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FLDS ask judge to halt land sale

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Anonymous | 3:32 p.m. Nov. 5, 2008
WHO CARES!
Anonymous | 3:58 p.m. Nov. 5, 2008
Really...I have never seen or heard about such POOR MISTREATED, PRESECUTED PEOPLE, everone is out to get them...never mind that they apparently do not think the law (any law) applies to them.
James Jesse | 8:03 p.m. Nov. 5, 2008
It seems pretty obvious that establishment powers want FLDS gone and so an establishment judge has confiscated control over the core FLDS trust and delegated to Mr. Wisan the unsavory task of destroying its intended purpose by chopping it up and selling or at least privatizing its parts. Of course Mr. Wisan is to profit for his part in the scheme by parasitically extracting fees he decides are needed.

FLDS' natural rights to manage private property within a trust and rights to free exercise of religion over a religiously established trust should win out under our constitutional guarantees. They will, however, have to fight in court(s) for these protections to be applied.
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John Pack Lambert | 9:29 p.m. Nov. 5, 2008
I thought Utah was tolerant of polygamists and let them do whatever they wanted without any legal implications?
Somehow I think the claims that Utah just lets the polygamists get away with anything are absolutely false.
zxcvbnm | 10:38 p.m. Nov. 5, 2008

Looks like the descendants of polygamists are quite good at useing the same tactics that a government once used against them to dismantle a religious principle.
Economic sanctions worked quite well to persuade the LDS to change their ways. Looks like the fundamentalist bunch sticks to their guns.
Smith and Young had some guts and good ole Willie learned well.
I just wonder how long it will take before the FLDs will form a militia and defend their property.
I just think that they need to start the Temple now. Consecrate the ground and get the foundation started.
desert | 12:19 p.m. Nov. 6, 2008
this is desert wasteland. sell it.
good call | 8:30 a.m. Nov. 7, 2008
zxcvbnm, You would make a mother proud
huh? | 11:36 a.m. Nov. 7, 2008
yeah - build up that temple. the trust lawyers may be able to get more money for it if it has a building on it. and that way the FLDS sheep that keep giving their money away will have wasted even more - since they have plenty to spare... they must be rich, they way they keep wasting it...

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