CPS - a good concept, kind of ike the EPA, the Department of (re)education, and the DHS.
All good ideas ruined by people who are given a reasonabe mandate and then completely bastardize it by becoming over zealous and militant in their efforts to the point to becoming a problem in and of themselves.
I have seen, and read about, people who have had their lives ruined because CPS has without any facts, without any evidence, and without any corroboration, swooped in like the gestapo, seized childeren from the parents, and even arrested parents. People have lost their jobs, had their lives ruined, and had to pay exhorbatant amounts of money to lawyers to prove their innocence over unfounded allegations.
A more famous example of this is the NcMartin Pre-school case a few years back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial As with most things the Guvment does, it becomes a slippery slope of initial good intentions that go horribly wrong over time due to lack of oversight, and an unchecked ability to control and subjugate the little peons called citizens.
So, does CPS have a role to play in protecting children = Yes
Does it carry out its job with reason, and an intellectually honest amount of common sense = NO
I get pissed off every time I hear some politician pull out the ... "its all about the children", or "it will mean we will have to layoff Police and Firefighters if we can't raise taxes, or " We owe it to our teachers so we need to pass these proposals", or " these are draconian cuts that will gut our budget", "People have a right to <
insert right of the week here> so we must raise taxes to pay for this right......seriously?
How many here know.....
What fiat money is?
What baseline budgeting is?
What the buzzword "cuts" really means?
What the FED's mandate is, or that they are currently buying US bonds with aforementioned fiat money to support QE1 and QE2 ?
What Quantitative Easing is?
What the Bretton Woods accords of 1944 decided?
What the international reserve currency is?
What the true definition of "Inflation" is, and then link that definition to QE1 and QE2 and think down the road at whats coming?
Who Edward Bernays is
(Sigmund Freud's nephew)?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_BernaysLooking around the room, and before people have a chance to search the web, I don't see a lot of hands raised.....
It starts in the schools with an ideological agenda being shoved into the young minds full of mush.
Its about control, taxes, power, and money..... if you think otherwise, please wake the hell up and stop being so naive.
Did you know that bacon wasn't a breakfast food at one time? Didn't think so.....Bernays made bacon a breakfast food by minipulation of the herd mentality and the unwitting help of some doctors. Control and manipulation.
The bacon story is about half way down this article but variatiosn re all over the web. http://www.frugalmarketing.com/dtb/marketing-psychology.shtmlFamous quote by Bernays:
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind
Our current administration,
(and many before it going back to Woodrow Wilson), subscribes to the Edward Bernays and Saul Alinsky school of governance.
(Obama actually taught a class on Alinsky at the University of Chicago) . A ruling elite dictating to the masses who are too ignorant and too busy just getting by day to day to know whats best for them. So those decisons need to made by others who are more intellectually gifted.
Just like the Government intervention via CPS in deciding how proper parenting should be done. This creates the broad brush, and eliminates the "reasoned common sense" I noted above.
I don't want to be a sheeple manipulated by the ruling elite...
The Fedral Governenment has a constitutional mandate to provide an army for our defense, maintain interstate commerce routes, and publish a common currncy. The States are supposed to be the laboratories of democratic experimentation, not the Federal Government.
Thats my unsolicited take.
BikerDog
Sat Feb 11, 2012 4:34 pm 
