Chetly Zarko (1970 - 2010)

Chetly Zarko (1970 – 2010) will be remembered and missed. A guest on Get Your Justice Live discussing one of the most important liberty tools a citizen can employ… the infamous FOIA request. I first met Chetly Zarko while he was working on a campaign in a nice pub in Oakland County during a private meeting to discuss opposition political candidates in one of the local races that I had taken a personal interest in. We had frequently exchanged information and ideas during the next several years.

I enjoyed Chet’s enthusiasm and his interest in bringing to light what government often times wanted to keep dark. Chetly was interviewed on my online radio program, Get Your Justice Live, in 2009. He was always full of energy and had his hands in many stories. He knew how to dig and how to present. He was a true leader in the keeping the flow and freedom of information going.

Please God I pray, let those that this man have touched carry his enthusiasm and vigor for freedom forward to help protect this great country and its’ people. Amen. You will be remembered and missed Chet.

Links:
Interview w/ Chetly Zarko Apr 22, 2009
Outside Lansing Political Discussions

Chetly was most recently working on exposing a fake tea party group here in Michigan, an excerpt from his website:

Zarko Exclusive Documents: “Fake” Tea Party Files Alleged 59,000 signatures

by: chetly

Wed Jul 14, 2010 at 17:18:11 PM EDT

Linked here is this afternoon’s filing by paid petitioners for the so-called “the Tea Party” of Michigan.  38,000 signatures roughly are required to put a new party on the ballot -the filers claim to have submitted 59,400 (but with an unknown number of sheets, so I am waiting for the Secretary of State to count and number the sheets before looking at this much harder).

If that number holds or is anywhere near reality, it will be a hard number to challenge in terms of signature validity.  But the Tea Party may have other legal issues, and I’ll report on those as appropriate.

Two new names show up now.

First, is Eric Tincher, of Kalamazoo, whose name I withheld except from news media contacts, who was the primary subcontractor for the paid effort.  He’s known as a subcontractor to PCI, Inc, or “Progressive Campaigns”, the petition company I reported  was involved.  This is tertiary verification my accuracy on that report – I name him now because he signed as the legal agent depositing the signatures.

John Roby now appears as the “Secretary” of the Tea Party.  Campaign finance donations show him to be a near clone of Mark Steffek – a UAW line worker or similar person with a regular $2 to $10 payroll deducation donation to a UAW PAC.  Not much else is known about Roby – but several people are working down that path now

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We have setup activist training conferences for every Sunday in January 2010 live at 8PM EST. The purpose of the training is to enable local citizen groups to become more vocal to help stave off federal government control and influence of your private lives, families, property, and money. (Just to name a few right?)

Federal Government has grown out of control but how and why? Look at the above chart and see how Government Payroll jobs have exceeded private goods-producing jobs by about 4million checks. The state and local municipalities have agreed to and allowed federal domestic and foreign national influence to take control of our state laws in exchange for federal grant dollars. IE: Bribery… Local and State representatives and the very large government lobby are indeed the problem…

YOU are the solution. Only YOU can force your local and state governments to say NO!

Without mobilizing grassroots activists to stand and resist local and state government acceptance of federal government bribes, the various layers of government will continue to cannibalize our once great nation’s ability to produce quality goods ~ further driving unemployment and government reliance for survival through the roof.

YOUR ISSUE WON’T MATTER UNTIL YOU TAKE A STAND!

Even if you don’t fully understand all the technical aspects of the true size of government and how it is now self-lobbying and influencing the votes… understand this:

State Representative Brian Nieves (Missouri) said it best, “Make them [government officials] do what they are gonna do in front of you!” Show up at any location that a governing board convenes. Why? Because by showing up, even if you don’t say a word, politicians and decision-makers will have to start to look you in the eyes when they are making bad decisions. He stated that Representatives intending to vote one way chicken out because constituents were in the room of certain committee hearings. Start local and show up, even if you aren’t going to say anything.

Earlier this evening we brought together 5 dozen activists that are interested in learning more. We want you to join with us every Sunday Night at 8PM EST in January to learn more about taking action in our communities to take our economy, our jobs, our lives back from the government monopoly that stole our country from us.

To call in live: 724-898-1660
To chat with others during the live program only: http://budurl.com/liveshowtimechat

To discuss a campaign, issue, or group: 517-325-3789
To arrange a local town hall meeting to take your government back: 517-325-3789

The only people that are going to fix this country is YOU! Join us every Sunday Night at 8PM to discuss forming Political Action Committees, using tools, sharing resources, and engage in training that will help you form citizen groups all over the nation! We are in this together and our issues won’t matter until we take a stand in our own communities.

