Please sign and send a copy of the following letter to President Obama and/or your Representatives in Washington, DC.

Thanks you,
Quenby Wilcox


President Barack Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500-0004

Dear President Obama; July 15, 2009

Statistics and reports abound on domestic violence and abuse in the USA and around the world, all coming to the same conclusion; there exists a global systematic torture and genocide of women and children. What these reports do not explore nor divulge, however, are the direct and indirect economical and social costs that this global violence creates for our societies.

Unfortunately, governments and governmental agency’s only responses to this “cancer” is politically correct rhetoric, additional legislation and signing of international treaties followed by ineffective tasks force, commissions, and agencies.

The reason is as simple as the solution. Ineffective and corrupt judicial systems are failing to uphold existing laws and agreements, and if they were held systematically accountable for their incompetence and illegal actions they would stop doing it.

In A Promise to Ourselves by Alec Baldwin, he correctly states “Family law is a racket. It is a racket within which the principal players have convinced even themselves that they are serving innocent children as well as the public. However, the only people they are truly servings are themselves… The people who are to blame are the lawyers, the therapists, the legislators, and, most insidiously of all the judges. They are the cogs in a closed system, one that they have allowed to evolve principally for their own enrichment, financial or otherwise…. How much of what we currently tolerate inside a family law courtroom is the result of institutional greed, bad legislation, corruption, and politics?”

And, contrary to popular belief the same "racket" goes on in domestic violence cases, the consequence for the victims, however, go far beyond monetary concerns.

It is consistently shown that domestic abuse, in all of its forms, creates physical and mental illness, substance abuse (legal, illegal and prescription) and the violent and criminal elements of our societies, as well as untold economic costs. How many more generations of victims, often transformed into perpetrators and aggressors, must be created until we realize that it in ALL of our interests to comprehensively eradicate this cancer from our societies?

The greatest natural resource that exists on this planet is the human mind and its potential, and it behooves us to exploit, rather than destroy this resource.

I also wish to add that I followed your campaign closely, as well as your ensuing days as president, and while I certainly do not envy your position, I admire your convictions, and wish you all the luck in this world. However, with all due respect, do you realize the cess-pool in which you have chosen to swim?

I myself, after a short desire to enter the political arena, left saying “I am not working with these crooks,” but the joke was on me because I ended up working in the stock market in 1987, and left saying “these guys are worse.” Luckily I ended up with THE most important, gratifying, and interesting, albeit worst paid, job that exists in this world; that of being a mother to my children.

As a child I always admired my father’s dedication and integrity to his work and patients, and found the same satisfaction that I observed in him years ago, in my job as a mother and home-maker. Additionally, I have been fortunate enough to have once again found this fulfillment in my writings and ongoing efforts to assure that children EVERYWHERE may grow up in loving, caring, respectful and non-violent environments. This is not a “privilege” but rather a RIGHT that is being systematically ignored within all of our societies.

Assuring that rights of the children of this world are being respected includes much more than just eradicating genocides, global hunger, forced impressments and imprisonment of children in underdeveloped countries. Charity, and I add peace, begins at home.

Sincerely,

Quenby Wilcox