Posts from — June 2008

Schleicher County — some of whose residents and officials were once wagging their tails to invade the FLDS YFZ Ranch in Eldorado — now wants the rest of Texas to pay the price. Fun to see the pain pendulum swinging back at the real perps in this sordid mess.

Judge Johnny Griffin — who according to reports refused to sign the now notorious fraudulent search warrant request later signed by the less scrupulous Judge Barbara Walther — doesn’t think it fair that Schleicher County end up holding the bag:

“We’re asking the state to indemnify our county,” said Schleicher County judge Johnny Griffin. “Not one person from my county was involved, other than the sheriff who received the initial call from the CPS hotline.”

Excuse me?!

Let’s see . . . unless I’m much mistaken, a certain Schleicher County colleague of Johnny Griffin, Judge Barbara  — who is listed on Schleicher’s website as a Schleicher County judge — is one person who could have stopped this entire debacle from happening in the first place. And Walther chose to make a bigger case — by expanding the scope of the fraudulent warrant — than even CPS had imagined it.

Yes, Judge Walther is technically from Tom Green County. But she serves Schleicher County and never (I think) would have got involved in this mess if it hadn’t been for the sensationalistic anti-FLDS reportage by The Eldorado Success, “The Voice of Eldorado and Schleicher County Since 1901,” whose home page this week still features this come-hither banner:

So how is it, Judge Griffin, that “not one person from Schleicher County” was involved? I have a feeling that some of the vendors who made a killing from out-of-town guests outside Walther’s court, on April 17-18, were from Schleicher County. Maybe there’s gold in them thar sage brush. Given Judge Walther’s klepto propensities, you could get her to sign one of those flakey warrants to grab some local assets.

Now, CPS’s costly procedure has been placed on Schleicher County, with a population of less than 2,800, and Griffin says his county has no way of paying for it.

“We started getting these monstrous bills,” he said. “People were charging things to the county that weren’t approved.

I guess we should all shed a tear. Imagine the audacity of those monsters — “charging things to the county that werent’ approved.” Kinda makes illegally busting into people’s homes in the night, running off with their kids for 60 days, and telling them “deal with” their nursing problem seem trivial, doesn’t it?

Where’s a waaaaambulance when you need one?

More at Kerrville Daily Times. ht: kbp

The Heritage Foundation website features a great expose on the stupidity and/or hypocrisy of those who continue to oppose drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). The whole post is worth a read but check out the map, below, showing where ANWR is and isn’t. This tiny slice of U.S. real estate (that tiny red square in the map) is not prime resort or agricultural land.

Green knuckleheads in Congress might want to think strategically, for once. Bleeding American pocketbooks dry by forcing us to buy oil from enemies like Venezuela (and so-called friends like Saudi Arabia) when domestic oil is literally sitting on America’s doorstep will doom America’s economy and its foreign policy. This, I believe, is actually the primary agenda of the big ANWR drilling opponents. Somebody needs to get this idea through John McCain’s noggin.

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The man on the left is former NBA referee Tim Donaghy. On the right, is current Texas Supreme Court Justice and Kiddy Kommission Chair Harriet O’Neill. What do they have in common? Read on, then you be the judge. Let’s just say I know one reason why O’Neill wouldn’t take questions from the public at yesterday’s “public” Kommission hearing in Austin.

I’m still absorbing what I have here. These Documents (a series of invoices for training services, 3.1MB) if authentic — and I have very good reason to believe they are — appear to show that the Supreme Court of Texas attempted to “fix” the outcome of the April 17-18 “adversary hearing” in which the FLDS parents were supposed to be able to fairly contest the removal of their children from their homes 14 days earlier. [Read more →]

The Texas CPS child kleptocracy includes an elaborate web of vendors, not all of which are funded equally. Our research department — kbp — is curious about a Janel Voss who appears on the current list of Texas DFPS vendors with “active service contracts” exceeding $100K. Does Janel have any connection to Chief CPS investigator Angie Voss, up to her neck in the FLDS mess? We’d be delighted to hear from anyone who knows more about Janel, including Janel herself. (See update on Janel, below.)

Also newsworthy is that Baptist Child and Family Services — Johnny-at-the-YFZ-Ranch with an armada of official Baptist buses, back on that fateful night in April — has no less than eleven (11) such $100K+ contracts. In an earlier version of the list, BCFS was showing only eight. Rewards of loyalty? Any wonder that they were so quick to respond to CPS’s call to spirit off those “abused” FLDS kids? Money, power, religion and CPS. It’s a killer combination for Texas families.

