I received this communication from Stephen Baskerville, author of Take Into Custody, a new book that exposes the injustices of Family Courts.
Glitches at Amazon and some other online sellers have been corrected. You can now buy the book easily at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, WorldNetDaily, Borders, and other booksellers. In fact, the Amazon sales ranking has been very high. (Amazon is now featuring 6 reviews, all of which give the book 5 stars.) WorldNetDaily reports they are already sold out and have ordered more. Last week, the publishers told me they have ordered a second print run.
Now is the time to contact radio stations and get interviews. Again, if you are connected with a local group, you should try to come on with me for a joint interview. Below is a sample letter you can send to talk radio producers, either before or after you phone them. Attached is a press release, and several pages of highlights from the book.
Please forward this message to your friends and urge them to buy this book and seek radio interviews. Thanks.
Stephen
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(Sample Lett
Note: You can get contact information for all the radio stations and television stations in your area here: http://ancpr.com/mediacenter.htm
Dear [Producer’s Name],
Stephen Baskerville’s new book, Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family, exposes the shocking truth behind today’s divorce epidemic. The divorce industry today is not only destoying families, ruining children’s lives, and destabilizing society; it now threatens our freedom and constitutional government.
Below see endorsements from Phyllis Schlafly, Paul Weyrich, Mike McManus, Grover Norquist, and other luminaries, testifying that this is the most destructive and dangerous abuse of power in America today. You will see that Dr. Baskerville has already appeared on major media, including O’Reilly, Hardball, and CNN.
Below is a description of the book, and attached are some highlights.
Dr. Baskerville’s contact information is below.
[Then add your own message.]
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Here follows some helpful media information about the book:
“This book is a tremendous and much-needed report on how family courts and government policies are harming children.”
Phyllis Schlafly, President, Eagle Forum
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By Stephen Baskerville
Why is the American family in crisis? Dr. Stephen Baskerville argues that the most direct cause is the divorce industry: a government-run system that tears apart families, separates children from fit and loving parents, confiscates the wealth of families, and turns law-abiding citizens into criminals in ways they are powerless to avoid. In more than half of divorces, one person forces it upon the other.
In all of human history, this kind of crisis has never happened before. Indeed, today’s divorce machine resembles the totalitarian regimes of the last century. Like them, the government officials who exercise virtually absolute control over the private lives of Americans have never been held accountable to anyone. Taken into Custody explores it all:
- Why the “deadbeat dad” is not only a myth but a hoax, the creation of government officials and lawyers plundering parents whose children they have taken away.
- How hysterical propaganda about domestic violence is destroying families, endangering children, and making criminals of innocent parents.
- The real causes of child abuse and how the abuse industry willfully ignores them.
- What drives the rash of “parental kidnappings.”
- How family courts operate as if there is no Bill of Rights, denying parents their constitutional legal protections.
Taken into Custody exposes the greatest and most destructive civil rights abuse in America today. Family courts and Soviet-style bureaucracies trample basic civil liberties, entering homes uninvited and taking away people’s children at will, then throwing the parents into jail without any form of due process, much less a trial. No parent, no child, no family in America is safe.
The legal industry does not want you to hear this story. Radical feminists, bar associations, and social work bureaucracies have colluded to suppress this information. Even civil libertarians look the other way. Yet it is a reality for tens of millions of Americans.
STEPHEN BASKERVILLE, Ph.D., is assistant professor of government at Patrick Henry College and president of the American Coalition for Fathers of Children. He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and is a Fellow at the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society. The author of more than eighty articles on fatherhood and family issues, he has appeared widely on national radio and television programs.
ISBN-10: 1-58182-594-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-58182-594-7
$24.95, Hardcover
Publication Date: July 2007
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A selection of the Conservative Book Club.
Praise for Taken Into Custody
See syndicated columns on Taken Into Custody by Phyllis Schlafly and Mike McManus.
“Since unilateral divorce was adopted in the 1970s, millions of innocent parents have lost their fundamental right to raise their own children to an array of government officials and “experts,” such as judges, lawyers, psychotherapists, social workers, child protective services, child support enforcement agents, mediators, counselors, and feminist groups. Dr. Baskerville documents injustices to children and fathers that might otherwise seem beyond belief. He exposes the distortions and fabrications propagated by the divorce industry to rationalize confiscating children from their parents. This is must reading for everyone who loves children, family, or justice.”
“Taken Into Custody exposes the corruption of the divorce industry – lawyers paid to destroy marriages, courts who do their bidding, and bought state legislators. It is must reading by millions who lost access to their children, but also by church leaders whose support is essential if Stephen Baskerville’s reforms are to have a chance. The danger of gay marriage is trivial compared to the carnage of divorce explored here.”
“Stephen Baskerville’s Taken into Custody powerfully depicts the myriad cruelties and injustices currently being visited upon American fathers.”
