Press Release #2
Bradford R Ingram wrote:
Ê
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/ WIDEST POSSIBLE DISTRIBUTION
>
> NATIONAL CRY FOR CHILDREN
> (Live television coverage pending, schedule to be announced)
> CONTACT:Brad Ingram [deletia]
>
> WHEN:Ê November 7th, 1999 from 2:00 - 5:00 PM
>
> WHERE:Ê Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
>
> WHAT:Ê A national rally to expose the truth of divorce and divorce
> litigation tactics as they apply to children.Ê The goal is to make an
> unmistakable statement to our government that the American People will no
> longer tolerate the widespread destruction of children through divorce.
>
> WHO:Ê Speakers
>
> Charles Janus Esq.--
> TOPIC--Family Law as big business
>
> Mike McCormick,Director, Metro Coalition for Fathers and Children
> TOPIC-- Government financial incentives destroying families
>
> Jeff Golden, Fathers' and Children's Equality, Inc.
> TOPIC--Taking parents from the mouth of babes
>
> ET1 (SS) Michael L. Buie, US Navy, Ret.
> TOPIC--What will it be like without a military?
>
> Steve Rosamillia, Pres. "We the People", Inc.
> TOPIC-- What happened to the Constitution?
>
> Murray Steinberg, Chairman, Children's Rights Coalition
> TOPIC--Ê How the truth is hidden so bad laws can beÊ made
>
> TOPIC--The effects of a child losing a parent through divorce
>
> David Roberts, Pres., American Coalition for Fathers and Children
> TOPIC--Joint Custody Solutions
>
> Dr. Dean Tong, Author/ Forensic Consultant
> TOPIC--Child abuse 2000...False allegations and Parental Alienation
> Syndrome
>
> WHY:
>
>Ê The time to act is now.Ê Most of us cry for revolution and justice.Ê How
>Ê many realize that the revolution began decades ago when our justice was
>Ê first stolen?Ê We come from different walks of life, different races,
>Ê different sexes, and different political persuasions, but who among us
>Ê does not cry out for justice?
>
>Ê Men in this country are jailed for a few thousand dollars in child
>Ê support arrearage and called deadbeats, while our government is in
>Ê arrears by 5.5 trillion dollars and wants to make it more.Ê Who is
> really
>Ê failing to provide for our childrens' future?
>
>Ê Women cry out for equal rights in the work place, and while they still
>Ê don't have that, our government has made sure that the most precious and
>Ê valued responsibility women ever had--that of raising future
> generations-
>Ê has been taken from them.Ê How many women pick up their child from the
>Ê fifty hours (or more)a week in day care and don't feel like they are
>Ê missing out on the most important moments in their childrens' lives?
>
>Ê Families are destroyed everyday as Americans decide that they don't feel
>Ê complete in their marriage, and that happiness is on the other side of a
>Ê divorce decree.Ê So prevalent is this tragedy that it has become an over
>Ê 200 billion dollar a year industry. So many "college funds" go to the
>Ê divorce attorneys that the new trend is to shift the responsibility once
>Ê more from the government, and require divorced parents to pay for
> college
>Ê educations by way of a court order.Ê Those that stole the "college fund"
>Ê walk away free from accountability, and richer for it.Ê After all, we
> pay
>Ê for divorce with our childrens' future-- mentally, emotionally,
>Ê physically, and financially.Ê But how many men and women hold that
> decree
>Ê in their hand years later and feel they did the right thing?Ê Moreover,
>Ê how many of your children will look back at you one day and ask if it
> was
>Ê worth it?
>
>Ê Many speak of the fact that our Constitution is ignored, that the
>Ê government is out of control, and they are right, but who in this
> country
>Ê suffers more today than our children?Ê Before you complain about the
>Ê government taking your gun, consider that over 5000 times each day in
>Ê this country the government takes a parent from a child.Ê Children have
>Ê no due process, most of the time they have no one to represent them in
>Ê court, and when they do it's frequently a "Guardian Ad Litem" who
> doesn't
>Ê even know the child.Ê I was born with a twin brother, and all throughout
>Ê my life I've been asked, "What was it like to grow up with a twin?"Ê I
>Ê always answer,"I don't know, because I always had a twin, I don't know
>Ê what to compare it with.Ê What was it like to grow up without one?"
