Facism is still alive and well in post-Nazi "democratic" Germany. This is a model family who simply wanted to educate their older teen daughter at home. That's all. But the German state is unconcerned with parental rights and basic freedoms. With unchecked naked power they are persecuting with state sanction and deceipt the Busekros family, using a law originally instituted by Adolph Hitler. The outrage is that this is not being done in some Islamic state, but in Germany, a democratic ally. Our government should have defended the Busekros family and condemned the actions of the German government. But I can find no comment by our State Department on this matter.

This story should not be cast, and cast aside, as just a "homeschooling" issue ("those crazy homeschoolers are always making trouble"). This is a parental rights issue. It's much bigger than homeschooling. It's truly frightening what has happened to the Busekros family in Germany, a "free" and democratic country. We should never get lulled by silence into thinking, "Oh, that could never happen here." To paraphrase TJ, the price of parental and family freedom is eternal vigilance. And, I would add, in our new world culture, vigilence at home and abroad.

A more detailed summary of the situation is the March 5, 2007 Washington Times Op-Ed piece by Michael Smith, "The Battle Against Fascist Conformity."

I would just like to explain I was first introduced to the Busekros family via the 700 Club. I was so appauled at the prospect of this family being destroyed for only home schooling one child. I went on the net and found countless information to help defend this family and so I took action writing 6 offices in their defense.

Suffice it to say, I do not know the exact reason, but I was assured by one German office that the homeschooling was not the issue here at all!

I think people had better investigate this story and come up with the truth of what is really happening rather than make people who care, like myself, come out looking like a FOOL!!!