What Happened to Little Cody Haynes and Who Really Failed Him? Plus Comments;Book Review

 


Cody Haynes-The Little Boy Everyone Forgot
Richard "Cody" Haynes was born 4/16/93. By all accounts, his was a life with several strikes against it even from birth. Cody's mother had little contact with her son. While there's not a whole lot of information on Cody's mother, it is known that she was jailed for child abuse and is not allowed contact with her son.

Cody was raised by his father and in retrospect, many questions arise about the quality of his life.
Cody was referred to children's protective services in Kittitas, Washington on at least two occasions before his disappearance.

The principal of his school at Ellensberg Elementary referred the Haynes' family to CPS in February 2002. Earlier the family was referred to CPS in Dec. 2001. Both times the referrals were for physical and emotional abuse and neglect.

On September 23, 2004, over a week after Cody Haynes disappeared and not seen since, Child Protective Services again investigated the family. This time Cody's four sisters were removed from the home.

Until Cody disappeared from the planet, CPS in Washington state deemed Cody's father was satisfactory even after investigating the complaints.

Cody Haynes was last seen alive on September 11, 2004. His father's girlfriend, Marla Jaye Harding, has a scuffle with Cody. According to the girlfriend, Cody refused to do some chores he was assigned after dinner. Cody had to remain in the kitchen until almost midnight that night.

 


At midnight, again according to the girlfriend, Cody was sent to his room. His sisters were told not to go near his room.

Nobody checked on Cody until 5 pm the following day. At which point Cody was not in his room and his father phoned in a missing person's report.

Something terrible happened to Cody sometime after dinner September, 11 and 2:30 am later that night, September 12.

Because at 2:30 am that night, supposedly after the scuffle between Cody and his father's girlfriend, Cody's father, Richard Haynes, took a long and strange trip. When he left, to go "looking for car parts", Cody was allegedly in his room. Sent there after refusing to do his after dinner chores and after being punished by having to remain in the kitchen until midnight. Then Cody was, according to Richard and Marla, sent to his room. Two hours after sending Cody to his room, Richard Haynes embarks on a mission to find car parts in the middle of the night.

Richard Haynes had Cody's body in that car with him though this assertion is part of no official record but mine. And during that lengthy trip to look for car parts he found what he considered an appropriate spot to dump his son's body, did so, and returned home at 4 pm the following day. An hour later he reported his son missing. Again, this is no part of any official record save mine.

Kittetas, Washington has only a two man police department. With both officers assigned to Cody's case. Already there's problems in the handling of the investigation into the disappearance of Cody Haynes. So much so that it appears that not only will the schools have failed Cody, the Child Protective Services failed Cody, now the justice system might fail Cody.

An investigator assigned to the Attorney General's office in Spokane is alleged to be leaking confidential details of Cody's investigation to the press. But of course. This is a BIG case. Why should two gumshoes from the woods of Washington be allowed to continue their investigation unfettered? The Spokane Attorney General sees legal stardom. The flames of public interest must be fanned by leaks.

And what about this backwards educational system in Kittetas? Because Cody and his four sisters were alleged to be home-schooled and did not attend local schools. Two referrals to CPS and no one checked into the "quality" of this home schooling? It's not as if Richard Haynes wouldn't have pulled his children out of school due to the incessant tattling to CPS over his children's condition. CPS thought the children were fine and the school thought Richard Haynes and Marla Harding were great home-schoolers. So much so that there was no need to even bother checking.

Meanwhile, Richard Haynes and Marla Harding have lawyered up and refused to attend a candlelight vigil for their son.

Haynes told The Spokesman-Review he would not discuss his son's disappearance without his attorney present."I'm not interested in talking about it. I'm not talking without my attorney present. No way," he said.

Even a preliminary scan of the facts reveals that Richard Haynes was not a model father. Likely he somehow killed his son as a result of a disciplinary action taken because of Cody's refusal to do his chores. Just as likely, that long trip in the middle of the night to look for car parts was really to get rid of a body. It doesn't take genius investigation to figure this out.

More than Cody's lot in life as regards his family, a whole bunch of other publicly paid folks failed, or are failing, Cody Haynes. Child Protective Services saw nothing even though the school referred them, the mother had already served time for child abuse and Richard Haynes lived with his girlfriend in a tiny apartment with five children. The school, well hey, the Haynes' were home-schoolers, such a fine thing and with the Haynes being so qualified.

Now the police and attorney general are at odds.

While it's questionable if Richard Haynes will ever receive his justice, it's a certainty that the CPS, school authorities and fame seeking attorney generals will never get so much as a slap for failing Cody Haynes.

Anyone with any details on Cody Haynes is asked to call the Kittitas Police Department at (509) 968-0220.

The following sources were used for this article:.
KVNEWS
KOMO4
KNDO

 

A Few Comments on Pat Buchanan
Who, as I asserted in my recent post Taking on the Pundits is no Conservative.

The comments are all from FreeRepublic and they too consider Pat Buchanan a loose cannon.

Posted by AnOldCowhand

Buchanan's last candidacy taught me that he is about Buchanan, not conservatism...or even America.
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Posted by KidGlock

If you want to post something to prove that Pat Buchanan is not a conservative, find his column where he claims that Reaganism and Thatcherism destroys the middle class.

