Busy Day at Court Handling Polygamist's Children

nytimes ^ | 2008.4.18 | KIRK JOHNSON and JOHN DOUGHERTY

[TeleStraightShooter]

The culture of creating Lost Boys has got to stop. A strong logical & emotional case can be made against it.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

[mwilli20]

ok, i’ll play along. take one random girl out of the 400 or so. what are you going to swear under oath to obtain a warrant for her blood?

[UCANSEE2]

“such jests are not worth of reply.”

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Just wait until you get to post 6.

[TeleStraightShooter]

Is it fair for the state to turn a blind eye, even condone by their omission of enforcement, to this problem then just throw everyone in jail and destroy these families?

Those who ignore history are bound to repeat it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Creek_Raid

[TeleStraightShooter]

Ha!
Post #16 might remove your pejorative accent

[CindyDawg]

If possible, I agree that kids need to be with their parents. Not “the family” though.

[svcw]

What family unit?
Some of these kids say they don’t know which women are their mothers, and what father.
There is no family unit to be returned to.

[TeleStraightShooter]

For starters one could submit the sworn depositions of dozens of outcast community members who witnessed felonies or the results thereof.

From what I gather the line would stretch around the courthouse block.

[kbennkc]

I think Texas and Tom Green county are about to get a civics lesson . I want the children protected and wrong doers punished , but I want due process of law . It is especially important for us all to defend the rights of every citizen . An injustice to one is an injustice to us all .

[Eyes Unclouded]

Oh I wasn’t saying it was illegal or immoral in this case. Its just that this is how government powers start to grow and eventually overstep their original authority.

[TeleStraightShooter]

You are correct sir in asserting their culture is ... rather paranoid and obstinate.

A negotiation would be required beforehand to give these ... bastards ... a choice to play ball to keep their families together. If they choose to put their own pride ahead of a chance to keep their families, which they profess to be their #1 concern, then perhaps they do not deserve to keep them.

[TeleStraightShooter]

It’s true they drew a thick veil but the states involved refused to penetrate it, thereby condoning it.

[TeleStraightShooter]

Lol, good grief!

[neutrino]

Perhaps the report was a lie. Please see the link - to a television report from Colorado. LINK

COLORADO SPRINGS – A woman arrested in Colorado Springs may be the same person who prompted a raid at a religious compound in western Texas.

According to a release from the city of Colorado Springs, police arrested 33-year-old Rozita Swinton at her home on Wednesday on a charge of false reporting to authorities, a misdemeanor. The incident she was arrested for happened in February. Swinton was taken to the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center.

[TeleStraightShooter]

I plead guilty of posting under duress :)

[TeleStraightShooter]

in that case i concur.

[TeleStraightShooter]

Why? statutory rape aside, what part of that alternative family structure is illegal?

[Judith Anne]

Have you read the Smoking Gun affadavits?

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0410081polygamy1.html

[donmeaker]

of the 416 children, only 18 are male.

Where are the boys? are they murdered, given up for adoption, or abandoned?

Are they given up for adoption to homosexual Muslims?