Rick Siegel Prespectives on Freedom and Liberty

In a horrible twist to the nightmare in Texas 400 children kidnapped by state agents were ordered released with severe restrictions. Out of a George Orwell novel the parents may now try to find their children, scattered all over the state and spend the time and money to claim them. After that all their rights to privacy end. The homes, lives and privacy are the states and the state maintains the right to enter their compound, their homes, their bedrooms and their drawers from 8am in the morning until 8pm at night.

There is no doubt that the state of Texas Child Protective Services has some serious problems. The state agents raided a peaceful community of a known religion and kidnapped all the children. It must have been like a scene from over a hundred years ago as children were kidnapped to work in servitude or sold off as orphans. At issue is just who owns those children?