Monday, November 22, 2004

Shooting the Daily Breeze in California

Shooting the Daily Breeze in California
California may be posturing to sue the ‘Family Law Fall Guys’
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/u-v/untershine/2004/untershine112504.htm

Jim Untershine, GZS of LB, 11-22-04

It is hard to believe that a California newspaper could print a story congratulating the State’s Child Support Enforcement agency, let alone CSE in Los Angeles County. California CSE is an agency that answers to the State’s Attorney General and uses an accounting system for child support collections that has been deemed unacceptable by the Federal Government. The Federal Government penalizes California by withholding over $200 million per year of financial participation from the State's TANF program.

As reported by the Contra Costa Times on 07-15-03: "State officials signed an eight-year, $801 million deal with IBM on Monday for a statewide computer system to streamline the child support collection process.", "Once in place, it will relieve California taxpayers from massive fines. The state has been paying penalties since it missed a 1997 deadline to implement an automated system.", "Those payments will total $1.3 billion by 2006, according to a report last year from the California State Auditor. This year, the damage is $207 million." (Peter Felsenfeld, Contra Costa Times, 07-15-03, “IBM gets state child support contract)

The accounting practices of the CSE agency in Los Angeles County was the focus of an investigation conducted by Policy Studies Inc. of Denver, CO in 2001 costing the California taxpayers $250,000. As reported by the LA Times on 06-03-01: "But even as Los Angeles County moves toward a new program, the administration of its current child support collections remains controversial. Last week, state director Child confirmed that officials are examining Los Angeles County's accounting practices after learning from child support advocates that the county had been double-counting collection numbers for past-due support. The practice, officials said, was discovered in the quarterly reports sent to both the state and the county commission that oversees child support. And the financial consequences could be severe for California's child support program if the county's quarterly numbers are reflected in the yearly totals submitted to the federal government." (Greg Krikorian, LA Times, 06-03-01, “County Child Support Program's Accounting Under Scrutiny by State”, "Services: Inflated figures could affect funding statewide. A private firm is hired to examine the system")

Policy Studies Inc issued a report following their 3-month investigation confirming the problem that initiated the investigation. As reported in the LA Times on 01-05-02: "Glowing report comes on the two-year anniversary of the state agency that collects court-ordered payments, whose amounts doubled on average per case", "The study also found that the county's collection rate for current support was only 32%, 'very low' compared with the state and nation. The latest state figures show that collections on current support in California averaged 44%, while nationwide the figure was 56%", "The county's performance in other key areas has also been poor. For example, the report found, Los Angeles County has an 'extraordinarily high' rate of court orders obtained by default--79%--because those sued for child support fail, for whatever reasons, to appear in court. That default rate, the report says, not only raises serious questions about the fairness of the county's approach, but also gives the court orders for child support 'less credibility and makes them harder to enforce'" (Greg Krikorian, Times Staff Writer, 01-05-02, "Reformed Child Support System Termed a Success", "Services: Glowing report comes on the two-year anniversary of the state agency that collects court-ordered payments, whose amounts doubled on average per case")

The California Legislature separated the District Attorney's Office from the Child Support Enforcement Office because the Attorney General wanted to shelter his criminal prosecutors from criminal prosecution, when his Child Support Enforcement agency is prosecuted by the Federal government for racketeering, taxpayer fraud, mail fraud, consumer fraud, credit fraud, and deprivation of rights and privileges under the color of law. California’s plausible deniability rests in pointing the finger at the ‘Family Law Fall Guys’ that operate out of other States and have been paid by the taxpayers for their professional guidance and thorough understanding of the Federal law that allows the state to draw Federal funding.

Policy Studies Inc (PSI) of Denver, CO conducted the “California Child Support Guideline Review” in addition to investigating the State’s CSE accounting.

The Urban Institute (UI) of Washington, D.C. conducted the “Collectability Study” in 2003 entitled “Examining Child Support Arrears in California.

