Monday, March 31, 2014

The Absolute Corruption of a Power's Conscience- Epilogue. Drug the Kids

    


" I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves: and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their indiscretion by education.." Thomas Jefferson



     At the original writing of this blog segment, Dr. Gregory A. Smith, a Chronic Pain and Addiction Specialist and Medical Director of the Comprehensive Pain Relief Group the largest and fastest growing segment of drug users were children between the age of 12 and 17. 
    The drug of choice? SSRI's prescribed by their family pediatrician under orders from CPS.

    106,000 people died every year from prescription drugs. Seven per day in Florida alone. In 2009 Broward County doctors wrote 67% of all the Oxycontin prescriptions to neighboring states. Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi has drug monitoring of physicians. Florida did not at the time of this writing.

    Dr. Peter Breggin, author of the book "Toxic Psychiatry" exposed the link between Eli-Lilly and how they PR'ed a campaign to sell Prozac to cure depression. Every single member of the Psychiatric Association who reviewed Prozac were direct recipients of payments from Eli-Lilly for every written prescription of Prozac.
    In the March 27th, 2014, issue of The New American magazine Rebecca Terrell opened up her article describing the suicides of three teenagers who were all prescribed powerful SSRI drugs. In a past blog piece "The Pathology of Power" I presented evidence from the 1990's to early 2002 on how doctors were unable to even narrow down exactly what ADHD was. Since then, the doctor who originally came up with the concept of ADHD admitted years later that he made the whole thing up shortly before his death. Yet, still today, our children are routinely medicated under court orders despite the overwhelming evidence of the harm caused to young lives.

    The system is designed to overmedicate society. Entire swaths of millennials are on some sort of SSRI drug, even as adults. Payments are made to professors, medical doctors, FDA is bribed, Congressmen get campaign contributions. Even so called 'independent' study groups tasked with investigating these drugs somehow get funded by Big Pharma. Novartis was exposed in the article "Doping Kids" in Insight magazine in June of 1999 for pushing Ritalin on children. For every child prescribed Ritalin Novartis stock would rise an average of $1,200.00. Ritalin was one of the largest prescribed drugs to children in the first decade of the new millennium and became one of the largest abused drugs among children. I personally knew of some young people who would sell it on the street. It is crushed and mixed with other SSRI drugs and snorted.
    After 1992 drug companies were required to pay the FDA a fee to review a new drug. This fee HAD to be paid regardless of whether or not the drug was approved. This is known as shakedown money in certain areas of New Jersey. But the fees (in excess of $800,000) is chump change to companies whose profits are in the tens of billions a year. The fines from the government are only a few million here and there. A recent lawsuit settled in Utah over Zyprexa (prescribed to schizophrenics) being sold via Medicaid to seniors was a minute total of $24 million.

     Children are the largest growing demographic of prescription drug usage. Over 130 million children are now prescribed powerful psychotropics. Foster children are mandated to be medicated.     
     But you can't just claim a child needs to be medicated. There must be a process of sorts... Well, of sorts.

    Schools gather information on your child and create a dossier on your child. I am not talking about their grades or test scores. I am talking about how they dress, behavior, attitude towards teachers, authority. Do they get along with others? Are they withdrawn? Are they overly excitable? How are things at home? Do they feel safe?
    Does your child see a counselor at school? Are you kept informed about their conversations? Chances are, you are not. Chances are you have no idea any of this is going on. In fact you will be conveniently cut out of the process until the school has put together a profile of your child. By this time, it is too late. The process has already started, and your first hint will be a letter or phone call asking you to come into the school to discuss the situation. I wrote in another blog post of how schools routinely hide the transgender issue from parents.

    I first discovered the secret gathering of information from the Marlborough School system. After some investigation and being asked to leave the building I was told by the Principal that they do, in fact, gather this information and routinely pass it on to CPS if they 'feel' there is a problem. My second experience came from former Asst. Principal Susan Bussing of Worcester East Middle School. She receives e-mails from teachers who report on any and all behaviors of students. This information is data based, amassed and filtered to produce the desired result.
    File them into the Child Protective Services System.

     Now, if you are a normal American your first reaction would be one of outrage and approach the school about this subterfuge. Be careful of this, it will be used against you in the next phase known as a CRA. A Children's Risk Assessment.
    There are varied levels of a CRA Report The lowest is just a defiant child. The highest is a child beating up other kids and vandalizing the school. Those kids need to be lassoed and corralled for sure but a willful child, a dreamer, a child who defies authority is usually the one targeted for SSRI drugs.
     The schools are actively drugging the independence and questioning of authority out of our children.

     Upon accepting the New York City Teacher of the Year Award on January 31, 1990, John Taylor Gatto upset many in attendance by stating: 

“The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions.”

      In 1955, Erich Fromm, the then widely respected anti-authoritarian leftist psychoanalyst, wrote,

“Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.”

    Bruce E. Levine wrote in the blog post "Before Its News".

     "The American Psychiatric Association added to their diagnostic bible (then the DSM-III) disruptive mental disorders for children and teenagers such as the increasingly popular “oppositional defiant disorder” (ODD).
The official symptoms of ODD include “often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult requests or rules,” “often argues with adults,” and “often deliberately does things to annoy other people.”

