An expose of a family court.
“PREVIEW”
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do
nothing. Edmund Burke
My name is Kevin Thompson. I am a high school physics teacher in Massachusetts and just one of the thousands of fathers who have been victimized by the organized crime in this state’s family courts.
I have found that the system is corrupt to the core, from the incompetent mediators and DSS investigators to the unprofessional, biased judges; who stereotype fathers, write law from the bench, and ignore any evidence that might threaten its agenda to give mothers everything at the expense of fathers.
In a state where 17 of every 20 citizens polled believe that shared parenting should be the presumption in child custody rulings, there exists a family court system where not a single employee agrees with such a presumption.
The family courts have brainwashed the public for years with the claim that their biased rulings protect the best interests of the children. That is a LIE! Their self-serving decisions are based solely on the financial interests of lawyers, judges, case-workers, and tax-funded agencies, whose pockets are lined by inefficient, unproductive days in court and gender-biased policies that promote and prolong litigation.
What is frightening about the discrimination against fathers in this state is that it is perpetrated by an institution with a professional duty to be honorable and protect the rights of its citizens. What fathers discover quickly in the family courts of Massachusetts is that this protection does not apply to them.
In a system without checks and balances where absolute power corrupts absolutely, family court judges are arrogantly aware that they can deny Constitutional rights, treat loving fathers as criminals, and blatantly ignore the law with impunity.
You would think that family court judges would be appointed based on their reputations for fairness, competence, and professionalism. That is not the case in Massachusetts. Honorable and competent judges would only inhibit the money to be made by the racketeers working in the courts.
To make matters worse, the legislative branch in Massachusetts is the family court’s strongest ally in this war against fathers. Every year bills are sponsored that address the injustices in family court and every year these bills die in the Joint Committee on the Judiciary where, conveniently, each bill related to court reform must pass before it can be brought before the full House and Senate for a vote.
Add to this the man-hating propaganda spewed by radical feminist groups, who have made it politically correct to vilify men as violent monsters, and you have a stacked deck against fathers.
The fact is that many family court cases could be resolved instantly at the initial hearing with one simple question, “Do either of you intend to prove to the court that the other parent is unfit?” Since the answer to that question would be “no” from both parents in the majority of cases, then the compromise of 50/50 joint physical custody could, and should, be ordered immediately.
Of course, such a logical solution is ignored in this state because it reduces the billable hours that the family courts create for lawyers and eliminates the need for a child support order. It is the child support order that gives all of the joys of a parental relationship with the children to the mother, but orders the ostracized father to finance that arrangement. This, in effect, entices mothers into the system and ensures a steady influx of customers.
I am writing this book because the only hope that fathers have for justice in Massachusetts is for this corruption to be exposed publicly and hopefully generate the public outrage needed to force a change. Court reform will never happen without this kind of “whistleblower” effort because the courts currently operate under a cloak of secrecy where too many people are profiting off the corruption.
A secondary reason for writing this book is for my own peace of mind. The world will know, or at least the readers of this book will know, the lies and crimes that I have endured personally, including the names of the individuals who committed these crimes against me.
The book has three distinct parts. In the first section, the hypocrisy and unethical tactics that all fathers must endure in these courts will be exposed. The second section will detail the events of my specific case. And the third section will expose the “spin-off” corruption that resulted from my efforts to hold the criminals in my case accountable. My documented case will be used to illustrate the twilight zone level nonsense that fathers experience in and outside of this state’s family courts.
It should be noted that the crimes committed against me do not make my case unique. Unfortunately, there are many fathers who have experienced much worse.
Compared to the tragic stories of other fathers in this state who were financially ruined, removed from their homes, jailed without just cause or due process, denied all contact with their children, and driven to suicide; I consider myself lucky.
What does make my case unique is that I am a fitter parent than the mother of my son by every objective measure imaginable. The mother of my son cannot deny this fact. Consequently, she responded to the reality of her situation with slanderous lies about me to manufacture evidence for her case.
