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…we were like those that dream

12 Wednesday Aug 2015

Posted by commonpurse in Court Decisions, From the parents, Schott Family

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A life together, Inalienable rights, Justice, Tree is known by fruit

When our children returned home, we were like those who dream…

During the large-scale police operation on September 5th, 2013 the three sisters had been taken to a state institution.

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The oldest daughter was allowed to return to her parents as early as 3 months later, but the two younger ones had to stay in the institution. They were counting the days on their calendar every day hoping they would be allowed to go home again. It was 700 long days and then on the 700th day, the happy news came:

You all can go home!

For the girls and the parents alike it was like a miracle. For all of us it was a first foretaste of the hope of the miracle which the prophet Isaiah talked about:

Can the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of a tyrant. For thus says the LORD: “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.” Isaiah 49:24-25

2015_08_isha_u_chaninah-17Great was the joy we shared when we were celebrating Chaninah and Ishah’s return last weekend!

2015_08_isha_u_chaninah-10And this joy we want to share with you all.

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When the Lord brought back the captive ones of Zion,
We were like those who dream.

 

 

 

mg_0395Then our mouth was filled with laughter
And our tongue with joyful shouting;


 

 

 

 

Then they said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.”
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2015_08_isha_u_chaninah-62We are glad.

 

 

 

 

Restore our captivity, O Lord,
As the streams in the Negev.
Those who sow in tears shall reap with joyful shouting.
He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed, shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him. (Psalm 126)

 

Find out more about the Schott family here.

Degrees of Nothing

10 Monday Aug 2015

Posted by commonpurse in From our Youth

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Common Sense, Food for Thought, Youth

More of what our Youth think about the World

This youth grew up in our Communities in Spain…

Slaves to the State

Governments nowadays want individuals to be useful to the state. That is why they make all those laws so children belong to the state from birth.

Right now we are engaged in battle because we do not want to have that way of life nor become someone who eventually is a slave of the state.

They offer a lot, but later you will suffer for it.

A human being now in this society often finds himself in loneliness, sad, stressed, trying to survive and not be stepped on, oppressed under the spirit over Europe. We are being formed while suffering persecutions. We are making a place where people without hope to live may come and find people that love them, even if they don’t have any qualifications. They can be a humble disciple without any degrees of “nothing.”

Emunah (age 16)

Let’s Run the Race Together

10 Monday Aug 2015

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What do our Youth think about?

Those who grew up in Klosterzimmern, for instance…

Here is an article one of those wonderful youth wrote earlier this year (2015), for one of our Freepapers. So she wrote this about one and one-half years after the terrible Raid of September 5, 2013.

Let’s Run the Race Together

Are you looking to extend the earth’s time?

Try as you might to back time up and coerce this selfish consumer society into ‘saving the planet,’ will you succeed? Or will the careless greed that has gotten our planet into the state it’s in…prevail?

How was life meant to be? How should we restore it? Well, as you devote your life to this very admirable quest, I am giving every once of my energy and future, giving up my own thoughts, speculations, and ideas, to bring an end to this evil age. There is only one solution.

Few human beings retain enough of the image of God to abide by the natural law inside them. They are the ones who seek after food, clothing and shelter in an honest and honorable way. Providing for their families, they control the greed and evil within them and their children. God will reward every man for his righteous deeds.

The one solution, that I live, must transcend that righteousness. It is for the broken, the needy, and all those who are willing to give up their rotten, stinking lives. It is for those who lack the power to fight the selfish and destructive nature within them. Although I grew up in this new and living way, I am without a doubt one of the needy. Having been spared from a lot of the devastation that is bound to accompany self life, I have experienced the ugly fruit of my own selfishness and seen my desperate need. My love has limits. On my own I’m powerless against the forces that have wreaked havoc on this planet. We have a Savior! He died for us and paid for our sins in death. Now we no longer live for ourselves, but to see His kingdom come to this earth. We love Him by obeying all of His commands, and most importantly by loving the nearest one to us.

