{"id":574,"date":"2020-05-29T12:11:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parrotworks.com\/walkforlostkids\/?p=574"},"modified":"2020-05-29T14:14:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T21:14:54","slug":"letter-to-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.parrotworks.com\/walkforlostkids\/letter-to-mercury-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Save Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sharon and other Mercury News staff \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently received your emailed request for funding.  I wanted to write and let you know how\ncritical I believe journalism is to our free society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mercury News, like many other large news sources, rarely\ntouch upon the topic of divorce because it\u2019s not sexy, taboo or \u2013 in a worst\ncase scenario \u2013 you are controlled by the powers that be.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state of California is being paid to eliminate parents from the lives of children through federal Title IV-D funding.\u00a0 Meanwhile Title IV-E funding encourages CPS to remove kids from homes at a national rate of two per minute.\u00a0 That\u2019s federally funded child trafficking. (Title 4D and E funding info<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The family courts in California have run unconstitutionally\nfor decades without much attention.  They\nhold secret courts where one party isn\u2019t present (ex parte).  They have no juries.  No cameras. \nThey pretty much have unchecked power because the media has done nothing\nto shine light on the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, a large non-profit group produced The Payback Problem<\/a> which addressed the severity of some of these issues.\u00a0 In response, two CA bills were created to put a small dent in the problem.\u00a0 Newsom quickly vetoed them both because he would lose free money from the Feds.\u00a0 Your story completely missed the real underlying issue:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The state of\nCalifornia is being paid to eliminate parents from the lives of children.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That statement sounds like something from Nazi Germany.  Yet it gets zero press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news is, with the recent Covid-19 epidemic, \u201cConstitutionality\u201d\nis slowly becoming vogue again.  Judges\nfrom Wisconsin, Oregon and Illinois have limited the power of their tyrannical\ngovernors who declared unconstitutional stay-at-home orders.  Police on YouTube are refusing duty because\ntheir orders are unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many independent web based news sources are beginning to\nspeak about Title IV-D.  THIS is the\nfuture of journalism.  Mercury News is\nway behind on the curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a fit, loving parent in an eight-year CA-driven divorce.  I have been blocked from my daughters for\nnearly two years.  I have committed no\ncrimes.  I have a $20,000 bail bond on my\nhead because I refuse to attend unconstitutional court hearings.  I was forced to pay 90% of my income to the state\nof California \u2013 two-thirds of which doesn\u2019t even go to the mother of my kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am connected to hundreds of other Californians who want\njustice.  Who fear the state they live\nin.  Who have no voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find me an article on Title IV-D funding and I\u2019ll find you\n$1,000 in donations (likely 100 $10 donations from homeless fathers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drop the word unconstitutional\n<\/em>once or twice \u2013 not because you are getting paid \u2013 because you stand for\nsomething other than yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good luck in your quest to keep the Mercury News above\nwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Glynn
walkforlostkids.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For email addresses of editors at Mercury News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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