CHAPTER 28: The Opera: Act III; Pt. 5

From "The Saga of One F**ked Mother

Legion finishes her direct examination of Grace and rests her case. Herry doesn’t call any witnesses or put on a case—he knows it’s rigged. So the third custody trial concludes. Judge Butcher takes over a month to deliver his ruling, which is just a replay of the first judges’ orders. He gives Herry sole custody and Legion no visitation unless she complies with a “program of mental therapy”, which Herry will oversee.

This Orwellian tactic is commonly used to empower ex-husbands to psychologically control and abuse their ex-wife and to coerce them into recanting abuse. Mothers who succumb to this ploy rarely get their kids back, and Legion is smart and strong enough to not fall victim to it.

Judge Butcher’s false and unjust findings and orders leads to Legion filing another appeal. She claims his ruling is “wholly illegal, wholly gender-based, gender-biased and gender-discriminatory” and painstakingly lists all the illegalities. With this second appeal, Part 5 of the Opera has begun.

In the last section, Legion finishes up with her questioning of Herry on the stand. He continues to lie and evade, but she gets him to admit to many things that demonstrate he should not continue to have sole custody—not even half—not even unsupervised. After Herry steps down, a good friend of Legion’s takes the stand. She testifies that Legion is a wonderful mother, Herry is not a good father, and that he had said he wanted Legion to “hit bottom”.

CHAPTER 28 of Mother-Fucking: The Saga of One Fucked Mother begins with Act III, Part 4 of “The Opera” from Book 3. The Opera has three Acts with five Parts—one for each of the three Family Court and two Appellate Court trials. Chapter 28 covers all of Act III: Part 4: the third Family Court trial, and Part 5: the second Appellate trial. This is a long chapter and will be published in newsletter-sized bites.

Dr. Blue’s novel is based on her own experience of the Custody Crisis. It uniquely conveys how Family Court judges are “mother-fucking” women—a form of systemic oppression—as protagonist Legion is systematically and methodically deprived of her children and money and reduced to “one fucked mother”.

Chapters are stand-alone interesting so you can begin reading anywhere. A Cast of Characters follows to help readers at any point. All published chapters are included in the Section: “Saga of One F**ked Mother” accessible on the top bar of the home page of Women’s Coalition News & Views. Sequential chapters are emailed out every Wednesday so make sure to subscribe if you haven’t yet!

TEASERS

Again, the ruling of Judge Butcher never in any of its 26 pages even mentions this stunning evidence of heinous and immediate revenge, alienation, child abuse and economic sabotage done by a man who had (just) received a 1990 ruling … FAVORABLE … to him.

…[Herry] is rewarded by Judge Butcher with grand and sweeping dictatorial oppression over his children and his ex-spouse, a woman, sentencing them all to no contact of any kind with each other throughout all of the Truemaier Brothers’ ENTIRE middle school and high school academic and athletic careers. This is nothing short of backlash, misogyny, discrimination, illegality and more.

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BOOK 3: Dr. True's Opera in Three Acts—with Five Parts

CHAPTER 28: The Opera: Act III; Part 5

“Did you at some time hear words come out of Dr. Edinsmaier’s mouth during this period of time centered around a subject that if Zane were to run away and to come and find his way to your home, Grace, did you ask Herod what you should do?”

“I did. I asked Dr. Edinsmaier what I should do. I told Dr. Edinsmaier that Lionel and I had told the Boys that if they ever needed us they should call us and that we would come and get them. It didn’t involve Legion or Herry. We were there for the Boys only and didn’t want to get into a fight with the parents. I asked Dr. Edinsmaier what it was that I could expect as far as having the Storm County sheriff on my doorstep. And he said he wouldn’t. He said I shouldn’t expect to see Sheriff Stout on my doorstep.”

“Did Dr. Edinsmaier say to you that then he would come and get runaway Zane? If Zane had run away and come to you and Lionel?”

“He told me he would not. That he would not come for Zane and that I could care for the Boys as long as I could––if I wanted to!” Now Grace thought that most bizarre for a parent––as did I and as it quite certainly is––but it sure’s hell did not shock me since it was, indeed, just … vintage Slacker Herry!

“Do you have knowledge, Grace, whether or not, since you know both of the two parties in this courtroom, Herod Edinsmaier and Legion True, do you have knowledge of when the Boys were in the custody of their mother that they were ever in trouble, with the law or at school, or that she ever, ever kept them from having a visitation with their father?”

“I do not have knowledge that you ever kept them away from a visit with their father.”

