Welcome to Germany: 20 Armed Police And Social Workers Forcibly Take Children From Parents For Homeschooling

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How long before we have this here, in the USA?

20 Armed Police And Social Workers Forcibly Take Children From Parents For Homeschooling Posted 6 hours ago by Dave Jolly filed under Christianity, Education, Email Featured, Family, Government Control, Homeschool, Politics, World News 17 Share72 Tweet11 3 Share137 Dirk and Petra Wunderlich have four children ranging in age from 7 to 14. As parents, they have been homeschooling their kids for the past couple of years because they don’t want them indoctrinated with the government propaganda. This Thursday at 8 a.m., their kids had just begun their lessons for the day when their house was stormed by 20 armed police, special government agents and social workers. The children were captured and taken away. Dirk and Petra were told that they would not be seeing their children anytime soon. The only charge made against the parents was that they defied federal law that required all kids to attend government run public schools. In fact, the government felt so strongly about what the Wunderlich family was doing that a judge signed the order to forcibly take the children and if necessary to use force against the kids if they resisted. The Wunderlich family lives in Darmstadt, Germany. When Hitler was in control of the country he made a law that required all children to attend the government run public schools. That law has never been repealed and the German government is starting to enforce it force if necessary. The Homes School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is a worldwide organization who had been working with the Wunderlich family and their homeschooling needs. After the incident on Thursday, HSLDA contacted the parents and reported: “Citing the parents’ failure to cooperate ‘with the authorities to send the children to school,’ 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.” Dirk told HSLDA: “I looked through a side window and saw many people, police and special agents, all armed. They told me they wanted to come in to speak with me. I tried to ask questions, but within seconds, three police officers brought a battering ram and were about to break the door in, so I opened it.” “The police shoved me into a chair and wouldn’t let me even make a phone call at first. It was chaotic as they told me they had an order to take the children. At my slightest movement the agents would grab me, as if I were a terrorist. You would never expect anything like this to happen in our calm, peaceful village. It was like a scene out of a science fiction movie. Our neighbors and children have been traumatized by this invasion.” Michael Farris, Founder of HSLDA explained how the German government is wrong, saying: “The right to homeschool is a human right, and so is the right to freely move and to leave a country. Germany has grossly violated these rights of this family.” “This latest act of seizing these four beautiful innocent children is an outrageous act of a rogue nation.” “Germany is a party to numerous human rights treaties that recognize the right of parents to provide an education distinct from the public schools so that children can be educated according to the parents’ religious convictions.” “Germany has simply not met its obligations under these treaties or as a liberal democracy. HSLDA and I will do whatever we can to help this family regain custody of their children and ensure that they are safe from this persecution. This case demonstrates conclusively why the Romeike asylum case is so important. Families in Germany need a safe place where they can educate their children in peace.” As Farris noted, this is why the Romeike family sought asylum in the US. If you recall, an immigration judge granted them asylum in 2010, but the Obama administration pushed to have the asylum overturned and the family deported back to Germany. If that happens, they will face the same thing that just happened to the Wunderlich family and their kids will be forcibly taken from them and they’ll never know when they will ever get to see them again. Oh yeah, don’t’ forget that Obama just let 1 million illegals stay in the country in defiance of federal immigration laws, but he is fighting hard to send one Christian family back to certain government persecution just because they want to homeschool. If given the chance, I believe that Obama would abolish homeschooling in the US as well and mandate that every child attend the government run indoctrination centers known public schools. He cares nothing about parental rights or the rights of Christians. All he cares about is his own self and propagating his socialist agenda. Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/08/20-armed-police-social-workers-forcibly-take-children-parents-homeschooling/#ixzz2dYtNq16p
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20 Armed Police And Social Workers Forcibly Take Children From Parents For Homeschooling Posted 6 hours ago by Dave Jolly filed under Christianity, Education, Email Featured, Family, Government Control, Homeschool, Politics, World News 17 Share72 Tweet11 3 Share137 Dirk and Petra Wunderlich have four children ranging in age from 7 to 14. As parents, they have been homeschooling their kids for the past couple of years because they don’t want them indoctrinated with the government propaganda. This Thursday at 8 a.m., their kids had just begun their lessons for the day when their house was stormed by 20 armed police, special government agents and social workers. The children were captured and taken away. Dirk and Petra were told that they would not be seeing their children anytime soon. The only charge made against the parents was that they defied federal law that required all kids to attend government run public schools. In fact, the government felt so strongly about what the Wunderlich family was doing that a judge signed the order to forcibly take the children and if necessary to use force against the kids if they resisted. The Wunderlich family lives in Darmstadt, Germany. When Hitler was in control of the country he made a law that required all children to attend the government run public schools. That law has never been repealed and the German government is starting to enforce it force if necessary. The Homes School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is a worldwide organization who had been working with the Wunderlich family and their homeschooling needs. After the incident on Thursday, HSLDA contacted the parents and reported: “Citing the parents’ failure to cooperate ‘with the authorities to send the children to school,’ 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.” Dirk told HSLDA: “I looked through a side window and saw many people, police and special agents, all armed. They told me they wanted to come in to speak with me. I tried to ask questions, but within seconds, three police officers brought a battering ram and were about to break the door in, so I opened it.” “The police shoved me into a chair and wouldn’t let me even make a phone call at first. It was chaotic as they told me they had an order to take the children. At my slightest movement the agents would grab me, as if I were a terrorist. You would never expect anything like this to happen in our calm, peaceful village. It was like a scene out of a science fiction movie. Our neighbors and children have been traumatized by this invasion.” Michael Farris, Founder of HSLDA explained how the German government is wrong, saying: “The right to homeschool is a human right, and so is the right to freely move and to leave a country. Germany has grossly violated these rights of this family.” “This latest act of seizing these four beautiful innocent children is an outrageous act of a rogue nation.” “Germany is a party to numerous human rights treaties that recognize the right of parents to provide an education distinct from the public schools so that children can be educated according to the parents’ religious convictions.” “Germany has simply not met its obligations under these treaties or as a liberal democracy. HSLDA and I will do whatever we can to help this family regain custody of their children and ensure that they are safe from this persecution. This case demonstrates conclusively why the Romeike asylum case is so important. Families in Germany need a safe place where they can educate their children in peace.” As Farris noted, this is why the Romeike family sought asylum in the US. If you recall, an immigration judge granted them asylum in 2010, but the Obama administration pushed to have the asylum overturned and the family deported back to Germany. If that happens, they will face the same thing that just happened to the Wunderlich family and their kids will be forcibly taken from them and they’ll never know when they will ever get to see them again. Oh yeah, don’t’ forget that Obama just let 1 million illegals stay in the country in defiance of federal immigration laws, but he is fighting hard to send one Christian family back to certain government persecution just because they want to homeschool. If given the chance, I believe that Obama would abolish homeschooling in the US as well and mandate that every child attend the government run indoctrination centers known public schools. He cares nothing about parental rights or the rights of Christians. All he cares about is his own self and propagating his socialist agenda. Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/08/20-armed-police-social-workers-forcibly-take-children-parents-homeschooling/#ixzz2dYtNq16p
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20 Armed Police And Social Workers Forcibly Take Children From Parents For Homeschooling

