Good news for Marius and Ruth Bodnariu, they’re finally getting their kids back! ~ Norway Returning Stolen Children.
 
This case was a travesty from the beginning; the Norwegian Child Welfare Services (Barnevernet) took the five children from their parents back in November under the ludicrous charges of “Christian radicalism and indoctrination.”
 
 
It would be encouraging to learn that the Barnevernet actually came to its senses and returned the kids on their own, but that wasn’t exactly the case, as Jayme Metzgar at The Federalist reports ~ Under International Pressure, Norway Reunites Seized Children With Family ~

What began as one family’s harrowing story soon widened into an overall look at Barnevernet’s practices and raw power. Norwegian law grants enormous authority to local CPS offices, allowing them to seize children, place them in foster care, and even move to terminate parental rights, completely outside the framework of the judicial system and its rules of due process. Moreover, as the BBC documented in its report on the Bodnariu case, the number of children seized by Barnevernet has risen sharply in recent years, with a lopsided impact on children of foreign parents. In many cases, like in Marius and Ruth’s, Barnevernet never even bothered to offer counseling or services designed to keep the family together.

 
After a hearing last Friday (June 3rd) Barnevernet finally agreed to drop the case after realizing that the “County Social Welfare Board” was likely to rule against them in the latest hearing. After seven long months, Eliana, Naomi, Matthew, and John will finally come home ~

While Norway’s defenders might point to this outcome as evidence that its system worked, Peter Costea, a Texas civil rights attorney who donated hundreds of pro bono hours to the case, vehemently disagrees. “The Norwegian system did not work,” he told me. “But for the international pressure on Norway, the children would not be home with their parents today. They would still be where they were back in November. I’m 101 percent certain of that.”

 
Mike Donnelly, director of global outreach for Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), a homeschooling and parental rights advocacy group noted that governmental usurpation of parental rights seems to be a disturbing trend among western nations ~

“Regrettably, Norway is not alone,” (Donnelly) said. “Most western countries have CPS systems that are growing into bureaucracies that refuse to respect the family as the basic unit of society. Too many governments are too willing to traumatize children and families over minor disagreements.”

Totalitarians have always known that breaking down family bonds is an essential part of controlling the masses ~
 

Ever wonder why Islamic terrorism always escalates during the “holy” month of Ramadan? After all, Christians don’t go on bombing sprees during Christmas and Easter aiming to kill as many non-Christians as possible. But Islamist attacks are so integral to Ramadan that sites like ReligionofPeace.com feel obliged to keep track of the carnage ~ 

 
As this video from David Wood (Answering Muslims) explains, it’s the extremism promoted during Ramadan (this year June 7th to July 5th) that leads to all manner of social ills ~
 

 
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Related:
Muslims Beat Waitress For Serving Alcohol During Ramadan ~ Of course they do ~

Muslims in France have left a waitress with a large facial haematoma on the first day of Ramadan because the attackers had seen her serving alcohol.

Early last year I had the good fortune to hear Lt. General Jerry Boykin speak at a conservative gathering. The retired 3 star general, a founding member of Delta Force, Boykin is a true American patriot. He has counseled numerous presidents on military matters and international conflicts and served five years as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence.
 
In other words, Gen. Boykin is the kind of admirable, no-nonsense, upstanding commander that our troops have long been honored to serve under. Unfortunately he’s also the kind that our current PC-correct military can no longer abide.
 
Even though he’s now retired, the general is not standing down; he’s still fighting for freedom and liberty on the homefront. Because these days, the “bad guys” might just be fellow Americans – like Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. The malcontented Weinstein is behind the latest attack on religious freedom in the military ~ Intolerant Demands for Tolerance at Fort Riley.
 
As Andy Andrews explains in The Stream, a prayer breakfast (featuring Boykin as a speaker) scheduled for this past Monday, June 6th at Fort Riley, Kansas was cancelled because it was apparently too traumatic for atheists like to Weinstein to cope with the fact that Boykin was even on the same base with them ~
 

Today, Boykin is 68 years old. Long retired from the military, he was invited to speak at Ft. Riley’s Prayer Breakfast. General Boykin is — as one would hope a Prayer Breakfast speaker might be — a man of strong faith. Apparently, however, that faith is a bit too strong for some […]
 
Anyway, get this: At the behest of 131 people — some of whom were apparently so shaken by the possible appearance of a retired man giving a speech — Ft. Riley folded like a cheap suit. Without weapons or even a threat of violence, 131 complainers went up against a 100,000 acre military installation with a population of more than 25,000 personnel. And it took them less than 24 hours to have General Boykin cancelled.

Ft. Riley announced the Prayer Breakfast would be rescheduled in the future with a different speaker. This decision was made before any of the Prayer Breakfast ticketholders even knew there was an issue. Was their opinion considered? Of course not.

So in Obama’s “fundamentally-transformed” military, our soldiers – prepared to defend our freedom with their lives – are themselves being denied those very freedoms!
 

Andrews concludes his article with a call to resistance ~

Right now, today, we are providing a blueprint for future generations on exactly how a majority population allows itself to be bullied into submission. My friends, if we do not begin to stand up in large, visible, vocal numbers, that blueprint will yield for posterity the ugly details of America’s downfall. Sadly, our generation is in the process of proving how it is possible for a majority of otherwise rational and productive people to inadvertently yield their leadership to a small group they already know to be not only misguided, but destructive as well.
 
If we do not find the courage to change course quickly, someone, someday, will write the story of how between two and three hundred million people subsequently enabled a small number of intolerant people to steer everyone into a ditch.

Thank God men like General Boykin are still living up to their original oaths of loyalty to Americans and our Constitution. We need to stand with him against this travesty.
 
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Related:
Boykin bounced: Fort Riley cancels Delta Force hero’s prayer breakfast speech