SWAT Team Takes 11-year-old at Gunpoint

After an accident while rough-housing, an 11-year-old boy was checked out by paramedics. They didn't find anything wrong, but recommended that he be check out at the hospital. The dad (having served with the paramedics in Vietnam) said no thanks and chose to monitor the boy himself. CPS was sicked on the family and then finally a SWAT team took the child at gunpoint!! The SWAT team took the child to the hospital where doctors deemed there was nothing wrong with the boy. The following is a quote from the WorldNetDaily article.

The sheriff said the decision to use SWAT team force was justified because the father was a "self-proclaimed constitutionalist" and had made threats and "comments" over the years.

However, the sheriff declined to provide a single instance of the father's illegal behavior. "I can't tell you specifically," he said.

"He was refusing to provide medical care," the sheriff said.

However, the sheriff said if his own children were involved in an at-home accident, he would want to be the one to make decisions on their healthcare, as did Shiflett.

"I guess if that was one of my children, I would make that decision," the sheriff said.

But he said Shiflett was "rude and confrontational" when the paramedics arrived and entered his home without his permission.

OK. Notice how being a "constitutionalist" makes you some kind of a threat. Notice how even the sheriff acknowledges that he would have wanted to make that decision himself. And I think that I would be rude and confrontational if the paramedics came into my house without permission. This kind of stuff makes my blood boil.