Deja vu in Texas
You'd think the Lone Star State would have learned by now.Even if they never heard of the Short Creek raids in the 1950s and the political blow-back that cost an Arizona governor his job, you would think that fiasco at the Branch Davidian compound in 1994 would have left an indelible mark on the psyche of Texas law enforcement.
Thursday, 240 miles from where David Koresh and 76 Davidians were incinerated in Waco, authorities have rounded up 300 women and children from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints near Eldorado, Tex.
But the FLDS are proving more wily than Koresh. Instead, of trying to hold off a law
enforcement seige, the polygamists are peacefully giving themselves up. Their sheer numbers are swamping state resources. Ghandi would have approved of the tactic.Debra Brown, executive director of the local Children's Advocacy Center, says her 10 employees soon could be overwhelmed. They've taken into custody since Thursday more children than they usually see in a year.
And in another repeat of the Davidian mess, above right, officials are mostly ignorant of the sect they're raided. Brown says officials are reading books "related to their religion."
3 Comments:
Warchol, you're awfully quick to blame the authorities in Texas for what you've perceived to be a dangerous repeat of 1994 and 1953. This situation is nothing like the Branch Davidians ... or the Short Creek raid. Lest we forget, there were credible allegations of abuse going on at the FLDS compound in Texas ... and whispers of it long ago. If in fact the allegations are accurate, and children were being abused at the hands of those they trust, then the Texas authorities did the right thing. You seem to prefer Utah's gutless, spineless approach to polygamy: "Gosh, leave 'em alone, because we don't want to stir the hive--especially since we're all related to polygamists." Absolutely disgusting.
Perfectly said! Just because it's a strain on resources, does that mean the Texas authorities look the other way? And you're right about Utah's pathetic history in clamping down on the polyg. mess in Southern Utah. They've had their chance. They can now take a lesson from Texas.
Do you people even know what you're talking about? The same aligations were raised for the justification of the 1953 raid, This is stupidity on the state of Texas, they don't care about these children, they're using the banner of "Child abuse" for their religious persicution, again. And if there was a girl who called where is she, and you can't tell me they don't know where the call came from, you can trace anything these days. That's total BS,
If you think that this raid is going to do any good for those so called "victims" it's not. The state of Texas just renforced what thier parents told them about the 1953 raid. "The government is bad and they're out to take your rights away."
So, if and that's a big IF this girl really did call and what she said is true, they still could have handled this a much better way, and take care of the children being abused, and the abusers.
The whole thing is pretty scary to me, cause if they can do that to them, with no proof, well... You could be next!
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