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Journal 58

Valentine and I made our way through Boston, four of the Mechanist’s— rather, Ms. Cruz’s— robots in tow. Bunker Hill was locked up tight for the impending violence; even the raiders seemed quieter than usual. The whole city felt like it was holding its breath.

An explosion came from the direction of the Old North Church. We hurried on, leaving the Brotherhood to their raid which would yield nothing, and soon heard a missile fire to the south; Goodneighbor was under attack.

The Neighborhood Watch fired on their attackers from behind their walls, riddled with laser burns but still intact. The Brotherhood fired from Mass Fusion’s windows, from behind corners and makeshift cover. A Brotherhood soldier in power armor charged the door, which swung open to reveal Fahrenheit and her minigun firing at point blank range. The soldier staggered but fired back as he fell, sending her to the ground as the door was slammed shut again. I ordered our robots to join the fight, and over the wall of the town appeared Mayor Hancock, a Gatling laser in hand, with a bandaged Fahrenheit beside him. They unleashed a spray of lasers and bullets on the forces below. A soldier with a missile launcher took aim, and was tackled by one of our robots with electrified blades for arms.

Then Kleo appeared on the roof of the State House. The assaultron arms dealer held a modified missile launcher, which she fired into the Mass Fusion building as her laser charged. The Brotherhood focused all their fire on her, but Hancock and Fahrenheit were relentless in their assault on the ground forces as the remaining soldiers in the building were forced to exit by Kleo’s attack. The Neighborhood Watch shot through every gap in the wall they could fit a gun barrel through. The street was a sea of bullets.

Valentine and I watched the massacre from around a corner, taking shelter behind crumbled concrete. The silence that followed as the last Brotherhood soldier fell was as deafening as the battle.

Valentine stepped out of our cover, moving forward slowly. “Hancock? I’d appreciate not gettin’ shot today.”

“Nick! Stand down, everyone, it’s over. Fahr, make sure anyone hurt gets the help they need. Nick, Holmes with you?”

“I am,” I followed Valentine out.

Hancock disappeared behind Goodneighbor’s wall and was soon out its door to meet us in the street, “I just want you to know, it wasn’t our fault.”

Valentine and I glanced at each other. “What wasn’t?”

“The attack. We didn’t shoot first, it was those fucking mutants down the street, decide to get bored and—”

“Hancock,” I interrupted, “start again.”

Hancock was a spring of tightly wound anger as he pointed to each part of the story he told, “Mutants. Down the road. Decide to have some fun. Walked up to Mass Fusion, started shooting the ‘bucketheads.’ One of my guys hears the shooting, decides he’s gonna take some shots at mutants, and sure enough the Brotherhood decide a stray bullet’s a full fucking attack and we’re getting shot at from all directions. So now all those goddamn tin soldiers are dead.”

I saw the super mutant corpses by the Mass Fusion building. So much blood spilled over a mistake. “Damn it… wait. Maxson hasn’t given the order to attack yet?”

Hancock shrugged dramatically, “Guess not?”

I frowned, “What’s stopping him? What could he possibly be waiting for…” I hurried into Goodneighbor, “I need to borrow Kent’s radio.”

There was some interference over the signal, but I was able to make contact with Radio Freedom; Liberty Prime had been activated, and shortly afterward Maxson's vertibirds had attacked the Castle. The Castle returned fire as the airport was destroyed in a massive explosion, taking Prime down and the Prydwen with it. It was unclear which event resulted in the destruction of the other, but the important information was that both Liberty Prime and the Prydwen were destroyed. The attacking vertibirds had all been shot down. There were no survivors.

"We need to get to the Castle as quickly as we can," I said to Valentine on our way out of town, "I need to hear all the reports of Brotherhood activity as they come in, and hopefully we can deduce Maxson's strategy."

"'No survivors suggests—"

"I don't believe for a minute that Maxson perished on the Prydwen. He knew activating Liberty Prime would bring the Prydwen's destruction, and he didn't strike me as suicidal when we last spoke."

"Alright, then where is he?"

“We won’t find out waiting here.”

Hancock wished us luck and remained behind to see to his people. Our robots had unfortunately all been destroyed in the fight, so Valentine and I continued on alone. There were no vertibirds overhead as we moved south, or any other sign of a Brotherhood presence in the city.

