Nowadays (posts published = about 715 as of summer 2017), this is how I identify posts:
Types of updates: When you see quotes within solid borders (boxed), quotes with different background colors, the borders on the post itself, or comments with dates signed: “…//LGH 2017 (LGH= “Let’s Get Honest,” i.e., me). Also the added section in light-green showing several images for some of the links (I didn’t do screenprints, let alone annotated screenprints in 2010. In general, I’m trying to better distinguish actual quotes from my commentary on them, through formatting. Wordpress doesn’t naturally enable this, so each time you see it, I’m plowing through html “gibberish” for the specific codes, and tweaking them by “div” or “blockquote” or “span” or “Table.” This takes considerable time… For image display, the “WYSIWYG” (What You See is What You Get” function is imperfect, so there’s a lot of back and forth (edit, preview, adjust, preview again, etc.) on the layout.
There may be a more efficient way to do all this, but until then, and still being basically a self-taught amateur for blogging technology, and more to the point, still just one person (focused more on content than format), that’s how it works.)… I spent some time on this post also checking for and, where possible, replacing broken links. ….. some quotation / commentary notations towards the bottom are “best guess” where I no longer had valid links.
Why bother updating older posts? — Well, the other part of this one just got five more comments, so that’s why. The other reason is the types of people that are visiting the post, based on (html-based visitor ID software) some of the organization names. In 2016 and 2017 I’ve been hard-hitting at higher levels of organized networks (nonprofit and governmental as coordinated) on on following the money, and showing how to, also giving people again, permission to question any or all of the “experts” in any category, but with the platform and basis for doing so being objective, and on “operations” level. So, although they aren’t commenting much, visitors show up from various universities (incl. Harvard), or levels of government (esp. from California, where I live and on which blogs tend to focus), and overseas (London School of Economics at least a few times, Legislative Offices, President’s Offices at UC, and so forth). Sometimes these visitors seem to match what was being posted, sometimes, not.
And other times, I have to admit, it’s just to avoid humiliation in retrospect at the formatting/condition of the earlier posting.
There was a “Part 2” on this theme published 10/1/2010:
Picking up the narrative at Oct. 1, 2010…
I dare you to make some sense of this one: Actually, by now, there are about 4 cases below: Walkers (they squeaked in, in my intro), Archibalds, Stearns (thrown in for illustration), Katz, and that one’s a doozie. ALL of them are…What’s UP in Wisconsin?
Among the “parents” involved are <>the “Bodway” family who managed to get a daughter away from a mother after divorce, being nonrelatives; <>a mother who is caught, and on probation and medication for stealing her own daughters (and drugs and a gun involved– the drugs were antidepressants for her, and the gun, not fired, was for her safety, she said), and I’m going to presume that PROBABLY <>that prominent WI D.A. who was prosecuting a DV case and trying to make it (sexting was involved) with a woman half his age, while prosecuting her boyfriend for attempting to strangle her while still married (but divorcing) probably was a parent too.
SO . .
If you still think life as normal exists somewhere within our courts, then this blogger (who I suspect is the woman in question) will sound like a nutcase. And it’s easy to discredit someone whose allegations sound like a nutcase –unless one has spent some time looking up the court dockets, which I did here.
THE WALKER CASE IS A WALKING CASE OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST– PARTIAL:, here.
This blog (first example) I ran across looking up the Jon B., Theresa, and Kaiya Walker case, where the (noncustodial) mother abducted, was caught with an overdose and loaded gun, and two daughters, and in felony child custody interference, and the presiding judge there (Thomas E. Lister) orders psychological assesssments, while talking out of both sides of his mouth — she’s not a danger to the public — but was going to commit suicide.(<=hover cursor over either of the last two links for abstract, although the last link is broken since…)
2017 update, in case of future broken links. Images to above 5 links (something I DNK how to do in 2010 as a blogger):
WQOW 9/14/2010 article, “orders psychological assessments” link above
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“Kaiya Walker” link outdated,
was: http://www.news8000.com/global/story.asp?s=11435270 no story found in basic name search.
“Orders Psychological Assessments” link (image provided).
“Not a danger to the public” — link still good, (see image provided for top portion)
“but was going to commit suicide” link, “DailyMe.com” is broken. See image for DailyMe, Inc. header, and description of the media (Bloomberg). I want to talk about this media situation:
http://dailyme.com/story/2010082900001735/girl-recounts-horror-kidnapping-mother.html (broken link @ 2017)
(See Bloomberg.com image on DailyMe, which locates it in Florida. I looked it up (and easy “click, search, click on the details) at sunbiz.org.
“DailyMe,Inc. was active in FL. 2006-2014 only as a Foreign (Delaware) Corporation, throughout, under the directorship (it seems) of Eduardo Hauser. It changed names several times (MYDYA, Nexify, DailyMe, and finally “4000 Hollywood Holdings, Inc.”) until voluntarily withdrawing in FL in 2014 with a note to forward correspondence to “Nexify.” Notice (Bloomberg image) it’s consumer driven, has a patent-pending behavioral tracking” (i.e., what are consumers interested in, which of course advertisers and publishers would like to know) platform. Eduardo Hauser, I looked up, and he’s a major SCRIPPS Networks International media executive, over the region of Latin America (based in Miami), with his background from Venezuela. Take a look!
Scripps Networks Interactive Appoints Eduardo Hauser MD, Latin America and Caribbean 3/01/2016
…..(Two images from Florida Sec. of State Business Entity Search=”sunbiz.org” on DailyMe,
+ Two on Eduardo Hauser’s background and new position.
WHY: Digital media has a way of disappearing, and the corporations of changing names, websites, and often, ownership. SO??? People concerned about family court fiascos and justice in the USA had better come to grips with media ownership, and realize that familycourt fiascoes help sell news media, but don’t necessarily provide a good forum for understanding the court systems, government operations funding them, or helping people organize to prevent the types of crises that continue in them.
It’s usually REAL easy to do a few corporate lookups on any platform, if not a typical one, or news media. They ALL have owners. Many are privately held. Some are held within a privately within certain family line. We underestimate the influence of media conglomerates turned into tax-exempt foundations (example: Annenberg Foundation — formerly Triangle Publications, now funding university centers in several states).
As taxpayers, what we should have some ownership say in is the public institutions that are grinding people into bankruptcy, craziness, or despair through family dismantling, or failure to stop abuse when it’s been reported and happening.
Seven years ago, i.e., i 2010, I was more focused on specific court-involved nonprofits, and reminding us that without other documentation, almost ALL custody cases are hearsay, but one area that should be documentable (objectively) is the money involved. Since then, I have also posted a number of times (Fall 2016ff) on major media consolidation into families (being privately held) that then sell off at major profits, and set up foundations aimed at re-aligning one or more public institutions (such as the schools, or the courts, the juvenile justice systems, etc.).
Those four images re: that one broken link from “DailyMe.com,” then are part of the 2017 update to this 2010 post, but normal text without this background color is from the original.
FROM: http://sunbiz.org (FL business entities search) 4000 Hollywood Holdings, Inc. used to be “DailyMe” before which “Nexify” before which “MYDYA” (2006-2007 as a foreign (DE domicile) for-profit in Florida, Pres. E. Hauser. Image #1 of 2
(From Sunbiz.org, DAILYME.org (“4000 Hollywood Holdings” until it withdraw FL registration). Notice all the namechanges, and start date was 2006 in the state.
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Eduardo Hauser new position announced (3/1/2016), viewed through “Portada” (image not shown). #1 of 2
Eduardo Hauser new position announced (3/1/2016), #2 of 2 (Details mention his other companies — NB one is investment, the other is “DailyMe.” (I didn’t check DE incorp.) LGH, 7/21/2017 update
Although her mental health problems [“instability”] stemmed from the abuse, it was he who got custody and she who got psychological assessments. The children were taken across the border to MN, but MN didn’t prosecute, so WI will — but again, although a prescription overdose and a loaded gun was involved, what she really needed was more contact with HHS programs. …In the one hearing, the children’s letters could not be read because they were not victims. In another article (the minority, not the one spread cross the net like lightening), the children WERE victims and an interview is granted in which they state they most certainly WERE at risk.
The mother had about 26 letters (non-relatives) on her behalf, and the father only mentions his own mother speaking up for him. (Not shown — earlier, he’d tried, with Kaiya, to get a restraining order on his own mother and several other Walkers, too).
The judge that let her off easy, possibly, has a high profile for gagging a political ad from a 3rd-party heavy hitter coalition in a legislative campaign, but sounded kind of loose with his lips in that hearing, — and so forth. OH YES — and the docket shows at least once this now-Judge Lister had figured at least once (as prosecutor, if I remember it right) — in dimissing charge after charge with the father, who has a string starting with retail theft, (over $900) and many financial situations, plus abuse (civil/criminal) against Kaiya, appears to have run up somewhere around $25K debt, dismissed, and bankruptcy – and the child support action also summarily dismissed at the same time. It’s unclear whether those girls ever received any child support, from the record.
SO, if he’d participated in an unrelated case prosecuting the father, he should’ve recused himself HERE.
Moreover, other than being perhaps beside herself re: the children (though not innocent of taking them) it’s possible that the said prescription medications had been mandated by the courts? If not then, THEY ARE NOW. It seems that these figured in the incident. Psychology, Pharmaceuticals, . . . . .
My question was simply — who made Kaiya Walker into a noncustodial mother after abuse, and WHY? And the answer was the judge in the case below, The Hon. John A. Damon. But that’s another post — THIS one is about two OTHER wacky cases in the same state.
Then, this judge (Lister) turns out to be controversial in WI, as does the election process in general, in WI; and the question I had was, (as to the Walkers) who was the Family Law judge that gave custody to a batterer? That judge was The Hon. John A. Damon, same judge below here that apparently let a divorcing or divorced mother’s daughter be transferred through guile and (the mother says) forged documents, to the guardianship of well-connected strangers whose son “just happens” to be involved in drugs (meth), with intent to sell, theft, and sex with a “Child over 16.” Which charges keep getting dismissed.
BELOW this (example 2) is a recently divorced, middle-aged (50) successful D.A. prosecutor with a good reputation taking advantaged of a YOUNG (26) battered woman, while prosecuting her boyfriend for attempting to strangle her.
That’s pretty wacko; wait til you see the posts on the Walkers. Why are there THREE (adult) Walkers here? Well, obviously: the mother, the father, and the second wife. I didn’t mention his mother, and her parents .
And of course, there is an HHS connection, as usual. But I’m getting ahead of myself here.
How much easier and simpler just to take newspaper accounts at face value, right? All’s well in the world, and MOST of our judges, prosecutors, district attorneys, GALs, and custody evaluators (let’s not forget them!) are decent people, altruistic and just doing a hard job the best they can,** {{<==hover cursor over that link for “abstract” comment}} given how wacky are the litigants, and parents, and how rampant is crime.
- **2017 Update. That link would’ve been valid except for a formatting error: http://oaklandnorth.net/2009/10/26/omalley-looks-to-maintain-superior-tradition-at-alameda-county-da-office/ (Corrected version, see also next screenprints).
- Next two added images (and pdf for the whole article) feature just what may be meant by “Family Justice Centers” in this region — especially this family of judges, prosecutors, and DAs… In other words, it’s a “family matter” for those in power. Also note that platform “OaklandNorth.net” is actually a project of UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Donations to it have a specific fund number. As the University of California is in effect, a part of the state (it’s a government, public system), this may not be considered actual “independent journalism” but it sure looks good in print.
Always pay attention to the publication platform, something I forgot in 2010, but am correcting now in 2017.
(see pdf link to 10pg article + comments)
(Masthead (09/2012) from UCBerkeley Grad. School of Journalism project by this name).
I’m also including a 10-page printout of this article (with my annotations why it’s so important). Read the comments (Steve White), particularly on the Family Justice Center theme. I also researched this (elsewhere) including its financials, in past years, and as the concept spread in California, other states, and some overseas. It’s a racket !! Adding two images from the current “ACJFCJ” (although I know this is a Wisconsin-focused post…). Small excerpt, and part of the problem: The O’Malley Family, the Lockyers, nepotism…. lying… breaking laws, etc.
I see the “Camp Hope” theme has moved north from San Diego, where it originated under Casey Gwinn et al. Somehow these people LOVE getting to “families who have experienced violence” (esp. the kids), but try and asking them for some real-time, actual help.. (I know, and I did, too, more than once over time), and have witnesses of the asking and the non-response during time of emergency. One of THE most powerful things any D.A. can do is just ignore the crime (not prosecute, not intervene…), which seems a real art form in this area!
O_Malley looks to maintain “superior tradition” at Alameda County DA office | Oakland North (A UCBerk JournalismSchool project!) Oct 26 2009 10pager) From the article:
A Life of Law
O’Malley, who graduated from CSU-East Bay and holds a law degree from Golden Gate University, comes from one of the Bay Area’s best-known legal families. Her father, who moved from Boston to Contra Costa County in the 1950s, went on to serve as the county’s district attorney for 15 years and as a Superior Court judge for 11 more. With nine children, the O’Malleys were a large Irish Catholic family in Concord in the 1960s and ‘70s. (“We were actually one of the smaller families on the block,” Nancy O’Malley jokes today.) Nancy is not the only one who stayed in the family business. Her brother Dan, a former California Superior Court judge, is running for the Contra Costa district attorney job in June, and her sister-in-law, Mary Ann O’Malley, is a California Superior Court judge.
