From
Skyechell:
Hello to Brothers and Sisters in
Christ,
(PLEASE feel free to use this message
and or edit it accordingly for posting on websites as you deem necessary. The point is to
get the word out. To go directly to informative links please scroll to the bottom of this
e-mail message- Thank you).
This message is to bring awareness. It
seems that Child Protective Services (CPS) does "target" Christians with the
threat of removing children from Christian homes. "Christians" are labeled as
teaching "hatred" to children. They especially seem to frown upon Christian
families that homeschool.
Below are some facts, questions,
quotes, links etc... to help you understand this disturbing trend. Please note that there
ARE children in the U.S. that are being abused and DO need help....however, the current
system (CPS) actually puts children at greater risk, destroys innocent families and seems
to have an agenda of eventually making all children "wards of the state" to
further, perhaps, a New World view.
#1 Child
Protective Services (CPS) has VAST power. This power can be weilded against any
parent simply by an anonymous phone call to CPS. Anyone that doesn't "like you"
and or doesn't agree with your beliefs... can report you and then start a basic
inquisition style "witchhunt" similar to what occurred in the middle ages.
#2 "There
is a strong anti-Christian sentiment among many CPS workers. Christians are
known to believe in corporal punishment, which is tantamount to abuse in 'child-saver'
circles. Christians are also seen as rigid and intolerant, unfit to rear children for the
New World Order. Homosexual case workers, aware of Christian teachings regarding their
lifestyle, are often hostile to parents who display their faith. The New York State
Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies (CFCCA) warns that parents who...display an
"over involvement in religion" are suspect". (Brenda Scott- "out of
Control").
#3 "These
are not isolated incidents. Every year, it is estimated that over 1 million
people are falsely accused of child abuse or child neglect in this country". (*Brenda
Scott-Investigative Reporter- from her book "Out of Control").
#4 Most case
workers for CPS are not parents and many are homosexual. They are not
interested in helping families (as they claim). They only get funds from the government if
the child is removed from the home and placed in foster care...some 12 billion dollars per
year.
#5
"Religious" families tend to be targeted...especially if the parents
teach their children that homosexuality is wrong. Case workers tend to see that as
teaching children to "hate" and then claim the parents are psychologically
abusing their children and then can infact remove the children from the home.
#6 If CPS
comes knocking at your door, there is a 40% chance they will take your child
regardless if you have done anything wrong or not.
#7 It IS a
HORRIBLE thing for children to be abused or neglected...and children that are
experiencing abuse or neglect DO need help. However, many children who are NOT abused or
neglected ARE taken out of the home thus destroying healthy families and traumatizing
children unjustly.
#8 MORE abuse,
sexual abuse and neglect occurs while in foster care than in the original home.
Thus, the system that is supposed to be helping children actually puts children at risk.
See : http://www.cpswatch.com/stats/
#9
Hillary
Clinton, in her book "It takes a Village" often quotes Dr. C. Henry Kempe...(see
website The New American) :
"We must remove the children
from the crude influence of families," Soviet Communist Party educators were
instructed at a conference in 1918. "We must take them over and, to speak frankly,
nationalize them." Dr. C. Henry Kempe, the most influential American advocate of
home visitation programs, subscribed wholeheartedly to that concept." (From
Beware
the Child Protectors by William Norman Grigg at <http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/08-30-99/vo15no18_beware.htm>
)
#10 The
general public is under the FALSE assumption that children are only removed if
there is evidence of abuse or neglec
t.
#11 Social
workers are allowed to violate constitutional rights.
#12 Innocent
parents may appear on computer registers and be branded "child
abuser" for life.
#13 In many
states if a child is in foster care for 18 months then the child is placed for adoption...meanwhile
due to redtape and slowness by CPS case workers it may take longer than that for the
innocent family to prove themselves innocent. Unfortunately, MANY families who are proven
innocent STILL lose their parental rights even though there is no evidence and the case
has been written up as "invalid".
