Friday, June 26, 2015

Voice of America





This is where I will voice my opinions about current events and political issues. If you don't love America and want to protect our nation,  while remembering the past and developing our future, then this is not the channel for you. This channel will feature topic brought to you to start a civil discussion about issues dividing our country and also about the ones that bring us together.

If you have a topic you wish to discuss, send me your 20 second video or email your topic and viewpoints to averagejoe4president@yahoo.com  We will use your video and viewpoints to discuss the topics.


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Sunday, June 21, 2015

Child Protective Services in America, Corrupt or Misunderstood?






I wanted to take a moment and share some hard work being done by Matthew Virgin, Karen Stevens and their Taylor Paige Foundation.  I've known Mathew for a short time but he and Karen work tirelessly advocating for children and parental rights. Unfortunately in some cases, children have been taken away from Parents who truly love their children and care for them and have lost their rights due to false pretenses against them. In many cases these parents are at or below the poverty level and may not have the financial backing to obtain a lawyer and fall into the cracks and some  may lose their children forever. The work this man is doing is truly helping others against a system that sometimes is too big for its own good.  If you know someone or need help yourself, you may contact Matthew at the links below.

Greg Pollitt



Check out their links and the article below

Foundation Facebook can be found on the following link


 Website is 


An Article they were featured in is 


This is a community Service Announcement as voiced by their first two Ambassadors, that is being aired on channel 31 Melbourne Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6FYzvhEWGo

Endorsement from Deadgar Winters Dark Coffin Classics a TV series in Wisconsin


And they were most recently featured in TTW.TV Magazine


If you wish to contribute to their foundation you can click on the paypal donation button on their website or you can donate on their GOFUNDME on the following link.


All Proceeds go to helping them with establishment costs and to helping the families that come to us with legal fees etc.

If you wish to help out their foundation in anyway please contact Mathew Virgin or his Fiance and Co-Founder Karen at taylorpaigefoundation@gmail.com

Matt and Karen

Founders



My testimony.

I have been advocating for victims Child Protective Services case, discrepancies for just over two years now. The following is a short testimony on several experiences I have had advocating and dealing with Child Protective Services in the United States.

Last year, when I sat on the board as a volunteer for an organization based in Texas but America wide, the founder approached me through a Facebook message and asked if I could please contact the Clarke Family in Dallas. They had been posting in several social media Facebook groups that a Child Protection Service case had been opened on them, because they refused to get their home school children immunized by their regular doctor. In retaliation, the Doctor called DCFS (Child Protective Services in Texas) on the Clark Family with false allegations of abuse.

I spoke to Mr. Clark and Mrs. Clark on the phone and they were quite beside themselves what to do because they had been given less than a week’s warning for a termination hearing. DCFS had not even opened a proper investigation and moved straight towards a removal. 

I consulted the Clark family with the best guidance I could give them using my personal experience, which included, taking the children to court with them, for the judge to be able to see the children were healthy and looked after, bettering the chances that the case would be closed.

A week later, the hearing arrived. I sat in anticipation praying for the best outcome for the Clark family and their children. That afternoon, after the hearing they rung me in tears and explained that the judge had ordered the case closed due to lack of evidence and false reporting on the case manager’s merit.

The case has remained closed to this day.



Another case I have advocated for was Holly Garcia in Missouri. She contacted me through one of the parental rights Facebook groups and explained to me that Child Protection Services had tried removal of her son earlier that year, whom had a medical condition. She won in court, but in retaliation, Child Protective Services had her sons disability checks stopped. 

She sent me a brief email outlining the situation and what had happened to her son and her family and they were now struggling because of this financial strain. I contacted a friend of mine in Missouri, Roi Chinn, who is running for Secretary of State on the independent ticket. I outlined the situation and explained that this family needed our help any way we could.

We both wrote letters to the Attorney General’s office, the Governor’s office and several other government entities. We did not get a response for about two weeks. Then Holly rung me excited and quite beside herself. She had received a phone call from the state capital inquiring what had happened and how they could help.

They restored her son’s disability check later that week and Holly was very grateful and appreciative of me and Roi, for reaching out and helping her without asking for anything in return. 

To this day, her son’s disability checks are still coming in regularly and the family is quite well.



Last year a friend of mine in Maryland, Chris Gannon, another family rights activist reached out to me as he had heard I successfully had helped several families, either get their case closed, or investigated. A woman by the name of Tammy in Tennessee had, had the neighbors call DCF in her local county on her, no less than 19 times, and each time DCF had closed the case. Her 19 daughter moved back in the residence with her, and her grandson.
The neighbors then called DCF on her for the 20th time. This time DCF took the “allegation” a bit more serious and moved towards removal of Tammy’s Grandchild. 

