"Our" thread here seems to have gone to rest or taken a pause. Which is natural; none of us have unlimited time to look for new relevant things the whole time.
It does not, unfortunately, mean that no new tragic cases see light - they do, all the time. But they are so frequent that they are almost commonplace in the perception of the Norwegian public, and of course Norwegian authorities and their chummies the press always try to keep silent about the tragedies. They do, on the other hand, keep their hand in publicising their "concern" about all the children they think are maltreated by their parents (but never about those maltreated and brain-washed by foster "parents" or in institutions).
Also, there are developments the whole time, but in the wrong direction. Here is a recent question in our parliament (called Stortinget) by an MP who was worried about the fact that the law had not yet criminalised the action of children being taken back by parents when the children had just been taken on an interim emergency decision, not yet confirmed by a County Committee or a court. The Minister of Justice answered her that he and the government were as worried as she was, and that there would be a proposal to make that too illegal. In other words, the child protection people can just take a child and install it anywhere they please, without giving any explanation and for as long as it takes them to cook up a case for the County Committee, and parents who try to take the child back face prison, just like the parents who try to get their child away after a County Committee decision or a court verdict in favour of the CPS:
Skriftlig spørsmål fra Jenny Klinge (Sp) til justis- og beredskapsministeren(
Written question from Jenny Klinge (Sp) to the Minister of Justice and Public Security)
Stortinget (Parliament), 4 - 5 February 2015
I just about expected this, after the two Lithuanian families tried to rescue their children – one succeeded, one failed (the little boy) – and in the last-mentioned case the police and the CPS evidently tried all they could to find something criminal to accuse the mother and her helpers of (cf
this post about the hunt for the boy and the helpers).
This is a new turning of the screw – we have had a lot such little and bigger steps putting families completely out of power as regards their children. They started at least 25 years ago and have been introduced so gradually that the blue-eyed Norwegians have completely overlooked it all.
Another threatening development will be the introduction of "Child and family courts". It
sounds fine maybe, sounds as though these "specialised" courts will offer more of a solid procedure under "the rule of law" than we have at present. In reality it will be something just like the County Committes, just with a new name, added prestige and
exactly the same kind of people as experts confirming each other – yet another solidification of what is being done already.
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I sincerely hope that all these other countries, the Czech Republic, Russia, Slovakia, Poland, the Baltic countries, will not back down but will continue fighting for their expatriots' natural family life. There are other countries too which have experience of the same: India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Nigeria, Brazil which could usefully join in – but many of them of course have so many issues to tackle at home, and Norwegian CPS and bureaucracy certainly know how to talk gobbledygook and then let things drag on endlessly so that people and foreign governments give up or lose interest.
It will be a miracle, I am afraid, if any of the children from foreign lands who have been taken and deprived of their families by Norway will ever be set free – certainly not
voluntarily. Norway fears the consequences and repercussions of letting eny of them go. On the contrary, after the India case in Stavanger, the CPS were promised that our Foreign Ministry and other ministries would take on "informing" other nations about child protection and relieve local CPS units of having to deal with protests.