In Support of the Proposed "Amer Act"

                                        


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                                         The Proposed "Amer Act"

Recognizing that families are the foundation of American society, and one of our nation%u2019s oldest, most important, and most cherished institutions, and that families are headed by parents who have natural, and self evident legal and moral rights in respect to their children and extended family members that should not be tampered with, or terminated by governments, agencies of the government, or any other worldly entity, except in the most extreme and crisis situations, the Amer Act seeks to protect Michigan families. For the purpose of this legislation, family is defined as a mother, father and children, and any combination of said family members sharing a single, or any number of different domiciles. Also for the purpose of the Act, immediate and extended family is described as blood, or other legal relationships that meet the legal definition of family as it is understood, and described in Michigan law, within the degrees of association that traditionally distinguish and define immediate and extended family members.

Recognizing that extended families are a natural result of generations of family continuity and growth, and an important aspect of family, an essential and cherished social institution, the Amer Act recognizes the rights of extended families, and extended family members as they exist under the accepted definitions, and seeks to also protect the extended family.

No government agency, law enforcement, representative, representative body, people, group, or groups, associations, etc., governmental, or non-governmental, working alone, or on behalf of the state or federal government, will seek to physically separate, or cause to be separated, a parent, or parents, or family members, or extended family members, living together as a family, except under the following circumstances:

1 (a) A state or federal court, after a thorough investigation, and based upon the proven facts associated with an alleged criminal act of psychological abuse, incest, violence, or other criminal act, orders that parental rights should be terminated, either permanently, or temporarily, to protect minor children from a real and proven threat presented by the parents.

1 (b) A state or federal court, after a thorough investigation of the facts associated with an alleged criminal act of psychological abuse, incest, violence, or other criminal act, orders that parental rights should be terminated, either permanently, or temporarily, to protect minor children from a real and proven threat presented by other members of the family or extended family living within the same domicile.

2. When a court orders either temporary or permanent termination of parental rights, adult extended family members, identified by either the parents or the child or children of that family, must be notified, and given a reasonable amount of time to arrange to take temporary or permanent custody of their family members before children can be placed in foster homes or orphanages, and before custody can be granted to the state or county.

3. Extended family members who take temporary custody of minor or adult disabled family members will be provided with the same monetary and administrative support that foster parents receive from the state and county government and its agencies. Also, the Natural Parents are expected to pay child support Only to basic extended family to care, as much as the family was accustomed to paying when the children were at home.

4. A 90 day period shall be given for parents to appeal a court order, once an order has been issued to terminate parental rights, and after children are removed from a dangerous home environment or situation. Also, parents should be counseled on their rights and responsibilities, at length and in detail, by someone without incentive to hold the parents or children captive to the state, and for the parents to have a right to a jury trial in open court.

5. Under no circumstances will a parent or parents be forced into self-incrimination in order to retain, or to regain their parental rights. Either by the state, its agents and those working in association with, or on behalf should not provide such a documents or a service plan for parents to sign by incriminating themselves in order to regain custody of their children.

6. The state, its agents and those working in association with, or on behalf of the state or federal government must make it their prerogative and priority in every case, to preserve family unity, and to support familial harmony.

7 (a) The state, its agents and those working in association with, should be held accountable by law to adhere to the statues and policies of the state and assure protection of the rights of parents and children under Constitution of the United States and the State of Michigan. Also adhere to FEDERAL regulations, if the States are to continue receiving funds from the federal government.

7 (b) If in the course of the investigation or court proceeding it is found and proven that any actor of the state, county, court, or organization contracted by the state, county, court has falsified any document, committed perjury or otherwise committed an act of commission or omission that would cause children to be removed from the home of the biological parents this person will be charged with misdemeanor punishable by no less than 6 months in jail and or $1000 fine. Said person will be suspended with pay until an investigation and resolution of the allegation has been decided.

