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[AKidsRight.Org] Batman & Robin - in their own words / Delay in Syracuse
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Good People & People of Faith, This message contains info on: 1. Syracuse NonViolent Action & Senator Clinton - delayed. 2. Burnaby Batman & Robin - climbing a crane! 3. Robin, The Boy Wonder - why? 4. Batman - why I climb. We wanted to take some time to let you hear some 'behind the scenes' from some parent Super Heroes who are taking action (and with considerable risk) in Canada. This message is a bit long, but we wanted to let you here from Batman & Robin in their own words and compare your story. Are you that different -- should we be just fathers or parents searching for justice? Featured at http://feminist4fathers.blogspot.com/ 1. Syracuse NonViolent Action & Senator Clinton - delayed. ---------------------------------------------------------- John Murtari, group coordinator, has been interrupted in planned activities at the Syracuse Federal Building. For info on the action see: http://www.AKidsRight.Org/actionc_syr John's mom, Caterina, is 89 years old but has encountered some serious health issues. Two trips to the emergency room in August and September, and almost two weeks in the hospital. John's dad, Domenico, died back in 1989 (age 97), and John is the only child. Because of failing liver function the diagnosis for his mom is terminal and John is caring for her at home (he is lucky to be able to work from home). The Hospice Program (for those with terminal illness) has been great in offering aid support at home along with visiting nurses. There is still hope for a recovery and her condition and spirits have certainly improved since she came home. For an 'old' link that has a picture of the Family check out, http://www.AKidsRight.Org/grandma_dm.htm Thanks for your thoughts and prayers! 2. The Burnaby Batman "WAKE UP BC CANADA, THERE'S BATS IN THE ATTIC" --------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact the 'Bat': Robert Robinson <who_s_my_daddy2000@yahoo.ca> Burnaby Bat, Vancouver BC Canada http://www.geocities.com/who_s_my_daddy2000 Fathers4Justice-Canada Superhero Journal Entry September 03, 2005 7:00 PM - Fathers-4-Justice BC Justice League assemble and go over final preparations making sure needed supplies are packed as well as banners and gear. Final briefing before stunt occurs with video production team already on hand filming. 4:00 am - special opps team assembled and head out in two separate vehicles with film team on board. 4:40 am - Team one arrives and prepares entry for team two. 4:45 am - Team two arrives with super heroes Batman and Robin. Global news is already on hand with cameras rolling. Video production team follow Batman and Robin in, cameras rolling along with members from team one. 4:48 am - Batman and Robin begin their ascent up the tower crane on Kingsway ave, and Knight street in Vancouver BC Canada. With my heart racing I bolted up the ladders quickly leaving Robin several levels behind me. It seemed like forever as I climbed and climbed. About half way up in the dark of night I got stuck going through a narrow opening with my back pack and was unable to move. I forced my way through tearing my back pack and continued to climb. I could hear Robin below me asking how much further we had to go and replied we are getting closer to the top. When I was about 3/4 of the way up and having just passed another platform I experienced a muscle cramp in my leg that was so excruciatingly painful it stopped me dead in my tracks. In fear I looked down to see how far down the nearest platform was so I could rest a minute. I carefully lowered myself to the platform below to rest my legs and awaited Robin who was still several levels below me. By the time Robin had reached me the pain in my leg was subsiding. Batman and Robin then rested and drank some water. It was at this time that we were first noticed by several workers on the grounds of the construction site and I informed Robin to remain still as there were people below pointing up to us. Too late we had been sighted. I informed Robin that we should continue our ascent before someone tried coming up to us. I further instructed Robin telling him that once we were at the top he should remain low to the platform of the crane until he was sure of himself and that I would lead the way out and we would first hang our banners in place before we encountered trouble. A brief while later I reached the top with Robin now several levels below me. Robin yelled out to me,"When are we going to reach the top?" I replied, I'm there" and waited for Robin. Once upon the crane we again to a brief rest and an eye below for signs of anyone following us. We got our banners out and ready and placed our luggage to the back platform of the crane. We then set about our task of hanging our banners. I lead the way walking out upon the boom of the crane while Robin not yet sure of himself crawled behind me staying low as I instructed until he felt at ease. For this Bat having once before finding himself upon a crane discovered it was like riding a bike, you never forget and was at complete ease with my sky high perch. In fact at that time of the day just before the sun rises the view of the entire lower-mainland of BC is breath taking. I informed Robin that we would have to secure our