Manifest Injustice in Alabama Department of Human Resources

In 1990, Lockheed employee and divorced father Bobby Sherill was captured in Kuwait and spent nearly five harrowing months as an Iraqi hostage. The night after his release Mr. Sherill was arrested for not paying $1,425 in child support while he was a hostage. A similar shock awaited Clarence Brandley. In 1980, the Texas high school janitor was wrongly accused of murder. He spent nearly 10 years in prison, most of it on death row, until his exoneration in January 1990. In 1991, Mr. Brandley sued the state for wrongful imprisonment. The state responded with a bill for nearly $50,000 in child support that Mr. Brandley didn't pay while in prison on death row. By federal law neither of these men can have their child support arrears modified or eliminated for the time it was impossible for them to have made the payments. "The Bradley Amendment [42,U.S.C.666 (a)(9) c] says that "once child support obligation has been established, it cannot be retroactively reduced or forgiven by a judge." If a child support obligor becomes disabled, imprisoned, unemployed, or even slips into coma, unless they have the wherewithal or presence of mind to file for a suspension or reduction, their debt will continue to accumulate, and cannot be modified for any reason. The Bradley Amendment all but insures that any non-custodial parent who has a dip in cash flow will be buried under debt that cannot be legally escaped. It often helps chase poor men and women into illegal activities or the underground economy, away from mainstream jobs and their children. The damage it does to family structure and relationships are devastating! Judges and lawmakers have created a "river of wounded children" and destroyed parental relationships!" This is clearly wrong and violates every principlw of justice and fair play for which Americans have always prided themselves. Once you've been branded a NCP (Non-Custodail Parent), you really aren't considered a parent in the same way that the custodial parent is, child support laws reflect this. Your primary role becomes financial, and to support the custodial parent in their role. We must call upon all elected officials and people of influence to sponsor legislation that would repeal [42, U.S. C.666(a)(9)c, commonly known as the Bradley Amendment, and substitute language that would allow retroactive modification of child support arrears in the interest of justice, and when determined to be in the best interest of the child. This would allow rational judges to do what is right in order to eliminate the manifest injustice faced by tens of thousands of child support obligors.

Repubiklans

When Some Repubiklans Say they are Christian Conservatives ring the alarm! Repubiklans seem to want blacks to think they're welcome into the party. Yes we know that they are the party of Lincoln. Conservative Christians are also the ones who used the bible to justify slavery. Repubiklans can't deny the truth: We were freed because of a gnawing of some impending disaster, because of a soil becoming rapidly impoverished, because of the hunger for fresh land, because of the new logic of life that came in the wake of the clanking machines-it was all these things, and not the strength of moral ideals alone, that lessened the grip of the Lords of the Land upon us. We black men and women in America today, as we look back upon scenes of rapine, sacrifice and death seem to be children of a devilish aberration, descendants of an interval of nightmare in history, fledglings of a period of amnesia on the part of men who once dreamed a great dream and forgot. Just as feminism has challenged patriarchy and shown how patriarchy and androcentrism warp the world for everyone, men as well as women, so black scholars must challenge the Eurocentric mind set not only for the sake of the black community but also for the sake of all scholarship. I'm in the grassroots and throwing miracle grow on it with knowledge and we fed up with people saying it causes division to discuss racial issues when we feel its effects daily!

