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12:00 AM CDT on Sunday, May 11, 2008
CALLAHAN COUNTY – In his first sermon after leaving jail, Yisrayl "Buffalo Bill" Hawkins was in classic form: folksy, paternal and apocalyptic. "No, we're not getting ready to kill ourselves," said the prophet of the House of Yahweh, a barbed wire kingdom of brimstone prophecies and abject poverty 15 miles southeast of Abilene. "We're getting ready to live through the greatest tribulation that ever will be." The troubles facing Mr. Hawkins may soon provide Texas' first major test of strengthened anti-polygamy laws, just 150 miles from the national spotlight on Eldorado and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The 73-year-old was arrested and indicted in February – less than two months before raids on the Eldorado compound – charged with four counts of promoting bigamy, made a felony in 2005 after the unrelated FLDS group arrived from Utah.
Excerpt. Read the rest at source: Denton Record-Chronicle.
Interesting article, worth the click to read it especially if you're interested in the legalities of these cases. This case, while not related to the Eldorado case at all, also involves the same kind of nastiness--incest, abuse of child labor laws, plural wives, and characters right out of an Elmore Leonard book.