Roommate stunned by claims Colo. woman's bogus call triggered FLDS raid

The Denver Post ^ | 20 Apr 2008 | Kirk Mitchell

[PJ-Comix]

This woman is a Barack Obama delegate. My guess is she initiated the phone calls in the hope that the tenuous Mormon connection would hurt Mitt Romney’s chances of being chosen as Veep candidate by McCain.

[pissant]

The whole thing is a damn freak show. The cult, this dingbat Obama supporter, the CPS. Good grief.

[rhombus]

Popping the corn for this thread now...

[dfwgator]

So was the call, “fake, but accurate.”

[JDickeson75]

You can still afford corn? Last time I saw corn it went into my gas tank.

[rhombus]

Hah, good point about the corn... and I don’t own a rice-burner. What to do, what to do...

[tueffelhunden]

“So was the call, “fake, but accurate.””

To many in this country today guilt or innocence is determined by what the alleged perp is. Not whether or not a crime has been committed.

There’s always a rush to judgement IMHO.

[rintense]

Or use it as way to deflect criticism of Obama's connection to Wright, and focus solely on the alleged 'racism' of the FLDS- AND the connection to Romney.

If so, Obama will fail miserably.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

I think we had this sussed from Day 1.
Some of us, anyway.

[org.whodat]

The story about this crazed woman has nothing really to do with the cult warrant: From Cnn Breaking: Records point to 4 girls who could be sect's 'Sarah'

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/11/yfz.search.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText

[Froufrou]

That can’t be right. Romney dropped out a long time ago.

BG, thanks for posting this, since it answers the question as to how the woman was identified.

[Bigg Red]

Wow! She’s a Rat. Big shock. /s

[mnehring]

Even if the call was fake, the police had zero way of knowing it was fake, they had to investigate. All CPS actions after that were the result of what the Texas Rangers witnessed when investigating the call. Unless someone can prove the Rangers had a time machine to know ahead of time the call was fake, it was their responsibility to investigate the call. If they witnessed a crime (aggravated sexual assault of a minor), they are obligated to act on that, which they did.

Let's take this out of the entire FLDS aspect. If you make a crank call to the police saying your car is being stolen (when it isn't) and they come to investigate. When they are there and see you beating up your wife, you bet they will arrest your a**, even if the call about he car being stolen is fake.

[sauropod]

< jaw drops>

[TalBlack]

“To many in this country today guilt or innocence is determined by what the alleged perp is.”

Indeed. Al Capone was busted and tried when there was a case and not before. But before they got him on the tax charge they knew damn well he was an evil sob-they simply couldn’t do a damn thing about it. The Constitution prevented it. Not anymore. If the charge is childabuse BURN THE WITCH!!!) nothing else seems to matter, not evidence or proper procedure, NOTHING.

We were all better of in the taking down of Capone, and we were all better off by the respect shown the constitution by the guys going after him.

[TLI]

But the hotline call that led to the raid wasn't publicized until after Jessop spoke with Sarah

Oops, that's not good.

But still, the real question is did the LEO's know that Dale Barlow was not at the facility married to the girl and actually was living in Arizona for years BEFORE they went to the judge for the first warrant.

[longtermmemmory]

This is what the state can/will do. They will repremand the officers and demand the original warrant stand.

[greyfoxx39]

Ping

[dfwgator]

Well said.