The State Has Its Way and the State Has No Mercy

September 2, 2009 by Infowars Ireland

If you don’t think that the state can do anything it wants with you when matters of “urgent health concerns” are at stake, think again. This couple, described as elderly, but not much older than me, and I suspect, a good many of you, had their lives literally ripped from them by the state.

Elderly Couple Forced into State Custody

DALLAS – They’re not criminals. They’ve broken no laws. But they’re being held against their will by the State of Texas. Why? It’s a tragic story about what can happen when you are alone in the world and lose control of your rights, your money, and your ability to complain.

Jean and Michael Kidd never imagined their retirement would play out like this. “I feel like I am not in America,” said Michael Kidd. “I can’t believe I have been hi-jacked off the street, virtually from the hospital, and imprisoned,” Kidd told FOX 4.

Michael Kidd and his wife Jean have been living out of a tiny room for months. They have lost control of their money, their home, even their car. They say they’ve been robbed of their dignity and their voice. And who do they say is responsible? The State of Texas.

“It is a shock to our system,” says Kidd. “We are still kind of in a state of shock,” Kidd told Reporter Becky Oliver.

Why did this happen? It happened because the state snatched their lives from them when it determined that they could no longer be trusted to take care of themselves. The real reason is because they were retired, over 60 and vulnerable. Easy prey.

Listen to the people in the following video:

Does it sound like they are not competent enough to be given an accounting of their finances, which the state is burning through like so much confetti?

The state of Texas has literally robbed these people of their very lives and is systematically stripping them of all their worldly assets while letting them deteriorate in some corner of a nursing home that didn’t even notice when the woman’s teeth fell out. And all this for the paltry sum of $7,000 per month – $11,000 of it already paid for by the state; out of the couple’s own bank account. Read full article…