Posted on 04/26/2008 6:56:59 AM PDT by MizSterious
Care of sect could top $5 million
Web Posted: 04/25/2008 11:37 PM CDT
Bus convoys carrying 265 children bound for foster homes around the state pulled out of San Angelo at midday Friday, ending a three-week emergency shelter operation launched in the wake of a raid on a West Texas polygamist sect. The cost of the massive effort, which cared for 462 children and, at one point, more than 100 mothers, could top $5 million, a source familiar with the operation there said. The governor's office said Friday it did not have final cost figures. The job was unprecedented for Texas: 900 people from state agencies and contracting organizations created and staffed a community for the children and mothers. "It was an unbelievable effort. To watch all the moving parts from the get-go was an amazing experience. There hasn't been a point when anyone could stop and take a breath," said Patrick Crimmins, spokesman for Texas Child Protective Services. The costs for San Angelo alone were $60,000 a day for police and other personnel, said Rep. Drew Darby, R-San Angelo. He said he could not guess what the state's cost was but said he "would not be shocked" if the figure was $5 million. "There were very wide-ranging expenses," including hundreds of state workers who traveled to San Angelo, he said.
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True, I’ve never quite understood that though. Like mailing SS checks to another country.
I do have to laugh at all the comments on their dress. Their butts aren't hanging out of their pants, silicone implants falling out of their halter tops, and faces painted like the girls on the street, yep, must be something wrong with them. ;)
U.S. Rep. Kay Granger formally asked Congress on Wednesday to investigate the business ties between the federal government and a polygamist sect that is the focus of one of the largest child custody cases in the nation's history.
In a letter to the House Armed Services Committee, Granger, R-Fort Worth, said more should be known about NewEra Manufacturing. The business, owned and operated by leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, has received more than $1.2 million in military contracts.
More "Bleeding the Beast". I hope all government agencies and capital-J "Journalists" (if there are such) will begin investigating how many millions of tax-payer dollars are filling the FLDS coffers.
No payouts.
Pedophilia is illegal in Texas, and many of the young mothers are already shown to be underage. Here is a tip for you: It didn't have to turn out to be the case that every single mother was underage to vindicate the raid. This is not Waco.
Hidden underneath all that public relations fluff about "families are forever" is the truth that the LDS Church was once exactly like the FLDS Church is now and that the LDS Church intends someday to return to that vile institution of Polygamy.
Bring'em Young.
As the FLDS is now, the LDS once was.
As the FLDS is now, the LDS will become.
Definitely an interesting wrinkle. Given their feelings for the USG, I can only hope their work for the military is up to par and doesn’t get anyone hurt or killed.
What? No reference to testimony about the sect by Caroly Jessup and Brian Jeffs? The defense attorneys acted as if that doesn't exist or isn't relevant?
Oh you mean the truth that exists after you summarily dismiss all the factors that you don't like...
Money........ money......... money
This from the thread about the children being moved to Abilene. The last para of the article reads:
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2008/apr/25/for-now-a-new-home/
....If groups of siblings are separated, it could make visitation for the parents more difficult, she said, adding that finances are not a problem for the YFZ parents....
Don’t tell Fort Worth you can’t drill close to residential property........
http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/060707/bus_060707003.shtml
FORT WORTH - With Fort Worth sitting on one of the nation’s largest natural gas fields, 150-foot drilling rigs are rising over golf courses, churchyards, even tree-lined neighborhoods.....With U.S. demand for natural gas soaring, the city has 500 active gas wells and permits for an additional 225, including 70 now being drilled.
Oklahoma City used to have one right in front of the capitol building. Might still, haven’t been to that part of OKC in awhile now. When it comes to residences, though, there might be restrictions on what can be forced on the homeowners—at least in this state.
from what I’ve read elsewhere, that must be something really new for them!
My guess is the genie is out of the bottle and those children will have other ideas about how they should explore the world.
As the FLDS is now, the LDS once was.
As the FLDS is now, the LDS will become.
Though the LDS Church had disavowed polygamy, it is still enshrined in Mormon scripture (Doctrine & Covenants 132) and some believe it will one day be re-established, if not on Earth, at least in heaven. In his quasi-official 1966 book Mormon Doctrine, which remains in print, the late LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie wrote that "the holy practice will commence again after the Second Coming and the ushering in of the millennium."
And by policy, men can be "sealed" for eternity in LDS temple rites to more than one wife, though women are permitted only a single sealing.
Three of the church's current apostles, for example, were widowed and remarried. Each will have two wives in the eternities.
That’s one thing I have posted about here...during the video tours shown on TV, there were no toys shown, and no playground equipment in view.
Sell the cultranch.
Problem solved.
Break the temple up into 2” cubes and sell them on ebay as souvenirs for $10 a pop...I'd buy one.
Me too!
I'd buy a set of them and arrange them on my coffee table.
Whew! I thought it probably was, but hadn't heard from anyone who knew for sure. I've heard statutory rape is a prosecutable offense in Texas as well. I hope they prosecute the perps to the fullest extent of the law, and then some!
As for the rest of the FLDS folks, I hope they bankrupt the county!
That’s a cool chart! I’ve never seen all the apostate, at least from our point of view, Mormon groups in a chart like that. However, I’ve heard of several of them. What is also interesting about the chart is that I think everyone on it, save Joseph Smith and John Taylor, have been excommunicated from the LDS church. They have the same kind of relationship protestants have with the Roman Catholic church.
Sorry, being an accessory to a crime is also illegal here in Texas. They get nothing.
Perhaps they should have set up shop in California - sounds like they'de have fit right in.
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