“Did the Boys indicate to you about visitation to their father’s?”

“Yes. The Boys did not want to go with their father.”

“So. Did I stop them from going?”

“No. No, you didn’t stop them from going with Herry.”

“I think I have one final question. You, Grace, have testified that you have known me for five years. Have you then known Herry for that length of time?”

“Not very well.”

“Not very well? Okay. Have you known him better since the two of us have been divorced than you did when we were married in the sense that there have been more contacts with him?”

“Yes, I have spoken to him more. But I don’t know him.”

“So. Is it your impression, Grace, from what you know of me that I have a loving home, I have lots of friends, that Ames is a wonderful community, that the Boys have lots of friends, that the Boys would slip back into their home community easily if they were to be given over into my custody? Would that be your impression?”

“The Boys would easily be accepted back into the neighborhood. And I don’t think that you would find a neighbor or a teacher or a coach who would not say that Legion had been the better parent, the one who provides a loving home. The Boys were doing fine. Just fine.”

“I guess that there is one more last question though, Grace. Have you heard my therapist and counselor, Mr. Keith Log, ever say that Legion True was a manic-depressive and that she should not have her kids?” Grace had accompanied me to several of my sessions with Keith—both as a friend and companion to me and precisely because she would be able then to have heard firsthand what Keith’s beliefs and thoughts on me were.

“I heard Keith just two days ago, in fact, say that you were not manic-depressive and that you, Legion, should have the custody of your children.”

“That is all I have, Your Honor.” And Grace stepped down and away––very well having remembered what Herry personally had done. What Dr. Herod Edinsmaier, custodial daddee, pillared physician and sexually addicted frotteurist-creep, personally and criminally had done to her left thigh––after he had purposefully crowded his prickish self down right beside Grace already sitting there upon the bleachers of the elementary gymnasium at a St. Cecil’s youth basketball game. What Herry had done when Grace’s eyes and gaze had been averted down court as she had craned in the squeeze to see her son, Nathan, play against the team of my son, Jesse … A thing or two about which Lionel knew, too! Therapists term this sex addict’s aprovechar act––the taking of indecent liberties. JYeah … I’ll say! Under the Iowa Code of Law? At least, an aggravated misdemeanor! And certainly in and under any context including Lionel’s and Grace’s particularly … SICKO!

After the called break––wherein at its outset … now … I know that The Look (of Ms. Tsianina Snowball’s lesson to me) had been, of course, … acknowledgingly exchanged, Attorney Shindy Scheisser had his short … very short … cross-examination of Grace––in which there were only a few questions of his that made any sense at all to either her or to me.

Nota bene, Jury: regarding the rest of that man’s questions? Ms. Grace Portia told Mr. Scheisser that as far as words which had come from out of her mouth, NONE of what he stated she had said in the past … had she ever, IN FACT, said to anyone! And, of course, what she said in contrast to what he said, in contrast to what Mr. Scheisser accused her of having stated, in contrast to what he just managed to get said out loud in an American court of civil law without his or Herry Edinsmaier’s ever truly having to actually go out into the community and bring back solid proof of any of what they had just gotten said … well, what Grace, the DEhuman had had to say? That? … That meant squat. To ‘the Court’. To daMan. Or to … justice.

Redirect from me followed Mr. Scheisser’s cross. “We have heard Mr. Scheisser use in one of his questions,” in one of his ravings and rants actually, “the word ‘breakdown’, specifying breakdown at a hearing. Is it your impression, Grace, from knowing me so intimately during that period with the stress on me and the children that all of that was breaking my heart?”

“It was not only breaking your heart, Legion, it was breaking the Boys’ hearts. And the children cried more than you did that week!”

“Ms. Portia, in your opinion when one’s heart is breaking, is it appropriate to cry?”

“Yes. Yes, it is.”

“Is it normal?”

“It is very normal, especially when you love the children. It is so normal.”

“What is your testimony when he, Mr. Scheisser, described me as ‘different, Legion is different.’ What does that mean to you, Grace?”

“Well, it means that Legion is different. You are not your average sit-at-home, watch-TV-all-day-long housewife. You are involved in everything. You are at the school all day working. You are at every single ballgame. You keep the score! You are involved with absolutely everything that’s going on in the neighborhood and the city and the school.” I had been. At least I had been––I had been not only Mirzah’s and Jesse’s Little League team scorekeeper but one of Storm County’s certified safe Iowa hunter educators and not only the Kate Mitchell Elementary School principal’s parent advisor to its budget-making committee but also one of the Ames superintendent’s parent advisors to the entire community school district’s budget-deciding task force!

