On Friday, April 20, 2012 the Founding Fathers March concluded with diverse activity designed to give parents, and fathers in particular, equal protection under the Constitution. A rally set to occur at Senate Park was transformed into a peaceful protest in front of the Supreme Court by a group of fathers carrying signs and messages. According to one participant, it was a small group that quickly grew with passers-by supporting the cause.

At the same time, inside our halls of Congress, teams of grass roots parenting advocates from different states converged upon member offices and staffers to deliver our information packets. We are calling for a Congressional hearing and inquiry into the abuses of Title IV-d funding and custody laws. More than half of the Senate and a third of the members of the House were covered over a three day period. At 3 pm on Friday, three advocates met with members of Senator Schumer’s staff to conduct an open conference call with victims in the New York metropolitan area.

We hope to follow with mass e-mailings to assure that all members of Congress receive a packet. Many thanks to those who contacted their own representatives to expect our arrivals. We focused on those members because many staffers indicated that their constituents would receive greater attention. One such e-mail is attached. It is now very important for those who stayed home to make such contact immediately. Here you will find copies of vital components of our packet so that you can include it with your own mailers or e-mailings. In this way our individual and joint concerns can be strengthened with unity.

The three day event accomplished a crucial goal of making noise on this issue. We took note and photographs of vehicles with posters and messages regarding other causes parked along Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues. They proved how much more effective our march would have been if so many victims did not stay home. We all had excuses at our disposal. As emphasized, those who expected their neighbors to protest for them were predictably disappointed because those phantom neighbors never showed. Hence, the combined inaction assures that the abuses upon parents and children will continue.

At this time I want to commend the many participants who took up the slack and made things happen. In our Thursday and Friday planning sessions, we turned a makeshift group of concerned parents into an effective reform team. From decorated t-shirts to suit and tie, it caused me to pass right by some of you in the hotel. Indeed, we made an impact with the people we talked with at the various congressional offices. Upon receiving a final list, I hope to post the “Founding Fathers” of this event. It proved to be more effective than any lawn festival.

At a concluding session on Friday evening, a consensus was achieved behind a future workshop and event. We must build on this momentum if we ever expect to succeed against such powerful adversaries. However, all of it requires major funding. Your financial support is greatly needed. Please make a donation today on our site or mail a contribution to Parenting Rights Institute; 1518 Genesee Street; Utica, New York 13502. You can also purchase an Information Product at www.parentingrightsinstitute.com at the now extended discount price.

See information packet (Click Here)

Please help support grass roots reform efforts today:

It was with some shock and dismay that we learned last week that the Nazi Party hired a full time lobbyist to secure socialist reforms in Congress. Meanwhile American fathers continue to rely upon self financed volunteers like Dr. Leon Koziol to promote court reform which is so crucial to family preservation and our moral fiber as a nation. What few fledgling organizations exist to protect the father’s half of the parenting equation fall quickly into disarray, impotence and eventual demise. Money is central to this unfortunate trend and the inequities found throughout our domestic relations processes especially when considering all the federal funding and propaganda contributions going to opposition groups.

We need to find a financing mechanism for our own lobbyist. When considering all the commitment and professional performance seen in light of the few resources with which our group has struggled, imagine what could be accomplished if we got a fraction of those same contributions. Too many supporters are registering their grievances ineffectually from the comfort of their keyboards, and it is getting us all nowhere. Attached is a copy of the cover sheet being distributed directly this week to members of Congress and the Executive Branch in Washington. Here you get a glimpse of all the hard work.

We hope to arrange meetings with various lawmakers and influential people while employing volunteers on the belief that we can reach every member of both houses. That’s over 500 visits and 5,000 copies of paper in our lobby packets. We obviously need your help. If you will not be attending our march, rally or lobby initiative (see April 13^th itinerary), kindly consider a donation at www.leonkoziol.com. Tomorrow, our office will provide this site with information concerning a direct call from a father deployed in Afghanistan. He is supporting our march and asking for help in a divorce which is causing a severe alienation from his child.

