I say go to the FBI and insist they charge the agency with kidnapping.

Then sue them.

fair amount of truth here...
horrible food, I mean really, congress just dubbed pizza a vegetable for gods sake. School lunches are junk, and were a fast food nation.

I've thought of this...
the state 'says' they have worked with the family for a year and the mother hasn't compliant, she says she has.

Can't help but feel awful for this boy.. with strangers and he will always have the memory of being taken from his mother because he was fat...

didn't some-one say once that the most frightening thing in the Life of a Citizen is,when the Doorbell rings and a Stranger at your Door tells you,I am from the Government,I am here to help?

Most of the time it does!

A government is an institution that holds the exclusive power to enforce certain rules of social conduct in a given geographical area. Ayn Rand

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man’s self-defense, and, as such, may resort to force only against those who start the use of force. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.

But a government that initiates the employment of force against men who had forced no one, the employment of armed compulsion against disarmed victims, is a nightmare infernal machine designed to annihilate morality: such a government reverses its only moral purpose and switches from the role of protector to the role of man’s deadliest enemy, from the role of policeman to the role of a criminal vested with the right to the wielding of violence against victims deprived of the right of self-defense. Such a government substitutes for morality the following rule of social conduct: you may do whatever you please to your neighbor, provided your gang is bigger than his. Ayn Rand

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/government.html

I see very few who think of a paddling as abuse. From what I see and hear most are quite alright with hitting their children and even feel it's a good thing.

But yeah, if ya look at it as a form of abuse, it sort of is in a strange, non intentional way.

Paddling??

Paddling with regard to watercraft is the act of manually propelling or navigating a small boat using a blade that is joined to a shaft, known as paddle, in the water. The paddle is also used to steer the vessel and may either be a single bladed or double bladed . The main differences between paddling and rowing is that the item used to manually propel or 'row' the boat, known as an oar or sweep, is connected to the boat by an oarlock whereas with paddling, the paddle is not connected.

Now I know why I never found Europeans funny..

I always thought it had something to do with bad teeth and body odor..

Oh..wait... Actually that is funny..