7 (c) If in the course of the investigation or court proceeding it is found and proven that any actor of the state, county, or organization contracted by the state, county, or court has falsified any documents, committed perjury or otherwise committed an act of commission or omission that would cause children to be permanently removed from the parents custody and parental rights terminated this person or persons shall be charged with a felony punishable by no less than 1 and no more than 3 years in a state penitentiary and or a $25,000 fine. Said person will be suspended with pay until an investigation and resolution of the allegation has been decided. Said person upon conviction of these allegation should be imprisoned no less than 10 years, their licenses should be revoked and not be allowed to hold a position with either the state of MI. or it's contractors or any other organization or business dealing with the safety and well being of children for the rest of their lives.

7 (d) Their names will appear in a state registry that may be accessed by any business, organization or entity that works with children or vulnerable adult in any capacity.
Laws should be followed by all, and no one is above the law in order to make sure that all families rights are protected.

8. The state should adopt the Title E-IV waiver. This operates like family preservation, meaning that the children remain in the home while services are provided. To minimize the damage by keeping families united and by making sure that no addition traumas are incurred. In addition, the money should be reduced across the board, period, for every child displaced.
One thing is for sure, once the money is minimize, the less children will be taken. If financial incentive's are the bases for all the removing of children, then, take the financial incentive away.

9 (a) If a child is placed outside the home of its natural parents, the child will be placed in a home (whether a foster home or the home of relatives) that shares the same religion and ethnicity of the natural family, particularly where religious laws regarding food have been observed in the home of the natural family.

9 (b) The child will be called by its given name, not an Anglicized version of that name or a nickname, and will be provided with continuing religious education and participation where feasible (i.e., related to the religion of the family of origin).

10 (a) The state and its agents should protect parents and children's rights, for a parent to go back to court to prove their innocence even when an adoption accrued, it should never prevent a parents rights to be heard just because an adoption had taken place.

10 (b) In addition, all adoption incentives should be ceased except in cases of children who are severely handicapped physically, mentally, or emotionally or are medically fragile necessitating exceptional expense for extra care needed. Also making sure that foster warden appoints to take over the care of a severely handicapped child, this warden should have the benefit of full support services and respite breaks--in lieu of extra money!

If any one has any questions or in need of more information on our family's over two decades of Injustice that caused us to lose our God giving rights to raise our own kids. You can e-mail us at RAamer1@aol.com

                                        


                     http://members.tripod.com/criesfromthegrave/

                                     
                                         The Proposed "Amer Act"

Recognizing that families are the foundation of American society, and one of our nation%u2019s oldest, most important, and most cherished institutions, and that families are headed by parents who have natural, and self evident legal and moral rights in respect to their children and extended family members that should not be tampered with, or terminated by governments, agencies of the government, or any other worldly entity, except in the most extreme and crisis situations, the Amer Act seeks to protect Michigan families. For the purpose of this legislation, family is defined as a mother, father and children, and any combination of said family members sharing a single, or any number of different domiciles. Also for the purpose of the Act, immediate and extended family is described as blood, or other legal relationships that meet the legal definition of family as it is understood, and described in Michigan law, within the degrees of association that traditionally distinguish and define immediate and extended family members.

Recognizing that extended families are a natural result of generations of family continuity and growth, and an important aspect of family, an essential and cherished social institution, the Amer Act recognizes the rights of extended families, and extended family members as they exist under the accepted definitions, and seeks to also protect the extended family.

No government agency, law enforcement, representative, representative body, people, group, or groups, associations, etc., governmental, or non-governmental, working alone, or on behalf of the state or federal government, will seek to physically separate, or cause to be separated, a parent, or parents, or family members, or extended family members, living together as a family, except under the following circumstances:

1 (a) A state or federal court, after a thorough investigation, and based upon the proven facts associated with an alleged criminal act of psychological abuse, incest, violence, or other criminal act, orders that parental rights should be terminated, either permanently, or temporarily, to protect minor children from a real and proven threat presented by the parents.

