WTF? New Bill in Colorado would making Running Away from Home Illegal

[LynneSin]

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/government/article/0,2777,DRMN_23906_4393926,00.html

New bill would ban runaways

By Lynn Bartels, Rocky Mountain News
January 17, 2006
A Highlands Ranch Republican wants to make it a crime to run away from home.

Rep. Ted Harvey today introduced legislation making running away from home for any child 17 and younger a class 2 misdemeanor. House Bill 1123 also allows parents to have the charge dismissed the first time a child is charged.

Great, so if the kid is running away because the parents are beating the shit out of them or sexually abusing them then we're just going to make them criminals and send them home to where they are suffering.

:wow:

[XanaDUer]

1. I thought 'pukes were for keeping out of people's lives...

Oh wait, nevermind.

[FreedomAngel82]

10. I thought so too

What do you know? I thought they cared about privacy too! Nope. Guess not. So they don't care if a child is being abused and tries to get out and get help. :mad: All they care about is appearing pro-family but not giving a damn about anybody else.

[dsc]

2. Isn't alreadly deliquency

[rodeodance]

3. i continually get amazed at what they will come up with next--

[izzie]

4. Plantation thinking?

People own things and people. Some how it gets to be the important thing. Ownership and control. Business have already starting it. I can not wait until the Churches act like they used to and make laws about where you can live and how many times a week you must go to church.

[Skidmore]

5. We are returning to the past very quickly.

Women and children are being returned to the position of chattel rapidly. The patriarchial Judeo-Christian order reasserts itself into the law.

[salin]

6. Wonder if he owns share in a program

for "unruly" youth. Call me cynical.

[bluestateguy]

7. I think Bill Maher said it best

That state legislators are people with nothing better to do with their time.

[tavalon]

8. Damn

I thought it already was. Geez, you mean my parents lied to me on top of abusing me?! Even CPS, lo those many years ago told me that, but then I think they wanted me to stop causing a fuss. See, my dad was upper middle class and we all know that such people don't abuse their children, right?

BTW, I was sent back to my parents after I ran away in the middle 1970s and no follow up was done (I begged them not to send me back). I got my collarbone broken for that time. It's nothing new. Not that I'm saying it should be that way. I've harbored a lot of anger towards the powers that be for that little fiasco. The more things change the more they stay the same. It occurs to me that we had Rethugs in power back then too.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. So what if they're being abused?

[tavalon]

11. See my previous reply

[jarab]

15. There is more ...

....
In addition, Harvey said, the bill allows for an "affirmative defense" if a child runs away because the home is "dangerous to the welfare of the child."

...O...

[China_cat]

12. I spent my years from 12 to 15

in a 'reform' school for running away. Nobody ever asked me why I ran, either.

[tavalon]

14. Sucks, doesn't it? I'm guessing we could swap horror stories.

I've never really gotten over my anger at CPS. The therapy helped with the parental stuff but not so much the CPS fucked up stuff. I think I'm glad I never ended up in reform school and I know I'm way grateful that my maternal grandparents finally got me out of that fucked up shit.

[Lexingtonian]

13. no truancy from homeschooling....

Jesus will come in the form of Colorado state troopers and kick your ass.

Next thing you know, they'll be putting up an electrified fence around Colorado Springs. No escape for the kids of Dobson employees...ever.