(The material from this link, and related images added 7/21/2017 //LGH)
Like in the MN Twin Cities Area:
(Link still good in 2017, see image)
TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press, Sept. 16, 2010
By David Unze
St. Cloud Times
Updated: 09/16/2010 09:04:42 AM CDT
Four more criminal sexual conduct charges have been filed against a Stearns County sheriff’s sergeant accused of providing alcohol to three juveniles and sexually assaulting them.
Phillip Jerome Meemken, 40, now faces 22 felony sex assault charges and three misdemeanors accusing him of providing alcohol to minors and child endangerment.
Meemken has been free since posting bail shortly after his first court appearance on the original 21 charges filed against him. He is scheduled to be in Stearns County District Court today for a hearing on the original charges and for a first appearance on the new charges.
Meemken was in charge of the Stearns County sheriff’s office’s Explorer Post, and at least two of the alleged victims were members of that group. The Explorer Post is a program to teach young adults about law enforcement.
Meemken is innocent til proven guilty in a court of law. He’s also out on bail. He also apparently also knows something about law enforcement, exploiting the trust of young people, and (if charges are valid), now so do some of the youth (male or female is not detailed), as well.
The complaint outlines several instances in which Meemken is accused of getting the teenagers drunk and performing various sex acts on them, some when the teens allegedly were incapacitated because of their intoxication.
The new charges came after the mother of one alleged victim contacted a Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator with new allegations against Meemken, according to a new court complaint filed Tuesday…
Moms can stick up for their kids too. Was this a single Mom? Was she told repeatedly that her child needed to be around strong male role models, like Sheriff Meemken? (now, THAT’s just speculating).
Always trust those in authority. They always have your, and your kids’ best interests at heart, and the general public’s. Particularly anyone in a uniform (see next example, below).
NOT by comparison with what’s happening to their children… and them…. Not from what I can see, even on cases not in my own state… Most criminals, except gangs, at the local level aren’t well enough connected, or into the “rule the world” (or state) mentality. White collar crime and gangs exist, and where does it operate? Well, never in the halls of justice, right?
I present the blog below as HEARSAY — except I DID look at every single Nels. C. Bodway docket, which checked out. I do not know this woman, and I do NOT recommend just upping and calling a judge. But it’s a nightmare.
This is the ENTIRE post, and I think the blog has only one post, so far:
(update: blog was since removed, we don’t know how, or whether voluntarily, under duress, or through some court gag order. Image taken 7/2017. Link was:
“http://fightcorruptioninamerica.blogspot.com/2008/07/corruption-in-america-local-judge-john.html“):
(I’m glad I quoted this much text before it was removed… and went from there to looking at the docket!)
click to enlarge (shows “Blog has been removed Sorry, the blog at fightcorruptioninamerica.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not available for new blogs.”
Here’s my first story I received via email. It’s an almost unheard of story. I have documents that this person has sent to me and everything seems to check out. If you are interested in seeing the documents let me know.
(In my comments responding to the story below, I addressed them to the person who sent them, not the blogger who received the story. // LGH, 7/2017).
I’m writing to report corruption in local and state government in regards to Wisconsin. Naomi (Gunderson) Bodway, sister of a former congressman Steve Gunderson, Judge John Damon of Trempleau County husband of Betsy Damon who works at Osseo-Fairchild School District, and other people in state government. They have forged documents (notarized by none other than Naomi Bodway’s sister Kristine Boeckmann), signed orders illegally infringing on my constitutional rights and there is a conspiracy going on, in which I have manifold proof. I live in Virginia and need an investigation done. They have a son Nels C. Bodway who has so many felony counts brought against him in Wisconsin, but surprisingly almost all of them are always dropped, when in reality he should be in jail for life. He has many counts of leud acts with minors, drug charges, fraud, and the list goes on. Well this is no mystery these people know the judges, etc. You can go to wisconsin’s public record here to see this:http://wcca.wicourts.gov/ (search on name(s)
This is an urgent matter and must be handled immediately. I’m writing because I am in need of help. I went through a rough divorce in 2007. My now ex husband Dale Archibald was creating problems for me at home and work leading up to the divorce and destroying my relationship with all my friends, he eventually put me through duress, with verbal, physical, and even deadly threats (one time he put a shotgun to my head in front of my children).
Did you file for RO or press charges? Was any DV agency called? I’m not judging, I’m asking.
He pushed me out of our joint house which had a mortgage on it so I took my two children after I got a transfer to the Baltimore branch of the company I work at, and moved in with my mother and Step Father in Virginia as I was trying to get back on my feet. It was tough in the beginning due to the fact that my ex husband Dale Archibald drained the money out of our joint account, which was mostly my money. He than filed for bankruptcy and all the debt was pushed on me.
{{Court docket backs up house went into foreclosure and defaulted, the amount was around $60,000}}
A long story short, my daughter was fine in Virginia, until Gerald and Naomi Bodway’s daughter Greta Bodway called my daughter and said she should come live with them to finish out the current school year. My daughter asked me if she could do this and I said no many times. The Bodway’s than called me and told me it would be like a foreign exchange program and Caitlin would be fine there for that school year. I told them no and they constantly called me and had their daughter Greta call Caitlin. She became very depressed and wouldn’t socialize or do anything and only said she wanted to go back to school in Wisconsin. I told her, I will only let you finish the current school year and than you are coming back for good. She said okay.
The Bodway’s guaranteed me everything would be fine and that she would be back after this school year. They told me I had to fill out school medical releases incase my daughter got hurt in school, due to the fact that she was in sports (which they used to forge a temporary guardianship paper in which Naomi had her relative Kristine Boeckman notarize although I did not sign and was not present.
Things started to change suddenly. The Bodway’s started acting suspiciously during Christmas break when I was up there to see my daughter. They tried to keep me from my daughter than and on New Years day. Although I was very concerned I did not proceed any further besides telling Caitlin I want her to come back, because they were trying to keep her from me. Than Naomi Bodway (maiden name Gunderson) and Gerald Bodway started scheduling activities for Caitlin in the summer, vacations to other states, and many other things.
That’s disrespectful of the mother. No mention if the father was involved, either. They are “purchasing” influence on a minor child through these things, when the mother was evidently so financially compromised (house was foreclosed — I saw the docket) she was hard put to fight back; moved in with her own mother in another state.
[I had some of this happening too, only it was third parties and my relatives involved. As we saw above, sometimes mothers can get jailed for “custodial interference” and then ordered into ongoing therapy on probation (happening also with a current case in MN (See RedHerringAlert blog, Grazzini-Rucki case, Deirdre Evavold not even a relative (!) was jailed fall 2016 and now is getting the “you need therapy/psychological evaluation” treatment, last I heard..). And other times (in my case it was under the father’s custody that my visitation rights became, “miraculously” suddenly unenforceable. Children were kept busy and made sure to be OUT OF TOWN (without my knowledge or permission) during holidays scheduled to be with me, including at least twice over Christmas/New Years, and spring (“Easter”) school breaks. ….
When I confronted them about this they just said, Deb we know what’s best for your daughter. I was enraged, and I told them I was coming up to get my daughter back and they had Judge John Damon and the probate Kay Vold (both close friends with Naomi and Gerald Bodway as they like their acting and plays) file paperwork (filed illegally and not giving me any notice of a hearing ex-parte hearing and order for no reason, other than they knew the Judge John Damon who is a crook) forcing me to not be able to get my daughter once I arrived there from Virginia.
If this mother sees this post, please send us the link to that action, and give an update –do you have contact with your daughter now she is an adult? What about (was there not a son also?).
They than had the local school superintendent come over (Kerry Jacobson) to the house (also a personal friend, and interfere). My lawyer keyed me into the fact that Judge John Damon and the Probate and the Bodway’s are personal friends and they spend a lot of time together outside of the court.
If this lawyer was in WI, the question is, is HE or SHE (see below for links) friends with this judge, and discouraging you from going full force for custody?
I was also made aware, that there is a convicted felon Nels C. Bodway living at the residence from time to time when he is not in jail temporarily. f However the Judge said he doesn’t live there, Nels that is, how what that possible when he was arrested by his own Father in April for stealing his father’s wallet out of his dresser drawer? Nels C. Bodway son of Naomi and Gerald Bodway, the strangers who are trying to steal my daughter from me has been convicted of many counts and tried for many others. He had charges brought to court against him for selling drugs, fraud, selling drugs to minors, having sex with minors and many more other charges.
I copied the records, below. I don’t normally do this, but it’s also part of a context on a followup post, same area, same judges in part. I also want readers to remember, they can look, too. It doesn’t tell whole story, but does at least tell the dates, charges, presiding official, attorneys, and disposition of the hearings. It will often tell a different story than the mainstream media.
The Bodway’s were granted temporary guardianship of my daughter and they are now trying to and might be successful (have been successful in illegally stealing my daughter through the courts with their judge friends help) in getting permanent guardianship although I was not proved and I am not an unfit mother. Local corruption is what is allowing these cons and criminals to manipulate the law against my constitutional rights.
How old was your daughter in 2007?
I have several investigations going on in the State level, the forged document and an inadequate investigation by a Guardian Ad Litem Carl Bahnson who was an attorney hired by the Bodway’s and appointed (Through the Bodway’s attorney Terry Moore, who goes to sporting events with the Bodways, both their daughters are in sports) by Judge John Damon personal friend of the Bodway’s.
GALs are often part of the wallpaper in family law system. Yours is at least an attorney (passed WI bar in 1979?).
We got a GAL-type after my children were stolen, repeated violation of court orders (didn’t seem to “compute” with this one) and did a remote (never met with me) psychological diagnoses after I reported the no contact, being stalked, and so forth. I do not believe this one read the court docket (there’s absolutely nothing in her testimony or statements that indicates she did), and when questioned by me on the scope of her involvement, guidelines — did not answer me, or respond to information mailed her. They are part of the wallpaper, in most cases, and add to the general confusion in a case
Subpoena the payments. If Bodways are paying the GAL, that’s conflict of interest. There’s not too much on Brahnson on the docket (I looked the day after this post); he’s stood as GAL in a few Child Abuse Restraining Order hearings (civil, it seems) and filed for divorce himself in 2009, there is a bit more.
The State Bar association is looking at my evidence, but still are investigating. As of now they said it looks like Carl Bahnson did not do a proper investigation (they wrote back saying he was fine) He didn’t even do background checks and just said that he never knew there was a convicted felon (Nels C. Bodway) living at the Bodways.
Not to mention the fact that they put my daughter on birth control without notifying I and they always allow the boys and girls who stay over to sleep in the same room with each other unsupervised. My daughter told me herself she was having sex and there is nothing I can do about it.
See Nels C. Bodway record — Sex with a minor… Although an older one … [2017 update — I’m not sure if this was the poster’s comment, or mine at the time…]
They are trying to take my daughter away from me, how is this legal? The local government is intervening in my rights as a United States Citizen. The Probate and Judge have been threatening my lawyer to drop it and let the Bodway’s have my daughter.
It sounds to me like they already have. Detail the threats your attorney is under; if valid, that’s obstruction of justice, and possibly (the parties involved) a criminal enterprise. This wouldn’t be handled in that court, but a different one, possibly Federal.
Please help me. I have true paperwork and legal documents that correlate my story and claims, criminal records, forged document, etc.
I am in a somewhat similar situation, and the most help I can do (assuming this is true) is by posting it, and recommending you contact “National Alliance for Family Court Justice” which — if you are still in VA — is located there; the pattern is similar and common — not just taking children from one parent and putting to the other, but also sometimes to third parties. The ex parte is outrageous — and do post the link (or was it in juvenile court?). IF this is true, it’s outrageous.
Again, I did see the financial devastation (foreclosure, etc.) and notice that no matter who else’s debts get brushed off in court, the courts usually make sure they get their own.
Here’s a survey on Judge John Damon, which shows he doesn’t have the greatest results:
http://www.courthouseforum.com/forums/forum.php?id=148470#forum148470
{{Courthouse Forum is individuals speaking their minds/venting about various court personnel, and is also hearsay, not evidence}}
Protect your rights, especially your freedom of speech, and 14th amendment which John Damon took away from the lady who wrote the story: tell John Damon how you feel through email:
Judges are not supposed to be swayed by public opinion in individual cases before them. Of course they often are (as well as by private dealings). If anyone writes, be respectful and respect the office. Particularly individuals with open cases in any state. See rightsformothers.com for some judges’ reaction (NC case) when people wrote PLENTY. I am not going to write. I’m writing here…
The Family Law system PER SE (and other entities entwined with it from almost its start, including the mental health professionals) violates due process and a number of amendments, which is discussed on this blog. This is openly stated as intentional by the federal agencies (child support, welfare) involved and the funding behind them.
That’s why going through and expecting these things is hell on parents.
john.damon@trempealeau.courts.state.wi.us
or
john.damon@wicourts.gov
Contact him by phone or fax in his office:
Telephone (715) 538-2311 FAX (715) 538-4400
Or
John Damon
13013 12th St
Osseo, WI 54758-7160
Phone #(715) 597-2242
Contact Carl Bahnson another crook in on this escapade:
dansmetlaw@clearwire.net
bahnsonlaw@charterinternet.com
http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=591924704
Carl T. Bahnson
Bahnson Law Office
2522 Gold Road ,Suite 3
Eau Claire, WI 54701
Phone: 715-835-2255
…..
or call anybody on the supreme court of Wisconsin, here’s the link:
http://www.wicourts.gov/contact/docs/supreme.pdf
Remember if we allow corruption to destroy the liberties in which this country was founded on, and which millions and millions of Americans have died to protect year after year since, the birth of this nation, freedom and liberty along with this nation will dissolve and never be again. Call your local congressmen and complain, call your govenor [sic — “governor”].
