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Behind the Black Robes: Failed Justice

Veritas Publishing I N T R O D U C E S

Behind the Black Robes: Failed Justice

The book addresses a serious problem, the need for court reform and the abolishment of judicial and quasi-judicial immunity. Marinated with the makings of sizzle, the book is f illed with the courts’ tricks and traps for the unwary—to alert the readers both why their law cases failed and what must be done to effect court reform.  E ach chapter introduces the background of the subject of that chapter and then presents a series of illustrative anecdotes intended to teach the readers by example how to avoid those court tricks and traps people are likely to encounter in their existing or potential court cases.

Its author, Barbara C. Johnson, an unconventional 74-year-old, has long been a fierce advocate for fathers’ rights in family courts.  She is an outspoken critic of the Massachusetts court system, which she says is rife with corruption.

In 2002, she ran a quixotic campaign for governor, campaigning in an antique fire truck and promising to use creativity, compassion, and a willingness to listen to the People to mend an ailing government.

In 2006, Johnson was barred from practicing law in Massachusetts. “The disbarment by a kangaroo court was an effort to silence my criticism of the courts,” she said.

A newspaper wrote, “While we don’t fully agree with either her politics or her methods, Johnson is a character in a humdrum world sorely in need of more characters.  She’s the t horn in the side, the thumbtack on the chair. . . . Johnson speaks her mind, and loudly.”

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Toddler’s hands dunked into boiling water

CNews

June 18, 2009

Woman burns toddler, gets house arrest

By TOM BRODBECK

WINNIPEG — An Ontario judge has handed down one of the most egregious sentences I’ve seen in a long time to a woman who forced a toddler’s hands into a pot of boiling water, causing fourth-degree burns.

For that, Superior Court Justice Helen MacLeod-Beliveau is the latest winner of the Eight-Ball Award, handed out in this column to highlight some of the worst perversions of justice in our [Canadian] court system….(Full Story)

Note by F4L: CNews got the date of the crime wrong in the article.  The crime against the little boy took place in 2007, not in 1997; but the following identifies an additional article about the case.

The IntelligencerJune 17, 2009

Mom seeking justice for child victims

Posted By Jeremy Ashley

At times, Damon Reddom Stone is a haunted four-year-old.

Sitting on his mother’s lap Monday, he ran his hands over her fingertips.

“He said, ‘Mommy, I wish I had normal hands like you,’” recalled Tina Reddom this week.

Every so often, she said, her youngster’s mind drifts back to the morning of Oct. 16, 2007 when a 24-year-old city woman — in a fit of supposed rage — forced his tiny hands into a pot of boiling water in the Applewood Drive apartment she shared with her then-boyfriend, Damon’s father.

Damon, who was two at the time, sustained serious burns and will require several surgeries, skin grafts and therapy to treat the wounds….(Full Story)

Roadkillradio.com

FYI,

Here is the chance you were always waiting for, a chance to have your say in public!

RoadkillRadio.com is worth listening to (Tuesdays, PST 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.) and even worth promoting.

Home Page: RoadkillRadio.com

Listen live:

Quoted from that web page:

NOTE: We only Broadcast “LIVE…” on Tuesdays, starting approximately 30 minutes before showtime! If its not Tuesday, you will not get a live stream. The archived shows however, will stream. All archived audio on the web site is of the MP3 file format.

Archived shows:

Archived Shows
All shows [a large and interesting list — WHS] are available for mp3 download

For example:

Download Show 8 Part Two

There will be time for some open-line then an eye-opening, in-depth discussion on Fathers Rights and the Rights of Children.  Vancouver lawyer and well-known advocate Carey Linde will be joining us to talk about this issue and parental alienation.  Are the courts getting it wrong?  (Note: The first third of that portion of the show deals with provincial politics in B.C..  Skip that to get to the interview with Carey Linde.  The discussion of fathers rights, feminist judicial bias, divorce issues such as parental alienation and much more is fascinating.  It is very important for anyone living in B.C. that the discussion contains a recommendation by Carey Linde to copy the results of the poll on shared parenting run by Saskatchewan MP Vellacotte and to forward that to the B.C. Attorney General — in view of the currently going-on revisions to family rights laws in B.C.. –WHS)


From the home page:

Important and Informative! Joins US!!

Broadcasting Live from Vancouver Canada
Unabashedly Canadian, BOLD, No Apologies!
Join Kari Simpson and Terry O’Neill as they expose and examine
the issues that affect your family, rights and liberties.

