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Sunday, 19 May 2013

Dealing With What's Coming; or, How To See Them Coming


Frontline Social Workers

These people are often the first point of contact between parents and the Family Court system.
These people may or may not be “qualified” in social care, they may or may not be registered in the GSCC register (now subsumed into the Health Professionals council with no obvious complaints process as the GSCC had). If they’re not registered, they’re breaking the law by pretending they’re something they’re not. If they are and pretend they’re not social workers, they are again breaking the law.
It is the job of these people not to protect children’s interests, but to protect their own. To do this they need low-risk cases (low-income families, those who are pretty much off the grid, fall into postal codes where the general credit rating is far below the national average – these are families who cannot afford to employ their own solicitors) where they first assess the parents in what they consider friendly surroundings through people that aren’t social workers – often people with degrees or training in psychology – such as schoolteachers, community workers, home help... These people pick out the smallest foibles in the parents (including their distant past history) and use these to help SS build their case against the parents.
At this point, when the SS believe they have the beginnings of a case, the threats start. They use their perceived powers of persuasion to coerce the parents into signing “contract agreements[1]” which aren’t worth the paper they’re written on, to get them to attend parenting and anger management classes, by which they further build their case that one or both parents aren’t quite up to the task of bringing up children in the “normal” sense of the term.
These threats to remove the children because of some perceived threat of abuse are made in the presence of the children, who’s minds the SS are already starting to poison.
It is important to note, that even though one or both parents may be cooperating fully with SS, their attendance at these classes and group therapy sessions is seen as SS as signs of a guilty conscience. Further building on their case.
Those parents who do not cooperate are seen as mentally ill (those who throw abuse at SS operatives), or obstructive for the sake of being obstructive.
The SS may decide to make a case of immediate peril in these cases, and have the children removed on an Emergency Protection Order. If they even bother with the paperwork.
During meetings with SS, which are often interagency meetings where they seem to go over minutiae from previous meetings, they will sometimes ask direct questions of the parents which are designed to trip the parents up.
Such a question may take the form “Have you stopped beating your wife?” which as given is an obvious trip-up. It is, therefore, absolutely vital that you take an audio recorder (best bet is an mp3 player with full memory capacity and a fresh battery) and record the entire meeting from the second you step through the car park to the second you step off.
When you get home with the recording, take a full transcript of the meeting, who said what and when, etc., and file both for later use in court.
You do not have to warn the meeting that they’re being recorded, in fact it’s best you don’t warn them at any point.
Anything they say in those meetings can legally be used as transcribed in court as evidence should they perjure themselves (and they will!).
Also, do not give copies of these recordings to anybody involved in the case, least of all any Family Panel or CLA solicitor, as they can and do forward such information to SS who will use such recordings to demonstrate your “mental instability and further evidence that you are incapable as a parent”.
Social workers aren’t trained to be cold and unfeeling, yet that’s exactly what they are.
The fact is that they were never shown love as children therefore they think that it’s abnormal and wrong for anyone to show affection for anyone else.
Just the sort of fodder for building SS robots.
The psychosis harvested after years of sowing hatred, rejection, emotional neglect and no hugs carries through adulthood in these baby snatchers.
They show no emotion because they are incapable of it.
They show no love or affection because they are afraid of it.
Don’t hate them for what they are, pity them for what they have become.
They want you to hate them, that’s their “justification” for what they do.
They can’t stand pity because that’s an emotion and they don’t know how to handle it.

Professional Losers

ANY lawyer who works under the Legal Aid Scheme (now known as Community Legal Advice, and administered by the Legal Services Commission) is known throughout the legal industry as a “Professional Loser” for a very good reason. CLA claimants who employ solicitors to fight their case basically greenlight payments from the CLA Fund to their solicitor, which the solicitor or their firm invoices at the conclusion of the case. These solicitors are not paid by performance (ie they don’t get paid more for winning your case), they’re paid a flat rate, more often than not per day or per half day. What this means in practice, is that they have no incentive to work on your case beyond the illusion that they’re actually doing something. Which is usually evidenced by nothing more than a fat stack of academic research barely relevant to your case.
What, you thought that five thousand sheets and a big fat briefcase was all just for you?
Family Panel solicitors are those who have special training above and beyond normal criminal or civil law. These individuals are experts at misleading their clients, particularly when it comes to constructing their case documentation, employing specialist witnesses (which are selected by the SS lawyers and CAFCASS to further bolster their case), and cross examinations in court. Certainly, all the right questions may be asked, but in such a way as to not help your case at all. Most importantly, these individuals who are meant to fighting in your corner do the most damage to your case by advising you not to try calling your own specialist witnesses, your own children, your extended family, character witnesses, or witnesses to events – these would “harm your case[2]”.
If anything, if anyone recommends you take legal advice, the best thing to do would be to go do your own research. Find out about the Human Rights Acts of the UK and the Conventions on Human Rights of Europe, and the UN Convention on Human Rights, the Children Act of 1989 (and as amended), and the Offences Against The Person Act 1861.

