A Pittsburgh Rally complete with Speaker Reapers

Normally when I write these I try to stay on topic, but since it’s been awhile since I posted one and much has happened please indulge me if I jump around a bit on several tangents.

First let me issue a sort of apology/public service announcement. You may have noticed that the links to many of my original entries no longer work. That is because a few months back I was writing late at night and in my half asleep state I accidentally managed to delete all my posts here on Blogger.

Fortunately, being a writer—I tend to keep a copy of anything I write—so I was able to replace all but one of them. However since these are technically “new” posts the old links will no longer open for them. If/when I have time I am hoping to go around the net and change the links eventually. But for now you can just go to one of my more recent links and then scroll into the archives if you want to read my past works. (Sorry you won’t find your original comments/responses on here, as I did not have those saved on my PC, but I do remember them and appreciate your support.)

Apologies to Dan Diebolt and Dads of Michigan for missing your Equal Parents Week Rally last month, but traveling so much this past year has left my wallet and I both feeling a bit road weary. From the pics I saw and people I have spoken to—it seems like you guys put on a hell of a show. Was very sorry to have missed that one. But my brief “hiatus” is over and I am ready to come off the bench with a vengeance.

Four months of not seeing one’s own child tends to fuel one’s passion.

Luckily the next father’s rights event on my calendar is right here in Pa.

http://www.menscustodyshelternetwork.org/events2.asp

Am not sure if I am going to drive out to Pittsburgh for this one or take the train. But if you happen to see the Angel of Death reading the sports section of the NY Post on a westbound Amtrak—well that’ll be me.

I would urge everyone to come on out there so together we can really let the court system know we are tired of these bastards playing non-custodial-trick-or-treat with our children.

Let em know you are not a dead beat dad—but a beaten dead dad.

Allegheny County has a well earned reputation as one of the harshest (and most corrupt) in collecting child support. An estimated 30 percent of the population of the Allegheny prisons is made up of those behind in their child support.

Now I am sure some of these guys do in fact deserve to be incarcerated —but 30 PERCENT??!!

Would the number of child support related inmates be nearly so high if the states were not being so heavily subsidized by the fed to collect these monies?

Jeff Dick and his MCSN decided to ask that question. They have challenged Allegheny County and court administrator Patrick W Quinn to essentially open up the books and disclose just how much incentive money they have been raking in and where that money is actually being spent.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has promised to investigate, but either they are so incompetent they can’t answer these simple questions …or they simply don’t want to.

Maybe a bunch of grim (reaper) daddy’s talking to the media will help Allegheny County recover from their sudden bout of fiscal amnesia.

The growing list of guest reapers who will be speaking—or “Speaker Reapers” includes;

Jeff Dick of The Men’s Custody Shelter Network
John Fowler and Judi Smith-Phelps of F4J
Dan Diebolt of Dads of Michigan
Tim Fittro of Men Against Discrimination
and
Curtis “General” Patton- Author of House Bill 888

Others are encouraged to come out and speak up, or if you are on your deathbed and simply can’t make it (hey we know how it is) perhaps send a few pesos to help cover the ghoulish expenses of waking the dead (not to mention permits, sound systems and such.) http://www.menscustodyshelternetwork.org/member.asp

Hope to see you there!

Non-Custodialy yours,
Joe Carruba



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