NO MEDIA AT ARYAN GUARD ASSOCIATE'S CHILD CUSTODY CASE

In New Jersey we have parents that want to name their kids Adolf Hitler and Aryan Nation. In Manitoba, Canada two parents like to send her daughter to school with a swastika drawn on her arm. What do they all have in common? Their kids were taken away from them. Unlike the parents in New Jersey, however Manitoba’s court took the seven-year-old girl and her brother from her parents precisely because of the swastika. What happened was the kid went to school with it on her arm, a teacher scrubbed it off, kid went home and mom drew it back on her arm again. And of course, Canada doesn’t care too much for Nazis. Now the mom is doing the usual “I am not a racist. Pay no attention to the swastika around my neck and white pride flags in my house. What about black people who do the same thing” tap dance, but it doesn’t seem to be working, and it won’t. See, while the newsstory cannot publish the mother’s name out of concern of identifying the daughter, folks already know who these characters are, and they were seen marching with the Aryan Guard in Calgary, Alberta on March 21. The kids were taken away just days after the rally and it was originally said that Daddy was the one who marked up their daughter. Now he has been kicked out of the house in an effort by Mommy, who went back to her maiden name, to get her kids back, but with Canadian neo-Nazi Paul Fromm and Aryan Nation’s August Kreis getting involved with the case, the whole “I am not a racist” routine really is just a pile of crap. So don’t worry. Media might be barred from the court proceedings – which is understood given the nature of the case – but the parents are going to be scrutinized regardless.

CBC

Manitoba is asking the provincial court to ban media from attending any part of a custody case involving a girl who went to school with a swastika drawn on an arm.

Child welfare workers removed the seven-year-old and her two-year-old brother from their Winnipeg home last year. The government is now asking the courts for permanent guardianship of the children but their mother is fighting to get them back.

Lawyers for Child and Family Services have filed an application to ban media outlets from covering the trial.

Media are already bound by law not to report on anything that might identify the children.

The high-profile custody case received national attention and sparked a debate over whether children can be taken from their parents on the basis of suspected racism.

The children were taken away last year after the girl went to school with the swastika drawn on her arm and a teacher scrubbed it off. The mother helped her daughter draw it on her arm again, an act she regrets.

“It was one of the stupidest things I’ve done in my life but it’s no reason to take my kids,” the mother told CBC News at the time.

Child and Family Services case workers were alerted and went to the family’s apartment, where they found neo-Nazi symbols and flags, and took custody of her son. Her daughter was taken from school.

In court documents, social workers say they’re worried the parents’ conduct and associations might harm the emotional well-being of the children and put them at risk.

Although she proudly wears a silver necklace that includes a swastika and has “white pride” flags in her home, the mother, who can’t be named to avoid identifying her children, denies she’s a neo-Nazi or white supremacist.

“A black person has a right to say black power or black pride and yet they’re turning around on us and saying we’re racists and bigots and neo-Nazis because we say white pride. It’s hypocrisy at its finest.”