Reading through JU's articles, I have found thst it's not just in CPS cases that people are rallying against the Constitution. Students are, of course, becoming convinced that the First Amendment goes too far, and on another conservative blogger's thread outrage over conservative Christian beliefs. Apparently, our founding fathers were morons. Freedom of religion apparently should only apply to any nonoffensive nonextreme sects bordering on universalism. Freedom of speech should similarl...
While many of my Libertarian contemporaries have taken on the US Patriot Act, I've kind of backed off on that battle for a couple of reasons. One, simply because too many people can and do state their case against the Patriot Act far more eloquently than I ever could. While I might reference them in an article from time to time, there would be too much time wasted in overpursuing that particular piece of legislation. The second reason is the reality that the provisions of the Patriot Act simply ...
As many of you know, I've written several articles detailing routine Constitutional rights violations of the Child Protective Services in the United States. On my blog the other day came yet another criticism of my anti-CPS stance. The respondent apparently thought I was responsible for posting pro-CPS rebuttals to my argument. Fact is, you can readily find several articles written that support the CPS and their actions. All you have to do is check the mainstream media. They detail the truly ...
There are people in the blogosphere who are less than thrilled with my anti-CPS agenda. They are also regular readers, and I think it only fair to express exactly WHY I write these articles detailing CPS abuses. The reason why is plain and simple: the lack of public outcry. Drudge won't touch it, nor will Limbaugh or O'Reilly. As for the lefties, they believe CPS is a godsend and that all children should be the property of the state, so as far as I'm concerned, they're beyond hope. SOMEBODY n...
Well, it's phone book season, so we had to get out and pick up phone books today. The next few days will see us delivering phone books until it's time to deliver papers, then going back and delivering phone books again...interspersed with possible brief trips to the library for computer access, the requisite java high, and occasional experimentation with sleep. All this because we can't pick up another directory route until this one's delivered, so we have to get these phone books out the door r...
Well, as you all know, the American Family Association (the organization that was wrongly slandered as calling Spongebob gay), has organized a boycott of Ford because the company donates money to gay action groups. I support their boycott, but for different reasons than you might suspect. Frankly, I can't afford a new car. Even if I could, I wouldn't be swayed by the idea of flaunting the boycott to buy one. Too much money lost in first year depreciation, and the money's better spent elsewher...
Every once in awhile I find a TV commercial I appreciate. It's not often, but it happens. But TV commercials seem to go in waves, occasionally with streams of ads that would seemingly insult the intelligence of most Americans. We've all seen the ads that leave us wondering what he hell they were advertising in the first place. But sometimes the ads where you KNOW what they're selling are just as bad. The Geico ads notwithstanding (though I think the "Energizer bunny" people should sue), there...
I truly weep for the future of America. As I look at the responses to my various articles on CPS abuses, the VAST MAJORITY of replies indicate that, the joeuser community, at least, has contempt for the guarantees of the constitution. Who cares that we have a constitutional right to confront our accuser? If you can gather information through anonymous tips, that's all you need to bust down doors and strip a mother's children from her breast! Who cares about due process? A mere allegation o...
So, Katie Holmes has decided to become a Scientologist. This'll sure help avoid an interfaith conflict, should she and Tom Cruise have children. But, honestly, it causes me to roll my eyes. I seriously can't see why anyone would be duped by Scientology, a religion whose founder, in a rare display of intellectual honesty, once stated that the best way to make millions was to start a religion...then went out to prove his thesis. Scientology, like the Hollywood version of Kaballah, is fad rel...
(editor's note: The article below was pulled from Link . What follows is incomplete, but as much of the article as I could find, except for a fragmented final paragraph, culled for clarity): A System Out of Control Armin Brott The Epidemic of False Allegations of Child Abuse Before 1973, child abuse--particularly sexual abuse--was rarely reported to authorities and frequently covered up. But that year, then-Senator Mondale sponsored legislation that took a new approach. Federal ma...
Give me your 4-year-olds, and within a generation I'll construct a Socialist State. -V.I. Lenin I have repeatedly asserted that we, as Americans, are fast becoming a socialist nation. A look at the way our society is evolving would bear this out. While the minimum age for compulsory attendance laws in any state is 6, parents have been prosecuted for truancy regarding children as young as 4 within the "Head Start" program. Child Protective Services is a willing tool...
In my previous article, I shared an article where CPS workers took a child from their parents alleging medical neglect. What shocked me was that they used an AMBER ALERT to find the child. The Amber Alert system was, and is, an important tool to find missing an exploited children. It assists authorities in the most crucial element, time. It should not EVER be allowed to be abused in the manner that it was abused by CPS workers, who seized this child based on an ANONYMOUS TIP of a "SUSPICION" ...
Texas Girl With Cancer Taken From Parents Texas Child Welfare Officials Accuse Family of Neglecting Medical Care of Girl With Cancer The Associated Press Jun. 9, 2005 - Child welfare officials seized a 12-year-old cancer patient from her parents, saying they were blocking radiation treatment that doctors say she needs. During a court hearing Wednesday, Michele and Edward Wernecke asked juvenile court Judge Carl Lewis to bar doctors from providing radiation therapy for daughter Katie, ...
A response to terpfan's article on the high school student denied his diploma was an interesting opportunity for reflection. As a high school senior far too many years ago, I, too wore a bolo tie to my graduation. Nothing was said of it by the administration, and a couple of my fellow grads thought it was pretty cool. As I thought about it, though, what was interesting was the fact that even back then I was quite libertarian in my thinking. And when I go back even further, I can't remember a ...
One of the most appalling overreaches of CPS, in my opinion, comes when foster parents are allowed to violate parental rights in cases where they have NOT been terminated. Foster parents are supposed to provide a safe home for a child while the case is being adjudicated, NOT make decisions for the parents. In a few recent cases I have read, it was about cutting hair and piercing ears. The former comes closer to a "gray area", but because, again, parental rights have not been violated, paren...