Posted on 07/13/2008 8:34:52 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy
Custer County's sheriff is taking a stand.
"We don't want them here," Fred Jobe says of the polygamists who quietly are settling onto his turf. "I just don't want them to think they're gonna move in and take over the county."
As Jobe tells it, followers of Warren Jeffs' Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have moved into four compounds in Custer County and two in Fremont County. The extent of their influx into south-central Colorado is unclear because few outsiders have been let inside the sect's secrecy fences.
Many locals are wondering why they don't see frumpy-frocked women, their octogenarian husbands and broods of children in town.
"Why don't we run into them in the grocery store, the post office? Why don't they support our businesses?" asks Jane Thomas, who lives yards from a compound near Westcliffe.
If this doesn't scare you half to death, nothing will. They even admit it's a witch-hunt. The poor FLDS children are in for it unless the Constitution is allowed to protect them.
“With rapt applause from her audience, she went further by mocking the religion, which she likens to the Taliban, and deriding its minions as unChristian followers of polygamous Old Testament Jews. “
Ouch. Do I detect a bit of antisemitism here? Please read the entire article to see that the journalist is somewhat shocked.
“Why don’t they support our businesses?” asks Jane Thomas”
Well Jane, folks like this tend to be quite self sufficient. That could be why ya whiny little P.I.N.A.
I am studying for a CLEP test for U.S. History since 1865 to the present and I came across an interesting bit of history. These well meaning do-gooders (you know holier-than-thou) got a bright idea on how to deal with the “Indian problem”. They rounded up ALL the children on the reservations and dumped them in White run boarding schools. Wouldn’t allow them to speak their language or practice any of their Indian ways; destroyed their culture; made them dress like white Americans; cut their hair; separated the kids from their families. No exceptions. Many of the kids suffered tremendously, if not all. They used to do the same thing to deaf, deaf/blind, blind children. All in the name of Christian good works.
It just reminded of what is happening to the FLDS right here in my America.
Translation, we can look the other way no mater what you are doing if you bring money...
Did this article give you just a little bit of uneasiness deep in the pit of your stomach?
Yeah, right.
No Sandy you read the whole story. It appears with your every post that you ignore those who have left and what they have to tell us.
I wonder sometimes if you do not post these stories from inside the compound.
Is everyone on this thread a Warren Jeffs follower?
These people hold women and children in slavery just like Islam does.
America doesn’t stand for that, remember?
they’d be among similar folks in iraq,
and no one would pay much attention.
am studying for a CLEP test for U.S. History since 1865 to the present and I came across an interesting bit of history. These well meaning do-gooders (you know holier-than-thou) got a bright idea on how to deal with the “Indian problem”. They rounded up ALL the children on the reservations and dumped them in White run boarding schools. Wouldn’t allow them to speak their language or practice any of their Indian ways; destroyed their culture; made them dress like white Americans; cut their hair; separated the kids from their families. No exceptions. Many of the kids suffered tremendously, if not all. They used to do the same thing to deaf, deaf/blind, blind children. All in the name of Christian good works.
My husband is a native american and he personally is quite glad that they rounded them up and educated and mainstreamed his ancestors. He is quite thankful that he lives in a HOUSE and not a wigwam AND he really likes his car and other “WHITE” amnities.
Is everyone on this thread a Warren Jeffs follower?
These people hold women and children in slavery just like Islam does.
America doesn’t stand for that, remember?
I’m with you!!! I know that most here will say they are no fans of the FLDS and that they are just looking after these peoples rights but I don’t care. What about the rights of the women and children in this CULT??!! They need our help.
Thanks for Post #7. Isn’t this just so in-your-face bigotry?
I am comfortable in my own home in Fresno, thank you very much and I have never met an FLDS. However, if I ever did meet an FLDS human being face to face, I would not spit in their face and try to run them out of town. I would apologize for the way they have been treated in my America.
“These people hold women and children in slavery just like Islam does.”
Do you have proof to back up that claim?
On the other hand, we DO have proof that the TX CPS held adult women against their will and stood gaping as two adult women gave birth. This is called false imprisonment.
The other thing that is ignored is that the M.O. of the FDLS is to have one public wife and the rest resides as single mothers. Those single moms then enroll in every form of public assistance they can qualify for.
I used to wonder that.....but not any more.
Wow! The native Americans who are undisturbed on their own land today and who have fought for and gained self-determination will most definitely disagree with you. And if a bunch of federal/state authorities tried to invade their territory and round up all their children at gunpoint, there’d be heck to pay.
I am fascinated by some of these responses . . . in my America.
“What about the rights of the women and children in this CULT??!! They need our help.”
What about the Constitution?
You, of all people asking for proof of something? You, who on numerous threads have posted the damn'd lie about guns pointed at innocent children. Post a picture of someone pointing a gun at a child during the flds raid and then ask others for "proof".
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