--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DB400004Date: 06/28/96 From: TIGER EYES Time: 10:19am \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: AGAIN My Ex-Husband has broken a custody order, and told me, "You'll never see the kids again." He has removed them from the State of California to Reno,Nevada and the authorities are trying to Negociate him back. I am angry. This is twice in a year! They are investigating me instead of him, even though he has the history of lieing, stealing, and breaking the law!!! Scott Neal Miller 298-72-6263 Black Olds. Cutlass Gold Racing stripes lower half of car. parents in laws home: 14083565935 address: 557 Del Oro place. San Jose, CA 95124 parents home: 2212-3 Smith Road. Moscow, OH 45153 513-553-6530 CA drivers licence number: A5908540 light brown, curly, kinky hair. Short, sometimes combed back. About 175 lbs. Using an assumed named and working for a grocery outlet in Reno, Nev. (?) Name there is ???? Jason Scott Millet?????. Dragon tatoo on upper arm. Dog bite scar on face. Has had appendicitis. Pamela A. Miller 302-80-1094 12 years old. slim build, light brown wavy hair. idealizes father and stepmother. Scar on upper thigh from burn, has had appendicitis. Was molested by Peggy's step-father, Jack Allen Doyal, of Jackson, Calif. She is a very hurt and confused child. She's had at least 3 and half years of counseling. She wants to be with her father and will lie to be with him. Her current counselor seems to understand her completely, and will vouch for Ms. Peggy Miller 4' 8" /100 lbs?? Wesley William Miller 605-50-8188 blond, cut very short. 5 years old. about 42 inches, and about 42 lbs. scars on face. one from dog bite, one from falling into metal bird cage corner, and one from hitting the toilet weird. Wesley has been identified as a child with special needs by the authorities at the headstart program. This includes his teacher, his behavioralist. His personal therapist also vouches for Ms. Miller on her conduct with the children and has already spoken to Cloverdale police on her behalf. Stepmother involved in case: Tina Marie Spagnolo-Miller TRO# SCV-211267 (sonoma County CAlifornia) Long blonde hair, heavy set. wants to be an "opera star" 23 to 24 years of age. have heard she's quite "sweet and innocent" probably has no idea whether she's coming and going, Ms. Miller believes that Ms. Spagnolo really believes in Mr. Miller and his story. Ms. Miller believes that this young woman to be victim of Scott's lies, gaslighting, and crazymaking. Ms. Miller hopes that she will really care for her children until they can be returned home. I still have not been served with papers to take away children, either by a Nevada court or by a California Court. Alameda County Case #H-177520-4. Filed Feb. 8, 1996 "1. Parties are to have joint legal custody of their minor children, Pamela Ann Miller and Wesley William Miller. Primary physical custody will be with the mother, petitioner." Change of Venue was given June 10, 1996 by the judge in Alameda County. It is now a Sonoma County case, file was sent to Sonoma County on June 24, 1996. Case #963548 I asked the judge on Jan. 11, 1996 to bind the case to California, and asked for there to be a clause to keep Scott from going out of state and the judge would not grant it. I told the mediator, evalutors, police officers everyone, that Scott was going to take off with the kids. This is premeditated. To support Peggy Miller one can call: Cloverdale Police 707-894-2525/ officer John Concannon Sonoma County DA's office 707-527-2311 CPS 527-2246 /Bob Boardman Santa Rosa Press Democrat 1-800-675-5056/ Robert Digitally Cloverdale Reveille 707-894-3339 /Bonnie the Editor This animal, named Scott Neal Miller, has kidnapped my children. F.B.I says it's an open and shut case, they need the locals to get a warrant before they can get the federal warrant. It will take 2 days for the F.B.I. to get a warrant. The D.A. refused to send the report to the judge because "he's not hiding from the autorities" (anymore-covering his behind!!), because I am being investigated for child molest charges probably for beating the kids too), also because they are "negoiating to get him to bring the kids back on his own" Are my children being held hostage??? All day today, I have gotten nothing but, run around... no one will give me a straight answer. I have a process server in Reno ready to serve him with the latest papers, if I could get an address or phone number for him. Please help, pray or whatever, Thank you, Peggy Ann Miller. 