Warren Jeffs Appearance
Warren Jeffs' appearance last Tuesday shocked most of those in the 5th District court room.
He was frail and emaciated, dozing frequently and drooling once. He hardly seemed able to walk, and appeared detached from what was going on around him.
Among those who were shocked: Some of his ardent supporters.
One man contacted me to see if the media reports were accurate.
"I look at him as a man who is being treated very poorly by people who should be treating him with a great deal of respect and by people whose goal is to destroy him," said the man, who asked to not be identified. He said he was asked to leave the FLDS community and "repent from a distance" a few years ago but still believes in "Uncle Warren."
"If they kill him he is a martyr. So the object is to destroy his crediblity or his influence with his people," said the man. "Those are the two things they want."
Said an FLDS woman: "I think he is mentally stable and just experiencing one of those downs we all feel occasionally where we just cannot think, we just would like a bubble to form around us and shut out the world for a while. He has been in solitary for how long? That has to rag on a person. However, I believe God still strengthens him. I think he will be alright."
There has been no date set yet for his trial on charges of being an accomplice to rape. The big question: Will he have the strength, physically and mentally, to endure a trial?
He was frail and emaciated, dozing frequently and drooling once. He hardly seemed able to walk, and appeared detached from what was going on around him.
Among those who were shocked: Some of his ardent supporters.
One man contacted me to see if the media reports were accurate.
"I look at him as a man who is being treated very poorly by people who should be treating him with a great deal of respect and by people whose goal is to destroy him," said the man, who asked to not be identified. He said he was asked to leave the FLDS community and "repent from a distance" a few years ago but still believes in "Uncle Warren."
"If they kill him he is a martyr. So the object is to destroy his crediblity or his influence with his people," said the man. "Those are the two things they want."
Said an FLDS woman: "I think he is mentally stable and just experiencing one of those downs we all feel occasionally where we just cannot think, we just would like a bubble to form around us and shut out the world for a while. He has been in solitary for how long? That has to rag on a person. However, I believe God still strengthens him. I think he will be alright."
There has been no date set yet for his trial on charges of being an accomplice to rape. The big question: Will he have the strength, physically and mentally, to endure a trial?
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They ought to burn Jeffs at the stake like the Heretic he is. It would be wonderful to see what Torquemada would have done with a delusional false prophet like Jeffs in Spain during the inquisition.
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