Re: Ray attempts Biblical justification: was Re: U.N. rules Canada should ban spanking

                     Friday, the 24th of October, 2003

Doug writes:
  It is important to keep in mind that the majority of children forcibly
  removed from their homes and placed into foster care by CPS were not
abused!
  The vast majority of "substantiated" cases are for RISK of abuse or
neglect.
  And a whopping 103,144 children removed in 2001 were UNSUBSTANTIATED
for
  either risk of or actual abuse/neglect (around 25% of the children
placed in
  foster care).  http://tinyurl.com/9psd

If this is true, then every CPS caseworker having removed a single
one of these 103,144 children should be doing life in prison
for violation of Section 241 or 242 of the United States Code.

No child should ever be removed from any home without conviction
of the parents in a jury trial for abuse or neglect of that
child, and prior prescription by law of removal of that child from
the home as part of the punishment. Short of that, the CPS worker 
is committing kidnap to take a child away from a parent.

Consider the law, taken from 
<http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/241.html>:

    Sec. 241. - Conspiracy against rights 

    If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, 
    threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, 
    Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise 
    or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by 
    the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because 
    of his having so exercised the same; or 

    If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, 
    or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent 
    or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right 
    or privilege so secured - 

    They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned 
    not more than ten years, or both; and if death results
    from the acts committed in violation of this section 
    or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to
    kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit 
    aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they
    shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any 
    term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to
    death 

Oh, I guess maybe that should be the death penalty for kidnap.
And what if it's just a single caseworker, and not conspiracy, you
say? Well, then we have Section 242:

<http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/242.html>
    Sec. 242. - Deprivation of rights under color of law 

    Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, 
    regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person 
    in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, 
    or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, 
    or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or 
    laws of the United States, or to different punishments, 
    pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an 
    alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed 
    for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this 
    title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and 
    if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation 
    of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, 
    or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, 
    shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 
    ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts 
    committed in violation of this section or if such acts 
    include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated 
    sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual 
    abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this 
    title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, 
    or both, or may be sentenced to death.

So, why not skip over this "go-to-a sequence-of-hearings-to-plead
-with-them-to-get-my-kids-back" stuff and simply file criminal 
charges? Prosecute the hell out of any CPS caseworker removing 
children from homes where the parents have not been convicted 
by a jury of criminal abuse or neglect. Put those CPS caseworkers 
in prison, where they belong. Cut them precisely zero slack.

              Mike Morris
        ([EMAIL PROTECTED])