The Center for Children's Justice posted their Civil Rights Operation Parenthood (C.R.O.P.) project to their forum on September 15, 2004. You will find the full story with the links at http://www.childrensjustice.org/crop/. Stop wallowing... start fighting.
By assembling some existing pieces of law and fact -- one of those facts
being the mandate of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of
Justice to correct violations of citizen's civil rights and possibly
prosecute the wrongdoers for criminal conduct -- we now have another weapon to
start taking back our rights right and possibly even have the
criminal family law "judiciary" prosecuted for federal crimes and
imprisoned.
You read that right.
All it takes is a two-page letter and some follow-up and then sufficient
documentation about your case -- you aren't a criminal and haven't
forfeited any rights, therefore, and you asked for half time with your kid
-- to prove a case to an FBI investigative agent. Not a lot of work
considering the endless struggle in the rigged game called state court.
Oh, yeah. You read that part about the FBI right, too.
Judges are committing federal crimes in family court and they are NOT
immune from criminal prosecution.
We need lots of letters, so get the word out about this. The DOJ cannot
ignore 5,000, 10,000, even 100,000 civil rights complaints from people
around the country. And the media will jump on this story whether or NOT
the Department of Justice goes public with it. It's either a scandal of
humongous proportions or a cover-up of humongous proportions, but it's a
media story in either case.
If you think your children's rights were violated in family court, you're right about that, too! Take back your rights!
Didn't think "parenthood" was a civil right? Violations of parental rights and children's rights rank right up there with these civil rights violations which the federal government thinks are pretty serious:
- Hate crimes
- Health care access interference
- Involuntary servitude or migrant worker exploitation including trafficking in persons
- Housing interference
- Official misconduct
- Religious interference or property damage
And, yes, there are laws to protect you and your children from being violated by family court "judges." They just haven't been enforced. Until now.
The U.S. Department of Justice is the executive agency charged with the enforcement and prosecution of violations of federal law. It is the DOJ's Civil Rights Division which has the specific task of enforcing those federal laws related to civil rights, of which there is no more fundamental right than that of being a parent to your own children. This enforcement involves both civil action -- to force compliance and provide relief to the aggrieved citizen -- as well as criminal prosecution of anyone who violates another person's rights... ANYONE!
From the DOJ's Civil Rights Division web page:
"Employees of the Division are dedicated professionals, responsible for safeguarding the constitutional and statutory rights of all Americans."
And regarding the Criminal Section:
CRIMINAL SECTION
U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Criminal Section, PHB
Washington, DC 20530
(202) 514-3204
Fax: (202) 514-8336
The federal criminal civil rights statutes also provide for prosecutions of conspiracies to interfere with federally protected rights, deprivation of rights under color of law, the use or threat of force to injure or intimidate persons in their enjoyment of specific rights (such as voting, employment, education, public facilities and accommodations) and criminal housing interference.
The Section receives approximately twelve thousand criminal civil rights complaints annually in the form of citizen correspondence, phone calls, or personal visits to the Department of Justice, to local U.S. Attorney's offices or, most commonly, to the FBI. Complaints setting forth possible violations of the law for which the Section has jurisdiction are forwarded to the FBI for investigation. Upon conclusion of the investigation, the FBI forwards a report to the responsible attorney within the Division as well as to the appropriate U.S. Attorney's office. A prosecutive recommendation is then made by Section attorneys in consultation with their counterparts from the U.S. Attorney's Office based on the facts contained in the FBI report.
Of the approximate 2,500 investigations conducted each year, about 80 are authorized for grand jury presentation. During the past several years, nearly 100 cases were filed each year charging an average of 150 defendants each year. Because almost any matter which presents a violation of federal law is also a matter involving a local or state law violation, deference is given to local prosecutions. But where there is no local action or where the results of the state or local proceedings are insufficient to vindicate federal interests, a federal prosecution may be brought. The Section has been prosecuting bias-motivated crimes in addition to those related to the events of September 11 (discussed elsewhere) and prosecuting criminal deprivations of civil rights.
