Posted on 08/31/2009 5:47:31 AM PDT by blueyon
Video at link DALLAS - They’re not criminals. They’ve broken no laws. But they’re being held against their will by the State of Texas. Why? It’s a tragic story about what can happen when you are alone in the world and lose control of your rights, your money, and your ability to complain.
Jean and Michael Kidd never imagined their retirement would play out like this. “I feel like I am not in America,” said Michael Kidd. “I can’t believe I have been hi-jacked off the street, virtually from the hospital, and imprisoned,” Kidd told FOX 4.
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They seem rational to me, this is just typical government bureaucracy in action.
You bet your sweet bippy!
I'll be 66 next month and I can still "throw down" with the best of them, though not as well as I could when I was a young-un of 40 or so and thankfully, have not had any encounters in many a moon. lol
And if push came to shove and faced with a serious situation, I would let my 2 buds (Smith and Wesson) handle it for me!
What I don't understand is why they have not had a Guardian ad Litem appointed by the Court (much as they do with minors) whose responsibility and duties are to protect their clients even if that be fighting city hall???
Something smells here and it ain't purty!!!
Who is their State Representative and State Senator?
We need to find out and fill them in about this!
Something similar happened to a relative of mine years ago in TX, near Fredericksburg. Someone called Adult Protective Services on her because my elderly relative refused to sell them her riverfront property.
A caseworker had a criminal & his mother living in a car. She decided that an elderly woman (my relative) was incapable of being on her own.
She gave my relative a choice-take these people into your home to help you, or be sent to a nursing home. She intimidated my relative.
The criminal and his mother moved into my relative’s house. The criminal started forging checks on my relative’s account. He burned through the account, and then when he demanded more money and threatened to physically harm my relative, she had a heart attack and died.
My relative was very independent, a pioneer, and didn’t tell anyone what was going on. One of those, I can handle it all on my own types who won’t ask for help.
We first heard about it when a concerned person from the bank contacted one of our relatives in a nearby town because of all the account activity. Unfortunately, it was the same morning my relative died.
All of this happened in a space of about one month.
Having worked for the courts here, I can tell you that CPS and APS have some really lousy caseworkers. They want to bring cases to resolution, and will sometimes do things with the potential for the worst possible outcome to close those files.
The state bureaucracies of Texas are perpetually infected with LBJ "great society" legacy liberals. Most re-generate from UT Austin to carry on the liberal family tradition of working for the state and making a living posing their will on the rest of Texans. It's an endless and vicious cycle- a poster example of what Obama land cradle to grave statism will look. like on a national scale.
If so, their senator is Craig Estes and rep. is Jodie Laubenberg. Both are republicans.
I have contacted my Texas and Congress Critters on this. Hope they do something about this.
I have contacted John Cornyn, Ted Poe, John Culberson and Dan Patrick.
I am also contacting Gov Perry.
The story says they do not have family that is close, does that mean there is family. Where the hell are they.
Something is missing from the story.
Good Lord!..........$11,000 and the state just took it?...........
70...it’s the new 90!..............
http://www.co.collin.tx.us/district_courts/
I believe Collins County is were to start in defense of this couple as that is were the probate court was
You will go for your 5 year counseling session at 80 years old —— you won’t come back.
The failed sportscaster and radio guy?
They both suffer from dementia and there are no surviving family members to help?
Welcome to the Obama future!
Why would you say that?
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