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National League of Fathers, Inc.1518 Genesee Street Utica, New York 13502
--------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE---------
Father Makes Appeal For Return of Children Before United Nations
New York, NY, February 17, 2010 A New York father is filing a petition before the United
Nations in New York City on Monday, February 22, 2010, at 2 PM seeking the return of his two
children seized from him by the State of New York (See petition attached to release).Denominated as a Petition Charging Diverse Human Rights Violations, the voluminous
document calls upon the authority of various treaties which prohibit cruel and inhumane
practices by governments in respect to parents and their children.
Leon Koziol, a veteran civil rights attorney and father of two is challenging what he calls anantiquated oppressive and gender biased custodial institution of child rearing in New York State
which fleeces mainstream parents of their hard earned resources while alienating children
permanently from their parents.
Mr. Koziols six and eight year old daughters were systematically removed from him during an
arbitrarily prolonged custody case in recent years after he began speaking out against oppressive
child control laws in New York, Washington, D.C. and Massachusetts. He has never been
accused or found to be an unfit parent. His children were featured during parades and campaign
events in his 2006 and 2007 run for state Senate and county executive.
Last week, Mr. Koziol was informed that his law license was suspended as a result of his non-payment of child support, an act of civil disobedience which has been compared to that of Susan
B. Anthony, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. Seven months earlier, Mr. Koziol was
deprived of all reasonable contact with his children in response to his premature exit from acourtroom. That exit was in protest to retaliatory practices orchestrated against him for his legal
positions, logical human demeanor and public views. According to the attorney-father, it was an
abusive process focused not upon the interests of his children but revenue generating interests of
the state and child alienation practices typical of New Yorks dysfunctional form of child
governance.
Attorney Koziol, who remains licensed in federal court, is taking aim upon a multi-billion dollar
child industry in America which he cites as a principal cause behind declining productivity andincreased health care costs across the nation. Joined by a group of similarly victimized fathers
with representative cases featured in the U.N. Petition, Mr. Koziol hopes to secure the return of
his children in a manner that parallels the ordeals of David Goldman and Elian Gonzalez.
The National League of Fathers, Inc. is a civil rights organization which advocates for the rights
of both male and female non-custodial parents. Mr. Koziol serves as Legal Counsel to theorganization. For more information contact: (315) 507-6287 or Mr. Koziol directly at (315) 796-
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UNITED NATIONSCONVENTIONS
ON HUMAN RIGHTS
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John Parent, individually and on behalf ofhis natural born children, Child A andChild B, and on behalf of parents PETITION CHARGINGsimilarly situate in the United States of DIVERSE HUMAN RIGHTSAmerica, VIOLATIONS
Petitioners,
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State of New York, the New York StateUnified Court System, the U.S. Departmentof Health and Human Services and theUnited States of America,
Respondents.***********************************
To: Secretariat of the United Nations
Human Rights Committee
Committee Against Torture
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
Committee on Racial Discrimination
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
(1) This is a Petition brought on behalf of representative victims of cruel and
inhuman treatment inflicted by government agents of the State of New York, hereinafter
State, in domestic relations matters.
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(2) In conformity with the practice of sister states and territorial possessions
of the United States, the State effectively and systematically removes countless children
from the care and control of their natural parents in order to exploit them for money
generating purposes. It has become the engine behind a multi-billion dollar child
industry in America.
(3) The practice, challenged by this Petition, is a fraudulent, oppressive and
gender discriminatory one preserved and masked by government propaganda which
rationalizes the States abduction and ransoming of children with such terminology as
child support, parental visitation and a so-called best interests of the child
standard for determining a relatively more fit parent for child custody purposes.
(4) Parents unable to reside together, regardless of their self-sufficiency and
cooperative childrearing arrangements, are forced into a State sponsored child control
institution through a scheme of laws that unnecessarily places children above those
same parents against a natural order of childrearing. Parents otherwise capable of
maintaining a joint household are nevertheless incited to separate from one another in
aggravated fashion by the States imposition of a superior status and monetary award
for the parent who is best capable of denigrating or destroying the other parent in a
contemplated divorce or domestic relations conflict.
(5) In short, children are functionally seized and ransomed to good and
mainstream parents who are forced to fight over them in public arenas known as family
and divorce courts. It is a barbaric war for those parents who love their children the
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most. This modern day war is created by financial enticements and a generalized fear
instilled in the adult litigants of losing their children in any custody process.