banners hastily if we were to have the opportunity to greet the new dawn from the cranes highest platform and we did. A magnificent sunrise I will never forget from our sky high perch in Vancouver BC Canada. A more serene setting I have only ever experienced upon the Victoria Legislature building and the tower crane in Burnaby BC Canada. It was at this time while peacefully enjoying our surroundings that we also noticed there was no one proceeding up the crane after us as well as Global news below already setting up shop for the day and many police cars marked and un marked surrounding the outer perimeter of the construction site. >From such a high perch we could spot everyone of them. Upon descending to the boom we also realized that although we were being monitored no one was making any attempt to capture us. This being so I felt completely relaxed and made time to stroll out the furthest point of the boom to sit upon its very edge as I remembered the London Spiderman doing and marveled at the breath taking view below me. I saw Robin making his way towards me and instructed him to remain back and to not venture out to where I was as the end of the boom moved and shook greatly. I then made my way back to Robin who was above our Fathers-4-Justice banner waving to the people now gathering below and enjoyed the next hour or so waving to the people and cameras. By 8:00 am there were many now gathering below, many driving by and honking and several different news agencies on site recording. Batman and Robin then made their way back to the rear of the crane to have a bite to eat and some water. It was at this time that we reversed one of our banners that read" FMEP 21st. century slavery too the other side that read " Fathers Are Forever" and "Courts Are Discriminating". The Very banner the Burnaby Batman hung from the tower crane at Middle Gate Mall in Burnaby, May 22/04 and the same very banner that was hung high above the Victoria Supreme court house by fellow superheroes on March 25/05 in Victoria. Robin with the bat phone communicated with team members below. We were instructed to go back out onto the boom of the crane and fix our huge banner that read " In The Name Of The Father" with a huge cross upon it and Fathers-4-Justice written below it, that was now tangled from the rising winds in the cables below. So with our climbing gear to secure us we left the platform of the boom of the crane a couple of hundred feet above the ground and into the lower rails of the boom to untangle our banner. This dangerous process took us five minutes to accomplish. After which I proudly posed above the same as this was one banner that is of significant merit surrounding my own personal case regarding the on going discrimination of my child's and my rights pursuant to the Trociuk decision June of 2003. We again took time to wave to all those below who had gathered as well as the media.Batman and Robin realizing the Bat phone was also a camera took pictures of each other upon the crane in amusement. Around 10:00 am with Robin feeling tired he made his way to the rear of the crane where upon using his back pack as a pillow, stretched out upon the rear platform and fell asleep. The Burnaby Bat remained perched upon the boom for the hour and a half as the winds increased. At times rotating the boom an entire 90 degrees back and forth. In fact I recall looking way back to see if perhaps somehow in Robins sleep he had done something to turn the cranes power on. After seeing the crowds disperse for the time being and no more cameras rolling as well as hardly any police presence this Bat now also tired made his way back to the en caged rear platform to catch a few Zzz. Upon rummaging through various odds and ends upon the crane Batman found an old sofa cushion and using it as a pillow drifted off to sleep . I was later informed by a very good friend and comrade, John Philips from Port Alberni that he arrived to find us stretched out upon the rear platform sleeping and attempted to wake us by whistling to no avail. As such he and his sweetheart went to a restaurant for coffee for the next half hour before attempting to reach us again. Batman and Robin slept until 1:00 PM before awaking. After which we again made our way out to the boom to greet those below. Robin feeling well rested and attempting to sit upon the very top of the crane accidentally dropped the way cool bat phone to its death. I remember yelling "***K", as the phone several seconds later made impact with mother earth. Boy wonder was devastated and felt horrible over such. Feeling sorry for him and having regained my composure I told him not to worry and that shit happens. However given it was our chief's son's phone who had made his dad promise his awesome phone would be returned to him in one piece, I could not speak for the same who might feel otherwise. I tried to look at the bright side as team members below now examined the phone for any sign of life that at least now the authorities had no way of communicating with us or for that matter our ground support. Which I don't think helped as much as I might have hoped in consoling the boy wonder. For the next hour we ventured all over the crane now feeling one with our surroundings and entertained those below. I could not help but notice the lack of police presence. A short while after a new phone was brought to us from one of our team members (Hulk) who climbed a quarter of the way up to deliver it too Robin who climbed down to meet him and again ascended delivering me the phone saying " I think you better hold onto it this time". I agreed and made contact with the chief down below (Robin Senior and I emphasize senior, lol) to get a status report. I could not help but notice that our team member had not encountered any resistance when delivering the phone and as such discussed with Robin that perhaps come nightfall we should remove our banners and slip away in the night. I was informed by our chief that the construction owner was cool with us being there and was not filing a complaint and also informed that we would likely not be arrested either. "Way Cool'. 