The last time I tried visiting my daughter was at the end of August, 2008. Her mother made it clear to a state trooper, Renee Hall, that she was not going to comply with the order.

She let me know this, and I asked her what I should do, because I couldn't go 24 miles, one way--less than a mile away from the mother's house when she was clearly not going to comply. Trooper Hall told me to continue filing my motions, and they would do what they could do. She did not let me know that I had to show up every visit, even though Ashley made it clear she would never be there, that was actually the only way they could charge her for each skipped visit, even though she had made it clear to them that she was never going to be there.

The few times that she did skip, nothing to my knowledge was done other than writing affidavits, which the State's Attorney's Office wouldn't do anything about.

While they did nothing, I worked on my appeal and waited for the Vermont Supreme Court to do the right thing, but they did the wrong thing. (By the time I filed the Notice of Appeal, I had mentioned how Ashley had skipped an entire month's worth of visits, and I had mentioned being there three times, and she was never there, and she told the State Police she would never comply.)

After the recent Vermont Supreme Court ruling, I decided I was just going to go to the pick up spot again and get the State Police involved again. (I tried saving taxpayers money by not doing that for six months straight, as well as not filing any more motions, which I do with your taxes. I've filed over 150 motions to resolve this thing, while Ashley has been noncompliant with every order, and those can cost you as much as $200 each. It is amazing how much money it takes to stop isolation and abuse when it should have been stopped a long time ago.)

I had called the State Police to speak with Trooper Hall on my way to the pick up spot on 2/11/09. They told me to call when I got to the pick up spot, the Jolley's gas station on Route 15 in Jericho. When I arrived there, I saw a State Trooper already there, getting ready to leave from pumping gas, and she was also one who had been involved in a few of the incidents.

I decided to stop her right there, since she was getting ready to leave, instead of wasting your tax dollars for her gas to turn around. I stood in the rain and showed her my paperwork.

She told me that it wasn't 4:00 yet. It was a few minutes before, and I told her that it didn't matter, because Ashley had not contacted me since she told Trooper Hall she wasn't going to comply. (She also saw me in the mall, while she was at Payless, and I just walked that way for a feeling on a day my father went to Sears. She and her hick friend didn't say anything and just kept walking and laughing while looking at me.)

I told her that Ashley wasn't going to be there. The last thing she told Trooper Hall was that she wasn't going to comply with the order, and I couldn't waste gas to continue going 24 miles. She told me that the last time Ashley didn't comply, they cited her, but they never told me this. All that they ever told me was that they wrote affidavits and the state's attorney's office wouldn't prosecute. If I had known they would cite her each time, instead of my wasting gas, then this wouldn't have gone on so long--it has wasted your tax dollars, one way or another.

She asked me when the last time I showed up was, and I told her the last time they were involved at the end of August, 2008.

She asked me how I knew that Ashley wasn't there in the meantime. I told her because of what the last thing she told Trooper Hall was, and she would have text me--I have text messages telling me not to bother showing up.

During our conversation, I mentioned to her how all Ashley 'does is call me a child molester,' but I didn't bother elaborating on everything I have already elaborated on with her partners, the courts, and others involved in actual, realistic, child protection and safety. When I told her just that, she said she 'knew I had something in my past,' but apparently has not researched anything on it.

She told me to wait 15 minutes. I had to wait 15 minutes the other times, and I shouldn't have to wait at all when Ashley's noncompliance has been so blatant.

She and two other troopers, more of your dollars, went to Ashley's residence and called me ten minutes later. They told me to come get my daughter.

My daughter was in the back seat of the cruiser when I got there, and the trooper let her out and into our car, and she and I spoke.

She said Ashley said she had shown up to the store. If so, then why didn't she text me? I texted her when she wasn't on time. She wants to be a pain in my ass every other time, but she won't text me when I don't show up for a visit and she does?

I told the trooper it was a common sense call, and she essentially said it doesn't matter with what the law provides. So the law lacks common sense, but judges life, which everyday involves common sense. (Don't believe Orwell's 1984. 2+2 does not equal five, but that is the way our system is set up to (mis)behave.

I also mentioned things about juries, and how I didn't care anymore, and a jury, who can vote their conscience, is not the courts or the law. (Hypothetically speaking, all the evidence could say a person is 100% guilty according to the law, but if you think the law has or is going too far, then you have a right to vote your conscience--common sense. If all that mattered was the law, then just a judge could do that, but it is common sense, and that is something the majority of people in the system have lost--as well as touch with reality.)

She told me that Ashley said she did appear at the pick up spot a few times, but that is untrue, and I did ask my daughter if she was ever brought to meet me, and she said, "No."

I guess the trooper should have verified Ashley's lie with my daughter.