The mistake that she made, which would have sabotaged her case before an honorable court, was to get careless with her lies and allege actions and relevant information that could easily be proven false with documents, witnesses, and the court-recorded tapes. That forced the judge in my case to step in and pull some tricks of his own to obstruct my presentation of evidence, preserve the mother’s testimony, and protect his predetermined ruling of custody to her.
A domino effect of cover-ups and crimes followed. A law-defying dismissal of a lawsuit filed against one of the Mother’s accomplices preceded a wildly unjust ruling from the Massachusetts Appeals Court.
A three-judge panel of the Appeals Court ruled that my appeal of the lower court decision was “frivolous” with “no basis in law or fact” to justify an order that extorts from me double the Mother’s attorney fees and costs. The Supreme Judicial Court added insult on top of injury by denying my application for further appellate review.
In a nutshell, I was ordered to pay thousands of dollars to a lawyer who I did not hire for reporting blatant judicial misconduct and for requesting a new trial before an honorable court that would respect my Constitutionally-protected rights to due process and equal protection, my inalienable right to parent, and my son’s right to a balanced relationship with both of his parents.
With all that I have endured in this court system, I consider the Appeals Court response, in combination with the documents that this Court claimed to examine prior to its outrageous ruling, my most convincing piece of evidence to support my contention that the Massachusetts courts are, in fact, a system of organized crime that extends to the seven justices who sit on this state’s Supreme Judicial Court.
Please judge for yourself whether it is in any way possible for an honorable court to examine the “impounded” documents contained in chapters 25-27 of this book (ie. my brief, my reply brief, and my application for further appellate review) and reach the conclusions expressed by the three-judge panel of the Appeals Court and then affirmed by the full Supreme Judicial Court.
I contend, and will attempt to prove, that the attorney fee extortion “sentence” had nothing to do with the merits of my appeal and everything to do with coming after me personally for my very public and persistent efforts to expose the crimes that I have witnessed in family court.
Since the details of my case have not yet been communicated, the claims of retaliation and conspiracy made in this opening chapter are admittedly premature and tough to swallow. I would certainly be skeptical myself if I had not experienced the corruption with my own eyes. I ask only that you keep an open mind and reserve judgment until you have read everything.
Since Massachusetts denies fathers their right to plead their case to a jury of their peers, I respectfully request that you, the readers, be my jury.
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DISCLAIMER: If you were expecting to be shocked and/or enthralled by the opening chapter, then I apologize. That was not going to happen with claims that are, at this point, still baseless. Please be patient and stay with me because the outrage and interest that I hope to generate should grow with the supporting details still to come in the chapters that follow.
(THE TABLE OF CONTENTS ARE COPIED BELOW)
CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION 1
2 THE COURT’S FINANCIAL INCENTIVE 5
3 ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY 9
4 THE ROLE OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 13
5 WHY FATHERS? 15
6 PROPAGANDA AGAINST FATHERS 17
7 A CLOSER LOOK AT THE RESEARCH 25
8 DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PRO SE LITIGANTS 31
9 COURTROOM TACTICS USED TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST FATHERS 35
10 STRATEGY FOR MOTHERS IN FAMILY COURT 39
11 THE CHILD SUPPORT ORDER 43
12 COURT ARGUMENTS USED TO DISCRIMINATE
AGAINST FATHERS 49
13 KEY INGREDIENT TO FAMILY COURT CORRUPTION 55
14 A PARENT FITNESS COMPARISON 57
15 THE OBVIOUS QUESTION 65
16 THE MOTHER’S UNETHICAL STUNTS 67
17 JUDGE MARY McCAULEY MANZI 89
18 THE MEDIATOR INCIDENT 95
19 ATTORNEY DEMETRA PONTISAKOS 99
20 THE DSS REPORT 103
21 JUDGE PETER C. DIGANGI 113
22 THE TRIAL 121
23 JUDGE DIGANGI’S FINDINGS OF FACT 137
24 THE APPEALS COURT PROCESS 145
25 BRIEF OF THE APPELLANT 147
26 REPLY BRIEF 199
27 APPLICATION FOR FURTHER APPELLATE REVIEW 225
28 MY PUBLIC EFFORTS TO EXPOSE THE
CORRUPTION 237
29 MY EFFORTS TO HOLD THE CRIMINALS IN MY
CASE ACCOUNTABLE 257
30 DIANE DANDRETA – THE MOTHER’S ACCOMPLICE 259
31 THE CORRUPTION CONTINUES IN SUPERIOR
COURT 265
32 WHAT OTHER STATES SAY ABOUT JOINT CUSTODY 289
33 BOTTOM LINE: WHAT FAMILY COURTS DO TO
FATHERS IS ILLEGAL 305
34 FINAL COMMENTS 309
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Kevin,
I appreciate your position but this site is a New Zealand site and I would suspect this material is more relavent to the USA.
