An Open Letter to Mitch Albom

Dear Mr. Albom,

NCPForce! is aware of your Father's Day hate rant entitled "Father's Day Needs More Real Fathers". For a man who markets himself as someone enlightened -- one who supposedly gives inspiration and fuels spirituality in others -- your piece reveals an unflattering lack of creativity and shallowness on your part.

We hate to break it to you, but attacking dads on Father's Day is nothing new and didn't start with your column as you seem to suggest in its introductory paragraphs. Our president, Barack Obama, has been doing it for the past couple of years as a political stunt to avoid talking about other issues, such as his failure to live up to campaign promises and the fact that he is owned by the corporate elite.

But this letter is not about the Dad-Basher-in-Chief. It is about you as an influential bestselling author spreading hate throughout many of the nation's newspapers in your syndicated column. An enlightened individual such as yourself should behave more responsibly before publishing a call to hatred on a day honoring fathers. Imagine what would happen if you attacked the Irish on St. Patrick's Day, or Afro-Americans during Black History Month, or .... drumroll ... mothers on Mother's Day? Your columns would be removed from their host newspapers faster than you can say schmaltz, and you'd likely be forced to make a public apology.

Luckily for you, it's been open season on fathers for years, so you probably feel quite smug about using them for column fodder -- a little something to help fill up a whitespace and keep your earnings rolling in. So you will not likely face any serious repercussions for your thoughtlessness, but rest assured that NCPForce! will take this opportunity to educate you about broken families in America.

In your Father's Day rant, Mr. Albom, you bemoan the high number of absent dads in the Detroit area and blame them for the crime that's eating up the city. In case you've forgotten basic biology on your flights of spirituality, let us remind you that it takes both a man and woman to conceive a child. And in America, where we live by the well-known phrase "My Body, My Choice", the decision to bear a child ultimately rests with the female in any relationship.

We understand that it might be hard for you to get your mind around these simple facts because you are a biased individual at heart. This becomes clear when we take into account your other published writings such as:

" ... behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin."

"When you look into your mother's eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth."

In your world view, Mr. Albom, mothers can do no wrong. But your sentiment does not square with reality, nor does it apply to individuals like the infamous Andrea Yates who stuffed her five children in a car and drowned them in a lake to pursue a romance. Nor does it apply to Laura Fletcher, another mother who drowned her child over a custody battle. Or Banita Jacks who stabbed her three children to death while they slept. Or Veronique Courjault who smothered her two children and hid their bodies in a freezer. Or Robin Lee Row who murdered her husband and her two children. Or Dena Schlosser who killed her baby girl by cutting off her arms.

The list of these child murdering moms goes on and on. It is part of a phenomena called maternal filicide and it is more prevalent in the United States than anywhere else in the world. You can read more about it on the American Journal of Psychiatry at http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/162/9/1578 if you are interested, and perhaps you can do a column on this on Mother's Day ... if you have the guts.

And what about those moms who have multiple children with multiple fathers then throw themselves on public assistance, be it through the outright collection of welfare or by calling in child support authorities to shakedown their men. Tell us, O Wise One, who is to blame in this situation? The absent dad, or the mother who has total control over her reproductive capabilities? Could it be possible that these mothers are also feeding urban crime waves? Where is your fury in this regard?

Yes, Mr. Albom, there is a lot to consider when you tread into complex a web of issues surrounding parent-child relationships and family law. It is so complicated that a writer as "spiritual" and "inspiring" as yourself should do plenty of research before hitting the keyboard to ask millions of readers to be "furious" about absent dads.

Before undertaking any future columns about absent dads, we advise you to visit our website at http://www.ncpforce.com. It contains a treasure trove of information about dads who are absent because they've been alienated from their children by vindictive mothers and by court orders which impact visitation. Parental Alienation, a leading cause for absent dads, effects children in affluent, predominately white areas too and should also raise your ire . Unless, of course, your Father's Day rant was really encoded hate against inner-city minorities (which we certainly hope it was not!).

No, Mr. Albom, when you look past your own treacle and observe the world with clear eyes, you discover that the problems with America do not rest on the shoulders of dads. Our moral decay has more to do with the people we celebrate, like former President Ronald Reagan who started our slide by preaching that greed is good. And captains of industry who destroy whole communities and advance serfdom for short-term personal gain. And a mainstream media which celebrates wealth and fame while ignoring the real issues dragging this country into a black hole: the fact that under 5% of America's population controls all our nation's wealth, while the other 95% is encouraged to fight one another like rats for measly wages from which tax dollars are extracted to fuel bank bailouts, illegal aliens, endless wars, etc.

Now that is something to get truly furious about.

Sincerely,

NCPForce!

The Impeachable Acts of a Deadbeat President

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In November 2008, Barack Obama was elected President on a platform of “change you can believe in”. He promised a style of government different from his predecessor, whose regime was defined by destructive foreign wars and the erosion of civil liberties at home.