707-894-3950 Some history: Case #H-161963 Merrit Weisinger (Attorney), and Plaintiff, Patricia L. Doyal tried to take Pamela Ann Miller from Peggy Miller's custody. Mr. Scott N. Miller shrugged off the complaint knowing that I was a good mother. He was willing to do whatever possible to keep child safe. (Alameda County) Case #950171 Sonoma county: Family support division gets a judgement stating that Mr. Miller is over $6,000 in arrears of back child support. He has paid child support through his job while the "evaluation" was being conducted in 1995/96. He paid with unemployment until April 9, 1996. He has not paid anything since. Case #144859 Fremont Criminal Court Ca: quoting judge, "You have done that which a mother should do, in that you have -- you have contacted the Court,you have followed it up with the District Attorney. You have given them the ammuntion and resources they need to prosecute the case. You have told me everything that is on your mind and as far as I can make out, I don't know that I've ever seen anybody who has followed through as completely as you have." quoting, Ms. Miller, "It's for my daughter, sir, because I love her." Taken directly from transcripts from the sentencing day of Mr. Jack Allen Doyal. Case #SFL-953477 (Sonoma County) Restraining order given by judge to keep Pamela and Wesley, and Peggy safe from Mr. Scott N. Miller for a week until case was heard in Alameda County. If you look up the case and read the stuff you will read the most bizarre things. Ms. Peggy Miller is writing this. These things are true. It caused great pain to finally admit these things to herself, and it was harder to admit them to the court, or to the public. Quoting Evalutation in the Custody case dated January 11, 1996, "it is undoubedly true that Ms. Miller has had some difficulty since she and Mr. Miller separated and she has been depressed, she has been a single parent,she has worked, she has struggled with finances, but she has also maintained a very adequate home for the children, she has maintained herself in school, she has sought outside help, and she has followed through with an evaluative process that has been threatening, even finding the resources to finance at least parf of the work. One cannont look at what she has failed to dow without acknowledging what she has accomplished, and to this end she is a responsible, self-conscious parent. Mr. Miller has also shown that he ants to be a conscientious parent, but we cannont help but note that his conscientiousness increased when he deemed Ms. Miller was faltering. While there is merit to his desire to "rescue" his children, his absence in the interim has been disquieting." Mr. Miller during the above process, told my daughter that I was crazy. She told evaluators that I had MPD, which I did investigate with my therapist 3 years ago, and was told, that while I had a dissociative disorder, it was NOT MPD.... I am not crazy. Mr. Miller's and my relationship was sick. I think he really tried, and I know I really tried. We were two mixed up kids who did our best. When I divorced him, I was ready to get heathier and he wasn't. I did what I felt needed done for both of us, and the kids. thanks again, Peggy Miller --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Sasquach (1:215/25) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DB500000Date: 07/04/96 From: HELEN KO Time: 06:57pm \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: has anybody ever been accused of stealin18:57:1207/04/96 I've been accused of stealing money a year ago. Has this happened to anybody else? --- Ezycom V1.02 01fa0008 * Origin: Copyright 1996 by The Clubhouse BBS, Hayward Chp (1:215/33) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DBA00000Date: 07/06/96 From: TIGER EYES Time: 09:56am \/To: RICK THOMA (Read 2 times) Subj: AGAIN -=> Quoting Rick Thoma to Tiger Eyes <=- > My Ex-Husband has broken a custody order, and told me, "You'll > never see the kids again." He has removed them from the State of > California to Reno,Nevada . . . RT> You need an attorney who is competent enough to understand the proper RT> application of the PKPA and UCCJA, and have him/her file a writ of RT> Habeas Corpus. This will only work if California is the childs home RT> state. I thank you. He did what he normally does, talked his way out of trouble. The kids are in protective custody right now.. The allegations are that I molested one or both of them.. However, the system, as well as all therapists involved know what is going on. So, as far as I know the kids will be coming home on tuesday afternoon. Then when that is all done and details are worked out, my daughter will be going to live with him. He got out of trouble by saying that he did it for the "best interests" of the kids.. although, as usual I was able to produce a family member from his side of the family saying he has been planning this for MONTHS! Life is SOOOOO unfair! Anyways, Thanks very much!! Tiger Eyes ... ARRRRRGGGHHH!!!! ... Tension breaker, had to be done. --- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 [NR] * Origin: Sasquach (1:215/25) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DBD00000Date: 07/08/96 From: RICK THOMA Time: 10:30am \/To: TIGER EYES (Read 2 times) Subj: AGAIN > The kids are in protective custody right now.. The allegations > are . . . However, the system, as well as all therapists > involved know what is going on. I can't tell you how fortunate your are to have this "system" on your side. In the event that it were working against you, the best I would be able to offer that would be of some *genuine* help would likely approach the $10,000 mark. From what you tell me, this is one of those rare cases in which I almost find myself wishing the system would use its awesome powers to help you. > He got out of trouble by saying that he did it for the "best > interests" of the kids.. That handy