[ExI] FW: how the hell did this happen?

[Mike Dougherty]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:17 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> I imagined an interesting thought experiment:  what if... the Campbells had
> been Palestinians, from Gaza?  What would the CPS do in that case?  If they
> were sympathetic with Hitler it would at least be easy to explain why, ja?
> Did anyone come up with any answer to this experiment besides: nothing?  The
> CPS would do nothing in that case.
>
> I expect there is a lot more to this CPS action beyond the Campbells giving
> their kids stigmatic names, but my point is that the CPS must tell us those
> reasons, and they better be damn good ones, with plenty of evidence for
> every claim.  Government agencies can never be trusted with arbitrary power,
> certainly not the power to take anyone's children at their own arbitrary
> discretion without meticulous oversight and accountability.

I know children are not the same as dogs, but this story sounds
frighteningly similar to this one:
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/articles/breedbanslabradormistake.htm

(I have an AmStaf, and had recently read the above article)