This Hard-Hitting current events online show dares to be
politically-incorrect and invites all those who have been silenced to be heard!!

May 12th 2009 - 7:30 p.m. - We ran out of time last week, so as promised you will hear a tape recording of a meeting (held on April 29, 2009) between RKR’s very own Kari Simpson, social workers and the parents of three children who are being “investigated” by these so-called child protection workers. Listen as social workers REFUSE to have the meeting taped for accuracy
(click here for an advanced listen part 1).

Then you will hear how they REFUSED to provide the findings of their investigation in writing!!!! (click hear for an advanced listen part 2)

For the rest of the show it is all about the BC Election!! Joining us in-studio will be pollster Glen Robbins from SceResearch and our own, politically in-the-know commentator Ron Gray. Former B.C. Premier Bill VanderZalm will be here and we will talk to candidates as their political fates are decided by BC VOTERS!!!!

We will be taking your calls and emails! This is a must listen… a must tell your friends and family to listen to… RoadKill Radio Rumble!

CALL IN: On-air telephone: (604) 525-4167

Important and Informative!

Your Calls, Your Thoughts, Your Opinions are welcome!

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–Walter

http://fathersforlife.org

http://blog.fathersforlife.org

Why Men Earn More

The pay gap between what men and women earn continues to be in the news. New legislation that aims at eliminating that pay gap is constantly and repeatedly being put into force.  Yet, as Warren Farrell explained in a 2005 speech at the Cato Institute, there are very good reasons for the pay gap.

The pay gap, where it exists, is due to women’s choices.  On the other hand, when women work just as men do — never marry, don’t have children, work in risky, stressful jobs, as many hours as never-married, childless men work at those jobs — women not only earn equal pay, they earn more than their male counterparts do, more by a considerable margin.

If you are interested in that issue and its causes, watch the video clips identified by the following.

mensnewsdaily.com
Apr 8, 2009

Why Men Earn More
By Bernard Chapin

What follows is a series of video segments from Dr. Warren Farrell’s 2005 speech at the Cato Institute entitled “Why Men Earn More.” I thank Argus Eyes for posting this last fall. A reader reminded me of it the other day. I was not yet writing the daily blog at the time in which it was originally published so I could not link back to it. By the way, if you’re not familiar with Argus Eyes check out some of his other videos and don’t forget to subscribe if you like him. He’s a fine fellow. Here’s Part I: (Full Story)

Children harmed by sole custody, report says

The Toronto Star
3 April 2009

Children harmed by sole custody, report says

Canadian judges rarely use voluntary arrangements in which kids live with each parent roughly equally

By Susan Pigg, Living Reporter

Family court judges are misguidedly harming children by granting sole custody to one parent - usually the mother - in bitter divorce battles, says a comprehensive new report.[*]

Too many children are being “robbed of the love of one parent” by a legal system that is out of touch with the needs of children and treats them like property to be won or lost, says Edward Kruk, an expert on child custody issues….(Full Story)
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* Note by F4L:

The report by Edward Kruk, Ph.D.:

An unmarried husband: Unwelcome reality

The Free Lance-Star

March 29, 2009 1:14 am

AN UNMARRIED HUSBAND:UNWELCOME REALITY

By Stephen Baskerville

–The decline of the family now affects virtually every American and seriously threatens not only social order but freedom and constitutional government. G.K. Chesterton once observed that the family checks government power. He was writing about divorce: Despite other threats to the family, divorce remains the most serious.

Americans would be shocked if they knew what goes on in the name of divorce. Divorce today licenses unprecedented government intrusion, including the power to seize children, loot family savings, and incarcerate parents without trial.

The full implications of the “no-fault” revolution have never been publicly debated. Divorce today seldom involves two people simply parting ways; 80 percent of divorces are unilateral. Under “no-fault,” divorce becomes a power grab by one spouse, assisted by judicial officials who profit from the ensuing litigation: judges, lawyers, psychotherapists, and social workers. Involuntary divorce involves government agents forcibly removing innocent people from their homes, seizing their property, and separating them from their children. It requires long-term supervision over private life by state functionaries, including police and jails….(Full Story)

Gender bias evident in parental alienation cases

The Globe and Mail (Canada)
28 March 2009

Mothers are more likely to be the parent behind children’s estrangement, yet fathers more often ordered into counselling, study finds

By Kirk Makin, Justice Reporter
From Saturday’s Globe and Mail

A study of alienated children has found that mothers were significantly more likely to be the parent who emotionally poisoned their children than were fathers….(Full Story)

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More PAS information at Fathers for Life.

