Monday, October 31, 2011

State nightmare for children

State nightmare for children

Government agencies easily take children from their parents, and easily expose them to pedophiles

By Julio Severo
FoxNews has just reported:
A new California state audit found that over 1,000 sex offenders are living in homes licensed to provide foster and child care services.
The startling information was uncovered after the audit was requested to investigate how Child Welfare Services handled child deaths in foster care homes.
Earlier this year, Assemblyman Henry Perea of Fresno requested the state investigate child deaths that are in Child Protective Service custody. The request was made after 10-year-old Seth Ireland was beaten to death by his mother’s boyfriend in 2008.
National Center for Youth Law senior attorney Bill Grimm thinks the failure of Child Welfare Services to use databases of sex offenders that the agency had access to is “reprehensible and inexcusable.”
“How can you take a child out of their own home, their parents home, because you alleged they are unsafe or have been abused and then put them in a facility or a home where they are subject to risk and further abuse? It’s just inexcusable,” Grimm said.
Hey, only California was found to have 1,000 sex offenders living in homes licensed to provide foster and child care services. What about the other 49 American states?
We are living in the 21st century, are not we? How can state children services be exposing children to pedophiles?
In the 1980s, my friend Mary Pride denounced how dangerous the government services were for children. In that time, sure, the State promised to take measures to make children safe from its own unsafety.
Then in the 1990s, Brenda Scott, in her book “Out of Control. Who’s Watching Our Child Protection Agencies?”, exposed how easily Children Protective Services took children from their parents and exposed them to sex offenders and other perverts. Again, the State promised to correct its unsafety…
Next, in 2005 we had reports of abundant sex abuse against children in homes licensed to provide foster and child care services. And the State came with its usual promises… And children continued unsafe.
Sadly, the State has been unable to avoid exposing children to sex offenders. And it has been equally unable to avoid easily taking children from their parents.
FoxNews has also just reported:
A Hawaii couple’s 3-year-old daughter was taken away from them for 18 hours after they were arrested for forgetting to a pay for two $5 sandwiches.
The Hawaii family
The outing-turned-nightmare happened Wednesday while the family was shopping at a local Safeway.
“We walked a long way to the grocery store and I was feeling faint, dizzy, like I needed to eat something so we decided to pick up some sandwiches and eat them while we were shopping,” Leszczynski told the news station.
Leszczynski, who is 30-weeks pregnant, her husband, Marcin, and daughter Zophia bought $50 worth of groceries — but forgot about their two chicken salad sandwiches.
“It was a complete distraction, distracted parent moment,” Leszczynski told KHON.
As the family left, they were stopped by store security, who asked for their receipt.
“I offered to pay, we had the cash. We just bought the groceries,” Leszczynski told the station.
Instead, the expectant mother told KHON that the Safeway manager called police. They were taken to the main Honolulu police station where they were booked for fourth degree theft. Then Zophia was taken into custody by Child Protective Services.
“When they notified us that they would have to take her because we both would be arrested, I just couldn’t believe it, couldn’t believe this was happening, because I forgot to pay for the sandwich and that she’s never been away from us this long,” Leszczynski told KHON.
Zophia’s mom said she spent a sleepless night worrying about her daughter and shared the ordeal on the parenting website www.babycenter.com. Her post grabbed the attention of hundreds of outraged moms and dads.
“We didn’t know where our daughter was, didn’t know what the situation was, she didn’t have any clothes they just took her right from the grocery store,” Leszczynski told KOHN.
Fortunately, the young girl was returned 18 hours later to her parents. But 18 hours, or some days away from their parents in a state agency, it’s time enough for pedophiles and other predators make their dirty work. In a sex-obsessed society, children are unsafe whenever they are away from their natural family.

Friday, October 28, 2011

Brazilian Supreme Tribunal of Justice approves homosexual ‘marriage’

Brazilian Supreme Tribunal of Justice approves homosexual ‘marriage’

October 27, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Brazil’s highest appeals court for non-constitutional issues, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (STJ), has approved the “marriage” of two lesbians in a 4-1 vote.
The couple, who had been living together for five years in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, will be permitted to civilly “marry” based on an earlier decision of the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), the nation’s highest court for constitutional issues.
The STF ruled in May that homosexual couples can enter into civil unions, despite the Constitution’s explicit restriction of civil unions to “a man and a woman.” 
The Supreme Tribunal of Justice has now ruled that, given that the Constitution “facilitates the conversion of a stable union into marriage,” it must conclude that “sexual orientation cannot serve as a pretext to exclude families from the juridical protection represented by marriage.”
Although the decision is not binding in other cases, it will have profound legal repercussions in Brazil, according to Luiz Mello, coordinator of the Study and Research Group on Gender and Sexuality at the Federal University of Goiás.
“It isn’t a decision with binding effect, but it creates an important precedent,” said Mello. “Now, all of the registry offices and state courts that are thinking about denying this right must remember that the STJ has decided in favor of it.”
The STJ’s decision faces overwhelming opposition against both civil unions and “marriage” for homosexuals from the Brazilian public.
As LifeSiteNews reported in August a recent poll has indicated that Brazilians reject the STF decision permitting civil unions by 55 to 45 percent. A poll in late 2010 found that 60 percent opposed civil unions and only 35 were in favor.
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Source: LifeSiteNews, via Last Days Watchman, by Julio Severo