Department of Human Resources War Against Non-Cutodial Parents

An independent study needs to take place in Madison County and all of Alabama. The number one question that should be asked is if gender and race discrimination is at work. A man on child support can expect to have his wages garnished, credit ruined and subject to be jailed if he gets behind concerning the interest the government gets each month on the child. This is a new slavery tax by laws that haven't been reviewed in over 30 years! The state Department of Human Resources benefits greatly how they do business and many of the African-Americans in this system play a role we all know to well that used to be on plantations! Many of these mostly black females love to aggravate the relationship between the child and father. D.H.R. cares little about a child and their main goal is not keeping families together or reconciling them. They want tension and anger so that the money can keep flowing to a mismanaged system of financial and personal destruction of Non-Cutodial Parents. At the moment there's no mechanism to make sure the woman is doing her part. They currently have no motivation to have EQUAL JUSTICE in this failed system! Gender plays a role because man generally make more money than women so the state delays or denies justice in order to get the maxium dollar and destroy the Non-Custodial Parent at the same time. This process has played an important role in the fact that young African-American males resist having children. Black women are all too often TRICKED into this system that has a dangerous agenda in mind and practice. There's no fairness when the state doesn't keep track of the money the mother gets. Since these 30 year old laws were inacted there's been the introduction of crack and increased use of cocaine and alcoholism. 90% of the states mothers on child support receive little scrutiny but they do get unlimited resources to go after the father and gets pushed by the case workers to do so. Many African-American males are pushed to financial ruin and unable to afford lawyers to defend themselves leaving them at the mercy of 'state wolves' in the form of caseworkers. The state delays cases to give them time to prop up mothers. It's no wonder our numbers are going down and we will soon be outpaced by immigrants. It's almost certain financial suicide to have a baby if you're an African-American male with all these social and legal forces coming after you. It seems us (African-American males) and our children are still their slaves and they will profit from us some how or another! Soon we will web cast real stories over the internet from actual Non-Custodial Parents who were and are victims of D.H.R. I urge you to contact your local and state representative about this problem.

How Judge David Breland and Morgan County DHR Almost Destroyed My Life!

Judge David Breland and Morgan County DHR are nothing but "home wreckers" and blood suckers of the African-American community. During my personal experience with DHR every attempt has been made to destroy me in every way possible. African-American males are still slaves to a system designed to keep them in poverty and imprisoned. DHR does nothing to build families, in fact they do the opposite by fostering anger between mother and father. African-American women are the biggest losers in this designed plan and one only needs to look at Morgan county Alabama as proof. The greatest weapon the white man has against the black man in Morgan County is the the black woman! The Department of Human Resources is broken and each county especially Morgan county uses it to destroy lives of African-Americans. In Judge Breland court a man can't even mention visitation if he is $1 behind in support, it seems he's only concerned about money. The mental and physical welfare of the child is not a top priority in his court only how much money a man has which he always says: "How much money do you have for me today?" No wonder he's so quick to lock African-American males, it's 'his' money. During my involvement with DHR I've had the police sent to my job over 7 times even though I was paying. 5 of those 7 times I lost the job. Three times I was evicted from my housing and lost everything I owned and had to recover to the point that it's impossible for me to get housing in my name due to the evictions while imprisoned. The sad thing about this is that I was paying my payments at these times of imprisonment. What Judge Breland and Morgan county DHR does is periodically bring Non-Custodial Parents to court and demand large sums of cash. If they don't have the cash then they go to jail for a period of time but eventually have to be released. It seems that it is a crime to be poor or expierence financial difficulty! Upon release each time I lost everything I owned and was homeless without a job. His court releases you with a warning to pay in 30 days or face the same punishment for being poor. This is a disgrace and African-Americans had better realize that this judge posing as a democrat is harmful to our people. He's no friend of ours and the sooner we realize it the better off our people will be. Judge David Breland and Morgan county DHR almost never holds the mother to account. The most obvious reason is "gender discrimination" and this is steeped deep into the DHR system. From the beginning the female gets a free counsel while the male has to pay for it himself. This is done because the state stands to profit off our children just like slavery days. Why else the first papers a man gets it states that it's the state and her against him without them ever hearing what the man has to say. From the very beginning the state has chosen sides based on gender. It's unclear why they do this but it could be due to wages a man makes versus the wages a woman could make over a 18 to 21 year period. The laws in Alabama haven't been revised or revisited since 1973 the very height of the Women's Movement and they reflect the ideas of the times of women being helpless and blameless. All these laws were enacted before the onslaught of crack and other addictions took a foothold. A man's wages can be garnished and he be subject to imprisonment and more if he fails to meet the demands of the court. No accountability exists for women to show how that money is spent because the courts know that in many cases the money is used for other and illegal things. Judge David Breland shows a total indifference to African-American male point of view and will not let an African-American male speak in court unless it's through a lawyer. Each election year he will smile in our faces pretending he cares about our community. He only cares about bringing the state money and supplying the jail system with African-American inmates. If he doesn't change the way he views justice in this system and stop being so quick to send our people to jail then we must start organizing at the grassroots level to vote him out of office. He shouldn't be allowed to hide behind the democratic party while hurting the African-American community by tearing down and destroying our African-American men. More on this subject May 3, 2007. I urge you to contact your elected officials about this problem.

