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T&H Brunner from Sydney
We would like to let other people know how we have been dealt with by DoCS. We want to share with you the two reports we have written to the court to get our son back. The names of family members have been replaced with xxxxxxxx.
Parent’s report on
xxxxxxxxxxxxx
This report expresses the views of xxxxxxxx parents relating to the case at the xxxxxxxxxxx Children’s Court on 11 October.
Since we made a phone-call early this year to a counselor, to help our son xxxxxxxxx who had sexual contact with his sister xxxxxxxx two years ago, we are under constant bureaucratic harassment.
The officials maliciously intercepted our attempt to get medical help for our family.
We could have been in an advanced state of counseling already if that administrative nightmare would have not descended upon us.
From the beginning we have been treated like criminals when all family members were interrogated by the police, except Richard who has been removed from us under pressure of the investigating officers. We recall this incident as a devastating moment in our life. We feel it is one of the most distressing mental tortures and in violation of basic human rights to remove children from their parents. We don’t know why this body-snatching activity is so deeply admired by the bureaucrats; - they seem to be addicted to it since they have been so successful to "improve" society by snatching Aboriginal children.
We were in a vulnerable state looking for help to heal our family. So, the bureaucrats found us an easy target for their abuse. We felt and we still feel that we have been abused by the police who was more concerned with fabricating a case then with helping our family in distress, causing more harm to an already harmed family. This police infiltration of families couldn’t be worse under a communist regime.
Today our family recognizes this as malicious intend by the bureaucracy to damage an already damaged family even further. They mentally tortured us while we were in distress. Even our health has been impaired under this pressure.
Richard is in particular heavy distress since he was ordered to reside at the New Anchor group home, a house that is run similar to a juvenile detention place. He is quite unstable and acts unusual irritated. He may tend towards suicide or harming himself in some other way either physically, mentally or legally. It becomes obvious that the unwarranted application of corrective measures in a coercive dictatorial fashion is creating more harms than benefits here in the long run.
Why does a family with a health problem need to be torn apart by a destructive bureaucratic system?
The coercive attitude displayed towards us during the following meetings made us go along with their orders. We reasoned that they have more legal power to twist wrong into right and felt intimidated. There was a strange flair of secrecy and security around them that was very distressing. We never could establish a full human to human contact because they shielded behind their bureaucratic role-playing game. At the beginning we were not able to assess the complexity of the situation properly because we are not at home in bureaucratic and legal procedures and we weren’t given full information in non-bureaucratic terms.
On the surface they spoke about cooperation but the underlying message during the last meetings was always similar: "you are just a common person, while we are the all powerful bureaucrats. If you don’t follow our orders we make you suffer more. Don’t bother opposing us, we can crush you like a fly" We had to make a smiley face to a humiliating situation. When we think back now, we realize it was a very cruel, inhumane treatment with malicious intend that we received.
Why did they want to make our family suffer at all? Shouldn’t they be there to help families in distress? How could the bureaucracy have evolved into such a vicious destructive monster? Why is such ‘legitimate abuse’ still allowed in Australia?
Now, in hindsight, we realize that those officials are far behind in society evolutionary terms and aren’t yet aware about the inter-relatedness of all humans. That’s why they still play the old-fashioned game of ‘us against them’.
The agreement with our son’s counselor to continue counseling from home was disapproved by bureaucrats up the hierarchy who believe in imported counseling techniques that require separation. And our daughter’s counselor was also prevented from initiating a family counseling session that we suggested. We have been dealing with more than ten different officials contributing confusion because no one seems to be really responsible for the situation. That leaves us with the assumption that the system must be wrong. We tried to get our son home but they said we can’t do that otherwise they will drag him from us with the police.
