I don't believe in making judgments -- one way or the other -- regarding situations about which I know next-to-nothing.  Perhaps the judge's ruling was Unconstitutional.  Could be.  And perhaps the father in this case is every bit as worthless as the authorities apparently believe that he is.  Then again: perhaps the father is a totally innocent victim of power-mad, overbearing officials who are seeking to protect / advance their own self-serving interests by stepping over the corpse of the father's battered reputation.

I wouldn't get all morally outraged until I knew the facts......ALL of the facts.  Which I don't in this case.

My own native instinct is to sharply distrust the smiling (read: smirking) face of government.  Particularly when politicians and bureaucrats wear a seemingly-friendly wolf's-head "playing grin" - the grin of the predator whilst observing his prey -- "I only wanna help you!  I'm sacrificin' it all for you -- and for the children!!!!!"........especially when certain.....uh.....'non-conservative' individuals and/or parties are in charge.  In fact -- the harder that certain individuals in politics painfully strain their sore-cheeked faces with their well-practiced-in-front-of-the-mirror smiles......the type of smiles that don't quite manage to reach their reptilian snake's eyes (hard, shining jewels of eyes which birds find so mesmerizing and attractive)......the type of smiles which don't habitually flow naturally from them when they aren't standing squarely in front of the main stream media's endless banks of cameras........I find the politician all the more disturbing because of their smiles (and cackles).

BTW - I'm not too happy with any of the picks this time around.  I just find one of them somewhat less disturbing than the other two. sigh

In regards to this story: perhaps the father does have a legitimate gripe.  And perhaps he's a bad father.....or not.  I don't know him.

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