See Parenting Rights Institute Lobby Cover Letter (Click Here)

On this, the 100^th Anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking, in the wake of global warming, nuclear terrorism and deficit spending, the domestic relations courts of Great Britain and United States continue to steer the “Family of Man” into an iceberg. We see the warning signs everywhere, in criminal statistics, worker productivity and our moral fiber as free nations. The transformation of families into war machines for lawyers and government bureaucrats has bankrupted countless parents and produced epic harm to children everywhere.

Unfortunately, everyone is going about their routines with little concern for these issues. Apathy is at an all-time high and self proclaimed experts kill the messengers of reform. We all know that money is the principal reason for ignoring the iceberg as families and loved ones are fleeced under threat of debtor prisons and child seizure. Like Nazi practices of an earlier era, lawmakers and policy builders simply declare that their oppressive processes are in your children’s “best interests”. Here they are producing a multi-billion dollar industry that is causing an opposite impact. Accordingly, the giant ship’s boilers continue to run full speed ahead.

Fathers are no longer required in the childrearing equation and mothers are the next target as they abandon domestic responsibilities to third parties. To keep this part of the industry growing, “custodial parents”, are trained by the war machine to exploit “adversary parents” for money, lawyer fees and welfare benefits euphemistically termed “child support” (because they are derived from federal welfare provisions without accountability for the true needs of the child). So often when a father attempts to assert his age old authority to raise his own children, he is assaulted with false tactical accusations and so-called “protection orders” reminiscent of a prison system. We call it the “custodial institution of childrearing”.

Indeed, a veteran Family Court judge in New York’s state’s capital declared in a progressive decision ten years ago that “custody” and “visitation” have “outlived their usefulness” while perpetuating an “oppositional framework” between parents which harms the child, see Webster v Ryan, 729 NYS2d 315 (Fam Ct. 2001). Still nothing is done to remedy the carnage. How many more murder-suicides, juvenile crime and Thomas Ball incidents will it take before the iceberg finally sinks this corrupted ship? We hope you are making plans to join us this week in Washington D.C. to promote long overdue reform (see itinerary). A lyric has even been offered to a band tentatively scheduled to play on Friday. It is taken from the hit single “Family of Man”, by Two Dog Night. We hope you enjoy it.

April 15, 2012                                                 Dr. Leon Koziol

Parenting Rights Institute
1518 Genesee Street
Utica, New York 13502
(315) 796-4000

This di-vorce process was someone’s dream

An army of lawyers on everyone’s team

A four level court fight across the land

We’re building a home for the family of man.

 Court costs are rising

The devil’s to pay

Jailing the parents who got in his way

Law books and hearings to find a plan

Deciding the fate of the family of man

And it’s so wrong, whatever are we coming to

Yes it’s so wrong, with so little time

And so much to do.

Memories replacing the child that is seized

Burning relations before they are eased

Experts replacing what families ran

Time’s running out for the family of man.

So wrong, the family of man….

Our Founding Fathers event in Washington will have one less protester to assist us in our civil rights cause. The reason: he was put in jail this week for so-called “child support” arrears. He is a former Pennsylvania state representative who was set to speak on the need for Family Court reform. Meanwhile, Illinois Congressman, Joe Walsh, continues to be attacked as a “dead beat dad” by sexist liberals for his position against child support abuses (he allegedly owes more than $100,000 to a successful but vindictive ex-spouse). These events illustrate plainly how you, the reader of this post, may become the next victim in this “war on parents”. They also show why the apathy of our victims will cause even more to be committed to debtor prisons or career damage.

While feminists seeking to justify their existence continue to concoct this “War on Women”, the real war on men, fathers in particular, is waged relentlessly and quietly. It’s time that moms and dads rejected the propaganda of a vocal minority of radicals who have been aggressively destroying families and parent-child relationships for more than two decades. We see the damage everywhere especially in the federal welfare laws where the support enforcement bureaucracy is financed. In our lobby packet, we show how the needs of bureaucrats and not our children are at the core of these laws and entitlement mentality which is bankrupting an entire nation.

