If that is the case, these "mothers" should never see their children again.
I’ve been pretty tough on the authorities here. There are some things I understand and others I don’t. For instance, I think there were likely abuses taking place on the farm. So far that hasn’t been proven, but it does seem plausible at this point.
The infractions seem to involve the young women, that they are exploited sexually for the pleasure of the adult males.
What I don’t quite understand is why the boys are being isolated from their moms. I there a reason for this?
Folks, while I do think some bad things were going on out there, I am by no means convinced that every child was being abused, that every adult was involved.
At this point we have signed off on every child being ripped from their parents. I remain unconvinced that is warranted.
Give me a plausible reason, and I might change my mind.
Given what these mothers (in name only) allowed to happen to some of these children, that’s an incredibly stupid thing to say.
(As if teenage girls never lied to get adults in trouble before.)
Sounds like a witch-hunt in progress.
Have they found the kid that made the anonymous phone call?
I can’t get past that part.
I don’t know anything about these people but the whole thing reminds me of the old movie “The Children’s Hour” in which false lesbian allegations of lesbianism from a young girl ruin some womens’ lives.
It was to show how dangerous an unformed and undeveloped young mind is.
oops
“in which false lesbian allegations of lesbianism”
should read...
in which false allegations of lesbianism
You got to be kidding, right?
Maybe some of these women will be more willing to discuss the crimes committed by their men now - instead of trying to cover them up.
Frankly, my spider-sense is tingling. I’m beginning to think this whole thing may or may not have been a carefully premeditated put-up job by the sect’s shadowy leaders. I’m not saying everybody’s in on it but the State of Texas has clearly bitten off more than it can process. It’s looking like there is no evidence of anything blatantly abusive. All the mothers (the more telegenic ones, that is) are weeping for the cameras on cue, claiming mistreatment by the state and begging for their babies back. Nobody’s going to talk. They will never find the mysterious girl claiming abuse because there isn’t any.
The civil liberties gang is starting to circle the wagons around them and they are playing the media like a fiddle. I’m afraid this is going to be a big, big PR disaster for TX and likely the same thing will happen that happened in UT when an aggressive Governor went after the FLDS back in the fifties; bad press and electoral retribution with the result that Mormon polygamists became radioactive and the authorities looked the other way from then on.
Maybe this wasn’t pre-planned but it might as well have been. After all this time not a single man has been fingered and nobody is singing, save to denounce the State.
Apropos of the media and the 1950’s incident. I saw a news special that interviewed a handful of former children of the long-ago raids and they were all denouncing the authorities rather than their “fathers.”
There are plenty of anti-polygamy survivors and activists weighing in too, but I’m afraid the polygamists are going to be able to play victim here.
“It is outrageous for the state to put these 400 children on cots in a coleseum supervised by total strangers. Since they are supervised why can’t their mothers be with them too?”
Because their mothers didn’t bother to protect them when they had the chance!
Normally the alleged perpetrator would be arrested and taken to trail. Taking away 401 children from their parents smacks of Nazi Germany Fascism to me. This is a repeat of a questionable attack on a Christian sect in Waco. Just as in Waco all we read about in the MSM is alleged sexual deviance. That justifies radical action against another Christian Sect.
But what we see and learn is that we killed many innocent women and children in an unjustified and overzealous attempt to get one man. Are we doing that again in Texas, only under a Republican Administration? Is it okay to destroy the lives of 401 children and parents because we do not understand or like or approve of their life style? Who are the real criminals -- Marleigh Meisner?
You are obviously an unsophisticated beer drinking rube who can’t see the wisdom of the state boxing up and busing out an entire community on the basis of a single allegation. Someday, when you’ve wizened up, and the bullet enters your brain, you too will learn to love Big Brother.
Do I really need a sarcasm tag?
I have a female friend who fired a woman.
Suddenly out of the blue social services got an anonymous call about abuse in my friends home.
The caller did not know that there were other kids at the house so social services realized they were on a goose chase shortly after they arrived. They thought they were going to a single child home. The bitter person who called could not have ever imagined that she sent social services to a wonderful loving household. In this case it shows the importance of being prudent about discussing things at work.
But they have to respond to an anonymous tips.
Which means a person could really harrass their local politicians or anyone else if they really wanted to do so.
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