February 13, 2007

At the recent Battered Mothers Custody Conference in January, Co-sponsored by NOW New York State,  it was suggested and agreed that during the Valentine's Day week*, beginning today and over the course of this week, that we will all send an email to Oprah asking her to expose the secrets in the court that keep women and children in bondage.  We need every person, organization, professional, friends with knowledge, to write to her.  She opened the door to this subject with the publication of "Please Daddy, No" in O Magazine, November 2006.

The time is ripe to establish Order in the Court by shining a spotlight ont he issues and secrets that are destroying lives. Oprah's executive producer indicated long ago that they would do a show on this topic, but seem to have dismissed that idea. We have the responsibility to let her know how pervasive this problem is by sharing our knowledge and experience with her. Will you join us in this endeavor?

Read:
1.	Send an email to Oprah at www.oprah.com, "Be on the show," "We want your show ideas!" Or simply go directly to the email page.
2.	Title your email "ORDER IN THE COURT: Exposing Secrets That Deny Women and Children Their Equal Rights," or any other title that you think is appropriate.
3.	Keep your message short and simple and to the point. Start your message with "I am a supporter of NOW ... " It may not exceed 2000 characters including spaces. This only allows you to send 2-3 brief paragraphs.
4.	Write from your experience and with your words. Here are some of the problems that may help you get right to the heart of the matter: Judges are routinely giving custody of children to their abusive father. When a mother continues to litigate for the protection of her child/children, judges punish the mother by severing relationship with her children. Court appointed guardians ad litem and psychologists are robbing litigants of their life savings while advocating for abusive fathers through the use of junk science and fraudulent psychological assessments. The use of these court appointed officials creates a massive tangled web of deception that covers the truth, and thereby continues the abuse of mothers and their children. Basic state and federal constitutional rights are being violated including both procedural and substantive due process rights and violations of the Equal Protection Clause. Constitutional rights violations many times are the result of a conspiracy by the judge or other state actors to deprive a mother and her children of their rights. Mothers are routinely jailed after being ordered to pay impossible sums of money to the father. Judges are given absolute immunity even if "the action he took was in error, was done maliciously, or was in excess of his authority." Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349, 356-57 (1978) The media has not exposed this at a level that creates change, i.e. Priest Abuse Scandal. We intend to get the support of the media to shine a light on this problem and expose those who are using their power to usurp the rights of women and children and to expose those who are wrongfully acting as agents of abuse for their own profit.