Regards
Scrap
scrap!! how can it matter where this man comes from?? did you see anything in the modus operandi of his ex-wife that you have not seen in cases in nz? you must have seen the same flourishing industry that he describes there operating in the family court in nz?
give the man a break. he has obviously worked very hard to ring fence the situation for fathers in his corner of the world in an educated and rational way. we stand to learn a lot and gain a lot from such a man.
who cares where the victims of this appaling system hail from? he’s got my vote – and support, unconditionally.
At 300 plus pages, can you please just email me the full text, so I can read it at my leisure?
I am not disputing that Kevin has a valid position. But his posting is US specific and there are marked differences between the legal sytems of a constitutionaly based republic and country with it head of state a Queen.
The issues in New Zealand can only be solved by law change in NZ. The systems of how laws are changed are radically different.
I am no defender of a closed Court in an advererial system that deparents children. I fully support the struggle of those overseas who suffer from simialr application of flawed ideology.
All that aside what does MENZ stand for? Masculinist Evolution New Zealand.
Regards
Scrap
Scrap,
I’m the one who posted this article on the MENZ site. I did so knowing there are many differences between American and NZ systems of law. However I thought it might prove inspirational to some guy in NZ writing a similar expose of the NZ family court.
it doesn’t matter how many differences there are between u.s. and nz law, the femist gangs operate the world over. human nature is the same the world over. and who knows when stephen might stumble upon something in his extensive research that we may well benefit from here, and that could be applied in existing law here if we just knew of it’s existence.
good luck stephen.
Thanks miss mug,
I agree. I believe thinking outside of existing structures can sometimes prove very fruitful. Seeing the way other societies set up systems can be enlightening/frightening, and the comparisons useful.
you never know who’s going to have the “light bulb moment” (to quote oprah winfrey), stephen, or whether the revelation will happen in timaru or timbuktu.
Just to get things straight here: Did Stephen in Korea post this on behalf of Kevin or is this Stephen a different and new identity???
I ask this because I like to keep track of the identities on this site.
I also acknowledge that the evil of ‘victim feminism’ came out of the USA and as such the men in the USA are responsible to eradicate it from the west.
True emancipation of women has evolved in the Soviet Union where unspoilt women became equal with men in pay and employment through necessity. They still value their feminist side and love to have the opportunity to remain at home with the children if they possibly could. They appear to put Family values above material values. If Kevin is endeavouring to change the world wide destruction of family life without profit I commend him. If he wants me to buy his book for profit then he has not learnt why feminism reigns in the “Land of The Free”.
This post is near the boundries of off-topicness, but not outside IMO.
