Salem Williams

On November 22, 2008, (a Saturday), at approximately 10 A.M., my knees buckled, my whole body trembling as I crumbled to the floor, flooding tears and hysterical sobbing laughter suddenly flowing freely down my face. My sons were alarmed, my husband reached to grab and support me, “What’s wrong? What’s happening?”, anxious questions seemed to be coming from every direction.

“They can’t do it! They can’t ever do it again!” I managed to stammer out, still trembling as if in light convulsions. “We’re free! We’re free! I’ll never be a hostage again!”

My oldest son’s face just softly began to glow with understanding. He sat back down and smiled, sharing with me, on a very deep level of soul-comprehension, just what was happening to his mother. Everything was alright-for the first time in over 30 years, everything would always, now, be alright.

Like the words of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., I heard so often in my childhood, I was almost shouting, “Free, I’m free at last!”.

I went on, “for over 31 years I have been held hostage, controlled by people repeatedly and continuously threatening me through my children, through the welfare and well-being of the three people I have loved more than my own life, and John is 18 today, and THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN!”

I looked around confused, “Do you understand? Do you all understand what this means? I’ve waited for this day for over 30 years, I knew it was coming, but it’s just sunk in! We can be a family now, the way WE want to! No more shadows hanging over us, no more threats, no more hostages!”

My children were all now grown, all outside the grasping, mindless hands of governmental bodies set to enforce anything, however trivial, against mothers who do things the least bit “differently”, to make hostages of parents whose beliefs do not mirror the mainstream, despite the evidence of perfectly healthy, well-adjusted kids thriving in their homes, even when, at times, they know and admit (as in my case) “We realize there’s nothing going on here but a family feud, a relative who wants to be spiteful”, yet knowing it, will still take or threaten daily to take your children, place them with strangers whose only goal is an income.

If the articles below don’t mean anything to you, it’s because you’re living outside the experience of having anything like it happen to your family, and living inside your “beliefs” and opinions. Belief is often worthless without experience to base it on.

If I had a million dollars, right now I would give it all if it would correct all areas of government, at all levels, wherever they affect parents, children and families who need help, ask for help, do all they know and learn all they can, and are still harrassed, threatened and broken up. Before complaining about the divorce rate and it’s destructiveness to families and children; before calling home-schooling “neglect” of socialization of a child; before sitting down again because you’ve called to mind the situations of harm to children that do require intervention and (real fast now)-let your mind have a deep look at the other side of the story, because it is NOT rare, unusual or occasional, and it destroys families, lives, hopes and dreams.

Please join in supporting this mother, just this one, and see if taking that small stand makes a difference.

Police Use Assault Weapons and Tank Against Home-school Mom Wanting to Protect Daughter from Dangerous Medications

Justice for Maryanne Godboldo

Justice for Maryanne-Twitter

Legally Abducting Children by Broadening Definition of Child Abuse

~Salem

Tags: child abuse, child neglect, control through children, department of children's services, free at last, justice, maryanne godboldo, over-socialization, parents rights, war against parenting