Why just take a breath, when we can enjoy the power trip of taking hundreds of children without legal justification beyond the flimsy, but with the force of government behind us? It’ll be even better because we don’t like “them”, so “they” deserve it…

Jokes noire aside, there may be many avenues of unchecked power that are not so invasive, but CPS is really on the throne of tyranny, being able to rip families apart.

And while we may be tempted to just believe the “experts” at CPS, the truth is that they not only lack expertise, but also balanced judgment resulting from many of them having been wounded themselves at an earlier age and vowing to “never let that happen to someone else.” That is not protection, it is self-absorption.

Some CPS employees and and some ( maybe all ) of the FLDS members under Waren Jeffs are behaving like extremeists.

The Texas appeals court ruling does not prevent Texas prosecuters from charging rapists ( statuatory or otherwise ) with crimes. It does not prevent church authorities from being charged with being accomplices to rape ( Waren Jeffs is in prison for that already ).

CPS can still remove children from individual FLDS families based on evidence through the normal process or even through an emergency process. The emergency process just requires evidence of an urgent and imminent threat of physical harm or sexual abuse in an individual house or apartment. Not somewhere on over a thousand acres of land and NOT based on the “beliefs” of parents but on actual criminal actions or criminal conspiracies by someone in the household where the children are living. If they go through the normal - non-emergency - process the burden of proof is much lower.

Also under Texas law the CPS had to attempt all reasonable alternatives to ripping small children from all the places and people they know and placing them with total strangers. This could have been placing mothers and children in group home for abused women and children or placement with a grandma / aunt or ensuring the home environment was safe by other means.

What happened here was the CPS and the state of Texas were using the small children as pawns to get at the child sexual abusers and FLDS Church Officials who instigate, promote, facilite and conceal these criminals. CPS was also lasy and drunk with power and did not believe they had to follow the law which allows them to use force to rip children from their parents when CPS follows the law.

I have no love for either the LDS or FLDS churches, BUT, I also fear a government which does not follow the rule of law and takes children away from families on an emergency basis and then claims you have no right to appeal. Very scary if the CPS actions were allowed to stand.

Now Texas needs to stop being lasy and finish this by following the law and prosecuting child rapists and the church officials who are their accomplices. Use the CPS to educate and support the Mothers who, based on CPS’s stated theory, are victims more than criminals.

Texas should leave the small children with their mothers - under court supervision - for now - there is no rush - Texas can always take them in the next few years before they become child rape victims if it turns out there is no other alternative.

By the way, the Texas appeals court did not find just one thing wrong with the way CPS handled this emergency removal of children in court - they found that they screwed it up in almost every way possible - CPS did not follow the law and neither did the county judge - So says the Texas Third court of appeals. Click on my name to go to the actual court opinion and order to read it for yourself.

Occasionally the government has to follow the laws as well - hopefully this investigation will continue and find the guilty without continuing to use small children as pawns.

Pasting in the following to browser address window will also get you to the court opinion:

http://www.3rdcoa.courts.state.tx.us/opinions/htmlopinion.asp?OpinionId=16865