Via Trooper Thompson, this very, very nasty story from the Daily Mail (caveat lector) about ’social workers’ and their priorities.
I am reminded of Mr. Alexei Sayle, the celebrated Liverpudlian comedian, who says that his favourite charity is called ‘Help A London Child: Kill A Social Worker’.
Of course the victims in this case are Christians. I don’t hold any brief for Christians myself. However, one of the characteristics of childhood is being stuck with one’s parents’ or guardians’ views; would Aleister Crowley have been such a character as he was had not his parents been nightmarishly strict Plymouth Brethren?
The action of the ’social workers’ in this case is doubtless seen by them as justified by the superiority of their own belief-system over that of their victims and by the clear demonstration of this superiority staged by their American equivalents at Waco, Texas.
“The meeting got off to a bad start when one of the social workers mentioned the children by name.
‘Let me stop you right there,’ Mr Curlew interrupted. ‘You have been in charge of my grandchildren’s welfare for two years, and you can’t even get their names right.’
It was a tactic guaranteed not to endear him to these small-town ayatollahs.
The social worker stared at him briefly, then continued - still getting the elder child’s name wrong. “
Top-drawer talent, that…
Remember the scene in the principal’s office in Carrie?
If only, etc.