Too many FLDS members apparently signed up on FR to take anything for granted any more.
So these women are given a reprieve from their concentration camp like existence for a while and people are up in arms. These women are not being charged as criminals and they have not been put in jail.
It is simply beyond my comprehension that anyone would think that these women and children are better off there than free of it.
People can cry Constitutional rights and precedent all they want but I don’t see for a minute that this is what the First Amendment was meant to protect.
If I were in that situation, I would be GLAD for someone to come and rescue me, and I’d be furious at those who claim to be self-righteously more worried about their *freedom* than the crimes that were going on against me. What a callous, uncaring attitude.
“Oh, we can’t do something about them (who are in slavery) because some day it might, maybe, someday, possibly be used against (already free) me and I wouldn’t want to end up having the government tell me what to do.” (Never minding that these women have had their slave owners telling them what to do for their whole lives.)
The hypocrisy is mind boggling. It’s OK for one group (the cult) to control others but not OK for a different group (the government) to control others?
I guess I fail to see the logic because there is none.
I think it’s a combination of wanting this to fail and maybe some think it’s nobody’s business. Or like one poster said “It’s every man’s dream”.
You and I will have to agree to disagree on that. Cases like this are exactly how the rights of all are infringed on, and eventually eroded away. LEO and courts are not allowed to change or bend the rules in order to go after anyone, no matter how serious their crime. They should not be able to do so in this case either.
If nothing else about this concerns you then you might want to think about all the criminals who are set free because their rights were violated and proper procedures not followed. Will you be as happy about the way things are being done here if the criminals in this case walk away scott free because of the way things were handled?
I don’t know if media reports are even true- I trust the media less than I trust most others. If the report of the judge ordering the women’s phones confiscated and the way some of the other parts of this have been handled, and they are not under arrest or other lawful detention then it is likely the case won’t hold up, and is possible some guilty people will be able to get out of paying the price for their crimes.
The children are out of there, and in the custody of Child Protective Services, that is the important thing. Now authorities need to be cautious and take their time to do this investigation the correct way so anyone they do charge will likely be convicted and the conviction will hold up. That’s their job and it is what I expect the authorities to do in this case.