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Arizona jail force-feeding sect leader Jeffs [FLDS]
Associated Press ^ | Aug 4, 2009 | JENNIFER DOBNER

Posted on 08/04/2009 7:21:14 PM PDT by delacoert

BEAVER, Utah (AP) -- Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs is being force-fed in jail for the second time in less than a week after again refusing to eat, Arizona officials said Tuesday.

Mohave County sheriff's spokeswoman Trish Carter said force feeding of Jeffs started Friday...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flds; mormonism; polygamy; warrenjeffs
Jeffs is revered by FLDS as a prophet and continues to command a flock roughly 12,000 despite his incarceration.
1 posted on 08/04/2009 7:21:14 PM PDT by delacoert
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To: delacoert

‘Warren Jeffs is being force-fed in jail’

Karma; with Big John and Tony.


2 posted on 08/04/2009 7:25:21 PM PDT by BGHater (Insanity is voting for Republicans and expecting Conservatism.)
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Look, I can excuse lunacy between and betwixt consenting adults, but he was having sex with minors. Screw the b@st@rd and his followers....


3 posted on 08/04/2009 7:27:07 PM PDT by freebilly
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and is now being force-fed via a tube down his throat that delivers liquid nutrition

Hey, seems pretty nasty when it's being done to you instead of a 12 year old girl.

4 posted on 08/04/2009 7:39:32 PM PDT by Free State Four
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****Jeffs is revered by FLDS as a prophet and continues to command a flock roughly 12,000 despite his incarceration. ***

So why haven’t the chains fallen off and the doors opened by themselves as they did for the Apostles Paul and Peter?


5 posted on 08/04/2009 7:57:08 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Tar and feather the sons of bi#ches!)
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They should feed him by way of an enema tube.


6 posted on 08/04/2009 7:57:09 PM PDT by Gator113 (It's about stupidity, stupid. IMPEACH HERE, IMPEACH NOW.)
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Pork chop suppository?


7 posted on 08/04/2009 8:02:24 PM PDT by Random Access
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FTA: Arizona jail force-feeding sect leader Jeffs [FLDS]

One question: Why?

8 posted on 08/04/2009 8:07:02 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Mitt Romney: Would you buy a used car from this man?)
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Isn’t force-feeding “cruel and unusual” punishment?

Isn’t this an infringement upon his right to refuse treatment/health care?

Let the SOB starve, if that’s what he, or any other prisoner for that matter, wants.


9 posted on 08/05/2009 12:51:28 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The mob got President Barabbas; America got shafted)
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Jeffs said he is not a prophet and never was. He is a very sick man.


10 posted on 09/10/2009 8:02:37 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (For victory & freedom!!!)
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