Aside from the statist actions of the CPS, the cost to taxpayers is unconscionable. According to an article by the Fort Worth Star Telegram :

FORT WORTH -- The cost of the April raid on a polygamist compound in West Texas is expected to top $14 million, about one-third of it in lawyers' fees, according to a published analysis of state records.

The state expects to pay nearly $4.5 million in legal fees, including paying for lawyers who represented the state and others appointed by judges to represent the children. The state also expects to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for expert witnesses, visiting judges and office supplies.

The state Attorney General's Office has been billed $110,000 for DNA testing of adults and children taken from the ranch in an effort to identify the parents of each child.

Another big chunk of spending, about $2.4 million, went to rent buses and facilities to house the children and some of the mothers after the early April raid, the newspaper reported

So, if I understand this correctly, the state is stealing money from the taxpayers to pay...the state. We, the Texas taxpayers, paid our hard-earned money to have a freakin' tank roll up to the compound (it's always a compound, but Bush's property of approximately the same size is a ranch) and scare the crap out of women and children as well as forcibly take these same children literally out of their mothers' arms. Jesus Christ on a jumped up pony, that takes some major balls.

Thank you M.J. for posting the petition, I am not only signing it but forwarding it to everyone I can possibly think of.