Grazzini-Rucki Case: Is the Public Getting the Truth or Just a Controlled Narrative?

“The disempowered want change; those in power want predictability and consistency. The more you can guarantee predictability and consistency to those in power, the more those in power will reward you.

Those who report the news and shape public narratives are of particular interest to US oligarchs, who bought up the old media long ago and are doing everything in their power to secure influence over the new media as well...Because whoever controls the narrative controls the world.” - Caitlin Johnstone, “How the Media Controls the Narrative that Controls the World”: https://www.sott.net/article/387268-How-the-media-controls-the-narrative-that-controls-the-world 

Media coverage of the Grazzini-Rucki case has become just as controversial as the case itself. Allegations of domestic abuse, the family court covering up abuse and various forms of government corruption are all a part of this case...yet are being ignored in the mainstream news and commentary covering the case. 

Sandra Grazzini-Rucki has not only spoken out about the injustices she experienced but has provided a large volume of evidence to support her claims, including court records, social service records, police reports, investigative reports, witness statements and more. It is due to the brave efforts of those willing to look deeper into the Grazzini-Rucki case – independent reporters, researchers, bloggers and silent whistle blowers – that the facts have finally been revealed, and documentation made available to the public. The facts support a startling truth – that Sandra and the five Rucki children have suffered horribly, and had their lives destroyed, first by domestic violence and then by a court and legal system that has acted in complicity with an identified perpetrator of their abuse.

Mainstream media has reported on the Grazzini-Rucki case on a very limited scope, omitting a large body information and parroting a single narrative – that Sandra is a vengeful ex-wife who hid her children as a way to spite a sympathetic ex-husband, David Rucki. The media is not talking about Rucki's abuse of Sandra and the children, and his lifelong history of violence. The testimony of the children, and their abuse allegations, and other reports substantiating abuse also suppressed. Mainstream media is not talking about the illegal and unethical actions of Minnesota's court and legal system in this case, that the vast body of evidence suggests that corruption could be occurring. Mainstream media has filtered the facts of the Grazzini-Rucki case, and suppressed information that does not support the “official narrative” they are pushing onto an impressionable public. Without hard evidence to support assertions, mainstream media uses a “because we said so” bravado to report under false pretenses.

A disturbing pattern has emerged suggesting efforts are being made to control information released to the public about the Grazzini-Rucki case:

· On April 8, 2016, ABC “20/20” featured an episode called “Footprints in the Snow” about sisters, Samantha and Gianna Rucki, who ran away during a custody dispute in April 2013; allegations of abuse were raised by both girls and ignored by the family court who sought to reunite them with the father, David Rucki, they feared. ABC has been accused of suppressing evidence of abuse in it's coverage of the Grazzini-Rucki case. Documentation has been leaked that shows that ABC had possession of evidence that was not included in its reporting on the case. Red Herring Alert blog both reported on, and provided evidence, that ABC 20/20 was given extension documentation about the Grazzini-Rucki case, and omitted crucial facts in telling the story. Did 20/20 manipulate the Rucki story to hide abuse?  and Footprints in the Snow or Wild Goose Chase? Did ABC 20/20 Edit Audio Recordings to Suppress Evidence of Abuse in the Grazzini-Rucki Case? Pt. 1 

· Two blogs – Red Herring Alert and Carver County Corruption - both offering news and commentary, and sharing documentation, about the Grazzini-Rucki case have been removed from the internet after threats of legal action from David Rucki, and the attorneys representing him.David Rucki claims indigence, hires two private lawyers

· The owner of the Red Herring Alert blog, Dede Evavold, has not only been threatened with civil lawsuit for Rucki as a result of reporting on the case but has also been jailed for posting articles and fought her right to report on the case all the way up to Minnesota's appellate court. The reason why Red Herring Alert cannot be accessed is because Rucki finally succeeded in removing the blog from the internet, with the assistance of the Dakota County court who has acted in violation to Evavold's right to free speech, and right to petition the government for redress of grievances. First Amendment 

· In June 2016, the owner of the Carver County Corruption (CCC) blog was threatened with a civil lawsuit by an attorney representing David Rucki and subsequently removed the blog from the internet. The web address of the CCC blog has been high jacked by Rucki's personal blogger, who now uses the name and address of CCC to trick anyone wanting to read another perspective on the case to visit his blog, where he spreads disinfo on the case.

