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This Video Details the Horrific DHR/CPS Issues Throughout the Country!

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The very disturbing truth!

As many as 80% of all removals of children from their homes are unnecessary according to authorities quoted in this video.

Alabama is no exception. For the almighty dollar, the corruption is as extensive if not more extensive than many other states in the country.

As you can see, the News, as well as Senators and Congressmen are fully aware of the problems, but it’s a $20+ BILLION a year industry so nobody has the guts to step up and make changes.

Nancy Schaefer, a former Georgia State Senator, was allegedly murdered in her home along with her husband as she continued to speak out, insisting that parental rights should never be taken away without a jury trial.

DHR/CPS have more authority that the FBI, SWAT and the POLICE. They can go into a home a remove a child without a warrant and without a court order.

We will continue to fight, and since Congress doesn’t seem willing to change the law, the next best way is to sue, in every case, and force each county into bankruptcy by placing multi-million dollar judgments against them.

Take the time to watch this video and then call your Governor, Senators and Congressmen and ask them what they intend to do about this horrific issue!!!

Until next time,

I’m Rob!

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT!

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Federal Jury in San Jose, CA Awards $3.25 Million in Damages
to a Family for the Unlawful Seizure of Their Children

(San Jose, CA | April 4, 2011) In one of the largest jury awards in San Jose in the last 20 years, a federal jury took only 90 minutes to award $3.25 million dollars to a family whose children had been unlawfully taken by San Jose police officers as retaliation for asserting their rights as citizens. Most notably, the jury assessed $2 million dollars in punitive damages for the officers’ reckless abuse of authority.

A jury in the U.S. District Court in Northern California today returned a unanimous verdict against officers from the San Jose Police Department for the violation of an entire family’s civil rights and awarded $3.25 million in damages. The Law Offices of Johnson & Johnson in Walnut Creek, CA and the Law Office of Robert Powell & Associates of San Jose, CA represented the family in their claims against the officers and the City of San Jose.

The case stemmed from an incident on June 29, 2005 where San Jose police officers William Hoyt and Craig Blank with at least five other uniformed officers responded to an unverified claim of abuse, entered the home of a San Jose family under the guise of a welfare check, then forcibly removed two children without a warrant and later seized a third child as well.

The jury heard testimony during the week-long trial that officers in the department have never sought warrants or court orders for removing children – in violation of federal law – and then falsified their claims of an emergency to justify taking all of the children. Police recordings and logs entered into evidence also dramatically demonstrated the officers’ decision to take the children without conducting any investigation.

“The jury rejected the officer’s claims of exigency in seizing
the children and took only 45 minutes to find they violated
the entire family’s civil rights.”

In one of the largest jury awards in nearly two decades in San Jose, the federal jury took only 45 minutes to find liability for all claims against Hoyt and Blank, and two days later, took just 90 minutes to award $1.25 million in compensatory damages for the family plus an additional $2 million in punitive damages. The case C06-4029 RMW, Watson v. Craig Blank, William Hoyt and the City of San Jose, went to trial on March 23, 2011 in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, San Jose Division. After a week of testimony, the jury found Blank and Hoyt liable for constitutional violations against the family on March 30, and awarded damages two days later on April 1.

“This jury verdict exposes a long-standing practice of warrantless ‘snatch-and-grab’ conduct by law enforcement agencies in Santa Clara County,” said Peter Johnson, attorney for the family. He continued, “The jury heard compelling testimony and evidence during the week-long trial that officers in the department have never sought warrants or court orders for removing children – in violation of federal law – and then falsified their claims of an emergency to justify taking all of the children. ”

“These parents were retaliated against by law enforcement and social services for merely asserting their rights as citizens. In an oppressive and reckless abuse of authority, the police responded by seizing their children,” continued Johnson.

“We feel this verdict sends a resounding message to the San Jose Police Department, as well as all other law enforcement officers in Santa Clara County,” said Johnson. “They are on notice their unlawful conduct will not be tolerated, and officers will be held accountable.”

The best way to stop the ABUSE of power and authority that is destroying our children and their families to find a Civil Rights Attorney that will sue the offending county and/or the State for millions of dollars.

The only thing these criminals understand is money, and the only way to stop them is to make it unprofitable to continue to steal children.

Until Next Time,

I’m Rob!

HOW TO SUE THE OFFENDING COUNTY!!!

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County loses $4.9 million lawsuit challenge over lying social workers
April 21st, 2011, 1:45 pm · · posted by Kimberly Edds, Staff Writer

The County of Orange lost its battle in the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to overturn a record-setting $4.9 million judgment awarded to a Seal Beach woman, after two county social workers lied to a juvenile court commissioner in order to take away the woman’s two daughters.

It took Deanna Fogarty-Hardwick 6 ½ years to regain custody of her children.

