>> As outlined by the Supreme Court in Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800
>> (1982),[1] qualified immunity is designed to ****eld government
>> officials from actions "insofar as their conduct does not violate
>> clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a
>> reasonable person would have known."
>
>G > Do you think telling LIES is covered by agency policy?
>
>DS > I don't know.
I think it's fairly obvious that telling LIES is required in order
for CPS to function, and it's mandated by policy.
>G > Do you think they told the truth in all of their re****ts?
>
>DS > I don't know.
They probably managed to get little bits of truth in between the
major lies. Denying the existence of the state they work in would
look a little silly.
Incidentally, if CPS decides that someone is an unfit parent, when
they aren't, in fact, any type of parent or guardian, do they need
to identify the children in that person's front yard who were just
dropped off by the school bus before grabbing them all and putting
them in foster care? This upset about a whole block of parents
when their children didn't come home, except the "unfit parent" who
had no children and no idea anyone thought he did. I believe it
took over a month for those parents to get their kids back. All
this happened because someone mistook a television or stereo turned
up too loud with no adult at home during the day for an infant home
alone. Funny how none of the children taken was an infant, and
the one who made the complaint yelled the most about losing her
children for a month.
When I was in junior high, way long time ago, I talked some with
classmates who were apparently having family problems. Although I
didn't really know what it was at the time, the state's version of
CPS was probably involved. The kids (junior high age here) kept
getting questioned about abuse, and they quickly found out the best
way to make it stop: accuse the one asking the questions (if it
wasn't their parents). Apparently the strategy was to blow their
own credibility so badly no one would believe them, so no one would
ask any more. And according to the kids at the time, it worked.
CPS worker: Did anyone touch you down there?
Kid: Yes.
CPS worker: Who did that?
Kid: You did.
CPS worker: When did I do that?
Kid: You're doing it right now.
Later, in open court:
Judge: I understand you said <CPS worker> touched you down there?
Kid: No, you are touching me down there. Right now. And with your
other hand, you're doing my brother.
Judge: But he's in school across town!
Kid: You have really long arms.
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