Prairie Fire Journal documents the extensive “command and control” involvement of BCFS in the FLDS affair and poses pointed questions: [Read more →]

Texas Supreme Court Justice Harriet O’Neill’s unconstitutional assumption of legislative power in “spearheading” the Texas Permanent Judicial Commission for Children, Youth and Families lends renewed urgency to a brilliant speech by John McCain at Wake Forest University, on May 8, 2008. Text and video excerpts appear below.

A few lines seem targeted directly at Judge Barbara Walther and Harriet O’Neill. Funny that no where in the speech does Senator McCain mention the word “children.” Come to think of it, neither does the Constitution of the United States. The word does, however, appear repeatedly in Hitler’s Mein Kampf. What a coincidence. Hey, Barb and Harriet: Are you listening? [Read more →]

Winning the battle against CPS is, in part, a processing of reminding or educating Americans about the liberties and protections against government action to which every American is constitutionally entitled.  Perhaps the single most important protection is due process.  Yet many Americans have no idea what these words mean.

Some, brainwashed by America’s government schools, have never heard of due process.  Others, newly arrived from lands without these freedoms, were raised to think that government should be able to do whatever it wants whenever it wants to. Yet others, like Texas Supreme Court Justice Harriet O’Neill, supposedly understand due process but seem bent on giving it up “for the children” — as if children do not also benefit from due process. [Read more →]

This is quick and dirty. More later. Just heard from an attorney who attended the Texas Permanent Commission meeting today, in Austin. Says that the room was packed. The meeting ran from about 10 to 2 pm. People came from as far as Houston. Willie Jessop was there, as well, with a number of FLDS people.

The Commission’s rules provide for public comment at the end of each meeting. Many people completed comment cards at the beginning, indicating a desire to speak and disclosing the general topic that they wished to address. But . . . (drumroll) . . . the Commission adjourned the meeting with out allowing any public comment!

Clever, huh? At the meeting where they should expect people to vent the most, they muzzle the people of Texas. That’s your Texas Supreme Court, folks. Enjoy them!

Hey, Teresa!  (I’m not subject to any TRO, so I can talk to you.;-)) This just in from ABC:

The Justice Department has agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle a lawsuit with former Army scientist Steven Hatfill, who was named as a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

Hatfill claimed the Justice Department violated his privacy rights by speaking with reporters about the case.

If Hatfill got $5.8 million from the DOJ — which merely named him as a “person of interest” — who’s to say how much you can squeeze out of Natalie Malonis and the State of Texas?  Hang in there!

Texas CPS boss Carey Cockerell is getting out just in time. Today, a DFPS press release announces Cockerell’s “retirement” effective August 31. One down. Thousands to go.

But note this, in the context of the $$$ thousands that the federal government pays to the states for each child adopted out of the foster care system:

AUSTIN – Carey Cockerell . . . will retire on Aug. 31 after overseeing a reform effort that led to dramatic declines in caseloads, an increase in adoptions . . . [Read more →]

Texas courts and CPS collaborating to take children from parents? Sounds like conspiracy theory. Evidence? Try this November 2007 Texas Supreme Court Order creating out of thin air — utterly without legislative authority — the Permanent Judicial Commission for Children, Youth and Families.

This Order and recent conduct by various Texas judges, especially Supreme Court Justice Harriet O’Neill, cast doubt on whether the people of Texas can realistically trust the Texas courts to impartially decide child protection cases. The deck is heavily stacked against families and in favor of “child protection” mercenaries who make money grabbing and selling kids or (like Marci Hamilton) traveling the country teaching others how to do it with a minimum of fuss.

The process that created the Commission and its charter reveal the Texas Supreme Court wielding all three fundamental constitutional powers: legislative, executive and judicial. Through the Commission chaired by a Supreme Court Justice (O’Neill), the Court legislates by creating regulations and then implements these regulations throughout the “collaborative” Texas “child protection” system. Later, it rules on child protective cases. In essence, the Court helps mix the CPS pudding, delivers it and announces how good it is.

It should be deeply disturbing to members of the Texas Bar that J. Harriet O’Neill — who ironically signed the Order appointing herself Chair of the Commission (see below) — saw no conflict in sitting in judgment over her collaborative partner, Texas CPS. Why did no one — not even Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid — move for her recusal?* O’Neill’s signature on the Order appears below. Her blindness to such a gross conflict of interest, coupled with the silence of her brethren on the Court, suggests that the Texas judiciary is corrupt at its core. [Read more →]