From R-KIDS of MN and GPF

Chief Justice Blatz's Best Decision

(November 11, 2005 Letter to the Pioneer Press editor from Tim Kinley, RKIDS President)

Chief Justice Blatz has finally made a good decision. I applaud her resignation. This will be good for the families and children of Minnesota.

I think Justice Blatz saw that the eventual exposure of the corruption in the judiciary was coming and got out before this was actualized. Unfortunately, it will still be on her watch, both as a legislator and a judge, that a significant amount of damage was done.

If any of you ever see her in public, just remind her politely of a couple of names. Mention Robert Knauff and Eric Heidbreder. Also mention any man that is abused by his wife or girlfriend or has had paternity fraud committed against them. All of these men were and are being tortured to this day due to her fine leadership.

After Hennepin County district court judge James T. Swenson said Mr. Robert Knauff was a fit father but still should not get his child. The child was given to his deceased's ex-wife's sister and husband. Mr. Knauf had to go through three years of hell in order to get his daughter back. Justice Blatz prolonged this ordeal by making Mr. Knauff go back to district court to have the same judge, who took away his daughter for no reason, put a little more weighting on the fact that he was the biological parent. Justice Blatz should have done what Justice Page recommended which was to give Mr. Knauff his daughter right away. (Read C3-01-170, and C6-01-678 Supreme Court Opinions)

Justice Blatz took away Eric Heidbreder's (CO-01-739 Supreme Court Opinions) child even after the mother of his child broke the marriage engagement and placed the child up for adoption. The mother hid the child from the father and moved to Minnesota from another state without telling him. This prevented him from placing himself on Minnesota's fathers' adoption registry before the child was placed for adoption. Chief Blatz supported this fraud, sanctioned the lying, and denied a child its natural parent. This is being done for the shear interest of the social agencies and the money that comes into the state and to the counties by removing a child from a parent. She also told Mr. Heidbreder that he should have registered in every state.

Chief Justice Blatz wants her legacy to be as quoted in the Star Tribune: "looking at the system through the eyes of children" and " . . . making sure the court system did better by kids." Unfortunately, she did not have such a legacy. By failing to face the facts and deal with paternity fraud, false accusations of abuse, domestic violence perpetrated by women, and by denying shelters for abused men and their children, Justice Blatz "looking" has turned out to be intentional blindness.

It was Justice Blatz's responsibility to oversee the judiciary. Our judiciary was left unaccountable to anyone and performed with much corruption. There have been falsified transcripts, evidence removed by judges from case files, cover-ups of denying court ordered parenting time to non custodial parents, as well as case files not even being opened up for children who had lost their parents in order to find relatives to take care of them. Instead, these children are placed away from relatives into county "insider" social case workers' families until it was to late for the relatives to get the children back. When the relatives do try to regain the children once they learned that the children are placed with non family members, the counties bring in all of their money and hired hands to ensure that the relatives don't get the child. This has happened even when the relatives have prior approval to take care of foster children.

None of this should surprise us though, especially in light of the fact that she has made shipwreck of her own family. Her behavior in her personal life clearly shows that it is about the money and not the family.

Hopefully Governor Pawlenty will appoint a new Supreme Court Justice who has a great deal of respect for the family, the constitution, and the law. Such an appointee would leave a legacy far different from that of Justice Blatz. Give us a Justice who will hold justices accountable for the fraud and corruption that is rampant in our family courts.

Tim Kinley is President of R-KIDS of Minnesota, (Remember Kids in Divorce Settlements) a statewide family rights organization. R-KIDS believes that children need and want the emotional, physical and financial support of both parents. R-KIDS works to ensure that Minnesota's family laws allow parents, good parents, to remain in a child's life.

R-KIDS can be contacted at www.r-kids.org.