alimony = slavery

..i don't believe it myself, but....

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:36:00 +0000

At a recent Mens Rights Activist meeting I attended, a new batch of inductees were introducing themselves by laying out their experience with the courts. The stories were typical. Ex wives that....that had become these emboldened monsters who were willing to do and say things in court and to the police that was so far from the truth, that these men still couldn't believe that they had at one time shared a bed and a life with them. Women who would claim in court that their men were violent abusers that had them shaking in fear and raping the children. Women that were willing to keep their men away from the children...forever.

If it were not for my own experience with divorce, I wouldn't believe it either. I'd be like Joe Biden.

..and yet another Family Court sponsored Murder/Suicide.

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:29:00 +0000

FROM THE ATHENS BANNER-HERALD

Couple's legal fight ends in their deaths
Deadly turn in divorce
By Joe Johnson | joe.johnson@onlineathens.com | Story updated at 11:12 pm on 8/22/2008

A divorcing Athens couple attended a court-ordered mediation session hours before the man killed his wife and committed suicide.

Dale Owen Cook used an aluminum baseball bat to beat 44-year-old Tracy Beaulieu Cook in the bedroom of their home in the Forest Heights subdivision off Oglethorpe Avenue, according to Athens-Clarke police.

The 45-year-old United Parcel Service driver then shot himself with a revolver, police said.

Police publicly named the victims Friday morning, after family members had been notified.

Tracy Cook's death is the first murder this year in Athens-Clarke County.

The couple married in 2002, and Tracy Cook, a Publix cashier, filed for divorce in February.

Her husband was contesting the divorce, and last month a Clarke County Superior Court judge voided a prenuptial agreement in which Tracy Cook waived alimony and rights to the house the couple shared at 284 Tara Way, among other assets, court documents show.

Three months earlier, the judge granted the woman temporary alimony and joint possession of the couple's house, and ordered Dale Cook to "deliver any guns in the household to his father" while the divorce was pending.

The judge last week ordered the couple to attend mediation to try and resolve their disputes, according to court records.

The Cooks attended a mediation session Thursday morning at the Alternative Dispute Resolution Office in the Clarke County Courthouse.

Dale Cook called his supervisor shortly after 4 p.m. to say he wouldn't be working that night, and that he'd beaten his wife with a bat, but didn't know if she was alive or dead, according to a police report.

Soon after, he called his wife's lawyer, Debra Finch, to say that Tracy Cooper was dead, Finch said in an interview Friday.

The UPS supervisor and Finch both called 911, and officers broke through the front door of the couple's westside home and found them both dead, police said.
Though Dale Cook was contesting the divorce terms, he gave no signs he would turn violent, according to Finch, who represented Tracy Cook in the divorce.

"I spent a lot of time with Tracy yesterday morning and talked to her several times on the phone in the afternoon," she said Friday. "When I last saw her she was in good spirits despite the difficulty of the divorce. She never saw this coming."

The couple had no history of violence, according to police, and Finch said physical abuse was not an issue in the divorce.

"None of us saw this coming - it's devastating," Finch said. "(Tracy) was a good person and I am deeply saddened and shocked by her death."

The Cooks are each survived by children from previous marriages.

These guys are riding for US!

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:49:00 +0000

I want to give a GREAT BIG shout out to Gene Floyd! He and his two son's are pedaling bicycles, coast-to-coast to raise awareness about the importance of Fathers. Starting on the east coast in New York, Gene, Stefan, and Joshua have made it all the way to the midwest and are recording every mile on Gene's "Ride for Fatherhood" website. Complete with over 3,500 pictures, Gene blogs daily about the trip and the incredible experience he's having with his boys. This kind of trip is a once in a lifetime thing, and showcases the kind of love a Dad has for his kids.

Gene's story has appeared in local newspapers, and television stations all along their route and talks about what fatherhood is all about and the unfortunate marginalization that many Fathers are having to endure in our nations courts.

If you have a minute, stop by Gene's site, send him an email of encouragement, and if your so moved, drop him a paypal dollar or two. He and the boys are roughing it, often in sleeping bags and hammocks. Just trying to keep up with failing equipment has been a drain on their finances. Since Gene and the boy's are at the midway point, and the looming rockies are at least a month away, lets all pledge a little to help them make it to the California shore!

...they came, and I did nothing.

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:56:00 +0000

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me -
and by then there was no one left to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

Another divorce court tragedy

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:07:00 +0000

"OAKLAND, Calif. - A prominent software programmer who had denied having anything to do with his estranged wife's disappearance even after he was convicted of her murder led police Monday to what is believed to be her body, defense attorneys said."

Yep. Another Family court murder.

