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According to your post this"cult" has been going about their business for over 50 years. Why is it now that the feds want to get involved? Although we as a society may not agree with what they are doing, it is evident it has been going on for a long time. I do not agree that islam is a religion of peace we still as a society allow it, along with devil worship and witchcraft. Many societies believe a female is a woman at 13 YO and in the old west many a young teenager was married off. It just seems wierd that the feds are just now getting involved.

The feds did get involved -- in the 50's.. that was why I recommended the movie Child Bride of Cross Creek -- it was based on what happened back then when the feds raided Cross Creek (Colorado City)... the thing was they (the people) knew they were coming (remember the long, flat, wide open, road in and out of the area?) when the fed arrived all the people had been gathered in the town square and no one could prove who lived where or who was married to whom... they did take the men into custody and held the women in a dormitory-like situation, but there was an outcry at the time and the Governor of AZ lost his job because of it....

After that people took a live-let-live attitude to the area... it is, after all, a very cut off, desolate, area of Mohave County being on the other side of the Grand Canyon from the rest of the county.... periodically the LA Times would do an article about what was going on, but with so many Mormons in both Utah, AZ and Nevada most people looked the other way -- until Flora escaped and started getting the word out. The Rulon Jeffs died and his crazy son, Warren, took over and literally all he!! broke loose, our County Supervisors got involved and put a lot of pressure on Janet Napolitano (she was AG before Gov) and she ignored it, the outcry grew...

Then we got a new AG, he got involved they finally got the Utah AG involved and the investigations grew and grew and too much info came forward to ignore, including mysterious graves...

Anyway, this is a case of benign neglect,isolation, fear, fraud, sexual exploitation of young girls.. you name it there is so much that it probably is much better in a Federal Court than our local Mohave County court system..

Once the pressure was really on Colorado City/Hilldale Jeffs bought property and a huge compound was built in Texas, not what they were told it would be the people in that small town grew concerned (you see when the Jeffs clans move in they swamp the voters and vote in their own style of city and county management) and attention was spotlighted there so he started building another compound in Mexico another in Canada and yet another in S. Dakota...

I don't think this is going to have a good ending BTW...

According to your post this"cult" has been going about their business for over 50 years. Why is it now that the feds want to get involved? Although we as a society may not agree with what they are doing, it is evident it has been going on for a long time. I do not agree that islam is a religion of peace we still as a society allow it, along with devil worship and witchcraft. Many societies believe a female is a woman at 13 YO and in the old west many a young teenager was married off. It just seems wierd that the feds are just now getting involved.

Wow... just wow