“Step away from the baby, ma’am”

From the “Are you frickin’ kidding me?” file:

Neglect charge alleges mom breast-fed while drunk (AP)

By JAMES MacPHERSON, Associated Press Writer – Tue Apr 28, 6:54 pm ET

BISMARCK, N.D. – A North Dakota mother has pleaded not guilty to child neglect after prosecutors alleged she was drunk while breast-feeding her 6-week-old baby.

Prosecutor Carmell Mattison says alcohol was not the only factor in the felony charge against 27-year-old Stacey Anvarinia, who appeared in court Monday. She is free on bond.

Mattison says the mother “wasn’t in a position to care for the child properly.”

Anvarinia was arrested Feb. 13 after police answered a domestic disturbance call at her Grand Forks home. The prosecutor said officers witnessed Anvarinia breast-feeding the baby and asked her to stop because she was intoxicated.

Her attorney David Ogren says no blood test was taken and the charge could be difficult to prove.

Okay, people, let’s get some stuff straight.

First of all, if drunkenness “was not the only factor,” why bring it up?  Anyone?  That’s right, because the prosecutor was going for the sympathy thing:  “That poor baby has an evil drunk for a mother!  Why, you just have to let the state take that baby away!” 

Nevermind that the state in general has a somewhat-less-than-stellar record of “taking care of” kids… unless you mean that in a Roger Cardinal Mahoney kind of way.

Second, what busybody tells a mother not to feed her child?  Because she seemed intoxicated?  No blood test?  No urine or breathalyzer tests?  Not even a stupid field sobriety test?  Just, “Step away from the baby, ma’am,” and toss her in jail?

Who else thinks the arresting cop(s) never had kids?

Where does this kind of abuse end?  Is Big Brother now a neonatologist?  What’s next, arresting pregnant women for eating at Burger King?  Gosh, it’s a good thing my seven-month-pregnant wife hasn’t acted on her craving for a margarita — I’d have to scrape bail together!

Please, people — you stand by while the government poisons the water supply “for your own good;” you say nothing while they listen in on your private phone calls; you let them set you up for future rights arrogation and abrogation.  Hell, you even let them tell you for whom to vote!

Stop the madness!

Take back your government!

…to coin a phrase.