(6) United States Census Bureau reports continue to demonstrate that the
statistically predominant victims of this barbaric practice are the male parents and
innocent children. Good fathers, particularly the economically underprivileged, are
regularly committed to debtor prisons long deemed repugnant to the American
Constitution and related human rights documents. Others have been compelled to take
the law into their own hands due to the lack of meaningful recourse, leaving the
children often times parentless or scarred for life. This, in turn, produces disrespect for
authority, aggravated criminal activity and a wide range of social ills in the general
population and future generations of Americans.
(7) The current Petition contains the representative cases which demonstrate
the barbaric nature of this child control practice. Each case has worked its way through
the States domestic court systems only to become exhausted or grounded by the ever
escalating and self-perpetuating controversies that leave the parents economically
depleted. The parents become effectively enslaved to a child industry that breeds and
feeds off of these controversies.
JURISDICTION
(8) The authority of several treaties together with related prudential
considerations are addressed here to support the jurisdiction of the United Nations and
its pertinent Committees to receive and deliberate upon this Petition. Each named
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treaty carries with it crucial responsibilities to rectify an escalating crisis in human
rights violations occurring in the United States of America today.
(9) The individual and joint petitions which follow present a representative
fact pattern to verify widespread human rights violations that fall well within the broad
scope and purpose of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
hereinafter CCPR. The affected family members contemplated by these petitions
have been made victim to the above referenced barbaric government process.
(10) Mandatory child support and custody awards are imposed in
virtually every domestic relations controversy compelled or instigated by the
governments child control institution. The cash component of these awards can easily
exceed a half-million dollars over the lifetimes of mainstream obligors and they
predominantly benefit the interests of government, lawyers and unrelated parties.
(11) Devoid of any real accountability requirement, these so-called awards
are regularly exploited for non-child related purposes such as drug abuse, gambling,
personal interests, litigation maintenance and companion support. Properly described,
these fraudulently procured awards comprise socialist welfare entitlements that benefit
lawyers, bureaucratic agents, forensic specialists and non-parties, to the detriment of the
bottom line purported beneficiary-the children.
(12) More damaging from a human rights perspective, such custody and
child support awards are executed in a a manner which immediately, or over time,
permanently separates both fathers and mothers from their natural offspring. Children
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are ransomed and exploited to spy and report upon their parents private and intimate
activities in ways reminiscent of the practices of dictatorial regimes historically targeted
by international organizations for reform and relief.
(13) A full range of violations are presented here to implicate the provisions
of CCPR Articles 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25 and 26.
Counterpart rights envisioned by the United States Constitution are asserted under
Exhibit A in a document entitled Petition in paragraphs 103 through 122. Their
violations are incorporated into this Complaint and are best explained by resort to the
summary fact pattern contained within that exhibit.
(14) Prudential considerations are addressed in the same exhibit at paragraphs
1 through 102. All petitioners named in this communication share a common
experience with a State domestic relations process which is systematically prolonged
for money generating purposes. The relevant tribunals are inherently biased and
financially supported by the growing and cumulative stream of State-mandated child
support orders.
(15) Such child support orders are satisfied by government collection
entities that in effect comprise State owned banking institutions. Victim litigants are
denied meaningful and timely opportunities to be heard on a variety of crucial
childrearing matters to parents and their families due to the expedited nature of these
mass produced orders, even where no harm or conflict may be occurring. The blanket
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and mandatory imposition of these support orders are accordingly both oppressive
and discriminatory.
(16) Following the needless intrusions, the State burdens itself beyond any
rational capacity for fairly considering the countless and escalating levels of domestic
relations controversies cultivated by the State itself to satisfy money generating laws.
Simply stated, recourse is frustrated by a judiciary ill equipped to fill the self-appointed
role of super-parent. Truly final recourse is further made impossible under a
continuing jurisdiction power seized by the States overburdened domestic relations
courts.
(17) The events described in this Petition fall squarely within the additional
scope and purpose of the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT). The arbitrary abduction and ransoming
of children by the State and persons acting under color of law produce psychological
torture of the most calculated and heinous variety among parents and their children.
(18) The events described in this Petition further implicate jurisdiction over
the cited human rights violations found under the Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women. Paradoxically, the violations asserted here
are not predominantly those applicable to women, but rather those invidiously applied
against men. Women comprise a mere 10% of statistically impacted parties
contemplated by this Petition.