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Triumph of the state over the family: Brazilian Congress reinforces ban on homeschooling

Triumph of the state over the family: Brazilian Congress reinforces ban on homeschooling

The Education and Culture Committee of the Chamber of Representatives in Brazil has unanimously rejected, October 19, a bill that would have authorized, under state supervision, parents to homeschool their children. The homeschool bill had been introduced in 2008 by Evangelical representative Henrique Afonso and Catholic Representative Miguel Martini.
In their rejection, the committee expressed its view that homeschooling “disrespects the Constitution, the Penal Code, the National Education Guidelines and Basic Law and the Child and Adolescent Statute.”
However, home education was not, in the past, a strange experience in Brazil. The constitutions of Brazil had protection and respect for the parents’ primary role in the children’s education, without removing from them their right to choose where and how to educate.
The Brazilian Constitution of 1937 said,
Article 125: The integral education of the children is the most important duty and natural right of parents. The State will get involved in that duty, collaborating, in a main or subsidiary way, to facilitate its implementation or supply the deficiencies and gaps in the private education.
That constitution recognized the function of the State as an assistant to parents in their educational choices for their children, instead of trying to substitute them or usurp their right to choose.
The Brazilian Constitution of 1946 said,
Article 166: The education is a right of all and it will be given at home and in the school. It should be inspired by the principles of freedom and in the ideals of human solidarity.
Dr. Rodrigo Pedroso, a Brazilian jurist, comments: “This confirms that the article 166 of the Constitution of that time was interpreted as allowing the education in the school or exclusively at home. Therefore, home education is, strictly speaking, a Brazilian juridical tradition that, for some unknown reason, was abandoned without anyone expressing a protest in the National Assembly that drafted the new constitution in 1987”.
The National Education Guidelines and Basic Law, in its Article 30 of December 20, 1961, said,
“A married man with children or a guardian cannot work public office, nor occupy employment in a company of society of mixed economy or a company concessionary of public service if he has presented no proof that his child is enrolled in a school, or that his child is being supplied home education”.
Yet, Brazilian socialist government officials were able to repeal this article in the 1990s.
The Brazilian Constitution of 1967 said,
Article 168: The education is a right of all and it will be given at home and in the school; being guaranteed opportunity-equality, the education should be inspired on the principle of the national unit and on the ideals of freedom and human solidarity.
So it is very clear that the Brazilian constitutions before the Constitution of 1988 guaranteed freedom for the parents to choose home education or institutional school. The Constitution of 1988 came, allegedly, as a better, more democratic document, but only later Brazilians woke up for the fact that that their modern constitution, drafted with the help of many leftist parliamentarians, instead of expanding the parents’ rights, quietly turned off the home education option. Parents’ right and freedom were usurped by an assumed “right” and “obligation” of the State. The State literally swallowed the rights of the families.
Other serious threat to the families’ rights in the education of their children has been the Child and Adolescent Statute (CAS), which is a direct product of the United Nations Children’s Rights Convention. CAS imposes many state interferences in the Brazilian families and their children, especially in the educational and health issues. CAS has been used by the Child Protective Services of Brazil to enforce the state ban on homeschooling, harass families and their children and put them under legal hardships.
Although homeschooling is common in many developed countries and is associated with higher levels of academic achievement, the increasingly-intrusive and socialist government in Brazil has not only abolished its constitutional tradition of home education, but has also repealed several homeschool bills in the Brazilian Congress since the 1990s.
Control over people requires quality and freedom to be discarded and sacrificed on behalf of compulsory indoctrination. For a State possessed by socialism, it does not matter if schoolchildren are not learning to read and write satisfactorily. What matters is to turn away children from parental sphere, authority and values in order to indoctrinate them directly into the state interests.
This indoctrination is a proven reality throughout Brazil. In a long story on the Brazilian schools, Veja magazine (the Brazilian counterpart of Time magazine) made the following revelations:
* A prevalent trend among Brazilian teachers of imposing leftism in the minds of children.
* Leftist indoctrination is predominant in private schools. It is something teachers take more seriously than classroom subjects, as a CNT/Sensus poll, ordered by Veja, found.