You are right.

He is no conservative.
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Posted by EagleUSA

Another fake conservative. His talk shows it. And he is very badly informed -- as are many "policitians" who profess to know something about America and its real needs and history.

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And Below, in Defense of Buchanan

1) Being critical of some of the policies of the State of Israel isn't the same thing as hating Jews. The charge of anti-semitism against Mr. Buchanan is nonsense.

2) Interventionism itself is the cause of terror. The tactics of Al Qaeda are evil, but surely you must recognize the obvious political motive behind the attacks?

Osama Bin Laden, in his 1998 proclamation, listed 3 main reasons for the Muslims of the world to rise up against the USA.

1) US soldiers on the sacred soil of Saudi Arabia
2) US's uncritical support of Israel
3) US sanctions on Iraq that were crippling their economy.

Therefore, when Pat says that interventionism is the cause of terror, he's absolutely correct. Were we not over there, the terrorists would not be over here.

There would be no mass movement against America if we were not so entangled with the internal affairs of the Middle East.

 


"Righteous Victims-A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict-1881-1999"-by Benny Morris

“Resolution 181 (the creation of Israel) was, in some way, “Western civilization’s gesture of repentance for the Holocaust …, the repayment of a debt owed by those nations that realized that they might have done more to prevent or at least limit the scale of Jewish tragedy during World War II.”
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I am not going to recommend that anyone read this book unless keenly interested in all things Israel versus Arabs. Not that I didn’t enjoy the read and learned everything that had puzzled me for many years. But I specifically checked this book out from the local library to get a background in this part of middle eastern history that left me confused as to current events in the region then upon.

For so long I’d hear of skirmishes in such as “the Gaza strip”, the “West Bank”, and the “Sinai Peninsula”, and I’d wonder where these places were and why they were so important that people were dying over them. Israel is a country that is about the size of New Jersey. I can’t think of a single place in New Jersey that would have folks dying over its retention and control.

Benny Morris did an admirable job of documenting the history of Zionist-Arab conflict from the beginning of the twentieth century until its end. He also admirably restrained himself from author intrusion and editorializing.

It was also very important to me, as one who’s taken to the verbal defense of Israel, to get a more in-depth profile of how that country came to be, why, AND just what the Jews may have done that was so awful to have them hated by the Arabs around them.

I’m relieved that like America also hated by the Arabs for no apparent reason beyond jealousy, that there is nothing documented as having been perpetrated by the Jews that warrant the Arab total commitment to Israel’s annihilation.

Understand here that there was a partition of middle eastern land that resulted in the creation of the nation of Israel and there was also an Arab population currently residing on this land. This circumstance alone would understandably create a short-term resentment and perhaps a scuffle or two. Still, it’s not as if there was a nation already in place with an indigenous population that had built cities and installed a decent government. The Arabs populating what would become the nation of Israel were mostly nomads with an allegiance more to its Islam religion than such as national boundaries. At the time they certainly didn’t think of themselves as “Palestinians” and, in fact, a country called Palestine never existed except perhaps during biblical times.

Israel was formed in 1948 by the United Nations. Note the quote from the book at the beginning of this article. The Holocaust had as much to do with the creation of an Israel nation as anything. Though before World War II the Jews had been steadily purchasing land in this region with a dream of establishing a Jewish state in their “promised land.” Beyond the land purchases by the Jews, the land that would form Israel had been colonized and was under the control of the British government. Sure, some Arabs lived there but they never bothered to make it any sort of viable nation or anything.

And no one kicked the native peoples from their land. The Arabs were allowed to remain in Israel after it became a nation. Many of the native people DID leave their land but mostly by their own choice. This was a nomadic population after all.

Since its creation Israel has had to constantly fight for its right to exist. Egypt, Syria, Iraq and even the friendly Jordan all were participants in some war or another in an attempt to oust the Jews. It was through these many wars that Israel actually conquered even more land beyond that originally mandated. In every single instance all conflict was initiated by the Arabs. And folks, these are a people not, ahem, all that adept at warfare.

Not that the Israelis were perfect. Obviously they were wary of the Arabs in their midst and there was probably an occasion or two when the natives were “encouraged” to move along. It’s more than speculation that Israel was behind the slaughter of many Palestinians in Beirut refugee camps.

Still and so, for all the Arab indignation over the alleged bad treatment of their Palestinian brethren, not one established Arab country offered to take them in beyond refugee camps or donate land that they may have a country of their own. Frankly, and as the author documents, even the Arabs didn’t want the Palestinians, who they considered nothing but trouble.

I’m reminded of a child who has a toy that he never plays with. Then a sibling takes a shine to that toy and decides to play with it. All of a sudden, boom, the first child considers that toy to be the nexus of his/her short life. The Arabs never cared all that much about the little strip of sand now the Israel state. The entire issue was an excuse; an excuse to misbehave and act like, well, children.

At least now I understand a Gaza strip and a West Bank. Morris has written a definitive history of Israel and for the curious and dedicated, read no other book of this middle eastern history for a comprehensive and honest delineation of events.