Article printed in the San Francisco Daily Journal Forum, Monday July 17, 2000
LETTING CHILDREN SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES: Youth in Court Need Attorneys Who Represents Their Interests - Fairly, Strongly
By Alanna Krause, age 16
Hundreds of years of legal history have lead the United States to implement a system that ensures that every party in a legal proceeding gets a voice. We rest assured that, unlike in other nations, we can not be incarcerated without our day in court, lawyer by our side. What a country we live in: so civilized, so well thought out. God bless America.
But there is a forgotten minority that is not afforded these basic rights. They are not criminals or foreign aliens. In contrast, they are a group we all hold dear - one innocent and well meaning, with no hidden agendas or twisted motives - children.
Instead of actually being represented, children get their "best interests" represented by adults. We children have no choice and no recourse when those adults have their own agendas. A case in point? Mine.
My parents separated when I was 5-years-old, sparking a custody battle that lasted nine years. I never doubted that I wanted to be with my mother. My father Marshall Krause, is an abuser, and living with him was a mental and physical hell and definitely not in my best interests.
Yet, In Marin Family Court, that seemed to be irrelevant. My family court experience consisted of lawyers, judges, evaluators and social workers who turned their backs on their consciences and their professional oaths. They're worked contrary to not only my best interests, but to my health and safety.
My father, a wealthy and well-connected lawyer, used his influence and money to manipulate the system. And he didn't work alone. The court-appointed evaluator, Edward Oklan, M.D., fell under his spell and ignored my reports of my father's abuse of drugs and of me.
The lawyer appointed to represent my "best interests" Sandra Acevedo, spent her allotted time with me parroting my father's words, attempting to convince me that I really wanted to live with him. She ignored my reports of abuse.
And the therapist my father made me see, Lana Clark, LCSW, was far from objective - she was sleeping with him.
The judge, Sylvia Shapiro-Pritchard, an admitted long-time friend of my father's, rubberstamped any order my father requested. I wrote the judge letters, called her office and did everything I could to make myself heard. She ignored my pleas.
I had no rights. I couldn't replace my lawyer with one who would speak for me nor could I speak for myself in court. I couldn't cross examine the court evaluators or therapists and their claims were thus untouchable. I felt like I was witnessing the proceedings from the wrong side of soundproof glass.
My mother tried her best, but she was a David facing Goliath – except in my story, she didn't even have a sling. After years of valiant struggle gaining nothing but legal fees, she had to let go and put her life back together in the hopes that someday I could get out on my own.
While living with my father, I did what I could to survive. I made nine reports to Child Protective Services and several calls to the police over the years, to no avail. They would always tell me that unless I had witnesses or bruises, they couldn't substantiate my claims of abuse.
Finally, one day my father threw me into a stone wall at school and a teacher called Child Protective services.
He's never said as much, but my father panicked. He had worked so hard to build a delicate set of lies and twisted truths to present himself as the well-meaning parent whose "unstable" ex-wife had given his troubled daughter "alienating parent syndrome," resulting in abuse "delusions." The truth was his worst fear.
Acting quickly, he had my therapist, his lover, suddenly decide I was dangerously troubled and needed to be locked up. So I, an 11-year-old straight-A student who had never tried sex, drugs or alcohol, nor ever been in a fight, found myself in an out-of-state lockdown facility with 17 year-old drug-dealing gang-banging street kids. I was beaten up, taunted and was blocked from communicating with the outside world.
I was forced into therapy where they tried to brainwash me into believing my mother was insane, that my father's drug use didn't exist and that the abuse my father inflicted on me was all in my head.
When I realized the truth was getting me nowhere, I lied and parroted back their words. It took me 6 months to convince them I was "cured." Holding onto the truth was the hardest thing I have ever done.
After my release, my father, thankfully, shipped me out to a nice boarding school. My two years there were my best years since my mother and I were separated.
When I went back to live with him at age 13, I couldn't take it anymore. Knowing I'd never find justice in Marin, I ran away, hoping to find a judicious jurisdiction elsewhere. I ended up in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Juvenile Court took my case and placed me in a safe home. Court investigators and evaluators found my mother to be a fit parent and my father to be dangerous. My father hired an expensive lawyer and tried to play his old tricks, but the judge had none of it. Full custody was awarded to my mother, and visitation with my father was left at my discretion.