Dr. Baskerville has already appeared on these shows, among others:
The O’Reilly Factor
Hardball
CNN
Tucker Carlson (planned)
Court TV with Fred Graham and Katherine Crier
Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg
Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg
Janet Parshall’s America
Bott Radio Network
His writings have appeared in these leading publications:
Washington Post
Washington Times
American Conservative
Human Events
Catholic World Report
Crisis
World Net Daily
Whistleblower
Insight
American Spectator
The Spectator
American Enterprise
National Review
LewRockwell.com
MovieGuide.com
Liberty
Independent Review
Salisbury Review
Society
Political Science and Politics
Women’s Quarterly
Family Policy Review
Contact the Author:
Stephen Baskerville, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Government
Patrick Henry College
1 Patrick Henry Circle
Purcellville, Virginia 20132
703 560 5138 * 540 338 8737 * 202 330 3248 (mobile)
Available at Amazon’s special price of $16.47 (regular price $24.95).
2 responses so far ↓
1 Merck // Oct 17, 2007 at 7:15 am
I just picked up my copy of “Taken into Custody” yesterday, along with the book by Judge Robert Dierker Jr., “The tyranny of Tolerance”, exposing the fanatical liberal assault on our judiciary.
I’m about halfway through the first chapter of Baskerville’s book “Judicial Kidnapping” and am enjoying the read. The Author has the rare talent of being able to see the problem for what it truly is; being able to describe it pointblank, pulling no punches, and telling it exactly the way it is.
Forget everything you think you know about this corruption and pay close attention to what is said in this book. It’s a must read for every American with an IQ over 80, who can tell you who the current Vice President is. If you don’t fit that description then “It Takes a Village” by Hillary Clinton is a good choice for you.
I think Baskerville is a true “National Hero”.
Kevin Merck
2 Merck // Oct 19, 2007 at 7:37 am
Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law, 18 U.S.C. § 242.
This statute deals with public officials, or those acting in that capacity, who violate citizens’ constitutional rights. I don’t know what the purview of this statute is. What I do know is that any circumstance they could be addressing with this statute is no worse than what the Family Court is doing to parents.
Read Baskerville’s book. If you fully grasp what he is saying, and it really sinks in, then how can anyone deny that the death penalty is not only justified by law, but is actually appropriate to deal with this criminal activity?
There is no doubt that Parents’ Constitutional Rights are routinely violated by the Court acting under “color of law”.
There is no doubt that the actions of these Courts are directly responsible for countless deaths. A major reason for the secrecy our Courts and Child Support Agencies operate under is to conceal this fact. Tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of deaths are directly attributable to this criminal activity.
In Baskerville’s words:
-mass incarcerations without trial or charge
-forced confessions
-children forcibly separated from parents who are under no suspicion of legal wrongdoing and parents stripped of the care, custody, and companionship of their children without explanation
-government agents entering the homes, demanding and examining private papers and personal effects, and seizing the property of citizens who are under no suspicion of legal wrongdoing
-official court records, including hearing tapes and transcripts, doctored and falsified with the knowledge of court officials and evidence fabricated against the innocent
-defendants denied the constitutional right to face their accusers
-bureaucratic police authorized to issue subpoenas and arrest warrants against parents, with no hearing and contrary to due process of law
-special courts created specifically to process parents for political offenses
-forced labor facilities created specifically for parents
-children instructed to hate their parents with the backing of government officials
-children forced by government officials to act as informers against their parents
-children abused and killed with the backing of government officials
-knowingly false allegations, for which no evidence is presented, accepted as fact without proof, overturning the presumption of innocence, and not punished when demonstrated to be untrue
-parents ordered by government officials to separate from their spouses, on pain of losing their children
-parents forced to pay the private fees of court officials they have not hired and whose services they have not sought or used, on pain of incarceration
-parents suspected of no legal wrongdoing punitively stripped of their property and income, sometimes at gunpoint, and reduced to penury-government officials using the mass media to vilify private American citizens, and political leaders using their offices as platforms to verbally attack private American citizens, who have no right of reply or opportunity to defend themselves
-parents jailed without trial reportedly beaten, in at least one case fatally, and denied medical attention while in police custody.
Stephen Baskerville
March 2007
Read the statute:
Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law, 18 U.S.C. § 242.
This provision makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
For the purpose of Section 242, acts under “color of law” include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the bounds of that official’s lawful authority, if the acts are done while the official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. Persons acting under color of law within the meaning of this statute include police officers, prisons guards and other law enforcement officials, as well as judges, care providers in public health facilities, and others who are acting as public officials. It is not necessary that the crime be motivated by animus toward the race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin of the victim.
THE OFFENSE IS PUNISHABLE BY A RANGE OF IMPRISONMENT UP TO A LIFE TERM, OR THE DEATH PENALTY, DEPENDING UPON THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE CRIME, AND THE RESULTING INJURY, IF ANY.
Kevin Merck
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