(TX) Senate Panel Suggests Taking FLDS Sect's Assets to Cover Costs

Star-Telegram ^ | May. 21, 2008 | JOHN MORITZ

[heywoodubuzzoff]

Local rumor is that there is natural gas or petroleum suspected on their land —

[Blood of Tyrants]

$4,100 per month PER CHILD? Who says that government is wasteful and inefficient? </sarc>

[Blood of Tyrants]

So what if they lied to the owners about what they were going to do with the property? After they bought it they are entitled to do whatever they liked with it. That is the whole idea of “private property”.

[org.whodat]

Albert Hawkins, the state's executive commissioner for health and human services.

Yes I'm sure they are keeping a two bit commissioner up to date. NOT!

[padre35]

That article contains one factual error (at least) “A tip from a anonymous caller”.

Nope, it was some woman in AZ who called 911 and lied like a rug about the sect, that should not be simply glossed over.

Add in the Appeals Court saying the DHS was in error by removing all of the children even ones that were of legal age, and this just gets uglier.

[Blood of Tyrants]

But according to the state of Texas, it costs $4,100 PER CHILD PER MONTH to care for and feed them.

[org.whodat]

I don’t agree with the FLDS on any level. I think it’s creepy, but if the state can’t prove abuse,

And how many young girls have kids on the ground are on the way, some both. Don't have to many brain storms you may rupture something.

[Spunky]

".....so let them reimburse the state of Texas for the expenses incurred by their child abuse."

To my knowledge their has been NO evidence of child abuse.

[Wallace T.]

If the Texas Supreme Court upholds the decision of the Third Court of Appeals, the CPS will be forced to return the children to the FLDS. The ensuing lawsuits will cost the state of Texas hundreds of millions of dollars when the dust settles. What is more, the overreach involved and the resultant embarrassment and costs will further alienate voters against the Texas GOP, which has been burdened by the big government schemes of Governor Perry on areas like toll roads and mandatory vaccination of school girls against a sexually transmitted disease. Even now, Senator John Cornyn is only six percentage points ahead of a relatively unknown Democrat challenger. For the first time since the early 1990s, the Republican hold on the Lone Star State may be loosened.

The GOP's record in Texas and nationally exemplifies the adage that power corrupts.

[Oztrich Boy]

"Why should we be footing the bill when they've got assets?"

Darn tooting. If heretics want a trial they can pay for it

Inquistion Rules

[lainie]

BUMPS to THAT.

[Tennessee Nana]

But according to the state of Texas, it costs $4,100 PER CHILD PER MONTH to care for and feed them.
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Well then it seems cheaper to leave the children where they are...

The cult spends millions at the compound...

And err...

Source please ?????????????

[kittymyrib]

You are wrong on all counts. I am a grandmother who knows that no adult has the right to abuse a child for any reason. Dumping boys on the side of the road so they don’t provide competition for the older men who are building their harems is child abuse. Forcing young teen girls to have sex with middle-aged men is child abuse. Former FLDS women have documented both of these despicable practices in books and in television interviews.
As a Christian, it is my responsibility to speak for “the least of these,” because Jesus makes it my responsibility. If some weird group wants to have child sacrifices, are we to “live and let live” because they “have the pursuit of happiness by one’s own understanding?” That is an absurd abdication of one’s responsibility to society, and would result in the law of the jungle, where the young and the defenseless would be the victims.

[commonguymd]

Are you a dingbat? If you buy property, it doesn’t matter what the heck you do with it if within zoning. Are you so freaking ignorant that you would try to assert that was a problem or hahahahah funny and forgot to put your sarcasm tag on your post. Really. I can’t believe people are so stupid on property rights.

[anymouse]

Actually the hoax caller was in CO not AZ.

[brityank]

Sounds very like the Chinese government.

Shoot the one they've convicted and given the death penalty to -- then bill their family for the charges, including the cost of the bullet!

[NittanyLion]

This is no different than seizing other fraudulently obtained assets. The FLDS lied to the owners of the property and told them they would be putting in a hunting operation, knowing full well that no one would sell their land to a cult.

So what? It's private property - there's no responsibility to tell the truth about intended use of land when making a purchase.

[Jet Jaguar]

How many children were being abused?

[org.whodat]

This is a lawyer’s dream of people suing the government.

Flunked out of law school did you???

[machenation]

I heard the Chicom government sends a bill to the parent's of an executed criminal for the cost of the bullet. Fancy that.