Children of the State

Stolen for Profit

Peter van de Voorde

• Publisher: Family Briefing
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780994479150
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Family Law
• Index: Law

Twelve years in the making, Children of the State: Stolen for Profit sets out to change the discourse on child protection, and provides a detailed account of morally indefensible, international family and child protection laws and practices. It presents a devastating compilation of statistics and analyses of failed family and child protection systems for concerned citizens, policy makers and law reformers. Leavingno stones unturned, it prudently explores urgently needed viable alternatives for those dispossessed and without a voice.

The consequences of these policies can now be seen across the Western world where they seriously impact millions of individuals, whole communities and the social order of our time. The book draws attention to the State's supreme power of authority over the nations’ children, and how this power has been used to create a multi-billion dollar global industry engaged in the redistribution of stolen children for profit.

Children of the State: Stolen for Profit, looks at the 400 year history of legitimised child removals, which are currently impacting one in four of the civilian population of most nation states. All made possible due to 21st Century national governments of all political persuasions stubbornly clinging to little known but omnipotent 16th Century political and institutional doctrines. These in turn provide governments the legitimacy to forcibly remove millions of children from their biological families.

Today, every child is at risk of being deprived of the protection of their biological family because, we the civilian population, have collectively failed to recognize the supreme guardianship powers of the State. Perceived legal rights to the protection of their own family, something that everybody incorrectly assumes parents and children are legally entitled to, are in fact non-existent.

Accumulatively estimated to impact more than sixmillion Australians and currently draining our annual taxpayer funded budgets to the tune of $53 billion, that this issue is not at the top of the national agenda places a huge question mark over the quality of our collective conscience and vigilance. Widespread exploitation of crisis ridden global family and child protection systems is rampant.

Without rights or anyone to turn to, the overwhelming socioeconomic consequences of misguided family and child protection policies reach deep into every community, where so many of our families, friends and neighbours, struggle in silence each day with the effects of their imposed loss of family protection.

Eight

The Root Cause and Integrated Networks

Family briefing had reached a stage where the overwhelming evidence indicated the difficulties faced by unsuspecting communities were far bigger than we could ever have imagined. While it became increasingly obvious that the extent of the lies told and incompetence displayed by authorities defied belief, they nevertheless serve to prop up a complex, interconnected system of national and international child-removal networks on a scale not seen before in modern history. Its reach is worldwide and the stakes are high for those engaged in profiting from other peoples’ children.

Globally, we witness monumental policy stuff-ups in child protection, fire protection, intelligence protection and more recently the lack of protection from a predatory financial services sector. Ill-conceived legislation produced by incompetent, seat-warming legislators elected by a confused and disillusioned electorate, has placed many lives at risk. Following years of community silence, our collective complacency and willingness to ignore decades of industry warnings, is beginning to show signs of consequence. Irreparable damage has been done and the die is now cast.

The Grenfell Tower inferno in London43 and subsequent Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports demonstrated clearly that fire-protection laws are not fit for purpose and have exposed gross government negligence caused by poorly drafted legislation.44 Widespread policy exploitation has now distributed the equivalent of several containers of highly flammable liquid throughout the homes of millions of unsuspecting property owners and placed countless lives in jeopardy in the process.

Future Royal Commissions and coronial enquiries are sure to condemn governments for their negligence in drafting laws that claim, but fail, to protect. The disastrous outcome for victims of fire-protection laws that lack teeth, bear an uncomfortable resemblance to the lethal consequences suffered by the victims of family and child-protection laws.

Mirroring their deadly counterparts in the family justice jurisdiction, impotent fire protection and financial services protection laws riddled with legal loopholes, lack effective compliance enforcement protocols, provide no actual punishment for wrongdoing and so fail to protect the public from widespread institutional abuse. Managed by ill-informed and arrogant authorities who have ignored dire warnings expressed by concerned industry leaders, have resulted in years of irresponsible behaviour by those exploiting policy weakness for profit.

Successive governments in many parts of the world, who have ignored the evidence of extensive negative consequences, are likely to face criminal negligence charges.