Sounds like your average teenager to me.


     On April 12th, 2014, The Meat And Potatoes Show welcomed Matthew Virgiin from Australia to the show. Matt was on the front lines for years exposing and fighting CPS. His depth of knowledge and experience could not be compressed into one of my (standard) one-hour interviews. Things are worse in Elizabeth's World of Fine. Europe/ Australia both have the most intrusive CPS agencies and CPS-America is working to model their agencies after them. In England alone a Parliamentary vote over a decade ago ordered that a Social Worker be assigned to every single family with children regardless.
    And to ensure the average citizen understands how powerful the state is several children have died in England due to terminal illnesses that could have been treated humanely in other countries. Even at the begging of foreign governments to let them take the children the High Court of Great Britain said NO. Medical kidnapping in America is nationwide as well.

   NO ONE has any right to gather secret dossiers on anybody for any reason unless there is a clear and present danger to life, limb or property. And this should only be done with the full approval and participation of parents. Between the Jeremiah Oliver case, the Justina Pelletier case, the Cassidy Baracka case and the countless thousands across this Republic the corruption of conscience is a normal, everyday SOP of Child Protective Services.

     So armed with government money, special courts to handle children and a complete disregard for the rights of privacy our school system is now one of the largest incubators for indoctrination of our children. Those who resist are drugged and/or taken away from parents.

    It is really not that complicated!

....And That Is The Diatribe....

Monday, March 24, 2014

Absolute Power--Part V. The Voiceless, The Vanished And The Vendors

   


 "... Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will... law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.."  Thomas Jefferson.

    "... The most pernicious form of tyranny is that which disguises itself as a benefactor to it's victims."   Robert L. Schultz.

    "... Crouch down and lick the hands of those who feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."  Samuel Adams.


   
    According to a February 27th, 2014, report in The Boston Globe over 134 children under foster care were listed as missing in the state of Massachusetts. Todd Wallack of The Globe wrote that while this was a factual number former DCF Director Olga Roche still testified before a House Committee that all the children under DCF care were alive and safe.
   
    “Can you give me and the other 6 million people of the Commonwealth the assurance that you know that every single one of those 36,000 children in your care today are present, alive, and healthy?” asked state Representative David P. Linsky, chairman of the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight.       “Can you give me that assurance that there are no other Jeremiah Olivers out there today?”

“Yes,” Olga Roche said firmly. Asked whether she was “100 percent confident,” Roche said yes again.

    Conna Craig formerly of the Hoover Institution’s Institute for Children appeared on I-Heart Radio in
January of 2014. She believed a lot of these missing children ended up in the human trafficking industry.


    The money that foster parents receive is called Title-A, or Title Allotment. Some states require that children remain under Title-A until 26 but most children end up getting kicked out of foster care at 18. Usually there is little support system for these (now) grown children. Conna Craig went on to state that foster parents received anywhere from $300-$600 per month in 2014. That number has risen to $600-$800.


    But once that spigot gets turned off at age 18 what incentive is there for the foster parents to hold onto the grown child? According to the American Civil Liberties Union over 40% of (former) foster care children end up on Welfare as Adults. What was once a private endeavor is now a bloated government agency with over half a million children in foster care limbo. In fact, the number of children processing through the system is beginning to outpace the natural birth of children in the US. 
    The higher the numbers grow so too does the Federal matching dollars.
    In 2021 the Child Welfare League of America (CEO Linda Spears-former DCF Head for Massachusetts) published a testimonial painting a grimmer picture of the situation.

"According to the annual Child Maltreatment Report, for fiscal year 2021, there are nationally an estimated 600,000 victims of child abuse and neglect. Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies received a national estimate of just under 4 million (3,987,000) total referrals, including approximately 7.18 million children. Forty-six states reported that an estimated 1,761,128 children received prevention services, and the biggest source of federal funding for these services was the IV-B Promoting Safe and Stable Families program. However, a large portion of children and families reported to CPS for suspected child maltreatment do not receive post-response services, and increased funding for Title IV-B would give states the ability to support additional children and families.”  
 

    This begs an obvious question. Between the money from the federal level, state level and the constant yearly rise in appropriations where does CPS get off complaining about a lack of funding to monitor children under their care? It is the same mindset as teachers' unions demanding more money while the school dropout rate continues to increase, school curriculum gets stupider, children attend rat infested schools. Meanwhile many school superintendents get six figure salaries.
    In 2022 the highest annually paid salary at DCF in Massachusetts was over $217,000.



   
 In an old 1995 article Conna Craig makes this heartbreaking point. 


"The problem lies not with the children. What keeps kids bound to state care are the tentacles of a bureaucratic leviathan: a public funding scheme that rewards and extends poor-quality foster care; an anti-adoption bias that creates numerous legal and regulatory barriers; and a culture of victimization that places the whims of irresponsible parents above the well-being of their children."

  The system is only interested in the system, not what the system is supposed to advocate for.

