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Wednesday, December 08, 2004
A Lawless Entity Has Been Accused Of Being…A Lawless Entity
From Wendy McElroy’s column of today:
Last week, the BBC aired a documentary entitled “Guinea Pig Kids.”
It accused New York City’s Administration for Child Services and drug companies, such as Glaxo SmithKline (GKS), of experimenting on HIV-positive foster children with untested and dangerous anti-AIDS drugs.Two basic accusations were leveled.
First, parents or guardians who refused to consent to the trials claim that children were removed by ACS and placed in foster families or children’s homes. Then, acting over their objections, ACS authorized the drug trials.
The second accusation: the drugs administered to children as young as three-months-old did not demonstrably extend their livespan but did inflict harm and great suffering. Children who resisted were force-fed drugs through a peg-tube inserted into their stomachs.
The charges merit both skepticism and thorough investigation. But, with ACS stonewalling, facts are hard to come by.
Let’s all hope an investigation of the most thorough sort is put under way at once. But even before such an investigation commences, your Curmudgeon is receptive to the BBC’s accusation. “Child welfare” agencies, at the state, county, and city levels, have become well known for abuses at least this monstrous.
The odd, supra-Constitutional concept of “family law” continues to ride roughshod over individuals’ rights. Most Eternity Road readers will already know that, once a “child welfare” bureaucrat or field agent has fixed his eye upon you, the burden is on you to prove your innocence of his charges, howver fantastic or unsupported by objective evidence. Worse, the “child welfare” agencies have enormous financial and occupational incentives to separate children from their parents and redistribute them to others.
No doubt many persons of unchallengeable benevolence and morals go to work for the “child welfare” agencies. But there’s just as little doubt that those determined to retain their benevolence and morals are quickly out the door. That being the case, it’s hardly difficult to believe that such an agency would collaborate with a corporate giant such as Glaxo in securing experimental subjects—subjects who cannot give informed consent and who’ve been separated from their natural protectors by the power of the State—for its drug tests.
But let’s be generous. Let’s imagine that the accusations are completely unfounded, pure fantasy. Given the culture of secrecy and immunity from the law that prevails in “child welfare” agencies nationwide, how could we ever be sure?
These anti-Constitutional monstrosities, and the specially privileged “family courts” that empower and shield them, must be stripped of their privileges and broken to heel at once.
Comments
From what I have heard about New York’s Attorney General, GOOD LUCK. Aren’t many of the possible defendants political allies of Spitzer?
Posted by Pascal Fervor on 12/08/2004 at 12:47 PM
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