Free the Texas 464
May 19, 2008
While we were at war over Obama’s pastor, Texas destroyed a community of nearly 1,000 by “liberating” 463 healthy, well-behaved polygamist sect Mormon children (plus one newborn) from their families in Eldorado.
But the ACLU has said ”exposure to a religion’s beliefs, however unorthodox, is not itself abuse and may not constitutionally be labeled abuse.” Instead, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services has condemned them to a foster care system with a track record of abuse problems.
The Houston Chronicle reported that mental health workers blasted DFPS for traumatizing children. Many were dismissed or threatened for being “too compassionate.” Instead of finding and arresting guilty abusers, they arrested the kids. The only proven abuse these kids have suffered is at the hands of the DFPS.
Asians, Sikhs and Muslims, who have long been persecuted for looking, talking, dressing and acting funny, should be alarmed. Nobody stood up for the Japanese when the federal government took them away. Few have heard about Australia’s “stolen generation” of aborigine children taken from their parents.
The “Asian hillbilly” Hmong are already under fire in America for polygamy and marrying children, not to mention “marriage by capture.” Many Muslim nations still practice the selling of girls as brides. Most weddings in India are still arranged, while some Vietnamese wedding traditions have origins in guarding against escape of an unwilling bride.
If the United Nations ran under Texas DFPS cowboy rules, helicopters and tanks would be hunting down every pregnant teen, and then snatching every at-risk child in every politically incorrect culture and religion in every jungle across the globe.
Contact your local Asian civil rights organization today, and ask them to demand a stop to the witch hunt and an immediate return of all the children and restoring of the basic rights of these families.
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There’s been some news since last week. The two women who gave birth have now been “determined” to have been adults since CPS finally decided to accept birth certificates and drivers licences as proof of age rather than appearances. Most of the others who have been mothers are also “disputed” which probably means CPS also goofed up on them as well, leaving maybe half a dozen girls, tops, who might be “victims” of statutory rape laws. FLDS believes the women were held just long enough for CPS to claim their newborn babies. I just started looking into the child protective services racket, and it’s very, very ugly. Agencies are funded from welfare by how many children are taken out of homes and placed into “safer” foster home situations, even though the record is of very high rates of abuse, injury and death under foster care in statistics in any given state or city. Asians are very fortunate to have the lowest rate of kids placed under this modern equivalent of an orphanage system.
Everyone should read the detailed reports of mental health workers who were assigned and observed the shelter conditions. All indications are that these people were treated in many ways far worse than the Japanese Americans when they were interned. The Japanese were never suspected of such crimes, and their children were not ripped away, with infants evidently put in the care of a temporary system not designed or qualified to care for infants or small children, handicapped or not. It is not the job of CPS to house and care for children, but to place them where they can be safely cared for, that’s another issue that was not addressed. Workers report that people openly asked if this was what the German concentration camps were like, and it read very much like Night by Weisel account of german camps. Many, many stories of women, boys, girls, toddlers crying and in constant grief being lied to and misled by CPS workers who had no regard or respect for these people, while there were nothing but glowing admiration for strong diligent mothers and well adjusted happy children. “They came happy and healthy, they left sick and crying” one worker wrote about the children and the experience in the shelters. We should all be appalled instead of letting this one sink into a local issue for Texans and mormons.
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9238520
Pretty much every CPS assumption is proving to be wrong, and nothing much as turned up to show the FLDS people are lying when they say nothing illegal ever happened to their kids, except for what the government did to them.
Make that 5 women now that Texas admits they goofed on ages. Evidently the only woman who said they were being forced to marry was the fradulent caller. Although the state is supposed to allow free religion, Warren Jeffs, their leader and prophet is now he-who-cannot-be-named, sex criminal or no, though he is the father and uncle of many of the children there. Eventually they might actually find something illegal that went on to prosecute, but they’ve still got nothing solid to show for destroying the lives of so many people, and estimates of costs are STARTING at $20 million, not counting what it will cost to keep these kids in foster care for a year assuming they give them back in April 2009, which is now the state goal. An absolute outrage that not one liberal is standing up for the rights of these people, and precious few conservatives for that matter. Phil TJ Nash is still worried about gay marriage when we’ve got a 21st century Manzanar going on in Texas, and I’m still the only Asian American to have had anything to say about the topic.
awarthur:
Are you gonna make me eat crow too? Twice in one day?
Oy vey’st mir. For sure.
At least “they” didn’t pull another Waco in their self-righteous assault.
Sorta like Anglo-European calls of late for “forceful” interventions in both Myanmar AND Sichuan.
They want to add smart bombs and psy-ops specialists to the tragic mix tectonic plates provided?
Ah, My-lai and the “killing fields” of yore.
While we’re contemplating the navel of “western” mores, may I direct your attention to today’s Info Clearing House piece by one Uri Avnery?
He’s an Israeli citizen and columnist in Tel Aviv, I believe, and his courageous postings give the LIE to the Netanyahu/AIPAC/bipartisan-theoneocon “axis” of true “evil” that foments and profits from the Mideast apocalypse.
Avnery names names and explains who, how, what, and why, something that has been challenging this feeble mass of “gray matter” for years.
Bottom line: it’s money, honey.
And the Frenchfied got it right in their hoary old saw: At the base of any great fortune lies a crime.
From Prescott Bush to Tony Blair, and I guess we would have to include Billary Clinton, the leitmotif is legal tender, of any land. You too, Nancy?