little phrase has gotten quite a lot of people out of trouble--many of them inside of the system. It seems to me that the ex has done more than a little research, and knows how to work the system to his advantage. I wish you the best of luck with all this. If I can be of any help, shoot me Netmail, or contact me via Internet mail: rthoma@shentel.net. --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: Parens patriae Resource Center for Parents 540-896-4356 (1:2629/124) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DBD00001Date: 07/08/96 From: RICK THOMA Time: 10:42am \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: Wenatchee: insight * Forwarded from "CHILD_ABUSE_ISSUES" Comment: The following article struck me as serving well to cast some badly needed insight into the overall "mindset" in Wenatchee. LOS ANGELES TIMES Tuesday, June 14, 1994 Home Edition Section: PART A Page: A-1 BOY'S TROUBLED ODYSSEY RAISES MORAL, LEGAL DOUBTS; JUVENILES: AT 12, HE SAID HE WANTED OUT OF GANG LIFE. BUT COURTS AND SOCIAL AGENCIES HAVE SENT HIM BACK AND FORTH.; By RICHARD LEE COLVIN TIMES STAFF WRITER WENATCHEE, Wash. Scarred by Los Angeles gang tattoos on his neck and a man-sized chip on his shoulder, 12-year-old Luis (Mousie) Fernandez embodied this town's worst fears. He had returned to his birthplace--the largest of the bucolic settlements along the irrigated fruit-basket of the upper Columbia River--saying he wanted to start over, that the accidental shooting death of his older brother at the hands of a North Hills gang member made him want to escape gang life. But this difficult child, damaged by neglect and street life, was seen as an interloper bringing the threat of violence to this rural paradise, which, like so many other towns across America, is struggling to preserve its isolation and serenity. So it is perhaps understandable that Wenatchee's 23,000 residents did not throw out the welcome mat for this boy, who fought with other children, intimidated adults and bragged of his gang exploits. Fearful town officials not only expelled him from school, they obtained a unique court order making it a crime for him to even play with other youngsters. "Kids like that, when they get to Wenatchee, stick out like a sore thumb," said John Gordon, assistant superintendent of the town's school district. "And we don't have the ability to deal with it." With Luis' attempt at a new life in Washington crumbling, a state child protective services caseworker flew the boy back to Los Angeles, turning him over to a Sun Valley rehabilitation house for adult gang members, recovering alcoholics and drug addicts--even though he has never been accused of a serious crime and does not have a substance abuse problem. When the Los Angeles County Department of Children's Services got word of his situation, Luis was picked up again and taken to MacLaren Hall, the county's large home for abused and neglected children. Today a Juvenile Court judge will conduct a hearing to determine who should have custody of Luis and where he should live. "I don't see how we can not get involved" in the situation, said Alfonso Garcia, head of the Latino Family Preservation project for the Children's Services Department. "We would just be doing the same thing that Washington is doing, washing our hands of him." The case has raised a number of difficult questions about the legal and moral responsibility a society has to educate its children, especially those who are troubled and seem unresponsive to help. It also calls into doubt the oft-repeated belief that small towns offer both a haven and a salve for young gang members influenced by harsh urban environments. School and court officials in Washington said they tried their best to help the slight, dark-eyed boy but admit that they were confounded by a child whose needs seemed completely out of proportion to the services they could offer. Jim Tiffany, the editor of a Spanish-language weekly newspaper in Wenatchee, said the story of Luis is simple. "This kid scared us all and we didn't know what to do with him so we kicked him out," he said. * Although born in Wenatchee, Luis moved with his father and four siblings to the North Hills area of the San Fernando Valley almost three years ago after his father and mother separated. The neighborhood could not have been more different from Wenatchee. Almost every wall, gate, garage door and fence around Columbus Street is scrawled with graffiti marking it as gang territory. Many of the streets are barricaded to combat open drug sales. Gunfire is common. Gang members take over vacant apartments. Last summer, Luis' brother Vincent, 15, was shot in the family's living room by a gang member playing with a gun. "Every day I think about you and I feel sad," Luis wrote in a note to his brother just after Vincent's death. "I'm going to take my tattoos off my neck and I'm not going to be with Columbus no more because I don't want to get shot." The death of his oldest son drove Jose Fernandez, 54, to return to Wenatchee. "I thought, in part, that . . . there wouldn't be the violence and the air would be cleaner," he said. But, he admitted, Luis continued to hang out on the streets in Wenatchee, as he had in Los Angeles, sometimes