Raiders were still in residence as we passed Andrew Station, and already harassing another pair of passersby. Unfortunately for the raiders, the two men were friends of mine, and capable soldiers at that.

"You'd think power armor would give a raider with a pipe pistol reason to pause," Valentine said as we joined the fight.

"I think they consider it a challenge," I said as Danse cleanly executed the raider in question.

Preston was supporting him from a range, ducking behind whatever cover he could find. They were an effective team; I would have expected nothing less.

“General!” Preston shouted as he saw us, “Guess you stopped the Mechanist?”

“She’s working for us now!” I drew my blade and stopped the raider charging me as Valentine shot the one behind us.

Preston laughed, “Of course she is!”

We focused on the fight and soon the last raider fell. Danse approached us, "Thank you for the assist, General. Are you headed to the Castle?"

"I am," I nodded. "I presume you are as well?"

"Sanctuary's secure," Preston said, "and we thought we'd be of more use in the fight."

"Then you haven't heard." They looked at each other, and then at me. I sighed, "The Prydwen and Liberty Prime were both destroyed."

Preston's brow rose. I couldn't see Danse's expression through his helmet. I wished I could have.

I continued, "There was an unsuccessful vertibird attack on the Castle. None of the Brotherhood soldiers survived, with minimal casualties to the Minutemen. I don't know what Maxson's plan was, or where he currently is. I find it hard to believe he would have stayed behind on the Prydwen when he knew it would be the Castle's primary target."

Danse turned his head to look away a moment, then looked at me again. "The likeliest possibilities are that he led the attack on the Castle, or he relocated, likely to Cambridge."

"We'll see if the Castle has gathered any more information when we arrive," I said, and we continued on.

"General?" Preston asked, "Did Deacon get those Squires off the Prydwen?"

"I don't know." I sighed, "There's a great deal of information I wish I had."

"We're all doing what we can with what we've got," Valentine quietly said.

We made it to the Castle with minimal trouble, the usual wildlife and unsavory residents of Boston our only hindrances. The Castle's walls were damaged but still standing, the wrecks of vertibirds scattered across soil, sand, and water. The bodies of Brotherhood soldiers lay near the wrecks and by the Castle gates. I saw Danse looking at them as we walked. He softly answered Preston's quiet concern, "I don't recognize any of them."

There was some commotion inside the Castle as we neared. Our arrival was being announced; Ronnie Shaw greeted us as we entered. "General. Wasn't expecting the Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel, too, but glad to see. I imagine you'll want to talk to him."

I was a bit alarmed, "Speak to whom, Ms. Shaw?"

She shrugged and lit a cigarette, "Well. Turns out we might have jumped the gun when we said there were no survivors."

There had been one survivor. He sat on the floor of the cell with what might have been stoic patience were it not for the smoldering annoyance in his glare. He'd nearly died; he owed his life to Curie's improved stimpaks and Strong's enthusiasm for sharing the flesh of his enemy with "Minutemen brothers," bringing him inside the walls and enabling Ms. Shaw to recognize he needed medical attention.

Elder Arthur Maxson did not appreciate the irony.

None of the Minutemen in the Castle knew who he was, and why would they? They'd never seen him, and Maxson had remained perfectly silent since they put him in a cell.

I spoke to him alone. "Elder."

"General. Paladin Brandis told me you sent an agent to take the Squires off the Prydwen."

That was not the first thing I'd expected him to say. "Yes."

"Why?"

"Because if I could prevent the death of a child, it was worth the risk. I would have preferred to prevent the death of anyone, but neither of us were willing to compromise our fundamental values."

"What sort of people would we be if we had?" It was a question that required no answer. Maxson stood, "It was unnecessary, I evacuated the airport and Prydwen. The Squires would have been sent to Cambridge anyway."

"I'm glad to hear that. I had no way of being certain of that at the time."

Maxson merely nodded.

I was tired. "Elder Maxson, if I bring the leader of the Railroad here and obtain her promise that synths will not be clandestinely sent to the Capital Wasteland, will the Brotherhood of Steel leave the Commonwealth?"

"No. We will leave because we have an entire eastern seaboard to explore. We will leave because the Prydwen and our greatest weapon were destroyed, weaknesses exposed that will be remedied. We will leave so that we can evolve, and not fall into the stagnation that plagued our West Coast brethren. We will leave because the means of producing synths is gone, as it should be. If a synth is ever discovered in the Capital Wasteland, or anyplace the Brotherhood have a presence, it will be destroyed."

