Posted on 04/25/2008 6:17:33 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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Oh BS! My wife and I were investigated by CPS here in Texas, and it went exactly like this: They received a tip that we were neglecting our kids. Two CPS workers showed up at our house and asked to interview us and the kids. The interview took place. We got a letter later explaining that the complaint was found to be groundless and that was that.
The first shock is the realization that an airport costing Americans $3 million exists in the polygamist-owned Arizona wastelands of Colorado City. It sits “Spielberg-like” north of the Grand Canyon, east of the Colorado River and serves a handful of planes. How and why it materialized is the second shock. But most disturbing is what a town of outlaw cultists might be using an isolated airstrip for under the radar.
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No — federal, state and local money was not thrown to the Colorado City Municipal Airport to bring tourism to the region or because the FLDS polygamists were looking like the “chosen ones” for an extraterrestrial visitation. More feasible is that the remoteness of the airport provides perfect cover for sensitive business traffic along the lines of drugs-for-weapons swaps like we saw in Mena, Arkansas. As Arizona’s “1992 Airport of the Year,” the Colorado City airstrip is also just minutes away from Las Vegas, presenting serious money laundering options.
Lacking even bus service to the nearest town 20 minutes away by road, Colorado City is now only an hour or so by air from the historic Mexican polygamy colonies of Colonia Juarez and Colonia Dublan in the drug infested state of Chihuahua and less than two hours from British Columbia’s Bountiful cult — raising red flags about human trafficking as well as drug trafficking.
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Suzan Mazur: Then Arizona in 1992 declared the airport “Airport of the Year”. And when I spoke to LaDell Bistline, the Colorado City airport manager in 2001, he told me there were only about seven planes kept there, including then-FLDS prophet Rulon Jeffs’ leased jet. What do you suppose the purpose of the Colorado City airport is?
Buster Johnson: When I was first elected to the Mohave County Board of Supervisors in 1996 and before I took office, the people who’d been elected, we all took a plane ride up to Colorado City because I hadn’t been there before. I’m not sure if the others had or not. And we landed at the airport. And the airport was locked in. You couldn’t get in or out without calling somebody at the municipal offices to come and let you in or let you out.
So it wasn’t like open to the public. And I saw the plaque that said “Airport of the Year” and I wondered why because there weren’t any airplanes sitting on the tarmac or hangars for planes to be sitting in.
And coming from a law enforcement background, I thought - here’s a remote airstrip sitting in the middle of nowhere - drug running came immediately to mind.
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Here’s an email from a former Colorado City resident, a son of one of the late “prophets”, regarding strange activities at the airport:
“From what I’ve heard from Colorado City family and other residents about the airport, and there were many witnesses to some of the events - some speak of low flying bombers dropping things, others talk of them landing.
About the same time the airport was built, there were rumors of the state deploying 17 police/rangers in the area. I’ve heard accounts of people out exploring in the nearby desert when they are suddenly stopped by military personal and told to leave.
We have believed for years the military has several secret sites out there. So the bombers are probably more related to the military than to drug dealers. But still, we were all suddenly confused about why the government would put that huge airport there.
When it was built [plans began in 1987], I think there were a maximum of 10 very small airplanes on the tarmac. None of us ever believed it was actually for us.
I mean, the government was investigating the community for fraud; you think they somehow slipped and built an airport for us?
I know that the military uses the area for different types of testing. I saw what I believe was a B52 bomber flying THRU the canyons. Not over, but THRU. I looked up and saw the tail of a huge plane floating above the mountain. When the aircraft appeared from behind the mountain, it wasn’t more than a 100ft above the ground.
If you are familiar with Colorado City, you should know where Maxwell Park is, or at least that’s what it used be called. The bomber was coming down out of Water Canyon, a very narrow pass.
When I first saw it, I thought “they really aren’t going to bomb our town are they?” I was with my senior class, playing volley ball. We all watched it approach, thinking, “Oh my God, they’ve decided to get rid of us!”
When the plane reached the end of the canyon and entered the town, the Earth began to shake. Apparently the pilot didn’t expect a town to be there, or he/she was just messing with us.
When it came down from the canyon, it was completely silent. You couldn’t hear a thing, even though the aircraft was less then a 1/2 mile away. When it hit the edge of town, it opened its engines full blast, arched over the east mountain, then disappeared. For a minute, I thought the world was coming to an end.
