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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Texas sect: Sanity prevails in the (activist) courts. For the time being at least.
Non-baseball post.
The AP headline on MSNBC.com reads:
Court: Texas wrongly seized sect children
I am thinking, “No shizzit!”
Since when, in the United States, can you get an unreliable phone call about someone’s kid possibly being abused, and then go ahead and seize that person’s neighbor’s kids, the kids of everyone in that person’s church, the kids of everyone that person knows, and just for good measure, the kids of everyone who might share the same religious beliefs?
Not to mention the fact that if you randomly knocked on the doors of every house and apartment in low-income urban areas, not to mention the gang and drug-infested ghettos, you would be seizing the kids of at least 50% of the families, due to suspected abuse and neglect.
From the AP article:
f the 31 sect members CPS once said were underage mothers, 15 have been reclassified as adults — one was 27 years old — and an attorney for a 14-year-old girl said in court that she had no children and was not pregnant, as officials previously asserted.
I think any rational person could have seen that coming (that CPS and the State were making stuff up to engender sympathy and support from the public). The public should be outraged at the lies perpetrated by the government, and the people responsible should be fired.
The sect children were removed en masse during a raid that began April 3 after someone called a domestic abuse hot line claiming to be a pregnant abused teenage wife. The girl has not been found and authorities are investigating whether the calls were a hoax.
Perhaps the sane thing to do is to see whether a complaint is credible before you seize 544 kids. Apparently we live in a country where you seize people’s kids and and ask questions later.
If I didn’t have family in this country, I would have moved out a long time ago.