COMMENTARY | The fourth child of Heath and Deborah Campbell, a white supremacist couple who had given their previous three children Nazi inspired names, has been seized by officials of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services, according to ABC News.
The Campbells claim their child, named Hons, has been kidnapped. New Jersey officials will not comment on the reasons for the seizure of the newborn but hint that there is abuse and/or neglect going on. The previous three children, Joyce Lynn Aryan Nation Campbell, Honsz Lynn Himler Jeannie Campbell and Adolf Hitler Campbell, have been in foster care for nearly the past three years. New Jersey officials claim it was not just the unusual and provocative names they gave their children that caused them to lose custody.
What the nature of the abuse and/or neglect aside from the Campbells’ giving their kids names that would likely get them beaten up in the school play yard is not clear. If it is just because of the names, then a very bad precedence has been set unless the action is reversed in the courts.
Stipulating that it is not a good idea to be a Nazi or to name ones kids after Nazis, is it any of the government’s business what parents name their kids? If so, then how far does the principle extend.
Let us suppose that a devout Muslim couple names one of their children Osama in honor of the dead Al Qaida terrorist. Will child protective services swoop down to snatch the kid from the loving arms of him parents to save him from being brought up bearing one of the most hated names in America? One suspects that the politically correct notions that government bureaucrats hold would prevent them from rescuing a baby that is named after an Islamist mass murder.
One thinks that everything else being equal, the Campbells ought to get their kids back. For one thing, in later years, they will likely experience the joys of youth rebellion against their racist beliefs. One can imagine young Adolf, upon obtaining his majority, changing his name to Joe Bob and starting to date Jewish and black women just to spite his parents. The justice would not be as arbitrary as it is now being inflicted by the state of New Jersey, but it would be poetic.
Source: Parents of ‘Adolf Hitler’ Lose Custody of Newborn, Alyssa Newcomb, ABC News, Nov 19, 2011