"Understood."

"It would be easier to transport my forces if you hadn’t blown up my ship."

"If you hadn’t activated Liberty Prime, it wouldn’t have been destroyed."

"I didn’t.”

That surprised me, “I beg your pardon?”

His jaw was set, I could practically hear his teeth grind as he admitted, “Someone disobeyed orders.”

The admission was shocking. “You’ve no idea whom?”

“I have my suspicions, but I won’t know until I hear who is present and accounted for in Cambridge.”

“Of course. Speaking of Cambridge, we’ll be happy to escort you there, Elder. Any help the Minutemen can provide to expedite the Brotherhood of Steel's departure will be given. I'll inform the Minutemen to let the Brotherhood leave."

"If I can borrow your radio tower, I'll order the Brotherhood to assemble in Cambridge without engaging Minutemen forces."

"And hopefully none of our soldiers will disobey orders."

"Mine won't," he said with perfect confidence, and a look in his eyes that eloquently expressed what would happen to those who had.

I retrieved the keys from the solitary guard and escorted Elder Maxson to the Castle courtyard. The Minutemen looked at us curiously as we passed. Preston, Danse, and Valentine were all gathered near Radio Freedom talking with Shaw. Danse held his helmet under his arm. Maxson frowned, and pointedly looked elsewhere.

As they saw us coming, Valentine’s eyes went wide. Preston’s jaw dropped. Danse winced, closed his eyes with a deep breath, and his expression cleared. He focused on me and said, “Shaw has been filling us in regarding activity across the Commonwealth. All of our settlements have reported a stand-off of sorts; the Brotherhood of Steel soldiers are clearly present and awaiting orders to attack. Our men are growing…” he permitted himself a slight smile, “restless. To quote a recent report from Mr. MacCready, ‘Been aiming at these bastards for hours, when do I get to shoot someone?’”

“Then there’s no time to waste,” I said. “Ms. Shaw, permit me to present Elder Arthur Maxson of the Brotherhood of Steel. He and I will use Radio Freedom to signal our respective forces to stand down.”

Everyone stared.

“Huh,” said Shaw. “Younger than I imagined. Well, ain’t how I thought all this would end, but I don’t see why that should surprise me anymore. You just tell me what you need from the Castle. Til then, I’m going to see to those repairs and check on our wounded, if that’s alright with you?”

I smiled, “Perfectly, Ms. Shaw. Thank you.”

“Question." Valentine asked, "What happens after your respective armies peacefully stand down?”

I looked at Maxson for the answer. He clearly didn't like addressing a machine, but I suppose he thought it was better than risking insult. "The Brotherhood of Steel are leaving the Commonwealth."

"Are you serious?" Preston exclaimed. Danse was silently thunderstruck. Preston continued, "After everything, you're just… giving up?"

"The Railroad are scattered, their headquarters destroyed. The Institute is long gone, the ability to produce more synths with them. The Brotherhood of Steel cannot afford to pour more resources into a single region of the coast so far removed from the Capital, and I have no intention of letting a single obsession dictate the Brotherhood's long-term goals. Good luck with your corner of the world, Colonel. May the Minutemen be content with it."

"And God help the synth that wanders southward," Valentine drawled.

"Exactly," Maxson said.

Preston let his breath out slow and shrugged, still amazed, "Ok. Let's get you on your way."

We issued our orders. Valentine, Danse, Preston, and I would escort Elder Maxson to Cambridge, and we would organize the departure of the Brotherhood. I informed Ms. Shaw of the Mechanist's identity and intention to work for the Minutemen. Maxson smirked when he overheard, unsurprised.

"Institute scientists, mercenaries, abominations, and now a robotics terrorist," he said as we set off from the Castle. “Is there anyone you don’t recruit?”

“Gunners, raiders, super mutants unacquainted with the works of Shakespeare, and Brotherhood soldiers.”

He made an amused sound.

“This is surreal,” Preston muttered.

Danse chuckled, then slowed his pace, “Ferals ahead,” he reported, and he and Preston took the lead in eliminating them.

