Imagine: One day you’re frolicking in the open air on a large compound, doing your daily chores and feasting on hearty homegrown fare; the next you’re gagging on a diet of T&A courtesy of MTV and fast-food compliments of your fat foster mom. As the makeshift mom hollers at you to swallow your zombifying meds - the Texas foster care system is notorious for pumping its charges full of psychotropic drugs - her flaccid live-in lover eyes you lustily.

As I write, many of the kids kidnapped by Texas rangers from the Yearning for Zion ranch are being scattered across the state to far-flung group homes and shelters. In the land of the free and home of the brave, hundreds of children can be rounded up and removed from their families based on a hunch or a hoax. No hue and cry will ensue - not from professional civil libertarians, nor from members of the unwatchful dogs in the media, or from presidential candidates vying to uphold - or is it just to hold - the Constitution.  Full Piece