Interesting Facts About Child Support

79.6% of custodial mothers recieve a support award
29.9% of custodial fathers recieve a support award
46.9% of non-custodial mothers totally default on support
26.9% of non-custodial fathers totally default on support
46.2% of single custodial mothers recieve public assistance
20.8% of single custodial fathers recieve public assistance
90.2% of fathers with joint custody pay all the support due
79.1% of fathers with visitation privileges pay all the support due
44.5% of fathers with no visitation pay all the support due

*Disparities are clear

Judge Breland Ignores and Shelters Parental Alienation

Three times I mentioned 'Parental Alienation', the controversial "syndrome" caused by one parent's systematically damaging a child's relationship with the other parent in the courtroom of Judge Breland. Twice I was told to shut up and the other time was threatened to be locked up. All this ignoring has lead to some very troubling things in my life as well as the lives of my children and Judge David Breland a pretend Democrat is behind the damage we've suffered. I believe that this happened because Judge Breland doesn't respect the rights of anyone not represented by a lawyer. One needs to come to his court room and witness the judicial arrogance of this man toward other men. He's not an honest judge because he lets the woman backed by D.H.R. run the courtroom and decide when a father is put in jail. This is wrong! The combined force of well-meaning but misguided laws, judicial traditions and government policies drive many loving fathers out of their children's lives. For instance, the former head of Brooklyn Family Court said, "You have never seen a bigger pain in the ass than the father who wants to get involved...This type of involved father is pathological. "Such judges are creating a river of wounded children and fathers. Most fatherhood organizations understandably have responded with commiseration, fellowship, and counseling. What Judge Breland needs to do is take a look at the Fatherhood Research Project. He also needs to take in mind ways in which child support payments affect family structure , teenage delinquency and income disparities between parents. He (Judge Breland) and elected officials need to look at the child support system from a law and economic perspective instead of a feminist perspective! Judge Breland has spent over two decades destroying my life and now it's time for me to fight back. The word must get out about this 'masked'democrat and his contribution to the destruction our families. I urge you to contact your elected officials about this problem.

Gender Discrimination

The combined force of well-meaning but misguided laws, judicial traditions and government policies drive many loving fathers out of their children's lives. For instance, the former head of Brooklyn Family Court said, "You have never seen a bigger pain in the ass than the father that wants to get involved. This type of involved father is Pathological." Such judges are creating a river of wounded children and fathers. Most fathers and organizations have responded with commiseration, fellowship and counseling. Policy and lawmakers must consider some of the rewards of mothers and other custodial parents such as: free food, free legal aid, free medical, free tax shelter, tax deductions and billions in Child Support. In 2006 Alabama collected $281 million dollars in child support; it was a record. How was it used? Senator, Legislators and Judges need to discuss ways in which child support payments affect family structure, teenage delinquency and income disparities between parents. They should also contact Dr. Richard Weiss, Assistant Professor at Auburn College, Director of DADS of Alabama when considering legislation in the interest of equal justice! Parker Griffith was appointed to the "Child and Youth Services Committee" as a Senator and didn't get around to the issue. I urge you to contact your elected officials about this growing problem!

"Are some mothers dangerous to children?"

YES...when it comes to proven child abuse, contributing to sexual abuse of children, murdering our children, are doing most of the divorcing, and the greatest insult of all...they're rewarded for it with free food, free legal aid, free medical, free shelter, tax-deductions and billions in Child Support! The government actually pays mom's to do this.

