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What should we conclude about courts where knowingly false accusations are treated as proven? Where hearing records are doctored? Where perjury is encouraged? Where knowingly innocent citizens are jailed without trial? Where those who criticize the government are ordered into psychiatric examinations?

And what should we conclude about journalists, prosecutors, and political leaders who know of these practices and refuse to investigate and even cover them up?

These are the routine practices of family courts – the most intrusive and corrupt arm of government today. Even some long familiar with family court corruption are shocked by the newest revelations.

• Consider the Ohio couple who found over 10,000 alterations in an official transcript from what was recorded in their child custody hearing. Words that were never spoken appeared in the record, and words that had been spoken were missing.

• Or the Massachusetts forensic audio-visual expert, who obtained photographic evidence that court records had been doctored. He was assessed $20,000 in fees for attorneys he had not hired, and jailed by the same judges whose tapes were doctored.

• Or consider the prominent psychologist and author who advised another court-appointed psychologist to fabricate charges of "violence" against an innocent man. "Try to get the label 'domestic violence' on the dad's behavior towards the mom," the psychologist writes. In other words, falsely accuse a citizen of "violence" who you know has committed no violence.

These are not isolated indiscretions. Divorce practitioners get away with this conduct because judges reward it.

The willingness of officials to bend the meaning of words – and with it the truth – is a matter of public record. The US Justice Department includes "name-calling," and "criticizing" in its official definitions of domestic "violence." The highest law enforcement agency in the land can redefine criminal "violence" to include things that are not violent. It is not difficult to imagine how secret courts can use such nihilism to convict the innocent.

So we have entered the world predicted by George Orwell, where white is black, war is peace, and violence is not violent.

"This is criminal misconduct," attorney Eugene Wrona says of similar practices in Pennsylvania, "and these people belong in jail." Instead the fathers against whom they are fabricating evidence in public courtrooms are the ones filling up our jails. In family court we have literally reached the point where the criminals are putting the law-abiding citizens in jail.

For FCF News on Demand, this is Stephen Baskerville.