I know Baldilocks is sexy, you know Baldilock is sexy, but, man, I'm telling you, she has got to quit not having sex with guys who have whacko girlfriends.
It's always nice to see a blogger be able to do something worthwhile. While I tend to disagree somewhat with Patterico's politics, I read his blog regularly. So it is with great pleasure I'm able to link to "Patterico Forces Amendment to High-Profile Ninth Circuit Opinion".
While I'm jabbering mindlessly about blogs, check out California's Ridiculous (and Unconstitutional) "Right of Publicity" (I told you so folks!) from So Cal Law Blog.
I recently got an email (yes, another email) from one of Roger Weidner's groupies. She says there are tons of concentration camps in America and if I become a follower of Roger Weidner, we can get rid of all the concentration camps and make Oregon safe for white people. Also, she says we can get the "14th amendment citizens" to leave.
I also got the following email. It is filled with delusions, lies and just plain nonsense.
April 9 2004TO: Oregon Children’s Services
FROM: Susan Detlefsen, Director Oregon Family Rights Association
RE: Melissa Gaston, born May 20, 1990, aka Melissa Maxwell, Melissa Phillips, etc.Will and Pamela, founders of A Voice for Children, have been moving heaven and earth trying to bring justice to Melissa Gaston, natural daughter of Will Gaston, and Pamela’s stepdaughter.
Melissa was kidnapped under color of law in March 1996 from her father’s front yard, by state workers, and subsequently physically, sexually, and emotionally abused in various foster homes. Witnesses testified that Melissa was videotaped by state workers and a foster mother, sexually abused in pornopornography that became the center of a jury trial in Marion County in April, l998. The jury found that the judges, the attorneys, the foster parents and caseworkers, psychologists, therapists were acting in a conspiracy to conceal evidence of criminal abuse to the child while engaging in a criminal operation for profit.
The videotape court record of the jury instruction of Judge Duane Ertsgaard and verdict from that trial can be viewed at www.avoiceforchildren.com. As of 2000, Melissa had been in more than 28 foster homes, with the agency admitting in court that she had been sexually abused in at least three of those homes. What is happening to Melissa is happening to countless other children. Melissa Gaston is the poster child of Oregon’s child abuse industry.
I have come to know Will and Pamela, who are good, loving people. Last Christmas, Will visited my street, Peacock Lane, dressed as Santa. Will and Pamela have helped many other families try to avoid the sad fate that befell Melissa under state custody. Melissa is still missing today. I am starting a new, nationwide search for Melissa Gaston, who may have had her name changed by the state. A photo of Melissa at age 4 can be seen here: http://www.avoiceforchildren.com/in_the/beginning.html where she is pictured with her father Will Gaston.
I plan to interview townspeople in Silverton Oregon where Melissa was last seen. I hope to get the interest of a documentary filmmaker from England who visited recently to interview Roger Weidner for an international documentary on judicial abuse. He knows I am working on my own documentary on the child abuse industry, and is coming back to Portland soon.
I urge anyone who has any information regarding Melissa to contact Oregon Family Rights or A Voice for Children. If you are a state worker and in fear of losing your job, you can send an anonymous tip. Most of all, I just want to know that the girl is ok. I hope she is safe and happy wherever she is. I have posters of Melissa if anyone wants to help distribute them and join in the search.
Some believe Melissa may have been murdered by the same state workers who were involved in her kidnapping and subsequent abuse, in order to keep Melissa from ever telling her story. Hopefully this is not true. The courts have acted to conceal all evidence of this case from the public, although many courtwatchers have been present as the state has retaliated against the Gaston family.
Please, if you have any information regarding this girl, help rest the mind of her father and stepmother, and others who pray regularly for Melissa’s safety and well being.
I am working on a scholarship for Melissa when she turns 18, or if she is never found, for another aged out foster child. I plan to call the scholarship the "Melissa Gaston Freedom Fund".
I recently located the former head of Children’s Services Kay Toran, and though she has declined an interview with me, will continue to petition her to help find Melissa Gaston, as I believe she may have some information on this case.
I also want to enlist the help of Maine foster mom and author Mary Callahan. I worry that Melissa has suffered a fate similar to Logan Marr, who was killed by her foster mom Sally Schoefield several years ago. Mary, if you have any ideas on this, please help us find Melissa.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help in this search for Oregon’s lost girl, Melissa Gaston.
Susan Detlefsen
www.oregonfamilyrights.com
Susan even managed to con certain members of the Grant PTA to let her be involved in serious stuff.
And let's not forget another mindless email to me.
Date: 11/18/2003 15:06:57 -0800 From: "Susan Detlefsen" susan@oregonfamilyrights.com To: editorSubject: Dear Sleazer Editor
I found some of your anonymous Websites over the Internet, namely the ones you put up regarding Roger Weidner, who is one of the most courageous people I have known in Oregon. Mr. Weidner sacrificed a law career by standing up
to corruption and taking on the people's fight. I found your comments about him very cowardly.I wonder what happened to you that has made you say these things? Mr. Weidner wonders if perhaps there has been a misunderstanding that has prompted your slanderous attacks on him.
Here is his number if you would like to speak to him: 503-232-6691. Knowing the kind of man he is, I'm sure he would welcome the opportunity to speak to you in person to discuss your opinions of him.
Susan Detlefsen
We're at war right now. Americans and their allies are being killed or maimed and the idiots trying to help Roger Weidner overthrow the government are so controlled by Roger's delusions they don't even know what is going on. They ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Roger is not a great American. He is not courageous. He is a gutless coward. He is a stupid white supremacist who should be in jail.
The League of Women Voters of Oregon has a study entitled "Understanding Oregon's Electricity Issues".
The following is from Criminal Justice Journalists (CJJ).
U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/jeeus01.pdfSpending by the U.S. criminal justice system hit a record $167 billion in 2001--$20 billion more than the 1999 total, says the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics. Adjusted for inflation, the increase was about 150 percent over two decades.
Much of the increase was do to corrections costs. The total of state and federal prison inmates rose to 1.3 million in 2001 from only 488,000 in 1985. The number of inmates in local and county jails tripled to 631,000. By contrast, the number of arrests rose was 13.7 million in 2001 compared with 12 million in 1982, and the number of court cases grew only to 92.8 million in 2001 from 86 million in 1984.
Criminologist Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie Mellon University told the New York Times that "states are faced with huge deficits and they are looking to prisons as a prime candidate to save money." Spending on jails and prisons rose to $57 billion in 2001, from $9.6 billion in 1982, the Justice Department report said.
Spending on police and courts grew more slowly, with money for the police hitting $72 billion in 2001 and spending on the courts $38 billion, the report said. In total, the criminal justice system accounted for 7 percent of all state and local government spending in 2001, roughly equal to the amount spent on health and hospitals. The criminal justice system employed 2.3 million people in 2001, 747,000 as jail or prison guards.
Prof. Michael Jacobson of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City said the report was "another indicator, especially on the corrections side, that unless we do something more significant to change our punishment policies, these numbers are going to continue to be out of control." Many states have made in the past two years to cut prison costs have been "minor reformist efforts, just nibbling around the edges," he said.