There's a very simple solution to this problem. Lock this guy up on death row and leave him there until he issues an official apology. After all, MOST of the people there belong there.
Posted on 05/21/2008 12:35:50 PM PDT by PercivalWalks
"What is the attitude of the DCFS when confronted with over 3,000 mistakes they made? Spokesman Kendall Marlowe 'acknowledged that mistakes are made, but he said the vast majority of people…were placed there properly… he declined further comment.'
"The DCFS chief administrative law judge Meryl Paniak said, 'A lot of what happens at these hearings is it becomes a legal process, not… whether it happened or not, but whether enough evidence is presented.'
"Not a hint of apology, not a whiff of promise to a better job. In one word, arrogant."
Ned Holstein of Fathers & Families has an interesting post on a new outrage by Illinois officials. Surprise, surprise--state officials put thousands of people on their child abuse registry who should not have been there. They offer no apologies, only saying that most of the people on the list belonged there, as if that makes it OK that 3,000 people were wrongly listed. More evidence that authorities treat the widespread problem of false abuse allegations very lightly.
Holstein writes:
"The Belleville News-Democrat in Illinois reports that the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) 'wrongly placed more than 3,000 people on the State’s official list of child abusers over a five year period…'
"Why should the family court reform movement care about what happens to child abusers? After all, a lot of these parents are less-than-perfect, and they probably did something wrong, you say.
"The reason we care is that non-custodial parents are often up against the same problems as men and women falsely accused of child abuse: arrogant, self-righteous government officials who have been given too much power and are accountable to no one.
"Listen to the complaints of the victims and their attorneys and you will hear a familiar echo.
"Nick Brunstein, one falsely accused foster parent said of child abuse investigators, '…the bad ones have the power of God and with the stroke of a pen they can ruin your life.' Sounds pretty much like a GAL or a family court judge doesn’t it?
"Diane Redleaf, executive director of the non-profit Family Defense Center in Chicago said, 'We see so many cases where the basic rules are being ignored completely by the state investigators.' This too has a familiar ring.
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Just another reason why living in Illinois = living in purgatory.
The “boss(es)” of the Director of the DCFS should be given a reasonable amount of time to fire the individual (say, 72 hours). If the firing does not take place, then the citizens of Illinois should storm the Director’s office and forcibly remove him/her from it.
A tarring and feathering may be in order here.
Any with middle initial ‘H’?
The CPS in most states are dominated by radical feminists who despise men and especially Christian families.
The FLDS raid, while justified, shows how the CPS think - they are demanding the mothers completely give up their religion in order to get their kids back.
They want that same power over conservative Christian families - especially if they homeschool.
Don’t worry, the entire U.S. will truly be just like Illinois very soon after mid-January ‘09.
Governments are becoming more and more fascist, especially when they’re run by democrats.
There’s a reason why the quaint practice of ‘due process’ was instituted. Unfortunately in today’s society ‘guilty by accusation’ is becoming the norm, especially in this area.
In modern courts you are guilty until proven innocent.
There is a reason for the state to strip you of your rights even on the basis of being “accused” but not convicted, you can lose your right to bear arms. If you can lose your second amendment rights, you can lose them all.
I think most people would classify that as ‘abuse’...
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers.”
Quote by: Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
Source: “Atlas Shrugged”, Part II, Chapter 3
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