2:30 PM - The winds have picked up significantly and the crane is moving even more. Down below we note several SUVS converging upon the site and a strong police showing (SWAT). Upon communications with Robin senior we are informed that we are now being asked to descend by the construction owner as the risks of liability have increased with the rising winds . I then asked the chief to convey to the authorities that we would willing remove our banners pack up our gear and come down providing we would not be arrested and allowed to leave with all our gear. Within minutes I am informed that this was agreed upon. At around 2:45 pm Batman and Robin return to the ground where they are greeted and congratulated by their comrades and information taken by authorities. Upon being whisked away back to the Bat cave I have the opportunity to meet and thank the construction owner face to face and inform him that we would gladly advertise for him upon his cranes should ever he need if it means flying our banners also. He chuckles while shaking my hand and says it's to bad we didn't operate the crane while up there and get some work done. 4:00 PM the Burnaby Bat and Robin are back at the Bat cave where they have the opportunity to review all of the Global news segments they had already appeared in the morning. Each showing slightly different footage then the segment before. We also had the opportunity to enjoy good company with our comrades, a few cold ones and to again see us all over the news at 6:00 PM and again at 11:00. After which I crawled into my cave to sleep as I knew that by 5;00 am the next morning the Hulk was to fly. In Solidarity Forever: Canada's First Batman The Burnaby Batman - Robert Robinson 3. Robin the Boy Wonder - where did he come from? -------------------------------------------------- Contact Robin: Chris Coderre So where do you begin when you try to explain climbing a crane in the middle of the night dressed like the super hero Robin? Well, I guess we could start where it all began. I was born in McKenzie, British Columbia in 1984. My father was denied his right to be acknowledged as my biological parent and denied all access to my brother and I. Having never met my father, at the age of fourteen, after several foster home placements and all kinds of heartache and pain, I began to wonder whom my father was. After a few months of wondering I took action in trying to find out why my father never contacted me in fourteen years. So where was I to start? With my father being unacknowledged on my birth registration I had no means of knowing. As such my only hope was family and friends but they were reluctant to divulge said information. After a year or so of pestering my relatives my grandmother finally told me who my father was, and that the courts had denied him all access to me after my parents divorce. After finally finding out his name and some background information I searched the internet and phone books and any resource I could get my hands on with no luck. I became frustrated in the knowledge that because of child custody laws I was deprived of my dad. I wanted to know why a judge would take my father away from me. Needless to say, I ended up in many foster homes in the care of the ministry of children and families and found it ironic that the courts would give custody to a women who would give me up anyway.= After years of seeking justice for what the courts have done to my life, I was soon to meet others who shared similar frustrations with the legal process. In 2005 I became friends with a man who was affiliated with a group known as Fathers-4-Justice who were staging protests for their children. I could see no logical reason why the courts would remove their children from their lives. In the last few months I have met men who have spent thousands of dollars in legal fees just to catch a glimpse into there children's lives. The thing I admired about these= e men was their conviction to their children and the sacrifices they were prepared to make too be a part of their children's lives. I heard stories of men climbing bridges and cranes and legislature buildings all over the world just to be a part of their children's lives. I yearned to be a part of their ongoing struggle to free their children from the grasps of a corrupt and bias government. Then the day came where I got my shot and was given the opportunity to assist in one of these stunts. I was to help the Incredible Hulk climb the Alex Fraser Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia, May 7, 2005 and wound up staying on the bridge due to unforeseen circumstances. As I was standing on that bridge with a superhero by my