THE STRUGGLE TO CHANGE PERCEPTION

Some of those who have suffered at the hands of Child Protective Services have warned
me to be very brief. They say that Senators and Representatives have little time to read
more than a page or so. I understand. I also believe I understand some things about
people.

When Mr. James Rodger Brown testified before the US house Ways and Means
committee about Organized Crime in the US government, I can just see in my mind’s eye
how some would take it seriously and some would smirk. As I see it, at least, Mr. Brown
would interpret any systematic, organized illegal acts done in concert with others directly
or indirectly as Organized crime. While I am sure this may be off a bit, I am positive
under his definition, the Inquisition, Slavery and the Salem witch hunts would be
included. (1)

I think most of us, when we think of organized crime, think of the Mafia. We envision
participants who know that they are involved in unlawful pursuits and who intentionally
want to be part of such unlawful practices.

Regardless of how evil the inquisition, the witch hunts and slavery were, people didn’t
see them selves as participating willingly in evil or unlawfulness.

This last fact makes the Family justice system all the more dangerous. Like during the
inquisition, most people involved just knew they were part of a righteous cause, except
the people who suffered. No commissions, if there were any, appointed to see if the
slaves were being well taken care of came back with a recommendation that the solution
was to end slavery as a practice. Whole industries were dependant on it. What this did
was to make a large share of people hold their peace lest they lose a livelihood.

Now ask yourself this question. Would anyone without very strong convictions pit
themselves against an industry whose beneficiaries brought so much money to stores,
blacksmiths and other seemingly unrelated endeavors? Would your representative or
senator do much more than hear your story? That’s what has happened in every State and
US Congressional hearings, to many. There have been few meaningful changes.

Wither you were deemed a witch, heretic or slave, in times past, public hysteria, false
science and other misinformation was always involved. People thought they knew
something that they didn’t and there were no powerful or easy avenue to those afflicted to
express themselves in a way to cause the masses to quickly reevaluate their thinking.

When looking in the past, we cannot imagine how anyone could have done the things
they did. They were evils and we suppose ourselves to be better than they.

A curious incidence, in the Bible is where the religious leaders of Jesus’ time made a
statement that if they had lived in the time of the old prophets; they would not have
participated in their slaughter, like their Fathers did. Jesus mentioned that they were
indeed the children of their fathers and would do the same thing as their fathers did.

We are the children of our fathers and we are allowing the destruction of thousands of
children and families for all the same reasons people allowed injustices in the past.

1. Everyone knows there is an epidemic of child abuse, witches, heretics etc. They
think they know the facts. The information comes from the authorities that
benefits as protectors and in some cases confiscates property, money.

2. Mandatory reporters that are praised if they make the authorities happy or when
money and or property is taken.

3. Secrecy, to protect reporter’s identity and the authority’s reasoning process,

taking away the danger of loss of face the system could incur with the people

4. Retaliation: Making an example out of those who resist

5. Making sure there is a vested interest for those in power to leave the system as is.

6. Control the nomenclature and interpretation of laws

7. Have a growing body of demonstrably false knowledge. That is used anyway.

Since they are the authorities, most accept their words as fact.

All of this has happened in the Child protection industry. From the 1980’s many people
went to Jail on the Ideas fostered upon us by these so-called professionals, who had
absolutely no science to back them up. A few examples will suffice.

There was the Idea that Doctors could tell by the size, shape and irregularities of a child’s
vagina if they had been sexually assaulted. Later real scientific studies by Dr. McCann
and others proved all the assumptions were way wrong. Showing that all the so-called
signs were about the same in all kids regardless if they were abused or not. It helped few
of those jailed on false Science. Some in the CPS industry still use this false information.

The late Eighties and early 1990s were rife with accusations of day care workers abuse of
children, “Children don’t lie about sex the experts said” Wrong! These children grew up
and told the truth. Researchers found that if they allowed Children to have anatomical
dolls and questions were asked them about well observed examinations given to them by
doctors, they were all over the map, some describing things the doctors never even came
close to doing. The type of questions and the way they were asked brought different kinds
of things to the kid’s minds. These things were enough to have sent the physicians to jail.
Some CPS industry partners still use the anatomical dolls.

If anyone was alive at that time, they should remember the hysteria.
DHS controls the meaningful nomenclature and since they are the mandated authority,
everyone listens. Police departments that normally know how to investigate normal cases
show deference to DHS’ validation methods. They are only looking for those things that
prove a parent guilty of something. They follow not those things that show a person ‘s
innocence. They routinely hide this information from the court. Judges will often side
with DHS even when the evidence exonerates the individual. They only need to hire
expert witnesses that the parents do not have the money to match. Even if the experts
really say nothing or even contradicts themselves.

Like the inquisition or witch hunts, if you are a mandatory reporter, you better report
anything that possibly could be child abuse. This is true even if there is a thousand
innocent ways it could happen. You can’t get prosecuted, but if you don’t, you could.

About 65% of children taken by DHS were taken and kept even after they remained
unsubstantiated allegations.

You are guilty till you prove yourself innocent.

Over time, with a 30 to 70 percent attrition rate, the good people leave as they learn what
is going on. Also, over time DHS learns which professionals are willing to treat them
with deference that lends weight to their cases. They stick with these people, making
them very well off professional therapists and doctors etc. These people will do what ever
DHS wants.

The ACLU and others have found that there is false documentation and outright lies
brought to the court under these parent unfriendly conditions, DHS will win 90% of the
time.

