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THE NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS

July 24-July 30, 2008

Opinion

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An AmNews reader writes:

Critics respond to ACS

 

In answer to your July 3, 2008 article ACS responds to critics, Part 1, here is Critics respond to ACS:

 

I am sure Sharman Stein from ACS is a fine person doing her public relations job and being paid to defend ACS, but let’s look at the facts. She begins by comparing ACS reasons to police reasons to intervene. I want to point out that in the same way as there is police brutality, there is ACS brutality and ACS brutality is much much worse.

 

She calls the kidnapping of Black and Latino children “removals”, I call them more accurately kidnappings. She can be safe that ACS would never “remove” a child from her: she does not qualify.

 

She says that “we take steps to help a parent fix the problem”. Ask parents and they will tell you that this is not accurate, but rather a Public Relations spin or a cruel joke. After the tragic death of Nizxmary Brown the “removals” almost doubled. How can ACS explain that all of a sudden parents started abusing their children at a double rate? Or it was rather that ACS had gone into protective mode by protecting themselves rather than the children.

 

The fact of ripping children from the people they love and trust the most, is such a perverse act that leave them psychologically scarred for life. No wonder that 75% of them end in the prison system. Most of the rest as homeless or mentally ill. The State Legislature uses the number of children in foster care as the best predictor to build more beds for the ever growing prison system. I suggest that if ACS were sincere they should read the study The Pernicious Effect of Emergency Removals at http://www.parentsinaction.net/english/Advocacy/Pernicious_Effect.htm

 

ACS is the enforcement arm of the Child Slave Trade. They feed the profit-driven foster care industry that preys on those who oppose the least resistance: People of color who are not rich. I suggest ACS read the report Children as Chattel at http://www.parentsinaction.net/english/CHILDREN_AS_CHATTEL.htm

 

You mention the Guinea Pig Kids being used at the Incarnation Children’s Center in Washington Heights. That is just the tip of the iceberg. What happened there, would not had been possible without the climate of abuse and impunity in which ACS operates. If what they did with those innocent children had been done to animals, the ASPCA would had close down the place and had everyone arrested, but since the children where mostly Black and Latino, they are expendable.

 

ACS happens to be the biggest child abuser in NYC. For any child they may help, they destroy 1,000. Either moron’s logic or clever evil social engineering.

 

The scam counts with the unconditional support of the family court judges who are appointed by the Mayor and who work for him (as the ACS Commissioner does) and who rubber stamp anything that ACS does and wants. There is no Jury Trial or Due Process in Family Court and a generous estimate is that parents win about 2 cases out of every 1,000 in a 1028 Hearing in Family Court.

 

ACS is not getting better but rather worse. The only thing they are getting better is the public relations strategies. For further information on how this cruel scam has been set up, see our presentation on the Cradle-to-Prison Pipeline Industry at the First US Social Forum at  http://www.parentsinaction.net/english/Events/USSF1.html

 

Ms. Stein claims that “we do a lot to support teens who are aging out, like helping them to go to community college.” Of course, after having damaged the mind of that child, they want to show off by sending him/her to college. If they really cared about children, they should leave them with their natural protectors and in those few cases where there are problems, should help those families with voluntary services. ACS and all those who make a living from this scam want to defy the laws of nature and on top of that the laws of economics. Who is going to believe that oxymoron? They are really preparing teenagers not to college but to the prison system.

 

 

Sincerely

 

Rolando Bini - Executive Director

Parents in Action

For Leadership and Human Rights

http://www.parentsinaction.net

347-624-4830