Side Two of the Awareness Quilt is now complete. This will also serve as the backing for the quilt. It features those children who are no longer alive and are the CPS "FAILURES", also known as those children who were " Protected to Death".
What a DISGRACE and atrocity for the very Government Agency who was designed to protect these children to be "guilty" of such deaths of literally thousands of INNOCENT CHILDREN~!!! They were supposed to be "protected" from the harm and danger that took their lives at such young and innocent ages. ALL of these children were "supposed" to be under the watchful eye of CPS. It speaks for itself. Where "was" their protection???
There are 652 children represented on this side of the quilt. Each block is unique and different in the colors that outlines them. This was done to signify the "uniqueness" of EACH child. There are no two blocks alike just as there are no two children alike. They were individuals although young.
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The Awareness Quilt is now complete with a total of 975 names and photos. They are ALL "VICTIMS", whether at the hands of CPS, corrupt family courts, or both. Take a look at the representation of "innocence". HOW can you not be affected by it? If you are GUILTY of perpetrating deeds that contributed to them becoming "VICTIMS", go take a long hard look in the mirror at the "person" you have become. I can only hope and pray that you will make whatever changes in who you have become, that you may need to make, so that the "victimizing" of our children will STOP.
PLEASE do NOT ABUSE our children. Each and every one of them is precious~!!! They ARE our leaders of tomorrow. Let them grow up to become everything good and productive that they possibly can.
Remember, "damaged" merchandise can NEVER be repaired to be what it was "before". When you abuse a child, regardless if it's emotional, mental, physical, sexual, or any other way, you are "damaging" the child in such a way that the child may never recover.
Will "YOU" help STOP the ABUSE???
This AWARENESS QUILT will be on Display at the Washington DC Rally for Family Rights on August 18, 2007. Be sure to come by and see it in person.
***For those who will not be able to attend the Rally, there will be photos available for order after the Rally.
Created With MUCH LOVE and DEVOTION to our Children,
Gail Head
Paradise, TX
ghead@wccs.net
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Side One is complete
The Awareness Quilt is now one big step closer to making its debut' at the Washington DC Rally on Aug. 18, 2007. Side one is now complete. It contains 323 squares, each of which contains one child who has been victimized by Corruption in our Government but who also stands in representation for thousands of others just like them. Some "victimized" by Child Protective Services (CPS) and some by very corrupt Family Courts. It really matters not by which of these entities the blame lies for each of these children, they are INNOCENT and have taken the brunt for it all. True, parents, grandparents, sibblings, and the extended family all suffer, but the children pay the greatest price. Their homes will NEVER be the same, they lose family members they have bonds with, they lose their identities as who they really are and where they came from. IS THAT even remotely "fair" to them. I should think not~!!! They feel the stress of it all and many times they don't even know why nor what is going on. They have worries about their days and futures ahead that they have no control over. They did NOT deserve what has been bestowed on them as a result of this corruption and at the hands of the CPS Social and Case Workers nor the Judges and Attorneys, the "players" of the Corrupt Family Courts.
May the children represented by this quilt serve as a reminder of the Guilt and Shame that those who have perpetrated their ABUSE and displaced justiced upon them must wear. Social Workers, Case Workers, Judges, Attorneys, Fathers and Mothers, it is TIME to put your own agendas and wants on the "back burners" and concentrate on what the children NEED. This is about Children growing up and being with their Families so long as their is NO proven risk and threat of harm or danger to them and should NEVER EVER be about MONEY-POWER-or CONTROL from anyone involved in the children's lives~!!!
It is our hope that after seeing the "thousands" of children represented here, those persons who have been GUILTY of ABUSING a child, whether Government employee or a parent, from this day forward, visions in their memories of what they have seen here in this quilt, will race through the minds of every single one and serve as a reminder to keep the child at the fore-front of whatever they do and STOP the abuse of our children, serve and protect the children and their families in the manner they are both morally and legally obligated to do.
Please take the time to visit the DC Rally on August 18 and view this Awareness Quilt for yourself. You will not be able to walk away without being touched by it, unless you have no conscious at all.
"Walk a mile in the child's shoes first, before you act and do your deeds, then ASK yourself if you would want them done to you and then do accordingly."
