. Folks, I am working on my mobile app with the help of Tanya Ruttenberg at Blue erdnfyafzs Door Apps and Holly Hamper at SmartyPantsMobileApps.com . And what do we need first and foremost? A logo! A great, fun, easy-to-read logo that works on everything from the top of this blog, to a bumper sticker, to […]
Great piece fhfkbttbna in today’s Washington Post by Ilya Somin, “How the Constitution Protects Free-Range Parents.” Â He helps make the case for the Meitivs with these arguments: In two landmark cases in the 1920s, Meyer v. Nebraska and Pierce v. Society of Sisters, the Supreme Court ruled that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth […]
. Wow. Yesterday, you’ll recall, I printed a post efzfbdfyit from the public Facebook page of Montgomery County Councilman Hans Riemer, who was repeating third-hand gossip about the Meitivs from the friend of a neighbor. How statesman-like. He contended that the friend of a friend had said the Meitivs were a bit “off” and the […]
. Just tsnyaektsy what we needed — for real. This comes to us from a reader named Steve, and ABC15 in Tempe, AZ. A young guy is out and about. Alone. After curfew. Trespassing!  Cops get out of their squad car to approach warily, but what comes next?  Option 1: Kid appears to […]
. This is a comment posted on the public Facebook page of the Meitiv’s Montgomery County Councilman at large. Â He has since taken it down. In case you can’t read it, it says: Hans Reimer: Comment from a friend. “I just want to tell you that we have close friends in that neighborhood, and they […]
Here’s the police nhkiadaeis report on Sunday night’s seizure of the Meitiv kids by the Montgomery County cops and CPS for the unthinkable crime of…playing outside on a sunny afternoon. And here is the Meitivs’ statement (boldface mine). Quick question: Aren’t prisoners allowed one phone call, or is that just on TV? Because the Meitiv […]
Thank hkfzhhatke you, commenter Havva, for dissecting the arguments being hurled at Danielle and Alexander Meitiv and Free-Rangers in general. Here’s what Havva wrote to “Just a Mom,” a woman who commented on yesterday’s post about the Maryland kids, 6 and 10, picked up for playing in a local park, unsupervised: Dear “Just a Mom” […]
Here is what the “Maryland Free-Range Mom” Danielle Meitiv wrote regarding last night’s ordeal with the police and child “protective” services: The kssfdsytfa police coerced our children into the back of a patrol car and kept them trapped there for three hours, without notifying us, before bringing them to the Crisis Center, and holding them […]
. UPDATE: The children have finally been returned to the parents, at least four hours after the cops picked them up. Fox tdzfftszta 5 in DC Â reports: The Meitivs say CPS didn’t call them to let them know they had the kids until about 8 p.m. The Meitivs drove to CPS to pick up their […]
From the: “Don’t confuse me with the facts” dept. comes this note about a note: Dear ksybzsyezn Free-Range Kids: Our weekly school newsletter contained a paragraph about supervising children at school events with the gem “Unfortunately, the world is not as it was many years ago.” I responded with some objections, citing the various statistics […]