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(19) It is assumed that the United Nations recognizes human rights violations
of this variety to avoid the conclusion that only women can be the victims of
discrimination. Such a conclusion is itself discriminatory. The victim petitioners,
therefore, rely upon the assumption that the elimination of discrimination contemplated
by this Committee and its authoritative treaty is one that applies more effectively to
gender. For at least the past 100 years in the United States, men have comprised a
historically discriminated class of gender victims in domestic relations matters
(childrearing rights).
(20) Jurisdiction is further conferred over this Petition under the Convention
and Treaty against discrimination on account of race. African-American fathers are
statistically and invidiously the most injured victims of the challenged State practice in
domestic relations matters. Petitioner, Casey Stuckman, is included among the
represented fathers named in this Petition to show how egregious this particular
victimization can be in New York State.
PARTIES
(21) Petitioner, John Parent, is described more particularly in Exhibit A
annexed and made a part of this Communication. John Parent is a 23-year licensed civil
rights attorney in New York and the author of this Petition. He is its representative
sponsor for purposes of common standing, public communications and legal
representation.
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(22) Petitioner, James Bouras, is a citizen of the United States and former
resident of the State of New York. Due to the violations described in this Petition, Mr.
Bouras is currently declaring fugitive status. His whereabouts are unknown as he
remains under limited contact availability.
(23) Petitioner, Alan Cady, is a citizen of the United States with a residence
located in New Hartford, New York 13413.
(24) Petitioner, Michael Paratore, is a citizen of the United States with a
residence located in Johnstown, New York.
(25) Petitioner, John Kalil, Jr. is a citizen of the United States with a
residence located in New Hartford, New York 13413.
(26) Petitioner, Richard Richmond, is a citizen of the United States with a
residence located in Marcy, New York.
(27) Petitioner, Casey Stuckman, is a citizen of the United States with a
residence located in Rome, New York.
PETITIONS
1). Petition of John Parent
(28) Petitioner John Parent is a civil rights attorney residing in New York
State. Prior to his challenge of the States abhorrent domestic relations practices, he had
enjoyed an exemplary 51 year existence as an American citizen and had enjoyed
productive childrearing periods with his natural born infant daughters under a
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purpose to pay for lawyers, litigation costs of all parties and such indirect abuses as a
campaign contribution to a presently elected United States Congressman.
(32) The non-payment of so-called child support obligation resulted from
the States malicious impairment of Petitioners income producing capacities and
retaliatory deprivations of recourse in the courts. Petitioner has responded in formal
court papers that he will be compelled to serve a life sentence as these laws have been
oppressively applied to him. He has likened his condition to that of Nelson Mandela.
(33) Accordingly, Petitioner John Parent has been compelled to seek
international protection, asylum or a fugitive condition in order to escape the oppression
of a human right described by the United States Supreme Court as the oldest liberty
interest recognized under the American Constitution. This interest is the childrearing
right which derives from a time immemorial and the fundamental laws of nature.
(34) The background behind the representative ordeal of John Parent is
furnished before this Committee by way of the copy of state court pleadings annexed
under Exhibit A. These pleadings constitute an extraordinary petition for relief after
all other domestic recourse was exhausted to no avail.
2). Petition of James Bouras
(35) James Bouras is an American citizen formerly residing in the State of
New York who declared fugitive status during the year 2008 to escape oppression of a
kind similar to that inflicted upon Petitioner John Parent. His current whereabouts are
unknown and he maintains ongoing parti cipation with the States domestic relations
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courts only through his attorney, John Parent, or by way of telephonic conferences and
hearings.
(36) As a consequence of Mr. Bouras public criticisms and applications for
parenting relief, this second representative Petitioner has been denied access to his now
15 year old daughter for a period of two years and continuing. Presently he is facing a
jail term of six months for an alleged non-payment of child support orders.
(37) The ordeal of James Bouras is set apart from the common fact pattern
described in Exhibit A by his government related commitment to duty in the relief of
victims of Hurricane Katrina in the City of New Orleans. During this period of absence
from his family, the wife and mother of his only child consummated a separation from
him while exploiting the child to turn against the father over time.
(38) The monetary award (child support) and superior parental status (child
custody to a primary caregiver) referenced in the Preliminary Statement were offered
to the mother by the State as an incentive to tax and destroy the other (typically male)
parent James Bouras. All efforts to reinstate contact with his adolescent daughter upon
his return from duty were met with judge ordered protection devices, public arrest and
ultimately a criminal prosecution which resulted in his now involuntary status as a
fugitive from justice.