  • PSI and UI failed to identify California noncompliance with the Federal mandate (USC 42 654 20):

  • Child support guideline exceeds the Federal maximum of 65% in some cases (USC 15 1673 b2B)

  • 10% interest charged on child support arrearages exceeds the Federal maximum of 6% (USC 42 654 21a)

  • Interest charges are not distributed last as required by Federal law (USC 42 654 21b)

  • Enforcement of employer wage withholding is not required as demanded by Federal law (USC 42 666 b6Dii)

  • Employer discrimination due to wage withholding is not required as demanded by Federal law (USC 42 666 b6Di)

The Institute for Family and Social Responsibility (FASR) of Bloomington, IN published a survey entitled “Amount of Child Support Awarded by State Guidelines in Various Cases. FASR is paid by the Federal government to act as the ‘Clearinghouse for Child Support Enforcement Statistics’ and has continued to misinform the US House of Representatives, Ways and Means Committee of the financial demands imposed on parents across all States (except Indiana) since 1997.

FASR has made the following errors in their attempt to portray Indiana as the most aggressive child support guideline in the nation:

  • Child support guideline amounts are only for 2 children, which masks the actual financial demand as a function of children

  • Parent income is not identified to be gross or net, which diminishes the actual financial demand

  • California parent earning $4,400/mo gross income ($3,300/mo net) is reported to pay $770/mo (18% gross, 23% net), which diminishes the actual financial demand of $1,320/mo (30% gross, 40% net)

  • The total income of both parents is erroneously reported as the noncustodial parent income, which diminishes the actual financial demand (Marilyn E. Klotz, FASR, 1998, “Interstate Comparison of Child Support Orders using State Guidelines”)

Thursday, November 04, 2004

Geragos finds closure in closing

Geragos finds closure in closing
Did Scott Peterson Commit Murder To Avoid California Family Law?
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/u-v/untershine/2004/untershine110504.htm

Jim Untershine, GZS of LB, 11-04-04

With “No Fault Divorce” running rampant in this country, it is hard to understand why an extramarital affair is still considered motivation to kill a spouse. Bill Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Jesse Jackson, and Gary Condit didn’t polish off their spouse in exercising their legal right to “get some strange”. Although Dan Rather was never forced to reveal his source of information that exonerated Gary Condit (regarding the death of Chandra Levy), many believed there was a connection until the terrorist attacks of 911 captured the news.

The jury in Redwood City, CA is currently deliberating the fate of Scott Peterson as a consequence of the fate of both Laci and Conner. The riveting testimony, forensic evidence, and legal arguments that were trotted out before the Peterson jury is reminiscent of the O.J. Simpson case. Although the Peterson case did not preempt the soap operas on television (as did the Simpson case), a feminist backlash is still expected if the jury does not convict.

The Simpson case prompted feminist organizations to advertise hotlines for women to call during the ongoing trial, which would allow them to realize they were (or about to be) victims of domestic violence and what they should do about it. Women callers were instructed on the finer points of Family Law in their State (that may not have been covered in their soap operas) and given numbers for shelters and easy ways to eject these potentially deadly spouses from their homes and away from their children.

The domestic violence strategy did not work for Claira Harris, who fully expected her husband to assault her when she confronted her husband leaving a hotel with his mistress. The camera crew she hired to capture her husband’s transgressions ended up capturing her’s. Claira Harris ran her husband over three times with the man’s daughter in the same car, pleading for her to stop.

Texas prosecutor (Magness) explained to the jury the options available to Claira Harris, "If a man is cheating on you do what every other woman in this country does—take his house, take his car, take his kids, take his respect in the community, make him wish he were dead—but you don't get to kill him". Perhaps if Claira Harris uttered that terrorist threat to her husband at the hotel, she may have received her assault and there would have been no loss of life.

Soon after Scott Peterson was charged with murder, the California Attorney General (Lockyer) pronounced the case “a slam dunk". After a lengthy presentation of the evidence against Scott Peterson, many legal experts still wonder what Lockyer knew that prompted his response and why it wasn’t presented at the trial. Was Lockyer playing the numbers regarding his State’s homicide statistics or was he simply admitting the fact that a California spouse facing Family Law would rather commit murder to avoid it?

Attorney General’s in each state have Child Support Enforcement (CSE) agencies under their control as well as District Attorneys. Although divorces usually start in Family Court and involve independent attorneys, CSE takes over when parents are driven into poverty and are free to dabble in Civil proceedings, deprive rights and privileges, and then become the complainant for the District Attorney in seeking to incarcerate the former breadwinner.

California prosecutor (Distaso) said “Peterson had long maintained two lives — ‘the perfect husband’ in public, and in private, a cad grudgingly tolerating his marriage — but the birth of his first child and the expense of raising the boy or paying child support jeopardized the secret side he treasured. The District Attorney seems to finally explore the true motivation for this senseless loss of life, which transforms Laci into collateral damage. Scott wanted to kill the baby – Laci just got in the way.

