Forget not those who are in chains...

The church was asleep in the light, is it now drowning in the river?

"I was in prison, and..."

Carline VandenElsen is a Christian believer here in Canada. On Deecember 19, 2003, an order from the Children's Aid Society in Halifax, NS, was drafted and issued nationwide for the apprehension of her baby girl... still unborn.

Carline and her husband have been in jail in Nova Scotia for the past year now. Their crime : resisting an order that obviously had no grounds. However, the machine was already set in motion, and ultimately, it would swallow the baby whole, leaving the parents to fend for themselves in court, abandoned by a system that's supposed to protect the children.

Carline is starting today the 4th week of a starvation campaign to bear on the Nova Scotia government to grant a public inquiry in the abduction of her daughter Mona-Clare.

How many believers have gone to visit her? How many Christian parents are supporting her fight for the sacredness of the family unit in Canada? How many are simply not trying to get behind what the media could present them, to ask the right question: what would Jesus do?

The story of these parents reads like a movie script where everything that can be thrown at a family by the court system is being used to destroy and dismember this family. Their crime? Resisting the apprehension of their breastfeeding 5 months old baby girl, with no reasons being justified, with no assessments being made about the safety of that child, ever. A very healthy and happy little girl, resting on her mother's bosom in a snugli, has been cut off from her with a SWAT team attack knife in Halifax last year.

Before you forget to gasp, remember that this baby girl was already wanted by the Children's Aid Society as she was still in the womb. Translation: someone contacted the CAS saying that this child, the fruit of a union of love between two loving and eager parents, "may" be in danger some time in the future. Neither parent had ever be found to be unfit parents, nor harmed their children. They had both unjustly lost their children to the CAS devouring machine previously, and now that they were trying to move on to a new life, the CAS sadistically came after them. Yes, it happened in Canada.

What cruelty is moving the CAS workers who say publicly that they are there to uphold the best interest of the children? What can motivate, and later justify, the destruction of lives by an agency that is supposed to defend the helpless? Mona-Clare Finck is now in her second foster home, having notably regressed in her development earlier this year. How is she doing now? Who knows where she is? Does she even know her name anymore? Is this a new twisted chapter in the drama of the Butter Box Babies?

A public inquiry is the only way we will be able to have the light shine on this case, so similar to so many other broken families, entraped in a system of law that is nothing but a defenser of the interest of the people it is supposed to help. The only best interest that keeps being defended is that of the justice system who cannot administer justice in this case, without feeling it will create a precedent.

Well, it's too late, a precedent has already been created, and it started with the first family that has fallen prey to unscrupulous workers in the CAS network years ago, using the law to their advantage to railroad children into adoption, leaving wounded people roaming the corridors of our society with the open unhealed scar of the tearing. Who can forget the mother wound? Some will never heal. Some will find some measure of healing after decades, and realize it wasn't their parents who abandoned them, but a faulty Canadian justice system which refused to acknowledge its mistakes, covering-up for a few rogue CAS officers who have lost touch with what it means to be human in Canada.

And those lost children will want to know who they are and where they're from. And what will we be able to tell them if they ask us what happened? When they will learn that there was something that could have been done to avoid their unecessary and artificial orphaning?

If prayer is part of your life, pray that the rulers of this system come to repentance and fear God enough to seek justice, even when they have gone too far. It's never too late to back-off from an error. It could change the world. And pray for those parents in jail for standing up against the only way they could by refusing to hand-over their baby girl, throwing her into a savage dance of abandonment and abuse, at such a young and tender age, like a lamb to the wolves, while her father and mother only wanted to nurture her to become a person of worth in the world where she would be growing up, surrounded by the safe harbour of a loving home.

What's wrong with us?

Regards and blessings,

Andre Lefebvre
http://www.familyheadquarters.ca

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Help all Canadian families by helping this one:
http://carlinevandenelsen.blogspot.com

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Starvation Campaign to request a public inquiry
http://starvingforthechildren.blogspot.com
http://newsroomwatch.blogspot.com
http://commentspage.blogspot.com

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The Canadian Book of Many Sorrows
http://www.familyheadquarters.ca

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EVERY CHILD COUNTS, EVERY SIGNATURE TOO....
http://www.petitiononline.com/babymona
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