Well, if you actually look at what is done to children, parents, families and society in general by this extremely fascist and un-American agency (or set of agencies) and the unconstitutional so-called 'Family Courts' you will come to the realization that 'protecting children' is the last thing on the lists of these people.
What they are interested in, quite literally, is total and absolute control of every aspect of every life. Privacy is anathema to these people. The US Constitution as amended is seen by them as an impediment to their goals and agenda.
I hear your questions. What is with this anti-government fanatic? How can he possibly be in favor of child abuse? He MUST be in favor of child abuse, because he opposes CPS and they are set up to prevent child abuse, right? In a word...WRONG!
I in no way support the abuse of children... not by their parents...not by their teachers...not by law enforcement officers... not by clergy... and certainly not by the government! However what IS 'child abuse'? In fact everyone has their own ideas of this. It is generally pretty subjective, meaning that each person will likely see it differently to one degree or another. However what are required are objective determinations which all people can understand and operate under. But specifics, objective terms and objectivity are not sought by CPS (Gestapo CPS as I call the agencies, due to their tactics and agendas and goals). In point of fact they avoid these concepts like the plague since they make their agenda so much harder. How can you trap parents as 'child abusers' if they actually can understand what precisely 'child abuse' is according to the rules and therefore know what to avoid doing?
Again I hear your question... but, CPS wants to prevent child abuse, and so they should define the terms so that people WOULD know what not to do, and as such would not abuse children! Well, that would be true, if the goal of CPS was to protect children from abuse. However, that is clearly not their goal based on how they operate.
First they actively seek complaints. They have a multi-million dollar advertising budget for this purpose. They have toll-free 'rat out your friends and enemies' lines nationwide. They also have lobbied hard and long and been rewarded with ever increasing numbers of people who are classified as 'mandatory reporters'. What does that mean? It means there are people who if they even suspect a child MIGHT be being abused they MUST, by LAW, report the parents or guardians to CPS. They are told by CPS that they 'did the right thing', that the parents or guardians will be 'contacted' and 'services will be offered' to them. One thing to note here... the presumption of GUILT. That is a very core concept here with CPS. Guilt by accusation. You are assumed guilty. I would like to say that it is Guilty until Proven Innocent but that is also not the case as I will go into in detail later. Even if they find nothing to substantiate the accusation, you are forevermore a 'suspected child abuser!
One of the insidious things about the 'mandatory reporting system' is that they terrorize these people into erring on the side of paranoia. They are told that if they do NOT report someone, and later it is shown the child was, in fact, abused, and it is determined this mandatory reporter "should have known about it" that they will be guilty of CRIMES, will face SEVERE FINES and possibly IMPRISONMENT and will in all likelihood LOSE THEIR JOB AND BE BARRED FROM THEIR OCCUPATION! Under those threats is it any suprise that such people, who are scared to not report and convinced their reporting will 'only be helpful' and will never harm anyone, will report in many cases where there is not even any reason at all to legitimately suspect abuse?
Then we have those who wish to use the system as a weapon to harass and hurt those they dislike. Complaints can be made anonymously and the fact it is made anonymously in no way reduces the complaint's legitimacy in the eyes of CPS whose employees are already inclined and trained to think the worst of parents and guardians anyway. You see, CPS is not interested in legitimate complaints... they are just interested in any complaints they can get. I will go into why this is in a little bit.
Why, you might ask, would CPS be more interested in quantity of complaints than quality of complaints? How would this aid them in preventing child abuse? After all, there would be so much chaff that the wheat would be missed. I agree. If the agenda of CPS was in reality to protect children you would have a point. That is not, however, their agenda. As Deep Throat said during Watergate, "Follow the Money". One of the deals CPS has going is they also run the foster care system. The government pays CPS money, a bounty as it were, for each child in state custody. Not only that, but they get paid by the month. What this means is that if CPS takes a child into custody, and holds them only two days, they get paid by the government, from your tax dollars, for a full month! Add to this the fact they also charge the parents and guardians for the 'privilege' of having the children in foster care. This can be $3000 per month PER CHILD... OR MORE! Does it begin to sink in yet as to why CPS would be interested in quantity of complaints rather than quality?
But what good would it do CPS to have a bunch of false complaints? They would not be able to prove any wrongdoing on the part of the parents or guardians. That is a good question. In most cases you would have a point. However CPS is not most cases. You see, CPS is a law unto itself. Those who work in CPS are not elected, and only the highest levels are appointed. They are entrenched bureaucrats, plain and simple. As anyone knows about bureaucracies the first order of business is to perpetuate the bureaucracy, and the second order of business for a bureaucracy is to expand the bureaucracy. Maybe fifth or tenth on the list is the actual purpose the bureaucracy was allegedly set up to accomplish. Now, add to this that CPS makes its own rules, and it is also not bound by its own rules. This agency can, and does as a matter of standard operating procedures, violate any rule it likes. How can this be? I hear you, and will tell you. Because they are absolutely unaccountable to anyone. They cannot be sued by anyone they harm, no matter how much harm they cause, no matter how malicious they were, no matter how criminal their behavior. The Oregon State Attorney General, Hardy Meyers, is on record that these employees and anyone associated with the activities of these agencies at any level cannot be sued even if they are proven to be guilty of corruption, conspiracy, racketeering, abuse of power / position / authority or any other offenses against the public trust. Is it any wonder these swaggering dictators trample constitutional rights of US Citizens with such unbridled arrogance?