Defense attorney (Geragos), “who took Peterson's case saying he hoped both to exonerate his client and find the true killers, conceded that after five months of hinting at involvement by Satanists, burglars, Frey, transients and even Laci Peterson's relatives as possible culprits, the defense was unable to identify a perpetrator, “at one point he ridiculed the prosecution motive, saying incredulously, ‘He is going to kill his wife and child because he doesn't want to pay child support?’ the first alternate juror, a young mother of four boys, nodded her head as he made the comment

Geragos attempted to deny this crucial evidence that was offered up by the prosecution in closing arguments, when he should have asked for a mistrial. Geragos should have asked the judge to redirect the prosecution to prosecute themselves, in motivating the murder of this innocent mother and child. What exactly are the consequences that Family Law and CSE hang over a parent’s head if they allow their child to be born? Geragos may have found the perpetrator of this crime sitting in the courtroom attempting to prosecute his client - the same perpetrator responsible for the death of Chandra Levy and Bonney-Lee Bakely.

They got this guy in Germany named Fritz (or maybe its Verner). Anyway he's got this theory; if you want to test something scientifically - how the planets go around the sun, what sunspots are made of, why the water comes out of the tap - you have to look at it, but your looking changes it. You can't know the reality of what happened (or what would have happened) if you hadn’t stuck in your own Goddamn shnoz. So there is no 'what happened'. Looking at something changes it. They call it the Uncertainty Principle. I'm sure it sounds screwy, but even Einstein says the guy is on to something. Science - perception - reality - doubt - reasonable doubt. I'm saying the more you look, the less you really know. It's a fact, a proven fact, in a way it is the only fact there is. This Heinie even wrote it out in numbers. I don't know who committed this murder - the beauty of it is - that we don't gotta know. We just gotta show that (God damn it) they don't know. Because of Fritz or Vernor or whatever the Hell his name is. Reidenshnieder sees daylight. We got a real shot at this folks - let's not get cocky.(The movie “THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE”)

Thursday, October 28, 2004

Deadbeats for Badnarik

Deadbeats for Badnarik
Who dat say they gonna beat Mike Badnarik?
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/u-v/untershine/2004/untershine102904.htm



Jim Untershine, GZS of LB, 10-28-04

American family members, desperate to vote for change, are finding themselves still wondering 'who?'. The major candidates are not recognizing parents and children currently victimized by Family Law as a special interest group. In contrast to the words of Ross Perot: "Don't waste your vote on traditional politicians who promise you everything to get elected but never deliver", parents are not even getting the promises.

Sometimes a voter must identify the special interest groups that endorse a candidate, rather than believing the lip service from the major party nominee.

  • A vote for George Bush is a vote for FoxNews (America cannot survive 4 more years of FoxNews).

  • A vote for John Kerry is a vote for the National Organization for Women (America cannot survive 4 more years of flaming feminism).

  • A vote for Ralph Nader is a vote for consumer protection (American families have never seen the first 4 years of that).

  • A vote for Micheal Badnarik is a vote for American families and the preservation of the Constitutional rights that they are too good-natured to rise up and demand - or are too busy working hard, paying taxes, and raising their children.

American parents striving to insure the preservation, protection, and prosperity of their family are finding themselves behind the 8-ball (in that - you can't get there from here). Sons must be told to go into the world and become successful and raise a family to allow Family Law to take it all away. Daughters must be told to pursue their dreams and fall in love and have children to allow Family Law to provoke their murder. Grandparents must be told why they can't see their grandchildren or why they are forced to raise them.

Micheal Badnarik is the Liberatarian candidate and is running with Richard Campagna. As explained on his website: "Libertarians are, quite simply, people who believe in 'Self-Ownership': You own yourself, and no one else on Earth has a higher claim to your body or your labor than you do. So long as people act in a way that doesn't interfere with anyone else's freedom, Libertarians believe that they should be free to do what they please.", "As president, I will direct the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to sue states which attach criminal liability to child support obligations and, if necessary, to charge government officials who administer that unconstitutional criminal liability with violations of the civil rights of non-custodial parents."

Noncustodial parents, who refuse to fund family law systems holding their children hostage, and those who cannot convince their employers to do likewise, must realize that they can refuse to fund the Electoral College by voting for Micheal Badnarik. Not unlike the Bush - Clinton fiasco that resulted from everyone voting for Ross Perot, and the Bush - Gore fiasco that resulted from all the absentee voters in Florida voting for Perot again, sometimes the greatest power a voter posseses is the power to prefer not to.