The rest of the trip was quiet and relatively uneventful, though there were plenty of occasions to witness Elder Maxson’s skill in battle; not once did he shy from combat. I was glad that at no point did I ever have to fight this young man. He ignored Danse the entire time, maintaining his promise that Danse was dead to him. Danse did not attempt to engage.

It was night by the time we reached the crowded bustle of Cambridge. The entire Brotherhood of Steel army present in the Commonwealth was descending upon the police station, and had spread throughout the surrounding ruined buildings to form makeshift camps while a harried and annoyed Proctor Teagan attempted to coordinate the placement of newly arrived troops.

"Make camp wherever you can find room, everyone's using field rations until I can assess and ration out our supplies. Knight-Captain Cade's got a clinic set up next door. No, I don't know where the Elder is, or what the hell the plan is after this. Lancer-Captain Kells is on top of the station, trying to coordinate the remaining vertibirds that all want to land somewhere. Of course I heard what happened to the airport! Now go do something useful!"

"Proctor Teagan," Maxson's voice carried, the crowd parting before him like the Red Sea.

"About damn time! Uh, Elder, sir. What..." he noticed the rest of us, keeping our distance. "... I don't suppose they're here to surrender?"

"They are not. I have an announcement, where can everyone hear it?"

"Stand on the steps of the station and shout," Proctor Teagan shrugged.

So he did. No, it is inaccurate of me to say Elder Maxson shouted. He stood on the steps to the Cambridge Police Station, waited a few minutes for everyone's attention, and spoke, his voice projecting out over the army before him like some grand commander of ancient history.

"The Brotherhood of Steel is leaving the Commonwealth," Maxson announced. "We have spent long enough hunting synths scattered through this region. The means of producing synths were destroyed, the Railroad smuggling them is now without a headquarters to work from, and any synth remaining in the Commonwealth is by now so deeply entrenched as to be impossible to ferret out. So be it. Let the Commonwealth see the results of these machines hiding in their midst. There are other cities to be explored and purged of abominations. The Brotherhood of Steel must evolve and expand if we are to succeed in our goal to protect humanity from itself. We cannot do that if our efforts are solely focused here. We must not become stagnant and isolated. We will return to the Capital Wasteland to rebuild and take stock of what we have discovered, and then we will move on to the next target. Let the Minutemen have Boston. We have the entire eastern seaboard to explore."

"Man makes a good speech," Preston begrudgingly muttered.

“I like this speech better than the first one I heard him make,” Valentine commented.

Maxson continued, “I will meet with all three Proctors, and Lancer-Captain Kells, immediately. General Holmes,” all eyes turned toward us, “has volunteered to assist with our operation. We’ll be using his resources to stock up before we leave. The rest of you, to your camps or posts. The Proctors will have instructions for you once we have a firmer plan to proceed. Dismissed.”

Cambridge was a buzz of rumor and commentary as the soldiers followed orders. We quickly, if awkwardly, made our way inside the crowded police station. Anyone who wasn’t a Proctor or Maxson’s second in command hastened out the door. One of the soldiers leaving wore sunglasses.

My company and I stood to the side and out of the way as the Brotherhood leadership gathered.

“I can't believe we're asking for help from the people who blew up our ship in the first place,” Proctor Quinlan grumbled.

"If my orders had been followed, the Prydwen would still be there," Maxson glared. "Instead, someone activated Liberty Prime, triggering the Minutemen to attack the airport as I expected them to."

Valentine lit a cigarette and said in a low voice, “A bit ironic the machine designed to fight the Chinese ended up destroyed by a sub’s missiles.”

Though he had intended the comment for Danse and Preston, all of the Brotherhood present stared at him.

“A Chinese submarine’s missiles,” said Kells, skeptical.

“How on earth did you get a Chinese submarine?!” Quinlan exclaimed with a gesture to me.

“I was wondering the same thing,” Preston said.

“I didn’t,” I said. “A friend of mine did. The captain turned ghoul two hundred years ago after the War, and—”

“If we could focus,” Maxson interrupted, “please. Proctor Ingram, who knew how to activate Liberty Prime?”

"Anyone on my team, sir, but they're all accounted for… except Dr. Li."

I sighed, “Ah.”

Elder Maxson took a deep breath. “Do you want to expand on that, General?”

“I merely wonder if she wanted revenge,” I explained. “After all, first I destroyed her life with the Institute, now I was at war with the Brotherhood of Steel.”

