What It’s Like To Win A German Supreme Court Human Rights Case…
How does it feel to win a German Supreme Court human rights case (press release auf Deutsch attached here)? Pretty fricking good actually. In my situation, the case is not quite over yet. The decision essentially is to refer this all back to a lower court for their reconsideration because their previous decision (against me, denying me citizenship) violated German and European law.
But that is the legal eagle summary of procedure. Here are the details.
I have been trying to obtain German citizenship since the late 1980’s. My father was a German Jew originally, born in 1921, who escaped Frankfurt with his immediate family in 1933 — first to the UK and then to the U.S.
In 1980, my mother, Gail E. Haley, along with her family and an assist from other parties in both the UK and US, human trafficked her own two children with the idea of either killing us, or at least getting rid of me while continuing her incestuous relationship with my younger brother (now Geoff Considine of Boulder, Colorado).
My father had desperately tried to save his younger children from the incestuous advances and inroads into our innocence that my mother had already made. That is another part of this already grim story. However, in the process, he had moved us to the UK from the US, was trying to get us into boarding school, and also to get our German passports so his paternal rights would be ensured.
Instead, my mother managed to get us out of the UK illegally, and a lot of terrible stuff went down as a kid. That is why I am writing about this.
Regardless, as this tragedy aged, I could not reunite with my father easily in 1987, the first time I was able to leave the U.S. to try to see him again. It was too traumatic for us both at the time and his then girlfriend caused a fight. Regardless, I never gave up trying to reunite with him, and as of 2003, I tried actively to persuade my two brothers to work with me on not only family forgiveness but also to bring an old man “home” to Germany.
To my horror, I was instead attacked by both brothers and others still attached to all of this (including by lots of money). My father, according to his NHS medical notes, was isolated, impoverished and tortured to death, in part by being deliberately infected with a terrible zoonological virus. It is disgusting. I almost died.
I fled to Germany in 2013, launched my petition for citizenship again from here, and of course, have gone to police in three countries to prosecute my mother, brothers and others involved…both historically and more recently.
This case is a major step forward that has taken me at this point, thirty years to get, and seven of those here, although of course this is still not over.
However, it is a step in the right direction, achieved through great sacrifice, a great deal of danger, and the support and belief of many good Germans, of which my attorney on this case is absolutely one.
This is a story that I began telling on Medium as of yesterday before I knew the case was coming down. More soon. But I hope you are hooked.
There is a long road still yet ahead for prosecution of justice on this one.
