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Lynn Turriff    <lynnt@mail.oregon.com> writes:

>Here in Oregon a while ago, there was a similar sort of case. A man was accused
>of molesting his child, not by the child, who apparently had not. His entire
>family was outraged at the accusation. CPS did their usual deal, trying to get
>him to accept sexual offender status, whereupon he would be charged, plead
>guilty and put on probation while he accepted sex offender therapy (aversive),
>and his family entered counseling. His other option was to leave the household,
>be charged and tried. He refused to comply, was indicted, tried and *acquitted*.
>CPS refused to permit him to return home, and when he did, began procedings to
>remove his children. His wife disappeared with the children, and if I recall
>correctly, a warrant was issued on kidnapping charges.
>   
>This man was acquitted in a court of law, by a jury of his peers. It would be
>nice to think that this is a completely off the wall incident, which could
>never happen again, has never happened before. But it has, and this is what
>people refer to when they say W I T C H U N T.  
> 
>Parental rights and options become more limited every year. 

How about, instead of a parent's rights ammendment (which started this thread),
a CITIZEN'S rights ammendment?  Something along the lines of:

"The restrictions placed on the powers of government in the United States
Constitution shall apply to all representatives and employees of any level
of government, and any representative or employee of any government proven
in a court of law to have violated the Constitutional rights of any citizen
shall be prohibitted from serving any government entity within the United
States, in addition to facing the same criminal charges that any other
citizen would face for comitting the same violation."

In other words, if CPS tries to remove someone's kids without obtaining
a grand jury indictment first (I assume that removing the kids from the
home pending trial would pass Constitutional muster if a parent was 
properly indicted for crimes against said children), that particular
CPS worker goes to jail for kidnapping AND can never work for any government
employer or hold any government office ever again.

In the case of the woman if Florida whose children were taken away because
she was a witch, CPS would have to first find a law that she had broken.

In the case of the woman in NY who was seperated from her child for years
for the crime of breast-feeding, it probably would never have gotten past
the non-CPS grand jury.

And in the case of the guy in Denver whose entire pawn shop was confiscated
for no reason, the police would have had to actually charge him with
something or go to jail for theft.

Paul Ciszek                      When we are planning for posterity, we
                                 ought to remember that virtue is not
pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu            hereditary.     --Thomas Paine