In Los Angeles, I was a party in my case, whereas in Marin, I was only leverage in my parent's battle. Los Angeles was heaven.
The practice of trying to ascertain what is in a child's best interest exists because minors supposedly cannot speak for themselves. Yet at 11, I could speak for myself. I had a mind and a set of opinions, but no one seemed to care. The judge denied my right to legal representation,
especially when the court-appointed lawyer wouldn't speak my truth.
Granted, there is no guarantee that hearing me would have inspired the judge to untwist her motives and unclench her hold on personal allegiances and biases, but who knows? At least it would have been in the court record.
My right as an American is to have legal representation in court proceedings, but when my lawyer wouldn't speak for me, I was allowed no voice.
No American should be locked up without a trial in front of a jury of peers, or some sort of legal equivalent, but it happens to minors all the time. We have an elaborate system to keep innocent adults out of jail, but no system to prevent the false imprisonment of youth in mental hospitals and discipline institutions.
Children are not parties in divorce proceedings - we are property to be divided. Yet children are people too. As citizens, we must be afforded our human and legal rights. And when those adults who are supposed to speak for us fail, we need some recourse.
Alanna Krause is 16-years-old and lives in Ojai with her Mother.
quarta-feira, 9 de janeiro de 2008
Read it till the end....and think
Lost since 09/01/2003
MOUZIN Estelle
Link to family site:
http://www.estelle-mouzin.com/
Family Name: MOUZIN
Forename: Estelle
Birth date: 00/00/1993
Sex : female
Nationality: France
At the vanishing:
Hight: 4'05'' / 135 cm
Hair: brown
Eyes: Green
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Distinguishing marks: at the time of deasappearance had a marine-blue winter coat, a violet beret, a jean, a red pullover and a black rucksack.
Language spoken: French
Loss date: 09/01/2003
Loss place:
Guermantes (France)
Circumstances: not available
Disappearance type: unknown
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If you have any information, please contact
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Your national or local police
Authority in charge of the investigation:
Commissariat de Police de Lagny-sur-Marne (France)
phone +33 (0)1 64 12 68 68
En
Interpol children@interpol.int
FREDI office@fredi.org
terça-feira, 8 de janeiro de 2008
Daily Maddie
Gerry and Kate Mccann are in negotions to sell Maddie's loss script to IMG.
Even that money going to the raise found,we can expect they will use it in their own benefit.
AREN'T THEY ASHAMED?
Damn....this world went mad?
Morton recounts allegations that "auditing" focuses on the subject's sex life.
He quotes Hubbard's son, Ronald De Wolf, who fell out with his father, giving a Playboy interview: "You have complete control of someone if you have every detail of his sex life and fantasy life on record. In Scientology the focus is on sex. Sex, sex, sex.
"The first thing we wanted to know about someone we were auditing was his sexual deviations. All you've got to do is find a person's kinks, whatever they might be.
"Their dreams and their fantasies. Then you can fit a ring through their noses and take them anywhere. You promise to fulfil their fantasies or you threaten to expose them."
Morton says Karen Pressley was at Gold Base one evening when John Travolta's sexuality was openly discussed.
He writes: "'It made my head spin,' she recalls, 'and made me realise that the idea of confidentiality was a chimera.' As another Scientology executive admitted bluntly, 'These files come in handy if they want to blackmail you'."
Cruise's attempts at new relationships, with actresses Penelope Cruz and Sofia Vergara, did not work out.
Morton claims Cruz's father Eduardo "was concerned that his famous daughter could be drawn into what he considered a cult - and, like so many others, be lost to him and his family for ever.
"Eventually he emailed an organisation devoted to helping cult members and their families. It was only after a long exchange of correspondence that officials realised they were dealing with Penelope Cruz's father."
Cruise's shorter-lived relationship with Vergara included a visit to the Scientologists' Celebrity Centre in California.
Morton claims: "It was on this trip that Sofia realised Tom was never alone. Everywhere he went, he was surrounded by Scientologists. They were at his home, they were in his car, they were at the restaurant. They were never short of smiles, but she found them 'powerful and authoritarian'.
"One friend told me, 'She met his children, there is no doubt he was auditioning her for the part of his wife.' Sofia told friends she had been deliberately targeted not only as a possible bride for Tom, but as a high-profile Scientology recruit who would be an alluring figurehead for a future recruitment drive in Latin America."
