Posted on 04/18/2008 8:38:05 AM PDT by DFG
When Texas authorities seized 416 children in a raid on a compound of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Americans quickly learned that the religious group encourages polygamy and the marriage of young girls to older men. Escape, a memoir published last fall, offers a more detailed portrait of life with the FLDS. In the book, Carolyn Jessop, a sixth-generation polygamist describes her life as the fourth wife of Merril Jessop, who ran the recently raided Texas compound. Carolyn left Merril in 2003, before he moved to Texas, but her memoir sheds light on the man and on the beliefs and practices common within the insular community. Below, Slate flags Carolyn's most intriguing, strange, and heartbreaking allegations.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
I have been wondering where their money comes from. FLDS is a giant welfare scam. FLDS gets taxpayer money for each child. Multiply that times 400 kids. All of these moms are on welfare. One of them opens a day care center and gets more taxpayer money for caring for other returning-to-work welfare moms. The elders are raking in government money, getting a lot of sex, and have absolute authority.
Because we the taxpayers are subsidizing cult compounds like this, the government had every right to raid it. Welfare cheats, rapists, and child abusers belong in jail.
There is big difference between a church and a cult. Here is a list of danger signs:
1. They control by fear, intimidation. If you don't listen, then...
2. They seek to isolate you from the evil outside world
3. They seek to set you against anything that is against them
4. You cannot question their authority, or you're OUT!
5. They especially love to get a hold on your children!
6. They often have a "prophet" whose authority is final
When the cult and its beliefs represent "normal" life from birth, its not hard to understand.
Has anyone been arrested or charged yet?
Yes, their “Prophet”, Warren Jeffs who is currently serving his sentence in Arizona and is on trial in Utah.
Go to the link and read some of this....I think I am going to vomit.
Yes, the woman who made the “hushed phone call”
http://www.9news.com/news/top-article.aspx?storyid=90138
Good point.
Very interesting. I don’t expect the cowards cheering the raid to say much about it though.
I read the entire article. It’s very sickening. A man that abuses women and children is not a real man.
They should hang that one.
FIP Ping
Oh, that this MIGHT be someone that COULD have made the call?
Proof?
Sounds like a religion to me.
By the nards? (Is that term only used in Utah?)
The Texas attorney general was on Fox today saying that the children weren’t taken away because of the phone call, but because of what they observed.
They are already in CYA mode.
The Texas attorney general was on Fox today saying that the children weren’t taken away because of the phone call, but because of what they observed.
They are already in CYA mode.
I watched an interview where a kid had been kicked out of the sect two years ago...for watching the news. By the age...I’d judge him to be 17. I sat there and thought what kind of group kicks out members for watching the news? It wouldn’t be the group for me to attend.
Now that we’re starting to see how evil this cult is, I’m going to say I’m still in favor of this raid. I can’t support people who condone child molestation and the treatment of the women in this cult. They might have entered the place because of a hoax call, but once there, they legitimately discovered much that was disturbing and against the law.
Why have the victims been dislocated, separated, and ground through the legal system? It seems to me the obvious decision would have been to leave the mother/child bond in place at the ranch and remove the perps. The charges, however anonymous, are against the males of the community. Is this too simple or am I missing something?
Good for them.
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