NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR FAMILY COURT JUSTICE
Liz Richards
3919 Moss Drive
Annandale, VA 22003
703/658-3543

June 14, 1999

Ronald Haskins
Staff Director
Subcommittee on Human Resources
U. S. House of Representative
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Mr. Haskins:

Thank you for responding to my previous communications, AND admitting for the record that the subcommittee under your direction has been the sponsor organization for the Access/Visitation programs, (not that I don't have this evidence already) and intends to further fund "bad-dads" custody switching and pedophilia protection schemes under the guise of responsible fatherhood.

I will continue to present my documented evidence to all members of Congress and others who are NOT involved in this scheme. Per your request, names of persons know to be involved are:

David Levy, Dick Woods, Stuart Miller and other leaders of fathers rights groups such as Children's Rights Council and National Congress for Fathers and Children, AND David Gray Ross, Director, HHS Office of Child Support Enforcement, AND David Arnaudo, HHS-OCSE fatherhood program manager, AND Jessica Pearson, Center for Policy Research, AND Joan B. Kelly, N.Ca. Mediator Center, AND the 1700 judges, attorneys, counselors, mediators who comprise the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, AND yourself - Ronald Haskins.

As for the legal system's involvement in these matters, please review Insight Magazine's, May 3, 1999, article "Is Justice for Sale in LA" which is about the AFCC judges. Talk to reporter Kelly Patricia O'Meara, who should tell you what she told me - after working on our groups' evidence of kick-backs and corruption, she came to the conclusion that judges were a bunch of crooks, everybody knows it and is covering up because they have been making money from the scheme themselves.

The AFCC ring of cross-affiliated judges and court professionals routinely, as a matter of law, refer cases and sub-contract program grants to each other while rubber stamping all case evaluations for the benefit of the co-conspiratorial fathers rights litigants brought into the ring by the community activists who lobby for and act as fronts for programs created for funneling to the entire ring. As a key player in this ring, your role has been to get the funding written into law. Abusive men get to win their cases, and ring members get a steady stream of federally paid no-brainer/no-risk court-appointed "work" and ring leaders get even more. (You must be aware the of 5/28/99 NYTimes story about top Arkansas law makers being indicated for running similar kick-back schemes with guardian ad litem programs?)

Full disclosure is your obligation, and you owe Chairman Archer and all the Human Resources Subcommittee members an accounting of your associations with the above stated A/V scheme principals. Either CRC, CPR, AFCC are all lying in their documents, or you are lying about not being involved. How disingenuous of you, to feign innocence regarding organizations and activities of which you have been involved with for at least 15 years.

You owe even more to the women and children (and men as well) whose lives have been destroyed by the policies and programs you have promoted. Instead of hiding behind the bluff that nobody will believe bitter, battered women, beleaguered by your bogus bait-n-switch custody corruption scam, you should end these programs and implement corrective relief and redress in an effort prevent further youth violence, an insidious result of programs designed to protect violent offenders.

It doesn't lend to the credibility of any from your ring, that key players refuse to respond to my written communications including FOIA requests about these programs; and, that HHS fatherhood program manager, David Arnaudo continues to lie to public officials about his knowledge and role in these programs; and that David Levy continues to openly associate with Dr. Richard Gardner (professionally discredited as having bizarre child sexual theories) while denying CRC subversively dupes the public and membership that CRC is a child sex abusers protection organization founded by several other notorious pedophile/incest promoters such as Warren Farrell, Ralph Underwager and John Money. You should know the names of all the pedophile advocates involved in these organizations, since everybody else does!

Furthermore, Jessica Pearson, the "independent evaluator" for the fatherhood programs, refuses to answer FOIA requests first sent to her in March 1999. Her original A/V evaluations, clearly stated no correlation was shown between visitation problems and support collection problems; AND that the A/V demonstration program paid for a hotline for father rights leaders to solicit members for the program; AND financed counseling sessions to teach them high-adversarial litigation, where a high number of custody switches were used to resolve disputes; AND that no mothers were asked for their opinion of the program results but 85% of the men were very satisfied, AND that the mediators who participated in the trial project said it was a failure; AND that even one father killed himself and his children after completing the counseling sessions; AND that no sources other than AFCC, CRC and other fathers rights allies were used in developing the program.