Why not CALL them about the Access/Visitation funding which promotes noncustodial parent access help — aimed at fathers. Call them about the Fatherhood Funding and lack of accountability in agencies that are supposedly helping. I called up to Senator level in my case, and was tossed back to an agency that never helped me. Now these agencies are more and more centralized, and mainstreaming the conversations, eliminating certain viewpoints, and assuring he public that “all is well” in these fields, particularly in the DV or Child Abuse field. But then when more funding is needed of course all is NOT well. Do some homework before calling congressmen or women, and call Liz Richards in Anandale VA http://www.nafcj.net if you are a protective parent (female OR male) getting ramrodded through the courts. If you are an abuser, and harassing your ex through repeated frivolous litigation, don’t even bother, it will be seen through.
Just do something to protect yourself against the people mentioned above. You can copy this story and post it on your webpages, print it out and show it to friends, send it to anyone you so please, just do not modify the story please, due to the fact it is all true. They participate in government groups too. Here’s a link of a group one of the people are in, government reform, well speak of the devil:
[COMMON CAUSE link, above, I didn’t check it out yet]
(2) Another indicator that all’s not well in Wisconsin, at least for women:
[UPDATE: Broken image link was from google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ (and a very long string of characters and symbols. Unfortunately, I didn’t provide captions, and so can’t update. Can guess from the context it showed another beat up woman, probably her face…)
This woman’s boyfriend, allegedly, did this to her. Look like someone a little vulnerable?
So, the D.A. thought so too — and while prosecuting her boyfriend, (and being himself middle-aged, divorced), and obviously with some testosterone to spare, went after this young woman. After about 30 messages, she reported him, feeling that if she was being essentially told that he might drop the case if she didn’t comply. Read the whole article for the full flavor.
{{Guess at this age, and physical condition/shape, one has to appeal to power, salary, etc. not looks, as to young women. Or just flat-out exploit them..}}
I don’t want to run afoul of AP, so here’s THAT link and just a bit of it.
By RYAN J. FOLEY (AP) – 2 hours ago (09-15-2010)
CHILTON, Wis. — A prominent Wisconsin district attorney sent repeated text messages trying to spark an affair with a domestic abuse [[make that “Violence”!!] victim while he was prosecuting her ex-boyfriend, a police report shows.
Don’t EVER accept a condescending attitude from a D.A., a Judge, an Attorney, or any evaluator. It’s inappropriate. That is mostly what females tend to get, regardless of the gender of those in authority. When I read things like this, I realize some of these in places of authority have let it get to their heads, and ethics. Assuming these texts happened, how outrageous (and how common?) is this.
D.A.’s have a HUGE amount of discretion in cases. They cannot prosecute all cases, and pick which ones to prosecute. The public cannot, really, force them to prosecute anything, or to do so well. Often, they seem to know this, and take advantage of it.
The 26-year-old woman complained last year to police after receiving 30 texts from Calumet County District Attorney Kenneth Kratz in three days, according to the report obtained by The Associated Press.
“Are you the kind of girl that likes secret contact with an older married elected DA … the riskier the better?” Kratz, 50, wrote in a message to Stephanie Van Groll in October 2009. In another, he wrote: “I would not expect you to be the other woman. I would want you to be so hot and treat me so well that you’d be THE woman! R U that good?”
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I’m serious! I’m the atty. I have the $350,000 house. I have the 6-figure career. You may be the tall, young, hot nymph, but I am the prize!” he texted.
….[“prize”” is not the word which comes to my mind, which I won’t post, but it ends in “…ole.”]
She’d been strangled, which is high-lethality risk, and traumatized. He’s taunting her to focus on HIM and perform for him so he wouldn’t want not to cheat on her. What compassion for the victim here. He’s on the rebound from a marriage, too, evidently (wonder why they separated), ego may need a boost. Or, she was the first one that reported this — how’d we know?
Kratz was prosecuting Van Groll’s ex-boyfriend on charges he nearly choked her to death last year. He also was veteran chair of the Wisconsin Crime Victims’ Rights Board, a quasi-judicial agency that can reprimand judges, prosecutors and police officers who mistreat crime victims.
Not including himself….
In a combative interview in his office Wednesday, Kratz did not deny sending the messages and expressed concern their publication would unfairly embarrass him personally and professionally. . . .
The word “combative” doesn’t say much — he’s been caught sexting, a lot’s on the line here. Who was combative? Was the reporter also? Was he asked whether he sent messages? Where’s the transcript of the interview. I’m just pointing out, interviews have at least 2 parties, and “combat” comes from one side, or both, from people. the word “interview” is a generic noun. The reporter has a real hot story/ headline. “Combative” should’ve been applied to a person, if it applied — not the interview.
. . .If what’s being alleged is true, it’s sad a prosecutor would use the same sort of power and control over a woman who has already experienced that in her personal life,” said Patti Seger, executive director of the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
{{No, it’s not sad — that was a wimpy response. It’s outrageous, and abuse, and a real abuse of power and position. Whose side is she on?. And, not so uncommon. Was he just a bad apple in a bushel of good ones?}}
Kratz may be best known for prosecuting Steven Avery in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach, a 25-year-old photographer. The case won national attention because Avery had spent 18 years behind bars for a rape he did not commit in a separate case before DNA evidence implicated someone else. Kratz received glowing media attention and flirted with a run for Congress in 2008.
Last year, around the time he was texting Van Groll, Kratz was back in the spotlight for (appropriately!) prosecuting a woman who worked with others to lure a boyfriend to a hotel room and glued his penis to his stomach as revenge for his cheating. ({The woman, almost 50, was 11 years older than the cheating man)}
In the interview, Kratz said he was proud he helped achieve legislation creating the first-of-its-kind crime victims’ board and that he had dedicated his career to their cause.
Who should be looked into. Reminds me of Casey Gwinn out of San Diego and the Family Justice Alliance concept. Power and influence, not compassion for the victims.
“I wrote the law on crime victims in Wisconsin,” he said, pointing to a picture of him with former Gov. Tommy Thompson signing that law. “That’s the irony here.
Minimizing, Trying to keep it quiet, self-aggrandizement for self-sanctions turns out to be a lie, what about that Crime Victims’ Board he created in 1998, and — perhaps incidental — he’s a Republican. That divorce sounds understandable, if this behavior was typical!
(Next Link now broken, redirects to: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39213862 and an error message)
WTMJ-TV and JSOnline.com
updated
2 hours 2 minutes agoE-mails show Ken Kratz urged state officials to keep the matter from the public.
CHILTON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin prosecutor who sent sexually suggestive text messages to a domestic abuse victim downplayed the seriousness of their content and urged state officials to keep the matter from the public, his peers and state regulators, e-mails show.
Characteristics of typical abuser.
The texts sent by Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz could have jeopardized the prosecution of the victim’s ex-boyfriend on charges he nearly choked her to death, a state Department of Justice official told Kratz last year.
Kratz stepped aside from the prosecution, and an assistant attorney general won a conviction earlier this year.
But the e-mails show Kratz at first resisted resigning as chairman of the Wisconsin Crime Victims’ Rights Board or reporting his conduct to the Office of Lawyer Regulation.
This is EXACTLY the kind of behavior such office should be reporting!
Kratz resigned from the board in December only after Justice officials threatened to share the text messages he sent the woman with the Wisconsin District Attorneys Association, e-mails show.
Kratz was the association’s designee on the crime board, which he helped create in 1998 and has the power to reprimand officials who mistreat victims. He questioned what legal authority Justice officials had to give the association information about the case. Potter said it was not a legal matter but one of public confidence in the court system.
In his statement Wednesday, Kratz said he had resigned from the board “as a self-imposed sanction.” He also took credit for reporting his own conduct in December to Office of Lawyer Regulation, which found in March his behavior was inappropriate but not professional misconduct.
He was a lying, cheating, selfish, narcissistic man in a position of power, who cared more about his position than about people he was helping. It may be that an ego the size of the house helps win court cases, but how are women to continue to report crime and seek help against it when this is the treatment they get? Sounds like he expected to get the house in the divorce, too, boasting about it to the young woman.
EXCERPTS / LINKS from the Archibald story, above, [[EXTENDED quotes and exchange with a blog now “not found and domain name not available” above; involves Bodways also]] sounds like her daughter at Nels C.’s parents’ house “just might” be bad news: THESE are available to search (link above, if I recall), and public record in WI:
I cleaned up (made to solid lines, smaller font, and contained within post-width) tables as best I could on 7/21/2017, also taking into account, how much of an impact would it make, in the long run. Unfortunately I didn’t provide the links to where these records were obtained (i.e., which government site) which by now may also have changed. Possibly “wcca.wicourts.gov” or some variety of that. //LGH 2017
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05-02-2008
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Trempealeau
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Bodway, Nels C
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12-29-1980
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State of Wisconsin vs. Nels C Bodway
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05-09-2008
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Eau Claire
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Closed
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Bodway, Nels C.
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12-29-1980
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State of Wisconsin vs. Nels C. Bodway
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04-11-2008
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Eau Claire
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Closed
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Bodway, Nels C.
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12-29-1980
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State of Wisconsin vs. Nels C. Bodway
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10-22-2007
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Eau Claire
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Closed
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Bodway, Nels C.
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12-1980
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Eau Claire City of vs. Nels C. Bodway
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03-21-2006
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Eau Claire
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Closed
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Bodway, Nels C.
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12-29-1980
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State of Wisconsin vs. Nels C. Bodway
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09-26-2005
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Eau Claire
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Closed
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Bodway, Nels C.
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12-29-1980
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State of Wisconsin vs. Nels C. Bodway
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07-06-2004
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Eau Claire
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Bodway, Nels C.
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12-29-1980
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State of Wisconsin vs. Nels C. Bodway
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05-17-2004
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Eau Claire
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Closed
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Bodway, Nels C.
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12-29-1980
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State of Wisconsin vs. Nels C. Bodway
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03-17-2004
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Eau Claire
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Bodway, Nels C
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12-29-1980
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State of Wisconsin vs. Nels C Bodway
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03-21-2006
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Criminal
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Address
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12-29-1980
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N51335 Oakridge Road, Osseo, WI 54758
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2005EC004086
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Manuf/Deliver Amphetamine(<=3g)
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Felony F
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948.09
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Sex with Child Age 16 or Older
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Misd. A
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Dismissed-Read In-Pr
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948.09
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Sex with Child Age 16 or Older
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Misd. A
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Dismissed-Read In-Pr
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948.07(6)
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Child Enticement-Give/Sell Drugs
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Felony D
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Dismissed-Read In-Pr
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961.41(1)(e)1
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Manuf/Deliver Amphetamine(<=3g)
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Felony F
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Dismissed-Read In-Pr
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Defense Attorney
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Lenz, Paul J
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Hanson, Erin
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Hertel, Harry R
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Here, (METH), he jumps Bail, case closed. We got another Judge:
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Possession of Methamphetamine
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961.573(1)
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Possess Drug Paraphernalia
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Bail Jumping-Felony
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Wahl, Eric
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Heinz, Jennifer R
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Osberg, Laurie Sazama
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State of Wisconsin vs. Nels C. Bodway
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Possess w/ Intent-Amphetamine(>3-10g)
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07-01-2003
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Wahl, Eric
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Possession of Methamphetamine
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Felony I
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Wahl, Eric
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Long, Emily
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Osberg, Laurie Sazama
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The Archibalds (Divorce, financials)
She’s screwed:
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(OUR–er, Wisconsin’s — FEARLESS LEADERS, and their offspring). I’ll be back !!!
Remember — the spin, is usually 180% about face. If you “get” that, you “get” this whole field, basically.
I spent most of yesterday on Wisconsin court docket and looking up judges. WHY? Because a certain news story was just too “neat and clean” — until I read a story that contradicted common sense.
Let's Get Honest! Absolutely Uncommon Analysis of Family & Conciliation Courts' Operations, Practices, & History 
Judge Damon and Trempealeau County released my ex-husband from a 330 day sentence for 4th drunk driving after 40 hours served. He is on an ankle bracelet.
They also gave him all rights to resume his custodial rights to our two year old daughter, regardless of the fact that the gardium ad litem asked that they remove all rights from my ex husband.
There is certainly corrupt activities in Whitehall. Is there anything I can do?
Brooke Pederson
September 30, 2010 at 4:02 am
I also should made it known that my ex-husband’s mother works at the courthouse.
Brooke Pederson
September 30, 2010 at 4:06 am
I recommend you visit (and read it…) National Alliance for Family Court Justice (Liz Richards). We are trying to stop the ridiculous fatherhood-type grants which are being used to compromise custody cases. After reading it, CALL her. … Your case sounds almost exactly like Lorraine Tipton’s (search my blog).
If you’re not that hot on reading so much, (although sooner or later you have to), try Randijames.com
for a more bite-sized version of the similar ideas. (link isn’t to that site, but to a compilation of comments on Lorraine’s jailing…)
If you feel comfortable showing me docket # on the divorce action, I’d be interested — have looked quite a bit at the Wisconsin state site, that’s all (say so here, and I’ll email off-line).
Sorry about your troubles — I’m still overloaded, and again, what turned the understanding in my case — pretty much that top site I keep promoting. Plus prayer — we’ll need it!
LetsGetHonest
September 30, 2010 at 4:06 pm
Yeah, women who get custody 90% of the time complain and complain of bias, unbelievable. The system is heavly bias in favor of mothers. A woman has to be a complete loser for custody to be given to the father.
