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wnd.com ^ | 1/17/2015 | Patrice Lewis

Posted on 01/17/2015 8:05:54 AM PST by rktman

When our first child was three days old, I received a scary phone call.

As young parents, we were overjoyed with our new baby and had everything ready for her. We had a home business, so my husband was always around to give me support. My mother was a phone call away, our next door neighbor was a doula, we had many books on infant care, and I attended a breastfeeding support group at our local hospital. In short, we were as prepared as we could be for a newborn.

But that didn’t mean we met with everyone’s approval. At the time we were a penniless, uninsured young couple struggling to start a home business. We paid cash for our medical expenses. Our house was old (1875), our clothing and furnishings were second-hand, and our fiercely self-sufficient attitude raised a few eyebrows. But we were living the life we wanted – independent, rural and frugal.

But there are those who find this kind of lifestyle and attitude suspicious. Independent, self-employed and rural – what kind of nefarious secrets must we be hiding?

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: nanniestate; noseyparkers
Wanting to live the life you want without interference from the nanny state is sure to draw attention to your subversive anti-government ideals. :>} Basically, LMTFA. If I need you, I'll call you.
1 posted on 01/17/2015 8:05:54 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

Freedom from dependency is being redefined as subversive. It you don’t want the government taking care of you, you are automatically suspicious and treated as more of the enemy than the Islamic fanatics so beloved by Obama.


2 posted on 01/17/2015 8:17:02 AM PST by Truth29
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To: rktman
My Great-Grandfather was a farmer living on what was at any time no more that 100 acres. He had three children and all five people lived in a modest two story brick home.

Pryor to the 1920s there was no indoor plumbing, no electricity, no refrigeration of any kind.

Were I to raise my children on that farm I would lose them all to CPS, and the house condemned.

Freedom was lost along time ago.

3 posted on 01/17/2015 8:34:07 AM PST by M.K. Borders (All I require of my government is the liberty my Grandfathers were born to.)
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To: rktman

Logans Run-—> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WUUnc1M0TA


4 posted on 01/17/2015 8:52:17 AM PST by hosepipe (" This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole.. ")
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To: M.K. Borders

It was 1964 before we ever had a telephone in our home. I never had AC in a home until 1997, even the years we lived in FL.


5 posted on 01/17/2015 8:52:37 AM PST by Beagle8U (NOTICE : Unattended children will be given Coffee and a Free Puppy.)
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To: rktman

Clinton/Reno killed Randy Weaver’s wife, son, and dog because they wanted to be left alone on Ruby Ridge.


6 posted on 01/17/2015 9:16:17 AM PST by alpo
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To: alpo

Ruby Ridge anyone? How about Waco assault?


7 posted on 01/17/2015 9:20:50 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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[ Ruby Ridge anyone? How about Waco assault? ]

Ruby Ridge was basically the government entrapping a person so they could be justified in in shooting them and their family in cold blood.

Waco, was about a wacko that they could have dealt with in a much more civilized manner but they went in guns a blazing because Janet Reno wanted to display her ... ahem... “manhood”...


8 posted on 01/17/2015 9:30:11 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: alpo

[ Clinton/Reno killed Randy Weaver’s wife, son, and dog because they wanted to be left alone on Ruby Ridge. ]

I thought Ruby Ridge happened during mr. no new taxes 1000 points of light regime?


9 posted on 01/17/2015 9:31:01 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Truth29

[ Freedom from dependency is being redefined as subversive. It you don’t want the government taking care of you, you are automatically suspicious and treated as more of the enemy than the Islamic fanatics so beloved by Obama. ]

Unless you start your own town and call it “islamaberg”..... then apparently they leave you alone...


10 posted on 01/17/2015 9:31:56 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: rktman

there are SO MANY government employees, they are out LOOKING for things to ‘monitor’

And if they find a family they can latch onto and ‘help’ then you become a set of paperwork in their office that needs to be processed, and followed-up, and processed some more, so they have their paper trail of actually doing something.


11 posted on 01/17/2015 9:46:35 AM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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Do what ever you have to, or want to do, but STAY OFF the gubmint radar.


12 posted on 01/17/2015 10:06:21 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: M.K. Borders

This smells more like a social worker from the hospital rather than CPS.


13 posted on 01/17/2015 11:12:24 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: bgill

Shortly after my father got back from the hospital for open heart surgery, I got repeated phone calls from social workers asking leading questions. They seemed so desperate to take over the lives of my parents. And yes, the social worker will make stuff up. It is about control, power.


14 posted on 01/17/2015 11:57:59 AM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: GraceG

You are right. I was thinking of Waco, another leave me alone situation. Reno defended the FBI as the investigation was during Clinton’s term and the rules of engagement were revised after the action to justify the Federal response.

Janet Reno concocted the justification to kill Vicki Weaver saying that “Experts” said that Mrs. Weaver was holding the family together and taking her out would cause the rest to surrender.

Tim McVeigh blew up the Fed building in Oklahoma in response to Reno’s actions about Ruby Ridge and at Waco because some of the FBI who were at the sieges worked there.


15 posted on 01/17/2015 12:28:14 PM PST by alpo
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To: rktman
When my first wife (God rest her soul) was in nurses' training in 1945, she contracted tuberculosis. Ten years later, when I met her, she'd been through the sanitarium, lung collapse (standard treatment back then) and was deemed cured. We had our first child in 1959. I was transferred to Virginia in 1960. Right after we got there, she got a call from a social worker. Somehow the sw found out about the TB and the year-old baby. She descended upon us and insisted on making sure that the baby was adequately protected from my wife's long-past TB. We were able to get rid of her. That incident confirmed for me that I never want a social worker anywhere near me.
16 posted on 01/17/2015 4:10:23 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (Book RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
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