Posted on 10/17/2008 5:41:06 AM PDT by sevinufnine
Social workers should have the power to break into homes to check that elderly and vulnerable people are not being harmed by their children, ministers have said. New laws should also give them the right to remove old people who are at risk from their homes - even if they do not want to go.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Social workers to be issued handguns soon? Well maybe not in the UK.
Amen, brother. I still have most of my Y2K stash left. It’s been properly stored, so it should be just fine.
Pressure groups maintain that the law is not strong enough and that greedy and violent relatives and carers too often prey on the elderly.
This proposed law is only a first step according to those who want this kind of intrusion. The Left wants power over you and every aspect of your life.
Some of the comments are outright hilarious! Example:
"An idiotic idea: social workers have not yet proved themselves to be believable, competent human beings."
Gotta love that dry, Brittish wit!
That would be #s 32 and 38 of the “Communist Goals.”
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
We’re only a few steps behind the UK, especially with President Obama and 60 Dem senators.
This article disturbed me especially. I married and moved to Virgina to live on my husband’s family farm. After about 20 yrs, grandpa died and grandma quickly went downhill. In a couple yrs. Alzheimer’s took root and my father-in-law came up to care for her (we lived next door).
Within 2 yrs father-in-law found he had cancer. I quit my job and cared for both. No immediate family came to assist. Just me every day.
My “Christian” sister-in-law came (finally) from very far away (50 miles) when her dad was @ 4th stage & hospice was called in. She stood and YELLED at me how I was not “taking good enough care of her father or he wouldn’t be in such bad shape.” Really? Throat cancer that has spread all over to the point they won’t treat normally has an effect on one’s overall health. Then she complained to the social worker how SHE wanted to be primary care giver (she’s pregnant and lives 50 miles away mind you). I reminded her dad needed morphine twice per day...only primary can pick up the subscription. She didn’t care and had her MOTHER (divorced from her dad) call me to ask why I “wouldn’t let her be primary?” OMG!!!!??
Well, father-in-law died, and grandma’s other child, our aunt promptly left for grandma’s after the funeral (didn’t go to graveside), packed her a suitcase, informed us she was taking her back to South Carolina when we returned...didn’t allow any of grandma’s friends to say goodbye (although grandma only recognized a few) and happily took over the farm finances (forcefully) and spent $8000 per month for grandma to have “wonderful care” at what I like to call a death farm (old folks’ home). Within 6 mos. grandma who was still physically healthy managed to break a finger (someone else closed it in a door), fall in the bathroom and break her hip, and then come down with pneumonia.
We went to see her and it was heartbreaking. She recognized me, told me she loved me...said she hoped we weren’t “fighting” over the farm. Then told me something which haunted me for a long time:
“My daughter brought me here and tells me this is home”. Then she pointed out the window at a palm tree and said, “Those don’t grow in south-west Virginia. Please get me out of here.”
Nice to know the likes of my auntie & sister-in-law also managed to have grandma’s will “made clear” and resigned ONE MONTH before grandma died. We were supposed to inherit all of the physical farm with the $$$ in the bank going to the other two. they changed it to where the farm had to be liquidated. We fought for 5 yrs and had partial victory, but let me end with this....
IF THE STATE COMES TO TAKE AN ELDERLY PERSON...DON’T BELIEVE THEY’LL LEAVE THEIR PERSONAL POSSESSIONS BEHIND...EVEN IF IT’S A FAMILY FARM AND THEY ALL LIVE THERE. If it happens with family, imagine what the socialist would do?
Any social worker breaking into my home will experience the afterlife first hand.
This is another step towards the libeerals’ totalitarian dream.
Unfortunately, they can’t declare independence from themselves.
Do we start we rock salt, or go right for double-ought buckshot.
Decisions, decisions.
I suspect you’re correct flitton, perhaps 2/3’s might even be a bit optomistic. The left in our country has been very patient albeit relentless in implementing their agenda. I’m sure you’re familiar with the “boil a frog” parable, and it’s very true in our case. What’s maddening is that they were very open about their plan to take us over incrementally, and we just watched them do it. We now awaken in horror to see our schoolkids have become indoctrinated, our popular culture a global embarrasment and our media nothing but an adjunct of the Democrat (long ago evolved into a pure socialist) Party. Barack Obama’s looming presidency will be yet another coil of the collectivist snake around us, and I don’t know how many more of them we can survive.
No, it isn’t.
ridiculous.
In America,Social workers can request a “Wellness check” by sheriff or police depts and do this all the time for mental illness concerns if there is no way to contact the person and there are serious concerns. Its done rarely, but is helpful
No social worker that is professional would ever want to do this...there is no way to know what one would find , or who inside the home. Their license would also be at stAKE.
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