Dirk and Petra Wunderlich have four children ranging in age from 7 to 14. As parents, they have been homeschooling their kids for the past couple of years because they don’t want them indoctrinated with the government propaganda. This Thursday at 8 a.m., their kids had just begun their lessons for the day when their house was stormed by 20 armed police, special government agents and social workers. The children were captured and taken away. Dirk and Petra were told that they would not be seeing their children anytime soon. The only charge made against the parents was that they defied federal law that required all kids to attend government run public schools. In fact, the government felt so strongly about what the Wunderlich family was doing that a judge signed the order to forcibly take the children and if necessary to use force against the kids if they resisted. The Wunderlich family lives in Darmstadt, Germany. When Hitler was in control of the country he made a law that required all children to attend the government run public schools. That law has never been repealed and the German government is starting to enforce it force if necessary. The Homes School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is a worldwide organization who had been working with the Wunderlich family and their homeschooling needs. After the incident on Thursday, HSLDA contacted the parents and reported: “Citing the parents’ failure to cooperate ‘with the authorities to send the children to school,’ 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.” Dirk told HSLDA: “I looked through a side window and saw many people, police and special agents, all armed. They told me they wanted to come in to speak with me. I tried to ask questions, but within seconds, three police officers brought a battering ram and were about to break the door in, so I opened it.” “The police shoved me into a chair and wouldn’t let me even make a phone call at first. It was chaotic as they told me they had an order to take the children. At my slightest movement the agents would grab me, as if I were a terrorist. You would never expect anything like this to happen in our calm, peaceful village. It was like a scene out of a science fiction movie. Our neighbors and children have been traumatized by this invasion.” Michael Farris, Founder of HSLDA explained how the German government is wrong, saying: “The right to homeschool is a human right, and so is the right to freely move and to leave a country. Germany has grossly violated these rights of this family.” “This latest act of seizing these four beautiful innocent children is an outrageous act of a rogue nation.” “Germany is a party to numerous human rights treaties that recognize the right of parents to provide an education distinct from the public schools so that children can be educated according to the parents’ religious convictions.” “Germany has simply not met its obligations under these treaties or as a liberal democracy. HSLDA and I will do whatever we can to help this family regain custody of their children and ensure that they are safe from this persecution. This case demonstrates conclusively why the Romeike asylum case is so important. Families in Germany need a safe place where they can educate their children in peace.” As Farris noted, this is why the Romeike family sought asylum in the US. If you recall, an immigration judge granted them asylum in 2010, but the Obama administration pushed to have the asylum overturned and the family deported back to Germany. If that happens, they will face the same thing that just happened to the Wunderlich family and their kids will be forcibly taken from them and they’ll never know when they will ever get to see them again. Oh yeah, don’t’ forget that Obama just let 1 million illegals stay in the country in defiance of federal immigration laws, but he is fighting hard to send one Christian family back to certain government persecution just because they want to homeschool. If given the chance, I believe that Obama would abolish homeschooling in the US as well and mandate that every child attend the government run indoctrination centers known public schools. He cares nothing about parental rights or the rights of Christians. All he cares about is his own self and propagating his socialist agenda. Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/08/20-armed-police-social-workers-forcibly-take-children-parents-homeschooling/#ixzz2dYuVWxAi
Read more at http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/08/20-armed-police-social-workers-forcibly-take-children-parents-homeschooling/#O91F8LpvtjirrPFp.99