“Is it your impression that from my lips at any time that you’ve ever known me in the five years have I said, ‘I am afraid I am going to kill myself. I am afraid I am going to commit suicide. I think I will kill myself if I lose my Boys. I will kill myself.’ Anything like that?”

“That was never said by you.”

“Is it your impression that, IN FACT, the very opposite was said? If anything at all about suicide was said, it is your impression that what had been said was that suicide would, indeed, be a mother’s ultimate abandonment of her children? That the children would always blame themselves, that they would never be able to understand why and that I would never, never subject my Boys to that ultimate type of abandonment?”

Mr. Scheisser loathed every bit of that one, his crying “foul” all over the freakin’ place … “leading” and “arguing” with the witness. Not!––––Whoa! How … shindy … this Shindy surely was!

“Yes, that is true. That would have destroyed the Boys.”

“These words I just stated? They came to you from my lips? About the ultimate abandonment of children by a mother?”

“Yes.”

“At this hour, Grace, at these very proceedings as well as at any time since September 21, 1990, including the time that I was sleeping up on the Sixth Floor of the Medical Center and the Boys were in your care, is there at any time anything that you can tell Judge Butcher that should prevent him from giving me full, sole custody, physically and legally, of Mirzah, Jesse and Zane Truemaier?”

Ms. Grace Portia’s answer was perfect and just so like her, “There is nothing.”

And at still yet another 4:27 p.m. exactly––‘exactly’ in the moments of the ‘legal’ times of ‘my case’, this one on that Friday afternoon of the 30th day of October 1992, the record stated that The Opera’s Part Four––and my Trial Three––concluded. Except that … children’s growing up doesn’t stop; that does not conclude. As long as it took to get a decision handed down from any of those beautifully honed judges’ benches in any of those small county courtrooms, my three Truemaier Boys were just another 38 days older and we were, yet again, that long––and much, much longer––in our lives … without each other together.

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Ms. Ray at the Storm County Clerk of Court’s office was always, always very kind and gracious on the telephone. And as can be imagined, I called and called a lot. One early afternoon on the 09th day of December, another Wednesday, I was told that, why yes, two days previously on Monday, 07 December 1992, an order on ‘my case’ had been signed by Judge Harley Butcher and was, in fact, just this very day of the 09th file-stamped and now, indeed, made official. A copy of it would be sent out to me the next morning. “Aaaah, yes. Yes, you can do that,” was the answer that came back to me on my query to Ms. Ray about my driving over to the Clerk’s office at the courthouse––right then––for my copy.

I, in a huge flurry, telephoned Grace who had always said she wanted to be there with me when first I read it.

I called Frieda, too, just as soon as I knew I was headed to the courthouse.

I did not call Mehitable. I did not call Ardys. I did not call Sterling. And none of them and no one else would have known how to even get in touch with my younger sister Endys anyhow, a person who never did want to be found by any of us blood. No, my immediate biological family, the ones of it still living and breathing, none of them, not a one of them, could I contact.

Ms. Grace Portia and I belted ourselves into Ol’ Black’s front seat and took off flying east. Hope is a woman-killer, especially when it hits ya’ on that same stretch of Highway #30 as had always been such a murderous expanse. But Grace was with me; I slowed down to the limit––and the county’s deputies were out in fine force on that particular middle of the week’s late, late autumn day anyhow! In this, the month of just another one of those religious patriarchs’ christmases, of the New Year’s Eve––and, as well, … of Righteous Ancestor AmTaham True’s and my upcoming Winter Solstice birthdays. He? 73. I … to be 45.

What I forgot to even know about, all on my own since no one was telling me either, was that my asking for a copy apparently out of sync with the rhythm of the Clerk’s Office was going to cost me––and how! We arrived––and found out I had to pay. Indeed, Judge Butcher’s document cost me 50 cents a page! In other words, for Dr. True’s being allowed to own, let alone, to read it the very day that the decree was file-stamped, to read its entire 26 pages, I found myself suddenly writing a personal check for $13.00! And while the next day and the next and the next, themselves, did arrive because, of course, the sun had come up upon all of them since my telephone call into the courthouse of the 09th of December 1992, no other copy, that is, the supposed free one promised to be sent out to my incoming, usps mail “the next morning,” … ever did arrive!

So. What did daJudge say?