    Although Family Services have been around since the passage of the Social Security Act in 1935 a huge nail in the coffin for family and parental rights didn't occur until the landmark 1993 legislation known as The Violence Against Women Act. Laudably, this act strengthens the laws against rape and targeted violence against women in general and has brought awareness of such violence and created advocacy groups, legal strategies and special courts to handle it.
    Today it is labelling Parental Rights groups as Domestic Terrorists.
    Unfortunately, no law stays within the realm of why it was created in the first place. Today the ability of women to declare their spouse dangerous or violent is foggy at best and highly non-specific at worst. A woman can accuse her spouse of anything, and the family court system is designed to assist her in her pursuits. 
    According to Father Against Divorce Discrimination over 65% of all 51A abuse reports are found to be false. Over 80% of all filed reports have the father as the defendant. 85% of all custody cases defacto default to the mother. Another egregious component of this law is if there are guns in the home. A spurned parental partner can claim they are in fear and that the accused spouse has weapons. ATF shows up alongside CPS and removes your guns AND your children.
    This has given CPS a whole new crop of children to harvest. Law enforcement is mandated to report to CPS all domestic violence reports no matter what the level, cause, and regardless of the facts. Restraining orders are handed out like Halloween candy separating fathers from children. This creates a division in the family unit making it easier for CPS to brainwash the custodial parent into compliance to their orders. Any attempt by the father to fight it is a useless endeavor.
    Some interesting factoids to come out of the VAWA are worth a second look:


     Between 1993 to 2010, the rate of intimate partner violence declined 67%;

         More victims are reporting domestic and sexual violence to police, and reports
to police are resulting in more arrests.


    Odd, how can that be? If domestic violence has been on a steady decline, why are there more arrests? Wouldn't you see a decline in arrests?

         All states have authorized warrantless arrests in misdemeanor domestic
violence cases where the responding officer determines that probable cause
exists;

        All states provide for criminal sanctions for the violation of a civil
protection order.


    Police can arrest you based on hearsay and and/or an unsubstantiated claim of abuse and you can be imprisoned even if it is the accuser violating that order. There is also, what one website accurately calls "The Snitch Network"

     Other people can also report to the hotline: A nasty neighbor, an angry spouse making a false report to get an advantage in a divorce by using DCF to do their dirty work, an upset relative trying to get revenge, a jilted boyfriend, etc. The statute is set up so that anyone can play DCF for a chump. And, since there is no penalty for false reporting, (and it is more often used because of that purpose). If the emergency is slightly less pressing, the DCF can go to court first and present a secret affidavit to a Juvenile Court judge in a secret hearing, where the parents are not there to contest it. The judge will usually issue an order - called a "mittimus" - allowing custody to DCF and giving them authority to kidnap the child. If the court is closed on a night or weekend, or the emergency is actually horrific, they can just go in and take the kids without any delay and then come in the next date the court is open to have the details worked out.
     (DCF Motto: We don't need no stinkin' warrant.) "

    Stephan Baskerville, author of the book "Taken Into Custody" wrote a magazine article entitled, "Married to the State."

     "Children raised without intact families do not as readily absorb concepts such as family privacy, sacrificial love, parental authority, limited government, or civic virtue. For their rules and values come not from parents but from government officials, who have ultimate sovereignty over their lives: courts, lawyers, social workers, forensic therapists, public-school bureaucrats, and police. These are the figures they must obey rather than their parents. Thus, children whose authority figures are government officials cannot distinguish the private from the public and come to see the public sphere as a realm not of civic duty and community leadership but of abstract ideology, government funding, professional employment, career advancement, and state power, in whose growth they acquire a vested interest."

In other words, they become institutionalized and spend the majority of their lives on some sort of State Aid.
    In the city of Springfield Mass. over 70% of low-income homes are fatherless. 100% of those families are in the 'system' or were raised (themselves) under the care of Social Services.




     Between our warped sense of family values and a system that makes reporting effortless and consequence free the stage is set for CPS to wield power at will. If you add the fact that we are several generations removed since feminism and easy drive thru divorce made fatherlessness common place, we now have children (who have known no father) having fatherless children themselves. We have long since proven the emotional and sociological ramifications of this type of culture mentality on children.
    But this is exactly what was planned. Create more 'at risk' children from parents who themselves were once deemed 'at risk' children and you have a steady supply of fresh meat for the institutional meat grinder known as Child Protective Services..

    " Government creates the problem, then delights in being the one who solves the problem.." 
       Congressman Ron Paul.


....And That Is The Diatribe....
   
       
                                              

Monday, March 17, 2014

Absolute Power-- Part IV. Crimes Against the Children





"..It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions..."