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Mike Jeffries, Author of A Family’s Heartbreak: A Parent’s Introduction to Parental Alienation, joins Get Your Justice Live w/ Co-Host Chrissy of Parental Alienation Hurts to discuss the holidays and how to deal with parental alienation and the interruption between the parent-child bond.

 

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A Family’s Heartbreak: A Parent’s Introduction to Parental Alienation, is the true story of one parent’s struggle to maintain a normal, loving relationship with his young son in the face of overwhelming odds. From the emotionally devastating actions of the child’s other parent, to a court system and mental health community ill-equipped to deal with a destructive family dynamic, A Family’s Heartbreak: A Parent’s Introduction to Parental Alienation is both an education in parental alienation and an eye opening experience for parents who don’t believe this could happen to them.

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Court watching is something that many individuals can participate in with limited training and moderate effort. Collectively, we are working on a national court watching project but wanted to include this free and educational audio on the subject for you to start to understand the process and its possibilities as an effective national reform effort for the judiciary.

 

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If you would like to join the subcommittee on the national court watch reform project, please apply to join this meetup group that is sponsored by our radio program.

We also have a court watch form, court watch instructions, and basic training to assist in your community court watch program. We will be expanding that area of the site after the committee is finalized.

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Babysitting was illegal for a short while in Michigan, but thanks to Michigan Representative Brian Calley we can declare that it is now legal to babysit your neighbors children again. The issue apparently became known, nationally in fact, when the State of Michigan Department of Human Services sent a warning letter to Lisa Snyder, a resident near Grand Rapids, MI. She was apparently watching three children for about an hour each day before they caught their bus, and the letter alleged  she would be violating a law normally used to stop unlicensed “day-care centers.”

Representative Brian Calley (R-87) joined us live on Get Your Justice Live to discuss Department of Human Services regulations regarding babysitting, unlicensed daycare operations, and other programs that are weighing down the state’s budget and hindering the operations of the largest Michigan bureaucracy.

 

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Michigan: It’s now legal to babysit your neighbor’s children.

The Michigan House of Representatives, the Michigan Senate, and the Governor approved Michigan Rep. Brian Calley’s measure to resolve the issue between Michigan’s Department of Human Services and the babysitters that are helping out working families in the great state of Michigan.

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Monika Logan, a social worker that has dedicated a portion of her studies and life to parental alienation studies joins Get Your Justice Live for a special episode of Get Your Justice Live.

Monika is providing support for professionals and parents that are dealing with parental alienation, a social dynamic that generally occurs due to divorce or separation. When a child expresses unjustified hatred or unreasonably strong dislike of one parent, making access by the rejected parent difficult or impossible. These feelings may be influenced by negative comments by the other parent and by the characteristics, such as lack of empathy and warmth, of the rejected parent.

It is important to note that the term should not be applied in cases of actual child abuse, when the child rejects the abusing parent to protect themselves.

 

 EPISODE302 - Monika Logan, Social Worker, Discusses Parental Alienation [1:31:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

Monika is a facilitator for the program, Children in the Middle, which has earned the Model Program rating from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). While post divorce education is beneficial, it cannot change the hearts and minds of individuals that participate in alienation. For those who are victims, or are interested in research, Monika continues to provide information at Parental Alienation Support.

From Parental Alienation Support: Regarding the terms PAS/PAD.

Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), or known by some as Parental Alienation Disorder, ” is a disorder that arises primarily in the context of child-custody disputes. Its primary manifestation is the child’s campaign of denigration against a parent, a campaign that has no justification. It results from the combination of a programming (brainwashing) parent’s indoctrinations and the child’s own contributions to the vilification of the target parent.”(Gardner, 1998).

How to Recognize PAS? Eight Manifestations:
1. A campaign of denigration
2. Weak, absurd, or frivolous rationalizations for the deprecation
3. Lack of ambivalence
4. The independent thinker phenomenon
5. Reflexive support of the alienating parent in the parental conflict
6. Absence of guilt over cruelty to and /or exploitation of the alienated parent
7. The presence of borrowed scenarios
8. Spread of animosity to friends and /or extended family of the alienated parent

[Editor Note: It is important to note that at the time of this publication, Parental Alienation Syndrome or Parental Alienation Disorder are not included in the current edition of the DSM (DSM IV-TR) and there is a current push to include the manifestation of disorder/syndrome in the next edition. The next edition is expected to be published in the year 2012.]