On Monday, 08 March 1993, nearly an entire year after I placed Righteous Ancestor AmTaham True into the ground, there was a 3½-page “Statement of Case #93-194755” put, along with several documents attached, into the record of The Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, a statement that became the essence of the beginning of something also known as Part Five of The Opera, that is, Appeal Number Two––exactly because of what Judge Harley Butcher of the Second Judicial District Court of Iowa wrote after the conclusion of Part Four of The Opera’s Act Three on Friday afternoon, 30 October 1992. The Statement explains, of course, why the appeal became necessary; and one of the first accompanying documents necessarily submitted within Part Five of The Opera are the 26 pages written and signed off on by the High Courtier himself: Judge Harley Butcher.

The Statement in its entirety I myself, The (Apparently Angering Blonde Bitch-) Appellant, known within the document henceforth as Dr. Legion True, of course, wrote, “COMES NOW the Appellant, and pursuant to the Iowa Rule of Appellate Procedure no. 15(f), makes known by this document to the Supreme Court of Iowa her narrative STATEMENT OF CASE in re to her APPEAL from all parts of the 26-page 07 December 1992 ruling signed by Judge Harley Butcher, Second Judicial District, and file-stamped and entered into the record of the District Court for Storm County, Iowa, on 09 December 1992. Trial commenced on 26–27 August 1992, and continued on 28–30 October 1992. Dr. Legion True appeared pro se due to indigence. Dr. Herod Edinsmaier, the Appellee, was represented by Attorney Shindy Scheisser of Des Moines, Iowa. Dr. Legion True had filed a timely and proper Petition for Modification of Custody (No. 9215–8801), on 29 April 1992, in Storm County, Iowa District Court.

With enclosures here and with her case having been grounded rock-solidly in Truth, proven with witnesses and tangible exhibits, in addition to the legal civil procedures and the formalities having been done by the Iowa Code book to the letter and on time, Dr. Legion True affirms that: the 07 December 1992 ruling rendered is wholly illegal, wholly gender-based, gender-biased and gender-discriminatory.

It is illegal because Dr. Legion True was not even afforded her own Trial for Modification of Custody in response to her filing a Petition for one. The 26-page opinion is only “Supplemental,” an “addendum,” to the 21 September 1990 ruling rendered by Judge Sol Wacotler Seizor after the Trial for Modification of Custody that Dr. Herod Edinsmaier was granted. A fair hearing by trial of Dr. Legion True’s own Petition for Modification of Custody did not even occur. It is illegal because in all 26 pages of the ruling Judge Butcher fails to mention even once any of the 15 witnesses (including three expert psychologists trained and licensed in the counseling of children and families), let alone, any accounts of their testimonies anywhere, that Dr. Legion True had brought forth to give evidence. It is illegal because all 26 pages of the ruling refer to, rely and are based solely on Dr. Herod Edinsmaier’s and his current wife, Ms. Fannie McLive’s, testimonies on cross-examination by his own attorney, Mr. Scheisser, after they were both first called as witnesses by Dr. Legion True.

Dr. Herod Edinsmaier had NO witnesses. There were NO other witnesses: no mature, teenaged, talented and gifted-caliber Truemaier Brothers, no family therapists, no counselors of individuals, no school officials, no physicians, no friends, no neighbors, no coaches, no relatives, no alleged boyfriends of Dr. Legion True’s, let alone, no alleged lovers of Dr. Legion True’s, and no tangible exhibits admitted to by any of Dr. Legion True’s witnesses including the Appellant herself. The Appellee, Dr. Herod Edinsmaier, had NO child experts nor mental health experts recommending anything that is ruled; nor any mental health examinations or reports of himself, the Appellee, let alone of Dr. Legion True, the Appellant, that recommended or confirmed anything. Three times pre-trial, Dr. Herod Edinsmaier was denied his “Applications” to have Dr. Legion True “mentally examined”––all times denied because the requests against her were held as “inappropriate” and “unwarranted”. Yet Judge Butcher’s ruling, made without any previous cases cited or precedent opinions referred to, also occurs without Dr. Herod Edinsmaier calling any witnesses.

It is illegal because Judge Butcher fails to also mention anywhere in 26 pages any of Ms. Canard’s 26 August 1992 testimony: that Dr. Herod Edinsmaier and his next wife, Ms. Fannie McLive, had both withheld from her during visits to her for custody evaluation, the exhibited facts that Dr. Herod Edinsmaier had written that he secretly harbored “fears of other people learning the truth about me,” had written and thought about himself as a sexual addict and of Ms. McLive as his “refuge from parental responsibility” and that his current wife, Ms. Fannie McLive, has a recent medical history of both Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Panic Attack Disorder. Dr. Herod Edinsmaier and Ms. Fannie McLive had willfully, knowingly and calculatingly withheld these pieces of information during custody evaluation sessions.