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      It is difficult for some people to wrap their heads around the concept of the purposeful intention of law enforcement, judges, case workers, prosecutors, even lawyers tasked to protect you of destroying your family for profit. We seek out government to help us. It is tasked Constitutionally to protect us and (at all costs) defend our Liberty. Conversely, there is a large segment of the population that has a different view of government. They seek out the power. They enjoy watching citizens suffer. Dan Bongino coined the term, "There is no power in the word 'Yes'." Government routinely says 'No' in order for you to pay them the privilege of building a shed, to farm, to collect rainwater, to marry, to drive a car. The legal system is no different. The legal system is specifically designed to enhance the revenue of government and to hold you incarcerated until to comply.
      If this was some Asian sex slave trade operating in the states, the media would be all over it and you can bet SWAT raids would be in order very quickly. Yet, this does exist, and nothing is being done about it. Strangely enough DCF has become entangled in the human trafficking business. The adoption process is a multibillion-dollar operation. The process is excruciatingly long with children going to the highest bidder and not necessarily the best family. 
    What few cases of DCF abuse (and I do mean a very few cases) do get prosecuted come only after years of investigation, bankruptcy of the families, children's lives destroyed, and a childhood lost. Usually, the guilty get a slap on the wrist and (in some cases) end up back on the same job.
    Or, in the case of Linda Spears she becomes CEO of a national child welfare organization.

    Despite overwhelming evidence that profiting from child abduction under Child Protective Services exists, the rank and file in the department dismiss any allegations as crazy talk. In fact, any attempt to expose this conspiracy is used against the family as a means to discredit them as further evidence of their 'unfit parents' status. Federal dollars flow to the state courts and local CPS offices for every child put into the system. Bonuses and extra pay get awarded to case workers for each child forced into foster care and or adoption. Money is paid to foster families for children they accept. In many cases there is a warehousing of children with foster families. CPS is the largest managing agent for juvenile incarceration of children held in limbo until cases are decided. 
    Alex Jones from Info-Wars has exposed one incarceration unit where rape parties were a common theme. In California CPS Supervisor Laurie Lee has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks for supplying children to adoption services. In Georgia, the exposure of CPS fraud has resulted in the murder of a State Senator and her husband. In Massachusetts DCF loses children all the time in foster care and has no discernible tracking system for the rest. 
    In Santa Barbara County 'On Second Thought' producer William Wagener chases down Laurie Lee of Vandenberg Village. Lee is a CPS Supervisor. The family in question was brought up on false charges by Lee's office and their infant was taken away from them and given to a Tennessee family for adoption. Their child was never seen or heard from again. In the attached Youtube clip the family tells Wagener of their ordeal.                                                                  


    Judge Herman presided over the case and would not allow the McIntyre family to tell their side of the story and was not the least bit interested in protecting the Constitutional rights of this family. Judge Herman and CPS ordered this family to undergo psychological evaluation and drug testing even though neither of the two had any prior drug convictions or suspected usage. He also refused to allow the family a jury trial. A direct violation of the sixth Amendment. Judge Herman has also accepted testimony from Lee without being sworn in and all other testimonies sworn under oath have mysteriously been misplaced in Judge Herman's office.
    The accusation stemmed (allegedly) from the mother being medically prescribed an anti-anxiety medication. Ironically, the same medication CPS orders families to give to their children for ADHD.
     Lee was quoted by the McIntyre family as going off of "feelings, how she feels about a case". The McIntyre's were not allowed to bring up any of the missing sworn testimony, nor any of the unsworn testimony of Laurie Lee, nor to ask questions as to why such testimony is allowed.
    This case is from 2009 and is still unresolved. The where-abouts of their child is unknown.

    Georgia State Senator Nancy Shaefer was a longtime advocate for family rights and in 2007, after four years of investigation, published a report titled "The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Services". In this report and during many public speaking engagements Sen. Shaefer minced no words in her indictment of CPS. She spoke to Alex Jones about her findings.




   
    The Senator exposes how many state facilities that house juveniles arrange rape parties. Alex Jones tells how one such case was exposed by the Texas State Police and the investigator who uncovered it lost his job. 
    As a result, the state of Texas applied for more money to 'solve' the problem, which they received.
    The Senator also claims in her reporting that certain children are targeted because of looks, age, and gender for abduction and adoption. Poor families are especially targeted because the state knows that they cannot afford an attorney. When the state 'appoints' an attorney he/she is usually in on the game. In some states, CPS has a website where photos of children in their custody are displayed for potential adoptive parents to pick from. 
    As Alex Jones said in the link "pure evil.".

    On March 26th, 2010, Senator Nancy Shaefer and her husband were shot dead. The LSM reported it as a murder-suicide. Not one witness could be found to corroborate that claim. In another report filed by William Wagener on the one-year anniversary, Wagener points out that just prior to the murders both Bruce and Nancy had managed to gain private financing for a film documentary of the report she had published.                                                              

       Olga Roche came under investigation by the Massachusetts State House after the death of a child under foster care. For some unknown reason the family that Jeremiah Oliver was placed with was the same family he was placed in DCF care for in the first place.
      But Child Advocate Gail Garinger told reporters outside one of the hearings that "we need to look at CORI on an individual basis."
    I agree. Just not with her assessment of how to do that.

    For instance, Gail claims that someone with a sexual assault charge may be nothing more than " a teenager on the steps of the high school patting another student on the bum.". And, perhaps the state should look at these cases on a more individual level to determine if an actual crime had been committed.
     Someone shoot me now, please!
     We aren't talking about teenagers making out Gail. We are talking about potential pedophiles.

