DON VINCENZO writes:

I lived for four years in Norway, and had a good working and social relationship with many of its citizens. Currently, I have family members who live there. However, since my departure nearly three decades ago, the country, primarily under Labor Party governments, has moved in a direction that has given a full-throttle impetus to what I would describe as the “Nanny-Administrative State,” which has assumed the legal and moral authority in separating children from their parents, and parents from their children.

That particular governmental organization is called Barneverent, or Child-Protective Agency.

What follows are the comments of someone I know and trust about the current situation in which children in today’s Norway are separated from their parents in a way that is reminiscent of Stalin’s Russia, One case involved a Czech woman:

“The case was widely reported and followed by the Czech media – something which someone opined probably did not help the poor woman. Two boys, two and six, not only were they grabbed (literally, no warning, knock on the door, backed up by armed police, ‘we’re taking your kids, don’t fuss or else’) they were also then separated from each other.  This happened because there was a rumor (nothing more) of sexual abuse by her then-husband – a claim the police have strenuously denied had any basis; in fact, they and social services have both said there was no basis to the allegation.  But the Barneverent doesn’t seem to operate on fact.  Her case happened in 2015, so before they signed up to the Hague Convention but she is planning on taking them all the way to the EU Courts of Human Rights (which Norway would be subject to).  One can only pray there are some good lawyers out there willing to take the case purely out of principle. A friend informed me that the Agency removed five of six children from another mother because that was too many.  I said, “Don’t be ridiculous.  I’m sure there were other reasons.”  He was right: one woman (at a protest rally) briefly appeared and said, “They took five of my six children.  They were going to take the sixth, but let me keep him.  I don’t know why.”  That could be coincidence, but I suspect not. 

You have to remember that in Norway the government is viewed as a benevolent being, there for your own protection (and to protect you from yourself) and all-knowing.  Well, they are all knowing given there is no such thing as a concept of privacy in Norway – the government there really does have access to all personal information, like bank balances and the like.  Just because they got their sovereign wealth fund right, doesn’t mean they get everything right. 

In the case involving the Czech woman, one spokesman for the Barnevernet appeared – most refused  – to explain his organization’s duties.  He said their legal obligation was to always believe the child and in the event there was a conflict of information, they would always go with the child’s version.  He said something along the lines that children have rights and it is our duty to uphold those rights. I find myself sighing as I write that drivel.  Ok, go listen to a six year old because they always speak the truth.  Norway’s  Child Protection Agency began in the 90’s, but has become very powerful and is seen to be run and staffed by strident feminists/men-haters who have caused unjust misery to thousands of men. Originally, their goal was the get a non-paying father to cough up for his children, but Barnevernet has gone too far, making totally false allegations about all sorts of things on the basis of “information” the children gave them.  Of course, it turned out the children were being coached. 

Contrary to most everywhere else in the world, there is no attempt made to keep a family together.  None, quite the opposite.  The state will decide what is best for your child and you will have no option.  There is no mention of family – but then the Norwegian definition of family would not exactly coincide with more conservative beliefs.

1,500 children were removed in 2015.  One quarter of those were of foreign parents.  And that’s where it got out of hand because, given the parents were still citizens of their home country (and in many cases the children would have been dual nationals), Norway couldn’t ride roughshod over them quite the same way.  Well, they did for years, but earlier this year, after being condemned for the fourth time by the International Courts of Human Rights in July, this year Norway signed up the Hague Convention which means Barnevernet can no longer act with impunity when it comes to foreign nationals.  But as the report sadly concluded, that doesn’t help the Norwegians.

One Norwegian MP said that Barnevernet had effectively become a state within a state – answerable to no one.

 A final note involving the Czech mother’s attempt to regain custody of her children: despite her effort, which included bringing a Czech Member of the European Parliament into the picture, Barneverent has revoked all of her parental rights, and have put the children up for adoption.”

For those interested, this 25-minute video clip (in French with English subtitles) will give a realistic appraisal of the power of the Nanny-Administrative State. It is a cautionary tale.

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