Heather Rainbow

Actually, to my awareness, the industry of adoption has always been about trafficking since the days of Georgia Tann, the woman who had a PR firm (like the Capobioncos) and stole children (like Nightlight adoption agency, Raymond W. Godwin, etc). And, Governor Herbert Lehmen, et al, helped Georgia Tann Secure babies and children. Much like Mary Fallin.

Glad to see nothing has changed in the last hundred years. But on to what I wanted to write about in this post.

First of all, Veronica Brown, has never had a best interest hearing. Let’s ask her if she would like to stay with her dad, her step mom, her grandparents and her tribe.

Mary Fallin may be getting paid lots of money from any of the following: The Capobioncos, Nighlight adoption agency, Raymond Goodwin, National Coalition for Adoption. And, I mean the big bucks. $$$$$ Why? Because this case is Going to set precedent. And, because the above parties don’t want a class action lawsuit on their hands. This would lead to more parents having legal cases. And more. And more. And more. And, that could take down the entire profit industry of stealing babies and profiting from it. Maybe then the U.N. would actually step in. Or maybe not. Maybe we’d just have to take care of this problem internally.

The insanity of the adoption industry is simply how PR’ed they are, and how much in denial they are that they will deny that the exchange of money, the coercion, the fraud, is trafficking. And, what they did to Christy Maldonado, and mothers everywhere.

Do you think you’re brave? You’re not really brave until you sell your babies. That is the latest advertisement from the NCFA. What they did is tricked her into an open adoption, used her past against her by making Dusten out to be a bad guy, and actually got her to think this was all HER Plan. Then, they even got her to sign papers to file a lawsuit against the South Carolina court because ICWA didn’t apply. That’s SOME KIND OF KOOL-AID.

The problem with Christy, is she has no idea that after a couple of years, she will never see Veronica again. Open adoptions are not legally enforceable. Most close within three years. If the Capobioncos are able to traffic Veronica, Christy is going to be out of the picture sooner rather than later. She simply, doesn’t have any rights. Until then, she is under this brainwashing idea that she has an open adoption with the Capobioncos. That is the incideousness of the adoption baby trafficking industry. They get their victims to believe their lies and fight for them. When they are cut out, the industry says, oh, oops sorry. Nothing we can do. Gee. Nothing like this has ever happened before… But the reality is, is that the opposite, having a fully open adoption is actually NOT THE NORM.

Okay, so now, Fallin comes in, signs the extradition order to SC, gets Dusten out of the picture. He won’t be able to show up in court, due to being in a SC jail, and lose custody of Veronica. Will the tribe and family maintain custody? Or will SC file custodial interferences on the entire Cherokee tribe? That’s to be seen.

Meanwhile, many other families, like https://www.facebook.com/StandingourGroundforBabyDeseray are coming to light.  One more, and we could start a class action against the state of SC and OK. Any attorneys in SC or OK willing to be local council?

http://facebook.com/NCABT

Now, in the case of ICWA, buyer beware… the Supreme Courts decision to remand the case to the SC court which ended up in SC family court and finalized the adoption, well, that is the precedent that lawyers will be looking at, not the fact that Dusten was able to keep Veronica. (So far). The issue, of Dusten not having custody is going to apply in virtually EVERY POSSIBLE INFANT ADOPTION CASE. Why? Because, if the mother (regardless if she is Native) gives birth in the hospital, and the agency targets her in the hospital, if she leaves the hospital without the baby, or if she signs in the hospital room, then she will also “not ever have custody” because it is the hospitals that have custody over their patients… babies and children included.

Hi Everyone,

ALARM is calling people to action to inundate the White House on a March 27th requesting that President Obama make a public statement regarding open records for adult adoptees. We know that adoption rights is a state right issue, but his comment alone could be a tremendous help to our cause.  Let’s do this enmasse if we can get the word spread.

Here is the link to make this request, asking for him to make a public statement, and educate him on the necessity of open records:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments/ope

ALARM – Advocating Legislation for Adoption Reform was a division of The Musser Foundation and was created in 1987 – 26 years ago.  As we know, little has changed. Let’s try to make a concerted effort – that’s what it will take.

Open Harassment? 

After two years of silence from my daughter’s kidnappers, they made a sudden reappearance into my life. And, it wasn’t good.

The male kidnapper called me on Tuesday, around 6pm.

He said, “Heather? This is Mitchell.”

I said, “Mitchell who?” (I knew who it was, but shock at hearing his name made me ask this question).

He said, “E—‘s father. Do you know who I am?”

I should have opted for a lobotomy, then I could answer no. But, I answered in a somewhat shaky voice, “Yes. Why are you calling me?”

He said, “We were informed by the sheriff’s department that you were the person who called them on us.”

Complete and total dumbfoundedness on my end. I said, “I have no idea what you are talking about.”

He said, “Well, then why would the sheriff’s department give us Your name?”

I said, “I have no idea.”

He said, “Well, we’ve been talking to E about this. She believes it was you who called them on us. She does not wish to have contact with you at this time.”

WTF? So, I said, “That is always what you are going to say!” and I hung up. He attempted to call back, I didn’t answer the phone, and he did not leave a message.

My biggest fears are coming true. Someone called the sheriff’s department on them, for some reason that I don’t know, and they think I did it, which I didn’t. Now they are continuing to turn my daughter against me. They are continuing to fill her head with their lies, and making it impossible for her to even want to find out the other half of her story.

Adoption pain never ends. It only gets worse.

I’m very excited about all the media being promoted about the truth of adoption / abduction stories. Between the Catholic Church abuses, the industry lies, the Dan Rather reports, and so many others. I even love the new show, Once Upon A Time. If you haven’t seen it yet, WATCH THE PILOT show, it will blow your mind. Prepare to be validated.

My own life is so so. Me and my partner moved into our new house. It’s pretty much a fixer upper. We are starting a farm with a group of our friends. He is spear heading the vegetable farm, and I’m growing some medicinal and culinary herbs.

Work life is good. I’m working in the field of family support and reunification, which is awesome. I love it.

My story with my daughter is that I am still being outcast. After attempting, for years, to extend a voice to her adopters, and being ignored, their attempts to contact me with vehemence and negativity, I refuse to go through them again. They were extremely abusive towards me, and I simply will not allow myself to be in that position. In terms of my daughter, if she wishes to know me, and communicate, I will be here. Unfortunately, I hate to think of what kind of lies they are telling her about me, so I’m not all that hopefull.

I’m getting back into painting. It’s a very healing art for me at the moment. My family life is difficult. My mom has lung cancer, although she is in remission now. I still worry.

The state of the world is confusing at best. I struggle with what it is I should be doing. If there is more I can do, if I could be doing things better, and so on. I just feel that the issues of classism, racism, sexism, are so incidious in our culture (in the U.S.) that we just really need a new foundation. Just tear it all down and start over again, knowing our history. And, the climate… and the earth…

One day at a time. Hopefully it won’t be so long since I write again. I’m also going to the conference in Toronto, hope to see some of you there!