"ALLEGATIONS OF CHILD ABUSE!"...

I have written about this before, but want to give it another rip. "Allegations of child abuse" are serious for sure. But I believe that they have become a powerful weapon of the government to influence human behavior, and direct societal change. They can be an excuse for retribution, control, and just bold-faced persecution of an individual or group.

I'm focusing, of course, on the seizure of 462 children at the FLDS compound in Eldorado, TX. But all over the nation, these situations are occurring on a smaller scale. We hear of cases where home-schooled children are being taken from their homes under "allegations of child abuse." "Failure to properly educate a child is abusive," say some EduNazis. Heck, by their reasoning millions of kids should be seized and removed from the crappy public schools they attend. But that's another subject. Back to the FLDS situation.

This AP article is one of the best I have read.

I am rarely in agreement with the ACLU, but a quote from the article:

"Of course, we condemn child abuse and we don't stand up for the perpetration of that," said Lisa Graybill, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas. But "what the state has done has offended a pretty wide swath of the American people with what appears to be an overreaching action to sweep up all these children."

At first blush, the odd situation that these people live in can give our prejudices the upper hand in deciding what we think about it. But good sense, and a love of personal liberty tells me that something is very, very wrong here.

I have written earlier that this is no way to investigate child abuse. You investigate the alleged abuser. You verify the veracity of the claims made by the alleged victim. Then you proceed in as restrictive a manner as you can. The Texas CPS has removed teenage boys from their mothers. They have removed the children of families that don't adhere to polygamy. They have removed the children of one divorced single mother.

You want to talk "child abuse!" Removing a 2, or 4 year old child from their mother, and putting them in a strange place away from all the stability that they have known...with no evidence that they have been abused at all...now that is "child abuse." Heck, I ain't even alleging it. I'm saying it positively is. Texas CPS is abusing these children! All 462 of them!

I have no doubt that if this had been a traditional Christian commune of some type (there are some out there), or a nudist colony where professional (otherwise normal) people live, and an anonymous call like that had come to the Texas CPS that it would have been handled in an entirely different way. There is a bias against these FLDS folks.

I've got no doubt that The State is using it's big stick in order to discourage a lifestyle (and a religion) that they just don't approve of. I believe that Texas CPS judged that there wouldn't be any public sympathy for these odd dressing, odd believing, followers of a jailed "prophet." They measured the situation, and just decided to break this thing up all at once.

I hope that when this is all over, all 462 children, and their parents sue the britches off the State of Texas. And I hope they get a friendly judge!