While I don't condone violence in response to the horror of what happens in Family court, a least twice a month I read about someone else who thinks otherwise.

The sad part is (and it always is) you have to read all the way to the end of the news story to see, "The two were involved in a bitter custody dispute."

Letter to the author of "You have two hours with your daughter"

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:37:00 +0000

I wrote the following letter to Maximillian Potter, the author of "You have two hours with your daughter", a special report in "Best Life" magazine. The article explores the recent proliferation of parental "visitation centers," where men accused of domestic violence are ordered to "visit" their children. It's a great article, and a must read for any one willing to peak into what's driving the divorce industry.

Mr. Potter,

I enjoyed your article in Best Life magazine and wondered if you had read Stephen Baskerville's book "Taken Into Custody." Mr. Baskerville explores the Family Court system's methodical attack on the family and more specifically the "dad". Fueled by federal incentive dollars like the Violence Against Women's Act, and acting in concert with the plethora of friend of the court types (guardian ad litem's, court mandated psychologists, etc), our courts have eviscerated the middle class man with permanent alimony orders and child support obligations that are aimed solely at separating the breadwinner from his money.

Mr. Baskerville alleges that there is a very real conspiracy at work that models itself on the racketeering that was the real communism, and Nazi's beginnings that advocated a "best interest of the child" mantra. The eventual reality was that after the familial bond was dissolved the state would take over and perform the duties of the "dad". We can see some of the realities of this with a 50+ percent divorce rate and the sky rocketing numbers of single parent households. While on its face, these things seem to only signify the demise of the "leave it to beaver household", the truth is that the "dad" is marginalized and reduced to a monthly check. A check that typically ends up in a lawyers pocket. How else can we explain that after the 70's dictum of no fault divorces that a middle class divorce costs $50,000...or more? How is its that after a divorce, Dad's are ordered to pay 50, 60, and 70% of their after tax income to someone they have no relationship with. Sometimes in support of children they never see, or even worse, children that aren't even their's.

A blind man can see that none of this benefits anyones children. Study after study repeats that the majority of violent criminals are from single parent households, yet our courts (and the sycophant legislature) continue to engender the demise of the dad for the benefit of the state.

Your article was breath of fresh air. More often then not, articles like yours are slanted by the biases of a feminist/misandrist dominated media, where men are typically depicted at violent, sex crazed, idiots. Please keep them coming.

Thanks,
"Me"

Sign the Petition Non-Custodial Parental Rights

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:48:00 +0000

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

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:39:00 +0000

ALIMONY = SLAVERY
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update lacking

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Tue, 27 May 2008 22:23:00 +0000

I'm not in jail.

Although my ex's atty keeps filing motions trying to send me there, the judge has had the presence of mind not to order it. My atty stepped up and put enough meat on the table that the judge figured he needed to hear it all out before sending me to the clink. So, I'm not in jail yet.

My ex's atty belongs on Judge Judy. She abandoned arguing the case from a legal point of view and files motion after motion saying I'm acting "in bad faith" and trying to undermine my arguments with bafflement. The judge remarked in our last courtroom drama that he had never even heard of one of her motions and could she explain it. The sad part is that he's so gender biased that he's willing to entertain this BS.

So, long story short...I'm still in the battle ($$$ meter running). Next court date is in July.

Proof that child support is a sham....

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:58:00 +0000

"The gravy train is so rife with such temptations it might appear to have been created for that purpose. In fact, this is precisely what it was. It turns out that the creator of the child-support system used in most jurisdictions is also the founder and primary owner of the nation's largest private collection company which directly profits from the system. Dr. Robert Williams was a paid consultant with HHS from 1983 to 1990 where he helped establish federally-driven uniform child-support guidelines that significantly increased obligations, according to James Johnston, a member of the Kansas Child Support Guidelines Advisory Committee. One year after joining HHS and the same year the mandatory federal guidelines were created, Williams started Policy Studies Inc. (PSI). Like the federal, state, and local bureaucracies that employ him, Williams has an interest not only in making the child-support levels as high as possible to increase his share of the take, but also in making them so high that they create arrears for him to collect. In short, he has a financial incentive to create as many "deadbeat dads" as possible."

American Spectator online edition, 20 August 1999.

Beating Up on "Deadbeat Dads"
By Stephen Baskerville
American Spectator

freedom....without agitation?

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:11:00 +0000

"Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

– Frederick Douglass, African-American abolitionist

On a personal note....

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:03:00 +0000

You know how people touch bases with you and ask "how ya doin?" I got that today from a cousin of mine. I replied, "kinda like the eye of the storm." Everything is fine...for now.

I've been waiting for the results of my last court escapade.