side I actually found a place of peace within myself and realized that I too wanted to don a costume of my own and spread the message to the world that things need to change. My first official F4J action was too climb a crane with the Burnaby Batman in Vancouver British Columbia, September 3, 2005 dressed as Robin the Boy Wonder. I will continue to climb and amaze onlookers with such stunts for as long as it takes. Fathers-4-Justice has provided me the means to help make a difference and to spread the message that children need both of their parents in their lives. As such I promise to continue to fight for your rights to see your kids. Chris Coderre Robin the Boy Wonder Fathers4Justice-Canada 4. Burnaby Batman - Why ----------------------- Greetings from Vancouver BC Canada and the Burnaby Batman My name is Robert Robinson aka ...... Canada's First Batman ...... I am the biological father of Rachel May Nitura. Officially unacknowledged as such in spite of conclusive DNA evidence. The same compelling evidence that was utilized to substantiate a child support payment from me however at the same time not compelling enough for the Supreme Court of BC to make an order acknowledging my paternity. For a daughter I am not permitted to know. In direct contravention of a Supreme Court of Canada order pursuant to the Trociuk decision in June of 2003. Nearly two years ago I donned my cape and took to the skies in Burnaby BC Canada in search for justice for all those who know the pain and suffering of being alienated from their kin. On May 22, 2004 I scaled the tower crane at Middle Gate Mall in Burnaby BCon a dark and rainy night dressed as Batman and remained perilously perched upon it for 18 hours in protest. In March of 2005 I scaled the Victoria Legislature. The rest is history. History that is about to repeat itself once more.................. On May 18/2004, four days before my fateful climb I wrote a letter (included below) that would hopefully explain my actions in the event of my untimely demise. A letter that still rings true to this day............ As such I have included it once more in the event of tragedy............ In Solidarity Forever: Rob R - Batman - A letter from my dear friend Burnaby Batman - (in the event of his demise) I am writing this letter to be made public to all. I have decided it is time to don my cape and take to the skies in search of Justice for all fathers who know the horrors of being eradicated from their children's lives compliments of your friendly neighborhood family courts. I have exhausted all means of ever achieving Justice or ever knowing my 5 year old daughter Rachel May Nitura so long as evil deeds are sanctioned by not only our Supreme Courts but our Legislators also. In a desperate attempt to restore common sense and dignity I make this stand. I am of the belief that when my society is more irrational than my circumstances it is time to do something about it. So in an effort to resurrect my shattered life and to be the voice of reason on my daughter's behalf I will take to the skies in search of justice. I am a father who was deceived in marriage as well as fatherhood. I am legally married to a woman I have never cohabited with who had and gave my child to another man which included listing him as the biological father. In December 1999 after nine months of residing in apartment set up for my wife and child, my wife assuring me we would be together as a family and baiting me faithfully with my little girl, no changes were forth coming. I initiated legal action in an attempt to make right the wrongs and to have my paternity and my relationship with my daughter established. In June of 2000 before Justice Cole of the SCBC a child support payment was issued to me based on the conclusive DNA evidence I presented establishing my paternity. In my notice of motion I asked that I be officially recognized as my daughter's biological father, that the other man be ordered stricken from the birth registration and that I have time with my daughter. The Defendant (mother) Corrina Helmer proclaimed to the court that my daughter and she did not know me or have any relationship with me. This was a lie. She further proclaimed her and her common law, Dan Nitura were the happy parents of my daughter. At this same time, Corrina was proclaiming to our social and economic system that she was separated, with child, without even the basic necessities. Corrina availed herself of all the benefits available to her and as such defrauded many government ministries in the process. Because of legal evidence provided by me, she was also caught for the same. Justice Cole swept aside my petition to have the other man removed from the birth registration of my daughter and would not officially recognize me as the biological father. Justice Cole further ordered me to pay child support based on the same DNA evidence and ordered me to supervised visits with my daughter without any show of harm. He further indicated, as legal evidence will validate that this access should only need to be supervised for two months. After four months of supervised access, most of which faithfully denied (In spite of court order.) by Corrina Helmer and no transition into denied unsupervised access I again found myself before Justice Cole of the SCBC in October 04, 2000. This was the day that my faith in our justice system was broken. Once more I