The jury award given to Fogarty-Hardwick included damages against the two social workers. The Supreme Court also upheld $1.6 million in attorneys fees for Fogarty-Hardwick’s attorneys, but that could end being as much as $3 million, Fogarty-Hardwick’s attorney Shawn McMillan said.

The county and the two social workers will also be responsible for paying interest which has accrued on the $4.9 million jury award over the last four years, bringing the grand total close to $9.3 million, McMillan said.

Fogarty-Hardwick’s attorneys had offered to settle with the county for $500,000.

Orange County Social Services social workers Marcie Vreeken and Helen Dwojak filed false reports and held back evidence which would have cleared Fogarty-Hardwick, an Orange County jury found. Vreeken would later be promoted, according to county records.
A third social worker was found not liable.

According to court papers, Vreeken threatened that if Fogarty-Hardwick did not “submit” to her will, she would never see her children again. The social workers also tried in 2000 to coerce Fogarty-Hardwick to sign a document saying she was a bad parent by threatening to take her daughters away, Fogarty-Hardwick alleged.

She refused. A county commissioner ordered Fogarty-Hardwick’s daughters, 6 and 9, taken from their mother and put in Orangewood Children’s Home.
The girls were later put in foster care.

Fogarty-Hardwick gave her ex-husband full custody in 2002, hoping to protect her daughters. She was then allowed two supervised visits a month for two years. She eventually won 50-50 custody in 2006.

Fogarty-Hardwick sued the county in 2002, arguing the Social Services Agency and its two social workers violated her civil rights. A jury ruled against her.

She sued again, arguing this time county’s policies violated her constitutional rights, including her Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

Fogarty-Hardwick’s accused the county of violating her constitutional rights by removing her children without making a finding of imminent danger or serious physical injury; interviewing her daughters without a parent present; holding her children without cause; fabricating evidence; and failing to properly train employees about parents’ constitutional rights.

An Orange County jury voted 10-2 in 2007 in favor of Fogarty-Hardwick and awarded her $4.9 million.
The county appealed the judgment.

In the Fourth District Court of Appeal opinion, Justice William Bedsworth wrote, “the evidence adduced at trial obviously caused both the jury and the judge to conclude not only that something seriously wrong was done to Fogarty-Hardwick in this case, but also that the wrongful conduct was not an isolated incident.”

“Despite Fogarty-Hardwick’s complaints, and the concerns expressed by others about the handling of this dependency case, SSA did not investigate the situation or consider assigning different social workers to the matter. Neither of the social workers involved was disciplined. Instead, Vreeken was promoted to supervisor in 2001,” Bedsworth wrote.
The Watchdog is looking into whether Vreeken and Dwojak still work for the county.

“What the county and these social workers did to her was horrendous and she deserves to be compensated in full measure,” McMillan said.
“It’s a big deal for a private citizen to take on the government all the way to the United States Supreme Court,” McMillan said. “(Fogarty-Hardwick) poured her whole life into this case. She provided a valuable service to Orange County and to other parents for having the tenacity to stick with it.”

So what does it mean to us, the victims of people like DHR Social Worker Labrisca Cook, GAL Attorney Denise H Burch, Judge Billy Jackson, DHR Supervisor Sarah Hendershot, DHR Commissioner Nancy Buckner, and all of the deceitful, manipulative, horrible people that assist in the “Farce” known as “Family Court” on a daily basis?

It means that we now have a blueprint for success! Following the very same formula as Fogarty-Hardwick.

Specifically:

Sue the county in which the offense occurred, claiming that DHR policies violated your constitutional rights, including your Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

Fogarty-Hardwick’s accused the county of violating her constitutional rights by removing her children without making a finding of imminent danger or serious physical injury; interviewing her daughters without a parent present; holding her children without cause; fabricating evidence; and failing to properly train employees about parents’ constitutional rights.

An Orange County jury voted 10-2 in 2007 in favor of Fogarty-Hardwick and awarded her $4.9 million.

If every one of us sue the offending country, we can not only make a huge statement, we can also bankrupt the county, causing them to shut down and forcing them to rebuild from the ground up. This shake up is the equivalent of a revolutionary war, where the entire government ends up forfeiting their power and their operation.

We tried to play nicely. We made complaints to every available entity. Nobody wants to hear it. Everyone covers for each other like sick, depraved little thieves. Nobody cares about the children that are hurt, or the families that are destroyed. Totally unqualified people attack innocent families every day and get away with it.

And it happens all throughout the country. But in Orange County, Fogarty-Hardwick successfully sued the county and won a $4.9 MILLION judgement, which was upheld in the Supreme Court.

We still have a meeting with Congress in February 2013, but in addition, we’re interviewing attorneys right now.

Whether you have an interest in being part of a class-action suit, or whether you prefer to sue individually, the Fogarty-Hardwick case has created a blueprint for what points of law to sue on and for there to now be Supreme Court case law on the matter.

