Another stick in the eye of the ever expanding "authority" of the jack booted thugs who are running this country and every aspect of each of our lives.
Child Protective Services in Missouri are the Ultra-Mafioso of the state, operating with impunity, in absolute secrecy, and with heavy handed, unrestrained power. And Missouri doesn't hold a candle to the fascism in Texas where the Chimp in Charge got his taste for killing.
"Oh, say does that scarred, mangled banner yet wave? For the land of the free, over every grave."
Texas seizure of polygamist-sect kids thrown out
My middle finger salute to the powers that be.
Child Protective Services in Missouri are the Ultra-Mafioso of the state, operating with impunity, in absolute secrecy, and with heavy handed, unrestrained power. And Missouri doesn't hold a candle to the fascism in Texas where the Chimp in Charge got his taste for killing.
"Oh, say does that scarred, mangled banner yet wave? For the land of the free, over every grave."
Texas seizure of polygamist-sect kids thrown out
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) - In a ruling that could torpedo the case against the West Texas polygamist sect, a state appeals court Thursday said authorities had no right to seize more than 440 children in a raid on the splinter group's compound last month.
The Third Court of Appeals in Austin said the state failed to show the youngsters were in any immediate danger, the only grounds in Texas law for taking children from their parents without court action.
It was not clear when the children - now scattered in foster homes across the state - might be returned to their parents. The ruling gave a lower-court judge 10 days to release the youngsters from custody, but the state could appeal to the Texas Supreme Court and block that.
The decision in one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history was a humiliating defeat for the state Child Protective Services agency. It was hailed as vindication by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, who claimed they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs.
My middle finger salute to the powers that be.
