Which movie do I need to cite?
Which news article?
How many crying children does it take?
There are more of us than “them”.
There are multitudes of us that would not harm another like the harm we see on television, in the newspaper, on the internet, in the blogs—-there are more of us………..how can we figure it out?
POST, COMMENT, DO WHAT YOU WILL, BUT SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS….one of you might yet make the difference.
This thought jumps to my mind on reading your post:
I find myself contrasting the unrestrained violence in parts of Iraq since the over throw of Saddam Husein with the seemingly lack of violence in the whole of South Africa during and after its transition of rule from the white minority rule to black majority rule. Even if but just a fraction of the injustice that was perpetrated by the white minority against the non-white majority –for centuries – was true, surely it was at least on par to what the Husein and his Sunni minority has been accused of during its 30 or so years of rule. Why then the indiscriminate slaughter of defenseless woman and children…at a market shopping for food, at an adolescence soccer game, at their house of worship?
Of course the South Africans did not transition 300+ years of white supremacy rule, indeed a culture that is know world over as apartheid, without its share of problems. Still, the black majority did not take its revenge on the white minority; the whites did not respond to their loss of power by blowing up a soccer game being played by little black boys. Houses of worship frequented by whites or blacks were not daily targets of suicide bombers or “improvised explosive devices”, white men looking for work were not abducted, tortured and killed by gangs of black men seeking revenge.
I can imagine that there are many within the Shiite community; including Iraq’s current “leadership” (I use that word figuratively) that harbors many ill feelings towards the minority Sunni and their 30 year suppression. But I can also imagine that Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, who spent 30 years incarcerated and tortured by his white suppressors, would have gladly traded places with any of them. Yet South Africa never looked liked Iraq.
Perhaps the world didn’t give Nelson Mandela and the people his country enough credit. Perhaps the world expected too much of Islam and the people of Iraq. I am inclined to believe both are true. There is a lesson learned here as well. The difference was that in South Africa, the focus was on the journey to the end result, where as in Iraq the focus was solely on the end result; e.g., it’s the path we take that matters. Perhaps that lesson is too much to expect of anyone.
Thank you for sharing.
The last sentence in particular still has us thinking…sorry for the delay in response, but the last sentence is thought provoking.
Great article. There’s a lot of good information here, though I did want to let you know something – I am running Mac OS X with the current beta of Firefox, and the design of your blog is kind of quirky for me. I can read the articles, but the navigation doesn’t work so great.
Greetings.
We appreciate you letting us know about the navigation issues.
We will look into that, in the meantime, stop back and hopefully we will resolve your viewing issue.
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This is a true ‘once-upon-a-time’ adoption story. Within it’s telling, revealed are the seedy practices once employed by one Rosie O’Donnell funded — Children of the World Adoption Agency. [COWAA] It ‘was’ located in Verona, New Jersey.
I allude to the past tense so it is not mistaken of mind that this agency’s doors have indeed, remained self-closed since May of 2007. It is also from within these walls where plots were conceived and masqueraded around the workings of a real adoption agency. Therein, it is even apparent in Rosie’s own penned words that she agrees with these activities. Sadly, one thing definitely not found in her book “Find Me” was a way to keep us from reading between the lines.. And as for this agency’s downfall; the reasons lay in the dark history behind its corporate suicide!
Had someone found this company’s blueprint for wrongful adoption?
Yet, there wouldn’t be any such findings if the public would have inquired about this closure from the State. – Government spokesperson, Douglass Swann would not have given such an implicating description of its dissolution. How do I know these details?
… It was me that forced the State Attorney General Office to lean heavily on an already suspect New Jersey Department of Human Services. They in turn, were instructed to offer COWAA a take it or leave it proposition for the Board of Trustees. That thought withstanding, and whilst all faces were probably longer than the table at which they sat, it must have been the Chairwoman of the Board, a Mrs. Margaret Morrisey, who probably thought it better to reserve the company a more preferable choice-spot in hell! This of course, if there is such…
How did this all come about? …Truly, in a picture painted by ART! [Adoption’s Real Triad!] This three-party dynamic of the New Jersey adoption machine has members that consist of an adoption attorney, an adoption agency and the New Jersey Office of Licensing [OOL]. Moreover, all three factions would find themselves as unwilling participants, in an equally unwanted conspiracy. It is your choice for reason; be it greed or the betterment of mankind?
