Can we force Texas to secede already?

[kowboy]

I loves me some 3rd District Court of Appeals in Texas like I love watching "The Girls Next Door" on the E! channel. Which is to say I don't, except in the part of me that likes be surprised at how stupid a person can actually be and obtain a position of prominence in our culture

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[faerieburst]

Um, you are leaving some very important points out here

[kowboy]

Oh I have no doubt about the legality of returning the children based on an anonymous claim that later turned out to be false. To be honest, I sort of agree with them in this one instance because you are perfectly correct in stating CPS and the Texas AG completely over-stepped their authority in refusing to return the children to their families after it was determined there was no imminent threat of harm.

I was simply pointing out the irony of a court that returns children to admitted felons (bigamy is a class 3 felony in Texas) in this case while removing them from others.

[faerieburst]

But your post feels like you are castigating them...and it reads like you think they were wrong for ordering the return.

I'm personally glad they got it right this time.

~Aramada

[kowboy]

Sorry about that, I had ten minutes between meetings to gather my thoughts and post something before heading back. I should have processed it a tad more carefully. The judges in the Texas judicial system stick in my craw because they only seem to "get it right" when it suits their perceived constituency. In this case, my "cultural warrior" buzzer began going off. It's the same one that went off when the TCOA refused to grant sole custody to the grandparents of a young boy after the mother (their daughter-in-law) confessed to murdering him for profit. She was white, Christian, and from Texas, which made it a private family matter that's second only to gun rights for most Texans as far as needing protection is concerned.

[kostika]

Ummmm.......

[kowboy]

Sorry, you all caught me in mid-rant this afternoon. Legally I would hope the Texas appeals courts would support everyone who comes before it as a victim of over-zealous prosecution or outright criminal dereliction of duty. I can hope it would, but all too often the Texas courts cherry pick who's rights they will and will not enforce. The Texas Court of Appeals is notorious for being stacked with "cultural warriors."

[kostika]

You don't need to explain yourself. I'm jsut dumbfounded in a way that only Texas can induce in me.

[kowboy]

Every time I think they've reached the bottom, they show me it was just another layer of slime to scrape off.

[livingarms]

Wow. I'm going to have to let that sink in.

[kowboy]

The opinion pisses me off to no end because it completely ignore the exigent circumstances of the families in question. The court took the opinion that minor girls being pregnant did not specifically determine they were impregnated by adult men. They further stated that a community with several minor girls being pregnant did not mean specific minor girls were in imminent risk of sexual abuse.

In other words they completely ignored the society itself, preferring instead to treat it as if some one had raided a cul-de-sac in a Houston suburb.

[livingarms]

I'm well aware of this... you know, I guess they just decided to ignore the MOUNTAINS of evidence to the contrary in this case.

I still have an hour left of work left... I must calm down before I start swearing at random and unsuspecting insurance clients.