SMT Online
Another week of comments at www.sierramountaintimes.com. Here is what people had to say:
“Great piece! I’m definitely inspired to get back up Lyell Canyon before the snow flies… or perhaps after .” – Lincoln Else, in response to Thomas Atkins’ September 5th article on Mount Lyell.
“Great story Tom! I’ll have to join you next summer.” – Daniel, in response to Thomas Atkins’ September 5th article on Mount Lyell.
“It’s time…again. Hybrids are a thing of the …past, let´s go back to the future guys, they had it right, just like the “Red Cars” in Los Angeles back in the 40´s, then along came the big “General”, back, back…How revealing. Hopefully, this time around we have learned the lesson that was lost on all of us in 1970s. I truly believe that this time we have. There is a lot of exciting research going on. Thanks Wayne for an excellent article.” – Chuck Linden, in response to Wayne Kirkbride’s August 8th article on electric cars.
“We climbed Lyell in 1970 and approached it from the June Lake side. We camped below the glacier and at 5 a.m. we were on the trail, on solid ice and snow. Half way up the glacier it started to soften up. Also, this is one of the headwaters of the Tuolumne River, a wild and scenic river with a challenging river run downstream of Hetch Hetchy.” – Terry Wright, in response to Thomas Atkins September 5th article on Mount Lyell.
“Loved your article and your fantastic photos. I work for Hetch Hetchy Water and Power (SFPUC). Do you have a web site that I can access? Thanks again for the wonderful piece. I’m going to post it to our intranet for about 2,000 employees. Beverly Hennessey, in response to Thomas Atkins September 5th article on Mount Lyell.
“My 12 year-old grandson Chris Cejas was murdered in Sacramento by his biological donor and step monster in 2002. Now over six years later even with newspaper coverage, a grand jury investigation (not the first since 2002) and an “independent outside” investigation that will be aided by Sacramento County CPS’s own oversight committee no one is listening.
I only learned in June of this year that the phone call to CPS made eleven weeks before Chris’ death was made at one thirty in the morning. The person who took the call at CPS didn’t feel (as did the caller not feel) someone should just call 911. The caller reported screaming and the sounds of someone being beaten and yet the CPS worker who took the call put the call on a ten-day turnaround, which means they had ten days to check it out. When they did check it out they never found Chris so they closed the case.
I have written letters, spoken to reporters and in general tried to stir the pot in Sacramento County, but as yet to no avail.
One of the major problems with the California Child Protective Services is it is run county by county with no real state oversight. It was only about six months ago that Sacramento County decided it might be prudent to send a nurse along with a social worker when checking on a medically fragile child. At the same time they implemented a system by which they can track children who are moved from county to county by parents or guardians who wish to stay below CPS radar.
What is so discouraging is, Sacramento is the Capitol of California. These legislators live there part time. They surely must read the papers and hence must be aware of the problems in that county, let alone the rest of the state.
It is interesting to me, that California, the biggest nanny state in the union, can tell people they must give up smoking in cars and apartments, stop using T shirt bags to carry groceries, but can’t get it together to finalize a budget or protect children in a sane and common sense manner.” – Pat Dazis, in response to Thomas Atkins June 27th interview with Stacy Soares, author of State of Sadeness.
An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and the Child Protection “INDUSTRY”
Child Protective Services Does not protect children…
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of CPS.
every parent should read the free handbook from
connecticut dcf watch…
http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com
Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS
Perpetrators of Maltreatment
Physical Abuse CPS/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13
Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12
Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5
Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a bunch of social workers.
THIS IS AMERICA’S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST
Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central intelligence agency wiretaping programs…
THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia
http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/articles.php?filter=6
The Business of Child Stealing in Florida
http://www.nolanchart.com/article4132.html
This is Child Protection?
By Gregory A. Hession, J.D.
http://www.jbs.org/node/4632
Mercenary Motherhood: “Memoirs of a Babystealer.”
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-callahan16oct16,0,5019944.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILURE:. A Brief Analysis of the Casey Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler
http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc
http://www.nccpr.org/index_files/page0003.html
HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN
http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html
http://www.nccpr.org/reports/asfa.pdf
Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness
DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families
By Nev Moore Massachusetts News
http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/2000/5_May/mayds4.htm
A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster care:
30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children.
27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated
33% were receiving public assistance
37% had not finished high school
2% receive a college degree
50% were unemployed
Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems, including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment than the general population.
*Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support
80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system.
The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blown up.
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991
Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America’s foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent housing.
These studies found thousands of children already in foster care who would have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in the first place.
Read the studies online.
Front-page story in USA Today.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-02-foster-study_N.htm?csp=34#Close
Casey “alumni” study: “Improving Family Foster Care: Findings from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study,”
www.casey.org/Resources/Publications/NorthwestAlumniStudy.htm
MIT study: “Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care,”
www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fosterlt_march07_aer.pdf
http://www.cftl.org/documents/2008/FCfullreport.pdf
Texas comptroller’s “Forgotten Children” reports:
http://www.window.state.tx.us/news/60623statement.html
www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren
Chosen Children
Billion Dollar Babies in America’s Foster Care, Adoption & Prison Systems by Lori Carangelo
http://www.thechosenchildren.com/
http://www.thechosenchildren.com/ebooks/chosen.pdf
Statistics of Adoption-2005 Edition-Compiled and edited by Lori Carangelo
http://www.amfor.net/statistics.html
The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than Walking Wreckage…
CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS….
CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU’RE HOME SOON…
BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES (”MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.”) THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY ARE “FAMILY UNFRIENDLY” IN THE NEXT ELECTION…
“SAVE THE FAMILY AND YOU SAVE THE CHILD”
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:27 am