Your solution to family law is to deny fathers any contact with the children and have them underwrite your shopping. Blogs like this and the support of women who abuse the system actually HURTS the women you supposedly want to help.
Roland S. Wilson
September 30, 2010 at 8:34 am
Dear Mr. Wilson:
Presumably you also believe in the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and in whatever you read in the paper?
Well, looking you up wasn’t on my to do list today (at all), but Curiosity killed the cat, and I’m an innate teacher. Turns out you sound pretty literate, have a variety of interests, and I guess this was your commentary about how the poor single parents in New York should be smart, and either not be single, or leave the city:
” hate to by cycnical but could the solution to this problem simply be to move out of New York to a place where it is cheaper to live? I never understood the logic of attempting to live in one the most expensive places in America when your earning capacity is 10 dollars an hour and then complain about being poor.
The other issues described in the article regarding being a ’single’ parent is rather easy to fix also: Don’t have children if you don’t have a husband/partner to help you. Choose the right person so you won’t be struggling before you have kids. Finally don’t throw out a good provider of your children because you are bored with your marriage.
The final issue regarding education is simple. Stay in school and when in school study something that leads to a career that is in demand. Now that the internet is cheap and free in most parts of the city, there is nothing you can’t learn on your own if you have a little initiative to use a search engine. All of this information on nearly every subject imaginable is at your fingertips. There are no excuses for failure anymore.
— Roland S. Wilson”
(NYTimes blog) June 28 — Living Expenses Rising faster than Wages.”
These are all helpful suggestions. Any poor single (mother, is implied) still living in NYC and not figuring out by internet, in advance, what jobs will be around by the time she graduates from (high school? Community college? etc..) — well, it’s her own dang fault. You can sleep easy that there are no social issues contributing here: say, the gender wage gap, lack of credit, she may have other supportive FAMILY in NYC, or have graduated from an abominable public high school in the area, or perhaps became single because an innocent parent/Dad was a victim of crime, or was himself, say, violent towards her, resulting in the “singlehood”? It’s her own lack of initiative.
As to internet, one area of jealous control includes of contact with outside world. I am a DV victim, and access to internet was a common problem. (Til current, by the way).
I’d like my readership to understand that this is not a Stu Showalter kinda guy: Here’s this commenter’s blog — jazz & photography
Symmetry, Intensity, Abstraction, Resolution, Balance, Form
. . . well, except when it comes to the commentary above.
You are a young man — are you also a father? Or is this an objective assessment of the situation in the courts overall, part of your general intelligence about how the world works…
And comment on it [I liked “Gandhi Wuz Robbed.”]
Well, OK, I’ve got to get back to some actual conttributions to the people around me, now. Nice chatting.
Being an artist and musician, (I’m a musician, and becoming a single parent IMproved my financial status (because it removed an abuser who was sabotaging my work, particularly work in music) until the family law got in — and, thanks to laws passed by men complaining like you got ALL kinds of programs passed, on the basis of the horror of children waking up in a fatherless home. “The system is biased against men, the system is biased against men” (oh yeah, and the sky is falling, too. Hey, if a phrase works, use it!)
You’re a musician — ever use a metronome? The old fashioned kind? Maybe you didn’t need one, but FYI, they go TICK – TICK – TICK like an upside down grandfather clock.
Only in the courts, it doesn’t go that way.
Unless you can show me a “motherhood.gov” to match the new “fatherhood.gov” — or find the word “mother” in any of Obama’s writings or speeches regarding “family” — I’d have to question the accuracy of your statement.
My 2nd comment HERE Lists some of the U.S. government (and many others’) remedies for that bias against men you mentioned. There are plenty and have been for almost two decades (1989 supervised visitation centers pushed in Duluth, MN — 1999 Congress passes more fatherhood laws — 2009, 2010 the Feds are funding initiatives (working alongside “faith-based” groups, who we know are real “favorable” to women and biased against men) … Don’t miss my little dialogue with Andy Stachura from NH, below that…
Again, Wacko in Wisconsin came from my examining news articles, COURT dockets, and knowing a mother in Oconto County (WI) who also, being noncustodial, went to jail because her daughter didn’t want to go back and be abused. More. Finally, to get her own mom out of jail, the daughter relented. On THIS post, I mention a virtual adolescent girl-for-sale-because-someone-has- connections-in-high-places (and a son whose convictions for drugs and sex with a Child over 16) seem to keep getting derailed, plus a documented case of a DA prosecuting a battery (strangulation) case and trying to “get some” on the side as well, with follow up reports (DNK if I actually posted this) saying his DEfense person commented, HEY, his behavior was nowhere near the worst; others have done worse and retained their jobs… (if not, do your own follow-up on the sexting D.A.).
The women complaining are NOT the ones getting custody, but the ones who have lost custody to batterers or child molesters, or who have been bankrupted by child support garnishings after custody switch. See RightsForMothers.com and see if she would fit your profile.
You are both mis-reading and mis-quoting me (as well as misunderstanding most of my blog, and ignoring the evidence in this particular blog…)
Roland, I am probably twice-plus your age, and I have been successful in music — plenty – and driven out of it through family law system. I have commited no crime and abused no system; I am exercising my first amendment rights to protest an abusive system! You know nothing about my case — however, FYI, the child support in my case was not requested by me, but by the county when, after a long time of being abused — which includes economic abuse, and i worked through the marriage also — I had to BRIEFLY collect food stamps and cash aid. I NEVER requested an increase in child support. The things I shopped for included food, gas for the car to get them to their schools, and clothes to put on them. This was true during the marriage as well, despite abuse. I have never recommended ALL fathers get no contact with their children, although you “ballparked” women getting custody as complainers, and any woman who loses custody as a “complete loser.”
Please use the same level of civility on my blog as you do on the NYT blogs, your *.com site, and stop letting loose with bitter (and overbroad, and false) statements about me, women, the courts, etc. on a blog with obviously lower traffic (though international).
I’m presuming either you don’t have a day job, or a child to care for at this point??? Or sales are going well?
AND, FYI, the CHIEF women I want to help are my daughters, who are almost grown, and you represent the world they are possibly entering into, in which it’s STILL OK to mouth off, accuse, and dump on women as a gender, particularly ones like me who “mouth off” on some very serious problems.
“Fathers” and the subset of fathers who molest their kids (that’s rape, etc. if you don’t know what I mean), batter their women (or both) and bankrupt them intentionally after divorce (see Archibald case) and/or fraudulently “buy” children who are not at all for sale, eliminating the Mom and a growing, fast, subset of the other overentitled fathers who are reverting back to the ancient custom of burying wives and concubines with the Dad (guess they feel underprivileged but there’s ONE way to feel “royal,” at least for a few dramatic moments, while leaving this life and taking others out with him — or not taking himself out, just them. And, what the heck, a few bystanders is OK, too.) — are not the same thing. I had a father, and I happen to appreciate him. I have known many decent men professionally and socially. I am blogging about the family law’s systemic profiling of ALL Dads as NECESSARY Dad’s in a kid’s lives, which they aren’t.
That’s enough, for sure… Check my last post (Enraged, Estranged, Restrained, Dead..) and tell me how this represents a father unable to see his kids under even the most extreme conditions — would you call THAT “biased against mothers??”
…close enough for jazz, I guess.
familycourtmatters
September 30, 2010 at 3:36 pm
So you know how to google. Very cute. You are not twice my age as I doubt you are around 100 years old. Yes I have two children and I’ve also seen the abuse that some people are capable of by lying in the courts. It clogs the courts and hurts people who are really in trouble (not to mention the parties involved). My reply is not bitter nor is it disrespectfull. You can talk ad infinitum about abuse that happened in the acient world but that isn’t reality today. The reality is 7% of men have sole custody of their children. You don’t need to take my word for it, you can go to a nice liberal magazine like Newsweek.
http://www.newsweek.com/2008/12/14/not-your-dad-s-divorce.html
The fact that you would even ‘google’ me and post my quotes to attempt to impeach me shows you have some serious problems. Your personal insults and attempted attack on me shows how little you can support your own arguments. FYI, I started studying music back in the 60’s received a full scholarship in music and graduated from a famous music college. I’ve worked with several grammy winning musicians over my career. I happen to like that old photo of myself from which you apparently base your age assumption. I don’t need to hide my name to make outrageous comments about people as you do. I am man enough to stand by my words and I don’t personally attack people.
I will reiterate that given the political climate today, there must be a serious problem with a custodial mother to lose custody of her children. This does not happen lightly in any court in the country. 95% of child abuse claims come just at the moment women file for divorce. Judges, lawyers and now fathers have become aware of these tactics used by many women to gain tactical advantage during the litigation. If you have custody of the kids, you get a tax free income stream from the fathers. In many cases it’s better than alimony.
Here is a stellar case of an abusive women who let her child starve to death.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/nyregion/06acs.html
Even with agencies aware that she was an abusive drug addict, she was still allowed to keep the child. Here is another stellar mother who sold her 5 year old into prostitution and let her child be raped and murdered.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-5615972-504083.html?tag=contentMain%3bcontentBody
Not all mothers are victims. Try to remember that.
There are real cases of mothers who are in real trouble but highlighting dubious cases and kidnappers does not help your cause. Personally attacking people with whom you disagree, dramatically diminishes the value you are trying to bring to the debate and to your cause.
Roland S. Wilson
October 15, 2010 at 10:35 am
Is there any women who don’t complain? The answer is no!
Christina
September 7, 2013 at 9:20 pm
Your point is, Christina?
Also, what makes you think I’d approve the other comment jus submitted calling someone a nutcase, psycho, liar and more? Has this been determined in court? Argue the case somewhere else — my blog is for pointing out the system structure. This is an OLD post — have you learned anything since (from this blog or elsewhere) in the meantime, or do you scour the internet for ways to “diss” Kayla Walker?
Sometimes I’ve found that namecallers are projecting their own qualities on others. Find something better to do with your life, please — and my blog.
Let's Get Honest
September 30, 2013 at 7:12 pm
Dear Mr. Wilson:
Sarcasm doesn’t substitute for logic, and until you lose the insults, you’ve lost my interest. My curiosity was, how could a musician & photographer take time off music and photography and, now I hear, you’re a father too – sons??) to spout off against women in general on a post
Your first comment:
YOU: “Yeah, women who get custody 90% of the time complain and complain of bias, unbelievable.
The system is heavly bias [sic] in favor of mothers. A woman has to be a complete loser for custody to be given to the father.”
ME, this time:
I have self-identified as a noncustodial mother in this blog. So you just called me (by virtue of being in that subset) a complete loser.
YOU:
“Your solution to family law is to deny fathers any contact with the children and have them underwrite your shopping. ”
ME, this time:
It is?
Show me, by quotes, from my blog here, in context, that this is what I do. As this blog is over a year old, to prove your point, I’d expect several quotes (in context) with links to them to prove each point.
Part A. that my solution to family law is denying fathers (ALL fathers – you said this, not me) contact with the children, and
Part B. that I wish them [all fathers] to underwrite my [singular] shopping.
Blurred boundaries — reflected in pronoun confusion. Perhaps is seeing red.
YOU:
“Blogs like this and the support of women who abuse the system actually HURTS the women you supposedly want to help”
ME:
Wow. I’m kind of losing track of the subject matter of that one sentence, let alone the one before it and the one after it. And I don’t have a short attention span, either. Overbroad, much?
Breaking it down some….
“Blogs like this”
Define “like this” and provide me 10 sample links, that you consider like mine. Alternately, give a more precise category to describe “like this.”
“the support of women who abuse the system:”
Define “abuse the system” and prove that women who support me are system abusers.
Define, by quoting me, and applying a LITTLE more specific category label, which subset of ALL women I want to help.
“Supposedly”
Define, with evidence, your claim that my desire to help anyone (whether men, women, or women who abuse the system) is “supposed” and not genuine. For example, am I selling anything on this site? Am I on this site doing PR for any group that is selling something?
That comment, sir, was a 5-sentence comment, off-topic (the topic was Wisconsin, mostly) and totally unsupported, although aggressive.
NOUN/PRONOUN BREAKDOWN:
The words YOU/YOUR are in capitals. Direct unsupported accusations of me personally. Before that, slurs on women, and mothers, and blogs like this.
COMMENT 1:
Yeah, women who get custody 90% of the time complain and complain of bias, unbelievable. The system is heavly bias in favor of mothers. A woman has to be a complete loser for custody to be given to the father.
>>YOUR solution to family law is to deny fathers any contact with the children and have them underwrite >>>YOUR shopping. Blogs like this and the support of women who abuse the system actually HURTS the women >>>YOU supposedly want to help.”
2nd COMMENT, after quoting for your data, Newsweek, the NYTimes and CBS news…
YOU/YOUR — I’ll just mark’em “>>”– don’t have html in this comment field. This is just the opening section…
“So >>you know how to google. Very cute. >>>You are not twice my age as I doubt >>>you are around 100 years old. Yes I have two children and I’ve also seen the abuse that some people are capable of by lying in the courts.
{{SOME people? or all women who complain and win custody: which you assert is about 90%. Pick a position and stick to it. Do men lie too? (“Some people” or only women?)}}
“It clogs the courts and hurts people who are really in trouble (not to mention the parties involved). My reply is not bitter nor is it disrespectfull.