was also asking the other man be stricken from the birth registration and my paternity recognized. As well as my unsupervised visits. Thanks to false allegations of domestic violence, fabricated evidence, and theatrics performed by the defendant's new parasite lawyer Barry J Promislow from MacQuarrie Hobkirk Barristers & Solicitors. Suite 2020 –777 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC Canada V6Z – 1T7, Phone - (604) 684 –6255, Fax (604) 684 – 7575, E Mail info@lawfirmmh.com <mailto:info@lawfirmmh.com> , web site – www.lawfirmmh.com <http://www.lawfirmmh.com/> I was slammed to hell and my motion dismissed. Immediately after my daughter's mother completely cut off my access to my little girl. After 4 weeks this denied supervised access was reinstated with another hearing before Cole in November 27, 2000. The defendant claimed that she was unaware that access was to continue after the initial two-month order. Barry J Promislow indicated that since I had never petitioned the court for new access then it was reasonable to conclude that the initial 2 month trial period was up and therefore I was to get none. Meanwhile while this was going on I was continually fighting with the Vital Statistics Agency of BC to recognize my paternity and strike the other man from the birth registration. This included submitting the DNA and filing all the necessary forms and fees with no reasonable resolution forth coming. I began the process to correct my daughters birth registration in 1999. My BC Vital Stats file summary brief clearly depicts initiatives taken by me in this regard. In February 2001, with a pending court hearing on the horizon and a section 15 report underway by forensic physiologist Dr. Michael Elterman. Corrina, in another desperate attempt to alienate me from my child, reported to the authorities that I had sexually abused my then 2 year old daughter during a supervised access visit at her mothers home with three supervisors present and an access visit Corrina was not in attendance of. I was then to be investigated for 6 months by the RCMP. I was denied access again in spite of court order at the direction of parasite Barry J Promislow. As a copy of the truncated police report I obtained through the Freedom of information act will indicate, the allegations were found to be completely unfounded and made in a malicious manner. The section 15 report by Dr. Michael Elterman concluded in favor of my parenting of my daughter and raised serious speculation to Corrina Helmer's judgement. It should also be known at this time I had completed several parenting courses, was an experienced tradesman and a volunteer fire fighter in my local community. In June of 2001 after having been denied access to my daughter faithfully the defendant Corrina Helmer applied to the Provincial court to have a restraining order cited against me. Once more using false allegations and neglecting to mention in her application to the Provincial Court that we were already in Supreme Court on Divorce related issues. I then found myself in the Supreme and Provincial Courts for a spell until her deceptive application was found out and later dismissed in trial (Provincial Court), leaving us to continue in Supreme Court. Interesting that there was no legal recourse as a result of her deceptions. At this same time the defendant's attorney hired a private investigator to run me off the ranch to no avail. Obstruction of justice I believe is the criminal code for it. When these attempts failed the mother Corrina Helmer just cut my denied supervised access off altogether. The last time I was permitted to see my daughter was July 2, 2001. Rachel had just turned three years old. The last time I saw her was for 29 minutes in Burger King before she was once again torn away from me by the mother's contemptuous sister Debra Nessbit. In September of 2001 after many on going communications with BC Vital Statistics and the Ministry of Health I was contacted by the Honorable Minister of Health, Collin Hansen who assisted me and later brought about the other man being stricken from the birth registration of my daughter. (Four years later.) I was to be further informed by the Minister that I needed a court order from the court in order to recognize my paternity in spite of DNA evidence. In November of 2001 I came before Justice Slade of the New Westminster Supreme Court BC Canada to obtain that order with the letter from the Minister of Health submitted into evidence. I also brought all my evidence before him of all that had occurred substantiating all the claims I was making. This included police report; section 15 report, legal evidence to her frauds, audio taped conversations of my attempts to gain access to my daughter and the abusive actions of the mother to thwart my court ordered access. Within my Notice of Motion I was asking that the mother be found in contempt of court for blatantly denying me my access 85% of the time, I was further asking that the court acknowledge my paternity based on the same DNA evidence that compelled them to issue me child support payments, that the other man be stricken from the birth registration, and that I be able to spend time with my daughter again with a police enforcement clause attached to that access. Justice Slade refused to make an order acknowledging my paternity, refused to order the other man stricken from the birth