Since taking office, Barack Obama has not only double-crossed his loyal supporters, he has also been derelict in his duties as chief of the executive branch. He has broken nearly every promise. He has continued and even expanded the dark policies of the previous administration. He has willfully dodged his responsibilities as a leader in whom an entire nation has invested its trust in a time of turmoil.

In short, he is a true DEADBEAT -- a scoundrel who owes more than anyone to hundreds of millions of people, who has the capacity to satisfy his debt, yet arrogantly refuses to do so.

It is time to demand that Barack Obama stop preaching responsibility while behaving as a DEADBEAT PRESIDENT. It is time to demand that Obama live up to his campaign promises by honoring his pledge of true reform. It is time for him to end policies that cause destruction abroad and undermine liberty domestically.
It is time we all demand that Barack Obama do the job he was elected to do, or face IMPEACHMENT.

Already, he has committed numerous impeachable acts that justify his removal from office:

• Attempts to Manipulate State Elections - In a blatant abuse of power, Obama has attempted on more than one occasion (such as the Sestak scandal) to alter the course of state elections by influencing candidates to leave race in exchange for White House jobs.
• Birth Certification Fraud - Despite serious questions about his eligibility to hold office as a natural-born American citizen, Obama refuses to release his actual birth certificate from the state of Hawaii. Instead, he has spent millions of dollars to avoid having to do so, and asks the American people to “trust” individuals who claim they’ve seen it. Meanwhile, there is credible evidence that Obama was born in Kenya; even his Kenyan grandmother stated this to the press.
• Attacks Against American Sovereignty - As the only American President to hold a press conference without a U.S. flag (as he did this past Memorial Day), Barack Obama flaunts a deep disdain for the nation he represents. Furthermore, he has ignored serious border security issues which endanger American lives and he supports illegal aliens more than his fellow citizens. As a smack in the face to the state of Arizona, Obama chose Ecuador as the ideal place to announce (via his Secretary of State) that his administration would be suing the state to stop immigration enforcement there.
• Disgraceful Leadership in the Face of National Disaster - For 59 days, Barack Obama cavorted around the nation playing golf, meeting celebrities, and attending parties while millions of barrels of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico -- an event which will decimate the economies of several southern states. As of June 2010, Obama still has taken no decisive action to stop the BP leak and rejects offers of help from other nations and private entities. Instead, he has used allies in the press to drum up positive publicity for a $20 billion band-aid from BP -- a sum which will not go far in repairing the damage.
• Attempts to Dismantle the Constitution - Despite taking an oath to uphold the Constitution, Barack Obama is making a multi-pronged attempt to destroy it. From attacks on First Amendment rights guaranteeing free speech, to violating states’ rights by imposing mandatory health insurance, to gun grabs, to modifying personal behavior and rewriting the rules of a free press, Obama has poised himself and his administration as a force determined to negatively reshape the meaning of liberty in America.

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1. CONTACT YOUR FEDERAL & STATE REPRESENTATIVES. Tell them Obama should do his duty or get out of the White House. The website VOTESMART.ORG contains a useful search tool to find your elected reps.
   
   
2. WRITE LETTERS / CONTACT YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS demanding the impeachment of the President for his dereliction of duty. You can do this by writing letters to the editor of your local newspaper, calling talk radio shows, calling the administrative offices of newspapers, TV, and radio stations, etc.
3. DISTRIBUTE OUR LEAFLET and motivate others to demand responsibility from the President. You can do this privately among people you know, on the street and at public gathering places, or you can place links to this page at appropriate websites, internet forums, bulletin boards, blog comments sections, etc.

Check for updates to this campaign on our IMPEACH OBAMA page at http://www.ncpforce.com/impeach-obama.html.

ADDITIONAL:

An Open Letter to President Obama

Dear President Obama:

First let us return the sentiments you and your wife extended to American dads on their special day by offering our best wishes on your special day. We wish you very a happy birthday ... if it is indeed your birthday. There is so much that is dubious regarding your birth, and there is so much you've been untruthful about, that no one can really take you at face value. But for the moment, we will assume that it is indeed your birthday and offer you a few words of advice which you can take with you as you go forward into what we hope is a better year for all of us.

Mr. President, we at NCPForce! have placed you and your administration under scrutiny because of your attacks on American dads on Father's Day and at other times when it seems you need to do some political posturing. We do not focus on you because you are a Democrat (or because we are "right-wing", a familiar charge leveled at anyone who questions you or your policies). Nor do we focus on you because you are Afro-American. On the contrary, we are proud that our country has been able to look past the color of a man's skin to do what no other western nation has been able to do, that is to elect a black man to its highest office.

And it is because we are proud of this accomplishment that we are especially disappointed in you, and what you have done since gaining your party's nomination to hold the office you now hold. If any President should know better about using the politics of division, it is you President Obama. As an Afro-American, you of all people should know how hurtful and dehumanizing it is to target a specific group of people for selfish political ends. But despite your heritage, you have chosen to engage in divisive politics by unfairly targeting American fathers for moralizing sermons on their special day, just to make yourself appear as a leader who knows how to fix a broken society.

