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SWAT-Team Attacks Home-School Family
There is more than one way to skin a home schooler. If the government can’t get them for truancy, then they will get them for being a parent.
By de Andréa
January 30, 2008
This is of particular interest to me, because a similar thing happened in my home more than two decades ago. The do-gooder Child Protection Agency, accompanied by the police, pushed their way into my home and without a warrant took my son, they would not tell me where they were taking him or why they were taking him, moreover I did not see nor hear from him for five days. I had to threaten them with a civil liable suit as well as a criminal complaint in order to get him back, with that they said er, well, okay, we will release him into your custody. Custody my @#%* & %$#, I am his parent…
The following happened to a family in Garfield Colorado, no not in China or the Sudan, but right here in the “good ole U.S.A, the world’s example of “Liberty and Freedom”. If it hasn’t happened to you yet, then its is just a matter of time.
Nearly a dozen members of a police SWAT team rammed the front door down, and at gunpoint invaded the home of 11-year-old John Shiflett .in western Colorado. The cops demanded the boy go to a doctor because of a fall during some sibling horseplay the day before. They punched a hole in the front door and invaded a family's home with guns drawn, by the order of the Garfield County Magistrate Judge Leoniak in Colorado.
The boy's parents and siblings were violently thrown to the floor at gunpoint and the parents were handcuffed in the weekend assault, and the boy's father said it was all because a paramedic was upset that the family preferred to care for their son themselves.
Someone, apparently the unidentified paramedic, called police, the sheriff's office and social services, eventually providing Judge Leoniak with a report that generated the magistrate's court order to the sheriff's office for the SWAT team assault on the family's home in a mobile home development outside of Glenwood Springs.
Sheriff Lou Vallario, said he was given a court order by the magistrate to seize the child, and arrange for medical evaluation, and that's what we did."
According to friends of the family, Tom Shiflett, who has 10 children including six still at home, had served as a military paramedic in Vietnam, and was monitoring his son's condition himself.
The paramedic and magistrate, however, ruled that it wasn't adequate, and dispatched the officers to take Shiflett’s son John, to a hospital, where a doctor evaluated him and released him immediately.
The accident happened during horseplay between young John and his siblings where he slipped, fell to the ground and hit his head, Shiflett said.
Mr. Shiflett immediately carried his son into their home several doors away, and John was able to recite Bible verses and correctly spell words as his father and mother, Tina, requested. There were no broken bones, no dilated eyes, or any other noticeable problems. The family, whose members live by faith and home-school their children, decided not to call an ambulance. However, a neighbor did call Westcare Ambulance, and paramedics responded to the home, asking to see and evaluate the boy.
The paramedics were allowed to see the boy, and found no significant impairment, but wanted to take him to the hospital for an evaluation anyway. Fearing the unnecessary hospital bills, the family refused to allow that.
"This apparently did not go over well with one of the paramedics and they started getting aggravated at Tom for not letting them have their way. The paramedics were not at all respectful of Tom's decision, nor did they act in a manner we would expect from professional paramedics," said an acquaintance of the family.
The ambulance crew, called police, only to be told the decision was up to the Shiflett family. The paramedics then called the sheriff's office, and officers responded to the home, and were told everyone was being cared for.
Then the next day, the nanny social service workers appeared at the door and demanded to talk with John in private. They were so persistent that Tom ended up having to get John out of the bathtub, to bring him to the front porch where the social workers could see him, the family reported.
Then, following an afternoon shopping trip to town, the family settled in for the evening, only to be brutally attacked by the police SWAT team. The sheriff said the decision to use SWAT was justified because the father was a "self-proclaimed Constitutionalist". [Well of course, that should be grounds for arrest and indictment right there; he also had home-schooled most of his children.] The sheriff however, declined to provide a single instance of the father's illegal behavior. "I can't tell you specifically," he said, “but he was refusing to provide medical care."
The new “Liberal Fascists” obviously believe that “Professional Medical Care” is not just a right, but it is now the dictated law. More fascist legislation from the bench. A kind of make it up as you go government. Mmmm, it seams that I have read something about this kind of government in places like China, North Korea, Cuba and the little countries in Central Africa. I wonder how that is working out for them.
Officials with the Home School Legal Defense Association reported they were looking into the case, because of requests from family friends who are members of the organization.
As in the case of law enforcement, police usually look for a motive for the crime. It should be quite evident that the motive here by the “Police State” was that the Shiflett family were Constitutional Americans and believed in the 10th Amendment right to be responsible for the education and care of their own children, and the strong arm of the law was going to put a stop to that one way or another.
The Colorado sheriff who dispatched a SWAT team to break into a family's home, hold them at gunpoint and take custody of an 11-year-old boy for a medical exam sought by Social Services is defending his actions, saying the boy's father told officers to "bring an army" if they returned.