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Alec Wisner of Wisner Dispute Resolution Services joins Get Your Justice Live to discuss alternatives to the adversarial divorce process. The typical divorce process, as glamorized in popular media and culture, seems to demand that separating spouses need to hire the biggest and most aggressive attorneys to get “what they want” out of the other. Sometimes the conflict is constant litigation over children, resulting in parents demeaning and trying to posture over one another, to the complete detriment of their children. Arguments over property distributions again witnessed by their children, and many more opportunities for conflict seem to be encouraged by nearly everyone involved.

 

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There are attorneys, psychologists, mediators, and other professionals that have realized that there is a better way for our spouses and our children post-separation and post-divorce. Enter Alec Wisner of Wisner Dispute Resolution Services who discusses his dispute resolution methods with our audience.

“Trained at the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University with special divorce mediation training under the tutelage of Jim Melamed of the Oregon Mediation Center, Alec brings a unique blend of experience and training to his mission.  Thirty years of experience as an attorney, eighteen years of which were spent in hands-on business management provides Alec with the insight necessary to empower individuals during their stressful periods of conflict.“

Hugh McIsaac, a retired director of Family Court Services in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., advises divorce attorneys to represent their clients’ long-term interests, not their short-term anger. The average cost of a mediated divorce is less than $7,000 and of a collaborative divorce less than $20,000. This compares with nearly $27,000 for a divorce negotiated by rival lawyers and about $78,000 for a fully litigated divorce.

The adversarial process seems to be the most prevalent method of divorce, despite many peaceful or “less-adversarial” processes that are available, but not widely understood. For good reason, lawyers certainly make more money on the adversarial process and that seems to be what divorce is all about nowadays, who has the best lawyer.

Alec Wisner brings one of the alternatives that certainly demonstrate a more peaceful approach to the divorce process, and you are encouraged to listen to the program and hear just how easy divorce should be.

Alec Wisner Bio and Information (Click for Website)

Since forming Wisner Dispute Resolution Services in 2003, Alec Wisner has been using his unique and diverse background to assist hundreds of clients successfully resolve their disputes. Thoroughly trained in all aspects of mediation, especially in the areas of divorce and family mediation as well as commercial mediation, Alec provides both an understanding of the underlying issues and an ability to facilitate positive communication.

Alec brings a rich and diverse background to his mediation practice. While attending U.C.L.A., he won numerous national debate awards, graduating in 1971. Alec matriculated at the University of Southern California Law Center, earning his J.D. in 1974.

From 1975 through 1978, Mr. Wisner developed his legal skills in the areas of family and commercial law. In 1978, seeking new challenges, he entered the world of corporate business. During the ensuing eighteen years, Alec served in top management in the printing/publishing industry. In this capacity, he managed the growth or several medium-size corporations and was personally responsible for the spinoff of several new, successful enterprises. Mr. Wisner is still actively involved as a director of such corporations as Golden Triangle Financial Services, located in Las Vegas, NV.

Returning to the full-time practice of law, Mr. Wisner became a principal in Stanbury Fishelman & Wisner, Inc., in Los Angeles, California. As an attorney, Mr. Wisner’s practice encompassed complex civil litigation, class actions, as well as family law.

Contact Information:
18375 Ventura
Boulevard, Suite 275
Tarzana, CA
91356-5823
Email Alec Directly
Phone: 818-776-1813
Fax: 818-776-1770

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Roger Buchholtz, President of the Michigan Fair Tax Association (Michiganders for the Fairtax) joins us live on Get Your Justice Live to discuss the “FAIR Tax” Proposal here in Michigan as well as the general concept.

 

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The original proposed Constitutional language in 2007, as proposed by Representative Fulton Sheen can be found at the Michigan Legislature website.

The Michigan Fair Tax Association: Michiganders for the FAIRTAX website is located at http://www.mifairtax.org. The FAIRTAX establishes one rate for everyone; no more tax filings to the government. The FAIRTAX is considered a progressive tax, protecting the poor through a tax rebate on the necessities of life; no loopholes, therefore everyone pays the same rate on every purchase. Taxes will be shown on every sales receipt rather than hidden in the prices that are paid by the consumer.