Cruise's lawyer Bert Fields described the allegation as "ridiculous".
Morton claims that as Cruise has moved higher up the echelons of the Church of Scientology he has made more and more decisions about his life and career to simply promote his religion.
HAPPY BIRTHADAY TO YOU WHEREVER YOU ARE
Family name: PALMER
Forename: Michael Timothy
Birth date: 08 January 1984
Sex: male
Nationality: USA
At the vanishing:
Height: 168 cm / ~5' 6"
Hair: sides shaved, brownish blond
Eyes: blue
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Distinguishing marks
Language spoken: english US
Loss date: 04 June 1999
Loss Place: Wasilla AK (Alaska) USA
Circumstances:
Michael was last seen on Friday, June 4, 1999 around 4:00 AM. He had attended a Senior Graduation Party outside the city of Wasilla, AK near the Meadow Lake Subdivision with 3 friends. The last time they saw him, he was riding a bicycle on Pittman Road in the direction of his home. The bike was later located in the Little Susitna River, which runs roughly parallel to Pittman Road and Silver Drive intersection. His shoes were found in the vicinity of a homeowners make-shift runway for his personal aircraft.
segunda-feira, 7 de janeiro de 2008
Daily Maddie
1-The english forensics said today,that the blood samples found in the apartment and in the Mccanns hired car matches for sure with Maddie's DNA.
2-Maddie even born with insemination technics is really daughter of Gerry Mccann.
domingo, 6 de janeiro de 2008
TO ALL ABDUCTED,RAPED AND LOST CHILDREN IN THE WORLD
Nothing is ever really dead, and anyway there is another way of seeing them now they no longer have the burden of growing
YOU CAN SMOKE IN THIS BLOG
HERE WE ARE AGAINST FUNDAMENTALISM
Disclaimer:We have all the conditions in the law to declare this place a smoker's blog
sábado, 5 de janeiro de 2008
sexta-feira, 4 de janeiro de 2008
Daily Maddie
The Public Prosecutor asked to the Maddie's process judge the extreme complex process
situation.
This,if accepted,will delay in three months the process opening to the "arguidos".
quinta-feira, 3 de janeiro de 2008
Daily Maddie
The questions to Mccann friends had been sent today by mail to England.
The results of this inquiry will condicionate further investigations.
I LOST MY RESPECT FOR YOU POLITICIANS
In broad terms, political corruption is the misuse by government officials of their governmental powers for illegitimate private gain
Is Europe falling?
An Ambassador Warns: The Suicide of Europe
From the desk of Tiberge on Wed, 2007-12-26 12:46
An analysis from Christian Lambert, a former French ambassador, writing at Les 4 Vérités, predicts a terrible fate for Europe. He titles his essay, "The Inexorable Suicide of Europe."
The Brussels administration admits officially that each year some 550,000 immigrants from Africa, the Middle East and China, plus South America, enter the European Union. In reality the figure is twice that, in other words, more than a million.
We will briefly take it country by country.
Italy wins the prize right now. For this to become known, a young Italian girl had to be raped and murdered by a Gypsy. Then Rome was forced to reveal that Italy, a country even more poorly governed than France, which is saying a lot, now has 3.7 million immigrants (the official figure), that 700,000 new arrivals were recorded in 2006, and that 560,000 Gypsies have settled there. More than 100,000 of them arrived in the ten-month period after January 1, 2007.
More than 50% of the crime in Italy is due to these "Rumanians". In addition, every year some 60,000 immigrants from Tunisia and Libya (where even Colonel Qadhafi admits that his country is invaded by Sub-Saharians waiting to get into Europe and certain to succeed in their goal) arrive in Italy via the island of Lampedusa. In general, it is easy to enter Europe through Italy where the administration is "lax"...
In Greece, it's worse and Cyprus is one of the great doors of entry into Europe.
In France, nothing has changed. It can be assumed that 350,000 new arrivals enter our country each year, 70% of them from Africa. The number of visas granted has not lessened. It is still more than 2 million – 2,038,000 in 2006 – which proves that the fight against massive immigration is, like all the rest, purely verbal.
While I'm on the topic, I should note in passing that the town of Aulnay-sous-Bois, in Seine-Saint-Denis, has just experienced 4 days and nights of street fighting between gangs of "Afro-Maghrebins" and the police, according to the press itself. At Villiers-le-Bel, Val d'Oise, it is even more serious. The police, attacked with rifles, proved to be impotent. In order to quell these riots military units specializing in street fighting are now necessary, especially since stockpiles of war weapons from the Balkans are being stashed in the suburbs.