>Ê Today we live with generations who will say, "I don't know what to
>Ê compare it with.Ê What's it like to grow up with two parents?"Ê No one
> is
>Ê more violated in this country today than the innocent children who are
>Ê manipulated, not into believing a lie, but are manipulated into never
>Ê being able to know the truth.Ê I'm no genius, if I can figure this out
>Ê why can't our government?Ê Is it because they want to be the new "head
> of
>Ê the household"?Ê Is it because so many of us will gladly trade the
>Ê precious moments of teaching our childrenÊ for a new car every two
>Ê years?Ê Or is it because our government would rather have children grow
>Ê up being dependant onÊ them, social services, and child care
>Ê strangers, than have children grow up believing in their family?
>
>Ê The time to act is now.Ê And the victims to protect are our children.
>Ê Don't fight for your rights today until you first fight for your
>Ê childrens' rights for tomorrow.Ê Parents, do you want your daughter to
>Ê grow up and choose a husband that never had a father?Ê A young boy who
>Ê grew up watching one boyfriend after another parade through his mother's
>Ê home?Ê Parents, do you want your son to marry a girl who never saw love
>Ê between a man and a women, but rather grew up hearing, "Mommy and daddy
>Ê still love each other, we just can't live together."Ê Do you think your
>Ê son and his new wife will have a chance at love, when the perception of
>Ê love doesn't include permanence and commitment?
>
>Ê Every time you see parents and children talking about adoption, the
> first
>Ê thing they say is that the biological parent is NOT the "real" parent,
>Ê but rather the real parent is the person that was there all the time.
>Ê These are the people we need to look to in deciding on these issues.
>Ê Children don't "adapt" they "mutate".Ê We are developing a new
> generation
>Ê that sees no tie to family.Ê The biological parents aren't important,
> and
>Ê most non-custodial parents who start off caring ultimately end up
>Ê detaching from their children because the pain of separation and
>Ê isolation from their child is too great for them to bear.Ê When family
> is
>Ê no longer the constant, and government is, then our children are not
>Ê taught to be individuals, but taught to be components of the system that
>Ê created them.Ê Will you Cry out for the Children this November?
>
> They need your help.Ê If you cannot attend the National Cry for Children,
> you can still participate.Ê THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO BE HEARD.Ê Write a
> letter and send it to:
>
> Family Restoration League
> [deletia]
> Let the government know that you are one more American who will no longer
> tolerate the destruction of American families.
>
> HISTORY:
> The National Cry for Children began when Brad Ingram, founder of the
> Family Restoration League, began circulating the attached letter.Ê This
> event quickly grew to what it is now, as more and more felt that the time
> to act was upon us.
>
> Fellow Americans,
>
> Please take a minute to read this completely.Ê Today has marked the final
> straw for me.Ê Another lawful case dismissed because... come to think of
> it I don't even know why.
>
> For several years now I have tried to endure the injustices we have
> fought to dispell.Ê I've tried running for office, I've spent so much
> time in the law library that I've found enough law to realize that our
> government is out of control, and in the end I've seen my now three and a
> half year old daughter slowly slip away from me.
>
> The time comes when trying to work within the system seems more and more
> foolish.Ê I won't bore you with the details of my story.Ê The odds are
> that you have one very similar.Ê I will tell you that for years I have
> struggled against a corrupt legal system that is backed by an equally
> corrupt government.Ê For what have I fought?Ê My right to be my little
> girls father, nothing else.Ê For as long as I can remember all I really
> wanted was to have a family and be a good father.Ê When they took that
> right away from me they took everything that was important.Ê Of course in
> the struggle they've taken any material wealth I had gained in my life
> too, but compared to my little girl that was nothing.Ê I would have given
> that all up if I could have kept her.
>
> I can no longer sit back and wait for change.Ê As many of us have
> discussed many times, the problems are not strictly with the laws.Ê It's
> as much a problem with the application.Ê The courts devote weeks to
> determining how to address the remainder of the life of a convicted
> murderer, and spend minutes determining the remainder of the life of a
> child.Ê I don't mean to seem callous but the courts place more emphasis
> on the end of life than on the beginning.Ê And what about my right to
> raise my child?Ê A murderer commits a crime before their rights are taken
> from them.Ê That makes sense.Ê But why have my rights been taken?Ê Who in
> the world gave the courts the ability to take those rights?Ê I can answer
> that question... no one.
