-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.html From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <undisclosed-recipients:;> Subject: The Criminalization of Fatherhood by the Divorce Industry Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 8:49 PM The Criminalization of Fatherhood by the Divorce Industry "The Office of Child Support and Enforcement under HHS does keep track of all fathers who owe child support whether ... they're behind on their payments or not; so their names are there. Yes, there's this presumption of guilt: there's this presumption that every citizen who owes child support - and possibly every citizen - is a quasi-criminal. Fathers now have their wages garnished regularly - even before they fall behind on their payments - immediately as soon as the order is entered against them," said Howard University professor Stephen Baskerville, a guest on "Endangered Liberties." Host Lisa Dean asked," Does anyone have access to this database besides that agency or that office?" Baskerville responded, "They say that this is not the case. ... They claim there are security measures taken to protect privacy. There was a front page article in The Washington Post though last summer by Robert O'Harrow which seriously questioned all of that - the security of the system and the dangers to civil liberties." Host Paul Weyrich said, "I always like to fill our viewers in on how the system operates. And as I understand it in Arkansas earlier this year four state senators were indicted because they were involved in a kickback scheme which went precisely to the point that you're making." Baskerville replied, "The whole system is very much riddled with conflicts of interest. We only hear about them when ... they cross the line into overt corruption. But the entire system is in many ways crooked: it violates the principle of the separation of powers regularly and many other principles of good government. What happened in Arkansas, the U.S. Attorney's entered indictments - 133 count indictment - against four members of the Arkansas senate for kickbacks and money laundering and racketeering, all in connection with child support and child custody. This is what happens all through the government: essentially the judge sits on top of a patronage machine, where favors are dispensed to cronies, court hangers-on, lawyers, psycho-therapists, child support and enforcement agents, social workers, monitors of various kinds. In Los Angeles ... Insight magazine uncovered a slush fund operated by Los Angeles County family court judges for the purposes of taking what amounted to institutionalized kickbacks from lawyers and other professionals connected with the court." Weyrich asked Baskerville, "I'm a dad and I come home and my wife has left. And suddenly I get yanked into court. Can I be ordered to pay for her attorney that is going after me?" Baskerville answered, "Not only her attorney. You can be forced to pay for a whole slew of professional hangers-on at the court. Yes, fathers - as soon as they're brought into court, they're plundered for everything they have: their bank account - their records are subpoenaed and what they have is doled out to favorite hangers-on at the court. ... This is a good example: I have here a court order against a father, a father who's done nothing wrong, who's not agreed to a divorce or a separation. This father is being ordered - under pain of incarceration - to pay a lawyer he has not hired for services he has not sought or received. In other words, the judge is using his position to raid this father's bank account and funnel everything in it into the pockets of one of his cronies. The Bar Association that this judge is a member of will then make sure that this judge is reappointed and promoted at regular intervals. This is the kind of shake-down racket, the kind of crookedness that is routine in family courts throughout this country." Weyrich queried, "A lot of cooperation between the family court lawyers in the different states? In other words, they network with each other so that they all are familiar with these different techniques?" Baskerville stated, "They certainly do. Yes, this is rampant. It seems to be in every state, and in many foreign countries as well it's developing." 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