Posted on 09/21/2002 2:46:55 PM PDT by GnuHere
Sorry about your prejudices, I just know how the CPS Gestapo works. If you study their methods and results, you will be outraged at them much more than a mother that hits her kid. The damage they do is much more profound and long lasting.
Know before you criticize.
Gimme a break! Everyone in the country has seen that horrendous beating and everyone (with the exception of you) thinks that the child is in serious danger. Whatever issues you have with CPS should not detract from Kohl's acting as good citizens.
Your campaign should include your support of this mother's rights. Your not gonna win anyway, you might as well get a little attention. No doubt, by supporting this shrew you will receive attention.
They thought they were doing good, just like that lady in the Shonee's in Georgia but they and she did not know what they were starting. All good citizens better learn that making a report to CPS is like lighting a fuse to a bomb that you will not be able to stop.
They are maniacs who never heard the phrase "due process".
If that's what being Libertarian means, no thanks.
You fellows are just not thinking this through very well. Let us see how you will feel if your kids or grandkids are taken by CPS for frivilous reasons and you go broke fighting to get the kids back from a system that holds all the cards.
Do not let the details of a single case warp your standards of right and wrong.
As a child, did you ever take a blow to the head with some adult's clenched fist?
Here's my take on it - the "defense" is going to be that Mom was swatting at two dogs (unseen in the car from that angle, of course) who were nipping at her precious little girl. You see, "mom" was actually being a hero, not a villain....don't you see that?
Brief to be filed by attorney "Rocket" Rosen
If you believe that the government, state, federal, or otherwise, has the power to remove child from natural parent, then anything else you claim to believe as an supposed individualistic, non-intrusive government "conservative" is meaningless. If this mother is guilty of aggravated assault, then arrest her and charge her with aggravated assault. If she is convicted, then she should go to prison, and the child goes into the sole custody of the father or next of kin, aka closest living relative. If the mom is found not guilty, then she is not guilty, and she goes home with her daughter. At NO TIME should a child be in the custody of a government agency. Government has not been delegated that authority by the people.
The concept of the rule of law is that rules that apply for every legal action (due process) prevent overstepping the bounds. Even one case of overstepping the bounds demonstrates that the rules are not truly in place and all cases are in doubt. That means-how do I know anyone is guilty when there are no standards for guilt.
Until due process is firmly in place, they are a lawless and rogue agency to be avoided at all costs.
Saw him on the news the other night. He spent at least two or three minutes "explaining" his name. What an ambulance chaser!
If it's broken, then set about the task of fixing it, not just sitting around and complaining that it's broken.
The quote from his appearance that made me want to hurl: "These things happen."
...ambulance chaser
Yes, I was wondering how he possibly became involved in this case. I have a feeling he has defended members of this clan before. And he knows they can easily pay his fee. It's free money to him.
The sister was arrested for failing to report child abuse.
You, on the other hand, want a boycott of Kohl's for
reporting child abuse. Do you see anything wrong
with your statement yet?
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