It is illegal because Judge Butcher does not even follow his own recounting of Iowa Code Section 598.41 (3), items b, c and e, that set forth factors the Court is to consider in determining what custody arrangement is in the BEST INTERESTS of minor children. It is illegal because it offends and violates the United States Constitution’s First Amendment Civil Rights; that is, Dr. Legion True’s and the Truemaier Boys’ Rights to freedoms of speech and assembly with each other, their freedom to practice their Quakerism unmocked and unthwarted, and THE most basic of all Civil Rights: that of children everywhere to their having the love, comfort and fellowship of BOTH parents in their lives. Murderers, thieves, drug dealers and even child molesters (the vast majority of these people being male) get contact and visitation rights with their biological children. It is illegal because every day of Trial, Judge Butcher repeatedly chastised and censured Dr. Legion True never to bring up any matters preceding 21 September 1990, while allowing Dr. Herod Edinsmaier to do so; and then fully 11½ pages of the 26 pages of his ruling became the Court’s version of bringing up matters all preceding 21 September 1990.

It is misogynistic and discriminatory because nowhere and at no time can a mother, a woman, EVER do to a father––including a father not paying his Court-ordered child support––what Dr. Herod Edinsmaier did year after year to Dr. Legion True to keep her from all forms of contact with her sons, to disaffect and isolate her from them and to make her invisible to them––and then to be REWARDED by the Courts for doing so.

She would not only suffer great reprimand and censure from the Courts; but IF the father pressed for it, she would in reality LOSE the custody of her children over TO that non-paying father for doing such acts. She would never be rewarded with arbitrary and capricious “powers” to deny visitation and all forms of contact with the minor children, let alone, be given any form of dictatorial powers over her ex-husband in any of his matters. The greatest nightmare Dr. Legion True feared and learned of 01–05 June 1988, from counselors with the Ames, Iowa Women’s Assault Center in breaking the silence of violence in the first place came true with this ruling: that not only would Dr. Herod Edinsmaier deny and lie but that those with the power to effect change would disbelieve, discount, dismiss and ultimately discredit Dr. Legion True and that Dr. Herod Edinsmaier, a moneyed doctor and, therefore, a ‘community pillar’ after the same fashion as judges and lawyers in communities are, through such passive-aggressive, narcissistic ease in giving perjured, unsubstantiated, undocumented, uncorroborated and unchallenged testimony, in denying and in the age-old ‘she’s just crazy, Your Honor’, would succeed in taking away her children whom she was trying to protect by finally ‘telling’. It is illegal, it is misogynistic and it is discriminatory because Judge Butcher rewarded Dr. Herod Edinsmaier for his perjured testimony: witness statements and exhibited documents from the counselor himself proved that upon the 28th of October 1992, Dr. Herod Edinsmaier had lied repeatedly on 26 October 1992, about his and his family having received individual and family counseling.

No woman would ever get away with the destruction and the child abuse, named as such and attested to by Ames child therapists, Mr. Keith Log and Mr. Lance Rowe upon 27 August 1992, perpetrated by Dr. Herod Edinsmaier through his ‘employee’, Mr. Shindy Scheisser. Mr. Scheisser telephoned and faxed lies and the Truemaier Brothers’ names and minor ages into the Ames Tribune newspaper, owned then and now by the fired former NBC executive, Mr. Michael Gartner, on Monday, 24 September 1990, immediately after Dr. Herod Edinsmaier had won custody resulting in the first of numerous acts of estranging the Truemaier Brothers from their mother and their chosen community. Dr. Herod Edinsmaier and his current wife, Ms. Fannie McLive, subsequently disseminated copies of that article for months and months after its printing to the Truemaier Brothers’ school officials and to at least three of Dr. Legion True’s prospective professional veterinary employers to economically sabotage her, crippling her from ever acquiring positions capable of providing for either the Boys or for legal fees To Appeal and continue legal action to protect them. Again, the ruling of Judge Butcher never in any of its 26 pages even mentions this stunning evidence of heinous and immediate revenge, alienation, child abuse and economic sabotage done by a man who had (just) received a 1990 ruling … FAVORABLE … to him.

