KEEPER COMMENTS 2

On Custody of Children on Dad Talk Today

Lookie here, friends and neighbors, the worst thing you can do is accuse your mate of doing drugs! A member of my extended family had a crisis and lamented his horrid wife and her neglect and abuse due to crack. A while later, in private, I asked “So, how long have you been smoking the shit?”

“Really just off and on since back in the freebase days. What about, oh... wait, I...” was his answer. He asked how I knew and I told him that his story didn’t include how he learned where the crack house was. Or how terrified he was going there. You don’t get to be familiar with the local crack houses and be the wounded victim. It doesn’t work that way even in real life.

Saying you know someone does drugs, doesn’t just incriminate you. It reduces you to a status which is less than human; an animal. More over, you are an enemy combatant, America has declared and been engaged in a war on (the people who buy, sell or use) drugs for well over 100 years. Further, you are interacting with a Court of Law wherein everything that you say WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU!

For the record, I do not agree with this, I’m just stating how the court views you and your case. Any moron can figure out that a lot more people use street drugs than just the rappers, burnouts and prostitutes - look at the freaking money! What is presented as the ‘typical’ drug user is the absolute bottom of the barrel, no different from alcoholism. Plenty of people have a glass of wine with dinner, a few cold beer at the game or enjoy a good Single Malt and never end up on Skid Row drinking Sterno. Hell, some can’t leave the house to go to work due to their hands shaking unless they have a snort for breakfast. The logical, reasonable person easily recognizes that no doctor could possibly make it through their grueling internships without some form of stimulant. (And no, caffeine won’t cut the mustard - do your own thorough research before challenging that statement!) Professional baseball is another place where it’s just not possible to be so gullible as to believe the playoffs are accomplished on pure grits and brawn. The handful of countries with successful drug prevention and rehabilitation strategies utilize moderation disciplines for people who are not psychologically compatible with AA or NA - plenty of normal, good, decent people do recreational drugs or self-medicate while holding jobs, advancing careers, paying their taxes and many even make it to church on Sundays.

That said, back to a custody battle in a Court of Law. In a situation where a PERSON has documented abuse or neglect, there is good standing. How is documentation achieved? Best: police or CPS report (because they never lie). Next: school or daycare facility incident report. Next: impartial eyewitness report. (Do not let CPS ANYWHERE NEAR ANY CHILD UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!) The very last is the subjective report of a PERSON. All of those situations merit formal investigation at the very least. Animals on the other hand are meritless and have no right to standing! If you knew your wife / former partner was in possession of illicit drugs and you didn’t report them, that makes you an animal! An animal claiming someone else uses drugs makes that someone else a ‘PERSON of interest’. Get it? Pretty fucked up, yep. Don’t freaking do it.

Finally, if your youngin is legitimately in danger, judgement falls between you and God. Fight, fight dirty as dirty can be but don’t dehumanize yourself in the eyes of the court! A person may lose their grip on reality, become unreasonable, even engage in a crime of passion. Animals are without reason from jump street, they have no standing and no rights🙃.