That's CR300 on the top of the picture. The ranch is on what I'd call a flag lot. It doesn't even have frontage on the road but rather through another property.
Posted on 08/04/2008 9:17:05 AM PDT by UCANSEE2
Eldorado, Texas -- For those inside the fence on a West Texas ranch populated by members of a polygamous faith, Wednesday was a holy day.
For those on the outside, it was a day that passed without a hint of the apocalyptic scenario forecast by people in and out of Texas, including some former members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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The ranch now includes 11 dormitory-style residences, several workshops, a chicken coop, a limestone-mining quarry, a cement plant, a garden and crop fields. It has its own ambulance, firetruck and garbage truck, as well as its first grave - that of Barbara Ann Barlow Jeffs, reportedly a wife of Warren Jeffs, who is believed to have up to 70 spouses.
And since Jan. 1, FLDS workmen have been working round-the-clock on a temple, the church's first and the ranch's most visible feature.
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Once the temple is complete, FLDS members from around the country reportedly will travel there to perform their ordinances, or sacred rituals, and then return home, Doran said.
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Doran said if any evidence of a crime surfaces, law enforcement will move in. So far, though, no complaint has been filed and no information of provable wrongdoing has been presented, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at rickross.com ...
I present it for consideration, as it gives a history of legal concerns from the very beginning, and Sheriff Doran's view, back then.
I consider articles written before the April 2008 raid to be a less biased source of information, and worth the time to read.
Here is some older info from Sheriff Doran on the YFZ Ranch and the concerns of Texans.
BTTT
Well, a lot has happened since then. For example, a military style raid and terrorizing round up of over 400 innocent children.
You will be interested to learn that the FLDS ranch property in El Dorado Texas is located right smack dab in the way of the NAFTA “super highway” from Mexico to U.S. The FLDS paid $700,000 for that ranch property, made wonderful improvements, and now the gov’t - and greedy business people - want to yank it right out of their hands, without due process I might add.
I am becoming increasingly alarmed.
That is get those major roadways built and move those trucks and vehicles on through Texas to the borders of OK, AR, LA and alleviate the congestion for the instate locals.
Times a wasting............
Flora Jessop's "Church of Lies: The True Story of Escaping Slavery and Polygamy, and Rescuing Women and Children from the Notorious Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints" will hit bookstore shelves in February 2009. It's being published by Jossey-Bass, a division of Wiley Publishing.
"It's a book about my life, about what I come from and why I do what I do," Jessop told the Deseret News on Thursday. "I think that it's important to know why I do what I do, and for people to know why I'm fighting for these children."
In the book's preface, Jessop said she was one of 28 children born to her father and his three wives. At 8, she said she began being sexually abused and tried to run away throughout her teenage years. She finally left the church about 20 years ago, enduring a rough life until she became an advocate for abused children in polygamy.
Jessop now heads the Phoenix-based Child Protection Project, where she has helped women and children seeking to leave the FLDS communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz. She once proclaimed she'd be willing to go to jail for harboring runaways, if it meant protecting children from abuse.
A fixture on cable-TV shows, Jessop has been highly critical of the FLDS Church, but she also targets government agencies - particularly child protective services - which she has accused of doing nothing about abuse within polygamy.
"We're proud to be publishing Flora Jessop's incredible story, because this brave and articulate lady not only escaped from the sexual abuse and slavery of Warren Jeffs' Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, but she's been the only woman to go back time after time in the dark of the night, at great personal risk, to rescue women and children from this dangerous and notorious sect," publisher Paul Foster said in an e-mail.
Once the temple is complete, FLDS members from around the country reportedly will travel there to perform their ordinances, or sacred rituals, and then return home, Doran said.
It would be interesting to know where the Sheriff got that tidbit of info. Sounds like, if true, they could be performing all their marriages there and what were those Temple beds for?
You posted this exact same statement dozens of times, and it is still wrong.
I posted links and photos of maps showing the YFZ Ranch and UEP Trust properties, which are no where near any highway.
The ‘things’ located right ‘smack dab’ in the way of the NAFTA superhighway are the Sheriff’s office, and the BAPTIST CHURCH.
“For example, a military style raid and terrorizing round up of over 400 innocent children.”
It isn’t the first time it happened. The first time, they kept the children for over a year, and some were never returned.
Here is what the LDS had to say about the FLDS, back then.
The News applauded the action as a needed response to prevent the fundamentalists from becoming “a cancer of a sort that is beyond hope of human repair.”[13]
When the paper later editorialized its support for separating children from their polygamist parents, there was a backlash against the paper and the church by a number of Latter-day Saints, including Juanita Brooks, who complained that the church organ was approving of “such a basically cruel and wicked thing as the taking of little children from their mother.”[8]
The Short Creek raid was the last action against polygamous Mormon fundamentalists that has been actively supported by the LDS Church.[14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Creek_Raid
I have to admit that they excel in construction (I could use a few of them around my property) but where do they get the money?
It's been estimated that they were spending a million a month in cash on building supplies. Where did that cash come from?
These guys and their sons work 24/7 around the ranch - they don't have outside jobs. What is their source of income?
Too much cheap scrub land out there for the gov’t to be taking the greatly improved land/facilites associated with the Ranch. Eminent domain would allow the taking but at market value. Remember the Ranch is the 3rd highest tax payer in the county so their property with improvements has to have a fairly high appraisal value on the tax roles.
"We don't need no steenkin' FACTS!"
Ping
UCANSEE2, you’re talking to a person who couldn’t be bothered to even check out a FReeper’s webpage before calling HER a “dirty old man”. You really expect her to do research?!?!??!
The ‘things’ located right ‘smack dab’ in the way of the NAFTA superhighway are the Sheriff’s office, and the BAPTIST CHURCH.
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THE BAPTIST CHURCH !!!!!!!!!
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The Constitution forbids that ..........
Whatever will we do ??????????
That’s a serious allegation, and of course, I’m sure you have proof?
susie
Why are you confusing things with facts??
susie
YFZ Land LLC, 2420 County Road 300, Eldorado, Texas
That's CR300 on the top of the picture. The ranch is on what I'd call a flag lot. It doesn't even have frontage on the road but rather through another property.
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