N. Carolina PC Food Police Arrest/Bust 4 Year Old Perp, Mother Makes Bail, $1.25

[RugersGR8]

This is way, way, way over the top!


http://myfox8.com/2012/02/14/nc-preschooler-fed-nuggets-because-packed-lunch-wasnt-healthy/
NC preschooler’s “unhealthy” lunch replaced with cafeteria nuggets
3:12 pm, February 14, 2012, by Ryan Sullivan

 

[hanson405]

I didn't see any vegetables included in her packed lunch. Better feed the kid some pizza!

 

[RugersGR8]

http://www.examiner.com/strange-new...-our-preschoolers-from-mom-s-homemade-lunches
February 14, 2012
Government knows best: protecting our preschoolers from mom's homemade lunches
J. Doug Gill
Strange News Examiner

 

[mhphoto]

 

[Billybob]

It's the Gov.s call as to whether you're a proper parent or not. It comes down to the "Child's best interest", a legal term with no standard definition,(living law?) only the subjective opinion of those in power.

[Although there is no standard definition of "best interests of the child," the term generally refers to the deliberation that courts undertake when deciding what type of services, actions, and orders will best serve a child as well as who is best suited to take care of a child.]

http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/best_interest.cfm


[The first juvenile courts operated under the philosophy of parens patriae first articulated in Prince v. Massachusetts (1944). This philosophy meant the state could act "as a parent," and gave juvenile courts the power to intervene whenever court officials felt intervention was in the best interests of the child. Any offense committed was secondary to the offender. While parens patriae was designed to handle youth committing criminal acts, the discretion of this philosophy became increasingly more broad and was constantly debated in court.]

http://criminal.findlaw.com/juvenile-justice/development-of-the-juvenile-justice-system.html


[Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158 (1944), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the government has broad authority to regulate the actions and treatment of children. Parental authority is not absolute and can be permissibly restricted if doing so is in the interests of a child's welfare.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_v._Massachusetts


All the children dieing in custody and a certain judge in Tulsa apparently removing a child from home, then adopting it, and then giving the child to someone else are the OK. example of a "child's best interest".

 

[Shadowrider]

Does this really surprise anyone?

We have talk of sugar being regulated like alcohol and tobacco. Read here

NYC banning trans fats. Read here

Mandatory seat belt use, mandatory helmet laws for bikes and motorcycles in various places, mandatory shots for admission to school, etc., etc., ad nauseum......

No. We lowly subjects can't be left to look out for ourselves, we're just not qualified. .Gov has to tell us.

 

[LightningCrash]

Link to the newspaper that covered the story:
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/homemade-lunch-replaced-with-cafeteria-nuggets.html


Everybody panic.

 

[Billybob]

Try to protect your own child from abuse, 14mos. in jail, no hearing no bail. Note a judge is named in the settlement even though we're told judges have "Judicial Immunity",(not in Constitution) and cannot be sued for anything.

http://newsok.com/oklahoma-pays-300...uit-against-dhs/article/3648520#ixzz1mIcJDlOK

 

[gl55]

Next time she should include a ketchup packet. Didn't the USDA under Ronald Reagan declare ketchup a vegetable one time.

 

[hanson405]

Next time she should include a ketchup packet. Didn't the USDA under Ronald Reagan declare ketchup a vegetable one time.

What's worse, ketchup as a vegetable, or Pizza?