Polygamist Cult Raided... (dateline San Angelo, TX)
Let me begin by saying that when I was stationed at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo in 1974 (for all of 11 weeks) those folks were very nice (by and large) and the food was good.
Now, what is going on? Is it ONLY about this
"pseudo Mormon polygamist cult" or is it more? I ask because I hardly see any outrage about Muslims demanding our adherence to Sharia law and THEIR form of polygamy. I don't hear anyone angry about Muslims marrying girls as young as 13 or denouncing their ancestors for the practice (and it was very common just 100 years ago right here in the USofA). I don't hear anyone raising a stink because the Sheriff had an informant (his statement) inside the cult for 4 years and only moved because they had allegedly received a call from a 16 year old girl who alleged rape and beating by her 50 year old "husband". I don't hear a word questioning why ONE woman alleges all these cruelties while some 100 women were still with the sect. While we are told to remove our children from indoors and get them to be more physically active, suddenly these folks were evil because the kids were ,"Without television, without newspapers, without all the things that kids grow up with these days." (ummm maybe without drugs, street gangs, drive-by shootings, too?)Are authorities in other communities now going to target the Amish or Hutterite communities because they isolate their children without access to television, newspapers and all the things that kids grow up with these days?
I smell a propaganda campaign here. Ok, so we don't allow polygamy (so let's stop it in the Muslim communities) and we are against child sexual abuse (so let's ban marriage before the age of 18 and prosecute teenage boys and girls who have sex with one another) and we don't like those who separate themselves from society at large (so let's go ahead and move on the Hutterite, Amish, and Mennonite communities and ban the Baptist summer camps). Let's go ahead and force all deaf children to get cochlear implants and go door-to-door to root out the agoraphobics. Maybe we can even start a licensing program for those who want to live in the rural areas away from the big city (and TV and all the other things that big cities have these days). You know, just so we know they don't harbor any seditious thoughts...
Seems to me that somebody has stepped over the line once again and I don't like it. At least they haven't murdered these children to save them.
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