drinking wine with older youths and not coming home at night. * Wenatchee is as rural as North Hills is urban. The graffiti on the walking bridge that connects Wenatchee with East Wenatchee memorializes teen-age love rather than gang feuds. And the video arcade in town, which is supposed to be the gang hot spot, on one recent evening had only a couple of dozen well-behaved youths feeding machines with quarters. If there is drug dealing in town--and police say there is, although it is not organized--it is done secretly, not out in the open. But many residents fear that growing ranks of newcomers are threatening the isolation they cherish. Blessed with clean air, stunning vistas of the Cascades to the west and cheap housing prices, Wenatchee is now attracting not only retirees and urban refugees but also Latino farm workers, such as Luis' father, who are choosing to collect unemployment during the off season or get out of the orchards altogether. The tripling during the 1980s of the Latino population in this still mostly white region--where right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh's midday program attracts an enthusiastic audience--has touched off bitter town meetings at which residents have argued for mass roundups of illegal immigrants. "The Hispanic community . . . has grown so fast that Wenatchee . . . didn't see it coming and they don't like it," said Ruben Ruelas, a state unemployment office worker who co-chairs the mayor's advisory group in town. "They say, 'Why should we make it any easier or provide any extra services for these people?' " Some Wenatchee residents, he said, equate young Latinos, especially those who have moved from Southern California, with gang members. There has never been a drive-by shooting here, and police have identified only about 100 gang "wanna-bes." "We see a scribble on the wall and we say the Mexican gangs are coming to take over the community," said Tiffany, the editor, who resigned from the town's anti-gang committee because he thought its approach was repressive rather than supportive of kids heading for trouble. D. Ty Duhamel, directing attorney for Evergreen Legal Services, a poverty law agency in Wenatchee, said what happened to Luis is not unusual in the region. He has sued several school districts for expelling Latino students simply because they were thought to be gang members. The problem, he said, is one of perception. Administrators' fears "make them assume the worst and think of Hispanics as someone to be excluded instead of someone to be given the benefits of what they want for their own children," he said. Luis, who defied authorities in court hearings and classrooms, "fit [cont] --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: Parens patriae Resource Center for Parents 540-896-4356 (1:2629/124) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DBD00002Date: 07/08/96 From: RICK THOMA Time: 10:41am \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: Wenatchee: Insight 02 the stereotype," said Ruelas. Rather than trying to belie those fears, the youngster immediately began testing the town's patience as well as its resources for helping a troubled child reform. The 6,300-student Wenatchee school system, for example, is the largest in the area but did not offer Luis a home study program that would have allowed him to keep up in school. Nor did the Wenatchee schools or the probation department provide him with one-on-one counseling to help him control the rage that teachers said would suddenly erupt as if from a deep, dark place. Once last winter, for example, he returned to Robert E. Lee School in East Wenatchee with a double-edged ax that he used to destroy a snow fort that other students had made. He was expelled soon after, five weeks after he had enrolled. Principal Cathie West said she had done everything from letting Luis tutor other students to build his self-esteem to giving him a chance to earn new clothing with good behavior. "We went the extra mile for this child," she said. Luis' father said he had told judges in court hearings in Wenatchee that he could not control his children or keep them off the street. But he said he got no help. He tried to get Luis admitted to school in Wenatchee itself but his request was rejected, without an appeal. Instead, Wenatchee school officials headed for Chelan County District Court to get a legal weapon to keep Luis away. On May 9, after a hearing at which Luis represented himself, the district was given an anti-harassment order against Luis and another boy; they were said to have been threatening students. The district later acknowledged that a school administrator who testified at that hearing had been confused and that some of what she said to get the order was untrue. Judge Robert Graham's order is far broader than the temporary order that an Orange County school district asked for last month to allow a kindergarten student to be moved into a special education class. Officials there were later told to allow the student into a regular class. Although a minor cannot be sued in the state of Washington, Graham said he went along because he "wasn't attempting to imprison the kid or fine him or anything else." His order barred Luis