If given the chance, I believe that Obama would abolish homeschooling in the US as well and mandate that every child attend the government run indoctrination centers known public schools. He cares nothing about parental rights or the rights of Christians. All he cares about is his own self and propagating his socialist agenda. Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/08/20-armed-police-social-workers-forcibly-take-children-parents-homeschooling/#ixzz2dYubhVUq
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German Dirk and Petra Wunderlich Homeschool Family Raided by Police, Children Seized

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At 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 29, 2013, in what has been called a "brutal and vicious act," a team of 20 social workers, police officers, and special agents stormed a homeschooling family's residence near Darmstadt, Germany, forcibly removing all four of the family's children (ages 7-14). The sole grounds for removal were that the parents, Dirk and Petra Wunderlich, continued to homeschool their children in defiance of a German ban on home education.

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As the family quietly began their homeschool day, they were interrupted by a ring at the door. Dirk Wunderlich described the frightening turn of events.

 

"I looked through a window and saw many people, police, and special agents, all armed," he said. "They told me they wanted to come in to speak with me. I tried to ask questions, but within seconds, three police officers brought a battering ram and were about to break the door in, so I opened it.
"The police shoved me into a chair and wouldn't let me even make a phone call at first. It was chaotic as they told me they had an order to take the children. At my slightest movement the agents would grab me as if I were a terrorist. You would never expect anything like this to happen in our calm, peaceful village. It was like a scene out of a science fiction movie. Our neighbors and children have been traumatized by this invasion."