Well, the results are in. The last battle left me giving my ex 53% of my take home pay. We went to court to try and get a stay pending the appeal. I thought we waged a good battle. I was wrong. Can you believe the judge changed all the numbers around (alimony/child support) and now he wants me to pay her $100 MORE per month then before!!!!

If someone told me that this is where I'd be, a year ago, I wouldn't believe them. My attorney doesn't believe the results either. She said that the judge is nuts or he just hates me. Either way, neither she nor I know what to do next.

There's no way I can pay the mortgage on the house and give her that much of my income. Everyone knows this, so what exactly are they trying to accomplish? What did I do so wrong to deserve this? All I did was get married! She left to become a lesbian. DID I MAKE HER A LESBIAN?!???

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:44:00 +0000

THIS IS A MUST SEE!!

Part 1

Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:15:00 +0000

Can you believe this?

Angry and selfish

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:48:00 +0000

A recent commenter accused me of being angry and selfish, and even intimated that I ride a thin line of potential violence and even went as far as to say I would hurt my kids.

Let me state categorically, that I am angry. Extremely angry.

When I first read the comment, I objected. I even started to write that I wasn't angry, and even sought the words to justify my objection. Me? Angry? The guy who laughs with his kids, who my friends ask, "how do you do it?

But the commenter was right.

I'm angry that our corrupt government and various hangers-on would steal my children, take the food from my table, plunder my assets, and extort the balance of my income for the rest of my life.

I'm angry that our judiciary exists not to dispense justice, but to line the pockets of their cronies, who wait for their turn at bat to do the same for the next crop of attorneys.

I'm angry at the feminists who hate men, who would create a society where my son has to be ashamed of his maleness.

I'm angry at the police who would keep you from your kids, evict you from your home, crush your career, and jail you....all in the name of 'just doing my job.'

I'm angry at our elected officials who ignore the needs of their electorate in favor of the steady stream of lobbyist dollars.

I'm angry at the collection agency profiteers who prey on the dads struggling to feed themselves as they send the lions share of their wages to baby-momma's who use the money for designer clothes and luxury vehicles.

I'm angry that we as a people have been subjugated and don't even know it.

I'm angry that despite being told all my life that my education couldn't be taken from me, I've found that that is not true. The judge told me that because I had a college degree, that I 'owed' my ex wife alimony. My degree. The one that I worked two and three jobs to earn. The one that I stayed up late into the night studying for, I now owed the product of, to someone else.

I don't care if 'anger' isn't politically correct. I believe that more of us need to be angry.

And one last thing....I'm not selfish. Just angry.

Money...

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:18:00 +0000

If you don't have some spectacular sports talent, or happen to win the lottery, and you want to make large money....there are three guaranteed ways to get rich and they are;

1. The drug war
2. The gender war
3. The Iraq war

Participation (legal or otherwise) on any side of these conflicts is guaranteed to get you paid.

Single Parent Households = bad

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:22:00 +0000

Did you know that Saddam Husein was raised in a single parent household? Considered one of the most sadistic murderer/torturers of the 20th century, Saddam engineered the killings of thousands of people. Many, he did himself.

Saddam was taught the trade by his mothers boyfriend. His mother was no prize either, as she had abandoned Saddam on at least two occasions before he was 10 years old.

Children need both parents.

Florida House Bill 453 - 2008

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:53:00 +0000

To read the bill, click here.

Florida alimony law's being challenged!!!

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:28:00 +0000

Finally, one of the most alimony oppressive states in the nation may be reconsidering how alimony is computed.

Florida House Bill 453, currently in committee seeks to allow the judiciary to consider the income of the person an obligee (someone who gets alimony) lives with when deciding how much alimony to award!!

What does this mean? If your ex lives with someone whom they are not married to, but enjoys the benefit of their income, that income may be considered by the judge when deciding how much alimony YOU pay!!!

THIS IS HUGE!!! Before this, your ex wife could move in with her boyfriend (or girlfriend) live rent free and the judge would stick his/her head in the sand, and award your ex full alimony/child support anyway. You can imagine the huge disparity in living arrangement. You get to live in a studio apartment, while your ex and her lover live (on your dime) in a four bedroom house.

If this were the law in my state, I wouldn't be on the hook for alimony AT ALL!!!!

Yeah!!!

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:11:00 +0000

I guess you can deduce from this post that I'm not in jail. It was close, and my ex and her [expletive] attorney had expressed jail time as their primary goal, but this time MY attorney was a bulldog. She rocked.

This was supposed to be a hearing based solely on the motions at hand. No new testimony. But it became super obvious that the judge hadn't read a single motion, or even reviewed his own Memorandum of Order in the case. So, despite repeated objection on the part of my ex's atty, we basically had to try the issue all over again. The judge listened to two hours of testimony, and decided there was enough meat on the table to digest it all later. So...no trip to the pokey.

