I read today of Cherokee County in Western North Carolina – The article at https://www.cherokeescout.com/local/cherokee-county-settles-dss-lawsuits-485-million
Probably the simplest line excerpt is “Twenty-six lawsuits were filed against the county in 2018 and 2019, stemming from the Department of Social Services’ use of Custody and Visitation Agreements to place children outside of their parents’ homes without court approval.” Simply enough, a group of midwits, busy doing good, their hearts in the right place, heads in the wrong place, broke the law, and eight years later the results are breaking the county that hired them.
I recall talking with the Sheriff in Jones County South Dakota – he knew that I was from Lincoln County, MT and he wanted information on the cost to the county when a group from Nevada had murdered a man up Edna creek, burned the body, and stole the guy’s car. I had some idea of the amount that flights to Nevada for the investigation had cost the county. Murdo, his county seat is on the route to Sturgis, and wondering if a murder that required out of state investigations, occurring in his county could break the budget. We pencil whipped a few figures and decided that it could.
Fauci was pardoned for any wrongs he did during the Covid. No county health department was. I don’t imagine anything will get down to the county level – but county departments that have power to enforce what they believe is correct (as in Cherokee County, North Carolina) obviously place everyone at risk. The old sheriff was just looking at whether a killing by non-residents could break his county – and the answer was that it could.
There’s a lot of unseen risks that we vote in three commissioners to avoid. For the past few years I’ve watched Election Administrators come up with one error or another that deprived some of our residents of the right to vote, or choose to ignore a law that they didn’t like. Not every American County is at risk – but click the article from the Cherokee Scout, and think about the possibilities.
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