Gestapo? Where have we heard that before?
I think we have some “Danites,” or avenging angels right here on FR.
That’s what I think!
Freepers shouldn’t feel more than a twinge of identification with these cultists. We don’t practice breaking the law under the cover of super-secret religious rights. We are in general, rule followers who bring the truth out into the open as we question, push and advocate for change of illogical laws and anything less than forthright, even handed enforcement of the law.
Don’t let anyone lump us in with deliberate polygamists and advocates of child marriage, either. The great majority of Texas Freepers supported our Defense of Marriage Act and Constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. A lot of us fought to protect our daughters and sons by standardizing the age of consent.
Neither should anyone malign the law enforcement in Texas, including the CPS workers. Everyone tried to follow the law, step by step. Before the Texas Supreme Court ruling and even since, lawyers have been debating the fine point of the definition of “household” in a communal setting with illegal polygamist adults and children who aren’t sure who their biological mothers and siblings are. By looking around in the light - even before the safes were opened or any DNA tested - their eyes gave evidence of girls who were pregnant and/or mothers while under age as well as many more women who were joined to illegal and immoral “marriages” while under the age of consent, but have passed their 18th birthday. (What is the statute of limitations for child rape and polygamy, I wonder?)
The dispute is whether the girls and children should have been moved without a warrant issued for each mother or to place the limits on them that the TxSC listed.
Many of us question whether it was appropriate to allow the mothers to leave and stay with their children. This is not the usual practice when children are removed from abusive homes. One of the early articles mentioned that the families were taken to family shelters set up for victims of domestic abuse. Letting the moms go with the children was probably a compassionate decision. (and another example that no good deed goes un-punished.)
On the threads about the DC police blocking off whole neighborhoods, only letting those with the proper papers, showing that they live or have other "legitimate business" in the area, in?