It took me a little while (and I'm still trying) to comprehend how, even though she left me to become a lesbian, trashed our marriage and will get the lions share of the marital assets, she would want me in jail? I am still the father of her children. The emotional, and financial devastation that would result is incalculable. Maybe she's just evil.

Anyway, I was able to kiss my kids goodnight, and I slept in my own bed. Life is good. I wish I could say the same for the thousands of other Men's Rights Activists (MRA's), alleged deadbeats, and victims of alimony extortion, that populate our jails.

Did anyone see the report (on CNN?) that said 1% of the entire United States is locked up? And that we have more people (per capita) incarcerated then any other nation in the world?

I read somewhere else that as much at 30% of those people are there related to an issue from "family court!" Soon, it will be common for kids on the play ground to compare notes about whose daddy is locked up.

That's all for now. Gotta earn a living.

..and the winner is?!!

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:14:00 +0000

This could be my last post for awhile.

Tomorrow, I have contempt of court hearing that could potentially land me in jail. Six months ago, I was ordered to pay my ex over 53% of my take home pay in alimony. Despite the fact making a single payment would send my house into foreclosure and my three kids and I would be tossed out into the street. I motioned the court to place an injunction on the order, pending a resolution in the Maryland Special Court of Appeals. The judge denied the motion. So, now my ex wife is suing me for contempt (non-payment of the order). As luck would have it, tomorrow I go before the same judge. I'm sure he'll be tickled pink, knowing that not only did I contest his order, but I've 'refused' to follow it.

The penalty is an indefinite period of incarceration.

I will lose my job, my house, and eventually my kids. I have a sneaky suspicion that that was the goal anyway. Unfortunately for the court, my ex and I had resolved the custody question before we got to court, but not the alimony question. The fact that I retained 50 percent of the custody of my children goes against the grain in family court. Women are supposed to get custody. By making me destitute, my ex will be able to ask (and get) "temporary" full custody. Then, most assuredly, I'll be on the hook for full child support, wage garnishment, and left at the mercy of all the police powers of the state.

You're asking, why would the state care? .....Title IV-d monies.

Title IV-d provides each state with millions of federal incentive dollars to find, prosecute, and seize the assets of anyone in their state that pays child support. Those federal dollars go to third party "collection contractors," and state budgets. The fed's will pay $2 for every $1 collected from a "payor" regardless of weather the payor is current in his/her obligation or not. The money also lines the pockets of any number of politico's and their hangers-ons. So, there is a HUGE incentive to get any and everybody into the child support matrix. I had been lucky enough to not have to pay my child support through the system. I'm pretty sure thats going to change now.

For a more detailed explanation, read Stephen Baskerville's book, "Taken Into Custody."

Wish me luck.

Stephen Baskerville on Family Court

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:45:00 +0000

Make sure you view this one. Stephen Baskerville is becoming the foremost authority on the Family Court racket. Here, he talks about the billion dollar child support/divorce/judiciary, that is enslaving America for the benefit of a class of people who can take your children, sell your home, rob you of all your assets, force to work a certain job, and turn over that income (sometimes for the rest of your life) to another person, or the state, and finally incarcerate you. These people have declared themselves above the law. The time to act is now.

....and your latest custody related murder.

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:46:00 +0000

NY Mom Arrested After 3 Kids Found Dead

And the LAST line of the story.....

"Jewell's father, Ricky Ward, said that he had tried to get custody of her but that child welfare officials had rebuffed him. The father of the two boys said something similar."

When are these supposed friends of the court going to get it? Children need TWO parents!!

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:44:00 +0000

What is alimony?

noreply@blogger.com (optimist) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:18:00 +0000

I'm amazed at the the number of women (and men) who actually believe that alimony is justified. Actually, I'm not that amazed. It seems that the same people who believe that men should pay for every "date" also seem to believe that alimony is justified. Somehow, alimony=chivalry. So if you believe that it's right for a man to pay for every "date", then of course alimony makes sense. After all, if men are responsible for women (whatever the situation may be) then alimony is simply an extension of that. Don't get me wrong, I'm as chivalrous as the next guy. I love the little half grin that women give when I open the door for them.

I was raised in the 70's. It was a new era for women. "Women's Lib." Remember that? A freshly divorced 'Maude' was on TV. There was a huge push for passing the ERA, women were shouting in the streets for equality.

Today, it would seem that women are equal. They outnumber men in college, they compete effectively for the same jobs that men do. The secretary of state is a woman. The democratic nomination is being contested by a woman. Women are doing some great things.

Why then are women still thought of to be dependent upon men?