The Backlash! - May 1996

Organization News - Mentor
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MENTOR bulletin from Rich Zubaty

from Craig Moberg

Good news! Katherine Harris, state senator from the 24th district in Florida, (along with state representative Lois Frankel) have sponsored a bill in the Florida legislature to establish "Visitation Centers", a Visitation Network, and a Visitation Task Force in the state of Florida. These programs will be funded through a joint public/private partnership. The political implications are ENORMOUS! For the first time we are seeing a governmental body step forward and get financially involved in assuring children access to their non-custodial parents. This is big.

The Legislative Summary for Florida Senate Bill 2488 states: Provides legislative intent with respect to coordination of supervised visitation services for children. Provides for the establishment of the Florida Family Visitation Network and Florida Family Visitation Task Force.

We must come forward with a big cheer of support for Senator Harris. Email her. Tell her you are THRILLED to hear about what she is doing and you hope to reproduce these types of programs in your state or province. Ask her to fax you information on Florida Senate Bill 2488. Then inform your local government contacts and media about what's going on in Florida.

Even better! I've just discovered that Father's Activists have a natural ally in the various offices of Child Protective Services. I've just spoken to Hal Hedley of Child Protective Services in Sarasota Florida who considers denying a child access to his parent through any manner of parental alienation to be a clear-cut instance of child abuse! Hip Hip Hurray! I've been saying this on radio and TV for three years. Something is getting through.

Hal Hedley told me the time has come to to establish the direct link between parental alienation and child abuse by prosecuting a test case in court. I, of course, have volunteered as the guinea pig in the test case.

As well as working for child protective services Hal Hedley runs the new pilot "Visitation Center" in Sarasota Florida.

We need to come forward with a big cheer of support for Hal Hedley. Obviously I don't have the money for a lawyer so we need to give Hal Hedley the statistical and conceptual ammunition he needs to convince the prosecutor's office to take on this case. PLEASE write him or fax him with a brief statement of enthusiastic encouragement and any supporting data linking parental alienation to physical, emotional or spiritual child abuse.

Hal Hedley
Child Protection Center Inc.
1750 17th Street Bldg. L
Sarasota FL 34234

phone: 941-365-1277
fax: 941-366-1849

Let me make one last thing stunningly clear. This is NOT the time for some disaffected bat-brain to come forward with negative criticism of the "Visitation Center" concept. Right now there are only 6 pilot programs in the state of Florida. Within two years there will be 200 centers with some state appointed "director" of these centers. Parental access and parental alienation will become VERY live issues in government circles. Certain bureaucrats will gamble their political futures on continued funding and support for these centers and for the entire concept of parental access. This is a big deal with a big future. It's EXACTLY the way feminists got their pet projects adopted into the government agenda. Once our issues are attached to funding legislation they will take on a life of their own.
NOTE: I've contacted some of the networkers for father's issues in the hopes that you will reproduce the above bulletin and send it all over the world. Everywhere. Ask for emails, faxes, and letters of support to be sent directly to Katherine Harris and Hal Hedley. And let your own government people know about 1) the need for creating Visitation Centers, a Visitation Network, and a Visitation Task Force in your respective states or provinces. 2) mounting a direct attack on parental alienation as a documentable form of child abuse -- which attack may be prosecuted in a court of law through the local agencies of Child Protective Services.

Addendum

Below you will find a news release ready to be sent to any radio, TV or newsprint producers or editors you are able to contact in your local area, or anywhere else. HELP ME with this. This is what MENTOR is all about. You want to join? This is how you do it. Help out with this. I'll give a FREE copy of either of my books to anyone who can get me media exposure for these new developments regarding parental contact. So copy this news release BELOW and fax it out.)
Contact Rich Zubaty or Rich Fisher: 941-418-0448

ATTENTION: Talk Show Producers/Editors -- SHOW/STORY IDEA

STATE OF FLORIDA CREATES FAMILY VISITATION NETWORK and FAMILY VISITATION TASK FORCE

Two female Florida legislators have sponsored bills in the Florida State Senate and House of Representatives to establish the Florida Family Visitation Network and Florida Family Visitation Task Force.

Six pilot projects around the state have concluded that:

  1. passive/aggressive parental alienation constitutes a direct form of child abuse.
  2. the long-term financial impact on government of children raised without fathers (prisons, juvenile court, welfare) far exceeds the cost of creating a public/private network to insure parental contact and the uninterrupted preservation of familial bonds -- ancient human institutions whose capacity to forestall criminal and deviant behavior has been well documented.
  3. the time has come for government to put a foot forward to fund projects that ensure the preservation of familial bonds
  4. the groundswell of support for the pilot projects has been enormous

Show idea

Rich Zubaty, author of Surviving the Feminization of America and radio/TV talk show veteran, can put together a panel of experts including himself, a Florida State Senator, and an employee of Child Protective Services to make a case for the need to establish government-sanctioned Visitation "Centers", a Visitation Network, and a Visitation Task Force.

Call me: 941-418-0448

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