I have NEVER seen where OathKeepers has presented itself as a militia organization. I wonder where The Blaze got that info at 
If you are reading the word "militia" in the article, notice the quotation marks. They are quoting the petition of abuse papers filed against the father. In the video he reads it straight from the petition. They are not a "militia" but are refered to as one in the petition of abuse.
Thanks saddlebum. Boy did I miss that part. A while back cps took children away from the parents of a church group. It didn't take long for them to give them back after the first court sessions. IIRC that was in Portland ,OR. The CPS has a bad record there, a couple of years ago a child was killed because the "agent"(?) from CPS was derilict in their supervised visitation,i.e. not doing their job. IMO the CPS of several areas need to be investigated and policies "normalized". Another part of our broken system.
Like anything that's basically a lot of people doing their jobs,there are flaws. The question is,what should happen when a child goes to a teacher and tells her that she is being sexually abused by her father and has physical injuries to prove it. I dont think anyone here will argue that social workers and police should show up at the door and take the children somewhere safe and that's what usually happens. The real question is how do you balance due process and the rights of the accused with that.
On the one hand you dont want to leave any children in that situation. On the other you dont want to take any peoples children away based on false accusations from people who are carrying a grudge. The problem is,the only way to do the former is to act on any accusation as if it were true without bothering with supporting evidence. The only way to do the latter is to simply ignore ALL accusations. Its a balancing act,and the initial act of taking the children away to a safe place pending a court hearing is probably the best thing that anyone can come up with. As you mentioned,those children taken away in Portland were returned after a court hearing. I dont see that as the system not working,but in fact working as it should. If it were not working,the parents would have proved their case,the judge would have said "The prosecution doesn't really have any evidence,but I dont really feel comfortable returning your children just in case".That would have been a failure of the system.
Of course I'm sure people can bring up tons of anecdotes of people who have had their children taken wrongfully and their lives turned upside down by CPS (or whatever its called in their jurisdiction). The problem is,there are very few people that abused or neglected their children that will say "Oh yea,I used to beat the little bastard,CPS was spot in taking him away!" They are allways the victim. They allways talk about how it was "Grandma that had a grudge" or "Some teacher that felt that I shouldn't spank my kid" (Turns out spanking was with a claw hammer) They all have some excuse why the system wronged them and that's all you hear. In other words,its meaningless when you hear the professions of innocence without having access to actual evidence against them because everyone,innocent or guilty says they are innocent. Unless you actually have that file in front of you to read,or the courts dropped it all and gave the children back,there is no way of knowing if they really are innocent or just making excuses. I agree with the idea of "Innocent until proven guilty" but would you let your neighbor who just had her child taken away by CPS watch your children based on that and her protestations of innocence?
Its all a balancing act and sometimes mistakes WILL be made. There is NO way around it. If the system where you are is more flawed that it should be,it should be fixed,but that probably has little relevance to the system in other locations. Some I'm sure are well oiled machines,some I'm sure are just the opposite. Its just like police departments,some are badly broken,some work very well.