“You think she activated the giant robot of death just to spite you?” Preston asked.

"I could see that," muttered Proctor Ingram. Proctor Teagan nodded beside her.

I shrugged, “We'll never know, unless she miraculously survived and somehow is found again. Unfortunately, if she managed to get out of the airport before it was destroyed, the chances of anyone ever seeing her again are slim to none, at best.” I smirked, bitterly amused, "Human minds present too many variables. It’s impossible to predict them all."

"What?"

I waved away the confusion, "Something a recent acquaintance of mine learned. Elder Maxson, what can the Minutemen provide to assist with your departure?”

Thus the real planning started. Those that were on patrol or stationed further west likely wouldn’t reach Cambridge for another day or so. Paladin Brandis had returned from his mission at the Old North Church, which left only the soldiers stationed at Mass Fusion and in Concord unaccounted for.

“Mass Fusion attacked Goodneighbor,” I said. “They lost. I wasn’t there to see it, I only know what the Mayor told me. Super mutants attacked, a bullet hit an unintended target, and things escalated. As for Concord, they sent a Knight into Sanctuary for reconnaissance. He was discovered, the rest of his team joined in the ensuing fight, and—”

“We buried them,” Preston said. “Kept the dog tags, we can give them to you if you want.”

Maxson remained stoic, “Thank you. Proctor Teagan, how much food do you estimate we’ll need for the walk back to the Capital Wasteland?”

And so the planning continues.

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The Ease with which Government Kidnaps Children – A Review of Current Legislation and the Multi-Billion Dollar Child “Protection” Industry

Connie Reguli spoke out for families at a rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on September 10, 2018. Photo by Freedom Public Press.

Commentary by Terri LaPoint Health Impact News

Connie Reguli is one of the most prominent legal voices in the family rights movement. The Tennessee attorney is recognized for her tenacity in fighting for families whose children have been unjustly taken from them by Child Protective Services. She has represented several Tennessee Medical Kidnap families, including the Turner family, Whitney Manning's family, and Matthew Marble.

Besides litigating cases involving family members seized by Child and Adult Protective Services, Connie travels around the country educating parents and activists on how to fight back when overzealous agencies seize their children. Her grassroots Family Forward Project Facebook group has over 11,000 members.

Connie Reguli was recently part of a team of activists and professionals who gathered in Washington DC on September 11, 2018, to participate in an Educational Panel put together by 4 the Children USA. The event was live-streamed to hundreds of thousands of viewers, including District Attorneys' offices from several states according to event founder Robert Slaven.

Kathleen Arthur, Connie Reguli, Terri LaPoint, and Jennifer Winn on the way to the Educational Panels in Washington D.C. September 11, 2018.

Connie Reguli was inspired to speak from the heart in the event, after passing out copies of her original speech to the audience. Connie has graciously given permission for Health Impact News to publish the written speech in its entirety.

She addresses the financial incentives for states to take children from their families, made possible by federal legislation. The Family First Act was passed as a part of President Trump's Omnibus Budget Act in February 2018 and is set to go into effect on October 1. Connie explains important issues that still must be addressed legislatively.

In her oral speech, she explains some of the difficulties that parents face when they go to family court, which is very different from criminal court. After equipping parents with vital information, she turns to advocates, discussing how to advocate effectively, pointing out areas that need to brought to the attention of legislators.

Here is the speech she gave at the event, followed by her written speech:

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September 2018 – Operational Review Family First Preservation and Services Act in February 2018 (FFPSA) Adoption and Safe Families Act 1997 (ASFA)

by Connie Reguli

Our country is collapsing in on itself, in part because of the loss of family integrity and our inability to provide for child safety. The forty-year social experiment initiated by the Mondale Act [the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)] in 1974 has failed.

The layers of legislation cast on the American public in the name of the best interest of the child and promoted with the belief that every family needs a government (i.e. It Takes a Village) has backfired.

Family integrity is imploding at the hands of an overzealous government that chose to financially incentivize removing children from their less than perfect homes and placing them into the homes of strangers paid by federal and state tax dollars.

The aggressive legislation surrounding Title IV E and the Adoption and Safe Families Act has evolved into a government sanctioned social engineering project that has broken family ties.