After five months of bureaucratic nightmare we have no confidence whatsoever in the DoCS to handle our family problem correctly. The unproductive activity between DoCS and us is draining much of our energy that should be used to repair our family. We think enough is enough! It’s time that we speak up against this bureaucratic monster that has the potential to turn Australia into an Orwellian society. We hold the bureaucrats responsible:
for intercepting our attempt to get private counseling
for coercing us into a painful situation.
for delaying counseling
for keeping our son away from his home in violation against basic human rights
for the actual harm and suffering they caused to our family
Recommendations for our family
In this case we rely heavily on the opinion of all family members. From the observation of our children we are absolutely sure that xxxxxxxxxx will have no sexual contact with his sister when he comes home. We are absolutely sure he will have no detrimental influence on her mental development either. He assured us he will make up for his bad deeds against his sister by taking special care about her. He recently apologized in front of her. Sheila is pleased to have her brother back. Richard has a more mature outlook but still needs family-external help. We will:
participate in professional counseling (as we intended to do before the bureaucratic intervention) with a counselor of our own choice once our family is united, to address the long overdue healing process.
utilize professional expertise to extinct our son’s addiction within one year and help him discover the underlying motives for his undesirable activities to prevent potential long term problems
continually improve and maintain the relationship between our son and daughter along healthy guidelines.
assist our daughter to evolve and develop positively out of the abuse.
adjust the relationship between all members of the family towards its optimum level.
contact other professionals if problems arise out of this scenario.
further guide the children towards their full potential to accomplish a significant contribution towards society throughout their life.
inform the public about the dangers of the "system"
Recommendations for DoCS
Strategy for a similar case
How should the DoCS have handled this case from our point of view?
Basically, the case should have been approached with intelligence and not with violence.
After the DoCS received the information of our request for a counselor they should have send immediately a psychologist for a 1 to 2 hour session within our family circle to gain the proper firsthand impression of the prevailing family situation. This expert should have brought tools for self-help and the wisdom how to deal with this situation in our family in a holistic way.
Counselors should have been:
Making us aware of the addiction problem in greater detail.
Explaining the health situation to us properly with its future implications.
Establishing a proper trust-relationship between the family and DoCS.
Supplying self-help tools:
* Specific advice in written and graphic form for every individual in the family on how to interact with all other members under the circumstances
* Explain how to deal with the problem effectively
* Show the first steps towards the healing process
Offering daily or weekly follow up visits depending on the needs of the family
Offering referrals to nearby private counselors
Assessing if other specialist counselors need to be involved. Possibility of having 2 or 3 counselors who are able to cross-fertilize ideas and strategies for case-improvement.
Monitoring progress of counseling through intuitive interaction with the family, recognizing features and traits that improved and others that still need improvement
Training family members in more and more sophisticated self-help and prevention that can be passed on to the next generation.
Assessing if criminal charges are required; and if they are required explain to the family why kids need to be turned into criminals.
Avoiding body snatching. If the community is not protected from such a barbaric act, society will inevitably deteriorate. The ripples that are created by body snatching can be felt throughout society for a long time to come.
Isn’t it time to outlaw body snatching once and for all?
Is it really necessary to abuse families in order to prevent abuse?
Families should be cared for - not destroyed!
Assessment of bureaucratic procedures
It would be wise to consider the following points in regard to the "system".
Make "people before procedures" mandatory.
Child protection should be seen in the light of education and not in the light of punishment.
Delegate more authority from the top to the bottom. Those people who are personally involved in the case, the family and the counselors are not given authority to decide. Decision-making resides with bureaucrats far removed from reality. They prefer to use their imagination to decide instead of drawing their conclusions by involving themselves with the people concerned.
Assure that bureaucratic procedures are sufficiently humane, because inhumane procedures create a more barbaric society. We all want to have a less violent society. It’s first of all the bureaucratic structure that has to set an example of nonviolent conflict resolution. This bureaucratic structure should be conductive for individual responsibility to guide and educate people towards a better society where people, especially women and children can feel safe anywhere, anytime without fear of being harmed. Once bureaucrats stop pushing violence into the population we are getting one step closer to this more peaceful society.