To recognize the weight of a single voting block, their numbers must be accurately determined. Since American parents are not afforded the luxery of being counted in life (US Census) or in death (Homicide statistics), we are forced to extract our data. Of the 213 million potential voters in the US, 36% are parents, and 64% are grandparents and non-parents. Of the 286 million people of all ages in the US, 26% are children, 27% are parents, and 48% are grandparents and non-parents. This seems to suggest that 53% of the population (parents and children) is represented by 36% of the voters (parents) - a good case could be made for an electoral family in the best interest of the children.

On 10-08-04 the major media outlets continued their blackout regarding citizens who are critical of government and choose to demand their rights: "Libertarian Michael Badnarik (on 49 state ballots) and Green David Cobb (on 28 state ballots), crossed a police line in St. Louis, and were arrested.", "Badnarik was also attempting to serve the Commission on Presidential Debates with a 'Show Cause Order' issued by an Arizona judge, requiring the CPD to appear at a hearing concerning the Libertarian Party's lawsuit to stop the upcoming debate at Arizona State University, as an illegal campaign contribution to Bush and Kerry, an unconstitutional use of Arizona state funds to support selected candidates, and a violation of the LP's equal protection rights, since they are a recognized political party in Arizona."

Many Americans are beginning to realize that the only people in jail are the ones forced to abide by the law - like Jim Trafficant, Martha Stewart, Elena Sassower, and Lowell Jaks. I guess as long as there are bars between the lawfull and the lawless, there can be a measure of freedom in that too. In the words of Henry David Thoreau "
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison"

American parents are not asking for much really:

  • Paternity establishment at childbirth with every child assigned medical insurance at a reasonable cost with upgrades.

  • Basic child support orders that are uniformly calculated to slightly exceed each states welfare amount for a family of the same size.

  • Default presumption of equal parenting that can be concurrant or consecutive.

  • Restoration of due process, rules of evidence, and 'Yo Fault' divorce to make Family Court civil again.

  • Parent protection from employer discrimination due to Family Law proceedings or judgements.

  • Accurate accounting of payments made to support the children and adequate proof that the children received it.

  • Deprivation of rights and priveledges of the parents that won't pay the basic child support, instead of the parents who can't.

  • Release from incarceration all parents that have children to support and don't ever do that again.

My name is Jim Untershine, a deadbeat dad and single parent supporting 2 of my 3 daughters, and I approve of this message.

Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Is Child Support Peaking your Interest?

Is Child Support Peaking your Interest?
Cultivating deadbeats in California
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/u-v/untershine/2004/untershine100704.htm

Jim Untershine, GZS of LB, 10-05-04

Not unlike the 'Ansari X' prize which awards the winner for designing something to repeatedly break free of the Earth’s gravity – Arnold Schwarzenegger may be considered for the 'Malcolm X' prize, in preventing his state from repeatedly enslaving free men by utilizing false paternity. The state of Illinois attempted to take on the same challenge, but expedient injustice and the gravity of greed never allowed them to get off the ground.

Paternity fraud is so obviously wrong; it is hard to justify taking time to condemn it. Of all the 'deadbeats' that are accused of driving our national child support arrearage up to $84 billion - paternity fraud victims are the heterosexual men who dare to have sex with liars, who are expected and encouraged to refuse to allow crime to pay and their employers are scorned for withholding it.

A ‘deadbeat’ is defined as "One who does not pay one's debts - a lazy person; a loafer". The term was previously used to describe a morally negligent person who relies on the generosity of others rather than getting a job. The term deadbeat has recently been expanded to include breadwinning parents who are put out of a job due to extraordinary child support garnishments, which makes living and formal employment mutually exclusive. I would like to propose another expansion of the term to include agencies that are paid by the US taxpayers to support a State's families and children, then actively proceed to impoverish them, rob them, provoke violence between them, make them beg for mercy, imprison them, and give the surviving kids to the homos.

Paternity establishment is the ‘foot in the door’, concerning these Family Law vacuum salesmen, who destroy your home demonstrating their machine, and then force you buy it but then won’t allow you to use it. Many disgruntled customers are reluctant to make timely payments for a money machine that is designed to suck, and may be more reluctant to pay due to the amount of the monthly payments or in defiance of fraudulent billing. Although child support demands vary from state to state, there is a way that some greedy states can accumulate a huge arrearage that can easily be lost in the shuffle and absorbed by the state upon collection.

