come out on top. The governing bodies have made sure that CPS and the courts are immune from any of their own actions, so let's go to who the players are that frequently find themselves with a broken heart and grief untold.
THE CHILDREN: So, what bad things happen to them? The child savers through their decision making process have rescued them like the Lone Ranger and Tonto after the bad guys, right? They never make mistakes and have a solid set of values and ethics that are beyond reproach - or is this what the government wants you to think? Statistics say otherwise. Here are just a few of the concerns: CLICK HERE TO READ FULL REPORT
Foster Parents may unwittingly be subject to foster children in their care being used for government medical experiments. Consider the substantial number of children in foster care being prescribed psychotropic and anti-psychotic medications along with forced vaccines. Most of these medications are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for children. So why are they getting away with it? Read more here
Are children being drugged for social control? Hear what one leading Dr. had to say:
Dr. Goodwin compared “inner city youth to monkeys who live in a jungle, who just want to kill each other, have sex and reproduce.” His remarks set off a public storm and he was forced to resign only to be appointed director of the National Institute of Mental Health. http://ahrp.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html
This website is committed to providing information regarding Child Protective Services (CPS) in Washington State and how their actions are affecting families and our communities. The numbers of affected persons are staggering. From 2006-2007, child removal doubled which means that up to 300,000 family members were directly affected. This is just in one year; muliply that and in a five year period, a million family members are traumatized through child removal. As removal continues to be a major focus in family crisis management and federal dollars increase, expect those numbers to rise.
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THE DEATH OF FAMILY PRESERVATION: Two books are mainly responsible for the anti-family movement. One was written in the 70s by three Jewish therapists/professors. The book that was particularly influential in the implementation of CAPTA was called, "Beyond the Best Interest of the Child." In addition, this book and their influence was also responsible in part for The Federal Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.
Book Review Click Here: PART ONE
Of interest, I just discovered that Hillary Clinton was responsible in part for research that went into Beyond the Best Interest of the Child. In her book, "It Takes a Village," she shares part of her beliefs and where they come from. Her mother apparently was abandoned by two teenage parents and ended up living with her grandparents that her mother felt was abusive, then worked for a family babysitting that provided some stability.
See the correlation between Hillary's family history and advocacy for breaking up families and public policy? My conclusion is this; Because Hillary's mother found some comfort in this charade, we now have to suffer world wide under her family history and the conclusion she derived from it. "Hillary, not all families within the village are subject to the same experience and in the exact same way."
I have concerns about that and the coming financial and socialist crisis being created here in America. Because child removal appears to be centered on the poor and those writing the book are members of elite society, then the ramifications of their doctrine will not be felt by them or any member of that class.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/fostercare/inside/roberts.html
Some of you may be aware of the difference in child protection law and other law. CPS law is based on clinical psychology and is influenced by feminist thought. The above books not only affect America, but have taken their place amongst the elite in the United Nations. For sceptics of the UN Convention on Rights of the Child Treaty and the damaging effects, here is an article that had me furious. It shows that in Sweden, a concept called "pathological symbiosis" is in their law and is used as a child removal tool directed at single mothers. This belief states that single mothers get too close to their children, especially sons, and should be detered through removal and fostering. They also have in their law the broad reaching ability to remove children under the term "other" and have the highest removal and fostering rates in the world. The article contains many complex psychological concepts and is not for everyone. However, it is important in the argument that the treaty should NEVER be ratified here in the US and that clinical psychology needs to be removed from the law.
http://klevius.info/pathologicalsymbiosis.html
IMPORTANT AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION TRAINING ON PERMANENCY CLICK HERE
THE CRITICS OF CURRENT CHILD ABUSE LAWS AND THE CHILD PROTECTIVE SYSTEM: A SURVEY OF THE LEADING LITERATURE
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SCIENCE REVIEW
FOSTER CARE VS. FAMILY PRESERVATION: THE TRACK RECORD ON SAFETY AND WELL-BEING
WSEF BLOG and CHAT FOR FAMILIES
WHEN THE GOVERNMENT AND OLD MONEY HATE GOD
The rise and fall of man entrenched in self omnipotent ideology
By Jan Smith
To read the article: Click here
Do you know a case worker who falsifies documents and lies in court at the encouragement of their superiors? Find out their fax number and send them the following:
Dear (case managers name), It has been brought to my attention that you may have been coerced into falsifying information about clients. You may be eligible to participate in a class action lawsuit regarding entrapment by the State if you have not engaged in that kind of illegal/unethical behavior in the past. If eligible for a class action through coersion and it is something you would like to pursue, please contact me at the following email address: washingtonstateextendedfamilies@live.com Sincerely, Jan D. Smith
If you want to fax something for free, you can do it here: http://www.freefaxbutton.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9OoWRPHs24 This shows CPS corruption on news
FAMILIES AT WAR FOR THEIR KIDS
SEE HOW FAMILIES ARE BECOMING VICTIMS ACROSS THE NATION AT THE HANDS OF HOSPITALS
IF A HOSPITAL IS GUILTY OF FALSE OR MISLEADING INFORMATION, PICKET THEM, GET YOUR RECORDS AND SUE. THIS IS BECOMING EPIDEMIC
THE PROBLEM WITH OUR GOVERNMENT IS THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH OUR GOVERNMENT: CLICK HERE
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