· Immediately following the removal of the CCC blog, an interview occurred at the Lakeville police department with Samantha Rucki. S.R. ran away in April 2013 after the family court failed to protect her from abuse. She remained in hiding with her sister for two years before being discovered. S.R. 's story has always been consistent – she was a victim to, and witnessed, domestic abuse perpetrated by her father and wanted to be kept safe. During the interview, it was revealed that S.R. was reading the CCC blog and had knowledge of her parents' divorce. S.R. also stated that her father and paternal aunt pressured her to recant abuse allegations. Lakeville Police Dept Docs and  Pressured, Threatened S. Rucki Bravely Speaks Out Against “Horrendous” Family Court

· An advocate for judicial accountability, who watched part of the criminal trial involving Grazzini-Rucki and has written about the case says,”This writer has written previously on the Sandra Grazzini-Rucki Matter in Dakota County Minnesota, but your government has seen fit to scrub those articles from the internet. (Main Stream Media (MSM) has seen fit to not publish this writer’s previous articles on the Sandra Grazzini-Rucki matter.) In total, almost 200 of this writer’s blogs and several hundred of his posts and articles have been scrubbed from the Internet...” HON or POS? Is Dakota County MN suspending the Rule of Law in the Sandra Grazzini-Rucki matter? 

·  Journalist, Michael Volpe, has been threatened by Dr. Paul Reitman. Dr. Reitman is the psychologist who diagnosed Grazzini-Rucki with “parental alienation” after meeting her and the five children for just 30 minutes. Dr. Reitman prescribed foster care for the Rucki children and then de-programming and reunification therapy to “cure” them of alienation. The allegations of abuse raised by the children were ignored by Dr. Reitman. In an e-mail to Volpe, Dr. Reitman stated,”I'm making $250000 a year working on cases like yours you son of a b****'s." This is a fact, as revealed in court records from Dr. Reitman's divorce, he reports his income to be $20,833 per month. Reitman also threatened physical violence against Volpe,”... Khan bring it home come see me let's have it out..” Approximately 50 e-mails were sent to Volpe from Dr. Reitman, another stated,”I'm waiting for you you mother sucker I know who you are you're a coward you're a pimp you are Hoare...Listen to me you and ramis go find a job you were firing as a cop you are a moron and incompetent idiot come see me I wanna take you on right now...No you won't respond cause you're a coward your horse Sandra is camping somebody."  Dr. Reitman is licensed psychologist with a PhD who, in identifying and referring to a former patient, as a “horse” who is being pimped out is not only disgusting..but also a violation of the  APA ETHICAL PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGISTS AND CODE OF CONDUCT  Reitman Claims Court Bias Against Sandra Grazzini-Rucki 

· Sandra Grazzini-Rucki attempted to file a restraining order against Michael Brodkorb on two previous occassions. Brodkorb formerly worked as an online troll – he was paid to create smear campaigns and spread negative information against political targets. He also is a former reporter but has not worked for any media outlet since attaching himself to David Rucki, and exclusively covering the case 24/7 on his blog. Both restraining orders filed against Brodkorb were dismissed. In a strange twist, Minnesota's courts protect Brodkorb's right to free speech but deny the right to Dede Evavold – who has been punished for what Brodkorb is allowed to do. Brodkorb's blogging has been defended as being the result of “persistent journalism”. Brodkorb also says the HRO violates his 1^st Amendment right to free speech; and that allegations are an attempt to get him to stop reporting on the case. These are the same arguments Evavold has raised in court but failed to persuade the judges of Minnesota, who granted the HRO against her filed by David Rucki (who filed on behalf of all 5 children, even the adult children who by law are required to file separate HRO petitions) and another filed by Brodkorb.

· The result of the harassment orders issued against Evavold could set a precedent for other cases of free speech and blogger's rights, creating a justification for courts to jail people and prevent them from writing articles, sharing articles or sharing social media posts.

· Evavold was ordered to remove posts from her blog relating to the Grazzini-Rucki case. The order was extended to remove hundreds of articles – even those not mentioning the case. Eventually the entire Red Herring Alert blog was removed from the internet.

