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This country did just fine for nearly 150 years without CPS...
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Posted on 05/21/2008 2:53:57 PM PDT by Dengar01
In your America children would be left to the wild animals and criminals to do with as they wished. I don’t even think you’d care to live there after a while.
So, talk to the US Attorney about criminal charges under 18 USC 242....
So, an "activist judge" who does what ~ defines "abuse"? How about an "activist judge" who looks at the law, sees what behaviors are defined as "abuse" and issues a warrant for CPS (and the cops in some cases) ~ and does what any judge is asked to do. Or, what about a stodgy old Conservative judge who voted straight Taft and Eisenhower and Reagan, and you bring Sylvia Likens death into his court, and he wants to know where was Family Services?
Hmm, you ask such tough questions.
BTW, the kids continue to have rights.
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This country did just fine for nearly 150 years without CPS...
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Excellent point.
So I guess that the additional handicap of lacking a heart and sould in the case of this particular case worker means she could hardly be classified as human in the first place.
ah! Thanks.
This article is rather short on information about what led to the CPS worker’s visit in the first place. Anonymous caller? Identified caller who also reported a similar concern re the same family 2 years ago, at which time the children were found bloodied and bruised and said their parents did it? These things do make a difference. Since the social worker found nothing wrong with the children, I’m guessing the nature of the report was pretty sketchy, but if WND is going to write indignant articles, they should track down and include the relevant facts.
What’s interesting here is that the principal apparently just rolled over and let the social worker do whatever she wanted without any attempt challenge it. Shouldn’t the principal be a little better prepared for this sort of thing? Have an attorney’s number handy?
There’s no way that a lone social worker should be allowed to be alone in a room with a child in a situation like this. What’s to stop her from PUTTING injuries on the child and later claiming they were already there — musta been fresh from a beating before school that morning, ya know. There’s also nothing to stop her planting ideas and false information in the child’s mind, or even sexually molesting the child. Something is very wrong with this state agency’s procedures, that they allow this. In the event of a child who really was being abused and needed help, this easily abused no-witnesses procedure could impair the state’s ability to prove abuse in court.
They DO care. The more damage they do the more theie jobs are validated and the more funding they get from the state. It is creative government use of psychopathy.
That is different to a State Nanny making arbitrary searches and child confiscations based on her feelings.
That’s a good point. Guaranteed job security.
If we were serious about government corruption, or had a DOJ that worked, a lot of these people would be looking at serious prison time. Not jail, prison.
Your ignorance of American history and institutions is seriously deficient.
All that CPS consists of are the same duties normally found in the social welfare component of local government for hundreds (if not thousands) of years.
“What would you do when the ex ended up in jail?”
Assume custody of my kids and stop sending her child support. Win Freakin’ win, baby!
I will ask you again:
How many families have been HARMED by CPS compared to those who may have been helped?
And does that harm justify the few who are helped?
This is the part that disturbs me. I expect the rat to act like a rat, but why did the principal just roll over like that?
“When Gresbach entered the school, she handed her business card to Principal Cheryl Reetz and told her she needed to see Ian and Alexis. Reetz asked the social worker if she could call the children’s parents, but Gresbach refused to allow it, saying she would contact them at a later time. The principal then asked if she could remain in the room to observe the interview, but she was denied permission to do so.”
In my world, government has limited power and people enjoy freedoml, all of which is carefully governed by the constituion.
You gotta' get out of comparing apples and oranges first. Once you've done that maybe we can figure out what your question really is? (Hope it's not that Vulcan thing again).
In your world there may be a constitution and there may be laws, but there’s no one to protect the downtrodden, the helpless, the innocent, the injured, the poor ~
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