With Barnevernet, Norway is going South

• <Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity – in short,

  of tyranny – and it is committed to making tyranny universal>. Adlai E. Stevenson

  Eastern Europeans sensed the communist system in Norway, for they had lived under

  that kind of regime.

  Under communism, the institutions of the state had been doing „their job” (but often not

  the job that they were supposed to do.), so there were certainly laws under communism,

  and they were enforced. We were just questioning the content of the laws and the way

  they were applied.

  What’s happening right now with Barnevernet (CPS) in Norway is very similar. The

  system there is not imposed by force though.

  Apparently, Norwegians trust a system that can easily condemn innocent people.

  They point at „abuses” that supposedly happened in some natural families but seem to

  ignore that there is more violence in foster families.

  Barnevernet is using trivial reasons to accuse parents and confiscate their children from

  them without any due process, any warning, or any social investigation.

  Norwegians seem to trust their state agencies. We trust our people.

  The persons who revealed the atrocities from our communist countries were the

  victims.

  In Norway, victims who did not know each other said quite similar things about the

  government abuses. The very way evidence from a lot of different sources converged

  was a sign that it might be true. And it was!

  All the evidence about Barnevernet coming in from all sorts of families in Norway should

  have given the Norwegian authorities an important message, too.

  They should not have discarded it as unreliable. They should have gone into every

  single case long ago. Then they would have found enough sure evidence to point out

  what their obligation was: to stop Barnevernet. Immediately.

  There are two major signs of communism:

  1) Lack of transparency

• We recently learned that the healthy children removed from good families that are well

  known in our community now have bruises and scratches on their bodies. A 13-year-old

  girl died in a foster home.

  The public did not find out what repercussions these will have on Barnevernet.

  2) Investigative journalism is almost nonexistent

  There is very little journalism of investigation in Norway, and their journalists do not

  unveil / report independent findings that adversely affect the institutions of state.

  Marianne Haslev Skanland, professor emeritus of linguistics at the University of Bergen

  in Norway, made the point when referring to Norwegian media in relation to

  Barnevernet. She stated, “The real questions, never asked by the main-stream media,

  ought to be: 1) If there are really as many very serious cases as they claim, why then

  does Barnevernet spend huge resources on cases which, when you look into them, turn

  out to be unnecessary interference and harassment and destruction of children in

  families which are normal and good? 2) What kind of „treatment” does Barnevernet

  have for the children in whose families they do intervene and how does that „treatment”

  work out? We know the answer: they destroy the family unit and keep the children in

  foster homes, and the result of that is very dark.”

  The results of foster care are not encouraging in other countries either. The arguments

  from the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform here in America are well put:

  THE EVIDENCE IS IN

  Foster Care vs. Keeping Families Together: The Definitive Studies

  http://www.nccpr.org/reports/evidence.pdf

  Thousands of children would have been saved from these rotten outcomes if Norway

  had reformed its Child Welfare system to emphasize safe, proven programs to keep

  families together!

  Octavian D. Curpas

  Phoenix, Arizona

Pedepsit fără păcat

Doamne, ești Minunat
Tu ești tăria noastră,
Acela Care ai răbdat
Fără păcat, pedeapsă.

O clipă Tu… nu ai cârtit
Răbdat-ai crunta moarte.
Păcate grele Tu ai plătit
Isuse, pentru toți și toate!

O plată… n-avem noi în dar
Drept schimb la suferință…
Strigăm cu lacrimi la Altar,
Milă cerând prin stăruință.

Dă-ne iertare ne’ncetat
Pentru ale noastre fapte,
De câte Isus… ai răbdat,
S-avem haine curate!

Ești Bun… Ești Răbdător,
Isuse, Domn și Frate.
Ai pus pecetea, iubitor
Samaritean… în toate.

Cu mulțumire ne-nchinăm
În fața Ta… Împărate.
Te lăudăm și binecuvântăm
Prin Jertfele-Ți, semnate!

Doina Ketterer

Avuţie în ceruri

“… ca unii care ştiţi că aveţi în ceruri o avuţie mai bună, care dăinuieşte.” (Evrei 10.34)

Este adevărat că bunurile de pe pământ ţin mult. Dar Dumnezeu ne făgăduieşte, în patria slavei, bunuri sigure şi permanente şi această făgăduinţă umple inimile noastre cu siguranţa că acolo sus avem o moştenire trainică. Cerul este chiar de pe acum proprietatea noastră. Noi avem această moştenire, îi cunoaştem cele dintâi roade. O cunoaştem nu numai din auzirea cu urechile noastre, dar îi purtăm mărturia şi în noi înşine.

Gândul la bunurile de dincolo, nu ar trebui oare sa ne mângâie de pierderile de acum? Ne putem pierde banii de cheltuială zilnică, dar comoara rămâne neatinsă, pentru că Mântuitorul nostru trăieşte şi nu ne va lăsa în lipsă. Avem Sus o ţară mai bună, bunuri trainice, o făgăduinţă mai bună, şi toate ne vin dintr-un legământ mai bun. De aceea, să binecuvântăm pe Domnul totdeauna şi să lăudăm Numele Lui zi de zi.

Charles Spurgeon