In fact, in 26 pages, Judge Butcher does mention––repeatedly and with great flourish and ‘itemization’––that as regards Dr. Herod Edinsmaier, he has only ever in all his years been nothing but stellar and exemplary; whereas in all her years, Dr. Legion True has been nothing but, in one word, evil. It is misogynistic and discriminatory because a man who had sought employment of a nature that was compatible with his ‘spending more time with his children’ would be lauded and honored as a true family man of the 90s yet Dr. Legion True is summarily chastised by Judge Butcher in these recessionary times of high unemployment for not only doing exactly that, that is, wanting to spend more time with the children, but for her being fortunate enough and blessed enough to have found paying work at all––in the face of Dr. Herod Edinsmaier’s years of economic sabotage. It is misogynistic, discriminatory and child abusive because, angeringly, nowhere does Judge Butcher describe the angst, depression and hopelessness easily and repeatedly ‘heard’ in the Truemaier Brothers’ journals, diaries and letters home to their mother: threats of suicide by two of them, months of pain and boredom and hunger and physical sickness, accusations and snide remarks hurled at them by both Dr. Herod Edinsmaier and the Appellee’s next wife, Ms. Fannie McLive, including statements repeatedly made to them that they, the Boys, were ‘feeding’ their mother’s mental illness by their wanting her to continue to fight for them and that they, the Boys and she, were the financial reason that there was now no money for their futures later including college.

The last sentence, page 21, of the 21 September 1990, Judge Seizor ruling, “supplemented” with Judge Butcher’s 07 December 1992 opinion, states in essence that what Dr. Herod Edinsmaier has done since at least 21 September 1990––IF he were a woman––would be “grounds ALONE sufficient to CHANGE custody”––but SINCE he is not, and SINCE those acts are and were committed by him, a man, proven by his own perjured testimony to be as Ananias of the Book of Acts, Chapter Five, he is rewarded by Judge Butcher with grand and sweeping dictatorial oppression over his children and his ex-spouse, a woman, sentencing them all to no contact of any kind with each other throughout all of the Truemaier Brothers’ ENTIRE middle school and high school academic and athletic careers. This is nothing short of backlash, misogyny, discrimination, illegality and more.

Respectfully affirmed and submitted” and I, ‘the Court’s’ and Dr. Herod Edinsmaier’s apparently cunty, blonde bitch, signed it with the 08 March 1993 date of the Planet’s International Women’s Day––plus … notarization.

Copies went out not only to Mother-Fucking Shindy Scheisser but to all of the Act Three/Part Four, that is, the Trial Three witnesses, to the Inequity in the Iowa Courts Task Force Chair who was another male Iowa district court judge named James R. Havercamp, the Iowa Attorney General, the United States Attorney General Designee who was, at the time, Janet Reno, to Hillary Rodham Clinton, to Tipper Gore, to Dan Rather of CBS News, to the producers of 60 Minutes and the Oprah Winfrey Show and to the editors of the Des Moines Register. Of the three major networks, Dan Rather’s CBS Evening News I had singled out because on the broadcast of Tuesday, 21 January 1992, when there had been a presentation “on custody wars and charges of child abuse pushed to the extreme” by then-CBS Reporter Erin Hayes. She had featured a losing mother from Alabama who, one attorney interviewed by Ms. Hayes stated, was representative of “over 100 similar cases” of which he himself knew. Reporter Hayes stated that, “Critics charge in county courthouses across the country, women are being punished severely for fighting judges when they believe their children are in danger.” And a psychiatrist on the piece stated, “It is as if the messenger is the one that gets punished because the message they are bringing is one that people do not like to listen to and do not like to believe.”

The judge in this particular woman’s ‘case’ had given the woman’s daughter over solely to the custody of the violent father with the threat that if mother persisted in saying her ex-husband abused the child, then her “visitation rights” would disappear––which is what happened. “Visitation rights” here, too, in her ‘case’ meant no greeting cards of any kind sent, no telephone calls and no mama going to the T-ball games … to just watch even.

Living within the same town as her ex-husband and her child then, the woman started to picket and, with friends, became vocal in the community. Her own attorney then finished out the guests presented on the Eye On America segment with, “Judges who are used to people respecting their power get very angry and vindictive against mothers, especially if she is a poor, inarticulate mother who defies their power. ‘The issue’ in ‘the court’s’ mind was not whether this child was being abused by the father. ‘The issue’ in the judge’s [daMan’s] mind was the integrity of the judicial system: how was he [daMan] going to deal with a woman who refused to follow his [daMan’s] orders!” And Reporter Hayes clinched the feature with, of course, “The bigger tragedy though, many say, is that in trying to stop these controversial court battles by taking mothers out of their children’s lives, judges may be punishing the children as well.”

