Sipsey Street Irregulars: Homeschooling family tasered, arrested after being accused of having a ‘messy’ house

Monday, November 24, 2014

Homeschooling family tasered, arrested after being accused of having a ‘messy’ house

“All too often, law enforcement officers and child-welfare workers act as if the Fourth Amendment does not apply to CPS investigations. They are wrong. The Fourth Amendment is a legal shield that protects people from exactly the kind of mistreatment the Hagans endured,” the organization writes.

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Anonymous said...: As I have said many times, law enforcement officers should NOT be allowed to have tasers.

- Old Greybeard; November 24, 2014 at 8:00 AM
JAQUEBAUER said...: Is this Nazi Germany of the United States? Events like this and worse are happening weekly, with the Constitution being replaced by the Gestapo. Sooner or later there will be a shoot out between a home owner and police thugs un lawfully trying to occupy a home. If the Commander in Chief is a lawless man, then the cops figure they can get away with it too. And I thought police were smarter than that. Children, dogs, the elderly, concealed carry holders, and homeowners are being shot and killed because of cops operating way outside of their lawful authority.; November 24, 2014 at 1:06 PM
dymphna said...: I used to be a CPS worker and our state criminal code had very specific rules re what constituted grounds for removal of children, which was a last step result of a 45 day investigation

In addition, even in a dire situationj, the kids could not be taken without a judge's signature on the dotted line. Accountability.

No jurisdiction wants more foster children. I was a senior foster care worker and there aren't a lot of homes. If you put them in state emergency placements, the costs are horrific and they are borne by the jurisdiction's board of supervisor's budget - which you'd better not over run - with state and federal monies added in. Those last two meant a flood of paperwork.

I'd like to know where this happened and to see another source of information. Maybe the link was there and I didn't see it.; November 24, 2014 at 9:50 PM
Paul X said...: Thanks to Ronald Reagan, the states now have a financial incentive to steal children from parents. It's called "block grants"...

http://www.vaclib.org/legal/CPS-Manual.htm

The kidnapping got so bad in the state of Massachusetts some years back, that irate fathers in two cases, facing the prospect of never seeing their kids again, went and killed the social workers. Serves 'em right.

These days it seems the only way to come to the front door when cops are there, is with a gun in your hand. And don't open the door either! Let 'em yell through the door, after which you can tell 'em to fuck off.

If ever there was a line in the sand, this is it. What are fathers for, anyway, if not for protecting their families?; November 25, 2014 at 4:22 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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