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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Veronica deserved better #BABY VERONICA #WICWA
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To Veronica Brown
Veronica, we adult adoptees are thinking of you today and every day. We will be here when you need us. Your journey in the adopted life has begun, nothing can revoke that now, the damage cannot be undone. Be courageous, you have what no adoptee before you has had; a strong group of adult adoptees who know your story, who are behind you and will always be so.

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Thank you for this. Interestingly, Oklahoma has it's own ICWA as well but it did not prevent this tragedy. These laws are useless if not enforced.
ReplyDeleteExactly Peach. And I hope this blog can educate others as to the importance of ICWA.
DeleteYou know Trace I saw a disturbing video during the Baby Veronica case. It was made by the group Anonymous who actually protested her being returned to Dusten. In this You Tube video they highlighted a section of paper that stated that ICWA laws only apply if the Native American couple were married. Because Dusten and Christiana were not they were claiming Dusten using these laws to keep Veronica was fraud-and they said "we know the truth". It made my stomach turn. I think a clause needs to be made that these laws will apply to single Native American Parents so the prejudice towards them and children born out of wedlock can't be used against them again.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, Anonymous- and ICWA needs to be stronger (not abolished) and more judges need to rule with it. Prejudice and mis-information about ICWA is alive and well. We see lawyers abused it clearly with Baby Ronnie and now Baby Desirai/Desaray.
DeleteThe you-tube video wasn't made by the Anonymous organization, it was made by Jim Arnold; who is a self-proclaimed hacker. The funny thing is that Anonymous is against corruption and this is exactly what the adoption was.
DeleteMartie, Thank you! His name has come up before. Good to know!
DeleteHere is s link to that video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i75oixiyRkI
ReplyDeleteSometimes I agree with Anonymous but they were total fucking assholes about this case and dead wrong and personally I think they should of just their mean noses out of it.
Thanks, anonymous - checking it out now!
DeleteI would bet that Jessica Munday and Trio Solutions made this video - to create sympathy for the Capobiancos - it's pure propaganda. Munday likely paid them to be there and hold the signs.
Delete*kept their mean noses out of it.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sad state that "saving" a child means throwing out her family and heritage. I hope that someday these misguided policies will go the way of other misguided attempts to marginalize segments of the population.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the whole idea of adoption needs to go away, Tchaiki. If adoption erases a child, how can it be good for the child?
DeleteI have been thinking about the abolition of adoption – and came across this quote: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete,” by Buckminster Fuller.
ReplyDeleteI have been aware all day that today is the 1 month anniversary since Veronica was stolen by the C's. I still can't believe it. I keep thinking she will be returned to Dusten and Robin. What a sick, cruel world we live in that this could happen. And that there are people who actually applaud it.
ReplyDeleteThere were laws in place to protect Dusten's rights. But they do no good if they aren't enforced, and when all it takes is money and privilege to override them.
Yes Robin. I think of her every day and send her good thoughts. Ronnie needs our prayers. Dusten told a Cherokee newspaper he was trying to work out something so he could see her. I will certainly pray for that, too.
DeleteThe C's have no incentive to let Dusten have visitation with Ronnie. He is the one thing standing in the way of their delusion that they are Veronica's true and only parents. They have done everything they can to destroy Dusten, whom they consider that pesky birth father who won't get with the program and accept that they are Veronica's real parents.
DeleteI hope the link to the video worked Trace-if not it is (nauseatingly) entitled: Anonymous Stands Up To Cherokee Nation. The first written line makes me so mad-"universal deceit"? One of the biggest forms of universal deceit IS adoption, and I agree with the rest of you that it should be abolished. at least how the system works now. It isn't about a child needing a home it is about a couple that can't conceive getting to have a child anyway and using that child. I think about Veronica a lot to and I worry about her. The Capobianco's are NOT nice people and I wonder what they might do to her, especially when she is upset about not seeing Dusten. I love that quote you posted-and I wish we could of made a new model w/Dusten and Veronica, goodness willing, maybe we can with poor baby Desiree.
ReplyDelete@Robin:
ReplyDeleteYou are right and they way so many adoptive parents minds work is nothing less than a state of psychosis. They are SO out of reality, yet this is not only ignored, it is glorified. This country is nothing but a big, fat disturbing double standard.