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Globe Continues Propaganda for ‘Domestic Partners’ – In ‘News’ Story

When the Globe printed a “news story” about domestic partner benefits last month, its most prominent quote was from a “Boston political activist” named Mary Breslauer.

It didn’t say that Breslauer is a prominent lesbian who has served on the Board of Directors of the most powerful homosexual organization in the country, the Human Rights Campaign. That was the group that Bill Clinton addressed while he was still President.

This lesbian lectured the readers incognito through the Globe. “Massachusetts remains in the dark ages when it comes to domestic-partner benefits,” she said. “I’ll always take a step. But these are baby steps.”

Later in the story, there was a quote from the national field director of her organization and it did tell about his affiliation with her group. But it never did let us know that he and she even knew each other.

Apparently, the Globe was concerned that if they reported the true identity of Breslauer, it would be obvious that the story had been “planted” by the homosexual group. The paper would be exposed for the propagandizing that it was doing. So they hid it from us.

The headline was, “By comparison, Bay State seen to lag on same-sex benefits.” Of course, we “lag” in the eyes of a homosexual activist.

MassNews Story About Howards Picked Up by Fox News

Our story about the Howards’ fight to keep their children was picked up last month by Fox News. In a story by Wendy McElroy, she cited MassNews and told how the federal act of 1997 is corrupting our state’s DSS. She wrote the following:

The [federal] Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 is explicit about the rewards. Under a section called “Adoption Incentive Payment,” the act says a state can receive as much as $4,000 for adopting-out a child. There is even a provision offering technical assistance “through grants or contracts ... to assist States and local communities to reach their targets for increased numbers of adoptions and, to the extent that adoption is not possible, alternative permanent placements, for children in foster care.”

The money from incentives, grants, and contracts goes directly into the coffers of child protection agencies when they adopt-out children.

Who benefits? “Social workers, diagnosticians, attorneys, foster homes and group homes, to name a few,” says Susan Jackson of CPS Watch, a watchdog organization that monitors Child Protective Services. “These folks are fed by a child abuse industry to the tune of well over $12 billion.”

Collectively, they form the Child Abuse Industry.

CPS Watch has been carefully monitoring child abuse investigations since 1998, the year after passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act. Alaska, it found, reported 15,703 child maltreatment referrals from a child population of 192,261 – or one report for every twelve children – that year.

In 1998, according to a federal Department of Health and Human Services report, Kansas removed 1,872 children from their homes. But only 1,104 of the investigations substantiated the charges of abuse. The report states that 272 children were removed from families for reasons “unknown” in Ohio the same year.

In a recent issue of Social Work: Journal of the National Association of Social Workers, Leslie Doty Hollingsworth cautioned her colleagues about the ethical line they may be crossing.

“Because there are strong financial incentives to increase adoptions, practitioners may be compromised ethically if required to work for reunification and adoptive placement simultaneously,” writes Hollingsworth, who teaches at the University of Michigan School of Social Work.

Some organizations believe that the threat to families is severe enough to warrant active non-cooperation with government agencies. For example, the Home School Legal Defense Association – which believes home schoolers are being particularly targeted – tells members of their community to contact them immediately for legal assistance if approached by a social worker.

But the warning came too late for the Howards.

The DSS wanted to put baby Jessica up for adoption, but on July 16th, Judge Robert Belmonte of the Framingham Juvenile Court ordered the baby returned to her parents. At last report, the DSS maintains that the two boys should be adopted out but seems willing to let an aunt and uncle become the adoptive parents.

That way, at least, the DSS would still receive its “adoption incentive payment.”

Huge Spending Got Us Into Deficit in 1980s

At the time of Ronald Reagan’s tax cut, the federal government had about $500 billion in income. When he left, the income had almost doubled to $1,000 billion (which is $1 trillion.)

But the Democrats controlled the Congress, and no matter how much money we took in, they would spend it even faster. There was no way to keep a lid on their spending.

So when the Globe said this month, “When federal budget projections come out later this month, veterans of the Ronald Reagan trillion-dollar trickle-down deficit are likely to hear much that is disturbingly familiar,” it was difficult to decide what they were about.

Don’t they really know the truth or don’t they care?

Just because the government raises taxes does not mean it will get more income. Sometimes this will create less income. Often times, the way to get the most additional income is by reducing taxes because that stimulates the economy. But that’s too difficult for the Globe to understand.

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