[Truant Mom]

As of this post (10/21/02) no one, including Patricia's husband, Ray, has heard from her in prison since October 16. Ray has not been allowed to visit Patricia either or his children. ABC 22 TV reporters in Burlington, Vermont have also been given the run-a-round and have not been allowed in to see Patricia O'Dell. Something fishy going on here, folks. Time to write the Warden at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility, 7 Farrell St., Burlington, VT 05401 and ask him what is up with this. This is the same jail where Karen Maple was for 14 days.

I, for one, want to know exactly what was Patricia's crime prior to September 13, 2002?

[ReadMyMind]

From the article:

"The basis for the children being taken into custody was educational neglect."

[Gophack]

Prayers for the O'Dell Family from California.

[Tired of Taxes]

Ping

[AppyPappy]

When questioned by Judge Howard about her refusal to submit to being photographed and fingerprinted Mrs. O'Dell informed him she believes a person is innocent until proven guilty and the procedure violates her rights.

I guess she cares more about clean fingers than her kids. It only takes one nut to give all homeschoolers a black eye.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Here is a parent who knows where her children are all day long. They are not out looting the neighbors. Their crime is they are white and they refuse to submit to the socialist teaching complex of administrators and teachers.

Now go to any urban setting and many of the black children are failing in school, are absent more often than not from school, and are active in criminal enterprises. Their mothers don't know where thir kids are most of the time. Yet, the socialist complex of psycholgists and government administrators continue to fund and enable these fatherless families and don't take the kids away from their drug ridden mothers.

[Teacher317]

"educational neglect"?!? Since when have parents owed any amount of education to the state?

[southern rock]

Robson allegedly then placed his knee in Mrs. O'Dell's back and cuffed her hands behind her back. Officer Robson then tightened his grip on her arm while twisting it in an attempt to prevent her from shouting to her family members to not let the other officers into her mother's home without a search warrant, according to Mrs. O'Dell.

A real tough guy.

Robson was there that day with several other officers to take Mrs. O'Dell's four children into state custody for what he describes in his affidavit as "The basis for the children being taken into custody was educational neglect."

I guess all children really do belong to the state. They are just on loan to the parents.

[timestax]

W.T.F. is going on in our Republic???!!

[Red Jones]

poor Mrs. O'Dell; and I see Vermont has a group of storm troopers loose.

[justshutupandtakeit]

From the educational background of Mom and Pop it looks like the kids are going to get a real gud ejecation. They are probably humilitated by their parents antics.

[Eva]

Ah, again we have special education qualified children who don't wish to attend public schools. It all comes down to money.

[Saundra Duffy]

This is so frightening. God help this family. Amen.

[Freedom2specul8]

I couldn't read anymore after reading the part about her daughter in the woods during squirrel hunting season. Oh my gosh..what a nightmare. :(

[herewego]

Those damned state thugs just insist on pushing State
sponsored socialism on all the kids ala, local indoctrination station .
Even the peeps on a "conservative" site insist on guvmint
control. That should be the message to all homeschoolers that they are doing the RIGHT thing.

[rmvh]

On Wednesday, October 16, Patricia L. O'Dell, 34, of S. Newfane, was arrested at 3:05 pm at the Bennington District Court in Bennington, Vermont for contempt of court.

Exactly what was the specific cause of her first arrest....i.e. what was the original complaint in this entire saga?

This seems to have been left out.

[Straight Vermonter]

Lets not forget that Vermont has a long and terrible record for dealing with people who have different views on child rearing.

Island Pond Raid

[patriot_wes]

This work is being done by volunteers from Vermont, New York, New Hampshire and Massachusetts who will donate their time, money and materials for the project at no cost to the O'Dell family. these are the good Americans

and the Newfane Town Selectboard, the Town Constable, and the Windham County Sheriff's Department..and these are the communist/socialists!

[MrB]

This proves the point that everything the gov't wants to do is done through the barrel of a gun.

[don-o]

bump for later read.

[ZULU]

THIS is why there is a Second Amendment!!

What do you expect from a state like Tomjeffordsland, another colony of left-wing bolshevic immigrants from that great sewer and oozing pustulence on the face of America - New York City. As in New Jersey and Florida, the urban liberal scum from the rotten big apple have invaded and taken over Vermont and control its government.

These people are capable of little more than reproducing themselves at an alarming rate, and imposing their leftist, social-welfare, European oriented social structures on American territory.