An Open Letter to President Barack Obama about Adoption…
Americans For Open Records (AmFOR)
February 16, 2009 (President's Day)
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
http://change.gov/page/s/ofthepeople
http://whitehouse.gov/contact
Dear President Obama,
This is to provide you with information and to offer our support to combat the publicized political uproar challenging your eligibility to be President based on your alleged place of birth, your alleged stepfather adoption, alleged absence of a long form "original birth certificate," and mis-interpretation of the "natural born" requirement. It brings home the magnitude of issues affecting HALF THE U.S. POPULATION WITH AN ADOPTION IN THE IMMEDIATE FAMILY (http://amfor.net/statistics), stemming from accident of one's birth and from adoption, and the need for CHANGE, including alternative forms of child custody "in child's best interests," that do not impose problems upon adult adoptees for life as adoption does.
Since American adoptees must accept an "amended" (falsified) birth certificate "as true," you could probably compel Hawaii, or other state that permits it, to issue you an "Amended Birth Certificate" instead of the document debated. But you're a man who knows that the TRUTH is better than a lie ...and in this case the TRUTH is that you are President by a mandate of a free people and that TRUTH should prevail. In any case, this "last civil rights issue" has been awaiting redress for decades. Consider that the first thing American Slavemasters did upon purchasing African slaves was to change their names! Adoption is a throwback to the concept of "owning" another human being "as property" -- also referred to as "colonialism" which you well understand (as did Lincoln). Hopefully the time for CHANGE has finally arrived.
Whether an adoption affected person simply wishes to know his true origins... or wishes to be President of the United States.... the adopted child and adult does not have entirely the same control over his own destiny as non-adopteds. Among the many exceedingly challenging issues you have inherited is the federal sanction, funding and promotion of "legal" adoption of even illegally procured American and foreign children, under state adoption secrecy laws, which has worsened America's image as "the largest market for stolen children in the world" ....and which must finally be addressed in terms of civil and human rights as well as better, individualized forms of child custody that respect such rights. Improved forms of Legal Guardianships can respond to such need as it requires accountability and does not conceal the child's history and outcome as adoption is designed to do.
Adding to competing interests of the child, the biological parents, the adopters, and the State, is our Federal Government's ongoing intervention (and therefore obligation) regarding child adoption, exemplified not only by federal subsidizing, tax breaks and promotion since the Reagan administration's "White House Support of The Adoption Option," but also by the much-revised 1994 Uniform Adoption Act which critics dub the "Evil Act", pointing out that the Act prevents adoptees from gathering sufficient information about their biological parents by sealing adoption-related court records for 99 years, provides insufficient periods for revocation of relinquishment of parental rights (to the delight of unscrupulous baby brokers), and does not properly require notification of a non-spousal father.
The United Nations "Rights of the Child" Conference and Hague Court's Intercountry Adoption Conferences, (for which I served as data reporting source by permission), side-stepped this issue as a matter of "diplomacy" ( see US State Department's "Pfund Memo" at "US OKs Child Theft" - http://amfor.net/childtheft.html). The United States Supreme Court has also turned its back on adoptees by denying Certiorari re their 1970s and 1990s class action claims. For nearly seven (7) decades, attorneys have been saying the high Court is "not ready" to hear our issues. We say the time for CHANGE is now.
For further information and documentation compiled over the past several decades, supporting the need for CHANGE in the way we treat our nation's children (and solutions), please see 1,000 Reasons to "Abolish Adoption" at http://www.amfor.net/antiadoption/; "Adoption & Race" at http://amfor.net/race.html; "Statistics of Adoption" at http://amfor.net/statistics; "AmFOR's Adoption Page" at http://amfor.net/Adoption, "Adopters Who Abuse & Kill" (over 250 publicized cases, detailed, with photos) at http://amfor.net/KillerAdopters, "Adopters Against Adoption" at http://amfor.net/Adopters and "Chosen Children: Billion Dollar Babies in America's Foster Care, Adoption & Prison Systems" at http://TheChosenChildren.com).
Respectfully,
Lori Carangelo
LORI CARANGELO -
http://LoriCarangelo.com
founder, AMERICANS FOR OPEN RECORDS (AmFOR) -
http://AmFOR.net
