Germany, Poland, Britian and the EU

Some German homeschoolers have been fleeing to the UK in order to continue homeschooling.

“Jonathan Skeet, who is British-born, said that he, his wife and five
children, aged between two and 11, were driven from Lüdenscheid after the authorities froze their bank account, removed money from it and confiscated their car.”

This is exactly what communist countries do to political dissidents. I hope these people are only making their stay in the UK brief, because the EU will come after them. I do not know when this will happen, but it will happen

The UK is part of the EU and in the EU, individual nations are not allowed to have laws differing from the EU. Poland and the Baltic states are already learning this lesson:

“When Poland joined the EU in May 2004, it did so on condition that “no EU treaties or annexes to those treaties would hamper the Polish government in regulating moral issues or those concerning the protection of human life.” However, in January 2006 the European Parliament called for “tough action” against Poland and the Baltic states, while Franco Frattini, the EU justice commissioner, warned that the EU has powers under Article 13 of the EU Treaty to combat homophobia. The move came after Latvia included an amendment in its constitution that restricts marriage to a man and a woman, and Estonia proposed similar legislation. Some members of the European Parliament have called for punishing Poland and the Baltic states by suspending their voting rights in EU councils.”

And we know that the EU Court of Human Rights has already ruled that the State can deny parents the right to homeschool.

“While the Court postured itself as defending the rights of the child
and declared the State to know better than parents the best interests of their children, it also endorsed a “carefully reasoned” decision of the German courts indicating the State had an interest in subordinating value systems competing with the state’s secular values.”

This is why I hope that the families that fled to the UK aren’t planning to stay. They would do better to go to a non EU country.

How long will it be before the EU goes after homeschoolers in other states?

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Police Search

“As Boston police prepare to go into some of the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods, knock on doors of private houses, and ask if they can search for illegal guns without a warrant, officials are trying to pitch the idea of the plan as friendly cooperation to residents who still see it as a threatening intrusion.”

Those residents that see it as threatening have the proper understanding of the situation. It is a dangerous precedent to get citizens used to giving up their constitutional rights. This encourages the government to act more and more as a dictatorship. The more people acquiesce to this, the harder it makes it for people that do want to exercise their rights.

Once the police are in the home, they can search for anything they want, since there is no search warrant. A warrant has to spell out what they are looking for and where they will look. Without that protection, anything they find can be used against the residents of the home in court. And since the people let the police in voluntarily, there is no recourse for them in court.

“My belief is there are ministers that will do it as part of their
ministry because they want to make sure police don’t overstep their boundaries,” said the Rev. David Wright, executive director of the Black Ministerial Alliance, whose board has not decided whether to endorse the program. “And I think that’s a valid point.”

Ministers should not be accompanying police in a search-separation of church and state and all that. Secondly, it is getting people conditioned to the idea that ministers participating in police duties is a good thing.

What the minister quoted above seems to have missed is that the government has already overstepped its boundaries by proposing this plan.

Later on the article said that one person “…doubts any child would be arrested as a result of the search, even if police found a gun that turned out to be a murder weapon.” There’s no guarantee it won’t happen either. There was no mention of immunity from charges should a gun be found that is connected to a crime. At this point no one knows what will happen with charges that may come up from this illegal,unconstitutional search.

Let’s hope that the folks in Boston say no to this plan.

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Children=Money Part 2

I have already established that our foster care system is based on making money, not the welfare of children in my Children=Money post.

Now I come across a story about a woman who for dectades adopted children so she could make money. She had nine adoptees she was allowed to abuse, and at one point made $180,000 a year.

“The adopted children said they had never seen a doctor or a dentist and had not been allowed to attend school or even leave the house.

“These people have not received any formal education in the time they’ve been with her,” Bartal said. “At times when they were restricted with handcuffs or zip ties, during the night, they soiled themselves because they weren’t permitted to go to the bathroom.”

They were fed only noodles, and “they would have eventually starved to death,“Bartal said.”

Remember, she got away with this for decades. Where was the protection for these children?

As I said before, it’s all about the money.

Sickening.

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Fathers vs. Foster Care

This article by Glenn Sacks makes a nice follow up to my post below. In Children=Money, I posted about the way the foster care system is set up for money and not for children’s welfare.