But there are counterbalances, aren't there? They have to get approval from their superiors before they can act, right? They need to have a judge sign off on any orders for action by them, don't they? And what about these citizen's committees overseeing CPS agency actions? Certainly there is accountability and oversight! In fact, no there is not. Anything of the sort is merely a phantom, an illusion. In reality there is no significant, legitimate or effective oversight of these agencies nor of anything associated with them, nor is there ever any accountability, as stated above.
CPS agencies have their 'greivance procedures', true. These procedures almost never result in any resolution other than that which CPS likes. Why is this? Because almost invariably these rogue agencies police themselves. It is a case of the fox guarding the henhouse. Your most likely complaint is about the agent acting against you. What is the first step in almost any of their such procedures? To present your complaints to that agent. Hello! All this does is inform the agent that there is someone trying to act against them... someone whom this agent has absolute and unaccountable control over their lives and their children! No fertile ground for abuse here is there? No, OF COURSE NOT! Next on the list of the procedure (unofficially called The Waste of Time) is to speak to the agent's supervisor, who is another agent. Since you have already had to deal with the agent and the agent already knew what the result would be, their supervisor is likely expecting your complaint. In fact they and the agent in question probably have already laughed it up already about you! You will not get any further with the supervisor than you did with the agent in virtually any case. So now you have wasted several days to several weeks. What has been the result? Your file has been amended to show that you are agressive, uncooperative and unreasonable. Clearly this substantiates the accusations of child abuse against you! The next step is usually the site manager who is trained to lie and tell you anything they can to make you think something beneficial will come of your complaint. They can tie you up for months with this if you let them. Once they reply in writing that no matter what you have complained about they will not do anything about it because they are 'protecting children' and your complaints are 'not significant'. Any further actions on your part are generally political, and less likely than the earlier attempts to reap any beneficial rewards.
OK, you think... I will go to the Governor! Certainly s/he, being in charge of the State Administration under whose auspices CPS falls, will do something. Think again! In Oregon, for example, there is a Citizen's Advocate for such complaints against CPS. Care to guess where this office is? In the offices of CPS, staffed by CPS personnel. Any guesses as to how much progress you will make in that sector? None at all. Not only that but you will again get notes in your file as to how agressive, uncooperative and unreasonable you are, further documenting that their initial assessment of you as a child abuser was 'correct'.
But the citizen's oversight committee! Certainly they will prevent any abuses by this agency! Not a chance. In most, if not all, cases these committees are quickly corrupted by CPS and very quickly become nothing more than a rubberstamping enforcement arm for the edicts of CPS.
But what about the superiors of the agents? The agent has to document and get approval from them for any action, right? Oh yes, they do... and their superiors know full well how the agency benefits for each child taken into state custody. Getting their approval is hardly a trick, but the agent, if they feel there is any doubt, can lie through their teeth and fabricate whatever they feel they need to get what they want. They know they have absolute immunity protections. Why would their superiors care? They also have the same absolute immunity AND they know the agency will benefit from the action.
The judges, then! They are there to make sure that justice is served! They will protect the rights of the US Citizens, won't they? Sorry... not going to happen. We are talking about 'Family Court' judges here. Their jobs exist primarily because of CPS. If they were to curtail CPS their jobs might be eliminated. Not only that but I do not doubt they have no small concerns how CPS might react to a judge who bucked 'the system' that is set up. Basically judges sign anything CPS agents put in front of them and agree with and sign orders for just about anything on CPS's say-so. They are the epitome of the 'Rubber Stamp'.
Well, what about the legislature! Certainly politicians, if such crimes were being committed against US Citizens, would stand up immediately to put a stop to it! Not a chance. First off there is a segment of the legislature who loves CPS in all its glory, and do not care what it does or how it does it to get what they want; The Nanny State. The rest are cowed by the fact that anyone acting against CPS is instantly branded 'anti-child' and 'pro-child abuse'. Oh yeah, politicians fumble all over themselves to get those labels! Yeah, right! Anything you say!
You are a good parent. You support your children. You make sure they want for nothing they need. They are happy, healthy, well-adjusted. Everything is just wonderful. Then... there is a knock on the door. "Hello... we're from the Government and we are here to HELP you! May we come in?"
Welcome to your worst nightmare... and yes, that was Rod Serling that you just zipped past on your journey into The Twilight Zone. You have been falsely accused of 'child abuse', or its lesser cousin 'child neglect'. It does not matter which. These people are here to take your children from you. Do not fool yourself otherwise. Maybe you can prevent it, if the facts are extremely and clearly on your side and you agree to do everything that they 'suggest' (knowing if you do not heed their 'suggestions' and 'offers of assistance' your custody of your children is in dire peril)!
