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by: Bob Unruh
The accusations are being posted on a Facebook page for the German embassy in Washington.
“Unbelievable. This could reasonably be viewed as terrorism by the state against its own citizens – something I know you yourself would decry and condemn in any other nation on this earth,” Mark Romanowitz told German embassy officials through the social media page.
“Fights for freedom in matters of faith and conscience are not new to Germany. I invite you to remember the courageous Martin Luther … a man who stood up for what was right, following his faith in God, rather than the precepts of men,” he said. “This is a man I know your nation is justifiably proud to have sired. Be the Germany you know you should be and release these children to their parents to pursue a quality education as their parents, who are the rightful determinants of their children’s education, see fit, rather than go back to that shameful era some 70 years ago where people were persecuted, forcibly removed form their homes, and even killed due to their faith and heritage.”
Amy Escobar took a little more succinct approach to counseling the German government: “You guys are making a big mistake.”
The reaction developed after, as WND reported, four homeschooled children, ages 7 to 14, were forcibly taken from their Darmstadt, Germany, home by police armed with a battering ram. The parents, Dirk and Petra Wunderlich, were told they won’t see the children again soon, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association, the world’s premiere defender of homeschooling families.
Join the battle against Germany’s homeschooling ban.
The Wunderlichs have battled for several years Germany’s World War II-era requirement that all children submit to the indoctrination programs in the nation’s public schools. The shocking raid was made solely because the parents were providing their children’s education, HSLDA said. The organization noted the paperwork that authorized police officers and social workers to use force on the children contained no claims of mistreatment.
Unknown locations
HSLDA said the children were taken to unknown locations and government officials “ominously promised the parents that they would not be seeing their children anytime soon.”
The raid, which took place Thursday at 8 a.m. as the children were beginning their day’s classes, has been described by observers as “brutal and vicious.”
A team of 20 social workers, police and special agents stormed the family’s home. HSLDA reported a Judge Koenig, who is assigned to the Darmstadt family court, signed an order authorizing the immediate seizure of the children by force.
HSLDA lawyer Michael Donnelly said that when child protective systems in countries such as a Germany– which “claims to be a ‘liberal democracy’ committed to pluralism and human rights – allows for police raids to take children from otherwise good families who are providing a home education, liberty is at risk everywhere.”
Even the United States?
Of course, he told WND.
“There are already too many voices in the United States that want to advance the idea that the state must control education for the safety of the state or other reasons,” he said. “And this is the same rationale of the German government in perpetrating deplorable acts like this. Why should we think it couldn’t or won’t happen here?”
Donnelly continued: “Can’t a government that can order you to get health care tell you that you don’t qualify for certain life-saving treatments, tell parents they can’t allow their children to get certain kinds of counseling or that they must have a particular kind of medical treatments or that certain religious speech is intolerant and may not be permitted or must be punished, or that only national curricular standards are acceptable for all children, etc. – can’t a government like that order you to send your children to school? And then punish you if you don’t?”
The German judge authorized the raid because the parents didn’t cooperate “with the authorities to send the children to school.”
HSLDA said the judge also authorized the use of force against the children reasoning that such force might be required because the children had “adopted the parents’ opinions” regarding homeschooling and that “no cooperation could be expected” from either the parents or the children.
There have been no significant changes in the status of the family members since the raid, but HSLDA continues to monitor circumstances.
The group has posted online a list of contacts for various German officials linked to the case, including the telephone number for the German embassy in Washington.
Continue Reading: http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/homeschool-raid-on-family-viewed-as-terror/
by: Bob Unruh
The Wunderlich family, with Michael Farris of the HSLDA.
The German government is being accused of terrorism on its own
citizens for a police squad raid in which officers armed with a
battering ram forcibly took four children from their parents because
they were being homeschooled.“Unbelievable. This could reasonably be viewed as terrorism by the state against its own citizens – something I know you yourself would decry and condemn in any other nation on this earth,” Mark Romanowitz told German embassy officials through the social media page.
“Fights for freedom in matters of faith and conscience are not new to Germany. I invite you to remember the courageous Martin Luther … a man who stood up for what was right, following his faith in God, rather than the precepts of men,” he said. “This is a man I know your nation is justifiably proud to have sired. Be the Germany you know you should be and release these children to their parents to pursue a quality education as their parents, who are the rightful determinants of their children’s education, see fit, rather than go back to that shameful era some 70 years ago where people were persecuted, forcibly removed form their homes, and even killed due to their faith and heritage.”
Amy Escobar took a little more succinct approach to counseling the German government: “You guys are making a big mistake.”
The reaction developed after, as WND reported, four homeschooled children, ages 7 to 14, were forcibly taken from their Darmstadt, Germany, home by police armed with a battering ram. The parents, Dirk and Petra Wunderlich, were told they won’t see the children again soon, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association, the world’s premiere defender of homeschooling families.
Join the battle against Germany’s homeschooling ban.
The Wunderlichs have battled for several years Germany’s World War II-era requirement that all children submit to the indoctrination programs in the nation’s public schools. The shocking raid was made solely because the parents were providing their children’s education, HSLDA said. The organization noted the paperwork that authorized police officers and social workers to use force on the children contained no claims of mistreatment.
Unknown locations
HSLDA said the children were taken to unknown locations and government officials “ominously promised the parents that they would not be seeing their children anytime soon.”
The raid, which took place Thursday at 8 a.m. as the children were beginning their day’s classes, has been described by observers as “brutal and vicious.”
A team of 20 social workers, police and special agents stormed the family’s home. HSLDA reported a Judge Koenig, who is assigned to the Darmstadt family court, signed an order authorizing the immediate seizure of the children by force.
HSLDA lawyer Michael Donnelly said that when child protective systems in countries such as a Germany– which “claims to be a ‘liberal democracy’ committed to pluralism and human rights – allows for police raids to take children from otherwise good families who are providing a home education, liberty is at risk everywhere.”
Even the United States?
Of course, he told WND.
“There are already too many voices in the United States that want to advance the idea that the state must control education for the safety of the state or other reasons,” he said. “And this is the same rationale of the German government in perpetrating deplorable acts like this. Why should we think it couldn’t or won’t happen here?”
Donnelly continued: “Can’t a government that can order you to get health care tell you that you don’t qualify for certain life-saving treatments, tell parents they can’t allow their children to get certain kinds of counseling or that they must have a particular kind of medical treatments or that certain religious speech is intolerant and may not be permitted or must be punished, or that only national curricular standards are acceptable for all children, etc. – can’t a government like that order you to send your children to school? And then punish you if you don’t?”
The German judge authorized the raid because the parents didn’t cooperate “with the authorities to send the children to school.”
HSLDA said the judge also authorized the use of force against the children reasoning that such force might be required because the children had “adopted the parents’ opinions” regarding homeschooling and that “no cooperation could be expected” from either the parents or the children.
There have been no significant changes in the status of the family members since the raid, but HSLDA continues to monitor circumstances.
The group has posted online a list of contacts for various German officials linked to the case, including the telephone number for the German embassy in Washington.
Continue Reading: http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/homeschool-raid-on-family-viewed-as-terror/
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