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Lyle Jeffs, fugitive polygamist, captured in South Dakota after almost a year on the run
salt lake city tribune ^ | June 15, 2017 | NATE CARLISLE

Posted on 06/15/2017 8:39:43 AM PDT by Morgana

Lyle Jeffs, who was among 11 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints indicted in what prosecutors have called a conspiracy to defraud a federal food stamp program, was captured late Wednesday in South Dakota.

Few details of the capture were immediately provided. An online log at the Minnehaha County, S.D., jail lists Jeffs as an inmate. He is being held without bond.

The FBI Field Office in Salt Lake City sent a tweet Thursday morning saying Jeffs was arrested in South Dakota about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. The FLDS has a compound in South Dakota, though it is on the opposite side of the state — almost 400 miles away from where Jeffs was booked into jail.

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TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Other Christian
KEYWORDS: flds; lylejeffs; mormon; southdakota
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He going down.
1 posted on 06/15/2017 8:39:44 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

fugitive polygamous?

When we are dealing with such hatred, violence and perversion as we are, do we have time to be concerned with polygamy? Does the guy beat his wifes? Or use them to qualify for welfare benefits?


2 posted on 06/15/2017 8:43:14 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Morgana

At one point he had 9 wives at the same time.

Prison can’t do to him what he’s already been through...


3 posted on 06/15/2017 8:44:04 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Redmen4ever

Might be child abuse, stemming from ‘marrying’ child brides.


4 posted on 06/15/2017 8:44:29 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: Morgana
in what prosecutors have called a conspiracy to defraud a federal food stamp program

Probably abbreviated the name of the state on the application form.

5 posted on 06/15/2017 8:46:52 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Morgana

Running away from all those wives.

(You’d run, too.)


6 posted on 06/15/2017 8:47:27 AM PDT by Fido969 (IN!)
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So, is polygamy ok only when muslims do it?


7 posted on 06/15/2017 8:49:32 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: Redmen4ever
Or use them to qualify for welfare benefits?

Didn't read the article did you?

8 posted on 06/15/2017 8:54:01 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: lacrew

According to this wikipedia entry, he is wanted for child labor, as his children harvest nuts on his pecan ranch. (I though there was an exemption

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_Jeffs

I though there was an exemption for child labor in agriculture.

Parental Exemption from the Agricultural Provisions of the FLSA
A child of any age may be employed by his or her parent or person standing in place of the parent at any time in any occupation on a farm owned or operated by that parent or person standing in place of that parent.

see p. 3 of:

https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/childlabor102.pdf

BUT … are these children his children (because the law doesn’t recognize polygamy)?

So, not that I have thoroughly researched the matter, the issue is plain and simple polygamy. Not child or spousal abuse, or welfare abuse, or child labor per se.


9 posted on 06/15/2017 8:56:09 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Drango

Welfare abuse. BINGO!

I’m against that. And, there IS a lot of that going around. NBA players, Somalis. Lots of impregnators and impregnatees working the system. Deport the foreigners (the easy part) and take away the children of parents who cannot raise them (we won’t be able to do this any time soon, but this should be our goal).

CAUTION EXPLICIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzspsovNvII


10 posted on 06/15/2017 9:02:40 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Redmen4ever

Yes.


11 posted on 06/15/2017 9:03:44 AM PDT by rightazrain ("Suppose you were an idiot...suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself" -Mark Twain)
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To: Redmen4ever
>>When we are dealing with such hatred, violence and perversion as we are, do we have time to be concerned with polygamy?

You mean like when it concerns the dominionist frauds America's Islam?

"Jeffs and the other defendants were arrested in February 2016 as part of a federal raid on FLDS offices and two businesses suspected of converting benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program into cash. Jeffs and other leaders were accused of teaching FLDS members to donate those benefits to the church."


12 posted on 06/15/2017 9:10:52 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Redmen4ever

>>not that I have thoroughly researched the matter

Or actually read the article.


13 posted on 06/15/2017 9:13:12 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Morgana

Good. Now, go after the muzzard polygamists doing the same thing and then deport them.


14 posted on 06/15/2017 9:22:38 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: SeeSharp

>>Probably abbreviated the name of the state on the application form.

“converting benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program into cash.”

What does this (aside from meaning you didn’t read the article) mean, probably?


15 posted on 06/15/2017 9:22:55 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: HLPhat

I was just being sarcastic. The ATF used to fine gun dealerships for allowing gun buyers to abbreviate state names instead of spelling them out on their background check applications.


16 posted on 06/15/2017 9:29:36 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: HLPhat

In making a the point the polygamy per se pales in significance compared to hatred and violence, I asked a question.The question implicitly acknowledged that matters sometimes connected to polygamy are important.

When you pointed out the location of the answer was to the question, I looked there. I said, bingo. acknowledging you point. Now you are trying to score another point. I, having demonstrated my fairness in assessing points, say no. My remark concerning quick research, pertained to the possibility of child abuse, which was brought up by third person, not to welfare abuse.

Now, as to reconciling the original reason the man was sought after (child labor), with the reason he was sought after while on the lamb (welfare abuse), possibly it’s because he couldn’t support his family while being a fugitive.

I’ll just say that welfare abuse complicates an appeal to the courts. If he allowed himself to be arrested on a child labor violation, he could have appealed the violation given recent changes in our understanding of people’s Constitutional rights to marry (equal protection). But, now with two violations, such an appeal becomes problematic.

Over the years, I have worked with people who have been victimized by the state. Men who have been treating very unfairly in support and custody cases. Tax resisters. Freedom of speech cases. My rule in these cases is only break one law at a time.


17 posted on 06/15/2017 9:40:01 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: SeeSharp
The ATF used to fine gun dealerships for allowing gun buyers to abbreviate state names instead of spelling them out on their background check applications.

Was that in addition to requiring serial numbers on cartriges???
was the U.S. Postal Service ever fined?? I am sure they were one of the Federal Agencies which bought up billions of units of ammunition for...?

Hmmmm. "Shall not be infringed...
Let me think...

18 posted on 06/15/2017 9:44:35 AM PDT by publius911 (Less Tweets More Golf! it works!!!)
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To: publius911; SeeSharp

I’m pretty sure that the thing you mentioned was a plot device in the awesome novel Unintended Consequences.

It was an awesome novel because the evil people got what was coming to them in the end.


19 posted on 06/15/2017 10:13:38 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: Redmen4ever

>>I have worked with people who have been victimized by the state.

Uhuh. Well I hope your reading comprehension and attention to detail are better in that context than what you’ve demonstrated here.

Furthermore, Polygamy contributes to cultural fracturing and tribalization.

Ponder that in the context of both America’s Islam and the Middle East’s implementation.


20 posted on 06/15/2017 10:15:55 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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