It Takes a Village to Drug Your Child

I am frequently accused of being an extremist - and many more nasty-sounding things - for thinking that the US is descending into tyranny, and the rate of descent is increasing. Evidence is on my side. (Hat tip: Wizbang) The scary part of this story is how common it is. In part, this is due to the fact that teachers are required by law, in most states, to report suspected child abuse and the like, and are subject to criminal penalties for not reporting abuse, but not for reporting as abuse a non-abusive situation. The incentive reminds me of the witch trials in the Burning Times, where the judge and the accuser split the estate of the condemned: report innocence as guild and not lose or do not report guilt and lose. (This is why there were trials where, for example, the accused was bound hand and foot and thrown in the water. If the accused floated, she (or he) was a witch. If the accused drowned, the corpse was proclaimed innocent, and the judge and accuser still got to split the estate.)

If there is one area where government control of our lives has gotten so utterly out of hand as to become unbearable, this is it. When the government takes our money out of hand, it is worth fighting a political battle to prevent. When the government takes our children out of hand, it's worth killing to prevent.

I hope that we back out of this madness before events come to that extreme.