On a cold Colorado Friday night early this January, 62 year old Vietnam vet Tom Shiflet had the door to his home suddenly burst open, then watched powerlessly as the Garfield County SWAT team stormed inside to point assault rifles at his wife and six children before abducting his eleven year old son Jon. Shiflet and his wife were then threatened with criminal charges should they attempt to pursue, or find out where there their son was being taken.
Around 2:30am (local time) Saturday morning, just a few hours afterwards, little Jon was returned to his family, with mutual rejoicing. No apology was apparently given to the Shiflet family for the violent terrorism and child abduction imposed upon them at gunpoint.
The reason? County social services worried that Tom Shiflet was not going to send Jon to the hospital for medical treatment of a bruised head and face received after the boy attempted to grab onto the handle of a moving car and fell down. The doctors who tended to Jon while he was in SWAT custody diligently checked him out, and did indeed prescribe treatment- they instructed Jon to take Tylenol for the pain & swelling, and to apply ice to his bruises.
Citizens, read this article and realize how horrifying a violation of individual, civil, private, and family rights this was. Imagine being a loving parent, and an honourable veteran (who happened to be a combat medic, of all things!), and having the sheriff and county social services violently invade your home and abduct your child, then return him without even an apology. Says Shiflet's landlord Ross Talbott "I tell you what, to send a SWAT team down there was just absolutely over the hill... Inappropriate is not nearly strong enough a word. It was gross irresponsibility and stupidity. ... Is this Russia? I don't know what we're coming to when they think your kid needs medical help and they send a SWAT team."
Read the article and realize that this could happen to anyone, anytime. Wake up, citizens.
What would you say if it was your home, and your child?
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2 comments:
I'm really surprised this is not in the national news... Doesn't it bug anybody that it's acceptable for a swat team to get a child because the government thinks he should get an ice pack?
Doesn't surprise me too much Mike. The mainstream national media is too corrupt and ideological.
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