However, the "Search warrant and order for medical treatment" that was issued by the court ignored the parental treatment of Jonathan's injury, instead finding he was injured, and "Thomas Shiflett, refused to allow the minor child to have medical attention. …"
SWAT-Team Attacks Home-School Family
There is more than one way to skin a home schooler. If the government can’t get them for truancy, then they will get them for being a parent.
By de Andréa
January 30, 2008
This is of particular interest to me, because a similar thing happened in my home more than two decades ago. The do-gooder Child Protection Agency, accompanied by the police, pushed their way into my home and without a warrant took my son, they would not tell me where they were taking him or why they were taking him, moreover I did not see nor hear from him for five days. I had to threaten them with a civil liable suit as well as a criminal complaint in order to get him back, with that they said er, well, okay, we will release him into your custody. Custody my @#%* & %$#, I am his parent…
The following happened to a family in Garfield Colorado, no not in China or the Sudan, but right here in the “good ole U.S.A, the world’s example of “Liberty and Freedom”. If it hasn’t happened to you yet, then its is just a matter of time.
Nearly a dozen members of a police SWAT team rammed the front door down, and at gunpoint invaded the home of 11-year-old John Shiflett .in western Colorado. The cops demanded the boy go to a doctor because of a fall during some sibling horseplay the day before. They punched a hole in the front door and invaded a family's home with guns drawn, by the order of the Garfield County Magistrate Judge Leoniak in Colorado.
The boy's parents and siblings were violently thrown to the floor at gunpoint and the parents were handcuffed in the weekend assault, and the boy's father said it was all because a paramedic was upset that the family preferred to care for their son themselves.
Someone, apparently the unidentified paramedic, called police, the sheriff's office and social services, eventually providing Judge Leoniak with a report that generated the magistrate's court order to the sheriff's office for the SWAT team assault on the family's home in a mobile home development outside of Glenwood Springs.
Sheriff Lou Vallario, said he was given a court order by the magistrate to seize the child, and arrange for medical evaluation, and that's what we did."
According to friends of the family, Tom Shiflett, who has 10 children including six still at home, had served as a military paramedic in Vietnam, and was monitoring his son's condition himself.
The paramedic and magistrate, however, ruled that it wasn't adequate, and dispatched the officers to take Shiflett’s son John, to a hospital, where a doctor evaluated him and released him immediately.
The accident happened during horseplay between young John and his siblings where he slipped, fell to the ground and hit his head, Shiflett said.
Mr. Shiflett immediately carried his son into their home several doors away, and John was able to recite Bible verses and correctly spell words as his father and mother, Tina, requested. There were no broken bones, no dilated eyes, or any other noticeable problems. The family, whose members live by faith and home-school their children, decided not to call an ambulance. However, a neighbor did call Westcare Ambulance, and paramedics responded to the home, asking to see and evaluate the boy.
The paramedics were allowed to see the boy, and found no significant impairment, but wanted to take him to the hospital for an evaluation anyway. Fearing the unnecessary hospital bills, the family refused to allow that.
"This apparently did not go over well with one of the paramedics and they started getting aggravated at Tom for not letting them have their way. The paramedics were not at all respectful of Tom's decision, nor did they act in a manner we would expect from professional paramedics," said an acquaintance of the family.
The ambulance crew, called police, only to be told the decision was up to the Shiflett family. The paramedics then called the sheriff's office, and officers responded to the home, and were told everyone was being cared for.
Then the next day, the nanny social service workers appeared at the door and demanded to talk with John in private. They were so persistent that Tom ended up having to get John out of the bathtub, to bring him to the front porch where the social workers could see him, the family reported.
Then, following an afternoon shopping trip to town, the family settled in for the evening, only to be brutally attacked by the police SWAT team. The sheriff said the decision to use SWAT was justified because the father was a "self-proclaimed Constitutionalist". [Well of course, that should be grounds for arrest and indictment right there; he also had home-schooled most of his children.] The sheriff however, declined to provide a single instance of the father's illegal behavior. "I can't tell you specifically," he said, “but he was refusing to provide medical care."
The new “Liberal Fascists” obviously believe that “Professional Medical Care” is not just a right, but it is now the dictated law. More fascist legislation from the bench. A kind of make it up as you go government. Mmmm, it seams that I have read something about this kind of government in places like China, North Korea, Cuba and the little countries in Central Africa. I wonder how that is working out for them.
Officials with the Home School Legal Defense Association reported they were looking into the case, because of requests from family friends who are members of the organization.