from campuses and from associating with other kids. Violating it would subject him to criminal penalties. Graham also acknowledged that, although Luis' father was present, he might have erred in not appointing a guardian or securing an attorney for the boy. "The thing came up suddenly and we did it," Graham said in an interview. Graham said he was saddened by the sight of Luis, a child who during breaks in the hearing played with his 4-year-old niece. But he issued the order anyway, he said, to try to get the boy's attention. "Folks around here are pretty malleable," he said. "They would give every break to a youngster who was trying to go right." During the eight months or so that he lived in Wenatchee, Luis also appeared before Peter Young, the Juvenile Court commissioner for Chelan County, at hearings in which he was convicted of breaking a window, fighting and shoplifting some candy from a grocery store. "He seems to retain this arrogance and defiance. . . . In this small community we get concerned that we're not going to change him and, instead, he's going to change us and pull in the other 11-year-olds," said Young. * After Luis was barred from the local schools, his father began searching for a place to help his son. For a brief time last fall, Luis had stayed with families from Victory Outreach, a church in the San Fernando Valley, and Fernandez decided to send him back there. Pastor David Martinez, who heads the church, said the group reluctantly agreed to let Luis stay at its drug and alcohol recovery house and tutor him until he could get into a Christian school. That, however, may make Luis truant, county probation officials said. Martinez said he does not believe that Luis needs anything more than love, attention and structure. "It's just that he's used to being out there with the street kids," he said. "We're trying to settle him back down and get his mind back into church." Then, last Thursday, he was taken away. Paula Rangel, a North Hills apartment manager who took Luis in after his brother's death last summer, was angry at how he has been treated. "No one wants to help this kid," she said. "No one wants to say, 'We're going to take the responsibility.' " The day Luis flew into Los Angeles, he got one more look at his Columbus Street neighborhood. He broke a window at Victory Outreach and managed to make it from Sun Valley to North Hills. When he showed up on the street, he was met with shouts of welcome and hugs, witnesses said. For a few hours, until two carloads of Victory Outreach workers tracked him down at a park near Columbus Street, he was back home. PHOTO: Wenatchee, Wash., residents have not welcomed Luis Fernandez, shown in 1993 photo, whose tattoos denote the gang past they fear. PHOTO: (San Fernando Valley Edition) COLOR, After several years in the Valley, the Fernandez family, with Flora, 19, and father Jose at Wenatchee home, moved back to Washington. PHOTO: (San Fernando Valley Edition) The rural Washington state town of Wenatchee did not welcome troubled youth Luis Fernandez with open arms. PHOTO: (San Fernando Valley Edition) Twelve-year-old Luis Fernandez, with his gang tattoos, stuck out "like a sore thumb" in Wenatchee, said John Gordon, left, school district assistant superintendent. "And we don't have the ability to deal with it." PHOTO: (San Fernando Valley Edition) Principal Cathie West said her school tried to help Luis, including allowing him to earn clothing with good behavior. He was expelled. PHOTOGRAPHER: DAVID BOHRER / For The Times Type of Material: PROFILE Copyright (c) Times Mirror Company --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: Parens patriae Resource Center for Parents 540-896-4356 (1:2629/124) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DBD00003Date: 07/08/96 From: RICK THOMA Time: 10:49am \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: When the Brain Can't Remember New York Times July 7, 1996 What Happens When the Brain Can't Remember By GEORGE JOHNSON Six years into what has been declared the Decade of the Brain, the great efflorescence of understanding sometimes seems overwhelming. Breakthroughs follow breakthroughs follow breakthroughs, like the announcement last week that scientists peering inside a brain with a device called a PET scanner could tell true memories from false ones. For most of the century, scientists have been trying to understand how something as wispy as a memory is recorded in brain tissue. Judging from the drumbeat of developments in the last few years, one might think that the search was nearing a successful close. But the mystery of memory -- this wonderful ability to carry around the past inside our heads -- is likely to endure long after the Decade of the Brain is forgotten, though we are certainly better off than when the whole venture began. Scientists are pretty sure now that memories are made by forging new connections between the brain cells called neurons. A brain responds to new experiences by creating more of these links, called synapses, or by strengthening the ones that are already there. By constantly wiring and rewiring the cerebral computer, the brain strings together a map of the world. The rose we just put in the vase on the