As a Catholic mother I found the following to be very disturbing and unfortunately more and more expected from our ever growing nanny-state government.As if the horror stories you hear about CPS and their intrusive, abuse of powers, and threats to innocent families across the country were not intolerable enough wait until you hear about these two bills coming up for debate in the US House of Representatives: the Pre-K Act (HR 3289) and the Education Begins at Home Act (HR 2343).
These vague and subjective bills will give the government an almost unlimited ability to send government workers into your homes to screen your babies for emotional and developmental issues and evaluate the family possible causes. These bills are being portrayed as tools to educate and prevent abuse in military families, and families who fall below state poverty levels.
As with every power ever given to, or taken by, our government these bills will be abused and used to promote liberal agendas and persecute conservative and homeschooling families, those with stay at home parents, Christians, and those with beliefs contrary to the liberal agendas set forth by the government because we all know that the only people who abuse their children are conservative, Christian, military, and poor families, right?
Their rouse to intrude in your home and life is to close the achievement gap between poor and middle class children, but they are working on a belief that if you are poor you are abusive and incapable of parenting with the same ability than that of your richer counter parts.
These bills hide a malevolent agenda that will have catastrophic results for many loving and innocent families. Many will believe this could never happen in America and that the bills must surely provide limitations to protect families from subjective persecution by government workers invading your homes and taking control of your children; but they language is vague and open to any interpretation where it exists at all. I am telling you now that the House is going to debate this and if you do not contact your Representative and demand that they vote these bills down it will happen.
This seriously ill-written and misleading legislation conveniently leaves out parental permission and has the makings of legalized invasions of your privacy, your home, and your rights. They will have access to your medical and financial records, they will database and access your social life, and parenting practices. Parental permission would be a thing of the past, with no language to protect it; so administration of drugs and treatment given to your child would be out of your hands.
Our federal government has no constitutional right to intrude in the education and parental rights of our families, yet they steal that power right out from underneath us. The Pre-K Act will steal children away from their parents as close to birth as they dare and place them in educational programs with slanted curriculum pushing agendas that parents have no say over and push mothers out of their homes and away from their children to work.
These bills go too far and leave out too much. Supporters will portray these programs as progressive strides toward identifying, educating, and treating families that need help. Don't be fooled, this opens a door that would never be closed. God instructed parents to train their children in the way they should go, not hand them over as government property. Just imagine the result of a worker with preconceived views of conservative, Christian, and homeschooling families coming into your home with almost unlimitless ability to control and rip apart your family. Would a worker with different religious beliefs be capable of being unbiased toward a family from a differing religion? You would have no choice, no control, no appeal, and no recourse for any wrong or suffering your family is put through by an unchecked, unaccountable government worker.
For the sake of those precious little angels in your home don't let this happen to your country and your family. Contact your representatives and fight these bills. Vote conservative candidates into every level of government and take back control of your government.
Our government was for the people and by the people. If our Founding Fathers knew that the government they established would turn into such a glutenous nanny-state they would have scrapped it for another. They actually included direction to over throw and reestablish an out of control government. I say this is beyond what they could have ever imagined as out of control and Federalism and Conservatism needs to take it back. That can begin November 4, 2008!
