“I hold with my opinion that when one says cultists are ready to spill and kill, it is reasonable (as well as helpful to the reading public) to offer substantiation of the claim.”
So, someone must die first, before we can take this lady’s ‘claim’ seriously?
Even though, other FLDS members who escaped ,tell the same story, even though some who haven’t escaped, tell the same story?
Even though, her ‘claim’ is supported by written documentation where the GODKING Warren Jeffs has decreed this to be his law?
That is what ‘substantiation’ means.
Conclusive Proof is what you get when you find the dead bodies.
No one is being charged with murder, as of yet, but it substantiates the underlying problem, and the reason for this whole discussion, and that is that the children were in a DANGEROUS ENVIRONMENT, and TEXAS WELFARE, CPS, and LE, are trying to correct that.
Once more. Last time.
This is not about the merits of the woman's claim. If it has merit it should have been easy for her to add "because." Because they have done this or that. Because their leader has authoritatively said they WOULD shed blood or kill. Quote him.
And the reporter should have asked her, simply, "Why do you say that?"
Then we'd all know more than we did yesterday, which is, or was once, the raison d'etre of the newspaper.