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How to Turn Villains Into Victims

Heath and Deb­o­rah Camp­bell, the ass­hats who named their kids “Adolf Hitler Camp­bell”, “Joyce­Lynn Aryan Nation Camp­bell”, and “Hon­s­z­lynn Hin­ler Jean­nie Camp­bell”, have to go to court to try to get their kids back after the three chil­dren were snatched by New Jersey’s Divi­sion of Youth and Fam­ily Ser­vices. The local chief of police “didn’t know why the chil­dren were taken but said his depart­ment received no reports of abuse or neg­li­gence.” (If New Jersey’s DYFS is any­thing like Texas’s DPRS, we can pretty much count on there not being a valid reason.)

This sounds like a job for the local ACLU.

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Mark Bennett got his letter of marque from the Supreme Court of Texas in May 1995. He is famous for having no sense of humor when it comes to totalitarianism.

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4 Responses to “How to Turn Villains Into Victims”

  1. Texpat says:

    Mark, I have friends here in Bergen County, New Jer­sey who are forced to deal with DYFS reg­u­larly. There is noth­ing in the state of Texas with which to com­pare it. The depart­ment should be bombed to gravel and re-built from scratch. It is an abomination.

  2. withhold says:

    DYFS stepped in it here. The kids at issue (and this is a local case where I live) didnt deserve to have their lives splashed on the inter­na­tional wires, or even the local rags (star-ledger & express times). More impor­tantly, state law pro­hibits actions by DYFS as to a spe­cific childès case being made pub­lic (such as their press release DYFS cranked out or the com­ments by one of Hun­ter­don Coun­tys finest). Long story short, these peo­ple are white trash, their kids deserve bet­ter, but I dont want the state rais­ing my kids, your kids or even their kids.

  3. Texpat says:

    This case would never have made the wires and air­waves had the fam­ily not tipped off the press in the begin­ning to the Shoprite cake story. The par­ents are the ones who jump-started the whole pub­lic parade. It then back­fired because it drew the atten­tion of the appa­ratchiks in the DFYS com­pound. From what I under­stand so far, the par­ents have been mon­i­tored by DYFS in the past for rea­sons unkmown so there may be under­ly­ing cri­te­ria for the action today.

    All that being said, I stand by my state­ment in the first com­ment. I do not trust DYFS and nor should any­one else.

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