There’s nothing like having your family destroyed by bureaucrats to wake you up to the fact that there’s something terribly wrong with America, that there’s no real “liberty and justice for all,” and that much of the patriotism that was hard-boiled into us by public schools may be misplaced loyalty. I’m sure most of us love our country and still believe our Constitution was a great beginning for the USA, but now, after being victimized, traumatized, and stigmatized by the government we loved and trusted, do you still think America is the best nation in the world to live in?

I’m sure some will think that we’re still so lucky because we have “freedom of speech” … unless perhaps you’ve tried to tell a juvenile court judge your side of the story and been told to be quiet. When you’re not even allowed to defend yourself against government agents who lie, is there any real freedom of speech? Is there any justice left in this country?

I’d like to know your opinions.

As for me, my heart is broken. I thought I lived in a decent country but after twenty years of reading and listening to traumatized parents and children, after learning that children are being systematically poisoned with pharmaceuticals in foster care, after finding out all the dirty tricks social workers use to falsely accuse and persecute families, I can no longer believe that America is such a great place.

Our federal legislators don’t help change the laws. I hope every one of them is voted out of office save perhaps for Ron Paul, and I’m not sure about him. My trust has been shattered. Every one of those scoundrels that didn’t do a thing to help families harmed by CPS should be ousted. But I doubt it will happen. Most Americans are too fluoridated and dumbed down to even realize there’s a problem. If you tell them what’s wrong with this country, they’re instantly in a state of denial. They can’t deal with that information.

My heart aches severely for all the innocents in foreign countries that are being harmed by American soldiers overseas. The killings and maimings of children and other innocents in Afghanistan and Iraq weigh heavily on my heart. For many years people in Middle Eastern countries reviled and hated Americans. Now I’ve come to understand they were right. This country is horribly corrupt. I’m not sure if it is *hopelessly* corrupt but honestly, I don’t see much hope. I’m ashamed to be part of a country that kills children overseas. And that’s got me in a panic. I hope those people know that we’re not all in favor of these insane wars. Yet I know they must think we’re all responsible because we do so little to try to make them stop. Americans are so fluoridated, all they want to do is watch sitcoms on TV, go shopping for hot fashions, read about celebrities, and watch football games. Meanwhile our country now is into torture and child kidnapping under color of law.

So tell me – is the USA still the best country in the world?

Was it ever?

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Two child protective services social workers, an attorney, and five law enforcement officers were sued in 2006 for coercing an Arizona homeschool family to allow unlawful entry into their home, in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution. The lawsuit is ongoing; this week a judge denied the state’s motion for summary judgment, so now it will be up to a jury to decide whether entry into the Loudermilk home was coerced and unconstitutional.

It started when someone phoned an anonymous tip to a child protective services hotline stating that the new home wasn’t fit for children to live in. Six weeks later two CPS social workers showed up at the door to investigate with two sheriff’s deputies. Entry was denied, and more law enforcement officers arrived on the scene. The family was told their children would be removed if they didn’t allow entry.

They were on the phone with Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) attorney Thomas Schmidt, who advised them to refuse entry. HSLDA wrote, “After an escalating confrontation at the front door that lasted 40 minutes, the social workers, backed by no fewer than four deputies, threatened to take the Loudermilks’ children into custody and place them in foster care if the Loudermilks continued to deny them entry into their home.” (Source)

Assistant Attorney General Julie Rhodes was also on the phone, and she repeated the threat to the HSLDA attorney. Big Mistake, Julie!!!

Under duress, the illegal, unconstitutional entry was allowed. Within five minutes the CPS social workers realized they’d received a false tip, and left. They were probably unwilling to continue with the case because they didn’t want to bother with victimizing parents who had an attorney on the phone! Too much work!

The Loudermilk family consented to the lawsuit filed on their behalf by HSLDA attorneys.