#14 CPS is
empowered to intervene into a home if they feel a child is at "risk".
Making "at risk" assessments is arbitrary and unsupervised. A Norman Polansky
risk assessment worksheet may be used...for example it is a strike against a parent if
there is no television in the home. If a parent makes a comment about the
"trash" on television these days then it is a strike against the parent etc...
(Brenda Scott, "Out of Control"). Also dolls must be available to boys and
trucks must be available to girls or it is a strike against the parent in this "at
risk" assessment.
#15 Sexual
education is taught in schools, but, if a child "knows" about sex or
repeats similar things as to what they heard at sex ed, then the parents can be brought
into questioning and end up losing their parental rights.
#16 Families
are known to be a stumbling block to educating children for a global community.
Again, government funding is not given to CPS if the case worker tries to "help"
the family...but, rather money is only given if the case worker removes the child from the
home.
#17
"Throughout America, an average of 3,000 children a day are stolen from their homes
and placed in foster care to fuel a multi-billion dollar money-making machine." See:
National Outrage- http://www.nationaloutrage.org/
#18 "The
Federal government provides tremendous financial incentives to maintain foster care
programs. See: http://home.rica.net/rthoma/foster05.htm
#19 Abuse is
widespread within foster care homes, so why are they taking children from
innocent families and placing these children in homes where they will probably be abused
or neglected for the very first time? http://home.rica.net/rthoma/foster04.htm
#20
"Child protective agencies nationwide are forcibly removing more children
from their homes even when the agencies' own investigations establish that the children
have not been abused or neglected, according to reports submitted by state agencies to the
National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN).... Once in foster care, state agencies
further reported, children were much more likely to be maltreated than they are in their
own homes." See: http://www.cpswatch.com/reports/nccan.htm
#21
"America's child protection system has immense power.
It operates in secrecy. It enjoys total immunity.Parents and children have few
meaningful rights. Under current law, the
system created to protect children has become America's greatest source of family and
child abuse". See : http://www.childprotectionreform.org/
#22 Many
interrogations include strip searches, even when there has been no
substantiated evidence of any wrong doing by a parent.
See
: http://home.rica.net/rthoma/invest03.htm
#23
"According to Hillary Rodham Clinton, "There is no such thing as other people's
children." One must respect a certain consistency in the First Lady's
moral perspective: After all, as an attorney at Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Mrs. Clinton
was a legal adviser to Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, a financial institution whose
motto might well have been, "There is no such thing as other people's money."
However, by laying custodial claim to all children in the name of the state, Mrs. Clinton
is promoting a doctrine that is much more dangerous than financial fraud: parens patriae,
the "parenthood of the state." See :http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1996/vo12no14/vo12no14_child.htm
#24
"Parents will find the numbers reported by their own government alarming,"
said Cheryl Barnes, Director of CPSWatch, Inc., an organization that monitors child
welfare agencies. "The public is under the impression that children are removed from
their families only in cases of severe and life-threatening abuse or neglect." See:
http://www.cpswatch.com/press/080100.htm
#25
"These folks are fed by a child abuse industry to the tune of well over 12 billion
dollars," said Susan Jackson, a family advocate and member of CPS Watch.
"Cash harvested by social workers, diagnosticians, attorneys, foster homes and group
homes, to name a few..." See : http://www.cpswatch.com/press/080100.htm
#26
"Pennsylvania, Kansas and New Jersey led the states, where nearly half
(43%) of the foster care placements in 1998 came from families where child protective
services (CPS) workers unsubstantiated allegations of child mistreatment
".(percentage removed even though unsubstantiated for abuse or neglect) See :http://www.tcbchronicles.com/0700/nccan.htm#Table
Two
#27
""Our investigators discovered that children are eleven times more likely to be
sexually abused in state care than they are in their own homes." See
:http://www.tcbchronicles.com/0700/nccan.htm#Table One
Additional links
American Freedom Alliance :
http://www.afaorg.net/Children.htm
Child Protective Services Watch :
http://www.cpswatch.com/
Family Alert
http://www.familyalert.org/
Vocal http://www.vocalny.org/
From
Mariah Diaz:
I finished reading
Skyechell's
comments on CPS. He is correct in some of his comments and gave out some
good sites. I want to give people encouragement about how to fight back.
