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To: JRochelle; MHGinTN

Freepers shouldn’t feel more than a twinge of identification with these cultists. We don’t practice breaking the law under the cover of super-secret religious rights. We are in general, rule followers who bring the truth out into the open as we question, push and advocate for change of illogical laws and anything less than forthright, even handed enforcement of the law.

Don’t let anyone lump us in with deliberate polygamists and advocates of child marriage, either. The great majority of Texas Freepers supported our Defense of Marriage Act and Constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. A lot of us fought to protect our daughters and sons by standardizing the age of consent.

Neither should anyone malign the law enforcement in Texas, including the CPS workers. Everyone tried to follow the law, step by step. Before the Texas Supreme Court ruling and even since, lawyers have been debating the fine point of the definition of “household” in a communal setting with illegal polygamist adults and children who aren’t sure who their biological mothers and siblings are. By looking around in the light - even before the safes were opened or any DNA tested - their eyes gave evidence of girls who were pregnant and/or mothers while under age as well as many more women who were joined to illegal and immoral “marriages” while under the age of consent, but have passed their 18th birthday. (What is the statute of limitations for child rape and polygamy, I wonder?)

The dispute is whether the girls and children should have been moved without a warrant issued for each mother or to place the limits on them that the TxSC listed.

Many of us question whether it was appropriate to allow the mothers to leave and stay with their children. This is not the usual practice when children are removed from abusive homes. One of the early articles mentioned that the families were taken to family shelters set up for victims of domestic abuse. Letting the moms go with the children was probably a compassionate decision. (and another example that no good deed goes un-punished.)


55 posted on 06/11/2008 6:57:36 AM PDT by hocndoc (http://www.LifeEthics.org (I have a mustard seed and I'm not afraid to use it.))
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To: hocndoc

“Freepers shouldn’t feel more than a twinge of identification with these cultists......”

This entire post of yours is great and nothing more needs to be said.


85 posted on 06/11/2008 7:35:58 AM PDT by demshateGod (the GOP is dead to me)
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To: hocndoc
...allow the mothers to leave and stay with their children. This is not the usual practice when children are removed from abusive homes.

It is not the usual practice to remove children from a household without making every reasonable effort to keep the child in the household, as required by the law. Furthermore, the CPS doesn't get to assume for any longer than fourteen days that a home is abusive. They have to PROVE it within that time limit FOR EACH CHILD TAKEN, period. There is no dispute about this. The CPS know the requirements of the law backwards and forwards. This is their INDUSTRY. Anyone with an ounce of common sense knew or should have known that once they started seizing HUNDREDS of Children from their parents it would be completely and utterly impossible to provide the required individual proof with respect to each child taken, which is exactly what happened, with the possible exception of one underage female out of 563 children seized.

The State in conjunction with a CYA, rubber stamp judge, abused over 450 children by separation trauma for two months with absolutely no justification, rational or legal, for doing so. They did so knowing full well the absolutely devastating impact that separation from parents can have on young children, and they did it anyway. If the people responsible for making these idiotic decisions were actually trying to follow the law instead of just exercising their hubris biceps, then they are completely incompetent and should be fired.

Not that that will actually happen. As things are, they will probably get a promotion. I'm told here by others that this is all just S.O.P. God help us.

FAMILY COURT - TEXAS STYLE

Cordially,

107 posted on 06/11/2008 8:26:12 AM PDT by Diamond
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To: hocndoc

Great post!

susie


164 posted on 06/11/2008 11:07:32 AM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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