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The Polygamy Files:
The Tribune's blog on the plural life
Monday, April 07, 2008
Three Busloads
 On Sunday we stood in front of the First Baptist Church in Eldorado and witnessed the loading of three buses with FLDS members who had been removed from the YFZ "Yearning for Zion" Ranch. These are their faces. For those of you looking for relatives or friends you haven't seen in a while, clicking on the photo will bring up a larger version.
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6 Comments:
The picture in this post shows the faces of victims of crimes against humanity: children who are brainwashed to see themselves a youth of a noble birthright. They are nothing more than chattel; they are mere comodities within their own community. The women you see are women who had no choice as children but to marry old and zealous men, teaching their girls to follow suit. They become perpetrators in their own right.
Would it be any crime to demand the destruction of their compound, their temple? Is it any crime to demand justice?
People can be so hateful and incompassionate. Crimes against humanity - oh brother. If this is justifiable in anyone's mind, then what is to stop authorities from rounding up everyone in South Jordan, because someone somewhere made an anonymous phone call that they were being abused. That's the crime against humanity. Get a grip. These people love, work, and dream for a better future, just like everyone else. They deserve our respect.
Nobody is rounding up anyone in South Jordan. But if abuse of a child is alleged(in South Jordan or anywhere), then the police have a duty to investigate the allegations. Comparing South Jordan to the YFZ compound is an apple and orange argument. This sect routinely breaks the law, the marriage of children to adults a ritual blessed in their temple. Why on Earth would I want to respect that!
I doubt if the Texas authorites have any concern at all towards the welfare of this people. I do not approve of many of the things that I have heard about the flds, but whatever happened to due process of law. Shades of the Branch Davidians.
This is about embarrasment to the LDS church who are very powerful. I am from an LDS background, and i remember my family members sitting around discussing fundementalist mormons with smirks and winks.
For many years the LDS enabled this to happen and now that the media has blown it up, they have found a good way to distance themselves from their own roots.
How much physical abuse goes on within the Mainstream LDS church. Why not raid there?
Brooke, thanks so much for this blog, and for your compassion, I know you don't uphold polygamy any more than I do, but what is happening is here is outrageous and downright wrong. I don't care what your justifications are, there was a call from one lady!!
Why are they doing this to the whole community? I seriously doubt there was a call anyway, I'm sure there is more as well, and some people are going to have some serious explaining to do. Brooke, what can we do? How do we make our voice heard?
Deja vu.
these pictures bring back vivid memories of Short Creek, 26 July 1953. although the dress and hair styles weren't as extreme, the face's all look eerily familiar. I was 12 years old at the time, the apparent, approximate age of many of these kids. I'm sure many of there grandmothers were there also. There face's reflect the range of feelings I remember,from fear through confusion to disgust. My heart really goes out to these kids. I'm sure the people in charge are aware of this, but these kids need all the kindness and understanding they can get. It was years before I lost my fear and loathing of law enforcement personnel, and government officials in general, and learned to appreciate them.
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