Instead, the trooper lectured me about how I had to show up, and they couldn't help me unless I showed up everytime, even when Ashley made it clear she wouldn't be there prior to that to them, and they didn't do anything or help me after that.

The trooper also said to me how they said I would start being verbally abusive at the pick ups and drop offs, and she even lectured me on the point slightly, and I have dealt with Robert in my face and never did anything numerous times, and they are always running their mouths to me around my daughter, and it's on tape. I was still lectured and told that even if he gets in my face, not to do anything, more or less. So when are they going to do something about them instead of lecturing what my reaction might be to their abuse?

I told her they were projecting and deflecting psychopaths at the store, and she still continued to the point where she said, 'Even if they run their mouths to you, then don't take a swing.' They have always run their mouths, and I have showed much more restraint than them. (I do nothing to get them started, yet when they keep poking, and I show restraint when they are in my face, I'm still lectured about what my reaction might be, but has not been.)

My daughter had a big smile on her face when we got her. During the visit, I noticed how my daughter had a small scratch/slit on the right side of her face. I asked her how it happened, and she said that she "fell."

I said, people don't normally fall on their face, and they usually put their hands in front of them first.

She then stated that her hands were tied in front of her during recess and a boy pushed her, and he went to the principal's office.

I didn't bother asking her much else. (When I mentioned how I contacted DCF the day I noticed bruises on my daughter's back, and they didn't bother sending anybody out to investigate, which the National Child Abuse Hotline told me they should have done, the State Trooper told me I should have contacted the police. I have contacted them as well, and SBPD, Jeffrey Martel, blatantly ignored Robert's ambush attempt and attempt to hit my sister with his car, so where does the buck stop?) I did not bother contacting the police for a small cut on my daughter's face, which she was lying about, but could very well have been the accidental scraping of a fingernail, but that is not what she said.

I just want her to tell me the truth, and she could have told me that the trooper scratched her accidentally as she was putting her in the car, and I wouldn't have questioned it, but when she lies to me--gives me different and/or unusual answers, that is when I doubt the answers to her injuries.

As I mentioned, the trooper was telling me basically that Ashley could do whatever she wanted-- she could tell them that she was there and I wasn't appearing, even though she had clearly told them she wouldn't be there and has a broad history of noncompliance--so it didn't matter if she is the one starting what the trooper was warning against as my reactions.

The sort of bottom line is, according to what she was saying, is the law is black and white, and allows no room for common sense or compromise. That is why we have juries who can vote their common sense--vote their conscience. (If you wanted to be just a thorn in the system's side, because the system caused a family member or friend problems or did something unjustly to them, then you could vote not guilty just because. I am in no way suggesting that this be done for those who are truly a danger to society, but for those who may have made some mistakes but also have a conscience. There are those with a conscience and those without a conscience, but one makes a mistake and feels bad (conscience), while the other one probably did something to drive the person to such a state of doing something and never feels bad, no matter what they do (no conscience)).

The final bottom line is that I have been alienated from my daughter, however ineffectively for the most part, and she went one year without seeing me and wanted to leave with me while her mother was/is "out of control" after I found her, and she was happy to see me, after 6-7 months of not seeing her, and only having real visits for about four months. This case, after all my evidence is presented, is a no brainer. I'm no danger to my daughter, her mother isolates her for some reason, she should be in my custody and outside counseling, which was also "recommended" on 2/5/09 by her guidance counselor, and justice is allowed to prevail the way it was supposed to prevail--through jury nullification.

Vote your consciences always, because not everything is what it seems or what the State presents. It is not about justice, truth, or evidence--it is just about who puts on the better show--look at Johnny Cochran, but do not make that mistake, because they should have voted their consciences, but they just voted by the evidence--who put on the better show. (This is also what you will have to do when faced with labeling a teenager as a "sex offender" for "sexting" with a gf/bf, otherwise, by the letter of the law, you have to find press charges and prosecute them for child pornography. That is not the government's business until those photos end up in a pedophiles hands, not a gf's or bf's, but that is also not likely to happen, and I'm sure the one photo of a post-pubescent teen is not going to fulfill a pedophile's desires of pre-pubescent, more easily manipulated, children.)

This is called common sense--it is something the law lacks and why we have juries and why a jury must always vote their conscience. Stand your grounds otherwise this will not get better for anybody in anyway (think about the complete ripple effects throughout my stories--do I need punishment or oppression?), and it can get worse if we keep doing the wrong things and acting as automotons. (A court clerk said she didn't like what was happening, but had to bite her lip because of her job--the system silences consciences. A clerk has better common sense and people reading skills than numerous judges apparently.)

The system is more of a drain on your tax dollars than you realize, and it is wrong, because what it has been allowing and encouraging to happen, excusing, has wasted your money in my trying to prevent, but being blatantly ignored.