CAFCASS: the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service

These people are invariably degree-qualified and registered social workers. This is, in fact, a prerequisite qualification for employment by CAFCASS.
They do not, as much as they may protest to the contrary, act in the best interests and according to the feelings and wishes of your children. They work to the same agenda as Social Services. That is, they find an easy mark and move in for the kill. It is usually the same CAFCASS operative who sits through the entire case, as opposed to SS staff who seem to go through a six week turnaround.
CAFCASS are not only employed as consultants by the Courts, they also take instruction from the Family Panel solicitors and from the social workers assigned to your case. This is never a good thing. They also instruct their own solicitors who claim to speak on behalf of your children, but this is untrue: they actually go on record as representing CAFCASS.
To help build their case, CAFCASS spend no more than four hours in total with your children and ask them about the negative aspects of their home lives (eg do your parents shout at you, hit you, deprive you, ever say no to you, etc), and use the noninformation they gather to build the emotional harm side of the case against you. It is this part of the case which SS most rely on, so if CAFCASS insist that they speak to your children on a one-to-one basis, tell them to get a court order and have someone on your side (not a solicitor!) attend all meetings between your children and CAFCASS, and most importantly of all, have a video camera handy to record these sessions. Since CAFCASS meetings are invariably conducted in home surroundings, you have the right to do this, so do not allow anyone to tell you otherwise or force you to turn off the camera.
The following is confirmed by implication of responses given by CAFCASS in a Freedom of Information request made in 2010:
CAFCASS Guardian ad Litem and/or representative solicitors instruct or otherwise coerce expert witnesses acting on instruction from all parties, over what to write in their reports to the Family Courts.
CAFCASS Guardian ad Litem wilfully misrepresents either by policy or by choice, the wishes and feelings of the minors whom she is charged to represent.
CAFCASS’ unstated policy by formative and ongoing doctrine is in line with CORAM’s stated goal to reap profit by way of removing minors unlawfully from their natural parents and placing them with those wholly unsuited to raising children in any sort of environment.
CAFCASS’ unstated policy by formative and ongoing doctrine is to commit serial perjury to meet the goal as stated in the previous point.
CAFCASS’ normal operating procedure, in collusion with Local Authorities and Family Panel specialist legal practitioners, is in line with Government stated policy to reach targets not to protect children as is the public face of the organisation, but to create and maintain profit at zero-return cost to every single Council Tax payer in the country and the psychological and physical cost to every parent and minor they succeed in separating.
CAFCASS’ operations are not in line with normal advocacy procedures of an ostensibly nonprofit-making advocacy service for children, they are more in line with a profit-making service industry at the beckon call of Local Authorities under a private agreement to accelerate the process of removal for financial gain.

Expert Witnesses

These individuals are employed by the Family Court and instructed by the Local Authorities, the solicitors and the barristers.
They are usually educational psychologists, often members of church groups.
This creates a huge dilemma, given that their “scientific” conclusions are swayed by religious dogma, and a huge conflict of interest given that at £500 per page of report, there is a LOT of money to be made in telling the court exactly what they want to hear – that the parents are paranoid, hypervigilant, narcissistic, and/or have any number of previously undiagnosed mental disorders – including but not limited to factitious illness or injury disorder (FII), AKA Muchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP), which has in all other legal circles, been completely debunked as a valid diagnosis in cases where children are injured or suffer from congenital illnesses that manifest symptoms similar to eg antifreeze poisoning.
It is these reports that Local Authorities also use later on to base their completely unqualified decisions to change the regimes of medication to the children (ie taking ADHD sufferers cold turkey off of Class A psychotropics, blaming the parents for the upbringing that caused the condition in the first place, or have prescribed tranquilisers without consideration of possible counterindications via other conditions such as Type II diabetes – both hold potentially fatal consequences).
In the court, there is usually only one expert witness called, and he would be as described. The parents will be told by their own solicitor that they would not be allowed to call their own expert (usual excuse is that it would cost too much), although if you can find one in family or close friend who would be willing to speak for you out of sheer good-heartedness, then go for it.
The solicitor, CAFCASS and even the judge will try and insist that you do not call your own witnesses, claiming that it will only harm your case; this is so much bull I cannot even begin to describe.
Call EVERYONE, make sure YOU get to cross-examine them all, even the Local Authority’s witnesses (including the Social workers), yourself.
Take off the gloves while you do it, they aren’t going to be polite to you, so return the favour.
As the assessment goes, if you have access to any kind of video or audio recording equipment – USE IT. DO NOT let ANYONE bully you into turning it off, under ANY circumstances.
If they tell you to turn it off while the camera’s rolling, ask them – on camera – what they’re afraid of saying. If they insist, tell them the meeting’s over and show them the door. DO NOT stop the recorder until they have departed your property completely.
Make raw copies of ALL recordings immediately and store the master recordings in another building entirely (a relative’s house or a secure lockup).
Speaking of recordings, some visitors will want to take photographs of your home. DO NOT allow this! Photographs CAN and DO lie, particularly if they have been doctored.
Anyone who knows how to use the Redeye function in Photoshop will tell you, it is insanely easy to manipulate photographs. For example, it takes about two minutes to add detritus to a shot of a kitchen floor, another minute to add a layer of dust to a TV screen, and it’s a cut&paste operation to add cat crap pretty much anywhere. Most of the time though, it doesn’t even require this level of sophistication to fool a judge – they’ll usually accept the claim by a Social Worker that a photograph taken in the dead of night with the flash as the only source of light of a garden toy like a swing or slide on a bed of hardfrosted mud was actually taken on a summer evening.
Actually having the opportunity to point out to the judge something a five year old would notice, and show the SW to be the liars they are, is pretty satisfying. Showing them to be above such things as trespass laws is also very satisfying.


[1] In Law, a contractual document is an instrument which contains the word “contract” on the first line.
[2] As witnessed by the Author on many occasions, and documented by the Author’s former solicitor in his case file as part of the charging process!

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