So how is all this made possible we wondered? How on earth can so many national governments expose so many families and children to so much danger over so many decades? Who is responsible for creating impotent family and child-protection legislation and how does the legislation fail to protect the general population? Who exploits the many legal loopholes in the legislation and how is that accomplished? What are some of the major consequences? How do countless service-provider networks all feed off one another, and who is to be held accountable for destroying so many lives over so many years?

Government statistics indicate that we have allowed the forced removal of many millions of “protective” family members from their biological children, and have stood by silently and watched while they were replaced by thousands of civil servants and a collective of profiteering, enabling cohorts who now decide what is best for the nation’s children.

There are many reasons why this has been tolerated for so long, but primarily it happens due to the financial gains that family breakdown presents, and because not one of the many contributing factors operates in isolation.

They are all interconnected, creating the biggest, costliest, least effective and most damaging child-protection networks the world has witnessed. The enormity of the social and economic costs and the sheer magnitude of the number of people harmfully impacted, causing many to take their own lives, has the potential to lead to a dangerous erosion of confidence in our political leadership and in so doing, democracy itself.

The underlying root cause for the destructive mayhem inflicted on an unsuspecting electorate however, is the Orwellian legislation that legitimises the redistribution of children for profit and serves to appease the personal power agendas of the exploiters.

Matching some of the worst human rights abuses in human history inflicted by the dominant societal group upon their fellow human beings, current family and child-protection laws, morally indefensible by any measure of human decency, continue to enjoy the support of the national governments of our time. For their brutality and horror alone, they rate alongside the cruelty inflicted by the slave trading nations of the world upon the powerless victims at the source of their human trade.

To demonstrate how insidiously the system operates, our next challenge was to find a way to show what made it all possible. By this time, Family Briefing had become acutely aware that to draw attention to the resulting devastating consequences, a way had to be found to illustrate the complexities of the system in an easy to understand format.

Following a great deal of experimentation, we were eventually able to produce a visual aid showing the sequence of movement, actions and activities of the many people involved in a complex legitimised child-removal system. After a good deal of work, we successfully demonstrated how all the key components of family and child-protection laws are interconnected and share in the profitable pursuit of children for removal. The diagram clearly illustrates why and how these international laws and their procedural legal loopholes fail to protect millions of 21st Century children from being removed from their biological families, and incontrovertibly serves to identify the catalyst for the horror that follows.

The following flowchart illustrates the multifarious web of interrelated institutions and agencies responsible:

Full size copies are available at the Family Briefing website.

Following extensive analysis of publicly available material, and by applying our Protective Contact benchmark in combination with UK and Australian costings for modelling purposes, we were able to develop an up to date data set that would enhance quality policy development. It had become obvious that at the core of societies’ maltreatment are fundamentally flawed laws that embolden the slow obliteration of our social structure.

A different set of values and different laws would provide the community with a more equitable outcome, so why have successive governments tolerated such destruction for so long?

Unfettered self-interest of the political and legal castes, using outdated ideologies acquired at the knees of their professors as justification, means they operate against the interests of the general public – and get away with it.

Political leadership of the developed world are fond of proclaiming they govern a country of laws and, with great pride, our lawmakers then declare their unquestioning belief in the rule of law. It is intended to make them appear principled, and serves to make the electorate feel safe in the knowledge that our country’s laws will protect us from harm. In the main they certainly do, but it also functions to discourage their constituents from questioning the validity of such broad assertions.

So what do we really know about these laws? How well do they actually protect us and from whom exactly?

Upon closer examination of family and child protection laws, a disturbing picture emerges of a plethora of legal loopholes and unscrupulous actions. Not only are these being condoned, but often encouraged in order to undermine the intended purpose of delivering a just outcome for the nation’s children and their families in our courts of law.

Many of these unprincipled activities, combined with legal loopholes you can drive a truck through, border on corrupt practices intended to subvert justice itself. Family Court secrecy prevents scrutiny, but in due course manifest malfeasance in this jurisdiction will be exposed.

Not only must justice be done, it must also be seen to be done.45 This paraphrased almost century-old rule of law principle states that the mere appearance of bias is ...