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Opinion

Massachusetts Has Gone Full Commie—And If We Don’t Stop It, Every State Will Follow

Op-Ed by Maureen Steele

They took a baby.

Not because he was abused. Not because he was neglected. But because his mother refused a shot. And not just any shot—a pharmaceutical injection she has every legal and constitutional right to refuse.

This happened in Massachusetts, once the cradle of liberty, now the epicenter of a state-sanctioned nightmare. And if you think this can’t or won’t happen in your state—you’re not paying attention.

The parents—Ruth Encarnacion and Isael Rivera—were hunted down like fugitives, jailed, and forcibly separated from their five children, including a nine-month-old baby. Why? Because they said “no” to a pediatrician who, like a pharmaceutical soldier for the state, gave them an ultimatum: inject the baby now or I file a 51A report.

And file he did.

That one decision—a threat disguised as medical advice—unleashed the entire corrupt machinery of state force on a family. With the help of a coward in a robe—Judge Brendan Moran of Worcester County—DCF was handed sweeping custody of all five children without a hearing, without notice, and without service.

That is a violation of due process, parental rights, and human decency. But let’s call it what it really is: judicially sanctioned state kidnapping.

It’s happening all over this country, but Massachusetts has gone full communist. The state believes it owns your children. They believe parental rights are conditional. And worst of all? The judiciary enables it.

These judges aren’t applying the Constitution. They’re applying corporate policies and agency paperwork with the blind obedience of a mid-level manager at some Soviet DMV. Magistrate Brendan Moran didn’t even hold a hearing. He simply rubber-stamped DCF’s paperwork and greenlit the seizure of five children—who belong to and with their parents under the law—with zero evidence.

Zero.

This is precisely the kind of corruption the Chevron deference once empowered. And it was finally struck down in July of 2024 by the Supreme Court. No longer can agencies interpret law or act as judge, jury, and executioner. Yet that’s exactly what DCF is doing—and the courts are illegally going along with it.

The police? Just as guilty. They’re not neutral parties. They didn’t question the paperwork. They didn’t demand a warrant. They simply followed orders—illegal orders—and carried out an unconstitutional, warrantless seizure of American citizens.

Let me be clear: Participating in the deprivation of rights under color of law is a federal crime under 18 U.S. Code § 242.

So yes, the officers involved committed crimes. They are criminals. So is Magistrate Moran. So is DCF. So is Dr. Behzad Goharfar, the Iran-trained pediatrician who triggered this raid. These people have destroyed a family for no reason other than that the family refused to kneel.

And this isn’t just about one case. This is a symptom of a broken system—a judiciary drunk on power and insulated by a self-serving, state bar-controlled network of lawyers, judges, and agencies that speak a language the people were never taught: legalese.

They created their own rules. Their own dirty little sandbox. And they demand you play by it.

But what if we just said no? No, we will not comply with unlawful orders. No, we will not play in your rigged courtroom game. No, we will not let you use a badge and robe as cover for tyranny.

We don’t need another Act of Congress. We don’t need more legislation. We need the Constitution. Period. It is the supreme law of the land, and everything we need to rein in this corrupt system is already written within its pages.

The more we let legislators pile on bureaucracy and meaningless “reform,” the further we stray from the simplicity and clarity of our founding documents.

Here’s the truth they don’t want you to know: The Constitution is a sword, not a suggestion. It doesn’t request compliance—it demands it. And when those in power violate it, they forfeit their legitimacy.

The time for letters and softly worded appeals is over. We need citizens outside Magistrate Brendan Moran’s house—every day, 24/7. We need thousands descending on the Massachusetts State House.

We need to audit oaths of office (spoiler alert, this criminal in a back robe doesn’t have a proper one), demand removals, and start filing federal civil rights lawsuits en masse.

And if oversight boards won’t hold them accountable? Then it’s up to the people.

History has shown us how this ends. Every time tyranny has taken root—be it British monarchy, Jim Crow courts, or Soviet-style bureaucracy—it has only been overturned when the people stood up and refused to comply. We are at that moment again.

Massachusetts is the test case. If they get away with this, it will spread like a cancer—state by state, child by child, until no parent can say “no” to anything without risking state retaliation.

So we say this to Magistrate Moran, to DCF, to the bar, to the complicit police officers: Your days of hiding behind badges and black robes are over. The people are coming. And we’re bringing the Constitution with us.

We don’t ask for permission to be free.

We just are.

Maureen Steele is co-founder of the American Made Foundation.