Continuation with a bureaucracy that uses structural violence, intimidation and coercion will result in a society where a shoot-out can erupt anytime, anywhere between the believers in Big Brother and the non-believers. Caught in the middle are those who numb their mind and turn themselves into nuts and bolts of a sick society which is destructive against itself and its environment. - It is obvious that a society, which legally harms its members, becomes insensitive, resulting in destructive activity against humans, other living things and our planet.
Change the emphasis from security aspects to humanitarian aspects. The emphasis on an unnecessary high security level is understandable in light of job security and client security. If client security is not assured, job security is not assured, resulting in an impact on future income. So, conformance to unrealistically high safety and security levels is a must for the public service employee, to maintain and improve the income. Making money is the overriding factor in contemporary society - not caring for people. The negative effect of all this is detrimental to the task of community service and healing. Because following procedures so faithfully to make people suffer results in a nasty bureaucratic dictatorship.
Recommendations for the court
We respectfully recommend to:
1 dismiss the case
2 suggest an inquiry into malicious bureaucratic practices
3 view this document in an educational context rather than in a dispute context
4 let love and understanding rule in this case and not violence in all its different incarnations
Family Report for
xxxxxx, xxxxxxxx and xxxxxx xxxxxxx
xxxxxxx Children’s Court
25 October 2000
A Parents Report has been submitted to the court on the 4th of September 2000.
Because the members of our family are forced to split up into different legal representations this document should be seen as the voice of the whole family before the court. It is obviously not acknowledged that a family is more than the sum of its individual components and ought to be represented in its entity by a lawyer too.
Western civilization has a legacy of dividing and cutting down the whole into pieces and later on blames the pieces if they don’t function properly anymore.
All indications we have given to DoCS throughout the case that their involvement is wrong has been repelled by their group-think. To us it’s clearly evident that harming families by enforcing bureaucratic procedures while preventing the holistic family healing process is a criminal offence.
We have been treated like second class citizens with a stigma attached. Such stigmas have been historically attached to homosexuals, aboriginals and witches etc. As we experienced from our interaction with DoCS, today it’s the family with an incest problem that gets such a stigma attached. Even though burning at stakes is not anymore acceptable at this time, being dragged before an inquisitive panel and mental torture can be just as painful. When families are sacrificed in the name of a bureaucratic witch-hunt, the community suffers and will soon fall apart.
How could this happen?
First, Individuals and families are the easiest scapegoats to be found that can be blamed for the ills of society. That’s ordinary people just like our family who are not protected by organizations. Even more so targeted are those in the lower strata of society who are marginalised and have little resources to defend themselves. Such people are easy prey of the bureaucratic system that never puts any blame on itself and avoids going against the hard targets that have a strong negative impact on society.
Second, when decisions are based mainly on written reports instead of directly observed reality they easily become guided by dogma and imagination instead of facts. Official reports in this case have been subconsciously construed towards increasing bureaucratic involvement.
"They do whatever they need to do, so that they have more jobs to do"
From our case we can see that families are an endangered species in Australia because they are frequently torn to pieces by vicious carnivores.
Our family has been torn to pieces against our will and Richard is still held captive by DoCS. We believe he will be soon released since the officials seem to realize their mistake. Consequently, we have established the following guidelines to assist xxxxxxxx’s successful integration back into our family.
Family safety rules when our son returns
As parents we make sure the girls are never left unattended when xxxxxxx is with them together. An adult needs to be present whenever xxxxxxxxx is around them so that the girls’ safety is assured. This will prevent any feeling of insecurity within the girls. Confidence in a protected and caring family environment allows them to feel happy, safe and loved. As parents we realize that any physical or mental repression of children, no matter how small, will have a negative impact on future society.