The biological ties that are protected under the Fourteenth Amendment are forever broken with the swipe of a pen by a judge in a courtroom in a merciless act called “termination” of parental rights. It is nothing less than generational genocide.

The Ease with which Government Takes Children From Families

It is hard to imagine in a sophisticated first-world country like the United States that the government officials could walk into your child's public school, have them removed from their classroom, interviewed by government officials in private (without your knowledge), remove your child from the school, and place them in the home of a stranger all without your knowledge. The reason you ask, maybe you don't feed your child enough, maybe they missed a few days from school, maybe someone just lied and said you were a drug dealer, and your child could not answer the right questions to exonerate you.

It is hard to imagine in a sophisticated first-world country that a new born baby could be stripped from his mother's arms in a hospital because the Mother had one positive test for opiates during pregnancy, even though there was no showing of drugs in the Mother or the child at birth and there is no other evidence of child abuse or neglect.

It is hard to imagine in a sophisticated first-world country that a child could be locked in a hospital with a rare and untreated disease and separated from her entire family simply because her parents wanted to take her for a second medical opinion.

Little Grace Beabout was taken for her family when her parents simply wanted a second opinion before the hospital removed their baby's kidney. Photo provided by Beabout family. See their story here.

This is the state of our nation and the child welfare system in the United States.

It was shameful in the 1980s when state agencies could not keep track of children placed in state-operated foster homes and children lingered for years with no family and no finality. Several states were faced with class action lawsuits that placed the states under long term consent decrees.

Multi-Billion Dollar, For-Profit Industry

The privatization of government functions, i.e. the military and the prison system, soon expanded to foster care and child welfare.

Children removed from their parents are the commodity in this for-profit, $18 billion foster care industry.

In a blink of an eye, the states were swept with foster care private contractors, and the state all but relinquished direct state foster care programs. Now the Title IV E funds, intended to protect children, necessitate that the state maintain a quota of children under government control to satisfy their contractual relationships.

It was the perfect storm for a new provision in law to erupt.

Brilliant legislators in the Clinton era designed and passed the Adoption and Safe Families Act in 1997. The goal was to provide permanency for children.

To do so, the federal government decided that a financial incentive program to the states and the foster-to-adopt parents would move children out of the foster care system into permanent placement.

The states were provided a $6,000 bonus check for each child adopted to strangers. The foster parents who adopted were provided bonuses for clothing, tax incentives, and a monthly stipend on the children for the remainder of their minority. This was 1997.

Today, twenty years later, this financial program drives child welfare agencies to aggressively remove children from homes, place them into the homes of strangers, and adopt them out, changing their lives forever.

Robbing children of their heritage. Refusing to reunify the children with parents. Refusing to place the children with relatives.

The entitlement program under ASFA now exceeds the foster care maintenance programs. When you rob a child of their heritage, you have changed them forever.

Crimes Against Humanity

America has a dismal history of crimes against humanity and causing generational destruction.

Slave children were ripped from their families from the beginning of our nation until the civil war; children were picked up off the streets of New York and placed on trains to the Midwest where they were randomly taken in by strangers from 1850 to 1910; indigenous children were removed from their tribal homes and forced into the east coast boarding schools for fifty years; and children were stripped from unwed mothers at birth until 1950.

As many as a quarter of a million children were rounded up by Charles Loring Brace, founder of the NY Children's Aid Society. Brace “helped” the poor immigrant children by shipping them cross country on “orphan trains” to be given to strangers. Photo source.

See:

The U.S. Foster Care System: Modern Day Slavery and Child Trafficking

Persons considered “imbeciles” were subject to involuntary sterilization.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes stated in his 1927 opinion that these persons should not be allowed to sap the resources of society and the sterilization of an imbecile person was no greater a sacrifice for society than compelling a vaccine.

As an attorney working in criminal law and family courts for 24 years, I can tell you that parents have fewer rights than criminals.

Parents and children are denied due process, they are subjected to secret courts, non-disclosed reports, massive attack by government social workers, and loss of the constitutionally-protected right to parent.

Children are stripped of their freedom to associate with their family members and family integrity protected under the 14th Amendment.

Government Funding Puts a Price on Children's Heads

The state agencies operate with conflicting roles and financially incentivized motives. Every state agency was created under the public policy of providing services to families, providing safety for children, and reunifying families.

In addition, they serve to prosecute parents and sever their parental rights.