You did nothing wrong? That does not matter. It could be someone heard you talk to your child in a manner they disagreed with. Someone may think you spanked your child when they don't think it was warranted. You might have gotten the parking place someone wanted and they took your license plate number to their buddy at DMV and looked you up. Your child could have thrown a tantrum and a neighbor thought you were killing them. It does not matter what the truth is. The fact is that now you have had a child abuse or neglect accusation made against you. As of now you are suspect and you are going to be treated as guilty, whether you are proven innocent or not.
How can this be, you ask? What happened to "Innocent until proven guilty"? What happened to due process? What happened to your civil and constitutional rights? Forget it, they no longer exist. You are at the mercy of someone who has been trained in 'social work'. The coursework for a 'social work' degree is inherently and rabidly anti-parent and anti-family. The core of the curriculum is that the Nanny State is the font of all goodness, that parents are evil, and that the government's foster care is always 'in the best interests of the child' compared with remaining with their family. Against a CPS worker who dislikes you there is no way you can prove yourself to be a good parent,or that your child should be left in your custody. And, as stated earlier, the agency benefits by each child taken into custody. Now, I use the phrase 'taken into custody'... what is really happening is a legally sanctioned kidnapping. The kidnapping, or the threat of it, is used to coerce (Read:Extort) compliance and agreement from the parents to the whims and demands of CPS micromanagement of their family.
The first thing you need to do is know your rights!
Keep in mind that CPS does not like to lose, and once they have accused you they will do anything they need to do in the pursuit of 'justifying' their accusations. Unless they are clearly and demonstrably wrong, which is difficult to prove as you should know by now, they will not give up. Their standard tactic is to use a 'shotgun approach' where they make numerous charges. This has several benefits from their standpoint. First, it makes you look far worse, having all these charges against you. Remember they assume guilt by accusation. Next, if you disprove one charge they have others to work with, and they can always add more at any time they wish. Another tactic they use is to utilize circular reasoning especially with vague charges which are difficult, if not impossible, to clearly disprove. An example of this would be "Mr Jones has failed to provide nurturing guidance and support for his children by failing to provide nurturing guidance and support for his children". I kid you not, they have, can and do make these kinds of charges and judges sign child seizure orders based on them. I know,it seems unbelievable that such travesties of justice and atrocities against the family, the most basic social unit, can occur. But occur it does, and at a ridiculously common rate. And again, they can get away with this because they are unaccountable, have absolute authority on these matters, have no credible oversight, and the general public lets them because they claim they are doing it 'for the children'. That is, of course, a load of manure, but they claim it, and the public buys it long enough for CPS to bury their current victims and move on to the next.
One of the nastiest things they do is once they have kidnapped your children, they have full control over them. The foster care they will initially be put in is a child's dream come true. The sky is the limit, and every day is Christmas morning! They will be lavished with gifts, new clothes,toys, etc. They will be able to do pretty much anything they want. They will be convinced that there is no place, including home with their parents, that they would rather be. Then they will have their parents berated constantly, and they will be pumped for any statements that can be used against their parents. CPS is very well trained in how to do this. The children innocently answer manipulative and rigged questions, and when CPS gets the answers they want they act on them. There is almost never any monitoring of CPS interviews with the children, no records or transcripts are ever kept. For all the parent knows the entire claims of the CPS agents could be wholly fabricated. But as far as the court is concerned it is all legitimate regardless of the truth.
Then when, and if, you get to speak with or see your children in foster care it is for ten or fifteen minutes at a time, a half hour if you are lucky, in the CPS center itself. You are under constant guard. After all, you are considered guilty of child abuse, regardless of the truth. Also you can only say positive things to the children, you cannot inquire as to their care, how they are treated or anything of the sort. You cannot say anything critical of CPS, its policies, personnel or anything of the sort. There are usually other significant limitations as well. Any violation of these restrictions will end the visit instantly and likely jeapordize any future visitations. As I said, the deck is stacked completely against the parents, and the game is completely rigged against them as well just for good measure!
Even if you prove yourself innocent and get, for now, CPS out of your life families can be, and have been, ripped apart and bankrupted by the experience. And after such the CPS agency will almost never even give you any kind of an apology. To them they did nothing wrong... they still consider you a child abuser, but just one who has managed to 'get away with it' for now. But they will be watching you, and all it will take is another false accusation to start this circus all over again!
What if we eliminate Gestapo CPS? What then?
This report is a Self Defense Manual for the Innocent! READ IT!!!
Here is an article A System Out Of Control .
Here is my own story regarding Gestapo CPS.
And here is Review of 1992 CSD study by Southern Maine University By John Gilman, rev. 10/31/1998.
And here is Strength/Needs Performance Study
And here is The Story of Will and Pamela Gaston.
And here is The June 19, 1999 court hearing of the Gastons
And here is The September 30, 1999 arrest of Judge Avera
Related Links
Lifting the Veil: Examining the Child Welfare, Foster Care and Juvenile Justice Systems
A Critical Look at the Child Welfare System Caseworker Training
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