>
> Our government was founded by the Constitution.Ê The law of the people.
> The prevailing authority against which all must bow.Ê That is no longer
> the case.Ê Recently while researching my latest appeal I discovered,
> please forgive my former ignorance, that Thomas Jefferson penned the
> original code of Virginia.Ê In his forward and his address to the first
> General Assembly he stated that he had written a "people's code".Ê He
> stated that the common law of England had grown so confusing that even
> the lawyers had a hard time understanding it, much less the layman.Ê He
> stressed that the law was for the people, by the people.Ê It was intended
> to be simple, straightforward, and unerring.Ê And the courts were to
> enforce it so.
>
> We have tried to change the law and have only seen small success against
> the attorneys.Ê We have filed our lawful appeals, only to see them
> dismissed with no explanations.Ê We have tried to use the bastardized
> system that stems from our Constitution, and we have failed.
>
> I'm sure a lot of you know exactly how I feel.Ê Not because you've
> imagined it, but because you've lived it.Ê The time has come to end this
> tyranny before any more children are abused by a system that steals our
> children and then sells them back to us in increments of two weekends a
> month.Ê I'm writing from a father's perspective, but I know there are
> many mothers, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters who have
> seen children stripped away from the love and affection of one, sometimes
> both, parents.Ê Sometimes the heartbreak is so great that we lose the
> strength to even fight anymore.Ê I'm asking you all, whatever your
> circumstance, to fight with me one more time.
>
> The time for simple rallies has come and gone.Ê The time for lobbying has
> come and gone.Ê The time is here for revolution.Ê I dare say you cannot
> find ten people in this entire country who are completely satisfied with
> what our government now does to us. Pick your cause, it doesn't matter.
> We are unfairly taxed, our children are stolen (or if we keep them we can
> no longer raise them as we see fit), we are prohibited from our right to
> redress of grievance, and we are imprisoned for shouting too loud that we
> demand change.Ê Yet this is still the greatest country that ever existed?
>Ê I believed that in grade school, but when I became a man I put off
> childish things.Ê The last three years have made a man of me.
>
> Our constitution provided a fail safe.Ê When the people, by majority, are
> no longer satisfied by our government, we can vote it out.Ê Fighting the
> current system will not work.Ê The Legislature will continue to say that
> separation of branches prohibits it from interfering with the
> administration of Justice.Ê The Executive branch will continue to say
> that they lack the funds to properly enforce the law.Ê And the
> Legislatures will continue to wash their hands of everything, claiming
> the laws are fine the way they are.Ê And the Federal Government claims
> "state's right" when states take benefit from the federal programs that
> promote the destruction of families.
>
> There is a law against adultery, but it hasn't been enforced in years.
> Why?Ê BecauseÊ the executive branch won't file charges, because the
> judicial branch won't convict for it, because they don't believe that the
> General Assembly should still have that law on the books.Ê Personally I
> don't care so much about adultery (it's wrong, but it didn't end my
> marriage), but I do care about justice, freedom, and equality.Ê Where are
> the checks and balances that are supposed to be the backbone of our
> government?
>
> I AM SICK OF IT.Ê WE ARE A COUNTRY POISED TO BE THE GREATEST NATION THAT
> EVER EXISTED, WITH THE GREATEST FORM OF GOVERNMENT THAT EVER WAS, AND
> COULD LEAD THE WORLD ITSELF TOWARD FREEDOM AND JUSTICE, BUT INSTEAD WE
> HAVE BECOME SLAVES TO A POWER BASE FAR MORE CORRUPT THAN THE ONE WE
> REBELLED AGAINST OVER TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
>
> This is not my government.Ê It doesn't work for me.Ê I am busy trying to
> find second and third jobs so that I can continue to eat and provide a
> living for attorneys, commonwealths attorneys, trial judges and their
> clerks, appeals judges and their clerks, the department of child support
> enforcement, and numerous deputies with the sheriff's department.Ê The
> sad thing is that I'm not alone.Ê I started out years ago thinking that
> as soon as I explained to the courts how I had been wronged that they
> would jump to my aid.Ê They didn't.Ê I soon found out that not only were
> they not concerned about my plight, but that further they expected me to
> learn to live with it because THAT'S JUST THE WAY THINGS ARE AND EVERYONE
> IS TREATED THATÊ WAY.Ê I still haven't learned to live it.
