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If you’re in the New York area at 5 pm today, get to a television so you can see parent activist John Murtari interviewed on WSTM News. Murtari has been incarcerated for 4 months for “willful failure to pay child support,” a charge he denies. Murtari has resisted his incarceration by refusing to eat solid food in an act of peaceful protest. It’s now been 120 days that Murtari has had only liquids.
Murtari has been a vocal proponent for family rights, equal parenting and equal child custody. He climbed the art structure in front of Senator Clinton’s Syracuse office last year in an attempt to get her attention after his letters were ignored and he was refused entrance to her office. Murtari’s group AKidsRight.org is calling for Congressional hearings and ultimately passage of a Family Rights Act.
from AKidsRight.org:
We are not looking for MORE laws, but Civil Rights protection. That parents are both considered Fit & Equal (equal in terms of both physical and legal custody). If anyone (a spouse, relative, social services) wishes to challenge that, you have:
1) The right to counsel.
2) The right to be presumed a fit parent, innocent, and deserving of an equal relationship with your kids.
3) The right to protection of a criminal jury. The “state” needs to prove you were a demonstrated serious and intentional threat to your child’s safety.
Murtari’s being fed with a nasal feeding tube, but it wasn’t always this way. Prison officials waited 10 days before giving him the feeding tube. Murtari had an irregular heartbeat, low blood sugar, blood pressure so low they couldn’t read the second number, and he’d lost 27 lbs.
Murtari is scheduled to be released December 1st and will be with his son a few days later.
Click HERE for more information including video and audio interviews.
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thurston861 said,
(I just get letters and I stop eating for 2 days.)
THe unaccountability of the combined effect of the Cupport and Custody systems really need to be addressed as an overall scheme to keep parents from their children.
For instance, I have joint custody of my children. Except I only see them 4 days a month.
I have full rights over their education, but I have not heard from the school in 3 years on my daughters IEP meetings that I can attend by telephone, and I was not even allowed to look through a door window at them at their school and was told by the principle and superintendent of the school that I had no right to see them because of the Custody Order.
And beyond all of that I was placed under $2000 a month is support even though I am an unskilled laborer.
This made me choose between being near my children or jail.
The Civil Rights act states that we do not have to choose which right we will exercise. Rights are not Rights at all if one must be given up in exchage for another.
The ignoring of my pleadings and evidence in my appeals is a denial of due process of law. It makes the jurisdiction of the court void under the doctrine of void judgments.
There is no body of lawyers who is addressing this, and the fact that this is all done in the name of the enforcement of a private debt in violation of the Peonage Act.
The corruption of the court cannot withstand one thing, and John has proved it; Dead Fathers.
They do not care that we are dead in the lives and hearts of our babies, but they will not be able to handle it when we are dead and cannot be oppressed to justify their illegitimacy anymore.
I say illegitimacy because all of this is done in the name of the best interest of the children, when scientific research now shows that children without fathers a more likely to fall into anti-social behavior, teen pregnancy, STD’s, rebellion against authority (gee I wonder why), criminal behavior, drug use, and drop out of school.
(At 11 years old My child has already figured out the hypocrites above him. He has already questioned why he should respect them when they will not let him see his father.)
In light of the above, any system of justice that directly, constructivly, or indirectly keeps a child from the parent, and aids and abets a parent in doing the same by means of opressive orders, is illegitimate, bacuse they are damaging the child.
Thank you John. I will never forget what you ahve done for all of us who weep for our children.
November 28, 2006 at 4:31 pm
Roger Knight said,
November 28, 2006 at 6:24 pm
DcFather said,
November 29, 2006 at 6:36 am