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To: Jethro Tull
Something awful happened in Jenin and we'll discover the truth in due time.

A little while back the local thugs from Children's Protective Services showed up at my door. Apparently someone told them that we were witholding food from our children. It was now up to me to prove that I never did. I showed them my healthy children. That wasn't good enough. They asked the children if we ever refused to give them food and the children categorically denied it. That wasn't good enough. We gave them access to medical records. That wasn't good enough. We had their doctor write a letter. That wasn't good enough. We got testimonial letters from their teachers (including a personal gym trainer). That wasn't good enough. It took additional blood work and a visit to a nutritionist to satisfy them - all because of a phone call by another suspicious (and probaby competitive) person set them on our tail and we had to prove a negative against no substantive evidence of a positive.

Forgive me if this sounds a little personal, but you sound just like those thugs. We don't know anything went on there but what the facts reveal. It isn't up to Israel to prove they never did anything just because some people are suspicious. It is up to the suspicious people to provide some proof.

Provide some proof, any proof, and I will be up in front with you demanding an investigation. But if all you have is "something must have happened" then I must politely ask you to, in the words of Katherine Hepburn, "get permanently lost".

Shalom.

46 posted on 04/17/2002 7:45:52 AM PDT by ArGee
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To: ArGee
A little while back the local thugs from Children's Protective Services showed up at my door. Apparently someone told them that we were witholding food from our children. It was now up to me to prove that I never did. I showed them my healthy children. That wasn't good enough. They asked the children if we ever refused to give them food and the children categorically denied it. That wasn't good enough. We gave them access to medical records. That wasn't good enough. We had their doctor write a letter. That wasn't good enough. We got testimonial letters from their teachers (including a personal gym trainer). That wasn't good enough. It took additional blood work and a visit to a nutritionist to satisfy them - all because of a phone call by another suspicious (and probaby competitive) person set them on our tail and we had to prove a negative against no substantive evidence of a positive.

You got off lucky. CPS routinely abducts such children and once in their custody they get them to say whatever CPS wants them to say. And even if that is the ONLY evidence, they'll use it to convict you (juvenile/family court does not follow due process/preponderance of the evidence/etc.) and permanently remove your children from your home into the abusive foster care system (50% of all child abuse deaths occur in foster care/a child is 10 times more likely to be abused in foster care than anywhere else). You are so lucky as are your children.

As for Jethro Tull, he and I have, in the past, been on the same sheet of music. The disonant chords he's striking here baffle me. He's lost it or something.

48 posted on 04/17/2002 7:59:08 AM PDT by Spiff
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