Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Child, Named "Adolf Hitler Campbell" is Removed From Parents Custody.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/01/13/2009-01-13_report_child_named_adolf_hitler_removed_.html In an update to a prior story, http://libertariansocialist.blogspot.com/2008/12/shoprite-refuses-to-make-birthday-cake.html, all of the Campbell children were placed in the custody of Children's Services. Now while I do not condone neo-nazi opinions, I also do not feel that it's the state's role to confiscate children from families it does not approve of. There are many different families who raise there children to believe in things that are not appropiate, like islamism, dominionism, and racial apartheid. However do we want for the government to decide which views are not acceptable? What if it's a Communist family, with there "red diaper babies"? Should the state authority be able to remove there children from the home, because of the supposed "anti-american" politics of the parents? Or for that matter children from same sex couples removed, in states that have social-conservative administrations? I think that the best that we can hope for is that all of the children will be able to become aware of opposing viewpoints, within the free market of ideas, that exists in a free society. And personaly, I can tell you that I certainly do not share the religious right attitudes of my parents. Through the public libraries, talk radio, television, and the internet, I have been able to be exposed to contrasting views, and make up my own mind, according to my own free will. If the state is allowed to get away with doing this, it will set a dangerous precedent. We would then become like a Communist dictatorship, with all children indoctrinated by the ruling regime. That being said, I do hope that the Campbell children do not end up like the Gaeb twins, AKA "Prussian Blue" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Blue_(American_duo). We all also have a civic duty to counter extremist rhetoric with our own free expression. Children like these need to hear that hatred and/or violence is not acceptable, in a civilised society.

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