Is the public getting the whole truth about the Grazzini-Rucki case or just a carefully written narrative from those with the most to hide?

Bordkorb Batters Blogger

Michael Brodkorb, a notorious poison pen paid to write and produce attack blogs and social media against selected targets, ramps up efforts to suppress coverage on the Grazzini-Rucki case (and any documentation of domestic abuse and court corruption) and to remove the Red Herring Alert blog from the internet. 

WordPress has deemed the posting in question "Fair Use" and will not take down the article, despite Mr. Brodkorb's complaints. 

Blogger and whistle blower, Dede Evavold, continues to bravely speaks out despite the continued harassment and legal retaliation she faces for doing so:

"Let’s get some facts on the table.
The above book about the Grazzini case was written by known perjurer Michael Brodkorb and Allison Mann, who by the way is the paralegal for Grazzini’s ex-husband’s attorney. This is simply a book of lies by omission.

Speaking of lies by omission, 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 and now the Oprah Winfrey Network.

20/20 suppressed evidence of abuse in the Grazzini case, and slanted the story, in order to portray mother, Sandra Grazzini, 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 narrative, ABC 20/20 covered up domestic abuse, and encouraged viewers to disregard cries for help from children who courageously spoke up to disclose the abuse.

The bigger picture is that Family Courts are “government” and as such are supported by public funding. A multi- billion dollar enterprise has been created by the family court divorce, domestic abuse and child abuse industries including Child Protective Services. 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..."
 






 

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Below is the post that has Michael Brodkorb so concerned. One would think that he would be happy to be getting publicity for his so called “fantastic” book of fiction.

PROFITING FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF OTHERS

Posted on December 27, 2018 by Dede Evavold

Let’s get some facts on the table.

The above book about the Grazzini case was written by known perjurer Michael Brodkorb and Allison Mann, who by the way is the paralegal for Grazzini’s ex-husband’s attorney. This is simply a book of lies by omission.

Speaking of lies by omission, 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 and now the Oprah Winfrey Network.

20/20 suppressed evidence of abuse in the Grazzini case, and slanted the story, in order to portray mother, Sandra Grazzini, 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 narrative, ABC 20/20 covered up domestic abuse, and encouraged viewers to disregard cries for help from children who courageously spoke up to disclose the abuse.
The bigger picture is that Family Courts are “government” and as such are supported by public funding. A multi- billion dollar enterprise has been created by the family court divorce, domestic abuse and child abuse industries including Child Protective Services. 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.

After 20/20 aired the original broadcast, numerous people demanded a retraction, but of course corporate media wouldn’t budge.

Below are letters from The Women’s Coalition written in 2016.

The Women’s Coalition 

April 10, 2016 

Women: Boycott ABC! Share This Post!
20/20 Portrays Women as Malicious Liars/Alienators
Join Email Campaign to ABC President Channing Dungey

20/20’s latest episode, “Footprints in the Snow”, was ostensibly about two teens who fled into the underground on a snowy night, running away from a father they say is abusive, but a thinly disguised agenda soon becomes apparent.

It appears to be just the latest attempt by mainstream media to mislead the public into thinking women who are only trying to maintain custody of or protect their children, are actually vindictive, malicious liars out to destroy men and alienate them from their children—an age-old patriarchal theme nauseatingly replayed on primetime TV Friday night.

Sean Dooley, 20/20’s producer, along with reporter Elizabeth Vargas, portray Sandra Grazzini and Cindy Dumas, Damon’s mother and Executive Director of The Women’s Coalition, as liars who coached their children to falsely report abuse in an effort to alienate them from their fathers. This incriminates Damon, who was interviewed by Elizabeth Vargas for the story, and the girls as liars and accomplices in the plot to bring their fathers down.

They do this in part by making a clear statement that judges in both cases found there was no “credible evidence” of abuse by the fathers. Dooley is counting on the fact that the general public will believe a purportedly “honorable” judge over a mere woman or child.

The problem is that Dooley was provided with substantial “credible evidence of abuse” which refutes what the judges found and he omitted it in his obvious slanting of the story against Sandra and Cindy and by extension all women who dare accuse a father of abuse.

