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What if police grabbed your children off the street and held them for five hours?

Alexander and Danielle Meitiv of Silver Spring, Maryland, have been investigated three times. First, when their children were discovered playing by themselves in a park a block from their home. The second time when police picked up the kids walking home from a park about a mile away. The third investigation was launched when the Meitiv’s 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter were arrested and held for five hours for walking home from a different park.

Nothing came of the first investigation. In the second, CPS originally found the couple guilty of “unsubstantiated neglect.” But last week, the Meitivs received a letter from Maryland’s Child Protective Services (CPS) now ruling out neglect in the second investigation.

Gee whiz, it’s good news. But the Meitivs still have investigation No. 3 to contend with. And CPS remains completely mum on whether the agency’s letter means the Meitivs and other parents can now freely allow their kids to walk to and from public parks and other venues.

Or not.

Can we really live in the “Land of the Free” and our children not be free to walk in public? What kind of freedom is that?

If the Constitution isn’t sufficient to stop police and child welfare [sic] agencies from snatching kids off the street, terrifying them, investigating their parents and threatening to take those children, we need to pass new laws granting children the right to walk down the street . . .

. . . as long as it’s okay with their parents.

This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.


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4 replies on “Under Their Thumb”

I know!!! Pity.

There’s much about Maryland that compromises that nickname.

>>  https://thisiscommonsense.org////2008/08/20/scared-of-maryland/

 

Secretary of Education,Arne Duncan, said that he wanted the government to take over all the waking time raising of kids from some families.  Mostly from the dysfunctional paradigm of the fatherless families that the government subsidies, without whose support would not be such a growing demographic. 

Pass a law to ALLOW children to walk on the street? That there is a need for such a law, or even that such is a serious proposal speaks volumes of the incursion of the nanny state. Abomination!

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