Public 'servants' will ALWAYS abuse their powers

One paragraph leapt out of Erin Pizzey’s brilliant demolition of the Government’s plans for a so-called ‘Cinderella Law’ which would make ‘emotional neglect’ of children a criminal offence.

Writing in the Mail, she said: ‘In the old days, health visitors and community midwives went into people’s homes to help them. These days, the social workers are increasingly sent to judge and punish.’

Pizzey highlighted the case of a loving mother-of-three on benefits, struggling to cope. What she really needed was a washing machine to make her life easier.

‘Social services could have helped her to get one through a local charity, but instead they hounded her and tried to take away her children. The more power social workers and courts possess, the more they will use it.’

This unfortunate woman was terrified of losing her children and was rude to the social workers.

Affronted by any challenge to their authority, ‘they were going to make her suffer for it’.

Pizzey was referring to so-called ‘caring professionals’, but she could just as easily have been talking about anyone hired by the State these days to ‘serve’ the public.  (more...)

Public 'servants' will ALWAYS abuse their powers