{{Your reply is not only bitter and disrespectful, and beyond that, insulting, and ridiculous, and looks that way in print, too}}
YOU:
“>>You can talk ad infinitum about abuse that happened in the acient [sic] world but that isn’t reality today. ”
{{Abuse that happened in the ancient world? Wacko in Wisconsin is news commentary, recent… What posts are you referring to? Does history bore you?}}
{{If it’s ad infinitum then go do something else. I still have viewers who aren’t bored by the contents..(see Feedjit)…}}
“The reality is 7% of men have sole custody of their children. >>You don’t need to take my word for it, >>>you can go to a nice liberal magazine like Newsweek.
http://www.newsweek.com/2008/12/14/not-your-dad-s-divorce.html
{{Newsweek? No, I look much more cute googling..}}
“The fact that >>>you would even ‘google’ me and post my quotes to attempt to impeach me shows >>you have some serious problems. >>Your personal insults and attempted attack on me shows how little >>you can support >>your own arguments.”
About 10 “you/your” comments on this part. Very accusatory.
{{Who’s personally attacking whom here?? }}
Good grief:
NEXT PART:
“FYI, I started studying music back in the 60′s received a full scholarship in music and graduated from a famous music college. ”
{{Good for you — which one? Juilliard? And this type of dialogue is what you, a a father, put your excess energy into? Are you a custodial father or not?}}
“I’ve worked with several grammy winning musicians over my career. I happen to like that old photo of myself from which >>you apparently base >>your age assumption. ”
{{Is there another one I should’ve placed a guess from? I think that’s a nice photo too, and the age discussion is pointless. I made an honest mistake, based on the only visual I had, an old photo you posted. Except that now I realize we are of similar age, I suggest you grow up, verbally, or get more honest and use words like I feel, I think, or it seems to me (qualifiers) rather than antagonize others by making ridiculous overbroad statements, with sarcasm, and irritation involved. }}
“I don’t need to hide my name to make outrageous comments about people as >>you do. ”
{{Claim one: I make Outrageous Comments about people:
Name 3 outrageous comments on this blog — not including the comments on this thread you took personal offence to — and tell me why you FEEL they are outrageous. Outside of newsweek or CBS, please…
{{Implied claim two: I hide behind the blog for the purpose of making outrageous comments about people:
{{On what basis do you believe you know why I need to “hide my name?” Perhaps you’ve never been stalked, over a period of years, repeatedly attacked physically by a spouse who had also threatened to kill you, or himself, particularly if you separated, and who has access to your offspring? or do not have an open court case?}}
I am man enough to stand by my words and I don’t personally attack people.
{{Well, you are exercising First Amendment Rights to describe yourself; so I’ll expercise mine to give some feedback — based, again, on the word. I have never met you or conversed with you off-line (thank God!).
Your words don’t stand on their own two feet, and to me, “being a man” means being honest. The words here are FIRST of all — off-topic of the Wisconsin post, completely. Nothing of what you said could be tied directly to anything on that post, which has some pretty weighty information on it. The words are overbroad, unsupported, profile people by gender and whether they get custody, project motives upon others (including me personally); and basically consist of sounding off,with resentment that doing so actually drew a response from me.
Real men don’t pick on noncustodial mother strangers, particularly calling them a “complete loser” [which presumes that courts are fair and facts-based] . First you said your comments weren’t bitter and disrespectful (I feel that they were) and now you say that you don’t personally attack people, although you have in this 2nd comment quite definitely attacked me.
“I will reiterate that given the political climate today, there must be a serious problem with a custodial mother to lose custody of her children. ”
Reiterating something doesn’t make it true, although if repeated often enough, some people will “buy” it. . Again, “the political climate today” is an extremely broad term. Who gets custody is a judge-specific decision.
My blog documents many of the fatherhood movements, the access/visitation grants, the efforts of the federal government, through child support agencies, faith-based groups, and initiatives, and many other means, to encourage noncustodial parents, when such exist, to regain access to their children and even hand-holding help in paying child support obligations. That’s the “political climate.”
There are married couples losing custody of their children lightly. That is the political climate today. They are doing this through multiple institutions. You are free to retain your beliefs that any custody loss is due to a character defect as long as you wish.}}
“This does not happen lightly in any court in the country. ”
{{smile…..}}
95% of child abuse claims come just at the moment women file for divorce.
{{Show me the court dockets about that….Also, who’s to say that’s not a cause of divorce? Any mother who’d stay married to someone who is molesting her son or daughter(s), well — I personally cannot conceive of that, except under extreme duress, or lack of any other option, i.e., knowing that the courts might just give those kids to the abuser. }}
“Judges, lawyers and now fathers have become aware of these tactics used by many women to gain tactical advantage during the litigation. ”
{{Stick to the point: “many women” or “95% of (implied –women. No mention of a man making a child abuse claim enters this dialogue}}
{{Please go visit DastardlyDads.blogspot.com. Again, that’s not ALL Dads, just “Dastardly” ones. These are simply pulled from the newspaper accounts. Unless we are to assume that all newspapers and mainstream media are also run by feminists, there seem to be some judges, attorneys making very poor judgment calls that result in dead people. Killing someone in retaliation is the final “tactical advantage” a person could take, and many men ARE taking. Not ALL men, but increasingly, this is happening.}}
If you have custody of the kids, you get a tax free income stream from the fathers. In many cases it’s better than alimony.
{{you WHO? Me? That’s a ridiculous assessment. Typically, child support sought = custody litigation bought — custody switch or noncustodial parenting time increased.}}
I never even sought alimony, and wasn’t foolish enough to seek it, either.
I’ve worked with many musicians, and some have big egos and some are in it to help people like themselves, or others, and others are in it because they simply enjoy making music. I see nowhere to file this commentary except under, excess free time.
Replying to this one was idle use of my time. Too bad. Have a nice life believing that the courts are fair and that any female who loses in court must have a character defect.
I hope you are not involved with anyone female at this time, given the opinions that you have expressed about women on this page. Perhaps if so, she will cutely google you and find them, and what at least one other woman thinks about them.
You can reply once more (if you’re bored), and I”ll approve if it’s not too ofensive, and that ends the dialogue.
Your tone, frankly, and manner of talking reminds me of the tone of my ex-s ex-girlfriend. Same approach, same posturing, same sarcasm, same unsupported dialogue.
Logic is logic. Either deal on that level, or if it’s on the insults level, expect to take back what you give out, particularly if words like “I”m man enough” enter this dialogue with a woman.
|||Reader note: My reply here updated slightly, 10/27/2010: Why? Because a third, even more personal and more aggressive comment (calling my blog aggressive) is in moderation from Mr. Wilson, and I have asked outside input whether or not to consider it a threat. I haven’t decided whether to publish it as an indication of a threat (i.e., for learning) or to draw the line here. Three strikes (in conversation) — what he seems insulted on is that a woman didn’t take the insults lying down and actually looked into who was making them. Unfortunately, some of us had enough of that during our marriages and are not “up” for any more from strangers. |||
I will back down with relevant logic and some bonafide facts assembled in a reasonable manner. When it comes to one statement after another, broad — I can take that as personal expression (although it’s presented as if God’s truth). To turn to bullying when facts are challenged is a sign of weakness, not strength — I feel.
Some people are just not up for the reasoning process and get angry when challenged on it. Why couldn’t a musician who can obviously stay on a melody, who CAn focus, also decide to stay on-topic in conversation? I hope your kids (young adults?) are not watching this type of talk in other contexts: what kind of role model is that?
LetsGetHonest
October 15, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Perhaps the aggressive tenor of YOUr blog is indicative of the same behavior YOU exhibited during the course of YOUr legal case which resulted in YOUr loss of custody. Only YOU, God and the judge know the truth of why YOU were unsuccessful in YOUr efforts.
YOU claim fear of being stalked as the reason YOU hide your name yet use the behavior of a stalker to investigate me, a poster who left nothing more than a comment on YOU blog that YOU didn’t like. I’m sure that if the shoe was on the other foot, YOU would feel rather violated.
To find YOU, all it takes is a subpoena issued to:
***[Address deleted by LGH — look it up yourself if there’s probable cause]***
and one more issued to the ISP once your IP address is disclosed. So if YOU are really so terrified of being found, YOU may want to stop posting material that some may consider libel or threatening.
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{{Inline Comment to this person who — to date — has not actually addressed the topic on the post, above: I capitalized the [15] “YOU’s in this comment. So much “YOU” indicates a personal relationship that just doesn’t exist — outside this post, anywhere.
Roland, I’m tired of this and nothing else will be posted. .. Please, for the sake of any children you’ve sired, grow up.
By the way, Feedjit and other site traffic counters, commonly accessible for free, show IP addresses, and after wondering why a New Yorker was responding to a Wisconsin blog, I have a potential idea, based on yours — and the decency not to post it.
Inbetween your first irrelevant to the post it was on, insult-filled, profiling comment and now, I’ve had dozens, hundreds, who knows perhaps thousands or even millions of more interesting thoughts, and dialogues than about your life. I have far better things to do with my thought-life, time and emotions than “investigate” the ONLY one of the 27,000+ visitors who not only takes offence at this blog (I’m sure plenty do) but upped the antagonism with implicit threats to hunt me down and sue me for libel — while calling me a stalker and saying I’ve threatened him, and am aggressive. What, does a blogger need to apologize for speaking, and showing a little curiosity? Apparently if she’s a woman.
A woman loses custody, and she’s in the category “a complete loser,” or was aggressive.
A man loses custody and it’s because the courts are biased against men.
Yeah, right.**
http://www.fatherhood.gov and much, much more, many programs, have assured that any such bias (real or imagined) is a thing of the past now. Presidents Bush, Clinton, and Obama, and the weight of the Health and Human Services Dept. have thrown their weight into this, as well as the wealth and support of major conservative AND progressive foundations into major nonprofits with the word “father” in them, address and compensate for female-headed houses. Resolutions in the U.S. Congress dating back to 1998 & 1999 do basically the same.
But never is it enough for a disgruntled man (or groups of them bonding with each other) with a chip on his shoulder; “the courts are biased against men” becomes a protective mantra, and a calling card for more programs to address this, literally supporting and spawning new fields of study, practice, research, and advocacy. At taxpayer expense, lots of them.
(**NB: My custody was challenged in court when the restraining order expired, and I attempted to renew it, for my own safey. This didn’t mean, FYI, no father involvement, just no father abuse and interruption of my ability to work. His challenge to custody failed — no change of custody. A few years later, and after repeated violations of a custody order which I didn’t attempt to prosecute were making basic elements of life (work, schooling for children, doing something on weekends that didn’t potentially require police intervention of any sort)– just continued to demand verbally that they stop, and set boundaries in other ways without breaking any myself — my kids were literally stolen.
Later, a country line was crossed, making it kidnap. No cause of custody change, whether factual or legal basis, was ever found, though the court was specifically requested to show one, and by law is required to state one. My custody change was by the commission of a crime, and the court’s failure to do anything about it, or prosecute. I was not at all aggressive in the court case, simply insisting that the other party respect the court’s orders. This is how it became clear the process was a farce, and eventually why I started a blog, after outside factors were identified that influence custody decisions. Perhaps you should read this blog and learn about some of them, inbetween insults…
Roland S. Wilson
October 25, 2010 at 8:24 am
Just reviewed my own answer and forgot to address this:
“The fact that you would even ‘google’ me and post my quotes to attempt to impeach me shows you have some serious problems. Your personal insults and attempted attack on me shows how little you can support your own arguments.”
Mr. Wilson, there are plenty of applications open for custody evaluators and parenting coordinators. I think you would qualify;
Here’s an HTML of a job description.
This was posted by a Florida Family lawyer who DOES
think there is a problem with the system, not necessarily bias towards mothers, though:
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/site-index/site-index-frame.html#soul
http://www.thelizlibrary.org/liz/008.htm
WHILE on the topic of the poor status of fathers in the courts, here’s an article from TheDefendersOnline called “Papa Don’t Preach.” It comments on the huge energy put into fatherhood promotion.
http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/08/21/
%E2%80%9Cpapa-don%E2%80%99t-preach%E2%80%9D/
(suggest go to main site first, if a sesarch brings up too many of the song, and not this…)
Excerpt:
n 1995, former President Bill Clinton stated that “the biggest social problem in our society may be the growing absence of fathers from their children’s homes, because it contributes to so many other social problems.” Two years later, a congressional task force was created to promote fatherhood and governors’ and mayors’ conferences followed nationwide. Later, George W. Bush’s administration instituted a package for “responsible fatherhood” with a $315 million price tag.
If we are going to address fatherhood issues in town hall meetings, instead of focusing on trying to improve the moral behavior of a mass of people, these gatherings need to discuss ways to address the rising unemployment rates — especially those of African-Americans, whose nearly 15 percent unemployment is the highest of any group. A recent report from the Economic Policy Institute indicates that in 18 states and the District of Columbia, black unemployment ranged from a low of 8.1% in Maryland to a high of 22.8% in Michigan.
This is the crisis that most needs our attention. The Obama administration ought to devote extra resources to address these disparities, not to sponsor fundamentalist revivals and circuits. I bet that the people who will actually show up will be mainly women and men who are already doing what they can to be responsible.
I hope you may take time to read the article, and perhaps this point of view on the whole thing.
LetsGetHonest
October 15, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Why edit my post if you are so confident of your position? I’m sure your readers can determine on their own if my words carry weight without your intervention.
I actually found your blog because you highlighted a case of a woman who is sitting in jail because she refused to reveal where her children are in Korea. That case was being used against someone close to me to prevent her from taking her child to Japan to visit the child’s dying grandfather. I was helping her research the case. Japan is not a signatory to the Hague convention on child abduction so it has cause considerable problems for custodial Japanese mothers ability to travel with their children.
Actions have consequences and that something you should think about prior applauding some of these dubious cases where women disappointed with the children.