living room table is mirrored in the brain by a newly forged cluster of neurons. But what does a memory like this actually look like? Does it consist of a hundred neurons, a thousand, a million? What gives it its rosiness? The structure, it seems, must be connected to another cluster that somehow represents the color red and another cluster encoding a rosy smell. What is the syntax and the grammar with which such ephemera can be written in an alphabet of brain cells? Even if we could grasp how the single rose in its wondrous complexity is represented by stitched- together neurons, the problem would be far from solved. The memory trace standing for the rose must be somehow connected to another neural structure representing the vase -- and another one representing the table and still another representing the floor on which the table stands. How is the notion that the rose is IN the vase and the vase is ON the table neurologically encoded? How, for that matter, are neurons used to record a telephone number or the dates of the Peloponnesian wars? Before we have answers to these questions, we might have to declare a whole Century of the Brain. Meanwhile, we can savor ingenious developments like the one by Dr. Daniel Schacter and his colleagues at Harvard University who studied the neurobiology of false memories. The scientists read a list of words to their subjects. Then they read them another, somewhat different list and asked the listeners which words were the same. While the subjects were reaching to remember, the scientists monitored their brains. Predictably, an area in the hippocampal region, known to be involved in recalling stored information, was being actively utilized. But the scientists also found that a second area in a different part of the brain was joining in the effort. This region, called the left temporal parietal area, is where sounds are deciphered into words. The brain apparently remembered a word not only as an abstraction -- a symbol identifying something in the world -- but by its unique sound. To see what happens when a memory is falsely recalled -- when we think we remember something that never actually happened -- subjects were given words that were similar but not identical to those they had already listened to. After hearing "candy," "cake," and "chocolate," they were asked if "sweet" had been on the list. Some incorrectly answered yes. But in this case of false recall, only the first brain structure was activated. The region of the brain responsible for sound decoding remained idle. There was no lingering imprint there of the sound "sweet." The researchers are not claiming that such a method could ever help determine whether a child accusing a parent of sexual molestation or a day-care worker of devil worship is telling the truth. In the brain, memories are quickly transformed and the line between the remembered and the imagined quickly dissolves. As soon as a memory is formed, the brain goes to work, stripping it of the inessential. When we hear a speech, it is the ideas -- distilled from the way they happened to be delivered -- that we most strongly remember. Only in rare cases -- the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. intoning "I have a dream" -- does the ring of the words themselves endure. And that is only the beginning of the processing. Memories are smoothed of their rough edges and combined with other related memories. Recalling that one heard "sweet" instead of "candy" and "cake" might be less a case of false memory than of categorization. We group similar experiences together as we build up a sensible picture of how the world works. Memory researchers may not know what a rose looks like inside the brain, but they have learned an important truth: memory is a construction, not an imprint. In trying to dredge up the past, we grasp at the imperfect scraps of evidence fluttering inside our heads and piece together a theory about what might have happened -- or, sometimes, what we wish had occurred. In his new novel, "Slowness," (HarperCollins) Milan Kundera gives a walk-on role to a Czech scientist who during the Soviet occupation was bullied into letting a group of dissidents use a room for clandestine meetings. He acquiesced out of timidity. Nevertheless, when he was found out, he was stripped of his academic post. Over the years, as he toiled as a construction worker, the tone of the memory slowly transformed itself from shame into pride. By the time of the fall of the Soviet Union and the liberation of the Czech republic, he could honestly remember himself as a hero. Copyright 1996 The New York Times Company --- FMail/386 1.0g * Origin: Parens patriae Resource Center for Parents 540-896-4356 (1:2629/124) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DBE00000Date: 07/09/96 From: GERI MCALEXANDER Time: 07:45am \/To: CINDY BOSTON (Read 2 times) Subj: Child Abuse Acusations Cindy, if you'll call Larry McAlexander at 800-297-6985 (VOCAL Jacksonville) he'll be happy to provide you with information. --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: The Message Center, Jacksonville FL (904)221-2977 (1:112/115) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DBJ00000Date: 07/14/96 From: JAMES HALLBERG