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Chapter 4 Drop
raidem:
My impression of the chapters is that Eb was a bit too emotional. Having read the story with Mouse as the narrator, I realize more about Mouse's abilities and his littermates. It seems to me that the black council may have used there dogs in some way to increase the pressure on Eb, to paint him with bad luck. What we see in some of the intensity of the arguments between Harry and Eb may therefore be the result of an outside force acting against Eb.
g33k:
--- Quote from: 123Chikadee on June 25, 2020, 10:49:57 PM --- Well, it's not like Harry can just fireball a social worker(lol!) and he doesn't have any mortal in a position of power who can help him out.
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<tries to imagine a social worker flashing their credentials and getting into a Svartalven secure site>
<fails>
Dina:
--- Quote from: raidem on June 26, 2020, 01:27:33 AM ---My impression of the chapters is that Eb was a bit too emotional. Having read the story with Mouse as the narrator, I realize more about Mouse's abilities and his littermates. It seems to me that the black council may have used there dogs in some way to increase the pressure on Eb, to paint him with bad luck. What we see in some of the intensity of the arguments between Harry and Eb may therefore be the result of an outside force acting against Eb.
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What is Mouse's story? I think I totally forgot about that. I remember that it was announced but I don't even remember having read it
Mira:
--- Quote ---I'm also reasonably sure that any child agency will look at Harry living with his own biological daughter, and maybe issue a 'slap on the wrist' for the unorthodox way that ended up, but say "all's well that ends well" and move on to cases where they really do need to intervene.
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The thing is, Harry isn't abusing his daughter in any way... So the city/county/state isn't going to come between a father and his biological daughter in that case, they have too many real cases of abuse to deal with in an already over burdened system. As it is, too many kids fall though those crack sometimes fatally. Maggie isn't living under unhealthy conditions, she is living in a secure compound, technically since she is living on embassy grounds she doesn't fall under jurisdiction
of the state in the first place, that is sovereign territory of the country it belongs to. Now is Svartalven Embassy officially recognized? In short there is no reason for the state to remove Maggie from the home of her father, and I am not sure they can if they wanted to.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Dina on June 25, 2020, 09:57:50 PM ---Well, I have my classes a little rusty but this is the thing. In theory, Argentina would consider a baby born in USA not Argentinian but there is a human right that is the right to have a nation. So, if we don't see the baby as Argentinian and you won't see them as from USA, what? Well, IIRC, that is when we have the figure of being "Argentinian by option". We as parents would probably need to go to the Argentinian embassy and have them registered as an Argentinian citizen. I don't remember exactly the law but I know there are many cases of "apátridas" (it is the name in Spanish, I don't know the English translation). My mom know a person who was born from Argentinian parents living in France (jus sanguini) and it was more complicated because that person had been born in a boat from a third country (I don't remember which one). It was decades ago, but the parents had to go to an international court.
Caveat: if hubby and I were just visiting USA when we had the baby, it would be easily accepted that the baby is Argentinian, because "place of residence" is a factor too.
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There is a law here that all babies born on US soil are declared American.. That is where the whole "anchor baby" controversy comes from that we hear from the anti-immigrant crowd. They claim that women south of the boarder cross over onto US soil to have their children who are then automatically declared American by birth, then they can go on welfare etc. The law exists, I am not going to comment one way or the other on what groups are claiming about it.
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