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            Patricia started a campaign in December to respond to the ‘slander’ against her spread by her son Glen and her ex husband Stephen. The campaign consisted primarily of letters written to the DA, her mother, the newspaper, her children, her ex, and probably Channel 7.

            Patricia’s basic position asserts that the newspaper article published in December slandered her. This initial slander was followed by more slander in the television interviews on Channel 7 and Channel 4. None of the letters provide an example of the slander and my review of the article and the interviews do not make this slander clear.

            I never posted one of Patricia’s letters because she addressed them to others. I am posting the latest one because the envelope was addressed to me and the children. My thoughts follow but feel free to read it and make up your own mind.

            Patricia did say that the story Glen reports about Patricia attacking me in the car in California with the children present and while I was driving was false. I would like to remind her that she confirmed that story to the custody evaluator, Dr. Gale Zieman, and he included her acknowledgement in his written report.

            The fact that the Court declared Patricia incompetent is a matter of public record and Patricia’s mental problems are well documented in several places to include her sentencing. Many of Patricia’s suicide attempts or gestures are also a matter of public record.

            I leave it to the reader to address the record to include this blog and the website www.fatheriam.com and form their own opinions about any slander.

            It is my belief that Patricia is pissed about not being released in December and the position the District Attorney’s office is taking. With some basis, Patricia blames Glen and I for this.  I do believe that if the stories had not run it is likely Patricia would have been released.

            Patricia asserts in several letters that I have a secret motivation for my actions and in one letter she asserts that I have been working to make her kill herself in order to collect life insurance money. So, now I am responsible for her suicide gestures or attempts for monetary reasons. This also confirms something I stated to several people over the years, that the life insurance policy was one of the things keeping her alive. The thought of me collecting a quarter of a million dollars in the case of her death is one thought keeping her alive.

            A few years ago I wrote about how Patricia’s finding ‘God’ and the developing her own view of Christianity contributed to our divorce. Patricia used Christianity to justify any action she took. When I intervened when she was beating Glen she yelled at me to tell him that she was ‘justified’.

            Patricia has not mentioned her faith in the few letters written to Glen over the last couple of years, but her recent correspondence is covered with it, literally. In the letter to Glen (although the envelope was addressed to “Stephen Avery & kids”), Patricia states:

            “God has laid it on my heart to share with you what the Bible says about slander. According to my Bible, slander means to speak against someone harshly”.

            She goes on the quote several passages of scripture and reference a dozen more on the subject of slander as a sin. She goes on and on and on and says:

“The most important verse I need to share with you, though, is Romans 21:8 “But unbelievers (like Godless people are), the immoral (like slanders are)…their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur.” 

            The ‘…’ is hers and I guess her Bible is a little different then mine. In my Bible, Romans has only sixteen chapters. I think she meant Revelations 21:8 which reads as follows in the King James:

“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”

There is a couple of pages about how our son (and his father) are in danger of going to Hell for speaking against God, I’m sorry she must have meant Patricia.

My favorite section reads as follows:

“If you really want me to ‘get the help I need’, maybe you should be on your knees praying that God meets my needs instead of slandering me and judging me and God’s law so mercilessly”

But this is close second:

“I know that it is wrong for me to judge anyone else (Luke 6:37, Romans 2:1, and Mathew 16:27) so I am not doing that. I am merely telling you what God has laid on my heart to tell you!”

This would be funny if you do not recall she planned for my murder with the children present in the home.

Because of Patricia’s mental illness, I never really blamed her for her or saw her actions as a sin against me in the same way she see our ‘slander’ as a sin. She does not need to ask me for forgiveness that is between her and God. She did ask for my forgiveness at the sentencing while calling me an abuser of sixteen years. The old ‘I am sorry but it is really your fault’ routine as Maxwell Smart would point out.

I am not going to argue Christianity or Christian beliefs with Patricia simply because I do see these as Christian beliefs, they are Patricia’s beliefs. The history of Christianity is filled with those who took the truth and twisted it to suit their own purposes – to gain power, to justify greed and lust, to kill.

Time and time again she states her actions against me were justified.

She told the bail hearing judge that she orchestrated the attempt against my life before I made an attempt to kill her.

She told a hearing officer in a Domestic Violence hearing against her that the reason for her indictment “that concerns my ex husband who beat the hell out of me for sixteen years and I got a little bit sick of it and I just lost my head over it” (Self v. Long 17:35 minutes).

Her statements at sentencing communicated to me her belief that if people would just listen to her they would understand how evil I am and all of her actions would be ‘justified’ in the same manner she believed her assault on Glen was ‘justified’ years ago.

I honestly believe Patricia believes that if her ‘truth’ came out the world would see her as a hero for trying to kill me.

‘Dangerous?’ You decide.