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Thread #108028 Message #2245915
Posted By: Barry Finn
27-Jan-08 - 12:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: Is this how you treat kids in New York?
Subject: RE: BS: Is this how you treat kids in New York?
First off "child services" in the US does suck. My wife's been associated with their work for the past 25 yrs. & it's getting worst not better. DSS is more of a threat than an aid to the family unit, both towards the children & paarents. It seems they can't ever get out of their own way & heads never roll. What should've happened didn't. Many hospitals are step up with facilities to accomadate overnight relations. My wife stayed with me at Mass General whenever she liked. We were offered local housing for my family, at no cost, we declined not needing it. These kids could've/should've been better cared for, no matter what the truth is. They were victimized, no matter what the stories are, even if just a little part is correct. I see no reason to not believe their tale but that's not the point. Even a gang of headbangers would've treated their pry with better sense. They were treated worst than pets being brought into this country & it is a mirror image of our society. Get all patriotic about it if you want but check out in he movie "Sicko" & how our ill were treated in Cuba then think about how they were treated here in the US. Same mirror, same society, same shame-on US. Heads should roll just for the sake of damage control, never mind for the better causes of supporting a more decent policy. Yes it's a shame they were streamlined into a sick & faulty system but it wasn't their fault in the first place that the system was broken, they should've never even came close to that system's doors. Don't blame the victim when it's the fault of the system & the society they enter into unknowingly. When I'm in Rome I do as the Romans but I don't expect to be feed to the lions just because I'm in breech of a medical mishap.
Any way you look at this, this is in no way, no part the fault of the visitors, they should've been better cared for, espically because they were foriegn to our ways. They're luck they spoke the same lanaguge, if they spoke Polish they may have been tazered to death at the airport upon entry, they were probaly lucky to come away with their lives never mind escaping possible rape.
Look at it from Sharpi's position, or from a Polish viewpoint or from the view of any Mid Easterner. I wouldn't fly into this country if I lived elsewhere & had a choice of here or some other place. I feel creeped out when I fly "within" this country never mind flying in or out & I was born & raise here, know the culture & am extremely 'streetwise'.
I'd put the heads of those who were responsible on pikes, unless of course every bit of this story was fiction. If just a bit of this proves true I'd be out for blood & I'd be quick about it too, & I'd be dam sure to make sorry amends to the family & see that they were so well taken care of that they'd be poster children for becoming citizens.