They're coming for your kids!

Posted: April 25, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

Imagine: One day you're frolicking in the open air on a large compound, doing your daily chores and feasting on hearty homegrown fare; the next you're gagging on a diet of T&A courtesy of MTV and fast-food compliments of your fat foster mom. As the makeshift mom hollers at you to swallow your zombifying meds – the Texas foster care system is notorious for pumping its charges full of psychotropic drugs – her flaccid live-in lover eyes you lustily.

As I write, many of the kids kidnapped by Texas rangers from the Yearning for Zion ranch are being scattered across the state to far-flung group homes and shelters. In the land of the free and home of the brave, hundreds of children can be rounded up and removed from their families based on a hunch or a hoax. No hue and cry will ensue – not from professional civil libertarians, nor from members of the unwatchful dogs in the media, or from presidential candidates vying to uphold – or is it just to hold – the Constitution.

How about it Hillary, Barack? Have you a message of hope for the children seized from the sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints? Of course you don't. During an election season, it would take a village idiot to defend the quaint idea of the autonomous family. To do that would involve an implicit retreat from the position that children are first and foremost wards of the state, and their parents nothing but low-level civil servants who must obey the state's child-rearing directives, or else.

The-state-as-parent is a leftist legal doctrine that has been eagerly embraced by the rigor-mortis-riddled right.

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