> How the hell did this happen?

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.