So finally, a bit of sanity arrives by way of the Texas 3rd District Court of Appeals ruling that the state had absolutely no business taking over 460 children from their parents. The three-justice panel said that to use the pretense that future harm may or may not befall these children hardly constitutes a process where all of them were to be abducted from their home and turned into foster children, never to see their birth mothers again.

It's time to try and put the pieces back together again. Enough damage has been done already. The children need to be reunited with their parents. Again, if the state can make the case that any child was abused, it should arrest the suspected perpetrators.

I only hope that this fiasco will be a wake-up call to legislators and citizens about the way an agency like Child Protective Services can spin out of control and ruin people's lives right under our collective noses.

My hunch is that the heavy-handed authorities in this story never imagined that anyone would be concerned about how they treated an odd group of polygamists. But oddballs have rights, too. If we sit around and watch the state abuse these FLDS people, how long before they come after Baptists? Or Catholics?

Already, the state of California has made no secret of its intention to outlaw homeschooling. It's fairly obvious that state-funded and heavily-unionized teachers don't take too kindly to loving parents who choose to educate their children at home. So could the homeschooling community in America become the next group the government goes after?

You bet your life it could.

Recently, someone shared a quote that seemed to perfectly fit what the government has been trying to do to the FLDS community in West Texas. It may very well have been spoken by one of the numerous bureaucrats who have attempted to justify this tale of the state taking all of these children from their mothers and fathers. It was written in 1925 and it said that the government can pull off pretty much anything as long as it's done under the guise of protecting the children.

Astute history students probably recognize the quote.

It was written by Adolph HItler in 'Mein Kampf.'