Standard: Some bad parents actually do
exist. So, with a few such examples,
some people who want to get attention
get some laws passed and set up CPS
with some really big powers, e.g., ones
that violate little things like due process.
Some of the laws mention felonies.
Then the CPS department gets created,
funded, and staffed. Then a phone call
comes in, and CPS swings into action.
Then, CPS wants to look busy, do their
job, believes that they are now responsible
for the child, wants to make sure nothing
goes wrong where they could be blamed, so
take full control of the life of the child,
as their rules say, and to heck with
anything like due process, the actual
good of the child, the good of the
family, etc. Instead, CPS becomes just
law and rules driven.
So, CPS is brain-dead, dysfunctional,
dangerous, destructive, demented,
deranged, etc. Why? They are just
following the law and their rules
to avoid any blame.
So, CPS put a torpedo just below the
waterline of that totally innocent
family. They did psychological
damage to the child; they harmed
the sense of security of the family;
they wasted the time of the family;
the may have wrecked the family
finances due to the legal costs.
Earlier tonight I watched the Nova
program on the June 6, 1944 Normandy
landing. I was reminded of all the
death and destruction fighting Hitler.
But then with something like CPS
and US police shooting unarmed Blacks
in the back, etc., we are creating
disasters out of nothing, nothing
at all, disasters, out of nothing,
for no good reason.
The judge? He should have
found a way to charge the CPS
thugs, laughed their case out of
court, and put the family back
together. Since he didn't, he
should get a new career
cleaning sidewalks with a tooth brush --
"Nice and clean, now, y'hear?".
CPS must report to a mayor or
governor, etc. Well, with
enough such stories, the mayor
or whomever should ensure that the
head
of CPS and everyone involved
in that case should join
the judge in brushing the
sidewalks.
Part of the solution is sunlight,
e.g., on the Internet.
Too often our government has become
just a dangerous enemy of the citizens.
The citizens should vote
for the needed changes. Due to CPS,
every family with children is
at risk of essentially just
thugs from CPS wrecking their
families, a greater risk than a
bomb from a terrorist and
comparably dangerous.
TSA? Sure, they can steal money
and valuables from your luggage and
molest your wife and daughters.
Gee, when I was 10 or so, I got
a three speed bicycle, and then,
especially during the summers,
I was gone for hours at a time,
sometimes 20 miles round trip.
No problems.
I was big for
my age: If some CPS types
had tried to do something
to me, it would have been
a fight, a real fight --
I would have defended myself
from the CPS attackers.
Sure, if I could have found
a club, I would have
beat them to a bloody pulp --
just ordinary self-defense.
Government wants to grow, like
poison ivy or worse. Have to
cut it back. The key way:
Just cut their budgets. How to
do that? Sure, vote. Then
get rid of the government
thugs who attack citizens and
get lower taxes.
Read. Complain. Vote.
Solve the problem. That's
what our democracy is for
and some of why we really
need democracy. Else the
government will grow and
grow and become a hostile
occupying force in our
country like Hitler
occupied Poland.
In Normandy is a cemetery
with, as I recall from the
Nova program, 9000 graves
of US soldiers who fought
for our freedom. Well, we
should not let out of control
government do to us what
Hitler would have done.
The part you didn't mention is where CPS, and individual CPS employees are sued, and lambasted in the press when they don't act, and then something happens downstream, and they end up taking all the blame.
I tend to agree with your general theme though, that what we're seeing is the result of system systems that have been funded, and now are doing what they were created to do.
Some of the bad things government
in the US does are as bad as some
of what the Nazis did. E.g.,
grabbing a 10 year old child playing
harmlessly in their own back yard,
taking that child from its family
for 30 days, charging the parents
with a felony where they could go
to jail, wrecking the family
finances from the legal costs,
TSA stealing from luggage and
molesting women and girls,
suddenly in the middle of the
night
breaking down the door of a house
and shooting the family dog,
shooting an unarmed citizen in the
back fifty feet away running
away -- such things are quite comparable
with a lot, not all, of the stuff the
Nazi thugs did.
In simple terms,
what is in common is just thug
behavior, some people (they feel
safer in a group of several)
with power and getting their
jollies and feeling more
powerful and, thus, more secure,
from exercising that power over
others.
Many of our fathers, grand fathers,
great grand fathers, etc. fought
for our freedom. Let's don't
let power hungry thugs,
paid by taxes or otherwise,
take our freedom.
E.g., some years ago I was
a researcher working in artificial
intelligence at the IBM
Watson lab in Yorktown Heights,
NY. That's in the middle of
Westchester County, the first
county north of NYC. I lived
two counties farther north, in
Dutchess county.
I liked to work late so often
stayed at the office after dinner
and drove home at about 10 PM.
So, if look at a map, sure, I
drove north on the NY Taconic
State Parkway. I was driving
a Buick Regal Turbo T-Type,
right, a banker's hot rod
of the time, in very good condition.
For someone who has driven
over 500,000 miles, I have
relatively few convictions of
moving traffic violations. E.g,
my auto insurance bill here in NYS is
about $260 twice a year. Part
of the reason is that
I watch for cops.
One night driving home in
my rear view mirror I noticed
some headlights looking like
they were from a car
gaining rapidly on me.
