Today i am filing papers regarding this nationwide class action here:
http://www.ncwd.uscourts.gov/courtInformation/charlotteInfo.asp

Besides all the forms I received from Torm to file all the necessary paperwork, I am also utilizing this framework for the filing:
http://www.ffvisual.com/ncpshared/subframesx.html< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Now all I need is someone who is pro bono……..or is more knowledgeable than I in legal matters.  [shouldn’t be too difficult….fofl]

Here is some background info on what i am getting involved in [federal class action lawsuit]:

Coalition of Parents Unite in Nationwide Class Action Challenges for Their Children

http://www.familyrightsassociation.com/news/archive/2004/sept/coalition_of_parents_unite.htm

Auburn, AL, September 2, 2004 — Representatives from across the country are announcing that on September 17, 2004, they will simultaneously file federal class action lawsuits, on behalf of an estimated 25 million noncustodial parents, demanding that rights to equal custody of their children be restored by the federal courts.

In what some are calling “the mother of all lawsuits”, the parents will challenge widespread practices by the states in determining care, custody, and support of children. “Parents are tired of being mistreated as second class citizens by state courts,” according to Torm L. Howse, President of the Indiana Civil Rights Council. “Most parents say they care about their children, their families, and the related unnecessary waste of their hard-earned tax dollars, more than all other political issues combined.”

Plaintiffs are seeking damages in all 50 states, bringing widespread attention to what they allege as years of disparate taxation and willful financial mismanagement. The coalition is comprised of various leaders from family rights, fathers rights, mothers rights, and shared parenting groups, as well as political candidates, doctors, and other activists committed to dramatic social, taxation, and government reform in the area of family law. The effort is also backed by several prominent family rights organizations.

“We’re trying to protect the right of all fit parents to share equally in the custody and care of their children,” says Howse. “The time has come for a drastic reform of government practices that harm children and parents. “Kids need both parents,” adds Rachel Forrest, a leader with the Children’s Rights Council and the National Congress for Fathers and Children. “We hope that this landmark action will wake up the government and make it aware of the inequities in family courts and social services that prevent our children from having equal access to both of their parents.”

According to attorney Garrett C. Dailey, who successfully obtained a recent landmark California Supreme Court decision, “children of divorced parents who have two primary parents in their lives do better in school, are better adjusted and happier than children raised by only one primary parent.” 

Likewise, the American Psychological Association, the world’s largest such group, confirmed through an exhaustive study that children in joint custody arrangements have less behavior and emotional problems, higher self-esteem, better family relations, and better school performance than children who are subjected to sole custody arrangements. 

Agreeing in a decision long-touted by parental rights advocates, Judge Dorothy T. Beasley of the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled: “Inherent in the express public policy is a recognition of the child’s right to equal access and opportunity with both parents, the right to be guided and nurtured by both parents, the right to have major decisions made by the application of both parents’ wisdom, judgment and experience. The child does not forfeit these rights when the parents divorce.”

In addition to challenging standard practices pertaining to family law, the coalition also alleges that while nearly every state has recognized catastrophic budgetary failures, the states still recklessly refuse to consider the financial devastation involved with encouraging routine awards of sole custody, reminding that such patterns dramatically increase crime, poverty, drug use, suicides, dropouts, teenage pregnancies, and other forms of direct harm and costs against children, families, taxpayers, and society in general. 

Professor Stephen Baskerville, distinguished master of political science at Howard University, and one of the world’s foremost experts on various custody and child support issues, explains: “Politicians often spend money to avoid confronting problems. Yet marshaling the government to strengthen families seems especially pointless when it is government that weakened the family in the first place.”

The plaintiffs further allege that the relocation of children away from one parent radically increases the incidence of parental kidnappings, which dwarf all other types of kidnappings, and wastes additional tax dollars in the ensuing processes. An in-depth analysis, conducted in 1990 by the U.S. Department of Justice, confirmed that over 350,000 children were abducted that year by a family member – typically a parent involved in a custody dispute – while the number of stereotypical kidnappings of children for ransom amounted only to a few hundred nationwide.

The parents say that common inequities in state family courts are also directly and indirectly responsible for murders and suicides amongst the most estranged families. Every week, they note, approximately 300 fathers and 75 mothers commit suicide in this country, with the majority of these senseless deaths directly attributable to victimization by family courts. These suicides are often committed by passive parents, due to hopelessness in a system fraught with injustice, but the more aggressive parents occasionally snap at the weight of suffering such anguish, and violently take out their desperation on estranged partners, sometimes even murdering them, and possibly the children, before also killing themselves

They also allege that the states are recklessly responsible for much of the abuse and neglect experienced by children in this country. 