The interest charged on child support arrears is limited by the federal mandate to 6% maximum and specifies that this interest must be collected last. As reported by the Office of Child Support Enforcement:

  • Maine leads the nation demanding 15% interest for late payments, but no interest on adjudicated and retroactive arrears.

  • Indiana leads the nation demanding 18% interest for adjudicated and retroactive arrears, but no interest on late payments.

  • California ranks 3rd in the nation charging 10% interest on all 3 types of child support arrearages.

The actual child support owed by a parent includes any TANF or Foster Care charges that would be earmarked for taxpayer reimbursement. Upon collection of child support, the state is required to distribute the money in the following order: Child support, TANF, Foster Care, and Interest. Since TANF, Foster Care, and Interest are required to be distributed last, these amounts are doubled in the incentive calculations regarding the states cut of the $454 million incentive pool provided by the US taxpayers.

States who choose to unlawfully distribute child support collections as interest, will not only bolster their incentive calculation, but will also prevent the parent from reducing the principal, which would tend to reduce the interest charges. In a state that is penalized by the Federal government for continuing to operate an unacceptable system of accounting, it would not be difficult to find various ways for this agency of the Attorney General (CSE) to absorb uncalculated collections and then over-calculate the TANF and Foster Care payments that may (or may not) have been paid by the state.

A parent under the spell of a state CSE agency that chooses to charge interest, can calculate the money that is up for grabs by using the following equations:

  • Monthly child support withholding = (parent monthly net income) * (65% maximum)

  • Actual child support owed = (Monthly interest charge) * 12 / (Annual interest rate)

  • TANF or Foster Care owed = (monthly benefit or maintenance) * (Total months impoverished or imprisoned)

  • Total Interest owed = (Grand total owed)- (Actual child support owed)

  • Total support owed to the children = (Your guess is as good as mine)+ (Nobody seems to care)

For example, your humble 'deadbeat dad' / 'systemic anomaly' (on a blind date with destiny and I think she ordered the lobster) reports the following data from 2 different counties in California (Annual interest rate = 10%, LA = Los Angeles, MO = Monterey):

  • Monthly child support withholding = $2,718 (LA) + $1,738 (MO) = $4,456 (101% of imputed net income)

  • Actual child support owed = $63,120 (LA) + $66,840 (MO) = $129,960

  • TANF or Foster Care owed = $809 * 37 = $29,933 maximum

  • Total Interest owed = $42,668 (LA) + $21,270 (MO) = $63,938

  • Total support owed to the children = Priceless

Payment is power when you know what you owe- when you plop down a payment and watch where it goes.

"The function of the ONE is now to return to the source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the unimplemented US Code you carry, reinserting the prime program. Failure to comply with this process would result in a cataclysmic system crash,enslaving every parent connected to Family Law, which coupled with theimpoverishment ofthe family,would ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race." Matrix Reloaded

Thursday, September 09, 2004

Truth, Justice, and the American Way
American heroes protecting our families because nobody else thinks its necessary
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/u-v/untershine/2004/untershine090804.htm

Jim Untershine, GZS of LB, 09-07-04

The California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, took control of the Republican convention recently by reminding us what is great about America. Schwarzenegger shared what he feared in his country before making his way to ours. He told of the tyranny that stifled his family's freedom and the fear that his father would be removed and forced into slavery. He lamented that this unspeakable injustice could happen for little or no reason and he was never to make eye contact with his oppressors.

The former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, also made a passionate speech to the Republican convention that reminded us of the courage and resolve that is instinctive to some Americans in the face of great conflagration and terror. He provided detailed examples of the sacrifices made by the relatively few in the hopes of saving the many. Giuliani was forced to wade through the rubble of his own kingdom to deliver his praise (and that of all Americans) to the extemporaneous heroes who somehow survived, and posthumously to those who were lost. Rudy took control of that unprecedented atrocity, and with unselfish loyalty to the City he loved assured all Americans that our Nation would actively protect us.

An action hero on the West Coast, who rose to prominence powered by his disdain for oppression and his love for this Nation's freedom. An action hero from the East Coast, who rose to prominence powered by a duty to control the damage incurred by terrorists who allegedly envy this Nation's freedom. Two American heroes, who are finding their powers, and have witnessed with their own eyes the true threats to any country - oppression and terrorism.

