Mom Whose Children Kidnapped by Manitoba Child Protection Agency Hits Front Page of Globe
From Paul Fromm
Dear Free Speech Supporter:
We have to pinch ourselves to remind ourselves that this is Canada not communism at its very worst, where children were taken from their parents and the official ideology was that the children belonged to the state, not the parents. Yet, right here in Canada, in Winnipeg, Manitoba to be precise, two children were kidnapped from their White nationalist parents by meddling social workers ironically called the “Manitoba Child Protection Agency.”
The children were seized March 25. The 7-year old girl, of a White nationalist couple drew a swastika on her wrist. An easily offended priss of a teacher, in effect, assaulted the child and scrubbed the symbol off her arm. The mother helped the child draw the same symbol in magic marker on her arm that night and so she went to school the next day. Apparently. the school called the police and the child protection agency. The police started a “hate” investigation.
“’There were police officers there and I looked at them and said, ‘Is this because of the drawing on her arm?’ And they said yes, the mother recalled. She said she went home hysterical, terrified they would be coming for her two-year-old son as well. Sure enough, the knock at the door came quickly, and authorities plucked her son from her arms. ‘Apparently a swastika is an evil Nazi symbol and they felt the need to interfere in our lives and to interfere in how we raise our children,” she says.” (Globe and Mail, July 5, 2008)
“She says she is the victim of a state run amok, persecuted for holding political views that are outside the mainstream. Manitoba’s child and family services agency, although it can’t discuss the specifics of the case, says it is bound to intervene when a child’s physical or emotional well-being is at risk. Court documents say the parent’s conduct might endanger the emotional well-being of the children, and the children might be at risk because of the parent’s behaviour and associations.”
The social workers’ mandate for meddling is outrageous. Just what is the child’s “emotional well-being.” Many a parent is cold, aloof or neglectful or angers a child by punishing him or her. Do all these cases justify the snatching of the child from the parents. It’s clear that this is a case of outright political persecution. The parents are to lose their children because of their “associations.”
The children have been placed with the mother’s mother. The couple is allowed a stingy two hours visitation a week. The little boy has grown silent and reverted to wetting his diapers.
The case has proceeded glacially, with yet another brief court appearance July 4. The secrecy obsessed Manitoba Child Protection Agency sought but has not yet been granted a total publication ban to shield their abuse of this couple. The Winnipeg Free Press covered the story on June 10, albeit in typical soap opera fashion with plenty of “neo-Nazi” and “white supremacist” labeling to defame the woman’s supporters like me.
On July 4th, I participated with the mother in a television interview and simultaneous interview with the Globe and Mail [also on AM 640 Radio]. While CTV insisted on identifying the mother as a “neo-Nazi” despite her plain denial that those were her views, the story hit prime time for almost 2 minutes of the National Evening News. This was followed by a 10 minute debate, where free speech supporter Ezra Levant argued strongly for parental rights. Today, the story of the state kidnapping of her children made the front page of the Globe and Mail. Public exposure of the goonish tactics of the state is necessary if the desperate mother is to get her children back.
CAFÉ has forwarded over $500 from supporters to help the woman retain an experienced and highly motivated lawyer who intends to take this wholesale violation of parental rights all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, if necessary.
The position I’m trying to put across on behalf of CAFÉ is that parental rights are near absolute. As human beings we have the right to have children and raise them according to our beliefs. This right is not subject to the approval of the state or to having the “correct” religion or ideology. Only in the most extreme cases of sexual or physical abuse may the state intervene. It is communistic and utterly totalitarian for an arm of the state to steal a parents’ children because the parents may hold unpopular political or religious views.
The case underscores Canada’s intolerable double standard and goes some way to explaining how this family may have acquired its White Pride beliefs. There are people in this country who inculcate in their children the jihadi philosophy – a philosophy wherein the stated aim is destruction of societies like Canada’s. Think of the notorious Khadrs — all subsidized over long years of tax dollars (for phony charity scams), repeated emergency medical care, ferrying family members back and forth from Pakistan when they needed to be medicated, prime ministerial intervention on behalf of the terrorist father, legal aid and plain old welfare. These little jihadis were encouraged by their parents to martyr themselves in suicide bombings but gee whillikers Canada never quite had a “problem” with that and could never quite bring itself to tread on ethnic toes. Needless to say, no ideological social worker ever considered that the Khadr kids should be removed or that they might be in physical or emotional danger because of the parents “associations.”
Paul Fromm
Director
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR FREE EXPRESSION
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
1. Send a donation to CAFÉ (P.O. Box 332, Rexdale, ON., M9W 5L3, Canada) to help with the mother’s legal expenses.
2. Call your local branch of Amnesty International and demand that they adopt the children as “prisoners of conscience.” They are victims of state kidnapping solely because of the non-violent political views of their parents.
3. If you are an American, call the nearest Canadian consulate or the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC and demand that Canada release these children forthwith to their parents.
4. Protest to the Manitoba Minister of Family Services and Housing [Hon. Gord Mackintosh, 357 Legislative Building, 450 Broadway, Winnipeg, MB R3C 0V8 T: 204-945-4173 F: 204-945-5149; E-mail: [email protected]
