[blparent] Blind Parents Meeting

Tue Jun 2 21:37:58 UTC 2009

I have to admit that this is something I think about a bit, especially when 
we have the new baby and when Cindy needs to travel for her job.

I have more and more contempt for social agencies in this country that say 
they're in the business of providing what's best for either ourselves or our 
kids when in fact, it's just a bunch of liberal democrats who feel that it's 
their business to run the lives of everyone around them because they somehow 
have the convuluted notion that they know what's best for the people when in 
fact, they are completely out of touch with the populus on any matter 
whatsoever.

I think if one of those social workers tried to take my kid, first, I tell 
her to get the hell off my property because they can't legally be at your 
home without a warrant from what I understand, and since I'm in Texas, if 
they did come into my home without my invitation, I'd want to kill them and 
if I remember, in texas, if you kill someone in your home in self defense, 
you're not charged with homoside.

And if that didn't work out and they took the kid anyway, I'd call the cops 
and report a kidnapping.

These types of do-good organizations make me sick and confirm the notion 
that our country isn't what it used to be and perhaps we'd be better off 
over in europe or somewhere other than a continent that is run by a 
bureaucratic wasteful irresponsible government that is too big and no good 
to anyone at all.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leanne Merren" <leemer02 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] Blind Parents Meeting

> Oh my goodness, I had no idea there were such nosey, over bearing, 
> judgmental people out there!  I mean, you can't take your daughter 
> swimming for fear of social services showing up at your door?  Did you ask 
> this person if they sleep well at night, knowing that they could possibly 
> rip poor, innocent children from good loving homes?  Do they want her 
> thrown into a foster home with total strangers, all because someone chose 
> to judge the capabilities of her parents?  Some people really have no 
> clue, and yet they think they have the right to judge!
> Sorry, vent over...maybe.  That just makes me sick.  I have never dealt 
> with social services, even though Tyler and I are both visually impaired, 
> and I pray to God we never do.  It is always in the back of my mind 
> though.  So sad.
> Leanne
> "Faith is being sure of what we hope for
> and certain of what we do not see."
> Hebrews 11:1
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Blind Parents Meeting
>
>
>>I guess I would have said, "are you volunteering to come with me everytime 
>>I
>> want to take my daughter swimming?" V
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 10:50 AM
>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Blind Parents Meeting
>>
>> Sarah's father can see, and we've had one round with Social Services
>> already.  Then the other day, someone I know saw me carrying a baby
>> flotation device into my house from the trunk of the car.  It's an inner
>> tube with a seat built in for the baby's legs.  Anyway, the person said 
>> that
>>
>> of course, I would only take the baby in the pool if there was a sighted
>> person to watch.  There's a pool for the condos where I live.  I said not
>> necessarily, because if I were right there, with my hands on the baby the
>> whole time, I would be satisfied with that.  She said she would call 
>> Social
>> Services if she ever saw me taking the baby in the pool by myself--which
>> means, I guess, that I'll only go when there's a sighted person to watch. 
>> I
>>
>> don't want those people knocking at my door again.
>>
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed
>> until it is faced."--James Baldwin
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Pickrell, Rebecca M (IS)" <REBECCA.PICKRELL at ngc.com>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:46 AM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Blind Parents Meeting
>>
>>
>>>I don't think any of us are excluded per sea, but putting out these
>>> stats with no other data is nothing more then fear mongering in my
>>> oppinion. What value is to be gained in that?
>>
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