They said the child was in danger.
They filed and removed the child in seventy-two hours.
The federal check arrived thirty days later.
The system did not fail.
The system did exactly what it was paid to do.

ASFA nineteen ninety-seven redesigned the incentive game!
Title Four E pays per child removed and no one takes the blame!
Federal adoption bonus for every permanent break!
The more they sever families the more the agencies make!
Caseworkers with quotas and immunity from the suit!
Anonymous accusations and the accused cannot dispute!
Fourth Amendment shredded at the doorstep of your home!
They enter without warrants and they leave with what you own!

They call it child protection – they call it keeping safe
They built a billion dollar pipeline from the cradle to the grave

PROPERTY OF THE STATE – stamped upon the file
PROPERTY OF THE STATE – a caseworker’s denial
They took the children first and built the accusations over time
PROPERTY OF THE STATE – and the state was paid every time
PROPERTY OF THE STATE – the system is the cage
PROPERTY OF THE STATE – and the receipt is on every page

The foster care statistics reveal what they deny
Children in the system are abused at rates that multiply
Six times the national average for documented assault
And when they die inside the system no one claims it as their fault
Exposed to trafficking inside the homes they were assigned
The predators applied and the background check was blind
Whistleblowers terminated for reporting what they saw
The agency investigated itself and found no flaw

They call it child protection – they call it keeping safe
They built a billion dollar pipeline from the cradle to the grave

PROPERTY OF THE STATE – stamped upon the file
PROPERTY OF THE STATE – a caseworker’s denial
They took the children first and built the accusations over time
PROPERTY OF THE STATE – and the state was paid every time
PROPERTY OF THE STATE – the system is the cage
PROPERTY OF THE STATE – and the receipt is on every page

Three hundred thousand children sitting in the system right now
Twenty billion dollars worth of federal allowance and endow
The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees the right to raise your child
Due process stripped in family court where the judge has never smiled
Reunification rates reveal the real intent
Only half return and the other half were revenue that was spent

The child is not a line item!
The family is not a revenue stream!
The caseworker is not above the Constitution!
The foster home was never screened!
The federal bonus is the motive!
The removal is the product!
The child is the commodity!
And the receipt is in the budget!
The senator who exposed the system is dead!
The official story has never been read!

The sovereign parent does not kneel before a system built on fraud
The documented evidence indicts every caseworker applaud
Record every interaction – never sign without a lawyer’s hand
Know your Fourth Amendment right to refuse them where you stand
The children are not inventory for a government to hold
The bond between a parent and a child cannot be bought or sold
The system will not fix itself – the funding is the chain
Until the incentive is removed the predatory cycle will remain

OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT YOUR PROPERTY – we see behind the file
OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT YOUR PROPERTY – we reject the caseworker’s denial
They took the children first and built the accusations over time
OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT YOUR PROPERTY – and we will not be silent this time
OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT YOUR PROPERTY – the system is exposed
OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT YOUR PROPERTY – AND THE BILLION DOLLAR PIPELINE MUST BE CLOSED!

Three hundred thousand children.
Twenty billion dollars.
Zero accountability.
The system was never broken.
It was built this way.
It is now exposed.
Know your rights.
The children are not theirs to take.