Georgia's House Speaker, Glenn Richardson's quiet divorce was prompted by more than one of his extramarital affairs. He had told one mistress he would "bring all hell down" on her employer, Atlanta Gas Light, should their affair affect her employment.
Yet, even after-the-fact Richardson desired his wife, Susan, to reconcile their marriage and again, stand by his side, and continue the success she'd helped him build.
In a darker moment he threatened suicide, and when she refused to reconcile the marriage, an attorney himself, he even threatened to use his power and Georgia state agencies, including law enforcement agencies and family services against her.
Mrs. Richardson isn't alone as a mother and wife who realizes the man she supported to the heights of success and power had become a man she no longer knew or trusted.
She is to be commended for those of us who have fled the state of Georgia, having suffered Georgia's divorce system, harassment, false arrests, false accusations, incarcerations, shackles, handcuffs, ridicule, and stalking by criminals, police, and hired detectives.
Ms. Richardson has confirmed the fact that powerful people can and will utilize their affluence, power, state agencies, even police in criminal, self-serving maneuvers to intimidate, coerce, threaten or terrorize their adversaries, foes or spouses.
Like other states, Georgia has huge problems and continues to devour it's own families and children with the bullying practices of many profit-driven attorneys in family crisis situations.
Families and children should be removed from the legal and justice systems and a department of competent, sane individuals should be established to address family problems. Set guidelines to address divorce, dissolution of marriage, family assets, visitation and child custody would protect a family and children from further destruction.
Mr. Richardson was careful to keep his divorce quiet and sealed. Most Georgians don't enjoy the same powerful protections.
Warmest wishes, and deepest gratitude for Ms. Richardson's courage, and genuine hopes for her family to endure this period and heal, with years of success and happiness ahead. May Mr. Richardson get the help he needs to address his personal problems and find happiness in future endeavors.
3 comments:
I see her eyes are wide open now!
She could sure tell us a lot about the INSIDERS and what they are capable of.
I certainly hope Susan Richardson was smart enough to leave the state of Georgia, like so many other mothers who have had to flee due to their ex-husbands connections with the corrupt legal system in Georgia. Now for the rest of us, to speak out.... There is Wendy Titeman's book, Let My Children Go, the Marla Ailion Wright v Bruce Ailion (who married Robin Adams the widow of former Cobb County majistrate judge Ross Adams). Just goggle these two cases and you may wish to flee the state of Georgia, if your ex-husband had any power, money, or connections.
Thank you for your comments. Since fleeing Georgia I've met other women and mothers who have also fled Georgia in fear for their safety. Some have been stalked and suffered the loss of children's affection, been ridiculed, degraded, suffered death and destruction, even been shot at, stalked, and arranged for in other states.
Some of the judges in Georgia at some point began to issue gag orders so the mother's can't speak of their experiences. It's horrible, really–– they're even removing First Amendment rights in Georgia courts.
It's unfortunate Georgia's courts appear to represent so much that democracy doesn't.
When I began being arrested, falsely accused and incarcerated in Cobb, Houston, Peach, and Baldwin Counties in Georgia I had to pinch myself to be sure I wasn't asleep and dreaming I was in Communist Russia.
It's very sad for the children. No parent should be trashed, run out of town, or jailed because the other had the proper connections with the ruling classes of Georgia's judicial, law enforcement, and legal communities.
It leads to instability in the child, and a lasting lack of trust in the system overall. And the children will remember it better than the rest.
We can trust one thing–– that those of us who flee Georgia might be suffering the effects of having ever lived in Georgia––even years later.
I consider myself lucky to be alive and sane after the Georgia experience, and only by the Grace of God.
Thank you so much for your thoughts and good luck to you.
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