He should count his blessings...
Feb. 26th, 2012 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThere's been some buzz online about what happened to a 26-year-old father of four in Waterloo, Ontario, when his four-year-old daughter drew a picture in her kindergarten class, of him using a gun to protect the family against "bad guys and monsters."
When he came to pick his kids up, you see, the man was arrested, charged with possession of a firearm, strip-searched, and jailed. His wife was interrogated, their house was searched, and the couple's children were seized by social workers.
The search of the house apparently uncovered a plastic toy gun that shoots foam darts. It would also appear that charges have been dropped and the family has been reunited. If authorities have said anything to the family, I'll wager it was probably some meaningless drivel about "just doing their job."
It occurs to me the fellow really ought to be thanking his lucky stars, because his daughter could have drawn a picture of her father hugging her.
Just think of the kind of trouble assiduous Waterloo bureaucrats and law enforcement officials could have have gotten him into if the child had drawn that!
UPDATE: In a follow-up television interview, the bureaucrat in charge at the Waterloo Region District School Board, one Gregg Bereznick, expressed satisfaction that—basically—the system worked the way it was supposed to in the course of "co-parenting" the child and working hand-in-hand with parents, blah-blah-blah. So in a way, I was wrong: officialdom's response was not meaningless drivel, it was insulting meaningless drivel that, further, claimed for the bureaucracy an exclusive and overarching authority over children that completely and unquestioningly takes precedence over parental authority.
When he came to pick his kids up, you see, the man was arrested, charged with possession of a firearm, strip-searched, and jailed. His wife was interrogated, their house was searched, and the couple's children were seized by social workers.
The search of the house apparently uncovered a plastic toy gun that shoots foam darts. It would also appear that charges have been dropped and the family has been reunited. If authorities have said anything to the family, I'll wager it was probably some meaningless drivel about "just doing their job."
It occurs to me the fellow really ought to be thanking his lucky stars, because his daughter could have drawn a picture of her father hugging her.
Just think of the kind of trouble assiduous Waterloo bureaucrats and law enforcement officials could have have gotten him into if the child had drawn that!
UPDATE: In a follow-up television interview, the bureaucrat in charge at the Waterloo Region District School Board, one Gregg Bereznick, expressed satisfaction that—basically—the system worked the way it was supposed to in the course of "co-parenting" the child and working hand-in-hand with parents, blah-blah-blah. So in a way, I was wrong: officialdom's response was not meaningless drivel, it was insulting meaningless drivel that, further, claimed for the bureaucracy an exclusive and overarching authority over children that completely and unquestioningly takes precedence over parental authority.
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Date: 2012-02-27 12:54 am (UTC)They were, in actuality, the pets' travel crates which were being aired and washed before putting them away and a pile of fresh vegetables being chopped for dinner.
They raided the house with a full tactical team...for that.
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Date: 2012-02-27 03:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-09 12:37 pm (UTC)