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Court: Texas had no right to take polygamists' kids 3 minutes ago
AP via Yahoo ^ | 5/22/08

Posted on 05/22/2008 10:46:31 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan

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To: takenoprisoner; humblegunner

There is plenty of evidence to verify the brutality of this cult. Simple pure brutality and cunning evil of the FLDS.

http://www.mazeministry.com/mormonism/polygamy/lostboys.htm


1,241 posted on 05/24/2008 8:41:38 AM PDT by eleni121 (EN TOUTO NIKA!! +)
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To: Utah Girl
Why didn’t they take the men away?

That would take actual evidence sufficient to support arrest warrants. An individual arrest warrant for each man to be taken. Well one physical warrant with all the names on it would be OK, but not a "Good Idea", because the affidavit would have to support arrest of each man individually, and would make the whole warrant subject to invalidation if any part had a problem. With individual warrants, some deficiency in one would not necessarily affect the others.

CPS *thinks* they are not subject to the same sort of Constitutional limitations. But "For The Children" or not, they are and hopefully are about to find that out.

1,242 posted on 05/24/2008 8:45:23 AM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: DannyTN
Mr. Jeffs is already in prison.

What's your point?

L

1,243 posted on 05/24/2008 8:49:32 AM PDT by Lurker (Islam is an insane death cult. Any other aspects are PR, to get them within throat-cutting range.)
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To: eleni121

Is that what you saw this morning when you looked?


1,244 posted on 05/24/2008 9:04:17 AM PDT by Bushwacker777
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

Thanks for the clarification, I stand corrected.


1,245 posted on 05/24/2008 9:28:30 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: eleni121
Narrow minds like yours can’t handle complex issues.

I am the one debating logically, you are engaging in the ad hominem and other logical fallacies. Thats because your opinion is an emotional one and not a logical one. Don't bring an emotion to a thought fight.
1,246 posted on 05/24/2008 9:34:43 AM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: eleni121

Insisting that you actually use facts in your arguments instead of feelings makes me a “moral relativist”?
Save your pity for the poor children who have been terrorized and traumatized by the state in this case.
BTW, condescension is never an acceptable substitute for facts, either.


1,247 posted on 05/24/2008 10:13:57 AM PDT by Awestruck (All the usual suspects)
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To: LeGrande
Did it ever occur to you that this might be a set up? The Church sends a handpicked group of well funded followers and instructs them to rigorously follow the law, knowing that the State is going to do something?

It did to me. It also could be that they saw the Jeffs conviction and knew they were being watched and changed their practices.

Regardless, if they weren't committing crimes, then they shouldn't be harassed.

1,248 posted on 05/24/2008 10:20:29 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: driftdiver

“If you’re looking for my daughter you’d better have a warrant or you’ll be soorreeee.”

Since I stated that already, why do you keep dodging the question?


1,249 posted on 05/24/2008 10:22:58 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (I reserve the right to misinterpret the comments of any and all pesters)
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To: LeGrande

The perversion of the justice system and the civil system is one of the worst—and most often overlooked—abuses we are facing.


1,250 posted on 05/24/2008 10:23:04 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: driftdiver

“hard to tell from the pic but it appears she is really short or really young.”

I’ll help you out. The picture was taken at her ONE YEAR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, and she was 13 years old when the picture was taken.


1,251 posted on 05/24/2008 10:25:27 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (I reserve the right to misinterpret the comments of any and all pesters)
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To: DannyTN
Don't you have your own Girl's Gossip Group thread where you tell stories of how naughty the FLDS is?

This thread is supposedly about Rule of Law and the standards Law Enforcment needs to adhere to.

1,252 posted on 05/24/2008 10:29:10 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Holy State or Holy King - Or Holy People's Will - Have no truck with the senseless thing)
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To: Arkinsaw; eleni121
Thats because your opinion is an emotional one and not a logical one. Don't bring an emotion to a thought fight.

Orwell called it "bellyfeel"

1,253 posted on 05/24/2008 10:30:50 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Holy State or Holy King - Or Holy People's Will - Have no truck with the senseless thing)
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To: Arkinsaw

Ha... do you watch Family Guy? Lois runs for office, used 9/11 to woo undecided voters. When all else fails in your arguments, just throw in 9/11.


