9/5/11 A Meeting is Called

On September 2, 2011 an order was served to our friends in Costa Rica to appear in Civil Court in Puriscal, Costa Rica on Tuesday, September 7. The order did not detail any charges presented against our friends. Our friends in Costa Rica presume they are answering to a complaint initiated by the Ministry of Health and PANI (the agency for the protection of women and children) regarding the vaccination of our friends' minor children.

Since May 13, 2011 our friends have been accosted by the Ministry of Health in Puriscal, Costa Rica and PANI numerous times. The representatives of these agencies, who claim to be public servants subservient to the Costa Rican Constitution, have acted with intimidation, coercion and threats of physical force. This order is the first indication of an answer to the many documents that our friends have respectfully submitted to the Ministry of Health, PANI, EBAIS #4 and the court which illustrate our friends' lawful status. All of these documents and the sequence of events can be read in previous posts on this blog.

9/8/11 Cautious but Free

On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 our friend in Costa Rica arrived early to a scheduled hearing at the Civil Court in Puriscal, Costa Rica. Unable to establish any charges against our friends prior to the scheduled hearing, our friend who was served, arrived at the Civil Court under the impression that the case involved the issue regarding the vaccination of our friends' minor children. Our friend brought with her two witnesses. Also in attendance was a legal representative for PANI, the agency for the protection of women and children, and Dr. Cerdas, director of the Ministry of Health in Puriscal, Costa Rica who arrived at least twenty minutes late.

Once all attending parties had finally arrived, our friend was asked by an assistant to the judge for her identification. Our friend answered that she was the individual to whom the order had been addressed and delivered. Our friend offered that her two witnesses could testify to the fact that our friend was the individual who the order had been issued to. Our friend also suggested that Dr. Cerdas, the individual who had accosted our friend at her home previously, could testify to her identity. The judge looked out from the court room on more than one occasion but did not address our friend. Finally, the judge's assistant delivered a message to our friend that without our friend providing identification deemed satisfactory, there would be no hearing. Our friend was, in the flesh, answering to an order presented to her. No charges were disclosed. There was no hearing. Our friend and the two witnesses with her left.

Later that day, an uncounted number of officials forced open the locked gate to our friends' private property, invaded and ransacked our friends' personal sanctuary and confiscated our friends' personal belongings including a computer. Dr.Cerdas was one of the officials present. It is critical to state the obvious fact that no crime has been committed by our friends. There is no harmed body. Our friends have not so much as acted in contempt of court. In contrast, our friends have made great effort to point out the constitutional laws which define the parameters of authority of the Ministries which have issued complaint against our friends. Our friends have very respectfully and patiently defined our friends' status and have expressed willingness to listen to the court objectively.

I would have expected more from a person who calls himself 'Doctor.' I have always looked upon doctors as servants of the health and well being of those around them. I imagined that people who call themselves doctors held a higher level of integrity and followed a certain sophisticated code of conduct. I never would have dreamed that someone who calls himself a doctor would so brazenly use intimidation and coercion to get his way. I would have thought that someone who calls himself doctor would have been eager to establish dialogue in order to communicate the benefits of his offer. I realize that language is often convoluted and that I have, perhaps, been mistaken to the purpose of the title of doctor in this case.

Included in the Dictionary.com definition of 'doctor,'

Doctor- (5) Machinery- any of various minor mechanical devices, especially one designed to remedy an undesirable characteristic of an automatic process.

I believe the above definition more accurately explains the role that Dr. Cerdas has played in this unraveling drama. Our friends clearly qualify as "an undesirable characteristic of an automatic process." As I have stated from the very beginning, this situation is not about vaccines; it is about law. This case is about perceived authority and enforced compliance.

The function of our friends' lives has been deconstructed. The community has been spared no threat of harm. Instead, the community has been robbed of some of its productive and contributing members. The community has been drained its resources for the sake of terrorizing educated, responsible individuals. Collectively, the community has financed the terrorization of innocent children. Our friends, with their children, have looked on their home, which once was their sanctuary, one last time and gathered what little they could and walked away, cautious but free.

9/23/11 Ask Yourself

On September 6, 2011, one of our friends in Costa Rica punctually honored an order to appear in court. Our friend, however, was denied the hearing she was called to due to the fact that she appeared in the flesh without any sort of government issued number or identification. Since the very official who had brought the complaint against our friend was in the same room and could easily confirm her identity, it may only be concluded that the court was unable to proceed with the hearing because our friend lacked the contract which would enable the courts to speak to our friend at all.

On that day our friend was even denied the knowledge of what charges had been brought against her.

On that day, representatives of the government broke through the locked gate to our friends' property, invaded their home and confiscated their property.

According to the constitution of Costa Rica:

ARTICLE 25. The inhabitants of the Republic have the right of association for lawful purposes. No one may be compelled to form a part of any association whatsoever.

Not forming association with the Republic of Costa Rica is not a crime.

To this day, our friends have not committed a crime. No charges of any crime have been brought before our friends.

Our friends in Costa Rica have been forced to seek refuge to protect themselves and their children from the lawless actions of officials from the Ministry of Health in Puriscal and PANI. These officials have made it clear that they intend to take possession of our friends' minor children by force.

From afar, we have been able to confirm that the case number which was included in the order to appear in court is in fact a public record. There is a computerized system in Costa Rica where any individual may research any public record. Unfortunately, Puriscal lacks this sophisticated technology and so it is necessary for the public to retrieve public records in person. The charges should be made available to anyone, with association (government issued identification), no questions asked.

I challenge you to test this process.

The expediente, or case number, is 11-400185-197-FA.

Find out what the charges are specifically. Then ask yourself, how great is a country whose officials use coercion, intimidation and force against people who have not been presented with charges of any crime; whose officials deny those people due process; whose officials disregard the constitution they claim to be subservient to and whose officials inject terror into the same children they claim to be protecting?