Note CBS’s Hayes never said, “… by taking mothers or fathers out of their children’s lives …” And that, along with the perpetrator’s actual crimes against the children, has always been “the issue”––gender discrimination and sperm exaltation. I received replies from none of these people or shows, not even a notice recognizing receipt of the materials which I had sent––with the exception of the Oprah Winfrey Show. An acknowledgment did come to me from that woman’s producers; a mere postcard it was. Defiance is … The Standard Measure.

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The 07 December 1992 ruling by daMan required an appeal or Part Five––which effectively went up, as it had done before with the first appeal or Part Three of The Opera’s Act Two, to the appellate-level echelon known as the Iowa Court of Appeals––because of all of these reasons. And because of one more.

Grace Portia, in the car ride back from the courthouse to Ames and our Teacup neighborhood that horrid wintry afternoon of the 09th, made me promise never to do Judge Butcher’s bidding on, at the very least, that one other account in his ruling. I promised both her and myself that I would not do what daMan had ordered me to do. I subsequently did not. And have steadfastly refused ever to do so––and, of course, the Truemaier Brothers have become … well, what all living children go on to become without their mothers in their childhoods: the Boys have become … of adult and legal majority age. This is not the same at all … as being “grown up” nor is it the same at all as having become … “adults”.

This defiance, pissing off now not only the kiddos’ fathers, their ex-husbands and daMan in general … but also judge after daJudge after daJudge by us mothers nationwide has become: The Standard. It has become Our Standard Measure of Things of Worth When Mother-Fucked.

Bearing in mind the absence of a separate trial on my own Petition for Modification of Custody, the absence of the High Courtier’s taking into any consideration whatsoever in his [daMan’s] ruling the overwhelming preponderance of hard-copy “evidence” of Herry’s unaccountability, sexual addiction and physical, sexual and emotional abuse of all of the Boys as well as of me which I entered as “exhibits” and the absence, totally, of any witnesses including no experts brought forth by Mother-Fucking Scheisser to testify on behalf of Herry’s cause in this Trial Three/Part Four matter, pages 23 and 24 out of Judge Butcher’s hand stated, “Visitation between Legion and the boys will not resume until she does the following:

1) She must obtain psychiatric/psychological therapy and counseling.

2) This counseling shall be with a psychiatrist or psychologist who must be duly licensed to practice his or her profession in the State of Iowa. The psychiatrist or psychologist must be someone who has no prior knowledge of or association with Herod, Legion or the children.

3) Visitation between Legion and the boys shall not resume until in the opinion of her psychiatrist or psychologist visitation can occur in an atmosphere free from accusation, recrimination and deception.

4) Prior to the commencement of any such visitation, Legion must file an application with the Clerk of Storm County District Court seeking a hearing on her request that she be granted visitation.

Until such time as Legion has met the foregoing requirements, the order of Judge Sol Wacotler Seizor of 21 September 1990, allowing Herod Edinsmaier to terminate visitation and the decision of the Iowa Court of Appeals affirming that order shall continue in force and effect.”

What is this proclaimed and imposed “edict, dictum and judgment” then … effectively?

What Judge Butcher, The Opera’s High Courtier, just stated and ordered in an American civil court of family law adjudication in the latest and last decade of the 20th Century was merely a reiteration of the High Aggrandizier’s or Judge Seizor’s. And, thus, the following: Physician-Pillar Herod Edinsmaier, my ex-husband, could––if he liked––continue to deny the ex-Cunt visitation and all contact with the Truemaier Boys IF he himself, IF he … the woman’s, the Boys’ mother’s former spouse by mawwiage … stated that he:

1) did not like who my therapist was,

2) did not approve of the design or plan for my mental counseling and therapy,

3) did not approve of how I went about obtaining the counseling or therapy, and

4) had decided, ‘in his estimation’, after I were to have taken on all of this accountability that indeed I had not met daJudge’s “foregoing requirements” by ‘his merely saying so’ to whatever judge presided ‘over’/had dominion ‘over’ the ex – Cunt’s re‘application’ for visitation upon the alleged completion of this order.

Exalted Herod Edinsmaier, daMan with domination over the woman in the pairing that used to be legally mawwied in a union with each other, COULD––if he liked––in the 20th and subsequent 21st Centuries … still … … inside the United States of America … …

5) UNconstitutionally hold us four––Zane, Jesse, Mirzah and me––hostage and continue his terrorizing and violence for all of those years and years and years to come and until he decided upon whatever plan or design for “a program of mental therapy” on the uppity, blondie ex-pussy suited him … daMan.

