Parents (and everyone else), take notes on this one...

There was a story last month about a New Jersey kid who couldn't get a birthday cake with his name on it. Seems his parents were a wee bit twisted in selecting monikers for the children. Story here.

I think they're perverted but no one even blinks when some leftie names their kid "Che" or "Fidel". "Malcom X" isn't unknown amongst blacks and Hollyweird stars are known for naming their kids "Apple" (Gwyneth Paltrow), "Kal-el" (Nicholas Cage), "Free" (Barbara Hershey), etc.

So while I figured it was distasteful it could have been worse. Names like "Benedict Arnold", "Judas Iscariot" come to mind.

Evidently the state of New Jersey isn't so broadminded. They've taken the kids from the parents. Story here.

Now it's entirely possible there are legitimate grounds for grabbing the tykes. But if the media stories aren't what initially got the attention of state pencil pushers, I'll eat this keyboard.

The local police chief admitted there was no history of complaints against the family, THAT is pretty significant IMHO. Hell, I've known adults who came from homes that Child Protective Services (CPS) visited on a regular basis and THEIR parents never had to give the kids up. That was in Connecticut, where busybody liberals run amok, not down here in Texas where we're all (supposedly) gaptoothed, splayfooted results of incestuous relationships (that includes the Yankee immigrants down here.)

Maybe I'm unique, but if CPS ever put my ass under a microscope I'm sure they'd be able to justify whatever they wanted. Just a few examples follow. Recovering drunk? Can't trust 'em, they're notorious for falling off the wagon. Ex-military? Probably physically abusive with no hope of redemption. Married to a much younger woman? Guy undoubtedly has a lot of Svengali-like tendencies and takes 'em out on this poor, naive young waif he conned into marriage (Hey War Department, that'd be YOU!!).

Big Brother in action. Another example of political correctness run amok. Parents, consider yourselves warned.

I've posted before on what I believe will be the new persecution of Christians, especially prolifers (and I DON'T believe you're a Christian of any stripe unless you're prolife!). We can't be fed to lions anymore, PETA would object. Nero's habit of turning Christians into streetlights by putting 'em on a pole and setting the thing on fire won't work, the EPA would stop it.

But the stupid jokes aside, persecution can take the form of breaking up your family, as seen in this story. It can also take other forms, IRS audits come to mind.

Most people are familiar with variations of this;

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."

It pays to remember that at the time of this poem, Communists, trade unionists, Jews, etc. were all unpopular "outsiders". Kind of what we would consider a guy who names his kid "Adolf Hitler".

In coming days we'd ALL better be ready to speak up for each other, regardless of popularity.

Consider the shit to be in the fan.