Two-Headed Dragon

“Starting today, every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known”
-President Barrack Obama 1/25/09

Powerful (sounding) words that, in reality, amount to nothing more than lip-service and political/bureaucratic rhetoric.  Of course, when our current president uttered these words at his inauguration, he never said they would be without sacrifice.

Now I know, first hand, that my union is not interested in protecting the Constitutional rights of individual workers. Rather, like government itself, the sole purpose of contemporary unions is to grow, in wealth and power.

Of course, why would a worker in opposition to the state’s abuse of power, expect his rights to be protected when those same rights, among Child Welfare clientele, are violated on a daily basis?

In ten years as a Child Protective Services caseworker, it had already become evident to me how, for 35 years, CPS has been able to run unopposed from within despite an egregiously un-American mode of operation: Simply get rid of those insiders who raise concerns about the status-quo.  And, apparently with Union help.