Oppression is characterized by the arbitrary and cruel exercise of power. Terrorism is characterized by the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence with the intention of intimidating or coercing for ideological or political reasons. Oppression requires power while terrorism requires force. The exercise of power requires many to impose it or many to reluctantly submit. The application of force requires a delivery vehicle and a weapon that can be brandished by a relatively few. Safeguarding a country from these two threats requires the many to never submit to oppression and to vigilantly recognize delivery vehicles that can be used by terrorists against them.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is currently using his super powers to terminate corruption, fraudulent accounting, and the exploitation of children for money in California. Soon it will be brought to the Governor's attention that children in his state are reliving his troubled childhood. Fathers in some states are removed from their children and forced into slavery for little or no reason at all. Rudy Giuliani was denied contact with his children in the state of New York, due to his preoccupation with doing his duty in the aftermath of 911. Rudy Giuliani has previously used his super powers in the prevention of crime and the enforcement of law in New York, allowing the laws of the land to be enforced uniformly and adequately in his state to guarantee equal justice to its citizens.

Family Law oppression is due to the misapplication of the power granted to states by a federal mandate. Family Law terrorism involves poisoning the antidote to the welfare disease that is prescribed for states by a federal mandate. Terrorists who seek to use Family Law as a weapon must; subvert the federal law to states, misreport the subversion, and cover up the devastating effects.

  • Using the federally mandated four-year review of each state's child support guideline, as a delivery vehicle for a weapon of indentured servitude and kidnapping. Officers of the Civil court and agencies of the Attorney General will be forced to apply their unlawful power on the only parent financially capable of supporting their children.

  • Using the Clearinghouse for Child Support Statistics, as a delivery vehicle for a weapon of misprision of treason, the Ways and Means Committee of the US House of Representatives will be forced to ignore the unlawful financial demands that parents are forced to pay in the name of their children.

  • Using an unacceptable accounting system, as a delivery vehicle for a weapon of fraud, agencies of the Attorney General will be forced to apply their unlawful power to drive parents into self-employment, deny them to hold licenses, and impose a financial embargo.

  • Using Legislative complacency, as the delivery vehicle for a weapon of genocide, terrorists conspiring together to 'cook the books' regarding child support guideline reviews, National statistics, and financial accounting could force American families into extinction.

California is deprived of over $200 million in federal funding every year due to the unacceptable accounting system used by an agency of the Attorney General (CSE). This California 'hush money' represents almost 50% of the total incentive pool paid to all states based on their CSE performance. California is scheduled to continue funding half of the National CSE incentives for another 6 years in anticipation of an accounting system that is being developed by IBM costing the California taxpayers $800 million. Every year California CSE agencies in each county must collectively pony up 25% of the $200 million penalty and every county is complaining except Los Angeles.

California reports $15.8 billion of the total $84.0 billion child support arrearages that are increasing at a rate of $1.7 billion per year. The $15.8 billion California arrearage could be due to 28,866 parents refusing to submit to oppression for 18 years and being forced to pay the maximum 65% of their imputed $29,798 per capita net income for child support and being charged the maximum 6% interest. The $15.8 billion arrearage would represent $10.1 billion in back child support and $5.74 billion in interest. California unlawfully forces parents to pay 10% interest on child support arrearages, changing the worse case numbers to 23,241 parents owing $8.10 billion in child support and $7.70 billion in interest. Child support arrearages do not represent money that was borrowed and not repaid, but is money that has yet to appear. The interest charged by CSE penalizes parents for the income they are prevented from earning.

Arrearage = Support * Years * [ 1 + Interest * (Years + 1) / 2 ]

Stephen Baskerville continues to use his super powers to guarantee that 'Truth, Justice, and the American Way' is not compromised by self-proclaimed scholars who rely on deception to perpetuate the same problem they advocate to actively solve. With Schwarzenegger reconstructing a war torn state into a model nation, Giuliani fighting crime and ignorance of the law, and Baskerville actively protecting American families by putting the record straight - A new Justice League of America is now being formed and American families are vigilantly identifying those who choose to stand in their way.