    DCF also missed months of scheduled follow up visits to check on the Oliver case. Jeremiah Oliver was feared dead. Worc. County DA Joe Early would not comment on the investigation and that it was "on going".
    In April of 2014 his body was discovered stuffed in a suitcase on the side of Interstate 190 in the town of Sterling Mass. Feckless Candidate for Governor Charlie Baker as well as spineless State Republicans sheepishly called for Olga Roche's resignation. No one from CPS was ever held criminally responsible.


     We can no longer apply the axiom of these examples being 'isolated incidents', or that ' it doesn't represent the larger majority of hard working, caring social workers'. If this were the case, we would not have Youtube flooded with stories from across the nation of injustice from judges, case workers and police. Organizations that hide children from CPS would not exist. Fathers Against Divorce Discrimination would not be overwhelmed with hits on its website, nor would homeschooling be one of the fastest growing trends in America.

     There is a whole new ballgame at play now with Child Protective Services. The trend towards transgenderism has added a new weapon to the government's arsenal. Children are now removed from your family because you won't let your son wear makeup and you won't let your daughter have breast removal surgery. This new ability will add tens of thousands of children to the database and adoption/trafficking network. Pedophiles are grinning from ear to ear at the chance to foster care a trans child. 
    And the agency does little to make sure the child is placed in a safe environment.
    The hard working, caring social workers are the isolated incident and they do not represent the larger majority.


....And That Is The Diatribe....
   

Friday, March 7, 2014

Absolute Power-- Part III- The Child Catchers





From the official Mass.gov DCF website. 2014.

Mission Statement
"The Department of Children and Families is charged with protecting children from abuse and neglect and strengthening families. There are currently more than 7,000 children in foster care across Massachusetts and more than 40,000 children in all served by the Department."

    I am not sure if this is a typographical error on the part of lagging maintenance of a website or if Commissioner Roche just does not know just how many children are under Massachusetts DCF care. In her testimony published on Jan 23rd, 2014, she opens up with this statement. 

    " Good morning. My name is Olga Roche, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families. I want to thank Chairs Linsky and Khan, and members of the committees, for inviting me to discuss our agency’s work in the protection of over 100,000 children and youth we serve each year while strengthening families across the Commonwealth."

      Perhaps she meant that 100,000 are served yearly and that the website simply states that only 40,000 are under some form of permanent placement, or supervision of the agency. Arguing the discrepancy is academic and purposeless even on a statistical level. No, what these numbers mean is that 100,000 children fall under the watchful eye of a growing more powerful agency and roughly 40,000 have currently ended up ensnared.
    Let us extrapolate those numbers. If 100,000 are investigated each year that would mean (over ten years) 1 million are data based, recorded and put into a file in a vast system. DCF has been around a long time. Given population growth, economic woe, the purported ever constant rise in drug and alcohol abuse, the sanctuary status of illegals, and general youth delinquency it is quite possible that practically every family in Massachusetts alone has been, is and can expect to be visited by DCF for any number of reasons at some point in time in their lives. As I have stated before the bar is lowered all the time to classify 'at risk' children. It is inevitable these numbers casually bantered about will rise.
    Let's look at another statistic and do some extrapolating here as well.

Priority Population
DCF supports children ages 0 - 18 and 18 - 21 previously involved with DCF. 85% of all children receiving DCF services remain in their home.

    If 100,000 children are investigated each year, then, according to this from the website that would mean over 15,000 a year end up in DCF care instead of remaining in the home. Again, given the commonly known rise of all statistical numbers how did DCF come up with the 2014 number of 40,000?

    In an open letter published just prior to the scandal that unfolded following the death of Jermiah Oliver and the revelation that DCF routinely 'loses' children in their care Commissioner Olga Roche wrote to her colleagues. 

    "Governor Patrick’s $9.2 million budget investment and additional supplemental budget funding will allow the Department to hire more than 175 additional staff to move towards our 15 to 1 caseload goals."

     In addition to the 175 new staff members Roche goes on to talk about promotions of other staff members and the fielding of "hundreds of applications and resume's". It is important to know that this 9.2 million is what Democrats like to call an 'investment'. What that really means is that the current budget has only increased by 9.2 million.
     Great! The growth of government expands ever thus!

The Mission Statement from the official site in 2023.

The Department of Children and Families (DCF) works in partnership with families and communities to keep children safe from abuse and neglect. In most cases, DCF is able to provide supports and services to keep children safe with parents or family members. When necessary, DCF provides foster care or finds new permanent families for children through kinship, guardianship or adoption.


    In addition, DCF now has expanded to be involved in children's lives well into adulthood.

"The Department of Children and Families (DCF) strives to protect children from abuse and neglect and supports young adults, age 18-22, who are transitioning from DCF custody to independent living."

     In September of 2023 Staverne Miller became the new "acting" Commissioner and was appointed under the Healey Administration. She replaced Linda Spears who went on to serve as CEO on a national level with the Child Welfare League of America. Staverne has an impressive resume' and was co-chair of the Racial Equity Workgroup. 
    She is a DEI Warrior.



