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No, not a reference to Tony Blair’s former spin doctor, Alastair Campbell . . . .

A New Jersey judge has ruled in favour of state authorities, after they removed, in January of last year, three children from their parents, Heath and Deborah Campbell, over concerns raised about their father’s past of domestic violence in a former marriage, and their mother’s abject denial of the same. Of course, and I make no apologies for saying this, they should have been prevented from having more children after they had the first, as they’re clearly incompetent and unable to afford them. But alas, their right to breed comes above anything else, and thus another generation will do the rounds of foster parents and children’s homes, during which they’ll probably end up abused, and from which there’s a strong possibility they’ll come out on drugs and living a life of crime. But as long as the parents’ right to breed isn’t infringed, that’s the important thing.

Not a story that’s entirely in keeping with this blog, I admit, but the parents, who live in a house with nailed up bedroom windows in Holland Township, Hunterdon County, used the Nazis as inspiration for the naming of their two girls and one boy, now aged 2, 3, and 4: Joyce Lynn Aryan Nation Campbell, Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, and Adolf Hitler Campbell.

For those who can’t work it out, Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie is, according to the parents, at least – although I suspect illiteracy played some part in it – the feminised version of Heinrich Himmler. Now, I’m all in favour of good character building names, and will gladly defend the right of parents to name their offspring as they see fit, but however unfortunate Heath and Deborah Campbell are to both suffer from psychological problems and have been scarred by less than happy upbringings themselves, nothing can justify naming children after Nazis, even if, as their father said, “no one else in the world would have [those names]” – which is true, no doubt, but there is a reason for that . . . .