Current Events: September 2004 Archives

Thanks to Curt Jester for the link.

Nothing atypical here.

That story I blogged about? With the dad and the police?

Mary's Advocates has been updated again:

our 3 year old [child] was taken from me on 9/15 at 4pm

A three-year-old taken away from his mother. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that one; I know how my three-year-old acts when I've been away just for a couple of hours. I know how bedtime goes if I'm not around.

And wasn't this over homeschooling? So what are they doing taking away a preschooler?

Mary's Advocates has some addresses up, if you're looking for somewhere to send a letter.

UPDATE: This wasn't connected with the homeschooling issue.

NHL Locks Out Players

The Mary's Advocates web page has been updated (scroll down):

The Westlake City Police Officers delivered the message that the divorce judge had just given my husband custody of our four boys because I was continuing to school our sons as they always had been schooled. In January of 2004, the court ordered psychologist decided our method of schooling was not in the boys best interest though millions of children are thriving in the same system. I was warned in January, that the judge would eventually take our children away if I did not agree with their psychologist. I didn't hear the judges exact words because she told my attorney about this pre judgment, off the record, in a secret meeting in which I was not allowed to be present.

My current attorney is and expert in our education method and has asked for a hearing on the matter. We submitted an affidavit stating I only signed the papers in January, because I was coerced and under duress, but the judge won't let me have a hearing. Instead, see what happens to a stay-at-home mom, 16 months after being abandoned by her husband, because she doesn't agree with the court ordered psychologist as to what is in her children's' best interest. The local police didn't have the jurisdiction to forcibly remove our children from home, but my husband may be back again with the County police to do just that.

Don't miss the picture. That's dad -- our favorite divorce plaintiff -- on the left there, in the red shirt.

Thanks to reader Amanda for the heads-up. And a big thanks to all you social geniuses who insisted that divorce was okay for making this possible.

I started to "hatch" and become aware of politics and world events when I was around thirteen or fourteen. Ronald Reagan was the President and my dad was stationed at the Pentagon. It was a scary time; the left was telling us all the time that Reagan was a dangerous cowboy, that he was going to lead us into a nuclear war, that we were all going to die and leave nothing but radioactive cinders behind, and that only a nuclear freeze and negotiations with the Russians could save us!

My father is a retired Air Force officer. He was in speechwriting and public affairs, so he was stationed on the words and ideas front during the Cold War -- and he was stationed at the Pentagon during President Reagan's first term. He would sometimes bring home articles from the Pentagon clip service for me to read -- some news articles, some from conservative commentators. He made sure I knew who Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was, and that I knew what Communism really meant. He would occasionally tell me about other Soviet defectors and how they had managed to read between the lines of the goverment propaganda, and realize how cruelly they were being deceived.

He also made sure to call my attention, again and again, to the unacknowledged bias in the mass media, and taught me to always be skeptical of what I saw and read.

So I can't wait to talk with him about Memogate! How delicious!

UPDATE: Kind of like this. He sounds so punchy, doesn't he?