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SPIRITUAL LIFE: A modern-day Inquisition in Texas
SPIRITUAL LIFE: A modern-day Inquisition in Texas
http://www.patriotledger.com/lifesty...ition-in-Texas By SUZETTE MARTINEZ STANDRING For The Patriot Ledger Posted Jun 10, 2008 @ 10:25 AM It took two months, but roughly 430 children are finally returning home after a raid on their polygamist sect’s ranch brought them into the labyrinth of the Texas court system. A modern-day witchhunt – based on sensationalized but unproven allegations of a community’s 15- and 16-year-olds being forced into marriage – and it unfolded before our eyes. How, exactly, is the investigation of forced marriage served by taking away babies, toddlers and school-age children from their mothers? This forcible rending of child from mother is nothing more than a state-sanctioned form of torture. To date, there has been no proof of widespread child abuse within the individual families at the Yearning For Zion Ranch run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. But the community has been criminalized as a group – a point recognized last week by the state Supreme Court and an appeals court in ordering the return of the children. ``This is about children who are at imminent risk of harm,'' Texas Child Protective Service’s Marleigh Meisner said in an early report. And how right she was. The certain trauma the children must have felt at being herded onto a bus, given into the care of strangers indefinitely, and watching their weeping mothers held back at gunpoint. How far-reaching are these tactics? One could make the same ``protective'' argument for kids anywhere else. Let’s pretend that rumors indicate a student body suffers from failing grades, teen pregnancy or brushes with the law. Then one day a government agency decides their parents are unfit and so they dragnet all of the students into ``protective custody.'' How would you feel about being funneled into that nightmare? In this country, one is allowed to face their accuser, but there is no accuser in this case. The raid on the 1,700-acre compound was based on an alleged phone call made on a borrowed cell phone by a ``Sarah'' who reported being raped, beaten and cowed into a forced marriage. This ``Sarah'' has never been located. Foul play? Maybe, but with all the high-tech surveillance available, why hasn’t the owner of the borrowed cell phone been located? Perhaps the phone call was a hoax or maybe it was staged to justify the raid. (The government spreading misinformation to justify their actions? Surely not). Make no mistake. Fully punish those guilty of forcing minors into marriages, and of rape and other violence. But the wholesale tearing apart of families is a dangerous precedent. We are being duped into criminal complicity against our own system of due process. Child abuse is a very specific crime. There must be evidence within a particular family that warrants intervention. Charges must be individual-specific, not community-wide. Full protection of individual rights is what sets the United States apart from the rest of the world. Our system of justice is founded on ``innocent until proven guilty.'' Yet scores of bewildered and terrorized women lost their children with no individual charges ever being filed. An agency’s rules should never supersede the U.S. Constitution. Child protective services claims that mere suspicion is enough to take widespread action, and their rules support this. Objection! Then aren’t we all in danger? Mere suspicion isn’t made of much. Protesting quasi-Gestapo tactics is not the same as condoning child abuse. Be careful of advocating such broad, overreaching policies. Going down the path of so-called ``collective good'' puts us on the same footing as China, a government with sweeping and invasive powers. Remember, that China’s draconian ``one baby'' policy was born of good intentions – to reduce explosive population growth in a culture where having eight to 10 children was considered a personal blessing. But with the goal of societal good came enforced sterilization, baby murder and other horrors. Our moral compass is broken if we believe wholesale persecution is the safest approach to child protection. Email Suzette Standring at . An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and the Child Protection "INDUSTRY" Child Protective Services Does not protect children... It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of CPS. every parent should read the free handbook from connecticut dcf watch... http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US These numbers come from The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN) Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS Perpetrators of Maltreatment Physical Abuse CPS/Foster care 160, biological Parents 59 Sexual Abuse CPS/Foster care 112, biological Parents 13 Neglect CPS/Foster care 410, biological Parents 241 Medical Neglect CPS/Foster care 14 biological Parents 12 Fatalities CPS/Foster care 6.4, biological Parents 1.5 Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per 100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a bunch of social workers. THIS IS AMERICA'S HIDDEN HOLOCAUST Currently Child Protective Services violates more constitutionally guaranteed liberties & civil rights on a daily basis then all other agencies combined, Including the National Security agency/Central intelligence agency wiretaping programs… THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District of Georgia http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/...s.php?filter=6 This is Child Protection? By Gregory A. Hession, J.D. http://www.jbs.org/node/4632 Mercenary Motherhood: "Memoirs of a Babystealer." http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...nion-rightrail FOSTER CARE IS A 80 PERCENT FAILU. A Brief Analysis of the Casey Family Programs. Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study. By Richard Wexler http://www.nccpr.org/reports/cfpanalysis.doc HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN http://www.nccpr.org/issues/1.html Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness DSS and affiliates rewarded for breaking up families By Nev Moore Massachusetts News http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/...May/mayds4.htm A recent study has found that 12-18 months after leaving foster ca 30% of the nation’s homeless are former foster children. 27% of the males and 10% of the females had been incarcerated 33% were receiving public assistance 37% had not finished high school 2% receive a college degree 50% were unemployed Children in foster care are three to six times more likely than children not in care to have emotional, behavioral and developmental problems, including conduct disorders, depression, difficulties in school and impaired social relationships. Some experts estimate that about 30% of the children in care have marked or severe emotional problems. Various studies have indicated that children and young people in foster care tend to have limited education and job skills, perform poorly in school compared to children who are not in foster care, lag behind in their education by at least one year, and have lower educational attainment than the general population. *Casey Family Programs National Center for Resource Family Support 80 percent of prison inmates have been through the foster care system. The highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care, Wade Horn of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a former child psychologist who says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blown up. http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=2017991 Four rigorous studies have found that at least 30 percent of America’s foster children could be home right now if their parents had decent housing. This study found thousands of children already in foster care who would have done better had child protection agencies not taken them away in the first place. Front-page story in USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...m?csp=34#Close Read the studies online. Casey "alumni" study: "Improving Family Foster Ca Findings from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study," http://www.casey.org/Resources/Publi...lumniStudy.htm MIT study: "Child Protection and Child Outcomes: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care," http://www.mit.edu/~jjdoyle/doyle_fo...arch07_aer.pdf http://www.cftl.org/documents/2008/FCfullreport.pdf Texas comptroller's "Forgotten Children" reports: www.window.state.tx.us/forgottenchildren The bottom line? - Child Protective Services and the Foster Care system for the most part turns out young adults that are nothing more than walking wreckage... CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED LIBERTIES & CIVIL RIGHTS ON A DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAMS.... CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES, HAPPILY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT FAMILIES YEARLY NATIONWIDE AND COMING TO YOU'RE HOME SOON... BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION... |
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