Yep.
Posted on 07/14/2008 11:33:06 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy
Posted: 6:51 PM- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will take his quest for a federal investigation of a polygamous sect before the Judiciary Committee next week.
The Nevada Democrat requested and received the July 24 hearing before the committee, during which he will present evidence to support a federal crime investigation of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a spokesman said.
Jon Summers, who works in Reid's Washington, D.C., office, said Reid and others are set to testify.
"He is trying to step up federal enforcement against abuses that often occur in these polygamous sects," Summers said Monday.
Reid has pushed for several years to get the U.S. Attorney's Office to form a federal task force to look at polygamous sects and has renewed that effort because current Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey "seems more receptive to it," Summers said.
"We have the states working together to combat this, but assistance from the federal government could also be helpful to protect women and kids," he said.
For those of you who missed the tank-looking vehicle and the sniper, here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAYWWPWzgzk
Senator Reid continues to make a complete fool out of himself in front of the whole world.
When I watch C-spann and this little,whiny, pathological liar speaks he makes my skin crawl.
I bet at family reunions the adults do not allow him any unsupervised interaction with the little kids.
He is a creep.
This guy should not be in the Senate! Nevada should recall this
idiot. There are a lot more important things to look into. Maybe the government stepped over their bounds!
I was expecting an investigation of the investigation. LOL
Cleanface is at it again.
As gas approaches $5, THIS is the most important subject for Reid?
Harry Reid is a multi millionaire....he doesnt care about us peasants.
++++++++++++++++++++
The tank-looking vehicle is called an armored personal carrier.
No big cannon, like a tank,
just a large machine gun mounted on top.
Has there been any hard evidence about the child brides?
It really bothers me to have to come to the defense of some people that I find very repugnant, but Harry Ried, a man who is questionable on the issue of treason or sedition, now wants to take legal action against folks who have already had their Fourth Amendment rights violated.
Harry, screw you, you rotten bastard. We have law enforcement in this nation. We have a court system. And we have a U.S. Constitution.
What do you say we allow the tried and true means we have used for over 200 years to obtain justice, and you sit down and shut the hell up.
True, but he does care about actually having to address real issues like our energy situation. So he’s doing his best to avoid it. That’s why he has to look for some issue where he can look like a big friend to young girls or children for the Oprah crowd.
Instead he looks like a bonehead who hasn’t clue one when it comes to the justice system.
Well, well! Looks like Dingy Harry finally got one right!
Yep.
Don’t you have anything better to do than taunt FReepers with this fluff?
Take up knitting why don’t ya!
Thank you for posting this article.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will take his quest for a federal investigation of a polygamous sect before the Judiciary Committee next week.
The Nevada Democrat requested and received the July 24 hearing before the committee, during which he will present evidence to support a federal crime investigation of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a spokesman said.
Jon Summers, who works in Reid's Washington, D.C., office, said Reid and others are set to testify. "He is trying to step up federal enforcement against abuses that often occur in these polygamous sects," Summers said Monday.
Reid has pushed for several years to get the U.S. Attorney's Office to form a federal task force to look at polygamous sects and has renewed that effort because current Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey "seems more receptive to it," Summers said.
"We have the states working together to combat this, but assistance from the federal government could also be helpful to protect women and kids," he said.
Reid sent Mukasey a letter in April asking for his help in fighting "pervasive criminal activity" occurring in polygamous groups - specifically, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Over the past two decades, the states of Utah and Arizona have prosecuted cases of sexual abuse, bigamy and sexual conduct with minors. The U.S. Department of Labor also has cited some FLDS businesses for violating child labor laws.
Reid contends that the FLDS are an organized crime syndicate that has engaged in bribery, extortion, fraud, embezzlement, witness tampering and labor violations. He wants the Justice Department to launch a federal racketeering investigation.
U.S. Attorney for Utah Brett Tolman has resisted that idea, saying that the federal government already is working with the states to investigate crimes in polygamous sects. Reid's office is helping to line up witnesses, including Stephen Singular, author of a book about the FLDS called "When Men Become Gods;" Pennie Peterson, a former FLDS member; Dan Fischer, a former FLDS member and Utah businessman who has funded lawsuits against the sect; and the attorney generals of Utah and Arizona.
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff also has pushed for a racketeering investigation of the FLDS.
"He has asked the federal government to help deal with allegations of federal crimes," Paul Murphy said, who said Monday he was unsure if Shurtleff would appear before the committee.
Rod Parker, a Salt Lake attorney and FLDS spokesman, said the Senate committee should give equal time at the hearing to sect members.
"The important point is if they really want to find out what is happening, they need to hear from both sides," Parker said. "They can not take at face value these accusations. A lot of them are unfounded and the people making they don't know what they are talking about."
FLDS member and spokesman Willie Jessop was more blunt.
"I think the people they are calling [to testify] have the same amount of credibility as Rozita Swinton," said Jessop, referring to the Colorado Springs woman whose hoax call triggered a raid on a Texas ranch occupied by the sect.
Meanwhile . . .
An arrest warrant has been issued for Rozita Swinton — a person of interest in phone calls that might have sparked a raid on a polygamist group in Texas — after she didn't show up in court on the charges of violating probation.
Swinton, 33, failed to attend a hearing in Douglas County District Court on Monday for one of two false-reporting cases against her in Colorado. Court administrator Lori McKager said an arrest warrant was issued.
Swinton, of Colorado Springs, is accused of violating her probation stemming from her 2007 guilty plea for telling police she was a 16-year-old girl who was suicidal after giving birth.
Authorities have linked her to a phone number used to call a Texas crisis center that might have led to the raid in which more than 460 children were removed from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado, Texas.
Swinton faces jail time if found guilty of violating probation.
” FLDS member and spokesman Willie Jessop was more blunt.”
“I think the people they are calling [to testify] have the same amount of credibility as Rozita Swinton,”
Yeah, let’s see.
Rozita vs. Dr. Fischer
Dr. Fischer used to be an FLDS member. He takes in runaways from the FLDS and provides them a home and food. He is surrounded by ‘witnesses’ who have told him of what happened at the various FLDS sects, and YFZ Ranch.
Rozita studied books on the Mormons, FLDS, and books by Carolyn and Flora Jessop.
I’m going with the guy who was ‘inside’.
Don’t forget, Rozita is LDS herself.
Thank you for reminding me.
She wasn’t FLDS, though.
She did, allegedly, harbor a grudge against the FLDS because of their ‘racial’ policy.
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