Dooley is now just one more part of the cover up of sexual abuse in Cindy’s case and physical and verbal abuse in Sandra’s case.

An article is in the works which will further detail the spinning of the story, but in the meantime, people can start emailing the President of ABC and let her know you are boycotting ABC until they issue an apology, a retraction of the episode and begin an investigation into the epidemic of women being falsely labeled liars and their children taken from them or left unprotected.

ABC President Channing Dungey: channing.dungey@abc.com
About President Dungey: http://www.tft.ucla.edu/2011/09/faculty-channing-dungey/
Write your own email or copy and paste:

—–Original Message—–
From: Rachel Alintoff
To: channing.dungey <channing.dungey@abc.com>
Cc: thewomenscoalitionpac <thewomenscoalitionpac@gmail.com>; patrice
Sent: Mon, Apr 11, 2016 8:17 am
Subject: Boycotting ABC

Dear President Dungey,

I am with The Women’s Coalition and am writing to let you know that we will be boycotting ABC until you retract Friday night’s episode “Footprints in the Snow”, issue an apology to Sandra Grazzini, Cindy Dumas and women around the world who have been implicated.

As a domestic violence survivor myself and a protective mother of an autistic 6 year old who was illegally ripped from me by a corrupt judge in NJ, I found your segment to be disturbingly bias against women and dangerous to the public’s perception of the reality of what really happened.   The fact that 20/20 decided to purposely omit evidence showing abuse that was provided to you and the reporters was deliberate manipulation of the truth.

The Women’s Coalition has been documenting this crisis on social media and Youtube and with the UN and Women’s Commissions.  We have a huge following and a strong social media presence.
We hope you correct this episode and do a follow-up showing the additional evidence of abuse.  As it stands right now, you have turned women, mothers and children off to your show by your gross misrepresentation and we have instructed all of our supporters to never to grant an exclusive or any type of interview to ABC and especially not to 20/20.

I personally have an exclusive story coming out on one of the big networks in the next few weeks.  I will make sure that when my story becomes of further public interest that I will not speak to any reporters from ABC news.  You have lost the trust of abused mothers and children everywhere.
It is a travesty to harm women and children the way your show did.   You should be greatly ashamed.

Thank you for your time,
Rachel Alintoff

YouTube Image from Footprints In The Snow

“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~

20/20 Denial of Substantiating Documents in the Grazzini-Rucki Case

20/20 Denial of Substantiating Documents in the Grazzini-Rucki Case

Elizabeth Vargas, “We have searched for any of the documentation that you assured us existed to corroborate what you’re telling us and we can find none of it.”

More media collusion below:

BREAKING: Wikileaks Just DROPPED THE BIG ONE! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

DECEMBER 31, 2017BY SEAN BROWN
Sean Brown AMERICA’S FREEDOM FIGHTERS –
Wikileaks has been a thorn in the side of the powerful for over a decade, and overnight, they proved exactly why.

On Saturday, the New York Times published a story with the title “Republican Attacks on Mueller and F.B.I. Open New Rift in G.O.P.,” and apparently Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange wasn’t too happy about it. So early this morning, he used the official Wikileaks account to expose even more corruption within Obama’s administration as well as expose a member of the “legacy” media’s collusion with the government to deceive the public at-large.

The tweet revealed that a reporter for the Times used to give the State Department, which was headed by Hillary Clinton at the time, email updates of the investigative stories it was going to be publishing…days before the stories ever made it to print. The emails were ostensibly to give Clinton and her agency time to come up with a narrative to defend against the reports, which were problematic for the administration, or to create some sort of diversion on the day the story dropped so that the public was distracted.

That sounds incredibly familiar, does it not?

Check it out:

“Email shows New York Times handed over Cablegate’s publication schedule to the US government (without telling @WikiLeaks) giving the State Department, then headed by Hillary Clinton, up to 9 days in advance to spin the revelations or create diversions.”

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Email shows New York Times handed over Cablegate’s publication schedule to the US government (without telling @WikiLeaks) giving the State Department, then headed by Hillary Clinton, up to 9 days in advance to spin the revelations or create diversions. https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/AugSept2016/F-2012-20462/DOC_0C05572024/C05572024.pdf …

The Daily Wire has more on the people in the email chain:

The players in the WikiLeaks email are interesting. Scott Shane is the national security reporter for The Times. And the recipient of his email, Philip Crowley, was at the time the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs under Clinton’s State Department.

