My name is James. I am a loving Father who has been treated like a criminal because I love my sons enough to stand up against a legal system that has stripped my sons of their right to have a meaningful relationship with their father. Last summer, the police which we trust to serve and protect, backed by nothing more than an accusation (which has since been proven a lie), stormed into my home and forcibly removed my son as we were getting ready for bed. Regardless of the excuse, any system that traumatizes a young child to 'prove a point' must be changed, which I have made my cause. My cause has unfortunately made me a target.

  Unable to accept being a 'visitor' to the boys I had been raising as essentially a single father, I went back to court and asked for more time with my sons. That a father would request more than 'standard' visitation angered the court and all of my rights as a parent were terminated. My ex-wife took my sons to Texas and I am afforded no visitation with them. Believing my children's separation from their home, their father, their grandparents, their church, their community, and the only life they had ever known was not in their best interest, I filed an appeal and, after proving bias in the case, asked that the judge be recused. This made the 'system' really angry and the next time I went to court, I was thrown in jail for ten days. Every objective observer to my case insists I was imprisoned simply because I will not 'shut up and go away. I never in my wildest dreams thought this could happen in this country. If it can happen to me it can happen to you.