"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison." - H.D. Thoreau, 1849.

You say that you are imprisoning me for contempt of court. You are lying. You are imprisoning me for debt, in violation of the law which you have sworn to uphold. You are denying me my right to be tried by a jury of my peers, which you have sworn to uphold indisputably. You have denied my right to due process, and my God given rights by trying to usurp my authority as a parent and my dignity as a human being.

 Alexander Hamilton said: "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of nature, by the hand of the divinity himself; and as such, can never be erased by any mortal power". Yet in your arrogance, you act as if I have no rights or sacred covenant to my child. I say to you, you have no business assuming responsibility for my daughter, and that in taking that responsibility upon yourself and placing her in a fatherless home in the custody of a parent incapable of providing for her, you and this state are responsible for her welfare.

By placing her in a fatherless home, you are placing her in jeopardy where her likelihood of becoming a delinquent and going to prison is higher by 8 times, to commit suicide by 5 times, to have behavioral problems by 20 times, to become a rapist by 20 times, to run away by 32 times, to abuse chemical substances by 10 times, to drop out of high school by 9 times, to be seriously abused by 33 times, to be fatally abused by 73 times, to be one tenth as likely to get A's in school, to have a 72% lower standard of living, and to be 10 times more likely as children from a father-headed household to be in a juvenile prison. This is child abuse!

You helped destroy my family by permitting such offensive behavior as adultery, lying under oath, and making false accusations to bolster an abusive pattern of irresponsibility to go unanswered by this court, and now you are trying to shift your responsibility for this onto me by blaming me for the law's incompetence to protect my child, and for the fact that I am unable to support two households with an income sufficient only for one.

 I’ve come here seeking relief through wisdom, temperance and justice, yet I’am met with a tempest of sanctimonious gavel pounding and inequity. You say that I must respect the law, yet respect is something that must be uniformly conveyed by both partners in any relationship for it to truly work harmoniously. You hide behind a veil of ambiguous laws and personal ideology in your disposition of what is deceptively proffered as justice. Your indifference to the very system of justice you represent troubles me greatly sir. Injustice offends my philosophic sensibilities and moral character. It deprives people of they’re dignity through apathy and a labyrinth of esoteric terminology. It is a parasite that leech’s on the defining attributes that were breathed into all men by our creator.

 In the words of Frederick Douglass; "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

You want to know what my trouble is sir? My trouble is that by ignoring the unlawful and ungodly behavior of adultery. By allowing clearly false, unsubstantiated accusations and dishonest statements under solemn oath to go unpunished, and by neglecting to prosecute all the other contemptible behavior before this court, you have helped destroy yet another family; my family. And in doing so you’ve destroyed the very system of motivation which formerly made me a productive, financially stable and useful member of society - and are now about to make me a convict who can contribute nothing to society.

My trouble is the same trouble as that of millions of other American fathers that you and the other members of your profession are, by destroying more than half of America's families each year, destroying the very basis of our country’s social and economic well-being. My trouble is that you and your fellow judges imagine that by raging and pulling tantrums at responsible, respectable, and moral father’s like myself, you can compensate for the damage you are inflicting upon our society by your own weakness of character, your own lawlessness in refusing to keep your oath of office and administer justice impartially, and your lack of cognitive skill.

You may consider that my daughter didn't ask to be brought into the world. I say to you that she didn't ask to be ripped from a two-parent family where she was decently provided for by me, and placed by you in a situation where she is at higher risk of being impoverished, and at an even greater risk of delinquency and educational failure. You act as if my daughter is rummaging in garbage cans. This is because you placed her in a situation that would expose her to such a predicament, and now seek to displace your own unsettled feelings and poor judgement by earmarking me as yet another "deadbeat" scapegoat. She never rummaged in garbage cans when she was in my care.

Now...you may imagine that your demonstration of indignation towards me is beneficial to the State of <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Jersey</st1:place></st1:State>. But let me remind you that it will cost the state between $20,000 and $25,000 to imprison me for a year. During this time my estranged wife and my child will be on public support. During this time I will earn nothing and will therefore be withdrawing another $25,000 worth of productivity from the <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Jersey</st1:place></st1:State> economy. My company will be shut down and it’s employees will then also be dependent on state support as well. Furthermore, my future employability will be extremely impaired once I have a jail record. And when I get out, I’ll most likely have no drivers license to seek employment! I will be paying no taxes for the next year and reduced taxes in the future--perhaps none at all, since I may find myself driven into the underground economy, or compelled to leave this state in order to escape your bullying.

Your concern sir, is not as you pretend, for the best interests of my child. You never lost thirty seconds of sleep over my daughter, or any of the other children, you placed in fatherless households where they are far more likely to be impoverished, delinquent, and experience acute developmental problems. Your concern is merely to practice cheap judicial chivalry at my expense and to preserve a mindless legal "rule-of-thumb" which will save you the necessity of performing the duty for which you receive your salary. The duty of administering impartial justice and of thinking about what you routinely do when you destroy families and place children in fatherless households without any regard for the consequences

Hang in there!

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