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. I
ndeed,
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.
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.
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
