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The 'Oathkeepers' affiliation was added almost as a footnote to shore up the state's case. The case hit & went viral because it was 'put out there' that the reason for the child being taken was because of the affiliation with Oathkeepers and that was not the reason. Irish is a punk. There I said it...to quote TGO. He is not married to the mother, he has a well documented history of violence. His own father said he was violent and had at one point, an altercation with his son.

The mother is not much better. Her other 2 children have been removed from her and she is still married to those children's father and living with Irish.

It's despicable that this story was released under the premise that the baby was taken because of the affilitation with the Oathkeepers and the reporter that made the original Youtube video has extensive credibility problems of his own. If you listen to Irish on that vid, he drops the F bomb every few sentences. Just lovely.

It's another case of producing babies by multiple fathers, shacking up with the latest daddy and the latest daddy screaming 'they're picking on me because I'm with Oathkeepers' (and he btw, IS NOT a dues paying member).

Oathkeepers has been dragged into this and all this outrage is directed at the wrong people. It should be directed at the stupid low class, trailer park trash couple.

The language in the affidavit stumbles into confusing Oath Keepers with a militia. As an attorney, I come to know some things about Child Protective Services that are not too flattering, and it is entirely credible that, owing to a combination of exposure to liberal media and a lazy lack of research, they really thought being in Oath Keepers meant Irish was involved with some darkly paramilitary, anti-government, violence prone group. Like Zeppo said, it just wouldn’t have made it into the affidavit at all if the CPS people didn’t believe it strengthened their case that the child was at risk of being harmed by Irish. His “priors” just increased the presumption of guilt sans evidence. I’m not letting Irish off the hook, but there really are serious due process problems in family court nation-wide.

The 'Oathkeepers' affiliation was added almost as a footnote to shore up the state's case.

Exactly. Which supports my assertion. It is a damning indictment of the faulty process used by the State to justify their action.

The State used it as one of the factors that it claimed constituted causes of concern for the welfare of the child. That was completely unwarranted, and justifies the outrage directed at the State.