He even said,

“Do not worry, then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or “What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you…” (Matthew 6:31-33)

That is how we live. He told us:

“If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine. And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (John 8:31-32)

“Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word he will never see death.” (John 8:51)

We have been set free to love others, care for others and share our eternal hope with others.

You must come and see the witness of His love here on earth. Come, give up your life, be forgiven and we’ll run the race together!

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Chavivah

Note

One week after the Raid, we posted a video of Chavivah on the Internet. 

See and read what she had to say about how she was raised: “Chavivah’s Testimony.”

Where is freedom?

07 Friday Aug 2015

Posted by commonpurse in Controversial Issues, Court Decisions, Eyewitness Account

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Corruption, Plea to go home, welfare of the children in the background

Published in German on 30 July 2015

Hello,

The police raid foray-type at 6 am taking the children from the parents of the biblical community 12 Tribes in Klosterzimmern (Nördlingen) and Wörnitz (Ansbach) – because of the “muckraker” report by an RTL reporter and statements of an “ex-member” of the group – already took place on Sept. 5th, 2013.

(http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/noerdlingen/Grosseinsatz-bei-Sekte-Zwoelf-Staemme-Polizei-nimmt-28-Kinder-mit-id26871891.html)

Großeinsatz der Polizei bei der Glaubengemeinschaft "Zwölf Stämme" in Klosterzimmern (Kreis Donau-Ries) am 5. September 2013: Die Beamten nahmen alle Kinder der Gruppe mit.

Photo by Dieter Mack, Augsberger Allgemeine.

Since then, both children and parents have cried many tears over the separation, they have written heartbreaking letters of request (even just for a single visit during a festival at home, which was NOT granted!), they have fought desperately, and experienced painful separations following the brief and infrequent visits (about 2 hours every 3 weeks).

Please read the post, “Can a good tree bear bad fruit?“

My friend whose 9-year-old son has been having to live first in an institution and now in a remote host family since Sept. 5th, 2013, let me know a while back how the witnesses she put forth were “not accepted.” How can this be in a (supposedly) just and fair trial?

This current statement of another witness confirms my impressions and leaves me very dismayed: “Two girls remain in state custody.”

I have visited the Community in Klosterzimmern 2 times and found them to be a wonderful community! They work together creating something I had never experienced before – life with and in nature, harmonious, healthy, with animals, plants, the other human beings.

The large monastery property of Klosterzimmern was wonderfully restored, expanded, and revived!

GemeinschaftInKlosterzimmernCover(Previously, large-scale pig breeding had been taking place there.)

Germany needs people who fashion the old into the new, who live with nature without exploiting it, who live in COMMUNITY, who are there for each other, helping each other! Who live along with their children – who experience and carry further this security from the beginning of their lives.

These believing people would never beat their children so as to injure them!

They love their children just as all other parents do. To bear the current forced separation is so difficult.

Read the impressions of this witness:

“Chaninah seemed to be from the forced taking into care by the state very insecure and helpless and anxious. All three girls spoke with a lot of longing and love about their parents. I have no doubt that the children have grown up in an environment with a lot of security and care shown by their parents and by other members of the Community. For me there is no doubt that the children love their parents very much and that they suffer from the separation, very severely sometimes.”

Is this tolerable in a “free state under the rule of law”?

Aren’t there some problems of an entirely different dimension in Germany – children who really are in danger, troubles wherever you look? Why do you tear these very children and parents apart at all costs? You could scarcely imagine any more loving and more insistent letters of request than those written by these children.

From one of their own children, “Dear Reader.”

(Please read, also about the raid!)

Why aren’t they heard?

Please support the speedy reunification of the affected parents and children in Klosterzimmern and Wörnitz!

Please finally let these religious people mold their lives self-determinedly again in peace, freedom, and responsibility!