>
> Please forward this to your list, and all recipients please forward it to
> your lists. It's time to start something radical.Ê I don't mean violent.
> Violence almost never effects the desired outcome.Ê But it is time to
> make an undeniable, irrefutable statement that unless this government,
> promptly and without excuses of the necessity for slow change, amends its
> ways it will be overturned.Ê Those that seek personal power and personal
> gain, in any form, must be expelled from our government.Ê We are a
> capitalistic society and the playing field is open for those pursuits
> there, but our government is meant for something different AND WAS ALWAYS
> INTENDED TO BE FULLY ASSESSABLE TO THE GENERAL POPULACE!
>
> To protest the child abuse that is inflicted by the men in black robes
> and the callous disregard of their actions by the legislatures across
> this country, I am calling for all Americans who are unhappy, for
> whatever reason, with domestic relations law to send me a copy of your
> divorce decree or child custody and support decree, or even a detailed
> account of what you have seen in the family courts of this country, along
> with a statement from you that you openly disagree with the law on that
> subject and the injustices you have suffered.Ê Send that, and if you can
> afford it, a check or money order for five dollars to offset the costs of
> this.Ê Our forefathers dumped tea in Boston Harbor, I, and others, will
> dump these in the reflecting pool in Washington.
>
> I know this is short notice but I would like to do this at 2:00p.m. on
> Sunday, Nov. 7th of this year.Ê I would like to catch the presidential
> candidates before their primaries and dictate through press conference
> that they one year to address these problems before the we in "WE the
> people" vote again.
>
> I am looking for a group of people, male or female, parent or not, who
> are ready to unite this country under one purpose...FREEDOM.Ê A fledgling
> group of committed farmers and the like established this country, but in
> its infancy the ideals upon which it was formed were stolen by those that
> would exploit that child...America.Ê Let us who have had our own children
> stolen be the ones who first stand up for America, that she may finally
> be allowed to reach a healthy maturity.
>
> If you are male, female, aunt, uncle, brother, sister, grandma, grandpa,
> it doesn't matter.Ê We all see the injustice.Ê I ask you to do your part
> by sending the papers I referred to earlier, no latter than October 25th,
> 1999.Ê I will arrange for some competent local supporters to be
> representative of you at this demonstration.Ê I'd love to have a million
> of us there, but that's not realistic.Ê What is realistic is to have 1000
> of us there carrying the pleas for change from a million of you.Ê Think
> about it.Ê How many people do you see on a weekly basis that have seem
> tremendous abuses in family courts.Ê Make copies of this letter and give
> it to everyone you know or meet. This isn't about stating any position
> other than the system is broken and motivated by greed.Ê Further it is
> intentionally destroying thousands of children and families every day.
>
> This will carry no weight unless it is a mass effort.Ê On the subjects of
> how we need to fix the problems we don't have to agree, but let's at
> least make a huge statement that something else is wrong besides just a
> lot of "deadbeat dads".Ê This dad is near dead from the beating he
> received from his government.Ê Let's make that known.Ê This system of
> family destruction kills over 700,000 Americans every year, many of them
> innocent children.Ê And why?Ê Because it is profitable.
>
> The time to act is now.Ê Every morning when I wake up I feel myself a
> little bit less enraged by the injustices I have suffered, but I force
> myself to remember my little girl.Ê I force myself to remember that last
> night I went to sleep without tucking her in.Ê We didn't say "night
> night" prayers.Ê And she didn't hear a story from her dad.Ê She's the
> future of this country, and at three and a half years old, this country
> is stealing from her things that can never be replaced.Ê Moreover they're
> probably the most important things.Ê Thank you and may God bless you and
> your family.
>
> In God I trust,
>
> BRAD INGRAM
> FAMILY RESTORATION LEAGUE
> [deletia]
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