* It is embarrassing that Marxism has stayed alive only in Cuba, North Korea and in the Brazilian classrooms.
* CNT/Sensus poll interviewed 3,000 people from 24 Brazilian states, among students and teachers in public and private schools. Its conclusion in this issue was astonishing. Parents (61%) are aware that teachers make political discourses in the classroom and they find it normal. Most teachers recognize that they really indoctrinate children and they think this is their main mission — something more important than teaching how to interpret a text or excel in math. For 78% of teachers, political discourse makes sense, considering that they ascribe to school, above all, the function of “forming citizens” — above of “teaching subjects”.
* Many Brazilian teachers are fascinated by characters that in the classroom deserve a more critical approach, as the Argentinian guerilla Che Guevara, who in the poll appears with 86% of positive mentions, 14% neutral, and no negative comment.
This reality of Brazilian schools is in perfect harmony with the government policies, whose interest is not quality and freedom, but exclusively state control over children. This reality makes Brazil to look more like communist China, where four-year-old children are obliged to attend school just to receive state indoctrination. In fact, according to Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil and China announced the “the creation of a quinquennial plan of targets, as the plans adopted by the Chinese communist government, to create a joint education model”.
Homeschool is illegal, according to the latest Brazilian Constitution and the Brazilian legal version of the United Nations Children’s Rights Convention, but it is not illegal to amend the Constitution for less honorable, state purposes. In its last days, the socialist Lula administration was able to change the Constitution to give 4-year-old children the “right to attend school”, which in China and Brazil means to force parents to deliver their 4-year-old children to the State for “education”.
The few homeschool families in Brazil in public legal battles have been put under educational surveillance and strict tests tailored to make their children fail. Even so, they have incredibly reached high scores. One wonders what the institutionalized schoolchildren would do if submitted to such harshness. But they are spared this shame, receiving graciously tests tailored to make any student easily successful. But even with such state condescension, success is hard for them to grasp.
On international tests, Brazilian students have been found to produce extremely low scores.
The 2007 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which compares student performance in 57 countries, gave Brazil well below-average scores in mathematics, reading, and science.
Domestically, more than 50% Brazilian students in the third year of the elementary school are unable to read the minimum required for math.
The rejected homeschool bill could have been an alternative to the educational chaos in Brazil. In 2005, I helped Dr. Paulo Fernando de Mello, a legislative consultant, to draft this federal homeschool bill. In that time, I was able to introduce in the bill the fundamental recommendations Dr. Brian Ray, the director of NHERI, had sent me. But I had always feared that if approved, the socialist government in Brazil would impose so much austerity, surveillance and intrusiveness that the Brazilian homeschool law eventually would turn home education into a state education at home!
So if approved, we parents would have very little to celebrate. If rejected, we would be “free” to remain illegal, ostracized, Catacomb-homeschoolers!
Now, we have only two choices: homeschool illegally and suffer the massive and violent state intervention in our parental, natural choice, or let our children suffer social, moral, psychological and spiritual violence in the public educational “jails”.
Physical and moral violence and functional illiteracy are rampant in the state education in Brazil. If homeschooling were commonplace in Brazil and produced the same results the state-controlled education has produced for years, it would deserve a complete ban and prosecution and punishment for the culprits.
Public schools make children abandon their intellectual potential. Even so, if a family homeschool their children, government officials in Brazil have a prepared legal charge: intellectual abandonment. Legally in Brazil, intellectual abandonment is not to keep children from education, but keep them from attending school institutions.
International tests have repeatedly proved the failure of the Brazilian public schools, but the government does not have the nerve to charge them of “intellectual abandonment”, under the risk of condemning itself.
If to force the presence of a child in a public school might make her educated, to force her to remain in a garage would turn her into a car!
In the Brazilian public schools, children can be whatever the State decides, not what their parents want. So, for the exclusive benefit of the state interests, the ban on homeschooling in Brazil has now been unanimously reinforced by the Brazilian Congress.
Source: LifeSiteNews

