Saturday, April 19, 2008

Children are Always the Victims


Reminiscent of Waco, America experiences yet another “Jack Booted” attack on children all in the name of “Child Protection

By de Andréa

Another sad case of children caught up in a tornado of what we have come to call justice. One can only hope that this doesn’t turn out to be indicative of what our justice system has been morphed into, to create yet another blemish on American history.

In the case of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) alleged child abuse matter, I at least at this point tend to fall onto the church’s side in the so-called separation of church and state. If the children were not the victims of abuse by their parents they now for sure are victims of abuse by the State Child Protection Services (CPS)

We should keep in mind that the allegations against the FLDS remain speculative and unproven, yet the government police state nanny’s, rushed in and disrupted whole families on the basis of a single phone call from a teenager who, if she even exists, can’t be found.

I any case, the state is ill-equipped to deal with 400-plus youngsters that it has torn from the bosoms of their mothers in the guise of protecting them from alleged abuses.

It’s obvious that the government, which is great at starting wars and taxing the citizenry to pay for some of the worst hare-brained schemes imaginable, hasn’t got the slightest idea of how to raise children. They know how to take children from their homes but they don’t know how to raise them once they’ve got them in their hands. Yet the idea that the government is better equipped than parents to raise children is widespread among the hate America liberals who lust after inserting the power of the state into the very heart of the American family.

The reality is that when you take children from their mothers and put them in the hands of the state or its subordinate agents, you ultimately do more damage to them than almost any abuse they might have suffered at home. Children who are wards of the state inherently end up on drugs, in prison or dead before they even reach adulthood.

These children should be with their mothers, who may be as much a victim as their children are alleged to be. Splitting them up from their mother and their siblings is not going to be performing a service to these kids. Just because we don’t agree with their lifestyle, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the State can do a better job than the mothers can do in raising them.

We should bear in mind that the allegations against the FLDS remain speculative and unproven, yet the government has already rushed in and disrupted whole families on the basis of a single phone call from a teenager who, if she even exists, can’t be found.

Lest we forget we have been through all of this kind of thing before. In the McMartin pre-school case during the 1980s, California government agencies acted on rumors that turned out to be absolutely false. As Doug Linder wrote in 2003, the resulting McMartin preschool abuse trial, which he called “the longest and most expensive criminal trial in American history,” created a seven-year, $15 million investigation that led to not a single conviction. “More seriously, the McMartin case left in its wake hundreds of emotionally damaged children, as well as ruined careers for members of the McMartin staff,” Linder recalled.

I’m not saying that the FLDS case is a replay of that notorious miscarriage of justice, but we surely must keep in mind the lessons it taught us about rushing to judgment and endangering the welfare of children before the real facts are known.

Finally, we should be thankful that it is not Bill Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno running this operation against the FLDS Waco-style. If she were, by now the moms and their children would probably all be charred bodies in the smoking ruins of their compound.

THE BOTTOM LINE: The FLDS has been in that same location, living the same life style for many years and yet all those years they have robbed no banks, sold, grown, or used no drugs, none of them have ever been arrested for vandalism or even for graffiti tagging. One would have to assume that they have done something right

In any case what ever happened to investigation to determine if a crime has even been committed before we sent in S.W.A.T. to round up all the usual suspects? And then we could arrest just those who have actually committed a crime. What a novel idea! It is likely the children are not the criminals in this case, and their mother’s crime may at worst have been that of an enabler. And yet the children have been arrested and the mothers are victims of the State. All in the name of protection…

de Andréa

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