Government on Deck: a redefinition of "imminent danger" - Granite Grok

Government on Deck: a redefinition of “imminent danger”

All states have some version of NH’s DCYF – Division of Children, Youth, and Family – that services families in need or “at risk” (including “Child Protective Services”).  Many do good work – and some do not.  Including the one that decided that a family, who allowed their 11 year old son in NJ to dress in camos and hold a .22 rifle that looks like those that gives gun-grabbers the swoons, just HAD to be investigated and did her best “Do you know who I am?? (and that I can take your kid away if I want!)” when they refused her entry without the proper paperwork (er, like a warrant) and ended up with an unconstitutional search.

Their thinking was probably “this kid is in imminent danger” – which he was certainly not.  Well, how about a new definition of “imminent danger” that would allow social workers unfettered access to someone’s home simply because the family is putting a child at risk – for serving food outside the Government’s “suggestions”:

Imminent means “right now and within seconds (or perhaps hours)” – letting a kid have a pint of ice cream or a few Ding-dong is worthy of Government taking charge of that family or, given some mentalities of some social workers, removal of that kid for “child food abuse”?   This is the Progressive mantra at its worst, especially with Medicare / Medicaid recipients mentioned in the video, in that:

  • We give you money
  • We know better than you (else, why are we here?)
  • You will do what we say because we give you money
  • Or we will take your kid away

Much of it is that “He who has the Gold makes the rules” and certainly Progressives are all about that (what the heck do you think Obamacare started as (forcing hospitals to give free care because you accept Govt money) and is morphing to?  How often have you heard Progressives say “Of COURSE we have the right to take things away from you (food they deem “evil”) – we pay for your health!”.

And yet, they won’t let people opt out – unless you pay a fine.  Oh sure, the Obamacare fine is small now, but it is set to ratchet up – the financial swat on the butt to recalcitrant children (yes, they do treat most adults as children they don’t trust).  It’s ALL in to the Progressive “great ideas” – they truly believe in “we’re all in this together” and they leave no stone unturned to make sure that your arms are intertwined with their’s as they follow their Socialist Yellow Brick Road on the way to their City of Oz Gold Dystopia Utopia on earth.

Which, I will garauntee, will turn out to be the exact same hubris behind the original Tower of Babel.  How can this be part of the Land of the Free?

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