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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Why Corporate Media’s 20/20 Flipped The Narrative In The Grazzini-Rucki Case

Originally Posted: Red Herring Alert Blog 1/26/2018
“The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly.”
~Noam Chomsky, American linguist and US media and foreign policy critic~

As most of you know, ABC’s “20/20″ aired “Footprints in the Snow” in April of 2016 and rebroadcast the episode with updated information in March 2017. Since then, there have been numerous repeat broadcasts on Discovery Communication’s Investigative Discovery channel.
20/20 suppressed evidence of abuse in the Grazzini-Rucki case, and slanted the story, in order to portray mother, Sandra Grazzini-Rucki, and myself as “vigilante parents” and “family court critics” who participated in a child-kidnapping network operating in a “hidden world”. In pushing this false story, ABC 20/20 covered up domestic abuse, and encouraged viewers to disregard cries for help from children who courageously spoke up to disclose the physical and mental abuse they endured at the hands of a violent father.

So many people have asked me why 20/20 would go to such great lengths to cover-up the crimes committed by county judges and attorneys in small town Minnesota?

Here’s the deal, Family Courts are “government” and as such are supported by public funding. A multibillion dollar enterprise has been created by the family court divorce, domestic abuse and child abuse industries. Currently, non-profit and for profit advocacy groups nationwide are obtaining court connected federal funding through the Dept. of Health and Human Services to influence custody cases. Very few people are making the connection between federal policy, private nonprofit providers, and the local courthouse.


The information below is from various articles written by Victoria Englund from LET’S GET HONEST BLOG. and explains how the family legal system is NOT broken as many people that have a financial stake in it would like you to believe.

Our country is changing FAST and it’s time for people that want to engage in dialogue about what’s wrong with the legal system learn to do so in some detail, and learn what they’re talking about.
To justify that a family legal system is somehow “broken” a person would have to show what it was before it was broken and determine who or what force broke it. So far, I haven’t found anyone who can — AFCC started this (with CRC and some others, NACC — look it up) and is still running it.
I get very irritated when I hear that phrase about it’s broken. Usually people saying it are wanting to “fix” it for their particular agenda — rather than acknowledging that the agenda should be justice and due process. Which is incompatible with having anything run where psychologists have an equal voice with attorneys and judges; that’s absolutely ridiculous (psychology is basically a religion from my point of view…it is one of many frameworks from which life can be viewed, and it most definitely is not a science in the normal sense of the word.)



 Is the Family Legal System “broken”? No, that’s a lie. It’s a system. Systems have designers, they have operators, and they have funders The Family Law System was set up to perpetuate conflict, for profit. IT was ALSO set up to make sure retired judges, attorneys, and most especially anyone not a judge or attorney, but in the mental health fields (like psychology, psychiatry, etc.) continues to have a paying profession and a very smart retirement plan.

The family court system has also (alas) been subject to influence by federal funding to the states to promote marriage and fatherhood through a grant series supporting the setup of (in my state, for example): Mediation, Parent Education, Supervised Visitation, Counseling for Parents . . . . . Based on the premise that these programs and running parents (rather, forcing parents in many cases) through them, with a token acknowledgment of domestic “abuse” versus Domestic VIOLENCE.
The premise that one can have just a “better” domestic violence court — rather than treating domestic violence properly as a crime, is a joke.

 In reality, today’s family courts incorporate a wide variety of dispute resolution procedures and are populated by professionals from multiple disciplines. Many jurisdictions have unified family courts that group a range of issues – from divorce and custody to juvenile crime to child support – under one roof, with a single judge.
Specialized courts for domestic violence, drug abuse, and permanency planning also dispense both mental health and legal services, involving the courts in interventions in the family that are designed to meet therapeutic goals.

 Only problem — that’s not what courts are for.  Civil courts are not “therapeutic.”  Criminal courts are not “therapeutic” in intention.  Torts are about breach of contract.  Crimes are about crimes.  But family law is about therapy — whether or not we want it, and we must pay for it because of a
divorce and (seeing as divorce normally involves inability to get along) we can’t figure out the kid thing?  How is a woman supposedt to “figure out” a parenting plan with a man that’s been assaulting her — and why does he even GET a parenting plan, rather than just OUT?

The answer lies, among other places,  in welfare reform, and the need of certain professionals to maintain their profession.

