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SPIRITUAL LIFE: A modern-day Inquisition in Texas



 
 
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Default 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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