The National Clearinghouse for Child Abuse and Neglect Information, a service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, consistently reports that, year after year, single parents are responsible for almost two-thirds of all substantiated cases of abuse and neglect committed against children – more than all other classes of perpetrators combined. The national costs of these child abuse and neglect incidents surpassed $94 billion in 2001, according to Prevent Child Abuse America. “It’s painfully obvious that the majority of child abuse can be easily prevented, by simply ensuring the regular presence of both parents in the daily lives of children,” notes Howse. “Involving the eyes and ears of both parents creates a naturally self-balancing situation, wherein a child’s health and safety is automatically monitored by opposing sides who stand to gain if the other side fails.

The Plaintiffs further charge that because parents are generally treated unfairly in family courts, the results are also directly or indirectly responsible for very large, and otherwise unnecessary, additional tax burdens upon every citizen, through increased welfare spending and self-serving enlargement of state family agencies and entities, and that such inequities are also indirectly responsible for vast numbers of personal and corporate bankruptcies, which are absorbed into even more future taxation. Additionally, they note a pattern of fraud and abuse being progressively reported about various state family bureaucracies, which they say are very costly in terms of tax dollars, and which violate the rights of American citizens on an unprecedented scale.

“It is high time for costly government to get out of the lives of most parents and children,” says Howse. “American taxpayers should no longer be forced to fund systematic violations against parents and children, and the needless progressive destruction of our society.”

While the current class actions deal exclusively with conventional aspects of child custody, leaders of related parents groups report they have already begun the processes for raising similar legal challenges in the near future, on behalf of alleged victims of CPS, paternity fraud, and the progressive drugging of children in this nation.

For more information, contact:

Torm L. Howse
President, Indiana Civil Rights Council
317-769-6108
president@indianacrc.org
http://www.indianacrc.org/

for those reading this i ask that you sign this petition:
Non-Custodial Parental Rights

http://www.petitiononline.com/usncpr/petition.html

There is nothing scarier than a lunatic who believes he is doing the ‘Lord’s’ work, especially when that lunatic has his finger on the nuke button. We are all just a Bible passage away from extinction. If war is the health of the State, then God is the Physician.

in other news=
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“if you waste your life, why wouldn’t you waste death?”

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I cannot ‘make’ anyone wrong.

You cannot ‘make’ anyone wrong.

Each person “makes” himself/herself wrong by the choices he/she makes.

As long as you are convinced that the possession of your own opinion is the ultimate accountability, you can make statements like “we can all have different views and opinions and that is perfectly normal and okay.”

So what? It has nothing to do with whether a particular thing is right or wrong.

You must have a higher power, higher purpose that has ultimate authority over your life in order for your life to have any value. [that does not idiosyncratically refer to the G.O.D.]

It does no good to have a higher energy that merely advises you about what to do. The higher vision you serve must have the ability to control you to the point of seizing your current way of life away from you, before your life can have any meaning or value.

You do not have to believe that this is true or that I’m right. You can ignore my message, but the result will be that NOTHING you ever do will be principled enough to continue.

Therefore in the future whenever you reach a ‘settlement’ it will not be trustworthy because you will not be honorable to yourself. That’s not an insult – merely an accurate statement about anybody who is not controlled by a higher purpose/passion. The day will come when it is simply ineffective or too much trouble for you to continue to abide by the ‘arrangement’ and poof it will be off to something new.

This is so whether you “approve” or “have your own opinion” or whatever. In view of that, this is not a condemnation of you nor is it a judgment of your value.

The proof of this is that I would not be engaging you and trying to help you see me…….see the real truth unless you were worth the effort.

But you really must vow to reject the slick marketing of this illusion as reality. Never ever begin with ‘to each his own’, which is a total farce if there ever was one.

who was it that said that i refuse to pay attention in class?

So………. the forlorn attorney of Tara’s calls me and enlightens me to the notion that he refuses to sign the dismissal of the case on his end, supposedly in accordance to Tara’s wishes [read: Fill my pockets w/ more of the lovely color green only so I can represent you and continue this fruitless stroll into a system that swallows your essence like water and spits you out like watermelon seeds.]!

Remarkably, I find it amusing that this guy seems unable to decipher the judge’s FINAL decision printed here in bold-faced b&w:

Click Me and See What I Mean

I transgressed over the weekend into a world where mornings are chilly.

can she grasp how much joy she brings to my life whilst in her presence?

methinks she could never gauge the depth to which this brilliant glow scintillates……

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This week’s scenario is highlighted by your need to be sensitive to other’s needs and by your ability to see past the immediate.

It won’t matter that you have the right answer if you express it thoughtlessly.

Don’t dwell on negatives. 

You need to be babied or you need someone to baby.  The downside is the possibility of creating a pattern of dependency in a relationship.  As long as you know that it’s a temporary thing, you can change roles the next time.