As 2017 comes to an end, its clear the Clinton scandals won’t go away any time soon.

Indeed, they won’t be. We previously reported that thousands of emails from Anthony Weiner’s laptop were released by the government just days ago, many of which contained classified information. The release of the emails was labeled a “major victory” by Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

“Judicial Watch has forced the State Department to finally allow Americans to see these public documents,” Fitton said. “That these government docs were on Anthony Weiner’s laptop dramatically illustrates the need for the Justice Department to finally do a serious investigation of Hillary Clinton’s and Huma Abedin’s obvious violations of law.”

So really, if anyone is looking for any sort of collusion, they need to look no further than the mainstream media and Hillary Clinton, because there’s more than enough evidence they worked together to keep the public in the dark about a wide range of issues.

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Red Herring Alert Commentary: Protect a Child Go to Jail

Red Herring Alert: Protect a Child Go to Jail

PROTECT A CHILD – GO TO JAIL

 

 

By SafeKids 

Wednesday Jul 30, 2014 · 8:02 PM CDT

 

The author of this diary is the grandmother of children who were placed into the full custody and control of their identified and confirmed rapist. Helen and her husband spent one and a half million dollars fighting for their grandchildren’s safety in a corrupt family court system. The mother was unable to write her story because she is still suffering from PTSD from being imprisoned for having challenged the authority of the wealthy father. She was tormented in prison for an entire year before she was released, thanks to a 20/20 investigation. Warning: graphic content.

My story is part of an attempt by Safe Kids International to raise awareness regarding divorce court judges covering up abuse and awarding custody to abusive fathers.

The DOJ Investigative Report explains-the nation’s divorce courts award custody to abusive fathers-while “good fit” mothers are court ordered supervised visits – or no contact.
The U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s-comments to the National Summit on Domestic Violence: Why are mothers who are victims of domestic violence losing custody of their children to the courts-even when their fathers have been abusive to them and their mothers?

I was driven mad by the horrific injustice.  I was compelled to save [not only] my grandchildren-but other abused children in the nation’s divorce courts.  To no avail.  Every night I pray [Lord give us the strength for this journey].  We are still on that journey.

During an intact marriage, physicians diagnosed child sexual abuse-based on five-year-old son’s torn bloody rectum. Father’s reaction to the diagnosis was to go into divorce court with a criminal attorney.

Child Protective Services/CPS opened our case on March 4th, closed March 5th due to custody issues.  Because when father was contacted by CPS, he stated the magic words [“There are custody issues”] which shuts down CPS investigations of child abuse.

The custody decision states: father is awarded sole custody based on parental alienation.  Parental alienation is used in the nation’s courts to cover up abuse – it has nothing to do with alienating behavior.  Minor’s attorney, Kevin Busch and custody evaluator Robert Shapiro recommended custody to father-based on parental alienation.

The physicians who diagnosed child sexual abuse-refused to testify.  Illinois law book POF 6 2D 353 explains: physicians fail to report child abuse for a myriad of reasons -from a fear of harming their practice to a fear of entanglement as a result of reporting.  Legislation has not achieved the desired goal-only a small percentage of cases are ever reported.]

At age 7 daughter drew and labeled a picture [Lynn Dad] of dad’s penis in Lynn’s mouth.  Lynn had blood in her panties-when mom picked her up for visits. CPS and police investigated.  The allegations were found credible and father was placed on no contact.

The court found: father sexually abused son and daughter-including, but not limited to, repeatedly sodomizing and forcing oral copulation.  The judge’s court transcript states: In the case at bar, the danger is extraordinarily disturbing sexual assaults perpetrated many times-skillfully concealed. CPS explained to mother that father is on “no contact” and has no legal standing, recommending mother go home to California.

However, despite CPS giving mother permission – mother was criminally charged with leaving the jurisdiction by Kane County Illinois Assistant State’s Attorney, Clint Hull. The jurisdiction law is based on the parent-child relationship – the only inquiry is the status of the parent left behind.