Are they really to blame for this? Is the government rewarding abuse to our children to force dad's to work multiple jobs to pay the national debt? Or is it due to media that caters to entitlement and ignores the working class...blaming fathers when numbers fail to prove their bias? Do not lose sight of Ted Turner's 1 billion dollar bribe to the U.N. so Jane could take the world stage to suggest our obese children are starving. "100% of the perpetrators of fetal alcohol syndrom are women." But are they really to blame for this, too? Who here wants to legislate a abehavior in a free society? If alcohol kills kids, then ban alcohol...which we know will never happen, just as it's legal to smoke, yet the government punishes smokers. We are in a government that promotes drinking, smoking, and gambling...because if people don't get drunk, smoke, and gamble...the lawmakers don't get paid. Same with dad's...once those revenues do go down, it seems to be in most everyone's best interest to simply remove all fathers from the home and make them work mulitiple jobs to stay out of jail to fatten lawmakers paychecks (more tax revenue)! There's simply no incentive for the government to discontinue this. Telling moms not to poison their unborn children is identical to the abortion debate... it will never work. Besides, it's basically unconstitutional for men to make any effort to protect their unborn children, yet it IS constitutional for mom's to punish father's for up to 30 years after that child is born. Women control the vote, like they control birth rights, an insult to a child who is form a mother AND a father. Same with the concept of "family", or wealth of custody, like the imbalanced gender population..."Equality seems to mean what's hers is hers, and what's his is hers. The majority stockholders run this company, who are slowly bleeding nearly half the population to death. I urge you to contact your local elected officials and support groups about this problem!

THE SCORE: Marcus J. Echols 1; the devil and all his little earthly minions 0!

Child Support Letter 1

The child support enforcement laws that have been enacted in the past few years are unfair to non custodial parents. A primary difficulty with these laws is their inflexibility. Due to any number of circumstances, non custodial parents my find their earnings decreased due to lay-off, injury, illness or many other reasons. But the mechanism for modification of support orders is very slow to respond. In fact as is often the case, NCP's are faced with huge arrears due to inability to make full payment of child support for months at a time. Once there's an arrear, it can not by law be modified. This is clearly unjust. Under current law, NCP's who fall behind in their child support payments can be judged criminals, even felons and imprisoned. If NCP's fall behind in the court ordered support payments, they can lose their drivers license, in addition to their professional license to conduct business and they can also be denied a passport. Measures to extract the maximum possible amount of money from non-custodial parents have become increasingly extreme and often violate the basic principles of human dignity and privacy upon which this country was founded. States are now posting pictures and biographies of parents with oustanding balances on the internet in an attempt to humiliate them into compliance. Millions are being spent to developing linked computer systems and databases in order to locate and seize the "assets" of "deadbeat parents," when in fact the primary reason that most NCP's fall behind in their child support in inability to pay. We believe that these measures all violate the constitutionally guaranteed civil rights of tens of thousands of fathers and other non-custodial parents. The specific rights violated include the right to equal protection, due process, the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment and arbitrary fines and penalties. The new measures simply will not work for the following reasons:
1. Criminalizing parents cannot be good for the children. It drives a wedge between the parent and the child and is not only unfair to the parent but it may severely damage the self esteem of the child.
2. The new laws will clog the court system.
3. They will result in ever increasing numbers of parents withdrawing from participation in their children's lives.
4. They will result in ever increasing numbers of parents opting out of mainstream society, to hide out from what they consider unfair prosecution.
5. They will result in parents being sent to prison simply for experiencing financial hardships and falling behind in support payments.
6. They will increase divisiveness in our society.
7. They will further reduce our civil liberties.

*Consider This:

100% of the perpetrators of fetal alcohol syndrome are women but are they really to blame for this? Who wants to legislate behavior in a free society? If alcohol kills kids, then ban alcohol....which we know will never happen, just as it's legal to smoke but the government punishes smokers. We are in a government that promotes drinking, smoking and gambling....because if people don't get drunk, smoke and gamble....the lawmakers don't get paid. Same with dad's...once those revenues do go down, it seems to be in most everyone's best interest to simply remove all father's from the home and make them work multiple jobs to stay out of jail just to fatten lawmakers paychecks (more tax revenue)! There's simply no incentive for the government to discontinue this. I urge you to contact your elected officials and support groups about this problem.

Sincerely,
Marcus J. Echols