I would have preferred to read Stephen’s (there IS currently only one) impressions of the book and why he thought it might be relevant for a NZer to read, with a link to the book content elsewhere.
human nature is universal, father’s are the target irrelavant of any country’s law on the matter, i will never see my son ever, 8 years at this stage, just how it is, exactly as our yankee doodle dandy freiend explains, it’s a gravy train for the sake of money only, ‘the best interest of the child lie’ serves as the coal in the engine room to keep that gravy train chugging along, no new laws are going to be passed to put lawyers and judges out of a job. My opinion.
CWB so we just give up and let them keep screwing us?
Regards
Scrap
no, on a lighter note, we need danny krane, just as much as that yank in Massachusetts does(state for boston). And if you can’t get a good lawyer like him, i believe in going above the law within reason, as it is well known, the law is an ASS.
Peter BoULLSHITeR; position being to keep the family court lawyers in a job.
Not enough is done to torment the image of the family court in N.Z, an anti-Family Court banner could be the New Zealand flag with the 4 stars replaced with 4 swastika’s and the 2 words underneath, Family Court. United we stand, divided we fall, there needs to be an oraganised uprising against the family court, in all sincerity, some serious stuff. BoULLSHITer is just another phoney
in this current government line up, nothing will change unless there is a little ‘argy bargy’ I say.
CHILD, YOUTH and FAMILY, grey lynn (their letter to my phonecall to them)
Dear Mr B,
I am writing to confirm that on Wednesday 5 April 2006 you telephoned with information about your son FW. You advised our Department that the Family Court had granted you three hours supervised access at the Napier Family Centre, and said that this decision emotionally abused FW because he is being denied his father.
As discussed by telephone, the Department of Child Youth and Family does not have a statutory mandate to investigate your concerns. Accordingly, I have recorded the information and passed it onto a Social Worker Supervisor at the Napier Office of the Department with a recommendation that the office take no further action.
Yours sincerely,
Judie Ward
Intake Social Worker
I’m astounded at the amount of money and resources this government contribute in regards to involving themselves in other peoples lives where more than necessary and not involving themselves where necessary, family court, child youth and family, ministry of social development, ministry of womens affairs, commissioner for children, counsellor’s.
Child, Youth and Family state that even they have no statutory mandate to basically do their job, unimpeded basically.
What a waste of an organisation, privy to the highest paid public servants as a group in this land, yet the public are still not being served…
GRAVY TRAIN UNLIMITED, CHOO, CHOO, COMING TO A TOWN NEAR YOU SOON !!!
you can’t be hoping to get a common sense response from cyfs, cwb, or responsible use of taxpayers money.
how many fathers and children are currently doing the farce that is supervised access? perhaps it’s time the menz group asked for an answer on that during question time in the house.
i know of one father who stayed the course and then succeeded in winning custody so hang in there. now that the mother can’t attack him any longer, she is indulged in making her notifications against ME! one has to wonder how many paid hours of social worker’s time is spent molly-coddling vindictive and scheming mothers who have proven unfit to keep their own children. what sort of agenda can justify allowing such people to continue playing their games at the expense of the taxpayer unchallenged?
boggles the mind.
what is the menz group doing currently to expose these people?
i’m starting to have more respect for the mongrel mob than the new zealand government, simply put. New Zealand government is the perbatrator of PROMOTING social injustice in this country, not REDUCING it. Good point you raised too, I
am happy menz.org.nz have given myself a platform to share my experience, to the public arena, the journalists/media are too weak to take on SOCIAL INJUSTICE issues, that is fact. Wake up John Cambell.
you know what they say: governments do what is best for the people…only after all other avenues have been completely exhausted.
jobs for the boys, so much money in getting it wrong, and the same goes for the media.
the tiers upon tiers of unnecessary bureaucracy is a scandal that the media won’t expose. why? because they are self-serving.
so what is the menz group doing to ‘out’ the situation aside from giving us all a chat room to vent our spleens on? there must be more effective stuff to do than that. otherwise you may as well write to the editor.
i crawl back under my rock now and suffer in silence, that’s my 15 minutes of fame completed, next please…