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To: Smokin' Joe
I was following this case on three different webforums. Your assessment is not only spot on, but remarkably well said.

Kudos...

21 posted on 10/10/2010 8:26:57 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (III, Alarm and Muster)
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To: Dead Corpse
Thanks!

I can think of no Hell on Earth quite like being branded as something you loathe unjustly, punished as if you are guilty without the level of due process a common criminal would warrant, trying to sleep at night tortured by the absence of your children and the constant uncertainty as to their welfare--and that is only the parent's perspective, the children are traumatized as well.

We have empowered no other part of our government to be as invasive or authoritarian with little or no evidence and thus have opened a Pandora's box of capricious action based on hearsay, supposition, and arbitrary standards often imposed by people who have only a theoretical knowledge of child-rearing.

Unfortunately, rather than confine this leviathan within the constraints of the Constitution, we have used the exceptions granted (for the children, of course) as a model of how to circumvent the protections for the accused in our system of jurisprudence, something which is clearly the action of those who view those Constitutional protections as an obstacle rather than sane constraint.

When (if) the time comes that totalitarianism rears its ugly head on these shores, I hope the survivors of the strife which ensues remember, I hope they carve in stone, that the door was opened to that Evil not by the external force of an overwhelming army but from within by those who claimed to do so for the children.

22 posted on 10/10/2010 9:32:46 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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