[Politicalmom]

“Where’s my teeny violin?” Ping!!!

FReepmail to be added to the FLDS Eldorado Legal Case Ping List

[Still Thinking]

Jeffs inherited the leadership of the breakaway Mormon sect from his father, Rulon Jeffs, who at the time of his death in 2002 had 19 or 20 wives and about 60 children.

The religion is run by a guy named after a plastic?? That's so funny, I have to tell my friend, Teflon Jones.

[T. P. Pole]

in a desert town that was once the home of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

What? Why does that matter?

[P-Marlowe]

Jeffs' legal defense has at times raised eyebrows in the courtroom, including when his lawyers argued that incest could not be prosecuted as a crime because the case involved a child.

I'm speechless.

[river rat]

I wonder if Jeffs has become the “wife” of anyone in prison?

[JustaCowgirl]

"He's not doing well in prison at all. If he continues to starve himself ... he'll eventually kill himself," said Jessop.....

[Zakeet]

Jeffs' legal defense has at times raised eyebrows in the courtroom, including when his lawyers argued that incest could not be prosecuted as a crime because the case involved a child. "In addition, the participants to these alleged acts are not full first cousins ... but rather first cousins of the half-blood, and therefore do not fall within the reach of the incest statute," defense lawyers argued in court records.

Question to all Latter-day Saints ...

Was Joseph Smith committing incest when he married three pairs of sisters, and a mother and her daughter?

Or does your Church excuse this conduct by virtue of some similar type of legal technicality?

Ps. You can see an annotated list of Joseph's plural wives HERE.

[SkyPilot]

'He was a creep'

[MizSterious]

I saw the video where he admitted he is not a prophet and has committed acts that were evil. Good start, but I’d like him to list them all and admit his wrongdoing on each.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

bkmk

[ukie55]

"He's not doing well in prison at all. If he continues to starve himself ... he'll eventually kill himself," said Jessop, author of the book Escape, which chronicles her life in and out of polygamy.

*yawn*

[GovernmentShrinker]

Those who come to see him are usually his wives from Texas who, one sect expert said, have a "vested interest in his retaining his leadership." . . . Jeffs is getting his news from women who have little sway in the male-only hierarchy of the FLDS and its sprawling compound near Eldorado, in West Texas.

What difference does it make who's bringing the information? Those women will say exactly what the male leaders tell them to, so Jeffs would be hearing the same thing whether his visitors were his wives or male leaders.

I'm sure his control is waning, but not because he isn't getting information or giving orders based on it (I've read that he uses a lot of his phone time to talk to the male leaders). But his prophecies about the wonderful imitation Zion that YFZ would be, isolating members from "contamination" by the evil outside world, obviously aren't coming true. Jeffs told his hand-picked followers that they'd all (especially the women and children" be kept "pure" when they moved to this compound. Instead, every single one of the children, and some of the adult women are now living on the evil outside under the control of evil outsiders. And their temple -- the first such building erected by the cult, and hugely significant -- has been raided by law enforcement and had a lot of its "sacred" records carted off. Even the hard core believers won't be nearly as eager to follow any of his future orders, as they were to follow his order to move to Texas and build "Zion".