I spoke to Tammy on the phone and she outlined the situation to me, explain DCF had tried to remove her grandchild from the home, but the judge hadn’t ruled on it yet. The department was moving towards a removal on the grounds of medical neglect. This was because when they did their initial investigation they saw Doctor Reports of their grandchild had been choked on items that he had been playing with. The Doctors report reflected that this was a normal every day accident where the child had picked up something off the ground and placed it into his mouth as children do regularly.
Once again the department had no merit on opening this investigation on an anonymous tip. 

I spoke to Tammy on the phone and wrote several letters to government entities around her local area and also gave her guidance on her case. I explained that taking the Doctors reports into the hearing to present to the judge would be the best way to prove her case was opened without merit and to explain to the judge it was just a family who they had, had problems with before. I suggested they get letters of good standing from friends of theirs and the child’s doctor, to present as evidence to the court to show that they were being targeted and the only way to get to the family was through DCF.

Tammy followed my guidance and the day after the initial hearing, after she presented to the court her evidence, the Judge closed the case.
The case, as far as I know, is closed to this day.



A year and a half ago when I was still in Australia, I was contacted by a Lynn Lombadozzi, from Pennsylvania. She explained to me, she used to be a judges aid and at one point had worked for Child Protective Services in Pennsylvania. She had a falling out with one of the other employees in the office and in retaliation they opened a case on her.

I advocated for Lynn for several weeks and months and also was on an online radio show with her, helping her expose her story to the public. I wrote letters to District Attorneys and several other government figures and bodies in her county in Pennsylvania but got little or no response.
I spent a lot of time trying my hardest to help Lynn and give her as much guidance as I could, but unfortunately, she recently had to file a motion change of venue to get the case looked at by another judge in the state of New Jersey.

To my knowledge the case is still open and Lynn is struggling on a day to day basis to survive and keep going forward without her children, but unfortunately not every case can be closed as easy as some others, taking years to get investigations opened or closed on them.
It is hard when most people and families who are targeted by Child Protective Services cannot afford reliable and proper legal representation, as they barely qualify for legal aid, or a court appointed attorney. Court Appointed attorneys don’t always act in the best interest of the family and mostly act in the best interest of the court. That is why people like me are needed because we dedicate our lives and time researching and learning to help these families deal with this delicate subject.



The families mentioned in this document have given me permission to talk about their cases and I can provide contact details for each one, including current phone numbers and email addresses.

These are just a few of the thousands of stories and experiences I have had while helping people deal with Child Protective Services cases and discrepancies in their actions. 

Some use Child Protective Services as a weapon against each other, and some use it out of spite, to other families and the as in most cases, Child Protective Services uses the mere fact they can claim incentives of the Federal Government to achieve financial gain.

Matt Virgin

Family Rights activist 

Co-Founder of Taylor Paige Foundation

P.S

If I have worked your case or, you have witnessed my advocation for someone you know, please feel free to leave a comment in the comments section, as positive feedback is always appreciated










Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Afraid in America





Tonight I sat and read an article about a United States Embassy moving up its celebration of an American Holiday by a month, to not give in to a potential issue with a Muslim celebration that begins in the end of June known as Ramadan, and I realized for the first time, that I was afraid. I am afraid not just for my family and friends, but for this nation, our way of life, our dreams and passions and the future of our children.

What happened to us?

Why is everyone afraid to be proud of this country?

Why do we give in to so many people when they wish to kill us?

For the first time I opened my eyes to see a very much different America. We all are living in fear. The very same thing that President George Bush warned about after 9/11. Our elected officials rammed in the Patriot Act  out of fear.  We elected our current President out of fear, we pulled out of Iraq and Afghanistan too soon out of fear… not from fear of defeat, but from fear of what we had to do to protect America.  The terrorist are winning because now we are moving our holidays which is honoring the fight that our founding fathers fought hard to establish for us. Freedom! Where has it gone? Where is liberty shining high above the clouds and can be seen from every nation's shores looking to the west for opportunity to live without fear, without oppression, without tyranny?  Sadly the light of Lady Liberty has been smudged out from Fear!  

We see people disrespecting police when they live very dangerous lives protecting our streets from hardened criminals. When did it become ok for some of those officers to take the law into their own hands and become judge, jury and yes even sometimes the executioner? When did American citizens become sympathetic to terrorist causes and threaten ISIS style of attacks to push their agendas. I look and see that our countries principals that our nation was founded upon are failing. No one has pride in America as we used to have. I grew up in an America that loved it’s service men and women. A country that had respect for one another., This nation had healed from a torn apart nation after Vietnam and a shameful time in America's struggle with civil rights.
I look at the soul of America and it is tearing itself apart at its core. This nation has lost it’s heart. because it has been ripped apart by people who want to be politically correct and are afraid to say something is bad, when it is. By people who want to erase principals of America and silence our freedoms to celebrate a holiday that our nation deservingly should scream above the mountains about so that people want to be like America…...FREE!!!!

