The following is a reply to a post on another forum, which was followed by the post below it:
Williamson County is notorious for this kind of abuse, but it is important to understand why it occurs, there and elsewhere.
Congress has adopted several subsidy programs, for parental rights termination, for protective orders, for juvenile detention, for child support, and for monitoring devices. The way it works is that counties and states apply for federal grants, and get a large sum, generally at the beginning of the fiscal year, to be used for a certain number of applications of each of these funded measures to particular cases. The funds are often not accounted for as parts of the county or state budgets, so it can take some work to dig out the amounts and how the money is used.
The money is divided among a number of well-connected persons: prosecutors, police, judges, medical workers, social workers, guardians ad litem and other lawyers, foster caregivers, and assorted other players. In some counties the inner circle of recipients is netting huge amounts. Some seem to become millionaires from it.
Yes, the judges get a large cut, too. Look at the assets some of them have (often held under other names). Far more than they could have gotten on a judge's salary.
The amount of money varies somewhat for each program. Typically about $35,000 for each parental rights termination. About $50,000 for each protective order. Similar amounts for the other applications.
However, it often happens that by the end of the fiscal year the county or state hasn't spent all its funding. Rather than having to refund the unspent portion, or lose part of the funding for future years, officials will scramble to find cases where they can apply the funds. If they don't have enough real cases in which the application is justified, they will invent some, fabricating evidence and testilying as needed to do so.
The State of Texas is one of the recipients, especially for child support and parental rights terminations. If you examine the court records of Williamson County, you will find that the Office of the Attorney General dumps many if not most of its cases into neighboring Williamson County, where it can count on them to be rubberstamped.
There have been some cutbacks in the federal funding, so counties and states are scrambling even harder to justify the funds still available, inventing as many cases as they need to get the money.
It is not surprising that the courts of Williamson County would not even allow the filing of a writ of habeas corpus. They ignore them. I once filed one in a court there, and the visiting judge, who had served as a judge for more than 40 years, didn't have a clue what it was or how to handle it. He just ignored it.
Having to find cases in which the funds can be applied also leads to another kind of abuse: threatening dissenters and political opponents. Lawyers, especially those with young children, are afraid to challenge judges or prosecutors in court, or in an election, for concern that their kids will be taken away from them. It is a real threat, and used to intimidate not only lawyers, but members of the media, and others who might appear to be threats to the abuses.
To get an idea of how bad it can get, when I lived in Sacramento I investigated the pattern of abuse there. What I found is that the international pedophile mafia (which actually calls itself that) has infiltrated the ranks of foster caregivers, and places orders for attractive children, who are then taken away from their parents and delivered into the clutches of the perverts. Those people are dangerous, and not just to the kids. Local officials are afraid of them, but the money they split helps assuage their consciences. There are indications the pedophile mafia has infested other states as well. I haven't found evidence of them in Texas yet, but it is only a matter of time.
It is important to eliminate the federal funding. That will do more to solve these problems than anything else we can do. However, we should not expect that to be sufficient. Once such corruption sets in, removing one source of funding for it is likely to just get the corrupt to seek and find other sources to support their habit. We need to be alert for that.
The crisis of government deficits is a threat to our liberties in many ways, but it can also be an opportunity to remove some of those threats. We need to expand our efforts to get funding cut for these areas of abuse.
From: Dessie Andrews
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 5:57 PM
Subject: Carolyn Barnes
My friend Carolyn Barnes is being held in the Williamson County Jail. She is being denied medical treatment, (she has crushed discs in her spine, she is being held in solitary confinement and is kept shackled in her cell. A waist band with handcuffs and leg restraints. She is denied visitors. It is the policy of Williamson County to only allow direct family members, attorneys, and clergy.
Her court appointed attorney refuses to file a habeas or attempt to get her out. He clings to his story that she can get out at any time by submitting to an ankle monitor. That is not true. She was in court on January 28 and the judge said, "Do you want to wear the monitor?" and she said, "of course not." The visiting judge, with an oath of office on file that he took in 1999, threw his hands up and said your bail is revoked. He did not giver her a choice. She has a $50K bond posted, but is being held to NO BAIL. She has made it clear that if it means not being in jail she will wear the monitor. Again, she is given no choice. However, that's her attorney's story and he's sticking to it.
I tried to walk a habeas through on Wednesday in Williamson County and was lucky to get out of the courthouse. They are having none of it.
I would like people to call the Williamson County Sheriff's office and ask why she is in jail, why she is shackled and why she is in solitary confinement. The other inmates call her Hannible Lechter.
They will tell you that she is in the infirmary because she has medical problems. She is in solitary and being tortured with sleep deprivation and bright light treatment.
Please help
The sheriff's number is 512-943-1300, Fax 512-943-1444
From: Dessie Andrews
The alleged crime is aggravated assault on a public officer, 1st degree felony, which has been reduced to 2nd degree felony, they crossed out the public officer, (the alleged census worker). If you put her name in Google, you'll see the whole distorted bunch of press releases.
That may be true about monitors, but she didn't refuse to wear one, she has a $50K bond posted, she is an attorney and has never missed a hearing. I'm attaching some of the wonderful exculpatory evidence she received.
Incidentally, the census worker was never on Carolyn's property, there were no shots, no one was injured. This is part of a pogram by out of control Williamson County Texas prosecutors who are totally out of control.
They have run too many attorneys to count from their jurisdiction by scare tactics like this. If you are a criminal defense attorney, if you fight for your client and not roll to a preconceived plea, this is what happens.
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