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FLDS leader Jeffs out of Las Vegas hospital, back in jail

Well this is how it goes. This guy gets all the medical treatment he needs,while some poor woman with mental health problems, dies on the floor of a hospital ER in plain sight of Doctors and security officers. I am not advocating to ignor medical needs of prisoners. It is just Ironic!

How much Jeffs would like to become a martyr and what the FLDS would think if he were to die in custody?
You just bet the officials will do all they can to keep him alive and healthy!

watch the FLDS spring him from the hospital!

wonder if the medical people found a heart in him

Now THAT's bleeding the beast, right there.

Good grief let this political prisoner out of jail already. Ulcers on his knees, fasting problems? Isn't it enough punishment? Go find some real criminals in the Utah State house or go raid a Republican/AIPAC brothel somewhere. Forgive them Warren they just needed someone to justify their jobs, nothing personal.

Kbp, the only springing the FLDS are going to do is when they jump for joy on their beds when Uncle Warren heads to that big FLDS ranch in the sky.

Only then, will they be truly free from his oppression.

AMEN to J-man

FLDS or not... In jail or not... He is still a HUMAN BEING, part of our HUMAN RACE! You would think of all people the LDS faith in Utah would understand this, and understand being jailed for ones beliefs. I am in NO WAY justifing child marriage, or rape. Just a reminder.. aren't we ALL Gods children? And all Brothers and Sisters? Even if we have done wrong???

ummm...levi, they didn't punish Jeffs with ulcers and fasting. He did that to himself. The authorities have no need of his forgiveness. If anything, Jeffs should be asking for forgiveness from the underaged girls he we, from the families he tore apart, and for destroying the hopes and dreams of that kids that didn't mesh with the ideals of their communities.

I submitted an entry earlier that apparently didn't make it for some reason. In short, I dito JB. Anyone who is LDS shares the fact that our prophet Joseph Smith was also jailed at one time. I don't know the details of Jeff's criminal activities, but it just sounds like there's a need for some tolerance and understanding - the tone of what seems to be happening just doesn't sound right. We are all children of God and that is a fundamental truth. Knowing that makes the ways that we treat one another to be sacred.

I say just put him in general population and let him understand the real meaning of the word "rape". After all, he's been doing it to his practioners for years....

Levi - political prisoner? now that's using your imagination. Didn't think you FLDS actually had a sense of humor. Good one.

JB - since you asked... NO - he's not my brother. He's just the crazy guy that convinced a bunch of weak people to follow him past common sense, to that place where everyone must conform and children's futures are sacrificed in God's name.

Yesterday Jim2485 posted on a related site: "It takes a very strange person to derive enjoyment from another human being's misfortune."

That strange person has schadenfreude.

I have waited seventy-seven years for the chance to use "schadenfreude" in a sentence. Thank you, Jim. Joe

I hope people are as merciful and kind when the next LDS apostle or prophet is sick in the hospital.

God bless the Mormons. Somebody really needs to.

My prayers go out to Warren Jeffs and his family. I wish him the strength to overcome his illness and a speedy recovery.

Sometimes it is difficult not to wish oneself a dictator. What if punishment for Mr. Jeffs involved his forced marriage to all women age 80 and above who were willing participants? The guard would ensure that conjugal visits occurred frequently and would be present if necessary to ensure that all marriages were consummated. Perhaps then Mr. Jeffs would understand the nature of his actions. This punishment wouldn't be done as "an eye for an eye" punishment or because of schadenfreude, but because sometimes the best way to reform an errant person is to subject him to his own behavior.

Between the time Jeffs was charged with this crime and the time he was caught, he thumbed his nose at law enforcement and married underage girls. Does the jail do anything to prevent criminals from continuing to commit crimes? If so, then given that Jeffs may never be free again and that he is punishing himself, it isn't really necessary to subject him to the desires of a dictator.

Surely, this guy is our brother, technically. But certainly not in terms of being in the same mind-set as those of us brothers who are sincerely obeying the laws of the land in which we live.

I will defend his right to a fair trial, his right to have food and water in the meantime, and his right to inflict injury upon himself. What I won't defend is his past actions that have irrepairably injured young, innocent lives, both male and female.

His unrighteous dominion over others and his unrepentant, willful disregard for the law, is a civil matter. I'm saddened that he exercised his agency in such a harmful way. Those of us who are embarrassed by his choices are just that: "embarrassed". But those teens that lost their freedoms and innocence must have justice done.

"May God have mercy on him" is my "mantra". He's given me, personally, as a mainstream member of the LDS church, a smidgen of grief.

"Prosecuted to the full extent of the law" is what a civilized society must demand.

Prison isn�t a safe place for pedophiles. Plus it is kind of embarrassing for Warren Jeffs, since he thinks he is a prophet and he can�t magically escape from confinement.

This man is most selfish. Now he is turning his twisted mind to actions against himself. Kind of a desperate cry for more attention, or trying to kill himself through starvation. Just eat, behave yourself and maybe you can get out. I have pity for him. However, he led astray many, lovely, good people who followed him and his crazy ideas. I feel sorry for his family too.

The Jeffs/FLDS saga keeps becoming curiouser and curiouser. I'm from Boston, not LDS, but I read the Deseret News articles on this subject because they seem very informed.

So, have the FLDS always been so dysfunctional? Or did Warren Jeffs personal pedophilia destroy the sect?