Human Events – by Raquel Okyay
Connecticut gun owner told Guns and Patriots that his civil rights were stripped from him by an anti-gun judicial branch and a soon-to-be ex-wife who is uncomfortable with him owning guns.
“High risk SWAT team rolls in and takes all my guns,” said Edward F. Taupier the respondent in a two-year divorce action that has escalated to an all-out war. “It took two armadillo armored vehicles, 75 officers with weapons drawn, and 45 minutes to raid my house.”
Although he said he posed no risk to the officers, Taupier was thrown to the ground and arrested.
Taupier, who is a former Wall Street chief officer at Citibank, said he has no prior record of arrests or charges – not even a speeding ticket – yet his home was invaded and his guns stolen based on a false allegation made by a person he does not even know, he said.
Linda J. Allard, a West Hartford family law attorney, contacted Superior Court Judge Elizabeth L. Bozzuto, the judge assigned in his divorce proceeding, to discuss a private email she never received directly, he said. “I have never met Linda Allard. I didn’t do anything wrong. I sent an email to seven people that did not include Allard.”
That did not stop the Cromwell police and the judicial marshal, acting outside of a criminal jurisdiction, from having him violently arrested, he said. Allard’s statement to the police, which is missing from evidence, falsely accuses Taupier of threatening Bozzuto in that email, he said. “I never sent any threat to her or anyone.”
After being bailed out of jail, costing his family a total of three-quarters of a million dollars in bond, Taupier said he is assigned to 27 new bail and bond conditions, wears two ankle bracelets, which includes a GPS tracker, and is not permitted to leave the house except for court appearances. This is all despite the fact that the initial risk warrant was determined to be invalid in criminal court, he said.
“I am on 24-7 lockdown. All my freedoms have been denied,” he said. “This happens to people in North Korea or in the Russian Gulag.”
One day after the arrest, his contract with Citigroup as a financial officer was terminated. The job that gave him the opportunity to be at home with his children after school, instead of warehoused in day care, was taken away from him too, he said.
Taupier’s arrest happened just two days after Tanya A. Taupier initiated an ex parteemergency hearing on Aug. 29 in which Bozzuto ordered their two children, aged 9 and 10, be extracted from one elementary school to another elementary school of Mrs. Taupier’s choice, said Taupier.
“I have had 50-50 percent custody of my children for the past nine years,” he said. “I am an active and engaged parent – I love my kids.” Her extreme action is a result of a disagreement concerning the best schooling and after-school environment for their children, he said. “That’s what led to the false arrest.”
In court Taupier’s ex-wife said she wanted the school transfer to be as unobtrusive to the children as possible, but at the same time she requested a police escort, to extract two children in the middle of a school day, he said. “It not only violated the children’s rights, it terrorized them.”
Mrs. Taupier then filed a full protective order against him, even though there was no family threat, he said. In court, Mrs. Taupier said Taupier’s possession of guns exposes the children to potential, deadly thugs that can hurt them. She makes this claim without any evidence, said Taupier. “In all the 12 years we have lived together there has never been a domestic violence incident.”
Nonetheless, he said his 50-50 percent custody of the children was unilaterally dissolved by Bozzuto. The new judge assigned, because of the long length of this case, Judge Jorge A. Simon, accepted the ex-wife’s demand to cease weekend visitation and limit any visitation to supervised at a court approved location. “My time with my children now consists of two six-minute phone conversations per week.”
All this time, the ex-wife failed to tell the court that out of the 13 guns that were in her possession, eight of them were given to him by her deceased father, he said. “Guns are a hobby for me. I purchase and collect guns to upgrade them,” said Taupier. “I’m an electrical engineer – I have mechanical skills.”
It was the court appointed guardian ad litem, who initiated the gun ban against him without any evidence his hobby was a threat, he said. At the advice of then-counsel, Taupier agreed to temporarily remove the firearms from the home in exchange for time with his children. Time with his children would not be what the GAL proposed and Taupier later retrieved the firearms with the intention of selling his collection to offset legal costs, he said. “I have $50,000 custom made gun work, with enhanced triggers on my own guns.”
Attorneys’ fees, mediation costs and GAL services that are dragging out the divorce, racked up fees in excess of $30,000, he said. “I have no money, no job, and I’m still not divorced.”
The Connecticut Bar Association dismissed a grievance complaint filed by Taupier against the GAL, Margaret Bozek, because he said her actions did not seek the best interest of the children. “The GAL was not doing her job,” he said. Bozek recommended a full summer of revoked parental rights for Taupier. “My children want to see me. I want to see my children. How is separating us in their best interest?”
Family court, a court of equity, is using the children to punish Taupier for his political activism against GAL services, said Taupier. In a criminal jurisdiction Taupier is entitled to a Fernando hearing which would give him the right to be presented with his accuser. Family court circumvented criminal law by issuing a criminal order in a civil court arena, he said. “The risk warrant allowed officials to take custody and employ the SWAT teams.” In the criminal court, the risk warrant was deemed invalid, he said.
