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Feds are stymied in probes of FLDS
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I know they are justified by finding 30% of the teenage girls are or have been pregnant.They could find near to the same statistics in inner city high schools. Macciavelli couldn't be happier.
My prayers go out to those at the mercy of CPS everywhere. They are so used to operating outside of the rule of law they have become lazy, and individual rights, innocent until proven guilty, and probable cause are just inconviniences that can be ignored.
Bringing polygamy out in the open would expose it as a system that just won't work in today's world. At the same time it would remedy the problems that currently concern the government, as open societies are easier to monitor. Perhaps it would also relieve these groups of the abuse and in-breeding problems that occur in secret.
What Harry Reid should be looking into is prostitution and gambling in his home state of Nevada. Vile conduct that equals and far exceeds polygamy.
Otherwise, the abuse of children within the FLDS community will continue behind closed doors.
the people from paying high prices on fuel ,food, etc. We need a "National Witch Hunt". We must find
witches, or the peasants might ask questions why
the Elites will not allow America to develope our
own oil and gas, and get away from OPEC. Go get em
Harry. And when you have exhausted the witch list,
go after the goblins.
...IN THE MEANTIME PEDOPHILIA PERSISTS!
...IN THE MEANTIME CHILD ABUSE PERSISTS!
...IN THE MEANTIME WELFARE IS BEING ABUSED!
Isn't our legal sysem wonderful?
Research! Look up lost boys, look up the stories of those who escaped FLDS. And please, read the Texas Family Code before you go spouting off about how Texas CPS disregarded the law. One of the girls who "appeared" to be pregnant just gave birth to what "appeared" to be an infant. Let us give these children a chance.
"Child abuse, rape and incest are all state-level crimes. So is bigamy."
Texas was fully justified in taking all the children into protective custody to stop further child abuse.
Libertarian, what if polgamy was de-criminalized and did work? All therories aside, there are quietly practicing polygomests who are not breaking any other law, who seem to be getting along just fine. On the other hand, if the practice were de-criminalized, HBO wold have to cancel one of their series and half of the Anti-mormon wed sites would have to find something else to complain about.
You can prosecute all you want...make all the age laws that you want...and it's not going to make one bit of difference. You CANNOT legislate peoples religious convictions....the more you try...the more convicted they are. Wake up folks. Kids and parents are suffering while we figure this out.
If the facts are against you argue law.
If the facts and the law are against you argue LOUD. Is this why you are yelling.. Remember its all just been allegations.
Actually, it was 60%, but that really doesn't matter to you because there's no significant difference between an inner-city high school and the FLDS ranch.
Of course for accurate comparision:
-The inner-city high school principal would have to have ultimate authority to institute any rule he saw fit.
-Every female student would be forced into a sexual relationship with a male teacher chosen by the principal as soon as she reached puberty.
-The parents would be fully supportive of every decision made by the principal.
-None of the students would be permitted to leave the school without the express permission of the principal.
-There would be a 3 to 1 ration of girls to boys in the school, since 2/3 of the boys would have been expelled from the school because the principal didn't like them.
Here is what the Feds list should start with:
1. Constitutional rights, suspended because we're right.
2. Due process of law, only if it's our law.
3. Unproven allegations, we can prove that we made them up.
4. Parents are unfit, all parents are unfit.
CPS the "Parent" for future generations & education by the "Nanny" state.
In your opinion, are children entitled to Constitutional rights, such as the right to "Life, LIBERTY, and the pursuit of happiness," or do those rights only belong to dirty old men who need another notch on their belt to achieve Heavenly glory?
So, if a pedophile decides to start his own religion, he'll be free to sexually abuse children as long as he declares pedophilia to be part of his deeply held religious convictions?
And to the person that responded to you about:
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-The inner-city high school principal would have to have ultimate authority to institute any rule he saw fit.
-Every female student would be forced into a sexual relationship with a male teacher chosen by the principal as soon as she reached puberty.
-The parents would be fully supportive of every decision made by the principal.
-None of the students would be permitted to leave the school without the express permission of the principal.
-There would be a 3 to 1 ration of girls to boys in the school, since 2/3 of the boys would have been expelled from the school because the principal didn't like them."
Bravo! You hit the nail on the head.
"welfare" is AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN. You are advocating cutting off access to food from children who have no control over being born or what decisions their parents make. This country is wealthy enough to guarantee food to all of our children. We have the authority to seize assests of people who think they can live by cheating the system. This cult has assests of a known $100 million. If they manage to get by the gatekeepers and collect money illegaly the state or states, in which they collect this money, can go after them. The sticking point may be the Trust. I don't know how ironclad it is but I would bet that there is alimit to what degree these monies are protected.
Those Constitutional Rights belong to all people... including the mothers and children who were violently, in some cases, ripped from their homes and incarcerated by the government. We saw this in Germany when Jews were rounded up, transported away via cattle car trains. At least these women and children were transported by Baptist buses.
Germany was sending the Jews to concentration camps to be exterminated.
Texas was freeing the children from the clutches of predatory old men who were using them as sex slaves.
If there is a great deal of intermarriage the percent of disabled rises dramatically, so what is happening here. I read about a graveyard, is that where they are? Also what about the elderly, it would be very difficult to take care of them because of how long we live today. There is so much more to examine in these communities.
The FLDS complicated the process by giving false and misleading identities and ages. Maybe some of the birth certificates and drivers licenses are legitimate, maybe some of the girls are 18 or older, but, since the FLDS have lied about so many other things, CPS is forced to go with their own best judgement until identities, ages, and relationships are legally confirmed.
Personal opinions are irrelevant. Circumstantial evidence can't convict anyone, and if they started removing pregnant teens across america, and children who'd had borken bones, more children would be parentless that not.
The government, as it has so many times, has far overreached it's legal bounds, and is scrambling to find some justification for their actions.
This is true in most families, religious or not.
The biggest difference between the FLDS children and most children of other faiths, is most of the other children are exposed to the outside world and given an opportunity to make their own choices based on all available options.
The FLDS girls aren't given any choices. They're told that the outside world is a dangerous place that most of them will never be allowed to visit. Then, they're told by their parents and church leaders that when the time is right, the church leaders will decide who the girl will marry.
You can't really say that the girls have a choice, when they don't even know what the options are.
Do you know the difference between protective custody and arrest?
The government was within its legal and moral grounds to protect these kids from alleged child abuse until the government finishes its investigation.
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