Another home-schooled child kidnapped by the state
It is the sort of story which makes my blood boil. Another child in another allegedly free country, this time Sweden, has been kidnapped by the ‘authorities’ because he was being taught at home by his parents.
Christian home-schooling parents who had their son taken away by Swedish Government officials have lost their court case to have him returned.
Dominic Johansson, who is just seven years old, was taken away from his parents in 2008 and a court has now ruled that the Government was within its rights to do so.
Critics have called Dominic’s removal a “disgraceful” abuse of power.
Christer and Annie Johansson had boarded a plane with their son to India, Mrs Johansson’s home country, when officials seized Dominic.
I wonder if they used ‘anti-terror’ legislation to monitor their movements. This must have been a very unpleasant experience for the child they claim to care about.
In December a Swedish court decided that the Government’s actions were within the law.
Yes, their own stinking anti-family laws probably.
It cited the fact that the young boy had not been vaccinated as a reason for taking him away from his parents.
Even if this had been the reason, he could still have been kidnapped and force-vaccinated as he was (this is the EU, remember!) and then returned to his parents. Clearly, the real reason, just like recent cases in other countries, is that the ‘authorities’ do not want any child escaping the system and growing up being able to think for themselves. They really are that scared now. No wonder they want to censor the internet, for the cheeldren.
The court also claimed that home-schooled children do not perform well academically or mix well with others.
I don’t know about the ‘mixing’, as if this is a government matter anyway (can we expect an EU directive stating the number of friends we must have?), but I believe that academically, home-schooled children are brighter than their peers in state schools. It would be hard for them not to be.
Swedish social services initially limited the couple’s visits to Dominic to two hours per week but have since cut that to one hour every fifth week.
The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), an American organisation which defends religious liberty, and the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), which works to uphold the legal rights of home-schooling families, are supporting the Johanssons.
ADF Legal Counsel Roger Kiska said: “Parents have the right and authority to make decisions regarding their children’s education without Government interference.”
He added: This is about a socialist Government trying to create a cookie-cutter child in its own image.
That’s it in a nutshell. The Czech President, Vaclav Klaus, held out before signing the Lisbon Treaty because he knows the EU is as bad, or worse, than the Communism they escaped from 20 years ago. I can imagine the final version of the EU being the sum of the rottenness of all its constituent parts.
HSLDA attorney Mike Donnelly said: “It’s one of the most disgraceful abuses of power we have ever witnessed.”
Mr Donnelly added: “We have heard that other home-schooling families in Sweden are having more difficulty with local officials.
“We fear that all home-schooling families in that country are at risk.”
As they are everywhere, it seems. In October, I wrote about a girl in New England,
“The court conceded that the New Hampshire ten-year-old is bright, sociable and academically advanced for her age, but decided she should no longer be home schooled.
“The reason, says her mother’s attorney, is simply that the girl’s “religious beliefs are a bit too sincerely held” and need to be “mixed among other worldviews”.
It’s that mixing again. They want her mixing in school for 30 hours a week with those who have been indoctrinated by the state for years. They may well convince her that her parents are old-fashioned and weird and that she should be doing drugs and sleeping around instead of studying and going to church. What she won’t learn is how to be an articulate and effective voice against government corruption.
Some home schoolers in Germany have had to flee the country. One family made the mistake of moving next door to France.
Germany’s well-established persecution of home-schoolers caused the Wunderlich family to flee for France in hopes of finally being free to educate their kids. A few weeks ago, however, French police raided their home and took custody of their four kids.
And soon it may be our turn in the UK, due to New Labour taking an interest in the subject. They have already been considering mandatory visits to homes in order to interview children without their parents being present.
This is the way the EU is going. Every child must be separated from their parents for as long as possible, be it in school, after-school clubs, and via the computer games and the televisions they all seem to have in their bedrooms these days. And of course, a generation of women has been persuaded to go out to work, resulting in children being separated from their mothers so much earlier than used to be the case generally.
Sweden is well known for its high taxation and big state. It is cheaper to dump your toddlers off at a state re-engineering nursery there than it is here. In 2008, David Cameron paid a visit. The Guardian tells us,
British policymakers frequently cite Sweden as a good example of childcare provision.
I will say it again: the EU will end up being the sum of the rottenness of its constituent parts. There will be no freedom to raise your family according to your beliefs, because everyone must have the same grey, atheistic, secular outlook; to be deprived of hope and opportunities; to be in debt as early as possible and for life. Total slaves of the system. Ultimately, there will be no ‘opt-outs’ or ‘red lines’ as we are ‘promised’. in 1971 Ted Heath promised:
There are some in this country who fear that in going into Europe, we shall in some way sacrifice independence and sovereignty. These fears I need hardly say are completely unjustified
And this in 1975:
There is no danger of a single currency.