    According to the link above there are currently 4200 social workers employed by the taxpayers in Massachusetts. Massachusetts has 351 cities and towns. This means there are roughly 12 workers for every town. Some towns barely have 12 cops!
    But the increase of workers since Gov. Patrick's 9.2 million influx and a current state budget of 1.4 billion hasn't slowed the level of incompetence among the staff or how they handle placement of children.



    Following the death of Cassidy Baracka in Lowell the Baker Administration threw MORE money at the problem. The DCF budget increased another 42%, a 21% hiring increase and "..procedures put in place to guide the “review and investigation of reports of abuse or neglect.”

    This does not bring back a dead child.

    Then there are the never-ending stories such as this one.


"DCF Commissioner Linda Spears acknowledged that DCF staffers have been investigated for abuse or neglect of children in their personal lives at a hearing with lawmakers on Tuesday, however, she could not immediately give details on exactly how many of her workers have come under investigation in the past year."

Linda Spears? Didn't she just get a cushy CEO job with a national child welfare organization?

  So, under the watchful eye of Olga Roche children routinely died, were murdered and lost. Under the watchful eye of Linda Spears children died and the staff at DCF were known to abuse their own children. In fact, there is an entire outside agency tasked to handle these particular cases.

"A DCF spokeswoman said the agency contracts with both Solutions for Living and the Center for Human Development to handle potential conflict of interest cases and investigations. Solutions for Living, Inc. collected more than $700,000 from the state last year, while Massachusetts taxpayers doled out more than $57 million to the Center for Human Development in fiscal 2017. The new revelations come after Investigative Reporter Eric Rasmussen went to the State House to question DCF’s top boss about why the agency’s social workers are going years — even decades — without undergoing criminal background checks."

I almost can't wait to see what Staverne Miller has in store for the children and families of Massachusetts!

But Massachusetts isn't alone in failing to follow up, report, track and CORI check their own staff. Let us never forget the work of Nancy Shaefer in Georgia and how she was mysteriously found dead alongside her husband just before filing a state audit in 2008.

Counselors, doctors, lawyers, advocate groups, police, fire, teachers, soccer coaches, school bus drivers, city bus drivers and government staff workers are now 'mandated reporters'. They have been required by law to report 'suspected' child abuse or child neglect. This ramps up the potential for the number of families to be trapped within the system simply because someone else 'suspects' something.
    And, just what constitutes suspicion? There was a time when mere suspicion would be laughed out of the police station let alone the court. In the proper execution of detective work suspicion simply spurs on the investigation until sufficient evidence is obtained and then official charges are filed. In the case of suspected child abuse/neglect all it takes is a simple anonymous tip and the charges are leveled.
     Only afterwards does the investigation begin.

    According to the Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, suspicion is defined as; " Act or fact of suspecting: Imagination or apprehension of something, especially of something wrong or hurtful without proof or on slight evidence."
    The entire act of suspicion is subjective and entirely made up in one's head. Albeit, possibly based on a presumption of witness or experience but none the less, groundless and entirely circumspect. Facts must always rule in any act of accusation, prosecution or the forbearance thereof.
    Unless you are DCF.

    Wikipedia states that child abuse is:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse
    "  Child abuse is the physical, sexual or emotional maltreatment or neglect of a child or children.[1] In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department for Children And Families (DCF) define child maltreatment as any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or other caregiver that results in harm, potential for harm, or threat of harm to a child.[2] Child abuse can occur in a child's home, or in the organizations, schools or communities the child interacts with. There are four major categories of child abuse: neglect, physical abuse, psychological or emotional abuse, and sexual abuse....."
    Lets look at Connecticut. According to their official (dot-gov) website: http://www.ct.gov/dcf/cwp/view.asp?a=3483&Q=499860#AppendixA
    " ... has injuries at variance with the history given of them...



Evidence of physical abuse includes:

  • bruises, scratches, lacerations
  • burns, and/or scalds
  • reddening or blistering of the tissue through application of heat by fire, chemical substances, cigarettes, matches, electricity, scalding water, friction, etc.
  • injuries to bone, muscle, cartilage, ligaments:
    fractures, dislocations, sprains, strains, displacements, hematomas, etc.
  • head injuries
  • internal injuries
  • death
  • misuse of medical treatments or therapies
  • malnutrition related to acts of commission or omission by an established caregiver resulting in a child’s malnourished state that can be supported by professional medical opinion
  • deprivation of necessities acts of commission or omission by an established caregiver resulting in physical harm to child.
  • cruel punishment.


  
  In fact.
    We could apply anything and everything that goes with the worry and fear, hope, trepidation, daring of parenthood. 
   Then there are those times when you truly need help. The questions in the emergency room are specifically designed to catch you at your weakest. The parent who is traumatized by the event before them concerning their child.

    So, you become suspect. It is based on the slimmest of evidence, slimmest of witness' and (worst yet) brought into court and on docket for examination. Hell? Did not Roche say that 85% of children stay in the home? You'll be fine.
    You will luck out. Spend money, meet with DSS, they already know the outcome. Even your court appointment lawyer knows.