But when the airport construction began, we were all shocked at the size. We were told the government built it as an emergency landing strip in case big aircraft needed a spot to land, which didn’t make sense to me since St. George airport is minutes away, as the crow flies.
We all believed the airport was for something else. So when the bombers began to come in, we weren’t sure if they were military or something else. But we realized whoever it was, knew how to fly under radar.
If it was legit government ops, why the need to fly under radar, and come in at night? The bomber I saw in the canyon was in broad daylight, but all other sightings of them at the airport were late evening or most commonly 2am.
My sister lives in Centennial Park, on the southwest border, on a hill top, perhaps a mile from the airport. While I haven’t spoken to her much in recent years, the few times I have, she’s told me of about strange events involving the airport.
One was seeing a bomber actually drop a large package without landing. Another was waking up at 2am and seeing what looked like a sea of police cars, lights flashing, surrounding a bomber on the runway. Nothing about it ever in the news.”
more here:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00059.htm
“Oh BS! My wife and I were investigated by CPS here in Texas, and it went exactly like this:........”
Excuse me again. Your personal experience indicates that is always the case, and my personal experience, being different, is therefore BS?
I see.
“The government told us they put a man on the moon, do you believe that?”
[If that was the only evidence I had? No, I would not believe anything the government said about anything.
But you know as well as I do, it is not because the government said so that we know men went to the moon, and you knew that was a foolish argument when you made it. Desparation does that, you know.
Hank]
Ooooh, Twilight Zone Hank. The Gubermint was lying about Roswell too, we don’t have any evidence they weren’t. And just because there are 25 pregnant girls under 18 in a polygamous community at Eldorado, doesn’t mean a bunch of old men were screwin their neices, does it? (Oh wait, it does!). Gotta protect that Constitution no matter how plain the rape is.
I know because I was born and raised near the community of Short Creek, and this has been going on since my dad was part of the LE that raided it in 1953.
You act as if this is a one time occurance, based upon a specious call, when in fact this group is well known for its abuses.
What do you suggest? That we allow them to continue as they have for over 60 years and hope they learn their lesson to quit abusing girls and children on their own. Do you suggest we abandon those children simply because their rapists and abusers CLAIM it is their right to do so, and actually that it is BEST for the kids.
Do YOU condone this behavior?
This author clearly has not listened to the REAL NEWS STORY about the abuse of women, children, little girls being forced into marriage, etc. 25 of the children were married to old men.
I noticed framed photos of him on all the walls of the cult buildings.
framed photos of WARREN JEFFS
“I noticed framed photos of him on all the walls of the cult buildings.”
Yep, it is the photo that hangs over the children’s beds.
He has already been convicted of rape in Utah and is on trial for more of the same in Arizona and the rapes are all from the supposedly non-existent underage marriage, child rapes that these people think weren’t happening.
I am sure there are horrible stories about CPS. Well, there ae horrible stories about “regular ‘families too. In the state of florida the process I described is what USUALLY happens. CPS does not WANT to remove kids willy nilly...there are so few resources to place them
Maybe if society would put money into foster care and hire enough CPS professional staff these incidents would be less.
But society wants to pretend we take care of our abused children , doesn’t create th funding needed to do it right and then get all sanctimonious when the system breaks down and conveniently blames it on “the state”. Child welfare is a product of society, all citizens, not the “state”.
Instead of railing against the “system”, maybe its time for citizens to become involved in repairing and making the system better. But then, we would have to take responsibility for it, wouldn’t we.
That post covered the heart of the matter, if you get an honest answer to it, please ping me so that I can read it.
thank you for such a reasoned and articulate response.
It seems easier to blame “the state” than it is to support child welfare and try to make the system better.
Looks like we are dealing with hysterics...sometimes it seems like a waste of time to respond to these Maroons, but i love Freeper and want it to continue to be a forum of rational discussion.
Exactly what I've been wondering. I'm astounded at the support here on FR for the fascist government tactics.
On the other hand, perhaps it's not fair to impugn all of FR. It seems like on every FLDS thread there is a small core of government apologists who immediately jump in and accuse everyone who defends our constitutional rights as child rapists. This scares away ordinary posters.
I wonder what the real percentages are of those who support taking hundreds of children away from their mothers based on a single hoax phone call?
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