You are exactly right about other compounds. One notable group is the Mexican Mennonites. They are forming several compounds in Southern Kansas which do not vary much from this Texas group.
They are obviously inbred. They resist any formal education. They resist any TV, radio or outside influence. The child death rate is very high, there are scads of retarded and deformed children. The stature of the people is very small, more evidence of inbreeding. In a culture of six foot tall people, five foot tall people stand out. Especially when they dress different, speak a foreign language (Mexican or German) and live in compounds.
One other thing then I’m outta here.
WELFARE—THEY ARE ALMOST ALL ON WELFARE. The FLDS cannot support themselves, and they are major users of welfare everywhere they go. I am thinking that because they are all “unemployed” and receive welfare,that the state feels that they have a larger role to play in some of these decisions.
Oh, great. Sick, perverted, evil, and LEECHES to boot.
Any remotely intelligent and sane society would have shut this down long ago. They're poisoning the land they leech off of. Granted, the kids under 18 may be recoverable with therapy and a good loving normal home; but the rest are most likely beyond the bounds of what any reasonable society should support.
Talk to each of the FDLS members, give 'em a choice to change their ways fly right. Then if they don't want to straighten up, take 'em out back and shoot 'em, along with the other incorrigibles who can't seem to avoid killing, raping, and imprisoning innocent people as a way of life.
Now I'm outta here too...