July 25, 2003

Dear Leonard,
   
I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU TO PLEASE, PLEASE POST THIS IN THE APPROPRIATE PLACE ON AFRA'S WEBSITE.  I WANT TO HELP OTHERS, VERY MUCH. I AM WILLING TO TALK TO OTHER PARENTS, BE A SPEAKER, WRITER, ETC. IN WHATEVER CAPACITY I CAN. MONEY IS LIMITED, AND SO ARE MY WEBMASTER SKILLS, BUT I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT THE RIGHTS OF  STOLEN SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GRIEVING PARENTS EVERYWHERE. ALSO, IF I CAN FIND HELP, I AM BUILDING A CASE AGAINST THE STATE OF OREGON, FOR DENYING MY SWEET RACHEL HER CIVIL RIGHTS!!!!! ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED.



I have recently joined AFRA in a difficult and "Catch-22 riddled" effort to "spring" my daughter Rachel from the talons-ummm-TENTACLES of the Disabilities Services department (who "got" her from CSD there in Oregon.)

She is turning 18 in August 22nd of this year, and she has wanted NOTHING MORE than to be be with me and my boyfriend (who helped raise her from age 3 till age 10) when I "VOLUNTARILY" placed her because the Gestapo-CSD-said I would get no special services for her disabilities unless I--- (A:) abused or neglected her, or (B:) signed-(was coerced) into signing a paper that said I was a bad parent. Given such drastic choices, and seeing as how as a single parent living in poverty (I couldn't work anyway because of my daughter's needs) I couldn't give what she NEEDED, I HAD to put her into "the system".

All this time I have tried to work within their ultra strict parameters, so I wouldn't be denied visits and any other contact with her, and my entire family suffered too. Her Grandma and Grandpa on both sides of the family were DENIED any contact except under duress, and only after endless phone calls, and MONTHS of waiting !!! MY mother DIED and she hadn't seen my daughter in 2 years at that point!!! (They guilt-tripped a little bit after that, and seemed to be more open) but NOW, they are more restrictive than ever. Phone calls are never returned, visits are never arranged as promised, phone calls from ME are monitored and today, on the one-month eve of her birthday, This:

I called on a Friday (7/24/03) to the foster home from Boise, Idaho (where I HAD to move in April to find work, as you know too well of Oregon's horrid economy) and I KNEW the phone call was on speaker. Well, I wanted to get information (Information is DANGEROUS???) to Rachel that the Oregon Advocacy Center needs to talk to her -though I never got as far as saying the name of the agency- and that she needed to tell them "what she wanted".

Now, I guess this appeared too divisive for the foster mom, and she cut-in. She informed me that the disabilities counselor told her that "my phone calls are upsetting Rachel" and that if I couldn't "turn the conversation around", that she'd have to hang up the phone. I ASKED the foster mom-(whom up until NOW, I had had an O.K. level of cooperation with)-and could she PLEASE make sure she let's Rachel call the Oregon Advocacy Center on her 18th birthday - to inform THEM of her desire to see me and BE with me in Idaho as a family unit-as Rachel is NOT allowed to use the phone, her mail is censored, etc....OAC says SHE needs to initiate the phone call as THEY cannot. So, I HAD to take the chance and try to get my message to her from OAC.

The foster mom tried to re-direct my conversation to her. I informed her that it is Rachel's RIGHT as an adult, to talk to anyone she pleases, and it is her RIGHT to choose her guardian at age 18, and that they must make "due consideration" and "reasonable accommodations" to have contact with me. I said to the foster mom," If you do NOT allow her at age 18 to be "self-determined", you are violating her civil rights, and I will be contacting the ACLU to make SURE she has her civil rights enforced !!! END OF CONVERSATION, I knew she wouldn't and will not let Rachel talk to me after that.

I KNOW this screwed her and me, but they are DETERMINED to "keep" (kidnap) her till age 21, in spite of the fact I can get BETTER if not the same services for her here in Idaho. I know DAMNED well that this is in direct retaliation to the disabilities counselor, who thought nothing of LYING, COLLUSION, BAITING, ATTACKING MY CHARACTER, on and on... etc. whom ultimately caused me so much ANGUISH, that I sputtered and called her a "NAZI-BITCH"....My mother always said: "Call 'em as you see 'em"!!!

I regret that this happened to my daughter. Now, I must rely on my grandparents there in Oregon to tell her that I am not giving up on her. I know the GESTAPO'S will refuse my phone calls to Rachel now. I must write everything down, and send Rachel's letters, and let the foster mom know that  IF she reads Rachel's letters that  the foster mom is breaking FEDERAL law in regards to mail privacy, as well as civil rights and Constitutional laws AND The Bill of Rights. I am keeping COPIES of all my letters and I am saving them as evidence , as well as a diary for Rachel so that she knows that THEY are the enemy. They don't know who they just screwed with!!! MY DAUGHTER WON'T BE DENIED HER CIVIL RIGHTS, TO BE WITH HER FAMILY!!!!!

DOWN WITH THE GESTAPO!!!!!


Rebecca S. Keeney
Triscelt@aol.com