Alisa, I would like to take a few days off this discussion with you.
You need to cool off, and you need to start respecting people. My posts linking to your writing were polite, and contained no insinuations. There may be a misstatement of where you work, which you are free to correct. I am willing to modify the post to correct factual errors, but what you are engaging in right now is not dialogue.
"WOULD YOU WANT THIS CPS WORKER TO COME TO YOUR KIDS' BIRTHDAY PARTY???!!!!" [insert picture of alisa ivanovna here].
you call this respect?
if you do, I'd prefer taking a few decades off of dialogue with you. Keep everything the way it is. all the idiots who get a kick out of momentary sensationalism will get their kicks, and since very few people out there seem to be bothered about the fact that they are getting their kicks at the expense of others, anyone will integrity will form their own opinion about you, and everyone else is of no interest to me.
But just as a side note, if I were a CPS worker, and if you did have a kid playing alone in the sandbox, and if someone DID call CPS on you, you would pray to every deity you can conjure up in your overactive imagination that it was I, or someone just like me, who came to your house to investigate.
The fact that I would have to pray to a diety (instead of trusting the system to do the right thing) should a CPS agent stop by the house is what this discussion is all about to begin with.
And really, this is not about YOU. ;-) This is about about the CPS culture as a whole. This is about any adult who not only feels comfortable working for that organization in sound mind and spirit, but is moreover cavalier about an "occasional" unsubstantiated removal of children from their home in the name of the greater good.
I think many of my readers did not realize the kinds of attitudes common among CPS workers, and you were kind enough to write them down. The conclusions my readers come to are not actually uniform - quite a number were reassured by your post. The rest, especially parents of young children, feel ambivalent. Unfortunately, I cannot help you there as I share their feelings.
the "thinking" I am referring to in my comment is that every child has a right to be safe.
Somehow, thanks to the tireless efforts of you and your friends I am getting the impression that people are going to be scaring their children to behave or I will come get them in the middle of the night. Sharing perspective is one thing. Creating a scapegoat, making up lies, allowing cruel and incompetent bashing of the people whose very words you are using to boost your popularity is gratuitously indecent.
If you consider the chrolonology of the past few days, you will realize that there is certainly no abuse of your post for LJ popularity going on
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Then the judge allowed the youngest babies to stay with their mothers, and I thought it would be the end of the LJ discussions. However, at that point Natasha moretp felt that she had more to say about this situation, having a personal insider knowledge of how the FLDS really were. She wrote her post after talking to me on the phone, just to get it out on paper what awful people FLDS were, at least in Utah
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i am not concerned about the abuse of my post. I am concerned about the abuse of ME. You are no longer welcome to comment here. Please leave, and do not come back until your posts are gone, and until a formal apology is posted on your page.
how thick are you?
you have no right or business to write ANYTHING about me.
this is about my thoughts and ideas, NOT ABOUT ME.
you are not my autobiographer, and you are not authorized to discuss me. You are allowed to LINK TO MY POST. that's it.
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You need to cool off, and you need to start respecting people. My posts linking to your writing were polite, and contained no insinuations. There may be a misstatement of where you work, which you are free to correct. I am willing to modify the post to correct factual errors, but what you are engaging in right now is not dialogue.
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you call this respect?
if you do, I'd prefer taking a few decades off of dialogue with you. Keep everything the way it is. all the idiots who get a kick out of momentary sensationalism will get their kicks, and since very few people out there seem to be bothered about the fact that they are getting their kicks at the expense of others, anyone will integrity will form their own opinion about you, and everyone else is of no interest to me.
But just as a side note, if I were a CPS worker, and if you did have a kid playing alone in the sandbox, and if someone DID call CPS on you, you would pray to every deity you can conjure up in your overactive imagination that it was I, or someone just like me, who came to your house to investigate.
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And really, this is not about YOU. ;-) This is about about the CPS culture as a whole. This is about any adult who not only feels comfortable working for that organization in sound mind and spirit, but is moreover cavalier about an "occasional" unsubstantiated removal of children from their home in the name of the greater good.
I think many of my readers did not realize the kinds of attitudes common among CPS workers, and you were kind enough to write them down. The conclusions my readers come to are not actually uniform - quite a number were reassured by your post. The rest, especially parents of young children, feel ambivalent. Unfortunately, I cannot help you there as I share their feelings.
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(I hope it's all right to quote your writing within your own LJ - if not, please feel free to screen the comment)
If at some point I find a CPS worker blog that going into their decision-making and attitudes, I will likely link it from my page also.
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the "thinking" I am referring to in my comment is that every child has a right to be safe.
Somehow, thanks to the tireless efforts of you and your friends I am getting the impression that people are going to be scaring their children to behave or I will come get them in the middle of the night. Sharing perspective is one thing. Creating a scapegoat, making up lies, allowing cruel and incompetent bashing of the people whose very words you are using to boost your popularity is gratuitously indecent.
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