Actually, I question the government all the time. I frequent the jack booted thugs threads, and am usually NOT on the LEOs’ side.
THIS case has been handled according to law. People around here act like no warrant has ever been based on a call. Some are based on anonymous calls. Obtaining a deeper warrant because of observed lawbreaking also happens all the time.
I guess if you had seen a whole gaggle of little rape victims, and a bunch of children who couldn’t identify their parents, you would have tipped your hat and left the rapists to get on with it.
They are investigating at this point. I don’t see how you think they could have just left the rape victims there to be raped some more while they toddled off and tried to investigate from the outside.
If they had dragged the men off (illegal), or even asked them to leave, y’all would be screaming about THAT.
If warrants were routinely issued on the basis of an anonymous call (supposedly from another state - like they can't trace a call?) LOTS of us would be in court or in irons today.
It's hard for me to accept that no one (regardless of their bias) sees the linkage between this and Waco...they used the same alibi for search, they presumed that an odd ball cult will have little community support, they didn't bother to build any second level cover - just relied on rumor & expectations to sustain allegations of child abuse.
It may turn out that underage girls are married, literally and / or figuratively, within this sect but remember that one would not be illegal outside and the other raises the Church/State bogeyman that haunts American culture:
So let's let God and Caesar work it out and not pretend that we already know the outcome.
At least this outcome didn't involve screaming bunnies and the National Guard.
This is a bad season for deists, agnostics, and the undecided:
Huckabee's holy rollers turned me off of a lot of today's 'Christian' advocacy, and the rush to convict a tiny spin-off of LDS turns me off of a secular base that would condemn without process.
You never respond to points brought up in a reply. Your default position is to go home the the salacious and prurient rehash of details not yet sourced creditably. For you to ignore what I have said and try to project the most base intentions on me, smacks of being shrill. Do you expect me to respond to:
“I guess if you had seen a whole gaggle of little rape victims, and a bunch of children who couldn’t identify their parents, you would have tipped your hat and left the rapists to get on with it.”
or ignore it and being smeared by my silence? It’s kind of like me asking you when you quit poisoning your parents.
This particular topic, IMO, should be posted and replied to as a Wikipedia entry. Source the statements, to be fact checked.
And yes,:
“If they had dragged the men off (illegal), or even asked them to leave, y’all would be screaming about THAT.”
If it were done illegally, yes I would protest THAT. For the government to use any means to justify an end, is fascism.
For a site like Freerepublic to have so many fascists posting on it surprises me. I kind of got the idea that this was a law and order crowd. It won’t keep me from lurking and posting on occasion.