As in the case of law enforcement, police usually look for a motive for the crime. It should be quite evident that the motive here by the “Police State” was that the Shiflett family were Constitutional Americans and believed in the 10th Amendment right to be responsible for the education and care of their own children, and the strong arm of the law was going to put a stop to that one way or another.
The Colorado sheriff who dispatched a SWAT team to break into a family's home, hold them at gunpoint and take custody of an 11-year-old boy for a medical exam sought by Social Services is defending his actions, saying the boy's father told officers to "bring an army" if they returned.
However, the "Search warrant and order for medical treatment" that was issued by the court ignored the parental treatment of Jonathan's injury, instead finding he was injured, and "Thomas Shiflett, refused to allow the minor child to have medical attention. …"
"The court finds that there is probable cause to believe … Thomas Shiflett, the biological father of the minor child, Jonathan Shiflett, has mistreated the minor child due to his failure to provide the minor child with proper or necessary medical care …" the document said.
Eventually, the court-ordered doctor's exam resulted in instructions to the family to treat Jonathan's injuries with ice and painkillers, the exact treatment they already had been doing before the ambulance even arrived.
But the order included no recommendation for a SWAT team campaign, only directing the sheriff's office to "search the home … and to take the minor child, Jonathan Shiflett, into immediate custody."
Our Rights Are Only In The Movies
Tina Shiflett, Jonathan's mother, wrote in a letter that she considered the actions "Nazi" tactics and reported that the SWAT officers told her that her "rights" were "only in the movies."
During the attack, his mother wrote, "One (officer) grabbed my daughter Beth (18 years), who also had a gun to her face, slammed her down and kneed her in the back and held her in that position… My sons Adam (14) and Noah (only 7) lay down willingly, yet they were still forced to put their hands behind their backs and were yelled at to keep their heads down.
"My daughter Jeanette was coming out from the back bedroom when she was grabbed, drug down the hallway, across a couch and slammed to the ground," she said. "The officers then began throwing scissors and screwdrivers across the room (out of our reach, I suppose) and going through our cupboards.
One can only wonder of they thought young John might have been in a kitchen cupboard, since this is the only thing the search the warrant would allow. .
"I asked if I could make a phone call and was told, 'no.' my daughter asked if that wasn't one of our rights. The reply was made, 'That's only in the movies,'" she said.
To the SWAT Team members she asked … “how far will you go in 'just doing your job?’ If you feel no guilt busting into an innocent family's home, traumatizing young children, if told to do so, will you follow more horrific orders?"
"May I remind you that in Nazi Germany, outrageous, monstrous crimes were committed by soldiers 'just doing their job?’ What will be next? Where will this stop?" she said.
THE BOTTOM LINE: While people can debate whether or not the father should have brought his son to the E.R. – it seems like this was not the kind of emergency that warrants this kind of outrageous “Jack booted” conduct by government officials, unless of course one lives in a “Police State”. Since these kinds of incidences are on the rise in the past couple of decades, and for the most part are excused or go completely unnoticed, I can honestly say, if this is allowed to continue we will cross that line into a police state.
Tom Shiflett said when John was evaluated by the physician as well as the Paramedics on the scene, "they didn't find anything wrong with him." He said the paramedics never should have entered his home, but they followed his wife through the front door when she came in.
He said the SWAT team punched a hole in his door with a ramrod, and the first officer in the home pointed a gun right in the face of Tom's 20-year-old daughter. "I don't know how social services ever got started, or where they got their authority," he said. "But I want to know why we have something in this country that violates parental rights.”
He said he saw a multitude of injuries in Vietnam, and while he recognized that his son needed to be watched, he was not willing to turn his child over to the paramedics. With 10 children, most of them older than John, it’s not as if he hasn't seen a bruise or two. Now I'm hunting for lawyers that will take the case … I'm going to sue everybody whose name was on that page right down to the judge," he said.
Mike Donnelly, a lawyer with the HSLDA, said the case had a set of circumstances that could be problematic for authorities.
"In Doe V. Heck, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals held that parents have a fundamental right to familial relations including a liberty interest in the care, custody and control of their children," he said. He also said many social services agencies including the child protection agency apply "a one size fits all approach" to cases, regardless of circumstances.
I just wonder of Judge Leoniak will pay for having the front door of the Shiflett home repaired. Probably not, this new “Fascist Nanny Police State” that we seem to be evolving into, is anything but responsible …
If one dares to exercise the Constitutional documented inalienable rights of a liberal fascist police state, then I guess one should expect to be in trouble…
Do you think this is may be why the Framers wrote the Second Amendment …”for the security of a free State”. Naw; couldn’t be…
Keep a close eye on the right to bear arms; our liberal controlling government is desperately trying to get rid of that threat to their Dynasty. Remember, it is the final barrier between your freedom and their tyranny.
de Andréa
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