Monday, August 16, 2004

A Family Law gladiator goes down fighting in NJ
The "Number of days without Family Law tragedy" counter is reset to zero - again
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/u-v/untershine/2004/untershine081804.htm

Jim Untershine, GZS of LB, 08-16-04

The parent's rights movement is mourning the loss of a respected activist who refused to quit fighting and refused to shut up (although he was ordered to do so by Judge Kieser, before ordering him to be locked up). Wilbur Streett succumbed to "Lou Gherig's disease" shortly after his release from jail for not paying money to the Child Support Enforcement (CSE) agency that reports to the New Jersey Attorney General. CSE also answers to the Department of Health and Human Services and was responsible for bringing charges against this terminally ill parent. Tommy Thompson may soon be asked to count the parents who have died under his care and why this is not considered an epidemic.

My only personal contact with Wilbur Streett was limited to an e-mail / phone call exchange with regard to my article entitled "Misdirected Anguish", which explored the suicide of Derrick Miller in California. Wilbur informed me that "More men die from divorce related suicide every year than died at 9/11. The entire issue made it to the Surgeon General because of a discussion that I had with Dave Roberts. The real acts of 'Domestic Terrorism' is the destruction of the American family by the law profession along with the government for profit and reward."

Deaths related to the Family Law experience are difficult to ascertain. Not because the total body count is negligible, but because agencies are negligent in counting them. The system used by State Attorney Generals fail to categorize parent vs. parent homicides / suicides provoked by Family Law injustice (see "The Human Cost of Raising Children").

The death of parents and children due to the threat of Family Law injustice also escapes quantification. For more than a year we have heard commentators and attorneys fumbling around with the homicide statistics that would force us to suspect Scott Peterson for murdering his pregnant wife Lacy. We were almost allowed to hear the only plausible motivation for the murder from a criminal defense attorney on FoxNews - "Child support, child support, child support - He was looking at 18 years ...". Why was this attorney cut off in mid-sentence when she finally solved the puzzle? Why are we being led to believe that Scott Peterson killed Lacy because he was having an extramarital affair in a no-fault divorce state?

A Texas District Attorney asked Clara Harris why she would kill her husband for having an affair, when she could do "like every other woman - get his house, car, kids, and make him wish he were dead." Although this is the same rant that every man hears when their wife finally decides to divorce, only recently has it become apparent that this is not just a hollow threat but an inescapable certainty. The collateral damage that is motivated by Family Law injustice is not exclusive to divorce but also extends to paternity establishment.

The following agencies could provide crucial data that may allow deadly States to be recognized.

  • Attorney Generals must identify the cases involving parent vs. parent homicides, allowing the Lacy Peterson / Bonny Lee Bakely / Lori Hacking / David Harris / Sandra Levy numbers to be counted and scrutinized.

    • The FBI reports 32.1% of the 3,251 female homicide victims were killed by their husband or boyfriend across the nation in 2002 (18.5% husbands, 13.7% boyfriends).

    • The FBI reports that the above victim / offender homicide statistics exclude Florida and Washington DC.

  • Civil courts must identify the cases involving the death of a family member, allowing the Nicole Simpson / Louis Joy numbers to be counted and scrutinized.

    • Civil Courts controlled 48.3 million family members across the nation in 2002 (13.4 million custodial parents have custody of 21.5 million children).

    • Civil Courts demand money from 11.3 million fathers across the nation in 2002 (84.4% of the 13.4 million noncustodial parents).

  • CSE must identify the cases involving the death of a family member, allowing the Wilbur Streett / Derrick Miller numbers to be counted and scrutinized.

    • CSE demands money from 17.2 million breadwinning parents across the nation in 2000.

    • CSE reported $84 billion child support arrearages across the nation in 2000.

The death of a breadwinning parent ordered to pay child support reduces the Civil and CSE caseload by one and reduces that child support arrearage to zero. Does the CSE accounting system report this change in account balance as a collection allowing them to profit from this death?

A parent vs. parent homicide forces the surviving children into Foster Care, which allows the State to receive much Federal funding and allows a lucky stranger to receive maintenance payments, Medicaid, and a $10,000 tax deduction for each child. The surviving parent is responsible for repaying the Foster Care maintenance and child support arrearage if they were ever released from jail.

While Tommy Thompson attempts to heighten our awareness regarding obesity of children, Mad Cow disease, and the West Nile Virus - his cohort Wade Horn has unleashed a firestorm against American families in an attempt to harvest their children for profit.

"The real acts of 'Domestic Terrorism' is the destruction of the American family by the law profession along with the government for profit and reward." (Wilbur Streett)