He was pestered because he was reported by a neighbor.
I still count it as harassment when people are reported for child abuse and get pestered about tap water.
So if you hear loud noises and breaking glass in the house next door and you call the police they should say "Unless you have some audio tapes we're not going to come check it out."
If you call and say you think your neighbor is being suspicious and bringing many little children home should you break into his house and collect photographic evidence?
No, you call the police and you let them handle the investigation.
He isn't even being charged with anything, the CPA have to respond to the reports.
That is a totally different situation. Of course I would call the police if my neighbor's house was being robbed. But I would not call the police on my neighbors because I have suspicions that he is a child molester or whatnot unless I have a really good reason to think so (i.e. reports of missing children in the area, a suspect fitting the profile of my neighbor, etc.) In the news article, the fact that the CPS found NOTHING other than a bunch of organic food in the fridge seems to indicate that searching a house on the premise of the whimsy of some neighbor is not a very good idea.
Yes but the point was that you make it sound as if the woman broke into his house by force and started rummaging around his fridge.
You say warrant less as if the CPA were breaking laws and infringing on his rights.
Being accused of the non-existent crime of refraining from vaccinating is an infringement of rights (I reckon!).
There's no law saying policeman cannot question citizens with reasonable suspicion.
What do you do when someone accuses their neighbor of child abuse?
Worry about annoying them?
You'd question them in order to look out for the child.
Again you're over exaggerating the situation.
Where in the article does it say the woman demanded to search the house? She could have politely asked.
Again you forget to mention that this was a report by a civilian.
The CPA didn't decide to stalk this man.
The key word here is "reasonable". Now I don't claim to be a clairvoyant who can see exactly what happened, so I don't know how reasonable the suspicions of the neighbor were, but based on the fact that the CPS turned up nothing, I would say that they weren't very solid suspicions. Of course children must be looked after, but if the state's idea of child abuse includes the things mentioned in the article, then I wouldn't pay a continental for any of their services!
This picture is giving context clues that aren't even found in the article.
It would be like me putting the picture of a gravestone next to an article "Local home set ablaze" when no one was even hurt.
It makes people assume stuff, a credible news article wouldn't do that.
But really, do you have to start this again?
I haven't called you any names at all yet you've already decided to play the part of a victim of libel.
I fully admit that the picture makes unreasonable extrapolations, but I also see the logic behind it because it is common knowledge that freedoms tend to get eroded gradually and unexpectedly. As such, it is not that unreasonable to say that events like this are stepping stones to tyranny. Oh, and the part about "conspiracy theories" was satire on my part poking fun at the silly mentality that anything involving instances of government abuse are crazy conspiracy theories that ought to be automatically discredited. I wasn't aiming it at you or anyone in particular.
There are many blogs on CPS abuse.
Therefore any and all first hand accounts of CPS abuse whether written on twitter or spread through gossip is a little credible?
There's also many articles about the TSA violating people.
It wouldn't be hard for me to fabricate a story about how I was trying to fly to New Zealand but the TSA started groping my little boy for a very long time.
It becomes credible when there's video evidence or when many witnesses say it happened.
I'm saying that given the wide-spread nature of this kind of situation, I would not put it above the CPS to do something like this.