HSLDA has a track record of helping homeschooling families (who have purchased memberships) with CPS related legal problems. In 1995 a similar case was heard in the Federal Court of Appeals, Calabretta v. Floyd. This landmark case ruled that in the 9th Circuit (US Western states) social workers cannot violate the Fourth Amendment. This was already binding case law in Arizona and other Western states when the Arizona caseworkers coerced their way into the Loudermilk home on March 9, 2005.

How many other people does this still happen to? Probably thousands – who are unaware of the laws, and who don’t have a homeschooling attorney to call on the phone. This practice of coercion is totally illegal, immoral, and a violation of a standing court order in Arizona, California, and other Western states.

Here are the rulings from Calabretta v. Floyd as found on the HSLDA website: (1) “…unless there is evidence of an emergency, a social worker and police officer investigating a report of child abuse must have a warrant…” and (2) “…reasonable expectation of privacy of individuals in their homes includes the interests of both parents and children in not having government officials coerce entry in violation of the Fourth Amendment and humiliate parents in front of the children.”

Apparently child protective services social workers in Arizona forgot Calabretta v. Floyd, or perhaps this constitutional violation and coercion technique is still standard operating procedure in many of our counties. Perhaps it is time for these lawless, immoral and/or forgetful government agents to get their hands slapped again.

Source: Judge says threats to confiscate children may be coercion; Homeschool family’s case against sheriff’s office, social services advanced by Bob Unruh, published April 4, 2010 at the World Net Daily website.

Words cannot express how distressed I am to hear that our dear Senator Nancy Schaefer has died in what is being called a murder-suicide, along with her husband.

Nancy was the first state senator to speak out forcefully, truthfully about the corruption of Child Protective Services. For this reason some have surmised that this murder-suicide could actually be a cover-up for something more sinister… a silencing!

Regardless of how she died, she will be remembered for many years to come as a brave, honest, ethical and truth-telling woman who stood up to the child welfare industry and voiced the pain and trauma of those who had approached her for help with their Georgia CPS cases.

Let’s not let this be the end!

Please join me in taking a stand to make her life even more meaningful.

Here’s the plan.

1. Download a copy of Senator Schaefer’s report on CPS corruption.

2. Print out copies of pages one through seven.

3. Write heartfelt letters to every county supervisor in your county. Shorter letters are better, as they’re more likely to be read. Ask them to investigate and cut funding for CPS in your county. Send your letters to every supervisor along with a copy of Senator Schaefer’s report, pages one through seven.

4. Now send letters to every state senator, congressman, and legislator in your state! Remind them that federal child welfare laws are a violation of the Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution and request State Sovereignty. Send them the first seven pages of Senator Schaefer’s report!

Please, please, please do this!

And if you take up the banner and run with it, please leave a comment on this thread to encourage others to participate.

We love you, Nancy!
So long as I’m alive you will NEVER be forgotten!
Thanks so much for all you did for CPS victims everywhere!

News Reports

What really happened? Friends, strangers wonder about Schaefer deaths – by Mark Davis, published April 3, 2010 in the Atlantic Journal-Constitution.

Hundreds attend Schaefer funeral by Mark Davis, published April 1, 2010 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

GBI: Husband shot ex-senator, then self by Alexis Stevens, published March 29, 2010 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Murder-suicide possible cause of deaths of former state Sen. Schaefer and husband by By Mashaun D. Simon and Aaron Gould Sheinin, published March 27, 2010 in theAtlanta Journal-Constitution.

GBI probing deaths of former lawmaker, her husband, an AP article published March 26, 2010 at Macon.Com.

I will be doing a series of articles to answer questions asked in a comment posted on March 26, 2010.

This question was asked by a social worker who is upset because I’m giving defense information publicly to people who may be guilty of child abuse.

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Q: How does your website weed out those who post their rants on here that ARE the guilty ones?