It’s not just New Labour who know how to lie about the EU. Mr Heath, I believe, later confessed to knowing that integration would be far greater than he admitted when he was Prime Minister.
The whole EEC/EU agenda was to create, by stealth, a united Europe. This was admitted from the start. I can’t seem to find the quote I’m looking for, so hopefully someone can let me know in the comments.
Stewart,
As you are aware, I have had a very similar experience to the one you highlight in your recent post. My wife and I even went as far as discussing with the children what action to take if they were kidnapped by the State, and how to effect a ‘liberation’.
The quote you are looking for is probably by the old liar, Jean Monnet. Here are a sample of some of his delightful political aspirations.
‘Europe’s nations should be guided towards the super-state without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.’
‘No government dependent upon a democratic vote could possibly agree in advance to the sacrifice which any adequate plan must involve. The people must be led slowly and unconsciously into the abandonment of their traditional economic defences, not asked, in advance of having received any of the benefits which will accrue to them from the plan, to make changes of which they may not at first recognise the advantage to themselves as well as to the rest of the world.’
“The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.”
The first of these is the one which is the most elusive, possibly because it is disputed that he actually said these words and legal threats were issued whenever it was attributed to him. A biographer is known to be of the opinion that, even if he did not use this exact form of words, it is an excellent representation of his private attitude toward the re-instatement of the Holy Roman Empire (he was a raging cat-lick) which is neither Holy nor Roman, but does appear close to resurrection.
Thank you, English. I’ll have to learn more about this Jean Monnet character. What was in it for him? We didn’t know what was happening, but there seems to have been a mass awakening.
Have you see the DVD The Rape of Europe by David Hathaway? He says that the feet of iron and clay which Daniel was referring to is the EU/Holy Roman Empire. The latter, he says, never went away due to the Vatican and the politics of Germany.
I see that if you type “The Rape of Europe” into YouTube, it is available in five sections. It is fascinating. He starts at the Tower of Babel, i.e. the EU parliament building in Strasburg, then onto the statue of Europa (who was raped by a bull acc to mythology, hence the title of the film) in Brussels and finally to Berlin where ‘Satan’s Seat’ (Rev 2:13) was relocated from Pergamos. Even the gateway to Hell is in Berlin, having also been moved there – from Babylon!
Stewart
‘What was in it for him?’ – you ask.
Well, I think that these people (Blair, Bush, Gordo, Mitterrand, Monnett, Heath, Sarkozy….I could go on, but you get the point) genuinely believe that they know better than the millions of people who fund their madness. They really are convinced that they are put on this planet to better mankind and that they are doing a splendid job. Anybody who opposes them is an ‘evildoer’ (cf. Bush Jnr.) and they have such a stranglehold on power that they really are impossible to oppose in reasonable methods. The only way this madness will end will be in the same way it ended for Czar Nicholas, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Marie Antoinette, Charles I, Louis XVI, Ceausescu….. et al, ad nauseum. There must be a Spartacus out there somewhere, surely?
The world says ‘What goes around, comes around’. The inimitable Word of God says ‘ Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.’ Galatians 6v7, KJV.
The evil that men do lives on after them, but they will pay for it, in this life or the next. Every last penny.
I intend to watch the film that you recommend this evening. I’ll let you know what I think.
Stewart,
Watched it. Not totally convinced, lacking in scripture, but nevertheless thought-provoking. One thing which I feel undermines its main message is a total absence of the vile influence of Islam in these last days. Perhaps the speaker missed a trick, when then the horns of the bull which raped Europa are described by the poet as being ‘like a crescent moon’?
I am left with a general sense that ’something fishy’ is happening, but I am not convinced that all is as he says. I’ve read the Bible. Numerous times.
Sorry to rain frogs on your parade chaps, but it is we who are approaching the end of our days. Stop expecting company. It makes you sound terribly vain.
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English, I don’t know if the YouTube version is exactly the same as the DVD, but in that, Hathaway says that Allah is actually Baal, or the Devil, and talks about the crescent moon on flags and mosques.
Jim, scripture is so written that people who mock will not understand.
Scripture is so written that people who mock will not understand.
That’s very convenient as far as the purpose of controlling your mind is concerned, which was the original intention. ‘Psychics’ say the same: there are too many negative vibrations, etc.
I don’t mock: I despair.