The funding is directed at foster care and rehoming children. There can be no argument that there is a price tag on the head of every child entering the child welfare system.

See:

Child Kidnapping and Trafficking: A Lucrative U.S. Business Funded by Taxpayers

The system has become so intent on creating cash flow on children through forced adoption that the agencies focus on “adoptable children,” and those in need of rescue from drug ridden homes or long-term abuse are overlooked as children too damaged for adoption.

You see, this system has been in place long enough now that they know that the “damaged” children cause too great a strain on the system. They require too many services; the parents are ill-equipped to deal with children with a history of trauma; and many end up back in state's care.

New Law: “Families First”

We now have the Families First Prevention and Services Act of 2018 which passed in the budget omnibus bill. Most legislators probably do not even know what is in it.

I have read it. It was intended to redirect funds from the federal government away from foster care and into programs to prevent removal from a family.

Here is the first problem. Number one, it is optional for the States. Legislators in Washington D.C. cannot be so blind to not understand that the private foster care industry will oppose any paradigm shift on how we handle reports of abuse and neglect.

There are after all, 114 registered lobbyists in D.C. for “foster care.”

The corporations are huge. Look up Providence, Omni, Eckerd, Youth Villages, and the multiple “church-based” foster care companies.

Not only do they contract to provide foster care, they are now contracting to provide the “services” for family reunification. This is a serious and intolerable conflict of interest.

Why would you seek to restore a family and return a child to his home, when it means you lose a stable monthly income while the child is in foster care?

The private agencies then contract with mental health contractors who provide substandard care and always report that the family is “not ready” for reunification for any number of reasons.

Not only is FFPSA optional, it provides little incentive to shift the focus to family stability. If you do not think that family stability is important in tackling a variety of other social issues, like substance abuse, poverty, and substandard education, you are wearing blinders.

Family stability has been the backbone of our Christian nation for years. Since the sixties, divorces, unwed mothers, teenage pregnancies, and opioid addiction have skyrocketed. If one were to truly assess the underlying factors in these crises, surely family disintegration would be at the top.

The current Achilles heel of the FFPSA is the continuation of ASFA, the Adoption and Safe Families Act. So long as the states can realize a bonus check for every child adopted through the forced-adoption agenda of the child welfare agencies, prevention services will be met with opposition. The bonus checks must stop NOW.

“Help” from the Predator no Help at All

The conflicts of interest in the agencies and with the state contractor must be prohibited. This will require restructuring the state agencies so that the prosecution of parents remains separate from the agency seeking to rehabilitate families. This is not unlike other government functions.

I served as a District Attorney in my legal career and we always served an antagonistic function to the public defender. We must separate the agencies such that the families can realize a real sense of support.

Now the parents shudder in dealing with the agency because at every stage of the case, they know that the same agency is gathering evidence against them. The same social worker who comes to their home to inspect for safety reasons is likely to be the person who gets on the stand and testifies that the laundry was not done and the home was cluttered, preventing the return of their children.

Connie Reguli speaks to Educational Panel in Washington D.C. Photo by Family Forward Project.

We must prohibit conflicts with the contractors.

Those providing foster care cannot be providing reunification services. There must be antagonism before there can be balance.

We must provide a forum for public comments and feedback on how the agency is doing.

Currently, the public does not participate in any of the reporting functions on the efficiency, competence, and goal achievement of the state workers.

So long as the state agencies are allowed to be their own oversight, the truth will be never be exposed. Although some states provided for the establishment of oversight committees in their formation, none of the states have maintained a true public liaison.

Anonymous reporting must be eliminated.

Sadly, parents are sometimes attacked by spiteful neighbors, ex-spouses, or other ill-intended persons.

Vexatious reports to CPS face no consequences, as opposed to penalties for filing false police reports.

A parent must have the ability to challenge the source of false reports of child abuse.

Finally, FFPSA must be mandatory.

The states must be required to engage in the 12-month program to prevent removal of children where there is no threat of immediate harm and no evidence of abuse. Children are currently removed from their families on mere allegations from anonymous referrals.

We thank you for having a listening ear and look forward to your continued attention on this social welfare crises.

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The Ease with which Government Kidnaps Children – A Review of Current Legislation and the Multi-Billion Dollar Child “Protection” Industry

Connie Reguli spoke out for families at a rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on September 10, 2018. Photo by Freedom Public Press.