News articles feature the “equal pay” and “Lilly Ledbetter” laws for women, but the public is denied the information balance of an “equal custody” or “shared parenting” law for men. The plain injustices impact minority fathers more than any other segment of the parenting population. So when you ignore, disparage or excuse yourself from reform efforts like the one scheduled for April 18-20, 2012 in our nation’s capital, you facilitate all this. See our itinerary posted on April 13, 2012 at www.leonkoziol.com. Put another way, your inaction is effectively promoting the ongoing carnage to family, our Constitution and moral fiber as a nation. Please join us, if not for yourself, then for your children. They need you in their lives.

We are now one week away! Confirmations and attendance continue to come in for this long awaited event promoting the rights of parents, fathers and family members abused in America’s domestic relations courts. The messages anticipated on vehicles and lobby material are varied, however, the central theme continues to be a joint protest against abusive laws and court processes which alienate children from one or both parents for money generating purposes.

              Rally/Festival: L. Wilson, head of “We the People Family Preservation, Inc.” has asked me this week to take over their “Official D.C. Rallyfest” scheduled for the same weekend. However, as of today, without support staff, funding and permit officially in hand, I am unable to accept the offer given its tremendous responsibility. Our organizations, Parenting Rights Institute and National League of Fathers, Inc, have not committed to a weekend festival, and we are spread too thin on the eve of our own event to distract from our focus. It remains a public statement and lobbying initiative.

             Lobbying Initiative: The good news is that we are expanding our Washington event to encompass three days of lobby activity culminating in the vehicle display on Friday which concludes at the Senate Park west lawn at 2 pm. On Wednesday and Thursday, April 18-19, we have developed a growing calendar of appointments with congressional staffers, public interest groups and administrative officials. We need people to assist us with the delivery of lobby packets to every member of the Senate and House of Representatives. Here is our tentative itinerary for you to consider:

           Lodging: Hotel Harrington has been used for past rally events because it is close to Senate Park and Congress (only a few blocks away). Located at the corner of 11^th and E Streets NW (436 11^th Street NW), it is also very economical. We have already secured a number of rooms at $135 per night (parking included) this week and there are still vacancies. However, hotels across the capital are filling up for Wednesday and Thursday nights. Rates go up accordingly, so make your reservations as soon as possible if you haven’t already. Hotel phone is (800) 424-8532 and (202) 628-8140.

             Meeting Place: Old Ebbitt Grill, located at 675 15^th Street NW, has been selected as the regular meeting spot for meals and planning sessions for all three days. Once again we have used this location successfully for past events, and it is walking distance from Hotel Harrington. The website advertises it as a popular meeting spot for political insiders, journalists and celebrities. It was a favorite of Presidents Grant, Cleveland, Harding and Roosevelt. Everyone can meet at 7 on Wednesday and Thursday evenings and again Friday morning at 9 am.

            Education Panel/ Discussion:  This event is designed to exchange information for lobby purposes. It is set for Thursday evening between 6 and 9 pm at the Hotel Harrington, however, it may be relocated to the Rayburn Congressional Office Building depending on interest and participation. E-mail us at leonkoziol@parentingrightsinstitute.com if you would like to attend or make a presentation. A report will be submitted to members of Congress which incorporates the substance of this exchange. Please remember that we are volunteers drawing upon our own resources to make this possible. We are not a government or publicly funded enterprise. Any help you can provide, such as meetings with your own representative, advertising and delivery assistance would certainly be welcomed. Stay tuned for more info as we draw closer .

Dr. Leon R. Koziol
Parenting Rights Institute
1518 Genesee Street
Utica, NY 13502
(315) 796-4000

Less than 2 weeks away!!!

It’s time to confirm your attendance for the Founding Fathers March scheduled for April 20, 2012 in Washington, D.C.,  if you haven’t already done so.

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