Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Pakistan's Punjab province limits wedding feasts
The cultural pressure to throw a big wedding cuts across the class spectrum in this largely impoverished country of 160 million people, where the World Bank estimates per capita income is about $800 a year. Families sometimes go into deep debt to pay for a wedding beyond their means.
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Friday, May 09, 2008
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Responses to my 4/24 letter to the editor
On April 24, The Augusta Chronicle published a letter to the editor that I had written. This letter had 43 web comments. There is one particular comment that I am going to address here.
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/042408/let_196159.shtml
Tags: Dorothy Kernaghan-Baez, AFRA, family rights, twitter, cyber-dissident, tarot cards, psychic, DFACS, Georgia, politics, Texas, polygamy, CPS
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/042408/let_196159.shtml
The images we have all seen of the families involved in the Texas polygamy case are disturbing. It doesn't matter where one's opinion lies -- the whole situation is simply disturbing.
I would not agree to live in a plural marriage, no matter how often my husband jokes about finding another wife. But I do believe that people should be able to choose their lifestyles. I am strongly in favor of changing our marriage laws to provide gays and lesbians the chance to marry. In my mind, polygamy is not all that different as long as the marriage partners are consenting adults.
Unfortunately, at issue in the Texas case is not only freedom of association, but accusations that children are forced into arranged marriages. It is interesting to note that Child Protective Services in Texas decided that accusations of teen girls being forced to marry justified the detention of more than 400 children, some of them infants . According to CPS' own information, 90 percent of the children detained were in no imminent danger. It is for this reason that I'm crying "foul."
Over the past decade, I have seen some extraordinary silliness in CPS cases, usually perpetrated on families who are ill-equipped to fight back. If you stand by and say nothing as multiple families are torn apart, then you may find yourself on the receiving end of the same bitter medicine with no one to speak out for you.
Dorothy Kernaghan-Baez, Augusta
From the Thursday, April 24, 2008 edition of the Augusta Chronicle
And here is the comment with my responses.
Mrs Baez: For YOUR information, ANY TIME ONE CHILD IN THE HOME IS SUBJECTED TO SEXUAL EXPLOITATION, ALL OF THE CHILDREN ARE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE MOTHER WILL NOT PROTECT HER CHILD.
At this point, no abuse has been proven in court. Child Protective Services (CPS) are using the "risk of harm" argument as justification for detaining all of the children.
Also, I disagree with your basic premise that all children are sexually abused just because a sibling is.
If you remove the victim and leave the others in the home, then there is a new victim. (The caps are for emphasis, not shouting).
As I stated above I disagree with your basic premise.
The Texas authorities have acted in the best interest of the children and have not only legally, but rightfully, removed any potential victim.
Actually, it is not lawful to remove a "potential" victim. Federal law requires that "reasonable efforts" (Congress's words, not mine) be made before detaining a child away from his or her home. Reasonable efforts must also be made to make it possible for a detained child to be released.
The reason the "parents" are lying is because they know and understand that they have broken the laws regarding overt sexual behavior towards a child.
Where have the parents lied?
Those "men" are nothing more than perverted pedophiles who, if living in any other city or town, would have been arrested and prosecuted. The men who fathered these children have left the area in order to circumvent the law. Arizona and Colorado would do well by raiding those FLDS compounds.
Then how do you explain the presence of all those men still at the ranch?
Also, are you saying that anyone who has sexual relations with a girl under the age of 18 is a pedophile? Young people have sex all the time, often VERY casually. It seems to me like you're taking a single kumquat and trying to split it in half and then call it an apple and an orange.
How would you like it if your 13 year old was impregnated by your pastor because he believed he is "spiritually authorized by God?" Some of these children are now products of incest, which is also against the law.l Imagine the medical problems they will develop in the future.
I don't think my just turned fourteen year old would sit still long enough for anybody to impregnate him.
Seriously, we are talking about arranged marriages as part of an alternative lifestyle. Sure, I'd take issue about ANYBODY being forced into any marriage. But as far as I understand the situation in Texas, we don't know for sure that this is the case.
