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09/27/2004 "The time is right to free the slaves in Saudi Arabia"

I am writing to all the legislators who promised to help the mothers of children held (without the consent of those mothers) in Saudi Arabia. Hearings were held in 2002 wherein they promised never to forget. I covered those hearings on my blog and have included my report below. I am also writing to my Wisconsin state representatives.

If their word of honor means anything, NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT. Demand that the U.S. State Department secure the return of all those children from Saudi Arabia. Demand the US State Dept secure the return of the US citizen wives of Saudi's. These women have disappeared from contact with their relatives in the US. We seek their return to the US along with any children the women bore during their slave status in Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi rulers are vulnerable now and the publicity about these children should be brought to media's attention again though the renewal of public hearings on the progress of the U S State Dept. in obtaining their release.

The 9/11 commission consented to the whitewash of the Saudis and because of that Dan Burton has a special obligation in this matter. I will never forget his promise not to let this matter fade away.

Well, where are you now Dan? This is the time for you to act. NOW!

From my blog:
12/04/2002 "Heroes fight to free American children from the Arab slave states; American Law Firms represent Slavers"

PLEASE E-MAIL C-SPAN AND ASK THEM TO RE-RUN ALL HEARINGS HELD for 3 days between June 12 and Oct 3rd, 2002, by Indiana Republican Representative Dan Burton, House Government Reform Committee Chairman, on the issue of American children kidnapped by Saudi Arabian fathers and held in slavery in Saudi Arabia.

PLEASE ASK C-SPAN TO RE-RUN THE HEARING HELD TODAY DECEMBER 4TH, 2002, by Indiana Republican Dan Burton, House Government Reform Committee Chairman, on the misnamed "custody" issue.

Many children of U.S. women who were married to Saudi males are being held without their mother's consent in Saudi Arabia. It is a patriarchy and women have no rights and no custody of their own children. Even if the couple lived in the US, the Saudi males simply abduct the children when there is a divorce if they get visitation rights. And they always do get those rights because the US courts rarely act to protect children in divorce. Parental rights are primary. Beyond that, US courts assume Arab men respect this county's laws. The courts also assume mothers are hysterical or lying when they express fears for their child's safety during visitation with the estranged parent.

There are many instances where this is true and children often are used as pawns in divorce actions, but the assumption that it is always true has destroyed a lot of children. Saudi males routinely abduct their children and send them to Saudi Arabia where they (particularly female children) are abused for being American. When the abducted girls are 16 they are sold to other families in slave "marriages". Then they become afraid of losing their own children.

Some mothers have been fighting for the return of their children since 1984. I remember trying to publicize their cases in the 1980's but it was hopeless. Now that the female slave-holding nation has produced terrorists who killed 3,000 americans, more attention is being given to these abducted children.

Much of this brutality was exposed in hearings held by Dan Burton of Indiana. And the Saudis are not the worst actors in this sordid story. It turns out that our U.S. State Dept. worked with the Saudis to betray not only these mothers but also American women who had married Saudi's and were being held as slaves in Saudi Arabia.

U.S. female citizens are being held as slave wives by Saudi men who lured them into Saudi Arabia for "short vacations" and then refused to allow the women to leave. These women have been denied sanctuary in
U. S. Embassies and turned back over to the Saudis for punishment.

During the hearings testimony was given that one U.S. citizen wife of a Saudi who managed to escape to the American embassy with her children was turned out of the embassy by the marines and given over to the Saudi religious police.

It was also shown that our government encouraged U.S. victims to hire and pay Saudi "attorneys" to regain custody of their kidnapped children in Islamic courts when the State Department knew those attorneys could not help the mothers even if they wanted to help, which they did not.

These Saudi "attorneys" had nothing but contempt for the unsubmissive western mothers (and in fact all women). They treated the mothers sadistically, telling them they were losing their children as punishment for going to the press, when in fact there was no way the mothers were ever going to get their children from the Saudis.

Saudi lobbyist Law Firms, Dutton and Dutton and Patton and Bogs of Washington D.C. get $200,000.00 a month to obstruct these mothers and keep these children slaves in Saudi Arabia. The mothers called Saudi public relation firms, Hill and Nolton and Korvis Corporation, and the Gallenger Group, "torture lobbyists" for Saudi Arabia.

Indiana Republican Representative Dan Burton is an absolute hero for women and should be honored and supported by all of us till the day he dies and then he will remain honored in my soul until I die. When all legislators ignored us and refused to admit that what the Saudis do to women is criminal, regardless of their culture or religion, Burton called the slavery of women in Saudi Arabia criminal.

Slavery IS criminal and no religion or cultural practice justifies it. And our State Department protected the Saudis, not our children. They sold the Arabs our U.S. children, and worse, sold female U.S. children to receive in return cheap oil and the favor of Saudi princes.

Sold our female children to a nation that gives women 40 blows with a whip if their face shows too much from behind a veil, 40 blows while the woman holds the Koran under her armpits. They cannot drop the Koran or the beating starts all over again. Count to 40 slowly - how does it feel? Now, what if it was your daughter?

And one of the interesting facts that came out in this hearings, is that when the wife of the Saudi ambassador was found to be funding terrorists, Barbara Bush and Alma Powell quickly called the princess to offer her their full support.

The Bush family and Colin Powell's wife, their hands dirty, offering our country's support and protection on a silver platter to their wealthy slave master Saudi friends while Bush, puppet of the slave nations, talks cowboy tough on television about "no child left behind". One of the mother in tears said Barb Bush and Alma Powell never called her to give any support, one mother to another. Well, I guess class is thicker than citizenship.

Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln has agreed to work with the House Committee and is lobbying Biden and Luger to hold hearing on Saudi child abductions in the Senate. Please e-mail Luger and Biden to ask for hearings on Saudi child abductions and our U.S. State Department's complicity and active co-operation in the kidnappings.

House Reform Committee member Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney from New York spoke urging the passage of HR 5715 which expands the list of people who can be denied visas to include the extended families of abductors. She said the more Saudis inconvenienced by these abductions, the less popular will be the continued enslavement of the children.

Democrat District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton has been active on the House Govt. Reform Committee on this issue and spoke out against the Saudi ambassador and the Saudi power structure's lies and evasions. Norton warned the Saudis that this would be a bi-partisan issue.

I think she is wrong. Now that Bush and the Republicans are in the majority, Burton will be removed as the Chair of this committee and the Republicans will silence this issue for their Saudi friends. Only your protests will keep the issue alive.

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