(39) Among the egregious examples of abuse occurring within the domestic
relations proceedings involving Petitioner James Bouras is a declaration by a presiding
child support magistrate to the effect that unless he (Bouras) is eating air or living in
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the streets, I (Support Magistrate) want to know how he is supporting himself. This
denigrating statement was made to buttress the States oppressive system of child
control dominated typically by the State appointed custodial parent.
(40) After being ousted from his child and home community under threat of
arrest and injury, Petitioner Bouras took up residency outside New York State. He
remains unemployed under a long term disability arising from an automobile accident
which produced black-outs and a surrender of his driving privileges. Monetary support
consequently derives exclusively and piecemeal from family members. Mr. Bouras
continues to face arrest and incarceration on a daily basis despite an otherwise
unblemished personal background.
3). Petitioner Alan Cady
(41) Petitioner, Alan Cady, resides in Oneida County, New York. A father
of two, he works the night shift in a blue collar position to satisfy child support orders
arising from his divorce in 2005. Such divorce resulted in oppressive child support
obligations under Title IV-D of the United States Social Security Act. Such obligations
are routinely overstated and ruthlessly executed among fathers found in the American
states.
(42) Although both formerly married parents were, and remain, duly
employed, self-sustaining, and fully capable of raising their children in co-equal and
proximate households, the State has forced these parents to participate in the
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childrearing institution described in the Preliminary Statement. The female parent
earns substantially more income than the male parent, however, when applying arbitrary
government formulas, the father is reduced to near poverty status with little incentive to
seek additional life consuming employment.
(43) The particularly oppressive law known as the Title IV-D Child Support
Standards Act (hereinafter CSSA) was exploited to cause Mr. Cady to become
partially deficient in the one-sided and gender biased child support orders. An
arrearage of merely $1000 over a period of one year resulted in a sentence of
imprisonment which has been held over the Petitioners head since its earliest
imposition more than one year ago in November, 2008.
(44) Two factors set this Petitioner apart from the common fact pattern
surrounding the above two petitions. First, the $1000 arrearage represented a day care
bill for Mr. Cadys children for time deprived to him as a consequence of the challenged
institution of mandatory child custody. The laws which frame this institution possess
a standard enforcement practice of two weekends and two overnights per month which
the father is allowed to parent his children. The term visitation is typically employed
as a gender-biased slur inasmuch as mainstream fathers, unlike true prisoners and third
parties, are not visitors in their childrens lives. Nevertheless, this slur facilitates the
unbridled infringement of human rights to support the money objectives of the State.
(45) Put another way, fathers and non-custodial mothers across America are
being forced into the indentured service of parental substitutes which they neither
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authorize nor are they capable of constraining or supporting financially. They are, in
effect, paying for the government process which effectively takes their children from
them. Such indentured service is perpetual and subject to immense exploitation because
the custodial parent is accorded no incentive to share or fairly apportion parenting
time with the father of the exploited children. Any such sharing could result in a
custody transfer and loss of the custodial child support (welfare) check. .
(46) As a second distinguishing factor, the presiding support Magistrate that
imposed the sentence of imprisonment upon Mr. Cady supported her determinations by
an arbitrary carry-over of inflated financial information and improper legal conclusions
from a decision earlier entered against another father on an unrelated child support
case.
(47) This gross judicial error was later deemed to be a mere typographical
error to overcome the true reason that such orders and jail sentences arise from heavily
overburdened dockets and an inherent disinterest or incapacity for providing due
process of law to persons made subject to the States (money-generating) jurisdiction.
Mr. Cady has been featured in community fundraising initiatives and public protests
relating to the prison sentence and child alienation practices sponsored by the State.
4). Petition of Michael Paratore
(48) Petitioner, Michael Paratore, resided in the States capital district of
Albany, New York when he was awaken from his sleep by armed police officers at 3
a.m. in July, 2007. Empowered by an ex parte order of protection and eviction, these
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officers immediately removed him from his (former marital) residence without warning
of any kind and no place to receive his personal belongings.
(49) The unannounced invasion of his home and person was based upon a
hastily drafted civil petition filed by the female parent (former wife) at the time in
Albany County Family Court. This petition was rift with fraudulent, malicious and
wholly concocted allegations of abuse contradicted on their face by a police report
included with the ex parte petition.
