(02-22-2026, 06:08 AM)EndtheMadnessNow Wrote:
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Within the regional and local levels, there is some form of “child protective services” or “family welfare services”—armies of “social workers” who, along with the “family” court network, steal children from the parents under color of law and sell them to the highest bidders, if they don’t butcher them for spare body parts.
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There is a lot of truth in that post. This paragraph in particular I know to be so - I personally know of a case in Virginia east of here (but then all of Virginia is east of "here") in which CPS stole two kids from their loving parents and sold them, yes SOLD them, for 20,000 dollars each to complete strangers.
No one "fought" it but the parents, and their fight was a losing battle. They thought that a court would provide relief from the assault, but you can't fight a government agency in a court that the same government runs. That deck is stacked against you from the inception.
One of those parents did prison time on trumped-up charges, and the other is now dead. Not only did they lose, they lost big. They fought in the wrong venue.
And those kids remained with their owners, right here in America, sanctioned by the State. NONE of the culprits, zero, ever paid a price for their crimes. The State said it was ok, and apparently so it was.
It may be a spiritual battle of good vs. evil, but it expresses itself in PEOPLE, mortal human beings who can bleed and die. Discussions of spiritual ramifications and philosophies are all well and good, but are not going to get to the root of the problem as it expresses itself. For that, one has to attack the outlet points of the evil, the PEOPLE that it produces, uses, and eventually uses up only to replace them with more people, tools, outlets for the evil.
Those people, the traffickers themselves and the social structures that support and nourish them are the only vulnerable points. When you swing a sword at the abstract concept of "evil", the blade sails right through it, no harm done. That's not true if you swing the same sword at the traffickers.
Railing against the machine in impotent internet posts is not "fighting", and in that the author is exactly correct. It's just blowing off steam. To actually "fight" the institution, you have to bypass the internet rants and the governmental structures that never deliver satisfaction, and actually get out into the streets and the shadows. THAT is where all of the actual "fighting" of the evil is really done, and that is the only place any such fight can have real results. Not in the courts, not in the "spiritual realm", and not on the internet. ONLY out in the streets, where bone and blade meet.
Thoreau may have been wrong in his assessment that you must fight evil by going at the roots. there are other ways to kill a plant. If one is prolific, he can kill it by trimming the branches so far back that the plant can no longer get the necessary sunlight to live... but for that to work, one has to be ever vigilant for "sucker" branches that sometimes pop right back out when no one is looking. Another way, which doesn't involve grubbing in the dirt to get at the root, is to "girdle" the plant That's where you cut off a ring of the outer surface all the way down to the stem tissue... which deprives the plant of the nutrients it gets from the roots, without actually having to grub up said roots.
Any would-be fighter of this evil, or really any other evil, must think deeply on these concepts and figure out on their own how they may be gainfully applied to any given situation. As Miyamoto Musashi said in his "Book of Five Rings", one must know 10,000 things from one thing. One must be able to extrapolate a general concept to encompass all things. Only then will he or she be able to effectively apply the concept to the problem at hand.
It's not enough to know a strategy or tactic, one must be able to see how to apply that strategy or tactic to any given situation he finds himself up against.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
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