Canadian Superior Court Abolishes Parental Rights…

…Judge Says “Big Brother Knows Best.”

Okay, maybe not “abolishes.”  But something along the lines of “effectively abolishes,” or “paves the way for abolition of” would be more precise.  Even “thumbs its nose at.”

COURT OVERTURNS FATHER’S GROUNDING OF 12-YEAR-OLD

OTTAWA (AFP) — A Canadian court has lifted a 12-year-old girl’s grounding, overturning her father’s punishment for disobeying his orders to stay off the internet, his lawyer said Wenesday.

The girl had taken her father to Quebec Superior Court after the refused to allow her to go on a school trip for chatting on websites he tried to block, then posting “inappropriate” pictures of herself online using a friend’s computer.

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According to court documents, the girl’s Internet transgression was just the latest in a string of broken house rules.  Even so, Justice Suzanne Tessier found her punishment [!!!] too severe….

I understand that the average Quebecois is superior even to the average Frenchman, who, as we all would agree, are just the best darn people on the planet.  But Heronner Tessier just takes the cake on this one.

I believe, were I this young lady’s father, not only would Ms. Tessier be the proud new parent of a froward preteen, but she also would be receiveing the forwarded bill for court costs.  This fop certainly has no right to rule on lawful parental discipline, and should be ridiculed for not throwing the case out.

On Canada’s National Post, Lorne Gunter agrees:

Ms. [Lucie] Fortin [the girl’s lawyer] and the Quebec Superior Court judge who sided with her client have stepped so far over the line of what is appropriate state intervention in family affairs it’s hard to measure their transgression. This is an appalling example of the state no longer understanding that there is a private sphere into which it must not tread.

The father was not beating his daughter. Apparently, the father and mother are in the midst of a bitter custody battle, and some experts have suggested that somehow that is a mitigating circumstance that explains why the girl going to court is not as outrageous as it seems. But if anything, that makes the court’s actions worse. Here is a father who has full-time custody struggling to keep his daughter from getting caught up in the whole world of Internet predators, while also dealing with all the issues of discipline and conflicted loyalties that arise from divorce, and now the court has made his task far more difficult.

Even if his punishment is an overreaction, unless the judge wants to take over raising his daughter directly, calling all the shots, making all the emotional, on-the-ground, late-night decisions, the judge should butt out.

If the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation, it also has no place in its family rooms.

Ah, Canadia!  Where the men are men [until effectively castrated by a woefully overreaching judiciary]!

At least that kind of naked government intrusion can never happen here in America!