The name of the place should have been the first warning, The Yearning for Zion Ranch , the second clue should have been the giant white building in the middle of nowhere chock full of young girls, a building Built by first rate pedophile and all around Creepy Creeperson Warren Jeffs. I think it's perfectly reasonable that authorities raided and removed 400 girls from the place. After all Jeff's and his followers are nothing more than a group of sexual predators and victims of said predators, hiding under the guise of religion.
What I find shocking is that authorities waited until a 15 year old girl complained before actually doing anything. And don't give me any freedom of religion or probable cause bullshit either. The Feds and states, especially Texas, have been concocting flimsy cases and acting without probable cause since Christ was in kindergarten. So if they can find away to finagle some inner city drug dealer out of his constitutional rights, they could have done the same in this case.
What we have is a secretive religious compound located in the Texas scrub lands, five miles off of the highway. It is owned and operated by a religious sect known for raising young women to be concubines. The leader was tried and convicted of what is tantamount to child slavery and forced sexual servitude. The women are running around in outfits that make a Laura Ingalls Wilder character look like a Vegas stripper. Did I mention it's in the middle of nowhere and chock full of underage girls? Of course when the question arises as to why the authorities waited so long, the obligatory response will be along the lines of, " We couldn't raid the place until a complaint was made. That would have been a violation of constitutional rights. "
Call me John Stossel's foul mouthed second cousin if you will, but, Give Me a Fucking Break! The real reason Texas and Federal authorities sat on this case had nothing to do with following the letter of the law. It had everything to do with waiting for just the right time to build a case and sensationalize the raid, and nothing to do with protecting the 400 innocent children. No doubt some douchey prosecutor will use this spectacle to further his political career, or some Texas Attorney General will use the Fast Action of authorities as a platform for a gubernatorial campaign down the road.
In the meantime Back at the Ranch, these baby rapers have probably been cracking under age girls panties like pecans at an Amish pie baking party. I really shouldn't make light of the situation, but it is so inconceivable that a group of whack jobs led by this countries most notorious pedophile , Warren Jeffs, was allowed to operate given the groups background. It is both tragically sad and laughable in its absurdity.
I think the real reason is that no one wants another Waco, if there was no Waco they would have done it long time ago.
ReplyDeleteYeah ever since this started all I have read compares it to Waco and government abuse. Personally I think this should have been done a long time ago. It may have spared some of the girls what they went through.
ReplyDeleteAlso kudos for getting Laura Ingalls Wilder and Las Vegas stripper in the same sentence lol.
I saw one of the women on the news this morning that is "fostering" a couple of the children in her home...she said its scary what they've been told about the "outside world" and how they are totally confused about how people *really* are outside the compound. Those poor, poor children. I cannot imagine what they've learned, what they think is right and wrong, and what kind of evil they've been exposed to. Sick.
ReplyDeleteThere are thousands of other people practicing polygamy in this country and I'd venture to guess most of the girls are forced into marriage at a very young age (raped) yet law enforcement rarely does anything about it. There's a lot of "selective enforcement" in this country.
ReplyDeleteForgive me if I'm not gung-ho about the whole situation. I may not be a Latter Day Saint and I may not fully endorse all of the stuff going on out there at that compound, but when the government steps in, on a prank call, and takes children away from their parents and tells them how to raise them, I just get a little antsy. Those people were not forcing their ideas on anyone. Yes, there are probably some cases of child abuse out there, but pick 400 kids at random in the public school system and you will find the same thing. Yes, they have pregnant teenage girls, but look at all the pregnant teenage girls there are outside of the compound. The fact of the matter is that people should be allowed to live as they please. If I want to home school my children and shield them from the ugliness and deceitfulness from the outside world, I have every right to. People are just scared of what they don't understand and you don't understand this.
ReplyDeleteThe State of Texas supposedly had an inside informant which had been there for over a year. If the case is so strong why is it that the State illegally raided this compound based upon an anonymous phone call? Why not raid the place based on the informant? BECAUSE they didn't have the evidence! Churches around the country ought to be on guard because the day is coming when they will be coming to your church when they don't like what you're preaching. It is going to happen. Home schoolers, you too! We have trampled all over the Constitution here and no one seems to mind because these people are different than us and "something needs to be done." The government should have a higher level of proof than a mere suspicion based on a falsified phone call. Notice all the information we are getting about the young girls is coming from the same people who were responsible for illegally going into this place originally. So what do you think they are going to say to justify their raid? "We illegally went into this compound and we found nothing unusual happening." Come on people, this is outrageous! 463 young people taken and they supposedly found 31 cases of young girls either pregnant or have been pregnant. They say 31 out of 53 in the press, but they took 463; so it is 31 out of 463. Go into any school in America and I would bet that the stats would be about the same. I'm sure you could find 31 kids who either had been or are pregnant, and they found this AFTER they trampled on these peoples Constitutional rights against search and seizure. This should outrage Americans but it is just one more example of the ever weakening Constitution.
ReplyDeleteI get the Constitution but they are still located in the USA, getting underage kids pregnant is a crime and cannot be allowed just because someone thought of a religion that supports it. I have a daughter and if I am ever found joining a cult that lets some old fuck getting her pregnant, I hereby permit anyone to spit on my constitutional rights, drag me out and hang me on the nearest lamppost. It's in writing.
ReplyDeleteI believe everything falls on its own weight. This wouldn't have happened to them if things were really "pure".
ReplyDeleteKarma.