Reader comments: FLDS appear to be staying put in border towns
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Doug S. | 4:29 p.m. April 14, 2008
"Others are just as calm as a summer's morning."
Gee, where have Mormons heard THAT line before?
Gee, where have Mormons heard THAT line before?
To FLDS must rent... | 4:38 p.m. April 14, 2008
The government isn't "after" me (as far as I know) and I still have to pay over $100 a month in taxes in order to stay in my own home. What's up with that?
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itsme | 5:48 p.m. April 14, 2008
Paying the government? Reading is fundamental! The trust was so mismanaged and plundered by Jeffs and his henchmen, now the trust is being run by a neutral party. Their payment is the same as property taxes, its to pay for maintaining and the infrastructure of both towns. Please educate your mind.
RE FLDS must rent | 5:54 p.m. April 14, 2008
First of all the people who live in Hilldale and Colorado City have never owned their property. It has always been owned by the "TRUST". They are allowed to live there unless they go against the church and then they were removed from the property. Until recently the residents of those towns didn't even pay property taxes. They are a drain on good honest tax payers.
InWisanWeTrust | 6:45 p.m. April 14, 2008
The properties are owned by the UEP trust and Uncle Warren controlled the trust so if Uncle Warren decided someone was unfaithful he could kick them out and he did. If Uncle Warren decided to go on the lam, liquidate valuable trust assets and spend them on Cadillac Escalades and hunting retreats in Texas, Colorado and South Dakota, then he could, and he did. He also failed to defend against lawsuits against the trust. The poor duped townies in Hildale/Colorado City would have soon be left with nothing had not the Third District Court of Salt Lake County, Utah, suspended Uncle Warren and his yes-men trustees and appointed CPA Bruce Wisan as interim special fiduciary of the trust. Maybe these poor duped townies will be left with something after all. God help them.
come on | 7:10 p.m. April 14, 2008
all the other blogs that you didn't like you had your scriptures to do away with , why not these raunchy , incestral groupies.
Eva | 7:53 p.m. April 14, 2008
I feel like we've just been transported to the Dark Ages or some small backward town in the Muslim world. I can't believe this is going on in America and draining our tax dollars at that =/
Modern Man | 10:14 p.m. April 14, 2008
Bruce Wisan has RESCUED the UEP trust from the Dark Ages! Looks like maybe the locals may just emerge from them too.
Matt in Tucson | 10:22 p.m. April 14, 2008
It is patently obvious that Congress is mismanaging our funds. Can we get a CPA to straighten that mess out?
In all seriousness, why should the townspeople trust someone who clearly does not respect them? Does Wisan really have the benefit of the townspeople in mind, or is there political motivations for his actions?
It seems to me that these people are actually quite good at managing finances. Compare the numbers in the Tribune for mortgaged houses in Hilldale and Colorado City, vs. Utah and Arizona. Between ~1900-1990 they pretty much didn't accept any government aid, building up their communities on their own. Why should they trust a government that is deeply in debt, and due to Social Security and Medicare, will soon have it's debt exceed it's GDP?
In all seriousness, why should the townspeople trust someone who clearly does not respect them? Does Wisan really have the benefit of the townspeople in mind, or is there political motivations for his actions?
It seems to me that these people are actually quite good at managing finances. Compare the numbers in the Tribune for mortgaged houses in Hilldale and Colorado City, vs. Utah and Arizona. Between ~1900-1990 they pretty much didn't accept any government aid, building up their communities on their own. Why should they trust a government that is deeply in debt, and due to Social Security and Medicare, will soon have it's debt exceed it's GDP?
Religious tyrants | 11:57 p.m. April 14, 2008
My belief is that a person should be allowed to live his religion unless it involves breaking the law of the land or violating the rights of others. Forcing girls to marry older men is a violation of human rights. Thus, I fully support actions taken to protect the victims of polygamy and urge more stringent enforcement of laws against polygamy. Such enforcement also would have a strong incentive factor, and there is no need to imprison thousands. Start with a few dozen and then impose stiff penalties but suspend jail sentences if the violators agree to stop violating the law.
LKP IL | 4:06 a.m. April 17, 2008
Is it not the children that should be protected-
Joey Daytona | 7:17 a.m. April 18, 2008
If these folks were MUSLIMS and not FLDS they never would have gotten away with everything they have done, like taking over municipal governments, police forces and denying their citizens their rights... (Hilldale City UT and Colorado City AZ) pure hypocracy on our part as we are too tolerant of one religion and not tolerant enough of another.
Maybe someday all the religious fanatics who want to live in the dark ages can live together - in the dark?
Maybe someday all the religious fanatics who want to live in the dark ages can live together - in the dark?
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Now the government comes in and tells people who built these homes as a community that the government has taken over and the FLDS who built the homes now have to pay the government $100.00 per month to live in their own homes?
I'm glad the government isn't after me. They sure can make your life miserable when you cross them.