Roland S. Wilson
November 8, 2010 at 8:28 am
(1)
I edited the last post in part because of its contents — you supplied the address of a firm that could be used to track me down, in a trail of what I can only call hostile comments that began like this:
That comment was bitter, irrelevant to the post it was on, which posted some information that would demand explanation to the average person’s psyche. None of the exchanges to date have yet addressed anything on this post, and when I asked you to back up your (wide-ranging, and vague) assertions with something from my post, at least, you didn’t. The repeated use of “you, you, you” (to date) is offensive.
In a court of law (excepting family law!) one has to produce a little burden of proof when accusing another person. You’ve come up with nothing to date, and in response to being asked to, substituted further accusations, implications, and the last time, a suggestion that I might be engaging in libel, and offering readers to go subpoena my address and IP for a libel suit (no indication of “about what” attached.)
The question “why edit my post” is a decent one (unlike any of the others), again here’s why:
to delete the address of a private investigation firm. note: I didn’t have to approve the comment, but did — again, for the record and it illustrates a response worth noting for others.
on this blog, there are several times I edit comments. One reason is, that the technical reliability of my laptop is very low — and sometimes it takes a long time to do simple tasks, like a log-in, or a save, etc. It’s simpler.
Rather than refer back point by point to the comments, it’s sometimes clearer to respond right under them.
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Next reply will be to the Korea case.
familycourtmatters
November 8, 2010 at 9:25 am
Mr. Wilson:
“Intervention” is a common term in the family law field, a.k.a. “Batterers Intervention Programs.” That’s an odd word, a values-laden word, for a point by point response to comments.
I think that possibly my readers have more than enough information on my blog to judge it, or respond to it as they please. I doubt many of them are heavily invested in choosing sides in “Wilson vs. Lets Get Honest” comments thread on “Wacko in Wisconsin,” especially that neither of us lives in Wisconsin (I think). Possibly, some of them are concerned about events in Wisconsin, or Washington, D.C., as pertains to our legal system. Others, I’m sure might be (with me) concerned about the United States’ status as the world’s largest per capita jailor, and of those in jail, that the majority are African American males, after which, taxpayers are then (after this overt profiling) further billed to help reconcile jailed fathers with their offspring. Others are concerned with the increasing socialization of our country, womb-to-tomb prescribed parenting, child-rearing practices. Still others are concerned with the rapid eradication of the Bill of Rights as a point of reference; I also am concerned by the increasingly theocratic nature of the Federal government. Personally, I have had a music profession destroyed and children deleted on an overnight visitation — and a double concert weekend. No one seemed to mind that this was a felony at the time, because there was payback in the form of more business for the courts. I had committed no crime and was never charged with even child abuse (nor was I engaged in it).
I have no problem empathizing with the Korean mother above, or questioning the judgment of the NJ judge who threw her in jail, or the media spin on the story. There is generally a background story to headline stories. I also empathize with this particular Japanese mother if you are her only research assistant.
There are many, many urgent and relevant questions for a concerned citizen to think about and become active in. The status of international abductions is a vital one. MANY of these entail allegations of sexual abuse and/or domestic violence. If you are incapable of acknowledging that such crimes do sometimes exist and are a serious issue in this country, then you are not up to speed on any discussion of cases involving them.
Above and beyond that, there have been proven cases of racketeering and RICO in the court circles, and precious little remedies for lives destroyed by that. I’m concerned about these issues, and blog on them. In addition, in Georgia, a female Senator (Nancy Schaefer) and her husband died in a “murder-suicide” in the immediate context of investigating the Child Protective System that she characterized as “beyond reform” in that state, and considerable doubt remains as to whether this was indeed a murder-suicide. Simultaneously, in Georgia has had a longstanding Fatherhood program. These things concern me: I actually DO understand that there is a $$ bounty on children’s heads, and believe that both mothers and fathers are being extorted, variously, by this system if they fail to stay married — even if that marriage is dangerous, abusive, and might otherwise lead to death for one partner. I find your response to my speaking about this, in the form of a blog, and attempting to characterize me, individually, as suspect when I have left an electronic trail herein to other sources, including US Government sites and databases, policy thinktanks, and elsewhere — disturbing. I like to think that U.S. citizens are more capable of thinking and running their own affairs with less government “intervention” and “supervision.” This particular dialogue is not very encouraging in that regard.
(Moving into GENERALIZED OPINION SEGMENT here….)
My statements might have more validity if I posted my own court docket (though mothers are sometimes gagged and threatened with jail for doing this in the context of a custody suit. Such a case in Rhode Island not too long ago brought in the ACLU.) I am not going to do this at this point. When all children are adults, I may publish, or at least distribute, a narration of events, with evidence to support it, as they occurred, in case either chidl wants to know “what happened?” I also hope to hear their side of their lives, as years of my acquaintance with it has been eradicated. FYI, I live in a state where a kidnapped young woman (Jaycee Dugard) was kept hostage in the back yard by a nonrelative married middle aged man, repeatedly raped, and forced to give birth to two daughters. She might still be there had not a (female) security guard at a major university paid attention to some details, and followed on them. It’s quite likely that women, as mothers, do pay attention to more details in general about situations, and pick up on them. If we are to be shut up and jailed for doing so, or gagged for speaking about what we pick up on, then I feel sad for the future of society. And this does appear to be the case, and historically has been so. We are not narrating, we have personality problems. Bring on the psychoanalysts (Freud, Gardner, and now judges). This approach to women as innately “mentally ill” if they report or divorce has now spilled over and affected men also. We did not design the institutions where this happens. Women certainly participated in and supported the civil rights movement; how many men are participating in the same concepts when the issue is gender? We also participate and support wars by giving birth to young men who grow up and fight in them, and young women who help on the sidelines. Now we are to give up our children if we protest some forms of abuse which there are laws against, and get thrown in jail for acting on the belief that it’s wrong? ??? This is inconveniencing international travel? Well, I do not personally take blame for that, nor should the Korean mother. I am more concerned about mothers like Jessica Gonzales Lenahan that lost three children — they were killed — while complying with a court order. Or Dawn Axsom in Arizona who lsot her life –as did her mother – whiel complying with a court order. I personally lost custody of my children while complying with a court order the father was violating, and took violation to a whole new level once he obtained control of the children, and then abandoned them. He wanted authority without responsibility, including child support (minimal level), and could not accept emotionally a situation in which BOTH of us were held to the same level of accountability — as written in a court order. It took me a lot of time, a lot of losses (including profession) and diligent searching to find out where — had someone showed me earlier — the policies were set, and the increasing federalization of our country “in our best interests” while throughout the land, family court judges are assigning psychologists, guardians ad litem, and the mental health teams to any family law where custody is contested, practically — “in the best interests of the child.” TO date, I have yet to see evidence of this helping children. We have plenty of evidence it’s hurting them, (and sometimes, results in their deaths). WHOSE best interests is this, that the entire country is set up on a hierarchy basis, with the CEO of one branch of government, the Executive Branch (and which ever groups helped put him there) at the supposed top? Might as well just go get a king instead, or a pope.
Another dilemma exists, that I’m hoping to explore a little more — why is it that it seems to be that practically only racist southerners and ultra-right-wing “Tea Party” (no, I’m not one!) are the ones talking about violation of due process, increasing centralization of powers in Washington and the colonization of the country to special interests? Some of these groups have frightening principles they endorse — such as racial purity and send “them thar” immigrants back. It’s not quite KKK, but close enough to it? While those protesting this outrage want to continue calling in the Federal government to stop it? That’s playing right into totalitarian hands.
I feel that we have yet, collectively, addressed the principal issues of the original colonies. (1) The Declaration of Independence and Constitution and Bill of Rights are fantastic documents, and unique in world history, for the most part. BUT . . . BUT . .. (2) Who qualifies as “endowed by the creator with certain unalienable rights?” — Take a look at Thomas Jefferson et al. and figure that one out! That is the debate that really has to be handled (obviously not on this thread!) and hasn’t been. All “men”? At that time, at least two categories of men didn’t qualify as fully “man.” Women haven’t made the mix yet, not really, and passions are still real high on fronts of race and gender to this date.
I think overall the real question relates to economics — it did in the Colonists time. They dind’t like being colonized by Great Britain, and some of them didn’t like religious persecution, too. however, they hadn’t gotten away from the habit of “colonizing” and religiously persecuting others. These seem to be human nature. The country we got her is a mix of philosophies, half Calvinism (men are depraved, and some of them predestined to hell) and half Deists (there’s a good spark in all of us, Christ was not needed to redeem human nature, though, and forget Jews, Mormons, Quakers, et al.) And that’s just 1600s – 1700s, part of it. I think a lot of contemporary dialogue (even without the religious talk) could boil down to one of two philosophies: (1) Some of us are divinely gifted to run the rest of the lot. Just exactly how this happened is not open for discussion. We decide who gets to learn how much, and who does not, and we deserve to structre the economy, also. That philosophy, I say, is going to make for a whole lot of anger, passed down from generation to generation, and spread in communities affected by it (versus profiting off it); that is GOING to affect individual families for sure. The other basic philosophy is — and count me in that one– (2) NO ONE is innately divinely gifted to run the rest of the country; human nature and history shows that such attempts lead to empires that crumble from the inside when enough at teh bottom decide they’d rather risk death, either suddenly, or through destitution, than die than live and die as utter, mindless slaves. To prevent future Holocausts and genocides, then, it’s appropriate that government be by social contract and broken down into smaller groups as much as possible, i.e., LOCAL. The downside of this “local” stuff is, there’s still going to be abuse and lying, cheating, stealing etc. locally. But at least it can stop being nationally, with wealth streaming to far-off locations, and very little of it trickling back down.
(END of GENERALIZED OPINION SEGMENT of this comment… [Just thinking aloud, on topics this brought up; happened to type it in here…] ))
Your person close to you that can’t go to Japan to visit a dying mother: if you are her primary research assistant, I empathize with her. Is she still married? Because if she’s separated and has retained custody of her children, good for her.
Possibly your close friend’s gender is. Do you see men all over being slapped in jail for “absconding” with their children? Or “alienating” their kids, or getting anti-alienation stipulations in their court orders? (see recent post on Nassau County case). If so, give me a few case#s.
I googled “Korean mother jailed NJ” and came up with 1.2 million results, many of them about this case, and most of them highlighting the Dad’s drama, and castigating her as having “absconded” with the kids, which to me sounds false. They were both in Korea — he came back, she didn’t. Is one spouse the boss of the other?
Perhaps randijames’ handlng of the case, below, may shed some light on the issues, although I doubt it will dull your resentment of women in general. FYI, I like to hang out with people who can converse and discuss things point by point, even if we are on opposite sides of the issue. I will put up with perhaps SOME personal emotional abuse IF there is some profit to the conversation in actually discussing specifics; I might learn some thing. But when a persons shows up more invested in winning than in learning, why bother? Then, truth loses.
ALSO:
You have not to date answered why the thread is on the Wisconsin page. Assuming this account, above, is true, here’s another take on that Korean case. In case it is not, FYI, the server (IP) you are commenting from belongs to a securities company with a branch in Wisconsin. I have not been back since that initial search, which (as I recall) came up after the 2nd aggressive comment, which concerned me. After this, I am blocking comments from that IP; the conversation has not been profitable, and I feel it cruel for this person to keep harping on me when I’ve already shared on this post that my children were the subject of a child-stealing event, and dedicated as much research time as is shown here, on areas that should concern every person — the courts are supported with public funds. They are wealth-transfer facilities, and now affecting international travel. There are many things that could be said about the courts without keeping the commentary (until this last one) so very personal. I have every right to respond in public to aggression in public. I also have every right to keep my own court case OUT of the public arena, being a mother of someone who has not reached majority yet. Unfortunately, you’ll have to either hire a private investigator (waste of your time and $$) or take me at my word.
MUSICIANS & MARRIAGE & VULNERABILITIES OF INTERNATIONAL CONCERTIZING AS YOUNG PERSON:
Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music (I think, where Shim & Mendoza connected, himself as professor) are unique schools in being world-renowned, and only top talent gets in. I didn’t even audition, as my emphasis and interest was not on a concertizing career, but a balance of concertizing and teaching in a liberal arts context (yes, I was in a top conservatory, not just a “music major.”) In attracting a lot of international students, who then find themselves, sometimes, without local parental support in the NYC area, because parents can’t afford to uproot and live there. Similarities exist in training for the Olympics, international travel and long periods away from families can be involved. Also abuse by coaches or trainers can and is at times involved. I’m not saying in Shim Mendoza it did, but that this is a vulnerability. It’s a major sacrifice and privilege to get into either of those schools. I feel very sad that a mother of the talent level of this mother — and Koreans have a reputation for excellence in music as well — should by virtue of who she married, be now in jail, at the hands of a judge in the state next to where they both were performing and in school, evidently. (check details again). Welcome to America, and remember to revisit the Statue of Liberty and read the inscription on it, when she gets out.
This produces a population of sometimes teens, or very young people, in one of the largest cities in the world without local family support. They have to “sing for their supper” with the instruments, and are vulnerable in many ways. I have personal contact with a woman on the west coast who asserts that a prostitution situation was run by a psychologist in the Manhattan School (high school level); she was raped by her accompanist while in another country, and had no one to turn to, and it got fairly worse from there. Her father was around, but so was a stepmother, and she was cast on her own resources. I have been around musicians (including touring, etc.) to have a sense of when stories are or are not credible, or possibly credible. This one is entirely possibly credible — it happens.
A musician as a mother brings a lot to contribute to her children’s lives, as does the father, if it’s within reasonable bounds.
