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Jack Stratton                                           8-07-03
624 Cherry Street
Charlotte, NC 28204
704-370-6037

FROM MECKLENBURG COUNTY, CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA

Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners / Board of Social Services

Tom Cox, Chairman
Dan Ramirez, Vice Chairman
Parks Helms
Jim Puckett
Norman Mitchell
Valerie C. Woodward
Dumont Clarke
Ruth Samuelson
Bill James

Re:  Stratton Case /  Forced vaccination of children by Mecklenburg County /  42 U.S.C. § 1983 violations

        This is to remind you that we are appealing the August 5, 2001 ruling from the North Carolina Court of Appeals to the North Carolina Supreme Court.  This appeal and other Stratton appeals thoroughly encompass the issue of the attempted assault of our children via forced vaccination by you and your agents.

          I also remind you that you are jointly and severally liable for the actions of your DSS agents and for any actions delegated to others by your DSS agents, whether such delegates are governmental agencies,  non governmental 501(c)(3) organizations, individuals, or affiliates, friends, business associates, or any other person who acts in an attempt to vaccinate our children.

          You may be personally liable pusuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

          May I remind you that you already have at least two 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuits pending:

1.         Patrick Martin, former YFS Director  ( says he was fired after he helped expose sexual harrassment of female DSS temp. employee by high level DSS personnel;  lawsuit alleges conspiracy pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 involving Mecklenburg County's DSS Director Richard "Jake" Jacobsen, Asst. DSS Director John Skidmore, County Manager Harry Jones, attorney James O. Cobb and others)

2.         Yinka and Vanessa Fasinro  ( house surrounded by DSS agents and police, healthy baby daughter seized, held from parents for four days and vaccinated;  lawsuit alleges Negligence, Battery, Assault, False Imprisonment, Constitutional Violation as proscribed by 42 U.S.C. § 1981 and 1983, Abuse of Process, Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress, and Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

          Both of these legal actions allege conspiracy by Mecklenburg County government and the Fasinro lawsuit specifies a conspiracy which includes the forced vaccination of children using your DSS agents as government enforcers.

           The fact that such a conspiratorial cabal indeed exists in Mecklenburg County governemnt is openly admitted in statements made by a non profit 501(c)(3) organization known as the Council for Children. They openly state that they are "collaborative partners" with the DSS to vaccinate every child in Mecklenburg County, by force if necessary. This is an element of their agenda known as "Core Values for Children and Parents". The following are statements made by the Council for Children on their website as to the implementation of "Core Values for Children and Families":

      "These values will become the touchstone for this community's legislative, civic, and social services agenda. They will...provide direction to our elected officials, corporate leaders and human service providers for the century to come."

     "Members of the Core Values Collaborative Team: Council for Children, Charlotte Housing Authority, Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Dept., Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, The Family Center, Mecklenburg Co. Dept of Social Services, Mecklenburg Co. Area Mental Health Child and Adolescent Services, Youth Homes, YouthNetwork and United Way of Central Carolina."

     "The values...are:  ... Access to...Immunizations..."

     "No longer will we allow a single child to be left behind."

QUESTIONS:

a)   Why does the Council for Children say that their "Core Values" will become the agenda for the Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services? The DSS is supposed to operate according to federal and North Carolina statutory law to protect abused and neglected children, not conspire with a private 501(c)(3) organization to carry out that organization's agenda using government force and taxpayer money.

b)   Why does the Council for Children state emphatically that their private agenda will ..."provide direction to our elected officials"?  Our elected officials are supposed to be "directed" by state and federal law, the U.S. Constitution, and the will of the people, not "directed" by a 501(c)(3) non profit organization.

c)     Nobody elected the Council for Children's Larry King and Brett Loftis to legislative office. Who are Larry King and Brett Loftis to presume to take over child rearing decisions for every citizen in Mecklenburg County? Who authorized the Mecklenburg Department of Social Services, a tax funded government entity with virtually unlimited and unchecked power, to become the "enforcer" for the collectivist agenda of a private non profit 501(c)(3) organization? Who authorized the Mecklenburg DSS and the Police Dept. to "collaborate" with a private 501(c)(3) to surround citizen's houses and seize their children because the parents do not believe in a collectivist view of child rearing?

d)   Why does the Council for Children say that their agenda will "provide direction" to the government "for the century to come"?  How can a private 501(c)(3) organization know that it's agenda will be carried out by Mecklenburg County elected leaders for the next one hundred years? How could this be possible in a free society that elects it's representatives every two to six years? What the Council for Children espouses is only possible in a socialist totalitarian dictatorship where the people  have no rights and live in fear of the kind of government atrocities that have been inflicted on my family and the Fasinros.

e)   How can the Council for Children boldly say "no longer will we allow a single child" to escape? Aren't they boasting that they as a 501(c)(3) private organization have absolute power over all parents and children in Mecklenburg County and that the citizens of Mecklenburg County no longer have rights?

          On April 15, 2003, the Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners endorsed the Council for Children's "Core Values" collectivist agenda. Just as they boasted, the Council for Children is "providing direction to our elected officials."  One of three staff contacts you listed for "Core Values" was your agent Mecklenburg DSS Director Richard "Jake" Jacobsen.

          Further evidence that the subversive and conspiratorial agenda outlined above is not simply rhetorical in nature is the recent revelation that Council for Children attorney Brett Loftis has been working for the National Association of Social Workers and filed a brief of behalf of the DSS in the recent North Carolina Supreme Court decision Re: Stumbo .

           Loftis was on the Stratton case and "collaborated" with your DSS agents, the Mecklenburg GALs / Children's Law Center, and Judge Elizabeth D. Miller to commit numerous atrocities against us and our children, including but not limited to attempts to assault them via forced vaccinations.

           Furthermore, I have personally appeared before you four times since July 9, 2002 requesting that you do something about the reign of terror which is being unleashed on innocent families by your Mecklenbrg County DSS agents. Children are being seized from loving parents because the parents are Christians, home school their children, and choose to exercise their legal right under NCGS § 130A-157 and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States to not vaccinate their children.

          On December 15, 2000 your DSS agents, accompanied by at least four armed police officers, conducted a night raid on the home of Yinka and Vannesa Fasinro, seized their baby daughter Shaday and held the baby from her parents for four days while your agents and their associates vaccinated her.

           You and your your agents have already violated our and our children's First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.  It is in your best interests to immediately cease and desist from further civil rights violations, including but not limited to the forced vaccination of our children.

           Nor will it matter who makes the physical attempt, whether it be your DSS agents, their "collaborators" such as guardian ad litem attorneys Richard Lucy and Nancy Zupanic and their respective 501(c)(3) organizations, foster home personnel, or others. The Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners / Board of Social Services is ultimately responsible both jointly and severally for anything and everything that happens to our children while in your (il)legal custody, even more so since July 9, 2002.

          Had you done your duty as the Board of County Commissioners / Board of Social Services, the issue of forced vaccination of our children would have been moot long ago.  Instead you have chosen to protect your rogue DSS agents and Mecklenburg DSS Director Richard "Jake" Jacobsen.

          San Diego County, California removed Jacobsen as DSS Director after two Grand Jury Reports documented many of the same abuses he is now committing with impunity in Mecklenburg County, including unnecessarily removing children from their homes.

          How much longer are you going to protect Richard "Jake" Jacobsen while he continues to create millions of dollars in liability for the taxpayers of Mecklenburg County and possibly for yourselves personally?

                                                                            
                       signed    Jack Stratton