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After reading @markwhittam's post about fighting fire with fire as a response to CPS abuse aroused mixed feelings. Having grown up on the streets, my first reaction is always to put my head down and come out swinging. However, that being said- he's absolutely, 100% right... if you use that approach, everybody gets burned. In practical terms, it undoubtedly means either extending the amount of time it takes your children are lost to you- or losing them altogether. Neither a very attractive alternative.
I also read some of the posts responding to Mark's article, some with a few pretty good ideas and some pretty impractical... setting up a fund to help help families in trouble sounds great but a bit impractical- where will the funds come from (maybe we could raise taxes). Moreover, even if we were successful, there are so many families in need we'd be lucky to be able to give them a dollar apiece. There is a potential solution, which takes courage and may be equally if not more impractical. SUE!
The 1st Amendment gives us a guarantee of "redress of grievances." The largest stumbling block, I can see is finding an attorney with the courage to go forward with a suit. There was a post I read that advocated "hitting them where it hurts- in the pocketbook." I think the author was suggesting cutting funds, but the new "Family First Prevention Act" has extended funding for the adoption incentives through 2021 and will undoubtedly be re-extended and then re-extended again... so it looks like cutting funds is not an option.
Like Mark says violence is never the answer... it only begets more violence. The only alternative I can see is lawsuits in civil courts. CPS cases are held in family courts in almost all states (here in Arkansas they're a part of District Court- at least where I live) and family courts almost always rule in favor of CPS. However, civil courts are different and do not have family court judges, so there is a better probability of prevailing. My suggestion is if people clog up the civil courts with cases against CPS (only in legitimate cases, of course- and there's no shortage of those), not only will they have an opportunity to right a wrong... it just might draw attention from outside family court to the abuse.
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It always takes many cases to have attention towards a matter of it’s just thrown to a side . Yeah I can agree violence is not the answer but sometimes it’s all we can do to get attention before reaction
When you do it in response to a govt action- you get painted as "some crazy loner" by the media and wind up doing more damage than good.
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violence is never the answer... it only begets more violence. Please support @familyprotection as much as possible...thanks so much.. 🙌🙌🙌
Their agression seems to be equal to our resistance to the things that emotional trigger us the most. The corpocracy of centralization is built on the limitation game. isn't It a Narcissistic system...they are after energy...?...it goes father than just the topical dream that we allow ourselves to see.
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I have always thought that the demand does not give us back the peace of mind that we had when we were with our families, that we would be left with traces of life