While Mr. Wilson sees in the Korean mother’s being jailed a travel problem for a close friend of his, what I see is a professional musician, ALSO a mother, who has been characterized in the press as to her mothering only, thrown in jail by a judge in another country to force her to her knees in charges that were alleged in another country — without even showing up before that judge. And father’s groups so often protest the “ex parte” factor of domestic violence restraining orders when the cases are local? Does this not cut two ways?
This link (I looked for it) shows how the two met — He was 15 yrs older, and she married her violin professor at the Manhattan School of Music? As with most coverages, his story is up top and hers down below. I scrolled down and pasted the segment showing the 15-year age difference (also may imply an implicitly understood power balance — did not this man, surrounded my musicians of all ages — strike up a good, power-balanced relationship with anyone within, say, 8 years of himself? Did he think — some appear to — that Asian women are by nature more docile and appropriate for child-bearing purposes? If so, this time it backfired):
Feuding parents closer on custody
{{**This is lawyerese for, we do not in public acknowledge that we received certain evidence compromising our client’s case, and when queried on that evidence, reply that are not aware of a criminal investigation ***Reporter, after narrating that the lawyers provided medical evidence and police reports as to molestation, summarizing the father’s attorney (excuse me, ONE of his attorneys), carries that spin, calling it Allegations. Is Korea like United States, where a police can report, and CPS can show medical substantiation of abuse, but if a District Attorney chooses not to prosecute, there is no “criminal investigation”? Assuming so, no investigation doesn’t mean no crime, it means no investigation of a crime.}}
This case highlights the mother as ONLY by her inmate number (from the start), and the father’s career. Only in paragraph 14, this article coming from a press report with the father after his attorneys and her attorneys (and apparently, him? or at least him standing nearby) conferred “in chambers” while mother was “spared” the press from, say, participating, or being interviewed about the outcome of the In Chambers meeting afterwards. Hence, we get nothing straight from her mouth, but we get both the father’s own words and the fathers’ attorneys’ words, and the judges’ words. ONLY in paragraph 14 of this article is it, in passing, mentioned that she is actually a professional level and (for those who know the school)
talented violinist, presently rotting in jail (does she have an instrument there?) for defying an ex parte court order eliminating her contact with her children and giving them to the father immediately after questions of abuse were raised. No mention in this article of any of her professional work AFTER high school in music teaching and performing — it did exist, it’s just “not mentioned.” Musicians treasure their instruments, some are worth thousands, or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and for string players, some instruments are over a 100 years old and irreplaceable. It’s quite possible that she had a very valuable instrument — where is hers now? Sold to pay lawyer’s fees? MIA?
This woman also attends church, i.e., is a Christian. Wonder if the Dad was… I wonder a whole lot of things on this case, but before it’s resolved — probably in chambers, or eventually some sort of parenting classes will certainly be involved, and supervised visitation at her expense for HER to see the kids — if any visitation is allowed at all — but here’s the press spin on this Mom, her Scarlet-Letter status, and this link has a photo of Dad, probably his two attorneys and maybe hers. Despite cases being decided too often with only one party present, they are often won OUTSIDE the courtroom, which Dads now know how to manipulate:
No need to bother her with showing up for her hearing — she’s been in JAIL since last March: Listen to the judge talk about it:
Well, that’s a matter of point of view. IF molestation happened, putting the children first entail protecting them from further abuse, which she has done. That they had to sacrifice being with their mother in doing this is not unprecedented in the Eastern Seaboard area, at all: (Look up Dr. Elizabeth Morgan’s case, I think DC area.) There are two issues in this case: The FIRST one raised was allegations of child abuse. These apparently are going to be shelved in favor of a judge determining that his ex parte order is more pressing than whether or not abuse actually happened. United States, policeman to the world, and the world’s families and defender of its citizens rights to due process throughout the globe — at least some of its citizen’s rights to due process…
Where is this young mother, now, as either a mother or a musician? Screwed, most likely, and because she took a stand on protecting her kids, allegedly. Again, the attorneys say even in the very pro-father NJ article above, that police and medical reports from Korea were submitted, and her fellow-churchgoers remind readers that a 15 year age gap exists in this marriage; he was the authority figure in it as a teacher. Think about it.. probability wise. Was this young woman hard up for a husband, at her age and with her talent? Is it possible that as dutiful Christian, she took on some of the “submit” mentality before taking a final stand? Might she have missed her family of origin, or wanted them to see her kids? Maybe she “used him” to gain kids, but i tend to doubt it. She also helped (I heard) with a NJ-based music school he worked at. What options remain for mothers, globally, IF abuse happens? Just suppose it does — what real options does any mother still have, at this point?
I know as a mother that it’s entirely possible — with creativity and some cooperation — to both do music, in moderation, and be a good parent. I also know a couple who met as orchestral musicians (in another state, don’t waste your research time) and though they don’t have children, they made a mutual decision, one person might have to give up the concert career. The husband opted to BUT he supports her music, she still contributes steadily to the income, they are homeowners and participate in the arts. My situation was nothing like that: Based on fundamentalist religion which was NOT discussed before marriage and “head of the household” rhetoric I was basically forced — without discussion — to “give it up.” My connections with the music community were repeatedly severed, sometimes after being established, sometimes by crises provoked as I was establishing them, and sometimes, quite frankly, concerts, etc. were just sabotaged. This was not a feminist career, dump the kids off at daycare mother situation at all. It was a mother (speaking of myself) who loved this profession and had dedicated most of her life to it before marriage, which happened not in the teens or twenties, but as a mature person. Then, on leaving this abusive marriage, naturally, I returned to this field, for the joy of it, and for income. Through family law chaos, this eventually became impossible to maintain, including a culmination which included an overnight stealing on a concert weekend while I had a teaching studio (from the home) in process. Had i done the same thing, for reasons which the law in our state actually acknowledges some cause would exist, it’s likely I’d have had the law thrown at me, and jail, and fine, and attorney’s fees for the father. Instead, in the aftermath of this, it was simply bounced to the family law venue, and the facts covered up. For why the courts are doing this to situations where there is at least ONE working parent — see my Shady Shaky Foundations post. The answer is not “best interests” of anyone outside the court venue, I assert.
When people like Richard Fine, anti-trust attorney in Los Angeles, can suffer solitary coercive confinement and get disbarred at age 69, without being accused of any crime, and taken from the courtroom in handcuffs, for exposing slush funds and corruption in the California State Court system (L.A. County) at age 69), it does NOT mean every mother thrown in jail is a criminal. It could as easily mean that somewhere, generally speaking, a family court judge was on a power trip, and possibly on the take from some Access/Visitation funding to his particular state and county. This is happening increasingly. The time to protest it is now.
I also find it “odd” that so many policy sites receiving “fatherhood funding,” whether from the federal government, or wealthy foundations (Ford, Annie E. Casey, Scaife, etc.) have real trouble pronouncing the word “mother” but no problem at all pushing Home Visitation, Early Childhood Development Scholars, and so forth. Someone has to dialogue about these issues on the internet and everywhere else — it’s heading towards totalitarianism. If it just affects one sector, and you don’t care, then eventually it will get to your sector, and no one left to speak up, as the nets continue to tighten. Information about several of these themes is on my blog, and I have left a footprint, a trail of breadcrumbs, to anyone interested in further research themselves. Research, FYI, takes time, and is often an act of dedication and concern, every bit as much as the dedication it requires to master a musical instrument over time, or have an raise children. It’s high time we got a series of family court judges and trial courts abusing their discretion, repeatedly, trying to “normalize” parenting and child-rearing. What about variety in life? What about variety in religious beliefs within a nation? Guess that’s on the way out, also, from what I can tell.
This comment comes from a site that posts a book on Domestic VIolence, Child Abuse, and Custody. I am not endorsing that book, but linking to this article. Elsewhere (for those interested) on the same blog, if one googles “Danny K. Davis” I have several comments with links to fatherhood sites and support (federal level) that may be of interest to readers. I think that was the only thread I posted on there. This link is to an article by Randijames.com; her commentary is more, er, “concise” than mind, but I like the style of talking back to news articles, point by point. It’s a good teaching approach and engages with the content of the text itself, not trying to “psychoanalzye” the writer, which is closer to participating in some sort of seance-process.
Because my wifi access runs out periodically, this is actually my 3rd attempt to post this comment (if access is expiring during the save, the contents get lost); probably not the best version, but it stops here. Also, FYI, Mr. Wilson, I am blocking your comments from here on. I’m sure you have other activities to pursue, and so do I. This debate is not going to be won on-line, but time can be lost on it, and there really are more urgent priorities.
I posted the whole article, but it’s viewed better on-line with more active links within it. I would vvalue more dialogues like this one, where a commentator engages the statements in the press point by point — but they are timeconsuming. I am not paid for this, nor I bet is this blogger.
And if so, who cares? . . ..
familycourtmatters
November 8, 2010 at 2:03 pm
I wrote the article about Archibald. I am currently studying law now. I will not give legal advice, but the only thing you can do about Damon is try to strip immunity from him. Then you sue the crap out of him.
Here is a site that may help if you understand law. http://www.perkel.com/pbl/immune.htm. This goes over specific case laws in which immunity was stripped. Lawyers can be sued usually under legal malpractice.
If you have any questions, I am not allowed to give legal advice, so always consult an attorney but you can contact me at ghostlyencountersva@yahoo.com. The statute of limitations for legal malpractice is 6 years in wisconsin by the way.
John McMichaels
March 9, 2011 at 4:57 pm
I haven’t been on this post in a while, but find it interesting in light of recent WISCONSIN, er, “Legislative/civil events” as reported on TV.
Thank you for this information. The other thing I am curious about is conflicts of interest in court cases, but we really appreciate your posting that Non-legal advice helpful information!
Good luck with your law studies.
familycourtmatters
March 18, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Conflicts of interest are against the ethics code for the most part. There are variants of it. For example if a lawyer represents you and his friend is the opposing party this is a no no. Unless you are aware of this and allow it to continue, but the lawyer should withdraw from counsel though once this is found out. All lawyers have an obligation to do a background check for conflicts of interest. Even a lawyer representing you who may have represented your opposing party at one time could still theoretically have a conflict of interest which could harm you. If the interest of either you or the other former client conflict the lawyer is breaaching his duty to either one or both of you. If you need me though, email me or text me (###) ###-####. Be sure to state you are from this site and your name.
{{LGH In-line reply to comment submitted may 5th}}:
You didn’t seriously expect me to publish that tel#, did you, esp. with such an odd email address? Or was it hoped that some of the viewers might reveal THEIR identities to you, in such a hot topic as custody issues and reading a website which reports on financial corruption & governmental-paid bribes in this family law industry?
Here’s what Wikipedia says about reasons an attorney MUST withdraw from a case (whether or not this results in them withdrawing, I recommend readers figure it out). Again, this is just Wikipedia, but food for thought about potential action, also
ATTORNEYS:
“Mandatory withdrawal”
There are many circumstances which require that an attorney must withdraw from a case:
~~The client fires the attorney.
~~The attorney determines that he is not competent to continue representing the client in a matter.
~~A conflict of interest arises under which the attorney’s continued representation of multiple clients impairs the attorney’s obligations to the individuals.
~~The client insists upon advancing a frivolous claim.
~~Continued representation would violate the rules of professional responsibility.
~~The attorney is in a physical or emotional state that seriously impairs the attorney’s ability to continue the representation.
~~It is likely that the attorney will be called as a necessary witness as to a contested issue in the proceeding, and that testimony can not be obtained elsewhere.
~~The attorney discovers that the client is using the attorney’s services to further a criminal act.
{{IN FAMILY LAW – – – HOW ABOUT KIDNAPPING? HOW ABOUT MOLESTING CHILDREN? HOW ABOUT CONCEALING ASSETS}}
An attorney may voluntarily terminate the attorney-client relationship at any time and without reason, if this will not have a material adverse effect on the interests of the client. Even if the withdrawal will be adverse to the client the attorney may still withdraw for a number of reasons:
“The client is engaged in illegal or fraudulent activity.
“The client fails to pay fees as agreed.
“The financial burden on the attorney of continuing the representation is too great.
“The client refuses to follow the advice of counsel, or engages in acts relating to the representation without informing the attorney or seeking the attorney’s advice.
“The attorney is engaged with co-counsel of the client’s choosing, and is unable to work with that co-counsel.”
WELL, it doesn’t always work that way. Important to understand the role that law enforcement can play, or can choose to NOT play…..
http://panachereport.com/channels/Music/Rock%20&%20Pop%20Short%20Stories/Murder%20In%20The%20Suburbs.htm (Dianne Masters case — Alan Masters was a divorce attorney).
“MURDER IN THE SUBURBS:
“Dianne Masters thought she had found her Prince Charming when she started dating divorce attorney, Alan Masters. Dianne was impressed by his power, wealth and prominence. He gave her lavish gifts and took her on exotic vacations.
“Alan Masters was so powerful; he had the police force and the courts in his back pocket. Policemen left his business cards on windshields in downtown Chicago. He was known around town as a “master fixer/attorney” who paid off judges and police officers to protect gambling and prostitution.
“Masters could get anybody off on anything. He had all of the connections. He could make cases disappear. He could also fix any case in the Cook County Circuit Court System. Masters regularly engaged in bribery, extortion, destruction of evidence and protecting rackets.”
(so much for continuing to date married men . . . . he actually did divorce and marry Dianne. Her body ended up in a car in a canal …. .)
“Dianne’s disappearance shocked the community. People knew Alan had connections with the syndicate, people whispered, do you think it was a mob hit? During that time, the mob didn’t take out hits on women.
