EMS Worker Tells Mom “We’re Agents of the State” During Home Inspection

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[Whenifhow]

After a concerned mother called 911 fearing her son was choking, an EMS worker proceeded to conduct an inspection of her house on the premise that she homeschooled, telling the woman “we’re agents of the state”.

“The moment your child is complaining that his stomach hurts, then points to his chest instead, and his face is turning red and he’s coughing, so you call 911. Except, when EMS gets there they laugh at you and tell you if it’s asthma he won’t be complaining about “abdominal pain” (except he’s NOT because he’s POINTING TO HIS CHEST!!!) Then the other asks, “Why aren’t they in school?” Then proceeds to LOOK AROUND YOUR HOUSE when you tell her you homeschool!!! Seriously, people, I am not making this up! I. Am. Livid.”Krista Spinks Bordelon of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, called for an ambulance after her asthmatic son began complaining of chest pains and turning red in the face.

“It was one of those “should I call should I not call” situations,” wrote Bordelon on a private Facebook page for homsechool parents. “They were super rude when they got there immediately telling me he was fine.”

However, the situation became even worse when one of the EMS supervisors asked Bordelon why her son wasn’t in school. When she replied that her son was homeschooled, the worker began conducting an inspection of Bordelon’s house, telling her “we’re agents of the state”.

“I was told by their supervisor that they are now agents of the state,” wrote Bordelon, adding, “That is probably where it all stemmed from (apart from their rudeness and bad interactions with me and my son – who is autistic.) But a report was definitely filed.”

Bordelon summed up her feelings after the incident on her public Facebook page;

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10103295001502605&id=23425872&stream_ref=10

[Whenifhow]

FYI

[E. Pluribus Unum]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

[ClearCase_guy]

In the Terry Gilliam movie “Brazil”, the late actor Bob Hoskins had a small role as an A/C repairman. He shows up when a citizen has an overheated apartment and it becomes a nightmare of bureaucracy. As an agent of the state, he can ruin lives. It’s a small piece within a wide-ranging film about the evils of modern, oppressive society, but very funny in a dark way.

[samtheman]

Exactly right. Then and now.

[Sioux-san]

I remember the movie and the scene like it was only yesterday ;) It was Robert DeNiro who played the repairman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dht_3NziwSw

[sten]

moral of the story:

assume anyone coming into your home is an agent of the state and will be looking for anything to use against you

[ClearCase_guy]

DeNiro played the outlaw repairman who could actually fix things. Hoskins played one of the two official repairmen from Central Services, who could only intimidate the public and makes things worse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B61_5sRoBI

[Sioux-san]

You are right - I forgot about the official repairmen that made the huge mess in the first place. Thanks for getting me straight on this. I should watch the movie again, but it might depress me more than I already am with the way things are going.
Bob Hoskins, RIP ;)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Whenifhow.

Another good reason to keep a gun in the house — warrantless searches are illegal as well as unconstitutional.