Reader comments: FLDS residents seek to oust UEP fiduciary

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zxcvbnmEnter name | 5:44 p.m. July 15, 2008
Shouldn't infrastructure improvements be the responsibility of the residents. If the residents don't want to improve the roads or other other amenities they vote to not issue bonds or other instruments that would allow improvements.

The "trust" is to serve the trustees...the residents.

It seems that Wisan is serving his own agenda when and if he evicts those he is supposed to serve.
Cats | 6:44 p.m. July 15, 2008
I just hope the court doesn't allow the corrupt and dictatorial FLDS leadership to get control of those assets again. They have used them to terrorize and control their people. It's a very sad situation.

I believe Wisan is acting in a fiduciary capacity and trying to do his best to appropriately manage the assets. The court needs to protect these people who are being exploited by their leadership.
Rednael | 7:38 p.m. July 15, 2008
Where do you think the money in the trust came from in the first place? It came from the members in the FLDS community wishing to live communally with all things in common. No difference in what they're trying to do than what Monks in monasteries have been doing for 1700 years.

Tax laws are already in place to facilitate this kind of living, and they are trusts for land holdings and 501c3 status for the church. There's hardly a church in the country that doesn't conduct their financial affairs in this manner.

From my non-FLDS perspective this is nothing but the Utah power base attempting to destroy and disband a people that they hate.

Religious persecution with government as the tool. I do believe that our Pilgrim forefathers first came to this land to escape the same.
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The United Effort Plan | 8:13 p.m. July 15, 2008
The United Order is communism through and through. It's the same direction the new Socialist, ummm. . . I mean Democrats are going. Take from the hard working and give to the lazy. America has already done plenty of this, so why hold it against the FLDS?

For example, Joe works 70 hours a week so he can get ahead in life. The government takes about 40% of his income, and redistributes it to poor people who only work 30 hours a week. Joe pays a lot into Medicare, whereas the 30-hour-a-week people pay very little in comparison to Joe.

One day Joe's kid gets very ill, and is in the Intensive Care Unit for months. Joe's medical bill comes to a million dollars. He realizes he can never pay the bill, so he submits it to Medicaid. Medicaid tells him he doesn't qualify because he work too hard, ummm. . . I mean he made too much last year.

Joe knows if he had only work 40 hours a week last year, he would have more than qualified for Medicaid.

Joe becomes frustrated, and moves to a less socialized country. Bye-bye hard working Joe. (Based on a true story)
To The UEP 8:13pm | 8:55 p.m. July 15, 2008
By your discription my hard earned money is going to the fdls baby factories, so what are you complaining about.

If the fdls would quit playing their "your persicuting me" games and answer the requests of the courts, there wouldn't be any problems.

They don't have anyone to blame but themselves.

The only hard workers are the young boys that are used for slave labor then kicked out once they start asking for a wife.
Craig | 11:03 p.m. July 15, 2008
I'm LDS and from California. I dont understand why FLDS news is still headline news almost everyday in Utah. It's not LDS news it's FLDS news. I'm tired of hearing about it
ThePeople | 1:22 a.m. July 16, 2008
We are done with the lies,extortion and deceptions. Wisan needs to go, before there is nothing left.
Another Trojan horse | 6:43 a.m. July 16, 2008
Bruce Wisan is there as part of a wide-ranging plan to destroy the FLDS. He’s another Trojan horse, no different from Natalie Malonis in the YFZ case. Get rid of him.
Justice | 8:24 p.m. July 16, 2008
Wisan is a crook. Give the FLDS back their land.
use to be flds | 3:20 p.m. July 17, 2008
its funny now that shoe is someone else foot its aint fair.When a group of us believed differently even though we paid our taxes and dues the faithful and leadership were determined to have our homes that we built. boo hoo. The window of opputunity is here staring these people in the face. Freedom to own their investments and their own lives, and they still are blindly being lead down the same ugly path.Bruce Wisan is paving your way to freedom. How sad another oppuntity is being created from a higher divine power(God)and you fail to see it worshipping again power hungry men that take your money your lives and your spirit from you.Love and Light to these people who choose once again to give up themselves to warren jeffs and other power hungry leadership.
I Live in Freedom | 3:49 p.m. July 17, 2008
What the flds dont get, is Bruce Wisan has created a window of oppurtunity for the flds to live as free Americans and people. To own their Homes and investments. THere are some of us who have moved out and above old ways. Into the space of being in control of our own destinys and are no longer interested in being controlled by the old flds trust. We are waiting anxiously for the rest of you to wake up. Freedom is beautiful.
I live in Freedom | 6:52 p.m. July 17, 2008
Why would anyone want to step backwards into the past and be part of the old flds trust? Many people have given alot of their lives and money to create the the possiblity for all people in the flds to experience Freedom from the cult mentally. To be . self reliant and have a one on one connection to the God source. Why would you choose slavery to Fr eedom? The old trust created religious slavery.Are you so stuck and afraid of your own power and greatness to free youself from your own created tyranny? Step into the Beautiful Light of Gods Love and know that you deserve to be free.
I Live In Freedom 2 | 8:35 p.m. July 19, 2008
Why would anyone want to follow God when it requires sacrifices? Why would some guy let a weaker people hang him from a cross when he had the power to stop it?

You should know why these people follow their religious convictions. It's the same reason anyone else follows their religion. They believe it is the right thing to do. None of it ever makes sense.

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