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Jeremy Posted: 11-18-2009 7:45 PM

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Dear Honorable Government Electives and Associates:

We, the following United States citizens are friends and acquaintances of many relationships with the Dirk & Crystal van der Spek family. We have attached our signatures to this petition stating the following:

Each of us enjoys the individual rights and freedoms of religion, conscience, assembly, association, communication and protection of the laws of the United States as citizens. We petition our elected honorees to secure these same rights and privileges by "Private Bill" for the fourteen members of the van der Spek family; Dirk Sr., Crystal, Kyra, Vicky, Dirk Jr., Kenny, Geoffrey, Nathan, Shari, Chelsea, Quinten, Kevin, Scott and Brennan. This family which consists of the parents and 12 children, 2 minors born here, 2 adults that are now legal permanent residents and 8 other children, fled Belgium, December, 1998. The children had been returned to their parents by local authorities of the child protective services acting without the knowledge of authorities involved with the "anti-sect" commission, after 14 days of forced separation from their parents in the care of child protective services. No alleged neglect or abuse as charged due to their religious affiliation to The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the "Mormons" was observed nor proven. The local administators released them to their parents with documents and signatures in an effort to assist the family to leave Belgium immediately. The parents, threatened by a regional court in Antwerp, with fines, imprisonment, dissolution of their family unit, placement of children in state institutions and confiscation of property if they did not disassociate themselves from their religion and deny their Christian faith in The church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This "court" was held shortly after taking the children by gun-point and loading them into police vans sent to state custody institutions. Their father was out of the country on a work assignment. Their mother, taken to jail and then to the court, had been denied an attorney. She tried to defend herself but was told to "shut up or things would get much worse".*

The van der Spek family fled with the hope of a safe haven in the United States, applying for asylum. All avenues to acquire asylum were argued, but denied stating, although not a frivolous case, protection should be issued by Belgium, a democracy and a member of the United Nations.*

A Belgium "never voted upon", "anti-sect commission", appointed by another "never voted upon" committe, appropriated by federal and regional government departments acted on a 1994 black list of 174 "dangerous sects" circulated through out Western European Union Member States.* This list of "dangerous sects" names churches and Christian organizations from America such as the "Mormons", Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A, Jehovah Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, and Baptists.* The "dangerous sects" criteria was the alleged status of being in "rupture with the environment of origin" namely the six recognized churches in Belgium, a proclaimed Roman Catholic Nation, and "enlisting of the children" in their religions. The later termed "a crime against children".*

This anti-sect committe is an anonymous group of "experts" protected from any "stress or retaliation".* This sophistic anti-sect Belgium commission created themselves an unprecedentented power over the fundamental human rights of teh people in Belgium, spreading to all the Western European Union Country Members and demanding unification in their purpose of destroying the black listed "dangerous sects".*

The committee admits these legal barriers*:

> There is no legal definition of a "sect", nor do they desire one since it would constitute incompatibility to republican principles.

> There is no legal definition for "dangerous criteria" in referencing a "cultuelle association".

> All "sects" cannot be treated the same without challenges to the neutrality of the State with respect to worship.

> The purpose of the committe is to prevent sectarian "drifts", but in doing so, narrows framing of sect activities prohibiting freedoms of religion, meeting and association.

The committee then states it will advance it's self within present laws of a variety of governmental departments, changing and modifying those as needed; "mobilizing all existing means to battle" sects without official church recognization given to only 6 churches and one "humanitarian organization" as the 7th.* The committe cannot author any laws that are legally credible. The legal barriers are sophistically maneuvered to promote the "anti-sect" committee's purpose with manipulation and modification of existing laws using governmental authorities and law enforcements both regional and federal.* Since 1997, many groups in Belgium, Europe, and the United States oppose such unchecked power of persecution and are working to resolve the problems this "power" has created. To date, no written agreement or law protecting "sects" listed by the committee have been formalized. No protection or legal recourse has survived, although there continues to be much debate.*

The period of childhood passes quickly. The hardships and dangers to the family unit are severe. The emotional, psychological, physical and spiritual harms are irreversible.

The "anti-sect" committee can ascertain any accustion upon an accused "sect" with the burden of proof upon the accused.* Manipulation, basic denial of an unbiased trial, or as in the van der Spek's experience, a denial to an attorney, usurps any legal recourse.*

We therefore ask that the 14 members of the van der Spek Family be given permanent visas and protection in the United States of America via a Private Bill written by the Honorable Senator, Orrin Hatch and all those elected associates that would co-sponsor the same with him. We rely upon the wisdom, integrity, love and defenders of basic humanitarian freedoms and rights in our elected officers in the security and freedoms sought for the van der Spek family.

We sign our names that we do stand for these rights and freedoms, requesting your urgent and serious assistance to safeguard the family unit of the Dirk and Crystal van der Spek family and their religious freedoms and human rights.

* All statements within petition are from public documents and public websites which are attached, with any others upon request.

Signatures of United States Citizens, Names & Cities of Residence on the attached pages:

Jeremy