Time: 08:10am \/To: BUBBA SMITH (Read 2 times) Subj: Blanca (6) -=> Quoting Bubba Smith to Rick Thoma <=- Hello Bubba; BS> Why do you write so much do really think any one wants to read all BS> that crap. Sometime ago, many years now, there was a false accusation made about me, and something I was supposed to have done to my daughter. I have learned a lot about this sort of thing since then. I do want to say, that I think maybe you should stop and think about someone here besides you. There are people that want to read all this "crap" and I am one of them. I cannot begin to tell you how much the people of this echo helped me to get through what was in front of me for a long, long, time. I still read all the messages in this area, and a few others to. I am glad for these conferences, and I am sure many others are also. Once again, please take the time to reflect on what the problems are in the people's lives that use these message areas, and please think of omeome other than Bubba Smith...Obviously Rick Thoma has taken the time to think f others...We all owe him the cretain respect that he so deserves... If you wish to chat with me about my past, my present, or my future, I would be more than glad to do so...Feel free to Reply... James Hallberg BS> -!- MMGR +Plus+ v3.01 BS> ! Origin: Venice Recovery (941)492-9592 Venice, FL (1:137/408) ... We Will Fight On Land, We Will Fight On Sea, We Will Never Surrender! --- Blue Wave/Max v2.12 [NR] * Origin: Communicate Now! (1993) (1:221/1002) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 210 VICTIMS/FALSEACC Ref: DBM00000Date: 07/16/96 From: TIGER EYES Time: 10:37am \/To: RICK THOMA (Read 2 times) Subj: AGAIN -=> Quoting Rick Thoma to Tiger Eyes <=- RT> I can't tell you how fortunate your are to have this "system" on your RT> side. In the event that it were working against you, the best I would RT> be able to offer that would be of some *genuine* help would likely RT> approach the $10,000 mark. Well, it's a little different today, than last time I typed ya... Um, the "system" gave him back the kids because he has visitation/custody for the month of July. According to the law, he should be bringing them back on July 31. However, he has made it clear that he will not. He took the kids straight to Reno, Nevada where he started it all over again. The police here in my town said that the Reno District Attorney's office called them. Now the kids are going to be interviewed by experts there n Reno too. So, there are no charges againest me in California, and he was allowed to take them, regardless of the damage he has done to them.. and now, he is doing more... in the process... he has not been smart enough to obtain a court order of any kind... the old custody order stands... The accusations btw, have esculated.. when he called and said I'd never see the kids again, he told my boyfriend that I had done things to the kids. When my boyfriend stood up for me, he said, "you're not there all the time, she's been alone with the kids." The charges are sexual and physical abuse. NOW, the charges are that my boyfriend and myself have both done things to the kids, and to one kid in front of the elder child. There is a lot of history in our case... unfortunatley.. that is slowing down the process... but, the bottom line here, is that my kids are eing hurt... their minds being screwed.... RT> From what you tell me, this is one of those rare cases in which I RT> almost find myself wishing the system would use its awesome powers to RT> help you. I have a LOT of people on my side.. but, I am impatient knowing how badly my kids are being hurt... I can't understand, how in the hell, they rationalized giving the kids back to him to let him finish off his visitation... > He got out of trouble by saying that he did it for the "best > interests" of the kids.. RT> RT> That handy little phrase has gotten quite a lot of people out of RT> trouble--many of them inside of the system. It seems to me that the RT> ex has done more than a little research, and knows how to work the RT> system to his advantage. Yeah, well, he better do a damn good job... thing is.. he is arrogant, and he always misses something... anyway, he didn't do the research.. that's part of the problem. He's a 35 year old man, and he's got 24 year old wife who believes his story that he is a "victim" of me... and everyone else in his family... and she does all the work... I know.. cause I always did the work... hehehehe... I also know because she is the one who writes me the most to tell me off... :) RT> I wish you the best of luck with all this. If I can be of any help, RT> shoot me Netmail, or contact me via Internet mail: rthoma@shentel.net. Thank you for the offer and address.. at this point, I'm being told to "keep the faith" and be patient... As each day goes on I get angier, and angier becasue I know the mess I'm gonnna have to clean up... last year my son regressed...he was having nightmares, wetting the bed... temper tantrums... it was awful.. it took months to get him settled down, and he's still not "normal". Well, nuff of this one.. thanks for all, Peggy! ... ARRRRRGGGHHH!!!! ... Tension breaker, had to be done. --- Blue Wave/Max v2.30 [NR] * Origin: Sasquach (1:215/25)