We all remember Waco, when the federal goons set ablaze and killed dozens of foolish innocents, don’t we? Idiocy personified I suppose, but they weren’t harming anyone. Their leader was tricked by the feds over some petty gun violation, which he was probably innocent of anyway, and that started one of the sorriest outrages in Texas history, except perhaps what is now going on with over 460 innocent children being taken from their parents and placed in foster homes. Texas foster homes have a pretty poor reputation, but Texas isn’t alone. Monday, at a Detroit Tigers game, a father bought his son a lemonade at a snack stand, and unbeknownst to him, it was “hard” lemonade with a smidgen of alcohol in it. His kid was seized and placed in a foster home! The cousin of a client of mine had a similar incident. His kid spat at his baseball coach during a little league game. His Dad jumped over a fence, whacked the kid on his bottom, and was taken before the bureaucrats and charged with child abuse. That kid needed to have his butt whacked! In California, a bill proposes to make it a misdemeanor to spank your child. What is going on here people? Now a parent can’t spank his kid?
I am now reading a book titled “They Thought They Were Free,” and it is the story of a German man who went back to Germany after WW II, and interviewed ten men of various professions in a small town, and asked them what they had to do with the war and Nazi effort. I’ll tell more about that in a future column, but they literally thought that Hitler freed them and brought prosperity to them. They became anti-Semitic sort of automatically, thanks to media blitz, ’everyone was doing it,’ Nazis destroyed the hated communism, and you had to join to even get a job. There is a lot more to that story, believe me. Today, most Americans seem to think that because a black woman from Colorado phoned in a fake distress call, that gave the cops a right to invade a huge, well kept, beautiful, compound, inhabited by an admittedly screwy (to me) populace who believes in polygamy. ( They have absolutely NOTHING to do with the legitimate Mormons.)
Their practices and whereabouts had been known to locals and cops for many years, and no one bothered them. They weren’t bothering anyone, were peaceful, quiet, and unassuming. Now they see fit to take DNA samples, seize over 460 children, take them from their parents, and think that this is ’justice?’ This is a simple outrage, just as it was in Detroit with the lemonade child. And we think we are free? Is it ’freedom’ to be wiretapped by the Bush Gang, with no court orders? Is it ’freedom’ to be X-rayed down to our genitals to board a plane? Is it ’freedom’ to get arrested for not using a turn signal or buckling a seat belt? Is fighting in foreign lands, which had not threatened us, nor in any way acted hostile, ’fighting for freedom’? Or has it made millions more hate us? Is it ’freedom’ for government to lie through its teeth about just about everything, falsify statistics, cheapen our money by endlessly printing it, and pumping up the stock market by buying stocks with taxpayer dollars?
I don’t like America being turned into a a ’police state.’ Like the Germans did before WW II, we seem to believe every lie that exudes from the D C Gang. 9/11 was a total fraud and inside job, but everyone believes the Arabs did it. Most people believe that JFK was killed by a little runt named Lee Harvey Oswald, shooting from the Texas Depository Building, even though that was totally impossible, and the evidence proves otherwise. Have we forgotten Ruby Ridge? Are we so dulled by TV and the incessant propaganda which surrounds us every day, that we are unable to think for ourselves? Do you really believe that Iraq needed to be destroyed? Do you really believe that we should be in Afghanistan? Do you really believe that Korea and Vietnam were for our benefit? Are you OK with depleted uranium ammo being used in Iraq? Are you comfortable with the tens of thousands of suicides of Iraq vets? Do you really believe there is a way to pay a committed $53 trillion debt? Do you really believe that saving in dollars is a secure method of preserving one’s assets? God help you.
Is Texas really going to allow hundreds of children to be kidnapped by a ’justice system,’ and taken from their parents? Are Texans going to allow a single judge to rule on 462 cases in a matter of a couple of minutes? “Don’t Mess With Texas,” is a wonderful saying, but if Texas allows this to continue, I am ashamed of Texas. Come on Texans, stop this second Waco outrage. You live there…stop this NOW!