Posted on 04/15/2008 5:15:25 PM PDT by tripod
That simply defies belief.
I have not followed the story enough to know where that info comes from, but it is horrifying to even consider that there is an element of truth to it.
You are free to think whatever you please about the phone call. So am I. We differ.
You and I both know that's not true. The problem is that we're not just talking about mothers and children, but abusers/exploiters and witnesses. Until the wheat is sorted from the chaff we can't have the mothers who're knee deep in the illegalities influencing these young witnesses. It's just plain old common sense.
“It is outrageous for the state to put these 400 children on cots in a coleseum supervised by total strangers. Since they are supervised why can’t their mothers be with them too?”
Because their mothers didn’t bother to protect them when they had the chance!
I may be wrong, but I believe we’ve found some children who were married off at ages illegal in Texas.
Can't happen. It's the law in Texas that every allegation of child abuse, even from anonymous sources MUST BE investigated. No exceptions.
Normally the alleged perpetrator would be arrested and taken to trail. Taking away 401 children from their parents smacks of Nazi Germany Fascism to me. This is a repeat of a questionable attack on a Christian sect in Waco. Just as in Waco all we read about in the MSM is alleged sexual deviance. That justifies radical action against another Christian Sect.
But what we see and learn is that we killed many innocent women and children in an unjustified and overzealous attempt to get one man. Are we doing that again in Texas, only under a Republican Administration? Is it okay to destroy the lives of 401 children and parents because we do not understand or like or approve of their life style? Who are the real criminals -- Marleigh Meisner?
It seems that terrorists have more rights than this group of citizens.
There was no ‘alleged’ sexual deviance at the Branch Dividian site—— there’s many interviews from the kids (now adults) and yes, it happened (I’m not saying the other is OK). Just that the kids who survived are very damaged from what was done to them at the hands of DK.
Further, if in Texas, “right to privacy” protects deviant behaviour and in Massachusetts it protects same sex marriage, then why shouldn’t it protect polygamy, just sayin......
Thirteen year old pregnant girls too.
You need to inform yourself. There are numerous pregnant young teen girls. That’s because this group believes in and forces girls to have sex with grown older men almost as soon as the young girls hit puberty. Is that what you call “polygamy” that should be legalized? Sorry, not buying it.
According to every report I have read there are numerous under age pregnant girls. Some are as young as 13. Are there different facts that you know of? If so, please share them.
” It’s the law in Texas that every allegation of child abuse, even from anonymous sources MUST BE investigated. No exceptions.”
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I understand there are many instances of child abuse in Dallas Tx. When will the Texas authorities sieze EVERY child in Dallas and investigate these allegations? I saw the allegations posted on the internet by an anonomous 16 year old girl, they MUST be true!
I thought most of the sons were absent (where'd they go?) from the compound, well maybe the peri-adolescent ones were, but the infant males?
I'll let you when I know (or vice versa?)
IF the "abuser" is removed, children aren't "removed." Considering the children were removed from the site with their mothers, then later "separated" from their mothers due to some reason CPS (all powerful [and dysfunctional]) decided was best for the children based originally on some phone call from an alleged victim (which, BTW, would have to be recorded by law by CPS)--- considering all this, I still have serious questions about this dubious action.
Like:
Why were the photo's, notes and videos taken by the sect members confiscated by the sheriff posse?
Why the tanks?
The state of Texas is going to put them in foster care. Ummmm, the Texas news sources have been reporting for several years that there's a "shortage" of foster care homes and facilities.
This just smells weird.
You are obviously an unsophisticated beer drinking rube who can’t see the wisdom of the state boxing up and busing out an entire community on the basis of a single allegation. Someday, when you’ve wizened up, and the bullet enters your brain, you too will learn to love Big Brother.
Do I really need a sarcasm tag?
Images show police well armed for raid on polygamist retreat
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