Don’t be afraid to take the steps necessary to feel happier with your life.

Children will reign high as your objective.

This “being right or being wrong” business can get you into trouble.

The world is not all black or white. [tell that to my photo lab instructor....fofl]

There are innumerable shades of gray in between.

You’re ready to either conquer the world or rip somebody’s head off, perhaps both.

Find a good place to utilize the passion you feel.

All is love. – ALL IS LOVE –

With love comes understanding and with understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

Love is the ultimate answer. Love is not an abstraction but an actual energy, or spectrum of energies, which you can ‘create’ and maintain in your being.

Just love.

You are now beginning to touch the G.O.D. within yourself.

Feel love.
Express your love.
Love then begins to dissolve fear.

You cannot be afraid when you are feeling love. Since everything is energy, and love encompasses all energies, all is love. When you are loving and unafraid, you can forgive. You can forgive others, and you can forgive yourself when you begin to see with the proper perspective. Guilt and anger are reflections of the same fear. Guilt is a subtle anger directed inward. Forgiveness dissolves guilt and anger. They are unnecessary, damaging emotions. Forgive, as this is an Act of Love.

Pride can get in the way of forgiving. Pride is one manifestation of ego. Ego is the transient, false self. You are not your body. You are not your brain. You are not your ego. You are greater than all of these. You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego, which processes information. The rest; pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear are all worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and LOVE. You must transcend your ego and find your true self. The true self is the permanent, deepest part of you. It is wise, loving, safe, and joyful.

Intellect is important in the three-dimensional world, but intuition is more important.

You may have reversed reality and illusion. Reality is the recognition of your immortality, divinity, and timelessness. Illusion is your transient three-dimensional world. This reversal is damaging to you. You yearn for the illusion of security instead of the security of wisdom and love. You yearn to be accepted when, in reality, you can never be rejected. Ego creates illusion and hides truth. Ego must be dissolved, and then
truth can be seen, with love and understanding comes the perspective of infinite
patience.

What is your hurry?

There is no time anyway; it only feels that way to you. When you are not experiencing the present, when you are absorbed in the past or worried about the future, you bring great heartache and grief to yourself, as time is an illusion too. Even in the three-dimensional world, the future is only a system of probabilities.

Why do you worry so?

Therapy can be done to the self. Understanding is therapy. Love is the ultimate therapy. Therapists, teachers, and gurus can help, but only for a limited time. The direction is inward and sooner or later the inward path must be trod alone. Although, in reality you are never alone.

Measure time, if you must, in lessons learned, not in minutes or hours or years. You can cure yourself in five minutes if you come to the proper understanding. [Or in fifty years, eeeekkkkk!!!!] It is not all the same thing. The past must be remembered and then forgotten. Let it go. This is true for childhood traumas and past-life traumas. But this is also true for attitudes, misconceptions and belief systems drummed into you. Indeed, for all thoughts.

How can you see freshly and clearly with all those thoughts? What if you needed to learn something new? With a fresh perspective? Old thoughts create the illusion of separateness and difference. Ego perpetuates this illusion and this illusion creates fear, anxiety and tremendous grief. Fear, anxiety and grief in turn create anger and violence. How can peace exist in the world when these chaotic emotions predominate?

Just unravel. Go back to the source of the problem. You are back to thoughts……old thoughts. Stop thinking. Instead, use your intuitive wisdom to experience love again.

Meditate.

See that everything is interconnected arid interdependent. See the unity, not the
differences. See your true self. See your G.O.D. that lies within YOU. Meditation and visualization will help you stop thinking so much and will help you begin the journey back. Healing will occur. You will begin to use the unused mind. You will see. You will understand. And you will grow wise. And then there will be peace.

You have a relationship with yourself is well as with others. And you have lived in many bodies and in many times. So ask your present self why it is so fearful, why are you so afraid to take reasonable risks? Are you afraid of your reputation, afraid of what others
think? These fears are conditioned from childhood or before.

Ask yourself these questions:
What’s to lose?
What is the worst that can happen?
Am I content to live the rest of my life this way?
Against a background of death, is this so risky?

In your growth, do not be afraid of evoking anger in other people. A manifestation of their own insecurity. But fearing this anger can hold you back. Anger would be merely stupid if it didn’t create so much grief. Dissolve your own anger in love and forgiveness.

Do not let depression or anxiety hold you back in your growth. Depression is losing perspective, forgetting, and taking things for granted. Sharpen your focus. Reset your values. Remember what should not be taken for granted.

Shift your perspective, and remember what is important and what is less important. Get out of the nil. Remember to hope and never forget to LOVE.

[though my 'faith' sways far from the traditional, the inkling of meaning here is beyond any words i can express]