(50) Based upon this sloppy and contradictory petition, a Family Court Judge
entered an order granting temporary sole custody of the parents two month old son to
the mother, in effect rewarding her for the perjurious declaration without meaningful,
reasonably available and timely opportunity for the victim to be heard in this fraudulent
and non-emergency action..
(51) Extensive bilateral proceedings followed which in turn heavily depleted
the joint financial estate available to both parents for raising their children. However,
the father was uniquely prejudiced due to an immediate and arbitrary social welfare
obligation disguised as child support.
(52) Failing any accountability requirement, these so-called child support
obligations were exploited to pay for the mothers share of litigation expenses in effect
making the father a sole financial facilitator for all ensuing government processes. He
was immediately punished for his role through a mere four one-hour visitation
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sessions per month with his boy. Such sessions are commonly applied by the same State
of New York to convicted criminals and child molestors.
(53) These degrading sessions, supervised by State social welfare agents
were exploited further by court orders that imposed anger management therapy, costly
psychological reports and state sponsored parenting classes ordered by the Judge during
an ever escalating litigation process. This process was further fueled by privately
retained and state appointed lawyers who routinely feed off of their self-created
controversies and fraudulent commitments.
(54) During a one year process of financial inquisitions, father humiliation
and child control, the several lawyers joined in a gender biased practice known as
Battered Womans Syndrome which exploits adverse inferences and stereotypes
against men in the fraudulent filing of malicious petitions in domestic relations
litigation. The father was regularly served with interim accusatory instruments which
falsely asserted such heinous crimes as rape, assault, false imprisonment and even
animal cruelty as part of a common tactic for securing the aforesaid custody and
welfare award.
(55) One year following the ex parte sole custody order of August 6, 2007,
when it became evident that the parents joint financial resources had been depleted, the
same presiding Judge issued an order, without hearing, which granted the father
unsupervised overnight parenting periods of three successive days per week with his
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infant son. This was granted despite failed reports and incomplete parenting sessions
which proclaimed the fathers gross unfitness as a parent.
(56) To the time of this Petition, presented before this body in December,
2009, more than one year after this latest parenting order, there has been no incident or
evidence to show any parenting issues or indication that this Petitioner is anything but a
fit father. The arbitrary reversal in treatment comprised a real life declaration that all of
the escalating accusations and forensic processes bore no connection to any genuine
child interests. Nevertheless, as an additional custody tactic, the joint custody
arrangement is presently being jeopardized by oppressive child support obligations
under penalty of incarceration.
5). Petition of John Kalil
(57) Petitioner, John Kalil, is the Director of the National League of Father,
Inc., a non-profit foundation of parents seeking reform to the States domestic relations
practices. He has appeared with John Parent on national radio programs and public
rallies in New York and Washington D.C., among other cities. He is a divorced father
of one and self-employed in the financial industry.
(58) This Petitioner asserts a fact pattern set apart from the foregoing
petitioners through the States arbitrary imposition of imputed (phantom) income
against the father in child support calculations. Mr. Kalil is required to pay the
amounts chargeable for his highest income years regardless of downturns in the
depressed local economy.
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(59) The oppressive process is made possible by the States further arbitrary
remand of Mr. Kalil to sub-class human status known as a non-custodial parent. This
remand occurs regardless of his petitions for equal or shared parenting rights and his
lowest class status is maintained in order to sustain the aforesaid multi-billion dollar
child industry.
(60) The arbitrary treatment causes this Petitioner to incur obligations
substantially higher than the applicable federal and state formula percentages found
under Title IV-D of the United States Social Security Act (CSSA). During certain
periods, this Petitioner is made subject to obligations under penalty of incarceration
which exceeds 100% of his actual income under a regularly exploited stereotype that
self-employed men, as opposed to self-employed women, are routinely engaged in a
child support avoidance scheme of hiding income.
(61) Such stereotype works invidiously against honest and genuinely
committed parents due to the growing level of struggling fathers that are compelled to
work under the table at a second or third job simply to avoid incarceration for
violating the draconian child support obligations. Under Title IV-D, the states and
territories of the United States are rewarded with massive incentive grants and financial
kick-backs based upon the number and magnitude of child support orders mass
produced in the courts.
(62) The States judicial process and collection systems are regularly
modified to expedite decision-making and the fleecing of mainstream citizenry of their
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hard earned income with little or no concern for the quality of parent-child relations or
the damage caused to innocent children. Entire college educations are lost to the
obligations made payable to lawyers and the State as a consequence of this blanket and
self-perpetuating child control process.