Allegations of official misconduct constitute the majority of all complaints reviewed by the Criminal Section. The "officials" who have been defendants include state and local police officers, prison superintendents and correctional officers, federal law enforcement officers and state and county judges. These officials have been charged with using their positions to deprive individuals of constitutional rights, such as the right to be free from unwarranted assaults, including sexual assaults, illegal arrests and searches, and the right to be free from deprivation of property without due process of law... [Emphasis added.]
The Federal Laws Being Broken by "Family" Court Judges
The Constitutional Law
U.S. Constitution
Fourteenth Amendment - Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
The Civil Law
TITLE 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
CHAPTER 21 - CIVIL RIGHTS
SUBCHAPTER I - GENERALLY
Sec. 1983. Civil action for deprivation of rights
Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer's judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.
The Criminal Law
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 13 - CIVIL RIGHTS
Sec. 242. Deprivation of rights under color of law
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both...
What YOU Can Do RIGHT NOW To Stop This Human Carnage In Its Tracks!
It should be apparent from the above three items that you do have a means to seek redress of the appalling and loathsome violations you have suffered at the hands of family court's so-called "judges." Here's what you need to do.
Investigations — and ultimately prosecutions under federal criminal law — of civil rights violations start with a complaint to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and/or the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, which would, in any event, refer the complaint to the appropriate local FBI office.
Step 1 So, the first thing you do is write your complaint. The complaint should be a brief summary of the facts of your case, with citations to the appropriate constitutional or statutory provision you allege was violated. This would certainly encompass the Fourteenth Amendment's Section 1, which in most cases will implicate violations of the equal protection and (substantive) due process clauses ("subtantive due process" means that outcomes of court proceedings must be "fundamentally fair" — fairness is a concept that even children understand, so one would expect that of judges and prosecutors, as well). Keep your summary short; it's best not to exceed two single-spaced, typewritten pages. It does not need to be written in "legalese"; it just needs to be clear, concise and accurate. A sample complaint is available here.
Step 2Send the original of the complaint to the FBI office nearest your home. The address is available in your phone book under government offices or on the Internet at any of the directory sites such as dexonline.com. Also, send a copy of the complaint to the main office of the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ:
CRIMINAL SECTION
U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Criminal Section, PHB
Washington, DC 20530
Step 3 Register with the project for news and updates and to be counted. Registration is not required, of course, but to consolidate the unity of voice that we must show the government, registration will enable all of us to stay abreast of news and developments and to coordinate further actions as they become necessary. This is a war we must win! And to achieve that victory we all need to know what is happening in the battlefield. You can register here.
Step 4 Follow up in about a week with the local FBI office: "Did you get my civil rights complaint? What are you going to DO about it?" Stay in contact with the agent who has been assigned to investigate your complaint. These crimes need to be handled with speed; investigations dragging on for months and years are not acceptable when fundamental human rights are at stake! And remind the agent that yours is not the only complaint alleging these same crimes by the same judges. Note: by registering with the C.R.O.P. Project you will be able to receive ongoing advice and strategies on how to keep your case moving forward! Because, after all, that is our goal: the total recovery of all rights which "judges" have illegally and unconstitutionally stripped away from us!
Numbers are the key to the success of the Civil Rights Operation Parenthood project! The Civil Rights Division can ignore one or two or five complaints about injustice in family court. They CANNOT ignore FIVE THOUSAND or 50 THOUSAND or a 100 THOUSAND complaints!
If you want to see change right away — and possibly see the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity, the judges, put away in federal prison for a year, impeached and disbarred — write and send your complaint now and get everyone else you know who has been either directly or indirectly affected by these criminals to send a complaint also. There is strength in numbers! A united voice from all parents who've been treated like non-citizens will end this carnage once and for all — and it won't take years, only months!
Do it now. Do it for yourselves, your friends, your fellow citizens... and most of all, do it for your children!
Comments or questions about the C.R.O.P. project? Send email to crop-coordinator@childrensjustice.org.
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