Which would have, of course, never been at all––any plan. Grace Portia, right off recognized that no plan would ever suit Herry––unless, of course, it meant an expansion of the SpaChezResort Sixth Floor Hotel, one with committal, perpetual shock and drug-doping, total physical lockdown with isolation and eternal invisibility and disavowal. A plan wherein: I ceased to exist. To anyone, even to myself! How utterly and ultimately … mother-fucking. DaMan and daJudge together, daMan and all of daJudges together!

[to be continued…]

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CAST OF CHARACTERS

Dr. Legion True: One Fucked Mother

Dr. Herod (Herry) Edinsmaier: Legion’s husband/Sperm Source [“re: I am snide” backwards]

Zane Truemaier: Legion’s son

Jesse Truemaier: Legion’s son

Mirzah Truemaier: Legion’s son

AmTaham True: Legion’s father [Mahatma backwards]

Mehitable True: Legion’s mother [Me hit-able—i.e. she was abusive]

Ardys and Endys: Legion’s sisters [names backwards]

Sterling: Legion’s brother [her mother’s planned name of next son (who never came)]

Mi Sprision O'Revinnoco: Herry’s sister [misprision: concealing knowledge of treason/O'Revinnoco = O'Connivero backwards]

Juggern Aut Misein Edinsmaier: Legion’s father-in-law [juggernaut; aut = 0; misein = “to hate (misogyny)”]

Detanimod Edinsmaier: Legion’s mother-in-law [dominated backwards]

Ava Saffron True and Zebulon True: respectively, Legion's paternal grandmother and her husband, Legion's paternal grandfather

Rowland and Wyman Natures: respectively, Legion's most favored uncle and most favored male first cousin

Fannie Issicran McLive: fawning enabler of ex [narcissi(st) and Mc(Evil) backwards]

Mary Jane: daughter of Fannie Issicran McLive; stepsister of Zane, Jesse, and Mirzah

Legion’s Friends: Margaret, Mona, Yanira, Stormy, Lynda, László, Jane, Kincaid, Joseph, Sheryl, Abraham (Quaker elder), Frieda

Legion’s Best Friends: Ms Grace and Dr Lionel Portia and Rachel

Wende: = Legion's friend after divorce [committed suicide due to Custody Crisis]

Jim Cornball: Herry’s acquaintance from AA and realtor

Loser Lorn: Insurance agent referred by Cornball

Judge Sol Wacotler Seizor: 1st Family Court judge

Judge Harley Butcher: 2nd Family Court judge

Judge Barry Crowrook: Appellate Court judge

Judge Pansy Shawshank: Appellate Court judge

Judge Sol Wacotler Seizor: District Court judge on first two trials

Judge Allen Donnellson: Chief, Appellate Court for second and third trials' appeals

Judge Harley Butcher: District Court judge for third trial

Jazzy Jinx: Legion’s first Family Court lawyer

Carlotta Klutz: Legion’s second Family Court attorney

Shindy Scheisser: Herry’s lawyer [shindy = noisy; scheisser = German for shithead]

Li Zhang: Herry’s Aussie affair

Dr Freddie Goldstein & Ella: Herry’s colleague and wife

Mick: = Herry's acquaintance from high school; best man [not in Herry’s life after that as he had no true friends]

Varry Wussamai: Herry's AA sponsor (not a real friend) [I am a wuss backwards]

David Humes: nursing student; classmate of Legion's, y1968 - y1971, New York City

Edmund Silver: Legion's boyfriend pre-Herry

Braemore St: where Legion and her family lived, y1983 - y1986

Havencourt condominium: Legion's Ames apartment; after separation

Zephyr: tabby cat of Zane's, Mirzah's, Jesse's [pronounced “Zay – fear”]

Rex: Jesse’s pet Eastern Florida Kingsnake, female

Lady: Zane's pet Zebra Finch, female

Madonna: realtor

Larry Brouhaha: court-mandated marriage counselor

Dr. Shark: Herry’s residency supervisor who fired him

Carrie Canard: twice judge-mandated custody evaluator

Ms Tsianina Snowball: Legion's friend who instructs her in re The Look

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Author: Dr. Blue, aka Ofherod, BSN, DVM, PhD = Commander Edinsmaier's Handmaid (Commander reiamsnidE's Handmaid)

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