The Family Under Attack - Does the State Own YOUR Children?

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Sorry for going off-topic, but am i really off-topic? Consider having

your children abducted, would that not affect your health? How would

you heal from your children kidnapped?

 

Pray tell me, for i do not know...

 

Kris

 

The Family Under Attack - Does the State Own YOUR Children?

by Carter Braxton

 

" The children are in a position to no longer on a daily basis be

influenced by adults who have encouraged a code of silence, " said

Darrell Azar, a spokesman for Child Protective Services. " Now that

they are away from that influence they may become more comfortable,

and we will have a better chance of learning the truth. "

 

The first thing I'm going to say is that removal of children from the

home is sometimes justified. Children are individuals too and as such

have rights, including the right to be free from the unjustified use

of force. No parent has the right to physically or sexually abuse

their child.

 

The state is the arbiter of rights. It is the duty of the state to

identify where rights have been violated and to take action to correct

those wrongs. If evidence exists that a parent has exceeded (or

perverted) their authority to teach and correct, it can properly be

presented in the form of an indictment detailing the criminal acts

alleged to have been committed.

 

But the state is not a parent. Absent specific evidence of a crime, of

specific harm being done to a specific child by a specific adult (at a

specific time and place, etc.) the state has no authority to intercede

in the parent †" child relationship.

 

At least it didn’t until now.

 

Formerly, the law considered parents to have sole legal right and

responsibility for the upbringing of their children. They, and they

alone, had the right to teach, correct and protect. That it was the

right of the parent to make decisions related to the religious or

philosophical upbringing of their child rested at the very heart of

our system of liberties.

 

To replace the wisdom of the parents with the authority of the state

is to upend that system. And the movement to do just that is gaining

momentum.

 

The recent raid on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-Day Saints ( FLDS ) Yearning For Zion ( YFZ ) Ranch in Texas

(and subsequent detainment of 416 children) is a particularly

egregious example of this trend. Military tactics (machine guns and

armored personnel carriers) were used to " extricate " 416 children. No

evidence. No warrant. No charges. Just guns (and social workers, of

course).

 

And it is now being argued in court, and apparently successfully (to

judge by the continued detainment of the 416 children), that the

beliefs of the parents, in and of themselves, were harmful enough to

the children that they needed to be removed.

 

Let me repeat: none of the mothers or fathers were charged with any

specific criminal acts. Lifestyle was their crime. Religion their offense.

 

The point is not whether you share their beliefs, but whether you feel

they had the right to hold them, and to pass them on to their children.

 

The relationship between parent and child is unique. It is perhaps the

only relationship before the law where inequality of rights is

actually justified. Children have rights, but those rights cannot be

over-expanded without doing detriment to the individual child, the

family unit, and society as a whole.

 

Under the pretense of " youth rights " , or " protecting the children " ,

the state can engage in egregious acts of " reeducation " and social

engineering. By molding the minds of the young, the state can mold the

entire society. That is why parents must jealously guard their right

to parent. Acquiescence to the state’s demands to number, immunize,

psychotropically medicate, or educate your child a certain way may not

be in your child’s best interest. You, the parent, not the state, are

the one who should make these important decisions.

 

But education of children is especially the key to controlling any

society. Every successful totalitarian regime has understood this.

Independent families are a threat to the future of any totalitarian

system because they can teach children that the state is not the

benevolent master it pretends to be. That is exactly the kind of

education the state detests (and the reason you’ll never find mention

of it in any government school).

 

And perhaps, just perhaps, that’s the real reason behind some of the

government’s " child protection " actions. Perhaps the state feels the

need to " protect " children against teachings that conflict with the

interests of the state.

 

Source: http://www.nolanchart.com/article3580.html