registration, stuck the contempt motion, reinstated my access again to be supervised and promised to be the enforcement of my access. By December 2001 as a direct result of my continual efforts and the honorable Minister of Health Collin Hansen, the other man was removed from my daughter's birth registration and the registration officially cancelled as a result of the mothers negligence to even respond to the Vital Statistics Agency. January 2002 I found myself again before Justice Slade having not been permitted my access to my daughter and again raising the same paternity issues. Justice Slade in turn reduced my denied access to even less than it was already which was two days a week for three hours a visit to 3 visits a month for two hours each. To be in a facility that had a $30.00 an hour policy, prepaid in advance, with a no money back guarantee should the child not show up. In spite of overwhelming evidence showing the mother was in contempt of an access order. Hello? What's wrong with this picture and might this be deemed a little cruel and unusual given the same? To add insult to injury he granted the defendant's request that I would not be permitted to make up any time lost. He further would have nothing to do with the paternity issues and was concerned that I seemed agitated by the injustice I was fortunate enough to be bestowed. This was the last effort I made in the courts to find equal justice and after having been in the courts both Provincial and Supreme since 1999 I knew that there was no way in hell I would ever see my little girl again as the BC family Courts endorsed and empowered vindictive mothers to systematically remove fathers from their children's lives. In June of 2002 with my daughter's birth registration still officially cancelled, I filed for a new birth registration for my little girl as the mother had failed to do so. I submitted the DNA evidence again, a copy of the marriage license again showing I was the legal spouse of the mother, and asked they waive the fee in light that they had already ripped me off for $56.00 and had done nothing. I was soon to receive a notice saying thanks for applying and come back when I have a court order recognizing my paternity. Several weeks after this event I was to learn through follow up that the mother's lawyer had intervened and counseled his client to violate the constitution of Canada and the Charter of rights and freedoms by officially un-acknowledging my paternity as a solution. In August of 2002 I filed a complaint with my ombudsman against both the BC Vital Statistics Agency and the Law Society. The BC Ombudsman's office indicated that my circumstances were not unreasonable in a democratic society. On June 4, 2003, in a Supreme Court of Canada decision overturning the BC Supreme and Appeal Courts decision the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the 'Trociuk' case that for a mother to arbitrarily deny the particulars of a biological father based only on a whim as was allowed under portions of the BC Vital Statistics Act was in direct contravention of the Constitution of Canada and section 15(1) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Citing discrimination based on gender and ordered that the BC Provincial Legislators had one year to amend the BC Vital Statistics Act to not discriminate or it would be of no force or effect. As recent submitted proposed changes to the BC Vital statistics Act will suggest the discrimination is to continue. Leaving the final authority in the hands of the BC Supreme Court who has already ruled in favor of discriminating against fathers. Kind of like asking the fox to guard the hen house I think. December 1, 2003, I filed an official complaint with the BC Human Rights Tribunal against her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of BC, Ministry of Health, Vital Statistics, Corrina Helmer, Barry J Promislow, Dan Nitura, Justice Cole, Justice Slade, BC Vital Stats Regional Manager Bill Moncour, and former CEO and director of vital Stats R.J. Danderfer for discrimination. In April 2004 the BC Human Rights Tribunal informed me that since it had been 11 months since the last time I was discriminated against they would not accept my complaint. As it stands I have not been permitted to see my little girl in three years and no longer even know where she lives in spite of a court order saying my daughter is not permitted out of the lower mainland of BC Canada. To date I am denied a relationship with my child, ordered to pay support for her and officially unrecognized as her biological father compliments of the Canada BC Supreme Court. Don't it make you proud to be a Canadian? So for those who may be wondering why I have donned a Batman's costume and taken to the skies of Vancouver I hope this helps to explain my actions. All I ever wanted was to have my little girl in my life the way she was supposed to be. Why in hell does that have to be so complicated? Batman – Robert Robinson -- Webmaster __________________________________________________________________ webmaster@AKidsRight.Org "A Kid's Right to BOTH parents" Toll Free (877) 635-1968(x-211) http://www.AKidsRight.Org/ ======================================= Newsletter mailing list Newsletter@kids-right.org subscribe/unsubscribe info below: http://kids-right.org/mailman/listinfo/newsletter
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