Morrow says:
"The Worst thing Rick Perry ever did: the 2008 raid on the FLDS: Peaceful, religious home schoolers.
Rick Perry is a religious bigot and he proved it in 2008 when he supported an out of control Child Protective Services when they raided the peaceful, religious FLDS Mormon community in El Dorado based on a hoax phone call from a disturbed woman, Rozita Swinton, in Colorado. If you are a conservative Christian, perhaps a home schooler, you should be extremely concerned about the religious oppression of the FLDS and Rick Perry's gung ho support for that.
Out of all the things Rick Perry has done, the attack on the FLDS families - with all the tears, trauma and family destruction that caused - this has to be one of the most disturbing if not the most disturbing.
Rick Perry and Texas CPS were targeting the FLDS and looking for an excuse to attack them. Hoaxer Rozita Swinton made a crank phone call, alleging one case of child abuse, on 3/29/08. By April 3, 2008, Rick Perry had ordered the entire FLDS community surrounded by police armed with automatic weapons, SWAT teams with snipers, helicopters and even an M113 armored personnel carrier.
It is worth repeating, that all of this criminal state persecution, was based on one crank phone call from a crazy lady in Colorado, Rozita Swinton, who was pretending to be a child abuse victim. So obviously, Perry and an out of control CPS were targeting the FLDS. Then they invaded this peaceful, religious home schooler community and ripped away 438 childen from dozens of families who had committed no crime at all.
Imagine a fascist, totalitarian government coming into your household and ripping away YOUR kids based on one crank, hoax phone call. That is exactly what happened to those FLDS families in 2008 and Rick Perry supported that move long after it was revealed that a crank phone call complaint from a crazy woman in Colorado was the basis for the invasion. And even if that ONE complaint had been legitimate, what kind of a fascist, totalitarian government would come in there and remove FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY EIGHT children from dozens of families?
As of now, 438 of the 438 children who were taken are back with their parents, which just shows how weak the CPS case was and proves that the real motive for this raid was governmental religious oppression. The FLDS had been watched and targeted by the government who was just looking for an excuse to move in and destroy their lives.
If you are a home schooler or a conservative Christian or you just believe in freedom and "live and let live" you should be extremely concerned at the state sponsored gross miscarriage of justice that happened to these FLDS families."
Yup, sounds like Perry is really dangerous.
That’s just stunning, that someone could be that dense. Thanks for posting this.
That sounds EXACTLY like what a lot of FReepers were saying about the case, at the time.
I wonder what Morrow’s FR handle is.......