Dec 19, 2010

Guest Writer: Daragh McInerney

Be outraged
by Daragh McInerney, home educating parent, Spain.

Be outraged.

Do.

Feel angry.

If you don’t, something’s wrong.

Read about what has happened to Domenic. Put yourself in his shoes, those of his parents. Still feel nothing? Then I’m sorry, you’ve been too long in the system. Get out before you die from stupor.

Or maybe it’s just me. I home educate my children. I live in a foreign country. There are cases of persecution of parents by social services in Spain, too. Maybe someone might not like my accent, my hair, the clothes my children wear, the way they look, how well they read. It could happen to me, so it’s natural I empathize, right?

It could happen to you.

My children used to go to school. They weren’t happy, so we took them out. Everyone can have children. The same thing could happen to anyone, where you make a decision to do what is best for your children, what you think is the right thing to do, that you see in front of your eyes, that you’ve learned from nights being up with your child when your child is ill, being with them in moments of joy and sorrow, developing the strong, deep connection that is natural between parent and child.

Then imagine someone decides that they know better than you, that some soon-to-be-disproved theory on how many exams children should do per term or how important it is for children to learn to sit still for long periods of time should take precedence over what you think to be best. Imagine this person is backed by a whole system that would take your child from you, not allow you to comfort him, would imprison you if you wanted to spend more time with him.

There’s something rotten in the state of Sweden.

But it’s not only there, it’s around the corner, in your country, in mine, in the mind of someone who believes that the state should interfere in the lives of people who aren’t from the right background, the right class, the right country. When a happy child is taken from his parents ‘for his own good’, when a man is imprisoned for putting his child’s happiness above rule 502, and a woman is left without her husband or her son, something is rotten.

"If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next" 

                                                                      -Manic Street Preachers.

2 comments:

  1. Having lived through this torment for almost two years I must say that your comments are an understatement.
    God IS faithful but that doesn't undo the pain or the damages that are done. It does bring deep spiritual growth and a much deeper understanding of the spiritual war that wages against the God ordained institute we call "family".
    The majority have been lulled to sleep and know not that they are blind, naked, and poor, and most of the rest simply do not know what to do.
    Learn what the real issues are concerning this families battle and share with others, pray for this family, and send at least a word of support to let them know you are out here and care. You cannot imagine what it means to them! If you are blessed with the means to do so, please send them a tangible offering.
    Only as the masses recoil with righteous indignation and hold these power hungry officials to the watchful eyes of justice can we expect to maintain our liberties.
    Eph 5:11-14 [NASB95]
    Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;
    for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.
    But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light.
    For this reason it says, "Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you."

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  2. Yo estoy indignada. Me resulta injusto. Me revela contra los estados y contra el sistema...sin embargo no sé que hacer. Lo cual es todabía peor...sentir que estamos en sus manos y no podemos elegir, a pesar de que la mayoría cree que se vive en demoracia. Es el poder de las masas y del dinero.

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