The most important thing we can do is know our rights. Even though CPS is
allowed to violate constitutional rights, they have lost when those cases
have gone to the higher courts. There is a website, http://www.fdno.org run
by a retired detective who had 20+ years of experience. He is a Christian
and is dedicated to helping families fight CPS. His site is where I got my
information.
CPS must have a search warrant to enter your home. Sometimes they force
their way in, but if they come to your door without a warrant you should
refuse them entry. Keep record of their visit either by video or tape
recorder according to your state's laws.
When it comes to strip searches or removing your children from your home
they can not do that without a written order by a judge. They also can not
talk to your children without a parent or attorney present because that is a
violation of your children's rights.
Most CPS workers and some police officers do not know the law, are ignorant
of the law or think it does not apply to them. They are wrong. They have no
obligation to tell your rights either.
The best thing we can do is educate ourselves and exercise our rights. It is
also helpful to think about what you would do if they come to your door so
you are not caught in the moment and you alteady have a plan of action in
place.
At the site I mentioned he has written a book and in the back of the book he
has all the state laws pertaining to child abuse. In his home state there is
a law that states that if parents don't control their children, they are
breaking the law. I don't have the book yet, but I have a feeling that most
states have a law similiar to that one.
He also has many other recommendations for how to deal with CPS. I encourage
everyone to go to his site and the others recommended by Skyechell so we can
educate ourselves and fight back. Knowledge and application of the law is
our best defense.
I hope this provides encouragement to your readers.
Thank you, Mariah, for this
important link. I haven't read everything on the website your recommend,
but I really appreciate the article on this page
http://www.fdno.org/articles/fighting_back.html. The following
excerpt reminds me of all the horror stories of parents who have been
intimidated by angry and aggressive social workers.
Fighting Back:
"On February 20, 2001, the Erie County Department of Job and Family Services received an
'anonymous' tip that the children of a home educating family were neglected and their home was
'cluttered.' Two social workers decided to go to the residence to investigate.
....When the mother answered the door, she refused to allow the social workers into the house, even though several techniques were used to try to convince the mother that the social workers were
'required' to enter the residence (something I have been warning you about). At one point, one social worker told the mother that if she refused them entry into the home, she would declare an
'emergency' and forcibly remove the children from the home (this is another claim often used by social workers). The mother still refused entry."
From
C. E.: A
young woman who is a customer of mine works for a local hospital. She reads the
charts with all the observations that the nurse and doctors write into the
medical records. They record any little scratch or bruise found on a child.
She shared with me her fears about her 18 month old who on two separate
occasions was bruised...once falling down, and the other bruise on the arm she
has no idea where it came from. Her fear is such that she is scared of taking
the baby to the doctors if any bruises are on her child's body. To add to her
fears, is that she was abused as a child and she is aware of the bad PR
surrounding adults who were abused as children.
Another friend confided that a doctor asked her grandchild if he is ever
spanked. The church they attend has asked all parents not to spank their
children while on the church property.
It is very sad that it has come to this. I can feel "them" closing in....where
not an inch of privacy will be left and all things will be open to "wicked
reasoning."
The very same evil that claims to protect our children are also vaccinating our
children with poison.
From
Dawn F.: The social
worker mess hit home. Our family has faced the same kind of battle. Did you also know that
not only they, but their families as well profit from their federal protection. We have a
caseworker that lives less than 2 blocks away from us. When all hell broke lose here,
literally, 3 years ago, I recognized her face but couldn't put a name or location to it.
My eldest son made the connection for me. She is the mother of a boy who threatened
violence and extortion against my son in an incident about video games. In elementary
school he had bragged that his Mom grew pot for them to smoke (I heard this from more
people than my son).