You see as DHS and the Judge becomes closer and closer partners, there is less and less
of a true adversarial system. No one is a true neutral Judge. The parent cannot win. These
are some of the reasons the retired New York Supreme Court Judge Brian Lindsey said in
his statement above that the Family court system “guarantees” the break up of families.

All this because the title IV-E monies have made a whole industry surrounding it into
friends. Not as conspirators, at least not a majority, but nonetheless as subsystems in a
very insidious enterprise. Even though the computer may be the only damaged part of a
car, it affects all other subsystems.

Judges’ bench guides” recommends” finding probable cause, if only temporarily for
“TITLE IV-E money’s sake. (4)

The DHS case worker then tries to get additional information often having nothing to do
with the original allegation. Finding a home dirty the day of visitation, finding a broken
wall socket or no food in a refrigerator, can change your world. Finding an ex spouse or a
neighbor that hates you won’t do you any good. What ever she says in court is
considered fact.

If probable cause was found, the adjudication will usually go DHS’ way regardless,
because they will have some kind of expert that will shock you with what they say.

Now you are at their whims. You figure out too late that they never followed the law.
They never tried to find a real way to keep your child at home. If you are lucky and have
a good case worker, her recommendations to have the child(ren) returned home won’t
matter. You must go through all sorts of “services.” Parenting classes, anger management
maybe and therapists, who will say there is something wrong with you. They will add
more and more. You may loose your Job because of it. You then cannot pay child support.
Any thing you miss will be held against you. You may loose everything fighting false
allegations and thousands have. That will give them other reasons to keep your child. The
therapist will declare you in denial. You are told you cannot have your child back until
you are no longer in denial. “Confess and we will have mercy”, they say to the heretic.

Under these circumstances, many parents are told that if they only admit the accusation
the child will likely come home sooner. It’s a lie. If a person confesses an unsubstantiated
case becomes substantiated. You won’t get your child back.

Children that we “SAVED” from their parents, well, nearly 50% never graduate from
high School. A about 30%, some say much more, becomes homeless at some point in
their lives. Many seeing the unlawful way they were snatched from their parents never
adjust to society and become criminals. A large portion of those in prison have been in
our great foster care system, where they are 11 to 13 times more likely to be molested
than in their own homes. They are seven times more likely to be murdered.

Many of these children were constantly bombarded for months by repeated questions and
suggestions until they say what is expected of them, thinking, as they often have been
told, they would go home. All the regularly used therapists and psychologists reinforce
expected answers.

One well known psychological and therapeutic operation Doctor told me, “When they get
here, as far as I am concerned, they have been abused. I treat them for abuse.” When
asked what would be the effects of treating a child for abuse that wasn’t, this professional
said,” I cannot say.” (2)

These accurate statistics, despite the good people in the system, should make us
understand that the best place for children are with their parents, if at all possible.

If you are one of those that feel more comfortable talking with the slave owners and
inquisitors, getting their opinions about the slaves and heretics, nothing will change.
History will again repeat itself. One day people will look back on your actions and
wonder why you couldn’t see what will be very plain in their day.
If you are one that just wants to know for sure, then you are a person after my own heart.
I will gladly offer a way to that absolute proof.

Think about this, if you sent a commission in long past history to see the statistics on how
many witches or heretics were burned at the stake. Where would they look? The official
files, right? How many would show that they were executed and the allegations
concerning them were false? ALMOST NONE!

First define what is in the best interest of the child according to Arkansas law and the US
constitution. I know it’s there already, embedded. DHS ignores all this.

Commission a real investigation, according to your guide lines that you make clear and
simple. An example would be NO child can be taken under Arkansas law because of
poverty only. A single woman who lost her job for a while and is now working 2 had her
electricity cut off for a couple days. She plans on paying Friday when she gets paid. Since
its early summer, it’s not too hot or cold. She saved the money to feed her children. She
has a handle on the situation. DHS shows up on an anonymous call, finds the food
spoiled, or none because it spoiled. She takes the children from the baby sitter under
lamp light. The average child when taken will be gone about a year at least. The $200
dollar bill she owed has turned into a nightmare for the mother and her kids. The Federal
and State governments will likely end up paying many thousands of dollars. It is also
very likely that she will find that her children have become special needs kids draining
even more money from the government. She wonders why they just didn’t pay the bill.
She would have paid them back.

This happens more than we may ever know, because by this time some other reason will
have become the new reason to hold on to the children.

I say with absolutely no doubt, if strict scrutiny is used as the US Supreme Court says.
More than 50% of the children’s cases will be found to not have had a real reason that
they needed to be removed. This will be seen almost at first glance at those cases.

A real investigation will be separate and completely new. Some People that claim to have
done this report of the cases they saw in their area; fewer than 10 percent should have
been taken.
ALL cases must be available and the cases must be investigated at random.

Let’s do it. I am sure the people will gladly pay for it, upon knowing that accusations
about this agency. The Agency should be happy also if they really believe they have been
operating fairly. Remember the foxes cannot be asked to show documents proving wither
they have been tearing up the chickens. If we do this, No one will have room to doubt.

“There is something bad happening to our children in family courts today that is causing them more harm
than drugs, more harm than crime and even more harm than child molestation.”
 Judge Watson L. White

Superior Court Judge

Cobb County, Georgia

Bill Sullivan
bullivan79@comcast.net

REFERENCES

(1) http://www.thesociologycenter.com/EvidenceBooks/NationalEmrgncyAlert2005.pdf

(2) http://www.fightcps.com

Complete historical and referenced based, scientific studies.

http://www.liftingtheveil.org/

(4) http://www.thesociologycenter.com/EvidenceBooks/NationalEmrgncyAlert2005.pdf