A: This may surprise you, but parents, guilty or not, have a right to information that will help them present themselves in court in the best possible light. Those that are innocent are more likely to get their children returned than those that have actually committed some form of child abuse.

This website doesn’t have to weed out child abusers from falsely accused people. That’s something the judges should be doing. The focus of this site is to provide victims of injustice with information on how to present their cases better in court. They need this information because court appointed attorneys usually do not do an adequate job of protecting family rights.

Since you’re involved with the CPS system as a social worker, you’re surely aware that social workers are trained to present their case in court with a comprehensive report. The caseworkers who write these reports have done so dozens or even hundreds of time and are expert at doing so. In the caseworker corner is an experienced county attorney. They’ve ripped hundreds of families apart – so they’re good at what they do.

On the other side of the courtroom is a confused parent with an attorney who is working for the county he’s supposed to be defending the parent against. This is a clear conflict of interest. These county-paid attorneys are known to help convince the confused parents to sign guilty pleas regardless of whether or not they are adequately good parents. The parents usually know nothing about what to expect or how to defend themselves. Thus the parents give up their right to a trial without ever realizing they have that right!

Once the plea deal is signed, the parents are forced into a service plan that ranges from intrusive and inconvenient, to abusive and detrimental to the family’s well being. For example, many CPS victim parents have lost their jobs because of service plan scheduling conflicts that caseworkers force upon them.

Many if not most of the lawyers these parents have don’t do a thing to help their clients who are taken advantage of in court, and in fact, serve the counties more than they serve their clients.

Furthermore there’s a huge issue with lack of regard for constitutional rights in juvenile court. A criminal accused of murder is given more rights than a parent in juvenile court, where there’s no right to a jury trial, no opportunity to face the accuser, no press and public allowed, and usually, no adequate representation. Constitutional rights are suspended in these cases, ostensibly “for the children.” But obviously it isn’t for the children at all. It is to imbalance the justice system and push through a family destruction agenda thrust on us by whatever evil power is creating the abusive federal child welfare laws.

Because constitutional rights are not allowed in juvenile court, virtually every parent processed through that system, guilty or not, is a victim of injustice. Every single one of them!

Obviously there’s an imbalance here. Parents are used and abused by this legal system and their children are often unjustly placed in foster homes when they could be home with their parents who love them. This is traumatic for both parents and children. And who is there to help, to explain the way the system works, and to show them what they can do to present their cases better in court?

Well, that’s where my site comes in. I give a few suggestions for being proactive participants in their cases, and show them how to get their court appointed attorneys to work for them rather than for the county.

Now if you, as a social worker, have any REAL evidence of child abuse, you can present that in court at a trial. However you rarely do that. In fact, it seems that most CPS victims are run through the system by a coercive court appointed attorney who convinces them to sign a guilty plea and give up their right to a trial. The bait? “Do you want to get your children home sooner? Sign or the judge will be upset with you. etc.” Therefore no EVIDENCE is presented in court, most of the time. That makes your job easy and the parents and children miserable. Of course ‘miserable’ is an understatement. We’re talking about seriously traumatized people whose families have been attacked.

It simply isn’t fair.

If you have real evidence, no child abuser will escape the system. However if your evidence isn’t convincing, the parents should get their children and their life back. And that’s how it should be.

It isn’t up to me to decide who is and who isn’t a real child abuser. I’m just here to help balance the scales of justice a little bit for those falsely accused parents who are lucky enough to (1) find this site, and (2) learn and apply a bit of legal self-defense. If child abusers find the site and use my ideas, I trust that the legal system and any actual evidence you have will suffice.

I just found a note on the message board from a man who is using Meetup.Com to start his new group, the Virginia Family Association.

Great idea!

Anyone else want to start something new? Meetup.Com.

Once you’ve got people in your states organized you can work together to help state legislators understand how CPS laws need to be changed.

Don’t forget the State Sovereignty Movement! Get rid of unconstitutional federal child welfare laws!