Cordially,

A. R., mother of 2, pharmacist

Note: This letter will also go to the press and some public figures. It is an expression of genuine concern. Are these parents being treated with HARSHNESS deliberately because of their Christian faith?

Statements have been made such as, “If you all leave the group, you will get your children back.”

Where is the FREEDOM of molding your own life or belief in that?

The Parents Present to the Federal Constitutional Court

06 Thursday Aug 2015

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Child Rearing, Corruption, Honoring discipline

The Parents Present to the Federal Constitutional Court that:

They love their children, they always took care of their children, their children were healthy, happy, and intact in body and soul when they were violently taken away from them. Despite all efforts the court could not establish that the children had suffered any damage in the care of their parents.

The state power treats their children as objects for pieces of evidence against their parents in order to justify the seizure.

The parents wish to especially have the following questions answered by the Federal Constitutional Court:

In Germany is any corporal chastisement viewed as child abuse, even if it is for educational purposes, is moderate, does not leave any physical or psychological signs, and is done with dignity, the way Pope Francis recently talked about?

In Germany can the court’s assumption of future damages be enough to separate the children from their parents without any evidence of a sustained and concrete damage to the child’s welfare?

In Germany are the courts allowed to demand that parents give up their beliefs, this being the condition to their living with their children?

The parents complain to the Federal Constitutional Court about how:

1. the concerns of the OLG appeal court are based on the parents’ brutally torturing their children, without any common sense, with the purpose of damaging them.

If these concerns were true, then the 
children would have already manifested 
severe damages when they were seized. 
There were no such damages.

2. given these facts, the assumption of an endangerment of the child’s welfare is not constitutional, but arbitrary.

3. the OLG appeal court and the family court severely distort their beliefs and then derive severe behaviors from that by way of speculation.

Since no actual endangerment of the child's 
welfare and no physical signs of abuse could 
be established at any time, the German 
authorities don't have any basis to deprive 
the family of their right to at least leave 
Germany together. 

The assumption that children will not be protected elsewhere is ethnocentric (biased against a different culture) and arrogant, and violates the basic principles of the European Union.

It is not the task of the state to determine the parents’ child-rearing methods. If there is no concrete, sustained, and actual endangerment of the child’s welfare, there is no basis to interfere in the life of a family. The children were violently taken into care only because of the religious membership of their parents.

The mere membership of parents in a small, not mainstream religious community — what some people call a ‘sect’ — is not a legitimate reason to suspend their right of custody over their child…

Merkel Robbers

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Gerhard Robbers

(from Robbers, Gerhard, “Law and Religion in Germany” (2013), p. 105 C. Parental Care 137.)

The Basic Law of Germany

The Basic Law was composed by men “conscious of their responsibility before God and men.” The parents strive exactly for this, to lead their life in responsibility before God. They take this responsibility seriously, trying to raise their children in their responsibility before God. It is unbearable for them that this way of child-rearing entails a separation between them and their children, this being the hardest measure of the state.

Two girls are finally allowed to go home!

04 Tuesday Aug 2015

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Tuesday 04 August 2015

After nearly two years since the violent removal of Haninah and Ishah from their family, today it was announced that by order of 07.31.2015, the District Court Nördlingen has returned to the parents the right to determine where their children live and what medical care their two daughters, ages 10 and 13 years, receive. The children are to be surrendered immediately to the parents, they can finally go home!

The District Court Nördlingen had to realize that, as submitted by us for years, no present danger to the children’s welfare exists.

When asked about the repatriation, the expert pointed out that of what is known, a sustainable child welfare risk is not ascertainable.

Currently, as the experts continued, no damage can be found in the children.

“However, there is a risk that at some point they will no longer stand it [in the institution], including risks for their social development.

The rights to determine where their children live and what health care they receive was therefore to be returned without restrictions to the children’s parents.

Download this paper in German: “An Open Letter from the Schott Family to the Family Court Judge in Nördlingen.”

Let these girls be signs of hope and cause the dam to break free for the other children, too, who yearn to be set free from state custody.

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