Posted on 04/06/2008 5:27:22 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Local and state officials entered the temple of a secretive polygamist sect late Saturday, said lawmen blockading the road to the YFZ Ranch near Eldorado.
The action comes hours after local prosecutors said officials were preparing for the worst because a group of FLDS members were resisting efforts to search the structure.
The Texas Department of Public Safety trooper and Schleicher County sheriffs deputy confirmed that officials have entered the temple but said they had no word on whether anything occurred in the effort.
The incursion into the temple caps the three-day saga of the states Child Protective Services agency removing at least 183 women and children from the YFZ Ranch since Friday afternoon. Eighteen girls have been placed in state custody since a 16-year-old told authorities she was married to a 50-year-old man and had given birth to his child.
Saturday evening, ambulances were brought in, said Allison Palmer, who as first assistant 51st District attorney, would prosecute any felony crimes uncovered as part of the investigation inside the compound.
In preparing for entry to the temple, law enforcement is preparing for the worst, Palmer said Saturday evening. They want to have medical personnel on hand in case this were to go in a way that no one wants.
Apparently as a result of action Saturday night at the ranch, about 10:15 p.m. Saturday, a Schleicher County school bus unloaded another group of at least a dozen more women and children from the compound.
Although members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or FLDS, have provided varying degrees of cooperation to the sheriffs deputies and Texas Rangers searching the compound, all cooperation stopped once authorities tried to search the gleaming white temple that towers over the West Texas scrub, Palmer said.
There may be those who would oppose (entry) by placing themselves between law enforcement and the place of worship, Palmer said Saturday afternoon. If an agreement cannot be reached law enforcement will have to as gently and peaceably as possible make entry into that place.
Sect members consider the temple, dedicated by then-leader of the sect Warren Jeffs in January 2005 and finished many months later, off-limits to those who are not FLDS members, said Palmer, who prosecutes felony cases in Schleicher County.
Palmer said she didnt know the size or makeup of the group inside the temple.
The earlier refusal to provide access was even more disconcerting because CPS investigators have yet to identify the 16-year-old girl or her roughly 8-month-old baby among the dozens removed from the compound, Palmer said.
Anytime someone says, Dont look here, she said, it makes you concerned thats exactly where you need to look.
The girl told authorities in two separate phone calls a day apart that she was married to a 50-year-old man, Dale Barlow, who had fathered her child, Palmer said.
The joint raid included the Texas Rangers, CPS, Schleicher County and Tom Green County sheriffs deputies and game wardens from the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Although CPS and Department of Public Safety officials have described the compounds residents as cooperative, Palmer disagreed.
Things have been a little tense, a little volatile, she said.
Authorities removed 52 children Friday afternoon and 131 women and children overnight Friday. About 40 of the children are boys, said CPS spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner.
No further children have been taken into state custody since Friday, when 18 girls were judged to have been abused or be at imminent risk for abuse. CPS has found foster homes for the girls, Meisner said, and will place them after concluding its investigation.
Meisner declined to comment on the fate of the 119 other children and said authorities were still searching the ranch for others Saturday evening.
Theyre in the process of looking, she said. Theyre literally about halfway through.
I can show you where the demons that deceive Joseph Smith are in the Bible.
Shall I?
Bless you heart for effort!:)
Some are more equal...
You are so Obama...
Well... DU said it best: it's all perspective.
She CAN'T see it; because she is inside of it!
Some little sliver has to get outside for a fresh veiw.
It's that old forest/tree thingy.
Well bully for Him!!!
I can show you where monogamy is commanded in the Bible. Can you show me where polygamy is specifically approved or commanded in the Bible?
You said previously in this thread that Polygamy is Biblical and moral. Do you think the Bible approves of everything it narrates?
How many ribs of Adam were used, anyway?
In your opinion, assuming for the sake of argument the general story line, are some of the FLDS men and women guilty of polygamy, or committing adultery and fornication?
Cordially,
Beats having a dull brain.
The demons mock you; for they know YOU have no answer to the question.
That is SO vicious!
He backwards too just like most here are...
Rib shmib, I would like to see Delf prove —using the Bible, not the demonic fabrications of Mormonism— that Moses was committing polygamy when he brought the Ten Commandments to the people (written by the finger of God, not by Moses’s mortal hand, and that’s why the tablets of stone were placed in the stone box of the covenant along with Aaron’s rod that budded and the ephod of Manna!).
Well well well.....personal attack.....followed on the heels of mocking the Scriptures.....tsk tsk...how sinful of you...how demonically inspired. Sinful outburst = oops, missed that 100% perfection mark didn't we????? Now you've gone and done it -- no way to achieve worthiness now since God does demand 100% (James 2:10).........
There you go again, resty...threatening us with your mormon boogieman god.
There you go again, resty...threatening us with your mormon boogieman god.
How can you say mormon boogieman god, when this comes from the Bible!
This shows you react on emotion
Matt 23
34 ¶ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
That was not a personal attack that was an observation of being limited in ones understanding!
Dear Admin Moderator:
I know you are busy, but when you get a minute, please pat DU on the wittle head and tell him "Everything's gonna be all rights, little buddy. Those mean old boogie-mans are just folks sitting at their keyboards. They can't REALLY get you."
Could've fooled me. Am I am not limited as I am able to recognize that Smith was not a prophet of God - Deut 18:22. True limitation is believing his lies!
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