Therein, it was in 2001 when COWAA executive director Veronica Serio lied to the OOL. Never mind that she is the same woman who had actually helped the late Seton Hall Professor James Boskey write adoption law. […Sell what it is that you secretly destroy?]
Alas, and as for ART’s last member of this adoption equation, sometimes it just pays to look good while doing what one does! Or as perceived in this case, maybe the following committed acts would avert a possible in-the-flesh human effigy burning throughout the streets of Kendall Park, New Jersey! Although he had committed no wrongdoing, adoption attorney Steven Sklar would eventually lie to the State Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Review Board. This was the second time his lie covered what I call an unethical adoption practice. Astonishingly though, there was not need for the use of his deceit… [N.J.S.A. 3: 3-39, 1 {b, c}]
The State Statutes of law grant all adoption attorneys the power to hide adoption fraud busting evidence. However, if word was to get out that his practice had withheld evidence…; well uh, does anybody have a cigarette lighter?
Sadly, and in reference to the state of affairs in Jersey, my victory in overturning an initial attorney ethics case dismissal ended up dashed at the Supreme Court’s doorstep. I further realized the futility of it all when my mind grasped the intent of a letter sent by these so-called “of the esteemed.” Their corresponding words were marked of brilliance. They profoundly state, “Your grievance, even if true would not constitute incapacity or unethical practice.” This is odd, because it had worked in the demise of COWAA!
My son was born on October 20, 2001. I think he lives in New Jersey.
It is by the right to bring out the truth by means of the New Jersey Open Public Records Act, and my faith in God that allow me to make plans to one day meet my son. He will hear the real story.
My name is David Archuletta, an Unknown Father.
Hello David. I am an adopted child myself and am over 50 years old. I’d like to ask if you were at all concerned with the rights of adopted children before your recent experience?
I would speak up and tell you, AS an adopted child, that growing up with stable parents was a lot more beneficial to me and as a result, to Humanity as a Whole, then growing up with parents that weren’t been able to form stable relationships.
Hello Sue Ann; in answer to your question, no, adoption rights for anyone in the triad were the farthest thing from my mind. Should have I been? It is not a subject many people get involved with if they have never been, well, involved. I am committed though; in my story, save for thought that I might have came off as being pretentious, I did not mention that I had written a book. I won’t say its title, but I just recently found out that it is going into the registry of the Library of Congress Collection. All of the corrupt adoption practices that it uncovers caused the creation of a new Congressional Subject Heading, “Wrongful Adoption.”
Although I am not adopted, your point of view on my situation is understandable. However, it does not make it right what it is that ART* exploits. *[… my acronym, “Adoption’s Real Triad.” They being, The Department of Human Services, the Adoption Attorney, and the Adoption Agency.]
Thank you David, for your reply. I don’t discern you as being pretentious as all. On the contrary, I find you to be genuine, humble and honest. All of which are qualities of character I admire.
I also find that your heart has been broken; sorrow has carved a depth within you that was not there before. (please feel free to straighten me out if I have gone astray in my discernment)
And as a consequence, out of those depths has come an act of creativity, whose end result will be illuminating a social problem that has been ignored for decades.
My records have been sealed by order of the Catholic Church for over 53 years. Just recently have I been able to acquire any information at all and only non-identifying information at that. What I found out is that my birth parents were FORCED to adopt me out by the Department of Human Services. My dad was a mechanic and my mom a housewife. I was child #5 and it was decided they were too poor to have that many children.
I speak for myself. I speak for your child. I speak for all of us through the years that have played our roles in these dramas. For sometimes it’s only as more of us are effected, that something finally gets done about it. It’s when it becomes a problem for “us” instead of just for “them”.
And I say “Thank You”.
And “Bless You”.
Dear Dave,
Thank you for sharing your personal story with us. We applaud you for speaking out on matters that we perceive to be so personal and hurtful.
I appreciate the feedback/communication I see above with Sue. What an opportunity to be able to engage with someone effected from the different side of the same coin.
Blessings,
S.E.