In Germany there are 4 million Turks, and new arrivals every day. One German told me that Islamist Turks feel more at ease practicing their religious activities in Germany than in Muslim Turkey.
In Great Britain, 50 powerful Muslim associations control millions of faithful followers, mostly Pakistanis. In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, beneath the smile of her gracious very Christian Majesty, there are now koranic schools where children can learn to become kamikazes and blow up automobiles.
In the Netherlands where there are many North African, Caribbean and Indonesian Muslims serious trouble is on the increase. The press writes that the situation is becoming "à la française", in other words: pillaged shops, torched cars, violent confrontations with the police.
Scandinavia is not to be left out where, in order to be in tune with the times, Norway discovered and recruited, as a government minister, a black woman from Martinique.
I might add that there is no common European policy on immigration. Spain and Italy amnestied millions of illegals – a tremendous message for others – without even informing their neighbors.
On the other hand, in the countries of Eastern Europe, there are no immigrants. Why? Because these countries were subjected to communism and are therefore underdeveloped, with no welfare state or free hand-outs, housing, health care or schools.
Some say that one must not exaggerate. The great invasions from the 4th to 7th centuries eventually worked themselves out, didn't they? Great ignorance. We have to realize that these invasions had only a limited effect on the population of nascent France. As a matter of fact, in general, gangs of invaders and vandals, totaling only a few thousand individuals did not settle down in France, except for the Franks to the East. Furthermore, these barbarians quite rapidly converted to Christianity, more precisely to arianism.
It is true that at the time the merovingian monarchy did not distribute to these barbarians welfare of all kinds, declaring: "You are a great opportunity for France. Come, all of you, and join us with your large and beautiful families." No. Back then, people still had common sense.
And now, what will happen? In the short term, immigration will continue to flood in. Problems which have never been this serious will continue to spread and worsen. In the very long term, Europe, which created the most beautiful civilization that humanity has ever produced, will disappear.
The suicide of Europe is not unavoidable – there are many solutions. The fact that there are no leaders willing to do what must be done is the problem. Another strange fact is that so many people seem to "sense" that this is inevitable, as if they have an insight, or an intuition, that Europe's time has come. These are the people besotted by what they see on television and dumbed down by an inferior education. They turn a commentary such as this article into a self-fulfilling prophecy
Took from:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2799
I quote - "On the other hand, in the countries of Eastern Europe, there are no immigrants. Why? Because these countries were subjected to communism and are therefore underdeveloped, with no welfare state or free hand-outs, housing, health care or schools."
I am not racist but this low quality imigrant flow is not good for the countries.
Will destroy the future of our children and the future of those imigrants chidren too.
quarta-feira, 2 de janeiro de 2008
Daily Maddie
1-Next January 3 the Mccann will know if the justice secret will be extended for more six months.
If not they can read the process and know why they had been "arguidos" in this case.
2 - The oficial site of Maddie's abduction will be increased cause,as their parents say,she was abducted and they belive she will return soon.
Now,six months later,we can try to see Maddie's abduction in a coldd position.
How cant someone pick a little girl body and hide her,in a foreign country,without inside help.
Ok,lets think Maddie had an accident or something similar and died.
An abudctor would let the body in the apartment and just runned away.
The parents would panic and had to think fast what to do.
But they had a big problem....they are in an unknown place with no time or friends to help in such matter.
Is it that Murat helped them?
And why for God sake.
Too many questions and no answers.
segunda-feira, 31 de dezembro de 2007
sábado, 29 de dezembro de 2007
2007 year
In portugueselost children this year gave us crucial things:
-03/05/2007,at 22H40 a young girl,Madeleine Beth Mccann,desapears from Praia da Luz resort where she was sleeping with her twin brothers,Sean and Amelie.
This fact would be similar to hundreds all over the world if the British Government would not make it a nacional case.
What happened next we all know.
-Rui Pedro abducted since 04/03/1998
Because his mother never gave up but mainly by Maddie's press interest,this abduction saw a new interest in Judiciary Police.
-11-06-2007,APCD(Portuguese Lost Children Association is born.
Rui Pedro's mother and others gave birth to this Association.
