Freedom Wins; Feminism loses!

Surprisingly, there is a court left in America that is willing to fight feminist tyranny!

From Yahoo News:

SAN ANGELO, Texas - 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...

... 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.

"It's a great day for Texas justice. This was the right decision," said Julie Balovich, a Legal Aid attorney for some of the parents. She was joined by several smiling mothers who declined to comment at a news conference outside the courthouse...

Where to begin?

Feminism, and its implicit "woman good, man bad" ideology and the Anti-Parent Jihad mentality of overzealous child abuse agents is a powerful and unholy combination [a][b][c] that has brought about incalculable amounts of pain and suffering.

Countless lives and relationships have been destroyed, thanks to warped ideologies and a government that oversteps all constitutional boundaries in its quest to "protect the children."

Thank the Almighty that this court was brave enough to enforce the law and rule against Child Protective services!

Getting back to the piece:

Every child at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado was taken into custody more than six weeks ago after someone called a hot line claiming to be a pregnant, abused teenage wife. The girl has not been found and authorities are investigating whether the calls were a hoax.

Ahh yes... the informant.

Get a load of her here.

A classic example of The-Woman-is-Always-to-Be-Believed mentality. Because of her, 400+ children have suffered invasive medical procedures at the hands of CPS, families have been ripped apart, and untold sums of money have been wasted. If anyone needs to do time here, it's our mentally warped tipster!

The story continues:

Child-protection officials argued that five girls at the ranch had become pregnant at 15 and 16 and that the sect pushed underage girls into marriage and sex with older men and groomed boys to enter into such unions when they grew up.

But the appeals court said the state acted too hastily in sweeping up all the children and taking them away on an emergency basis without going to court first.

Thank you.

This is why we have Probable Cause, Due Process, and Equal Protection clauses in State and Federal Constitutions, to restrain the government from committing blunders like this.

This is why we require Warrants from impartial courts of law before searches and seizures can be carried out; to restrain the government from committing blunders like this.

This is why we have a Jury system; to restrain the government from committing blunders like this.

This is exactly why we have a Constitution, and why its so important for the Constitution to be upheld and enforced, in its entirety, at all times.

By doing so, government blunders like these will be minimal, and when they do happen, they will be quickly overturned. When we ignore our Constitutional framework in order to advance the feminist agenda, then things like these will happen, and become more frequent, and become more and more abusive.

Yahoo continues:

"Even if one views the FLDS belief system as creating a danger of sexual abuse by grooming boys to be perpetrators of sexual abuse and raising girls to be victims of sexual abuse ... there is no evidence that this danger is 'immediate' or 'urgent'," the court said.

"Evidence that children raised in this particular environment may someday have their physical health and safety threatened is not evidence that the danger is imminent enough to warrant invoking the extreme measure of immediate removal."

The court said the state failed to show that any more than five of the teenage girls were being sexually abused, and offered no evidence of sexual or physical abuse against the other children. Half the youngsters taken from the ranch were 5 or younger. Only a few dozen are teenage girls.

So much common sense here, its scary!

This is a judgment that is legally and Constitutionally sound. While I like to criticize the government for all of the things it gets wrong, I am also quick to praise the system when it works as intended (although the reunification of the children with their parents is questionable at the moment. Hopefully that will be corrected in time).

As I've said previously, there are many of us (government officers) who hate socialist/feminist ideology, and work to counteract its influence in the system. And, while it seems that we lose more battles than we win, sometimes we are able to effect change for the better. I believe this ruling is part of this greater movement.

Speaking of abuse, if there is evidence, probable cause, and valid court orders, then those who have committed such crimes should receive a Constitutional trial by Jury, and if convicted, suffer the maximum consequences for their crimes. Rights and Responsibilities are two sides of the same coin, and punishment of the guilty is just as important as protecting the innocent. I have no sympathy for those who violate the rights of children to be secure in their own bodies.

With that said, I believe that if a sixteen year old girl decides, with her parent's advice and consent, to enter into marriage, then so be it. Marriage, with a few common sense exceptions, is not a function to be regulated by government.

And, along these same lines, Polygyny is not a social arrangement that should be managed by government. If legal age, consenting parties choose to enter into such an agreement, then the Law of the Land demands that Polygynous marriage should be respected, even if others disagree with the practice.

The free exercise of rights and their accompanying duties that do not infringe upon the rights and responsibilities of others is what freedom is all about. People freely making choices that suits their own tastes and preferences, without impacting the rights of others to do the same, all the while living by basic Natural and Moral Laws that govern not only Mankind, but also the totality of the Universe.

If we as a nation can embrace this understanding, then we can be saved. If we choose to ignore this truth, then we will reap the bitter fruit of sorrow and regret.

Toku.