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U.S. Senate committee to investigate FLDS

The United States Congress taking time to go on a witch hunt, isn't that interesting? I'm so glad my taxes are going to support this.

And this hunt is being spearheaded by an LDS Senator. Isn't that interesting? Who would have thought 100 years ago that the attack on polygamy would be coming from within the church?

And this hunt against the FLDS is also being led by a Democrat, a member of the party that claims to support the right to live whichever lifestyle a person wishes to live.

Isn't that interesting?

The fact that Harry Reid is spearheading this doesn't look fishy at all. I'll just betcha you are going to hear more about the mainstream church's involvement in this before the day is done.

Good!!!

The United States Congress is taking time to investigate child-rape, and I am glad my taxes are going to support this.

It is being spearheaded by an LDS senator who is sick and tired of the federal government's giving its tacit approval to child-rape by doing nothing to stop FLDS child-rapists.

This investigation is being led by a Democrat, since no Republican U.S. senators have shown any courage to deal with this issue.

Isn't THAT interesting?

Bravo Mr. Reid!

The only thing here that is interesting is that the corrupt practices of apostasy might be revealed.

I have no doubt there will be a lot of blogs on here from FLDS crying about how they are being persecuted.

I have no sympathy with the FLDS leadership or the way they have oppressed and misguided these poor people for many years. However, I hope the hearings are fair and even handed. We only have to look at history to see how unfairly the LDS Church was treated in the 19th Century. They even sent the U.S. Army after us. I hope Senator Reid will make sure the hearings are conducted fairly and professionally. I think there is great danger here.

However, I have to say that the FLDS have no one to blame but themselves for what has happened. If you flaunt the law, abuse women, viciate freedom of choice and just generally act like a bunch of goons, you can expect that it will eventually catch up with you.

Warren Jeffs has publicly declared that he is not a prophet, he never was a prophet and he is one of the most wicked men of this dispensation. For the first time, probably in his life, he is telling the TRUTH.

I'd love to see the senate set up in the polygamist communities for a few days. Bring the media. Get chased around by the goon squad in the vehicles with the tinted windows. And talk to the prisoners there. It's time to close down the FLDS prisons.

Congress won't stick it's nose in? Baseball, the NFL, polygamy .... Wouldn't it be nice if they'd focus on the big ticket items -- immigration, national security, energy sources? Good grief.

Some of the commentators failed to notice that there is very little evidence of child rape. You are spreading the same generalized charges with little evidence to back it up. Forget any attempt to be fair. Bigots like Senator Reid are never fair.

Fuel prices are 5.00+ per gallon, the financial system is falling apart, the auto industry is all
but dead, and the same people that support the Islamic Terrorists, are buying up America. So what does our great Senate Leader, Harry Reid do, well have a public "Polygamy Dog and Pony Show". Now that
will address the real issues of the day. Oh and by the way, from the same people that brought us, My two Mommies, and My two Daddies. That will distract the "American Morons" again.

I predicted months ago that there would be hearings. Good job, Harry!

Apparently, no one has learned anything from Short Creek or the recent YFZ Ranch raid. Lurid tales of abuse from former FLDS members who have personal or financial axes to grind are not the best sources of information to base criminal investigations on.

But polygamists are a good, all-purpose whipping boy for corrupt politicians who wish to deflect the public's attention from Congress' horrendous performance on issues such as oil prices and mortgage lenders.

So enjoy your circus, citizens. The FLDS are about to be thrown to the lions for your entertainment.

Reed and Hatch, should the committee move ahead and investigate, need to make sure all America knows they belong to the Mormon church, which, obviously has a huge interest in this. Still their pursuit won't be impartial.

To Cosmo: You point is? Since we have other problems we should just ignore the possibility of child rape? How about welfare fraud? What about false imprisonment of women and children that have no hope to leave this community?

These are real issues that need to be addressed. Many of these people need help and have no chance to get it unless government finally steps in and tries to do something to protect them.

I'm not a supporter of Harry Reid, but I have no doubt he is sincere. The leadership of the FLDS are dictatorial men who need to be stopped from doing any more evil to their people.

There really is a Taliban in America and it is the FLDS.

Runaway gas prices,runaway food costs,mortgage forclosures of epedimic proportions,crooked lobbyist bribing crooked politicians,massive,massive job loses never too return,companies folding up by the thousands and now our dutifull congress deems it necessary too investigate someones religion. i was under the impression that the state of Texas was doing that.Were there any federal laws violated by F.L.D.S IN Texas too make it necessary for the U.S.congress to investigate at the cost of millions of dollars of taxpayers money????

It is of no consequence that the senators interested in this committee are LDS. It is rather the failing of other representatives that they did not initiate an investigation into this unhealthy, abusive cult. Stop feeling sorry for these pathetic people and pointing fingers at the LDS politicians. Congress throws money away on far less worthy endeavors!

"make sure all America knows they belong to the Mormon church"

sssshhh...

that's a carefully guarded secret, like Sen. Kennedy being a Catholic or Sen. Lieberman being a Jew.

No senator who has a religious preference should ever be allowed to conduct hearings into possible crimes involving members of another religion.

The Senate will now be "educated" by the same disgruntled bunch of ex-members and "experts" that "educated" Doran" and the Texas goon squads.
I wonder how much it will cost to feed and house the group of gossip mongers and book peddlers.
When will the Senate investigate the State of Texas and its' orchestrated effort to destroy a church.
Parker hit the nail on the head.....let the FLDS have their chance to speak to the Senate. We have already heard from the ex-flds chicken littles.......they have sold their books, had their time on the talk shows, and have spewed their twisted tales. Texas has wasted their efforts with false allegations and their own courts have put a stop to the kidnapping.
Investigate Texas, Swinton, Jessop........and the rest of the goons responsible for this mess.

I think some of you are on the wrong page. This is what is being investigated.

Reid hopes to show the FLDS are an organized crime syndicate that has engaged in bribery, extortion, fraud, embezzlement, witness tampering, labor violations, etc.

He wants the Department of Justice to go after the FLDS for such crimes as part of a RICO investigation.

The FLDS brought this on themselves by isolating themselves from society, and repressing their followers. When you stifle the freedoms of thousands, and over-sermonize to the point of mind control, you are asking for intervention.

Practice your religion. Marry as many women as you want (as long as they are of age and willing partners). NO ONE CARES. But when you hide your women and children from the world, thereby removing any hope for a future of their choosing - YOU ARE ASKING FOR TROUBLE.

No longer will we stand by and watch you isolate and over-sermonize your followers to the point that they are afraid of the world and have no future. You have full control over their lives and that is abuse and a violation of their civil rights.

Why do you feel the need to control your followers to such a degree that they become sheep? What are you so afraid of?

And to zxcvbnm - the FLDS is not a church nor a religion. It is a cult that controls it's populace through fear and intimidation. If it were a church, it would open it's doors to the world, instead of hiding from the world.