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Bruce Eden's avatar

I once remarked that a 75 cent bullet would be the solution. I'd be getting out of jail in a short period of time for temporary insanity. Some said that the children would hate you for killing their mother. Do the children hate the mother for terminating their rights to their father???? It's the same thing. The moral equivalency no longer works. There is no moral equivalency. It's now starting to turn into a dog-eat-dog system. Women claim that men harass them and they have to file a domestic violence restraining order as a result. No! It's because they are told by their lawyers that a restraining order is a tactical move to win the entire divorce game. Or, is it a strategic move to destroy the parent-child relationship by the Soviet-style courts and break up families on their way to breaking up society.

It reminds me of the Nazi "Blood Judge" Roland Friesler. (You can find out about him on YouTube on the internet). He would scream at Jewish prisoners brought before him in a Nazi show-trial court in Berlin where all the Nazi officers and elites were sitting watching this maniac pronounce every Jew that came before him as guilty. He would berate them in front of a full courtroom and dehumanize them. When he was done with his little show tirades, he sentenced them to death. Over 95% of Jews brought before him were summarily executed after the hearings. The remaining 4-5% were imprisoned in concentration camps. He was finally stopped when a massive Allied 1000 bomber raid on Berlin dropped the entire courthouse on his head.

Family courts grant custody of children and grant divorces in 95% or more to the women (a ward of the state). Then judges put on their version of a Nazi show-trial and scream at the father for not paying child support, and put them in Nazi-style concentration camp county jail shitholes as imprisoned debtors.

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Michael "Thunder" Phillips's avatar

You’re absolutely right that the use of restraining orders has become weaponized, and that courts are often just rubber-stamping outcomes that devastate dads without any real evidence or due process. That betrayal cuts deep, and it should make people angry.

But I also believe our power is in exposing the system with truth, not threats. The comparison to authoritarian regimes might feel extreme to some, but I get what you're saying — that when courts abandon fairness, due process, and humanity, they become something far more dangerous than a legal institution. They become tools of control.

We need to keep calling this out. Loudly. But we also need to make sure our message can’t be dismissed as extremist or unstable — because that’s exactly what the system wants to paint us as. Let’s keep pushing for real reform, real exposure, and real change.

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Karen Riordan's avatar

Thank you for your continued coverage of the pattern of abuse and violations of due process that result in irreparable harm and inflict trauma upon children and healthy parents. Holidays, birthdays, milestones come and go and family courts throughout the country treat the targeted parent as non-human; they want you to believe you have no value as a parent so you will walk away. Children have the parent they love eliminated from their lives- a virtual death while they still walk the earth; isolated from their children without any finding of wrongdoing or unfitness.

The brutality visited upon families by our own family court system is unconscionable and so extreme that it is difficult for anyone to believe— this is part of the reason their tactics have been effective. That, and the fact that mainstream media will not report - and will not go up against the family court attorneys and the system.

Ultimately the truth will come to light. It already is thanks to parents and reporters like yourself. Thank you for your continued coverage - the public needs to be warned to avoid family court.

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Michael "Thunder" Phillips's avatar

Thank you so much — your words really hit home. What you said about the “virtual death” of a loving parent is exactly how it feels. You’re still alive, still full of love, but cut out like you never mattered. And the court’s silence, the cold indifference, only deepens the trauma — for both the parent and the child.

You’re absolutely right: the brutality is so outrageous that most people can’t even wrap their heads around it. That disbelief is exactly what the system counts on. And the media? Still asleep, or maybe just too scared to pull back the curtain on what’s really going on.

But I do believe the tide is turning. More people are speaking out, connecting, sharing their stories — and that truth is starting to break through. We just have to keep shining that light and refusing to be erased.

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Bruce Eden's avatar

But, you are creating a society of hateful, angry children that have mental problems of their own, many wind up in divorce themselves, and many cannot cope in a male-female relationship. That's why many men won't marry. They've seen what their mothers did to their fathers, and basically say "screw this, I'll turn gay or find another way, or just go it alone". A lot of these child victims of divorce have no moral or life compass and find themselves in bad situations, don't know how to live their lives, and look for the wrong crowd to join to be accepted. Granted, there are those children that pick up the pieces and get on with their lives, but are always trying to get back to dad. However, in some cases, dad no longer wants to deal with the pain, so he drops out of their lives in what is called by many as "tough love". Dad figures that if you didn't want me before, why now??? It's a defense mechanism for live. Dads are human too. But, many dads do re-enter their children's lives later. A lot of men and children are kind of f*cked up by the ex-wife. But, everyone needs to direct and target their anger on the judges, lawyers, pseudo-experts, child support extortionists, and the other parasitic hangers-on in the courts.

Fathers, mothers, grand-mothers, sisters, daughters and sons need to go after the criminal Family Court hacks and begin a massive campaign to start the elimination of the Family Court because it is anathema to a well rounded family and society. The first job of government is public safety to protect the people. Family courts are not there for public safety. They cause public safety problems. Family courts are only there as money-extorting businesses through theft by deception and fraud. They create problems where there shouldn't be problems. The feed the criminal and civil courts by creating criminals within and without the system. The cause people mental problems and mental breakdowns, thus, feeding the crazies who run the mental health industry. They feed law enforcement with defendants and perpetrators by jailing them for debt or for contempt for wanting to see their own children.

I would proffer at some point soon that someone or some group will take down a courthouse with everyone in it because of family court. Or, they will go after family court judges and their families, along with the complicit lawyers and their families. Parents may get to the point that they start their own "Star-Chamber" against the real criminals: judges, lawyers, mental health experts paid to give the children to one parent, child support lackeys, etc.

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Michael "Thunder" Phillips's avatar

Bruce, so much of what you said is dead-on. The generational damage is real. So many kids grow up internalizing the dysfunction they saw in family court, and it messes with their ability to trust, connect, or even understand what a healthy relationship looks like. A lot of men have checked out of marriage entirely, and I don’t blame them. They saw what happened to their dads — or they are the dads it happened to.

And you’re right: the system is built to exploit. It profits off pain, drags out conflict, and gaslights families into thinking they’re broken when the real problem is the court that never gave them a fair chance. The lawyers, judges, “experts,” and enforcers are too often just parasites feeding off the chaos.

That said, I always come back to this — our strength is in exposing, organizing, and reforming. We need to hit them where it actually hurts: their reputation, their power, and their funding. I'm with you 100% on the call for a massive campaign to dismantle the machine. Because if we don’t fix this, it’s not just parents getting destroyed — it’s entire generations being handed the wreckage.

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Jason's avatar

Sad state of affairs … should not be able to happen, especially in this country. One of constitutional rule of law, supposedly.

Prayers for justice and accountability to be adjudicated for you both, as well as for all the other parents out there dealing with these completely insane and corrupt systems 🙏

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