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52 girls removed from FLDS compound in Texas
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One wonders when our society will ever progress to the point where people can mind their own business and let other people live as they wish. Polygamy does not always automatically equate to forced marriages or child abuse.
If those people moved to Texas looking for tolerance and the right to be left alone, they sure picked the wrong place!
I think your information is almost 120 years outdated. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ended the practice of polygamy in 1890. The Fundamentalist LDS Church, based in Colorado City and Hildale are not affiliated in any way. That religious sect chose to call themselves the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; that was not a decision of Deseret Morning News.
You can't have it both ways, people.
To Brent Brown, we know which side you're on. That's your opinion and your opinion only. The truth resides elsewhere.
Yes, I live in Texas and the authorities were told to go in here years ago. This is probably too late. This sect has a problem and it has to do with underage children. Both male and female. The females are underage and pressed into arranged marriages. The surplus males are driven off because they would be competition for the alpha males.
Some people are forever clueless. Try reading the news reports.
Go DPS of Texas. What took you so long?
those who work for CPS DON'T GET THAT MONEY, it goes to the kids, STRICTLY THE KIDS. CPS workers work for pittance, they work for NO RAISES, they work because they value children's lives when their parents are too high, stoned, or stupid to take care of them appropriately. CPS workers do not get "commission" for removing children from ausive homes. And by the way---it's A JUDGE THAT REMOVES THEM, NOT THE CPS workers!
No CPS worker can just go into a home, school, etc and snatch up a child without a written warrant from a judge. A JUDGE has to order that they remove the child.
(Try researching and understanding the situation before you tout lies.)
"Imperial Stoorm Troopers", like Ms. Goose Step,
Janet Reno did at Waco. By the way, she said she
was burning, I mean, concerned about the welfare
of the children also. Sounds like the "Empire"
is doing a trial run. Get ready for a "HOT" time
in the "Compound" soon. Must distract the peasents
from the mess, our vaunted leaders have wrought.
Maybe, you should like, take a History Classs, or something of value so you don't spout off retarded statements.
By the Way. Lets arrest all polygamists and put their children in foster care and childrens homes.
Polygamy is Against the Law.
End of story.
This was proven at Waco.
Don't we believe that others should be allowed to practice their religion--though strange as it may seem (and our Mormon religion seems pretty strange to most people)? Didn't we for years claim we should be allowed to practice plural marriage as part of our religion?
I feel compassion for these people.
And isn't "compassion" the new buzzword de jour?
The concern about the children is the same excuse they used at Waco. If they're so concerned, then why are they showing up with armoured vehicles (just like Waco)? By the way, our government killed the children in Waco. Remember?
Like I said, I'm no supporter. But, I still believe in that pesky Article of Faith.
I was at Waco, trust me gunfire was coming from the compound, lots of gunfire.
The Texan.
The police say, "The FLDS people on the ranch are cooperating"..."Our staff does not feel threatened at this time"... Yet they go in with an armored personel carriers and block off all entrances and exits to the compound with armed personel. Sounds like they were looking for trouble, if not trying to cause it.
Since when does this happen in the USA and nobody cares? The answer... Today, but only when the FLDS are involved.
Automatic rifle fire came from the compound when the Federal agents came to serve the warrants. Why do you think it turned into a standoff?
Try conspiratorial theories elsewhere, please.
Don't you mean "at key moments during the crackdown on widespread problems within the FLDS community?"
Or are you admitting that this IS government making a law respecting religion?
If this guy doesn't want to Waco all these kids then why the heck does he go in like Rambo in what you are calling a RAID with "an armored personnel carrier," and state and local police blocking off the entrances and exits to the compound?
Just another abuse of power like the standoff in Viola, Wiss trying to steal a man's home over $5000.
I am ashamed of my country today!
I would hardly refer to Colorado City and Hildale (the two little FLDS towns on the border of AZ & UT as "strongholds". They are open and more like shanty towns. Drive by sometime.
Also- CPS has been wonderful (in the northern UT area). As an educator I have seen them intervene often on behalf of children. They do their best to help parents recognize and take responsibility for their children, and provide resources for them in which to do it. CPS employees are the angels of mercy. They should receive double the salaries that they do.
Thank you to all of them. Continue your good work! Let's care for the children.
DPS cars are blocking the entrance, they're there to assist CPS. Specifically because men with rifles and night vision gear patrol the place. You would wait until a CPS worker is killed and then want to know why they didn't bring DPS in first. Dumb comment.
This has nothing to do with religion unless the FLDS are in violation of child protection laws. Yes, some of their odious practices are against the law and no one is going to jail here are they?
We're ashamed of people like you Jeremy who fly off the handle with so few facts and end up looking foolish.
The only coincidence was the dates.
Those are 4 DPS cruisers, not armored personnel carriers. Ford doesn't make 4 door armored personnel carriers for the DPS.
DUH!
Instead of going to Ranch with one CPS worker and entering the single home of the person who called, they block off streets, no one in or out, bring multiple police vehicles and even an armed personnel carrier. They claim that they are getting advice from the Washington County, UT sheriff, yet when did the Sheriff ever investigate abuse with armed personnel carriers and a herd of police cars?
Persecutorial, Ku Klux Klan-esque tactics are alive and well in these United States of Amerika!
Fact: the FLDS church split from the LDS church when the LDS church dropped polygamy. This is nothing against the LDS church, as so many organizations encounter disagreements or split-offs. (I heard a story about a church that split over whether Adam had a belly button) I am glad the police are involved with the FLDS now because if any of you heard Carolyn Jessop's story, you know how brutal the community is.
I read 'annonymous'at 9:26 a.m.'s response to this. Children are abused, and CPS agents are needed sometimes.
Dear CPS agents, please withdraw every single little girl from that compound. They will be abused.
"An area dominated or occupied by a special group or distinguished by a special quality: a feminist stronghold; a stronghold of democracy."
It would seem the reporter used the word correctly.
All we know is what we read. Don't call us conspiratorial just because we don't have some information you have.
The CPS took a premature child from an immature couple down here and then the child ended up in the hospital. Guess who paid the bills? CPS. To the tune of $347,000.
They get more money, nothing could be further from the truth? When they remove children from a household, the children become they're responsibility financially until I believe they're 18. the more children they have to take care of the more of taxpayers money they need to do the job. That's a given.
What planet are you on?
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Child Protective Service: An oxymoron to end all oxymorons. These people, in all states, don't cae about the childen. They care about their rules and regulations, office politics, promotions and power.
To protect the children would mean kepig children AWAY FROM CPS.