    After all.
              "It is the system we live in and we must work within it". Corrinne Huoy, of www.CasaWorcesterCounty.org


.... And That Is The Diatribe....

 


Thursday, March 6, 2014

Absolute Power-- Part II. Title V and The Social Security Act

    





"As with all public bureaucracies, it pays in political terms- to hire people and pay large salaries rather than to invest time..." Newt Gingrich, "Renew America" 1995.

    "Since 1965 we have spent $5 trillion on welfare.... Since 1970 the number of children living in poverty has increased by 40 %..." Newt Gingrich, "Renew America" 1995.


   
    We cannot address the problem of Child Welfare Services without taking a look at the history of the agency itself. Today each state has their own Social Services agency since Title V laws were amended in 1958 to require the states to match federal funds in order to reduce the burden on the federal government itself. Title V was first hatched in 1935 as part of the Social Security Act. Before that most child welfare agencies were charitable, or private organizations. The actual 'orphanages' or 'poor farms' of the 19th century were an outgrowth of churches following disasters, plagues, wars, etc. Many orphanages were local which meant a child could (at least) stay within the community they were familiar with. In many cases children were just merged into the care of relatives or family friends. This provided emotional and psychological stability for the child.

      Former writer RF. Duplantier for the America's Future website opens up with this statement;

    "Orphanages filled a void in America for more than a hundred years -- until meddling do-gooders decided that these benevolent institutions were inhumane! "

     World history is replete with the stories of great and bad leaders and everyday citizens who had horrible childhood experiences. Growing up in poverty shouldn't be anyone's best idea of an upbringing but growing up poor does not equate abuse or neglect. The notion of a 'safe' environment is a subjective concept. Social Workers and Counselors, School Teachers and Guardian Ad-Litums all use this textbook mantra of "...Do you feel safe at home?" The question should be more direct. "Are you being abused?" 
    After all, isn't that what you really want to know?
    In point of fact, no it is not what they want to know. The language is tailored to emote a desired response from the one being questioned. A child might not feel safe in his/her home because they live in the ghetto, not because mom is abusive. But Social Services will accuse that mother of abuse and/or neglect based on the statement of a child trying to describe the shitty area they live in.

    The bar gets lower and lower with each new appropriation of funds. The term used now is "at risk" children. This is a football field size general term used to designate virtually every child in America as in need of government intervention. A single mother, a single father, a death of a parent.
    The move towards removing all local, personal, religious and family childcare decisions has followed an execrable pattern of more and more top-down control. By creating the perception that children in large numbers are being mistreated all over America justifies the creation of large agencies to replace and remove individual rights of parents, relatives, churches and children themselves.

    Marvin Olasky writes in the publication; Philanthropy, Culture & Society, and published by the Capital Research Center.

    "Orphanage directors during the second half of the nineteenth century saw their mission as not merely furnishing basic material needs but creating model American citizens. They tried to instill virtues such as thrift, self-reliance, and sobriety, and to create a capacity for hard work; they believed in busy daily routines and strict discipline."

    Were they nuts or something? No wonder Social Services stepped in. Imagine raising scores of children with a sense of independence, thrift and moral virtue? What would be left for the government to do?
    Something had to be done, and fast!

    By 1910 over 100,000 American children were in orphanages. Not all these children were 'parentless'. Some children were there due to financial problems of the family, alcoholism, even displacement due to natural disasters or wartime invasion as in the Civil War. These institutions were a safe place for the children. But the public perception began to change. Much of it caused by yellow journalism and a White House Conference in 1909 and again in 1919. This is where the funding for single mothers, widows, etc. began and parentless children were to be routinely placed in foster care rather than an attempt to place children with other family members or even a kind next door neighbor. The Federal Children's Bureau was created in 1912 "to investigate and report on the status of children and on their common as well as special needs" and on "the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people."
     By 1935 with Roosevelt's Social Security Act a government instituted Child Welfare Agency was created.

    Interestingly former Speaker of the House and Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich openly proposed the return of orphanages back in his day much to the shock of the Progressive Reformers who destroyed these institutions in the first place. The concept of relinquishing State control is the proverbial 'third rail' to Leftists.  In one of my many interviews with Republican Senatorial Candidate Col. Reid Reasor he outlined the importance of control as the main objective of Leftists and Leftism in general. The more they tear apart private, religious, personal control over people's lives then the simple replacement by government involvement becomes the solution.
    Now, while many parts of Title V within the SSA spawned innovations in prenatal care, standards for hospitals and programs for single mothers the original concept was to provide these innovations at a local level. Communities that created childcare centers, local clinics, after school programs and the like could apply for funding or block grants. But over time and the advocacy of a growing number of self-righteous budding do-gooders fresh from the 1960's colleges with degrees in Sociology and Child Psychology the desire was to serve in a government agency rather than do the heavy lifting in a poor community. Rather than getting your hands dirty at a daycare center in Harlem these college grads decided a cushy office job instead.

    In 1981, Title V became a block grant but retained key features of the original legislation. These amendments established the groundwork for current aspects of the program, such as the needs assessment. However, many critics, including those in Congress, decried the lack of accountability mechanisms and cited initial reductions in funding and decreased federal oversight as weakening programs in some states. Opponents to this new feature of Title V could easily see the slipping away of local control in favor of a Halo Federal approach to children in need.

