JOSIAH IS HOME TOMORROW & PRIVACY - SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO GIVE IT UP / 586

JOSIAH IS COMING HOME TO STAY TOMORROW!
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We have become large on privacy matters. Companies and corporations are bound now by privacy law which affects what information can be published with regard to employees, partners and clients. But we are a confused society. Our privacy is forfeited at every turn. We are all under surveillance whenever we walk beneath street cameras, swipe cards, surf the net. Increasingly sophisticated computer systems now track for companies and government what you are searching online whether you are at home or work. Surveillance was once a word associated only with law enforcement but is now an unavoidable aspect of life in our world.

Ask Paul and Zabeth Bayne and Derrek Hoare what life is like when you relinquish a private life.

Privacy makes life bearable at times. Yet when parents get into difficulty with the Ministry of Children and they have no one to whom they can turn, they surrender privacy in exchange for public exposure of their claim of unjust treatment. Sometimes it works and sometimes it is futile. News agencies love a good story and will seize upon an opportunity to print, publish or air a provocative piece, but it is old as soon as it appears once and the news hounds move on.

Fortunately, in both the case of Paul and Zabeth Bayne and Derek Hoare, numerous news sources interviewed these parents because the subject speaks to government disservice and tugs at heart strings. To tell their story Paul, Zabeth and Derek have relinquished their right to a private life. They concluded that there is no option. They themselves and their children required resolution to the intrusion of a government agency that has dispossessed them of their own family life and the exchange of familial love and care. They also learned that there are hundreds of other parents similarly affected by a ministry that is confused about its mandate, excessively empowered and predictably given to imprudent and mistaken decisions. Further, they concluded that their stories and those of other parents must be told in order to bring, through sympathetic, legislative and legal channels, healing, correction and change that may spare families in the future. So they have become public figures, not attention seekers, but change makers.

For the past four years Paul and Zabeth Bayne have been advocating evidence-based medicine and speaking up about medical misdiagnoses that can ruin families. They have operated websites, one of which has now become a primary resource for articles by experts who speak to these issues. It is called Medical Misdiagnosis Research.

The Baynes have also spearheaded the development of a Conference, the first of which is to be held here in Surrey, B.C. on August 4-6, 2011 and will feature a number of international presenters. It is the Evidence Based Medicine and Social Investigation Conference. This impetus has stemmed from the mistaken accusation that either Paul or Zabeth was responsible for shaking their infant daughter in 2007, when in fact, the theory of Shaken Baby Syndrome, rather than gaining widespread acceptance within the medical community, has come under increasing criticism and challenge by qualified bio mechanical and medical experts.

I have no doubt that Derek Hoare has similarly generated a tsunami of sympathetic and communal response that will become a change agent not only for the return of his nine-year old daughter Ayn, but also an altered policy response by child protection designers to families with an autistic child. Autism needs to be understood by all child protection personnel. Behaviours of an autistic child must not and cannot be viewed uncritically as indicators of parental incapacity, or mismanagement or neglect or possible abuse. Social workers who have not received autism awareness must not be permitted to process any case involving an autistic child. And for goodness sake, the occasional wandering of the autistic child and chronic misbehaviour at school must never be the justification for removal of the child from her parent resulting in subsequent months of deprivation of parental love and security and certain terrorization and psychological damage. Be assured that the network of autism foundations, agencies, parents, experts, and the assorted journalists willing to cover a story like this, will be pressuring this Liberal BC government to affect an immediate return of Ayn to her daddy but also will leverage changes to policy and practice. The return of this child to her father should happen now without further delay.

The price of privacy yielded, will in these cases make life better for many people. Like so many others, these three people are heroic figures who only want to be left alone.

Please contact Derek Hoare directly at 

Derek Hoare iconoclast_ensues@yahoo.com 904-HELP AYN 904-435-7296