The most appropriately named politician in American history, if not the world, has popped up in the news again.
Anthony Weiner, Democrat from New York, hit the headlines for doing what he does best: sexting.
Yep, it’s his usual story, unworthy of more ink; this perv flaunts his groin to women he’s never met as frequently as the rest of us pay taxes. But Weiner upped the ante this time. The salacious selfie he sent his doxie while reclining in bed featured another little Weiner as well: his four-year-old son, presumably napping beside his degenerate father.
Recall that Weiner’s love of sexting has so far cost him his rule over us in Congress as well as his aspirations to reign as New York City’s mayor. Wouldn’t you think he’d learn? But no. “Carlos Danger” is apparently as stupid as the New Yorkers who voted for him.
Or perhaps Weiner figured that after sabotaging his political career, he hadn’t much to lose — just his wife and son.
Bingo. The wife is gone (no great loss, Carlos: as Hitlary’s go-fer the last two decades, Huma Abedin is almost as craven and reprehensible as her boss). And the son may be going, too — though not because his mother’s finally called it quits on a marriage of power and convenience. Rather, the State his parents worship may kidnap him via the Orwellian “Administration for Children’s Services.”
“Child-welfare officials are investigating Anthony Weiner in the wake of … [his] lewd selfie that showed his young son lying in bed next to him … The probe of Weiner was launched by the Administration for Children’s Services over his handling of 4-year-old son Jordan…”
I think we can safely denounce Weiner as the vilest of human beings; no wonder he’s a politician. And he’s probably even worse as a father, if that’s possible. So while it’s poetically just that the State he’s so often sicced on others has sighted on him this time, all of us should rush to defend his son — and millions of other equally innocent children — from official kidnapping. As the Family Defense Center puts it, “Nothing is more painful for a child than to be taken from the only parents he or she knows.” Even when they’re as despicable as the Weiners.
Like so many of modern America’s horrors, government’s “Child Protective Services” came into their own during the 1930s. Before that, largely private efforts salvaged orphaned or abandoned kids; the Children’s Aid Society, for example, “was founded in 1853 by Charles Loring Brace …Between 1853 and 1929, more than 150,000 abandoned, abused and orphaned children were rescued from the streets and slums of New York City … to start new lives with families on farms across the country.”
But the Progressivism poisoning America at the turn of the 20th Century idolized “experts” (read: bureaucrats) while sneering at the mere volunteers staffing private charities: “The twentieth century ushered in a dramatic shift away from private child protective services in favor of governmental control by public agencies authorized under both federal and state child protection statutory schemes.” President Theodore Roosevelt “convened the first White House Conference on Children. This meeting brought together social workers, educators, juvenile court judges, labor leaders and other men and women concerned with children’s well-being, who collectively endorsed the idea of a Federal Children’s Bureau.” Oh, I’ll bet they did. “In 1912, Congress passed the Act creating the Children’s Bureau and charged it ‘to investigate and report… upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people.’ … The bill included an initial appropriation of $25,640.”
Note the conversion from rescuing orphans on the streets — a task so formidable it completely occupied amateurs, leaving them little time to look for trouble — to “investigating… child life among all classes of our people.” Thereafter, no family was sacrosanct from “professional” (read: bureaucratic) intrusions and prying.
Then, in 1974, the Feds passed the monstrous “Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.” CAPTA put government’s meddling with the family on steroids by paying the states to interfere: “The Act … created … basic grants to states to support new prevention, assessment, investigation, prosecution and treatment activities; and demonstration grants to public agencies and nonprofit organizations … to pilot and test innovations and to train state personnel.” In other words, the federal government richly rewards states for every child they shanghai from his home: in California in 2010, for example, each victim transferred $6000 per month from federal to local coffers (with only $600 of that subsidizing the foster parents, if any). These incentives drive states not only to seize ever-increasing numbers of children but to separate them as long as possible from their families.
Not surprisingly, then, America’s 50 states steal millions of children from their parents every year for little or no cause — all the while claiming they save “abused” kids. Indeed, as the Family Defense Center observes, “…child protection systems throughout America frequently remove children from parents as a first resort, not a last resort. Many parents lose custody of their children to state foster care systems primarily because they are poor…” Even more outrageous, the bureaucrats themselves decide whether — or if — the families they’ve destroyed may reunite. As one grandmother told me, “This CPS thing has completely caused my daughter-in-law to break down. She simply is not functioning well and appears to the CPS people and the psychologist [on CPS’s payroll] as unstable. I am not sure most parents are stable after this kind of ordeal.”
Tragically, once a government labels parents “neglectful,” few people will defend them; even fewer want to believe that bureaucrats entrusted with so much power over us would exploit that authority. Rarely, then, does anyone other than the devastated families object to this atrocity. Yet CPS’s predation of children for profit is perhaps the cruelest, most heartless, and most corrupt of all American scandals. And your kids could be next: “Any family can be the victim of a false, harassing, or misguided Hotline call.”
Shattering families is a tactic borrowed from totalitarian regimes. Let’s shatter CPS instead.
— Becky Akers
Related reading:
An update on Maryann Godboldo and medical tyranny
Michigan DHS insists on poisoning a child
It’s 14 months of torture for Justina Pelletier
Let your kid play in sight of your house, get charged with child endangerment
Florida couple charged with felony neglect after getting stuck in traffic while kid waited at home
Free-range Maryland parents get partial reprieve in child services investigation
State confiscates ‘off-grid’ couple’s 10 children