I write to you today very selfishly and am asking a favor from all who can read this. That Favor is to please don't stop believing in that America. Keep leading the charge by showing the world with your voice how our world can be better. How our nation should be the bright light on the horizon in the middle of night when someone halfway across the world looks through a port hole on a battleship fighting for our freedom. Or for the family who barely has food or water in a village over ran with drug lords stealing supplies dropped to help them. So that everyone knows that light on the horizon is a chance. That light is hope, love, compassion and a defender. That light is the liberator of oppression and tyranny and that it represents the souls of men and women who love each other no matter their race creed or color and all our indifferences that light represents America.
Our nation is lost. Many have dimmed that light and our country needs reminded what this nation stands for. our Nation needs voices like yours and other Americans to unite under the belief our nation once had. Freedom... Perseverance...Passion...
You see my passion and love of this country in my voice carries down the street and maybe across the neighborhood with social media.....Your voice and passion carries around the globe. Please don't ever let that light grow dim. Do what I wish I could do and lead not a change in our world but remember the world we had.  Together we can resurrect our nation from the ashes of defeat. We can restore American pride. We can celebrate our heritage, our diversity and our right and privilege to call ourselves Americans.  Let them hate America because we stand for these principals and forever these principles will  lead them to beg to be an American citizen.  They hate America for which it Stands, for our liberty, and the ability to look evil in the face and fight to save a life everywhere on this great rock we call Earth.

I thank God for everything I have, and I thank you for being my brothers and sisters as American citizens and I am PROUD TO BE an AMERICAN!

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

America Offended!


You know what offends me? That our flag must rise above the ashes of terrorism attacks on our nation. Our flag shouldn't have to be honored only when events like this happen. It should be honored every day with respect from those who died to protect our way of life, our freedoms. And I see videos and pictures of people challenging others to desicrate the flag of our great nation and it is appalling....
I challenge you to learn what this flag represents. I challenge you to understand the pride Americans have in this nation and what we have accomplished in over 200 yrs to become the leader in civilization even though we think differently watching the news each day and see and see violence committed against one another. The rapes the murders the drug deals all from cowards who refuse to try to make a difference with their lives.
These people have bought into a system of subversive mentality that they believe they can never do better.... but you can. Adversity brings strength. If you have the personal resolve you can do anything no matter how many times you are beaten down it is up to you to want to make a difference.. Freedom isn't free.... it is protected by the blood of every one who died or fought to protect you and I so we can have a chance to overcome the adversity life throws our way.
So stop disrespecting our nation's flag, our veterans, and yourselves. Make a difference and do something to improve our country for yourself and our children instead of whining when you don't get your way. Remember these images after we were attacked and our nation's resolve and have that in your hearts to make a change in your own lives and ultimately for us all.

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Memorial Day



   Today is very special day for me for many reasons. It is my wedding anniversary to my beautiful wife 6 yrs ago today. Many times I, just like everyone else get caught up in life's events. From gadgets to clothes, special events and more, we all lose track once in awhile. One thing I never lose track of is my love and dedication to my family. This anniversary is a special day not for me, but for our friends, our families, our states, our country and our universe, to serve as a reminder that love conquers all.
   We see the news filled with hate, crimes, wars celebrities/politicians having affairs and people being brutally murdered because they believe in something different than them in their religious beliefs. Intolerance breeds hate, suffering, crime and distrust.
   Today is also a national holiday to remember the ones we love and have lost. These men and women were brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers. Whether they died in combat, or natural causes or protecting and serving our nation's streets, we celebrate their lives today no matter how hard it is and what most people tell you to say goodbye. I'm here to tell you we don't ever have to say goodbye and you never should. We love these people because they brought about a change in our lives we can never forget. The love and compassion we feel in our lives instilled in us is why we need to never say goodbye. The sacrifices they made in their lives even if the gave their life for ours we need to hold dear to our hearts. Use that to help make a change in our lives and those around us. Each day of this life is precious. Each breathe we take is a memory of how we lived our lives and how we effect each other.
  We honor those who serve and protect our streets,our country,and our hearts. From the police officers to the firefighters, doctors and nurses, and all our mighty military men and women. This nation adores your sacrifices so that we all live long and have the lives we choose to live.
  In closing I want to say my family is proud to say we love you all. We greatly appreciate all you do. With love and appreciation comes happiness, togetherness, and unity surrounded by compassion for each other and if we all practice this remembrance method, we can make the world a better place.



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