With the FAIRTAX the tax rebate is often times called a “prebate” because it is paid to those that qualify on the necessities that you purchase every month even before you purchase them. Additionally, the prebate is only available to legal residents, so illegal immigrants will not qualify to receive reimbursements from the government on their purchases

The Michigan FAIRTAX will replace the Michigan Business Tax (MBT) and business to business transaction will no longer be taxed. Consumers throughout the state will likely see an immediate reduction in the cost of their retail goods on this point alone by about one fifth (20%) or higher. Quoting from How the MI FAIRTAX AFFECTS MICHIGAN EMPLOYERS: “Anything that goes into manufacturing or is necessary to performing a service is considered a business to business transaction. Thus, the attorney or accountant performing corporate work wouldn’t be taxed, but creating a will or doing an individual tax return would be. Only the final sale of a product or the final purchase of the service would be taxed. The Michigan FairTax would stop the double, triple, and cascading taxation which goes on all the time Michigan.” Orig.

Michigan FairTax FAQs (Orig)

Q: With Michigan’s bad economy is now the time to make a drastic change to the state tax code?
A: Michigan’s current woes are precisely the reasons why Michigan should lead the nation by adopting the MI FairTax. Many other states  including Florida, Texas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Wyoming, and Nevada all use sales tax as their primary source of revenue to pay for state services. All of their economies are doing substantially better than Michigan. In fact, some of those states are the most competitive and economically strongest in the nation.

Q: Won’t people think that the Michigan FairTax unfairly shifts the burden of taxation from businesses to the individual taxpayers of the state?
A: Businesses don’t pay taxes, people do. Businesses pass the taxes along to the consumers who purchase their goods and services. The higher business taxes are in Michigan the more difficult it is for businesses trying to operate in this state and be competitive. Michigan needs employers.

Q: Is it realistic to expect Michigan residents to support the Michigan FairTax when it seems to place a new tax on food and other necessities?
A: Consumers are already paying the taxes for all businesses in inflated prices. Even Food and Medical businesses currently pay income and business taxes which are embedded in today’s prices. The MI FairTax eliminates these hidden taxes.

Q: What exactly is the “pre-bate”?
A: To protect the poor, and to assure that no tax will be paid on necessities, the MI FairTax provides for a monthly electronic payment to every legal household in the amount of what the tax would be for purchases up to the poverty level based upon household size. This untaxes the poor and causes the MI FairTax to be progressive. Because of the prebate, a family of 4 spending $21,200/yr would have a 0% effective tax rate, and if the family spent $50,000 it would have a 5.6% tax rate, and so on up to the maximum of 9.75%. The prebate of the MI FairTax is like the personal exemption of the current income tax.

Q: How will this effect state government?
A: It will simplify tax collection, provide a more stable revenue and prevent the government from picking winners and losers. Politicians,  bureaucrats and lobbyists will no longer be able to manipulate the state tax code.

Q: How will this effect local government?
A: It will make all revenue sharing constitutional giving cities, townships, villages, and counties a number on which they can reliably plan their budget.

Q: Will the Michigan FairTax tax business-to-business transactions?
A: No! There will be no tax on any business purchases. Any tax on a business must be added to the price of the product being produced and this causes the product to be less competitive in the market place.

Learning More About the FairTax

• The Michigan FairTax Contact Sheet is located at http://mifairtax.org/Contact.htm
• The National FairTax Site is located at http://www.fairtax.org
• Wikipedia Entry “Americans for Fair Taxation” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_For_Fair_Taxation

The Original Video Presentation of Michigan Representative Fulton Sheen

“We are the only mid-western state that still has a personal property tax” -Hon. Rep. Fulton Sheen

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Deborah Moskovitch, author of The Smart Divorce, joined host Lary Holland on Get Your Justice Live to discuss why you don’t want to have a “Stupid Divorce.” I couldn’t help but laugh about this, since so many people are going into divorce without understanding the journey and the effects that it will have on future finances and more importantly on children. When you are involved, it certainly isn’t that funny.

 

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Just what exactly does S.M.A.R.T. stand for? It is real simple how it has been laid out. State your goals and objectives at the beginning. Make sure these are realistic. Maximize your information and knowledge base. Avoid reacting to your emotions. Retain the best possible divorce team your budget allows. Treat your divorce as a business transaction.

Not everyone will agree with every aspect of any program, but a key point that I saw was know your objectives at the forefront. Popular culture has raised us to believe that we have to hire the most aggressive attorney possible while trying to dominate the adversarial process against a soon-to-be ex-spouse. Times are finally starting to change with viable alternatives coming forward to help families separate with less conflict and more emphasis on their children. Deborah Moskovitch talks about many of alternatives to the adversarial divorce on Get Your Justice Live.

Deborah Moskovitch is the creator and facilitator of “The Smart Divorce consulting service, and author of the upcoming book, The Smart Divorce.

Just my personal opinion, but for less than $15.00 at Amazon.Com’s website, seems like a small price to pay just to see what the experts have to say. Enjoy.