This Father's Day and last, when you spoke out against "absent fathers", you expressed either your ignorance of issues faced by divorced dads, or your contempt for those who come out on the losing end of our dysfunctional family law system. You did this in a manner which is extremely harmful to dads who are fighting an uphill battle for their rights in America's family courts, because your words were designed to stir up hate and discrimination.

Before we get into the specifics of what you said and why it was wrong, first imagine yourself making a similar address on Mother's Day. Imagine what our media would say if you came out on that day and spoke out against women who undergo abortions to destroy unwanted children. Or if you spoke out against women who drop their children at safe surrender sites. Or if you chastised mothers who fail to obey visitation orders. Yes, Mr. President, you would be widely condemned. But because American fathers have been lax in defending their rights, and because the media which adores you has become so accustomed to demonizing fathers with impunity, you are allowed to get away with your attacks on American dads.

Now to the specifics. First, what is truly disturbing about your dad bashing sermons is their deep-rooted racial hatred against people of color. Whenever you speak of absent fathers, it is always directed towards inner city absent fathers, and everyone knows that this is code for people of color. Never do you direct your wrath against white suburban fathers who might be absent from their children's lives (although they also should not be targeted by you for reasons we will discuss below).

You habitually attack absent fathers of color, yet you refuse to address any of the real causes for the breakdown of inner city families. The laughable minimum wage ... the dead end jobs in which people are hired and fired like animals ... the drugs and crime ... illegal immigration ... and the slumlords who suck the lifeblood from inner city people -- none of this is ever put into its proper perspective when you talk about fatherhood. As a matter of fact, your government is doing close to nothing (or about a much as the last administration) to address these problems and to give inner city families hope. Hundreds of billions have gone to wealthy bankers and have disappeared into the black holes of organizations like the Federal Reserve, but there's nary a penny for ordinary folks.

Now, about those white suburban absent dads who don't seem to be a bother to you. Most likely, they never appear your radar because you might not consider them a financial burden; they're AOK with you if they're paying their court-ordered child support and don't complain much. And it seems you couldn't give a feather whether or not they actually ever see their children. Because if you did truly care about fatherhood, you would know that there are millions of dads who are doing everything right financially, yet are still absent from their children's lives because of the way our family law system works.

We will not buy the excuse that you are unaware of this, because you are an intelligent man and an attorney; you know what's going on. The only plausible explanation for your behavior is that you simply do not care, and that you continue to approach the issue of absent fathers the way you do because it's a reliable political stunt ... at least for now.

President Obama, the truth is that inner city dads and suburban dads are in the same boat when they find themselves embroiled in our family law system. Both feel the sting of discrimination from the very first moment they step foot into the courtroom. If they ever want to have a relationship with their children after being called to a family court, they'd first better have thousands of dollars to pay for attorney's fees. Many who spend entire life savings in custody and visitation battles sometimes end up no better than those who cannot afford attorneys all, and have their rights trampled completely in our courts.

And heaven help the father who gets sick, disabled, or becomes unemployed, because our system will fling them in jail if they fall behind on support payments. On top of this, our system also makes sure that fathers with arrears are kicked down into an ever-deepening abyss of debt. Fathers who owe as little as $1000 in support payments (and it is easy to fall behind on such an amount these days) are stripped of driver's licenses and professional licenses, making it difficult for them to ever find work again. They are also stripped of passports -- a critical piece of identification to obtain a job -- and are thereby reduced to the status of second-class citizen. And worst of all, a heinous piece of federal legislation known as the Bradley Amendment makes it impossible for a father to appeal or adjust child support ... ever ... under any circumstances.

Mr. President, you have said on record that you defend the right of a woman to have an abortion because you want your daughters to have an option if they make a "mistake". Well, what about young men who make a mistake? In your warped view of things, it is perfectly fine for a woman to rip a child out of her womb and drop unwanted children into the care of taxpayers at safe surrender sites, but it is abhorrent if a man is absent from a child's life (for any reason) or fails to pay every last penny (for any reason).

This is the sort of behavior which has caused so many Americans -- even many who supported you in your campaign -- to regard you with distrust. You came to the presidency on a platform of a "different kind of politics", and vowed to uphold a Constitution which was trampled upon by your predecessor. Yet even before you were elected, you began picking and choosing which laws you would uphold and which groups you would single out for abuse.

Finally, President Obama, let us say that we expect this long letter to fall on deaf ears. That is because we know what you are and will say it plainly: you are a Fascist. The proof is in the way you've conducted yourself thus far, just like your predecessor, using your authority to enrich and empower the elites of our society while using sinister ploys to confuse ordinary Americans and set them against one another.

We can only hope that we are wrong about this. But if you want to prove that you are the man you say you are, and if you truly wish to talk about American fatherhood, address the issue properly. And you don't have to wait until next Father's Day, or your next birthday, to set things right. Tell America that the family law system needs to be reformed.

Until you do, NCPForce! will be out here doing it for you.

Sincerely,

The Organizing Volunteers of NCPForce!