The following
letter was sent last Friday to the station producers and media personalities
at CHCH TV in Hamilton after the recent scandalous TV expose and story of
CAS involvement in the apprehension of a young 11 year old boy from his
Father and Mother in his struggle with terminal leukemia. The TV station
replied positively in receipt of the information received and the letter was
then distributed unedited to all of the main stream media editor and
journalists in every province and territory in Canada. What the media needs
is to receive the truth. Nothing but the truth. At all times and as bluntly
and directly as possible. Thus the letter to CHCH is repeated here for your
benefit and use in redistribution to your own contacts
JS
<<We in the
FR movement not only want to see the CAS controlled, investigated and even
closed down; we want the members of the CAS arrested on top of it>>
<<There is
a scandal wrapped in multiple scandals swirling around CAS and indeed around
the oxymoronic 'family law' system itself>>
<<Horror
stories abound alright; all of them "unbelievable" and all enough to cause
you to shake your head in disbelief.
Friday, May 09, 2008 6:13
PM
Attention: Skelly,
Donna (CHCH News)
I am often in dismay and disbelief myself when I find
the media suggesting or inferring that we are all a bunch of kooks for
trying to expose the very story that is causing you to be as shocked as you
are. Perhaps you are just not listening? Or is it that we are not getting
the story across properly. This story is bad enough but there is much much
worse than that going on in Canada with the CAS and the family court system.
I could make you stand and stare in complete disbelief (and that's what it
would be-disbelief ending in no action because its simply 'not believed') at
what I could tell you about the CAS-not just in this province but across the
country. How about the Father of a child fighting to clear his name from the
usual unfounded/false accusations of sexual abuse, who gets to the court
system-by force of law-to fight the allegations and find justice-only to
find the Crown then drops all charges against him-but then who, on the very
cusp of exoneration, finds that while he was occupied clearing his name, his
daughter was taken away by CAS and given up for permanent adoption? Or the
CAS worker who offers up free brand new bicycles to young girls if they
agree to falsely testify against their Fathers?
And that my friends is by the tip
of the proverbial iceberg. Horror stories abound alright; all of them "unbelievable"
and all enough to cause you to shake your head in disbelief. Yet most times
nothing gets done unless there is as dedicated an effort as the story you
are now involved in comes around. Its an awful story alright but what about
all the men separated from their living healthy children-for life. Surely
this is a story as bad as anything? The Father being threatened with arrest
and police intervention is not any surprise to divorced and separated
Canadian men and Fathers. This is what happens to us all the time.
So Is it any
wonder at all we FR activists regard the media as part of the problem who
often seem to be in a state of total ignorant apathy and indifference? What
is it that you guys don't get? The truth is right in front of you and it is
virtually exemplified in the case before you. The Father and Mother of the
young boy trying to live are living witnesses to the state of 'control' over
the family by the system which we fight in any way we can.
Peter
Kormos and John Dunne were both effusively correct
in their commentary about CAS but perhaps not effusive and direct enough. We
in the FR movement not only want to see the CAS controlled, investigated and
even closed down; we want the members of the CAS arrested on top of
it. Its really that serious.There is a scandal wrapped in multiple scandals
swirling around CAS and indeed around the oxymoronnic 'family law' system
itself.
Jeremy Swanson