Five new lost children in Portugal:
23/02/2007 - Sara Raquel Pinho Reis
03/05/2007 - Madeleleine Beth Mccann
01/08/2007 - Rita Marques Cardoso Santos
23/09/2007 - Pamela Matias Santos
23/11/2007 - Jacira Rocha Gomes
quinta-feira, 27 de dezembro de 2007
Daily Maddie
Spanish private investigators dried the Maddie raise found.
And....obviously no Maddie
Gerry Mccann says a blue bag is missing;That bag could be used in Maddie's transport.
quarta-feira, 26 de dezembro de 2007
segunda-feira, 24 de dezembro de 2007
domingo, 23 de dezembro de 2007
Daily Maddie
Maddie parents lauch a video begging to who took the little girl send her home safe.
Obviously or not,this made no front pages in newspapers.
Portuguese investigators seems to slow the efforts,now they are sure the little girl is dead and there are no way to prove it.
sábado, 22 de dezembro de 2007
PORTUGAL IS NOT ALL BAD
VANESSA FERNANDES TRIATHLON WORLD CHAMPION
CONGRATULATIONS VANESSA
THANK YOU TO MAKE ME PROUD OF PORTUGAL
PAY ATENTION TO THIS MESSAGE AND HELP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYrrbKbxMuk
Just copy past....thks.
A true Christmas story
There was one time,a poor teenager got pregnant.
Having no resources or help gave her baby boy to adoption.
This boy has been adopted by a couple who gave him love and afection.
When eighteen,he wanted to know who was his real mother,
Found out that she was working in same company he was,now 48 and with two children.
Obviously this happened in America last month.
sexta-feira, 21 de dezembro de 2007
The Oporto gangs
Guess this blog can comment the extreme violence happened in Oporto in the last months.
This situation brings to the young teens examples of impunity from some in face of the law.
The gangs who own the security in diversion houses around Oporto begun a death circle.
Now with the leaders in jail,the "Ribeira group" loose control and the "Cape Vert group" (all born in that country or with relatives born there) have the night on control.
This means not only the security made in diversion houses will be for them but also,drugs,prostitution and all the rest.
Unless there are a third group who started the war to control the night.
Police arrested the faces of "Ribeira Group".
But no solid evidences made free 7 of the 11 captured in an operation,where the "show service" was evident,after the Judiciary Oporto Police knew that a new team come from Lissabon would take the investigations.
No murder weapons found,and in one,we are talking in machine guns.
WHAT EXAMPLE OF IMPUNITY IS THIS IN MY COUNTRY
In Lissabon one "boss of the night" dies with a car bomb.
Every day we read in newspapers rapes,armed assaults,carjackings,violence and more violence.
AND NOTHING HAPPENS
quinta-feira, 20 de dezembro de 2007
DONT U FEEL SHAME PEOPLE OF MY COUNTRY?
It's true that in my country,there are parents,stepfathers,relatives and friends that rape their own daughters,relatives and friends;Quite often.
And after that act,they....just are not jailed.
WAIT FREE FOR THE JUDGEMENT DAY
And the prison time is so small that i....feel shame.
SOMEONE THEY ABUSED,SOMETIMES SO YOUNG,WHO EXPECTED PROTECTION AND LOVE,CARRY FOR THE WHOLE LIFE WITH THE RAPE WEIGHT.
AND THE RAPERS TAKE A PRISON TIME SO SMALL.
quarta-feira, 19 de dezembro de 2007
MADELEINE BETH MCCANN-SHE ONCE HAD A LIFE,DREAMS,EMOTIONS
WHAT A SHAME,SO YOUNG,SO PRETTY,SO FULL OF LIFE,A FUTURE.....AND PARENTS NEGLIGENCE ENDED IT ALL AS THE REPORT POLICE SAYS:
LOST WHEN WAS ALONE IN THE APARTMENT
lOST SINCE 03/05/2007
AS ALL POINT TO......REST IN PEACE MY LITTLE GIRL
PAMELA MATIAS SANTOS-SHE ONCE HAD A LIFE,DREAMS,EMOTIONS
NOW AS THE POLICE REPORT SAYS:
DRUG ADICTED
LOST SINCE 23/09/2007
WHAT A SHAME,SO YOUNG,SO PRETTY,SO FULL OF LIFE,A FUTURE.....AND DRUG ENDED IT ALL
PLZ LITTLE GIRL COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