Gail Head
Creator of the Awareness Quilt, 2007.
ghead@wccs.net
***Individual names of the children will not be published to protect the innocent.***
Our apology that we cannot post photos depicting individual children for 2 reasons.
1. Their identity protection, safety, and security.
2. No one child is more important than the other and we will NOT discriminate against any
child represented in this quilt. It would be just entirely too time consuming at the
present to photograph individual squares and post them. Our apology, but time
constraints will just not permit. We will make close-up photos available to the families
of these children after the Rally. Information on how to obtain them will be posted when
they are available.
May the children represented by this quilt serve as a reminder of the Guilt and Shame that those who have perpetrated their ABUSE and displaced justiced upon them must wear. Social Workers, Case Workers, Judges, Attorneys, Fathers and Mothers, it is TIME to put your own agendas and wants on the "back burners" and concentrate on what the children NEED. This is about Children growing up and being with their Families so long as their is NO proven risk and threat of harm or danger to them and should NEVER EVER be about MONEY-POWER-or CONTROL from anyone involved in the children's lives~!!!
It is our hope that after seeing the "thousands" of children represented here, those persons who have been GUILTY of ABUSING a child, whether Government employee or a parent, from this day forward, visions in their memories of what they have seen here in this quilt, will race through the minds of every single one and serve as a reminder to keep the child at the fore-front of whatever they do and STOP the abuse of our children, serve and protect the children and their families in the manner they are both morally and legally obligated to do.
Please take the time to visit the DC Rally on August 18 and view this Awareness Quilt for yourself. You will not be able to walk away without being touched by it, unless you have no conscious at all.
"Walk a mile in the child's shoes first, before you act and do your deeds, then ASK yourself if you would want them done to you and then do accordingly."
Gail Head
Creator of the Awareness Quilt, 2007.
ghead@wccs.net
***Individual names of the children will not be published to protect the innocent.***
Our apology that we cannot post photos depicting individual children for 2 reasons.
1. Their identity protection, safety, and security.
2. No one child is more important than the other and we will NOT discriminate against any
child represented in this quilt. It would be just entirely too time consuming at the
present to photograph individual squares and post them. Our apology, but time
constraints will just not permit. We will make close-up photos available to the families
of these children after the Rally. Information on how to obtain them will be posted when
they are available.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
IT'S ALMOST DC RALLY TIME
It is now, almost time for the Washington DC Rally on August 18, 2007, the appointed date that this quilt will make it's debut at the Lincoln Memorial. What an event this is going to be!
This quilt has taken more days and hours than I can count to make, but I don't regret a single minute that I have given to it. It has been both heart-breaking and yet rewarding as I have made the squares containing the information for each child that is represented. The heartbreak that these children, and those they stand in representation for that are not specifically named in it, are ALL "innocent victims" and had absolutely NO say in what has happened to them.
This quilt has been constructed to bring attention to these innocent children in hope that the citizens, parents, teachers, public officials both elected and appointed, and even our country's visitors, will realize that this is an atrocity and take a stand against the acts, deeds, and those who are the abusers of these children to STOP them before any more of these precious gifts of our lives become yet even more victims.
This quilt has two sides. Not a front and a "back" as is common with a quilt. Neither side with more significance than the other. One side, perhaps maybe a little more important at the moment for the fact that these children, at least most of them, are still alive and ARE our leaders of tomorrow, but one no more precious than the other. The other side contains children that will not be afforded the same opportunities, as they were "Protected to Death".
The side of the quilt that features the children who are still alive and are our future leaders are victims beyond words. They have been preyed upon and abused by an agency established by the very government of this nation that was "supposed" to protect them from harm and provide assistance to those that needed it. That government agency is none other than Child Protective Services, a.k.a. CPS, regardless of the particular name by which they call themselves in their respective states. They have become an "out of control" and all too powerful government entity that has NOW become the real true abusers of the children, their parents, and their families. For what and why? The government funding they can claim and bring into their agencies and their State's general operating funds. The agency has become very corrupt and money driven. It has truly lost sight of it's intended purpose and the very reason it was established. Sadly, every child now wears a $price tag$ on their head.