Driving late at night like
that, I tend to drive in the
left lane because I can
avoid cars entering or leaving
the road I am on from
side roads or the shoulder.
So, when that car was about
50 yards behind me, I moved to
the right lane to
let them pass. Fine with
me if they want to go way too fast --
go ahead, pass me, and be gone.
Well, that car shifted to the right
lane also. So, I had changed lanes
and slowed down basically trying to force
them to pass me.
Well, it was a cop car with
two cops.
I'd done nothing wrong.
Instead, the cops had just
seen a nice car driving
at night on a nearly empty
road and decided to
stop the car for no good reason.
Likely that's illegal.
So, they stopped me.
There were two cops,
one really nasty and
angry. He was a
thug, out to harass a
citizen just for his own
jollies. He looked young,
like he was a rookie on the
force.
So, he had his jollies: He
had me standing on one leg,
walking a line, touching my nose,
etc. The other cop stood aside
and was not happy about the
obvious harassment.
The thug cop wrote out a ticket
charging me with something,
maybe changing a lane without
using a turn signal, e.g.,
when I was trying to shake
their car off my tail.
While they were writing out
the ticket, I was sitting
in my car reading a published
paper in applied math.
The thug asked me what I
was reading, and I said
he likely wouldn't like it.
He got angry and
asked in a loud, threatening
voice,
"Are you calling me
stupid?".
I answered, "No, but the
paper is quite technical
and advanced and assumes
graduate work in pure
mathematics."
He kept harassing me, looking
for me to say something
he would use to start
a fight.
Finally I just drove away
with him standing there.
They didn't pursue.
For the ticket, I went to
court. The cops didn't
show, and the judge dismissed
the case. I handed the judge
a letter describing the interaction.
That cop was a thug.
He was loose on the streets,
carrying a gun,
making illegal traffic
stops, harassing citizens,
trying to start fights,
basically a violent criminal,
paid by taxes.
He was using his
power to get his jollies.
Lesson: Such things happen.
They happened with the
Nazi Brown Shirts. They
happen with some US police.
Apparently they happen with
the TSA, DEA, DHS, FBI,
and CPS. We should not
give up our freedoms easily.
In our democracy,
we need to vote against such
stuff.
Standard: Some bad parents actually do exist. So, with a few such examples, some people who want to get attention get some laws passed and set up CPS with some really big powers, e.g., ones that violate little things like due process. Some of the laws mention felonies.
Then the CPS department gets created, funded, and staffed. Then a phone call comes in, and CPS swings into action.
Then, CPS wants to look busy, do their job, believes that they are now responsible for the child, wants to make sure nothing goes wrong where they could be blamed, so take full control of the life of the child, as their rules say, and to heck with anything like due process, the actual good of the child, the good of the family, etc. Instead, CPS becomes just law and rules driven.
So, CPS is brain-dead, dysfunctional, dangerous, destructive, demented, deranged, etc. Why? They are just following the law and their rules to avoid any blame.
So, CPS put a torpedo just below the waterline of that totally innocent family. They did psychological damage to the child; they harmed the sense of security of the family; they wasted the time of the family; the may have wrecked the family finances due to the legal costs.
Earlier tonight I watched the Nova program on the June 6, 1944 Normandy landing. I was reminded of all the death and destruction fighting Hitler.
But then with something like CPS and US police shooting unarmed Blacks in the back, etc., we are creating disasters out of nothing, nothing at all, disasters, out of nothing, for no good reason.
The judge? He should have found a way to charge the CPS thugs, laughed their case out of court, and put the family back together. Since he didn't, he should get a new career cleaning sidewalks with a tooth brush -- "Nice and clean, now, y'hear?".
CPS must report to a mayor or governor, etc. Well, with enough such stories, the mayor or whomever should ensure that the head of CPS and everyone involved in that case should join the judge in brushing the sidewalks.
Part of the solution is sunlight, e.g., on the Internet.
Too often our government has become just a dangerous enemy of the citizens. The citizens should vote for the needed changes. Due to CPS, every family with children is at risk of essentially just thugs from CPS wrecking their families, a greater risk than a bomb from a terrorist and comparably dangerous.
TSA? Sure, they can steal money and valuables from your luggage and molest your wife and daughters.
Gee, when I was 10 or so, I got a three speed bicycle, and then, especially during the summers, I was gone for hours at a time, sometimes 20 miles round trip. No problems.
I was big for my age: If some CPS types had tried to do something to me, it would have been a fight, a real fight -- I would have defended myself from the CPS attackers. Sure, if I could have found a club, I would have beat them to a bloody pulp -- just ordinary self-defense.
Government wants to grow, like poison ivy or worse. Have to cut it back. The key way: Just cut their budgets. How to do that? Sure, vote. Then get rid of the government thugs who attack citizens and get lower taxes.
Read. Complain. Vote. Solve the problem. That's what our democracy is for and some of why we really need democracy. Else the government will grow and grow and become a hostile occupying force in our country like Hitler occupied Poland.
In Normandy is a cemetery with, as I recall from the Nova program, 9000 graves of US soldiers who fought for our freedom. Well, we should not let out of control government do to us what Hitler would have done.