The Fight for Original Birth Certificates

Over two hundred years ago, a group of men got together to form our nations Constitution. Those men were: George Washington--President and deputy from Virginia; New Hampshire: John Langdon, Nicholas Gilman; Massachusetts: Nathaniel Gorham, Rufus King; Connecticut: William Samuel Johnson, Roger Sherman; New York: Alexander Hamilton; New Jersey: William Livingston, David Brearly, William Paterson, Jonathan Dayton; Pennsylvania: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Morris, George Clymer, Thomas FitzSimons, Jared Ingersoll, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris; Delaware: George Read, Gunning Bedford, Jr., John Dickinson, Richard Bassett, Jacob Broom; Maryland: James McHenry, Daniel of Saint Thomas Jenifer, Daniel Carroll; Virginia: John Blair, James Madison, Jr.; North Carolina: William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson; South Carolina: John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler; Georgia: William Few, & Abraham Baldwin.

This Constitution did not say, “Me, Mr. Washington, and him Mr. Ingersoll, and those guys Benjamin Franklin and the other guy over there Nathaniel Gorham, are here today to make up a set of rules. Oh no, instead these men were true visionaries. Together they wrote the following: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

If we, as a community of people, regardless of our status in the adoption triad, are going to be successful at restoring our “Constitutional right to the general welfare of all people in the United States”, by restoring our rights to our original birth certificates, we are going to have to do this together.

The best offense in any matter of war, politics etc is to divide and conquer. The term divide and conquer means ”A combination of political, military and economic strategies that aim to gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.”

This arguing amongst ourselves, about what is and isn’t right, what is or isn’t fair in the adoption community etc. is doing nothing but serving to divide our numbers and ensure our defeat when these proposed laws hit the senate and house floors.

I know as well as the next triad member how infuriating it is when someone who has been misinformed spreads that misinformation, makes hurtful statements based on the poor information they have and sends us two steps back for every one step forward we make in our own personal journeys. It doesn’t mean that I have to publicly attack the ill-informed. It simply means that as a member of the adoption triad I have to work harder to educate.

I, me, them, us and you are all divisional words. They defeat our purpose and this is how we are consistently conquered in our fight for equal rights to original birth certificates.

I am asking each and every one of you members of the adoption triad and non triad members alike. To simply stand together with me and form one voice, one power and to hold on to that voice and power so that we may implement this much needed change in our nations laws. Stop arguing with each other in these forums, in these public and online places. All that does is divide us.

My hand is reaching out and I am standing on two feet. My voice isn’t loud enough to be heard across the nation. But, I bet if you reached your hand out to mine, held it with mine and added your two feet to mine, and added your voice to mine, our power, our numbers and our voices would most assuredly be heard across this Great Nation.

Again, my hand is reaching out…..where is yours?

Please go vote: http://www.change.org/ideas/view/return_adult_adoptees_the_right_to_their_original_birth_certificates