1 (b) A state or federal court, after a thorough investigation of the facts associated with an alleged criminal act of psychological abuse, incest, violence, or other criminal act, orders that parental rights should be terminated, either permanently, or temporarily, to protect minor children from a real and proven threat presented by other members of the family or extended family living within the same domicile.

2. When a court orders either temporary or permanent termination of parental rights, adult extended family members, identified by either the parents or the child or children of that family, must be notified, and given a reasonable amount of time to arrange to take temporary or permanent custody of their family members before children can be placed in foster homes or orphanages, and before custody can be granted to the state or county.

3. Extended family members who take temporary custody of minor or adult disabled family members will be provided with the same monetary and administrative support that foster parents receive from the state and county government and its agencies. Also, the Natural Parents are expected to pay child support Only to basic extended family to care, as much as the family was accustomed to paying when the children were at home.

4. A 90 day period shall be given for parents to appeal a court order, once an order has been issued to terminate parental rights, and after children are removed from a dangerous home environment or situation. Also, parents should be counseled on their rights and responsibilities, at length and in detail, by someone without incentive to hold the parents or children captive to the state, and for the parents to have a right to a jury trial in open court.

5. Under no circumstances will a parent or parents be forced into self-incrimination in order to retain, or to regain their parental rights. Either by the state, its agents and those working in association with, or on behalf should not provide such a documents or a service plan for parents to sign by incriminating themselves in order to regain custody of their children.

6. The state, its agents and those working in association with, or on behalf of the state or federal government must make it their prerogative and priority in every case, to preserve family unity, and to support familial harmony.

7 (a) The state, its agents and those working in association with, should be held accountable by law to adhere to the statues and policies of the state and assure protection of the rights of parents and children under Constitution of the United States and the State of Michigan. Also adhere to FEDERAL regulations, if the States are to continue receiving funds from the federal government.

7 (b) If in the course of the investigation or court proceeding it is found and proven that any actor of the state, county, court, or organization contracted by the state, county, court has falsified any document, committed perjury or otherwise committed an act of commission or omission that would cause children to be removed from the home of the biological parents this person will be charged with misdemeanor punishable by no less than 6 months in jail and or $1000 fine. Said person will be suspended with pay until an investigation and resolution of the allegation has been decided.

7 (c) If in the course of the investigation or court proceeding it is found and proven that any actor of the state, county, or organization contracted by the state, county, or court has falsified any documents, committed perjury or otherwise committed an act of commission or omission that would cause children to be permanently removed from the parents custody and parental rights terminated this person or persons shall be charged with a felony punishable by no less than 1 and no more than 3 years in a state penitentiary and or a $25,000 fine. Said person will be suspended with pay until an investigation and resolution of the allegation has been decided. Said person upon conviction of these allegation should be imprisoned no less than 10 years, their licenses should be revoked and not be allowed to hold a position with either the state of MI. or it's contractors or any other organization or business dealing with the safety and well being of children for the rest of their lives.

7 (d) Their names will appear in a state registry that may be accessed by any business, organization or entity that works with children or vulnerable adult in any capacity.
Laws should be followed by all, and no one is above the law in order to make sure that all families rights are protected.

8. The state should adopt the Title E-IV waiver. This operates like family preservation, meaning that the children remain in the home while services are provided. To minimize the damage by keeping families united and by making sure that no addition traumas are incurred. In addition, the money should be reduced across the board, period, for every child displaced.
One thing is for sure, once the money is minimize, the less children will be taken. If financial incentive's are the bases for all the removing of children, then, take the financial incentive away.

9 (a) If a child is placed outside the home of its natural parents, the child will be placed in a home (whether a foster home or the home of relatives) that shares the same religion and ethnicity of the natural family, particularly where religious laws regarding food have been observed in the home of the natural family.

9 (b) The child will be called by its given name, not an Anglicized version of that name or a nickname, and will be provided with continuing religious education and participation where feasible (i.e., related to the religion of the family of origin).