Wunderlich said that his 14-year-old daughter Machsejah had to be forcibly taken out of the home.
"When I went outside, our neighbor was crying as she watched," he said. "I turned around to see my daughter being escorted as if she were a criminal by two big policemen. They weren't being nice at all. When my wife tried to give my daughter a kiss and a hug goodbye, one of the special agents roughly elbowed her out of the way and said, 'It's too late for that.' What kind of government acts like this?"
After the children were taken away, the family was asked to attend a meeting with the senior social authority in charge at the scene. The Wunderlichs agreed to the meeting and were joined by their attorney, Andreas Vogt, who came as soon as he was notified, traveling hours by train to attend.

When the parents asked when they could seek a hearing to contest the seizure of their children, they were told they would have to wait until the regular judge returned from vacation. Vogt told Home School Legal Defense Association that the authorities had displayed little sympathy.

HSLDA obtained and translated the court documents that authorized this use of force to seize the children. The only legal grounds for removal were the family's continuation of homeschooling their children. The papers contain no other allegations of abuse or neglect. Moreover, Germany has not even alleged educational neglect for failing to provide an adequate education.

Judge Koenig, a Darmstadt family court judge, signed the order authorizing the immediate seizure of Dirk and Petra Wunderlich's children on August 28. Citing the parents' failure to cooperate "with the authorities to send the children to school," the judge also authorized the use of force "against the children" if necessary, 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.

HSLDA Chairman Michael Farris said Germany has continued to show its disregard for the human right to homeschool. "Germany has grossly violated the rights of this family," he said. "This latest act of seizing these four beautiful, innocent children is an outrageous act of a rogue nation."

The right of parents to decide how children are educated is a human right of the highest order, said Farris.

"The United States Constitution is not alone in upholding the right of parents to decide how to educate their children," Farris said. "Germany is a party to numerous human rights treaties that recognize the right of parents to provide an education distinct from the public schools so that children may be educated according to the parents' religious convictions. Germany has simply not met its obligations under these treaties or as a liberal democracy. HSLDA and I will do whatever we can to help this family regain custody of their children and ensure that they are safe from this persecution. This case demonstrates conclusively why the Romeike asylum case is so important. Families in Germany need a safe place where they can educate their children in peace."

The Wunderlich family has faced their share of problems in trying to homeschool their children. In October 2012, state youth officials were granted formal legal custody of the Wunderlich children by a German court based solely on the fact that the family was homeschooling, but the ruling was forestalled by Vogt. Over the past four years, HSLDA has reported on the Wunderlich family as they have moved from country to country in the European Union looking for a place to call home where they could freely homeschool their children. Although they found refuge from homeschool persecution, Mr. Wunderlich was unable to find work, and last year the family had to return to Germany. At their return, the children's passports were seized to ensure they couldn't flee the country again.

Following the raid, Dirk Wunderlich told Mike Donnelly, HSLDA Director for International Affairs, that he and his wife were devastated.

"These are broken people," Donnelly said. "They said they felt like they were being ground into dust. They were shaken to their core and shocked by the event. But they also told me that they had followed their conscience and the dictates of their faith. Although they don't have much faith in the German state, they have a lot of faith in God. They are an inspiring and courageous family.

"I've been fighting for German homeschool freedom for years," he continued, "and I had hoped that things were changing in Germany since it has been some time since brutality of this magnitude has occurred. But I was wrong."

Petra Wunderlich said her heart was shattered. "We are empty," she said. "We need help. We are fighting but we need help."

HSLDA has today begun a nationwide campaign to urge American homeschoolers to call the German embassy and its consular offices in the United States to protest this blatant violation of Germany's human rights commitments.

Home School Legal Defense Association is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms.  Visit us online at www.HSLDA.org.

Contact: Michael Farris, Jr., Home School Legal Defense Association, 540-338-5600
© 2013  Home School Legal Defense Association

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Dirk and Petra Wunderlich have four children ranging in age from 7 to 14. As parents, they have been homeschooling their kids for the past couple of years because they don’t want them indoctrinated with the government propaganda. Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/08/20-armed-police-social-workers-forcibly-take-children-parents-homeschooling/#ixzz2dYv3WFbS
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