As a result, family court judges not only serve as adjudicators – they may also oversee a multi-disciplinary group of service providers all engaged with the children and families whose cases are before the court. This complex mix of professions, skills and roles is still evolving. In addition to lawyers and judges, mediators, custody evaluators, guardians ad litem, parent educators and parenting coordinators are all powerful actors in today’s family courts. Indeed, today’s family lawyer works in a world where understanding the work of dispute resolution and mental health professionals may be as essential as knowledge of governing statutes and constitutional doctrine
And THAT, my friends, is why you can’t reform it.  You cannot really separate AFCC (which is a ring of judges, to start with, and ongoing) from the family law system — because one basically started the other in Southern California this long ago.  It’s about fraud, kickbacks, and mental health professionals with their captive audiences.  PERIOD.

 You pump in child abuse, or wife abuse or other criminal matters into this system, and it will come out (years later) ground up and re-packaged (shrink-wrapped) as a “family problem” that these people need to solve.

 
We have seen this in action, far from the conferences and the classrooms.  It punished mothers who protest  abuse and has them paying $200 an hour, or $75 an hour to see their own kids — after they report any abuse.  If they get to do even that.  if they flee with the children, they are hunted down and jailed, or punished with total removal, at times — and that includes from overseas.  If they protest and expect child support to actually be enforced, and go to the local child support agency to do so, that agency (behind their backs) is literally being PAID (by the Federal Govt – taxpayers) — to recruit fathers into programs (that enrich people running the programs) to engage in frivolous litigation in exchange for reduced or eliminated child support — or what’s even more of a triumph, Dad gets custody and MOM pays him child support, even after abuse.

 You cannot “reform” this.  We need to understand the foundations — and that things not built on a solid foundation (and this one sure ain’t) will need to be propped up and endanger others near it.
We need to understand also that anything which had a defined BEGINNING can as well have a DEFINED end.

 You do not “reform” things that are this far off the mark.  You boycott them. You find ways to shut them down based on their misappropriation of federal funds AND you teach others how to do this.

 I am just undressing the thing a little bit here – it’s NOT about law, it’s about endless education, and money laundering seems to be a innate part of the operational system, as witnessed when people get caught.
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
Richard Gardner
The AFCC claims their focus is on training judges, custody evaluators and mediators about custody and divorce issues. But in reality they are a father focused organization and promoting alienation theories to explain away family violence by men. In reality they act as a “clearinghouse” for organized case rigging.  They hold conferences about parental alienation but never mention the many professional experts who have condemned it as harmful to children or the link to incest promoter Richard Gardner.  Their  scheme involves “recruiting” male litigants through fathers groups and federal HHS programs managed by the local child support agencies for program “services” which are ostensibly for helping non-custodial fathers get their visitation rights so they would have less incentive to default on child support obligations.  Instead the fathers get deals to have their support obligations closed and sent to a program paid attorney to litigate for custody.  The judge hearing these cases provides payments to the court-colluding fathers attorney and other supposedly “neutral” court evaluators.   None of this is disclosed to the targeted female litigant who sometimes is also ordered to pay the fees of these court professionals (e.g. illegal double billing).  The father is encouraged to file repeated motions (usually on frivolous claims of visitation denial or alienation) so the co-conspiring court professionals can get a steady stream of government payments.  It appears the judge handling these cases gets a kickback from those being paid (with his approval) based on a few exposed examples.  This is what keeps their litigation game going and going.  They label it high-conflict bitter custody litigation to hide their own fraud.  They blame the mother for everything and keep her away from her children so she will be desperate to go back to court and get a chance to convince them of the truth (which of course they already know, and are exploiting perversely against her).
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Many federal departments have initiatives and programs supporting responsible fatherhood and fathers in the community.  Below are just some of the programs developed for fathers.
© 2007 National Fatherhood Initiative Improving the Well ...


There are many terrific and honest  father`s rights groups across the U.S. Unfortunately, there are also wide spread corrupt fathers’ rights groups that pocket federal grant funds while allowing severe trauma to children. Fathers Rights – is the term used for the federal funding used in the fraud and corruption. Fathers Manifesto Groups discovered a malicious way to take advantage of the billions handed to State Agencies and abuse and control their ex-girlfriend/spouse.

 Government programs are not producing responsible fathers, but motherless children, in order to advance the agenda of the so-called “fathers’ rights” movement. Based on information from the National Alliance for Family Court Justice

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