I admit I’m suspicious of government, but I’m not an anarchist. I just don’t trust government. It’s not that government officials are evil. No, I don’t doubt most of them want to do the right thing and think they are doing good deeds. Nevertheless, bureaucrats wield a very terrible power, one that we citizens must carefully monitor and keep in check. Honestly, there is no form of tyranny that can’t be justified by the phrase, “I only want to help you.”
I don’t really think the government has an agenda here beyond getting the facts. Nevertheless, the power to round up hundreds of children and subject them to foster care and interrogations by social workers bothers me. The goal may be worthy, but the process irks me as being too authoritarian. I at least entertain the possibility some of these folks are innocent.
I entertain the possibility that not every member of the cult participated in child molestation or sexual assault of underage youths. And yet they remained there, wilfully subjugated themselves to the power of the child-molesting-enabler "prophet" Warren Jeffs. They had to know that their own children would eventually become fodder for the grandiose schemes of the cult. I'm not sure that's a good sign of their ability to raise their own children in safety.
It's the same power they have to round up two or three kids.
The magnitude of what happened here is really all that's different from most child abuse investigations.
People seem more horrified because it's happened to so many. If it's the principle, the horror should apply to ALL cases of taking children.
The recent NM case didn't seem to result in the same level of outrage, and yet it's virtually identical to this, except for the scale.
Maybe not even identical. I didn't hear whether or not they got warrants for that case.