It made TROUBLE with the gummint that he avoided church..?
That means they’re white.
Wait, so his child snuck off and he is charged with intentionally endangering the child? Wouldn’t it also be child abuse if he kept the kid on a leash so the kid couldn’t ever slip away?
Do we really have to bang someone’s head against the concrete for every little infraction nowadays? Hell early pioneer settlers would have been charged with cruel and unusual punishment for making their sons help on the farm, the SPCA would have charged the same for slaughtering a hog to feed the family, the EPA would have fined the family for not getting the proper permits to dig a well, they would have been charged with a hate crime for shooting at Indians trying to rustle their cattle, etc....common sense and context has been thrown our the windows and they have got he citzen’s pea brains exactly where they want them; that citizen’s shall not question their overlords, that their overlords are always right, and that we should be expected to pay the overlords a pennancd every time we commit an infraction because we deserve it...
That’s ridiculous. This sort of thing happens to the best of parents at times.
I ran off, a few blocks down the street, as a little boy (no fault of my mom) and when she saw I was gone, she instantly prayed. As a result, two angels brought me back to her, as she was standing out I’m front of the house.
When I was a kid I could leave the house and play all day. My mother didn’t know where I was. That was “child endangerment”???
Cop should be fired for lack of judgement and wasting public resources.
I hate to think of the potential legal bills this family can’t afford to rack up if the judge that hears this case turns out to be a dumb authoritarian like the cop.
Craziness.
When my kids were growing up, they were definitely walking to school at that age.
Oh, this is just nuts.
(The kid should have known his address. 8 years old!)
I’ll say. I guess I was darn lucky to have never been caught!
There’s really too much government interference in private life. Hey, you know, I get it, if something dreadful had happened to this child then MAYBE some charges might be in order.
But, we really can’t turn every screw up or momentarily lapse of judgment into a criminal infraction. Just like we can’t keep ostracizing people or chasing them out of their jobs because they said something stupid. These are things that every single person on earth is guilty of at one time or another.
I just don’t know what to do about all this, it’s starting to seem overwhelming.
And what happened in MS shows how those in power will stop at nothing to hold on to it.
So, I’m feeling a bit depressed about the state of our nation because I feel like truly we are on the road to fascism.