For people who are purportedly dedicated to fair resolution of family disputes; your aversion to dealing with anyone from the other half of these disputes - the mothers is indicative of the real intent. Instead ring members quote HITLER: "Women should stay home and take care of the house. Men and women are separate. Men are guided by reason" at federally funded events (OSi Conference - NYC June 5th).

Responsible fatherhood really means providing enabling legal and professional assistance for antisocial, violent men to successfully beat and rape their family members into submission.

Recent examples of the type of men who qualify for responsible fatherhood assistance would be the North Dakota custodial father who successfully burned to death his little daughter and conned the town into believing it was an fire accident, until he got caught bragging on-line and he had to do because he was having sexual relations with the child and the mother was interfering (Dateline 6/1/99); AND the famous NW-C novelist recently killed by her estranged husband (who next committed suicide). He had custody of their children after she left to avoid further violence and killed her when she went to the house to get them because he was blocking her access to them recently in the Washington Post. Your evaluations and policies not only deliberately ignore these type of tragedies, but guarantee future acts of violence and our children and those who try, in vain, to protect them.

Our organization has many such cases of violent fathers who got sole custody after being substantiated, founded and even convicted of family violence and substance abuse. Then using the courts as just another weapon in their extensive abusive arsenal and acting out of revenge and subterfuge, these "killer dads" in concert with bizarre expert testimony such as Dr. Richard Gardner, who says "there's a little pedophile in all of us" opine that the mother, or protective parent, be put on supervised visitation, or jailed (just to teach her a lesson) for interfering with his relationship.

Lawyers litigating in behalf of sole custodial fathers are financed from the programs intended for assisting non-custodial parents; however, here in lies the fallacy, the ironic twist, now the non-custodial parent is the mother who never knows that the program is being used in her case and is forced to pay price gouging court whores appointed by corrupt judges and opposing counsel, who harass and block her access with the children - even charging her $100/hr or more for therapeutic relationships counseling sessions when they are already receiving payments from the program which is supposed to be helping the her -- the non-custodial parent.

Of course, David Arnaudo, Jessica Pearson and other running insiders the program don't report such case results. They only talk to each other (usually moneyed fathers) and other AFCC scheme members and deliberately avoid protective parents (usually domestic violence victims "mothers"). I certainly would like to know what evidence HHS officials gave you to justify their assessment that all program funding has been properly spent and on whom?

This has been the behavior I've observed from most fathers rights leaders. For example, I attended the January 1997 A/V program video conference sessions at office of HHS-OCSE conducted by David Seigel, David Gray Ross and David Arnaudo. All attendees, except for myself and one representative from a Woman's Law Center who was shouted down when she tried to speak, were from the fathers' groups. All talk was about lying women, their need to get more money to win their cases against women, how they should get the battered women's shelters closed down and stop women from making abuse complaints against them. Little was said about enforcing their visitation.

At one point David Levy got up and thanked David Gray Ross for all the federal money they have received since 1988 and anticipated receiving a lot more. There was even an exchange between Levy and Ross indicating that the two of them, behind closed doors would decide what should happen in these programs and tell everybody else what to do . (Levy was standing right next to me when he said this). This occurred after a previous recorded CBS radio talk show debate between Levy and myself (which I arranged) during which Levy adamantly denied his organization lobbied for federal programs, got any federal funds or did anything besides lobbying for joint custody legislation.

Now having successfully produced "Screw-The-Bitch Part I" social engineering program, you are asking Congress to fund Part II. Have you told Chairman Archer and the Leadership the intent of your next social engineering program to get WELFARE rights for able-bodied custodial fathers - something we can prove is already occurring. In addition, The Washington Times, in support of your fatherhood program initiatives, has already publicized other devious intentions for future programs, such as full custody of young children for street thugs and gang members as a rehabilitation method and child support abeyance for dead-beat dads who take parenting programs and get a job.

I suggest you accept responsibilty and redress this matter immediately. You should know it is a gross violation of ethics to use your authority to create legislation producing programs steering exclusive benefits to persons and groups with which you are associated.

Sincerely,

Liz Richards
       National Director

cc: Chairman Archer
     Chairwoman Johnson

PS: PLEEZE do have any one of the cocaine snorting fathers rights guys (such as Stu Miller) come to my house and vandalize my car (again).