Commentary by Terri LaPoint Health Impact News

Kathleen Arthur, Connie Reguli, Terri LaPoint, and Jennifer Winn on the way to the Educational Panels in Washington D.C. September 11, 2018.

Here is the speech she gave at the event, followed by her written speech:

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September 2018 – Operational Review Family First Preservation and Services Act in February 2018 (FFPSA) Adoption and Safe Families Act 1997 (ASFA)

by Connie Reguli

The aggressive legislation surrounding Title IV E and the Adoption and Safe Families Act has evolved into a government sanctioned social engineering project that has broken family ties.

The Ease with which Government Takes Children From Families

Little Grace Beabout was taken for her family when her parents simply wanted a second opinion before the hospital removed their baby's kidney. Photo provided by Beabout family. See their story here.

This is the state of our nation and the child welfare system in the United States.

Multi-Billion Dollar, For-Profit Industry

The privatization of government functions, i.e. the military and the prison system, soon expanded to foster care and child welfare.

Children removed from their parents are the commodity in this for-profit, $18 billion foster care industry.

It was the perfect storm for a new provision in law to erupt.

Brilliant legislators in the Clinton era designed and passed the Adoption and Safe Families Act in 1997. The goal was to provide permanency for children.

To do so, the federal government decided that a financial incentive program to the states and the foster-to-adopt parents would move children out of the foster care system into permanent placement.

Robbing children of their heritage. Refusing to reunify the children with parents. Refusing to place the children with relatives.

The entitlement program under ASFA now exceeds the foster care maintenance programs. When you rob a child of their heritage, you have changed them forever.

Crimes Against Humanity

America has a dismal history of crimes against humanity and causing generational destruction.

See:

The U.S. Foster Care System: Modern Day Slavery and Child Trafficking

Persons considered “imbeciles” were subject to involuntary sterilization.

As an attorney working in criminal law and family courts for 24 years, I can tell you that parents have fewer rights than criminals.

Children are stripped of their freedom to associate with their family members and family integrity protected under the 14th Amendment.

Government Funding Puts a Price on Children's Heads

In addition, they serve to prosecute parents and sever their parental rights.

The funding is directed at foster care and rehoming children. There can be no argument that there is a price tag on the head of every child entering the child welfare system.

See:

Child Kidnapping and Trafficking: A Lucrative U.S. Business Funded by Taxpayers

New Law: “Families First”

We now have the Families First Prevention and Services Act of 2018 which passed in the budget omnibus bill. Most legislators probably do not even know what is in it.

I have read it. It was intended to redirect funds from the federal government away from foster care and into programs to prevent removal from a family.

There are after all, 114 registered lobbyists in D.C. for “foster care.”

The corporations are huge. Look up Providence, Omni, Eckerd, Youth Villages, and the multiple “church-based” foster care companies.

Not only do they contract to provide foster care, they are now contracting to provide the “services” for family reunification. This is a serious and intolerable conflict of interest.

Why would you seek to restore a family and return a child to his home, when it means you lose a stable monthly income while the child is in foster care?

The private agencies then contract with mental health contractors who provide substandard care and always report that the family is “not ready” for reunification for any number of reasons.

“Help” from the Predator no Help at All

Connie Reguli speaks to Educational Panel in Washington D.C. Photo by Family Forward Project.

We must prohibit conflicts with the contractors.

Those providing foster care cannot be providing reunification services. There must be antagonism before there can be balance.

We must provide a forum for public comments and feedback on how the agency is doing.

Currently, the public does not participate in any of the reporting functions on the efficiency, competence, and goal achievement of the state workers.

Anonymous reporting must be eliminated.

Sadly, parents are sometimes attacked by spiteful neighbors, ex-spouses, or other ill-intended persons.

Vexatious reports to CPS face no consequences, as opposed to penalties for filing false police reports.

A parent must have the ability to challenge the source of false reports of child abuse.

Finally, FFPSA must be mandatory.

We thank you for having a listening ear and look forward to your continued attention on this social welfare crises.

Please follow up with us:

Family Forward Foundation Familyforwardfoundation.com

Find us on Facebook: Family Forward Project.

Connie Reguli Family Forward Foundation 1646 Westgate Circle Brentwood, TN 37027

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