Well, like I said before. I actually agree with the family about home schooling.
However if they go home and make things right, they have a US citizen as the youngest member of the family. A direct in for applying for a visa, they won't be turned down. Pay the fines and come on back. If all you folks really think that they should be allowed in...help them pay their fines so they can set things right, start up a special fund raising thing to get the money they need. Put your money where your mouth is.
Heroine is legal in a certain country, if a drug dealer/user flees to there to be free to deal/take the drug of choice...nobody cares, however if they were facing jail time and heavy fines back in America...they would be shipped home if they are found out. You may say that drugs and home schooling are two different things, but actually it isn't...what is permitted by one country is not permitted in others, and if you break the law, you pay the piper...not run away.
They are not persecuted, nobody threatened to harm them, they got a fine, didn't pay it and kept doing the wrong, so they got fined over and over again...that's why the fine is so large. It wasn't a one time incident, then got hit with a $9000.00 fine. Once the fine got so large they fled the country and came here under false pretenses to avoid the laws and the accumulated fines.
What really burns my butt is this...It's okay to stand up for what you feel is right. But be prepared to take the consequences for those actions. I read about a group once that decided they didn't like how the government spent their taxes (I don't like how they spend my money either), but they refused to pay any taxes. They acted all surprised when they lost their homes to foreclosure for taxes owed, they were given warning upon warning. Once they lost their battle, they then proceeded to harass the folks who purchased their homes from the government. The new owners had no idea, they just got a home cheap. The group busted the windows to the house scaring the children, and camped out in their yard to throw stuff at their kids when they went to school. Then these same people were all upset that they got arrested for that, and declared they were religiously persecuted for standing up to the government on their belief that the government should not use their tax dollars for those on welfare to get abortions. Since abortion was a hot topic, the folks in the media had a field day.
This family has essentially done the same thing. They wanted to make a stand, but not take responsibility for the consequences. Religion is a hot topic...and the media is at it again. Bottom line...this family handled things the wrong way and compiled a hefty fine in doing so. Then fled the country to get out of paying it, with the ridiculous claim they got a $9000.00 fine because they were religiously persecuted.
I don't agree with many of the things the public school teaches...I just tell my kids at home what I consider to be the truth. I don't agree with how the government spends my taxes, but I don't thumb my nose at the law...I find ways to express my dislikes in a legal way to make sure my family suffers no harm, it's was more important to me that I can keep a roof over their head. JMO
