Tonight, staring at my Facebook page and feeling despair, squeezed between the power of two national states to oppress and paralyze, my loneliness and demons of my son’s abduction hounding, the ghosts of my tormentors, the abductors of my son, hovering like Jacob’s angel, taunting my courage and the moral obligations and demands of love, … More “Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.”
The subject is child abduction. The discussion is about slothfully slow, eventual accession to the Hague Convention and civil code reform will take place: Japan will continue to protect kidnappers, practice abduction internally by denying parents access to their own children, and hold out for reservations – conditions and exceptions for refusal to return kidnapped … More New Oxymoron: “Japanese Reform” – Interpret With Care
In Washington on December 24th, 2011 a hearing entitled International Child Abduction: Broken Laws and Bereaved Lives took place at a subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. [See it here on CRN.] Or, [see it here on CSPAN.] All of the speakers were superb, and Congressman Chris Smith was extremely sharp, energetic, and well-informed … More International Child Abduction: Broken Laws and Bereaved Lives
For Rui- with Daddy’s love. WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d—and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. O ever-returning spring! trinity sure to me you bring; Lilac blooming perennial, and drooping star in the west, And thought of him … More When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d
For Rui Boy 