Georgia Mom Arrested for Allowing 10-Year-Old to Get Tattoo

[gotlucky]

Here is the link. Interesting comments from the mother, Chuntera Napier:

“What do I say to a child who wants to remember his brother? It’s not like he was asking me, ‘Can I get Sponge Bob?” Napier said. “He asked me [for] something that’s in remembrance of his brother. How can I say no?”

“I always thought that if a parent gave consent, then it was fine,” she said. “How can somebody else say that it’s not okay? He’s my child, and I have the right to say what I want for my child. I can’t go tell anybody else what I want for their child.”

And of course, most amusingly, the Acworth Chief of Police, Michael Wilkie, said this:

“Unfortunately, the mother has elected not to cooperate with the police any further in this investigation,” Wilkie said. “The tragedy of this is that the child’s tattoos are some sort of memorial to a sibling who was lost in a car accident a few years ago. I understand from the investigators that there are several memorial to the deceased child in the apartment where they live. It may be that professional or religious counseling for their/her grief would be more helpful than anything.” [emphasis added]

If the Mises Institute ever lands into some serious money, it should look for cases like this and fight it. Try to bring some people to libertarianism by sticking up for people who are being screwed by the state. I hope the ACLU gets on this.

[The_Freeman]

Why on Earth is a doctor allowed to do it? Is that for when they start putting barcodes on babies?