Time will tell.
At this point, no abuse has been proven in court. Child Protective Services (CPS) are using the "risk of harm" argument as justification for detaining all of the children.
Also, I disagree with your basic premise that all children are sexually abused just because a sibling is.
If you remove the victim and leave the others in the home, then there is a new victim. (The caps are for emphasis, not shouting).
As I stated above I disagree with your basic premise.
The Texas authorities have acted in the best interest of the children and have not only legally, but rightfully, removed any potential victim.
Actually, it is not lawful to remove a "potential" victim. Federal law requires that "reasonable efforts" (Congress's words, not mine) be made before detaining a child away from his or her home. Reasonable efforts must also be made to make it possible for a detained child to be released.
The reason the "parents" are lying is because they know and understand that they have broken the laws regarding overt sexual behavior towards a child.
Where have the parents lied?
Those "men" are nothing more than perverted pedophiles who, if living in any other city or town, would have been arrested and prosecuted. The men who fathered these children have left the area in order to circumvent the law. Arizona and Colorado would do well by raiding those FLDS compounds.
Then how do you explain the presence of all those men still at the ranch?
Also, are you saying that anyone who has sexual relations with a girl under the age of 18 is a pedophile? Young people have sex all the time, often VERY casually. It seems to me like you're taking a single kumquat and trying to split it in half and then call it an apple and an orange.
How would you like it if your 13 year old was impregnated by your pastor because he believed he is "spiritually authorized by God?" Some of these children are now products of incest, which is also against the law.l Imagine the medical problems they will develop in the future.
I don't think my just turned fourteen year old would sit still long enough for anybody to impregnate him.
Seriously, we are talking about arranged marriages as part of an alternative lifestyle. Sure, I'd take issue about ANYBODY being forced into any marriage. But as far as I understand the situation in Texas, we don't know for sure that this is the case.
Time will tell.
Posted by mable8 on Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:20 PM
Tags: Dorothy Kernaghan-Baez, AFRA, family rights, twitter, cyber-dissident, tarot cards, psychic, DFACS, Georgia, politics, Texas, polygamy, CPS
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Men occasionally stumble over the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill
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Thursday, May 01, 2008
Notice From Jack Stratton
Image via Wikipedia"WBT radio operates out of Charlotte, NC. They are a 50,000 watt talk radio station that is heard up and down the east coast.On March 16, 2008 WBT talk show host Jeff Katz had my opponent Sue Myrick on his show from 5-6 p.m without giving our campagn equal time.
On April 17, 2008 Katz again had Myrick on his show without giving our campaign equal time.
Katz and WBT are in violation of federal election law (47 USC § 15).
On April 29, 2008 I faxed a NOTICE AND DEMAND to Greater Media, Inc., the parent corporation of WBT. I advised them to cease and desist from their violation of federal law.
Greater Media ignored my demand and continued to violate federal law.
Yesterday, April 30, 2008, I sent an overnight express, certified mail, to Greater Media, Inc. advising them that their continued violation of federal law would not be tolerated and that they were jointly and severally liable. They received the certified complaint and demand no later than 12:00 p.m. today, April 30, 2008.
At approximately 3:30 p.m. today, April 30, 2008, my wife received a phone call from a Mr. East at WBT. Mr. East stated that WBT would put us on the Jeff Katz show from 4-5 p.m. on Friday, April 2, 2008 or on Monday April 5 from 4-5 p.m.
Perhaps WBT and Jeff Katz should have heeded the words of one of their talk show hosts, John Hancock:
"...if they have taken advantage of this family and they thought they were just going to railroad this dumb putz, they found out they picked the wrong guy, and this dumb putz isn't a dumb putz."
We are currently contemplating our legal options. One thing is certain: Jack Stratton knows how to get things done. Look for us tomorrow or Monday on WBT.
Jack"
Tags: Dorothy Kernaghan-Baez, AFRA, family rights, twitter, cyber-dissident, tarot cards, psychic, DFACS, Georgia, politics, Jack Stratton, Sue Myrick, North Carolina, DSS, radio, federal election law
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