Imagine this scenario: You are a poor, working class person who works hard to maintain a reasonable standard of living. You work hard, earn a aycheck, come home at night, and are in most ways a respectable citizen. Your one vice is coming home and playing your Clash records so loud you have one of your neighbors pounding and screaming on the walls.

your neighbor gets mad, calls crimestoppers, and anonymously reports that you are a drug dealer. He fictitiously reports that people come by your house at all hours and come in and out, and that he has witnessed these transactions.

The next day, DEA shows up at your door. You refuse them entry, they insist it is their right, and shove their way past. They search through your computer,  your drawers, your kitchen cabinets, every place that drugs might possibly be present. They see nothing, yet leave, unconvinced.

They return the following day and break down the door after you again attempt to refuse them entry. When you refuse to comply with their demands, they spray you with pepper spray and take you into custody. You're not given any criminal trial, but instead are sued civilly for drug use, and the evidence against you is mostly perjured evidence. Your neighbor who filed the report is not required to testify, as his anonymity is their primary concern. As a result of the civil action, under "zero tolerance" rules, your car and stereo are stolen and your bank accounts seized. No warrants were ever issued, no court orders obtained. And the stigma of your implied guilt leaves you virtually unemployable in your small community.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm guessing the ACLU would have a field day with this. Human rights organizations would be all over this and you would probably win a rather large settlement against them.

Now, leaving almost everything else the same, substitute "drug dealer" for "child abuser". And instead of seizing property, CPS agents kidnap your children. Without warrants, often without court orders, but claiming an "imminent danger" without having to cite just what they found in the home that constitutes "imminent danger".

The ACLU? nonexistent. Ironic, isn't it, that an organization that supports the rights of an individual to RAPE a child (NAMBLA, anyone?) would turn their noses up at a parent who chooses to SPANK a child, a controversial method of punishment that while I see as usually misguided, does have some support among credible child rearing specialists.

I have said this time and time again, but a few recent responses have made it necessary for me to repeat it: I DO NOT support child abusers, I detest them! But our methods of attacking the innocent to identify the guilty SHOULD be called into question for the violations of our civil liberties that they have become. But the same self appointed "vanguards of liberty" who yell out about the Patriot Act or NSA wiretaps remain silent while over a half million children linger in foster care, most of their parents never even CHARGED with criminal wrongdoing and fewer still actually convicted.

This is precisely and most pointedly why I personally cannot reconcile with the Democratic Party in America. I was spoonfed the words of Reverend Martin Neimoeller from as early as I could recite them by a father who stood up for human rights in other nations, but remained silent when the rights of individuals within the US were violated so egregiously, even himself participating in the process of using CPS as a weapon in a way that directly resulted in the deaths of two of my brothers. I was not strong enough to stand up for them then, but I am NOW.

More than any writer on any single subject on this site, I have met the burden of proof for my accusations against CPS. I've given dates, times, documentation enough to formulate a rather compelling, scholarly piece. And with that evidence I have provided solutions that would give us tools to bring REAL child abusers to justice, while respecting the right of the innocent. And many of you have listened. But a few have made a point of branding me a "fringe radical" and accusing me of abuse. And, despite meeting the burden of proof, many on the left have refused to even consider enacting reforms because they consider me a conservative.

I have no use for an individual who will defend the rights of the guilty while infringing on the rights of the innocent. Civil liberties are civil liberties, and we need to protect them for ALL Americans!