10 (a) The state and its agents should protect parents and children's rights, for a parent to go back to court to prove their innocence even when an adoption accrued, it should never prevent a parents rights to be heard just because an adoption had taken place.

10 (b) In addition, all adoption incentives should be ceased except in cases of children who are severely handicapped physically, mentally, or emotionally or are medically fragile necessitating exceptional expense for extra care needed. Also making sure that foster warden appoints to take over the care of a severely handicapped child, this warden should have the benefit of full support services and respite breaks--in lieu of extra money!

If any one has any questions or in need of more information on our family's over two decades of Injustice that caused us to lose our God giving rights to raise our own kids. You can e-mail us at RAamer1@aol.com

                      
Petition in Support of the "Amer Act"

On behalf of Ahmed and Rehab Amer, and all who are Victims of False Accusation and Lost their precious Children.

I was accused of killing my own son even though I was acquitted by Jury in 1986. I still lost my kids because I didn't admit that I killed my son, my husband lost his rights because he supported me. It took the Cries of my Baby of whom I was accused of Killing to Cry Out from the Grave for us to be heard, however twenty years too late to get my three kids back, who have been brainwashed to believe that God Loved them to have removed them from us. So please look at the Proposed "Amer Act" and make it into law so what happened to us doesn't happen to others. Our hearts are bleeding for so many parents and children out there crying our cries. The cries of the innocent are not being heard. Let the Amer Family's pain and suffering be the last and our Beloved Son Samier's Cries from the Grave would never be forgotten so it could prevent another Tragedy from happening.
We believe at first hand and speaking for lot of families who lost their children Unjustly, if you and others look into the hearts of the innocents you all can see that the Proposed "Amer Act" is a good Act to be taken seriously and made into a Law where a Government Employee who fails to protect children should be held accountable for not doing their job. Recall what happen to Ricky Holland, who got killed while in the care of foster/adoptive parents, and to my kids who were abused in foster care and the only thing the case worker and her supervisor had to say was "at least they are still alive". What is it going to take for someone to take it seriously?? Must it be the death of so many innocent children and the grieving of so many innocent families? With the "Amer Act," there is protection and set guidelines, which if not met requires that the person or persons are held accountable.
To end this petition, we would like to thank the House Committee for hearing our cries when we testified before them on March of 2005, and Representative Polidori, Representative Chairman Stahl for giving their recent consideration, and The Times-Herald Newspaper and reporter Andrew DerVartanian for publishing the article "Foster Care Bill Has Roots Here: Parents of Famous Foster Care Case Look to Prevent Similar Occurrences," on April 19, 2006.
Although this proposed Act has gotten some recent consideration from the aforementioned, more support is needed to seek Justice for All, and protect our God Given Rights, and to protect our precious gifts from abuse and getting killed at the hands of those who make their own laws and are not held accountable. These are not the laws of God, only God has the power to give and take life and we cannot sit and place blame or lose sight of the facts that the innocent parents and families are being destroyed and cries are not being heard. To continue on this path results in the destruction of more families and the occurence of additional tragedies like the Ricky Holland's Murder and the tragedy that our family has endured.

In God's will, and with your voices as support we can put an end to this unnecessary destruction of innocent families and children from being torn apart unjustly. Please show your support for the "Amer Act" and to protect all of our God Given Rights to raise our own children by commenting on this site, and if you would like leave your name and e-mail address. It would be very much appreciated, as we need to show our support to the legislator. The Amer Family has gotten worldwide media coverage concerning their family's injustice, you can find further information at www.injusticebusters.com/05/Amer_Rehab.shtml

May you and your family be always protected and guided by the Almighty's Mercies through out all of your lives, may your kids and grandkids never Cry my Children's Cries and Pray that No Parent feels and lives our pain and sorrows. Crying Out Justice For All.
Sincerely,Ahmed and Rehab Amer313-582-1541RAamer1@aol.com