The due process lie

One of our most important freedoms is due process under the law, the right to face our accuser, the right to a trial, etc.

But in family court and many other courts, there is a way to short circuit the justice system that frees you of your rights (catch the pun). It is called pre-trial settlement.

Family courts routinely take away parental rights from the "looser" of the divorce, typically the Father, but sometimes the Mother.

Here's briefly how it works... Family Court

• denies your constitutional right to represent yourself
• denies you the right to know the accusations or face your accuser
• denies you the right to trial
• accepts lawyer's statements as evidence in violation of "rules of evidence"
• has no sworn statements
• has no court reporters, no record of hearings
• practices intimidation to avoid trials, again with no court reporters or record of the conversation
• chooses the looser (NCP) with an all powerful judge with no room for due process nor practical challenge
• allows the all powerful judge to have wide latitude on how he chooses to mistreat his chosen looser (NCP)
  

The result is someone

• who never committed a crime,
• who never had due process,
• who never had a trial,
• but is stripped of their parental rights none the less
• by arbitrary decision of one overly powerful person
• who is elected by accident of careless, clueless voters
  

This happens every day in this land of the free, wrecking havoc on the NCP and on a whole generation of children who are denied access to their NCP.

And that my friend just isn't free, it is how "justice" is administered in many other parts of the world that we criticize. Oh yeah we have a justice system capable of being better, especially for those that can afford it, but it just isn't typical in family court. And it is this typical reality that counts, not any theoretical possibilities.