Hundreds of children and scores of mothers have been separated from each other for two weeks and no end is in sight. The State of Texas is exceeding its authority and we have seen little proof of more than a few child mothers. Even under age mothers should be with their natural children as long as the adult man who is the father is restricted from abusive contact.
Its time for writs of habeas corpus, ‘the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action.’ Harris v. Nelson, 394 U.S. 286, 290-91 (1969).
Just about all of the various media reports about the fLDS "lost boys" (turned-out teen boys) show that the exile of teen boys within this sub-culture is an ongoing turnstile. (I find it rather sad that the johnny-come-lately emotion-based crowd has rarely cried any tears for these male teen Joe Doe Mormons...who for them, there never was any end in sight).
The State of Texas is exceeding its authority and we have seen little proof of more than a few child mothers.
The last reports I saw last weekend were: 5 pregnant underaged girls; 10 women who were impregnated as minors several years ago. (More than enough initial evidence of systematic rape)
I find it hard to believe that so many folks go out of their way to protect hardened systematic pedophiles who abuse their authority. Here so many people, including FReepers spoke out against abusive Roman Catholic priests. (Can you imagine the outcry if even just one of these priests lived in an fLDS like dorm with so many minors present?)
Here so many FReepers don't defend the onslaught of male & female educators every month around the country (there's been literally DOZENS of such threads) who abuse their authority & commit statutory rape, molestation, inappropriate e-mails with students.
So while the RC priests & the educators don't get such high-velocity advocacy from the "due-process" and anti-govt folks, the fLDS leaders who...
...order which minors to marry which already-married men (illegal pedophilia--statutory rape);
...order which older teens to marry which already-married men (illegal activity of polygamy);
...engage in solemnizing these mock weddings...
...all receive plenty of octane from the immoral, amoral libertarians.