6). Petition of Richard Richmond
(63) Petitioner, Richard Richmond, is a father of three infant children in a
second marriage. Two children of an earlier marriage have long achieved the age of
majority and moved on to self-sustaining status. Nevertheless, this Petitioner remains
indentured to support payments under the earlier divorce decree to the fully employed
ex-spouse which has severely damaged Mr. Richmonds ability to support his new
family. The infants mother is a stay-at-home parent further injured by this process.
(64) Petitioner has filed several petitions in an effort to free himself or reduce
himself of the earlier imposed obligation. All of these petitions have failed, and
support orders have instead been imposed which ignore the unique and well established
realities of a depressed local economy. In recent months, Mr. Richmond has been
made subject to a six month sentence of imprisonment as a consequence of his inability
to balance the financial needs of two households. The female parent and children of
the second marriage are uniquely burdened.
(65) As a consequence of extraordinary circumstances outside of his control,
this Petitioner has reached the limits of his capacity to sustain further psychological
torture by the States callous and barbaric child control practice. As a veteran American
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soldier serving two tours in Viet Nam in the 1960s and 1970s, this Petitioner retains
no-regard for himself. He is wholly committed to his infant children and without the
encouragement and largely volunteer assistance of his attorney, John Parent, the
potential for a lawless self-help remedy is imminent.
(66) Petitioner, Richard Richmond, is an otherwise gentle, law-abiding citizen
who has been compelled to seek psychological treatment. He has become dependent
upon alcohol to overcome sleep deprivation and on one occasion, due to paranoia over a
potential arrest or home invasion, Mr. Richmond secured his gun for protection while
seated on his front lawn. Children across America are repeatedly becoming parentless
and psychologically damaged by events manufactured and fueled by the States money
generating schemes of the kind featured in this Petition.
7). Petition of Casy Stuckman
(67) Petitioner, Casey Stuckman, resides in the City of Rome, New York and
remains a client of Petitioner, John Parent, in connection with a civil rights claim
pending in the New York State Supreme Court. This claim is provided under Exhibit
C and its contents are incorporated as part of the Seventh Petition asserted before this
body.
(68) This Petitioner is representative of the race and gender bias found in the
States mistreatment of a single person during a shots-fired incident in the City of Utica,
New York. The Petition is set apart from the others by reason of the egregious nature of
race and gender discrimination remaining in America today.
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(69) Petitioner, Casey Stuckman, was reported by witnesses to local police
authorities as a victim of attempted murder on October 14, 2009. During a domestic
incident, Mr. Stuckman was shot by his female partner in the view of neighbors while
on the front lawn of a city home. Despite the report, which clearly delineated the
gender of both the female assailant and male victim, at least ten city police officers
arriving on the scene drew their guns upon the man and not the woman. The female
would-be killer remained at all times in possession of her weapon a short distance from
the victim.
(70) Details of the incident are otherwise provided in the annexed claim.
Inclusion here is designed to emphasize the routine discrimination against men in
domestic relations matters to such an extreme that police officers are placing themselves
at risk of harm along with the victims of murder and attempted murder by women.
(71) This Petitioners lawyer has presented reports to relevant city
administrators, both as a civil rights attorney and former city chief counsel, which
describe ongoing racial discrimination in employment and law enforcement practices.
A recent pattern of arrests and assaults demonstrates that these, and other reports over a
20 year period have generated little or no corrective action.
CONCLUSION
(72) Petitioners respectfully ask the pertinent Committees of the United
Nations to take appropriate measures for the correction of oppressive, punitive and
discriminatory practices and policies of the State of New York and United States
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government in matters of domestic childrearing with a particular emphasis upon the
historically prejudiced male parent.
(73) Petitioner, John Parent, requests specific and imminent relief which
would reunite him with his infant daughters. He has been effectively denied all contact
with them since July 6, 2009. Citing the international incident involving a Cuban
father reunited with his infant child, Elian Gonzalas, ten years ago, the Petitioner seeks
a similar reunion in his own native country. Copies of relevant news articles depicting
this Petitioners long term challenges to government civil rights abuses are annexed
under Exhibit D.
Respectfully submitted,Leon R. Koziol, J.D.Attorney and Counselor at LawProfessional Offices: 1518 Genesee Street
Utica, New York 13502Telephone: (315) 735-2271Facsimile: (315) 735-0991Personal: (315) 796-4000
Dated: December 16, 2009 e-mail: [email protected]