Posted on 05/23/2008 6:50:19 PM PDT by FreeInWV
Isn't that really special of CPS. /s
Hey. They are above the law. Didn’t you know that?
Ya just git back on your on side there Yukon King , and keep your damn kilometres out of Texas .
The state wanted to make it look like they are being compassionate. Woopee, they released 12 kids under strict scrutiny. Oh, well, those 12 kids are better off now.
I think the action makes TX CPS look bad, though, because they have just admitted that those 12 kids were not being abused by their parents.
“The families cannot return to the Yearning For Zion ranch, where they lived before the raid. “
My husband’s theory is starting to make more and more sense. He says someone wants the ranch property really bad. The FLDS paid $700,000 for it and now it’s worth millions after FLDS made improvements.
One of the stipulations for release of the 12 children is that they not be allowed to return to their home. Interesting.
Another issue that most overlook is that CPS hired an additional 70 staff to manage this effort. If a judge rules that all (or nearly all) children are returned, what will happen to the new staff? What about the embarassment and legal costs of botching this? If they do not retain custody, the CPS will fall upon very hard times.
I read that one of the girls that they were holding in foster care and claiming was 16 turned out to be 23. Sounds like grounds for a false imprisonment lawsuit if their ever was one...
Every day, more things the CPS told us are found not to be true.
If they return the kids, those 70 new CPS workers will all have to go find other “clients”. Which means if you have some neighbors that are particularly picky, you better get out and cut your yards nice and neat, or they might come visit you.
This is a lie. They know it's a lie. They're just piling lies upon lies upon more lies.
Texas law is NOT unambiguous on this. It QUITE clearly states that there must be "immediate danger" before children can be taken from their parents.
IMMEDIATE. The word is in the law. The law doesn't say anything about "extreme danger." It cites "IMMEDIATE danger!"
Jeez. Think they got that yet?? IMMEDIATE NOT EXTREME!
Is this the lying little weasel that sparked this whole hoax, that suddenly nobody can actually find?
More lies. Their case is nothing but lies.
So now they are saying that the marriages were only 'spiritual' marriages, and not marriages in the traditional sense?
If you are seriously interested in the truth, I believe you need to watch this video before making any further comments.
http://www.lhvm.org/vid_lvp.htm
You're wasting your time with this crew, especially Saundra. No matter how much "truth" you put before them, they just can't get their heads out of the sand long enough to see or understand how vicious and how cunning this polygamy cult really is.
Saundra's hysterical posts are nothing more than FLDS talking points, written and released by "Big Willie" Jessup, who was Warren Jeff's body guard and chief enforcer.
CPS never alleged that any specific parents were directly abusing their own children, but rather that the parents were condoning the abuse of adolescent girls and training all the boys and girls to believe that it was appropriate for adolescent girls to "marry" older men upon the command of the "prophet". Needless to say, the "prophet" has been convicted of a sex crime involving a minor and is currently on trial for additional sex crimes involving minors. All the parents were teaching their children to worship this prophet and follow all his orders unquestioningly, and the proof was his framed portrait hanging in all the homes and the schoolrooms.
As CPS identifies parents and matches them to children, and learns about the individuals in various families, it's perfectly appropriate to start allowing some parents to live with their children. Allowing them to go back to the ranch, which is essentially one big shrine to the "prophet", have been designed and built to his precise specifications, and being inhabited only by people who worship this "prophet", would clearly be resuming the brainwashing to worship this child sex convict. That would NOT be appropriate. Hopefully, some of the families will take advantage of the experience of living outside the control of the cult, to figure out that they were all (including the adults) being abused by the cult leaders, and decide not to rejoin it.
Like many terms, the LDS and FLDS have different meanings for "marriage" than others might (e.g., like "eternal life" doesn't mean "immortality").
It's not like the FLDS folks are changing what they're saying, though, from what I understand.
Funny thing is that there were government-issued IDs shown, too, from what I've read.
Seems like they were so blinded by what they assumed was going on, they got tunnel vision and really screwed things up. And you and I will end up paying for it.
I wasn’t as clear as I should have been. I was suggesting that it was the state, not the cult members, who had been less than honest.
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