ROFLOL!
Dang, but you are gullible.
“Dang, but you are gullible.”
You may wish to know that you just joined a very large group of posters who declared similar things, and yet have turned out to be ‘the gullible ones’.
P.S. I have never known Government Shrinker to be ‘gullible’ in any post I have read.
In what way? Many of the women have now left, with 6 of the 57 who were sent away first accepting the option to go to a women’s shelter instead of back to the ranch, but those 6 soon changed their minds and went back to the ranch as well. No evidence whatsoever that any women were or are being held against their will. Several of the ones who have left have been chattering away to the media (albeit in rehearsed statements as ordered by the male leaders, so it’s not actually “free”, but the state is not the perpetrator of the lack of freedom).
No one, in this or any other case where children have been removed from a home due to suspected abuse, is going to be allowed to use the children as props in media PR campaigns while staying in a shelter with them. These women did not accept offers to speak with journalists away from the children, while they were being allowed to stay in the shelter. However, they did send out cell phone photos to the media, clearing showing the faces of children who are suspected of being victims of sex crimes. Sorry, but that’s just not allowed, and it has nothing to do with their religious practices.
If the state was trying to prevent these women from speaking to the media, they would hardly have sent them back out of the shelter, under no restrictions against speaking to the media. I won’t be surprised, however, if the judge at tomorrow’s hearing issues some sort of gag order, at least to the extent of prohibiting public statements about specific, identifiable children. Adolescent rape victims have a right to privacy.