Whatever, now I believe I begin to understand the “virtual,” not “virtuous,” reality of political life and strife and derring-do that outdoes Indiana Jones.
The only difference is that the latter is or can be “entertaining,” while the prototypes are disgustingly obscene and fulsome in their want of humanity.
Ah, that we should exist in such “interesting times.”
Frank Eng
P.S.: Obama’s steady climb to the Everest of nomination leads me to repeat my fears here: Watch your back, man.
Added note here:
Avnery spells it “chutzpa,” without the “h.”
Whatever the spelling, and even if the cases he cites are less than appetizing, I, for one, have ALWAYS loved the Yiddish expression. Reminds me of, say, Francois Villon? Or, maybe, even Uri Avnery?
***There was also no evidence that any of the children of the 38 mothers had been sexually abused or lived in a household where another child had been abused, the court stated. ***
Texas CPS and judge wrong to steal kids. CPS now admits half of “teen mothers” were adults. The only two “pregnant teens” were not teens. So sorry.
Court: Texas Had No Right to Keep Polygamy Kids
Appeals Court Overrules Decision Placing Sect Kids in State Custody
By SCOTT MICHELS
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4911318&page=1
May 22, 2008
An appeals court ruled today that Texas didn’t have the authority to keep dozens of children from a polygamist sect in state custody.
The Third Court of Appeals in Austin, in response to a motion from 38 sect mothers, ruled that Child Protective Services did not present enough evidence at a hearing last month that the children were at risk of abuse to justify keeping them in state custody.
The court said that the state had not demonstrated that the children were in immediate danger and that Judge Barbara Walther abused her discretion in failing to return the children to their families.
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“The department did not present any evidence of danger to the physical health and safety of any male children or any female children who had not reached puberty,” the court said.
These guys will have a lot of nerve to appeal t his to the state supreme court.
This got edited out (for space or disbelief??) CPS, those SOB/DOBs announced they have the nerve to challenge the ruling, and not admit they completely screwed up the lives of 1000+ people, the polygamists, their kids, and everybody who got traumatized trying to help them in the shelter with NOT ONE SINGLE PREGNANT TEENAGER. “We have one duty .. to protect kids” … even if we have to inflict 500 or 2000 child or mother days of abuse to do it??
The lawsuit specifically mentions that the alleged 13 yr old pregnant girl is the one who they now admit is 22, and one of the “disputed” women turned out to be 27. If I were Mexican, I might have to worry about carrying my birth certificate in case of an immigration raid, but it’s a child abuse raid, the authorities can “rescue you” if they think you look young enough to deserve their “protection”. The real story is how awful CPS is, and if you dig into CPS, foster care, and not just Texas, THIS IS HOW THEY TREAT EVERYBODY. People wonder why don’t they raid the housing projects? Well, maybe now they’ll be next. And what happens with child care experts start defining education Asian parents from hell to be abusive?
We need Ron Takaki up there on CNN to educate people on the Japanese internment, taking Native Americans and Australian aborigines away from their parents to be re-educated, and to review the history of persecution against the Mormons, who are still called a cult, even the mainstream ones. I ended up calling for putting judge Walther, and the entire CPS management in jail, and replacing them with the polygamy mothers, who would certainly be more caring than the current bunch of monsters.
————— section that was deleted ————————
The real accomplishment of the raid was overshadowing the horror
stories of CPS. The Texas comptroller found state care was fatal to
48 children 2005, a death rate four times higher than average. In
2004, 100 children were treated for poisoning from medications; 63
were treated for rape, and 142 gave birth while under Texas foster
care. One infant from the sect was hospitalized for dehydration,
while chickenpox spread under refugee camp conditions. Some of those
broken bones were inflicted not by abuse, but while the kids were
being rounded up. Liftingtheveil.org cites rates of abuse in foster
care in some cities as high as 28 percent.
Go get ‘em,
awarthur:
Ang heaven protect us, Tiny Tim and one and all, from EVERY self-righteous bigot, be he/she “religious” or simple idiot.
Where do they come rrom? Who sires, breeds them? Are they “white” or “black” or in-between? Or peculiarly “Texan”?
Whatever, they appear to be both timeless and endless, as in “human nature”?
For now, just let’s get those poor kids back to their rightful and still-lawful? parents and family hearth.
At the same time, continuing lookout for the real cases of “abuse” in the name of “child protective services.”
Frank Eng
P.S,: Wasn’t Texas the state where the pharmaceuticals floated the “law” that would require teenage girls to be “inoculated” from STDs at 60 bucks a shot?
In case everybody hasn’t noticed, the kids have finally been set free by that nasty witch judge, but they have the nerve to require parents to drive the four corners of Texas to pick up the kids which the state, at great expense had spread out. Seems CPS used Carolyn Jessop’s ESCAPE as their manual, but you can’t proscute a cult on the basis of one tell-all book, and her case on the basis of the evidence doens’t appear to apply to any of the kids or adults-taken-as-kids. Reports on Flora, the smoking woman who quit the cult is a total nutcase almost as nutty as the black woman who made the call. Like I said, replace the Judge and CPS with the polygamy moms, it would be a huge improvement. Nancy dis-Grace and her hysterical guests were still saying it was nothing but a sick sadomasochistic sex sex sex cult, which shows what is really wrong with the country when we have to be nice to asian black and guy people, but it’s ok to throw extreme right polygamy moms and their kids off the bus.