Glenn’s article speaks to how the system ignores fathers. In fact one father sued the system and won over the way they treated him and his daughter. When his daughter was removed form her mother’s care, the father was never notified. He still paid his child support, but the authorities refused to tell him where she was. And the system told his daughter that her father was a deadbeat dad. A “deadbeat dad” who continued to pay child support and even hired private investigators and attorneys to find her. This case is not an aberration:

“Yet in the report What About the Dads? Child Welfare Agencies’ Efforts to Identify, Locate, and Involve Nonresident Fathers, the Urban Institute presents a shocking finding: when fathers inform child welfare officials that they would like their children to live with them, the agencies seek to place the children with their fathers only 15% of the time.
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Just as with Thomas Smith, 20% of the fathers whose identity and location were known by the child welfare agencies from the opening of the case were never even contacted.”

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Children=Money

SWAT teams coming in the middle of the night, taking your children with no warrant or court order. Sounds like a country under an oppressive Communist/Socialist regime, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, these things are happening in the U.S.A.

“This is not a Soviet-era movie script, but a reality in thousands of homes in the United States every year, courtesy of state child protective services agencies.

The least reported and understood social crisis of our time is the vast new police state run by these state social services agencies, which are generically referred to as “child protective services,” or CPS. The states have different names for them, such as Department of Social Services or Department of Children and Families, but they are all operating under a federal mandate. Whatever they are called, our next generation of children may never recover from their predatory intrusions into families.”

In 1974, under the Mondale Act, the child protection agencies became federalized. As usually happens when things become nationalized, the real problems began. There are seven federal standards that agencies are suppossed to meet, and here’s an eye opener: not one state has ever met the minimum stnadards. Some states have met one, but no state has met them all.

Why are these agnecies allowed to continue on in this manner? If a business had been found not meeting minimum federal stnadards for over thirty years, what would happen to that business? They would have been shut down, owners fined and jailed, and possibly their business licenses revoked. Yet the agencies are allowed to continue their path of destruction unabated.

Children are often taken on a Friday afternoon, so parents can’t challenge it until Monday, at the earliest. The agencies know this and do this on purpose. Then they go to a shelter hearing, where the attorneys often tell their clients to agree to keep the children in custody until a trial, a year or so away.

This is really important: should you ever find yourself in this position, NEVER, NEVER waive that first hearing. I don’t care what your attorney tells you, never waive this first hearing. If you do, then you have just agreed that your children need protection, you won’t get them back quickly-in fact you may not get them back at all. Once they are in the system, it is almost impossible to get them out. That’s why not waiving that first hearing is so important.

If the case did not go to court, the children can stay home as long as the parents do all the things in the case or service plan. They can also keep adding to the list, making you jump through all their hoops. One of the things they can do is order the husband to leave the house, if he was suspected of spanking, which in their eyes, is considered abuse.

States have adoption quotas to meet-if they meet them, they get more money. Therefore, it is in their best interest to make it as difficult as possible for parents to get their children back. If the parents still have rights to their children, then the state’s money is literally walking out the door. Why should they help themselves to losing that money?

The bottom line for the agency is not about children at all, but money.

“The game of cadging federal CPS dollars has become so intense that states often hire multi-million dollar consultants to assist them inmaximizing federal reimbursement for the children they take. For instance, Massachusetts hired the now-defunct Arthur Anderson Consulting, at an estimated fee of about $8.6 million, to structure the state program to take advantage of as many federal reimbursement categories as possible.

Is the system really as corrupt, incompetent, destructive, and ineffective as this article portrays it? No, it’s actually far worse — if you ask a parent whose children have been victimized by it! The public perception is that CPS is doing a tough job, and standing against child abuse. However, any family caught in its web would testify to a completely different reality. When I take on a new case and forewarn a family about CPS dirty tricks, they usually think I am exaggerating. Surely it can’t be that bad. However, after the first court hearing, or if their children are removed, those families uniformly confirm that I didn’t tell them the half of it.”

Still don’t believe this is true? Here is part of one family’s story:

“The next day, the father immediately obtained an appointment with their pediatrician, and both parents were attentive to Tevania’s condition. Thirty-six hours after they left the hospital, several carloads of armed police removed the children to the police station, where half a dozen DSS agents took them, without a warrant or an explanation. Later, the police log showed that DSS had lied to the police by claiming that there had been “injuries from child abuse,” as well as sexual abuse to the children. There was no mention of low calcium, since that might not have seemed quite as urgent.”

All this because one of their daughters had fainted from low calcium. Read this article for more.

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