April 22, 2008...1:16 pm
Texas Child Protective Services Abusing FLDS Children And Mothers?
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Note: I was going to write an article questioning the validity of the raid against the FLDS ranch in Texas, but Rick Fisk has already said most of what I wanted to say and he has said it better. Obviously, I am opposed to bigamy, polygamy, child abuse, sexual abuse, the FLDS and Mormons in general, but there is another side to this story.
Let me just add one point to Fisk’s column. The alleged perpetrator of the abuse was not even at the compound when it was raided.
I picked up my local paper this Sunday only to find a half-dozen “background” articles on the polygamists who have recently been shown what Texas-style hospitality looks like. I was treated to various articles on the history of the group’s leaders and their persecution by state officials in Arizona, Colorado and now finally, Texas. Of course, it wasn’t called persecution. The raid was said to be an act of kindness for young women who are forced to marry against their will. These evil, evil, men, women and children are refusing to bow down to the state and conform to societal norms so they must be punished, apparently.
The raid, executed by machine gun-toting, tank-driving county Sheriffs ripped 416 children away from their mothers so that the State child “protective” services could question them and discover whether or not they were being abused. There are some beginning to question whether the state’s action was itself abuse, but these are like cries in the wilderness.
5 Comments
April 22, 2008 at 2:44 pm
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Second they came for the trade unionsists
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a trade unionsist.
Then they came for the Gypsies,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Gypsy.
Then they came for the Gays,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t Gay.
Then they came for the retarded,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t retarded.
Then they came for the physicaly disabled
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t physicaly disabled.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Jehovah’s Witnesses,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jehovah’s Witness.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945 edited by John
May 2, 2008 at 1:10 am
While the tactics could have easily been less intimidating and traumatizing to children.. what else do you suggest the state do? This is a community where it has been known and documented that abuse is occurring, just b/c people claim religious rights, doesn not make it okay.
May 2, 2008 at 3:35 am
Whether the raid should have taken place or not is one issue. It probably was going to happen sooner or later. However, the violation of people’s constitutional rights is another issue and a very significant one. But many Americans want to trade their constitutional rights for a false sense of security.
May 14, 2008 at 11:52 am
Is anyone outraged that the government can come into our homes and destroy and endanger lives of who are old fashioned and not the most american norm, but harmless. Does not The Father and the Mother decide what the cultural and religion of their family? Hey how about the Jews take away all their male children-isn’t circumscion-abuse? Is it a medical neccesity?
In every culture, society, town, country, the world, there is abuse of some sort. What was the Inquesition-how is this any better? Bottom line we have a duty to help, not harm, to offer assistance, not force it. I am outraged at this country and it’s leadership, I look forward to an overthrow of our government if this is democracy.
Patriotism is questionong authority- I question what is going on here-I hope we all are and take back our government.
May 31, 2008 at 12:12 pm
This incident was indeed an outrage. Of course Texas CPS (who has never met a child who wasn’t abused) is famous for their incompetence, but in this case you also had an incompetent judge (I think to be elected, you just have to pretty much be able to breath). While I am not an expert, I could smell false accusation immediately in this case. There was no evidence whatsoever, to take these children from their parents.
The judge assigned to this case is evidently a complete idiot or psychologically unstable. She does need to be impeached or for sure voted out of office.
This was a high profile case, and so had some good people working against this injustice. But makes you wonder how many families have been destroyed by this incompetence in the past. While CPS is known for acting like idiots, the judge in this case should have reeled them in. This should not have had to have gone to the Texas Supreme Court, who I am sure is amazed that it went to their level.
We tried to abolish the joke of a CPS system in the state of Texas before. I think that obviously it is out of control, and it either needs to be abolished or something needs to be done to drastically restructure this clown act agency.
The judge needs to be impeached. Period. And someone needs to perhaps talk a little common sense to the red neck law enforcement acting in this case.
Yea America. We still burn witches here, or at least try very hard.
Someone asked earlier, what could you do? I can tell you what they could have done - Used some common sense and followed the law. Period. Good grief!
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