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27
November 2017
The children of
the state –
The Norwegian
child protection agency, Barnevernet, has created a society
of fear
By Jan Pedersen
Søgne,
Vest-Agder County
Are
Norwegian politicians not going to intervene and stop the
way Barnevernet is carrying on? When will a protest ripen
against voting for Fremskrittspartiet (the Progress Party),
government Minister Solveig Horne being the top political
authority for what many call 'the institution of fear',
Barnevernet.
From several countries around Europe there is now an alert,
people crying out that Norway builds on the foundation of
children being 'children of the state'!
This was the assertion of the Nazis, leading to the great
spiritual battle during the war. At that time, the bishops
and most religious ministers of the church resigned office,
or they were arrested. So were the teachers, and parents
supported the struggle maintaining that they were the ones
with a right to their children. The state had no rights
here! This was the core of the matter.
Today, dedicated troops battle against what is happening in
Norway: the same that we fought against during the war. We
do not fight for the children of the state, but for the
parents' children.
The politicians come up with new laws, new regulations to
keep the parents away – they who hold the very first right
to their children!
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I
had an experience of these ideas last week, when 150 people
turned up for a meeting arranged by Senioruniversitetet
(the senior university) in Søgne. The senior university had
invited as their lecturer someone from Barnevernet's
system: the leader of the County Board for CPS and social
matters in Agder (the southernmost counties in Norway,
where Søgne is located). Hardly any time at all had been
reserved for opinions or debate.
At the same time, now on 24th November, a tough
article, 'Tsjekkisk politiker med knallhardt
angrep på norsk barnevern' (Czech
politician with rock hard attack on Norwegian
Barnevern), has appeared in 247Avisen,
after a showing of a documentary, 'Children of the state',
on Czech TV last Tuesday. It is about the Norwegian CPS
Barnevernet. Czech Christian-democrat politician Tomas
Zdechovsky, a member of the European Parliament, after the
program voiced strong criticism of Norwegian Barnevernet,
holding it to have led to Norwegian society becoming a
society of fear. He was interviewed in ParlamentníListy.cz.
He has gone thoroughly into how Barnevernet operates. He
said that many Norwegians shy away from express their
opinions of Barnevernet publicly, in order not to end up in
their clutches themselves.
Czech
newspapers are of the opinion, having watched the
documentary, that Barnevernet builds on a communistic idea.
The ideal is that of a better day tomorrow with perfect
parents and happy children!
Parliamentarian Zdechovsky considers Barnevernet's many
removals of children from biological parents to foster
parents to be violations of human rights.
It is up to the Norwegian people, then, to decide whether
they will stop this, by taking away from the Progress Party
the power they execute. The government seems to understand
only one kind of language: people's refusal to vote in the
parliamentary elections for those who practice this
ideology of children belonging to the state.
In the meantime, Minister Solveig Horne continues the
present policy, as if the children belong to the state!
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