    For reasons of time and space on the blog I will not go into the myriad of grants and programs under Title V but suffice to say the biggest problem to come out of all of this is 'accountability'. Federal program agents tasked are meant to oversee the state's application of the law. That is all but lost and states now virtually run amuck while sticking their noses into the private lives of citizens. The countryside is awash with horror stories of state agencies removing children from perfectly good homes, embroiling families in lengthy and costly custody battles, securing more control over the educational system to indoctrinate children and creating dossiers on them and the family.

    As the Liberty Movement gains strength this subject should be part of the platform of returning our Republic back to Constitutional Law. If we do not wrestle control of our children away from the prying eyes and ears of government, we will inevitably fall under true totalitarianism where our children are no longer our own but rather the future-shock results as seen in George Orwell's novel "1984" when Winston's neighbor is turned in by his own son for talking in his sleep.
    
One MSNBC anchor has already suggested such a thing.






.... And That Is The Diatribe....
   

   

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Absolute Power, Part I- The Child Abuse Industry

    


    As is the tradition of The M&P Conservative Media Network I spend some time reading, researching, collating data and asking people about the various subjects I post here. It is interesting how one must back up facts, cite references and documentation in order to be viewed as credible. You don't cite your sources or provide some context or link the Left goes bananas and suddenly you are labelled as having no idea what you are writing about. Never mind that maybe you lived through the experience you are writing about. Everyone has the anecdotal story of their uncle, brother, friend who went through the same thing and everything turned out peachy.

    What I am to write to you about is an organization that does nothing of the above yet exists and is more powerful and more insidious in our lives than the IRS. This organization does not have to answer to any Senate Select Committee, does not need to follow laws, can openly lie in a special court set up just for them, routinely abducts children, loses children, has been responsible for the death of children and has a wonderful monopoly on the adoption assembly line.
   It is The Department of Social Services.

    The Department of Social Services or The Department of Children and Families or, whatever your state calls it (Liberals love changing names to protect the guilty) is not at all interested in protecting your children or helping your family. It cares absolutely ZERO about fathers, if, at all save a reason to garnish wages and extract money. God forbid a father ask a question of Family Court. Just sign the child support check!
     DCF is designed to break up families and impose a court order where all parties must submit to the rule of the State. DCF makes money from the Feds by artificially inflating 'at risk children' numbers, medicating children, forcing children into foster care and creating a data base of numbers and statistics that ensure the ever-increasing budget of the State's Social Services System.
    For every child filed into the system a cash register goes 'Cha-Ching!"
    The State makes money off of producing statistics of the need of child welfare services.
    Former Social Worker and Author, Mary Pride, in her 1981 book 'The Child Abuse Industry' wrote extensively on this very premise.
    If there isn't a problem? Why fund it?
    So. Let's create the problem. Thus, it can be funded.




    The first thing you must understand is when you are engaged in a Family and Probate court case is that you are guilty. After all, why would the State NOT bring such an action against you, right? Jurist-prudence and our Constitution be damned. The State does not have to prove its case (as in a criminal court). Instead, it is YOU who must comply with their decisions and show the court your obedience to their demands. In extreme cases defendants must somehow try to prove a negative. Essentially you are being accused of child abuse or neglect.
    How does one prove something they are NOT doing?

    The second thing you must understand is that all the agents are aligned. The school principal, child advocate, female police officer and the DCF worker all know each other. They work hand in hand. You can even see them chatting and laughing it up prior to your appearance before a Judge. Ever stand outside a court room during one of these proceedings? 
    I have, many times! Watch, listen, learn. It is a Cabal.
    Even the Court Appointed Lawyer for your case is an agent of the State. Then there is the Guardian Ad-Lightem. They are nebulous individuals charged with watching over you and your family while the hearings and investigations unfold. They have carte-blanche to enter your home, read your mail, check over the home for cleanliness and ask you dozens of questions. They tend to pop in at some of the worst moments of your day. Curiously enough Social workers rarely record interviews electronically. They always 'take notes' on a legal pad.
    And once you and your child are in the 'system' you never leave the database. Even if your case is adjudicated and dismissed that file still exists so that when your child grows up and has children of their own DCF is just one Mandated Reporter away from re-entering that (now grown) child's life to rain doom and ruin on the next generation of families.

    As I stated before; you are guilty. There is no jurist-prudence in Family or Probate Court. The standards are completely made up by the advocates and Judges depending on any particular case. What is fact on your side is nothing more than opinion according to the Court. However, the State (and its agents) can lie, not produce witnesses for your cross examination, yet will use those very witnesses for your prosecution. The Judge can dismiss your request for Motions and in too many cases that is usually standard operating procedure. You are not allowed to face your accuser. The HOT-Line is set up to be anonymous so any one can call in and say you are abusing your child, and the horses are off and running!

     You are Fucked! And it is all Mandated under Law! Great system, isn't it?


 Stay tuned.

....And That Is The Diatribe....