Yeah, Mara, The US Dept of State AND The United States Department of Justice top your miniscule adoption voting poll on “Should Kids Given Up For Adoption Have Their Rights Defended in Court? (CASA)”.
See, the Big Guys on Capital Hill have been reading my website, either secretly or blatantly, for months. Perhaps years, well, since I began blogging in June of 2007.
Hmm, The US Dept of State. The US Department of Justice. What are they looking for? Ammunition to use against adoptees? Pieces of the truth to use to actually change laws to end the tyranny against adoptees?
Are these US Federal government agencies solidifying adoption and birth certificate law to give back, or keep locked up, civil rights for adoptees and our natural parents?
If our birth certificates are really state by state issues to be handled by individual state governments and are not Federal issues, why, then, is the Federal Government reading my website?
Hey, Feds: stop giving me a bad name. You already took away my birthname, my birth family, and my dignity as an American citizen. Are you gonna confiscate me, too? You know, stupid people will get the wrong impression of me. I am being honest, folks. I am not committing fraud: my government committed fraud against me.
What about the barrage of government and military installations that stampeded my website in November 2009 to read about me, that baaad adoptee, that horrible, ungrateful bastard adoptee who was misquoted by an ABC news reporter who put quotes around her words as if I said, “would have preferred to live in foster care rather than be adopted…”?
No, I never said that, but again, a stupid reporter hell bent on getting out a biased article for National Adoption Month rather than accurately quote the adoptee for what she truly said, gets paid to spread wrongful information.
Well, that article sent THE PENTAGON and the US DEPTARMENT OF STATE and NAVAL and MARINES and lots of offices around WASHTINGTON DC flooding my website. Insurance companies, universities, foreign governments, social service agencies, adoption agencies and our dear friends: the NCFA – the National Council For Adoption.
So, in the wee hours of the morning, I wrote a blog post about the alternatives that could have been done had I had a defense attorney standing up for my rights as an infant being “put up for” and “placed for” and “relinquished for” adoption. THAT post sent The US Department of State and the US Department of Justice snooping around my website!
Are you kidding me? People, namely mindless relatives, think I’m doing illegal activity! Wish they’d mind their own business.
Hey, Hillary, snap to it! Adoptees are sick and tired of being slaves to the adoption-centric country and world we live in! Get to your job and straighten out America’s sick, perverted adoption and birth certificate laws. Take care of the lives of your own people right here in America before you go off traveling the world influencing foreign policy. We need you right here, defending the rights of your own citizens.
Adoptees cannot get Passports, or Enhanced Drivers’ Licenses, unless we prove who we are. We cannot prove who we are unless we get our “Original” birth certificates. We cannot get our sealed “original” birth certificates because our Federal and State governments confiscate our Certificates of Live Birth and replace them with fraudulent Certificates of Live Birth when we are adopted. And we cannot ever see or own a certified “original” birth certificate because some government official, or lawyer, is afraid we adoptees, no we dirty bastard adoptees, would commit fraud. Say what?
And don’t give me this crap from the Birther Movement trying to oust President Obama because they want to see his real birth certificate. If you Birthers would focus your attentions on the real issues of millions of adoptees who cannot access our true Birth Certificates, then we might live in a true free country. Stop focusing your energies in the wrong places and start focusing on doing justice for millions of enslaved Americans who were born here, or adopted and brought here, by their adoptive parents.
I’m speaking to you, people in The Pentagon. What threat do I pose to this country? Is it because I point out the truth of adoption in this country? I am not the only adoption activist to do so. Are you buzzing around other adoption activist websites and blogs, too? Are you gonna ban my book from being read because I published scanned images of my real and false Certificates of Live Birth issued by the State of New York?
Jeese Louise! Do your jobs and correct the mistakes perpetrated against adoptees since falsified birth certificates became the law of the land in 1930 to erase bastards’ beginnings from the sandstones of time. Chop our names and images off of the pyramids and temples of the ancients because we low-lifes are not worthy to know the truth.
I am not a bastard! I was born to married parents! My birth, and the births of my fellow adopted citizens, illegitimate bastards or orphans or adopted step children, are not births to be criminalized.
Children are not chattel! Children look to adults to take care of them and protect their rights. Adults need to grow up to do right and just action. Unseal adoptees’ birth certificates and stop issuing falsified documents just because the government says it is okay to do so.
Liars. Cheaters. This is America! The Land of the Free!
