Was he the losertarian with the blue skin or the guy who blamed America for 9/11?
Posted on 02/01/2007 6:57:42 PM PST by Kimmers
Columbus - Police say a ten-year-old boy turned in his own mother for using drugs.
Tina Gilley's son called police to say he thought his mother was using drugs. When officers arrived the boy led them to his mother's bedroom. She and a friend had locked themselves in the room. Police arrested Gilley after finding drug paraphernalia.
Columbus police officers say they are extremely proud of the boy because he took a step to help his mother out with her drug problem.
The ten-year-old was the oldest of three children living in the home. They're all in the care of a relative now.
Gilley faces charges of child neglect and cocaine possession among
Prayers for the abused and neglected.
There is no happy ending in this story. This should be an interesting thread.
That kid is grounded forever
Well, maybe just a "time-out".
I like that. Leadership skills shown there.
More information would be nice, but it seems as though the boy did the right thing (she locked herself in a room).
That'll teach her. Should've got him the xbox for Christmas.
We don't know that yet. If she ends getting off dope and turning her life around, she may one day be extremely thankful of her child. No guarantees, but far more likely than if she had continued the rest of her life as a doper and poor parent.
The libertarians will soon be here and demand the kid be shot.
Give that boy a gold star.
Nonsense. I'm pretty much libertarian and despite the theoretical implications (Hillary would like children to turn in their parents for thinking conservative thoughts) I think the kid did the right thing and the only thing he could do under the circumstances.
Yup. That and a medal...and the deed to the house. He might have saved the younger siblings years of abuse.
Libertarians would agree with the kid actually.
Adults have no business doing drugs in front of kids, especially their own.
Didn't take long for the Libertarian bashers to spew their little ad-hominems.
The saddest thing I ever heard a foster kid say was "I'm here because my Mama loves drugs more than me."
I also think he was protecting his siblings.
I also hope the people the kids are with can love and help these children.
Past threads showrf a different pattern for the losertarians.
How can you respond to statement like that? What a heart breaker.
It was at a hearing to terminate parental rights, and the kid was telling the judge why she wanted to be adopted by her foster family.
The kid knew, heartbreaking, she knew.
--Didn't take long for the Libertarian bashers to spew their little ad-hominems.--
They weren't ad-hominems. They were just observations.
Maybe some of the more hard core Libertarians and Anarchists have left FR. At the very least they used to show up to call the child a spy for the state.
When I clicked on this I had expected to see that it was originally posted by Petronski.
Same could be said for the pro-drug warriors/big-government conservatives.
At least our cause is just.
I wonder who they think this woman voted for?
Cocaine was more important to mom than the three kids.
Who was the losertarian candidate in 2004?
I guess that makes the case that if people can actually say something like that and think it's coherent without heroin, just think how bad it would be with it.
Small conservative government is different from no government (Anarchists) and almost no government (Libertarians).
Actually, I'd be surprised if she voted at all...
Don't know; I've never heard of a "losertarian party". If you're thinking of the Libertarian Party, their candidate was Michael Badnarik. I voted for George W. Bush.
Anarchism is as far from libertarianism as conservatism is from communism. Libertarianism is at least close, if not indistinguishable from, small-government conservatism. Unfortunately, many of those who would call themselves "libertarians" are really liberals who are embarassed about it - see Bill Maher. And many of those who would call themselves "conservatives" are really big-government liberals who are embarassed about it - see any number of RINOs and their supporters.
Was he the losertarian with the blue skin or the guy who blamed America for 9/11?
My four kids (siblings I recently adopted through foster care) would tell you that their birth mommy loved their birth dad more than she loved them, since they know she chose him over all four of them. The system made huge (too many, in my book) attempts to help the mother get the kids back, but she would not leave her husband (bio parents of all four) despite knowing he was abusing all of them in various ways. Both of them lived in total squalor and filth, despite working full time jobs. No drugs -- weekend drinking -- vile neglect and abuse, holding the children captive -- until God intervened, and now, through a total miracle, I have all four of them together, despite being a single never married no birth kids of my own mother to them.
My kids would have never picked up the phone or told anyone how bad things were at home. Way too much violence and power -- watching police handcuff dad and just bring him home the next morning. No escape...until God stepped in for the ultimate and final rescue..
God bless this little boy. Who cares what his motives were? Of course he was protecting himself AND his siblings!! He still lives his momma -- no matter how worthless she is.
""If she ends getting off dope and turning her life around, she may one day be extremely thankful of her child. No guarantees, but far more likely than if she had continued the rest of her life as a doper and poor parent.""
What is most likely is she will go to NA meetings and get the kids back in three weeks after she makes three meetings in a row. She will probably continue to draw welfare of some type which she will promptly spend on dope. She will probably be hostile to the kid because he snitched.
There is no guarantees what happens here and I hope your scenario comes to fruition but I saw this enough to be a pessimist. There are few drug addicts who kick dope habits without moving to get away from their dope friends and pushers.
God bless you!
Yep. If you are critical of the abuses in the drug war the Barney Fifes accuse you of drugging children.
No, but I can tell you the chances are pretty good that Social Services will place the kids back in the druggies care in the next year or so.
Are we to assume that you believe that she had the gear but *didn't* do drugs?
LOL
Neither...he was the Libertarian candidate in 2004.
Nice attempt at sliming his character, however.
It's amusing how afraid of Libertarians some of you are that you have to resort to name calling and posting fake pictures.
This is right out of Chairman Mao's little red book . . .
My point is, this is a good wake up call for this woman and she needs to get help. Throwing her in jail for 10 years isn't what needs to be done.
Blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment. This was a warrantless search. A ten year old is legally incapable of giving consent to search his mother's residence.
It's hard to get upset on the facts of this instance but what will we think when children of the future are encouraged and rewarded for snitching out parents who own guns? Parents who smoke in the car? The first step on most slippery slopes is generally very reasonable.
Well, maybe just a "time-out".
Maybe the mother will get some "time in"
Deed to the house? LOL!
Dollars to doughnuts the government owns that house - and YOU pay for it.
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