Despite a court appointed psychologist concluding it was emotionally destructive for Mac and Lynn to have contact with their father, the children were ordered back to father.  At which time, Mac + Lynn ran away. Mac [age 14] found a way to enroll in college-where he was a straight A student, studying law and psychology.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited children does not discern missing children running away from abusive fathers…from children being missing or exploited.

Mac and Lynn were hunted down.  Twenty U.S. Marshall’s broke down the front door…pointed semi-automatic rifles at skinny Mac and Lynn-pinned them on the floor-and handcuffed them. Mac and Lynn were brought into court where U.S. Marshals championed father and championed parental alienation.

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20/20 actually did their job of investigative reporting and helped bring justice to this Illinois family.

I wish we could say the same about their coverage of our cases. As most of you are aware, 20/20 did a hit piece on the Grazzini-Rucki case entitled  Footprints in the Snow in April of 2016. They actually aided and abetted in the cover up of abuse in this case and have refused to make any corrections in their portrayal of this ongoing story. In fact, 20/20 actually asked an investigative reporter that has covered this case extensively, to refrain from sending any more documents that show the truth in this case.

Elizabeth Vargas was extremely biased and hostile when interviewing Sandra Grazzini-Rucki and very sympatheric toward the father in this case. The People Magazine article below shows the false secret network narrative that 20/20 had planned from the beginning. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest a “secret network” was involved in the Grazzini-Rucki case or involved in the disappearance of the eldest two daughters. In fact, both S.R. and G.R. openly admit they ran away due to safety concerns, and raised numerous abuse allegations prior to running away and after being found 2 years later. During all this time, their story is consistent, and does not change.

Elizabeth Vargas

Recently, 20/20’s Elizabeth Vargas announced her resignation from the show “to pursue new ventures”.
Here’s Vargas’ note to 20/20 staffers: 
To my 20/20 family,
I want you to hear some news about me, from me. I will be leaving ABC News, and 20/20 at the end of this historic 40th season. It has been a profound privilege to be the anchor of 20/20 for 14 years, and a true honor to work with each and every one of you. I am incredibly lucky to work alongside the very best in the business: the producers, editors, writers on this show, and the enormous team working every week to get our show on the air. I am so very proud of the stories we have told together.
I am sorry only to have to share this news with you as we celebrate the holidays. I had hoped to make this announcement after the first of the year.
This is not goodbye – I will be here through May, and cannot wait to do more work with all you in the months ahead.
Have a happy holiday with your families, and I will see you next year.
With gratitude,
Elizabeth

Stay tuned for more information on Elizabeth Vargas and 20/20.

But She Looks So Sweet: Digging Deeper Into Elizabeth Vargas and "Footprints in the Snow"

Originally Posted: Red Herring Alert, 12/27/2017

20/20‘s Elizabeth Vargas On Fake News, Barbara Walters, & Being A Woman On The Air

All the fake news that proliferates on social media must drive you nuts.

“It absolutely does. I mean, there’s fake news about me. There’s a lot of inaccuracies out there. As a journalist, it’s incumbent on us to really do our homework, and to really talk to all sides of the story, and explore every single angle, and get the backup that we need. There’s a lot — I don’t want to use the word fake news — but there’s a lot of false information out there in the zeitgeist, online. It’s really incumbent on those of us who pride ourselves on getting the facts right to do the work to do that. To read. To get lots of different points of views, not just one point of view.”

Read More: http://www.refinery29.com/2017/11/179653/elizabeth-vargas-20-20-abc-female-anchor-interview

Yes Elizabeth, you are the expert on fake news and false information!

From: Lion News [mailto:lionnews00@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 7:46 AM
To: gretchen.young@hbgusa.com; ddonovan@nysbroadcasters.org; dnovik@nysbroadcasters.org; Sebastian.J.San.Miguel.-ND@abc.com; sean.dooley@abc.com; Beth Mullen <beth.a.mullen@abc.com>; elizabeth.a.vargas@abc.com
Subject: ABC 20/20’s Elizabeth “The Drunk” Vargas forced to leave because of incriminating Sandra Grazzini-Rucki jail audio?