US “freedom”: 5% of world’s population, 25% of world’s prison inmates

The blog entry identified by the following posits that in the US:

With our days as a manufacturing power a wistful memory and the marketing of fraudulent Wall Street “financial products” an infinitely self-replenishing source of national outrage, incarceration may soon become — by default — our leading national industry.

Pro-Libertate Blog

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Liberty and Law, not “Law and Order”

….To an extent unrivaled in the Western World, and perhaps comparable only to the People’s Republic of China, America’s prison system is populated by non-violent offenders. This is due primarily to that inexhaustible well of policy foolishness known as the “war on drugs,” of course.

Another significant element in this equation is the use of jails and penitentiaries as “debtor’s prisons” for “deadbeat dads” — divorced fathers driven into intractable financial misery by the federal child support racket.

“A parent [generally a father] whose children are taken away by a family court is only at the beginning of his troubles. The next step comes as he is summoned to court and ordered to pay as much as two-thirds or even more of his income as `child support’ to whomever has been given custody. His wages will immediately be garnished and his name will be entered on a federal register of `delinquents.’ This is even before he has had a chance to become one, though it is also likely that the order will be backdated, so he will already be delinquent as he steps out of the courtroom. If the ordered amount is high enough, and the backdating far enough, he will be an instant felon and subject to immediate arrest.”

Jails and prisons across our land bulge at the seams with men who have been sucked into this vortex. Countless others are on probation, parole, or shackled at the ankle with electronic monitoring devices….(Full Story)

‘Squatter’ forces man out of home

cnew.canoe.com

February 10, 2009

No-contact order with girlfriend keeps man out of his own house

By TONY BLAIS, SUN MEDIA

EDMONTON — In a bizarre case before the courts, an Edmonton man has been forbidden from going to his own home while his girlfriend - whom he has told to get out - is still living there.

Todd Shandro, 36, went before a judge yesterday to try to resolve the situation, but he was told there were jurisdictional issues and he has to take the matter to civil court.

“It’s very sick what is happening here,” said a frustrated Shandro. “I am the sole owner of the house. The mortgage and title are in my name and she is essentially a squatter….(Full Story)

PLEASE HELP AN INNOCENT MAN

HELP IS NEEDED! [for a man and loving father who is a victim of an epidemic of rape hysteria in Ellsworth, Maine]

When you think it could not get any worse for a man and his children I assure you it can!

In the Bar Harbor area of Maine, a decent, loving, and dedicated father who decided to leave his 16 year relationship with his wife, and save their children from her mental insanity and physical abuse was charged and convicted on 2 counts of assault and 1 count of Gross Sexual Assault for allegedly splashing water in his wife’s face 3 years ago, for allegedly sexually assaulting his wife 2 years ago, and for allegedly pushing her on a chair 2 years ago.

There was NO evidence, NO investigation, and nothing more than an angry and coached wife’s testimony along with prosecutorial misconduct that resulted in a conviction.

During the trial no evidence or any mention was allowed of the wife’s history of false allegations against other men in her life, the use of restraining orders against the fathers of her children for custody, her psychiatric history, years of powerful medication use, the details of her outrageous and violent abuse of her partners and her children, or even the mention of her current divorce and custody battle with this man.

During the trial, the prosecutor violated this man’s basic Constitutional Rights when she told the jury that “there was no evidence that the sexual acts did not occur,” implying that a man was guilty unless he proved otherwise. Asst. DA prosecutor’s misconduct extended to making many inadmissible and prejudicial statements while stating statistics in her closing arguments in order to get a conviction and publicity regardless of the evidence, of the facts, or the truth in this case!

She even implied to the jury that no custody battle exists between the accuser and the accused.

During and after the trial, the defense attorney Motioned for Acquittal and a New Trial citing prosecutorial misconduct, inappropriate court rulings, and violations of this innocent man’s Constitutional Rights.

He [the man wrongly accused] is currently free on bail pending his sentencing in March 2009.

For the past 1 ½ years this innocent man has had custody of his two sons granted by the state of Maine while for almost 2 years his accuser has not been allowed contact with the children by Maine authorities.

If the conviction is not overturned and/or a new trial granted by March 5th, this innocent man could go to jail for 30 years while his two sons (12 and 3) will be taken by the State of Maine because their mother (the accuser) is considered a danger to them.

Please visit www.FillerFund.com for more details about this outrageous case, and PLEASE HELP!

Letters of support, donations, and legal help is DESPERATLY needed!