Another Waco?

By

William D. Dannenmaier

A curious silence has fallen in the media over the “incident” in which Texas Rangers, armed to the teeth and wearing bullet proof vests stormed the enclosure of a religious sect in Texas behind a tank and seized over 400 children. The incident was precipitated by an anonymous telephone call from an alleged sixteen year old girl claiming sexual abuse. 

The latest I have been able to discover on this Gestapo tactic was that a thirty-two or thirty-three year old woman, with a history of making false accusations, was being investigated as having originated the call. The lawyer of the man she accused said his client is living in California and had not been in Texas since 1977. Of course this investigation was not started until after the storming of the ranch of this politically incorrect sect. 

When I first read of this I thought of the Mennonites who have a community in our area and are using the CumberlandFurnaceCommunity Center for their Sunday meetings. They are also politically incorrect, even for Cumberland Furnace. They dress differently, they treat their children differently. Perhaps because we are the stupid hillbillies despised by the elite, as exemplified by Obama’s San Francisco speech, we like them. They are honest, hard working people who disturb no one. In fact, most of us are happy to have them living in the area. But would the Texas Rangers and the Judge hearing the case invade their homes and take their children away on the basis of an anonymous telephone call without first investigating to determine the truth of the call? 

The Amish are still more different.  They still travel in horse drawn buggies with the children sitting in the back.  This must be child abuse, at least endangerment, although the children laugh and wave at passing automobiles. Should their children be seized at gunpoint on no evidence other than some anonymous telephone call?

People who home school their children are now in trouble in California. They no longer have the right to educate their own children, this despite the fact that their home schooled children do better on state examinations and when attending university than those “taught” in the public schools. 

Still more different are the Boy Scouts, who teach such old-fashioned ideas as belief in God, honor, morality and love of country. That is why some of our public school systems forbid the use of their facilities to the Scouts. They are not politically correct.

There is also ample evidence that, over the years, dozens of Roman Catholic priests have sexually abused children. Why are Roman Catholic children not being seized throughout the nation?

The “alleged” crime was sexual, the girl was supposedly sixteen. In every city we hear of children as young as thirteen having children, but I hear of no great outcry against the parents who have permitted this. Perhaps this is because the parents are immersed in their communities and receiving welfare as unmarried while spending their food stamps on alcoholic beverages and drugs. They live as they are supposed to live according to the elite. We live in a politically correct world which celebrates diversity. Diversity for whom? Behaviors and free expression without any morals other than the whim of the moment are socially acceptable. But apparently diversity does not extend to conservative groups who isolate themselves from our “diverse” society. 

The State of Texas and the presiding Judge are placing 460 children from an isolated conservative community with different beliefs into the caring foster home system of Texas. Will they investigate the homes in which they place these children as carefully as they investigated the original complaint? If so, some of those children are destined for horrible treatment.

This is the work of the “law enforcement” officials of Texas. Waco, with its slaughter, was the brainchild of President Clinton’s Attorney General, Janet Reno. How much more government oversight of our lives do we want? Do we face ever more of it in the future from our benign, caring government?

Could our loving government, caring for all as espoused by Hillary and Obama in their plans for universal control of health, education, welfare and employment evolve into a police state as did the communist nations under Castro, Stalin and Mao? The possibility is already demonstrated by the Texas Rangers (Perhaps Texas Gestapo would be a better name.) and their presiding Judge. What community is safe when storm troopers have the right to invade our homes and seize our children on no more evidence than a telephone call, an anonymous telephone call?