David Donovan, President and Executive Director New York State Broadcasters Association 518-456-8888:

You don’t think that ABC 20/20’s Elizabeth “The Drunk” Vargas forced to leave her job because of the incriminating Sandra Grazzini-Rucki jail audio, do you? Inquiring minds want to know, don’t they? By the way, why didn’t you respond to my previous revelations about “The Drunk” Vargas, huh? Oh, just so you know, the incriminating audio of the 2nd jail interview with Sandra Grazzini-Rucki and “The Drunk” Vargas are found at the link below, aren’t they?

Terry Dean, Nemmers (320) 283-5713

I am sorry only to have to share this news with you as we celebrate the holidays. I had hoped to make this announcement after the first of the year. Elizabeth Vargas To Exit ABC News In May by Patrick Hipes December 22, 2017 10:56am http://deadline.com/2017/12/elizabeth-vargas-exit-abc-news-in-may-1202231802/

Lion News: Unedited ABC 20/20 Elizabeth Vargas 2nd Sandra Grazzini-Rucki Ramsey Jail Interview?


Lion News: Lakeville Police Chief Long & Deputy Kornmann Harass & Hang Up On Dede? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnKgbkOyjs8

Lion News:  Dede Evavold Exposes Corrupt Ramsey Co. Sheriff Bostrum’s Prisoner Abuse?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04gqqjrP77Y

Lion News: Ramsey Co. Sheriff Bostrum Harasses Prisoners Dede Evavold & Sandra Grazzini-Rucki? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVacoy5sNBo

Lion News: Dede Evavold Reports Corrupt Dakota Co. Attorney Backstrom To Rude FBI?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwNuq7rFKk0

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From: Dede Evavold
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 4:39 PM
To: ‘Dooley, Sean’ <Sean.Dooley@abc.com>
Subject: Grant Funding

Hi Sean,

Below is an article from huffingtonpost.com regarding federal grant funding in the courts.
Call me if you have any questions.

Dede Evavold
xxx


Top 5 HHS Programs Endangering Women and Children
05/14/2012 12:21 pm ET | Updated Jul 14, 2012
Anne Stevenson Journalist, Writer, Policy Analyst

The so-called “War on Women” is raging, and billions of your tax dollars are being misused to fuel it via the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The solution is to remove the middle class from the welfare roles and do away with gender-based funding incentives.

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 and the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program it created transformed welfare policy by drastically reducing and shifting federal assistance away from the homes of mothers and children and into the homes of violent offenders. In an articleentitled “How Federal Welfare Funding Drives Judicial Discretion in Child-Custody Determinations and Domestic Relations Matters” fathers and rights activists Lary Holland and Jason Bottomsly explain that this policy has backfired because the incentives are structured so that the state will only benefit if children are removed from loving homes:

Continue Reading: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anne-stevenson/top-5-hhs-programs-endang_b_1511613.html

The real story of the corrupt court system, Federal Funding, and the destruction of protective parents just didn’t seem to fit their narrative, so instead they engaged in deceptive editing to create their own story.

What you must always remember is that the courts are now an industry of corruption trafficking children for profit. It’s all about funding an out of control and bogus industry which cannot sustain itself through legitimate cases alone so has to create its own constant supply of fraudulent cases instead.

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.

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.

• Healthy Marriage & Responsible Fatherhood 
• Federal Programs and Resources 
• Responsible Fatherhood | Office of Family Assistance | ACF
• Dad Stats | National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse
• Education Department Roundtable highlights importance of fathers involvement in Education
• The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children
• Why Kids Need Their Dads | Parenting
• Engaging Fathers in Programs for Families – Best Start Resource Centre
• New Pathways for Fathers and Families
• Importance of father involvement
• The Fatherhood Research and Practice Network
• The Good Dad Project
• The Parents and Children Together (PACT) Evaluation, 2011-2016
• Engaging Men & Dads at WIC
• Dads – TODAY.com
• Dads.org | Faith & Family
• DadTalk Blog: Grants and Resources
• Fathers Supporting Breastfeeding
• National Center for Fathering | How to be a Good Loving Dad
• National At-Home Dad Network
• Transitioning Dads into Family Sustaining Careers
• Dads Appreciating Down Syndrome 
• Fatherhood Buzz

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