For a state known as the “Constitution State” it does not follow the Constitution very well, he said. “There are First, Second, and Fourth Amendment violations – even my right to vote has been taken away.”
Taupier believes his case is not an isolated one, he said.
The entire family court system is embedded with players in a scam designed to soak money from good parents in order to fund a system that is completely broken. “I come from a big Irish, Catholic family. Family is everything to us,” said Taupier. “My family has been destroyed by family court.”
Well there you go. 75 guys and 2 armored vehicles. Its safe to say that not being home would be the best way to avoid gun confiscation, unless you have a cluster of gun homes that would support each other.
They’re going to jump on any excuse, or invent any excuse, to seize people’s guns, and that’s why it’s important to have at least one of them hidden outside of the home.
And this article also shows why it’s better to run your wife through the wood chipper than try to divorce her. The “woman’s liberation” movement was entirely funded by the Rockefeller family with the intent of breaking up families, and doubling the number of people paying taxes. It worked like a charm for achieving both objectives (just look at divorce rates before and after “woman’s lib”).
Equality breeds endless strife, and that’s why there’s a stated and visible “chain of command” anywhere else that people have to work together. It’s either stripes on a uniform, or heads on a totem pole, but if people are going to live and/or in harmony, some type of “pecking order” is going to have to be observed.
In our society, the man was traditionally the head of the household, and what women have been taught to forget is than men find submission attractive. They’ve been shown pigs like Rosanne Barr, and taught to emulate them, because that fat, nagging, loud-mouth bitch is the LAST thing any man wants to live with.
This scenario is one of my greatest fears as a father, gun owner, and anti-gov person myself. Every stereotype was used to make this man’s life a living hell. Women deserve custody over men (check), a divorce paints a man as the bad guy (check), a person has weapons going through a rough patch so they MUST be considered dangerous (check), big-gov wants to assert their dominance without solid ground to stand on (check), the abomination called our justice system has removed this man’s rights without basis (check)…. etc., etc., etc.
I can only imagine how completely enraged this man must feel. His life is literally turned upside down and his freedoms removed based on others’ emotions only. Having someone deny me my rights, especially as a father, would drive me insane. Love is a powerful emotion and my love for my children would push me into doing bad things I am not sad to say. Knowing the power involved with the emotions of these things you would think that those in charge would get it right instead of coming over the top rope like this. Taking away a persons rights is no small thing in for that person and yet it is done so liberally today. Things we see everyday would have sparked local wars in our country’s heyday. Unfortunately, the more rage and emotion he emits with his actions only gives the disgusting pigs in charge more ammunition to use against him, that is the crux. My heart and prayers go out to you Mr. Taupier.
P.S. Jolly Roger you are correct about the destruction of our family dynamics in this country. Women are made to feel ashamed of being a real woman, something backed by thousands of years of history to support their natural role. Modern society allows women to do just about anything (rightly so I agree if they want), but the attitude that creates with most is that they don’t need men. If they do feel subordinate it creates hostility based on the women’s-lib movement brainwashing and bullying them into feeling this way. This creates a society in which divorce comes at the drop of a hat. Men aren’t respected as leaders of the family anymore because of this equalization. This doesn’t mean that men get to be assholes, abusive, etc. – just that they are historically the leaders in the “pecking order”. My wife and I have a happy marriage because we agree in this respect. I am not a overly dominant asshat because of this due to me being a real man, husband, and father.
Something I always ask these liberal modern-day women types when I get the chance is this – If the world were to grind to a halt tomorrow, be it a failure of our power grid, failure of the system due to wide-spread war, or something of that nature that removes the modern day societal protections and status-quo, who would prevail as the leaders and go-to sex? Would you be able to simply call up that typically-a-male plumber, construction worker, police officer, farmer, etc. and ask them to take care of what you need and pay them with money like you can today as a modern woman? Probably not, you would rely on your husbands, brothers, fathers, neighbors, etc. to be the natural depiction of a man and take care of business like we always have throughout history. Women would not survive this scenario without the protections and social securities in place that “modern” life today has. Why? It is not natural that is why. It is not being sexist or misogynistic like they want us to feel ashamed about. It is a very natural “pecking order” built into us as women and men that has always existed since the beginning. Some just refuse to admit it because modern day life allows them to luxury to deny it. Hate to see them if things ever collapse.
Henry called this one.
this has been going on for decades and now its supposed news have heard it on the scanners and from those it has happened to for years its not new all any girlfriend ex or current has to say is he has a gun and the b a r members instantly write up a she is in fear we need to take them for safe keeping odor and they send that sherryiff all think is there savior to go get them breaking into houses when at work arresting them at work and searching their truck for any they cant find at the home oh ya they have al ist thanks to gun registrartion what do you think filling out that to beg application and phone call is all about they don’t need the numbers off the gun to see if your ok to have one not one has ever gotten any back along with any crown hunting privileges also taken more often than not they borrow another gun or have one they did not find and guess what its used for “suicide”
they tried this with me once nearly 20 years ago i mad them an offer they did not accept and haven’t heard a word about it since