Was this in Stalinist Russia, North Korea, China, Iran? The Third Reich?

Eric Utter | September 17, 2026

We’re from the government and we’re here to help.” Those are the nine most terrifying words in the English language, as Ronald Reagan once said.

To what do I refer?

Per Life Site News:

A devout Catholic family in Massachusetts had their 15-year-old daughter taken away from them after they refused to refer to her with male pronouns while her school was secretly socially transitioning her behind the parents’ backs.

Joseph and Arlene Kutzko haven’t been allowed to see their daughter, Sophie, in nearly two years. Since then, the Department of Children and Families (DCF) has housed her in a boys’ dormitory, put her on birth control pills and antipsychotic medications.

Dear God.

It is hard for me to fathom the words “had their 15-year-old daughter taken away from them …”

So, the state “took” the daughter from her parents because they refused to participate in a pernicious lie? And tried to “transition” her behind her parent’s backs? The state hasn’t “allowed” the parents to see their own child in two years? And has placed her in a boys’ dormitory and given her antipsychotic medications and birth control pills. Who the hell approved these actions? Does “The State” now trump parents? And do real, actual boys need birth control pills? For what other purposes does “The State” have the “right” to confiscate parents’ offspring? To force them into a certain approved political party or religion? To make them believe the Earth is flat? Can anyone else see how heinously dangerous and evil this is?

When I was young, my father took me to see our baseball team on “opening day” on several occasions. The “home openers.” These games, early in the season, were always played in the afternoon. One year, when I was in eighth grade and in junior high, he needed to take me out of school after lunch to attend the game. School officials frowned on this and were not going to grant permission for me to leave. During the 5 minutes we had between classes, I darted across the street to a convenience store and called my dad. I told him of my school’s reluctance. He said, “no problem, son, I’ll come right over and speak to them.”

About 30 minutes later, I was called into the principal’s office over the intercom. The powers that be informed me that it would, in fact, be perfectly okay for me to go to the game with my dad … who was standing far off to the side. The powers that be, my advisor and the principal among them, looked shaken and ashen as they proceeded to speak of the virtues of spring baseball.

Moral of the story? Screw the government. My dad was there to help me … confront the government.

Any — and every — society that allows government to have the ultimate power over parents and families is a society that is morally bankrupt and ultimately doomed to failure.