On the 21st April, the Supreme Court cancelled the trial in its entirety and the 275 convictions, on the grounds that the existence of the Ergenekon conspiracy had not been proved during the trial, and that the rights of the defence had not been respected.

We will also need to bring back the $500. Franklin Roosevelt should be on that newly printed greenback. FDR created a whole new class of federal spending with the New Deal and set the United States on the path to insolvency. He also hated gold and silver. Who would be a better reminder that your money is worthless and the government can (illegally) confiscate real wealth than the man who did it…twice? The reverse should have a pastoral image of people waiting in line to buy sugar during World War II.

What must be emphasized is this: in Ron Paul’s America, or Hans Hoppe’s private law society, voluntary “socialist” arrangements would be perfectly allowable and legal. But libertarian communities are never permitted in statist societies.

Most cases now don't involve parental violence, though, or alcohol- or drug-abuse. The commonest reason for a care order now is simply "lack of parenting skills".