Our daughter will have special power over xxxxxxxx by making an ‘angry face’. If, during a conversation our daughter makes a particular disapproving facial expression xxxxxxxx needs to leave the room and go elsewhere. It will build up our daughter’s confidence to control males and improve xxxxxxxx’s sensitivity towards female needs. From that xxxxxxxxx will learn to respect our daughter’s dignity and she builds up confidence and self-esteem. She will acquire a feeling of dominance over xxxxxxxx by effortlessly making him leave the room. She easily can defend herself without the need to say anything when she feels herself emotionally pressured in case xxxxxxxx says something that makes her feel bad. It also helps to reverse his feeling of dominance and her feeling of submission.
xxxxxxx has under no circumstance access to the girls’ room.
He is not allowed to go into their room, neither knock on their door, nor call them when they are inside. It is their save-heaven or sanctuary where they can be absolutely certain that xxxxxxxx can’t contact them by any means. The girls are not allowed to invite xxxxxxxxx into their room, but are free to communicate or interact with him elsewhere in the house.
As family we hold weekly meetings. Changing interpersonal relationships between all members of the family as a consequence of the siblings incest will be analyzed during regular meetings. Special consideration will be given to discuss the observed relationship between Richard and Sheila to strengthen their development towards an appropriate brother sister relation.
All family members understand and agree with the rules because they have been created with all members’ consent and participation.
Incidents of broken rules are discussed within the family circle immediately and with the counselor if necessary. The counselor may suggest additional rules to be incorporated during the next counseling sessions. Session participants, timing and frequency will be established in cooperation with the counselor.
As a family we know, since the secrecy disappeared a repeat molestation was highly unlikely and the probability that it could happen now, 8 months later, is zero.
The real responsibility to solve this incest problem lies with the family.
The counselor assists the family to overcome the problem.
Any involvement of bureaucratic forces is completely superfluous – even detrimental and destructive.
The officials apparently know that they are wrong but they don’t show remorse. They had their chance to give our son back and apologize for their blunder; but they did not. They insist on their abusive relationship with us. They are determined to keep our family within the grinding wheels of the bureaucratic society cleansing machinery. It appears that the whole process is more or less constrained by an overzealous bureaucratic institution were individuals who work in this setting have only a marginal influence on the outcome.
We have been participating in this process as the dominated party and want to show you what we see from underneath. We have been put on the spot by DoCS. From this spot we can see the truth behind DoCS’ bad reputation.
There are crucial questions that are concerning to us and probably to the community:
How much legitimate power does DoCS have to fragment families without their consent?
How much dignity remains with DoCS customers who are forced with bureaucratic procedures?
How much does DoCS contribute to the degradation of society because of its destructiveness?
Do people still have free will to decide by themselves for their families or has bureaucratic dictatorship removed this freedom already?
The question of sanity:
From our point of view we can see that by taking part in this case either DoCS or we must be insane. Both parties can’t be considered sane by participating in this process because that would be mutually exclusive.
We think DoCS is insane by fragmenting families against their will and by enforcing obedience towards their doctrine. Which seems to be outrageous and a severe infringement on human rights.
DoCS thinks we are insane, we need to be force-fed with bureaucratic procedures. They believe we are unable to conduct our own family life. They turn us into mentally handicapped second class citizen by removing certain rights. Subsequently making it legitimate for them to harass us until we comply with their white washing ritual. After that we may get the stamp of approval for our sanity.
But we know DoCS is insane by doing that because it removes responsibility from the people and gives that responsibility to the bureaucrats. Removing more and more personal responsibility increases public irresponsibility that needs to be contained with more bureaucratic control. If that vicious cycle continues over time it contributes to a ballooning bureaucracy and stupidifies the population, in due course decreasing the overall efficiency, output and wellbeing of society.
We all know that a growing bureaucratic system and an increasingly irresponsible population do not advance society.
Have bureaucrats forgotten "Advance Australia Fair"?
We strongly recommend to the court to condemn this destructive activity against human values and order DoCS to pay for the damage they have done to our family and society.
22 October 2000
xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx
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xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From this case before the court we draw the conclusion that there are two possibilities:
Either the law was wrongly enacted, interpreted or applied resulting in an abuse of power, or, society is moving towards a more barbaric era where the law frequently tortures marginalized people again.
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