1,254 posted on 05/24/2008 10:31:51 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit ((Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding))
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To: takenoprisoner
Do you have some court documents with evidence presented proving this occurs?

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that I am a lawyer proving a case in court.

I'm a person with an opinion, I need no documentation.

1,255 posted on 05/24/2008 10:52:42 AM PDT by humblegunner (Che is Gay)
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To: takenoprisoner

• Earlier this summer, Mohave County Attorney Matt Smith got nine Colorado City men, including Warren Jeffs, indicted by a grand jury on sexual-conduct-with-a-minor charges. Eight of the men were arrested or surrendered to authorities and are now awaiting trial in Kingman. Jeffs, meanwhile, was placed on the FBI’s most-wanted list in August.

• The embattled Colorado City Unified School District — the community’s largest single employer — is expected to be placed in receivership next month at the request of the Arizona Attorney General’s Office. The tiny, 300-student school district is more than $1.4 million in debt, and its three top administrators — all FLDS members — are under criminal investigation for misuse of school funds.

• Two civil suits alleging sexual, physical and mental abuse were filed last year by former FLDS men against Warren Jeffs in Salt Lake City. This is what led to the removal of Jeffs and the other FLDS leaders as trustees of the United Effort Plan. A power struggle over control of the trust’s real estate assets is triggering heated confrontations between FLDS members and former church members.

• Following Utah’s lead, Arizona moved recently to strip police certification from two Colorado City police officers for illegally practicing polygamy. The Colorado City police force has come under fire for failing to arrest men — including a fellow police officer — who have taken underage girls as plural wives.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2005-09-22/news/under-siege/

9/95
Ex-marshal failed to report abuse
Colorado City child cases involved

By Mark Shaffer
Arizona Republic - Flagstaff Bureau

Roundy, who did not return phone messages Friday and Saturday, told Dan Altenes, an investigator for AZPOST, that he did not report the child-molestation indictment last year of David Leroy Steed, 22, or any of the other 20 to 25 child sexual abuse cases he said he had investigated over the years to the Utah Division of Child and Family Services, as required by law. Steed is accused of molesting an 8-year-old girl.

“I didn’t know I was supposed to, to be just frankly honest with ya,” Roundy said during his interview. “They said (it) was protocol, but I didn’t even know about it . . . maybe I’ve been in a Hicksville too long and not looking out at what’s coming in.”

Roundy also acknowledged that he has 15 children with his legal wife, Valerie Roundy, and three children each with his companions, Jennifer Nielsen and Loretta Cooke.


1,256 posted on 05/24/2008 11:50:09 AM PDT by Alice in Wonderland (4-Hshootingsports.org)
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To: UCANSEE2

I always miss the deleted post and then have to try and figure out from the responses what and why. LOL


1,257 posted on 05/24/2008 12:35:45 PM PDT by SouthTexas (If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!)
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To: humblegunner

Hg: “FLDS cultists practice polygamy and marry off little girls to old men...
I’m a person with an opinion, I need no documentation”

There, that fixes it. The first claim above is your opinion and is not based on any known facts.


1,258 posted on 05/24/2008 12:36:00 PM PDT by takenoprisoner (shshshsh, the sheeple are sleeping and do not wish to be disturbed,)
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To: DannyTN

Joseph Smith is dead, Warren Jeffs is in prison in another state. Do you have any pertinent information on the case at hand in Texas or do just like to babble?


1,259 posted on 05/24/2008 12:37:59 PM PDT by SouthTexas (If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!)
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To: takenoprisoner
The first claim above is your opinion and is not based on any known facts.

Right. These upstanding folks have one-man to one-woman marriages and hold jobs.

Sure they do.

You like cults, huh?

Does the idea of many wives, some of them young girls, appeal to you much?

Just sit around, make up religion, suck up welfare and shag your girlies sounds good to you, huh?

You support a cult.

1,260 posted on 05/24/2008 12:46:40 PM PDT by humblegunner (Che is Gay)
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