These same children are also victims of our Family Courts that are now so filled with corruption that there is NO justice for them nor their families being served. They only support what the CPS agency wants to have happen with the child. It's no longer a matter of what is truly best for the child, but rather what is best for the agency and the government. This only serves to further victimize the child. The Judges and District/County Attorneys who are running the Family Court rooms are not abiding by the laws of their respective states nor those by which this nation is governed by. They do not uphold our Constitutionally Guaranteed Rights nor are parents even granted Due Process of Law. The judgements rendered are not made with what is best for the child at the forefront, but rather what is best for the CPS agency and state financially, or according to which parent has the largest bank account or most political power thus ultimately destroying parent-child relationships by pitting one parent against the other without regard for those bonds and relationships that the child needs to grow and mature into a productive and contributing member of society.
The children who are represented and have been "Protected to Death" are those who have paid the highest and greatest price of all -- their LIFE. These children are the FAILURES by those who were "supposed" to protect them. These children died "UN-necessarily" and their deaths COULD HAVE been prevented IF those who were "supposed" to have been protecting them from harm had been vigilant and responsible as was their "duty" to have been. Instead, these children were "brushed aside and ignored" so that the focus of attention could be placed on seeking other and more massive numbers of children in which to seek custody of and remove from their families and homes, and most of which were needlessly removed and did not need protection from their families. "ERR on the side of caution" At whose expense???
The CPS agencies have truly lost sight of what their goals "should be" and have instead become with clouded vision as to what their duties and obligations to our children really are. Children are removed from their homes and parents every day and are placed in far more dangerous and abusive situations and environments than they were in and then, they are ultimately left without the viligant watchful eye of "protection", or, those that should have been removed to truly protect them from their harmful situations are left to fall victims paying the ultimate price with their lives. How many more of our children must pay this price before we say "STOP Protecting Them to Death" and do the jobs you took your oathes to do.
The Family Court Judges must also wear the blood of these "Protected to Death" children. They without a second thought or reservation and without ordering or mandating that the situations that truly put these children at risk be thoroughly investigated by Law Enforcement and those with the training and expertise to do so, FAILED these children as well, often having been advised by parents and or other observers that these same children were being abused and stood at risk of harm, but cared not because that "warning" relayed to them didn't come from the CPS agency.
I ask, "Should these judges and CPS Agency Social/Case Workers be charged and prosecuted with "Failure to Protect" mandating penalties akin to manslaughter when guilty of this? Parents face these charges, whether guilty or not, many times over every day, levied against them by these same Family Court Judges and CPS when there truly was no "failure to protect" and the child has not even been truly harmed. Where IS the justice? Who is truly responsible for the ultimate price these children have paid?
The purpose of this quilt is to bring AWARENESS to what is and has been happening to our children. Only when we ALL become truly aware of the plight of our children, can we act upon that and take the steps necessary to insure changes that will alleviate this pain and suffering so that there will be no more VICTIMS and FAILURES with the ultimate sacrifices of their lives.
Please accept this as my personal invitation to you to join us at this Washington DC Rally on Saturday, August 18, 2007, for the debut of this "quilt", the first ever of its kind, as it is put on display for the world to see and bring "home" to every individual who views it, the reality of what is happening to our children.
There will be more detailed information about this quilt available at the rally as well as opportunities to order photos and even make your photo made this quilt.
SEE YOU THERE. :o)
This quilt has taken more days and hours than I can count to make, but I don't regret a single minute that I have given to it. It has been both heart-breaking and yet rewarding as I have made the squares containing the information for each child that is represented. The heartbreak that these children, and those they stand in representation for that are not specifically named in it, are ALL "innocent victims" and had absolutely NO say in what has happened to them.
This quilt has been constructed to bring attention to these innocent children in hope that the citizens, parents, teachers, public officials both elected and appointed, and even our country's visitors, will realize that this is an atrocity and take a stand against the acts, deeds, and those who are the abusers of these children to STOP them before any more of these precious gifts of our lives become yet even more victims.
This quilt has two sides. Not a front and a "back" as is common with a quilt. Neither side with more significance than the other. One side, perhaps maybe a little more important at the moment for the fact that these children, at least most of them, are still alive and ARE our leaders of tomorrow, but one no more precious than the other. The other side contains children that will not be afforded the same opportunities, as they were "Protected to Death".
