Posted on 06/10/2013 5:45:16 AM PDT by markomalley
The Scottish government is proposing a bill that would appoint a government supervisor to oversee every child in the country from birth onward.
Children’s Minister Aileen Campbell said that under the Children and Young People Bill, the responsibility for appointing a “named person” for each child from birth, will lie with local health boards. These persons, who will be social or health workers, will “promote, support or safeguard the well-being of the child or young person.”
There have been very few reservations about the bill raised in Scotland’s devolved parliament at Holyrood.
The Iona Institute, a conservative think tank, noted that most of the MLAs have voiced only procedural concerns such as how social workers are going to oversee their new charges and how many children will be assigned per “named person."
Conservative deputy leader Jackson Carlaw only suggested the measure is “a very huge enterprise." “How many named persons do you anticipate there will be? What will the turnover be in named persons? And how in practice does that really establish a bond of confidence on which people feel they can rely?” he asked.
Aileen Campbell responded, “It is important to realize that while there will be a named person for every child, not every child will need interaction with that named person.”
The Schoolhouse Home Education Association has warned that the bill will open up a new totalitarian direction for Scottish society. The group called it “propaganda designed to fool the sheeple."
The bill, they said, is not intended to protect the rights or safety of children. Rather, “it is designed to establish universal citizen surveillance via parent licensing and early interference, effectively ensuring state oversight and ownership of all children in Scotland."
“The agenda that drives” the bill, they said, “has been mooted many times before; indeed it has even been put into practice with catastrophic consequences.”
Stuart Waiton, a lecturer in sociology and criminology at Abertay University in Dundee described the legislation as “dystopian” and warned that “the potential for professional intervention into family life is growing." “The recognition of the importance of privacy, of the authority of parents and the protection of this privacy and authority by society is declining fast,” Waiton said. the bill is a sign of the increasing government pressure against the “autonomous family,” which he called “a hugely important building block for British society."
“It is noticeable that at the level of policy this idea has completely disappeared,” he added. “Today it is assumed parenting is simply too hard, children are simply too vulnerable and risks are simply too great to allow for this luxury called 'privacy'. This is why nobody is attacking this new bill in defence of privacy and the autonomous family,” he said.
The bill says that its purpose is to fulfill the requirements of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
In Ireland, former MEP Dana Scallon has strongly warned that many measures are being put into place in the name of the UNCRC that trample on the rights of families and parents to raise their children. Last year, opposition to the proposed “children’s rights” law voiced precisely this concern as the law was set to subject children and families to state intervention and monitoring with the constant threat of removal.
The Yes side, with huge financial support from the government and the European Union, and an almost invisible opposition campaign, won by a vast majority.
In an account of the Russo-Japanese War it was stated that Imperial Japan had no orphans. That was because every child deprived of parents had an official father in the Ministry of the Navy. In other words, Admiral Togo & his successors.
This no doubt insured that orphaned Japanese children, the boys anyway, would be channeled into the military. But it was never intended to usurp or oppress the traditional roles of the mother & father in Japanese society.
Scotland is a done for washed up drug sotted PC society. England should look north & see its future.
Everybody who thinks that this won't effect them believes it to be about "those people." Little do they know.
In the US there is what is called CASA (court appointed
special advocates) workers. Because they are volunteers
there is really not many of them. I am a long time employee
of a relatively large group home so I have been in contact
w/CASA folks off and on. The first one or two I worked with
I diidn’t like very much. They treated group home staff like
they were evil kid haters. But I have also met some nice
CASA folks.
The kids represented by CASA workers in the US are from
broken families. If there is a parent w/guardian rights
that parent could be incompetent. The concept of a CASA
program is one hell of a lot different than the government
appointing an agent to interject the government into private
matters of competent families. The way things are going
you can almost count on something similar happening
in a country near you.
Scotland's traditional "national anthem" describes a freedom-loving people willing to lay down their lives to preserve their liberties.
Scots Wha Hae
(Robert Burns, 1793)
'Scots, wha hæ wi Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
Welcome tæ yer gory bed,
Or tæ victorie....
By Oppression's woes and pains,
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free.
'Lay the proud usurpers low,
Tyrants fall in every foe,
Libertie's in every blow! -
Let us do or dee.
Welcome to the New World Order.
Thanks! Is there a welcome packet or maybe registration booklet I can review? I’m interested in the fringe benefits.
They really want to eliminate parents, especially fathers. They can’t do it just yet, but they have a lot of patience.
SNP bill to spy on parents is criticised by families
‘THE SNP is facing growing calls to drop a sinister plan to interfere with family life by assigning every child in the country a state-sponsored guardian - or ‘Named Person’.’
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/400779/SNP-bill-to-spy-on-parents-is-criticised-by-families
I think of one acquaintance from my own experience: a judge who presided over people's divorce and custody cases, who stole marijuana from confiscated police storage, had a child out of wedlock that grew up to be gay, and who cheated on his wife while she was caring for him as he was in the process of dying 20-30 years before most people die. He was a colleague and friend of his mayor, his state governor and many influential officials. Did I mention -- Democrat?
After the numerous scandals with priests and schoolteachers abusing children, how in the world will they find enough people of sufficient moral character to "raise" all the children in the nation? Simple: lower the standards of moral character, confiscate children from families who wouldn't stoop to such evil, and call it "progressive."
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