Protecting our children is an important responsibility as a parent. We want to make sure they are safe and can prosper. But the state also intervenes as a supplementary parent that supersedes our own natural authority to raise our children. They justify themselves under claims that we as parents are failing to keep our children safe, when we aren't. Then they take our children from us, as if this is all morally lawful.

A recent case from Idaho shows how much the state oversteps on it's authority to allegedly "help" children. The reality is that they often tear families apart and ruin lives in the process, even further endangering the lives of children and bring more suffering into their lives.

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Zoey Thomas, aged 2-year old, was recently taken from her parents as they were arrested. What crime had they committed to justify this kidnapping? Edward Thomas, the father, dared to break the "legal" rules imposed by the centralize authoritarian rulers and choose to self-treat his PTSD with medical cannabis instead of more dangerous psychiatric drugs. They also had just moved into a home to renovate, and it was deemed "unsafe" for the child.

Cannabis has helped him with several issues:

It helps with my nightmares and insomnia caused by my time overseas. I used to wake up in a panic from dreams that I was killed in an explosion or seeing my family killed in one. It helped me stop taking several pills for depression and anxiety, and even helps with my chronic pain.

Can you blame for for choosing safer cannabis to an anti-anxiety like Hydroxyzine, which includes side effects like involuntary motor activity and tremors, severe headaches, and hallucinations? Big pharma prescription drugs are often very hazardous to health and can lead to death, while cannabis doesn't result in any deaths.

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CPS to the "Rescue"

CPS showed up at the Thomas residence after receiving an anonymous call. They saw a bong when the door was opened, and convinced Ashley Thomas, the mother, that they had to be let in because of drug
paraphernalia being present, which wasn't true. She had a 4th amendment right to say no and require a warrant.

Ed and Ashley Thomas were in a recently purchased urn-down trailer home that they planned to renovate, with boxes everywhere in the process of being unpacked, making a lot of clutter. There were unwashed dishes as well. Ashley suffers from Bipolar disorder, chronic depression, heart issues and scoliosis.

Police Brought In

CPS then called the police. Officers entered the home without a warrant and forced a locked door open without permission. Inside were some medicinal cannabis plants being grown with bat guano fertilizer giving a bad smell that these police and CPS "authorities" associated with an unfit and unsanitary home instead of recognizing it was fertilizer. Police looked around more ti find additional drug paraphernalia (scale, bongs and pipes) as well as a .45 handgun that was legally purchased and secured.

The police report mentioned stains in the carpet, but that was from previous ownership since the Thomas' had only been there 2 weeks. POsitives were noted but turned into negatives to diminish the good conditions of living for the child:

"The fridge was well stocked... but had several stains inside."
"The child was appropriately dressed... but had greasy hands."

Greasy hands from being in the process of eating chips. What a crime.

Parents Arrested

Police arrested the parents and confiscated everything that was problematic to them, even the legally obtained firearm that was securely locked away and purchased by a well trained military veteran. The gun was now "evidence" of some kind. This is despite Idaho being mostly conservative and supporting the citizen right to bear arms. Idaho also has a majority if people support medical cannabis with a 74% approval in a 2011 Boise State University survey. Regardless, law remains unchanged.

The official charges brought against the parents are:

• Manufacturing a Controlled Substance (growing cannabis for self-treatment)
• Manufacturing a Controlled Substance with Intent to Deliver where a Child is Present (because a scale was present)
• Injury to a Child (greasy hands... what a crime)

No Contact Order

They have also been served a "No Contact Order" which prevents them from seeing their daughter at all. Zoey was luckily placed with her maternal grandmother and not in some random stranger's home.

CPS is still holding all the cards, as the parents need to meet several demands by the authoritarians in order to get their daughter back in this legal quackery. Each has already paid $20,000 bond to get out of jail on bail, but they need to pay for renovating their home immediately, rather than over time as they had originally planned.

Repair After Repair

The requested repairs were made, but then CPS had more hoops for th Thomas' to jump through, as Edwards says:

"No matter what repairs were made they seemed to constantly have something to add on... They just keep asking to do walk-throughs of the house; in my mind they are just looking for more reasons why it is unfit."

After repairing one thing after others, such as a cracked tile and the gap between the fridge and counter, the CPS was so angelic as to "reward" the parents with the "right" to finally see their daughter through supervised visits. As more repairs were done, unsupervised visits were granted. Edward also had to start taking the more dangerous psychiatric drugs instead.

Injustice

CPS keeps changing social workers on them, and has been stalling to go forward with the adjudicatory hearing. They still have to deal with the 3 felony charges placed against them. They were offered a deal for 5 years probation if they plead guilty to the charges. They want to fight back this grave injustice that society has mounted on them. Ashley Thomas said:

"I feel destroyed that they took our daughter over a healing plant. I feel like our government and justice system are corrupt and unjust. And I want justice."

The parents are expecting another daughter at the end of June, and the fear losing that child as well. They live in constant emotional distress with chaos and confusion from the fear imposed by the state.

If you want to help the Thomas family, they have a Facebook page with info, and a Change.org petition. The Idaho Governor can also be contacted.

CPS seems like a serious control-freak organization, with controlling dominators who just want to punish you for not doing what their "rules" say, at best. There may be some well intentioned people within, but they get swept up in the dominance hierarchy of the organization to steal parents for breaking minor rules that the CPS or centralized authoritarian government sets. Some may even enjoy the control they exercise over others and placing children in worse homes. It's madness to take kids from their parents for minor issues, or calling the cops to get them arrested and stealing the child just because there is a bong present and some boxes everywhere.

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