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

State-Sanctioned Homosexuality Causes More Harm

State-Sanctioned Homosexuality Causes More Harm

Glenn E. Chatfield
Well, this was mentioned in a previous post, but the leaves have all been shaken out now and the word is in: Catholic Charities in Illinois is persona non grata, as the state can now refuse to renew its foster care and adoption contracts with them because Catholic Charities refuses to abuse children by placing them with homophile couples.  That’s it, refuse to sanction homosexual unions and you get eliminated from providing needed services for children.  Homosexuality reigns supreme over personal rights.
Frank Turek has been fired from another job because he had the audacity to write a book exposing the fraudulent nature of same-sex faux marriage and how it hurts everyone.  It doesn’t matter that the views expressed in his book were never mentioned in relation to his work, and do not affect his work; all that matters is that Turek violated political-correctness by saying same-sex faux marriage hurts everyone.  How ironic that he is hurt by being fired a second time for expressing his views.  And yet they still lie and say same-sex faux marriage hurts no one!!!!!!
I previously mentioned the complaint against a bed & breakfast in Illinois, who wouldn’t host a same-sex union ceremony.  Now, these two deviants are going to sue.  Wait — don’t they claim same-sex faux marriage won’t hurt anyone?  Yet here is another business being harmed for not wanting to sanction such perversion.
Homosexualists have decided to attack people in other ways; cut off access to financial transactions if you speak against their perverse sexual behavior.  So they have been pressuring PayPal to stop allowing use of their services by those who speak against same-sex faux marriage.  Now remember, same-sex faux marriage won’t hurt anyone!  PayPal has now denied service to “famed Brazilian pro-life and pro-family Christian activist Julio Severo.”  He maintains a very influential blog in Brazil, but he had the audacity to say homosexuality is a sin.  Now PayPal won’t even release his funds for at least 180 days!!!  Several other people have likewise been targeted by PayPal at the demands of homosexualists.  So just who is the “hate” group?
Meanwhile, a high school student was suspended for having the audacity to tell someone that he believed homosexuality is wrong.  In school!  It seems the teacher just happened to be a homophile who is always pushing his agenda in class, but that’s okay.  What isn’t okay is to say that homosexual behavior is wrong.
Oh, and the homosexualists always demand tolerance, but they don’t ever practice what they preach.  An apostate United Methodist Church in Ohio posted a billboard along the highway which said, “Being Gay is a Gift from God.”  So a local mega-church pastor decided to fight fire with fire and purchased nine billboards which say, “Being Gay is NOT a gift from God. — Forgiveness, Love & Eternal Life are.”  The intolerant homosexualists have held demonstrations and launched a petition drive to have the opposing viewpoint billboards removed.  Not only that, the mega-church has also been receiving hate mail.  How dare an opposing viewpoint be allowed!!!!

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Arabic e-book of Julio Severo

Arabic e-book of Julio Severo

By Julio Severo
My brief biography of the great antiabortion and anti-pornography American hero Anthony Comstock is now available in Arabic! A Catholic leader in the Middle East liked it so much that she insisted on translating it and publishing it, in a printed version that is being distributed in the Middle East.
If you have Arabic-speaking friends, feel free to share to them the Arabic e-book, which is in this link: http://issuu.com/juliosevero/docs/comstock_book__by_julio_severo__in_arabic
If you want the same book in English, go to this link: http://issuu.com/juliosevero/docs/anthony-comstock-the-first-profamily-champion-in-t
People around the world have been touched to translate texts from the Julio Severo blog into other languages. With their assistance, now the Julio Severo blog, which has already been available in English and Portuguese, is also in Spanish and German.
Portuguese version of this article: Livro de Julio Severo em árabe

Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Blog Julio Severo terminated?

Blog Julio Severo terminated?

By Julio Severo
Yesterday, when I came from grocery, I was surprised: my email account was totally blocked. Immediately, I delivered myself and my ministry into God’s hands.
In few minutes, I began to receive calls from friends warning that my blog had been shut down. When I entered my blog to verify, I came across this message: “This blog was removed. We are sorry, blog lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com was removed.”
Immediately, I tried to make contact with Google to unblock my email account and my blog, and Google gave me this message: “Account has been disabled. If you've been redirected to this page from the sign-in page, it means that access to your Google Account has been disabled. In most cases, accounts are disabled because of a perceived violation of either the Google Terms of Service…”
With no notice, Google removed my English, Portuguese, Spanish, German and homeschool blogs on October 4, 2011.
The pressure from internet users was fast, with many spreading and complaining. After two hours of shutdown and with no notice, Google restored my blogs and accounts.
What is happening? I do not know. Also, the automatic system of email subscription of my blog and its feed seem under blockage in the last 10 days.
In 2007, under pressure from a systematic hate campaign by gay activists, Blog Julio Severo was shut down by Google. When a state attorney in Brasília called Google asking the reason for the shutdown, the Google lawyer answered that many had contacted it denouncing that Blog Julio Severo promotes hate and violence. Then the attorney explained calmly that he read daily my blog, having never met any incitement to hate and violence.
Besides, prominent Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho, in his column in the newspaper Jornal do Brasil, denounced the censorship against Blog Julio Severo. After this mobilization which included many other people that called Google, Blog Julio Severo was released from censorship.
Portuguese version of this article: Blog Julio Severo eliminado?

Monday, October 03, 2011

Catholic TV on PayPal vs. Julio Severo

Catholic TV on PayPal vs. Julio Severo

In Defense of Marriage: When Rights Trump Freedom