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Washington County sends dossiers of select FLDS members to Texas officials

Publishing such slanderous musings of unknown persons in law enforcement is irresponsible, underhanded, and vicious. What is your purpose in defaming these people?

If your purpose had been to inform your readers about clandestine correspondence between law enforcement in Utah and their counterparts in Texas leading up to the YFZ raid, you could have done so without publishing names and what look like "mug shots".

And the beat goes onnnnnnnnnnnnnn. Havrn't these people proven themselves. For heavens sakes they had their most prized posessions (their children) and weren't violent! Give them a break!
What next? Will they be accused of the next earthquake?

why would this paper publish this and not post the obvious fact that the state of Utah has no evidence to back up any of the claims ie Willie the thug has a passion for fire arms etc

If the worst thing these people did was glare at people in court, this article is irresponsible, bordering on witch hunting!
Yes, I'm sure the leader of the FLDS has a security team--most churches do. We may not like the FLDS beliefs and, indeed, some of Mr. Jeff's actions seem to remove him from sincere consideration as a righteous leader (I'm sorry, FLDS readers, I do realize that you revere him as Prophet), but it is not extraordinary that there should be a security team.
But to publish pictures and list this ambiguous list of "charges" certainly tends to incite people unnecessarily--not to mention that it makes Utah law enforcement appear highly unprofessional. I'm not totally comfortable with sharing such vague charges with Texas law enforcement--given Texas' record of jumping the gun. And I think it highly unprofessional for this type of information to be given to the press. There is certainly no danger to the citizens of Utah from these people.
I'm not FLDS and don't live in Utah, either.

Not one episode of real evidence. Now we have thought police who "seem" to know what a man seems to be thinking and that appears to be approaching criminal activity worthy of mention and the creation of �dossiers� on folks. If we can�t find any real crimes a person has committed, the law �seems� to be willing to go into character defamation mode as the person may be thinking of doing something illegal. I think if I were FLDS, I would be very intensely engaged in observation of the proceedings of the court. What a farce, nothing more than slander, innuendo and character defamation. If a person could be convicted on what they appear to be thinking, they better round up all of these folks, along with most of society. If this is the level of investigation our law enforcement folks engage in we�re all in big trouble.

WOW!

Where are the 50-80 year old men that have sex with teens? I thought this was all about old men having sex with children? But I guess all the children having sex turned out to be adults.
Now the best they can do is show photos of people that might stare you down in court????????????

Obviously, the state is worried about these people and will create anykind of slander they can think up. Why? Is the state worried about thier own crimes?

Well said Karl. You nailed that one on the head. Next, they will be doing dossiers on everyone who makes a positive posting on these blogs in favor of the FLDS. Hey UTAH!!!!!!! Check out my military record; this 'ole grandpa is more dangerous than any of them. LOLOLOLOL

THESE MEN ARE INNOCENT ! No history of violence,but they looked at people wrong or are high rankers of the church so they are a risk???? OOOOOH PLEASE!!! THIS IS DEFINETLEY RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION NOW !!!!

STOP THE WITCH HUNT*******

HA HA HA!
That list made me laugh!

polygamist to law enforcement: "Howdy"
Law enforcement: "Flora, was he threatening me?"
Flora: "Without a doubt, howdy means your next on the blood atone list!"
Put him on the LIST!

There are witches in Texas? Who knew.

Dear FLDS sympathizers: You reap what you sow. You lie in the bed you make. Your prophet, when caught outside Vegas, was found with boatloads of cash, disguises for a small clan, enough fake IDs to start a junta all the attitude of, well, a venomous snake.

Deal with it. You are busted.

Have a nice day.

Yes, it seems there ARE, in fact, witches in Texas or, in other words, some VERY ugly people (on the inside).

To witch hunt?:
This article is nothing more than propaganda generated by Utah law enforcement and propagated by the DN.

this is by far the funniest Article I have ever seen in DesN, I had to check the URL 3 times to make sure I wasnt at the Onion.com, ROFL

for shining a little light on the not so pleasant dark side of some of the FLDS.

Of course they will react viciously to any reports that reveal their true character.

Just as they have for every victim who has ever testified against them, they will try to intimidate and discredit anyone who tries to tell the truth about them.

"Seemed to be taking mental notes..." Are you joking me? We heard outcries during the trial with everyone wondering where the fathers of these children were out. It seems that any father who actually SHOWED UP was then flagged as a possible conspirator. "Seemed to be intimidating..." They took their children! What did they want them to do? Give them nice smiles, a handshake and wave at them?

Everyone, I think this article is meant to show how ridiculous the allegations are. I don't think the Deseret News published it to show that these people are a danger. Rather to laugh at how silly some of these claims are.

Simple Logic would suggest that if an Act of Violence was going to happen it would have happened when they were being attacked and having their children Kidnapped, (I never happened). To try to compare FLDS with the MOB is like trying to compare"-10" and "+10" they do have a lot in common, very comparable. If we can just get folks to ignore the obvious we have a case.

Reading all the FLDS posts where FLDS men post as woman is more than a bit scary. FLDS are not to be trusted in any way shape or form. The FLDS women and children are a very good indication of all the intimidation that takes place in the FLDS cult.

DN this was a nice article.

This is ridiculous. Washington County Sheriff Kirk Smith panders to these degenerates and ignores crimes including abuse of children in the FLDS community then wants to come across as altruistic with the situation in Texas.

Kissing up to the polygamist community means votes for Smith. His shameless ignorance is disgraceful. He needs to be replaced.

Re: Thank You DN

Thanks for coming out of your hole in the ground, to share with us your vindictive comments. You can go back now.