The body of Dianne Masters was discovered nine months after her disappearance. The Cadillac containing her body had been dumped into the Chicago Sanitary & Ship-Canal.
An autopsy revealed that she had been shot and her skull was crushed.
If their hadn’t been brilliant detective work and the efforts of a federal prosecutor, Masters and Corbitt would have gotten away with murder, instead, they were both convicted of “federal counts” in 1989 relating to the murder of Dianne Masters.
Alan Masters was sentenced to 40 years and Michael Corbitt was sentenced to 20 years.
Corbitt would later admit that he and Masters were responsible for Dianne’s death, although no one was ever charged “specifically” with her murder.”
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More on this case (available through any search, also):
http://deadlymatrimonylifetimemovie.blogspot.com/2008/09/facts-in-case.html
That was an exception, restricted to large urban areas? OK, I guess so.
{{This case is better known as a RICO case…. I heard about it when a shelter named after this woman was seeking some finances…}}
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/121288054.html and at:
http://stopthedrugwar.org/taxonomy/term/27
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This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories
by Phillip Smith, May 11, 2011, 04:28pm, (Issue #683)”
“In San Ramon, California, a former Central Costa County Narcotics Enforcement Team member was arrested May 4 in an expanding Contra Costa County drug corruption case. San Ramon Police Officer Louis Lombardi is believed to be involved in a corruption case involving the task force commander, a Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy, and a private investigator, all of whom were arrested in March. They are accused, among other things, of stealing and reselling drugs and ginning up false DUI arrests. Lombardi’s specific charges include possession of stolen property, including guns, IDs, and drugs; grand theft of weapons, possession of an illegal assault rifle, and conspiracy. At last report, he was in jail with a $760,000 bond.”
So, the private investigator is squealing about what he alleges is a local brothel set up by the sheriff’s deputy. For comparison, this is the area where no one noticed Jaycee Dugard and two children living in backyard sheds with a former kidnapper rapist. My theory is too many law enforcement are busy with their own financial schemes and under-the-radar business operations:
“http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_18050012?source=rss&nclick_check=1
This one reads like a soap opera:
“Former P.I. alleges ex-CNET chief ran Pleasant Hill brothel
By Robert Salonga and Malaika Fraley
Contra Costa Times
Posted: 05/12/2011 10:35:17 AM PDT
Updated: 05/12/2011 07:14:56 PM PDT
“Former Task Force Agent Accused of Running a Brothel” says the video here. No one really wants to comment on that, but how odd that the suspicion of a brothel was forwarded to CNET, which had its own corruption issues:
“Butler claims Wielsch asked him to rent the space in the summer of 2009 after it was vacated by a skin therapy salon called “My Divine Skin,” though the signage stayed behind. The brothel was said to be run by a 36-year-old Oakland woman whom Wielsch had once arrested for prostitution.
Wielsch helped the woman plead to a misdemeanor charge in exchange for testimony against two of her pimps, whose charges were dismissed in April when the district attorney’s office dropped 10 CNET cases that would have required Wielsch’s testimony, Cardoza said.
The District Attorney’s Office, however, had no records of charges under the woman’s name. Court documents show the two previously charged pimps were accused of offering the woman as a prostitute in March 2009 in Walnut Creek.
The District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the pimping and prostitution allegations, which are among several crimes Butler is said to have confessed to in a lengthy typewritten statement submitted to investigators. A representative for the state Department of Justice, which is investigating the CNET scandal, declined to comment on the pimping allegations.
At least one tenant of the Gregory Lane business complex complained about what he suspected was prostitution operating out of the suite. He contacted Pleasant Hill police and his complaint was forwarded to CNET, which is tapped to investigate vice crimes under an agreement with local law enforcement.”
One can get all the court proceedings right, and win in court, but if the losing side will not comply with the court orders, and law enforcement is, ah, too busy with its own schemes to give a d*mn, then the win is a moot point, and a very expensive one.
“Prosecutors have asked the court to keep secret the identity of several informants they say Lombardi has threatened.
“Butler, Wielsch and Tanabe, who are all out on bail, as well, have pleaded not guilty to their charges. All three served on the Antioch police force in the 1990s. Lombardi, who worked with Wielsch on CNET, is scheduled to enter a plea Friday.”
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST —
JUDGES:
We know that judges are required to file forms stating their conflicts of interest — and that often these forms do not reveal all the conflicts of interest. For more on that, see FullDisclosure.net / Richard Fine sites, it’s an issue he’s become an expert on (and went to jail for, in part — reporting on this in Los Angeles County).
To commenter:
Sorry to sandbag on your attempt to (get business? find out who’s on my site? Point out helpfully that attorneys are supposed to behave ethically?) — but cases like these really do make you think. Embezzling cash, drugs, and I guess weapons, using prostitutes (who are by definition already being used) and running a brothel, threatening witnesses (in affluent suburbia), (Masters case), covering up murder …. (Chicagoland) etc..
The ethics of public officials is PRIMARY to any society, and it’s not going to be maintained without a balance of power to the public, such that they can monitor and do something about this. We often cannot because:
1. Parents, dealing with substandard schools, job uncertainty, and/or
2. Once they are ensnared in family law, that’s the status for years, usually
3. Without the type of either illegal (unreported) wealth, or wealth inherited, or gained by NOT following the advice of the wealthy to just shut up, do your job, don’t ask too many questions, and stay at the hourly job in hopes that retirement and pension will actually happen — most people are busy simply staying housed & fed, and supervising others educating their kids while they barely make it. And I’m talking about the USA…
4. Some are stuck in abusive relationships, in which sheer survival is the focus — not monitoring political figures’ behavior locally & nationally.
When we CANNOT, then our society has disintegrated and a police state is at hand — ETHICS is primary; if we can’t monitor our own public elected/appointed government, then the only alternative I can think of is to use as little of its services as possible — which will be hard, as of course its incentive is for individuals to use as MANY of its services (whatever quality) as possible to justify & expand the institutions, such as welfare and child support, batterers intervention, supervised visitation, parenting coordination, fatherhood promotion and/or DV prevention (pick one — it’s a real buffet, something for everyone).
In the whole mix, though, I would have to put two of the bottom of the barrel institutions as the education system and the family law system, topnotch sources of waste, scandal, and nonperformance.
After 2 years of blogging, I came to the solid conclusion that the tax system (IRS, etc.) and monetary issues are source of the problem. They create pools of wealth to fight over and distribute for political favor, and it’s impossible to separate the teachers’ unions from politics and the structure of the workforce. The existence of the words “nonprofit” and such a corporate structure is exclusively a tax designation (and doesn’t mean, no profit) has so many implications — for example, that profit of what the organization delivers to society trades off to a lowered tax base — when often, it just doesn’t.
Obviously, when attorneys, cops and county sheriffs are behaving like this, the choice is to either become activist (figuring out how), or continue to slide in denial and hope it doesn’t show up at your doorstep, or your family’s. Look at the fringes (upper, lower) of society to figure out which direction to take, the middle is invested staying in the middle, sometimes at expense of keeping the upper level honest.
John
May 5, 2011 at 12:37 pm
As a woman i just have to say that you aren’t an activist, you’re insane. Get help soon.
Jane
January 27, 2013 at 3:46 am
One has to love the “effort” you put into proving your point by addressing any point — whatsoever — made in the post.
Have a nice day; it takes all kinds: some seek to help others by investigating situations, others sit on the sidelines? and offer constructive commentary (sic).
My blog is approaching 4 years in operation now, and from pretty early on has been watched by many levels of government (who I report on) — see “About This Blog” page for some samples.
Sometimes intelligent people are considered “insane” simply because they notice things others don’t. In certain cultures, they contribute to society. My intent here is to slow down some of the self-destruct model in our current society, in part by locating others with similar interest and ability. Doesn’t sound like this includes you.
Let's Get Honest
January 27, 2013 at 9:37 am
in regards to the WALKER CASE, you should get your facts straight before you post such LIES, first of all, the kids were taken from Kaiya Walker for abusing the children, she was on a supervised visitation, when she took the girls across state line, and attempted to kill the girls and herself.
She wrote everything down in a Diary, there WILL and how she wanted them baried etc. She took a loaded gun and 2 clips, she gave her own daughters Xanax and forced them to watch her take a bunch of pills, she hid her phone in a box of cereal at a Kwik Trip in Eau Claire, Wi. before she left.
Her intentions were to drug her children then herself and shoot them and then herself. You keep badgering Mr. Walker, well you have a lot of miss informed information. His theft was when he was 18, and it was a fishing real, for 50.00 dollars. as far as the abuse on Kaiya, lets get something straight, women abuse themselves and call the police and automatically he is guilty, this is a man who paid is child support on time and in advance for his children. Never missed one payment, not ever. 3 weeks after is divorce from Kiaya Walker, his home was burned down while he was at work, and Kiaya Walker and her friend were seen leaving the property, then after he was remarried, she gave him back photos, that she could not of had, cause they were hanging in is home that burned down, but she did, with the frames that Mr. Walker had them put in.
His Bankruptcy comes from having a step daughter who became terminally ill, and bills piled up. This could happen to any family and I am sure he is not the only one. He filed bankruptcy at his attourneys advice.
So you have no right to judge him or his wife Teresa Walker at all. And Mrs Walker since her arrest, has now been arrested for violation and her own parents are worried about her doing something to the girls, Jon and his wife Teresa Walker. So you see, things that are posted on here by you are CRAP and part stories I think you enjoy doing. But they do effect families and you should not post things unless you plan on posting the truth, why don’t you go pay for a transcript which will cost you about 500.00 dollars and post the DAMN TRUTH.
Teresa
June 20, 2013 at 9:35 am
I’m clearing this angry comment* which talks about Teresa Walker (wife) with a note which moderators can, readers wouldn’t otherwise know, that it seems to be FROM Teresa Walker.
I don’t know why she, or anyone else would think (reading this blog, if they have) that my head would still be in that case or personally invested in it this much later. I have over 550 posts, and most of them take a LOT of time to look things up. When not writing, I am often on the phone or email with women in severe distress because the court is bankrupting them, or someone has taken, or is about to take, their children.
Anything Ms. Walker (posting as if a neutral observer and not a VERY angry female rival) has said here is hearsay to the viewers (and to me).
No one is making a decision about the Walker case based on anything I said. To believe that I’m somehow personally invested in lying about a person I’ve never met in a state I’ve never lived in makes no sense. If you want to vent — go vent. If you have some proof, post it.
I apply myself to acquiring a learning curve. If you are within driving range of Madison, why not go to the headquarters (alleged) of the AFCC (see its website for address) and let us know if it’s really there, have a talk with Mr. Salem, who’s pulling down $180K or so a year to help enrich the supervised visitation industry.
Supervised Visitation is an Industry, and I am PARTICULARLY suspicious of cases where birth mothers are put on it. I live in California, and in our state, the record is pretty clear of who is committing the most murders surrounding “custody disputes,” and that’s not the mothers. Some of them happen on unsupervised visitations, as do kidnappings, and some inbetween because no mother in her right mind is going to voluntarily abandon her kids.
This discussion ends here, first of all, your comment was dishonest in pretending to be neutral which you aren’t; second of all, tone it down. I’m not hurting anyone in the Walker case by pointing out there might be another interpretation of the available facts.
Third, I’m going to say this — you typify a second (or ??) wife scenario — real good at hating the mother of her man’s kids, all but spitting. I’ve had this in my life, and was no risk to my kids; the system doesn’t care about the kids, and its rulings do not reflect reality in many cases — it’s about the profits.
If MISTER Walker has something to say about the case, that may have been another matter.
I accept this as a vent and suggest you find something better to do with your time than believe that because you take things personally, I’m somehow motivated the same way. My motivation is to get a system which refuses to address criminal activity against women and children (primarily, though not only) as criminal activity, but instead seeks power to exercise complete and arbitrary discretion — and then steer cases to cronies, order too many services, and in general raise hell for the communities.
I see you have no comment on the nearby case where a DA prosecuting a case against a woman’s attacker was sexting her…
*after adding a paragraph or two (but leaving the spelling)
Let's Get Honest
June 20, 2013 at 10:00 am
Dear Mr. Wilson,
I am a non criminal anti child abuse mother who lost custody to a father who was and is infancy married to a habitual nonviolent felony offender and has a Reason to Believe for physical abuse against 2 of her children which was followed up with the death of a 4-5 year old girl under her care… Which has disqualified her from fostering children yet…… My daughter… Separated from ALL of her siblings… Has been forced into that home as a primary residence and is in fact the only minor child in the home even with an attempted modification brought by me in order to attempt to protect her after she disclosed abuse by a stepbrother to me… Her older brother as a witness… And then later disclosed further neglect, neglectful supervision by both parents with more physical abuse against the stepbrother who was in fact abused by his mother. In a hearing recently…. The associate judge told me AFTER I stated that primary custody should never have been taken from me…….. That I did not previously file a motion to set aside the order. Being that documents were falsified…. They’d be considered a nullity. NOT 1 single attorney locally or otherwise has come forward to help me with this and they have all attempted to harm the situation further. Until….. I was given documents that I didn’t previously have from opposing counsel proving falsification. Error. 2 different orders both signed on the same day one containing a photocopy from one and then attached to the other… And that order with said attachment contains 2 signature pages differing in their footnotes both signed by the judge… Although…. I didn’t sign but one order. Can you explain how this happens when associate judge claims I have a good defense if I am accused of not returning the child on a specified day when visitation times differ inthe orders within the file signed the same day of entry??
antinarsassisticfemalespecimen
June 20, 2013 at 2:19 pm