Posts from — April 2008

Watch carefully as Texas CPS relentlessly and insidiously works — through vague, quasi accusations — to demonize and stereotype the FLDS people as a group in an effort to distract attention from the worst perpetrators in the Texas CPS story: Judge Barbara Walther, CPS, and the police and troopers. These authorities violated their oaths of office — to protect and defend the Constitution — by executing a fraudulent warrant on the FLDS under false pretenses. CPS wants to prove — not to the court where the proof belongs — but to the populace, that they acted properly. They did not.

Take in the following CNN headline, for which there is no purpose except to comfort the consciences of Americans who would — in the absence of this kind of yellow journalism — demand the resignations of the officials responsible for the raid on the FLDS: [Read more →]

Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell’s denunciation of Barack Obama’s denunciation of Rev. Wright’s denunciation of America has me feeling thoroughly denounced. It goes to show how pervasive the “Black America” vs. “White America” schtick has become in what Mitchell calls “the black church”. As if there is only one dogma preached in all of America’s “black” churches. As if Wright’s favorite black liberation theology is that dogma. As if blacks are a nation within the United States separate from everyone else — whites, latinos, asians and so forth. As if Mitchell and Wright are fighting to create a black Waco. [Read more →]

Last week, funny man Wesley Snipes was awarded three years’ paid vacation in the federal pen for comedically failing to file federal tax returns in 1999, 2000, and 2001. Trying to get a little help from friends, Snipes had Woody Harrelson and Denzel Washington write letters to the court in support of Snipes’ good character and value to society. I like Denzel Washington. I think he’s a decent human being and a great actor. No comment on Harrelson. But you’d think that because of their training, they would have learned a bit about reading an audience and playing to it. Their letters suggest that Snipes’ buddies just didn’t have a clue. WebCPA reports: [Read more →]

As Texas CPS and Judge Walther squander time, treasure and constitutional integrity hounding the FLDS, the AP reports that the U.S. Army is expanding its investigation of bad conditions at Fort Bragg. A video shot by the father of an 82nd Airborne Division soldier revealed “mold inside the barracks, peeling interior paint and a bathroom drain plugged with sewage.” Understandably, the father, Ed Frawley, “said he was disgusted by the conditions that greeted his son and the rest of his 82nd Airborne unit that returned on April 7-8 after a 15-month tour of duty in Afghanistan.” [Read more →]

This Foxnews story from Michigan nicely summarizes the pathological smallness of the average CPS (so-called “child protective services”) agent:

DETROIT — A University of Michigan professor says he had no idea he’d given his 7-year-old son alcoholic lemonade at a ball game, and is furious at child-protection officials for removing his son from the home. [Read more →]

America can sleep soundly tonight in the knowledge that Texas CPS is on the job yet again, prowling for America’s most wanton. In a new development cheered by CPS groupies around the world, CPS spokesman Darrell Aznar announced late Tuesday that Judge Barbara “Defarge” Walther — America’s favorite child welfare enforcer — has issued a warrant for the removal of all children from Hillsborough County, home of allegedly sex-crazed teachers Debra LaFave and Stephanie Ragusa.

Texas CPS, together with goons from the Texas State Troopers, are going in to execute that warrant! Yeah, baby! Pounding the lectern at an evening press conference, Aznar avowed that Hillsborough County’s kids will be safer with CPS than with their parents who have exercised such poor judgment in buying homes in Hillsborough County where, as everyone should know, so many school teachers are flaming perverts.

Developing . . .

Great comments at Hoyden About Town on the absurd excess and counter-logic of Texas CPS and Judge Barbara “Guillotine” Walther in the FLDS case:

To Judge Walther: working four or six or eight hours a day five days a week before being reunited with your infant and being able to play and cuddle and breastfeed and sleep together in your own home for the other 16 hours is not the same as being dislocated from your family and then having your child snatched away as well. Being in childcare or in the care of friends and family for four or six or eight hours a day five days a week before being reunited with your mother to play and cuddle and breastfeed and sleep together in your own home is not the same as being plunged into a sea of complete strangers and then having your mother removed from you as well. [Read more →]

For the second time in less than two years, Austrian men have been found holding girls in the basement as sex slaves. Texas CPS spokesman Darrell Aznar says, “In consultation with our experts, we have determined that living in Austria among all of those Catholics is . . . well, it’s just too risky. I mean, look what happened to these girls. No reasonable parent would continue to keep children in Austria. These unreasonable Austrian parents are gonna find out that they can’t mess with Texas. We’ve developed a plan in concert with the Texas State Troopers to remove all Austrian children to safe foster homes in Croatia. We’re pretty sure we can get Judge Barbara ‘Defarge’ Walther to sign a warrant that will satisfy the Austrian authorities who we feel sure have no more regard for their Constitution than Texas authorities have for ours. Should be a clean sweep and at least those poor kids won’t have to grow up as Catholics.”

Developing . . .

Texas CPS now predictably ramps up its disinformation campaign, attempting to justify violating FLDS due process rights by returning to sexier stuff — allegations of pregnant teenagers. Gasp! The AP quotes Texas Child Protective Services spokesman Darrell Azar as saying this afternoon that

“53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 were living on the ranch in Eldorado. Of that group, 31 already have children or are pregnant.”

I have two responses to this assertion:

1. I won’t believe it until you (CPS) prove it through independently verified documentation. On what basis have you made this factual determination? And did you gather this data through constitutionally-approved means or through lies, intimidation and subterfuge? [Read more →]

Yesterday, I noted in my long blog entry on Judge Barbara Walther’s abuse of due process in the FLDS case that Texas State agents acting on Walther’s orders invaded individual FLDS residences using a search warrant that was written for the entire YFZ Ranch facility. The Ranch includes numerous separate living areas or residences, similar to many apartment complexes or multiple-family rental homes throughout the United States. These residences are occupied by separate families. Yet Judge Walther issued only one search warrant, as if for an entire apartment complex.

In the video linked to the picture at right, you will witness a chilling encounter between one FLDS mother, sitting in her residence, and three male CPS agents who surround her, refuse to show her a copy of the warrant applying to her residence because they have none, and force her to give up her children.  As you watch, bear in mind that a linchpin of the CPS rationale for busting up these families is that the Ranch creates an “authoritarian” environment.  Who in this video is playing the authoritarian game? [Read more →]