[ConstitutionLover]

What a ridiculous analogy! I never heard of a "taxation plan." To equate a one or two page education plan with the issues the colonists were facing (taxation without representation, forced quartering of troops, confiscation of arms, religious and speech restrictions etc.) makes a mockery of what this country fought for in the 18th century. John Adams and the rest of the founding fathers would be insulted by your comments!

Do you really believe this man was arrested for not going to a meeting???? The parents had the right to teach what they want but because of their refusal to simply inform anyone else, they lost that right and custody of their children. They brought this whole mess on themselves.

[CyberCowboy777]

John Adams and the rest of the founding fathers would be insulted by your comments!

You are totally void of the spirit of the Founding Fathers. You would give up liberty in order to secure your ideas of social progress.

Unless you can prove that these kids were 'hurt' by a factual reasonable standard there is no justification for the state to be involved.

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
- Daniel Webster

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
- C.S. Lewis

[CyberCowboy777]

Do you really believe this man was arrested for not going to a meeting????

George Bryant said he was arrested six years ago, after not attending a meeting that the city contends he was summoned to. The meeting was called by the Waltham School Department for his failure to send his children to school.

How much capitulation should we give the government regarding our inalienable right to self-determination? How much Government involvement is to much? When can we say enough is enough? When they start teaching what they feel like and stop teaching what the parents want? When they start arresting people for not going to school meetings? When they start arresting and taking children because the parents do not want them to take a test.

When will you get your hands off my life? I am not hurting you body or property.