Posted on 07/23/2009 7:18:00 PM PDT by La Lydia
COLONIA LEBARON, Mexico -- Mormon pioneer Alma Dayer LeBaron had a vision when he moved his breakaway sect of polygamists to this valley 60 years ago: His many children would live in peace and prosperity among the pretty pecan orchards they would plant in the desert. Prosperity has come, but the peace has been shattered.
In the past three months, American Mormon communities in Mexico have been sucked into a dust devil of violence sweeping the borderlands. Their relative wealth has made them targets: Their telephones ring with threats of extortion. Their children and elders are taken by kidnappers. They have been drawn into the government's war with the drug cartels.
This month, a leader of their colony was abducted by heavily armed men dressed as police, then beaten and shot dead 10 minutes from town. Benjamin LeBaron, 31, whom everyone called Benji, had dared to denounce the criminals, while refusing to pay a $1 million ransom demanded by kidnappers who had grabbed his teenage brother from a family ranch in May...
"We're living in a war zone, but it's a war zone with little kids running all around in the yard," said Julian LeBaron, a brother of the slain leader. Like most members of the Mormon enclave, he has dual Mexican-American citizenship and speaks Spanish and English fluently.
These Mormons, some who swear and drink beer, are the latest collateral damage in the Mexican government's U.S.-backed war against criminal organizations.
Here in Chihuahua, the border state south of Texas and New Mexico, conditions are rapidly deteriorating. The violence has left more than 1,000 dead in Ciudad Juarez this year, even though the government has sent 10,000 troops and police officers into the city....
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“American Mormon communities in Mexico “
Wouldn’t that be Mexican Mormon communities in Mexico?
My husband was talking to a guy whose sister lives in Mexico, she was at a beauty shop and a guy was getting a haircut. There was a woman there and she was ragging on the criminals and was going on and on about what should be done to them.
The guy who was getting the haircut paid and left the shop and the lady took the chair, while she was in the chair the guy came back in with a gun, held it at the head of the hairdresser and told her to shave the lady’s head. The hairdresser refused and he told her that if she didn’t both of the women were going to die, so she did it while he stood there with a gun pointed at her head. He told the lady never to talk like that again and when it was over he paid the hairdresser.
That’s just one of the nicer stories that we hear, the others are flat horror stories.
Don’t be surprised if this comes to American.
No. we can’t get our own country back to the real world.
Do you think that these Mormons should get priority in immigration here?
If they’re polygamists, then they are NOT Mormons. The word means something, and that isn’t it.
Are they expatriates who left? I am not going to guess as to why they left America in the first place.
Instead of pushing NAFTA, North American Union, Trans Texas Corridor, illegal alienism...and all that other garbage.....seal the border, shut Mexico off from the US.
A little common sense will keep the Mexican drug from escalating in the USA
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/classics/ervil_lebaron_cult/3.html
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/classics/ervil_lebaron_cult/14.html
One of them, Jacqueline, is still on the FBI wanted list after the Texas murders.
If only I could be in charge. His big mistake was not killing them both and letting them live and see his face. That man needs to be hunted down and then some other things need to happen to him before he dies. Someone has to stand up face these evil scumbags. In the U.S., he might have the good fortune of being shot in the gonads first, kneecaps second and the head third if he pulled a gun on someone like that in public. However, our present government wants to take us to the same state of disarmament and subsequent terrorism that Mexicans have to suffer.
Please ask and find out the city where this occurred. Then PM me and let me know. Thanks.
Odd story - but these folks do pass between the borders regularly & send thier kids to school in the US.
“Bro Bill, your wife was just kidnapped”
“Which one?”
And they are polys
interesting
They all maintain dual citizenship.
Does this mean the Slick Willardbots are going to now call us members of the Mexican Drug Cartels ?
“Mormon” means anybody who calls themself a “Mormon”.
Only a small percentage of the Mormons in this Mexican community practice polygamy, and it’s gradually dying out as they aren’t trying to perpetuate it, and the natural balance of males and females works against it. They don’t belong to any organized church, and just worship and study the Bible and the Book of Mormon informally. There used to be an organized “Church of the First Born” there, but it fell apart in the 1970s when Ervil LeBaron, who was cut from the same cloth as Warren Jeffs, tried to take over from his brother Joel. He murdered a whole bunch of people in his quest to get recognized as Prophet, and the people of Colonia LeBaron don’t seem to have had much interest in an organized church since then.
They are definitely not into the underage marriage scene, and have never practiced forced/assigned marriages. A few years back, a guy from the FLDS tried to move to Colonia LeBaron and brought along 3 wives and an underage wife-to-be, and the LeBaron group turned him away. Last year, when the YFZ ranch was raided, they put the word out that FLDS refugees wouldn’t be welcome (at least not if they were planning to remain involved with the FLDS and its marriage practices).
You got a link for that? I would like to read it as the LeBaron Family is very interesting. Thanks
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