Cries That Fail In A Furious And Infinite Wind

These days the Scottish Government provides a State Guardian to keep watch on every child in that unhappy land. Each child's parents are accountable to the Guardian for the righteous upbringing of their child. The State Guardian, needless to say, has Power but no Responsibility. The Scottish Government has made abundantly clear that should some misfortune befall a child the Named Person, as the Guardian is known, will suffer no consequences. Well, that's all right then.
No doubt the next Labour Government will introduce a similar scheme in England, along with the stalled I.D. project.
Those who love Caesar believe the State has a right to pry into the hearts and minds of every child. No doubt the Scottish Guardians will be on the look out for unauthorised religious views and irregular political activity. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has already suggested that the children of known Islamists be taken into care.
Who next?
In the minds of the State Child Abusers political dissidence is child abuse.
We may not yet have Named Persons, but all schools - which children are forced to attend - have pastoral carers and child psychologists raping children's most intimate emotions and private thoughts.
Like all bureaucrats, they are dedicated to the growth of their empires and their own career progression. Hence they must find a problem where there is not one, or where the problem has been dealt with informally - for very few people will go to a Government agent for help if they can possibly avoid it. They know that the Pastoral Workers only care to find problems and to feed the Social Work machine.
Children are probed, encouraged to denounce their parents. State Violence snatches thousands of children each year, adding intolerable suffering to people who already have enough to cope with.
But, you know, they are only trying to help!
They have been helping themselves to the poor for many a long year!
These days the Caring Ones, the Progressives, read their Gender Studies handbook. A hundred years ago the Progressives believed in Eugenics. The 'Left' believed the Poor to be genetically, racially inferior to themselves. Not much has changed, then.
G.K. Chesterton saw it all going on a hundred years ago. This is what he wrote:

'Often a poor woman will tell a magistrate that she sticks to her husband, with the defiant and desperate air of a wanton resolved to run away from her husband. Often she will cry as hopelessly, and as it were, helplessly, when deprived of her child as if she were a child deprived of her doll. Indeed, a child in the street, crying for her lost doll, would probably receive more sympathy than she does.
Meanwhile the fun goes on; and many such conflicts are recorded, even in newspapers, between heartbroken parents and house-breaking philanthropists; always with one issue of course............
They have their great campaigns and cosmopolitan systems for the regimentation of millions,  and the records of science and progress. .....
In recalling these small things of broken hearts or homes, we are but recording what cannot be recorded; trivial tragedies that will fade faster and faster in the flux of time, cries that fail in a furious and infinite wind, wild words of despair that are written only upon running water; unless, indeed, as some so stubbornly and strangely say, they are somewhere cut deep into a rock, in the red granite of the wrath of God.'