So since Alabama did not want to take any steps to correct a situation that has been complained about hundreds if not thousands of times, over and over and over for the last 10 years, and now that there is a Supreme Court case to follow, let’s all do our best to successfully sue the State of Alabama, and force each county to pay out so much in judgments that they ultimately go bankrupt and can no longer operate their hate agencies or employ their thugs!

Until Next Time,

I’m Rob!

WE HAVE WHAT WE NEED AND WE HAVE A STRONG PLAN GOING FORWARD!

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First, Happy Thanksgiving Season to everyone who has endured such horrible grief at the hands of the criminals in our government agencies who have conspired to be involved in human trafficking for profit at the expense of innocent children and their families.

At this point, we have brought numerous groups together, each with their own followings, and each with the same stories over and over and over.

What’s clear is this:

1. ASFA, law 105-89, created the window for states to receive billions of dollars in federal aid by stealing children and not giving them back to their families.

2. There is a 6-11 time higher incidence of children being abused, molested, raped and murdered once they go into the system.

3. Nobody in the government seems to care, while others are adamant about protecting the system as is due to the huge amount of money involved.

4. There’s so much corruption at this point, with money trails running so deep, that prosecuting every judge, dhr social worker, etc. would be virtually impossible.

5. As victims, our only choice is to get the best Congress that money can buy to do something conscionable about this.

We do have numerous judges, social workers and secondary workers ready to testify before Congress in January 2013 in Washington D.C.

Bill will have the lawlessamerica..com video completed well in advance of our meeting with Congress.

We are working with producers to air the documentary on National Television in advance of the presentation to Congress to get National support.

And we’re doing all this, thousands of us, expending thousands of hours, and in some cases, thousands of dollars, to bring about a positive change in the law so the incentives to steal children are removed. With no financial incentive, there will be no reason to continue to destroy families for profit.

The bigger issue is that if we are successful in changing the law and stopping billions of dollars from being paid to the states, many states, already on the verge of bankruptcy, may be forced over their own financial cliffs due to a loss of the funds from this source.

What I propose is to simply change the requirement for states to receive this form of federal aid from being paid for stealing children, to being paid by achieving a required percentage of children who pass standardized tests in school from years 1-12 for math, science, english and history.

Yes, I did say “English!” The language of a country binds it together, and the last time I looked, we were STILL AMERICANS!

Thomas Jefferson once said: “A government that’s big enough to give you all that you need, is also powerful enough to take all that you have.”

After the Holidays, we will meet with Congress in D.C. and make our presentation in an attempt to change AFSA 105-89 to remove the incentives to continue to steal our children.

I haven’t even addressed the sale of those children, the pedophiles that buy them, the child porn industry including some of the most powerful people in government, or the funds that states receive based on child support arrangements, which is why often times abusive parents are allowed to still see their children. The abusers pay child support, and in some cases the state receives TWICE the amount of the child support from other federal programs.

I had a comment from more than one exasperated parent asking “why is it taking so long.” It’s taking so long because the money trail is so powerful and so corrupting, that just like a drug, people are willing to kill for it, as evidenced by Nancy Schaefer.

Federal and State investigations continue on an individual basis, with the hope to indict numerous people in 2013 and to try them for their crimes.

To all of the victims, I will keep you posted and we will work to change the law. Please check lawlessamerica.com and fightcps.com for two additional sites, or google dhrpetitions, cpspetitions, etc to see how widespread of an issue this is throughout the country.

To all the perpetrators, WE’RE COMING FOR YOU.

Until next time,

I’m Rob Raskin, my lovely wife is Kathey Raskin, and though we didn’t ask for this fight, once we saw all the harm that’s been done to so many children and to so many families, and all of the taxpayer’s money that has been misused, we are now 100% committed, along with so many others that are fighting this fight, to effectuate a positive change in this system in 2012.

Please continue to provide information and to monitor this site for new information.

 

Financial Incentive for “Stealing” Our Children

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It has Come to our Attention Through Unfortunate Means that CPS Agents in Alabama and Elsewhere are Legally Abducting Children based upon lies and Heresay rather than Facts or Evidence in order to gain Financially through ASFA. ASFA is The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA, Public Law 105-89) that was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on Nov. 19, 1997. This Law enables state agencies to use unethical practices to obtain children for Federal funds by falsifying reports and working in collusion with judges, physicians, attorneys, psychologists, psychiatrists, therapists, and other equally unethical contracted workers. Once These Workers have Ripped Apart your Family, you will find that The ASFA includes provisions to deny reunification services under specified conditions and gives states latitude to develop any number of additional aggravated circumstances in which parents need not be offered services. Legislators have developed a relatively large number of conditions enabling agencies to bypass reunification services, and thus effectively Speed up the Human Trafficking Train By Refusing Parents their Constitutional Rights

We need YOUR help to Save Americas Families from this HORRIBLE TRAVESTY. Act Now–Before it is too late for your family-and those of your neighbors & friends.