The side of the quilt that features the children who are still alive and are our future leaders are victims beyond words. They have been preyed upon and abused by an agency established by the very government of this nation that was "supposed" to protect them from harm and provide assistance to those that needed it. That government agency is none other than Child Protective Services, a.k.a. CPS, regardless of the particular name by which they call themselves in their respective states. They have become an "out of control" and all too powerful government entity that has NOW become the real true abusers of the children, their parents, and their families. For what and why? The government funding they can claim and bring into their agencies and their State's general operating funds. The agency has become very corrupt and money driven. It has truly lost sight of it's intended purpose and the very reason it was established. Sadly, every child now wears a $price tag$ on their head.
These same children are also victims of our Family Courts that are now so filled with corruption that there is NO justice for them nor their families being served. They only support what the CPS agency wants to have happen with the child. It's no longer a matter of what is truly best for the child, but rather what is best for the agency and the government. This only serves to further victimize the child. The Judges and District/County Attorneys who are running the Family Court rooms are not abiding by the laws of their respective states nor those by which this nation is governed by. They do not uphold our Constitutionally Guaranteed Rights nor are parents even granted Due Process of Law. The judgements rendered are not made with what is best for the child at the forefront, but rather what is best for the CPS agency and state financially, or according to which parent has the largest bank account or most political power thus ultimately destroying parent-child relationships by pitting one parent against the other without regard for those bonds and relationships that the child needs to grow and mature into a productive and contributing member of society.
The children who are represented and have been "Protected to Death" are those who have paid the highest and greatest price of all -- their LIFE. These children are the FAILURES by those who were "supposed" to protect them. These children died "UN-necessarily" and their deaths COULD HAVE been prevented IF those who were "supposed" to have been protecting them from harm had been vigilant and responsible as was their "duty" to have been. Instead, these children were "brushed aside and ignored" so that the focus of attention could be placed on seeking other and more massive numbers of children in which to seek custody of and remove from their families and homes, and most of which were needlessly removed and did not need protection from their families. "ERR on the side of caution" At whose expense???
The CPS agencies have truly lost sight of what their goals "should be" and have instead become with clouded vision as to what their duties and obligations to our children really are. Children are removed from their homes and parents every day and are placed in far more dangerous and abusive situations and environments than they were in and then, they are ultimately left without the viligant watchful eye of "protection", or, those that should have been removed to truly protect them from their harmful situations are left to fall victims paying the ultimate price with their lives. How many more of our children must pay this price before we say "STOP Protecting Them to Death" and do the jobs you took your oathes to do.
The Family Court Judges must also wear the blood of these "Protected to Death" children. They without a second thought or reservation and without ordering or mandating that the situations that truly put these children at risk be thoroughly investigated by Law Enforcement and those with the training and expertise to do so, FAILED these children as well, often having been advised by parents and or other observers that these same children were being abused and stood at risk of harm, but cared not because that "warning" relayed to them didn't come from the CPS agency.
I ask, "Should these judges and CPS Agency Social/Case Workers be charged and prosecuted with "Failure to Protect" mandating penalties akin to manslaughter when guilty of this? Parents face these charges, whether guilty or not, many times over every day, levied against them by these same Family Court Judges and CPS when there truly was no "failure to protect" and the child has not even been truly harmed. Where IS the justice? Who is truly responsible for the ultimate price these children have paid?
The purpose of this quilt is to bring AWARENESS to what is and has been happening to our children. Only when we ALL become truly aware of the plight of our children, can we act upon that and take the steps necessary to insure changes that will alleviate this pain and suffering so that there will be no more VICTIMS and FAILURES with the ultimate sacrifices of their lives.
Please accept this as my personal invitation to you to join us at this Washington DC Rally on Saturday, August 18, 2007, for the debut of this "quilt", the first ever of its kind, as it is put on display for the world to see and bring "home" to every individual who views it, the reality of what is happening to our children.
There will be more detailed information about this quilt available at the rally as well as opportunities to order photos and even make your photo made this quilt.
SEE YOU THERE. :o)
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