Listen up, US Dept of State! You are in together with The Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption. This Convention not only allows for falsified birth certificates for all intercountry adoptees, it requires pre-adoptive parents to obtain a “new” birth certificate for the child they wish to adopt before the adoption takes place! Who drew up these international treaties? Falsifying birth certificates BEFORE or AFTER an adoption is not right and just action, but it is legal. And because it is legal, this practice must be moral, otherwise, people wouldn’t do it. Nor would they blindly “believe” in adoption.
The United Nations urges all nations, even the poorest of the poor, to register the births of all children for the safety and civil rights of all children. Why should nations follow the suggestions of the United Nations and UNICEF, when the US Department of State and The Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption requires the destruction of those birth certificates by overriding them with “new” birth certificates made in the child’s new name and the names of the intended adoptive parents? Might not justice be best served by telling the truth on official government documents of birth and adoption? Might it not be best to honor the births of all children by eliminating adoption all together? The same end result of providing a home for a needy child can be achieved with Guardianship, rather than adoption. Unless, of course, if the goal really is to provide children for waiting pre-adoptive and “intended” adoptive parents, then right action and moral action is to strip the child of her birth identity and replace the low-life’s origins with adoptive parents who are better suited to be parents.
Sorry, Mara, but you despicable bastard have been displaced. The US Department of State and the US Dept of Justice in Washington DC definitely beat you out as giving me a better Birthday present than you did. You only spurred me to speak about kids having attorneys in court to stand up for their rights, but these agencies spying on me gave me the impetus to speak out against the worldwide destruction of adoptees’ birthrights. You’ve been outdone, Mara.
Tomorrow, we go back to change dot gov where we can pick apart President Obama’s misstatements on “making adoption more available”. Adoptees’ work is never done. I’ve been neglecting my page on that website for far too long.
What’s a birthday for if you can’t sit on your ass all day and write activist blog posts harassing the US Federal government and international law-making bodies?
Thanks, Mara. You started it! Best Birthday present ever!
FORBIDDEN FAMILY 
Excellent points, Gaye.
The name-change thing — this is how we were raised. We accept it because we hear this is how other peopel do it, so the practice doesn’t change. Now, we adoption reformers are saying we want change. Actually, we’ve been saying this since 1953 in America when Jean Paton founded the American Adoption Reform Movement.
Adoptees have been so traumatized by what has happened to them that most do not allow themselves to think deeper than the comfortanle life they know as the “adopted child” of their “only real parents”. Every adopted person has two sets of real parents, but not all of us recognize that fact.
You are right, Gaye. No one should legally be allowed to change a minor child’s first, middle, and last name. This is the person’s identity and should be respected.
Nicknames and verbal Americanizations of names have been done as immigrants arrive in a new country, if that is their choice to do so. Children do not have a choice, but the adults in charge should have respect for a child’s name and identity.
Another excellent point you raise about TRANSLATING a child’s birth certificate into the new language of the new country of residence. Right again on ACCURATELY recording the facts of birth in such a translation.
ADOPTIONS should be accurately documented on ADOPTION CERTIFICATES that do not conflict or replace the accuracy of a BIRTH certificate.
If death can come from a thousand tiny cuts – then change can come from each blog, each comment, each click.
We have to make ourselves heard over the roar of the adoption machine.
It makes no sense to me why someone should be able to LEGALLY change someone else’s name without their express consent. I keep reading about adopters changing names of kids are old enough to know their full names. My older son was attempting to say his name at 10 months of age! Why do adopters feel they have the right to rename a child? I can understand adding the family name, I can even understand giving the child a nickname that is easier to pronounce or “more American” – new immigrants have done that for generations. But why does a 7 year old child “need” a completely new name unless it’s part of being “reborn” into a religion they were not born to and did not choose.
BTW – it is standard practice for immigrants to have their birth registered in the state or country of residence. I have no problem with a Chinese birth certificate being translated into English and filed with a US State – as long as it ACCURATELY records that person’s birth and parentage. We were recently given Uruguayan birth certificates which translated our American birth certificates into Spanish and registered our US births with the government of Uruguay.
What a great resource!
LMAO. Remember any activists could be considered terrorists by the feds so we’re suppossed to run away in fear and hide. Ya, right. No one is silencing me from telling the world that the United States Federal Government allows 44 states to violate the Constitutional Rights of adopted citizens.
All the safeguards and yet false birth certificates are allowed to be made by the thousands every day in the country by government workers! However, common folk making false birth certificates for illegals would serve hard time in FEDERAL PRISON!!!!