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International Parental Abduction Expert, Patrick Braden, joins Get Your Justice Live to discuss what every parent needs to know if they believe their child is at-risk of being taken out of the United States by a parental abductor. Patrick Braden discusses the ins-and-outs of navigating the various agencies and organizations and continues to link parents to resources. He has put together a team of parents and citizens to advocate for the safe return of children everywhere, including his own daughter. Listen to the episode to gain the knowledge to help bring your children home and how you can help others. Listen first, contact Patrick second!

 

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On March 16th 2006, in violation of US court orders and laws, Ryoko covertly boarded a flight on ANA (a Japanese flagship carrier) and illegally kidnapped Melissa to Japan.

Patrick Braden has set aside his personal career for the last 3 years to work in Washington DC on the issue of International Child Abduction with a specific focus on Japan and their defiant disregard of International Children’s rights, US laws, international treaties and other related issues.

On March 11th 2009, after 2 years of work on Capitol Hill,and partly with the support from the recent high level publicity regarding the Sean Goldman case, House Resolution 125 was passed with a unanimous roll call vote in the US House of Representatives. This Resolution will benefit thousands of children and their left behind parents, affected by the plight of International Child Abduction.

The only way that Patrick can parent his child at this point is to continue his work to bring her home. Japan has refused to sign onto the Hague Convention Treaty and has never returned a single abducted child back to the United States.

You can find the “Help Bring Melissa Braden Home” group page on Facebook and connect with other parents that have been victims of International and Domestic Parental Abductions. This episode is an eye-opening compilation of what to expect, what you should do, and how to effectively advocate with the various organizations/agencies for the safe return of your children.

Some Interesting Statistics as Reported in House Resolution 125 (March 11th, 2009)

According to the Department of State, there are 51 cases involving 65 children who were habitual residents of the United States and who were removed to Brazil by a parent and have not been returned to the United States as required under the Hague Convention.

According to the Department of State’s April 2008 Report on Compliance with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, `parental child abduction jeopardizes the child and has substantial long-term consequences for both the child and the left-behind parent’.

The Department of State’s Office of Children’s Issues, while not always notified of international child abductions, is currently handling approximately 1,900 open cases of parental abduction to other countries involving more than 2,800 children abducted from the United States.

According to the Department of State, in fiscal year 2008, the United States Central Authority counted 306 cases of parental abductions involving 455 children taken from the United States to other countries that are not partners with the United States under the Hague Convention, currently including 101 children in Japan, 67 children in India, and 37 children in Russia.

Three-year-old Melissa Braden is among the children who have been wrongfully abducted to Japan, a United States ally which does not recognize intra-familial child abduction as a crime, and though its family laws do not discriminate by nationality, Japanese courts give no recognition to the parental rights of the non-Japanese parent, fail to enforce United States court orders relating to child custody or visitation, and place no effective obligation on the Japanese parent to allow parental visits for their child.

Melissa was taken from Los Angeles, California to Japan on March 16, 2006, when she was 11-months-old, despite a California court’s prior order forbidding Melissa’s removal to Japan and granting joint custody to her father Patrick Braden.

Despite his extensive efforts, Mr. Braden and his daughter have not seen each other since her abduction.

According to the Department of State, abducted children are at risk of serious emotional and psychological problems and have been found to experience anxiety, eating problems, nightmares, mood swings, sleep disturbances, aggressive behavior, resentment, guilt and fearfulness, and as adults may struggle with identity issues, their own personal relationships and parenting.

Left-behind parents may encounter substantial psychological, emotional, and financial problems and many may not have the financial resources to pursue civil or criminal remedies for the return of their children in foreign courts or political systems.

About the Hague Convention as applicable to Child Custody and Jurisdiction involving minors

The Hague Convention of 1996  is the third of the modern Hague Conventions . Its full title is Convention of 19 October 1996 on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children. It is much broader in scope than the first two conventions, covering a wide range of civil measures of protection concerning children, from orders concerning parental responsibility and contact to public measures of protection or care, and from matters of representation to the protection of children’s property.

The third of the modern Hague Conventions, the Convention of 19 October 1996 on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and Co-operation in respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children, is much broader in scope than the first two, covering as it does a very wide range of civil measures of protection concerning children, from orders concerning parental responsibility and contact to public measures of protection or care, and from matters of representation to the protection of children’s property. It also covers:

• Parental disputes over custody and contact

• Reinforcement of the 1980 Child Abduction Convention

• Unaccompanied minors

• Cross-frontier placements of children

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